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my opinion, the great artistic acts for freedom of speech in American artistic history include: Mark Twain opposing racist bigotry through The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. Walt Whitman’s life long Hymn to America a.k.a Leaves Of Grass. Dylan Rejecting Woke Censorship With Freedom of Emotional Speech in Maggie’s Farm And lines like “How Does It Feel?” and “Once upon a time you dressed so fine/Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?/People call say ‘beware doll, you’re bound to fall’/ You thought they were all kidding you” to deaf snobs and opened eared fans at Newport. Nobel Prize...

One year ago today, Miley Cyrus, won Best International Song for “Flowers”. The first verse paints a chilling picture of the modern world: “We were good, we were gold Kinda dream that can’t be sold We were right ’til we weren’t Built a home and watched it burn.” I told Joe from Niddrie thatthe world needs a restoration of freedom. He told me a list of other problems he thought took precedence. Joe believed that conservatives need to stand up for the battler to alter the perception that conservatives only help business. I observed that American President Franklin Roosevelt described...

DOGE workers are revolting against Elon Musk and Donald Trump by signing a dramatic resignation letter vowing not to defund 'public services.' 'We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,' 21 former DOGE staffers wrote in a letter first reported on by AP. These ex-DOGE workers, who are not part of Musk's personally hired nerd army, said that they refuse to 'dismantle critical public services' being slashed. All of the now-resigned workers were a part of the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), the small government department of roughly 100 workers that Musk...

Vice President Vance argued that it’s too early for President Trump to name his successor, after Trump declined to endorse his No. 2 as the Republican nominee in 2028. Vance, in an interview with the Daily Mail, laughed off questions over the president saying he wouldn’t name the vice president as his pick to succeed him. “I think he said exactly what he should have said, which is, ‘It’s too early,’” Vance said, adding that he isn’t focused on politics. “There will be a time to focus on politics, of course — [like] the midterms. … So let’s do a...

Who needs the Klan when there are guys like left-wing lawyer Benjamin Crump doing what it does better? According to Fox Business host Charles Payne: [Video and X-post at link] The video, which has an MSNBC badge below it, and was probably made in 2024, features Crump, who represented George Floyd and Trayvon Martin in their race-baiting cases, shooting cue balls on a pool table with the Rev. Al Sharpton and a couple other men, waxing philosophical between pool shots: "We can get rid of all the crime in America, overnight, just like that ... change the definition of crime....

Summary South Korean authorities have arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol, who faces charges of insurrection following an attempt to impose martial law Yoon is now at the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) - he said he agreed to the interrogation "even though it is an illegal investigation, in order to prevent any unsavoury bloodshed" Authorities served the warrant after an hours-long standoff with his security staff and supporters, which saw investigators using ladders and wirecutters to enter Yoon's residence Yoon had been holed up for weeks - investigators tried to arrest him earlier this month but failed This marks the first...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted President-elect Donald Trump’s response to the California wildfires in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” recorded Saturday, saying, “Mis- and disinformation I don’t think advantages or aids any of us.”Newsom appeared to be referring to Trump’s posts on Truth Social blasting Newsom, President Joe Biden and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass since the fires broke out Tuesday.In one post, the president-elect baselessly claimed Newsom had blocked a measure that would have allowed water to flow from Northern California to Southern California.

President-elect Donald Trump broke his silence by sending a cryptic message to Elon Musk, his biggest ally and tech billionaire on social media after the latter faced the MAGA wrath over his comments on foreign work visas. Tesla and Space X CEO, Musk has been instrumental in Trump's win for a second term at the White House, an issue that has been brought up by Democrats and critics to criticize his influence in American politics. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, both selected to head the ambitious Department of Government Efficiency, faced online backlash from MAGA netizens after they advocated for more...

Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris admitted on Wednesday that she knew every single attack she launched against President-Elect Donald Trump and his presidency was a bald-faced lie. More than twelve hours after Trump delivered a stunning blow to the regime and swept both the popular vote and Electoral College, Harris took the stage at Howard University to begrudgingly concede. She could have conceded in the wee hours of the morning, but that would have required showing up when it mattered — something she clearly doesn’t do (see her disastrous handling of Afghanistan). But it wasn’t her hollow speech about “unity”...

