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It looks like the prodigal son is a painter now. Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s child, has apparently been dabbling with paints for years. Now his hobby has turned serious: starting soon, you can pick up one of his colourful creations from a gallery in New York’s SoHo. It will cost you, though: the pieces are reportedly priced between $75,000 and $500,000. Who parts with that much cash for the work of a new, not exactly critically acclaimed, painter? We may never know. Hunter’s new career raises obvious ethical issues for his father and, in an attempt to avoid accusations of...

A contingent of young stars and star-forming gas clouds is sticking out of one of the Milky Way's spiral arms like a splinter poking out from a plank of wood. Stretching some 3,000 light-years, this is the first major structure identified with an orientation so dramatically different than the arm's. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope prior to its retirement in January 2020, they sought out newborn stars, nestled in the gas and dust clouds (called nebulae) where they form. Spitzer detects infrared light that can penetrate those clouds, while visible light (the kind human eyes can see) is blocked. Young...

Appearing on the left-wing network MSNBC, Army veteran Matt Zeller absolutely eviscerated anyone supporting Joe Biden and his decision to precipitous withdraw of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Biden delivered a speech in which he blamed former President Donald Trump for the dire situation unfolding in the region. Biden claimed, “When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor — which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9/11 of 2019 — that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on...

Pope Francis will not celebrate a public Mass in Glasgow this November. It was reported at the weekend that the 84-year-old wanted to conduct an open-air event for the people of Scotland during his visit to the COP26 climate conference. However, the Catholic Church in Scotland said his tight schedule would make such an event impossible. COP26 will be one of the Pontiff's first major appearances since undergoing colon surgery in July. The conference was originally due to take place in November last year but was postponed due to the Covid pandemic. It will now be held at the Scottish...

COMMENTARY: Throughout two millennia, the Church has already played this role of guardian and ferryman of civilization. But does it still have the means, and the will, today?Editor’s note: The essay first appeared Aug. 14 in the French-language newspaper Le Figaro. The English translation is reprinted here with the permission of Cardinal Robert Sarah. It has been edited for style.Doubt has taken hold of Western thought. Intellectuals and politicians alike describe the same impression of collapse. Faced with the breakdown of solidarity and the disintegration of identities, some turn to the Catholic Church. They ask her to give a reason...

[H/T Fractal Trader]ransomnote: Image below from the section starting at the 6 minute mark in the video, Moderna had 300,000+ adverse events but only reported about 110,000 to the CDC. Further, Moderna received 30,000 calls from people with concerns about adverse events.WAR ON KIDS! Vaxx Data LEAKED, Urgent WARNING Issued by Dr. Jane Ruby (redvoicemedia.com)

A new report suggests President Joe Biden was not only long a proponent of deserting the Afghan people, but he even pointed to the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and how former President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger "got away with it." The remarks come from a 2010 diary entry from Obama's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported Tuesday. When Holbrooke asked then-Vice President Biden about the American duty to protect vulnerable Afghan civilians, Biden shot back with a four-letter word and a historical reference, the Mail reported. "F*** that, we...

Tucker Carlson spoke with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on August 6 to discuss tensions between Hungary and the wider European community, and the influence of the U.S. on Hungarian politics today.BUDAPEST, Hungary (LifeSiteNews) – The Hungarian Prime Minister has hit back at U.S. President Joe Biden for his criticism of the European state as a “totalitarian regime” in a Fox News interview, telling the broadcaster that “it’s better even for the leftist liberal government in the United States” to stay out of Hungarian politics. Fox News host Tucker Carlson spoke with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in an August...

Hunter knocked up a stripper,IMHO.

Trump live now. It's a live youtube stream so drag it backwards to get to the beginning.

Trump's good policies have been replaced by policies antithetical to prosperity, freedom and security A little less than a year ago, a significant number of independent and Republican voters decided to trade bad tweets for bad policy. Today, your Twitter feed is void of President Trump's tweets. But the price was high. Gone are the good policies that drove the Trump economy and made the world a safer place. In their place are policies antithetical to prosperity, freedom and security. You traded energy efficiency for dependency on the Middle East. Whereas a year ago you enjoyed inexpensive gas, high paying...

US intelligence officials had been warning of a quick Taliban takeover in Afghanistan — even as President Biden was publicly downplaying the threat, a new report says. A number of classified intelligence assessments in recent months questioned whether Afghan security forces would try to resist the Taliban, sources told the New York Times. The reports also expressed doubts as to whether the Afghan government could remain in control of Kabul.

US Jesuits defend Biden's fiasco as Indian Jesuits look for escape routeKABUL, Afghanistan (ChurchMilitant.com) - Indian Jesuits trapped in Afghanistan are warning of a Taliban manhunt launched to track down Christian clergy and foreign aid workers in the country. The Taliban "have the list of all organizations and their profiles" and "in some places they have started door-to-door inquiries about the personnel of the organization," Fr. Jerome Sequeira, S.J. wrote in a desperate message sent to a private WhatsApp group Monday. Father Sequeira (Gujarat province) and Fr. Robert C. Rodrigues, S.J. (Karnataka province) have appealed for prayer as they seek...

Local lawmakers told 18 News even though the investigation will continue and a report will be issued for all New Yorkers, they remain concerned because the Governor’s resignation is not final. “I’m just surprised that there have not been demands made by the leaders of the legislature to finalize these resignations. Since they haven’t been filed, they are not really official,” Sen. (Tom) O’Mara continued. The resignation process requires a letter to leaders of the legislature and the Secretary of State. There has not been an official letter from Gov. Cuomo, even though he announced he was stepping down a...

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If a governor resigns over a “he said, she said” dispute about where his hand was when she asked for a photo, or because he asked about their personal lives, or hugged them for a second too long at an event, is there any hope for being a male manager? I feel all it takes is for one woman to make a claim and then I am tarnished forever and risk losing my job. Can I make it clear that I will refuse to meet with any woman at work one-on-one, privately?The truth is, I hear this privately from a...

Former prime minister John Howard has defended the US-led war on terror in the wake of Afghanistan’s rapid and violent fall to the Taliban following the withdrawal of US troops. ..... “September 11 had been an attack on the American way of life and, because of our shared values, it was also therefore an attack on (Australia’s) way of life,” Mr Howard wrote. He said the US-Australian alliance was a relationship “forged in the Indo-Pacific, strengthened during the war on terror and permanently part of (Australia’s) future security.” ..... US President Joe Biden has come under fire after he claimed...

Twitter said in a statement on Tuesday that the Taliban will be allowed to stay on its social media platform, as long as they don’t get overly violent. The company claims it will “proactively enforce our rules” but stopped short of saying it would blacklist the Taliban, as Facebook did today. After receiving inquiries about whether Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid will be banned from Twitter in the wake of the terrorist group seizing control of Kabul last weekend, a spokesperson for the company released a statement informing the media that the Taliban will remain on the platform while Twitter “proactively”...

Ex-MLB pitcher Felipe Vazquez gets 2-4 years in prison for having sex with… Democrats stunned by prospect of losing 2 biggest governors within weeks Officials in Mesa County, Colorado, confirmed Tuesday that local prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into the county clerk's office after a breach in security protocol resulted in elections equipment passwords being published online.