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Nathan Worcester on In The Dark
On the Monday, May 1st edition of In The Dark, Jim had on NATHAN WORCESTER from The Epoch Times. They discussed both Nathan’s visit to the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 2023 spring kickoff in Des… More
- ● Campus leaders must show courage and stop radical professors from poisoning young minds
Signs at Columbia University read “Go Back to Poland,” calling for the Jewish community to return to the horrific death camps of the Holocaust.... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 2:58 am
- ● How To Get the Critical Medications Recommended By Dr. Peter McCullough
After warning us for months that 2024 could see another deadly pandemic, the medical establishment and governmental health organizations are […]... Read more »
Published: April 25, 2024 - 2:34 am - ● DC judge points out pervasive hypocrisy hell that’s permeating every corner of the federal government
Peter Navarro, a former Trump trade adviser, is sitting in jail for defying a subpoena from Nancy Pelosi’s star chamber, the January 6 Committee.... Read more » 
- ● BREAKING: Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and 15 Others Indicted In Arizona
In what may be the most extreme example of Lawfare yet displayed by Democrats, Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and 16 […]... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 1:53 am - ● Secret Service Agent Assigned To Kamala Harris Reportedly Exhibited ‘Distressing’ Behavior, Fought With Other Agents
According to the New York Post, a Secret Service agent assigned to Kamala Harris fought with several other agents earlier this […]... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 1:46 am - ● Anthony Fauci To Publicly Testify Before House COVID-19 Select Subcommittee, First Public Testimony Since Retirement
Anthony Fauci will testify publicly for the first time since his retirement. “Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad […]... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 1:19 am - ● JUST IN: Arizona House Votes To Repeal Civil War-Era Abortion Ban
The Arizona House of Representatives has voted to repeal a near-total ban on abortion from 1864. The state’s Supreme Court […]... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 12:41 am - ● PRIME Drink Hit With Lawsuit — Cancer Causing Ingredients!
Do your kids drink PRIME? Do you drink PRIME? Might be time to cut that out, ASAP….at least according to […]... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 12:23 am - ● Columbia President Minouche Shafik allows chaos and antisemitism to rule — she must go
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik must resign or be fired immediately.... Read more » - Pennsylvania primary proves Trump still has to win over regular Republicans
Pennsylvania Republicans just sent a warning to former President Donald Trump: A good chunk of the party's supporters still need some convincing.... Read more » - Randy Mastro is more than qualified to be NYC’s top lawyer
Most of the City Council signed a letter vowing to block confirmation of Randy Mastro if Mayor Eric Adams chooses him as the next corporation counsel.... Read more » - Biden’s breathtaking political cynicism laid bare in his ‘both sides’ response to Jew-hating protests
Joe Biden has long attributed his decision to run for president to 2017’s tragic events in Charlottesville, Va., and President Donald Trump’s response to them.... Read more » - Joe Biden Pushing Biggest Tax Increase In Over 100 Years!