President Joe Biden said he does not support Israel striking Iran's nuclear sites in response to its missile attack against its people. ‘The answer is no,’ he told reporters traveling with him.

Francis Prays to Some Kind of Allah, Omits Trinity and Sign of the CrossFrancis arrived in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on September 3 to begin his 11-day swing through Asia and Oceania.Looking fit and energetic after the 13-hour flight, he joked and laughed.The trip is expected to be the longest and most challenging international trip of his pontificate, his 45th.On Wednesday, Francis received an enthusiastic welcome at Jakarta's cathedral and spoke to bishops, priests and religious.He then met with the Scholas Occurrentes movement and planted a tree. In his final "blessing", he pointed out that the students present represent...

CHICAGO — Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy made a surprise appearance on the final day of the Democratic National Convention, just hours before Vice President Harris is set to take the stage. “I held a conference open to the public, open to the press, earlier today, where I laid out an alternative vision — the vision that not only our party, but the America First movement and Donald Trump stands for — to give voters that choice,” Ramaswamy said when asked by The Hill what his goal was in attending the convention. “And it was to call on Kamala...

The federal government is processing U.S. citizenship applications at its fastest pace in decades, with thousands of immigrants becoming newly minted citizens every week, possibly helping sway the result of November’s election. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USIS) is taking an average of 4.9 months to process naturalization applications in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, a pace not seen since 2013 and 2014, according to a report from the New York Times. The under five-month average processing time is a far cry from that pace set just three years ago, when it took roughly 11.5...

As former President Trump blasts Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over his response to the unrest in his state in May 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, a resurfaced audio recording shows that Trump had praised Walz at the time for how he "dominated" the situation. In the audio recording, which was obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday, Trump was on a phone call with Walz and other governors and officials on June 1, 2020. "What they did in Minneapolis was incredible. They went in and dominated, and it happened immediately," Trump told Walz and the others on the...

Tim Walz’s stolen valor scandal is growing. Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced she chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate. Immediately after Walz was introduced as Kamala’s running mate, a video of him falsely claiming to be a combat veteran surfaced. Walz’s stolen valor scandal is only getting worse and he refuses to answer questions from the press. A 2007 video of Tim Walz falsely claiming he deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom has surfaced. “I spent 24 years in the National Guard, some of that full-time. I was an artilleryman. I deployed in support of...

he FBI’s director has revealed that investigators still do not know whether it was a bullet or some shrapnel which grazed Donald Trump’s ear during his attempted assassination. Christopher Wray told a marathon session of the US House Judiciary Committee that the FBI was still working to determine exactly what hit the former president’s ear during the shooting. “My understanding is that either it [a bullet] or some shrapnel is what grazed his ear,” he said.

The FBI's director has cast doubt on whether Donald Trump was struck by a bullet during the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania political rally. Christopher Wray was updating Congress on the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler on Wednesday when he made the explosive statement. 'There’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,' Wray said. Wray was addressing security failures that allowed gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks to open fire. Crooks, 20, killed firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, and injured two others including Trump during the shooting. The presidential hopeful has since...

In a new video leaked Thursday on social media, former US President Donald Trump is seen cursing US President Joe Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump is seen in the footage in a golf cart next to his son Barron, saying: "How did I do with the debate the other night against that that old broken down pile of c---?" "He's a bad guy. He just quit you know, he's quitting. I got him out of the race," Trump boasted. "That means we have Kamala. I think she's going to be even better. She's so bad, she's so...

MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said in an interview posted on Thursday he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges, a sharp departure from the anti-immigrant rhetoric he typically uses on the campaign trail. Trump was asked about plans for companies to be able to import the “best and brightest” in a podcast taped Wednesday with venture capitalists and tech investors called the “All-In.” “What I want to do and what I will do is you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma...

Experts in Germany have uncovered a deciphered manuscript that has been determined to be the oldest record of Jesus Christ’s childhood. As CBS News reported, the 1,600-year-old document had been stored in a university library in Hamburg, Germany, for decades. It was ignored until Dr. Lajos Berkes, from Germany’s Institute for Christianity and Antiquity at Humboldt University in Berlin, and professor Gabriel Nocchi Macedo from Belgium’s University of Liège looked it over and revealed it as the earliest surviving copy of the “Infancy Gospel of Thomas,” a document detailing Jesus Christ’s childhood. The two experts said in a news release...