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Marjorie Taylor Greene: "All of you MAGA influencers and the rest mocking the seriousness of women who were trafficked and raped as teenagers look like cult fools. Good luck trying to get women to vote for Republicans in the midterms you insensitive clows. The Republican Party already has a woman voting problem. Keep mocking those of us who take rape and pedophilia seriously and demand accountability for corruption."

In November, Minaj appeared at the United Nations in support of the Trump administration to speak on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. In December, she was interviewed by Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk and the chairwoman of Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization. Then, after sharing increasingly supportive social media posts of conservative politics and the Trump administration, Minaj met with Trump and described herself as “probably the president’s number one fan." The move has been met with backlash from many of the rappers’ fans. Videos of her music being booed in clubs have gone viral,...

The nasty and expensive three-way contest between Cornyn and his two challengers — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt — is widely expected to go to a runoff election between the top two finishers, scheduled for late May. Cornyn, in his most difficult reelection fight since his first election to the Senate in 2002, could get shut out of the two-man brawl after the first round of voting in early March. (RELATED: Texas Democrat Accused Of Calling Ex-Opponent ‘Mediocre Black Man’) A J.L. Partners survey released Thursday found 27% of likely GOP primary voters support Paxton with...

California Democrats know how to manipulate the field of candidates to produce the governor’s race they want. That’s what I learned in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom. It is not a loss that gives me sleepless nights. It is, however, annoying that people, including veteran political analysts and pundits, get wrong exactly what happened. Why? Because the truth is instructive as to how Democrats maneuver, and what could be happening in the gubernatorial race in 2026.

Good Saturday afternoon folks. I’d like to invite y’all to check out my Indie Conservative Christian short story that is available for free today on Amazon. It’s a former Amazon best seller in several Christian genres. It addressses the hypocrisy of climate change while celebrating the power of prayer and God's sovereignty. The book can be downloaded using the amazon link above or linked from my web site at: https://congareeridgearts.com/payton-finds-his-purpose Thanks and have a good one!

I'm losing faith in republicans to be completely honest, I believe in "Liberal Democracy" I mean people should have the freedom to choose and elect what is they system and political alignment that best suits their values and worldview having a goon squad shoot American citizens is nowhere near what my values are I am a conservative, I believe in Person responsibility, governance by consent, limited government control over personal legal enterprise and entrepreneurship

Newsom has presided over the annihilation of what was once the crown jewel of American prosperity—the Golden State California now accounts for roughly one quarter of the nation’s homeless, more than any other state by far. Since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, $37 billion has been spent on homelessness programs—yet the homeless population has grown by roughly 20,000 people, not declined. At the same time, according to U.S. Census data, California has suffered net domestic population losses every year since 2020—the first sustained population decline in state history. Between 2020 and 2023, more than 430,000 residents left the state,...

The Catholic archbishop for the U.S. military services said it “would be morally acceptable to disobey” orders if troops considered them against their conscience as the Trump administration intervenes in Venezuela, readies troops for a possible deployment to Minnesota and threatens to seize Greenland.Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio is the latest public figure to suggest that U.S. soldiers could disobey their orders. His comments also underscored the mounting concern being voiced by the first American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, as well as his top cardinals in the United States, over the Trump administration’s foreign policy.“Greenland is a territory of Denmark,” Broglio...

Pamela Bondi has taken something of a beating from the MAGA team over the past year. The reasons aren’t hard to discern, and are no fault of hers. It seems that a lot of the less informed among our crew seriously expected her to step into office and immediately set out to arrest Pelosi, Schumer, Sanders, and whoever, and were sorely disappointed when this didn’t happen. Evidently, they have not heard the adage that begins, “The mills of justice grind slowly…” or have any familiarity with the legal process. There was the matter of “Epstein files,” which tripped her up...

For many years now we have all been agonising over the fertility crisis. Why aren’t the kids having kids? It’s become a sort of parlour game, the swapping of the various theories. Is it the cost of living? Micro-plastics? Eco-anxiety? Tight underwear, I heard the other day, and snorted with scorn even as I tipped my son’s stretch-cotton pants into the bin. But now another, rather more fundamental explanation for the baby shortage has emerged. It’s not just that younger generations aren’t having babies – it turns out they aren’t really having sex at all. The Atlantic was first to...

