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LASIK isn’t covered by insurance. Neither is most cosmetic surgery. Both got cheaper and better every single year for two decades. The one corner of medicine where patients pay cash and see prices. Funny how the “market failure” vanishes the second the market’s allowed to exist. Friedman called this in 1980. The tape doesn’t lie.

I mean, Ted Kennedy, the "Lion of the Senate," killed a woman, so there's that ...

Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024

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#MaineSenate NYT: Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said that Graham Platner’s behavior would probably have taken him out of the running in earlier decades, but that President Trump had lowered the bar for candidates’ personal conduct. “President Trump set a new standard”, Warner

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I love how this chart showing relative state payments DOES NOT INCLUDE MEDICAID PAYMENTS YOU KNOW, THE PROGRAM BEING SCAMMED FOR TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY RETARDED FOREIGNERS, WE LEFT THAT ONE OUT GUYS, SORRY

Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice

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Try again. California pays the bills for failed red states.

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when youre rushing to find the votes to knock out the sole republican you dont have time to balance out the count to look plausible

johnny maga @johnnymaga

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Democrats overwhelmingly vote late and by mail — but only Nithya Raman Democrats, not Karen Bass Democrats. Just totally insane stuff.

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I think about this Seinfeld interview all the time.

Somebody sponsor me to carry a new-born calf up a mountain every day until it grows into a bull. This is how the strongest ever Ancient Greek Olympian, Milo of Croton, trained, and you know you want to see if it would work.

“Friday Night Lights” writers tried to add an affair storyline for Eric & Tami Taylor, but the actors refused. “We agreed right at the outset, we’re like, ‘No matter what, we can’t let them make either one of us have an affair.' They really tried. We pushed right back on it. We wanted (their marriage) to be about partnership and just collaboration, and making mistakes, but always going back to each other.” - Connie Britton

Côte d'Ivoire were awarded a PK and JoJo Elliott MADE THE SAVE!!! What a job tonight by the former Union Academy keeper. Union II 0, Côte d'Ivoire 2 in the 82' #DOOP #LesElephants #BlueHens @DelawareMSOC

@MadridXtra “And here we have the most beautiful sight in Europe after St. Peter’s Basilica…”

An Italian friend, faithful Catholic and father of girls, said of migration, and Pope Leo's instructions to Europe to keep the doors open to mass migration: <<I don't want to be Lot and hand over my daughters for the sake of 'hospitality'>> Exactly right.

@femiiiszn The Count of Monte Cristo!

So I bought six books and read all six before buying more. Please clap. This is a peak act of restraint you will likely never see again.

My most black-pilled thought is we won’t have this same country 100 years from now because there’s no long-term future for any country where half the citizens hate the place. You just can’t keep a house when half the residents want to burn it down.

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt

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As America approaches its 250th birthday 55% of Democrats would rather live in another country. As an American, I take no pleasure in posting this. This is nuts.

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“There is no greater indictment of judges than the fact that honest men are afraid to go into court, while criminals swagger out through its revolving doors.” — Thomas Sowell

Latin America “suddenly” lurching to the right is so obviously a knock-on effect of the end of USAID. There’s absolutely no hiding the fact it was an enormous slush fund for keeping the global left in power.

Pilot Polls @PollsPilot

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56,9 % IN Projection: Fujimori is Elected. Fujimori +596K Votes

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@timjollylee @sidlowe The most amazing part? More yellow cards than Sergio Ramos in his first 163 games. Truly a phenom!

He was only eighteen years old. His weapon of choice was not a gun, but a tiny bottle of acid. Yet, this teenage boy managed to save fourteen thousand lives from certain death. In 1943, Paris was a dark place under Nazi occupation. Adolfo Kaminsky was just a young apprentice working in a textile dyeing shop. He spent his days learning how colors reacted with chemicals, which solvents could dissolve certain pigments, and how to alter tones at a molecular level. He had no idea that this highly specific knowledge about ink and fabric would soon become the thin line between life and death for thousands of innocent people. During the occupation, the Gestapo used paperwork as their primary weapon to hunt down Jewish people. Identity cards, travel permits, and food rations were all strictly monitored. On the documents of Jewish citizens, the authorities stamped one single word in blue ink: "JUIF". That one word was a direct ticket to a concentration camp. The French Resistance desperately needed a way to erase that word without ruining the paper. Standard forgery techniques failed because the official ink was designed to be permanent. Any attempt to scrape it off left obvious marks that would get someone killed. They brought the problem to Kaminsky. The boy analyzed the paper under a dim lamp and remembered a trick from his textile work. Lactic acid could dissolve that exact blue ink while leaving the paper fibers perfectly intact. It worked. But erasing the stamp was only the first step. He had to rewrite names, birthdays, and signatures perfectly. The Resistance set up a secret laboratory for him in a hidden attic on the Left Bank of Paris. The demands poured in constantly. He needed to make fifty birth certificates for children escaping to Switzerland, two hundred food cards for families hiding in cellars, and hundreds of passes to Spain. The conditions were brutal. Bleach and acid fumes filled the tiny room, burning his throat and making his eyes water constantly. His fingers were permanently stained with dark ink. Kaminsky realized that each document took him about two minutes to make. That meant he could save thirty people every single hour. This realization turned into an obsession that haunted him. He looked at the clock and thought, "If I sleep for an hour, thirty people will die." So, he stopped sleeping. One week, word came that a local orphanage with three hundred Jewish children was about to be raided by the Nazis. They needed fake papers immediately or they would be put on a train to Auschwitz. Kaminsky locked himself in the attic. He worked for two straight days and nights without a pause. His vision blurred and his hand cramped so badly he had to physically massage his fingers to keep writing. Eventually, his body gave out and he collapsed onto the desk. He slept for exactly one hour. When he woke up, panic gripped him. He cried out, "Thirty people are dead because I was lazy!" He refused to eat or rest until the remaining papers were finished. Thanks to his sacrifice, the children were moved to safety in time. Kaminsky spent years in that suffocating attic, constantly upgrading his skills as the Nazis upgraded their security measures. When Paris was finally liberated in 1944, the young genius had saved roughly fourteen thousand people. He never accepted a single penny for his work, believing that taking money to save a life was deeply wrong. After the war, Kaminsky became a photographer and lived a quiet, modest life. He never bragged. He did not tell his neighbors, his coworkers, or even his own children about his wartime heroism for decades. He simply faded into the crowd as an ordinary man. Adolfo Kaminsky passed away in 2023 at the age of ninety-seven. He did not want monuments or medals. His true legacy lives on today in the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the thousands of people who survived the darkness simply because a brave teenager chose to stay awake.

