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There’s a dark mood creeping into American politics that has even the most die-hard gun control politicians worried. Democrats, typically (but not always) aligned with gun control, are facing the prospect of their political party turning their gaze to complete control.
Enter the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
These candidates for political office aren’t your grandfather’s Democrats or even limousine liberals. They can’t even honestly call themselves socialists. They’re cosplaying communists who are shredding any pretense of respect or admiration for the U.S. Constitution.
This is what George Orwell warned of in his novel, “1984.” They want complete and total control of the American government, including openly calling for abolishing of the U.S.
Florida Pizza Kitchen. It doesn’t have quite the ring to it that California Pizza Kitchen does. But had the iconic chain been dreamed up in the 2020s rather than the 1980s, it would have been FPK rather than CPK, not because the California Pizza Kitchen’s co-founders moved to Florida, though one did a couple of years ago, but due to the Golden State’s corrosive business policies.
Not that long ago, California was “the greatest place to do business,” Rick Rosenfield, the CPK co-founder who fled to the Sunshine State, told Fox News Digital.
Meet Sophie Cunningham, the WNBA Superstar
and Scrappy Feminist Standing Up for Women's Sports replies
and Scrappy Feminist Standing Up for Women's Sports replies
Sophie Cunningham is one of the most talented players in the WNBA. In a sport where attractive white women have long been marginalized and underrepresented, the Indiana Fever guard has repeatedly defied the odds to become the superstar she is today. Her success is a powerful testament to the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Cunningham made headlines this week by using her platform to stand up for female athletes, telling ESPN that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete against biological girls.
"I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" Cunningham said.
An Olmsted County jury reached a split verdict in the trial of Shiloh Hendrix, a woman accused of calling a child a racial slur at a Rochester playground last year, finding her guilty of one of two counts of disorderly conduct after her outburst went viral. (snip) The complaint states a man told authorities he was at the park with his three children shortly after 6 p.m., adding that one of his boys was 8-years-old and has autism.
The Associated Press (AP) noted on Thursday that “at least seven major pipeline projects are under construction, in the planning stage, or being discussed as possibilities.” Work on all of these projects accelerated after Iran delivered a “wake-up call for Gulf oil producers” by shuttering the Strait of Hormuz twice so far this year.
The goal is to build and expand pipeline networks that would allow countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Iraq to bypass the traditional seaborne route from their Persian Gulf ports through the Strait of Hormuz and on to buyers across Asia.
One of those alternate routes has now come under threat:
I’d like to speak today about revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries. Whether we realize it or not, we’ve been in a progressive revolutionary cycle for about 50 years.
And by that I mean there has been the effort of most of the Democratic Party, and now the radical elements to accelerate that efforts as emblemized by the democratic socialists to take control of government, expand it, redistribute income so that many people in blue states especially are paying over 10% of their income, in addition to 38% of their federal tax or two or three percent in Obamacare tax and other add-ons.
After the outbreak of war in Iran, China drastically reduced oil imports. Instead, Beijing relied on its vast oil reserves to fuel its domestic economy amid the disruption. That reliance may be short lived.
Analysts say that soon China will boost imports as its domestic industries recover from the war-induced shock, potentially driving up oil prices on the eve of critical U.S. midterm elections for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. China is “the largest importer of oil on the planet,” Peter Schweizer, President of the Government Accountability Institute and author, told Just the News.
Trump crafts win-win for taxpayers as
new immigration fees will self-fund stricter enforcement replies
new immigration fees will self-fund stricter enforcement replies
On Wednesday, the Trump administration gave notice of the start of a sweeping array of new immigration fees, creating a no-lose scenario where the new fees either deter applicants from coming, thus reducing immigration, or they proceed with their application, putting more money into resources to scrutinize claims.
The rollout, triggered by notices under last year's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” signed last year, layers fresh costs onto everything from work permits for protection seekers to juvenile immigrant status, directly bankrolling deportation operations while slamming the door on what officials call taxpayer-subsidized loopholes.
As a result of the findings, a tariff rate of 10% to 12.5% is being added to the goods from a host of countries evaluated. These 301 duties are in addition to currently existing tariff rates. [FACT SHEET] Trading partners that have made commitments to adopt, and effectively enforce, forced labor import prohibitions will have a 10% tariff, and trading partners that have failed to adopt a forced labor import prohibition will have a 12.5% tariff rate.
• The following 54 economies have failed to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor:
Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; the Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Brazil; Cambodia; Chile;
In March 2020, a group of influential virologists published a paper in the journal Nature Medicine arguing that an animal spillover event probably caused the pandemic.
The article, known as ‘The Proximal Origins of Covid‘, concluded “we do not believe any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible” and was hugely persuasive in stifling debate globally.
But messages obtained and published by US Senator Rand Paul show that behind the scenes the scientists voiced concerns that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had been carrying out experiments on coronaviruses at insufficient biosecurity levels.
Gun control advocates continue to maintain that gun control works, that passing laws restricting the right to keep and bear arms on law-abiding citizens somehow keeps criminals from getting guns. They even have (incredibly flawed and unserious) studies that "prove" this. Yeah, right.
Of course, it might be easier to believe that if I didn't see countless news reports every single day of the week regarding felons being arrested for possessing firearms, to say nothing of other things like drugs. In fact, I suspect most such arrests never really make the news unless the arrest included something else.
Like, say, the illicit ingredient found in "bath salts."
Don’t look now but so-called democratic socialist U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has jumped to a slight lead in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, edging out Pete Buttigieg 22 percent to 21 percent, according to the latest University of New Hampshire poll taken between July 15 and July 20.
