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An enormous asteroid roughly twice the size of the Empire State Building is currently hurtling towards Earth's orbit. NASA has been tracking this latest space rock, called 2010 RJ53, since September 2010. This comes days after it was announced that a slightly smaller asteroid will enter our atmosphere on Sunday. It spans roughly 2540ft (774m) and should fly past us on September 9. RJ53 circles between 58-139 million miles from the sun, and will whiz by Earth at a distance of more than two million miles. A serious asteroid impact remains one of the worst possible natural disasters as there...

Israel’s military is accelerating its operational plans against Iran due to the progress of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi has warned. “The progress of the Iranian nuclear program has led the IDF to accelerate its operational plans and the recently approved defense budget is earmarked for that,” he said. Kohavi commented as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett landed in the United States ahead of a visit with US President Joe Biden and other senior officials. Bennett is expected during his first visit to the White House to push Biden to harden his approach to...

US President Donald Trump has been heavily criticised for halting funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Trump's move to defund WHO goes against the pandemic preparedness plan his administration drafted in 2017, which advocates for “expanded international coordination on pandemic preparedness and response" and specifically calls for "continued support” for WHO. The move drew swift blowback from the medical community, which said it would undercut global efforts to combat a disease that’s sickened nearly 2 million people worldwide and still has no proven cure or vaccine. Philanthropist Bill Gates, a major funder of the...

Many people like to pose questions when getting to know someone. I was recently asked by a potential suitor what I think about the state of affairs in the world. We are living in times when even a rainstorm could be given nuanced debate regarding whether the raindrops actually occurred and if the word storm is offensive, at best or masculine, at worst. In the same way that parents who enable drug-addicted offspring are worse than the drug dealers, academic Intellectuals are worse than the Taliban. Terrorists and drug dealers share the commonality of more often than not stating their...

Ernie Gawilan is a fighter. The 30-year-old champion swimmer made a name for himself after competing in the 2016 Paralympics and becoming the first Filipino gold medalist at the Asian Para Games in 2018. Now, he’s in Tokyo for the 2021 Paralympics, where he will compete and carry his country’s flag in the closing ceremony. But Ernie’s first win came in 1991, when he survived an attempted abortion that left him with no legs and an underdeveloped left arm. “I must have been a good swimmer even in my mother’s womb because I survived the abortion. I just swam,” Ernie...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Aug. 25. When Gen. BANKS telegraphed to head-quarters here that there was a mutiny in the Nineteenth, and asked what he should do with the mutineers he was promptly instructed to send them to Baltimore, to be shipped to Tortugas. But it was supposed the men would reconsider the matter and not put the Government to the trouble of prescribing a sea voyage for the cure of their complaint. Judge WAYNE, of the United States Supreme Court, has decided in a made case that Government has a right to exact service from troops for the full term of...

Part I: A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men. B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women. C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies. In three generations, there will be no more Democrats. Part II: 10 Poorest Cities in America (How did it happen?) City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level 1. Detroit, MI 32.5% 2. Buffalo, NY 29.9% 3 Cincinnati, OH 27.8% 4. Cleveland, OH 27.0% 5. Miami, FL 26.9% 5 St. Louis, MO 26.8% 7. El Paso, TX 26.4% 8....

President Joe Biden on Wednesday joked with an NBC reporter about the evacuation in Afghanistan as thousands, including many Americans, struggle to get out of the war-torn country as the Taliban takes over. Biden, after he made remarks at cybersecurity summit featuring several prominent business executives, was asked by NBC's Peter Alexander what he would do if Americans are still in Afghanistan after the August 31st deadline to withdraw U.S. troops. 'You'll be the first person I call,' Biden joked in response. White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended Biden's remarks pointing out he has given numerous updates and gotten...

A few days ago, hackers in Iran managed to hack the security cameras of the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. By releasing some of the videos copied from CCTV, they were able to show a very small portion of what is going on in this prison to the public. In different scenes of these videos, the truth of what is really going on in Iranian prisons, like prisoners being mistreated and beaten by the prison security officers is demonstrated. The situation is completely opposite to what is shown in the regime's propaganda films. For example, in a scene, a person...

SEX AT 85 I just took a leaflet out of my mailbox, informing me that I can have sex at 85. I'm so happy, because I live at number 83. So it's not too far to walk home afterwards. And it's the same side of the street. I don't even have to cross the road! ~~~~~ Answering machine message, "I am not available right now, but thank you for caring enough to call. I am making some changes in my life. Please leave a message after the beep. If I do not return your call, you are one of the...

