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Not only is this man a total embarrassment to the Nation, he is also a danger. Imagine him with the Nuclear Codes trying to figure out how to enter them into the 'Football' and the enemy missiles are just 15 minutes away............. 0:29 VIDEO AT LINK.......................

The overlapping roles are under scrutiny as the president distances himself from his family’s dealings. For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter. He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim. And when Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden’s associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail to investigate. Since 2019, Joe Biden has repeatedly distanced himself from his family’s business dealings, saying that he has never so much as discussed them with his relatives or with anyone else. But House impeachment inquiry interviews, public records...

On this date in 1716, legendary Sikh warrior Banda Singh Bahadur attained his martyrdom. Born Lakshman Dev, the man who would become Banda Bahadur went on a spiritual wandering jag as a young man and chanced to be plucked out of hermitage by Sikh guru Gobind Singh. When this guru’s efforts to make inroads for Sikh interests with the new Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah foundered, the converted hermit (now returned to the martial exercises of his caste) was tasked with a punitive expedition against one of the more obnoxious governors. The zealous general did his mentor one better, attracting thousands...

Joe Biden on Sunday spoke to reporters at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Belleau, Northern France. Biden told reporters that being in France reminded him of his uncle Bosie whom he has repeatedly claimed was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea. Of course, Joe Biden had to make the visit to the Aisne-Marne American cemetery about himself. “You know, I don’t want to make this personal but when I show up at a military site where veterans are buried, it brings back memories of hearing my grandfather and my mother talk about the loss of their son and brother in...

Facing the toughest election since his first win in 2006, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mt) is investing $640,000 in an ad campaign aimed at convincing voters that his Republican opponent Tim Sheehy "will be a puppet for shady special interests. He's taking thousands of dollars from special interests. He won't be an independent voice for the common people of our state like I am." Ironically, lobbyists have donated more than $458,000 to Tester in the last two years making him the biggest Congressional recipient of lobbyist cash over for the time span. Tester was also the intended beneficiary of $6 million...

Bill Anders has died, apparently piloting his own plane. He was the astronaut who took the iconic photo of the whole Earth from the Moon on his trip around it on Apollo 8, which was the actual moment when we won the space race. And it became the icon for the environmental movement, for good or ill. I consider myself privileged to consider him a friend, and I’ll explain why anon, but for now, farewell, yet another hero of that era, who (unlike many of his Apollo cohorts) understood how important commercial space was. I was at AIAA SciTech Forum...

After being kidnapped by Native Americans in 1697, Hannah Duston brutally killed her captors with a tomahawk — including six children. In 1861, a small new England town erected a monument to Hannah Duston — possibly the first in the U.S. to honor a woman. But not everyone thinks Duston was a hero. Almost 200 years earlier, Duston had been kidnapped by Native Americans from her home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and placed with a Native American family. In the dead of night, she picked up a tomahawk and bludgeoned six sleeping children and four sleeping adults to death....

The Emersons of Haverhill, Massachusetts, were the kind of family that just could not stay out of trouble. Death was a common feature in the Emerson household; only nine of their fifteen children survived infancy. Michael Emerson’s first child, Hannah, would marry Thomas Duston and, become famous for escaping Indian captivity by murdering and scalping ten of her captors. The sixth child was a daughter named Elizabeth, born in 1664. Twelve years later, Michael was brought to court “for cruel and excessive beating of his daughter with a flail swingle and for kicking her, and was fined and bound to...

As viewers of the long-running Law & Order TV show have learned, intentionally trying to conceal a crime shows "knowledge of guilt." A person not intending to do wrong does not go to elaborate efforts to hide what he is doing. This was not the case with Dr. Anthony Fauci and his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) associates in the events leading up to and during the covid pandemic. A slew of emails among these miscreants contain typos explicitly intended to thwart computer searches of these emails. This week in Congressional testimony, Scripps Research Institute immunologist Kristian...

Joe Biden went to Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, France, on Friday, the famous site where Army Rangers scaled the high cliffs to take out the German artillery in an incredibly brave effort on D-Day, 80 years ago. Biden shuffled in, with someone walking with him, seemingly confused about where to go at one point. Biden wanted to have a "Ronald Reagan" moment, the inspiring moment when he spoke about the "boys of Pointe du Hoc." But he's Joe Biden so, of course, he had to somehow make it about himself and his agenda. He used it to talk about...

On this date in 1594, a 70-year-old Portuguese physician was torn apart at Tyburn before a jeering London mob for attempting to poison Queen Elizabeth I. Born around 1525 to a family of conversos — Jewish converts forcibly converted to Christianity — Rodrigo Lopez (alternatively, Lopes) went abroad because the Spanish Inquisition menacingly suspected him of secretly maintaining the faith of Abraham.* For us, the man’s true doctrines might be a matter for his god. In the 16th century, Lopez never could outrun his Jewishness. Establishing himself in London in 1559, nearly the precise midpoint of his life, Lopez built...

