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In the fall of 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney spoke with 60 Minutes about the war on terrorism, his health and the security measures to keep him and President Bush safe. Cheney died on Monday at age 84.

Judicial Democrat partisanship has resulted in a decade of leftist decisions on congressional redistricting, election integrity, and abortion. You may know Pennsylvania’s Democrat Supreme Court justices by the misery they inflicted during Covid. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf declared a state of emergency on March 6, 2020, and locked down the state in response to the Covid pandemic. Then a Republican-led legislative resolution passed that would have returned the state to normal operations. The state Supreme Court invalidated the resolution on July 1, and because of that decision, the devastating shutdown lasted until June 2021. Now the judges who made...

(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) And for millions of Americans, it's not a moment of relief. It's a moment of dread. 24 million Americans are now staring at impossible choices. Do they pay the rent, buy groceries, or keep their health insurance? No family in America should have to make that choice. As we speak, there are families wondering, I can't afford the new health care insurance bills. How do I provide health care for my children? What if I have to switch hospitals, doctors? What if everything's cut off? What an agonizing decision that...

Megyn Kelly is joined by Matt Walsh, host of "The Matt Walsh Show," to talk about the implications of Zohran Mamdani becoming NYC mayor, the rise of the progressive Muslim socialist, the shocking layout of the ballot that seems to favor Mamdani, and more. (Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) We've got to start with Mamdani, and this guy who's closely linked with radical Islamists like this imam who testified for the blind sheikh who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. Mamdani with his arms literally around that guy calling him a pillar of the community,...

Three people were killed and eleven people were injured when a large UPS plane exploded as it took off from a Louisville, Kentucky airport on Tuesday.The MD-11 plane exploded around 5.15pm as it departed Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, heading toward Daniel K Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, the Federal Aviation Authority announced.Terrifying video shared to social media showed the aircraft attempting to takeoff with a ball of fire emanating from its left wing. Just moments later, the plane exploded.Dashcam footage also showed the plane crashing back into the runway, leaving a blaze in its wake.It struck two local...

Officials were unable to comment on the cause of the Louisville crash Louisville Metro Police Department chief Paul Humphrey said it’s unclear how long it will take to render the crash site safe for an investigation to take place. Humphrey said they would not be able to answer any questions regarding the cause of the cargo plane crash, as the investigation will be managed by the National Transportation Safety Board. The briefing has now ended, and officials were unable to clarify when the next update might be. Cargo plane was carrying 38,000 gallons of fuel There were 38,000 gallons of...

"Some of those top public servants have felt a need to separate themselves from the public."Of all the Trump ‘scandals’ that the media has dug up, this one is the most revealing.Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases – The AtlanticHow dare they! Moving onto military bases? I wonder why they might be doing that. Probably for the luxurious lifestyles, the high-class dining and the exciting nightlife.“Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from...

Westminster’s crusade against property owners will leave tenants with fewer choices and higher costs.This week, the UK Parliament passed the Renters’ Rights Act. It is the biggest shakeup to the British rental market this century, and is being sold as a big win for tenants.This could not be further from the truth. This legislation will wreak havoc on the already fundamentally broken rental market.It introduces de facto rent controls, crushes the supply of housing, and makes life harder for everyone trying to find somewhere to live.So what does this Act actually do?Most damagingly, it ends so-called “no-fault evictions,” or Section...

After evaluating 45,000 youths, an interesting study out of Germany found that with increasing religiosity, Christian teens became less violent. The research also found, however, that with increasing religiosity, Muslim teens became more violent. That was back in 2010. Now, 15 years later, another study in Germany finds that violence among migrant children is exploding. Meanwhile, native German youth are actually becoming more peaceful.(If the Morlocks and Eloi come to mind for you here, you’re not alone. You’re also probably over 45 [if you’d make that association].)Of course, none of this means the German kinder are “Christian,” except in name...

The progressive candidate is on the cusp of a historic mayoral win. And that's adding to unease among Democrats looking for a way back to national power.On the cusp of electoral victory, New York mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani marched over the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday and arrived at City Hall, where he greeted cheering supporters with a promise.“We stand on the verge of ushering in a new day for our city,” he said. Their conviction would “be the light that our city and our nation so desperately need.”Put differently: His importance won’t stop at the shores of the Hudson.If public...

The New York City mayoral race and the New Jersey’s governor’s race is one of those times when the Jewish vote actually matters and the skew of the Jewish vote looks nothing like the stereotypes. President Trump personally reached out to the Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey, urging, “I need all of my supporters in the orthodox community in Lakewood and its surrounding towns to vote in huge numbers for Jack Ciattarelli. Jack needs every single Vote in the community, including all the Yeshiva students who turned out to vote for me last year.” Conservative activists and personalities posed...

