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Trump Dismisses Claims U.S. Is Short on Munitions in Iran Fight www.breitbart.com
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President Donald Trump dismissed reports that the United States is running short on munitions for the conflict with Iran, telling the Wall Street Journal on Sunday that the U.S. military has “far more munitions than anyone in the world, and far more than we need” as his administration continued weighing diplomacy alongside the possibility of renewed military escalation.

Trump’s comments pushed back against reports from the New York Times and other outlets that concerns over declining stocks of Patriot and other air defense interceptors factored into internal deliberations over whether to expand the U.S. military campaign against Iran, even as the administration has emphasized that diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz remain underway.

Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press and Fox News Sunday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz reinforced Trump’s message, declaring that “the U.S. military, and I’ve verified this every which way, has everything that it needs to conduct this campaign as effectively as it needs to be,” while insisting Trump is “keeping all options on the table” as he gives negotiations “some space” to continue.

“I have to tell you, the people that are leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail,” Waltz said on Meet the Press, while acknowledging that years of military support for Ukraine and operations against the Houthis had strained some inventories before President Donald Trump took office. Waltz argued the administration is rebuilding stockpiles while shifting toward newer, less expensive munitions and other emerging technologies.

Speaking on Fox News, Waltz said the administration’s military campaign had focused on degrading Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping and regional stability, arguing that “the Iranian regime is isolated, economically devastated, militarily devastated,” and adding that Tehran was beginning to struggle financially, including paying government workers and members of its military.

The administration’s public defense of its military readiness follows reports that Trump postponed a planned expansion of the U.S. air campaign after meeting Friday with senior advisers, amid a broader debate over the costs and risks of escalating the conflict while diplomatic efforts continued.

According to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, U.S. military planners had prepared an expanded campaign that could have lasted up to two weeks before Trump opted to allow diplomacy additional time. The newspaper reported that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine informed senior officials about declining inventories of Patriot and other air defense interceptors, while assessing that lower stockpiles would increase operational risk but would not prevent renewed military operations if Trump ordered them.

 

Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund has become a roadblock for his attorney general nominee www.washingtontimes.com
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President Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund has become the chief stumbling block to Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general, with key Republicans saying they cannot let him be approved until the $1.776 billion idea is fully eradicated.

Mr. Blanche has told lawmakers that the fund is dead and he will not release any of the money.

Still, senators said the language of the deal, which Mr. Blanche signed off on as acting attorney general, could leave wiggle room for Mr. Trump to ask a court to enforce it.

One of those Republicans, Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, said he would hold up any action until either Mr. Blanche renegotiates the settlement to make clear that the fund is expunged or Congress passes legislation to firmly nullify the fund.

“We need to have a fork stuck in the 1776 fund,” Mr. Tillis told reporters. “I want a renegotiated agreement that ends this forever. That is final.”

The senator said the Justice Department is negotiating on the matter.

Why conservatives cling to conspiracies long after they’re debunked www.dailykos.com
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After director Christopher Nolan’s new film “The Odyssey” saw great success at the box office last weekend, it became clear that the campaign against the film’s diverse cast, led by racist multibillionaire Elon Musk, failed.

You’d think that the right would move on from this battle, choosing instead to tilt at another windmill. But a strange post from a right-wing influencer called “Mr. Obvious” shows that conservatives are going down a different path.

Instead of accepting defeat, Mr. Obvious claimed that the success of “The Odyssey” was a mirage, alleging that producers were “FAKING ticket sales” and buying up seats “to make the movie look like a success.”

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None of this is really happening, but the lurid fantasy is a microcosm of a conservative phenomenon that has existed for a long time.

The right thrives on conspiracy culture. Since the era of the John Birch Society during the Cold War, conspiracies have been a core feature of the conservative movement. There’s a clear timeline from worrying about fluoridated water being a communist plot all the way up to President Donald Trump’s insistence of a Democratic scheme to attack Christmas.

Virginia’s “Reproductive Freedom Act” would decriminalize statutory rape by giving girls under 18 the legal “right” to consent. Josh Hetzler, one of the challenging attorneys to the bill, said “Among other wild consequences, it will eliminate statutory rape laws for consenting minors, since the amendment provides an unqualified ‘fundamental right to reproductive freedom’ to every ‘individual,’ without any limitation on age. This is wrong and extremely dangerous for Virginia.”

Virginia’s Abortion Amendment Would Strike Down Statutory Rape Laws www.lifenews.com
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Virginia Democrats have supported a “Reproductive Freedom” constitutional amendment, but critics warn that it would vacate laws against statutory rape, and a lawsuit seeks to invalidate it.

