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  • Soldiers, yes, but that IS war. The leftist, communist, muslim psychos have lost FAR more and THEY DON'T GIVE UP!

    03/13/2026 10:07:11 AM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 10 replies
    News of war deaths and media reaction | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
    We lost a few men. That IS combat. The Iranians have lost thousands and are STILL taunting us. We lose a very SMALL percentage and the communists want us to abandon the conflict. LOOK at the enemy within's tactics: Trying to discourage Americans from necessary conflicts in a needed war in which we must prevail. The leftists here who violently protest ICE lost two "foot soldiers" and more injured and I DO NOT HEAR THE MEDIA, DEMOCRATS OR ANY OF THAT SIDE SECOND-GUESSING THE ACTIONS OF THOSE KILLED OR SUGGESTING THEY SHOULD STOP!!! They are TOTALLY committed to what they...
  • Sen. Mike Lee calls on the VP to come to the Senate and take charge during SAVE America Act vote

    03/13/2026 10:02:38 AM PDT · by RandFan · 10 replies
    X ^ | March 13 | Sen. Mike Lee / Glenn Beck
    @TheNatPulse Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) (@BasedMikeLee) calls on Vice President @JDVance to take charge in the Senate during the SAVE America Act vote.
  • Polyamorous Relationships Rapidly Gaining Gov’t Blessing

    03/13/2026 9:21:47 AM PDT · by WhiteHatBobby0701 · 45 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 12 March 2026 | Natalie Sandoval
    A Quiet Coastal Revolution “Why only two?” The question, posed six years ago by J.T. Scott, a member of the city council of Somerville, Massachusetts, is at the heart of the debate concerning government recognition of polyamory. Scott and his colleague on the city council were considering a domestic partnership ordinance. The original language of the draft specified a domestic partnership as being “between two people,” according to The Harvard Crimson. Councilor Lance L. Davis paused, saying “something didn’t feel quite right,” reports The Crimson. Scott asked the question: “Why only two?” Davis, in his words, executed a “few simple...
  • Iran live updates: 2,200 Marines headed to Middle East

    03/13/2026 9:08:51 AM PDT · by Robert DeLong · 51 replies
    ABC ^ | Kevin Shalvey, Meredith Deliso, Jon Haworth, and Nadine El-Bawab
    President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israel strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said. Iranian state television confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in Tehran on the first day of strikes. His son Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen on Sunday to succeed him. Iran is responding to the operation with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and multiple Gulf nations. Israel is also intensifying its long-running strike campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.
  • Canada's labor market dips sharply in February, unemployment rate up

    03/13/2026 9:01:32 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 7 replies
    Reuters ^ | 03 13 2026 | Promit Mukherjee
    Canada sheds 83,900 jobs in February, after January decline Jobless rate up to 6.7% led by losses in full-time jobs Average hourly wage of permanent employees grows 4.2% Analysts predicted 10,000 job gains, jobless rate 6.6% SNIP
  • Hunter Biden pleads guilty to all 9 charges in tax evasion case before trial in Los Angeles

    03/13/2026 9:01:24 AM PDT · by Robert DeLong · 27 replies
    Us Hunter Biden now the sacrifiacl lamb for the Democrats to use?
  • Schedule change announced for FMP NHRA Arizona Nationals

    03/13/2026 8:47:35 AM PDT · by WhiteHatBobby0701 · 1 replies
    NHRA ^ | March 12, 2026 | NHRA
    The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) and Firebird Motorsports Park officials announced time changes for the upcoming FMP NHRA Arizona Nationals presented by NGK Spark Plugs, which takes place March 20-22. Taking an abundance of caution for the expected heat in the weekend forecast, racing in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series will shift to earlier in the morning on each day, setting up a Coffee and Nitro weekend at the Duel in the Desert. Friday qualifying will begin at 9:30 a.m. local time on Friday with Pro Stock, followed by Funny Car and Top Fuel. The second session...
  • AI drive-through car scanners arrive at repair shops

    03/13/2026 8:45:28 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 18 replies
    ktla ^ | 03/13/2026 | Rich Demuro
    Now a system called UVeye is designed to bring that transparency to the process. “We’re like an MRI for your car,” said Matt Small of UVeye. The drive-through system uses multiple cameras to capture hundreds of high-resolution images and video of a vehicle in just seconds. “We’re going to detect anything down to 2 millimeters,” Small said. It also uses infrared technology to detect rust and issues underneath the car. “[It was] originally developed for military use so we were scanning the undercarriage of vehicles looking for bombs and different threats like that,” Small explained. In under a minute, the...
  • David Gilmour’s Iconic ‘Black Strat’ Smashes All-Time Record For Most Expensive Guitar Ever Sold [$14.55 mil]

    03/13/2026 8:20:51 AM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 33 replies
    Billboard ^ | 3-13-26 | Gil Kaufman
    Pink Floyd singer/guitarist David Gilmour’s iconic “Black Strat” electric guitar set an all-time record on Thursday (March 12) during a Christie’s auction in New York when it became the most expensive guitar ever sold. According to The New York Times, the guitar that was a key part of such classic Floyd albums as 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon, 1975’s Wish You Were Here and 1979’s The Wall sold for $14.55 million to an online bidder in a 21-minute bidding war, more than doubling the previous record-holder, late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s Martin D-18E acoustic guitar which he played...
  • Does God have anything to do with “Operation Epic Fury”?

