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Pinning the death of Jamal Khashoggi on Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is important to those who want to return to the Obama-era alignment of the U.S. with Iran, not Saudi Arabia, as our principal relationship with the Middle East Muslim world. MbS, as he is known, is a committed modernizer, favorable to warming relations with Israel. Damaging his global standing with the tar of culpability for the killing and dismemberment of Khashoggi could even lead to his fall from the pinnacle of power in Riyadh.Caroline Glick explains who Khashoggi really was — not an actual "journalist" or "columnist"...

HERSHEY, Pa. -- The Hershey Company today announced new commitments to advance its environmental progress and contribute to global climate action. Hershey has set ambitious new goals to reduce its global emissions in line with the global best practice of the Paris Climate Agreement, to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. "Climate change is one of the most urgent threats to our planet that we face today. In order to deliver on our purpose to make more moments of goodness, we must operate with sustainability at the forefront and commit to doing our part to address climate change," said Michele...

The American people, regardless of political affiliation, should be bellowing a primal scream of outrage in light of the new evidence–overwhelming evidence at that–of the FBI’s corruption. If you have not read John Solomon’s latest revelations about the contents of formerly classified FBI documents that were declassified one week before Donald Trump left Washington, DC, then you need to take the time. You can read it here. Permit me to point out some background you need to appreciate the appalling gravity of these documents. In theory the FBI is not supposed to be a Secret Police (i.e., a GESTAPO). No...

Conservatives live in a culture today that increasingly requires them not simply to tolerate what they do not like, but to embrace what their conscience tells them is wrong and affirm what ordinary people know to be false. Worse is on the way. Near the top of the Democratic priority list is passage of the Equality Act, which would deploy federal government power to impose false and extreme — frankly, mad — orthodoxies about sex and gender throughout the land. The Pelosi crowd presents this legislation as an innocuous tidying-up operation to give substance to the 2020 Supreme Court decision...

The numbers paint a daunting picture. In 2019, consumers worldwide bought 64 million new personal cars and 27 million new commercial motor vehicles, a paltry 2.1 million of which were electric-powered. Climate scientists tell us that we have less than a decade to make meaningful reductions in carbon emissions — including those from internal combustion engines — if we have any hope of staving off the worst effects of global warming. Yet manufacturers are still making, and consumers are still buying, overwhelming numbers of vehicles that will, on average, continue to spew carbon into the atmosphere for a dozen years...

An Australian woman recently took to Facebook to share photos of a giant moth she stumbled across in outside of Brisbane. Pam Taylor posted the first photos of the frighteningly large insect on the Amateur Entomology Australia group, on February 23. The pics showed a huge grey moth clinging to a tree branch. To show just how large the moth really was, the woman also photographed it next to her open palm. Obviously, the photos got a lot of attention from the other amateur entomologists, many of whom recognized the insect as a specimen of Endoxyla Cinereus, or the Giant...

OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. WASHINGTON, Thursday, Feb. 28. It is said that the President elect was much depressed to-day by a sense of the responsibility devolving upon him, and by the irrepressible conflict now going on between opposing interests among his political friends. Mr. BATES arrived to-night. Gov. BOUTWELL and Gen. WOOL had protracted interviews with Mr. LINCOLN to-day. He has also received several hundred callers. Hon. Mr. SPAULDING, of the Buffalo District, New-York, dined with Mr. LINCOLN to-day at the National Hotel. Mr. Hamlin, Gen. Scott, Gov. Chase, Messrs. Seward, Sumner, Bates, Weed, Crittenden, Cameron, Caleb B. Smith, Speaker Pennington,...

President Trump called on conservatives to oust Republicans who voted for impeachment during a fiery address Sunday at CPAC. “Get rid of them all,” the president said. And then, he named names. “The Democrats don’t have grand-standers like Mitt Romney, little Ben Sasse, Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey; and in the House, Tom Rice, South Carolina, Adam Kinzinger, Dan Newhouse, Anthony Gonzalez,” the former president said. “That’s another beauty.” “Fred Upton, Jamie Herrera Butler, Peter Meyer, John Katko, David Valadeo. And of course the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting, Liz Cheney,”...

"I plan to unionize the teachers in this school until I get smaller classes, summers off, winters off, and unlimited benefits including free tampons. Which I won't use."

