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Depending on how and when you count, Japan’s Toyota is the world’s largest automaker. According to Wheels, Toyota and Volkswagen vie for the title of the world’s largest, with each taking the crown from the other as the market moves. That’s including Volkswagen’s inherent advantage of sporting 12 brands versus Toyota’s four. Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bugatti, and Bentley are included in the Volkswagen brand family. GM, America’s largest automaker, is about half Toyota’s size thanks to its 2009 bankruptcy and restructuring. Toyota is actually a major car manufacturer in the United States; in 2016 it made about 81% of the...

It’s official – Australia has spoken! Pineapple does deserve its place on top of our pizzas. Thousands voted in delicious. and your local newspapers’ recent search to find the best local pizzerias in the country, and they also told us of their favourite toppings. While mozzarella was every state’s number one topping, pineapple was the next strongest performer after salami/pepperoni. Dig a little deeper and you find that pineapple made the top 10 toppings in every state apart from New South Wales. There, pineapple doesn’t even make the list. Perhaps this explains the media’s recent hating on pineapple on pizza...

I think, for several reasons lately – paramount among them are Covid-related issues – people are stressed, worried and afraid. It has even been stated that suicide, including among children, has increased. We have a new normal now, like it or not. Actually, for some, there are a few positive things and blessings to note in our new normal. For instance, some can now work from home, avoid the commute traffic, lessen distractions, stay inside out of bad weather, and dress more casually and comfortably at home than in an office. But there are many disadvantages of working from home,...

PORT ORANGE, Fla. – A 20-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood hospitalized with a fractured leg. Port Orange police said early Friday that Paige Bergman was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle crash involving serious bodily injury, She was arrested after police said they found the vehicle that struck Chitwood, who was riding a bike, at a home in the 3200 block of Sardinia Terrace in Deltona. Volusia County sheriff’s officials said in a tweet Thursday afternoon that Chitwood was taken to a...

Charlotte, NC — Yesterday was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Joe Biden and his administration yesterday. What’s worse is it was a bad day for the United States of America. The Liberty Loft reported on Joe Biden falling on the stair up to Air Force One earlier today and, even before that, he was insulted and batted around by Russia and China. The opening remarks in Anchorage, Alaska were agreed to be two minutes each. However, the CCP delegation opened with 20 minutes of blasting Biden’s policies, BLM, Inc., division under Biden, and the most stinging...

'I think it was one of the most incompetent displays I've ever seen by an American diplomat,' Fred Fleitz says. Former CIA analyst and National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz says President Biden should replace Secretary of State Antony Blinken after a U.S.-China summit in Alaska this week dissolved into insults and little diplomatic progress. "I think it was one of the most incompetent displays I've ever seen by an American diplomat," Fleitz told the John Solomon Reports podcast. "Insulting the Chinese just before the talks begin, before the cameras causing them to lose face. I just thought,...

Yes, this is the position of the Veep (Alison Colins) of the San Francisco School Board – saw that coming, didn’t you? Here are some of her past comments: Collins, who did not respond to a request for comment, accused “many Asian American Ts, Ss, and Ps” — teachers, students, and parents — of promoting “the ‘model minority’ BS” and of using “white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead.’”… She then demanded to know “[w]here are the vocal Asians speaking up against Trump?” “Don’t Asian Americans know they are on his list as well?” Collins continued. “Do they think...

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Friday that Dr. Anthony Fauci was lying to the American people about the need for masks after vaccination. Paul joined Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson to discuss the heated exchange he and Fauci had during Thursday’s Senate hearing. Carlson began by thanking Paul for pushing back on Fauci, asking whether there was any science at all behind claims that masks would still be necessary for those who received the coronavirus vaccine. “There was no scientific evidence presented, there was Dr. Fauci’s opinion, his conjecture that someday there might be a...

A former CIA and National Security Council official called on Biden to replace Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in the wake of the US-China summit in Alaska that devolved into insults and little progress. Former CIA analyst and National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz said “it was one of the most incompetent displays I’ve ever seen by an American diplomat.”

