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Lovers of hummus and falafel beware: data shows that global supplies of chickpeas, the main ingredient for both dishes, may dip up to 20% this year. A combination of Russia’s war in Ukraine, poor weather and transportation issues is leading to the shortage, which is predicted to increase prices and make cheap hummus harder to come by, Reuters reported on Thursday. Farmers in the United States, the fourth-largest chickpea exporter in the world, planted less of the protein-packed legume this year due to less than ideal weather conditions in the spring.

HUGE BREAKING NEWS! The Wisconsin Supreme Court today ruled that absentee drop boxes are illegal in the state. The court ruled 4-3 that the drop boxes can only be placed INSIDE election offices. This is horrible news for Democrats. The recent documentary “2000 Mules” revealed how Democrats used the ballot drop boxes in severarl states in an organized national ballot trafficking scam. The movie revealed that hundreds of thousands of votes were stolen in 2020 using the ballot drop boxes.

VIDEOThis video will make you want to take the cell phone that "Bloomberg Surveillance" host Tom Keene was playing with during a crucial part of an interview and smack him over the head with it. The interview was with Heather Boushey, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers that works out of the White House, and when she begins talking about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Keene was paying attention to the cell phone. Whether he was doing that on purpose or because he is too lazy to PAY ATTENTION is an open question but what is important is that...

Much of the world awoke Friday to news that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been assassinated by a deranged suspect with a homemade shotgun. Instead of eulogizing Abe and expressing condolences to the Japanese people, CBS Mornings decided it would join the Associated Press and National Public Radio (NPR) in smearing Abe as “a polarizing figure,” “right-wing nationalist, and conservative” whose “political opinions were controversial.”

A Florida inmate who was hailed a hero for rescuing Hillsborough County deputies from being murdered by other inmates on two separate occasions is getting out of jail and into a treatment program.

Amid the rise of solar, wind, and other non-fossil energy sources, far too many lawmakers and regulators were eager to toss aside fossil fuel-based energy. Upon the first signs of scalability on the part of renewables, they not only pursued policies that subsidized and incentivized renewables' growth, they also rushed to make traditional energy sources less economical through countless restrictive policies and heavy-handed regulation. The result converted the energy sector into a sort of artificial market – one that encouraged and rewarded renewable energy while actively discouraging and even punishing fossil-based energy through a maze of tax credits on one...

Aguest at a private reception last week with Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee secretly recorded the event and then sent the recording to a local media outlet. News Channel 5 then ran a hit story about Arnn’s accurate remark that “teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country.” Selected 30-second clips from the two-hour recording that betrayed event-goers’ confidence were next quickly amplified in state media, including the state’s biggest leftist outlet, The Tennesseean. This pressure campaign on Thursday caused a Tennessee public school to drop its use of...

It appears to me from scanning of the headlines from the MSM for the last few days shows a uptick in remove Biden type articles as well as articles referring to Biden corruption.

Veteran comedian Larry Storch, best remembered for starring on 1960’s F Troop, has passed away at 99. The death was officially announced on his Facebook page this morning. Storch was born in 1923 in New York. As a teenager, he started doing stand-up earning $12 a week. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he was discovered at Ciro’s (now The Comedy Store) in Los Angeles by none other than Lucille Ball. A big staple of his act was his impressions that included Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Frank Morgan, and Basil Rathbone. As an actor, Storch is best...

Highland Park shooter Bobby Crimo III was left in a hot car by his mom for 27 minutes as a toddler - with his mother later convicted over the incident. The disturbing 2002 incident was one of multiple brushes with the law Crimo's mom Denise Pesina and dad Bob Crimo Jr had with cops prior to Monday's massacre in Chicago that killed seven. It is unclear if the hot car incident left Crimo, now 21, with any physical or mental injuries that may have ultimately led to the horrific shootout. Police were also called to his family's home 10 times,...

CARROLL COUNTY, Md. (WBFF) — A Maryland man said the highly-charged debate over abortion has cost him his job. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Zach Tomlin went online to express his support for the decision on his personal Facebook page. "I'm not here to look down upon or judge anyone," Tomlin wrote. "It's a victory for those of us who believe in small government." Hours later, Tomlin received an email from the director at the Carroll County Arts Council where Tomlin is contracted to perform work. "In light of your political post on Facebook, I am reconsidering...

