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17 Popular News and Politics Channels for Conservative and Libertarian Patriots
Willow Mattox
Conservative Creators Bring Hard-Hitting Truth
While the battle for the mainstream media space is cluttered with nearly identical opinions and information, there is a need for unique and separate voices. There is always truth going on in the background that takes deep investigative journalism, hours of research, and most of all, guts to bring it to the public. Most of the creators on this list were once on YT, but now can only exist on Rumble and a few other sources. Unfortunately, it is very hard to find patriotic truth-seekers that do the hard work, present the information well, and can keep up in an ever changing news cycle. I have hand selected this group of creators to introduce to you as a great place to start in your quest for conservative and independent information. Below the list, I have seperated them out into three different types of content creators and given a brief description of each, so you'll know a little bit of their background and what to expect.
Profile Pics of Creators on This List of Patriots
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https://rumble.com/c/X22Report
https://rumble.com/c/AndWeKnow
Black Conservative Patriot
https://www.youtube.com/@BlackConservativePatriot
Praying Medic
https://rumble.com/c/PrayingMedic
https://rumble.com/c/BennyJohnson
QNewsPatriot
https://rumble.com/user/QNewsPatriot
Rattle Trap 1776
https://rumble.com/user/RattleTrap1776
https://rumble.com/c/SGTReport
https://rumble.com/c/TheMelKShow
Santa Surfing (Beach Broadcast)
Rumbe
https://rumble.com/user/SantaSurfing
Gene Decode
https://rumble.com/c/GeneDecode
https://rumble.com/c/CharlieKirk
Frequency Wars
https://rumble.com/c/c-399475
https://rumble.com/c/BenShapiro
https://www.youtube.com/@CandaceOwensPodcast
https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV
https://rumble.com/c/Redacted
Anonymous Conservative Content Creators
These creators want to remain anonymous due to personal safety concerns and present their work mainly in podcast style. The do pepper in graphics, videos and screen clips, so while listenable, there are things to watch too.
X22 Report (Dave) - Dave has two daily reports. One on financial news and the other on political and geopolitical news. Both are excellent. He also frequently interviews guests on his Spotlight shows. Well researched and very encouraging style.
And We Know (LT) - LT does an amazing job with his video graphic intros and outros! Probably the best out there. Spiritually uplifting, very well researched, entertaining, and overall well done.
QNewsPatriot (SG Anon) - SG Anon has excellent deep dive research skills and checks in with someone he calls his "mentor". While he brings very hard hitting insight, he has one of the most soothing voices on the internet and tries to end each show with positivity and encouragement.
SGT Report (Sean) - Sean is not afraid to get real, really fast and does lots of interviews with other truth seekers. His information is timely and thought provoking.
Santa Surfing - She refers to her subscribers as "surfers" and has a squirrel mascot named "Sammy". She is an amazingly upbeat lady with a huge loving personality. She is a very good researcher and net-worker and has some great insights.
Gene Decode - I have never seen this guy or heard his voice. He scours the internet and presents videos made by others (and himself?). I only suggest this channel because it is a great way to stumble on content and sources we'd never otherwise find and begin following ones you like.
Conservative & Passionate Faces You'll Come to Love
Praying Medic (Dave) - Dave is one of the calmest guys on the internet. He has really invested in Q research and written a few books. Dave has a military background and has a great knack for decoding and making connections that others can't see immediately.
The Mel K Show - Mel is a passionate and well informed New Yorker. She has a trained journalist background and it shows. She does awesome interviews and very deep dives into topics most Americans are oblivious to.
Benny Johnson - Benny also has a journalism background and is familiar with the DC scene. He challenges the status quo while presenting important news items. He also does interviews.
Rattle Trap 1776 (Derek Johnson) - Derek is a newcomer to the scene. He is a young veteran who knows the military uniform code of justice, the Constitution, and many Presidential Executive orders and how all these things play out together. He is rocking the Patriot world by shining a light on what's right in front of us that we didn't even see!
