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Not only does a consulate in Jerusalem serve a lie, it also undermines advancing the chance for peace. Such a move will only push it farther away. This week’s Jerusalem Post 10th annual conference was a memorable gathering that made headlines. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke, as did President Isaac Herzog, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, and Yossi Cohen, former head of the Mossad, in what was his first public appearance since stepping down a few months ago. Most of the resulting headlines had to do with Iran – how Israel might one day need...

On Wednesday, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, sat down with Joe Rogan for an extensive interview. The reason for the appearance was Gupta’s new book, World War C: Lesson From the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One. The lesson everyone should take away from the fallout of the interview is don’t ever make the corporate media your only source of information in a crisis. Anyone familiar with Joe Rogan’s podcast knows they are long, cover topics not remotely implied by the primary reason for the interview, and the host can be relentless. In his...

As the $3.5 trillion federal spending bill slowly makes its way through the House and Senate budget reconciliation process, tucked inside is as much as $1 billion to help local journalism. Specifically, lawmakers have picked up on one of three provisions of the proposed Local Journalism Sustainability Act — a payroll tax credit for journalists employed by local newspapers, digital-only sites or broadcast outlets. The government would subsidize half of salaries up to $50,000 the first year and 30% for four subsequent years.

CARB says there are 16.7 million small engines in the state compared to 13.7 million passenger vehicles, drastically affecting emissions.California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that aims to ban the sale of gas-powered lawn equipment, generators, and other small engines designed for off-road use.This new law builds from the executive order signed by Newsom in 2020 that bans the sale of new passenger cars powered by internal combustion engines in 2035. In the same order, Newsom calls for "100 percent zero-emission off-road vehicles and equipment," the phaseout of which must now be road mapped by the California Air Resources...

David Amess, who represents Southend West in Essex, eastern England, was stabbed by a man who walked into his constituency meeting at a Methodist Church. A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after a 69-year-old British lawmaker in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party was stabbed several times while meeting his constituents at a church, witnesses and media said. "He (Amess) was treated by emergency services but, sadly, died at the scene," police said. David Amess, who represents Southend West in Essex, eastern England, was stabbed by a man who walked into his constituency meeting at a Methodist...

Confronted by a Project Veritas reporter, a Pfizer executive literally ran away when asked about the connection between her company’s COVID-19 vaccine and abortion. In a video published Thursday, Project Veritas journalist James Lalino approached Vanessa Gelman, senior director of worldwide research at Pfizer, on the sidewalk near her home after a whistleblower accused the pharmaceutical company of trying to hide its use of cell lines created from aborted babies in the testing of its vaccine. The video shows Gelman running away quickly as the journalist identifies himself. She continues to run up the sidewalk as Lalino follows. “Miss, why...

I am from Illinois and on my vacation, I went through Indiana, Ohio, PA, NY, RI, Maine, NH, and Vermont. I rarely had to wear a mask indoors, unlike in Illinois. Not once did I feel threatened as to whether people around me were vaccinated or not or wearing a mask. I have never thought that I needed to ask anyone if they were vaccinated or tell them they needed to be. There seemed to be little plexiglass pretending to protect us. In Illinois, our governor says the reason cases are going down is because of his dictatorial edicts on...

As Twitchy reported, while interviewing CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Joe Rogan pretty much laid waste to CNN over its lie about him taking “horse dewormer” to treat COVID-19. We already brought you one epic thread by Glenn Greenwald calling out CNN over its horse dewormer smear, but that thread was inspired by the clip of Gupta on Rogan’s podcast. But then Gupta went on the air with Don Lemon and the two doubled-down, with Lemon saying, “It is not a lie to say that [Ivermectin] is used as a horse dewormer. I think that’s important.” That clip set off Greenwald,...

The conventional wisdom from the left is that COVID is the reason that shipping containers are in the waters off California with no stevedores or truckers available to take care of them. The implication, of course, is that if people would stop being selfish and take the vaccines, the whole problem would magically vanish. That’s nonsense. As a couple of astute articles explain, the problem is that California has passed two laws—one for “climate change” and the other as a sop to the unions—that destroyed much of California’s trucking industry. Add in woes unique to the industry and COVID payments...

The emotional 90-year-old actor revealed that since his return he has been filled with dread over climate change.