“Virginia’s so-called reproductive freedom amendment goes far beyond the issue of abortion,” Josh Hetzler, executive director of the Founding Freedoms Law Center and an attorney for the nonprofits challenging the amendment, told the Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.

“Among other wild consequences, it will eliminate statutory rape laws for consenting minors, since the amendment provides an unqualified ‘fundamental right to reproductive freedom’ to every ‘individual,’ without any limitation on age,” Hetzler warned. “This is wrong and extremely dangerous for Virginia.”

Sophie Cunningham is going viral for her multiple acts of defiance against wokeness in a women’s basketball league that embraces it. She plays for the Indiana Fever, which is also home of the league’s superstar, Caitlin Clark. When asked by reporters about her stance against men presenting as women playing in women’s sports, she unapologetically doubles down on her stance.

Sophie Cunningham Shuts Down Reporter Over Her Stance on Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports townhall.com
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Indiana Fever shooting guard and team enforcer Sophie Cunningham is making the rounds, first becoming a viral sensation with her pointing meme from a June 24 game against the Phoenix Mercury: she and DeWanna Bonner got into it in a tense fourth quarter filled with technical fouls and drama. Cunningham’s pointing and trolling of Bonner has become a fan favorite staple.

Yet, she has now angered progressive audiences by rightly claiming that transgenders shouldn’t be allowed to compete in women’s sports. The funny part is that this isn’t a controversial topic, since 70 percent of Americans agree. That side lost the plot, with faces of the movement appearing too unhinged, too moronic, too stupid, and prone to public collapses. This is America—people will disagree, and if you can’t handle that, you should do something else. Activism isn’t for you.

Cunningham was asked about her stance in a pre-game press conference, where she shut down a reporter trying to stir the pot. She struck a sensible tone, adding that she’s not political and everyone is deserving of love and respect, but there are the rights of biological women that must be protected. She’s not compromising on that position.

Four members of the Republican Party voted with Democrats to strike down an amendment in the defense authorization act. This amendment would permanently ban transgenders in the military. This would also have prevented biological males from using biological females’ private spaces. Right now, it is only Trump’s executive orders that sustain this standard in the U.S. military today.

Four House Republicans BLOCK attempt to codify Trump’s transgender military ban | The Post Millennial thepostmillennial.com
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The amendment to the NDAA sought to codify President Trump’s January 2025 executive order on the matter.

Four House Republicans joined Democrats on Tuesday to defeat an amendment that would have written President Donald Trump‘s executive order barring transgender individuals from serving in the US military into federal law.

The amendment, introduced by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., failed in a narrow 212-217 vote during House consideration of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a must-pass defense policy bill that sets priorities and authorizes funding for the Department of Defense. The Republicans who voted against the amendment were Rep. Mike Lawler of New York, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Delegate James Moylan of Guam, and Delegate Kimberlyn King-Hinds of the Northern Mariana Islands. The measure was defeated after all Democrats opposed it.

Boebert’s amendment sought to codify President Trump’s January 2025 executive order, which states that “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.” The order also directs the Department of Defense to prohibit biological males from using female-designated sleeping, changing, and bathing facilities, and vice versa.

While the executive order remains in effect, the vote comes as legal challenges to the administration’s transgender military policy continue to move through the courts. In June, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 2-1 that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s policy requiring the separation of some currently serving transgender service members was likely motivated by unconstitutional animus. However, the court noted that the case did not address restrictions on future enlistments, which involve different legal considerations.

Federal Appeals Court Hands Victory to Trump in Mail-In Voting Battle slaynews.com
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President Donald Trump secured a temporary legal victory in his effort to strengthen oversight of mail-in voting after a federal appeals court paused a ruling that had blocked a proposed U.S. Postal Service election rule.

A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Postal Service may continue moving forward with the Trump-backed proposal while litigation proceeds.

The proposed rule would require states to provide the Postal Service with approved absentee voter lists before mail-in ballots are delivered.

However, the administration cannot yet implement the policy because a separate federal judge in Massachusetts issued an injunction last month blocking the rule, and that order remains in effect.

Democrat Civil War Erupts as Warren and Schumer Back Rival Michigan Senate Candidates slaynews.com
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A growing Democratic Party power struggle is spilling into the open as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) back opposing candidates in Michigan’s closely watched Senate primary.

Warren endorsed far-left Abdul El-Sayed on Monday in the race to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), placing herself directly against Schumer, who is supporting Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI).