The Black Conservative Patriot (James) - James (aka BCP) has a couple channels on and off YouTube. Because his main show is on YT, he still has to dance around with his words, but he discusses topics that Conservatives and Libertarians need to know and breaks news with a couple shows daily.
Frequency Wars - Great weekly talk show/interview based show on UI media network, tackling important topics, usually one per video. It will challenge your current perceptions!
Redacted (with Natalie & Clayton Morris) - This couple has a talk show/60 minutes style show discussing important news issues of the day. It's a bit slower than other shows, but makes the content easier for some to digest.
Conservative Giants - Names You May Already Know
The Charlie Kirk Show - Charlie is the founder of Turning Point USA, which is a conservative national student movement which has over 250,000 student members. He does a radio show found on Salem Radio Network, and a podcast. He has written three books, was the youngest speaker at the 2016 RNC and the opening speaker at the 2020 RNC. He is a rising star in conservative circles.
Ben Shapiro - Ben is a no-nonsense young Jewish man; he's a hard hitting conservative, lawyer, political commentator, and author. Often seen on college campuses debating liberals and putting them to shame with sound logic, Ben runs circles around his opposition. He is also a part of the Daily Wire network which has extra paid content.
Candace Owens - Candace is a conservative author and activist, who is also a part of the Daily Wire. She is an amazing, quick witted, intelligent women who is not afraid to play with the big boys in media. She does all kinds of journalism; on the ground or in the studio, Candace kicks butt and takes names as she exposes corruption and evil.
The Epoch Times - A completely INDEPENDENT news outlet, that presents news and a full complement of topics from America and around the world in a non-biased way. They have a weekly printed newspaper and a digital subscription service. I personally love the way they bring out the facts of stories and let me do the thinking!
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© 2022 Willow Mattox


All are invited to be Angels of Peace through our Advent Mission Project. This year, we are supporting the 29 children of VEIL Latino Ministry (Vida Eterna Iglesia Luterana) at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in West Chester, Ohio.
A $30 donation will enable us to provide a gift for one child or support the staffing for their summer reading program. These gifts will be purchased and wrapped by people of our community and delivered before Christmas Eve.
¡Bendiciones para ustedes esta Navidad y feliz año nuevo!
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Typically, lens flare isn't a desirable effect for landscape photography, but I have to admit that my inner drama queen lives for the occasional delicate prisms that grace a photograph after a shot into the sun. In the following two pictures the colorful flares add an undeniable mystique, which I think is pretty grand!
Here I am, in grand company again, Elisa 🙂 Many thanks for including me.
You must have had a pocketful of bubbles 🙂 Quite beautiful!
Thank you!! Someday when I figure out how to use my photo editing software, I'll remove them and compare the two. I don't know…I think I'd go for the drama!
Haha, thanks for stopping by, loved your stunning beach art earlier!
Absolutely beautiful shots, particularly the clouds overhead. But I'll admit my ignorance when it comes to most things photo-wise. What is lens flare? Is it the green circles in both pics???
When you shoot into the sun, light enters the lens and hits the digital sensor, creating those colorful discs or flare from the sun. Some photographers use them more creatively than I did. Lens hoods, those black cones you see on lenses sometimes is supposed to eliminate the flare….but who can remember to bring a lens hood all the time???
Thanks for the info. I recently bought a Sony with all kinds of bells and whistles, and I admit, it is more camera than I need or understand. I'm kind of a point and shoot person, and the best tool I need is picture stabilization for these shaky hands. I do admire wonderful photos from such talented photographers such as yourself.
I really like the photos! Nothing like doing something different!
Thank you, it was a grand challenge!
Thanks, Gracie. It was a wow setting so maybe the flare was an exclamation point!
Hi Elisa! Your photos are grand! I love the colors and the panoramas. Gorgeous.
Lens flares are awesome. Period.
Thank you, Patricia. I've been MIA myself lately, so glad to have caught up with you!