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On Saturday, October 9th, a bar in the capital city of Saint Paul was the scene of chaos, fear, and death. Two gunmen began exchanging gunfire, leaving one innocent female patron dead and over a dozen wounded. It has received scant coverage in Saint Paul and none outside of the metro area. I doubt most Minnesotans are aware, let alone others in this country. It brings me no joy to note that both shooters (more on them in a moment) were black and the deceased was black. Of course, it fully explains why the propagandist American media is disinterested in...

A study released this month found that the number of concealed carry permits has increased almost 50 percent since 2016, reaching an all-time high.The 75-page report, by Dr. John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center, Carlisle E. Moody, Research Director and Professor at the College of William & Mary; and research associate Rujun Wang, was released on Oct. 11. It found that no less than 21.52 million people had active carry permits, averaging out to about 8.3 percent of the adults in the general population.This percentage shifted greatly among states, for instance, with Alabama having 32 percent of...

Pro-abortion groups are pushing a radical new sex education program on public schools that promotes abortions and shows graphic sexual images to young children while undermining parental guidance. Nick Bell, a former U.S. Department of Education official, warned parents about the new National Sex Education Standards in a recent column at The Federalist. “… the standards serve as an indoctrination camp in extremist sexual ethics designed to destroy children’s innocence and undermine their attachment to the traditional, Judeo-Christian understanding of sex and marriage,” Bell said. About 40 percent of public school districts approved a 2011 version of the standards, but...

United Methodist Women are “praying” that Texas and other states will allow mothers to abort their unborn babies and stop trying to ban abortions. An organization of the United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women recently issued a statement criticizing the Texas heartbeat law and defending abortions. State pro-life leaders said the law, which prohibits abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, has saved about 3,000 babies’ lives since it went into effect Sept. 1. But the supposedly Christian women’s organization portrayed the law as oppressive, arguing that “women and families need access to the full range of reproductive...

Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as woolWWII U.S. Army Officer and California Berkeley professor emeritus Irving Janis spent 50 years studying why groups of intelligent, knowledgeable people sometimes make very poor decisions. He coined the term, Groupthink: a detrimental psychological condition and practice of reasoning / decision-making that afflicts groups. It is characterized by uncritical acceptance or conformity to prevailing points of view where members of the group suspend reasoning faculties...

Several weeks ago, my family and I visited a familiar camping spot at Lake Anna in Central Virginia. At the time, the withdrawal in Afghanistan had been announced and was underway, the debate over the infrastructure bill was beginning to take form, and Virginia as a whole became the national battleground for public education. While sitting around the fire that Saturday night with my family, friends, and our neighboring campers, the sentiment was resounding—“there is an overall lack of leadership and accountability on behalf of Abigail Spanberger, resident Biden, and their progressive counterparts in Washington,” and “their views are not...

Biden will meet with Pope Francis to discuss ‘human dignity,’ but abortion left off agendaBiden will discuss working together with Pope Francis on 'efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity,' with no mention of the dignity of the unborn. (LifeSiteNews) — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced Thursday that President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 29 to discuss “working together on efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity, including ending the COVID-19 pandemic, tackling the climate crisis, and caring for the poor.”Pope Francis’ and Biden’s shared “respect for fundamental human...

“Che Guevara’s contribution to the Bay of Pigs victory was crucial,” writes Che hagiographer Jorge Castaneda, also a New York Times contributor, visiting Professor at Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, and NYU, and former Mexican Foreign Minister. “Che's military leadership was permeated by an indomitable will that permitted extraordinary feats." Well, “extraordinary” is certainly one way of putting it. I refer to Che Guevara’s being wounded during that tragic battle. The wound, you see, came from a bullet that entered Che’s face just under his chin and exited under his ear doing only slight cosmetic damage to that forthcomingly famous Hollywood...

An Operation Rescue Special Investigative Report By Cheryl Sullenger Washington, D.C. – From the moment Capital Women’s Services opened in 2017, there was controversy. The facility had quietly located in an unremarkable multi-office building on Georgia Avenue in northwest Washington, D.C. where there were few regulations that would hamper its very-late-term abortion business. Operation Rescue received a tip from a whistleblower that the discredited New Jersey abortionist Steven Chase Brigham was involved with that facility. Our whistleblower also tipped us to the fact that an elderly Brigham employee, Myron Rose, was conducting surgical and chemical abortions at Capital Women’s Services....