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Joe Biden's cancer has spread further,
leaving him in 'very painful' condition,
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leaving him in 'very painful' condition,
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Former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him significant pain, his son Hunter Biden revealed during a Friday interview.
"The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further," Hunter Biden told the BBC in an interview which aired Friday. "It’s very painful and it’s very debilitating in many respects," he added.
"It’s really sad to watch," Hunter Biden said. "The only thing that I’d say about my dad, about his health right now, is I wish he would complain more, because it’s not good."
‘Insanely Dystopian’: BMW Shows ‘Spider-Man’
Ad on Dashboard Screens, Faces Intense
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Ad on Dashboard Screens, Faces Intense
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BMW owners are expressing outrage on social media after the luxury automaker began displaying advertisements for Spider-Man: Brand New Day on their car dashboards without prior warning.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that BMW began displaying ads for the latest Spider-Man movie last week on newer cars, prompting backlash from drivers who paid substantial sums for luxury vehicles, with some models costing up to $160,000. The promotional campaign is part of a partnership between BMW and Sony-Marvel and is scheduled to continue through August 10, according to the automaker’s press release.
When drivers start their vehicles, a banner promoting the film appears on the dashboard display.
The reality of the Social Security system and laws is that the system design is fundamentally and fatally flawed. Unless we fix the design flaws, any other changes to the system are purely cosmetic and doomed to perpetual tinkering, temporary fixes, and eventual failure.
We will have failed our younger citizens by failing to address the flaws. The options are painfully simple. Do nothing, which our federal government has done well since the program's inception, or truly fix the system. The crux of the problem is that the Social Security system was never structured to keep the beneficiary front and center of every investment decision.
Citing Thomas Jefferson, Conservative
Abelardo de la Espriella Becomes President
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Abelardo de la Espriella Becomes President
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The presidential inauguration, hosted by the city of Cali for the first time in the country’s history, occurred under the watch of a highly reinforced security operation amid a string of terrorist threats and a thwarted attack with explosives this week. Abelardo de la Espriella succeeded former President Gustavo Petro, a former member of the Marxist M19 terrorist group and Colombia’s first and so far only leftist president ever. President de la Espriella, a 48-year-old lawyer nicknamed “The Tiger” and highly supportive of President Donald Trump and the United States, became the next Colombian head of state after defeating far-left Sen.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology has spread through schools, universities, corporations, and government agencies, destroying excellence, integrity, and comity. Now, a new investigation shows that DEI has infected one of the most sensitive and important fields in America: mental healthcare.
Accuracy in Media recently released video footage (video #1; video #2) from the annual conference of the American Psychological Association (APA), the world's largest psychological association. The footage reveals that the nation's most influential psychology organization is prioritizing political activism over patient care.
This week six London councils united to protest against new rules on single-sex spaces.
These were Lambeth, Waltham Forest, Southwark, Hackney, Haringey and Lewisham, which are apparently “boroughs with some of the highest trans and non-binary communities in the country”.
“Trans men are men, trans women are women”, chant the councillors in a video posted on social media, in which they individually deliver dramatic lines (full script below):
Councillor Paul Perkins, Leader, Waltham Forest Council (Green): “We serve 1.7 million Londoners and pledge to be boroughs of sanctuary for our trans, non-binary and intersex communities.”
Councillor Martin Abrams, Leader of Lambeth Council (Green):
“Politically correct.” I was introduced to that fatuous phrase about 35 years ago while watching an episode of the television series Thirtysomething. The following day, I mentioned it in a casual conversation with a colleague. Confessing that I had never before heard the expression, I told her I found an astounding clumsiness in its construction. “(The character) said it without a hint of irony,” I complained. “Isn’t ‘politically (long pause) correct,’ a contradiction in terms?”