Sadly our governor, Governor Abbot, has proven himself to be a calculating, not a principled, politician when it comes to border security. He announces "bold" action which sounds good in sound bites but turns out to be ineffectual. The same goes for his latest. As some have said , it is nothing more than catch and release, only catch in one place and release at the border. Time to declare an invasion, Governor. Then return to Mexico and places south.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo spent much of his public effort in the months leading up to his assassination on Friday advocating for defending the nation of Taiwan from a potential Chinese invasion, outraging the Communist Party into threatening a “bloodbath” if he did not stop. Abe served as prime minister for a year in 2006 and again from 2012 to 2020, making him the country’s longest-serving leader in that role. He resigned in 2020, citing a longtime struggle with ulcerative colitis that had also curtailed his first term in office, but he remained a prominent figure in Japanese...

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was forced to sneak out of a Washington D.C. steakhouse this week when he was confronted by pro-abortion protesters. Kavanaugh was having dinner at Morton's when activists showed up and told the manager to kick him out, two weeks after he was in the majority that overturned Roe v. Wade. The justice was then forced to leave through the back door, Politico's Playbook reported, as fury continues to spread across the country over the court's recent decisions on gun rights and abortion. The latest targeting of Kavanaugh also comes less than a month after a...

A bill currently in the works in the North Carolina legislature would allocate $50,000 to get rid of free public EV chargers unless free gas pumps are built alongside. Politicians have to run on some kind of platform, and Ben Moss—my incoming state House representative here in North Carolina's District 52—decided that his animating principle is Being Mad at Electricity. To prove his animosity toward this invisible menace, he's sponsoring House Bill 1049, which would allocate $50,000 to destroy free public car chargers. It contains some other enlightened ideas, but that's the main theme: We've simply got to do something...

This was a shooting you probably"/>The David Horowitz Freedom Center Is Under Attack. Learn More Here.Frontpage Mag"Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" @Horowitz39, David HorowitzThe PointAuthorsDavid HorowitzStoreWho We AreDH TV Mailing List DonateAn Unsecured Border Is a Mortal and Moral HazardHuman trafficking, minors crossing illegally in record numbers, and tragic deaths.Fri Jul 8, 2022Terence P. Jeffrey It happened outside Brackettville, Texas, which sits about halfway between Uvalde and the border crossing at Del Rio. This was a shooting you probably did not hear about — in part, thankfully, because no one was hurt. A U.S....

Joe Biden on Friday will sign an executive order boosting protections for abortions rights - a move that come two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and after the president was criticized for not doing enough. The order will push to safeguard access to abortion medication and emergency contraception and to add more protections for patient privacy. Biden will also direct the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to push back on efforts to limit the ability of women to access abortion medication or to travel across state lines to receive abortion services. And the...

The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has made quite a name for itself for its incessant and virulent attacks on Israel. Here’s a sample of its many denunciations of the Jewish state:Israeli authorities methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against Palestinians. Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli officials make plain that the objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land has long guided government policy. In pursuit of this goal, authorities have dispossessed, confined, forcibly separated, and subjugated Palestinians by virtue of their identity to varying degrees of intensity. In certain areas, as described in...

Iran is in a parlous state. Its economy is in a shambles. The Iranian rial has lost 90% of its value in the last three years. 80% of Iranians now live below the poverty line. Its farmers are suffering from the worst drought in fifty years, made worse by the mismanagement of water resources. Exports of Iranian oil have sunk to about one million barrels a day. Unemployment has surpassed 10%, and is now three times that in the United States. All over the country, Iranians have gone out on the streets to protest the corruption of the leaders and...

With the U.K.’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, headed for the exits, it is worth exploring whether or not Joe Biden will last his term or be forced into retirement. With growing expectations that the Republicans will sweep the House of Representatives and take back the U.S. Senate, I believe it is worth exploring whether Democrats want to cut their losses before the election and dump Biden or will they encourage him to resign before the Republican-controlled legislative bodies take control in January. If the Democrats wait until after the Republicans are sworn in to engineer Biden’s exit, they face a...