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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is within single digits of ex-President Donald Trump in a new national poll, the closest he’s been in this or any other reputable poll — and that’s before Tuesday’s bombshell testimony. A sample of Republican and Republican-leaning respondents to a new Yahoo! News/YouGov poll were asked “Who would you rather see as the Republican nominee for President in 2024?” and given a choice between Trump and DeSantis. Among registered voters, 45 percent prefer Trump, while 36 percent prefer DeSantis — a nine-point difference that normally wouldn’t seem very close. But for Trump, in a reputable Republican...

Oussama Jammal, Director Of Muslim American Society And U.S. Council Of Muslim Organizations, Calls On American Muslims To Vote To Influence Foreign Policy: U.S. Sows Chaos In The World; This Is Our Jihad – Our Weapon Is Our Vote June 23, 2022 United States | Special Dispatch No. 10036 In a Friday, June 17, 2022 sermon at the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Illinois, Oussama Jammal, who serves as the director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) and as the Secretary-General of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, said that voting is the jihad and weapon of Muslims in America. He...

More than 250 pounds of various drugs worth roughly $24 million were seized in a major Bronx bust as a top Drug Enforcement Administration federal agent warned New York is “under siege” with a flood of deadly drugs. About 110 kilograms of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine, in addition to 50 pounds of crystal meth and up to another 75,000 counterfeit pills believed to contain fentanyl were confiscated from a stash apartment in the Mount Hope neighborhood, authorities said. “Data doesn’t lie, New York is under siege by criminal drug networks flooding our city streets with fentanyl, killing people at record...

Ukraine garrison evacuating Lisichansk – Russian or Lugansk forces now reportedly INSIDE the city; also, Karma strikes as Russians claim to bag the bearded Georgian merc shown in the infamous, prisoner throat-slitting video from March 31st……

Russian President Vladimir Putin and four allies have been mocked for meeting at an oversized table in Turkmenistan one day after Group of Seven (G7) leaders met at an average-sized table in Germany. Putin met with Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Kazakhstani President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Iranian President Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi for the sixth iteration of the Caspian Summit in the Turkmenistan capital of Ashgabat on Wednesday. Leaders including President Joe Biden completed the annual G7 summit, which was hosted by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in Bavaria on Tuesday. Photos of the Caspian Summit quickly circulated online,...

For nearly two years, as the Covid pandemic disrupted life around the globe, other infectious diseases were in retreat. Now, as the world rapidly dismantles the measures put in place to slow spread of Covid, the viral and bacterial nuisances that were on hiatus are returning — and behaving in unexpected ways. Consider what we’ve been seeing of late. The past two winters were among the mildest influenza seasons on record, but flu hospitalizations have picked up in the last few weeks — in May! Adenovirus type 41, previously thought to cause fairly innocuous bouts of gastrointestinal illness, may be...

NATO leaders meeting in Madrid issued a formal invitation to Finland and Sweden to become members, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted the two to end decades of military non-alignment and seek accession... Joining NATO marks a significant shift for both countries. Sweden would end more than 200 years of non-alignment, while Finland, which shares an 810 mile border with Russia, would end a policy of neutrality adopted as a Soviet-imposed condition of peace following World War Two. The process to finalize now requires ratification by all 30 current allies. That could take months, but the alliance stressed that “the...

Top Gun: Maverick passed the $1 billion mark over the weekend, making the film the highest grossing movie of the year.This marks Tom Cruise’s first movie to pass $1 billion, with Mission Impossible: Fallout coming in second at $791.1 million, according to Vanity Fair.The impressive part is not just that the sequel earned its box office profits without being shown in Russia or China, but it still passed Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness. Meanwhile, Disney continues its efforts at going woke by inserting a lesbian kiss into Lightyear.Of course, doing so was not without its consequences. Disney and Pixar decided...

The following is adapted from the author’s June 14, 2022, testimony before the Pennsylvania House Majority Policy Committee. The story on food prices keeps getting worse. Food prices in May 2022 were a whopping 10.1% higher than prices in May 2021. The size of these food price increases have not been seen in over 40 years and are occurring across food categories, from fresh fruits (8.5%) to fish and seafood (12.2%). Over the past nine months, each month’s year-over-year food price increase has been above 4%, with each successive month higher than the previous—starting at 4.6% in September and reaching...

