The left loves to make the claim there is no war on parental rights, no one is trying to mutilate your child's private parts. That's crazy! It's all a made-up right-wing conspiracy, but they're gaslighting. It is happening.      The latest comes from a state legislator in Illinois who wants to charge parents with child abuse who won't get on board with child genitalia mutilation that they call "gender-affirming care".      Illinois State Rep. Anne Stava-Murray (D-Naperville) has introduced legislation to the Illinois House of Representatives that would make it a crime for parents to deny a minor child's access to gender transition and abortion services, calling it "child abuse" in a bill that seeks to amend the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act.     In the legislation, which Stava-Murray introduced February 6, she defines an "abused child" as anyone "whose parents or immediate family member, or any person respons...

     Is there anything America has culturally Americanized better than the Italian pizza?      Depending on where you're from depends on how it's made. It's very tribal, American pizza.      There's Chicago deep dish and New York style, probably the most popular.      There's Detroit style, and St. Louis Pub style that's my favorite. A thin cracker like garlic flavored crust made without yeast and topped with Provel cheese (a blend of cheddar, Swiss and provolone). I've never found anything close to it since leaving the Midwest. And definitely cannot find Provel cheese outside the Midwest. Imo's Pizza and Monical's Pizza in Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas is about the only place you'll find such great pie.   

      I care about as much about Taylor Swift as I do Travis Kelce, the NFL or the Super Bowl. In fact, I think the last NFL game I watched more than a series of downs was last years' Super Bowl. I couldn't tell you who won for sure. I remember some of the commercials... I also wouldn't know Kelce plays for the Kansas City Chiefs if he wasn't in a relationship with Taylor Swift.      I am not sure when the exact moment of the last straw that led to my disdain for overpaid crybabies in shoulder pads, helmets and cleats was, but I know when it began.      When I did watch the NFL, I was an avid Green Bay Packers fan. The Brett Favre saga of I'm retiring, just kidding, I'm back, ruined it for me.      Eventually, I found I had better things to do on Sundays in the fall and winter than watch football.      In the key of Taylor Swift, "Wake up and smell the breakup; Realize that we won't make up."     I thin...

    We live in strange times. Strange times that the Department of Defense is releasing statements that they are not running a Psychological Operations Campaign on the American people using the most well-known global pop star in the world .      "We know all too well the dangers of conspiracy theories, so to set the record straight--Taylor Swift is not part of a DOD Psychological Operation. Period," DOD Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said during a press briefing.      That seems like an odd thing to have to say and even more odd that DOD would be spending anytime at all on the subject, but in an era where sources of information doesn't have some kind of agenda, nothing is surprising, is it?      But let's start with what is a psychological operation or PSYOP, what is it exactly? |     PSYOP is a military term and part of an information operation military campaign to convey selected information and indicators to audi...

     COLUMBIA, SC--(SFP) Some call it God's country, Bamberg, S.C., an old railroad town south of Orangeburg in the middle of farm country. Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley calls it "my hometown" as she likes to tell it, she grew up here in a town with "2,500 people, two spotlights and you couldn't think about doing something wrong without somebody telling your mom."      Haley's family owned a clothing store, Exotica, where almost all the girls bought their prom dresses there, including former classmate Sharon Carter, now chairwoman of Bamberg County's Republican Party.     But hometown roots aren't helping Haley. Bamberg is one of the few deep-blue counties in the state and the few Republicans here seem to prefer former president Donald Trump over her, Carter said. Even if they used to buy their prom dresses from her family.      New  polling from Monmouth College  released February 1 shows Haley's problems reach mu...

I’m not one to be bothered by the passing of celebrities and a lot of times don't even mention them, but I can't think of any musician that came to Iraq and Afghanistan to entertain the troops more than Toby Keith. And he didn't just stay on the big bases, he went out to the little Forward Operating Bases in some of the more dangerous places in country. And yeah, maybe he was catering to his base for monetary gain, but he didn't have to keep coming back and back again. So, I say Thank you Toby Keith. Thank you for coming back over and over again and sharing a sound of home. You didn't have to... R.I.P.