VATICAN CITY, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Jesus may have heard words of wisdom from his mother Mary, but she did not help him save the world from damnation, the Vatican said on Tuesday.In a new decree approved by Pope Leo, the Vatican's top doctrinal office instructed the world's 1.4 billion Catholics not to refer to Mary as the "co-redeemer" of the world.Jesus alone saved the world, said the new instruction, settling an internal debate that had befuddled senior Church figures for decades, and even sparked rare open disagreement among recent popes."It would not be appropriate to use the title 'co-redemptrix',"...

https://babylonbee.com/news/snap-beneficiaries-wishing-there-were-some-way-they-could-trade-their-labor-and-services-for-money-to-buy-foodU.S. — With SNAP funding temporarily blocked, beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are reportedly wishing there were some way to trade their labor and services for money to buy food."That would be really convenient," said Sarah Hartford, a divorced mother of two kids. "But I guess I'll just sit here and starve to death. There's literally no other way to make money.""If only there were some sort of social contract I could enter into where I complete certain tasks in exchange for money that I could then use to buy food," noted Antoine Davis, a 43-year-old bachelor. "If...

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-yorks-elderly-jews-torn-between-man-who-would-kill-them-for-being-jewish-and-man-who-would-kill-them-for-being-elderly NEW YORK CITY, NY — The elderly Jewish community is reportedly at a crossroads this Election Day, torn between a man who would kill them for being Jewish and a man who would kill them for being elderly. "Mamdani wants me dead for being Jewish," said Estelle Goldberg, a rabbi's wife. "But Cuomo would shove me in a nursing home infected with COVID and refuse to admit me to the hospital." "It's a tough choice." According to sources, the elderly Jewish community is very concerned about the results of this mayoral election, but doesn't see a way out of...

More than a year after the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding local rules banning homeless camps on public property, Grants Pass is still a mess. The southeast Oregon city is also Exhibit A of what Christopher Rufo calls the homelessness industrial complex. Grants Pass won. In 2024, the Supreme Court struck down lower court decisions and held that laws regulating camping on public land do not violate the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling was a win for local control. The win was short-lived. Homeless “advocates” in late January filed a lawsuit claiming the southwest Oregon city...

In recent weeks, automakers and other companies in the vehicle space are pulling back their investments in electric vehicles (EVs), including laying off workers in multiple states.The moves come in the wake of Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which repealed incentives for consumers to buy electric cars.GM in particular is set to lay off 1,200 workers from its Detroit plant and another 550 from its Ultium Cells plant in Ohio. Meanwhile, another 850 are being temporarily laid off from the Ohio Ultium Cells plant and another 710 being temporarily let go from an Ultium factory in Tennessee. While those...

The American interest is best served by finding and backing African statesmen. That won’t be easy.Let me be blunt: since the Wehrmacht’s surrender in Tunisia in 1943, the African continent has offered the United States almost nothing of major consequence to its national interest. Our engagement since has been a costly, sentimental fog of humanitarian gestures and posturing, achieving little while ignoring the realities of power. Washington’s central failure is its refusal to see the continent as it is. There are two successful models for order that have worked over large portions of Africa. The first is the default of...

As we continue to endure a Democrat-induced government shutdown, the investigation into the fishing expedition launched by Special Counsel Jack Smith remains ongoing. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has uncovered disturbing details about how this probe, one of many, into Donald Trump and the 2020 election turned into a wholesale surveillance operation into the Republican Party and the conservative movement writ large. Look up ‘mission creep,’ and this operation, Arctic Frost, should be in the appendix. Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed today that President Trump’s government phone was handed over to Smith by the Biden administration:🚨During the Arctic Frost Investigation, we...

His election begins a new era in American politics where emotional resonance and symbolic defiance, not policy, dominate.As Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent mayoral campaign in New York City came to a dramatic close, René Girard’s mimetic theory offers a revealing lens through which to interpret the emotional and symbolic forces that shaped voter behavior. What began as a fringe candidacy with barely 1 percent support rapidly evolved into a political phenomenon. Within weeks, Mamdani surged ahead of the field by double digits — his momentum driven not merely by policy proposals, but by a contagious sense of identity and aspiration.Voters...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurling a sandwich at a federal agent was an act of protest for Washington, D.C., resident Sean Charles Dunn. A jury must decide if it was also a federal crime.“No matter who you are, you can’t just go around throwing stuff at people because you’re mad,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Parron told jurors on Tuesday at the start of Dunn’s trial on a misdemeanor assault charge.Dunn doesn’t dispute that he threw his submarine-style sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent outside a nightclub on the night of Aug. 10. It was an “exclamation point” for...