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"Unfortunately, Jan. 6 was not an isolated event," warned FBI Director Christopher Wray last winter: "The problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now, and it's not going away anytime soon." Since he became director in 2017, said Wray, FBI domestic terrorism investigations had doubled in number to more than 2,000, and FBI investigations of white supremacists had tripled. Listening to Wray, one came away with the impression that right-wing terrorism was our foremost internal security issue, that the Jan. 6 riot was a manifestation of that terrorism, and that white supremacists top...

Myriad failed programs show that our government and its many employees have goals entirely separate from the welfare of America and her citizens. Reagan once said: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." He was right, the government’s not your friend and it most certainly isn’t here to help you. The dirty little secret about government is that its purpose is not really to make the lives of citizens better but, rather, to accumulate power at the expense of citizens. Not sure about that? Ask yourself, how many...

&lOct 12, 2000 - 13 Tishrei, 5761* Two Israelis who lost their way in 2000, "Palestinian" massses lynched them barbarically (after dressing them with soldier uniforns - the biased BBC still han not corrected its factual errors). The crimes were committed with aid from their own police... They mutilated the bodies... It was in public Square with screams of sick "joy" as a body was thrown half alive... the ecstatic shrieks at the organ waving...* An eyewitness journalist described: "they were like animals."* Among used terms by writers, activists: Animalistic, bestiality. * The photographer wad threanted with clubs, knives... Italian...

resident Joe Biden ran for president, in part, on the idea of being a national unifier -- someone who could work across the aisle and strike a bipartisan compromise. But that's not at all the way he's governing. The media is fine with it. They're rooting for routing Republicans. Let's recall Biden's speech at his party's national convention in 2020. "But while I will be a Democratic candidate, I will be an American president. I will work as hard for those who didn't support me as I will for those who did. That's the job of a president. To represent...

When Wally the walrus disappeared after more than five months of appearances around the UK and Ireland, interspersed with visits to France and Spain, observers feared the worst. But after about three weeks at sea he re-emerged in Iceland, looking skinnier but much closer to his Arctic home. He was first spotted a few weeks ago by fishers at the mouth of a fjord in the south-east of the country, resting on a sea wall. Since then he has taken up residence on a boat pier in the fishing town of Höfn... ...During his travels across Europe, Wally sunk several...

People stopped by a lone plain-clothes officer should challenge their legitimacy, the Met Police says. As it seeks to reassure women after the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer, the Met said it was "entirely reasonable" to demand an officer's identity and intentions. Wayne Couzens showed a warrant card (badge) and used handcuffs as he kidnapped Ms Everard before her rape and murder. The Met faces questions over whether chances were missed to stop him. Couzens, 48, targeted Ms Everard, 33, on a street in south London in March. He has been sentenced to a whole-life prison...

In comments made in 2018 and leaked in September 2021, Kemi Badenoch, now British minister for equalities, remarked, "I don't care about colonialism because I know what we were doing before colonialism got there. They came in and just made a different bunch of winners and losers." It is not exactly clear how to interpret this message by a politician, born in 1980 in London of Nigerian parents, who grew up in Nigeria and has been a Conservative member of the British parliament since 2017. However, it suggests a view of "colonialism" different from the woke version, or from the...

The Senate is split 50-50 between the two parties. However, if a vote were now held to eliminate the filibuster, this split morphs to 48 yeas and 52 nays. Such a tally allows the filibuster to survive. And it allows the sometimes despised but always wily Mitch McConnell to keep foiling the radical (and rabid) Democrat agenda. Only a simple majority is needed to eliminate the filibuster, but if the filibuster is in play, sixty votes are required to pass legislation. The Democrats’ agenda includes HR-1 and HR-4, which would end legitimate elections in the United States. It includes HR-5,...

The archbishop of San Francisco is calling for a "massive and visible campaign of prayer and fasting" for the conversion of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's heart as she pursues what pro-lifers have called "radical" abortion legislation. "Witness the House of Representatives’ passage of HR 3755, which would impose abortion on demand nationwide at any stage of pregnancy," Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said of the California Democrat in a statement Wednesday. "A conversion of heart of the majority of our congressional representatives is needed on this issue, beginning with the leader of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I am therefore inviting all...

A US Marine officer, Lt. Colonel Stuart Scheller, publicly criticized the Biden Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan which left 13 servicemen and women dead at Kabul Airport. He particularly targeted the top brass of the military, a military to which he devoted his energy and his life to serve, for their abysmal performance in the closing days of the Afghan withdrawal. Scheller was relieved of his command shortly after he posted a video on Facebook demanding senior officers be held to account for their actions. In the video, Scheller said that he intended to resign his commission. In the video,...

The tech executive referenced in the criminal case against leading cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann was identified Thursday as an industry pioneer who’s founded the world’s first commercial internet hosting company, is an expert in detecting malware and holds 10 patents. Rodney Joffe is the person referred to as “Tech Executive-1” in Sussman’s indictment for allegedly lying to the FBI by withholding his connections to Hillary Clinton’s losing 2016 election campaign against former President Donald Trump, according to CNN... ..Joffe also founded and was chief technology officer of Genuity, which was the first company to offer commercial hosting services that allow...

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Like a sitcom in its death throes jumping the proverbial shark, the cancel-culture movement is plunging into a humiliating depth of inanity. This weekend, video emerged from a person called Frederick Joseph, a regular practitioner of “man on the street put-up jobs,” showing a confrontation with a white woman named Emma Sarley. Sarley supposedly told Joseph, who is black, to “go back to [his] hood.” Or at least that’s what he says. She doesn’t say this on the video. The familiar fracas ensued: Social-media mobs assembled, and quickly Sarley was fired from her job. But what happened next was a...

Cabrillo College dropped 413 students from in-person learning on campus after they failed to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination. About a third of them were reinstated after they showed proof of vaccination or exemption. Those students who were dropped can go through a further appeals process and continue their education with online courses they're already registered in. The deadline to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or exemption came and went last Wednesday. The community college has a roster system where instructors can check who hasn't complied with the mandate. "If a student is enrolled in a class and it's a...

Depending on how one counts, we are now in day 570 of the COVID crisis. Much has been learned since the old days of washing your groceries and not touching your face. But one thing that we can’t quite seem to land on is when people should be wearing a mask. In some places they are ubiquitous, in others you barely see them. The laws, regulations, guidance and rules seem to vary by the minute. Take the House of Representatives. Members must wear masks at work in one of the airiest, most spacious buildings in the country, and yet on...

The top border official in the Biden administration admitted to being caught off guard recently by the spike in delta variant coronavirus cases among migrants at the border.... ...Mayorkas, who has for months refused to speak on the risk that infected migrants who are released into the United States pose to border communities, said upwards of 20% of that population are sick with the highly contagious disease. "We are confronted with a population of people that, as a general matter, that have a rate of illness of approximately 20%," said Mayorkas, who has been in his position since January. "When...

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What double standard? The American left is out to destroy the justice system in the country today. Attorney Sidney Powell announced during an interview last week that her legal team will depose Dominion’s Eric Coomer for questioning later in the day. Coomer sued several Trump supporters, media outlets and media personalities following the 2020 presidential election, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Michelle Malkin, Joe Oltmann, The Gateway Pundit and Jim Hoft, among others. Eric Coomer was deposed for an hour by Powell’s attorneys last week. From what we are hearing it was a complete disaster. The Dominion executive came across...

“Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof" (Proverbs 1:24-25).