“Mike Johnson’s Election Denial Should Raise Alarms for 2024” screams a headline of the New York Intelligencer. OK. I’m duly alarmed about the characteristics of the new Speaker of the House. And yet somehow three words from the late comedian Joan Rivers come to mind -- “Oh, grow up!” Meanwhile,...

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Vice President Kamala Harris embraced one of the most brazen gun control policies enacted in the Western world on Thursday. The veep defended the national gun confiscation conducted by the Australian government in 1996 -- in which civilian firearms were seized en masse. Harris spoke at a State Department event...

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Panelist Morgan Ortagus became emotional during a segment Monday on Fox News dealing with the rising tide of anti-Semitism since the outbreak of war in Israel. “It’s really hard to be a Jewish parent right now,” the former Trump State Department spokeswoman said on "Outnumbered," following a video clip being...

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On Monday, hearings began that could take former President Donald Trump off of the ballot in what may be a swing state. And, surprise, surprise, the judge hearing the legal challenge was appointed by the state's Democratic governor. According to Colorado Newsline, the proceedings began in a courtroom in Denver...

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Like other Democrat-controlled cities, Washington has devolved into a lawless cesspool, thanks to soft-on-crime liberal policies and the catastrophic fallout of demonizing the police. On Saturday, 13-year-old Vernard Toney Jr. was fatally shot while attempting to carjack an off-duty federal security officer, according to a news release from the D.C....

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With every little breeze, the offshore wind industry begs for a bailout, according to energy experts who say the Biden administration might be more than happy to throw taxpayers' money to the winds. Multiple offshore wind projects are not only failing to achieve the results they promised but are costing...

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People at the highest levels of Ukraine’s government are lining their pockets with cash as U.S. taxpayers prepare to fund yet another year of that nation's war against Russia, an adviser to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Time magazine published a lengthy story on Monday about reporter Simon Shuster's recent...

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A Las Vegas man has been charged with making threats to a U.S. senator from Nevada. The office of Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada, who is Jewish, confirmed that she was the target, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. John Anthony Miller, 43, was charged with one count of...

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In a small measure of revenge, Israeli forces say they have killed one of the Hamas leaders who helped mastermind the attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7 “Yesterday, based on IDF and ISA [Israeli Security Agency] intelligence, IDF fighter jets struck the Commander of the Beit Lahia Battalion of...

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Maybe now she'll see how her citizens feel. Pamela Price, the progressive prosecutor in Alameda County, California, got a look at crime, up close and personal, when her office laptop was stolen from an SUV after her bodyguard parked the vehicle Friday afternoon, according to KGO-TV in Oakland. And police...

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What was likely intended to be a quick smash-and-grab property crime turned into a nightmare for three Florida men last week when the homeowner defended the private property by opening fire on the intruders, authorities say. Rather than walk away with someone else’s belongings and before they had the chance...

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Paris police on Tuesday shot a hijab-wearing woman who had allegedly been telling fellow commuter train riders, “You're all going to die." The woman also reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar," meaning “God is great,” and refused police commands to surrender, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said, according to Reuters. Commuters reported...

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Pfizer reported a third-quarter loss during Tuesday’s earnings call as the demand for its COVID-19 vaccines and one popular antiviral medication to treat the virus decreased substantially, according to CNBC. The pharmaceutical giant announced it recorded a write-off of $5.6 billion due to the drug Paxlovid and its vaccine, Comirnaty....

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A heavily armed man who was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound over the weekend at a western Colorado amusement park reportedly wrote a message on a bathroom wall before he took his own life, police said. On Saturday morning, employees of the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park located...

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The creators of the animated hit show “South Park” escalated their war against Disney with an episode that dropped on Friday, and actress Gina Carano is among those who have weighed in. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have taken on the far-left company for years. On Friday, the duo took...

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What is the value of a human life? How far would someone go to save their own child and what happens when a bureaucracy gets to make that decision instead of you? The heartbreaking case of Indi Gregory, an 8-month-old British baby with a terminal genetic disorder, is the most...

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They're trying to save President Joe Biden from himself -- and the backfire could be even worse. When the Democratic president made a deliberate decision last week to write off New Hampshire voters, it was a strategic move to pander to his party's more "diverse" base. But he still set...

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If you ever wondered whether a Christian football coach could make you feel like running through a wall from sheer joy, then wonder no more. On Saturday, coach Andrew DiDonato's Grove City College Wolverines won the Presidents' Athletic Conference and advanced to the NCAA Division III playoffs for the first...

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Arizona's Republican firebrand Kari Lake is saying that it seems pretty obvious to anyone paying attention that the Democratic Party has nefarious plans to dump President Joe Biden at the last second for the coming 2024 election cycle and replace him with who they seem to think is a ringer...

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In the darkness below Gaza, Israeli soldiers and Hamas terrorists are meeting in battles where there is no glory and no video of exploding targets -- only clammy fear in an inch-by-inch contest through a spider web where death can lurk at every turn. “We should have no illusions about...

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