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One of the many initiatives in the Chinese Cultural Revolution that began in 1966 was a repudiation of the past. The "Destroy the Four Olds and Cultivate the Four News" campaign aimed at destroying old ideas, culture, habits, and customs that had survived the Communist takeover of the country 17 years earlier and replacing them with "new" doctrines more in line with Chairman Mao.[1] The extremely bloody (more than a million victims) Cultural Revolution itself was less a grassroots effort by an underclass than it was a plot to consolidate power from above. Mao was to remain in charge, but...

After months of weak fundraising, the Democratic National Committee’s CEO will reportedly leave the job after less than a year.According to NBC News, Jess O’Connell will leave her job next month as the DNC’s top day-to-day official, overseeing the party headquarters during a chairman’s usual absences on high-profile tasks.DNC fundraising also has stabilized, though it hasn’t recovered completely, NBC News reported.

President Joe Biden is set to press Congress for a new $37 billion plan to fund increased policing across the nation.

Mail-In ballots won't begin to be counted until Thursday morning Baltimore City mail-in ballots.jpeg Photo by: Abby Isaacs By: Amanda EngelPosted at 3:50 PM, Jul 15, 2022 and last updated 3:50 PM, Jul 15, 2022 Primary election results could be delayed as late as early August in some races, according to the State Board of Elections. That's because more than 500,000 voters in Maryland have requested a mail-in ballot for Tuesday's primary election. A much higher number than 42,324 that were sent out in the 2018 gubernatorial primary. And despite the fact that more than 165,000 ballots have already been...

"Protesters are upset because a right, an important right that the majority of Americans support, was taken away." Kavanaugh was dining at a restaurant in downtown D.C. last Wednesday when he made a backdoor exit after a group of abortion rights protesters was tipped off while the justice was eating and showed up out front. “Honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly protestors while eating dinner at our Morton’s restaurant," a Morton's representative said in a statement obtained by Politico. "Politics, regardless of your side or views, should...

This Fourth of July, watching people fight over what the Constitution means, I ask people, if you could change the Constitution, what would you change?"The forefathers knew what they were doing," said one woman.But the Constitution originally accepted slavery. It's good that we can amend it.So what should we change?"Add a balanced budget amendment," suggests Glenn Beck.David Boaz of the Cato Institute recommends 18-year terms for the Supreme Court. "Maybe confirmation fights would be less bitter and partisan."Others suggest term limits for Congress. Stossel TV's Mike Ricci takes the idea further. "If your father, mother, siblings, uncle, cousins were elected...

RINO January 6 Committee vice chair Liz Cheney told ABC’s Jon Karl that the Republican Party cannot survive if Trump is the 2024 nominee.“Will the party survive in the way you’ve known it if Donald Trump is again chosen?” Jon Karl asked Cheney.“It can’t survive if he’s our nominee,” Cheney said. “I think that he can’t be the party nominee. I don’t think the party would survive that.”“Those of us who believe in Republican principles and ideals have a responsibility to try to lead the party back to what it can be and to reject so much of the toxin...

Romney criticized Biden and former President Donald Trump as the Utah Republican explained what he'd like to see in a future presidential candidate.Trump, he said, "would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable."

GOP Senator Mitt Romney is warning that a second Trump would "feed the sickness" of America and make national distrust "incurable."

President Joe Biden may face a primary challenge if he runs for re-election in 2024. Analysts speculate Illinois Governor JB Pritzker may be eyeing the White House despite his claims that his focus remains on the state's upcoming gubernatorial race. Pritzker said Wednesday it is 'certainly possible' Biden would face a Democrat challenger, but added: 'It's not something I'm encouraging.'

Under Obamacare, black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country”By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)July 4, 2022Under Obamacare, black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country.”And you don’t have to take my word for that.NBC News just reported: (the bolding is mine)Black women are underserved when it comes to birth control access. The Roe decision could make that worse.Discrimination, stigma and systemic barriers in the health care system have already led to a gap in contraceptive access for Black women.The Supreme Court’s ruling to gut nationwide rights to abortion last...

