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Last week, the State Department learned that twice this summer China had tested a new hypersonic missile weapon with nuclear capabilities. According to the Financial Times, the rocket employed a “fractional orbital bombardment” that also had the guidance ability to “glide” around the earth in orbit. The test reportedly stunned the Biden administration, and comes on the heels of a string of embarrassing global events for the US, including the fall of Afghanistan and Russia opting not to raise natural gas supplies to Europe after the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Secretary of State Tony Blinken reacted with...

WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 21. The following telegram from Gen. STONE's command has been received at headquarters here: EDWARD's FERRY, Monday, Oct. 21. This morning, at 1 o'clock, five companies of the Fifteenth Massachusetts crossed the river at Harrison's Island. At daybreak, they had proceeded to within a mile and a half of Leesburgh without meeting the enemy. They still hold on, supported by the remainder of the regiment and part of the Twentieth. A gallant reconnoissance was made early this morning, by Major MIX, of the Van Allan Cavalry, and Capt. STEWART, Assistant Adjutant-General, from Edward's Ferry towards Leesburgh, with...

President Joe Biden said police officers and emergency workers who refuse COVID-19 vaccination should stay home or be fired, as he answered questions during a CNN town hall on Thursday evening. 'Yes and yes,' he said to a thunderous round of applause. 'By the way, I waited until July, to talk about mandating, because I tried everything else possible. Mandates are working.' He also ridiculed people who said mandates infringed their freedom. But he also defended his stance on vaccine mandates in uncompromising terms. A series of mandates for federal workers and for companies with more than 100 staff triggered...

“This store loses $25,000 a day to shoplifting,” an SFPD officer told the Globe in lengthy, taped interviews conducted this week. “That’s $25,000 that walks out the door on average between 9 and 6 every day.” (The Globe is redacting the officers’ names because of critical remarks made about Mayor London Breed and District Attorney Chesa Boudin that could potentially endanger their jobs.) “This store does between $80,000 to $120,000 in sales every day. And they lose 25 of it [meaning $25,000]. Even if they’re making 25% profit, the stealing takes that down to zero.” Asked if the presence of...

Digital World Acquisition shares jumped as much as 94% in premarket trading Friday, as investors piled into the special-purpose acquisition company set to take former US President Donald Trump's media startup public. DWAC stock already skyrocketed 357% on Thursday after the SPAC announced it was acquiring Trump Media & Technology Group. The shares closed at $45.50, valuing the vehicle at about $1.5 billion - not far off the prospective $1.7 billion valuation for TMTG highlighted in the press release about the deal. Trump has pitched his startup as a "rival to the liberal media consortium" and an effort to fight...

FBI confirms human remains found identified as Brian Laundrie Right, they just happened to find his body on the first day the reserve opened, and around the area they thought he would be. Oh and it was conveniently underwater before then, and by the time they got to him he was just bones. Also his stuff was still near him after being underwater. This story isn't over yet.

State legislative special elections provide an interesting index of partisan sentiment these days. That wasn't so in the late 20th century, when clever local candidates and notables often got voters to cross party lines. But in this century of increasing partisan polarization and straight-ticket voting, local special elections are a proxy for opinion on national issues. In that light, consider the results of the two special legislative elections that have resulted in a change of parties so far this year. The first was in Connecticut's 36th state Senate district on Aug. 17. This is the richest state Senate district in...

Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer and injured a director during a tragic accident when a prop gun discharged on the New Mexico movie set of the film “Rust,” authorities said. The filming location at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Sante Fe was sent into lockdown and production was halted following the accidental double shooting at around 2 p.m. “There was an accident today on the New Mexico set of ‘Rust’ involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks,” a production spokesperson told Deadline. The Western drama’s director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, 42, and its director, Joel Souza, 48, were...

Perhaps I’m slow on the uptake. But somehow I’m just catching on that the latest tactic of the Left in the culture wars is to indoctrinate all the kids from K-20 in the latest insane piece of orthodoxy before letting the outside world, most particularly the parents, know what is going on. So, to use the example of the new racism going by the name “anti-racism” or Critical Race Theory, by the time you find Ibram Kendi’s “How To Be an Antiracist” on the shelf at your local bookstore, your kid has already without your knowledge undergone multiple years of...

More destructive than any specific policy item modern Democrats are pushing this year are the ideas they use to justify their agenda. The $3.5 trillion bill that resident Joe Biden and Democrats are now attempting to cram through Congress via reconciliation is meant to create a European-style cradle-to-grave welfare state here in the United States. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the bill's Senate author, has, for years, praised systems across the Atlantic. As have many other Democrats. There are numerous specific arguments against the agenda that further expands an already onerous bureaucratic state, but it is the idea that traditional American life...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemIsaiah 37Hezekiah’s Prayer 14 Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: 16 “Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 17 Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God. 18 “It is true,...

