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…Feelings were raw just two weeks after President Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. The city that said it would never forget its 9/11 heroes had spent 18 months demonizing the NYPD. And Nancy Pelosi had taken Giuliani’s usual spot in the front row at the Ground Zero memorial Saturday morning, a sign of the disrespect now heaped on the former mayor. What was the divisive House speaker from San Francisco doing on hallowed ground, anyway? Not for nothing is she the most despised politician in the country, although judging by the “F–k Joe Biden” meme catching on across the country,...

Dementia Joe Biden vented his senile spleen on the American people Thursday. “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin.” Their patience is wearing thin? What about our patience, the American people’s? “And your refusal has cost all of us.” Our refusal? What about his regime’s refusal to face reality, anywhere, in Afghanistan, at the southern border, in the economy, defying the Constitution and court orders, promoting massive insane welfare giveaways and sore-loser threats to pack the Supreme Court, abolish the electoral college and the Senate, etc.? What about the cost of this ongoing, ever-escalating madness to all of...

EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump, teasing his plans for 2024, told Fox News that the country is "getting to a point where we really have no choice" but for him to run for president again. In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, the former president was asked about his plans for a potential White House bid in 2024.

A COVID bureaucrat implied the religious practices of Jews on campus are all 'in the past,' and that despite their beliefs, their convictions, their faith, they need to abide by a system that negates all of it.“More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.” These poignant words were penned by Asher Ginsberg, a 19th-century Zionist thinker, more commonly known by his nom de plume, Ahad Ha’am (one of the people).For 25 hours each week, observant Jews withdraw from the chaos of the wider world. We do not use our phones, our computers, our iPads, our televisions....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is preparing for what promises to be an intense grilling from the House Foreign Affairs Committee this afternoon. He will testify on the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, which saw tens of thousands of people evacuated from the country in short order as it fell to the Taliban at unexpected speed.

The Taliban has been forced to deny that deputy leader Mullah Baradar is dead after wild rumours emerged that he was killed during a gunfight with his political rivals. The Taliban insisted today that Baradar is in Kandahar province meeting with the group's supreme leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada to discuss Afghanistan's future now the US has withdrawn. But the social media rumour-mill believes he was actually killed in a gun battle in Kabul's presidential palace on Friday that broke out during a meeting with the powerful and ruthless Haqqani family. The Taliban has so-far produced a handwritten note and an...

Israel M. Navon, grandson of former Chief Rabbi E. B. Doron, is hospitalized after he managed to push the Palestinian stabber to the floor. His father: "Blessed be God it stopped at a relatively low level, thanks to the Creator of the world." Hospital: "Thanks to self-defense the injuries are relatively superficial" ... Said the father. "Thank God it stopped at a relatively low level. I want to thank the creator of the world. The son entered the store with his friend and behind them a terrorist jumped with a kitchen knife. He stabbed his friend Yitzhak with his hand,...

On Sunday Dr. Robert W Malone, a virologist well known for inventing the mRNA vaccine took to Twitter to share a study analyzing SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in children ages 12-17. “SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Children Ages 12-17: A Stratified National Database Analysis” read the post, which included a link to the study. Malone made a follow-up post citing a section of the research concluding that male children aged 12-17, are more at risk of harm from the COVID-19 vaccine than the virus itself. “For boys with no underlying health conditions, the chance of either cardiac adverse event (CAE),...

Most days, the yellow bus that’s supposed to take Denise Madre’s kids from their Germantown home to school in Roxborough doesn’t show up at all. A bus did come on one of the six days school has been open so far — nearly four hours late. ---SNIP---But the transportation reality has been much worse than anyone had braced for, affecting schools across the city, leaving some students stranded and others on buses for hours or dropped off in the wrong neighborhoods. After a year-plus of pandemic-disrupted learning, persistent bus woes have kept some students out of school completely and left...

A new trove of emails confirms that Dr. Anthony Fauci did, in fact, help the Wuhan Lab in China obtain US government funds to pursue the "gain of function" research that turned a coronavirus into a deadly pathogen. Since Fauci denied that he had done this in sworn testimony in a congressional hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ken) and others are demanding he be held accountable. "Lying under oath is a felony," Paul pointed out. "Lesser men than Dr. Fauci have done prison time for similar offenses." Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark) said "revelations that Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared to have lied...

