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Be thankful Merrick Garland is not on the Supreme Court. He is an absolute disaster as Attorney General. Oh sure, he's great at tarring moms and dads as domestic terrorists because they want to know what sort of trash is being stuffed into their kids' heads. He sucks at everything else. HIs DOJ won't prosecute someone who tried to set fire to a police car during the Floyd riots but he's happy to toss a disabled vet who was present for the Jan 6 protests but never entered the Capitol into solitary for 49 days. He's "watching" the Jan 6...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (TND) — In what must have been a terrible surprise, a north Florida man reportedly says a monstrous alligator exploded out of the water and devoured his beloved pet while they were playing fetch. Josh Wells tells the Tallahassee Democrat he was with his 40-pound black Labrador Retriever mix, named "Toby," on a nature trail in early June when the attack happened. Toby was reportedly standing in shallow water near the trail when he was grabbed, head first, by the gator. Wells says he and Toby were playing fetch with a tennis ball at the time. Boom, the...

t is widely seen that the U.S. House Select Committee about January 6 is falling flat. See, e.g., Breitbart's article, "January 6 Committee's Third Hearing So Boring NBC Cut to Golf Instead." (For golf to be more interesting, it's bad.) What's more amazing is that no clue has penetrated the fog of Democrats, establishment Republicans, the news media, or far-left activists about why. Our political class is so out of touch that it could not see this collective yawn coming. And no, this is not about interviewing that one magic witness. It is the fundamental concept of their entire effort...

Democrat John Fetterman managed to take nearly 60% of his party’s votes in the May primary. Fetterman has a few ways he can secure the seat, which could decide party control in Congress. Play down his stroke. Fetterman suffered a stroke days before the primary and has been off the campaign trail recovering from pacemaker surgery. News of Fetterman’s condition caused by atrial fibrillation didn’t appear to hurt as he took nearly 60% of the votes in the primary. Fetterman doesn’t look like a politician, often wearing shorts and shirts revealing his arm tattoos as he towers over most people...

Nine people were shot, one of them fatally, when gunfire erupted in Harlem overnight. Seven men and two women, ranging in age from 21 to 42, were struck in the area of Fifth Avenue and East 139th Street just after 12:35 a.m. Monday. The victims were enjoying a late night gathering when gunfire rang out. One area resident told Eyewitness News there were so many gunshots she could not believe her ears. "I was sitting in my living room and all I heard was sporadic shots ringing," she said. "It was like, 'Prong, prong, prong!'. And then it stopped and...

The Austin City Council voted to approve a resolution that would direct the city manager to adopt a minimum wage of $22 per hour for city employees. During the meeting on June 16, several city workers testified and said that a higher wage is necessary because of inflation, according to FOX 7 Austin. The resolution asks the city manager to develop a plan and timeline to increase the minimum wage to $22 per hour for city workers, which is increased from the current $15 per hour.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NSC-1v2.pdf The purpose of Interim National Security Strategic Guidance is to articulate an Administration’s national security priorities. president Biden’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance March 2021 is at the link. It is a shining example of doublespeak and gibberish. AND, its purpose is to be used by all Departments as their guiding principles in all aspects of their responsibilities. It is full of flowery statements and sweeping generalities. There is no clear definition of the objectives, no procedure described for the achievement of the vague objectives, and no clear vision of the end state. There is no obvious synchronization of...

(Translation) The bill that would amend Gun Law 168-2019 to, among other things, add flexibility to certain aspects of the statute, and that caused a stir because it would allow citizens to carry two firearms at the same time, will not be reviewed during this Ordinary Session which will end on June 30. The information was confirmed to EL VOCERO by House Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernández who recognized that it does not look prudent to review the bill during this session, although he indicated that the legislative piece – which has several provisions that have been amended – has the...

Governor Jay Inslee (D-Washington) sent an eerie letter to his supporters on Monday predicting that they are in for a summer of "blackouts, destruction, and death" over the alleged climate crisis. The letter was sent directly after Gov. Inslee gave tacit support for destroying four dams along the Snake River which account for 8 percent of Washington's annual electricity generation, Environmental Director of Washington Policy Center Todd Meyers reports.

... When Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA was first published by Random House in November 1984 – more than a decade after the resignation and pardon of Richard Nixon – it presented such a large volume of new and revelatory information about a subject so widely considered exhausted that the book was greeted with the staggered astonishment typically reserved for apparitions. “If even half of this is true,” wrote J. Anthony Lukas in the New York Times Book Review, “Secret Agenda will add an important new dimension to our understanding of Watergate.” ...“But,” Lukas added, “it may...