The story starts during September of 2021. Started feeling weak, a type of weakness I now know is nothing to mess with. Finally on 11/3 went to family doctor who ordered immediate blood work. Hemoglobin low enough (5.2) they called me to go to the ER. Had a unit of blood locally then on to Fort Wayne for more. Spent a day getting hemoglobin up then a day cleaning out for testing. We’d always used Cologuard but probably should have done more. 11/6 was a Saturday went in for colonoscopy and endoscopy. Had a tumor on colon high up on...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — On June 27, former reality TV star Josh Duggar, 34, was transferred to FCI Seagoville in Texas to begin serving his 151-month sentence following his December 2021 conviction on child pornography charges. Duggar’s incarceration in the federal correctional institute comes with many different restrictions and rules attached. FCI Seagoville has a 59-page “Admissions & Orientation Information Handbook” for new inmates. “Your strict compliance with the rules and regulations is an essential part of exhibiting the responsible behavior required at this institution,” states former Warden Eddy M. Mejia in the manual’s introduction. “We expect you to take...

A Russian air strike on a theatre in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol where hundreds of civilians had been sheltering in March was a "clear war crime" that killed at least a dozen people, human rights group Amnesty International said. In a report, Amnesty said Russian forces "most likely intentionally targeted" the building knowing it was a civilian site, "most likely" using two 500kg bombs that struck close to one another and detonated simultaneously. Amnesty also said its investigation found no convincing evidence to support other possible explanations, including a claim by the Russian defence ministry that the attack had...

Congresswoman Liz Cheney will be the next speaker in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute’s A Time for Choosing Speaker Series, a forum for leading voices in the conservative movement to address critical questions facing the future of the Republican Party. Through formal speeches delivered at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, speakers specifically address fundamental questions, such as “Why are you a Republican?,” “What should the Republican Party stand for?” and “What are the Republican philosophies we can all agree on?” Elizabeth Lynne Cheney is an American attorney and politician who has been the U.S. representative for...

...some newspaper clippings on how the Arab world supported Nazis after their defeat. The Daily Times-News, Burlington NC, Thursday, August 28, 1958 p.8: Arab Students In Germany Admire Hitler by Gaston Coblenz BONN (HTNS) West Germany's principle Jewish paper has reported a conversation about Afolf Hitler overheard at a West German youth hostel between a number of young Germans and a pair of Syrian law students from Damascus. The Syrian youth – two out of many Arab students enrolled at West German universities this year – were reported by the "Algemein Wochenzeitung Der Juden" of Duesseldorf to have showered Hit...

Irreverent cartoon icons Beavis and Butthead hilariously lampoon white privilege and the hive-minded liberal college denizens who blame it for societal inequities in the new film, Beavis & Butthead Do the Universe. A clip of the new film went viral this week showing the two destructive doofuses being told by white college activists what white privilege means. Naturally, the pair learn all the wrong lessons from their feminist lecturer. As the two halfwits enter a college, they are told that white men can get away with anything in life. “So white privilege is when white people — particularly men —...

Mayor Eric Adams has urged Staten Island DA Mike McMahon to consider prosecuting ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani for allegedly filing a false police report, to which Giuliani responded by calling for Adams to quit over the city’s crime crisis. “[Giuliani] falsely reported a crime and the DA should take that seriously,” Hizzoner said during an appearance on the “The Daily Show” Tuesday night, where he both mocked and scorned Giuliani in the ongoing spat between the two. “You don’t realize. You just assaulted me,” Adams deadpanned after host Trevor Noah embraced him upon entrance — a clear dig at the former...

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An elderly Catholic sculptor in Nagasaki, Japan, is all set to complete and install the world’s tallest wooden statue of the Virgin Mary after four decades of time, energy and money. Eiji Oyamatsu, 88, a Catholic from Fujisawa, Kanagawa prefecture, will unveil the 10-meter wooden statue of Mary with the child Jesus at the end of June, reported Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. The statue pays tribute to thousands of Christian martyrs of Nagasaki in the 17th century. The single-handed effort by Oyamatsu encouraged a group of volunteers to form the Citizens’ Association for Minami-Shimabara World Heritage in 2018. The group...

WASHINGTON — Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure. Such social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly snapped into effect on Friday. That's when the high court overruled Roe v. Wade, its 1973 decision that declared access to abortion a constitutional right. Memes and status updates explaining how women could legally obtain abortion pills in the mail exploded across social platforms. Some...

CNN’s Chris Wallace on Tuesday touted former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. At CNN’s coverage of the hearings, Wallace said Hutchinson “was a great witness” and “just brilliant.” Partial transcript: Can we talk about Cassidy Hutchinson? She was a great witness. She was absolutely precise. She was just brilliant. So, there are some secrets still out there, but she connected the dots more than anybody has. And, you know, she just connects the dots between the violence. And remember, she also talks about Meadows...