“Not at all,” she educated me. “We used it all the time at Occidental,” explaining everything I needed to know. “Some things simply cannot be said,” she continued, “or even thought.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies have... been targeting their neighbors' civilian infrastructure. Perhaps to these countries, a "deal," even a bad one, sounds as if it might free them of Iranian threats without any cost. Their security calculations have to be quite different from ours: Why not just sit back and let America and Israel do all the heavy lifting?
The problem, of course, as the US has seen again and again, like Charlie Brown's football, is that any deal signed with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) would only postpone its threats to the oil and gas infrastructure of neighboring countries.
Gen Z was supposed to be the first fully digital generation.
They grew up with smartphones in their hot little hands, social media accounts before they were old enough to swim, and an entire childhood recorded, uploaded, ranked, liked, shared, and permanently part of every algorithm on the planet.They were supposed to love every second of it… but that didn’t happen.
A growing number of them are now trying to escape the tech lifestyle they were born into.
Young Americans are deleting apps, cutting back on screen time, getting rid of social media, and trading expensive smartphones for “dumb phones” that make calls, send texts, give directions, and play music.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent continues on two domestic financial approaches to block banking services for illegal aliens and simultaneously target use of the financial system by those engaged in fraud of the U.S. government.Secretary Bessent has extended the Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) within Minnesota that covers two counties, Hennepin and Ramsey.
All financial transactions over a $3,000 limit are subject to increased reporting requirements and scrutiny from the U.S. treasury. {citation}
Peter Stein, the so-called “Boss of the Beach,” now collecting a $570,000 pension after careers with the Department of Education and Parks Department, is just the poster boy for corrupt abuse of New York public-employees benefits — and union leaders’ complete lack of shame at these absurdities is damning.
And that it’s (mostly) completely legal doesn’t make it any less corrupt.[snip] He’s one of 62 new retirees who scored pensions of at least $200,000 last year, per data on the Empire Center’s SeeThroughNY website; 490 got six-figure payouts.
And the total pension payout to retired city workers was about $6.2 billion — including more than $52.7 million in “back pay.”
Cambridge University is England’s second-best university, but it’s now bottom of the class. As the case of Jason Arday confirms, no one does dumb like the smart people.
In 2023, Cambridge made Arday a professor. He became the professorial chair of sociology and education. These fields produce politicized gibberish and call it scientific research. [snip] Enter Jason Arday. The son of Ghanaian immigrants. An autist, epileptic and dyslexic. Arday could not read or write until he was 18. But in 2021 he was already teaching at Glasgow University. His specialty was detecting bat squeaks of racism in education policy.
Justice Samuel Alito said he will be staying on the Supreme Court “for another term,” after a news bulletin weeks ago falsely reported his imminent retirement.
“Obviously I’m here for another term,” the 76-year-old justice said in an exclusive interview that The Wall Street Journal published on Aug. 7.
Alito was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006 to fill the seat vacated by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. He previously served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
This Week in Pictures
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Anthony Fauci is shaping up as the Choosin’ Texas of meme subjects–holding down the #1 spot week after week. He was our prime meme target again this week. Apart from Fauci, the WNBA was on the receiving end of a lot of ridicule, and something happened with regard to burritos, I don’t know what. But you will see some burrito memes. And unfortunately, anti-Communism is once again necessary. Who would have predicted that, circa 1991?
The Department of War on Friday revoked former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall’s eligibility for access to classified intel after he leaked classified information about Air Force One to the media. The Biden-era Air Force Secretary leaked sensitive information about President Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet to The New York Times. Full statement from Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell: Effective immediately, the Department of War has REVOKED former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall’s eligibility for access to classified information and his ability to hold any sensitive position.
When I call an investment firm or a doctor’s office to speak with a person, it’s bad enough that I have to listen to a voice mail that gives me six options, none of which includes speaking with a person.
But there’s something else that bugs me. It’s “Press 2 for Spanish.” That part of the recording is often in Spanish.
That Spanish part is usually preceded by “Press 1 for English.”
