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“Time for The Great Uprising to defeat The Great Reset. This isn’t just an R vs. D question in 2023. It’s a 1776 moment.” —Vivek Ramaswamy. I’m already liking 2024. Consequence is itching to return to the American scene. Somewhere around 2016, cause and effect got a divorce. After that, things just happened or unhappened with no further orders of effect, like some brute existence without purpose, meaning, or even awareness, except for the feeling of the lash on your back. After a long journey through a dark place, treading ever-deeper into the unknown, knowing you are in the presence...

In July 1968 four pairs of mice were introduced into the Utopian universe. The universe was a 9-foot (2.7 m) square metal pen with 54-inch-high (1.4 m) sides. Each side had four groups of four vertical, wire mesh "tunnels". The "tunnels" gave access to nesting boxes, food hoppers, and water dispensers. There was no shortage of food or water or nesting material. There were no predators. The only adversity was the limit on space. Initially the population grew rapidly, doubling every 55 days. The population reached 620 by day 315, after which the population growth dropped markedly. The last surviving...

The Failure in Uvalde Was Societal The preventable school shooting was due more to the breakdown of American institutions than any discrete cause. Kevin Roberts Aug 9, 2022 12:00 PM The needless tragedy that unfolded in Uvalde, Texas cannot and will not be stuffed into a convenient political narrative. It wasn’t about law enforcement ineptitude, though that was a factor. It wasn’t about rudderless, confused, and often angry young men, though that played into the events, as well. It wasn’t about unlocked doors or absent and unobservant parents. The Uvalde shooting springs from the breakdown of our society’s most basic...

A Rhode Island state senator raised eyebrows with a TikTok campaign clip of herself twerking while upside down in a very revealing bikini and saying: 'Vote Senator Mack.' Tiara Mack, 28, entered the Rhode Island legislature in January 2021 - the first black openly gay woman to do so, and set tongues wagging with her July 4 video, which was filmed on one of her adopted home state's famed beaches. The Democrat's video sparked a strong reaction, with 4,220 likes in the first 24 hours. She captured the clip: 'A promised senator thirst trap at Block Island.' Mack added a...

SEASIDE, Fla. - Authorities have identified "key players" in the break-in of an $8 million Florida mansion – where a group of more than 200 rowdy teens threw an unsanctioned house party on Friday. "We tracked down the key players in our investigation and will be interviewing them today," Walton County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Corey Dobridnia told Fox News Digital. "We're narrowing down today who were the ringleaders and who could be facing charges," she added. The owners of the Santa Rosa Beach mansion were out of town last Friday when a group of teens broke in and threw a...

A pregnant Missouri woman who was found dead at her home on Thursday was allegedly beheaded by her ex-boyfriend. KMOV reported that Liese Dodd, 22, was discovered dead at her Alton home after her mother came to check on her. Deundrea Holloway, 22, was accused of beheading Dodd and discarding her head in a dumpster. Dodd — who was due in mid or late July — had been in an on-and-off relationship with Holloway for the past two years, according to KMOV. “She was savagely killed. She was decapitated,” Alton Police Chief Marcos Pulido said. Holloway was arrested in Gillespie,...

President Biden’s disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz sang about dead child sex with fictional character Harry Potter, as she participated in the “wizard rock band” called “The Moaning Myrtles,” which released several songs detailing such fantasies. Jankowicz, the radical left-winger heading up the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, or “Ministry of Truth,” was apparently a huge Harry Potter fan — enough to create a band with her friend Lauren Fairweather in the 2000s. According to Spotify, the albums came out in 2007 and 2008, meaning Jankowicz was presumably 18 when the first album dropped. Videos have begun to circulate...

The Alumni Rainbow Community of Notre Dame held ‘ND LGBTQ+ Alumni — Past, Present & Future — A Celebration of Our Community’s Journey’ on the Indiana campus earlier this month.SOUTH BEND, Ind. — ­A new alumni group launched at the University of Notre Dame celebrated same-sex civil marriage and transgenderism on the Indiana campus over the April 8-10 weekend — with the Catholic university’s official sponsorship. The Alumni Rainbow Community of Notre Dame (ARC) held its “ND LGBTQ+ Alumni — Past, Present & Future — A Celebration of Our Community’s Journey” event from Friday to Sunday. “We encourage everyone who...

A six-year-old Connecticut boy is hospitalized with severe burns to his face and legs after he was intentionally lit on fire by another child, who poured gasoline on a tennis ball, lit the ball on fire and threw it at the child's face. The youngster, identified as Dominick Krankall, survived the vicious attack but is suffering from severe second-and-third degree burns to his face and legs. 'My six-year-old brother could've died. The kid covered a ball in gasoline, lit it on fire and threw it at him. All in a matter of seconds,' wrote the victim's sister, Kayla Deegan, on...

Wisconsin 10-year-old Lily Peters was sexually assaulted after her strangling death at the hands of a boy four years her senior earlier this week, prosecutors revealed in a harrowing bond hearing Wednesday afternoon. Judge Benjamin Lane agreed to prosecutors' request to set bond at $1 million and ordered the defendant to avoid contact with minors, except his siblings, so long as such contact is supervised. Prosecutors identified the suspect through his initials and only as a 14-year-old boy and alleged that the eighth-grader admitted to physically assaulting the child before strangling her to death and then sexually assaulting her. "Protection...

