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Bird-Watching Is Not A Hobby For Olds, It’s A Sport For Men

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As a man of a certain age, I have developed an interest in backyard bird-watching. I am not yet to the stage where I go on bird-watching hikes or trips, nor am I particularly adept at identifying them solely by looks or their vocalizations. But I can mostly tell you which birds happen to be at my feeders at any given moment. Largely, I get house wrens (of which I always have a plethora), though there are also the cardinals, blue jays, woodpeckers, and the occasional Carolina wren, notable for its incredibly loud calls. On the larger side, mourning doves and robins abound.

It all started when my mom gave me a feeder — I now know that it is called a hopper feeder — and some seed. From there, I learned that the true value of feeding birds isn’t in idyllic moments on the patio watching and listening to them, but in the war every backyard bird enthusiast finds himself embroiled in. This is why bird-watching attracts so many men. It’s not about peacefully aging; it’s about the masculine desire to do battle, which in the case of feeding birds means raging against squirrels.

Squirrels are not particularly threatening, but they are crafty. They will learn to eat safflower seed to spite you, despite the fact that they supposedly hate it. They will thwart almost any defensive measure you put in place.

If you’re in the country, you can shoot them, as the owner of the Wild Birds Unlimited

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Harris Endorsed Transgender Operations For Prisoners In Bret Baier’s Fox News Interview

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Vice President Kamala Harris told Fox News host Bret Baier she would “follow the law” when asked about her support for prisoner “sex change” surgeries. According to the law under the Biden-Harris administration, trans-identifying prisoners could be entitled to taxpayer dollars for the procedures.

On Wednesday, Baier presented Harris with an ad from former President Donald Trump’s campaign airing the then-California senator’s endorsement of trans surgeries for prison inmates. During a sit-down interview with the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) in 2019, Harris spoke about her time as attorney general when she “made sure that they changed the policy in the state of California so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical care that they desired and need,” including requested surgery.

“Are you still in support of using taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender?” Baier asked.

“I will follow the law,” she said, “and it’s a law that Donald Trump actually followed.”

“The Trump aides say that he never advocated for that prison policy,” Baier said, “and no gender transition surgeries happened during his presidency.”

“Well, you got to take responsible for what happened in your administration,” the vice president said.

“Yeah, no surgeries happened in his presidency,” Baier responded.

“It’s in black and white,” said Harris.

“Would you still advocate for using taxpayer dollars for gender reassignment surgeries?” Baier asked.

“I would follow the law,” she

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Detroit’s Mail Ballot Return Rate Is Up Since 2020, But It’s Mostly Because Fewer People Are Requesting Ballots

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More than 40 percent of absentee ballots sent to voters in Detroit have already been returned, sparking concerns about Democrat ballot harvesting among people who remember the suspicious events that plagued the city in 2020. But the data also indicates the return rate spike might have more to do with a decrease in ballots being requested, rather than a significant increase in ballots being returned this early.

Detroit has sent 100,470 absentee ballots and received 41,235 — a 41 percent return rate, according to data released by the secretary of state’s office on Tuesday. At the same point in the 2020 presidential election (Oct. 12), the city had issued 132,879 absentee ballots and only received 34,735 — a 26 percent return rate. An X user affiliated with the group VoteHub pointed out that Detroit’s return rate was in a “league of its own” compared to other jurisdictions in the state.

However, the raw number of people returning ballots this early in Detroit isn’t wildly different than it was this time last presidential election.

“I don’t want to prevent anyone from identifying red flags, but this is kind of standard,” Ashley Hayek, executive director of America First Works, which is conducting voter canvassing in Michigan and elsewhere, told The Federalist.

Of the absentee ballots cast so far in Detroit, 70 percent were also returned more than two weeks before the 2020 election, Hayek said, citing data obtained by America First Works. Sixteen percent of the total were from voters who

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UK’s Leftist Labour Party Jumping Into U.S. Election To Help Harris

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The British are coming, the British are coming! To interfere in U.S. elections. 

At least the leftist Brits are.  

Sofia Patel, head of operations for the United Kingdom’s Labour Party (yes, that’s Labor with an O-U-R), in a recent post claims she has “nearly 100 Labour Party staff (current and former) going to the US in the next few weeks.” They’re heading to critical battleground states North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, as well as Virginia, Patel wrote in her post. 

“I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina — we will sort your housing,” the leftist Labour Party official noted on her LinkedIn page, which now appears to have been deleted. 

Patel, who served in field operations for former U.S. Secretary of State and failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, asked that interested parties reach her at labourforkamala@gmail.com.

As an interested party, I did just that. Patel has yet to respond to my email seeking comment. 

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It’s not technically illegal for a foreigner to participate as a volunteer in a U.S. campaign, but election law expert Hans von Spakovsky said it’s definitely not a good look for Democrats, who have portrayed themselves as defenders against foreign influence in U.S. elections. 

“From the standpoint of public relations, the Democrat Party has been the loudest complainer about ‘foreign interference’ in elections, starting with their false claims about Trump and the Russian government,” von Spakovsky, manager of the

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