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Congress Abandons Plans To Force Women To Sign Up For The Draft

House and Senate negotiators dropped an effort to force women to sign up for the traditionally all-male draft Tuesday evening. Republicans stepped and killed the provision from the final version of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), though…

“Millions” of People Voted Illegally in 2016

Earlier this week, President-elect Donald Trump made the bold claim that “millions” of people voted illegally in the most recent election and that if they hadn’t, he would have won the popular vote. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/802972944532209664 The media and their…

21 Life Hacks To Help You Breeze Through the Apocalypse (or at Least the Next Power Outage)

Life hacks are all over the place at the minute (seriously, they’re everywhere) and some are really good – but often they’re more Martha Stewart than Grizzly Adams. Here are a few life hacks that are applicable not…

The Ohio State Terror Attack Is Exactly The Type Of Knife Attack That ISIS Has Been Calling For

We have entered an era when Americans are going to have to realize that Islamic terrorists can strike virtually anywhere without any warning whatsoever. At one time terror targets were chosen for their political or religious significance, but…

Why Are So Many Among The Elite Building Luxury Bunkers In Preparation For An Imminent ‘Apocalypse’?

Do they know something that the rest of us do not?  There are tens of millions of ordinary Americans that are feeling really good about the future now that Donald Trump has won the election, but meanwhile the…

Venezuela Braces for Runaway Inflation As Merchants Weigh “Mountains of Cash” Instead Of Counting It

Venezuela is deep into the death spiral, and things are likely to get worse before they get better. As the South American nation’s paper currency continues to lose value with each passing day, the people of Venezuela are…

Hackers Take A Million Homes Offline in Attack: “Internet, Telephone, TV Outage”

It was like a scene straight out of Mr. Robot.  A massive hack attack took nearly a million people offline, cutting them off in an Internet outage that proves how vulnerable our lives have really become. The motive…