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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a move geared toward clarifying her positions on important issues, a Kamala Harris campaign spokesperson announced that challenger Kamala Harris had agreed to debate incumbent Kamala Harris. The debate was agreed upon by both Kamala Harrises after an intense period of negotiation, during which challenger Kamala Harris initially demanded unmuted microphones, a request that incumbent Kamala Harris adamantly refused to grant. "This is a debate between two debaters," challenger Kamala Harris said in a statement after the debate was announced. "One debater will debate the other, and both of them will debate. In a debate, things...

~Tradition holds that most Americans don't start paying attention to the presidential election until after Labor Day. So on Tuesday morning millions of people are going to be discovering that the one candidate got shot in the head and the other was more effectively dispatched and whoever's actually running the United States no longer feels the need to pretend that the dead husk of a moth-eaten sock puppet is the chief executive of the global superpower. Meanwhile, the Ukrainians say Moscow is "threatening the world with nuclear catastrophe". Given that an American client state has spent the last month bombing...

Unchecked mass immigration has radically transformed and destabilized the author's home country; America should take heed. Close your eyes and picture Ireland. You’re probably imagining lush green fields, charming villages, and thatched cottages. Now, open your eyes and acknowledge reality. Nearly one in five people living in Ireland wasn’t born there. In Galway, a city that’s a stone’s throw from where I grew up, Muhammad recently surpassed Michael and Martin as the most popular name for newborn boys. That’s right — Muhammad, a name synonymous with Islamic tradition. This is not the Ireland you know or thought you knew. It’s...

28-year-old surfer Liam Mahoney was arrested on the beach in Belmar, New Jersey on Tuesday, August 20th and was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and obstruction of justice. Videos of the arrest went viral and there was massive public outcry about “beach badge” requirements for surfers at Belmar’s beaches. Beach badges are required for admission to Belmar’s beaches. They cost $12 per day and seasonal badges are available for $80. It was first reported that Mahoney was arrested for not having his “beach badge” but Belmar Police have made a statement to the contrary: “To be clear, Mr. Mahoney...

There are 1000 ways to commit election fraud and we know all of them. After engineer and data scientist Kim Brooks worked on cleaning the voter rolls in Georgia for a year, she realized she was on a stationary bicycle. She’d clear a name for various reasons, dead, felon, stolen ID, living at a seasonal campground for twenty years, duplicate, moved out of state, 200 years old, etc., and back it would come within a month. At that juncture she realized that a program within the Georgia voter registration database was methodically adding back fake names. She looked deeper. For...

~THE POST-DEMOCRATIC ERA (1): Since they took the tyre iron to him, whoever's really running the United States government has given up the time-consuming pretence that Joe Biden has anything at all to do with it. After his farewell address to the DNC, the dead husk of a moth-eaten sock puppet flew Air Force One for a week's vacation with some California billionaire. When that was done, he flew it again from the Golden State back to his beach house in Delaware for a second, week-and-a-half-long vacation: Biden's schedule is absolutely blank. Meanwhile, Emily Goodin reports Biden was "visibly shaking"...

~LITERAL DIVERSITY STABBING OF THE DAY: On Friday a "knifeman", as they now say, fatally stabbed three people and badly wounded eight others in the German town of Solingen. The police have arrested a - go on, take a wild guess - yes, a 26-year-old Muslim from Syria who is reported to have yelled - time for another wild guess - bingo, "Allahu Akbar!" Just to add to the black comedy of civilisational implosion, he killed his victims at a "Festival of Diversity" - a Festival der Vielfalt - yeah, that's the actual stupid name they gave it, as if...

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U.S. — According to sources, Vice President Kamala Harris may be under the influence of a Russian agent. "Just look at her," said Congressional Representative Thomas Massie. "I mean, come on." Rumors of foreign influence on political candidates are nothing new in American politics, but experts say this is the first time it has been so obvious. "The slow and deliberate movement, fluctuating pace of speech, changing volume of her voice, irrational statements, inappropriate laughter — these are all hallmarks of Russian influence," noted Brent Tolliver, a former D.A.R.E. officer turned political analyst. Political pundits remain divided on the issue....

After seeing the Henry lever-action .22 rifle in countless Westerns, firing one of my own brings a smile to my face. I just bought my first Henry rifle, a .22 lever action. When one of my AR-loving friends saw it, he said, “Look out, squirrels!” Most everyone else, however, responded with stories about their favorite .22 lever action. One of them, a novelist friend, said that he’s fended off thousands of prairie dogs with his .22 rifle. Unless life in America gets real bad, real fast (definitely possible), I won’t be killing any critters with my Henry. But I am...

