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  • Bombshell POLL Shows Democrats CRATERING before MIDTERMS!!!

    09/03/2026 10:02:10 AM PDT · by Merrick · 6 replies
    Steve Turley / YouTube ^ | 03 September 2026 | Steve Turley
    Turley goes over recent polls and other indicators.
  • Green Card wait for most Indian immigrants is now 179 years after Trump imposed tough limits

    09/03/2026 9:55:20 AM PDT · by Libloather · 11 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/03/26 | Chris Nesi
    Indian professionals in the US now have to wait 179 years for Green Cards — after the Trump administration put tough limits on how it issues permanently residency. The current green card backlog has hit 1.2 million people as federal immigration law restricted the number that can be doled out each year to 140,000 — with no more than 7% going to any one country, according to a new report by the National Foundation for American Policy. This means immigrants from large countries — like India and China — are subject to wait times of decades or more before being...
  • NYC's 2026 Global Citizen Festival lineup includes Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Lainey Wilson and more

    09/03/2026 9:50:18 AM PDT · by SaveFerris · 18 replies
    CBS New York ^ | August 13, 2026 / 8:29 PM EDT / | By Katie Houlis
    The concert returns to Central Park on Saturday, Sept. 26. Performers include Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey and TXT (TOMORROW X TOGETHER). Actor Hugh Jackman will return to host for the 12th straight year. Actress Rachel Brosnahan and "CBS Mornings" host Gayle King are also set to make appearances. More guests are expected to be announced in the weeks leading up to the event. Ticket prices range from $89 for general admission to $3,000 for the "Ultimate VIP" experience. They are available through Ticketmaster. Global Citizen app users can also earn points...
  • Vanity: I just found the FEMALE version of El-Sayed talking to Rush after Katrina

    09/03/2026 8:42:44 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 10 replies
    Starts at the 15 minute mark. Sept. 13, 2005. 3rd hour. It's 20 minutes of I cant believe this. Rush even snores during her argument and sums it up with 'no wonder there's so many divorces out there'.
  • The One-Legged Gay Ayatollah Joke I Can’t Stop Telling

    09/03/2026 8:36:41 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 7 replies
    You tube ^ | Andrew Klavan
    The spare prince of England and his wife, what's her name...
  • O.C. [CA] golfer attacked, struck in head with his own driver, police say

    09/03/2026 8:08:07 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 33 replies
    ktla ^ | 09/02/2026 | Josh DuBose
    The incident occurred on the evening of Aug. 29 when a golfer at San Joaquin Golf Course confronted a man who had reportedly run across the course, according to investigators with the Irvine Police Department. “The golfer tried to get away in his golf cart, but the suspect caught up, took a golf club from the cart, and struck the golfer in the head,” investigators said. “The suspect then fled the area.”
  • Tucker Carlson All But Endorses ‘Trumpian’ Democrat Abdul El-Sayed: ‘I Wouldn’t Vote for Mike Rogers at Gunpoint’

    09/03/2026 7:48:52 AM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 79 replies
    Mediaite ^ | 09/03/2026 | Michael Luciano
    Tucker Carlson praised Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, calling the candidate’s agenda “literally Trumpian.”El-Sayed prevailed in last month’s Democratic primary over Rep. Haley Stevens, despite being outspent nine-to-one, thanks in large part to more than $30 million in ad buys from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. He has pledged to oppose continued U.S. aid to Israel.El-Sayed’s Republican opponent is former Rep. Mike Rogers, who chaired the House Intelligence Committee and has been a fervent supporter of Israel. Given Americans’ increasingly negative views of Israel, Rogers’ campaign is reportedly concerned about AIPAC spending money on its...
  • The Manufacture of the Left’s ‘White Adjacent’ Tactic - How a CRT concept became a political weapon.