Why are woke white people always trying to convince blacks and other minorities that the American system is rigged against us and forces driven by white privilege will never let us excel? In a recent commencement address, Carol Strohecker, dean of the University of Minnesota’s College of Design, perpetuated that narrative by saying anti-black racism killed Minnesotans like George Floyd and Amir Locke and countless other black Americans across our nation. Strohecker is another liberal in the woke mob, trying to convince black people, like me, that America is racist, and we are oppressed. No matter how hard white liberals...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has stirred controversy after she made moves to codify protections for ‘gender identity’ into the state’s constitution.

A 2024 Republican presidential primary poll shows former President Donald J. Trump holding a colossal 40-point lead over the rest of the potential field if he decides to run.The Harvard CAPS-Harris poll, obtained by the Hill, reveals that Trump drew 56 percent of respondents’ support, while 16 percent chose Gov. Ron Desantis (R-FL), making him the second leading candidate. Former Vice President Mike Pence garnered seven percent of the response if Trump were to run.Trump has repeatedly teased and hinted at a 2024 bid since December 2020, including at CPAC earlier this year and a Georgia rally in March. He...

SANTA FE – The attorneys who filed a last-ditch lawsuit on behalf of President Donald Trump’s campaign in an attempt to stop New Mexico’s 2020 election results from being finalized could face investigation and possible discipline, under a court petition filed Thursday with the state Supreme Court. The Supreme Court petition, filed on behalf of six New Mexico attorneys, says a probe would also shed light on how New Mexico fit into a national Trump campaign scheme that has drawn scrutiny from a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. But the 31-page petition mostly...

Election tech company Dominion Voting Systems is rebutting assorted claims of partisan bias and voting manipulation in the 2020 election, including rumors of a secret U.S. military raid on purported servers in Germany and ownership interests and other influence in the firm by prominent Democratic families. At the same time, Dominion has confirmed reports it made a donation to the Clinton Foundation and hired a former Nancy Pelosi staffer as a lobbyist. Dominion has been at the center of a firestorm since Nov. 3, when its election management software, which is widely used across the country, led to an unofficial...

Joe Biden called Hunter in December 2018 saying he wanted to talk to him after reading a New York Times story about Hunter's dealings with the Chinese oil giant CEFC Files on Hunter's abandoned laptop previously disclosed by DailyMail.com show that he struck a deal with the Chinese company worth millions of dollars The Times' 2018 story pointed out CEFC's chairman Ye Jianming had been arrested in China and his lieutenant Patrick Ho had been convicted of bribery Hunter accidentally recorded himself referring to Ho as the 'spy chief of China' After seeing the story online, Joe called Hunter and...

Earlier this month we found out that voting machines can do tricky things. The results of a Democratic primary in a Georgia county were challenged after a hand count found the machines to be off by thousands. Marshall Orson, a Democratic candidate for DeKalb County Commission, requested that the local elections board not certify the results as scheduled because there were “numerous issues” in the race (Kind of sounds like what Trump asked for after the 2020 election). The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Orson asked for a formal recount of the election and an “independent review.”. “There is no rational...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that when people try to get off fossil fuels before there is a replacement ready, “they wind up going back to even worse fossil fuels.” And that this has happened in the United States and President Joe Biden going to Saudi Arabia “hat in hand, begging them for oil” after vowing to reduce oil drilling is an example of that. After citing Biden’s pledge to end drilling on federal lands, Maher stated, “Let’s just talk about why these things really happen, it’s because people think that they can —...

The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired to investigate President Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state testified Thursday that he routinely deleted records, and deactivated a personal email account, even after receiving open records requests. Michael Gableman testified in a court hearing about whether the person who hired him, Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, should face penalties after earlier being found in contempt for how he handled the records requests from American Oversight. Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn did not say when she would rule in the case. Vos hired Gableman a year ago, under pressure from Donald...