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VIDEO: Palestinian Law Professor: Why does the world cry for the “so-called” Holocaust and not for the real holocaust of Palestinians? MEMRI - Middle East Research Institute 17:30 an hour ago Dr. Jihad Al-Harazin, a Fatah official who is also a professor of law and political science at Al-Quds University, was interviewed on Palestine TV on December 8, 2021. Dr. Al-Harazin asked why the world cries for the “so-called” Nazi holocaust of the Jews, but not for Palestinian children who were killed in a “real” holocaust that is being carried out by Israel. The interviewer also said that Israel receives...

Today marks the 230th Anniversary of the passing of the Bill of Rights, Dec 15, 1791. The founding fathers originally intended the Bill of Rights to be an additional shield against federal tyranny, reinforcing the clear limits that the Constitution already had put in place. Like Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, who proclaims to the ancient demon, "You Shall Not Pass," the Bill of Rights was to be an instrument that States and individuals would use to proclaim the same message to the national government. Continued in comment:

When most voters go to the ballot box, the candidates running for district attorney are typically the least of their concerns. Many people vote for D.A.s by party affiliation without looking deeper. This is a huge mistake that is costing voters and/or family members life and limb. The current lawlessness in many major and even small cities across America has become epidemic. One need look no further than the sitting district attorneys in these recusant cities and states to find out why. Former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese from the Reagan Administration has warned us in The LELDF report, Prosecutorial...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said Wednesday that Americans are tired of overbearing coronavirus restrictions. The governor told Politico the harsh coronavirus mandates and restrictions are frustrating Americans. Asked about the reasons for his election scare in November, where he won by only three percentage points in the dark blue state of New Jersey, he said, “A lot of folks who are frustrated, is my guess… They’re sick of masks, being told what to do in terms of vaccines, probably not thrilled with what they sense is going on in Washington, they may have lost a job or a...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City lawmakers are poised to decide Wednesday whether to prohibit most new buildings from using natural gas, a move that would make the nation’s most populous city a showcase for a climate-change-fighting policy that has been both embraced and blocked around the country. The measure is expected to pass the City Council and subsequently receive Mayor Bill de Blasio’s signature. If all that happens, most construction projects submitted for approval after 2027 would have to use something other than gas or oil — such as electricity — for heating, hot water and cooking. Some...

There was an interesting op-ed in The Wall Street Journal entitled “The Fed Is the Main Inflation Culprit”. I agree with the op-ed, but as Paul Harvey liked to say, “And now for the rest of the story.” The Federal Reserve is only half of The Federal government “Stimulypto.” Starting in late 2008, The Fed crashed their target rate to 25 basis points and began their quantitative easing (QE) program where The Fed purchased Treasuries and Agency Mortgage-backed Securities (MBS) amongst other assets. Notice in the chart below that QE was adjusted, but never went away and The Fed’s target...

An aspiring model who recently moved from her native Thailand to pursue her dreams in the Big Apple said she is 'lucky to be alive' after a brutal beating in the subway by a deranged mugger last month.

What does it say about a Democrat president when, less than a year into his term, a liberal commentator is already searching around for his possible replacements in the next presidential election? Such was the case with CNN's political handicapper Chris Cillizza, who on Monday stirred the pot of speculation by reviewing those who could replace Joe Biden in 2024. Cillizza's Biden replacement list appeared in his laughable star search fantasy, "11 Democrats who could replace Joe Biden in 2024."

Since the original article is not in English, google translation is provided here ==== Virologist Chumakov considers omicron to be an artificial strain of coronavirus Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Chumakov: "omicron" is artificially created as a "super-attenuated" strain According to Chumakov's version, the strain was purposefully created "super-weakened". However, other virologists disagree with him, pointing out that all mutations can be explained without a theory of artificial origin. Virologist Pyotr Chumakov did not rule out the possibility that the omicron strain was artificially created. He told about his version in an interview with Radio Russia. Petr...

In my childhood, it was not unusual to hear someone ask, “Who are your people?” It was a semi-polite, Southernism designed to elicit essential information about a person’s social background. The assumption was that you, at best, could only be an example of your “people.” It ignored the common individualism of the wider culture, preferring the more family or clan-centered existence of an older time. It was possible to be “good people” who had fallen on hard times, just as it was possible to be “bad people” who were flourishing. Good people were always to be preferred. I am aware...

