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DURRES, Albania — Still bleeding, the gash on his hand covered in dirty gauze, Xhafer Ahmetaj surveyed the mountain of rubble where his friends had been buried after an earthquake struck. Only one teenage boy was pulled out alive. Eight other members of the Lala family, including two toddlers, were killed in November’s 6.4-magnitude quake. Mr. Ahmetaj, 79, a former military officer, took in the devastation and shook his head. Nature, at its most violent, was to blame. But so, too, were people at their most greedy. “If you would have seen this place when it was a marsh, a...

One of the things we need to do, and I don't see anybody anywhere doing this, is we need to try our best to objectively identify where progressives are the strongest, and where they are the weakest. Culture is downstream of politics, so if we want better elections then we need to capture aspects of culture. In various websites I see many of the same items listed. Ok, so you tell me. In which of these are progressives the weakest? MediaAcademia/universitiesHollywoodGovernmentSportsProtesting (Not rioting)Religion/ChurchesSocial mediaK12 schoolsCorporationsTechTalk radioEven though it is a subset of "media", I added talk radio to this list...

Aside from its religious veneer, Islam can easily be defined and understood by one wholly areligious word: tribalism—the bane of any democratic or pluralistic society. The fact is, the entire appeal of Muhammad’s call to the Arabs of his time lay in its compatibility with their tribal mores, three in particular: loyalty to one’s tribe; enmity for other tribes; and raids on the latter to enrich and empower the former. For seventh-century Arabs—and later tribal peoples, chiefly Turks and Tatars, who also found natural appeal in and converted to Islam—the tribe was what humanity is to modern people: to be...

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It’s easy to see why the American Left loved Sami al-Arian. Leftists hate Israel, too. Longtime FrontPage readers will remember Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor who for years was a darling of the Leftist intelligentsia. IPT News reported Monday that he has resurfaced, but that the stalwart old Jew-hater hasn’t changed: while he has reined in his rhetoric a bit and speaks in a more civilized manner, he is still calling for Israel’s destruction, which would result in the murder of millions of Jews. Back in 1991, during a speech in Chicago, al-Arian screamed: “The Quran...

(Note: Paywall is harish) Pennsylvania election data shows that over 432,000 votes were removed from President Donald Trump during the November election, data scientists say. According to an analysis by the Data Integrity Group, obtained exclusively by The Epoch Times, votes for Trump—from both Election Day and mail-in ballots—were removed from the totals in at least 15 counties. Time-series election data shows Trump’s votes decrementing in various counties at numerous time points instead of increasing as would be expected under normal circumstances. The group said that Election Day vote removals happened during the vote tabulation process in at least 15...

Growing up in Louisiana, there was a term known as “Conservative Democrat” or Blue Dog Democrats. Having been raised in the same general neighborhood as Britney Spears’ parents and the family of Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, we all knew what it meant to be fiscally conservative, have quality public health care, and we knew how to care for our environment to protect hunting, fishing, farming, and tree cropping. Governor Edwards won re-election. Did I think he would win? Yes, and it had nothing to do with Trump. As a matter of fact, the overwhelming winners statewide in Louisiana...

It's on his website. An important time in our nations history. Like a kick in the gut.

If you really want to stop racism, stop talking like racists. The latest act in our racialist follies featured Hilaria, née Hillary, Baldwin, the wife of boorish B-movie star Alec Baldwin, being outed for allegedly pretending to be a Spaniard. It seems her Spanish accent and claims to be from Mallorca are fabrications. In fact, according to prep school and university colleagues, she’s an “archetypal northeastern prep schooler,” which is about as “white” as one can get. Twitter rants from Alec Baldwin in his usual semi-literate blustering style ensued, and professional race-hacks leveled the “cultural appropriation” charge. As usual, what...

SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. (WEAR) – Two men were arrested in Santa Rosa County on Wednesday for child human trafficking, deputies announced Thursday. Two children were recovered in the process. Frank Leija Moreno, 39, and Jackson Perez-Godinez, 21, are charged with human trafficking and human smuggling. They are being held in jail on no bond. The Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office says deputies pulled over a vehicle on I-10 Wednesday for traffic violations. Moreno and Perez-Godinez were in the front seat and acting "suspicious," according to deputies. Two boys ages 14 and 17 were in the backseat. Authorities say the...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Psalm 107:14But he lifted the needy out of their affliction and increased their families like flocks.New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) The Psalmist uses the image of flocks to describe abundance and increase.New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

The more Rep. Devin Nunes was attacked, the more he wanted to understand what was behind the Russia collusion narrative. His opponents couldn't have been more wrong in how to contain him.In early December 2016, Devin Nunes was growing suspicious.The political and media establishment, still struggling to cope with the news of Donald Trump’s victory, was beginning to claim that Russian cyber meddling explained the surprising outcome. On Dec. 9, 2016, big media outlets such as the New York Times and Washington Post began laying out the contours of what would become the dominant and relentless media narrative of the...

Well, it happened yet again. Lindsey Graham sold out to the corrupt and cowardly GOP establishment that has stabbed Trump in the back. According to a recent statement from Senator Graham, he won’t support the election commission that a number of his Republican colleagues in the Senate are pushing for because it is a “late date” and it is his opinion that it won’t “[become] reality.” Senators Cruz and Hawley, along with 9 other senators are pushing for that commission because they see it as the solution to the obvious voter fraud that took place during the 2020 election. Now,...

His latest bombshell is either absolutely insane or the key to exposing the powers and principalities ruling this world. Attorney Lin Wood is quickly becoming the most controversial figure on the internet. His Twitter and Parler posts are both wildly popular and ridiculed. The QAnon crowd is torn between whether he’s schizophrenic or crazy like a fox. 4Chan debates about him are just as polarizing. His latest bombshell is either absolutely insane or the key to exposing the powers and principalities ruling this world. I have my own opinions about it, but for once I’m not going to express them....

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In case you haven’t heard, House Democrats want to remove all gendered language from their legislation, while the prayer to open the 117th Congress ended with, “Amen and awomen.” I kid you not. Who would make up something so insane?Let’s start with the PC prayer, which has to be seen to be believed. It is addressed to the monotheistic God, who has many faces and names, thereby offending only atheists and polytheists. And it concludes with, “Amen and awomen,” as if the “men” of “Amen” was somehow a gendered term. How patriarchal and bigoted to use the “men” word in...

A year ago I looked at the 20th anniversary of Nancy Pelosi's ascension to the speakership and shook my head in dismay. Now things are worse. The likelihood of a Biden presidency (despite determined opposition from many Republicans) suggests government lead persecution of men will get worse. This will be disastrous for America and felt around the world in all places that follow America's lead. Lord God please stand by Ted Cruz and Mike Pence and give them strength.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested that more of England could go under the top coronavirus restrictions, Tier 4, in effect forcing the whole country under a third national lockdown. Prime Minister Johnson said on Sunday that the current tier system is “probably about to get tougher”, implying that measures may be ongoing until Spring, pending a widespread rollout of the government-approved Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines.

BUSHMILLS IS spreading a little Irish cheer in the New Year with the offer a free whiskey to drinkers old and new over in the US. The “First Whiskey of 2021” initiative has been put together in the hope of raising spirits – in every sense of the word. It’s a simple enough idea: Bushmills will cover the cost of a glass of whiskey from your local pub or bar of choice. When the time is right, of course. This simple friendly Irish gesture is about ensuring the 400-year-old spirit makers can help people across the US see in the...

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