Ha, and these flares are definitely there!
I agree. Lenses flare can be cool. Gives this pic a fantasy or sci fi feeling. The sun rays are awesome!
Thanks Jo. We can all use a little magic every now and then!
Wonderful shots. And I really like the lens flare. Let's me know that it's real.
Thanks Laura, I agree with you!
Thank you, Ajaytao! Have a wonderful weekend!
A grand apology to you….I was going through my comments and realized that I never replied to your lovely comment about my grand sky! I vow to be a better responder in 2014!
Two really enjoyable images that are strong in light, composition and colour. I agree with you that the flare has added mystic to the images. I hope you have a great end to the week.
HI! I'm so sorry to just respond. I love this comment…it's going down as one of my all time favorites. Magical! Yesssss!!!!
It is grand!i love all of your photos in this post^^btw, should it be winter there?


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Fine Printed Books & Manuscript Including Americana
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
[CROZAT, Anthony]. A Letter to a Member of the P--t of G--t= B--n, Occasioned by the Priveledge granted by the French King to Mr. Crozat. London: J. Baker, 1713.
[CROZAT, Anthony]. A Letter to a Member of the P--t of G--t= B--n, Occasioned by the Priveledge granted by the French King to Mr. Crozat. London: J. Baker, 1713. 8o (165 x 101 mm). 44 pages. 18th-century marbled boards, leather spine renewed to style; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Thomas Hamilton, Sixth Earl of Haddington (1680-1735), politician and forester (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE RAREST BOOKS ON THE CENTRAL WEST. With the letters patent granted by Louis XIV to Mr. Crozat, the first attempt to develop the central region of the United States was established. Crozat was given permission to trade with all "Louisiana," then an immense and unexplored region. He had an exclusive French trading monopoly in Louisiana for fifteen years but gave it up after five years. EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current no copies have appeared at auction in at least thirty years and only one other copy is recorded on the market in the twentieth century, sold twice by Rosenbach (1913 and 1950). RLIN lists copies only at Yale, the Bell Collection (University of Minnesota) and the Clements Library (University of Michigan). Bell L-329; Howes C-933 ("one of the earliest, if not the earliest, on the subject"); Vail 318.
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Tawdry Knickers
And Other Unfortunate Ways to Be Remembered
About the Book and Author
For more information about Alex Novak or the Tawdry Knickers book, click here.
What Are Tawdry Knickers?
Tawdry Knickers and Other Unfortunate Ways to Be Remembered provides the stories behind the notorious namesakes of history. (more)
Catherine wheel
Miranda (Warning and Rights)
Fanny Adams
AK-47, Kalashnikov
Gatling gun
Molotov cocktail
Star-Spangled Banner
Lust & Lies
blowing smoke
Cooper's ligaments
dunce
Typhoid Mary
Misfits & Misanthropes
Comstockery
Gordon Bennett (!)
Houstonize
Oliver's skull
gerrymander
sacheverell
Culture & Commerce
Herblock and McCarthyism
Marlboro Man
Rube Goldberg
crapper
dundrearies
October 14 is the anniversary of the death of swaggering actor Errol Flynn in 1959, famous not only for his swashbuckling roles but also for his successful evasion of conviction on two charges of statutory rape in the 1940s—leading to his notorious eponym in like Flynn.
The Oxford English Dictionary identifies the phrase in like Flynn to mean "to be immediately or emphatically successful, often in a sexual or romantic context." Let us not mince words. Flynn loved the ladies, and the ladies loved him. It is believed that he was expelled from his grammar school in part for bedding the school laundress. Despite having three wives and four children, he seduced starlets by the dozen.
This being Hollywood, his deplorable behavior may have been overlooked as garden-variety philandering had it not been for the accusations in 1942 that he had raped not one but two underage girls. Flynn protested his innocence, claiming that Hollywood was seeking a high-profile scapegoat for the rampant excesses of its studio system routinely being exposed in the media. Guilty or not, an all-female jury ended up clearing him of all charges. Rather than ruining his reputation, the scandal seemed only to burnish his persona as the consummate ladies' man, and the phrase in like Flynn entered the lexicon as a winking badge of honor.
