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A white Iowa woman who admitted she ran over and tried to kill two children with her car because of their race was sentenced in federal court to 25 years in prison. Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, pleaded guilty in April to federal hate crime charges for attempting to kill a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl in December 2019. The Department of Justice said she targeted the minors "because of their race and national origin." The boy is Black and the girl is Hispanic.

Iran continues to produce uranium metal, which can be used in the production of a nuclear bomb, the United Nation's atomic watchdog confirmed Tuesday, in a move that further complicates the possibility of reviving a landmark 2015 deal with world powers on the Iranian nuclear program. The new report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency, obtained by CBS News, shows advancements in Iran's nuclear program that will be troublesome if they continue. And the report sends a message to Washington to restart negotiations that have stalled, reports CBS News' Pamela Falk. In the report, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi...

Yesterday Jovan Pulitzer reported that the Arizona Audit Report of the 2020 Election in Maricopa County will be provided to the Arizona Senate on Friday. But on Wednesday Pulitzer released something nearly as significant. It was a Pulitzer Surprise! It Wasn’t Watermarks They’ve Been Looking For. It’s Much, Much Better! Jovan Pulitzer surprised us all once again and likely scared the hell out of any election fraudsters in the process. In a video he released Wednesday on Twitter, Jovan explained that identifying markings are in fact on the ballots and are exactly what they were looking for during the audit!...

British, French, and German troops are crossing Taliban lines to rescue their citizens in #Kabul, putting pressure on Biden to expand the evacuation. https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1428745338488332290

Nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin and economist Stephen Moore ripped the disastrous effects that the leftist agenda of President Joe Biden and his allies are inflicting on the U.S. economy. Levin said during the Aug. 15 edition of Life, Liberty and Levin on Fox News that Biden’s spending-obsessed plans are “far worse than anything Richard Nixon ever did. This is far worse than anything [Lyndon Baines Johnson] ever did. The numbers are just beyond belief even when considering, ironically, inflation.” Moore likened every leftist wish list item in the phony $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill that Democrats...

MSNBC talking heads have compared the Republican Party to the Taliban because of the GOP's opposition to abortion, a comparison that has drawn outrage from veterans and pro-life leaders. Network columnist Dean Obeidallah argued in a Wednesday article that pro-life Republicans who criticize the Taliban's mistreatment of women are hypocritical. Joy Reid, a primetime host on MSNBC, has for months drawn the comparison and once referred to GOP pro-life efforts as "Talibanism." Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.), who as a Green Beret fought against the Taliban in Afghanistan, said he found the comparison insulting and rooted in ignorance. "I've witnessed...

Glenn Beck's audience has raised $22 million — and counting — in two days to benefit the Beck-founded Nazarene Fund, which tirelessly works to rescue Christians and other religious minorities from persecution and slavery in the Middle East and across the globe. Blaze Media previously reported that the Nazarene Fund is gearing up to extract approximately 5,000 people — mainly women and children — from Afghanistan as the newly Taliban-controlled country descends into violence and chaos. During Beck's Wednesday morning radio show, the conservative firebrand and humanitarian urged his listeners to "give until it hurts" — and his loyal audience...

Acts17Apologetics 613K subscribers "Taliban jihadis aren't exactly known for their wonderful senses of humor. So when a simple question can send them into fits of laughter, we should take note. In a recent episode of Vice on Showtime, titled "Talibanistan," Vice News reporter Hind Hassan asked Taliban Commander Khatab about democracy and women's rights in Afghanistan. Commander Khatab's reaction is priceless. David Wood discusses the issue."

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The Biden Administration’s abysmal failure to adequately plan for and head off this week’s catastrophe in Kabul has of course dominated headlines this week, but will it for much longer? New York Times chief political correspondent Peter Baker tweeted Thursday that “the Biden team’s cold political calculation is that Americans won’t care what happens in Afghanistan as long as Americans are safe. To their point, today there are no front-page stories on Afghanistan in cities like Boston, Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Fresno or Miami.” Add Milwaukee to that list, Thursday’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did not include a...

TV viewers in Australia were given a devilish surprise this week after a news broadcast suddenly cut to footage from a satanic ritual. The incident occurred during a segment on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) nightly news bulletin detailing the introduction of a new law that could see criminals handed prison sentences for hurting police animals Just as the segment was about to end, the feed suddenly cut to a brief clip featuring three individuals on a stage alongside an illuminated upside-down crucifix. Two of the three were standing up dressed in robes, while the other one could be seen sitting...

Smartphone developers are gearing up for a world where users can store their Covid vaccination proof in their phones’ digital wallets, making it easy to simply tap their phones when they enter new buildings. The development, which concerns some privacy advocates, comes as the delta variant of the coronavirus surges through the U.S. and some cities plan to require people to prove they’ve been vaccinated to enter places like gyms, restaurants and bars. Google, Apple and Samsung have all recently announced plans to offer a feature that readily calls up a QR code that can be scanned to quickly verify...

What happened in Kabul was deliberate. In fact, I would argue it went far better than most leftists dreamed it would. Even they underestimated Joe's uncanny ability to make the absolute worst decision in practically every situation. Our kids' grandkids will be fighting the wars that result from this and will likely do it alone. Far from being a tragedy, our abandonment of Afghanistan was one of the left's biggest foreign policy successes.

pic.twitter.com/B6seHTioAw— 𝙇𝙏𝙍𝙉8 𝙀𝙉𝘿𝙉 (@ATLEASTDIETRYN) August 19, 2021 Notice the droopy left eye in the video.

Friday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested that President Joe Biden should be “impeached” if an American citizen and Afghan allies are left behind in Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s takeover. Graham said Biden “has been a wrecking ball regarding foreign policy, national security for 40 years.” He argued that leaving behind a single American citizen or any allies from Afghanistan who have helped the United States would be an impeachable offense.

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Palantir CEO Alexander Karp has donated $180,000 to a New Hampshire hermit who has garnered media attention in recent weeks after the cabin he was living in burned down. The money was a personal donation from Karp “How can I express myself and my gratitude towards something like that? I start to tear up whenever I think about it,” Lidstone told the Concord Monitor of Karp’s donation. “For an old logger who always had to work, for anyone to give you that type of money, it’s incredibly difficult for me to get my head around.”

Is US VP Kamala D. Harris an Illegal Alien? Updated note (at links below) describes how her mother's evasion of her nationality on Kamala's 1964 birth certificate, helped evade "India Quota" immigration restrictions that were in effect in the year 1964.

The FBI has concluded that there is little evidence to suggest that the riot and breach of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 was part of an organized plot to overturn the results of the November election, according to a Friday report. Reuters noted exclusively, based on information from four current and former law enforcement sources, that even though federal officials have charged some 570 people with the breach, “the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump.” The sources have either been briefed on the case or...

Likely billions of dollars of American weapons and vehicles are now in the hands of the (Taliban) extremist group after the collapse of the Afghan government and army, with numerous videos and photos surfacing online showing Taliban members seizing the equipment.Photos have circulated of Taliban members holding American M-4 carbines and M-16 rifles rather than AK-47s or AKMs. Other images and videos showed the Taliban surrounding U.S. Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft.[snip] “As we watched the images coming out of Afghanistan as the Taliban retook the country, we were horrified to see U.S. equipment—including UH-60 Black...