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"hard step into deep tyranny" Lawyer-Talk Show Host Mark Levin Reacts To The Indictment Of President Trump By Manhattan Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg In recent days and weeks I saw stories in the mainstream media downplaying the activities of the grand jury of New York (Manhattan) District Attorney Alvin Bragg. My response to them was not to use them in my news summaries I felt they were not accurate. My suspicion was justified... President Trump with a statement tonight but his Truth Social Media feed tonight linking to reaction from various Republican elected officials and candidates for public office....

MOSCOW, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies."U.S. citizens residing or travelling in Russia should depart immediately," the U.S. embassy in Moscow said. "Exercise increased caution due to the risk of wrongful detentions.""Do not travel to Russia," it added."Russian security services have arrested U.S. citizens on spurious charges, singled out U.S. citizens in Russia for detention and harassment, denied them fair and transparent treatment, and convicted them in secret trials or without presenting...

A transgender woman was left in tears at JFK Airport after she claimed a TSA agent punched her in the testicles while she was going through security, the Daily Mail reported. The unidentified flyer took to social media to vent about the incident, in which she said the agent “humiliated” her in front of everyone in a series of posts that have since been deleted, according to the outlet. “hi so a tsa agent at jfk airport punched me in the genitalia, yelled at me for having a penis (?) and humiliated me in front of everyone after i told...

None of us liking paying extra to get our bags on an airplane... and at Philadelphia International Airport last week, those extra fees instigated a nasty brawl between passengers and Spirit Airlines gate agents. A 39-year-old mother and her 17-year-old daughter were about to board their flight when they were informed that their carry on bags were too big and they would have to pay to check them. An argument about the fees quickly escalated and became physical as the woman and her daughter started grabbing and clawing at the gate agents. The cell phone video footage shows the teenage...

A group of transgender activists is planning a “Day of Vengeance” in Washington, D.C., for March 31-April 2 while raising money for firearms training this week, according to its online materials. The Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) said on Twitter that “The time is now, enough is enough,” and uploaded posters to TikTok that said, “We want more than visibility. Trans Day of Vengeance. Stop trans genocide. Save the date: April 1st – 11:00 AM / March 31st – TBA.” The self-professed Virginia chapter of the group said on Twitter that it would host a dance party at a Richmond...

A Baltimore police officer shot and killed a man who was wielding a knife in West Baltimore on Sunday, according to Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Michael Harrison. That man, Tyree Moorehead, was the creator of the city's "no shoot zones." As an activist, he spray-painted that message across the face of Baltimore—from block to block and from neighborhood to neighborhood. His father, Carlton Moorehead, confirmed to WJZ that his son had been killed by an officer while in the neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester. Moorehead had been holding the knife while assaulting a female on the ground near the intersection of North...

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has had his 12 and a half-year prison sentence extended by almost two months, as he sits in solitary confinement for having an illegal cell phone. Duggar, 34, was arrested in April 2021 after a Little Rock police detective found images of child abuse which had been shared by a computer traced to the '19 Kids and Counting' personality. Investigators claim the images were downloaded in 2019 onto a computer at a car dealership owned by Duggar, which prompted federal agents to search Wholesale Motorcars in November 2019. Duggar pleaded not guilty to one...

December 23, 2022 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called out former President Donald Trump’s dwindling political influence and vowed that the Republican Party will not accept his preferred candidates in 2024. “Here’s what I think has changed: I think the former president’s political clout has diminished,” McConnell told NBC News, taking a shot at the 76-year-old former commander-in-chief. The Senate GOP leader, in the Wednesday interview that was reported Friday, added that (he) will “actively look for quality candidates” for the 2024 primaries

President Joe Biden is back to blaming Republicans for something his party is doing. This week, Biden accused congressional Republicans of pushing for law enforcement to be defunded despite almost all of the GOP supporting back the blue. While speaking with survivors of a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, Biden tried to position himself as a president who is hard on crime ahead of the 2024 election. “Congressional Republicans should pass my budget instead of calling for cuts in these [mental health] services or defunding the police or abolishing the FBI, as we hear from our MAGA Republican friends,”...