A Nazi commander loaded his pistol, pressed the cold metal barrel directly against the forehead of an American soldier, and gave a chilling ultimatum: "Order the Jewish soldiers to step forward, or I will shoot you right now." What happened next in that frozen prisoner-of-war camp changed history forever, yet the man who stared down death kept it a secret for the rest of his life. It was January 1945, and the bitter winter of World War II was at its peak. Inside Stalag IX-A, a notorious German prison camp near Ziegenhain, thousands of American soldiers were trapped behind barbed wire. Among them was Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, a twenty-five-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee. As the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer in his section, Edmonds was responsible for the lives of 1,275 men. One day, the camp commander, a fanatical Nazi major named Siegmann, issued a terrifying directive. He ordered that the following morning, all American prisoners of Jewish faith must step out of the ranks during roll call. Everyone knew what this meant. Separating the Jewish soldiers was the first step toward sending them to extermination camps. Inside the dark, freezing barracks, the prisoners panicked. Some of the Jewish soldiers considered stepping forward willingly to protect their Christian brothers from Nazi wrath. But Edmonds refused to let that happen. He looked at his men and gave a clear, definitive order: "Tomorrow, everyone steps forward. Everyone." The next morning, the ground was thick with snow. Major Siegmann walked out onto the parade ground, expecting to see a small, isolated group of Jewish soldiers standing apart from the rest. Instead, he stopped dead in his tracks. All 1,275 American soldiers had stepped forward together in perfect unison. The commander turned red with anger and stormed over to Edmonds. "They cannot all be Jews!" Siegmann screamed. Edmonds stood completely still, looked the Nazi straight in the eyes, and replied: "We are all Jews here." Enraged, Siegmann drew his Luger pistol and pressed it against Edmonds' forehead. The tension was suffocating. Hundreds of men held their breath, waiting for the gunshot. But Edmonds did not blink. "According to the Geneva Convention, we only have to give our name, rank, and serial number," Edmonds said, his voice steady and calm. "If you shoot me, you will have to shoot all of us. And when the war ends, you will be tried for war crimes." Edmonds knew the German army was collapsing and the Allies were advancing. Siegmann knew it too. The Nazi commander looked at the wall of unified men, realized he could not break their spirit, and slowly lowered his gun. He turned around and walked away without saying another word. Because of that moment of defiance, two hundred Jewish-American soldiers survived the Holocaust. When the war ended, Edmonds returned to Tennessee, married his sweetheart, and raised a family. He never bragged about his actions, never looked for medals, and never even told his own children what he had done. To him, protecting his men was simply his duty. Decades after his death in 1985, his son uncovered the truth by talking to the survivors. In 2015, Edmonds was officially recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, the highest honor Israel bestows upon non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. He remains the only American soldier to ever receive this recognition. True heroism does not look for applause, and love will always be louder than hatred. By standing together in the snow, those soldiers proved that when we refuse to abandon each other, ordinary human beings can become absolutely invincible.

George C. Scott refused to accept the Oscar he won for PATTON (1970), saying he didn’t see acting as a competition. When the award was accepted on his behalf, he returned it, becoming the first actor to decline an Academy Award.

If you must have early voting, the system to emulate is Tennessee's, where ballots may be processed but not counted before Election Day, none count if they come after Election Day, and all early vote totals are announced 30 minutes after the polls close.

Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow

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When Democrats tried in 2020 to get Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to count early votes early—like Florida—Republicans killed the bills so Trump could win day-of-voting tallies and try to throw out mail in ballots. It’s a scam for people Trump thinks are stupid.

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