“‘Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces’” (Matthew 7:6). It is clear from this verse that Jesus doesn’t exclude every kind of judgment—here He commands a specific type. But to obey His command, you need to know who the dogs and swine represent. In biblical times dogs were largely half-wild mongrels that acted as scavengers. They were dirty, greedy, snarling, and often vicious and diseased. No responsible Jew would ever throw to a dog a piece...

What does it mean to behold the Lord’s glory? Paul wrote, “We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18, NKJV). Paul is speaking here of devoted, focused worship. It’s time that’s given to God simply to behold him, and the apostle quickly adds, “Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart” (2 Corinthians 4:1). Paul makes it clear that beholding the face of...

LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) - Russia warned NATO member Lithuania on Monday that unless the transit of goods to Russia's Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea was swiftly restored then Moscow would take undisclosed measures to defend its national interests.With east-west relations at a half-century low over Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Vilnius banned the transit of goods sanctioned by the European Union through Lithuanian territory to and from the exclave, citing EU sanction rules.Russia's foreign ministry summoned Lithuania's top envoy in Moscow to deliver a protest while the Kremlin said the situation was beyond serious."The situation is more...

Monday, June 16, 1862. A fortnight has elapsed since the bloody check sustained by our army at the Seven Pines, redeemed by the glorious victory of Fair Oaks. That attack was deliberately planned by the rebels, and was expected to relieve them of the menacing presence of the Army of the Potomac. In this they were sadly disappointed. Their purpose was utterly and disastrously thwarted; and although they inflicted upon us a severe and most serious loss, their own was far heavier, not only in the number of killed and wounded, but in the thorough and remediless defeat of a...

Nigeria: Muslim customer and his friends murder prostitute for keeping Qur’an in her room JUN 20, 2022 8:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER If she had been an infidel, they would have expected nothing better than prostitution from her. But if she was a Muslim, she was committing zina, a crime involving improper sexual relations, and was worthy of death. “Customer, friends lynch, burn Lagos sex worker for keeping Quran in room,” by Deji Lambo, Punch, June 14, 2022: The Lagos State Police Command has charged three suspects to court for allegedly beating a prostitute, Hannah Saliu, to death and setting...

Five months after breaking the story of the CEO of One America insurance company saying deaths among working people ages 18-64 were up 40% in the third quarter of 2021, I can report that a much larger life insurance company, Lincoln National, reported a 163% increase in death benefits paid out under its group life insurance policies in 2021.This is according to the annual statements filed with state insurance departments — statements that were provided exclusively to Crossroads Report in response to public records requests.The reports show a more extreme situation than the 40% increase in deaths in the third...

Fox News host Pete Hegseth has decided to put his Masters of Public Policy diploma from Harvard University in an envelope marked “return to sender.” In his new book American Crusade, the highly decorated Iraq and Afghanistan veteran tells his alma mater “Thank you for the ‘education,' but I can no longer support your leftist cause” and encourages others to do the same.He’s not the only one suffering from what I call “educational remorse.” Some time ago, cartoonist Scott Adams of “Dilbert” fame blogged that he would stop donating to UC-Berkeley.At the time, Mr. Adams stated “…I’m ending my support...

For the second time in a week, police forces arrived at Givat Ohavia Monday morning and began evacuating the settlers and destroying the rebuilt buildings, including the Beit Midrash. However, it soon became clear that this was not "ordinary" demolition, but rather the evacuation of the area for the benefit of Arabs from the nearby village of Zurif, who arrived with the forces and began plowing the hill. The residents sharply criticized the action, saying: "For almost a year we have been fighting in the field every day to stop the spread of the village of Zurif towards the settlement...

The content and tone of Colonial Williamsburg’s programming carry the presumption of moral guilt against a reality-based view of sex.Colonial Williamsburg is the world’s largest living museum, and a place visited and loved by many conservatives, traditionalists, homeschoolers, and classical education devotees. Williamsburg is beloved precisely because, for decades, it has faithfully depicted the founding culture of America in a meticulously recreated, and often re-enacted, Revolutionary-era capital. This depiction included America’s undeniably traditional, Western, largely Judeo-Christian roots. But now Williamsburg has gone woke. In doing so, its leadership and staff are displaying conspicuous enmity toward the highly reasoned position held...

Here’s my latest animated “bar chart race” visualization above showing the world’s top ten billionaires in every year from 2000 to 2022 based on data from business magazine Forbes’ annual lists of the World’s Billionaires via Wikipedia for 2000 to 2022 and also via Forbes’ World’s Billionaire List for 2022. The billionaire wealth estimates by Forbes are based on stock prices and exchange rates in mid-March of every year (March 11, 2022 for this year). A few observations: 1. Bill Gates was the world’s wealthiest person in 13 of the years from 2000 to 2020, No. 2 in seven years,...