Today, a remarkable announcement from Royal Caribbean confirmed Haifa in Israel to be the vessel’s homeport in May of this year. Odyssey of the Seas, the global cruise line’s highly-anticipated new ship, will offer Israelis a combination of 3- to 7-night getaways on the Greek Islands and Cyprus. The new sailings will go on sale on Tuesday, March 9. Sailing from Israel is an opportunity we have had our sights on Royal Caribbean International President and CEO Michael Bayley said in a statement today that the line has been eyeing Israel as a potential homeport for some time now: “Sailing...

The Georgia Senate approved a bill Tuesday requiring more identification for absentee voting, the first elections measure to clear either legislative chamber as lawmakers consider new voting rules after last year’s heated presidential race. Voters would have to provide a driver’s license number, state ID number or a copy of photo ID when requesting absentee ballots, according to Senate Bill 67. Currently, absentee ballots are verified based on voters’ signatures and registration information rather than an ID. The Senate passed the bill mostly along party lines, 35-18. State Sen. Larry Walker, one of the Republicans sponsoring the bill, said the...

"The Biden administration is deeply hostile to Israel." Mark Levin, the conservative Jewish American radio broadcaster with more than 14 million daily listeners, has a gloomy forecast for the future of American media coverage of the United States, of Israel and of ties between the two countries. Ahead of the launch of the Hebrew-language edition of his bestselling book, Unfreedom of the Press, Levin tells Israel Hayom that to understand the nature and depth of the danger that the U.S. media poses to democracy in America, you have to understand the way that the U.S. media treats Israel. “I think...

Welcome to the business boom for smugglers of illegal migrant children. Joe Biden, the open borders president, is proposing amnesty legislation to provide the 11 million plus illegal aliens in this country a pathway to citizenship. During his CNN-hosted town hall meeting on February 17, Biden confirmed that such a pathway for citizenship must be included in any immigration bill that he would consider signing. The term “alien” would no longer be used in U.S. immigration law. Until the illegal aliens successfully complete the path to U.S. citizenship under Biden’s “reform” legislation, they are to be referred to as “noncitizen,”...

Now that the BBC has admitted that one of its presenters was wrong in claiming that Israel had a “duty” to vaccinate the Palestinians, the kind of admission it so seldom makes when it comes to righting the wrongs of its malevolent coverage of the Jewish state, it might be worth looking at some of the grand panjandrums of the BBC who form part of its anti-Israel cabal. Until recently, John Simpson was the World Affairs Editor of the BBC for more than 30 years; he has spent a total of 53 years at the BBC. In this position, he...

Fret not when evil EXPONENTIALLY manifests itself and seeks to dominate our life and culture; for this world and its godless vain rebellion and agenda is but only a vapor in light of the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Kingdom of Almighty God (1 John 2:15-17)! Friend, see the ETERNAL and believe Almighty God; then you will be ETERNALLY free indeed (John 8:32-26; Col. 3:1-4; 1 John 2:15-17)! Friend, see the ETERNAL and believe Almighty God; then you will be ETERNALLY free indeed! When a nation founded on the Laws of Nature and Nature's ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS CREATOR; fully rejects Him and abhors Him;...

Bitcoin, that inexplicable cryptocurrency with mysterious origins, is gaining acceptance in Wall Street even as many other financial institutions remain skeptical. Companies such as PayPal Holdings, Inc., Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. are now accepting the virtual currency, while Tesla Inc. is keeping some of its corporate treasuries in bitcoin. More than 12,000 bitcoins ATMs have popped up over the past year, while Toronto-based Purpose Investment launched the world’s first bitcoin ETF last month.....

Mark Levin's interview with Governor Ron DeSantis on Sunday night struck me as so sane, so normal, that it almost had me weeping. Just when I'd despaired that common sense has flown the coop completely, they held a conversation where questions asked are answered honestly, without any [conniving/dissembling]. A lot of the interview was about Florida's response to COVID. You could almost hear Levin's incredulity that DeSantis had grabbed the data offered to him at the beginning of the pandemic, analyzed it himself, and then made decisions for the state that bucked the common consensus. Florida has, in essence, been...

There seems to be scant news about Trump's new Save America PAC that he announced at his speech yesterday. I am posting the link to the Save America PAC so Freepers are aware of its existence.

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In 2010, California voters approved Proposition 14, which fundamentally changed how general elections are conducted in the state. Prior to Prop. 14, the general election ballot would include the names of every qualified party’s nominee. The new system created the “jungle primary,” an open primary in which all registered voters could vote for any candidate running, regardless of party affiliation, with just the top-two finishers appearing on the ballot in November.