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When I first heard about this, I didn't want to believe it. I pulled out sources I save for only the most important stories out of DC. And when I confirmed it, I had to interview the man who first revealed it to me. Former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel David Rubin joined us and set the record straight. To the Ayatollah’s current regime and for as long as the Ayatollahs have ruled Iran, America is their “Shaytân-e Bozorg.” We’ve heard it before in English as the “Great Satan.” They believe we are pure evil and must be destroyed at any...

Teleios evaluated whether those who most ardently adhere to several key foundational principles of Christianity (prayer, praise, fellowship, outreach, Bible study, belief in salvation by grace and security of salvation) have better wellbeing compared to those who practice these measures less frequently. Our database included 14,422 participants. Those who most frequently did Bible study, taught and shared the gospel had statistically better wellbeing than the rest. Further, the more participants adhered to these principles the higher their wellbeing scored compared to less adherent. IN SUMMARY, our research suggests that increasing adherence to the foundational principles of Christian faith enhances wellbeing....

Some weeks ago, Pat Frank suggested that I might consider writing an essay about the efficacy of masks and mandates to wear masks during this pandemic. I hesitated doing so at first, but March 8th I noticed another research effort on the part of the CDC to justify masks as a prophylactic strategy.[1] This effort seems very deficient in my view and so this essay resulted. What I write here is a summary of a much larger work in progress. Lincoln Moses and Frederick Mostellar long ago suggested that public policy be organized as experiments so that we might learn...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is restricting the information Border Patrol agents and sector chiefs can share with the media as a surge of migrants tests the agency's capacity at the southern border, according to four current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials. The officials say the restrictions are seen as an unofficial "gag order" and are often referred to that way among colleagues. The officials requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media about the topic. Border Patrol officials have been told to deny all media requests for "ride-alongs" with agents along the...

See that Bus, Governor? Jump under it or I’ll toss you. – China Joe Biden did a puffball pre-prepared fake interview with former Clinton bagman-pretending-to-be-a-journalist George Stephanopoulous yesterday, and boy, did he throw Andrew Cuomo under the proverbial bus. Hilariously, he also threw himself under the bus to any viewer who’s being intellectually honest about allegations of Biden’s own wildly inappropriate behavior towards women. Not only did the sitting pretend-President of the United States repeat his previous mantra that he wants the New York Attorney General’s investigation into Cuomo’s behavior to continue, he expanded to say that he expects Cuomo...

Screenshot from CBS interview in Dallas, May, 2019, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- In Garland, Texas, on 3 May 2015, Gregory Stevens, a veteran police officer with the Garland Police Department, was working off duty as armed security for the “Draw the Prophet” cartoon contest event.Pamela Geller organized the Draw the Prophet event as a response to Islamic demands that Western Civilization submits to Islamic censorship.The particular demand was no one would be allowed to draw images of the Prophet Mohammed or to mock him or make fun of him.The infamous attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices...

Do you remember in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when Gov. Wolf promised his decisions would be “data-driven”? “We have to follow the science,” he reminded us. So convincing was this supposed “data” that Gov. Wolf temporarily shut Right-to-Know (RTK) offices so we couldn’t ask for it. Transparency in action, my friends. Well, Gov. Wolf’s latest stab at hiding information just went bust. And Pennsylvanians should be outraged by the revelation.

With election season over and a Democrat president safely in the White House, the mainstream media appears to have gained an increased willingness to acknowledge greater nuances in the debate over COVID-19 response policies than was the norm at the height of the public health panic. Over the weekend, the Associated Press published a report acknowledging that “California and Florida have experienced almost identical outcomes in COVID-19 case rates,” despite the former state imposing some of the most draconian lockdown measures in the United States under Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, and the latter state remaining mostly open under Republican Gov....

On March 16, 2021, Iranians celebrated the ancient festival of Chaharshanbe Soori or fire festival which has its origin in ancient Iranian rituals. on the eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz (the first day of New year in the Iranian calendars). Before the start of the festival, people gather brushwood in an open, free exterior space. At sunset, after making one or more bonfires, they jump over the flames while singing. The regime hates Chaharshanbe Soori and views it as a threat to its security. Iranians celebrate regardless of the regime's threats against the celebration of the Fire Festival....

He just won’t quit… It now appears that Joe Biden’s generous suggestion that if Americans obey and line up in massive numbers to get the “jab” that they may be allowed to gather in small groups for the Fourth Of July is just more of the same bullshit from his illicit regime. Last Thursday, the crash test dummy in chief delivered remarks from the White House in order to commemorate the greatest day in the history of the Democratic party, the one-year anniversary of the COVID lockdowns, and dangled a carrot along with the stick of a return to the...

TECH PING: This is the second time that the update to Windows 10 has wiped out my passwords in BRAVE during the update. What is going on?? Help? I cannot stop the updates and feel very trapped. I have been using brave successfully for at least 5 years. This password issue upends my life. any insight would be appreciated.

Full disclosure: I was one of those people who thought that the Democrats would have hit President Biden with a 25th Amendment coup by now. After a while, I realized that they prefer having him in place and pulling his puppet strings. They type up the executive orders, tell Ol’ Gropes to sign them, and the dismantling of the Republic proceeds apace. I also wasn’t factoring in Kamala Harris’s soaring ambition. She’d like Biden to last at least two years so that she can have a ten-year run in office. If the Democrats succeed in their efforts to make the...

Australia instituted these strict laws following the April 1996 mass shooting at Port Arthur, in which gunman Martin Bryant took the lives of thirty-five people using an AR-10 semi-automatic rifle. Bryant’s motivation was reportedly based on the failure to buy a bed and breakfast property but also to become “notorious.” The shooting outraged the nation, and soon Australia introduced comprehensive gun control. It was led by then Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who had only taken office six weeks earlier at the head of a center-right coalition. Howard came to the decision that firearms were simply too easy to obtain...

A thousand years after desecrating the church of St. James the Moor-Slayer, Sharia-adherents are at it again. The year 2021 could be a particularly “dangerous” year for Spain, thanks to Islamic State terrorists posing as migrants entering via Europe with “instructions” to attack, among other targets, churches in Spain. A report highlights several examples indicating an uptick in terrorist activities, adding “the fact that we are immersed in a pandemic does not seem to stop the jihadist threats.”One of the more recent threats concerns Santiago de Compostela, a Christian shrine in Galicia, in the furthest northwest of the peninsula. Several...

A friend who volunteers at a Sunday school in Harlem for low-income children called me the other day, greatly upset: She had been working with a pair of students who failed to learn the assigned reading, which was a short psalm or a prayer. She thought perhaps the fourth graders, a boy and a girl, weren’t applying themselves. The truth was much worse: The two children turned out to be illiterate. Their public school teachers had passed them, grade by grade, into the fourth, and no one had ever taught them how to sound out words. Their teachers graded spelling...

Pregnant women serving in the militaryThen: Violence against women Now: DiversityNormalThen: "Functioning or occurring in a natural way" Now: Hateful stereotypeIn-person learningThen: School Now: Promoting white supremacyIn-person votingThen: Election day Now: Voter suppressionRemoving a child's genitalsThen: Child mutilation Now: Routine medical check-upCensorship of booksAllowing only females in women's sportsThen: Women's sports Now: Human rights violationWearing a sombreroThen: A Halloween costume Now: Cultural appropriationFalse accusation of sexual harassmentThen: Slander Now: Your truthMom, dad, brother, sister...Then: Proper term for family members Now: Hateful stereotypesThen: Book burning Now: Banning hate speechBanning TV networksThen: Totalitarianism Now: Defending democracyReporting factsThen: Journalism Now: BothsidesismMandating vaccine only...

And the Clinton administration enabled him. "I Started to Think This is a Bad Guy": Andrew Cuomo's Biographer on the Governor's Brutish History," a Vanity Fair headline blares. The biographer, Michael Shnayerson, is the author of The Contender, a biography of Cuomo, of which the author on his site writes, “I think the picture that emerges is ultimately a positive one.” In the recent article, he however fusses, “I discovered that much of Cuomo’s M.O. and many of his character flaws… have been evident for years.” Just not so evident that anyone in the media would actually write honestly about...

They're valuable and, unfortunately, easy to steal, and the thefts have skyrocketed during this pandemic year, but at least this set of bad guys got caught. While no one is tracking exact figures, the number of catalytic converters stolen from vehicles across the U.S. has grown tremendously. In Los Angeles County, it was up 400 percent in a year. The LA Sheriff raided four locations last week, arresting 19 people and recovering three-quarters of a million dollars' worth of catalytic converters, plus $100,000 in cash and a "ghost" gun.If you want to prevent your own cat from being stolen, parking...

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised. Doesn't everything end up being Trump's fault?The latest from the Biden White House is that they inherited a mess on the U.S.-Mexico border. Again, isn't everything Trump's fault?The Biden White House reversed Trump's policies, and that's why this mess happened, as Rich Lowry wrote:As numbers predictably surge again, his Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, has absurdly called out Trump for having "dismantled our nation's immigration system in its entirety."Speaker Nancy Pelosi chimed in over the weekend, claiming that "what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border."To the contrary, Biden has done...

Source: Official White House Photo by Shealah CraigheadIt's too late now, but vindication came to one of the Trump campaign election violation claims lobbed after Election Day. The Michigan courts ruled that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson overstepped her authority when she issued unilateral changes for absentee ballots in the state. It all centered on voter signature verification. If she wanted to do that, she was going to have to get the state legislature’s approval. There was a reason why she didn’t pursue this route: Michigan’s state legislature is majority Republican. So, she took this for a spin, and it...