The shift in the poll, which had Ocasio-Cortez at 14 percent in October 2025 and 15 percent in February. In February, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom was at 15 percent and former Vice President Kamala Harris was at 10 percent. In July, Newsom was down to 8 percent and Harris was down to 5 percent. Their loss was Ocasio-Cortez’ gain.
Madison Police Tried to Hold a Press Conference
About Officer-Involved Shooting, Then
This Happened replies
About Officer-Involved Shooting, Then
This Happened replies
Tensions are simmering in Madison, Wisconsin, following an officer-involved shooting on July 22. The suspect, 38-year-old Corey Durrell Ruiz, was armed with a knife when he was shot by police. Ruiz also has a lengthy felony rap sheet and was not compliant with his supervised release after being freed from prison back in May. At a press conference, an anti-cop protester held up a sign calling for the murder of law enforcement, and another man interrupted the police chief's press conference.[snip]Madison is a deep blue city run by leftists, by the way. Leftists who refuse to give the police body cams.
Contrary to what some on the right may believe, we are not winning the war against DEI placements and promotions, and we are not winning the war against the greater "Woke" ideology. Both have been placed in faux hibernation by a far-left playing the long game. Actually, the game may not turn out to be that long at all. Many on the left are planning to double and triple-down on the "Woke" gameplan should the Democrats take back part or all of Congress in November and the White House in 2028.
College softball versus the WNBA
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When college kids showed more class than the WNBA I came across a very inspirational story yesterday. It was interesting because it provided a stark contrast to another story that’s been unfolding over the last few weeks. And the words “stark contrast” don’t adequately describe it.
The inspirational story involved a game between two women’s college softball teams that took place in 2008. This was a crucial conference game that had playoff implications. A young woman named Sara Tucholsky, playing for Western Oregon, hit her first career home run. There were two runners on base and two outs. Ms. Tucholsky was a senior,
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is now endorsing reparations for slavery to black people as the Democrat continues to be haunted by allegations of racism first hurled against him during the final weeks of his primary campaign against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas).
Claiming Texas still suffers from the "reverberations of slavery," Talarico threw his support behind reparations for black people during a town hall event, saying he would enact tuition relief, homeownership, and baby bonds for black people to help build generational wealth.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) has spent thousands of dollars in campaign funds on "makeup services" in 2026, and his artist of choice has a long list of Hollywood credits, including The Notebook and The Hunger Games, a Washington Free Beacon review found. (snip) The Georgia senator who is running for reelection against Republican Rep. Mike Collins (Ga.), has reported spending more on makeup than any other candidate this year, beating out the likes of far-left Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.).
On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows. The last people to live here moved away long ago. Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs down into the surrounding soil. The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed. It costs more than $340,000 per year to provide this building and hundreds of others with internet access no one says they use. The multibillion-dollar Universal Service Fund pays for customers who no longer use it.
The Trump administration has imposed new tariffs of at least 10% on imports from 60 countries over claims they failed to prevent forced labour. The duties, ranging from 10% to 12.5%, target trading partners that make up the majority of US imports - including the UK, Canada, China, Mexico and the EU - and will come into effect as the current levies are set to expire. The Office of the USTR, acting under the president's direction, said the new measures had been introduced after an investigation found the impacted economies to have failed to "impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labour".
Vice-President JD Vance has become a victim of sabotage by the one of the very people sworn to protect him and his family from harm.
As CNN reported, a Secret Service agent serving on Vance’s detail has been placed on administrative leave after being caught allegedly spilling very sensitive information about him to a notorious far-left outlet.
A source told CNN that officials had identified the person believed to have been ratting out Vance. The Secret Service agent has not been named at this point.
CNN notes that the suspension centers around story published last week by MSNOW.
As The Daily Mail notes, the MSNow story painstakingly described Vance’s and his family’s planned travel.
A small local Kentucky paper is going viral after publishing serious direct threats to the lives of President Trump, members of his administration, and his supporters in what is either a lazy oversight or something more sinister.
On Thursday, Libs of TikTok discovered that the The Mountain Eagle, a newspaper in Whitesburg, KY, had published two death threats in the paper’s “Speak Your Piece” section, which allows readers to anonymously sound off on what is on their minds.
One recent comment calls for not only throwing Trump out of office but also executing him and all his fellow “cultists.”
The European Union has approved the UKʼs participation in a €90 billion loan to support Ukraine, which is planned for 2026 and 2027.
This was reported on the website of the European Council. Ukraine will be able to purchase defense products not only from manufacturers in EU countries, but also from British defense companies. The structure of the loan remains unchanged: €60 billion is earmarked for defense-industrial needs, and another €30 billion for budget support. The loan will be repaid with proceeds from frozen Russian assets in European banks.
A historic church in Buffalo, New York, caught fire again this week, and it was determined to be the result of arson.
St. Ann’s Catholic Church was built in 1886.
It permanently closed down in August 2024 and was sold to an Islamic community for $250,000.
There is now a push to turn the historic Catholic church into a mosque. On Tuesday, a second fire tore through the church in one week.
Last weekend, firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at the church. On Wednesday, investigators determined the fire was the result of arson.
WGRZ reported:
On Wednesday, President Trump held a rally at Wheeler High School in Marietta, GA, to highlight the administration's economic policies and promote the candidacies of Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson and Republican nominee for United States Senate, Rep. Mike Collins (GA-10).
After remarks from Jackson, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, and SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Trump took the stage to rousing applause and greeted the crowd in Wheeler Auditorium.
Trump began: