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It is high summer on Gaza City’s beach. A horse and cart patrols the shore selling brightly coloured swimming rings. A small boat is giving joy rides out to sea. Families sit on chairs while a few children play in the water. Normally, in the midst of the school holidays, the beach would be crowded. Particularly this year, as an electricity crisis makes many homes unbearable during the heat. But these days many parents are keeping their children away. The first hint is the smell: the sulphurous odour of raw sewage. Where children are swimming the water is a murky...

The deputy commander of Iran’s notorious Quds Force bragged at a recent ceremony that his operatives have killed more Americans than U.S. troops have killed Iranian fighters. Brig. Gen. Ismail Ghaani was referring to Iran’s major intervention in the Iraq war to supply Shiite militias with supercharged explosives that could penetrate U.S. armored vehicles. The Pentagon has estimated the Quds Force, an arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, killed 500 Americans that way.

We have no sound on Fox cable news in Edmond Oklahoma! Anyone having this problem in the Oklahoma City Metro area? All the other Communist channels are working fine!

The Boston Globe has managed to politicize the literal sun and moon. An article by reporter Matt Rocheleau published Tuesday asks if the upcoming solar eclipse is “throwing shade at Clinton supporters,” as he claims the “ideal viewing spots” for the upcoming eclipse happen to be in places that supported President Trump in the 2016 election: There are about 240 counties roughly along the central path of the eclipse, a 70-mile-wide trail extending across the country where people will be able to see a total eclipse, meaning the sun will appear completely obscured by the moon. And about 92 percent of those...

A gigantic mechanical spider called Kumo caused quite the stir in Ottawa, Ontario. A spectacle, which included pyrotechnics, music and robotic spiders, took place before the city's Notre Dame Cathedral but some called it out for being "demonic," "disrespectful" and even "sacrilegious."OTTAWA, Ontario - The archbishop of Ottawa expressed regret that several Catholics were shocked at the sight of a giant robotic spider perched on Notre Dame Cathedral. Archbishop Terrence Prendergast said he was surprised by the negative reaction to an artistic initiative after critics called the spider’s placement “sacrilegious,” “demonic,” and “disrespectful” of a sacred space. “My cathedral staff...

Members of the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus in Arizona wear the traditional capes and chapeaus associated with them in this 2014 file photo. During the Supreme Convention in St. Louis Aug. 1, Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson announced the uniform would be changed. (Ambria Hammel/CATHOLIC SUN)The Knights of Columbus, long associated with swords, capes and chapeaus, will be going through a significant uniform change. The traditional regalia worn by the Knights’ Fourth Degree members will be replaced, announced Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson during the Knights of Columbus 135th Supreme Convention being held in St. Louis Aug. 1. The...

I can't think of another way to explain the leaks. A day after Kelly assumes office, a story leaks involving Kelly himself. Trump can keep firing people all he wants until he is left with only Ivanka, Jarred and himself in the WH but the leaks will still most likely continue. Which leads me to think Mohammed Hussein O Barrack in the waning days of his presidency had the WH bugged using the most advanced technology at his disposal. Not hard to imagine since he had the full support of Big Tech. As long as words are spoken inside the...

A Christian therapist in England who was suspended after being accused of evangelizing to a Muslim colleague has suffered another loss in court. Victoria Wasteney, the former head of Forensic Occupational Therapy at a hospital in London, was issued a nine-month suspension by East London National Health Service in 2014 after an eight-page complaint was filed against her by a Muslim colleague named Enya Nawaz. As has been reported, Nawaz and Wasteney, a born-again Christian, developed a relationship while working at the St. John Howard Centre in East London and at points discussed religious differences. Nawaz's complaint accused Wasteney of...

Husbands in Purbalingga are apparently neglecting their wives because they are too busy with their racing pigeons. As a result, dozens of married women have filed divorce petitions because they have become jealous of their husbands’ intimacy with the animal.