    09/03/2026 7:44:45 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 2 Sep, 2026 | Stu Cvrk
    In the summer of 2021, as the fight over Harvard’s admission practices moved toward the Supreme Court, a peculiar new term began surfacing in op-eds, DEI training decks, and cable news panels: “white adjacent.” The phrase sounded almost clinical, like a term of art borrowed from sociology. In practice, it did something far more consequential: it gave the progressive racial justice apparatus a way to explain away an inconvenient fact. Asian Americans, by nearly every measure of educational and economic development, were outperforming the racial group that critical race theory holds up as the chief beneficiary of American structural power—in...
  • Hundreds of North Sea workers too heavy for new helicopter rules

    09/03/2026 7:27:34 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 59 replies
    BBC ^ | 09/02/2026 | Rebecca Curran, Ken Banks,
    Hundreds of North Sea workers are still too heavy for offshore helicopter travel less than two months before new rules come into force, BBC Scotland has learned. From November they should weigh no more than 19st 7Ib (124.7kg) in their clothing and footwear, so they can be winched to safety in an emergency. When the plans were announced by industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) last year, they said more than 2,200 workers were above that limit. New figures suggest up to 800 still exceed it. Jobs could be lost as a result, and an occupational health expert said some...
  • The Elephant in the Canadian Room

    09/03/2026 7:05:24 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 28 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 3 Sep, 2026 | Victor Davis Hanson
    America is surging ahead while Canada stagnates, and that growing asymmetry—not trade alone—is driving the acrimony between two longtime allies. At first glance, the current American-Canadian trade “war” is absurd. We are neighbors with a long history of close friendship, speak the same language (for the most part), and spring from the same British civilization. Nearly one million Canadians reside in the United States. Given the two countries’ natural affinities, Canadians are nearly indistinguishable from Americans. Both sides have reasonable grievances over trade policy. Americans don’t like Canada’s perennial trade surpluses of more than $50 billion in a supposedly free-trade...
  • Wisconsin Cops Used Flock Over 100 Times To Track a Navy Veteran After He Lawfully Recorded a Traffic Stop

    09/03/2026 7:02:27 AM PDT · by Skwor · 47 replies
    Reason ^ | 9.2.2026 11:15 AM | Autumn Billings
    A federal lawsuit claims the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office used the Flock cameras without a legitimate government purpose and in retaliation against the vet for exercising his First Amendment right. {...} Jones was subsequently arrested "for resisting and obstructing," according to a federal lawsuit he filed against the arresting officers and police department. But after being held in custody for five hours, he was released with no citations or criminal charges. An internal post-arrest memorandum reviewed by Reason revealed that Shayhorn's supervisor informed him shortly after the arrest that he'd, in fact, illegally stopped Jones, and he therefore could not...
  • Gloria Steinem, Journalist and Activist, Has Died Aged 92

    09/03/2026 6:56:23 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 85 replies
    Writer and career leftist feminist activist Gloria Steinem died Wednesday. She was 92.The death of the co-founder of Ms. Magazine and leader of the Women’s Action Alliance was confirmed through her foundation’s social media pages.
  • Leftists Hardest Hit After Eye-Raising Poll Drops Stunning Generic Congressional Ballot Numbers

    09/03/2026 6:50:19 AM PDT · by Dan in Wichita · 20 replies
    RedState ^ | 09-02-2026 | Nick Arama
    We've been seeing a lot of polling numbers lately as we get closer to the midterms. Normally, the advantage goes to the political party out of power. But there are a variety of reasons to think positively about the question if you are a Republican.
  • Here's An Idea To Get 30% Cheaper Groceries In New York Without Taxpayer Subsidies: Allow Walmart!