State officials plan to allow a private company to set toll rates and keep the revenue from the proposed I-285 express lanes — a move that will affect hundreds of thousands of metro Atlanta commuters. The firm would invest in the design, construction and maintenance of the new lanes, currently set for construction beginning in 2023, then recover its investment by collecting toll revenue for 50 years. Many details — including which company will operate the lanes, how much it will invest and any limits on its tolling authority — have not been determined. Georgia transportation officials say private investment...

These highly skilled parents came together to not just solve their own kids' education needs but offer a high-quality education to families in their glorious Colorado mountain town.Merit Academy of Woodland Park, Colorado, opened on Aug. 23 in a buoyant ceremony featuring American flags and a teenage rider riding a dun horse while waving the school flag. The new public school went from idea to reality in just one year, opening K-8 with plans to grow into high school. As a classical school, it offers a low-screen, high-relationship environment and a focus on creative and critical thinking through careful attention...

Texas is expected to award a contract this week to begin construction of a barrier along its southern border with Mexico. In an early-September statement on its website, the Texas Facilities Commission announced that a design firm and an engineering firm had been selected to oversee the project’s construction, The Texas Tribune reported last week. That statement noted that the contract is expected to be awarded by mid-September — or sometime this week. “The Texas Facilities Commission, which oversees state contracts, said in a statement it anticipates awarding the border wall project with more than $1 billion in available funding...

After years of construction, with traffic-cone obstacle courses, tire-bursting potholes and white-knuckle steering along ever-shifting lanes, it might stand that the coming tolls for the rebuilt Interstate 4 would also bring the same level of dread. But drivers might be in for a pleasant surprise. “We actually don’t know yet how much the tolls are going to be,” said Jared Perdue, the state’s transportation secretary for Central Florida. “There are a lot of unknowns and a lot of assumptions.” But while final toll calculations are still underway, Perdue’s agency estimated recently that the I-4 toll lanes will now not be...

Inflation is running hotter than expected amid ongoing supply chain disruptions and a shortage of semiconductors, the chief financial officer of 3M said Monday. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, 3M CFO Monish Patolawala said input costs were rising at a faster than expected pace. The company has been raising prices for its goods but “we are seeing inflation outstrip price,” Patolawala said. Patolawala raised the cost impact on earnings from a range of 50 to 100 basis points to a range of 100 to 150 basis points, citing the rising price of raw materials and higher labor costs. The...

He’s the most-liked national political leader in Canada, wears sharply tailored suits, has graced the pages of a men’s fashion magazine and is followed by starstruck fans on social media. And he’s not Justin Trudeau. With Canada heading to the polls after a snap election controversially called by Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh, leader of the progressive New Democratic party (NDP), has quickly emerged as the most affable politician in Canada – and a powerful figure who is unlikely to become prime minister. ...His appeal among voters comes as Trudeau has stumbled in the polls. Surveys have found up to three-quarters...

Premier Gladys Berejiklian warns there will different rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated people once NSW opens ip at the state records 1,257 new COVID-19 cases and seven deaths. Ms. Berejiklian said the government was still working on the plan for what would happen once NSW reached 80 percent of residents being fully vaccinated. But she said that going to shops and restaurants or travelling by air may only be available for those who could prove they were double jabbed. "I don't want people to think they can sit back, let everybody else do the hard work and then turn up...

In January 2006, Hunter Biden was a lobbyist for William Oldaker, who had served as a campaign counsel and treasurer to Joe Biden. Jim Biden, Joe’s younger brother, called his friend Anthony Lotito for a favor. Hunter needed a new job. Joe was getting ready to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, and his son’s work for a Washington lobbying firm would be a problem. At least that was what Lotito later alleged in court filings. Jim and Hunter denied that a call like that ever took place. One way or another, the three of them decided in early 2006...

Probiotics-COVID-19: A new study by Italian researchers from the University of Rome and the University of L’Aquila has found that oral bacteriotherapy involving probiotics comprising of lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria not only decreases the risk of respiratory failure in COVID-19 but it also decreases the risk of disease severity and also the need for hospitalization. Oral administration of the probiotic mixture also increase blood oxygen levels including p02, O2Hb and Sa02 compared to patients only receiving standard care. The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Nutrients. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/8/2898 In the study a therapeutic probiotic compound called SLAB51...