More than a dozen retired generals and admirals have signed a letter to President Trump thanking him for his announced policy to ban transgender people from the armed forces. “We write today to express our gratitude to you for making the extremely courageous decision to reverse President Obama’s transgender social experiment,” the conservative retired flag officers wrote. “There may be an enormous amount of vitriol directed at you for making this policy correction, but please know that overturning this policy may have done more in the long-term to save the culture and war-fighting capacity of the U.S. military than perhaps...

A woman’s Facebook post claiming to have used breast milk while baking brownies for a school bake sale has garnered international outrage. Although the claim in the post has not yet been verified, a Facebook page called “Sanctimommy” received thousands of shares for the bizarre rant. According to the post, a woman tried posting three separate times about making brownies using breast milk for a school bake sale. The woman states other mothers found out about the breast milk and are “blowing it way out of proportion”:

Animated Kitty-Cat Avatar expounds on the most recent aspects of the Awan Brothers case. Grooming her claws on camera, she speculates regarding the reason for the striking appparent political reversal of DC P.I. Rod Wheeler: Was he told that he and his whole family would be killed if he didn't act like a good boy..? What is the likely course of events for the "Trump conspired with Fox News"-lawsuit..? Whassup with Seth Rich's brother, Aaron, an IT guy with ultra-Establishment contractor Northrup-Grumman..? HE had Seth's computer and phone and threw cold water all over the early investigation of the mystery...

A good one-sentence summary of the current American political divide is this: Republicans think that Democrats are wrong, but Democrats think that Republicans are evil. I mean, if you believe that all human problems -- poverty, racism, inadequate healthcare, income inequality, whatever -- can be solved, and that the world can be perfected, by another government program and some more spending and coercion, then who could be so evil as to stand in the way? And, if our opponents are evil, shouldn't we be angry? Really angry? We just need someone to articulate and channel that anger to rev up...

Ohio insurers want big premium hikes next year for individual health care policies in the Affordable Care Act market, with typical average increases of 20 percent or more. Their rate requests have not yet been granted, but federal and state filings show the extent of the hikes insurers say they want -- and need -- because of expectations of costs for medical care, prescription drugs and the premiums necessary to cover these and other expenses. Insurers say they base their requests on how things went this year and last, and their projections for 2018. These rate requests, and requests in...

After fighting Republicans tooth-and-nail for years on their plans to repeal and replace ObamaCare, Democrats have in a matter of days started touting a slew of proposals aimed at improving the ailing health care system. The Democrats’ scramble to tackle the problem comes after Senate Republicans endured a high-profile failure on their so-called ‘skinny repeal’ replacement bill last week, leaving unclear whether Republicans can ever get the votes to go it alone on health care. Given the difficulty in locking down GOP support, some Republicans have welcomed the prospect of bipartisan talks. At the same time, some Democratic ideas --...

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! It's that level of panic climate change alarmists like professionally monotone former Vice President Al Gore want everyone to rise to. But when people like Gore are called out on their rhetorical hot garbage, it they just tend to double down on their stance. Gore was speaking at a town hall event, moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, to talk about climate change. Go figure. It couldn’t have been a coincidence that CNN would host Gore for a town hall days after his new documentary, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” saw a...

I love the White House, one of the most beautiful buildings (homes) I have ever seen. But Fake News said I called it a dump - TOTALLY UNTRUE

N. Korean leader should not be sleeping easily: McMaster 2017/08/03 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should not be sleeping easily at night, President Trump's national security adviser said Wednesday as he addressed the regime's missile and nuclear programs. In an interview with MSNBC, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster also said the North's recent tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles pose a "grave" threat regardless of how far in the U.S. mainland they can reach. "No, I think he should not be because he has the whole world against him, right?" McMaster said when asked whether Kim...

Former President Barack Hussein Obama is doing what most presidents do not do. He is staying very much involved in the goings-on of Washington DC politics. He will be choosing the frontrunner for the 2020 resistance candidate to oppose Trump and he is working day after day against the duly elected Trump administration. He’s young enough. Why not? Rumors are he’s chosen former Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick. But that is another topic for another day. Former Health and Human Services head Kathleen Sebelius along with Andrew Slavitt, the former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, are both working...

Bill Whittle hosts Peter Van Voorhis on Hot Mic to talk about the insane left-wing bias on America's college campuses.