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An article published last year ended with the following ominous sentences: “If the USA is unlikely to become once again an overwhelmingly Christian nation (and this seems to be the case), where will we turn for a new morality? Is it possible that we are now entering a century or so of moral anarchy?”

When Charlie Hopkins thinks back to the three years he spent in one of America's most famous prisons, he remembers the "deathly quiet" the most. In 1955, Hopkins was sent to Alcatraz - a famed prison on an isolated island off the coast of San Francisco - after causing trouble at other prisons to serve a 17-year sentence for kidnapping and robbery. Falling asleep at night in his cell on the remote island, he said, the only sound was the whistle of ships passing. Now 93 and living in Florida, Hopkins said the San Francisco National Archives informed him that...

The convicted human trafficker who owned the van driven by deported MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, has reportedly told DOJ officials that he PAID Garcia to transport ILLEGAL ALIENS from Texas across the country. This is the "Maryland Man" that Democrats have been fighting for.

Video covers the 1978 disappearance of the "Yuba County Five" in northern California as well as some new information regarding the case. Emphasis will be on the only witness to the tragedy that befell the Yuba County 5 and that man's name is Joseph Schons. I'll also be showing you some onseen footage of key locations related to this case. I'll basically take you on the exact same journey the Yuba County 5 took on the night they disappeared.

Nike, the global athletic wear giant, finds itself embroiled in a public relations storm following allegations it funded a study examining the effects of "gender-affirming" medical interventions, including hormone therapy, on transgender youth, particularly athletes. This controversy erupted after a detailed article in The New York Times, which focused on Blaire Fleming, a biological male competing in women's volleyball, mentioned Nike's purported financial support for such research. Critics spanning various fields, from women's sports advocates and medical professionals to conservative lawmakers and media personalities, have voiced profound ethical and health concerns, characterizing any study involving medical transition for minors as...

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Palestinians living in the West Bank give their opinions of Hamas, Israel, Jews, and LGBTQ.

Pirro in Power: The Left Can’t Even Right Now May 9, 2025

I donated to 3 Republicans during the Summer of 2024. Since then I have been getting 15 to 30 texts every day from other Republicans asking for donations. Ninety percent of those requests appear to be sent out by a web site labeled WinRed. It appears to me WinRed collects web site info of donors and broadcasts that info to many other web sites of Republican candidates looking for donations. Of course at the end of most texts it says to enter stop to opt-out. That really does nothing to stop texts from different Republicans asking for money tomorrow. I...

Interesting how there has been a significant lessenimg of the radical rhetoric from some leftist Denocrat mouthpieces. Pelosi has all but disappeared. Cheney has been quiet. Others have settled way down too. Only Jasmine Crockett has been going off inviting trouble for herself. Someone needs to give it to her.

Last year, the three federal grantmaking agencies that award funds to arts and culture groups received a total of $708.8 million to award in a nation of 340 million people—or just over $2 per resident. When Deborah Block, artistic director of Philadelphia’s nonprofit theater company Theatre Exile, received word last November that a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts had been approved for the development and production of R. Eric Thomas’ play Glitter in the Glass, she immediately set to work on getting this dramatic piece up and running. Fifteen people—including a stage manager, an assistant stage...

Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the intellectual New Englander who disappointed Republicans and delighted liberals by slowing a conservative transformation of the high court, died May 8 at his home in New Hampshire. He was 85.

- Authorities in a Texas town are trying to determine the origins of a flock of sheep found wandering loose near an elementary school. The Leander Police Department shared photos on social media showing more than a dozen sheep loitering on a sidewalk and walking across a road. Police said the sheep were found unaccompanied near Tarvin Elementary School in Leander. "Do ewe know where your sheep are?" police quipped in the post. "We called Little Bo Peep, she said she found her sheep, and these are not part of her flock."

here’s a long history of hate groups using new technologies to spread their message. In the 1930s, it was radio. In the 2010s, it was social media. In 2025, it might be crypto. Enter $JPROOF, a new meme coin launched in April by Stew Peters, a far-right podcaster and outspoken Holocaust denier with a large online following. On paper, it’s just another token in a sea of barely coherent blockchain projects. But peel back even a single layer, and you’ll find something much darker: a coin literally branded as “Jew Proof,” marketed to Peters’ followers as a weapon against “usurious...

China’s population has gone into reverse, with deaths overtaking births and the total population decreasing by 1.5 million between 2021 and 2025.The country’s birth rate has dropped to one child per woman and researchers predict the population will halve by the end of the century to 525 million. But with China’s cities standing empty, is that the whole story?A couple of weeks ago, Reinette Senum highlighted China’s vanishing population. “China’s population has mysteriously and dramatically collapsed. Cities and villages stand eerily empty – streets, malls, homes and stores abandoned. What happened?” she asked and shared the video below.The description under...

Contract canceled!May 5, 2025 · 917.5K Views

https://x.com/DOGE/status/1920600696682131747Department of Government Efficiency@DOGE·2hCollaboration win by @USOPM and @DOGE: after 35+ years of failed modernization attempts, OPM has announced that, as of June 2, they are replacing their 65+ year old paper process with an all digital alternative. This will reduce the average time people wait to receive their retirement check from 3-5 months to less than 1 month. May 8, 2025·4.5M Views

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday.SNIPOfficials have said that as of Dec. 9, 2024, there were 4,240 troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the active duty, National Guard and Reserve. But they acknowledge the number may be higher.There are about 2.1 million total troops serving.snipThe Supreme Court ruled that the administration could enforce the ban on transgender people in the military, while other legal challenges proceed. The court’s three liberal justices...

I tried entering the main Columbia library a day before finals only to be blocked by other students. One yells “don’t let this guy in, he’s a f**ing Zionist.”

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will replace interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin, his embattled nominee to serve as the top prosecutor for D.C., after 15 tumultuous weeks in office marked by his threats to investigate Trump’s perceived political adversaries and firings and demotions of career prosecutors who investigated the president and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Martin, 55, an ardent Trump loyalist whom the president named to a 120-day interim post on Inauguration Day, can serve until May 20. Addressing reporters, Trump praised Martin and expressed disappointment at the Senate’s refusal to advance his nomination. “I just...