    09/03/2026 6:34:26 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 60 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 2 Sep, 2026 | Francis Menton
    During his campaign for office last fall, our new Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to make groceries “affordable” for New Yorkers; but he provided few specifics. Some specifics then emerged in late July, when Mamdani issued a big press release on his proposed public grocery store project. We learned that there are plans for five municipally-owned stores — one in each borough of the City — and that the groceries these stores will sell, or at least a “core basket” of them, will be “30% cheaper.” We know that the groceries will be “30% cheaper” because the Mayor’s press release says...
  • ‘Morning Joe’: Rahm Emanuel Insists Democratic Party Is ‘Not Open’ to Socialist Takeover

    09/03/2026 6:34:05 AM PDT · by Libloather · 22 replies
    The Wrap via Yahoo ^ | 8/31/26 | Alex Welch
    Former White House Chief of Staff and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the hosts of MS NOW's "Morning Joe" on Monday that the Democratic Party is "not open" to a takeover by self-identifying socialist candidates. "There is a pragmatic and a progressive wing of the party," Emanuel said. "We both believe that the system is rigged against families that live paycheck-to-paycheck and try to make ends meet and who work hard, trying to raise their kids to know right from wrong and do the hard work. That's where the party's soul is." "Some believe in Medicare For All," he...
  • California seeks to honor Islam

    09/03/2026 6:02:04 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 26 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 2 Sep, 2026 | James Zumwalt
    Although it is a day most Americans fail to remember to celebrate for its historical importance, this September 17th will mark the 239th anniversary of the signing of our Constitution. Unappreciated, particularly at a time liberals consistently trumpet an anti-American tune, is the fact ours is “the oldest single, codified framework for a national government still in operation.” Meanwhile, California—the Democrats of which are probably the least appreciative of the freedoms the Constitution guarantees us—has passed a bill that will add two more holidays to be recognized there. The bill passed the state house and awaits passage by the state...
  • Serial squatter sentenced to 20 years for fraud after nearly three dozen evictions under multiple aliases

    09/03/2026 6:01:15 AM PDT · by Libloather · 26 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/03/26 | Richard Pollina
    A serial squatter was sentenced to 20 years for fraud after she’d been evicted nearly three dozen times and racked up thousands in property damage under multiple aliases in Texas and Colorado for decades. Heather Ruybal was slapped with the maximum sentence in Dallas on Aug. 31, after she was found guilty July 27 of felony fraud for using a false name and writing a bad check to lease a house in 2023, Denver7 reported. “This is what she did for a living. Moved into individuals’ homes knowing that she wasn’t going to pay her rent, then exploit the eviction...
  • BREAKING: IRGC Launch WAR On Kuwait - Trump & Pahlavi Plot Iran Revolution

    09/03/2026 5:54:04 AM PDT · by Merrick · 37 replies
    Tousi TV / YouTube ^ | 03 September 2026 | Mahyer Tousi
    Latest Updates from Tousi
  • California’s War on Consumers

    09/03/2026 4:51:41 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 3 Sep, 2026 | Jim Cardoza
    There was a time when buying a light bulb did not require government permission. Customer demand dictated market choices. You walked into a store, examined the alternatives, considered price and quality, and bought the one you wanted. The manufacturer wanted to sell it. The merchant wanted to stock it. You wanted to buy it. Three voluntary parties agreed; nobody else’s rights were violated, and that was the end of the matter. But that arrangement is incompatible with the agenda of California’s overlords. Today, while shopping online, Californians routinely encounter a disturbing message: “This item cannot be shipped to your location.”...
  • 2009 Obama: I’m Not A Socialist — 2026 House Democrats: Yea Socialism!

    09/03/2026 4:31:10 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 26 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 3 Sep, 2026 | M. Walter
    It was once so toxic to be called a “socialist” that newly minted President Obama called The New York Times to protest that he wasn’t one. Now? House Democrats just voted overwhelmingly against a resolution condemning it. The following quote is widely attributed to Norman Thomas, who was the “the Socialist Party of America’s candidate for president in six consecutive elections between 1928 and 1948.” And while there is some doubt (according to lefty academics) as to whether or not he said these exact words in this exact order, there is no doubt that the sentiment was his: The American...