      The Biden campaign sunk significant amounts of resources into South Carolina, dispatching Vice President Kamala Harris four times to the state in the last five weeks and spending more than $400,000 on advertisements hoping to ramp up voter turnout for last week's Presidential Democrat Primary.      The time, resources and effort Biden and Kamala put into South Carolina, there is no way they or the party leaders can be happy with the results.      Although they will focus on the 95 percent of the vote win , the real story is the lack of enthusiasm with only 132,000 voters, 4.1 percent of South Carolina registered voters turnout vs 540,062 voters, 16.3 percent voter turnout in 2020 when Biden won the last time.     When you compare those numbers to previous Democrat primaries it looks like this:       In 2016 , 373,063 voters, 12.6 percent of South Carolina registered voters turned out for the Democrat prim...

     With nine months to go before the general election the Biden administration is facing some damning numbers in a new NBC News National Poll that has the President trailing former President and Republican Primary front runner Donald Trump on major policy and personal character issues including a 22-point deficit on who would handle the economy better.      Trump leads Biden in the polling on practically every major issue except abortion where Biden has a 12-point lead.      Securing the border and controlling immigration Trump leads by 35-points. Dealing with crime and violence Trump leads by 21-points. And having the necessary mental and physical health to be president it's Trump by 23-points.  Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff and his team at Public Opinion Strategies , says these findings reveal “a presidency in peril.” “What is most ...

       The Associated Press declared “None of these candidates” the winner at 12:01 a.m. At the time the race was called, “None of these candidates” led with about 60% of the vote. Haley trailed with 33%.      Besides Haley, the seven-person GOP primary field included former candidates Mike Pence and Tim Scott, who both dropped out of the race after the primary ballot had been locked in, as well as four relatively unknown hopefuls.     The primary has no official impact on the race for the Republican presidential nomination with no delegates awarded. The Nevada Republican Party Presidential Caucus tonight will award delegates.      Republican voters who casted ballots in Tuesday's primary are allowed to participate in tonight's caucus, but the state party has barred candidates who appeared on the primary ballot from competing in the caucuses, forcing candidates to choose one event over the other. Haley chose to compete in the p...

A student asks his teacher about JK Rowling's suggested transphobic tweet. This teacher dissects the claim and challenges it by asking questions teaching not what to think but how to think. It's called critical thinking! Teacher of the year right here . Watch until the end. You see the epiphany in real-time. Is Donnie T bailing out Bud Light? At minimum he's throwing them a life jacket. Trump took to Truth Social and praised Anheuser-Busch , saying the company spends $700 million annually “with our GREAT Farmers” while employing 65,000 Americans, of which 1,500 are military veterans, and raising millions in scholarship money.  “Anheuser-Busch is a Great American Brand that perhaps deserves a Second Chance?” he wrote. “What do you think? Perhaps, instead, we should be going after those companies that are looking to DESTROY AMERICA! Microsoft: Here's how we're working with journalists to create the newsrooms of the future with AI . These projects build on Microsoft...

     Today, February 6 marks the 113th birthday of America's greatest president of the twentieth century, President Ronald Reagan.      Today we remember Reagan for restoring America's faith and optimism. We note his efforts to reduce the size and influence of government while expanding economic freedoms here at home. We shall never forget his efforts to bring down communism and end the "Evil Empire."      I declare this day as Ronaldus Magnus Day. Happy Birthday Mr. President. 

       60 years ago, a young Ronald Reagan gave one of the best and most powerful speeches in the modern era of American politics. His words have stood the test of time and could very well apply today. Here is and excerpt from that speech. I hope you'll listen to it.       "This idea -- that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power -- is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves."      "You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream--the maximum of individual freedom ...

            Donald J. Trump is the most popular Republican president since Ronald Reagan. You may not like his mannerism, his attitude, his crudeness, whatever. The things he confronted head on was great for America, and the establishment, the old guard of the GOP, despises him in the same way they despised Reagan.      Sure, they came around to Reagan after they realized the populist wave he was riding couldn’t be stopped. Then rode his wave for the next 30 years, but make no mistake, they did everything they could to try to destroy him before embracing him.      In 1968 he so infuriated the status quo of the party by running a last-minute campaign for president against the establishment backed Richard Nixon, they called it an “insurgent” campaign. In 1976, Reagan took his “insurrectionary” and “divisive” primary campaign against incumbent President Gerald Ford and was blasted by the old guard of the GOP as an extreme n...