The leftist narrative of “white privilege” is “disgusting,” said J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News and author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 1 Samuel 18:3 May the first person who has not sinned throw the first stone. This is what Jesus says but not what the woke generation demands. Anyone can claim anyone else a sinner who is then virtually stoned in the public square leaving the rest of the population terrified and shuddering in fear. The cult of woke has become the Nazis of woke who go around destroying anyone they disagree with politically, then sew a Jewish Star on their clothes making them untouchables in...

As the new president of The University of Texas at Austin, I know that our great institution can live up to its highest ideals only by creating a space where open discourse, discovery and debate can flourish.I also know that during these challenging and divisive times, the notion of “free speech” has become somewhat controversial and politicized. This is a mistake. The freedom to speak and debate is not only outlined in the First Amendment of the Constitution — it is at the heart of the scientific method and all of the scholarship, creative work and research that defines a...

The U.S. Geological Survey put the strength at magnitude 7.0 and depth at 54 kilometers (33.5 miles). The shaking started just before 6:10 p.m. The quake was centered off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, in the country’s rugged northeast, which was heavily damaged during the huge earthquake and tsunami of 2011 that left more than 18,000 people dead. Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued an advisory for a tsunami up to 1 meter (yard) in height for Miyagi prefecture immediately after the quake, but lifted it about 90 minutes later. Officials there said there were no immediate reports of damage. The strong...

Many may be baffled by this, and some may even disagree, but if you allow yourself to step away from what secular history has told you about the religion of Judaism, you will realize that their is truth in what I am about to share.Let me begin by stating, there is absolutely nothing “Jewish” about God's revelations to Moses at Mt. Sinai. Everything Moses wrote that God instructed him to write, was distinctly Hebraic. NOT Jewish. The Jewish religious tradition was born in the late second temple period, by the Pharisees. There are 613 laws that God handed down...

A “Made-in-India” Covid-19 vaccine and a “Made-in-India” report on democracies around the world are among the options Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is mulling over to counter criticism it received from international organisations as well ...

A few weeks ago in our Last Call column, we asked you what your favorite peanut butter and jelly sandwich combinations were. And honestly, I was surprised at the sheer volume of answers we received, putting my wheat bread/Skippy Natural/store-brand grape jelly combo to complete shame. Some of you suggested tortillas, alternative nut butters, fruit, all sorts of jams and jellies, and even different cooking styles. While I don’t eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches super often, your answers reminded me that a good old PB&J can be a really great thing, not only when you’re in a hurry, but...

I see the rim. I see the rim. A quarter century later, Bob Scrabis can still see the rim. Seven seconds remained in that first round 1989 NCAA tournament game between Princeton and Georgetown when Scrabis, the Tigers’ captain and lone senior, raised up to shoot the basketball. Before the game Scrabis’ own coach, the chronic pessimist Pete Carril, had set the betting line. “I think we’re a billion-to-one to win the whole tournament,” he said. “To beat Georgetown, we’re only 450 million to one.” Yet Carril’s 16th-seeded Princeton Tigers trailed the Hoyas, the most dominant and polarizing brand in...

This debris is composed of parts of old satellites as well as entire defunct satellites and rocket bodies. The debris poses risks to the International Space Station and threatens things we take for granted on Earth -- weather forecasting, GPS and telecommunications. It's a problem that's getting worse with more and more satellites being launched each year by ventures like Elon Musk's SpaceX. A demonstration mission to test new technology developed by the company Astroscale to clean up space debris is set to launch in the early hours of Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A Soyuz 2 rocket...

JAG Writes: God has a saving-plan for the world. Humanity is in serious death-trouble due to the entrance of sin and sin's death worldwide. Not even the Jewish Law {Moses} could defeat Death and bring Eternal Life. But God is the kind of Person that will go straight into the pain to rescue others with a plan to rescue humanity from Sin and Death through the crucifixion-death and Resurrection of His Son the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus has conquered Sin and Death for us all. Because He lives, we too can live. Eternal Life has been brought to this...

“Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped” (Philippians 2:5-6). Christ’s coming to earth is the supreme example to us of humility. We can usually identify with what someone else has experienced when we have gone through the same thing. Even if we haven’t been through what the other person has, we can perhaps relate because we might someday have a similar experience. However, it is much harder to comprehend what Christ experienced when He stooped from...