The fitness guru on her new podcast, learning to like Trump, and how health has become a political football. No wonder Jillian Michaels is the newest voice on Bill Maher’s Club Random Studios network. Maher famously says his progressive views haven’t changed. Democrats shifted so far to the left Michaels no longer fits the party’s brand. Michaels knows the feeling. “I went from left to center-left to center to now a little bit center-right,” the “Keeping It Real with Jillian Michaels” host told Align. “I haven’t changed in my mind ... the world is changing around me.” A political football...

Would you sell your soul to stay young forever? In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man’s wish for eternal youth is granted while his portrait ages in his place. As Dorian indulges in a life of hedonism, his portrait reveals the grotesque toll of his moral corruption. Join Michael Knowles and Will Witt as they discuss this beloved novel and explore its insights into the dangers of vanity, immorality, and the ultimate cost of a life without virtue.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking for public input on how best to implement the SUSTAINS Act, which authorizes USDA to accept private contributions to channel through several existing USDA conservation programs. The public should submit comments to the Request for Information via the Federal Register by September 16, 2024. “Agriculture is at the forefront of the nation’s effort to conserve our natural resources, and we want to hear from people on the ground how to implement this legislation to maximize its benefits, promote equity and assist all producers,” said USDA’s Natural Resources...

~No, I'm not going to analyse the alleged "nominee"'s speech. This précis of what's going on is hard to beat: Kamala got zero votes, has given zero press conferences, has given zero interviews, and had to stage buying a bag of Doritos. This is the most ridiculous, anti-democratic, laughable joke I've ever seen in politics. If you treat this as "politics", you're part of the problem. And, given that American elections have degraded to the point where the opposition candidate is now being indicted, convicted and shot at, I find myself more interested in the disturbing abandonment by key US...

OTTAWA — Members of the House national security committee are cutting their summer vacations short this week to potentially discuss how an alleged ISIS member — one of two men accused in a thwarted Toronto terror plot — managed to enter the country and become a Canadian citizen. But even with the NDP backing the Conservatives’ call for an investigation, the meetings hinge on cooperation from all opposition parties. Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and his 26-year-old son Mostafa Eldidi were arrested last week in a Richmond Hill hotel room for what the RCMP allege was a plot to carry...

In March of this year, a therapist on a professional listserv in Chicago passed on a request by a potential patient seeking a therapist who was “a Zionist,” because the patient was dealing with feelings about the “current geopolitical climate.” Many mental health practitioners rely on such online groups to make and accept referrals for patients. It’s common for the request to indicate a preference for a therapist of a particular ethnicity, gender, religion, or age range. But what happened after this request was made on the Facebook group Chicago Anti-Racist Therapists was not at all common. When therapists responded...

What do the stabbings in Israel, the assaults on Hindus in Bangladesh, the Muslim mobs roaming English cities and the massacres of Christians in Nigeria all have in common? The politically correct answer is nothing. And that’s why the politically correct answer condones, justifies or ignores the violence. Islamic attacks on non-Muslim majorities in India, Europe, America or Israel are justified as resistance by the oppressed, but violence by Muslim majorities against non-Muslim minorities in Indonesia, Nigeria and Bangladesh were justified by claims that the Muslim majority was economically disenfranchised. Muslim violence is always excused by false claims of victimhood....

In a groundbreaking decision, Judge Christopher C. Conner of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania struck down the state’s ban on carrying firearms in vehicles without a license. This ruling, a win for the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its allies, significantly alters the landscape of gun rights in Pennsylvania. The Core of the Ruling Judge Conner’s ruling dismantles the longstanding prohibition that kept Pennsylvanians from having firearms in their vehicles without a license. This was challenged as an infringement on constitutional rights, leading to its overturning. The decision directly addresses issues faced by many citizens,...

~The third-rate vaudeville being mounted in Chicago this week is irrelevant to anything that matters - except for the bleak fact that half the American people are minded to go along with it, which helps explains why meaningful course-correction is all but impossible. This grim vignette, however, struck me as almost poignant: Protesters in Chicago who are marching against the DNC chant "F*ck the courts, f*ck the state, you can't make us procreate." People dressed as abortion pills take part in the march. pic.twitter.com/xwmRAAjW8w — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 19, 2024 Almost two decades ago, I began my demographic...

When Amazon Web Services paid US $650 million in March for another data center to add to its armada, the tech giant thought it was buying a steady supply of nuclear energy to power it, too. The Susquehanna Steam Electric Station outside of Berick, Pennsylvania, which generates 2.5 gigawatts of nuclear power, sits adjacent to the humming data center and had been directly powering it since the center opened in 2023. After striking the deal, Amazon wanted to change the terms of its original agreement to buy 180 megawatts of additional power directly from the nuclear plant. Susquehanna agreed to...