What is the biggest problem in America right now? If you said “we don’t pay ENOUGH tax!” you’d be thinking […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 10:53 pm - Want a cheap birthday party? Try celebrating in 1930
Taureans born in April don’t kid around. Our birthstone’s diamond. So looking to send anyone some junko rhinestone — shove it.... Read more » - Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safeMy advice to Jewish students at these institutions: Come on down. At schools like mine, the University of Tennessee, in red states, such intimidation, harassment and lawlessness aren’t tolerated.... Read more »
- Skip the Ivies for a state school, elite schools past redemption and other commentary
“If I were advising a friend’s son or daughter facing Decision Day, I’d tell them to pass on the Ivy League and go to a high-quality state school instead,” explains Nate Silver at his Silver Bulletin,... Read more » - Former GOP Congressman Ends Independent Bid For House Seat
Former U.S. Congressman George Santos has ended his independent campaign to unseat Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY). “I have decided to […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 9:46 pm - Court Makes Major Decision In $45 Million Lawsuit Claiming Baby Powder Links To Cancer
On Friday, an Illinois Court ruled pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, along with Kevnue, must pay $45 million to a […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 9:33 pm - 2020 REPEAT: BLM and ANTIFA Are Out, Palestine Is In
Remember the “summer of love”? What a ridiculous name. The summer of 2020 was anything but full of love…. Major […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 9:33 pm - Biden Administration Reportedly Considering ‘National Climate Emergency’
The Biden administration reportedly has renewed discussions about unlawfully declaring a national climate emergency. “NBC News has reported that if […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 9:24 pm - Wheel Falls Off Boeing 737 During Takeoff, Forcing Emergency Landing [VIDEO]
The woes continue for Boeing, and the airplane manufacturer avoided another near disaster from one of its passenger jetliners. A […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 8:51 pm - Congress finally passes aid to Ukraine: Letters to the Editor — April 25, 2024
NY Post readers discuss the House passing $60 billion in aid to help fund Ukraine’s war against Russia.... Read more » - UPDATE: Democrat Congressman Passes Away Weeks After Suffering Heart Attack
Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) has passed away after he suffered a heart attack earlier this month. He was 65. […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 8:26 pm - Joe Biden LITERALLY Says The Quiet Part Outloud
There are some phrases that get used way too frequently (in my opinion) by the so-called Alt Media. I don’t […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 8:13 pm - Meet The Only Gold Company Trusted By Mike Lindell (and me!)
If the last 4 years have taught us anything, it’s that the circle of trustworthy people around President Trump is […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 10:33 am - Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, all he needs now is a crimeWe’ve never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before the 2024 election... Read more »
- Donald Trump Secures Win In Pennsylvania GOP Primary, State’s Critical Senate Race Set Up
Donald Trump secured another GOP primary victory Tuesday night. This time in Pennsylvania. According to The Hill, Trump captured 83.5% of […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 5:25 am - Judge Reportedly Said Second Amendment Doesn’t Exist In Courtroom, Man Faces 18 Years In Prison For Gunsmithing
There’s been a case in New York that should be making headlines around the United States but hasn’t garnered much […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 4:59 am - [WATCH] Orange Hue Engulfs The Skies In Greece
Greece was overtaken by orange skies on Tuesday, with the strange haze blamed on dust clouds blown from the Sahara […]... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 4:01 am - Barbaric anti-Israel protesters are causing mayhem at the gates of Columbia University
Absent a massive sea change, not just Jews but all Americans will bear the brunt of the ceding of schools to those who would destroy the very civilization from which they sprang.... Read more »
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- ● As More GOP Officials Refuse To Follow Biden’s Federal Election Takeover, Others Are Mum
The Federalist asked GOP election officials if they will follow suit and reject voter registration forms collected by federal agents.... Read more »
Published: April 25, 2024 - 12:08 pm - ● Medicare Bureaucrat Denies Test To Transplant Recipients Despite Doctors’ Advice
This bureaucrat’s denial is the latest signal of how the left will use rationing tactics to deny patients costly care.... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 12:05 pm - ● It’s Time For A Truce In The Battle Of The Sexes
We must begin to establish harmonious relationships between men and women and reinstate cultural norms for sex, dating, and marriage.... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 11:56 am - ● Democrats Get The Best Bang For Their Buck By Funding Election Infrastructure
If Republicans keep throwing their money at candidates, they don't stand a chance.... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 11:55 am 
- ● USAA Scorns Its Trump-Voting Members By Debanking The Lawyer Who Defended Him
USAA was 'founded on military values.' Now it embraces leftist ideas, transgender ideology, and corporate cancel culture.... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 11:27 am - ● America Isn’t The First Empire Doomed By Open Borders
Like empires before us, we have lost our cultural confidence and moorings, increasing the risk of being overrun by newcomers.... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 10:57 am - ● Tupac Estate: Drake Has 24 Hours to Remove Song Using Deceased Rapper's AI-Generated VoiceThe estate of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur has threatened singer Drake with a lawsuit for a recent Kendrick Lamar diss track that allegedly uses an AI-generated voice mimicking the rapper. The post Tupac Estate: Drake Has... Read more »
Published: April 25, 2024 - 10:34 am - ● Trump Trials: NY Jury Hears Tabloid Publisher's Testimony, Supreme Court Hears Immunity ArgumentsFormer President Donald Trump will be back in a New York City courtroom Thursday as his business records trial resumes after a day's break. The post Trump Trials: NY Jury Hears Tabloid Publisher’s Testimony, Supreme Court... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 9:55 am
- ● Scotland: Less Than One Per Cent of Hate Speech Reports Deemed LegitimateJust 0.6 per cent of hate crime reports made since the introduction of draconian speech codes in Scotland have been found to be legitimate. The post Scotland: Less Than One Per Cent of Hate Speech Reports... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 9:09 am
- ● For Bob Casey's Lobbyist Brother-in-Law, the Senator's Door Is Always OpenAs Pennsylvania state auditor, Bob Casey disclosed to state ethics officials that his relationship with his lobbyist brother-in-law could be "perceived to constitute a conflict of interest." More than two decades later, Casey has opened his... Read more »
Published: April 25, 2024 - 9:00 am - ● At 'Women for Sherrod Brown' Event, Progressive Hosts Slam Trump and 'Heteronormal Men'On the campaign trail, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D.) pitches himself as a populist who shares Ohio's blue-collar values. But inside a "Women for Sherrod Brown" fundraiser in March, Brown's wife and a left-wing writer cast a... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 9:00 am
- ● Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill Includes ‘$3.5 Billion to Supercharge Mass Migration from the Middle East'President Joe Biden's pro-migration border chief is opening new processing centers for Muslim migrants from the Arab world, just after Congress granted $3.5 billion more for migration within the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 8:49 am
- ● NYPD: We're Handling Columbia Students 'with Kid Gloves' to Avoid 2020 RepeatOn Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry stated that the Columbia demonstrators “are kids” and “we are handling them with kid gloves, as you will say,”... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 8:16 am
- ● Drag Queen Tells Children to Chant 'Free Palestine' During Story TimeA drag queen invited children to chant "Free Palestine" during a story event at a Massachusetts art center recently. The post Drag Queen Tells Children to Chant ‘Free Palestine’ During Story Time appeared first on Breitbart.... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 8:11 am
- ● Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Isn’t As Edgy As She Thinks
Taylor Swift's inflated stature becomes a theme in the album — and not in a good way.... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 7:44 am - ● Biden’s Title IX Rule Guarantees Discrimination, Censorship, And The End Of Parents’ Rights
The Biden administration’s outrageous rule change allows males to self-identify into women’s spaces and curtails free speech.... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 7:39 am - ● NPR Will Never Face Its Intellectual Rot Until Taxpayer Funds Stop Flowing
Katherine Maher and her ilk don’t even see the problem of the ideological conformity their institutions have coercively created.... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 7:06 am - ● Arrests, blockades: Riotous anti-Israel campus protests continue to wreak havoc nationwideAt one Calif. university, campus is shut down as protestors occupy building and refuse to leave.... Read more »
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- ● Texas High School Cheerleader Loses Valedictorian Status over GPA 'Miscalculation'A cheerleader at a high school in Texas lost her valedictorian title, risking a potential scholarship, over a miscalculation with her grade point average (GPA). The post Texas High School Cheerleader Loses Valedictorian Status over GPA... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 4:52 am
