A company that helps provide a not-so-subtle dose of conservative politics along with Christmas says it has a lot to celebrate this year. Freedom Speaks Up sells wrapping paper bearing the rallying cry “Let’s Go Brandon,” as well as other patriotic- and conservative-themed items. CEO Seth Weathers said he expects...

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Surely, this couldn't have been what Robert Naismith envisioned when he invented basketball in 1891. In a Division III NCAA men's basketball game on Thursday, Grinnell College upended Emmaus Bible College to the tune of 124-67. Now, typically, a lopsided Division III basketball game isn't anything to write home about....

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Twitter's former head of trust and safety once shared an article questioning laws prohibiting relationships between teachers and students. In 2010, Yoel Roth shared a Salon article in which author Tracy Clark-Flory argued that a law criminalizing sexual relationships between students and teachers "deserves a bit more consideration." Can high...

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In 2006, YouTube was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion just a year after its launch. Since that time, censorship on YouTube has increased considerably, even to the point where educational videos are censored, like those of PragerU. On Tucker Carlson's show in 2017, Dennis Prager said the videos were...

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New information published in a "Twitter Files" release breaks down the internal deliberations regarding the 2021 suspension of then-President Donald Trump. Internal platform communications obtained and published by author Michael Shellenberger on Saturday reveal that Twitter executives had a specific plan in place to remove Trump's presence in the wake...

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A socialist who is a vice president of the European Parliament has been arrested on allegations of corruption linked to Qatar, the country currently hosting the World Cup soccer tournament. Greek legislator Eva Kaili was among five suspects detained by Belgian investigators, according to The New York Times. The sweep...

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On the same day that Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema left the Democrats, another member of President Joe Biden's party is expressing dismay and disappointment about his decision to trade a convicted arms trafficker for WNBA player Brittney Griner. Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey is slamming Biden for the trade,...

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CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr will be leaving the network, according to a new report. Oliver Darcy, CNN's senior media reporter, posted the news on Twitter. He wrote that Starr “has announced to colleagues that she will be leaving CNN in the coming days after her contract expires: 'I have made the...

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A man with a hammer can accomplish a lot – including chasing away an attacker with what authorities are calling a "samurai sword." The clash of unusual weapons took place Friday in Madison, Nebraska, according to Newsweek. According to a Facebook post from the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, the incident,...

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Catherine Areu Jones, a left-wing pundit who once regularly appeared on Fox News, has been charged with a range of crimes after allegedly defrauding her elderly mother of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fifty-one-year-old Jones, who also went by the name Cathy Areu, is accused of kidnapping her 88-year-old mother,...

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House Republicans are trying to put the brakes on a plan by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to destroy guns linked to the ill-fated Operation Fast and Furious. The concept of the 2010 ATF operation, under then-President Barack Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder, was that guns would be...

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China has been ground-zero for the development and testing of high-tech surveillance with the intention of population control. The CCP has famously utilized dystopian-style "facial recognition" software in their major cities to monitor and control its population, especially those they consider to be "radicalized", i.e. the Muslim Uighurs. China even...

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A British YouTuber was recently left stranded on the side of the road for hours after his Tesla shut down and trapped him inside. Tom Exton, a YouTube personality who focuses on the collection of cars and watches, was traveling to London in the Tesla that he bought 5 days...

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“… There is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9. So it is with electric vehicles. EVs gained popularity some 120 years ago but range, lack of infrastructure, and purchase price stifled them. But in 1899 there were more electric vehicles recorded in the U.S than gasoline-powered, 1,575 vs....

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The latest installment of the “Twitter Flies” notes the extent to which public pressure as well as private machinations contributed to Twitter’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump in January 2021. Former First Lady Michelle Obama posted an irate tweet on Jan. 7, 2021, one day after the Capitol...

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Russian leader Vladimir Putin fired off a barrage of tension-raising remarks about nuclear weapons on Friday, hinting that Russia is flirting with the notion of adopting the policy of making preemptive military strikes. “We are just thinking about it. They weren’t shy to openly talk about it during the past...

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Paul Silas, a member of three NBA championship teams as a player and LeBron James' first coach in the league, has died, his family announced Sunday. He was 79. The family revealed the death through the Houston Rockets, for whom Silas' son, Stephen, is a second-generation head coach. The Boston...

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Moscow, Idaho, police issued a warning this weekend as the investigation into the deaths of four college students continues University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho, Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho;  Xana Kernodle, 20, of Post Falls, Idaho; and Ethan Chapin, 20, of Mount Vernon,...

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So what really happened when Twitter played doctor for the coronavirus pandemic? Elon Musk says the world will know. Musk was asked by a Twitter user on Sunday if there would be an exposé about how the social media giant rallied ’round the party line during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Oh...

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Singer Patti LaBelle’s Saturday night concert in Milwaukee was cut short after a bomb threat caused police to clear the venue where she was performing. LaBelle was in the middle of her show at the Riverside Theater when two men strode onto the stage. First, they took the mic stand...

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Elon Musk has caused quite a stir since taking over Twitter. Some of his most recent tweets, in the wake of the release of the "Twitter Files," have gone next-level viral. On Sunday, Musk stirred the pot significantly, taking shots at the outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy...

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