One person was killed and 11 others were wounded in a shooting at a concert in the Dallas, Tex. area early Sunday morning, authorities said. The Dallas Police Department (DPD) said officers responded to a call about a shooting at a trail ride and concert on Sunday. Officers found the body of a male near the stage who suffered a gunshot wound to the head. He was later identified as 26-year-old Kealon Dejuane Gilmore.

Neighbors shared information and worked together to try to stop a stranger who they say followed a 12-year-old girl to a Southeast Portland porch, exposed himself and asked if she wanted to have sex as he cornered her. . . . Portland police arrived and arrested a 20-year-old man, Bill Glenn Fomonyuy, at 8:39 a.m. Monday on allegations of coercion, luring a minor and public indecency. Fomonyuy was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center at 3:47 p.m. and released on his own recognizance four hours and 15 minutes later.

Out of control. This is simply getting out of control. Again, I’m not a culture warrior. These were never issues that got me animated, but now it looks like we all must fix bayonets and skewer the freaks who are turning our places of learning into dens of sexual deviancy. This isn’t about LGBT folks. I don’t care about them. This is 2022—if you’re part of that community—good for you. It’s no longer a shocking detail or taboo. Younger conservatives don’t care either—the shock value is gone. This is about ending this grooming bit in our schools and the brainwashing...

I wonder how far all this will go. By “all this”, I mean the headlong push, always in the same direction, always away from the world I recognise. To me it seems as though a pendulum is swinging, has been swinging for years now, but always and only one way – further and further from the point where I stand. I wonder too, how far that pendulum can swing before it must stop and, inevitably swing back the other way, and with a vengeance. Every action, after all, has an equal and opposite reaction. To me there seems no avoiding...

What this woman did at her local Wal-Mart made national news December 28, 2015 | Tom Tillison http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/12/28/what-this-woman-did-at-her-local-wal-mart-made-national-news-288531?hvid=4TFUwx Here’s another “people of Wal-Mart” story … with a twist. A Florida woman driving a motorized shopping cart around a local Wal-Mart made herself at home while in the store, eating and drinking to her heart’s desire. Josseleen Elida Lopez, 20, was arrested by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office after she consumed $32.36 worth of food and wine, according to WFLA-TV. Included among her dining choices were cinnamon rolls, mini muffins, sushi, a rotisserie chicken with sauce and two bottles of S....

Hearts in America are getting colder even faster than the weather is. Sometimes it is hard to believe how twisted and deranged many Americans have become. In order for a society to function efficiently, people need to be able to have a basic level of trust in one another. Unfortunately, we are rapidly getting to the point in America where it is becoming very difficult to trust anyone that you do not know personally. As you will see below, the United States is rapidly becoming a cesspool of liars, thieves, murderers, perverts and psychopaths. Please do not allow any young...

The City of Seattle erected five “chapels” inside its city hall over the weekend, so the government facility could host 138 same-sex wedding ceremonies on Sunday. Same-sex unions became legal in Washington as of Sunday due to the passage of a referendum in the November election. … But some Seattle residents were not celebrating on Sunday. Dan Kennedy, who is chief executive of the pro-life group Human Life of Washington, told the Seattle Times the day reminded him of the Roman Empire. “I feel like I’m living in pagan Rome,” Kennedy said. …

April 23, 2012 7:02 PM SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – More than 30 women brawled in the street, all reportedly over Facebook posts. “I saw the girls yelling and pushing each other and one girl tried to push them apart,” one witness said of the fight in Del Paso Heights on Sunday. “People shouldn’t be posting their business on Facebook,” said another woman. It happened on Grand Avenue and Clay Street when police responded to reports of a large fight with women swinging fists and baseball bats. All suspects had fled by the time officers arrived. “Two people really sustained major injuries,”...

Well-known gay marriage advocate Kathy Griffin has joked about Sarah Palin performing oral sex on John McCain. In a lowlife stab at comedy on her Life on the D-List show, Kathy Griffin took her comically challenged act on the road to Anchorage, Alaska, last Friday, performing for a lowbrow crowd which can only be described as getting off on profane, sexual innuendo-humor directed at Sarah Palin. As if this piece of distastefulness wasn't enough, perhaps equally surprising was the person who escorted Griffin on stage for her profane, anti-Palin performance: none other than Levi Johnston! That's right, the Levi Johnston,...

You see them clack-clacking along the pavement, fat-faced British girls with goose-pimpled thighs en route to the disco. In the third blast from his new book on the dumbing down of Britain, Quentin Letts holds Germaine Greer responsible for at least some of this destruction of feminine modesty and decency. Foreigners retain a touchingly generous image of the British. They imagine us as people of gracious airs, opening doors for the infirm, standing when strangers enter the room. We say 'please' and 'thangyew' and 'don't mention it - I insist'. Overseas caricaturists draw Britons as fastidious dressers, the men attired...