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The U.S. gunboat Bienville, Commander CHAS. STEEDMAN, and A.E.R. BENHAM, Executive Officer, arrived at this port at 6 1/2 o'clock last evening, from the Great Naval Expedition, via Fortress Monroe, where she left dispatches for Commodore GOLDSBOROUGH, and whence Capt. STEEDMAN proceeded to Washington with dispatches for the Army and Navy Departments. These dispatches, from Capt. DUPONT, who commanded the naval portion of the Expedition and from Gen. SHERMAN, who commanded the military branch, will be found below, together with a detailed narrative of the operations of the Expedition since it left Hampton Roads. The fleet arrived at Port Royal...

How is it that more than 190 governments from all over the world ended up dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in almost exactly the same manner, with lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccination cards now being commonplace everywhere? The answer may lie in the Young Global Leaders school, which was established and managed by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, and that many of today’s prominent political and business leaders passed through on their way to the top. The German economist, journalist, and author Ernst Wolff has revealed some facts about Schwab’s “Young Global Leaders” school that are relevant for...

The New York Times' ill-starred 1619 Project, those writings that sought to rewrite American history without some of its key facts and portray the nation as being started with the goal of protecting slavery, is going to be a … book! John Daniel Davidson at The Federalist, where he is the political editor, confirmed the forthcoming book version of the "error-riddled 1619 Project," and that it would double down on "junk history." That project, he said, is based on the "outrageous central claim" that it is "slavery and racism" are the true foundations for the American project. It claims that...

The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country's presidential election next month, Libya's election agency said. Seif al-Islam, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity related to the 2011 uprising, submitted his candidacy papers in the southern town of Sabha, 650 kilometers (400 miles) south of the capital of Tripoli, the High National Elections Commission said in a statement.

Pinkerton: Joe Biden and John Kerry’s Green Great Reset Punishes America, Rewards China Western Guilt and the Great Reset Here’s the bottom line on the just-ended COP 26, the international climate change conference that’s been meeting for the last two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland. The Biden administration, speaking for the United States, has committed itself to substantial cuts in carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades; as President Biden himself said in Glasgow on November 1, the U.S. will commit to 50-52 percent reductions in CO2 from 2005 levels by the year 2030. Biden further pledged a “net-zero emissions economy”...

Over the last year, a growing number of progressives and liberals have pointed to police killings of unarmed black men, rising carbon emissions and extreme weather events, and the killing of trans people as proof that the United States has failed to take action on racism, climate change, and transphobia. Others have pointed to the war on drugs, the criminalization of homelessness, and mass incarceration as evidence that little has changed in the U.S. over the last 30 years. And yet, on each of those issues, the U.S. has made significant progress. Police killings of African Americans in our 58...

Don’t be surprised to witness more verbal fireworks between former President Donald Trump and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with the publication this week of Christie’s new book, "Republican Rescue." The book’s subtitle, "Saving the party from truth deniers, conspiracy theorists, and the dangerous polices of Joe Biden," is a direct shot at the former president, who on a daily basis continues to re-litigate his 2020 election loss to now-President Biden as he repeatedly flirts with another White House run in 2024. And it appears to be a major effort by Christie to spell out his vision for the...

Something non-political (and uplifting) for a Sunday.

WASHINGTON -- Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary who holds the purse strings to much of President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure package, was holding forth with reporters on its impact — the promise of more electric cars, intercity train routes, bigger airports — when a pointed question came. How would he go about building racial equity into infrastructure? The 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate laid out his argument that highway design can reflect racism, noting that at least $1 billion in the bill will help reconnect cities and neighborhoods that had been racially...

On November 14 and 15, 1726, more than 20 Gypsy outlaws of Hesse-Darmstadt were executed en masse. Gypsies in Europe still suffer ample discrimination today, so it’s little surprise to find early modern Europe thick with anti-Gypsy legislation. No surprise, Angus Fraser writes in The Gypsies, this sort of thing: did in the end produce enormous changes in the life of the Gypsies in Europe. To survive, they had to adapt; they also had to make the most of the loopholes in a system which expressly sought, by denying them food and shelter, to make honest living impossible. Some found...

The daughter of a Lakewood 81-year-old who police say was murdered said his accused killers were the man’s adopted daughter and her boyfriend. killers were the man’s adopted daughter and her boyfriend. Gail Wilson’s daughter talked with FOX31 and Channel 2 on Friday. “Daddy did not deserve this. To see he was thrown away like trash was gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. This whole thing has been utterly shocking,” Katelyn Anton said.