Flynn was always proud of his infamous catchphrase. When the time came to come up with a title for his autobiography—eventually My Wicked, Wicked Ways—Flynn unsuccessfully lobbied his publisher to consider another—In Like Me.


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Woodland Express Garden Railroad Exhibit
Visitors can step into a magical garden railroad featuring G-scale trains traveling through tunnels, bridges, and animal habitats handcrafted with natural materials, at Woodland Express, on display at the Holden Arboretum from now through September 15.
This world in miniature features "botanical architecture" made from leaves, twigs, and other natural materials by Applied Imagination, a Kentucky-based firm that has been producing award-winning garden railroad exhibits for decades. Among the featured elements of Woodland Express are replicas of three Ashtabula County covered bridges –– Harpersfield, Riverdale, and Doyle.
"Woodland Express offers something for everyone," said Jillian Slane, director of exhibits and experiences for Holden Forests & Gardens. "Train enthusiasts will love the imaginative track layout. Gardens lovers will marvel the unique plantings and use of natural materials. And kids will learn about the animals that inhabit woodlands."
Woodland Express is generously supported by presenting sponsor Fleet Response.
Woodland Express admission includes full access to the Holden Arboretum grounds, excluding the Canopy Walk and Emergent Tower. Admission is $12 per adult, $8 per child age 3 to 12, and free for members of Holden Forests & Gardens. Tickets for the Canopy Walk and Emergent Tower are $4 per adult, $2 per child age 3 to 12, and free for members. Parking is free. Woodland Express tickets are available online in advance or can be purchased at the Holden Arboretum. Advance ticket purchase is not required.
The Holden Arboretum is open every day from 9 am to 5 pm, and until 8 pm on Tuesdays from June 11 through July 30.
The Holden Arboretum is located at 9550 Sperry Road in Kirtland.
For complete details about Woodland Express visit holdenarb.org.


If you don't recognize his name you will probably still recognize his work as "Mini-me" in the Austin Powers movies or as "Griphook" in the first Harry Potter movie, among many others.
Verne Troyer is an actor, stunt performer and comedian that is notable for his height of 2 ft 8 in which is the result of a condition called Achondroplasia dwarfism.
Don't think for one second that the fact that he is smaller than average has any effect on his personality, because you would be dead wrong.
He has a YouTube channel that you should go check out because it is full of entertaining videos just like the one below.
In this episode Verne is hanging out with his parents while they cook a turkey.
Let me know what you thought about this video in the comments and don't forget to go check out his YouTube channel!


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Walter Jenks MORGAN
Roger Langley has brought the Morgan family of Birmingham into the Cornish Artists' Index with his latest study of the life and work of his grandfather Walter LANGLEY. This is exactly the kind of 'data-building' which helps us greatly to provide the fullest historical picture of artistic life in Cornwall.
Walter Jenks Morgan was the younger brother of Charles MORGAN and was born in Bilston, near Birmingham. He was apprenticed to the Birmingham lithographer Thomas Underwood, and also studied at the School of Art and in classes run by the Society of Artists in Birmingham. From there he won a scholarship to study painting in the RA schools at South Kensington. His achievements as an artist were greater than his brother's, and he was best known for his watercolours and also for magazine and book illustrations.
Langley suggests that it is 'probable that the three Morgans visited Newlyn together in 1881, since both brothers first exhibited West Cornwall works in that year' (at Birmingham). WJM visited Newlyn twice again in 1882 and 1883.