"One has only to look at the situation in so many theatres in the world at the moment, Middle East and the Ukraine in particular, where we don't seem to have any protocols we can invoke that might bring the warring parties to the table so that a Peacefire can be negotiated. We don't seem to have the instruments for reconciliation. And things are so drastically fallen apart that we don't know where to look to find those instruments." - octogenarian Father Bill Uren The word "Peacefire" might have been a misspeak but in the context of the thought of...

Recently, Steve Bannon had Revolver’s own Darren Beattie on the War Room show, and together they exposed Nikki Haley’s latest 2024 plot. That’s right, you thought she had slithered away, didn’t you? Nope. It turns out she’s just been lying in wait, ready to pounce. Revolver: Well, if you thought you had heard the last of Nikki Haley after she slithered out of the campaign, tired of being humiliated by the American people over and over, you were sadly mistaken. She’s back, or better yet, according to Revolver’s Darren Beattie, she never actually left. She’s just regrouping for her next...

On this date in 1573, 19-year-old Frantz Schmidt — heretofore only an apprentice to his father’s craft — conducted his first solo hanging. As the body of the thief hung there, his father or perhaps another established Scharfrichter stepped forward and ritually slapped the teenage hangman three times, announcing his successful passage into the ranks of Germany’s master executioners. “Leinhardt Russ of Zeyern, a thief. Executed with the rope at the city of Steinach. Was my first execution.” Those words begin Meister Frantz’s remarkable diary* of 361 hangings, beheadings, breakings-on-the-wheel, drownings, and burnings — as well as many other sub-capital...

On this, the second day of the abortive 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, police inspector Javert is faux-executed — and mercifully released — by his longtime quarry Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s classic Les Miserables. Hugo’s monumental novel is structured by the implacable policeman’s pursuit of Jean Valjean, an absconded ex-con with a heart of gold. Fate brings them together accidentally at the barricade of the (historical, but now forgotten) student uprising — Javert to spy on the student revolutionaries, who unmask him, and Jean Valjean to keep an eye on his adoptive daughter’s idealistic lover. Jean Valjean’s timely contribution...

Back in 2016, The Guardian ran a glowing piece for the 40th anniversary of the publication of Richard Dawkins’s influential book The Selfish Gene, which argued that organisms (like humans) are merely the vehicles that genes use to survive and propagate themselves. The author of the piece, evolutionary biologist Adam Rutherford, wrote that the book’s fame would last forever, for “as long as we study life, it will be read.” Yet even in 2016, Dawkins’s selfish gene model had begun to come under attack from other scientists. Since then, the cracks in the theory have grown. Leading the charge against...

Just the News is reporting that the January 6th Committee rebuffed repeated efforts from a Secret Service agent to refute the false story related by Cassidy Hutchinson alleging a violent episode with Trump in the presidential limousine during the Capitol riots. The J6 Committee staff repeatedly delayed the testimony of the agent to disprove the widely reported allegation. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the chairman of the House subcommittee that is investigating the Jan. 6 riot, has obtained a transcript of the driver’s interview that was conducted months after he first offered to testify. However, it turns out that committee staff were...

Ingram Spencer was a straight talking Calvinist libertarian candidate for the United Australia Party who disappeared into prison after two of his progressive opponents complained to police about what he said. He has not reappeared. In my interview with him he said: "Freedom of speech is not just another one of our freedoms. It is the freedom that all of our freedoms come from ,,,,,,, the government's role is to enable it's citizens to make decisions for themselves ....... In (the state of) Victoria, (people) are taught that questioning the government narrative is disgusting and something that only criminals do...

Longtime readers of mine are familiar with my overwhelming disdain for Paul Krugman, the Opinion section ultra-hack at The New York Times. I've lost count of how many columns I've written about this partisan lapdog. Krugman fancies himself a genius's genius because he once won a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. That's a Nobel-adjacent prize — he's not a laureate. Still, it's quite an achievement in his chosen field. It doesn't mean he knows anything outside of that chosen field, however. For most of the past two years, I've been writing about Krugman's stream of finger-wagging articles telling the...

The current Lawfare persecution of President Trump is not the first recent instance of a good man being done over by leftist usurpation of Western justice. Cardinal George Pell was falsely imprisoned on the testimony of one disturbed young man for an alleged sex crime supposedly committed when about twenty witnesses said that George Pell was actually in front of his church greeting parishioners after a mass. The High Court Of Australia overturned the conviction 7-0. This 78 year old man of God spent 13 months in prison. To Australia's eternal shame.