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It's that time of the year, so I'm re-releasing my cover of "Carol of the Bells." Enjoy!

The Iranian Navy's bad luck is continuing when it comes to warship accidents.An Iranian naval vessel known as the Talayieh, which was still under construction, capsized in dry dock.This happened at the Bandar Abbas port in southern Iran.Videos posted on social media seem to show the naval vessel on its side and people could be seen hanging onto railings along the side of the ship tipped upwards.According to some reports, at least one person was killed in the incident.Iran's Talayieh warship has capsized in dry dock | December 7, 2021 | Defense Updates

The Pennsylvania Turnpike will install overhead tolling gantries on nine bridges that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is considering for tolls. The work will be part of the turnpike’s $125 million project to install open-road tolling to replace the former toll booths along its 450-mile system. The possibility of PennDOT adding tolls to bridges — including the Interstate 79 bridge near Bridgeville — to raise money for their replacement is still under consideration, but the agency is finalizing an agreement with the turnpike to collect tolls. The turnpike is an obvious choice to operate the collection system — something PennDOT...

First two Trump History shows went great. Ticket sales for all 4 shows about 30,000 with Houston and Dallas next weekend still selling. Gross receipts for first show: two million dollars. Newsweek and other far-left propaganda cesspools outright lying about the tour. Surprised?— Bill O'Reilly (@BillOReilly) December 13, 2021Going to confront the corrupt hate-Trump media directly. First salvo the @glennbeck radio show. https://t.co/p392SOEO1g— Bill O'Reilly (@BillOReilly) December 13, 2021

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GOP primary challenger Kelly Tshibaka said Monday that she would not support Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to lead Senate Republicans if she wins her election in 2022. Tshibaka, who is challenging Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski with the backing of former President Donald Trump, said in a statement that McConnell was responsible for repeatedly helping President Joe Biden. “Mitch McConnell has repeatedly bailed out Joe Biden, giving him gifts of Senate votes, which are the only things keeping the Biden administration on life support,” Tshibaka said, attaching a video to her recent appearance on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. “As an...

For anyone questioning former President Donald Trump’s lock on the Republican Party after his 2020 loss, look no further than the impact his endorsement packs. In new polling of several House Republican primary races, a Trump endorsement pushes 2022 candidates past 50%, even against long-established incumbents such as Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. “The Trump endorsement is a true dagger,” said Zachary Moyle of SoCo Strategies. “Trump is the king of kingmakers.” In last month’s elections, for example, Trump-endorsed candidates went four for four. And according to Brian Jack, the former White House political director, Trump’s 2020 record was 120-2, and...

Biden's sinking and the Left has no agenda to run on Way back in 2015, after reality-star, talk-show host Donald Trump announced he was running for president, Democrats were ecstatic. “Hey,” they said giddily to one another, “let’s make that wacky billionaire the face of the Republican Party!” That didn’t work out so well. In fact, it can be (and has been) argued that CNN and The New York Times had as much to do with electing Trump president as did Fox News and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Trump was ratings gold that even the far-Left networks and “news”...

Donald Trump's closest Hill allies are privately lobbying the former President to get involved in a Republican-on-Republican matchup in Illinois, a potentially messy scenario that has sparked internal strife in the party and prompted GOP leaders to launch a counter-campaign aimed at keeping Trump on the sidelines. At the center of it all is freshman Rep. Mary Miller, a member of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus who has been left without a seat after redistricting. Now she's deciding whether to challenge fellow Illinois Republican Reps. Rodney Davis or Mike Bost. Hoping to boost Miller's political prospects, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene...

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President Biden was set to speak with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) Monday afternoon as the Senate moderate continues to hold out against supporting President Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hopes to pass with only Democratic support in the coming weeks. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the scheduled call hours after CNN reported the two had talked last week, with Biden making clear that he needs Manchin’s vote to help the legislation over the finish line. According to the report, however, Manchin told the president that he is not ready...

The FDA is allegedly working with the USPS to hold packages containing Ivermectin at JFK, a port of entry for the drug from foreign sources. Aaron Siri posted a Nov. 10 letter using FDA Personal Importation policy to refuse delivery of the drug to a customer whose name is redacted on the letter.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block a New York regulation that requires health care workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine without any religious exemptions.The vaccine mandate for health care workers, which went into effect in August, allows only for medical exemptions but not religious ones. The Supreme Court turned away two applications from doctors and nurses in the state for injunctive relief to allow religious exemptions while litigation continues in the lower courts over the mandate's constitutionality.

Following the Dec. 6 CNN report exposing President Joe Biden for trying to influence media to spin economic coverage to his favor, many have followed his demands and twisted the news of rising inflation. Bloomberg News, CNN, New York Times economist Paul Krugman and others have done everything from praising inflation as a sign of a “really strong economy,” to dismissing its dangerous implications, to insulating Biden from responsibility. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that inflation spiked 6.8 percent in November on a year-over-year basis, which was the fastest rate in nearly 40 years.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing today on “Combating Gun Trafficking and Reducing Violence in Chicago.” As Senate Judiciary Chair, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin took the wheel … and tried to run over gun rights advocate and Heritage Foundation Legal Fellow Amy Swearer:

ransomnote: He speaks eloquently of freedom. He also has a distractingly pleasing voice to listen to, and speaks with command, particularly for one so young. For this reason, I recommend you watch the two minute video on Twitter, although the text is below, too. 1:34 PM · Dec 12, 2021·Twitter Web AppIn case the Tweet is deleted, the text of his statements are captured in the following gif.

Recently premiering on YouTube for World AIDS Day, 27000@25: When We Were Boys is an educational short film that tells the story of London’s 1996 Pride celebrations. At the event, 27,000 red balloons were released to represent the number of people living with HIV in England at the time. Now many are upset that the video was immediately age-restricted after its release, despite it not containing any content that violates YouTube’s community guidelines, according to PinkNews. HIV advocates argue that film is especially valuable to young people. When We Were Boys also stars It’s a Sin’s Nathaniel Hall (pictured above),...

An Idaho church has replaced a stained glass window of Robert E Lee, George Washington and Abe Lincoln with the country's first black Methodist bishop wearing an LGBTQ scarf. The late bishop Leontine Kelly, who passed away at age 92 in 2012, had lived in Richmond, Virginia with her family where monuments of former Confederate leaders, such as Lee, had lined Monument Avenue. The statue of Lee, a former Civil War general and slave owner, was later removed by the city on September 8. The call to remove the statue had been recommended by Governor Ralph Northam in June 2020...

Navy Cmdr. Lucian Kins was relieved from duty on Friday after he reportedly refused to get the COVID vaccine or take tests to prove he didn't have the virus Lt. Cmdr. Han Yi is temporarily serving as the USS Winston Churchill's executive officer until a permanent replacement is identified Kins, who was on track to become commander of the Churchill in the next year and a half, requested a religious exemption to the vaccine mandateHis religious waiver was denied and he is trying to appeal the decision To date, 2,705 sailors have submitted religious waivers but none were approvedIt remains...

The Washington Post reported that the unusual raids took place last June, in which seven soldiers were killed - including a colonel. Israel feared the Assad regime is trying to reproduce deadly nerve gases, years after it was forced to give up most of its chemical weapons stockpiles under US pressure. "This is a strategic weapon for the regime." Israel attacked chemical weapons production facilities in Syria last June, in unusual raids deep in the country, the Washington Post reported today (Monday). Fighter jets reportedly fired missiles at three military targets near Damascus and Homs, killing seven soldiers, including an...