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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. July is when families load up screaming kids into a minivan for a road trip, when water parks overflow with the smells of cotton candy and chlorine, and Chicago shootings reach highs only previously witnessed in minor South American wars. Sprinklers rotate over dying lawns and glorious fireworks rise into the sky over a American million cities, towns and villages. But Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and a bunch of other leftists would like to...

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Ratings for the Olympics are at record lows, and it is no surprise why. Between the anti-American protests of some U.S. athletes, and the empty stands that make the competition feel hollow and flat, Americans are just not catching the Olympic spirit this year. It certainly did not help when Simone Biles, America’s top Olympic gymnast, threw in the towel in the middle of her sport’s biggest competition and on the world’s biggest stage. For America, a country built on hard work, sacrifice, and a “never quit” attitude, Biles’ exit was a slap in the face to the quintessential “grit”...

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it expects to give full approval of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine by Labor Day. Pfizer, which has been under emergency authorization amid the COVID-19 pandemic, applied for full approval back in May. The Moderna vaccine has also been under emergency authorization.

Betraying an ally that has done more than any other to combat terrorism. Israel has for years been able to bomb targets in Syria virtually at will. These include Iranian bases, where precision-guided weapons are both assembled and made ready for delivery to Hezbollah, and Hezbollah bases which take delivery of these weapons and take them back to Lebanon. In hundreds of missions over Syria, Israeli planes have successfully avoided being hit; and the Syrian and Iranian defenses have proved unequal to the task of intercepting Israeli missiles. Until now. The latest report on Russian missile systems being transferred to...

Joe Kaufman is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Chairman of the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative. He was the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Republican Nominee for U.S. House of Representatives (Florida-CD23). South Florida imam Fadi Yousef Kablawi (Qablawi) admits to hating a multitude of people, including many if not most of his fellow Muslims. He refers to them as kafirs, the Arabic term for unbelievers or enemies. Yet, his greatest wrath is directed towards Jews. He recently described them as “the lowest of the lowest.” The US government believes Kablawi is a member of...

(CNN)The surge of Covid-19 fueled by the Delta variant and low vaccination rates is sending the country backward in the pandemic, with hospitalizations reaching wintertime levels. For the first time since February 27, more than 50,000 Covid-19 patients were hospitalized Monday, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. The 50,625 hospitalizations were more than triple the number from one month ago, when about 16,000 patients were hospitalized. At this point, it might not be possible to reach herd immunity, the director of the National Institutes of Health said. At the current pace of vaccinations, it...

As we all know Venus is the second closest planet from the sun and the hottest planet that has so many names like evening, the morning star and Venus( that is named after the Goddess of love) and it is also called Earth’s twin.Venus’s atmosphere makes it so difficult for spacecraft to observe it and land on it. That’s why there are only a few spacecraft that is successful to research Venus.But yet there are too many facts about Venus that we probably don’t know.So click and see some of these crazy-fun facts about Venus for kids and also for...

The progressive left loves pointing to Scandinavia for reference on how to approach the alleged shortcomings of America's capitalist system. But unlike with the "Nordic model" of economics, the left isn't as quick to embrace one Scandinavian country's practice that's been different from our own -- namely, its pandemic response. Sweden continues to tout some of the lowest COVID infection rates we've seen, despite minimum public activity restrictions, unlike those we've seen at home in the U.S., but will our authoritarian officials ever acknowledge it? The Swedish government's decision to keep the country operating with minimum disruption received immense backlash...

South Korea has recorded two new cases of the delta-plus variant of the coronavirus. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) told Reuters that the first case was a man in his 40s with “no recent travel records.” Testing from 280 people who came in contact with the man found that only his son tested positive for COVID-19. However, it's unclear whether the son also had delta-plus

The spirit of freedom in America is rapidly changing under the burdensome weights of censorship and cancel-culture. From the legislative chambers in the DC Capitol and corporate board rooms to the pages of everyday citizen’s social media accounts, free speech is under fierce attack. Liberty is afforded to those who tirelessly fight as if freedom depended on it because it does. But it is imperative to understand how keenly Big Tech divides America and creates a two-class system: ones who uphold freedom and others who obey the new order. For example, YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, and it started...

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Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover has filed a lawsuit against a morbidly obese patient who refuses to leave until he can receive weight loss surgery in six to nine months. The 54-year-old Somersworth man, identified as "John Doe" in the complaint to protect his privacy and medical history, was hospitalized in March for treatment of abdominal pain, renal stones and a penile mass, according to the complaint. The man had been unable to easily leave his bed for the past four years because of his weight, according to the complaint. After being discharged from physical therapy, ambulance drivers were concerned they...

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. A Coptic Christian church was recently burned to the ground—not in Egypt, where the torching of Coptic churches is not an uncommon occurrence, but in Canada, also known as “the church-burning centre of the Western world.” In the early morning hours of July 19, St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Surrey, which served 500 families and provided food for the homeless, was set aflame and completely destroyed. Only one charred wall remains standing. According to the report, “The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but Surrey...

In his scathing criticism, Mawlawi Abdul-Hamid also recognized the ongoing protests in Khuzestan province, which in his view, should not be reduced to the water crisis. Iranian boys ride their bicycles in Adimi village in Hamoon wetland near the Zabol town in southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, bordering Afghanistan, Feb. 2, 2015. Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty Images Al-Monitor Staff TOPICS COVERED Ethnic/Religious Minorities July 30, 2021 The highest-ranking and most popular Sunni cleric in Iran, Mawlawi Abdul-Hamid, expressed concern for the overall situation of minorities in Iran under the Islamic Republic, saying the same ethnicities in neighboring countries and the Persian...

The latest French export is a requirement that people show proof of vaccination to visit indoor bars, concert venues, restaurants and gyms. On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City will be the first American metropolis to import the French health pass. Marketed like an upscale perk, the ‘Key to NYC Pass’ program will begin on August 16 and become mandatory on September 13.

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news networks have ignored a new poll shattering President Joe Biden’s economic image. A new Morning Consult/Politico poll of 1,997 registered voters released on July 28 found that 59 percent “hold Biden’s economic policies responsible for the 13-year high in inflation in the United States.” In fact, Morning Consult noted that by a 20-point margin, voters pointed to Biden’s policies over a return to pre-pandemic normals as being “very responsible” for the spiking inflation. ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News ignored Morning Consult’s politically damaging survey during their July...

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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators as they marched past the couple’s home in a luxury St. Louis enclave last year. Parson, a Republican, on Friday pardoned Mark McCloskey, who pleaded guilty in June to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and was fined $750, and Patricia McCloskey, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was fined $2,000. “Mark McCloskey has publicly stated that if he were involved in the same situation, he would have the exact same...

If you want more Americans to be vaccinated against COVID-19, emphasizing that they could still catch the disease and transmit it to others even after they get their shots may not be the best strategy. Yet that is what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did last week, generating "alarmist" and "hyperbolic" press coverage that dismayed Biden administration officials who rightly worried that it would deter vaccination. Major news outlets deserve criticism for hyping the danger posed by breakthrough infections. But they were taking their cues from federal officials who exaggerated that danger, even while trying to reassure the...