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10/07/2025

🚨 MUST WATCH: Jeffries Loses It Over Trump’s “Sombrero” Video 👉 https://ragingpatriotnews.org/2025/10/05/must-watch-jeffries-loses-it-over-trumps-sombrero-video/?utm_source=fb_page&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=np_page

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10/07/2025

A new political ad dropped Sunday and it’s already shaking up Virginia’s high-stakes governor’s race. Republican candidate Winsome Earle-Sears is

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10/06/2025

The four battleships that make up the Iowa Class, were built as the last and most powerful battleships we've ever had. Each served with distinction.

As a maritime nation, we place a lot of stock in our Navy, which is the most powerful in the world. We are unique among nations in our extensive preservation of decommissioned warships. We turn them into floating museums. There are dozens around the country, and they range in size, from WW II submarines to aircraft carriers. We spend more (charitable funds) on our naval museum ships than most countries do in their actual navies.

Among them is the USS Olympia, an armored cruiser from the Spanish American War. She is bethed on the Delaware River, in Philadelphia, and is open for tours. She served as Commodore Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay.

Just across the river at Camden NJ, the USS New Jersey (BB-62) welcomes visitors. She is the most highly decorated battleship in Navy history, and by just a few feet, the largest.

Her three sisters are also museum ships; the USS Iowa (BB-61), berthed at the Port of Los Angeles, the USS Missouri (BB-63), on Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor, where she stands watch over the USS Arizona Memorial, and the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) which is berthed at the US Navy base in Norfolk, VA.

As we approach, next week, the 250th anniversary of the authorization of the Continental Navy, by the 1st Continental Congress, it is appropriate to remember with gratitude, all the sailors that have served, not only in these famous battleships, but throughout the history of the United States Navy.

10/06/2025

Major General Claire Chennault, best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in World War II, is shown posing at the Air Base in Kunming, 1944.

10/06/2025

Vance might be our next president if he keeps this up.

He's giving a masterclass on speaking lately, simply doing a great job every where he goes.

He went scorched Earth on the Dems desire to provide free healthcare for non-citizens.

10/06/2025

John Rolfe enjoyed smoking to***co but didn’t like the fact that English customers had to buy it from the Spanish, who were exporting it from their American colonies. Virginia Indians grew and smoked to***co, but the variety was too strong and bitter for the tastes of Rolfe and Europeans generally. So, Rolfe began experimenting with growing to***co from Spanish seeds in Virginia soil. The resulting product was a sensation in England and by the 1620’s the economy of the Virginia colony was based on the production and export of to***co.

To***co is a nutrient-intensive plant and unless carefully rotated and managed will quickly exhaust the soil. The planters in Tidewater Virginia soon learned that lesson and were forced to move inland to find virgin land. There they discovered that the soil of the Piedmont was more naturally suited to growing the plant and production boomed. By the time of the American Revolution tens of millions of pounds of to***co were being exported to Europe every year.

During the Revolution Virginians stopped exporting to England and substituted food crops for to***co. But with peace came a revival of to***co, and the crop would be the principal agricultural product of Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky for the next two centuries.

To***co was a “cash crop,” meaning farmers did not grow it for their own families, but rather to sell to get the money needed to buy the things the families needed but were unable to produce themselves. Because to***co is an extremely labor-intensive crop, it was generally grown on small family farms, rather than the much larger farms that became typical of the Midwest and Deep South. In 1954 there were over a half million to***co farms in the United States.

To***co farming has been in decline in America since the mid-1950s and today there are only about a tenth of the number of farms as there were then, a decline caused by technological advances allowing some mechanization of the process and, in recent decades, by a reduction in smoking as its deadly carcinogenic effects have become known and appreciated.

The photo is from around 1974. I am not in the photo, but I could have been. It is a typical scene from my childhood.