The American Reichstag fire snuffs itself out. As a kid growing up in a Cuban Catholic home, I remember waking up on January 6th and rushing to see gifts the Three Wise Men had left us. Kids in the U.S. had Santa Claus and we had Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, the three men who brought gifts to the baby Jesus. Last January 6th, some people got out of control and charged the U.S. Capitol. It was immediately called an "insurrection" and got President Trump impeached. So where are we now? It appears that a lot of people, especially in the...

For nearly two years, Americans have engaged in a great woke experiment of cannibalizing themselves. American civilization has invested massive labor, capital and time in an effort to constantly flagellate itself for not being perfect. Yet America's resilience and its resources are not infinite. We are now beginning to see the consequences of what happens when premodern tribalism absorbs Americans. There are repercussions when ideology governs policy or when we take for granted the basics of life to pursue its trappings. Who cares whether the blow-dried media is woke if it cannot report the truth and keep politicians honest? Once...

Former California GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been dropped by a bodybuilding sponsor following a recent rant directed at anti-maskers. Sports supplement company REDCON1 called Schwarzenegger's comments "anti-America." In addition to pulling it sponsorship, the company is also disaffiliating itself from a Schwarzenegger bodybuilding event next month. "To be clear we did not pull out of the event because of a mask issue. We understand the importance of public safety as well as the responsibilities of all event organizers. These are unprecedented times and we’re aligned with public safety for all," a spokesperson for the company told The Hill. "We...

It's not their exhaust or the fuel they burn; it's their steering wheels. Drivers get to go wherever they want to go, even if it's not to a "good" place. Trains run on rails and don't need steering wheels. They go where the all-wise planners know you ought to be. Thus is explained the irrational preference for passenger rail transport that is continually expressed by the American left. Amtrak is a dud. It's trapped in the past — before automobiles opened up the vast American continent. Rail is great for shipping freight, but not people, who need to be fed,...

BBC presenter Lisa Shaw died due to complications from the AstraZeneca vaccine, a coroner concluded today in what is believed to be the first time a Covid jab has officially been ruled the underlying cause of death in the UK. The otherwise healthy 44-year-old, who worked for BBC Radio Newcastle, died in May after developing headaches after getting her first dose of the British-made vaccine. Newcastle coroner Karen Dilks heard Ms Shaw suffered from blood clots in her brain which caused a deadly stroke. She was admitted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle after complaining of headaches. The inquest,...

U.S. intelligence documents show over 220 former detainees at the United States' Guantanamo detention camp have returned to terrorism and are killing Americans, according a recent news report. Sixty-six percent of the 229 have not been recaptured and remain at large, according to a New York Post story published this weekend, based on a recent intelligence report and other government documents. The findings come as President Biden releases more of the terror suspects from the U.S. military facility in Cuba, after they were detained in connection with the 9/11 terror attacks. Shortly after taking office, Biden reversed President Trump’s executive...

There’s a cancer growing on the presidency. The president displays symptoms of delusion and even dementia, but it is unlikely that the he will resign from office. The president is so addled that even if his family were to stage an intervention, he would still cling to power. You see, the president knows things that the rest of us don’t. The president knows that handing over an entire nation to terrorists and arming them with sophisticated weaponry was unavoidable; it had to happen. So, how do we irradiate, medicate, surgically excise, or otherwise treat our little cancer problem licking obscene...

Although there is good news about COVID, what the administration and its allies are pushing on the American people isn’t good at all. In an earlier article, I summarized the good news about the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, I will attempt to review the Bad and Ugly news about the pandemic. The mainstream media, some public health authorities, and the pharmaceutical industry have engaged in a massive disinformation campaign. This campaign has focused on using fear to get everyone to take an experimental vaccine as the only way to get out of the pandemic. On Sunday, Biden urged America’s employers to...

State officials on Wednesday published new guidance for public school faculty and staffers who plan to seek a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine as the deadline for the required vaccinations nears. A new form was released that asks several questions for those who are applying for the exemption. The form's questions to state workers include: "You assert that you have a sincerely held religious belief or religious conviction that prevents you from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.. Yes or no?" The second question is the most controversial. “You affirm/agree that you have never received a vaccine or medicine from a...

"They messed with the wrong mom": After anarchists invaded a Portland Christian group's get-together, Jamee Anatello showed up at a Black Lives Matter event to tell them who the 'real problem is.' She joins Greg Kelly to share her story.