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Six Ships Near Iran in the Gulf of Oman Lose Control of Their Steering – Another British Ship May Have Been Hijacked By Joe Hoft Published August 4, 2021 at 8:50am 78 Comments Share Tweet Gab Share TelegramTelegram Clouthub Share (AP Graphic) What’s going on in the Gulf of Oman? Advertisement - story continues below Reports out of Israel indicate that at least six ships have lost control and another British ship might be have been hijacked in or near the Gulf of Oman. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — At least six ships off the coast of the United Arab...

Ordinary Americans are increasingly competing for a roof over their heads against the permanent capital of companies such as BlackRock and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, which are buying single-family homes from real estate developers at double what the middle class can afford. Indeed, the country’s largest homebuilders are betting on America becoming a nation of renters, pouring billions into the built-to-rent sector with the backing of banks and private investment firms. Entire neighborhoods are gobbled up as the stage is set for what John Burns Real Estate Consulting is calling “another speculative investor-driven home price bubble.” The firm estimates one...

A couple from Richmond, Va. was arrested on Monday with loaded guns near the U.S. Capitol, authorities said. United States Capitol Police (USCP) said in a statement that Titus Hayes and his wife Nicole Carter were each charged with four weapons charges related to the incident. There was no information indicating that they were targeting a member of Congress of the Capitol complex.

The 2020 election demonstrated how fragile our democracy is. As Donald Trump tried, by means both legal and illegal, to overturn the results of a free and fair election, only the courts and a thin line of courageous Republican election officials guaranteed that the peoples’ choice prevailed. But the safeguards are weaker. Although the Supreme Court upheld the last lower-court dismissal of multiple Trump-inspired lawsuits charging election fraud, in July the court upheld new voting restrictions enacted in Arizona. And many of the Republican election officials who refused to back up Trump’s bogus fraud charges have been threatened, fired, or...

Jonathan W. Emord is one of the United States’ leading constitutional and administrative law attorneys. He has defeated the FDA eight times in federal court, more times than any other attorney in America. He is a guest lecturer at Georgetown University Law and Medical Schools, and the author of several books. He is the guest host with Robert Scott Bell of the "Sacred Fire of Liberty Hour" on The Robert Scott Bell Show. His latest Book, The Authoritarians: Their Assault on Individual Liberty, the Constitution, and Free Enterprise from the 19th Century to the Present, is a deep dive...

“Our democracy,” is the official government term for conditions following the 2020 election. Angelo Codevilla argues that it’s not a democracy but an oligarchy. Since that means rule by a group, “junta” would also appropriate, and historical examples are instructive. Portugal had its junta de salvação nacional in the 1970s, and after the toppling of Allende in a coup, the Junta Militar de Gobierno ruled that nation. After the fall of Somoza, Nicaragua fell under the Junta de Gobierno de Reconstrucción Nacional, the Junta of National Reconstruction. In the United States, what Democrats call “our democracy” is effectively the Government...

President Biden on Tuesday called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign after an official report found that he sexually harassed 11 women. “I think he should resign,” Biden said of his longtime Democratic ally. Biden spoke hours after Cuomo proclaimed his innocence and issued a counter-report with photos of Biden and other elected officials hugging women. “Look, I’m not going to flyspeck this. I’m sure there are some embraces that were totally innocent. But apparently, the attorney general decided there were things that weren’t,” Biden said when a reporter asked about Cuomo using his own conduct as a...

Childbirth can trigger a number of odd body changes, but for a woman in Portugal, post-pregnancy symptoms were particularly curious: She started to lactate from her armpit, according to a new report. The 26-year-old woman told doctors that she developed pain in her right armpit two days after giving birth, according to the report, published July 29 in The New England Journal of Medicine. When doctors examined the area, they found a round mass in her armpit. Surprisingly, the mass "released a white discharge when pressed," the authors, from Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon, Portugal, wrote in the report....

Bishop Schneider compares Pope Francis’ crushing of Latin Mass to a shepherd angrily beating his sheep with a stickTue Aug 3, 2021 - 2:20 pm EDTTue Aug 3, 2021 - 2:25 pm EDT (The Remnant) –In his first print interview since the release of Pope Francis’ new decree restricting the Traditional Latin Mass, Traditionis Custodes, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said the document “demeans” a thousand-year-old liturgy of the Roman Rite, commits an “injustice” against Catholics who adhere to it, and creates a “two-class society” in the Church.“The privileged first-class are those who adhere to the reformed liturgy,” Bishop Schneider asserts,...

In June, the U.S. attorney's office for the district of Arizona charged six individuals who had previously been convicted of homicide in the U.S. with illegally reentering the country. This statistic — published in the U.S. attorney's monthly report on immigration and border crimes — shines a revelatory light on our justice system and our border security. Each of these six individuals convicted of homicide in question had come to the U.S. from a foreign country. While here, they killed someone. Law enforcement had tracked them down and gathered sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt they had committed...

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