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Iran is building an underground tunnel to store missiles and large-scale weapons, according to satellite images obtained by Fox News and Western intelligence sources who reviewed the information. The structure, housed within the Imam Ali military base in Eastern Syria, is estimated to be nearly 400 feet long, 15 feet wide and 13 feet deep. The first image--taken by Image Sat International (ISI), an end-to-end geospatial intelligence solutions company, where construction of the tunnel can be seen--was captured on Oct. 5. Two weeks later, a shed was used to hide the tunnel entrance from the air. Large dirt piles appeared...

President Trump blasted the Democratic chairs of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees who announced two articles of impeachment against him Tuesday. Trump’s Twitter response came shortly after Reps. Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler held a news conference to unveil the articles that include abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Universities failed to report more than a billion dollars in foreign funding, officials believe is only a sliver of the unreported overseas donations flowing onto campuses..........“It is already a reporting requirement for schools to report all foreign contributions...It’s a simple requirement: Report all foreign money you get.” ...Nations such as China, Russia, and Qatar hadn’t told the federal government about. DeVos said foreign funding is an administration-wide 'national security concern'. China’s secretive influence on campus figured most prominently.....“One university received research funding from a Chinese multinational conglomerate to develop new algorithms and advance biometric security techniques for crowd surveillance capabilities,”...

KVVU reported that a local animal rescue and pigeon advocacy group known as Lofty Hopes has serious concerns about the negative impacts the hats will have on the pigeons. "At first, I was like, oh my God that's cute!” Mariah Hillman told KVVU. "Then, I was like, wait a minute – how did they get those hats on there?“ Hillman runs the animal advocacy organization, whose slogan is, “a pigeon positive movement.” While the identity of the person putting the hats on the pigeon remains unknown, Hillman told KVVU her organization is on a mission to track down the birds...

In response to the wave of proposed anti-gun legislation in Virginia, many of its cities and counties have declared themselves Second Amendment Sanctuaries. One county, in particular, took it a step further at their December 3rd County Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting. In addition to passing their Second Amendment Sanctuary Resolution, the county also passed a Militia Resolution. This resolution formalizes the creation, and maintenance of a defacto civilian militia in the county of Tazewell. And to get a better understanding why the council members passed this resolution, Firearms News reached out to one of its members, Thomas Lester. Mr....

The new report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is an absolutely damning indictment of the Steele dossier. The dossier, compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele during the 2016 campaign, was a collection of damaging and unfounded rumors about candidate Donald Trump. It was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign and overseen by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. It was never verified, and some of it was laughably far-fetched from the very beginning. Still, the dossier's tales were taken seriously by officials in the highest ranks of the FBI —...

Beware of those who promise to secure rights by denying them. The clamoring likes of Rep. Andrew Schiff, Conservative Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy, the Washington Post’s Deanna Paul, Professor Steve Vladeck, and others similarly ill-advised -- the “Constitutional Deniers” -- are intellectually and historically errant to suggest that the Constitution has no place in congressional proceedings and processes – especially impeachment proceedings. These Constitutional Deniers use the hollow argument that impeachment is not a criminal process, therefore the Sixth Amendment does not apply. While it is a political process, impeachment is shorn more in the cloth of a criminal process...

Every day, women become less of a minority amongst American gun owners. The trend data shows that women feel responsible for their own protection and are taking the necessary steps to ensure it. Even more interesting is the quietly growing number of females who are participating in self-defense firearms courses that go beyond the basics. What these courses offer are aspects of shooting that relate directly to real life. Spatial and situational awareness as well as firearm manipulation techniques are just a few of those concepts. The combination of these skill sets begins to introduce a new shooter to thinking...

"I have not yet begun to fight!" shouted John Paul Jones when the captain of the 50-gun British frigate HMS Serapis taunted him to surrender. Their ships were so close their cannons scraped and masts entangled, yet his American ship Bonhomme Richard, named for Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, refused to give up. When two cannons exploded and his ship began sinking, John Paul Jones lashed his ship to the enemy's to keep it afloat. After 3 more hours of fighting, the British surrendered. This battle took place SEPTEMBER 23, 1779. John Paul Jones is called the "Father of the...

However, not all Democrats are on board with impeachment which can pose a huge problem. A group of rogue, vulnerable Democrats are spooked and floating censuring President Trump instead of impeaching him, Politico reported on Monday. But the Dem leadership is claiming they won’t be using any tools such as pressure or coercion to “whip the votes” to make sure the entire Democrat Caucus is on board with impeachment?

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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" were the last words of 21-year-old American patriot Nathan Hale, who was hanged by the British without a trial on SEPTEMBER 22, 1776. A Yale graduate, 1773, Nathan Hale almost became a Christian minister, as his brother Enoch did, but instead became a teacher at Union Grammar School. When the Revolutionary War began in 1775, Nathan Hale joined a Connecticut militia and served in the siege of Boston. On July 4, 1775, Hale received a letter from his Yale classmate, Benjamin Tallmadge, who became General Washington's...

Michael Bloomberg said he came to the UN climate talks in Madrid because President Trump wouldn’t.........Bloomberg had a whirlwind tour Tuesday of the UN Conference of the Parties meeting, where countries are hammering out the last few aspects of the rules to implement the Paris climate agreement. The global climate talks come just a month after Trump submitted formal documentation for the United States to withdraw from the global climate pact. The White House sent no political officials — only a small team of career negotiators from the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and other...

The Democrats unveiled their articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday. Their two charges: abuse of power, accusing Trump of trying to solicit help from Ukraine to help his 2020 re-election efforts, and obstruction of Congress after refusing to cooperate with their investigation. Trump's abuse of his power, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, "left them no choice." If they didn't act, they would be "complicit" in his presidential overreach. "Unlike President Trump," Schiff said, "we understand that our duty is first and foremost to defend...

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs had a great time in Foxborough on Sunday, snapping the New England Patriots’ 21-game home winning streak and clinching their fourth consecutive AFC West title in the process. Mahomes girlfriend, Brittany Matthews, didn’t have as good of a time while in the stands at Gillette Stadium, though she did ultimately get the last laugh. She and Mahomes’ brother, Jackson, were in attendance for the big game, but said on social media they experienced such bad harassment from Pats fans that stadium security got involved.

<p>Right-wing media and QAnon fans have promised massive bombshells. What happens if it fizzles?</p> <p>Donald Trump’s staunchest allies have continuously built up expectations that the Department of Justice inspector general’s report into the Trump campaign and Russia will contain bombshell revelations of a Deep State plotting to stop Trump’s 2016 candidacy before the election. If early reports about the investigation are accurate, though, the president’s boosters—and Donald Trump himself—have set themselves up for a big disappointment when the report is released on Monday.</p>

‘Impeach!’ (Ignore IG Report) ‘Impeach!’ House Pushes Two Articles of Impeachment But what happened to Bribery? Wasn't that the charge just a couple days ago? We interrupt this Advent season for a special report: House Democrats announced Tuesday they are moving forward with two Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump.President Trump, they insist, is guilty of the high crime of asking the Ukraine about that nation’s involvement in the 2016 election … as had been reported by Politico and The New York Times. And he is guilty of the high crime of discussing with Ukraine’s new president the Bidens’...

A legal scholar who received threats after testifying for the GOP at last Wednesday’s House impeachment hearing said that trolls are now going after his wife — and even his dog. Jonathan Turley, who argued against the speed at which Democrats have gone through the impeachment process, was acting as a CBS News contributor on TV Monday when host Norah O’Donnell said, “I know you received a lot of threats after what you did last week.” “And my wife and dog,” Turley added. “You did talk about them during your testimony, to be fair though. You did bring up your...

The farcical hearings yesterday were intentionally conducted on the very day the IG report was released so as to be a shiny object distracting the country from findings of the DOJ Inspector General. To add more farce to the pile today dems are introducing two articles of impeachment, presumably the ones that had the best resonance in focus groups- abuse of power and obstruction of justice. As Andy McCarthy notes, it is abuse of power and obstruction of justice to investigate democrat corruption: The public wonders: What’s the rush? After all, Democrats apparently didn’t think the “crisis” was so dire that...

Bill Cosby lost his bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday, as an appeals court upheld the verdict in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. In its ruling, the Superior Court upheld the right of prosecutors to call other accusers to bolster their case — the same issue that was fought over in pretrial hearings before movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial. “This decision is a reminder that no one is above the law,” Andrea Constand, the victim in Cosby's case, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.