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Violent protests erupted across Lebanon on Saturday after the country’s currency plummeted to a new record low, amid an economic crisis that poses the biggest threat to its stability since the 1975-1990 civil war. The Lebanese pound has lost roughly 85 percent of its value in recent months and slid to a record new low on Saturday, falling to 12,500 pounds to the US dollar on the black market, though the official rate remains at roughly 1,500 pounds to the dollar. In response, there was a protest near the parliament in Beirut, during which protesters briefly stormed a reinforced gate...

A teenage girl was horrified to discover a venomous snake hiding inside her asthma inhaler. The teen was bringing in her washing yesterday at her home in Bli Bli, Queensland, Australia, when she spotted the red-bellied black snake slither out of the clothes she had just brought inside. She wasn’t sure exactly where it had ended up, until she noticed it curled up inside the open top of her blue inhaler. Fortunately the girl called a team of snake catchers, who managed to safely capture the reptile and rehome it. Red-bellied black snakes are frequently found on Australia’s east coast...

Federal investigators issued an official warning to a New York sheriff after a complaint was lodged against him for flying a pro-Trump flag on his patrol boat last summer. What happened? While patrolling Oneida Lake during a "Flotilla for Trump" rally last August, Oswego County Sheriff Don Hilton said he proceeded to fly a "Making America Great Again" flag that a rally participant gave him, Syracuse.com reported. Hilton later admitted he permitted the flag, which had Donald Trump's image emblazoned on it, to be flown from the government-owned patrol boat because Trump "has supported law enforcement at a time when...

For once, someone asks Fauci real questions and follows up on Fauci's word salad. Watch it just to see Fauci realize he's being asked real questions by a comedian/actor!CELEB EXPOSES FAUCI’S MISINFORMATION - The Highwire

We must not allow the tragic murder of a young woman turn into attacks on men and attacks on the police. Video...

Last weekend President Trump vowed to travel to Alaska and campaign against Lisa Murkowski in her reelection bid. On Thursday Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) went to Mar-a-lago to beg President Trump to support dead weight Lisa Murkowski. Trump reportedly would not budge on opposing the worthless Murkowski.

<p>Federal COVID-19 guidelines "will be much more liberal" by the Fourth of July if U.S. cases drop as more Americans are vaccinated, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday.</p><p>"If by the time we get to the Fourth of July, with the rollout of the vaccine, we get the level of infection so low -- I'm not going to be able to tell you exactly what the specific guidelines of the (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) are, but I can tell you for sure (guidelines) will be much more liberal than they are right now about what you can do," the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told CNN.</p>

CNN political analyst April Ryan called Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Channel program a “deadly witches brew” during Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” Ryan said, “Everyone cares about Tucker Carlson, the entertainers’ attacks. He’s a thorn in Biden’s side, a thorn in everyone’s side. He is stirring a deadly witch’s brew in his cauldron all for the purposes of gaining more attention and more people, which translates to money for Fox. Tucker Carlson has put a lot of people’s lives on the line for his entertainment purposes.” She added, “You can’t ignore it because the numbers are so great when...

Jesse Naranjo Sun, March 14, 2021, 8:11 AM More than half of Iowans hope that Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, their state’s senior senator, decides against running for reelection next year, according to a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll.

According to this article from Associated Press, liberals blamed Trump for photos from 2014 of migrant children in cages.I don’t know who the next Republican president will be. But after she or he takes office, here’s something that liberals can blame on her or him, just as they blamed Obama’s cages on Trump.This is from the Washington Post. You can read the entire article for free at the link. I’m posting what I consider to be the most important parts:https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ybuC1vabSR8J:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/children-packed-into-border-patrol-tent-for-days-on-end/2021/03/12/a407fba4-8389-11eb-be22-32d331d87530_story.html+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=usChildren packed into Border Patrol tent for days on endBy Nomaan MerchantMarch 12, 2021Hundreds of immigrant children and teenagers have been...

Following outrage from progressives in the military towards Fox News host Tucker Carlson for contrasting China’s push for a “more masculine” military against the U.S. military’s focus on inclusivity for women, the official Marine Corps Twitter account joined in the criticism, sharing an image of a female soldier carrying another soldier with hashtags aimed at Tucker Carlson and Fox News. On Tuesday evening, Carlson noted how in January the Chinese Ministry of Education released a proposal to cultivate students’ masculinity amid a Chinese military buildup, then played a March 8 clip of President Joe Biden introducing two female generals he...

r. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that it would be a “game-changer” for President Trump to encourage his supporters to get the jab — after a poll found many GOP voters indicated that they’re reluctant. “I think it would make all the difference in the world. He’s a very wildly popular person among Republicans,” Fauci told anchor Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “If he came out and said, ‘Go and get vaccinated, it’s really important for your health. the health of your family, and the health of the country,’ it seems absolutely inevitable that the vast majority of people who...

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On this date in 1757, English Admiral John Byng was shot to death by musketry on the quarterdeck of the HMS Monarque for failing to “do his utmost” to defend Minorca against the French. The first and last man of that rank executed by the Royal Navy, Byng was one of 15 (!) children of an ennobled admiral. He’d been 40 years at sea himself, a competent, forgettable senior officer unburdened by genius. The 1750s found him in service of a listless British Empire sliding towards war with France. London had her eye mostly on the North American conflict already...

In 1849, police in New York City arrested a man named William Thompson. Charismatic and "a man of genteel appearance," according to a New York Herald report from the time, Thompson approached strangers, engaged them in conversation, and won their confidence, which he then used to convince them to part with their money or valuables. Prior to his arrest, authorities dubbed the prowling swindler the "Confidence Man," the first time the phrase was ever used to describe what would soon be shortened to "con man" or "con artist." An old proverb cautions that "a fool and his money are soon...

The Biden Administration has directed FEMA to help shelter and transfer migrant children who are crossing unaccompanied into the United States at the border with Mexico. FEMA is the Federal EMERGENCY Management Agency. They provide governmental assistance in times of EMERGENCIES — at times when the normal assistance available for various government agencies is insufficient to deal with the EMERGENCY.Usually, that is a situation caused by an act of “Mother Nature.” But in the case of the Biden Administration, the EMERGENCY is caused entirely by the government — and it was entirely predictable.Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said FEMA...

“Walk . . . with all humility” (Ephesians 4:1-2). Satan will tempt us to be proud of our abilities and accomplishments, but we must remember that every good thing we have is from God. We’ve just studied three steps to humility. Let’s look at the issue from another angle: What kinds of pride threaten to destroy our humility? Where will we struggle to be humble? There are several areas in which Satan will attack us. The first area I call ability pride. We’re often tempted to be proud of our strong points, not our weak ones. I’ve never been tempted...

Andrew Cuomo used iPhone troubleshooting excuses to get close to two of the women accusing him of sexual harassment and misconduct, a report said Sunday. Cuomo, 63, has been accused in recent weeks of inappropriate behavior or remarks by seven women, five of them current or former staffers including Charlotte Bennett and a publicly-unidentified woman alleging that the governor reached under her blouse and groped her. Both of those women say they found themselves summoned into one-on-one situations with the governor after he asked for help resolving similar technical issues with his smartphone, according to an Albany Times Union report...

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has slammed Joe Biden as a "radical" liberal who is pushing "progressive" legislation through the Democrat-controlled Congress. Speaking during an appearance on Fox News' "Watters’ World" Saturday night, McEnany pointed to the Equality Act and the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that Democrats have pushed since taking the majority in the Senate.