The only reason they never get called out, is because they run the "calling out" business. - Greg GutfeldMy second favorite Tweet of the week:Look at little lefty Andrew Sullivan will you, conceding albeit begrudgingly that the MSM is Fake News.My favorite Tweet of the week:Mollie, pointing out why the Digital Lynch Mob Inc must be destroyed. Smash the Media Machine, Save the WorldI don’t know about you but I find myself growing nostalgic for the days when the news report was more accurate than the weather report. “…and now today’s weather, sunny all day!”Now it’s the other way around...

Two seemingly parallel and completely unrelated things happened this week with an astonishing response. Running a non-profit, I look at the end of the year as an opportunity to tie up loose ends and be sure that in the last weeks of the year, the level of financial support is at least maintained. While planning some traditional year-end appeals on behalf of the Genesis 123 Foundation, I realized that Israel was in a bit of a crisis, with my organization and many others facing a financial deficit. In parallel, I received requests from people who read my articles to write...

What will the Middle East region look like when, one day, Iran loses its steep foothold in Syria? Israel’s strategy over the last several years has been to prevent Iranian entrenchment in Syria. This has come to be known as the “campaign between the wars” or “war between the wars.” The concept is that Iran’s tentacles in Syria, which have grown rapidly in the last decade, can be cut off one by one and Tehran may eventually stop regrowing them. But there are questions about what the overall effect of this will be when the next conflict emerges. While Israel...

In a fascinating development, a group of Republicans in the South Dakota House banded together with Democrats on Wednesday to pass a new legislative redistricting plan over the objections of a sizable bloc of conservative GOP dissenters. All seven Democrats present (one was excused) voted in favor of the map, along with 30 Republicans, while 31 Republicans were opposed, meaning Democrats provided the winning majority. The plan, which originated in the Senate, easily passed the upper chamber 30-2, with all three Democrats likewise in favor. The Republican objectors complained that the map would double-bunk some of their members and undermine...

The Talk Shows November 14th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass. urgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy; Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R); Lt. Governor-elect Winsome Sears (R-Va.). Panel of Wallass idiots: Doug Heye, Republican critic of Donald Trump; Julie Pace, Associated Press; Mohammad Elleithee, of Georgetown Institute of Politics & Public Service, Fox News. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Gov. Chris Sununu (R-N.H.); Brian Deese, National Economic Council; Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank). Panel: Leigh Ann Caldwell; Matthew Continetti, American Enterprise Institute; former (Loser)...

The Ukrainian soldier warns me to speak no louder than a whisper. The enemy lines are less than 50 meters away, he tells me, and my voice — if too loud — can easily carry across no man’s land and invite gunfire from the other side. “We see each other, and we shoot at each other every day,” says the soldier, whose name is Mykhailo. “Everyone is afraid … we are afraid, and the Russians are afraid of us.” We’re standing at one end of a ruined factory on the outskirts of the city of Avdiivka in Ukraine’s eastern war...

Americans have endured a lot over the last two years. During the global pandemic and lockdowns, we lost our ability to gather in person to learn and work, to celebrate with family, and to worship in community. As we struggled with social distancing, many turned to faith in God. In a study including 95 countries, Google searches for prayer went up by 50%. Faith communities seized opportunities to care for their neighbors’ bodies, minds, and souls through food banks, emergency clinics, and by counseling the grieving. The witness they bore in their communities showed that the intrinsic good of religion...

There is both good news and bad news from my interview with former President Donald Trump last week. It was the second time in the past few months that Trump sat down with me for a detailed one-on-one interview. The first time around, I asked Trump if he would consider becoming speaker of the House, if and when the GOP reclaims the House in 2022. From there, I reasoned, he could open multiple criminal investigations of the corrupt and failed Biden presidency and lead the impeachment of President Joe Biden. This time around I asked Trump point-blank if he's going...

It's shocking that these have not been developed yet. Here are a baker's dozen ideas for smartphone apps the busy communist can't do without. It's amazing they aren't available for download already. PCmojis — Automatically adjusts skin tone of texted emojis to your ethnicity, as measured through built-in phone camera. Never be accused of racism again! Upgrade to override with the race you identify as. Find My Fellow Travelers — Accesses online database to locate like-"thinking" people wherever you are so you can flock together for protests or weekend looting sprees. Fake Voters R Us — Remotely registers you to...