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Neocon and rabid anti-Trumper Bill Kristol has been getting torched on social media for comparing President Joe Biden’s dangerous call for a regime change in Russia to former President Ronald Reagan’s iconic “tear down this wall” speech. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said of Russian leader Vladimir Putin during his speech in Poland.

Grand jury heard witness in February about past drug use, spending habits of president’s son A federal tax investigation into Hunter Biden is gaining momentum as prosecutors gather information from several of his associates about the sources of his foreign income, including from Ukraine, and examine President Biden’s son’s relationship with a company that handled some of his finances, according to people familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware have sought information and grand-jury testimony about the money Mr. Biden received several years ago from Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings Ltd., and...

Inflation under President Biden (aka, Bidenflation) has hit 7.9%, the highest in 40 years. And no Joe, the inflation surge was well underway before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. As The Federal Reserve is allegedly going to try to fight inflation by raising their target rate, the 30-year mortgage rate has risen from 2.88% on Biden’s inauguration to 4.56% today. The surge in mortgage rates from 2.88% to 4.56% represents a 58.3% increase in mortgage rates under Biden. That translates to an increase in the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) payment of 23%. Apparently Biden-Powell (not to be confused...

The Kremlin responded to the original remark, saying that the American president is not the arbiter of who should take power in Russia. President Joe Biden returned from Europe to Washington, D.C. early Sunday to find that his blunt and unscripted remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin had created a controversy that seems poised to carry into the week ahead. Biden sparked criticism, and sent his aides into spin control mode on Saturday, when he declared during a speech in Warsaw: "for God's sake, this man cannot remain in power." While U.S. officials quickly acted to walk back the remark,...

Former President Donald Trump's Georgia rally on Saturday failed to draw the number of supporters he has been accustomed to in the southern state, according to multiple journalists covering the event. Trump held the event in support of several of Georgia's Republican primary candidates in Commerce, Georgia, which is about an hour drive northeast of Atlanta. While the former president has regularly seen tens of thousands attend his events in the state, as well as other states across the country, journalists assessed that the crowd size was underwhelming this weekend. "I've covered more than two dozen Trump rallies around the...

I understand Will Smith smacked Chris Rock live onstage at the Oscars last night because Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife’s (Jada Pinket-Smith) hair.I guess without President Donald Trump to curse at and kick around it was inevitable that they turn on each other. Maybe we should just cancel the Academy Awards until we elect someone they all hate again.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

Previewing President Biden’s trip to Europe last week, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that, “the president is traveling to Europe to make sure we stay united.” That sure didn’t go as planned. This may have been the most disastrous – and dangerous – Presidential overseas trip ever.The US and its NATO allies have repeatedly proclaimed that “protecting Ukraine’s democracy” has never been about threatening Russia. Holding out NATO membership and sending billions of dollars in military equipment to Ukraine, starting under Trump, was not threatening Russia. CIA training camps in eastern Ukraine, where paramilitaries were trained on US...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE W I N D O W S of the T O R A H The stained glass from this series' first 68 episodes 1 EDWARD BURNE-JONES "Angel Informing Moses of the Creation of the World"Painting Design for the Window Immediately Below 2 The Window Itself 3 "La Création d'Adam" 4 JOHN THORNTON "Creation of Man" 5 JOHN HARDMAN POWELL "Adam Naming the Animals" 6 "Création d'Adam et d'Eve" 7 "Création d’Adam et Création d’Ève" 8 "Adam et Eve" 9 "Fall of Man" 10 "Adam and Eve" 11...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — Local law enforcement officials say they will not tolerate tourists who bring crime to the Beach. In a press conference on Sunday afternoon, Chief J.R. Talamantez of the Panama City Beach Police Department, Chief Mark Smith of the Panama City Police Department and Bay County Sheriff Tommy Ford announced that one person had sustained non-life-threatening injuries in a shooting that day near the Waffle House on Front Beach Road. The victim, an unnamed 21-year-old from Alabama, was shot in the foot. "We're here today because people who have absolutely no respect for the law, or themselves...