But wait a minute. I already have the recording in English. Now I have to press 1 for some more?
federal judge on Friday denied the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) bid to dismiss the Department of Justice's indictment of the organization and further declined to grant discovery into the DOJ's motives.
The DOJ announced charges against the organization, bringing six counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements to a bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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The SPLC had argued that the case was politically motivated, but the judge rejected that argument, saying the SPLC's filings were "heavy on heated rhetoric, better suited for cable news, or a podcast."
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is the only governor in America currently under investigation for a “pay-to-play” scheme, but that investigation will likely conclude just prior to the November election.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes – a fellow Democrat – is conducting the investigation and recently told reporters that the investigation is “near the end” and results would come prior to the November election, KTAR News reported.
“I feel confident that we’re going to get the information that we need to conclude the investigation,” Mayes told reporters earlier this week.
The investigation involves Hobbs’ connection to an Arizona group home,
A new Forgotten History documentary compilation revisits the controversies that followed Bill and Hillary Clinton from Arkansas to the White House and beyond.
Written and hosted by Colin D. Heaton, “The Clintons: Scandal After Scandal” traces former President Bill Clinton’s political rise, Whitewater, the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, sexual misconduct allegations, Monica Lewinsky and the impeachment fight.
From Whitewater To Benghazi
The feature-length episode then turns to the Clinton Foundation, Haiti relief, foreign donations, Hillary Clinton’s private email server, the 2012 Benghazi attack and recent congressional scrutiny.
Coca-Cola faces renewed backlash from Christian consumers after viral videos claimed its online personalized can feature allowed messages such as “I love Satan” and “Satan is King” while rejecting phrases including “I love Jesus” and “Jesus is King.”
The claims circulated widely on social media platforms, including a post by Sachin Jose on X that referenced the reported discrepancy. Social media users shared screen recordings of tests on the Coca-Cola Store website’s customization tool. The demonstrations prompted calls for boycotts of the company’s products.
The day of the transition of power in Colombia has finally arrived. Four years of its first left-wing president in modern history have come to an end, and the voters have replaced the former guerrilla and all-around clown, Gustavo Petro, with a much better option. It's a great day for that country and a great day for our entire hemisphere. Just to recap, Colombia held elections for president in May, with run-offs in June, and Abelardo de la Espriella, aka "El Tigre" or "The Tiger," won against Petro's hand-picked left-wing candidate, Ivan Cepeda. El Tigre is a lawyer —
President Donald Trump got handed an ugly jobs headline Friday. The economy lost 23,000 payroll jobs in July, and revisions erased another 103,000 jobs from May and June. That can't be dressed up; a weak jobs report is a weak jobs report.
But buried one line deeper is a number worth noticing. Private employers added 30,000 jobs in July while government payrolls fell by 53,000. If government employment had simply remained flat, the headline number would've been a gain of 30,000 jobs.
Statistics can tell very different stories depending on where somebody stops reading. The easiest headline is "23,000 jobs lost."
It's accurate, but so is "private employers added 30,000 jobs."
It's been ten years since Hillary Clinton lost her race to be president, her hopes dashed by the guy she thought she could easily beat, and who has now gone on to another term.
Yet, she still seems fully obsessed with him. So he not only beat her in that race, but he's beaten her ever since, if she has him constantly living rent-free in her mind.
Clinton appeared on Kara Swisher's Pivot podcast, and she spoke about what Democrats should do if they were able to take back the White House in the future. Talk about projection.
But think about what Clinton is saying there —
Jason Arday, the sociologist who made history as Cambridge University's youngest Black professor, has resigned from the university after weeks of mounting accusations of plagiarism and fabrications in his biography.
Arday, who joined Cambridge in 2023 at the age of 37, became one of Britain's most high-profile academics after sharing an extraordinary life story. He has said he is autistic and dyslexic, and that he did not speak until he was 11 and could not read or write until he was 18.
But following the accusations and scrutiny, Arday resigned from his position on Wednesday.
"The relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound