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America used to be known as the land of the free and home of the brave. Biden's minions are doing everything they can to turn America into the land of the victims and the home of the helpless! Our American history speaks volumes about the strength of American character and to a people who consistently rose to the challenge of their generation. Whether it was securing freedom from England at the cost of land, livelihood, and lives or going West through hardship and challenges to achieve our manifest destiny, Americans proved their mettle over and over again. On the world...

Former President Obama says while change can't come soon enough for some Americans, for others it might be coming "too rapidly" to feel comfortable. "You end up having, on the one hand, change happening very rapidly, too rapidly for a big portion of the population," Obama said during a "CBS Mornings" interview alongside Bruce Springsteen on Monday. "For another portion of the population, it's like, 'You know, how long are we gonna keep having to defer this dream?'" he said. The ex-commander in chief and the "Born to Run" singer appeared for their first joint sit-down to promote their new...

A so-called “atmospheric river” has drenched drought-stricken Northern California with several inches of rain and several feet of snow. Reports of rockslides, mudslides, and toppled trees were in abundance on Monday as National Weather Service forecasters continued to issue flood warnings and advisories for the central and northern parts of the state. Flooding was reported across the San Francisco Bay Area and overflowed rivers across Napa and Sonoma counties. The National Weather Service said that about 4 inches of rain fell in San Francisco. The California Highway Patrol, meanwhile, shut down part of State Route 70 in Butte and Plumas...

The story of the mystery man, Ray Epps, featured in Rep. Massie’s video above is in fact far more shocking than even the good Congressman implies in the hearing. It’s a story so strange, and so scandalous at every turn, that it threatens to shatter the entire official narrative of the “Capitol Breach” and expose yet another dimension of proactive federal involvement in the so-called “insurrection” of January

Dear friends, we today as fallen humanity are totally living in an EXPONENTIAL Isaiah 5:20 world! Today, unregenerate Americans (conservatives, liberals, moderates, progressives, Marxists, and communists) in their godless utopian optimistic delusions, go around continually saying, "Peace and Safety!", "Peace and Safety"! As blind clueless fools and sheep to the slaughter, they are led about by lawless unbelief and the god of this fallen world to outwork his lawless will unto their ETERNAL ruin (2 Cor. 4:2-4; Eph. 2:1-2, 1 John 5:19)! My dear friends, the Day of the Lord is at the very door and the ETERNAL King of...

“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law” (Romans 3:28). Being dead in sin, man is unable to save himself. As we’ve seen this month, the most serious problem facing the human race is not the destruction of the environment, crime, or the threat of nuclear war; it is sin. The former threaten us with physical death, the latter with spiritual death. Thus it follows that the greatest news ever known is that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Tim. 1:15). Hell may be the destiny of man,...

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has become a major ally for Ron DeSantis in the fight against vaccine mandates in the Sunshine State She spoke at a rally with DeSantis saying mandates of the vaccine “will not be tolerated.” “Think about it,” Moody said. “We are in the United States of America, the free states of America, and we have folks having to upload documentation into databases because of the mandates of this federal government. It will not be tolerated in Florida or accepted.” The comments come after she pledged to stand up for first responders who face losing their...

Jan Markell talks to author David Fiorazo for the hour. The ruling elites are establishing the Antichrist culture. Medical tyranny is leading to overall tyranny. Government is emboldened and is acting as god. The righteous are silenced, suppressed and shadowbanned. We carry Fiorazo’s book, “Canceling Christianity”

Russia is hosting international talks with the Taliban, and will include representatives of ten nations. Among them: Pakistan, China, India and Iran. America is absent “due to logistical reasons.” The meeting’s aim is ostensibly to promote the establishment of “an inclusive government” and to prevent a “humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.” The problem is that everything about the Taliban is the opposite of “inclusive” and “humanitarian”; the group’s capability or interest in fostering such is no better than that of Iran, which the Taliban has mimicked in establishing its brutal Sharia governance, even installing a Supreme Leader of Afghanistan: Hibatullah...

Pope Francis had high praise for German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday, predicting that she will “go down in history as one of the great leaders.” The pope said the Merkel administration constitutes “an interesting milestone in world politics and a call to women who feel a political vocation.” Asked about Merkel, who will soon step down as chancellor of Germany after 16 years, the pontiff praised her for her realistic approach to government, asserting she “is not a fanciful woman” because her ideals “become reality.” At the beginning of October, the pope and Merkel held their final meeting for 45...

The term "intersectionality" has gained prominence - initially on the nation’s campuses and now well beyond academia - as signifying the supposed shared, "intersecting," predicaments of racial and ethnic groups, particularly “people of color” (and to a lesser degree women and sexual minorities), victimized by white male racism and its history of imperialism, colonialism, exploitation and slavery. Promoters of the intersectionality concept have sought to use it to forge a common political agenda among at least some of the groups deemed as falling within the intersectionality rubric, to mount a shared fight against these groups’ perceived oppressors. But perhaps...

DRESS REHEARSAL Over the past few months, all three companies have been running dress rehearsals by practising on known SARS-CoV-2 variants. This involves updating their vaccines to match variants such as Beta and Delta, testing them in clinical studies, tuning their internal workflows and coordinating with regulators. Their goal is to learn from these warm-up trials and smooth out kinks in their processes, so that they can move fast if, or when, a true escape variant emerges. “At some point, inevitably, we’re going to have to make variant vaccines — if vaccines are the way population immunity will be maintained...

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. After a long cross-country flight, I made it out of LAX and into an Uber. I wasn’t in the mood to talk, but the driver was. And hearing that I was a journalist, he wanted to tell me a story. I’ve heard a lot of stories over the years, but this may have been the most important one I let go. He hadn’t always been driving an Uber at 11:30 at night. Not all that long...

We hear a great deal about “privilege” in America these days, but the truth is that those who are supposed to have it do not, and those who claim to be marginalized are actually the elites. Anyone who doubts this should study the case of Mohamed Noor, the Somali Muslim migrant cop in Minneapolis who shot an unarmed woman, Justine Damond, to death. His murder conviction was recently overturned, and now he has been sentenced to less than five years in prison for manslaughter. Despite the appalling leniency of this, some people are enraged that he got that long...

“Many Halloween costumes perpetuate gender stereotypes and exclude those who don’t conform to traditional gender norms, especially those who are transgender, non-binary or gender non-conforming."

Maybe I don’t understand how the supposed plan is supposed to work. There is no tax credit for unrealized capital losses, right? So you won’t want to hold volatile asset classes any more, right? Imagine the value going up, you pay some tax, and then the value falls and you move into loss territory. You still paid the tax! You get nothing back. By exactly how much do the prices of these assets have to fall, ex ante, so that holding them is a good idea in the first place? Or maybe the wealthy investors subject to this tax are...

The Dongguan Great Mosque in Xining, China, photographed in 2018. Its main green dome and minaret domes have since been removed. XINING, China — The Dongguan Mosque has adopted some very different looks in its nearly 700 years in China's northwestern city of Xining. Built in the style of a Chinese imperial palace, with tiled roofs and no domes, and adorned with Buddhist symbols, the mosque was nearly destroyed by neglect during political tumult in the early 20th century. In the 1990s, authorities replaced the original ceramic tiles on the roof and minarets with green domes. "The government says they...

Senior Democrats confirmed that a proposal to tax billionaires’ unrealized capital gains will likely be included in President Biden’s $2 trillion spending package.Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explained on CNN Sunday that the proposal, raised by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, would impose an annual tax on unrealized capital gains on liquid assets.“I wouldn’t call that a wealth tax, but it would help get at capital gains, which are an extraordinarily large part of the incomes of the wealthiest individuals and right now escape taxation until they’re realized,” Yellen said.The tax is expected to affect people with $1 billion in assets or...

President Joe Biden hosted breakfast for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Sunday but emerged with no deal to help pay for his nearly two trillion entitlement spending plan. The president hosted Manchin and Schumer at his home in Delaware, as he continues leaving Washington, DC, on weekends. His agenda remains stalled in Congress as the Democrat moderates and progressives struggle with the price tag of his agenda and how to pay for it.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast. After publicly promising to crack down, Facebook acknowledged in internal documents obtained by The Associated Press that it was “under-enforcing on confirmed abusive activity” that saw Filipina maids complaining on the social media site of being abused. Apple relented and Facebook and Instagram remained in the app store. But Facebook’s crackdown seems to have had a limited effect. Even today, a quick...