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With Hurricane Ida having made its way through Louisiana and Mississippi, leaving behind a region flooded and in many places without power, some local residents and activists are directing their unhappiness at more than just the forces of nature. As the Category 4 hurricane hit the city, New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said that authorities would deploy “anti-looting” teams, and would “not tolerate” anyone trying to take advantage of the situation caused by the storm. On Tuesday, Ferguson said New Orleans police have made several arrests for looting, and Mayor LaToya Cantrell enforced a citywide curfew to begin the...

President Biden spent Labor Day at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, as his approval ratings tank due to rising COVID-19 cases, record-smashing illegal immigration, economic concerns, and the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan. It’s Biden’s 19th trip to his residences in Delaware since taking office and he marked the federal holiday with an unscheduled trip to bring lunch from regional-chain favorite Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop to a local union hall. “Come on, let’s get something to eat,” Biden said as he handed out sandwiches. Americans accused him of hypocrisy as he is forcing million of children and Americans to comply with...

The Capitol Riots on January 6 will go down in history as one of the most finely dissected events in modern times. Despite the public scrutiny of the events, the FBI refuses to release over 14,000 hours of footage. But in spite of the limitations of the federal government’s lack of transparency, there are new videos being released that are dramatically changing our understanding of the seminal event. It appears now from a time-stamped series of videos based on a restored Parler video archive that the Capitol protests escalated into riots in conjunction with the reckless and indiscriminate police discharge...

President Biden on Thursday told Jewish leaders that he spent time at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the October 2018 mass murder of 11 people there — but the synagogue told The Post he never visited. “I remember spending time at the, you know, going to the, you know, the Tree of Life synagogue, speaking with them,” Biden said in a 16-minute virtual address ahead of the Jewish holidays Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Video below: Twitter LinkBarb Feige, executive director of the Tree of Life, said that Biden did not visit the synagogue in the nearly...

It's nearly impossible to overstate Joe Biden's incompetence. He is a world class screwup. He is a liar of galactic proportions. He accepts no responsibility for anything. Nothing he says its the truth. Nothing. Biden famously made a series of predictions over the last few months and absolutely all of them were wrong. "The likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely," Biden said. "The Afghan government and leadership has to come together. They clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place … there's not a conclusion that, in...

More than 250 people who were protesting coronavirus lockdowns in Australia were arrested today and many faced fines for defying health orders, authorities said. At least seven police officers were treated for injuries after skirmishes broke out at some of the protests, which took place in multiple cities nationwide. The largest and most violent protest was in Melbourne. Many were organized by people in encrypted online chat groups. Sydney has been in lockdown for two months, while Melbourne and the capital, Canberra, went into lockdown earlier this month. Under the rules of the lockdown, people are mostly confined to their...

A British man was sentenced to six weeks in prison for not wearing a face mask, and the judge also ordered him to undergo mandatory psychiatric treatment because he dared to question the effectiveness of face masks. Benjamin Glynn, 40, was detained in Singapore after video of him not wearing a face mask on a train went viral in May. “According to reports, Glynn delivered a rant in court – in which he described the proceedings as “preposterous” and “disgusting” – and said masks were not effective in preventing the spread of Covid,” reports the Guardian. This outburst prompted the...

Even as the sales of firearms have begun to slow in recent months, according to the latest data U.S. gun sales in the first seven months of 2021 were 13 percent higher than over the same period last year – which also blew away all previous records. With some 25.1 million firearms sold between January 1 and July 31, it was the largest seven months of the year figure since sales were first recorded in 1998.

Suggestions that Americans get the vaccine are endless. That’s understandable. The vaccines appear to work in helping to reduce the likelihood of contracting Covid. People see that there is a possibility to stop the spread of a deadly virus and they want to encourage others to participate. What’s not understandable are the relentless demands and the push for vaccine mandates. Do it for your fellow Americans! Real patriotism is getting the vaccine! Don’t you care about your family? These are all intended to shame the unvaccinated into getting the shot. And if those don’t work, there are the mandates. We’ve...

Elections are completely safe and free from all fraud. This is what we are told every day by the mainstream media and Democrat elites. Yet we continue to see a mountain of instances of fraud around the country leading to arrests and charges in multiple states. And they all seem to be on one side of the political isle.. (Hint, they ain’t Republicans). Several people have been arrested and charged with rigging elections for Democrats in California, according to reports. Democrat Compton City Councilman Isaac Galvan is among six people who have been charged with election fraud in Los Angeles...