Painter, illustrator
works and access
Works incl: A Cornish Fishwife (1881); The Fishermaid (1882); On the Cornish Coast (1883)
RBSA
Birmingham Art Circle (Pres)
Royal Birmingham Society (Assoc 1887, Member 1890)
Artists' Rifles (WWI)
misc further info
Langley R (2011) Walter Langley, From Birmingham to Newlyn Bristol: Sansom & Co. p116;
GRO - birthdate


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Communist terrorist don't recognize Israeli court
PFLP leader Ahmed Saadat refuses to answer questions during court Israeli court hearing. Saadat murdered Minister Rehavam Zeevi in 2001.
Arab communist terrorist Ahmed Saadat killed the Israeli Minister of Tourism.
Ahmed Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the person behind the murder of Minister Rehavam Zeevi, said Sunday that he does not recognize the authority of the Israeli court.
Saadat spoke while entering the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for international proceedings in a private lawsuit filed against him by terror victims.
Source: Ynetnews.com
For most people the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is unknown.
The PFLP is a communist terrorist organization, who work for the full destruction of Israel. Here are two pictures the expose this terror organizations:
Members of PFLP has the same ideology as the terrorist cell Bader Mainhoff in Germany.
The PFLP mobilized thousands of supporters in this rally in Gaza, and are one of the partners of the Hamas.
Because of its commitment to the slaughter of the Jewish state, the PFLP is recognized as a "peace partner" by the Hamas. The communist terror organization and the Islamic terror organization works hand in hand.
While the secular al-Fatah movement are not permitted to hold rallies on the Gaza-strip, the PFLP rallies are held at public sports stadiums in Gaza city.
PFLP-terrorists are communists fully committed to the destruction of Israel.
The red flag of communism attacks supporters in their thousands, demanding that Israel is completely destroyed.
September 10, 2012 September 9, 2012 ivarfjeldendtimes, Israelantisemitism, Gaza, Jews, Nazi, Socialist, terror
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godsfingers
And soon the USA will be on the side of the Palestinians when the Rick Warrens and Lynn Hybels demand the US quit supporting Israel.
Even the Assemblies of God dances around the notion of support for Israel. "But what part should Christians play in the current conflict? Do we allow our unqualified support for a non-Christian nation to be interpreted by Palestinians as setting aside our basic Christian principles of justice, love for enemies, respect for human life, honesty, and fairness?"
http://ag.org/top/Beliefs/topics/sptlissues_israel.cfm
Yes, we can't delve too heavily into the politics of it but we also cannot ignore and support Palestinians killing the Israeli, under the guise of, "for the sake of the Gospel".
Ant Writes
godsfinger, since I'm ordained with AG I figured I would add this:
It is sometimes easy to dissipate spiritual and religious fervor by turning it into political and activist action. Christians who love the lost of the world, as Jesus did, should be careful about activist groups that they align themselves with. Extremists in the Christian community have been known to say that membership in and full support for a Christian Zionist organization is absolutely mandatory for a Christian. This is not true. Warm feelings toward Israel, because of its ancient religious heritage and its present adherence to our cherished principles of democracy, are understandable. But when we are reminded of our spiritual obligation to all the lost of the world, we cannot neglect a single nation or people. The crisis in the Middle East should be one of our top prayer priorities in these momentous days.
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Graphic Novel Review
The Thirteenth Doctor
Old Friends (Paperback)
Writer: Jody Houser
Artists: Roberta Ingranata and Rachael Stott
Colourists: Enrica Eren Angiolini and Tracy Bailey
Publisher: Titan Comics
RRP: UK £13.99, US $16.99
ISBN: 978 1 78586 692 0
Publication Date: 27 November 2019
The Thirteenth Doctor is back in a new epic collection! Acclaimed writer Jody Houser once again teams up with Witchblade illustrator Roberta Ingranata and award-winning artist Rachael Stott to continue the Time Lord's adventures. In this swashbuckling instalment, the Doctor and her fam – Ryan, Yaz and Graham – get caught up in the escapades of infamous rogue Time Lord, the Corsair! Styled like a daring adventurer, with a pirate-ship TARDIS to boot, the Corsair leads the gang on a rescue mission that seems dubiously like a heist. Accused of a crime she didn't commit, the Doctor becomes involved in a daring quest with her old friend in order to retrieve something valuable for the Corsair's mysterious benefactor…
Though there had been real-life rumours that the Doctor might become a woman ever since Tom Baker stepped down from the role, the first in-universe indication that a Time Lord could change gender came in 2011's The Doctor's Wife, when the Eleventh Doctor mentioned the Corsair: "Fantastic bloke. He had that snake as a tattoo in every regeneration. Didn't feel like himself unless he had the tattoo. Or herself, a couple of times. Ooh, she was a bad girl!" It is entirely appropriate, therefore, that the Corsair, created by renowned author Neil Gaiman, should now meet the first female Doctor, as played by Jodie Whittaker.