I have been wondering why the left is so absolutely dead set against ICE and their mission of keeping America safe. I had a discussion with a leftist on a friend's FB post (and no, I'm not posting her post, or my friend will be hit with tons of people showing up). She claimed that they were Gestapo. I told her she was wrong. I then worked to try to explain why Renee Good was in the wrong, and she posted up a list. If I believed the line of lies of the left, I can understand why they believe...

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed in front of her wife during an ICE protest in Minneapolis on January 7... At the time, Trump took to Truth Social to put the blame squarely on Renee... Renee’s former father‑in‑law told NBC that he always had a good relationship with her and remembered her as “outgoing” and “a real good person.” ... “I’m not blaming anybody,” Macklin said. “I mean, the ICE agent, you know, at first I didn‘t see the footage where... he was actually being rammed. I mean, I‘ve seen the bumper of the car hitting his legs....

Analytical thinking, humility, and reflection predicted greater tolerance to opposing views. Emotional reasoning correlated with closed-mindedness. In A Nutshell Framing conversations as learning opportunities might help, but evidence is mixed. Swiss students accepted wider opinion ranges when told discussions were for intellectual stimulation vs. getting along. But this didn’t replicate with Americans discussing partisan politics, showing context matters in ways researchers are still figuring out. Visual sliders predict behavior better than surveys. Researchers created WEDO, which asks people to mark acceptable opinion ranges on visual scales. These responses predicted which opposing-viewpoint news articles people selected, even after accounting for traditional...

George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley is not a conservative, but he is an honest and very smart man. Since the news of Maduro’s capture by the U.S. Military under Trump this morning, he has been pointing out that Trump did not need approval from congress to do this, despite what Democrats are claiming now. Turley uses the example of Manuel Noriega, who was removed from Panama by the United States in 1989 under similar circumstances. He refers to the actions of other presidents as well.

Joe Rogan Reacts to Senator Kennedy Dropping the Jeffrey Epstein Bomb #shorts

Mark Block uncovered unauthorized ActBlue donations made in his name. The alias “Bernie Kane” was used to spoof conservative donors. Smurfing breaks large donations into small ones to avoid detection. ActBlue does not require ID verification for small-dollar donors. Watchdogs warn these loopholes could distort real campaign momentum. In 2023, Republican strategist Mark Block was surprised to receive a phone call alleging he had donated to Bernie Sanders. He initially dismissed it as an error but then saw proof. Small-dollar donations had been processed through ActBlue using his name and address, despite the fact that he had never contributed.

With all the complaining about inflation - and who you vote for depending on the price of a pound of hamburger - who is is the real culprit in inflation, especially food? Who is that has the "twirling mustache" in this situation? Tariffs? 80-90% of our food is domestically sourced-imports only 20%. Energy? Fuel prices have been coming down in the past year in most of the country-except for those over-taxed/regulated blue states. Labor? Agriculture is due for major automation - many crops are already machine harvested-more needs to. And, sorry Jazzie Crackpot,cotton has been picked by machine since the...

National Cabinet has vowed strengthen Australia's gun laws in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack. In a statement following the snap meeting on Monday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said "immediate" priorities included a crackdown on 3D-printed weapons, tighter limits on the number of firearms a person can own, gun imports, and equipment that can hold large amounts of ammunition. Albanese also said police ministers and attorneys-general across the nation had been tasked with developing a number of policies which would limit Australians' access to firearms. They include a requirement that all licence-holders are Australian citizens, deeper background checks...

New research suggests that chatbots have a greater sway on policy issues than video ads, and that spouting the most information—even if wrong—is the most persuasive strategyArtificial intelligence chatbots are changing the world, affecting everything from our brains to our mental health to how we do our work. Now, two new studies offer fresh insights into how they might also be shifting our political beliefs. In a new paper published December 4 in Nature, scientists describe how having a brief back-and-forth exchange with an A.I. chatbot shifted voters’ preferences on political candidates and policy issues. Another paper, published December 4...

UK’s Labour Censorship InitiativeAs economic and cultural suicide stalk Western Europe, it has initiated efforts to hobble America's technological advantage and diminish our freedoms. The first documented attacks on our open dialogue came from the UK and began in 2018 when Morgan McGreevy, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff (then Labour Together’s managing director), began and funded an outfit called Stop Funding Fake News (SFFN). Recognizing that the online news purveyors could best be silenced by depriving them of funds, it first targeted UK outfits, but moved on in an attempt to starve U.S. outfits like American Thinker, Breitbart, Zero Hedge,...