The competing endorsements expose the widening divide between the Democrat establishment and the party’s progressive wing, which is attempting to expand its influence in Congress.

Warren Joins Progressive Push for El-Sayed

Warren announced her endorsement just hours after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appeared with El-Sayed at a campaign event.

Detroit Jewish Donors Plan GOP Fundraisers if El-Sayed Wins www.breitbart.com
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Jewish Democrat donors in Metro Detroit are planning fundraisers for presumptive Republican nominee Mike Rogers as a “hedge” should far-left Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed win Michigan’s August 4 Democrat primary, according to a report published Monday.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that several prominent Metro Detroit Jews who have long raised money for Democrats are preparing fundraisers for the former congressman, while others plan to help him outright if El-Sayed takes the nomination, one person close to Rep. Haley Stevens’ (D-MI) campaign said.

Dennis Bernard, national chair of government relations for the nonpartisan Jewish Federations of North America and a Metro Detroit resident, said those donors have made their position clear should El-Sayed prevail.

“There are leaders in our Jewish community who are longtime, lifelong Democrats and Democratic fundraisers, who are very concerned with where their party’s going,” Bernard said. “And if this is the case, they’ve made it clear, both financially and with their vote, that they would support Mike Rogers in the event El-Sayed wins the primary.”

Detroit-area Jewish Democrats have approached him over golf outings asking for introductions to Rogers, Bernard added.

“This is a truly once-in-a-lifetime moment where you have to become a single-issue voter,” he said. “And that issue is antisemitism, our Judaism, and Israel. This is where you put party third: our people first, our country second.”

Trans activist Samuel ‘Roxie’ Cain avoids prison after making death threats at Nancy Mace | The Post Millennial thepostmillennial.com
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Cain, 20, was sentenced to five years, suspended to 30 months of house arrest, followed by five years of probation.

A South Carolina transgender activist who threatened to assassinate Congresswoman Nancy Mace has avoided prison time. Samuel “Roxie Wolfe” Theodore Cain, 20, was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison, suspended to 30 months of house arrest, followed by five years of probation, according to WRDW.

Cain, who pleaded guilty to making threats against Mace, issued the following May 2025 since-deleted social media post: “I’M GOING TO ASSASSINATE REPRESENTATIVE NANCY MACE WITH A GUN AND I’M BEING 100% DEAD A**,” an arrest warrant states

The sentence also issued a permanent restraining order to protect Mace. While in prison, Cain had also reportedly expressed a desire to kill the congresswoman if given the opportunity while speaking to a “jailhouse informant,” according to Mace’s victim impact statement. The comments were allegedly made while discussing the September 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

Democrats Who Rail Against ‘Epstein Class’ Accepted Donations from ‘Pedo Island’ Guest Reid Hoffman slaynews.com
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Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) have both denounced what they call the “Epstein class,” but campaign finance records show that each has benefited from the political support of billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

Hoffman has acknowledged maintaining a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after the convicted sex offender’s 2008 conviction.

The billionaire has also admitted to visiting Epstein’s notorious private “Pedophile Island” in the Caribbean.

Talarico, who is running for the U.S. Senate against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, declared last month that “The Epstein class has no place in Texas.”

Ossoff has repeatedly used the same phrase while criticizing President Donald Trump and wealthy political donors.

Speaking at an Atlanta rally in February, Ossoff said, “This is the Epstein class ruling our country.

AI can become more biased than humans while choosing who gets hired; study finds | timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being trusted to help employers screen CVs, rank candidates and even conduct early-stage interviews. The promise is simple: AI can process thousands of applications quickly, reduce administrative workloads and, in theory, make hiring decisions more objective than humans. According to a recent review by MIT Technology, based on the 2024 study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology titled “Costly Exploration Produces Stereotypes With Dimensions of Warmth and Competence”, large language models (LLMs) may not only inherit human biases from the data they are trained on but also develop entirely new stereotypes based on their own experiences. Rather than simply reflecting existing prejudice, these systems can create fresh patterns of discrimination as they attempt to optimise decision-making over time.The findings are particularly significant because businesses are rapidly integrating AI into recruitment. If these systems begin making assumptions about groups of applicants after only a handful of hiring decisions, they could gradually reinforce unfair employment practices without any explicit human instruction.The research, conducted by scientists at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, builds on earlier psychological work showing how stereotypes can emerge from repeated decision-making. It suggests that the same learning strategies that make AI effective at solving complex problems can also make it unusually prone to stereotyping job candidates.