    03/13/2026 8:11:52 AM PDT · by Rev M. Bresciani · 23 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | Mar 3, 2026 | Michael Bresciani
    “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.” – Proverbs 21:1 One of the oldest themes in the Bible is God putting his will into the hearts of rulers to do what he wants them to do. In fact, he not only chooses the rulers, raises them up or takes them out, but he decides what they will do during their administration, or during the period of their rule, even though they think they are in charge. Fox News, Reuters, and Axios are all reporting that Ali...
  • Charles Bukowski and the Passing of Blue-Collar Lit

    03/13/2026 8:06:27 AM PDT · by Angelino97 · 17 replies
    Chronicles ^ | March 11, 2026 | Noel Yaxley
    Monday marked the 32nd anniversary of the passing of Charles Bukowski from leukemia at age 73. Considering the life he lived, it is remarkable he lived as long as he did. Bukowski, whose rough but strangely captivating visage was best described by Paul Ciotti as “a sandblasted face, warts on his eyelids and a dominating nose that looks as if it was assembled in a junkyard,” was an author who defined outsider American literature in the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike his wholesome contemporaries, Ray Bradbury and E. B. White, Bukowski was a notorious womanizer with an aura of stale aftershave,...
  • New audiobook release: A Dialog between the Head and Heart, by Thomas Jefferson

    03/13/2026 7:46:33 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 4 replies
    Today I am happy to announce the release of the very short audio for Thomas Jefferson's interesting letter "A Dialog between the Head and Heart", which reaches just past 30 minutes long. Yes, it is a very short recording, but this one is a little different than most others I work on. This recording is a compilation; that is, there are three voices present that are seemingly talking to each other in a way. One of the recordings in this I recorded. This does not signal my triumphant return to the microphone though. I wish. I still have a very...
  • TEXAS AD: John Cornyn has spent years trying to destroy President Trump

    03/13/2026 7:43:36 AM PDT · by RandFan · 13 replies
    X ^ | March 13 | Ken Paxton
    NEW AD: John Cornyn has spent years trying to destroy President Trump
  • You know how they've been trying to get us to eat bugs instead of meat? Yeah, about that...

    03/13/2026 7:13:03 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 63 replies
    notthebee.com ^ | Mar 13, 2026 | Wolfgang Ramsay
    Yes, it's true, the "globalist elites" have been literally trying to force larva down our throats. They love the idea of us feasting on crickets and cockroach milk instead of normal, healthy food. Alas, even the influence of Big Bug hasn't been enough to convince people to buy mealworm meatballs. Now all the bug factories are closing up! As Vox exclusively reported, "plans to build a large insect farm in Nebraska — a joint project between Tyson Foods, America's largest meat company, and Protix, now the world's second largest insect farming company — are indefinitely on hold."
  • Diversity and the Death of England

    03/13/2026 6:23:40 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 37 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 13 Mar, 2026 | Jeremy Egerer
    It’s risky to maintain a friendship with a nation intent on committing suicide. he whole point of Impractical Jokers is a few pranksters doing things, on purpose, which violate the norms of our society. This is what’s known as comedy. In real life, the whole point of a border is keeping people out who violate the norms of our society by accident. This is what we know as “having a country.” Now, we all know that a country can be comical, but things get serious when too many people from too many countries start violating your norms willy-nilly. For instance,...
  • ‘Experts’ Know Less than They Think - All ‘authorities’ should be challenged.

    03/13/2026 5:38:18 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 72 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 13 Mar, 2026 | J.B. Shurk
    Occasionally I hear credentialed professionals with prestigious titles whine about the so-called “war on expertise.” It really bothers people who see themselves as “experts” that a growing share of society ignores them. A psychologist might intuit something revealing from the lack of self-confidence plaguing our “expert” class. If all the fancy degrees, voluminous curricula vitae, and lofty career positions have failed to instill a resilient modicum of self-esteem, then perhaps all those things are not the true measures of a person’s worth. “Experts” do not like to be challenged. They say things such as, “I have a PhD in this,”...
  • NYC first lady Rama Duwaji illustrated essay for anti-Israel activist who raged about ‘Jewish supremacist vampires’

    03/13/2026 5:21:39 AM PDT · by Libloather · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3/13/26 | Victor Nava
    New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, created artwork for an essay book compiled by an anti-Israel activist who has described Jewish people as “vampires,” “demons” and “ghouls” – and celebrated the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. Duwaji, a Syrian American artist and first lady of New York City, drew the lead graphic for “A Trail of Soap,” an essay published by Susan Abulhawa in the Slow Factory’s latest issue of “Everything Is Political” magazine, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Thursday. Abulhawa is a staunch critic of Israel and has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation...
  • Today's Toons 3/13/26

    03/13/2026 3:57:50 AM PDT · by pookie18 · 16 replies
    The Right Reasons ^ | 3/13/26 | pookie18
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  • ROTC students at Old Dominion University subdued, killed shooter who left 1 dead, 2 hurt

    03/13/2026 3:04:10 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 61 replies
    A former Army National Guard member who had spent eight years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State opened fire on a classroom at Virginia's Old Dominion University on Thursday before ROTC students subdued and killed him, authorities said.He had yelled “Allahu Akbar” before the shooting, which left one person dead and two wounded, according to the FBI.Dominique Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Norfolk field office, said at a news conference that the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students showed “extreme bravery and courage” and prevented further loss of life by stopping the gunman, Mohamed Bailor...
  • Today's Cryptogram

    03/13/2026 2:49:12 AM PDT · by FroggyTheGremlim · 11 replies
    Hiya kids! Hiya, Hiya!Good Morning Crypto-FReepers.I see some of the same old faces out there.But that's OK - I like you anyway.Today's quote is a modern-day parable.but it's also scary.Hope you like it.Have fun!!! Ha Ha Ha!I'll be good - I will, (like heck) I will. Ha ha ha. UKQW QE K SPQWX YJ SPD ZQWT KWT SPD ZQWT NKW HD NYWSFYRRDT.- EUYNI, ESKF SFDI, E1,D29, YUDFKSQYW KWWQPQRKSD!__ HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER