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Let’s face it, lots of people aren’t very good at math, even rather basic math. On the other hand, some people are quite good at it. If you aren’t very good at math, there are plenty of other things for you to do in life. My own field of law practice mostly does not require much skill at math, and there a plenty of math-challenged people who are nevertheless very good lawyers. But some big societal decisions require a certain level of math competence. Some of these decisions can involve multi-hundreds of billions of dollars, or even multi-trillions of dollars....

Remember that I have the right to do anything to anybody — Caligula

The more we learn about the true dimensions of the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, the worse it is. Now, a new report says that in the last few months, U.S. authorities have encountered illegal border crossers not just from Mexico, or the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, but from 160 nations around the globe. People are coming to Mexico from the most distant spots on the planet in order to cross illegally into the United States, confident that President Joe Biden will let them stay. And Biden is doing just that. "More than 12,500 Ecuadoreans...

The newly woke Pentagon continues its crusade against anyone who isn’t on board with leftist ideology. Biden’s Pentagon is headed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a swamp creature and rabid leftist. As Austin made clear with his first act on the job, when he stood the military down for 60 days, his primary goal isn’t American’s defense. Instead, it’s to purge “extremism” from the military – although he never gets around to defining that term. To further this goal, Austin appointed Bishop Garrison, a Critical Race Theory fanatic, to conduct his purge. Under Garrison’s aegis, the plan is to use...

Martyrdom may be heroic. But as the most accomplished strategists in history would point out, when the circumstances are stacked against you, sometimes the right strategy is to NOT fight, and to pick your battles later from a position of strength.

Supposedly, he's doing it to make Germany happy. He's also making Putin happy, and the mullahs of Iran happy. But America? Canada? Too bad about you. Joe Biden's been "wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," as Bob Gates wrote in his memoir, so here we go again. This time, he sanctioned the wrong country, giving Vladimir Putin a pass on his energy pipeline to Europe, while sanctioning America's pipeline from Canada. Only bad guys get sanctions, see, so guess who Biden's bad guy is. According to Axios: The Biden administration...

After the corporate media firestorm following the events at Capitol Hill on January 6th, Missouri senator Josh Hawley had a wakeup call. His publisher, Simon & Schuster, dropped his book, The Tyranny of Big Tech. They blamed him for taking part in a “disturbing, deadly insurrection,” and decided to punish him accordingly. Within days, Hawley’s book had a new publisher. Conservative house Regnery Publishing is dedicated to “building strong minds and fostering rigorous debate.” It saw value in the hefty topic which Hawley has taken on for the majority of his career: reigning in big tech monopolies. This book is...

It’s useful comparing his conduct with the alleged crimes and misdemeanors that Democrat party members seem to have committed. Lt. Colonel Matthew Lohmeier, who commanded the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado, was recently relieved of command. Why? The Communist News Network, or CNN, reports that a Defense Department official told them that “Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, Space Operations Command commander, relieved Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier of command…due to loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead.” What did the lieutenant colonel do to betray trust and confidence? Did Lohmeier sleep with a...

Four months into the Biden administration, we are starting to get a clear picture of what is happening to our country. The mask, if it was ever actually on, has come off. This administration and its far-Left puppet masters have veered so far from the mainstream as to almost make Barack Obama resemble a moderate. Whatever ruse Biden was pulling during the Democrat primary and then the general election, when he portrayed himself as the working-class hero, lunch pail Uncle Joe, moderate blue-collar guy from Scranton, has been revealed as a total fraud. When Biden stated, “I’m not Bernie Sanders”...

Demi Lovato is non-binary and is changing their pronouns from she/her to they/them, the singer has told fans. Non-binary people don't identify as male or female, and tend not to conform to gender norms of either. "Today is a day I'm so happy to share more of my life with you all," Demi, who's 28, wrote on Twitter. "I am proud to let you know that I identify as non-binary & will officially be changing my pronouns to they/them moving forward." Demi said they came to understand their gender identity after spending time doing "healing and self-reflective work" over the...

In a statement last week, a Hamas spokesman expressed the mentality behind the suffering in Gaza in a nutshell. “The decision to bomb Tel Aviv, Dimona and Jerusalem,” he boasted about the 3,000 rockets Hamas has fired at Israeli communities in recent days alone, “is easier for us than drinking water.” You bet it is. As in the past, the calculation by Hamas, deemed a terrorist enterprise by the European Union, the United States and others, to use Palestinian civilians as human shields from which to attempt the murder of Israeli civilians, isn’t just easy. It is a no-brainer. Here...

Liz Cheney's commitment to Deep State subversion says everything about her twisted loyalties to a ruling class that seeks not justice, but the removal of Donald Trump from power at any cost. Inveterate liar Liz Cheney is running from one news camera to the next like a chicken with its head cut off. Is she screaming about the Biden regime personally funding Hamas, Hezb'allah, and Iranian terrorists in their war to exterminate Israel? Nope. Is she furious that the White House has intentionally instigated a crisis of epic proportions at the southern border by dismantling President Trump's effective deterrents and...

Inveterate liar Liz Cheney is running from one news camera to the next like a chicken with its head cut off. Is she screaming about the Biden regime personally funding Hamas, Hezb'allah, and Iranian terrorists in their war to exterminate Israel? Nope. Is she furious that the White House has intentionally instigated a crisis of epic proportions at the southern border by dismantling President Trump's effective deterrents and actively aiding and abetting the business operations of drug-traffickers and slavers throughout the United States? Of course not: Ignoring the will of the American people and insisting that they remain victims while...

America has a record 8.1 million job openings. The media call it a "labor shortage." But it's not a labor shortage; it's an incentive shortage. "No one wants to work," says a sign on a restaurant drive-thru speaker in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Please be patient with the staff that did show up." I never wanted to work. I got a job because I had to support myself. That was good for me. It forced me out of my comfort zone. It made me a better person. Had government offered me almost equal money not to work, I never would have...

When all the nations of the earth gather against her. In that day, I will make Yerushalayim a stone for all the peoples to lift; all who lift it shall injure themselves Zechariah 12:3 (The Israel BibleTM) After a cabinet meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara late Monday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a media conference in which he called on the UN, UN Security Council, Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and other international organizations to take action focusing on wrestling Jerusalem away from Israel. “SEPARATE ARRANGEMENT ON JERUSALEM” “At this point, we believe there’s a need for...

Usually, the creation of another sweeping, lumbering government commission is no worse than a new chapter in the history of Washington overreach. But this fetish for a commission to wallow into the mire of the January 6 Capitol uprising is far worse: it is a planned exercise in malicious political theater designed to create heat while shedding no new light. Is there anyone who is unaware of what happened that day? A massive crowd gathered in Washington to support the constitutional challenge to an election result fraught with troubling doubts. President Trump spoke at the White House, dispatching marchers to...

The State Attorney’s Office released new video Monday in the case against two North Carolina men accused of drugging and raping a Pennsylvania woman who was later found dead in her South Beach hotel room. Surveillance video from the hotel lobby appears to show the two men, who are now behind bars...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has worn a mask outside two days in a row despite being vaccinated against COVID-19 and telling Americans they can lose their masks after getting their shots. Fauci recently told Americans they could ditch facial coverings after getting vaccinated against COVID-19 and has been vaccinated since January. However, the NIAID director has been caught rocking a face mask outside the past two days, even though he told vaccinated people himself that they no longer need to wear masks outside. A picture snapped of Fauci on...

Question: May a Jew enter a mosque or church when there is a need to do so or to visit there as a tourist attraction?Answer: The great Rambam in his commentary on the Mishnah Masechet Avodah Zarah (Chapter One) deduces from the words of the Mishnah there regarding an actual house of idol worship “that we are almost forbidden to look at it, let alone enter it.” The words of the Rambam are quoted as Halacha by the Shach (Yoreh De’ah, Chapter 149) as well as the other Acharonim (ibid). The Tosafot in Masechet Avodah Zarah (17b) deduce from the...

The investigation is no longer ‘purely civil in nature,’ state officials tell the former president’s firm... “We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature,” said Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office. “We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA.” The Manhattan district attorney’s office is conducting an investigation into possible bank fraud and other potential crimes. Separately, the top local prosecutor in the Atlanta area is probing whether Mr. Trump improperly tried to influence election officials last...