Neither California nor California-based judges miss an opportunity to display their anti-Second Amendment bias, most recently in a pair of federal court rulings upholding the state’s bans on so-called “assault weapons” and on firearms magazines able to hold more than 10 rounds. The state’s anti-firearms laws, and their support from the still-liberal Ninth Circuit panel of judges, highlight a problem that continues to bedevil Second Amendment supporters – that is, defending the Bill of Rights’ guarantee of the “right to keep and bear arms” in terms of need rather than principle. In a report I authored for the Heritage Foundation...

[Catholic Caucus] Traditionis InimicosCan we not see here the utter breakdown of the hyper-papalism that makes the pope a mortal god, a divine oracle, who gets to rewrite liturgy, theology, morals, and even the record of history in pursuit of ideology? Only twice before have I contrived an editorial title in my dilettantish Latin, both of which concerned the liturgy. The first was the October 2010 sub-title: "Weapon of Mass Destruction: Missa bugniniensis delenda est"(Buginini’s Mass must be destroyed). Those were the days when the Novus Ordo had a monopoly on the WMD moniker — before the Papacy of Mass...

Oops, he did it again. After leaking fake Donald Trump, Jr. emails, fabricating the transcript of a 2019 phone call between former President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s president, and lying about his interactions with the so-called whistleblower behind House Democrats’ first impeachment of Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is now running the same con against a fellow lawmaker. During a hearing Monday night on the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Adam Schiff claimed to have proof that a member of Congress texted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to instruct former Vice President Mike...

Recent battles over racially divisive curricula prompted Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe to remark, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” But those battles, and the peculiar response that parents are best kept away from the process of educating their children, are signs of a much larger crisis. The gap in perspective between professional educators and the communities they serve about what public education is for has grown unsustainably large. The gap is most evident, and costly, on the question of what outcome a good education should lead toward. For the current generation of reformers,...

White former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a federal court in Minnesota to charges he violated George Floyd's civil rights during the Black man's murder, reversing his not-guilty plea in September. Chauvin, 45, entered his guilty plea in the U.S. District Court. Prosecutors asked the judge to sentence Chauvin to 25 years in prison, which would run concurrent to his state sentence, adding on about 2 years, The New York Times reported. Chauvin has already been sentenced to 22-1/2 years in prison in state court for the 2020 murder of Floyd, on whose neck the...

A Trump-appointed federal judge threw out a lawsuit from the 45th president late Tuesday that sought to prevent House lawmakers from obtaining his tax returns. US District Judge Trevor McFadden ruled that the House Ways and Means Committee has broad authority to obtain and potentially publish the former president’s tax returns — and described Trump’s claims as “wrong on the law.” “A long line of Supreme Court cases requires great deference to facially valid congressional inquires,” McFadden wrote in his ruling, according to the Associated Press. “Even the special solicitude accorded former presidents does not alter the outcome.” McFadden stayed...

Comfortable Tyranny To combat the rise of comfortable tyranny, we have to strengthen our own virtue of self-government and be ready to exercise it in the face of a regime that seeks to destroy it.“What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? Did we not tell you this in Egypt, when we said, ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians?’ Far better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” —Exodus 14:11-12All forms of slavery are dehumanizing, but not all forms of slavery are involuntary. The Israelites lost their identity as...

Live pic from inside the FOMC meeting. Decision expected at 2:00PM EST. Stay tuned pic.twitter.com/YSU9XCR6ec— Not Jerome Powell (@alifarhat79) December 15, 2021

One of the most ubiquitous tropes in politics is members of Congress finding ways to blame society’s ills on something new that they don’t understand. Rock music, violence in video games, and profanity on television all had their turn as the societal scapegoat in recent decades. The most recent flavor of moral panic is social media — in particular, lawmakers have begun to cast their suspicious gaze upon the mysterious algorithm as a potential public nuisance in need of their regulation. The story goes that the algorithms being used to rank what content is displayed on users’ social media feeds...

Administrators at a Chicago Public Schools high school have shot down an attempt by a right-wing group to form a chapter on the Northwest Side campus of “an organization promoting racial intolerance.” Meanwhile, Chicago police said they are investigating a social media post by a longtime CPD sergeant that praised supposed efforts by students to start the group, Turning Point USA. Taft High School Principal Mark Grishaber said in a letter to the school community earlier this month that he was “disturbed” by efforts to launch a Turning Point chapter at Taft. The right-wing organization has a presence at more...