It's a shame that the Corsair's presence is disclosed in the back-cover blurb of this graphic novel (which collects Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #9–12), because for most of the first episode there had been some mystery surrounding the identity of the female thief with two hearts whose crime the Doctor finds herself accused of. When it is revealed that the criminal has dark, curly hair, the Doctor (and, I dare say, many a reader of that opening issue) initially jumps to the conclusion that it must be Missy, the female incarnation of the Master. Artist Roberta Ingranata underlines the point by including an illustration of said villain.
Before long, though, Ingranata has the opportunity to create the look of a renegade Time Lord we've never actually seen in full before. Her version of the Corsair is beautiful and piratical, refined yet roguish. Her finely sculpted features and long, brunette hair remind me of someone, but I can't think who. Kate Beckinsale, perhaps? Michelle Ryan? Or maybe Liv Tyler? Meanwhile, writer Jody Houser makes the Corsair decidedly flirtatious towards the Doctor, saying of her new body, "Love what you've done with the place", and coming in very close to press a finger to the Doctor's lips when shushing her.
The Doctor, however, is having none of it. Taking her cue from the more assertive Time Lord of the New Year's Day episode Resolution, Houser makes the Thirteenth Doctor more serious than we are used to. She gets understandably stroppy with her interrogator near the start of this story, and is sceptical when the Corsair flatters her about her trustworthiness when trying to enlist her help. "Trustworthy?" replies the Doctor, "Perhaps. Depends on who you talk to, really. Trusting? Perhaps a little less so, with certain friends who've landed them in jail cells more than once." This contrasts well with the more carefree attitude of the Corsair. The Doctor denies giving moral lectures, even while cautioning the Corsair about her use of weapons. She is rather put out when Ryan describes her old friend as "a fun one". "I thought I was the fun one," says the Doctor, sadly.
Despite the light-hearted moments, Houser doesn't lose sight of the fact that the Corsair is destined to die prior to the events of The Doctor's Wife, and there are some touching moments when this is quietly acknowledged.
Rachael Stott returns to artwork duty for the final chapter, providing dynamic bursts of action as the Corsair carries out some acrobatic stunts. In spite of this, the overall pace of the narrative, as is often the case with Thirteenth Doctor plots, is relatively sedate. There is almost no drama or danger to the resolution – the final instalment largely comprises a lengthy talky bit, an easy escape, and an effortless defeat of the baddie.
The villain is one that the Doctor has already dealt with in his future (and her past), so won't arresting him now change the course of history? I guess not, if he serves his time and subsequently reoffends, though this could have been made clearer. While I'm splitting hairs, it is not readily apparent from Ingranata's pictures that the Doctor's smooth-faced alien interrogator is male, until Graham refers to him as such. The Doctor's companions don't get much to do during the latter half of the tale, and we see the TARDIS sound effect when our heroes should be hearing an alarm.
This volume also includes a gallery of covers from the four monthly issues and a one-page history of the Corsair, partly sourced from the Neil Gaiman feature "Eleven Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Corsair" from Doctor Who: The Brilliant Book 2012.
Despite my reservations about the story itself, I wouldn't mind going on further adventures with the Corsair at some point in her (or his) past and my future.
Richard McGinlay


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