Russian fighter jet forces down US drone after collision over Black Sea https://nypost.com/2023/03/14/russian-fighter-jet-forces-down-us-drone-after-collision-over-black-sea/ The MQ-9 Reaper was brought down in international waters after its propeller was struck by one of two Russian Su-27 aircraft that conducted an “unsafe and unprofessional intercept,” US European Command (EUCOM) said in a statement. It is believed to be the first time since the height of the Cold War that an American aircraft crashed as a result of an encounter with a Russian warplane. More at link

Batya Ungar-Sargon and Robby Soave react to Jane Fonda's comment on "The View" calling for the murder of pro-life politicians.

Just hours from now Dutch farmers will rally against climate change cow gas rules in the capital city of The Hague. Dutch authorities putting obstacles in the way of the protest... White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemning "hateful and dangerous" attacks on LGBTQ people... In the South Pacific the outgoing President of Micronesia calling for the cutting of ties with China... In the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan there's been a cutoff of Armenian natural gas... Record levels of sexual assault allegations at US military academies last year... French political intrigue. There talk of a motion of censure... The...

Michelle Obama is taking a swing at former President Trump’s claims of “massive” turnout at his 2017 inauguration, saying “there weren’t that many people there.” The former first lady makes the dig at Trump in “Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast,” debuting Tuesday on Audible. A preview clip from the podcast was shared with People magazine on Monday. Describing her feelings while leaving the White House for the last time with then-President Obama, she said, “You walk through the Capitol, you wave goodbye, you get on Marine One, and you take your last flight flying over the Capitol.” “Where there weren’t...

Hershey’s launched it’s HER for SHE campaign for international women’s day featuring trans woman Fae Johnstone and the internet brought out it’s blow torches and pointy hoods. People were so disturbed by the campaign that they took to twitter to do what people do on twitter, engage in constructive conversation. The Federalist, editor-in-chief, Mollie Hemingway, tweeted: “So @Hersheys is featuring a male in costume as a woman for its international women’s day ad campaign.” Conservative commentator, John Cardillo, tweeted: “This to me is the biggest problem. Women remain silent as they’re reduced to a costume theme.” The Federalist, co-founder and...

God Bless the memory of Glen Campbell he lives a full life including the wild side with drugs the "illegal drugs" of course nowadays there's money to be made in drugs so we have legalized marijuana sales and the Pharma Industry cashing in and God Forbid anyone criticize Big Pharma which does a lot of advertising with Big Media... Folks like Peter Hitchens see connections between the extreme violence out there and the perps taking those "antidepressants" but in his column last weekend he too on the rage over Shamima Begum the teenager who joined ISIS (Islamic State) in Syria......

Millions of LastPass users may be at risk after a major breach of the home computer of one of their top employees. This employee was only one of four people in the company with access to their corporate vault. The breach may have come through a home Plex media account, according to Ars Technica, and appears to have been perpetrated by the same hackers who breached LastPass security on a smaller scale last August. At about the same time, Plex’s security was also breached.

This video was publicly promoted a little less than two years ago. They told us what they’d do. Did you believe them yet? “We’re Coming For Your Children!”, A message from the Gay Community performed by the San Francisco Gay men’s Chorus

Three days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a huge 10-mile (15.5km) line of armoured vehicles was spotted by a satellite in the north of the country. The very same morning in Bucha, just outside Kyiv, 67-year-old Volodymyr Scherbynyn was standing outside his local supermarket when more than a hundred Russian military vehicles rolled into town. Both Volodymyr and the satellite were witnesses to a key part of President Vladimir Putin's plan for a quick and overwhelming victory. They were also witnesses to its failure. The western media called it a convoy. In reality, it was a traffic jam and a...

Judy Monro-Leighton, one of three women who accused now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, was found to have lied during a congressional investigation and is now being charged with making materially false statements and obstruction.Brett Kavanaugh/IMAGE: C-SPAN via YouTubeAccording to The Beltway Report, a letter written by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made a criminal referral against Monro-Leighton, who admitted that she “just wanted to get attention.”She also admitted that an anonymous letter she sent to then-Sen. Kamala Harris describing a graphic sexual assault by Kavanaugh and a friend was not written by her, despite her original claim...

Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, once suggested that Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham could go on air and declare that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. .... Snip.... On January 5, 2021, Murdoch emailed Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott: “It’s been suggested our prime time three should independently or together say something like ‘the election is over, and Joe Biden won.'” He said that such a statement “would go a long way to stop the Trump myth that the election was stolen.” Scott then forwarded Murdoch’s suggestion to Meade Cooper, the primetime...