Ex-editor of Al Arabiya English writes that America is failing the region and siding with Iran while dismantling the last 70 years of regional order. The Saudi-US relationship is in the throes of a crisis. As a Saudi who went to college in the US, loves America and wants to see it strong, I am increasingly disturbed by the unreality of the American discussion about the subject, which often fails to acknowledge just how deep and serious the rift has grown. A more realistic discussion should focus on one word: “Divorce.” When President Barack Obama negotiated the nuclear deal with...

At least three people were killed and 14 others were wounded, including a 15-year-old girl and two 17-year-old boys, in Chicago over the weekend. Two men were found dead in a home Friday in Gresham on the South Side. Officers responded about 6:30 p.m. to a home in the 8300 block of South Sangamon Street and found the bodies of two men, both 51, Chicago police said. One of the men had a gunshot wound to his head, police said. Both deaths were ruled homicides. A girl, 15, was in an alley in the 5900 block of West Patterson Avenue...

When I was about 10 years old I took some sailing lessons and then did so again when I was in my early 30s. Sailing involves a kind of romancing of the wind, wherein one observes it and then adapts to it, wooing it, learning its moves, its vicissitudes, its often subtle and changing signs.Oh, for the great times when the wind was with us! Catching the wind, the boat would speed along making a slick sound in the water. Oh, too, for those daring and thrilling times when the spinnaker was put out. The boat would almost strain as...

Hunter Biden infamous ‘laptop from Hell’ contains many U.S. Department of Defense ‘root encryption certificates’, or encryption keys to DoD databases. The keys have unusual long-term expiration dates, with many lasting twenty years or more. This information was discovered during a deep forensic investigation done over the last couple weeks, by Jack Maxey and his team in Switzerland. This situation raises multiple questions, such as… Why did Hunter Biden have a large number of Department of Defense encryption codes to allow access to national security data? Did Hunter Biden give anyone else access to this information? Who gave the codes...

@JordanSchachtel US govt should stop weapons deliveries to Ukraine ASAP. Taxpayer dollars are being used to commit atrocities against innocents. There are zero guardrails between the Ukrainian military and the neo fascists that are committing war crimes within its ranks. Hard stop needed, ASAP.

Vladimir Putin's stalling invasion of Ukraine is suffering new blows as the Russian death toll rises to 17,000 without seizing any new territories, Kyiv has said. The UK's Ministry of Defence said today there has been 'no significant change to Russian forces' dispositions in the country' over the last 24 hours, and Russia is still yet to capture any major city after a month of fighting. They said 'ongoing logistical shortages have been compounded by a continued lack of momentum and morale against the Russian military, and aggressive fighting by the Ukrainians'.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem1 John 4On Denying the Incarnation 4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world....

So-called fact-checkers should be eating crow following authentication of the emails from Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop by The New York Times. But a new analysis shows they’re being as brazen as ever by not updating old articles challenging the credibility of the story. Leftist fact-checkers like FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and Lead Stories published stories within the past two years that tried to take down the New York Post bombshell. The outlets did this by either referring to the story as coming from “questionable sources;” labeling the emails as “unverified” or outright doubting their authenticity. The Times reported that emails from a...

If you are even a semi-regular reader of this blog, you know about the energy storage problem that is inherent in the effort to eliminate dispatchable fossil fuels from the electricity generation system and replace them with wind and solar. As discussed here many times, other than with nuclear power, the storage problem is the critical issue that must be addressed if there is ever going to be “net zero” electricity generation, let alone a “net zero” economy based on all energy usage having been electrified. For a sample of my prior posts on this subject just in the last...

Actor Will Smith was filmed partying on Monday morning at the Vanity Fair Oscars event in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA after he slapped stand-up comedian Chris Rock during the live award show. In the video shared by Variety editors Marc Malkin and Ramin Setoodeh on Twitter, Smith, 53, with wife J ada Pinkett, 50, nearby, joyfully sang along as the DJ played his songs “Gettin Jiggy With It” and”Miami.”

Democrats don’t know how to define what a woman is. Turns out, neither do some GOP governors. The Democrats’ radical Supreme Court nominee has made it clear that she doesn’t know what a woman is. As recent developments regrettably have shown, neither do several Republican governors. Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent out his most popular tweet of the year—one that received a staggering 130,000 likes within 24 hours—in which he blasted the NCAA decision to let biological male William “Lia” Thomas compete in and win an NCAA championship in the 500-yard freestyle competition against, among others, Floridian runner-up...