Because her parents had attended the January 6 rally at the Capitol, a squad of 40 heavily-armed FBI agents held an 11-year-old girl at gunpoint while raiding her family’s Georgia home. The agents, who arrived in four armored trucks, broke into the property on August 10 about five miles north of Covington in Newton County, according to the girl’s father, Donnie Hyatt. Hyatt and his wife are accused of having ties to a far-right militia leader named Chris Hill, and they attended the rally in Washington, DC on January 6. They did not participate in the storming of the Capitol....

....In recent weeks my thoughts have been roiled by a series of questions that now I feel compelled to put down in writing. These are root questions about the nature of what I am calling the Counter-Revolution ― an organized and growing network of people nationwide increasingly willing to push back against the revolutionary tide of Fascism and the “Woke” New Faith-Ideology. What is fascinating about the Counter-Revolution is the surprising political breadth of the people that have been brought together under its tent of opposition. Classic liberals, conservatives, and libertarians; social conservatives, rationalist humanists and atheists; Christians, Jews, Muslims,...

President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has left the country in shambles and the Taliban wasted no time in striking, now controlling large swaths of the country as the remaining Afghan forces give little resistance. The Taliban have begun releasing propaganda videos documenting their triumphs. ... Over 2,442 US troops dead and 20,666 wounded in the war since 2001, over $2.26 trillion spent, 20 years of fighting and what do we have to show for it? Our hostile elites got rich off the war contracts and bought themselves lavish palaces but the American people just got stuck with the bill and...

I cited the judgment of Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin in “Fallacious Fauci strikes again.” In my post I relied on Rogin’s brief tweets. Today Rogin expands on his judgment in the column “What the fight between Anthony Fauci and Rand Paul is really about.” Here is the heart of his analysis of the issue between Fauci and Paul: Both men were playing to the cameras, but many scientists think Paul actually does know what he’s talking about. One of them is Rutgers University microbiologist and biosafety expert Richard Ebright, whom Paul quoted as saying this research “matches, indeed epitomizes...

Do you remember Maria Piacesi? You should. January 3rd, 2015 – Then vice-president Joe Biden presides over a senatorial swearing-in ceremony, and allegedly uses the opportunity to pinch the right nipple of Maria Piacesi, the daughter of Montana Senator Steve Daines’s sister Christine and her husband Rob Piacesi. The original footage used to be available at C-SPAN.org, but was taken down! Video below: Twitter LinkMaria now confirms Creepy Joe pinched her, but she’s afraid to speak out. She was the 8-year-old (now 14) who Joe Biden allegedly molested on stage, according to Maria’s testimony. An internet sleuth found her Tik...

According to reports, government thugs in California are scouring the streets and going door-to-door in search of unvaccinated residents who are being bullied into getting vaccinated. On TikTok, a woman claimed that her husband received a knock at the door from officials who inquired about who lives at the house and whether there are any young people who have not yet been jabbed. “The vaccine police came to our house last night – I am not joking,” the woman warned her TikTok followers. “They wanted to know if my husband was vaccinated and if we had somebody under the age...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthytorucehd Democrats after thousands of police officers resigned from their departments amid a soaring crime wave. The New York Times reported: “New York City saw 2,600 officers retire in 2020 compared with 1,509 the year before."

On Wednesday, the creator of the mRNA technology used in some of the covid vaccines told Fox News that the government is not being open about the vaccines’ dangers. Dr. Robert Malone told Tucker Carlson that a video in which he explained his concerns and findings had been removed from YouTube. He believes that there is insufficient research on the risks for young adults and teens, and that they should not be forced to get vaccinated. “My concern is that I know there are risks, but we don’t have access to the data….and so, I believe people have the right...

A 72-year-old good Samaritan was nearly beaten to death after pulling over to help a black teen who was stranded on the side of the highway because of a flat tire. An elderly Missouri man is lucky to be alive after he was violently attacked when he stopped to help a stranded driver on I-35 in Clay County.

Joe Biden reportedly has told Benjamin Netanyahu that he expects “significant de-escalation today” of the conflict between Israel and its Palestinian attackers. A White House spokesperson stated: [Biden] wants this to be de-escalated. He wants this to be a sustainable calm. This is what we have been calling for, for the past eight days, and this is what we’re continuing to do. Does Biden really expect Israel to “de-escalate” while Hamas rockets continue to bombard its farms, suburbs, and cities? Or is his statement for show — an attempt to appease the increasingly strong anti-Israel faction of the Democratic Party?...