- ● Republican AGs accuse Ed Dept. of partisan vote harvesting for DemocratsBiden administration’s effort to pay college students for ‘Get Out The Vote’ campus campaigns backed by left-wing activists.... Read more »
- ● Former Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows Indicted for Role in Alternate Electors CaseAn Arizona grand jury indicted several important allies of former President Donald Trump for their roles in disputing the results of the 2020 presidential election. The post Former Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, Rudy Giuliani, Mark... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 4:25 am
- ● University of Illinois grant funds DEI virtual reality training for nursesProgram will address ‘insidious problem’ with racism in medicine: nurses association.... Read more »
- ● NYU law center will address ‘environmental racism’‘This gift innovatively targets the intersection of two areas of pressing social concern, environmental harm and racial inequity,’ dean says.... Read more »
- ● U. Maryland removes ‘terrorist’ label from pro-life group after media attention, legal demandANALYSIS: Public attention leads to a pro-life group being removed, some pro-abortion groups added.... Read more »
- ● Larry Nassar Victims Get $138M from the Government After Botched FBI InvestigationThe victims of disgraced former Team USA Doctor Larry Nassar will receive a $138.7 million payout from the U.S. Government after the FBI failed to conduct a thorough investigation. The post Larry Nassar Victims Get $138M... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 3:46 am
- ● Cassidy Hutchinson: Trump Loyalists Are Becoming 'Bodies Around Him'Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, said Wednesday on CNN's "The Source" that it was really sad that people who are loyal to former President Donald Trump end up as... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 3:08 am
- ● Omar: Johnson Went to Columbia to 'Stir Up' 'More Anger and Hate' and 'Endanger' 'Lives'On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) stated that House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) visit to Columbia was to “stir up really more anger and hate and endanger the lives... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 3:00 am
- ● 'The Government Is Meant to Work for the People': Ex-Packer David Bakhtiari Calls for Flat TaxFootball is in the air, as we are less than 24 hours from the start of the NFL Draft. Which means it's time to start talking about tax reform. The post ‘The Government Is Meant to... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 2:19 am
- ● Chris Christie: 'Pretty Stupid' Joe Biden Has Not Reached Out to HimFormer New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said it was "stupid" of President Joe Biden not to reach out to him since he declared he was not supporting former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 1:24 am
- ● Hamas Praises Iran’s Attack on Israel, Calls for ‘Escalation’ on All FrontsAbu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas’s paramilitary al-Qassam Brigades, on Tuesday praised the Iranian missile attack on Israel and called for “escalation” on every front of the conflict. The post Hamas Praises Iran’s Attack on Israel,... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 1:03 am
- ● Rove: Anti-Israel Protests Likely at Dem Convention this SummerFormer George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove said Wednesday on Fox News Channel's "America Reports" that anti-Israel protests at the Democratic Party’s Chicago convention in the summer are likely. The post Rove: Anti-Israel Protests Likely at... Read more »Published: April 25, 2024 - 1:00 am
- Biden's America: Ecuadoran Man Allowed to Visit U.S. Despite Being Wanted for RapeAn Ecuadoran national was allowed to visit the United States on a visa despite being wanted for rape in his native country, federal officials reveal. The post Biden’s America: Ecuadoran Man Allowed to Visit U.S. Despite... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 11:43 pm
- Supreme Court Seems Split on Biden Mandating Emergency Room AbortionsSupreme Court justices appeared split during oral arguments on Wednesday in a case surrounding the Biden administration’s attempt to require emergency room doctors to perform abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 11:24 pm
- GOP Delegation Arrives at Columbia To Call for Shafik's ResignationA group of Republican lawmakers, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson (La.), descended on Columbia University on Wednesday and called for school president Minouche Shafik's resignation. The post GOP Delegation Arrives at Columbia To Call for... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 10:50 pm
- WATCH: House Republicans Slam Anti-Semitic Protesters on Columbia's CampusHouse speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) and other Republican representatives traveled to Columbia University on Wednesday to denounce the rampant displays of anti-Semitism on the campus. "A growing number of students have chanted in support of... Read more »Published: April 24, 2024 - 10:30 pm
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