While modern leftist academics routinely mock at the looming Judeo-Christian apocalypse prophesied in both the Old and New Testaments (Joel 2; Isaiah 24; Matthew 24-25; 2 Thessalonians 1-2; Revelation 6-19) as something only a deranged literalist could entertain in his own fundamentalist mindset, they remain completely unaware that their most important leftist forefather, Karl Marx, was a false prophet of secular fundamentalism and profane eschatology. Karl Marx's false prophecies, written in the 19th century and based on an extreme ‘literal’ socio-economic reading of life which was inappropriately hotwired with the so-called ‘scientific’ laws of ‘progressive’ societal evolution, proved to be...

If this disregard for our very humanity goes unchallenged, we could be in for some dark times indeed. In this age of green craze, the most likely response to legitimate concerns about the lack of access to energy for the world's poor is advocacy for so-called renewable technologies such as wind turbines and solar panels. As embarrassing as that suggestion should be to the advocate of such unreliable and impractical energy sources, there are sometimes even more cringeworthy replies that verge on the inhumane. A recent tweet of mine prompted one such response. The tweet was directed to attendees of...

Before the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels this week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took a side trip to Georgia and Ukraine. Purpose: Assure these nations that America has their back and encourage their hopes of future admission to NATO. Austin, said the Pentagon, would tell both nations there is an "open door to NATO." "Ukraine ... has a right to decide its own future foreign policy," said Austin in Kiev, "and we expect that they will be able to do that without any outside interference." He went on: "No third country has a veto over NATO's membership decisions. Ukraine ......

Whenever the word "nations" is mentioned in the Bible, one should understand where God is coming from when He speaks of them. The Nations of the Earth were: - Conceived in a concerted, godless rebellion (Gen 11:1-9, Rev. 17:5, Acts 17:26). - Born (brought forth) in divine judgment (Gen 10, 11:1-9, Rev 17:5, Acts 17:26). - Reared (raised) in godless unbelief and ignorance (Acts 17:26 -30, Rom 1:18-32, Eph. 2:1-3,11,4:17). - Lived out in carelessness, depravity and violence (Matt 6:6, Acts 14:14-16, Rom 1:24-32, Eph. 2:11,4:17, 1 Thess. 4:5, 1 Peter 4:3, Rev 6:4-8, 13:1-10, 18:23-24). - Terminated in vanity,...

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said Thursday she does not think former President Donald Trump will be the GOP 2024 presidential nominee. If he were to get the nomination, she did not say whether she would support him. “I don’t think that’s going to happen,” Capito responded when asked during a virtual press conference if Trump would be the 2024 nominee, adding that 2024 is a long way off and “I can’t even say who I am going to vote for in 2022.” “I think there’s a lot of good candidates out there,” she said of the field of possible...

To the extent things they try to force on us make no sense, that’s the point. They’re playing a long game here. Why does the left like and protect Muslims? For a feminist, anti-religion, gay- and transgender-friendly cadre like the ruling leftist elite, the love affair with Islam is a mystery. And of course, why is it forcing us to pretend that Islam is a “religion of peace”? Many individual Muslims are indeed peaceful but their faith, inherently, is not. Similarly, why does the Left so vehemently push vaccination when it’s been less than a year since Kamala and Brandon...

Why have Washington and Oregon reduced penalties for non-medical possession of Schedule I-IV drugs while ramping up restrictions on opiate prescriptions for law-abiding pain patients? America's drug regulations rest on long-familiar, syllogism-like tendrils. Drugs are dangerous. Users can harm others. Laws target those who hurt people. Even if the drug war can't be won, punishing users who get caught creates deterrence. Ending prohibition is tantamount to full approval of nonstop drug-fueled debauchery. Nobody who abstains from entertainment or performance enhancement involving illicit chemicals should be concerned about drug policy. Prohibition only targets antisocial troublemakers who deserve what they get. If...

In the past two weeks, COVID-19 has struck three well-known people. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had been fully vaccinated, died on Monday due to complications from the virus. Meanwhile, two men who had refused vaccination—conservative radio talk show host Dennis Prager and Texas gubernatorial candidate Allen West—caught the virus but survived. On Fox News, these stories are being exploited to cast doubt on COVID vaccines and to suggest that people should rely instead on “natural immunity” or therapeutic drugs. But in fact, the three stories illustrate how vaccine refusers endanger everyone else. People like Prager and West...

There is much about the Biden administration that brings to mind both the excesses of and the surreal agenda to turn America into a Marxist/communist nation. There is much about the Biden administration that brings to mind both the excesses of and the surreal agenda to turn America into a Marxist/communist nation. Earlier this week, David Ennocenti wrote here about how Fauci is reminiscent of the main character in an episode of The Twilight Zone On Thursday We Leave For Home. There is another episode that is apt: To Serve Man from 1962. It was based on a short story...