US Central Command Completes Twelfth Consecutive Night of Iran Strikes * The Gateway Pundit * by Jordan Conradson www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Video footage of U.S. Central Command completing precision strikes further degrading Iranian military capabilities, released July 22, 2026. (U.S. Central Command video)

US Central Command announced on Wednesday that US forces completed a twelfth consecutive night of attacks to degrade Iranian military capabilities.

In footage released by CENTCOM, Iranian military vehicles and boats are seen being blown up in airstrikes.

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CENTCOM said in a statement,

At 10:30 p.m. ET on July 22, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces completed another round of strikes against Iran for the 12th consecutive night.

U.S. forces struck Iranian military targets including maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance sites, and air defense assets. The strikes further degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels.

This month, American forces have targeted dozens of Iranian military sites on land while resuming a blockade against Iran at sea. As of today, CENTCOM has redirected nine commercial vessels and disabled one to prevent ships from entering or departing Iranian ports.

Pakistani court will hear case of 13-year-old Christian girl forcibly ‘married’ to Muslim man www.lifesitenews.com
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ISLAMABAD (Alliance Defending Freedom) — In Pakistan, the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) will hear a review petition in the case of Maria Shahbaz on July 24. The FCC is the highest court in Pakistan that hears constitutional cases. The hearing follows a previous ruling from the court, which returned the custody of 13-year-old Maria Shahbaz back to her 30-year-old kidnapper, Shehryar Ahmad.

The outcome of the case could go on to establish a precedent with stronger protections against child marriage in Pakistan.

“This case is a crucial moment in the movement to protect young girls from the crisis of forced marriage in Pakistan. We hope that Pakistan’s highest court will soon agree to review Maria’s case and re-examine the evidence that was previously relied upon by the lower courts. Maria must be freed and safely returned to her family, where she will be safe from harm and able to practice her Christian faith.” Tehmina Arora, director of Advocacy for Asia at ADF

Trump says Netanyahu will not be arrested despite Mamdani’s call to detain ‘war criminal’ www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) — In apparent response to statements from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani regarding the potential of arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he enters the city to attend a United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump declared no such detaining will occur.

“Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America,” the 47th U.S. president wrote in a Monday post on Truth Social.

Trump’s public comment came out after Mamdani stated in a New York Times interview that his office was in “active conversation with our legal department” to consider potentially arresting Netanyahu if he comes to the city for the UN General Assembly in September.

Yet, after Trump’s post, Mamdani released a short candid video statement on Tuesday that, on X alone, has garnered more than 64 million views in less than 24 hours.

“Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people,” the 34-year-old politician stated. “He is responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people, for the maiming of tens of thousands of children, as those who survive undergo amputation without anesthesia,” he said regarding massive scale atrocities executed by the Israeli army in Gaza.

How Woke Smithsonian Bureaucrats ‘Killed America’s Story’ thefederalist.com
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The dean of Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government testified before the House Oversight Committee July 21 about the Smithsonian’s leftist bias. Matthew Spalding spoke to the committee about the importance of preserving accurate history in the hearing titled “Rewriting American History: Examining The Smithsonian’s Efforts To Reshape The Past.”

Calling the National Museum of American History (NMAH) one of the country’s “greatest treasures,” Spalding criticized the people in charge of the museum for pushing a leftist agenda in testimony titled “Who Killed America’s Story”?

“The National Museum of American History is no longer the nation’s museum of American history,” Spalding said.

Spalding referenced the White House’s “Saving America’s Story” report, which detailed the ideological capture of the Smithsonian Institution in more than 150 pages. The report contains photographic proof describing NMAH’s failure to present an accurate version of American history to attendees.

Appeals court rules DOJ must hand over tapes of Biden, biographer to Heritage Foundation | The Post Millennial thepostmillennial.com
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Biden could not remember when he was vice president, under President Barack Obama, nor was he clear on when his son Beau Biden died from cancer.

The Heritage Foundation has sought the release of recordings from 2016-17 between Joe Biden and his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. The recordings are redacted. The existence of those files came to light after prosecutor Robert Hur interviewed then-President Joe Biden over classified documents in 2023.

A federal appeals court just removed the last hurdle to the Heritage Foundation’s effort. Biden tried to block the Department of Justice from releasing the tapes but on Monday night, that appeal was denied in a 2-1 decision. “We conclude that Biden has not shown a likelihood that the requested materials must be withheld from disclosure,” said the appeals court.

Hur’s reports on the conversations with Zwonitzer revealed that Biden could not remember when he was vice president, under President Barack Obama, nor was he clear on when his son Beau Biden died from cancer.

Socialist Candidate Calls for More Migrants in Government to Combat ‘Exploitive’ Nature of Americans–  slaynews.com

Socialist Candidate Calls for More Migrants in Government to Combat ‘Exploitive’ Nature of Americans slaynews.com
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Colorado socialist congressional candidate Melat Kiros called for more migrants and people with “heritage in the global south” to seek elected office to push back against the “exploitative” nature of the American people.

Kiros is arguing that the United States plays an “exploitative and extractive” role in the world.

The Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate made the remarks during the Wa’Ela Tigrai event in Denver last weekend.

During the event, she discussed her congressional campaign after defeating longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) in last month’s Democrat primary.

Kiros said changing the international order would require electing officials who understand what she described as American exploitation on a “fundamental level.”

Oregon’s war on confused children, by the numbers: It’s REALLY bad www.theblaze.com
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For the better part of two decades, confused children across the Anglosphere deceived into believing that they might be in the wrong bodies have been widely subjected to medications that adversely affect bone density, cognitive performance, emotional stability, and/or future fertility. This horrific experiment, briefly provided a patina of legitimacy by so-called experts and politicians, has not only been ruinous but is based on junk science.

To the chagrin of the profitable and predatory child sex-rejection industry, the Trump administration, like the British government, has taken action nationwide against the “chemical and surgical mutilation of children.” However, some blue states appear keen to continue waging war on America’s youth.

‘1 in every 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones.’

Penn State law school still requires students to take ‘antiracism’ class www.thecollegefix.com
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OPINION: Federal government needs to investigate civil rights complaint against public institution

Neither public scrutiny nor a civil rights complaint have swayed Penn State Dickinson Law leaders from their goal of pushing “antiracist” beliefs on students.

Only real consequences will prompt change at an institution where Marxist beliefs are so deeply embedded. But the federal government has not yet said whether it will investigate the public institution.

A screenshot of the fall course ‘Race & Equal Protection of the Laws’ at Dickinson Law; Penn State University

This spring, reports by the Washington Free Beacon and a civil rights complaint from the watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust drew public attention to the law school’s “antiracist” focus, including a required first-year class on the subject.

NYC DSA Co-Chair Called Out For Trying To Release Prisoners www.louderwithcrowder.com
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Releasing prisoners back onto the street does nothing to protect the public. This is why it is bizarre and evil, to say the very least, that the DSA continues to fight for the release of people who have been convicted of a crime.

According to NYC DSA Co-Chair Grace Mausser, the United States has far too many prisoners, especially compared to the rest of the world. She implies this somehow proves those people don’t deserve to be in prison, despite everyone being innocent until proven guilty. Rather than prove the current system is evil, and thus everyone should be exonerated of their crimes, she thinks throwing out random data points somehow makes her point, which is extremely lacking.

If the best argument you have is quoting Bernie Sanders, you have no point whatsoever. In fact, she has proven herself to be nothing more than a parrot for the far-left, while showing the world how naive she truly is.

Mausser believes we have an over-incarceration problem. She added that, “The radical thing is not the idea that we should decrease our incarcerated population.” The problem with that statement is that this is the most radical point in the history of opinions. Abolishing prisons, which is essentially what these people want, is solely intended to destroy and cause destruction. People like Mausser fool no one with their cherry-picking of random numbers, as if that somehow proves those people ought not to be in prison.

Iran War Live Updates: Iran Digs In After Latest Trump Threat on Civilian Targets www.nytimes.com
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Early Thursday in the Middle East, the U.S. Central Command said it was carrying out a new wave strikes on Iran, a 12th consecutive day of attacks. Iranian state media said the province that is home to Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant had been hit in a missile strike.

Fox News Star Crushes Lindsey Graham’s Sister, Other Contenders in South Carolina Senate Poll www.westernjournal.com
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South Carolina voters still love former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy — so much, in fact, that a new poll says he would be their first choice for the Senate seat left open by the recent death of Republican Lindsey Graham.

Gowdy was a popular member of the House from 2011 to 2019. Since leaving Washington, he has been a Fox News host who has shown no sign of wanting to return to Washington

“Trey would be an amazing senator for South Carolina,” GOP Sen. Tim Scott said recently, according to Fox News.

Participants in a poll from Peak Insights agreed, according to Politico.

With an Aug. 11 primary looming for the Republican nomination for Graham’s seat, Gowdy was far ahead of everyone else at 38 percent support.

Rep. Ralph Norman had 13 percent support while Rep. Russell Fry and Sen. Darline Graham Nordone were at 9 percent support.

Would you like to see Trey Gowdy run for Senate?