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Facebook Photo from the Zeek Huncho Facebook page Ezekiel Kelly was named by Memphis police as the active shooter who randomly gunned down seven people, killing four of them, in public places throughout the Tennessee city. Kelly, 19, who is now in custody, according to Memphis police, was streaming live on Facebook during the shootings. He is also known as Ezekiel Dejuan Kelly and Ezekiel D. Kelly. “This has been a horrific week for the City of Memphis,” the Memphis police chief, C.J. Davis, said in a news conference. She said that four people were shot to death (two men...

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“The fact is that I had zero emails that were classified.” — Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, in a Twitter thread, Sept. 6 The Justice Department investigation of classified documents found at former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club has brought inevitable comparisons to the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s private email server that she used while secretary of state. The FBI investigation into her emails arguably tipped the close 2016 presidential election to Trump. During the contest between Trump and Clinton, we wrote 16 fact checks on the email issue, frequently awarding Clinton Pinocchios for legalistic parsing. But in light...

Roundtable discussions on “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemExodus 19At Mount Sinai 19 On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai. 2 After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain. 3 Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves...

In July 2020 ,the United States Air Force contracted with Boeing for the delivery of new F-15 fighters, to be dubbed the F-15EX. The idea behind the F-15EX is remarkable in its simplicity: We have a great fighter plane, but our existing fleet is old, so why not just buy some new ones?

In California, a teachers union has been accused of spying on the parents of students who demanded the reopening of schools and the rollback of COVID-era restrictions. The New York Post reports that emails from the California Teachers Association (CTA) were recently uncovered showing that the union had hired a “researcher” to do opposition research on San Diego parents who had successfully sued to have the state reopen schools in March of 2021. Obtained through a public records request, the emails revealed that the CTA had hired Ann Swinburn in April of 2021, just one month after the successful lawsuit,...

Rachel Maddow has departed MSNBC but her legacy there and across cable news will live on. The network’s transformation from Keith Olbermann’s George W. Bush hyperventilations to Nicole Wallace’s intelligence apparatus would not have happened without Maddow massaging the crazy through her windy pontifications. Maddow was Alex Jones with a smug Ivy League elitism and inside voice. No one has ever mastered the “Weekend Update for very serious people” format better than her. While some point to how Bill O’Reilly mainstreamed pen pointing at Fox News, Maddow perfected gestures of disbelief. She might have been intelligent and sincere yet it’s...

The Queen is under medical supervision after doctors became concerned for her health, Buckingham Palace revealed today, as Prince Charles, Camilla and Prince William raced to Balmoral to be with her. Her Majesty's immediate family members have been informed about the downturn, leading to her two main heirs going to her bedside amid escalating fears for the monarch's wellbeing. A royal spokesman said: 'Following further evaluation this morning, The Queen's doctors are concerned for Her Majesty's health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision. The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral.'

President Joe Biden has approved another big spending package on arms for Ukraine, this one worth nearly $3 billion. He justified the expenditure with the usual lofty rhetoric: “Today and every day, we stand with the Ukrainian people to proclaim that the darkness that drives autocracy is no match for the flame of liberty that lights the souls of free people everywhere.” This, after toadying up to the criminally aggressive Saudi dictatorship. Kiev warrants support. But what is the administration’s strategy? To fuel the war as long as governments are willing to fight and people are willing to die? Ukraine...

Living conditions in 90% of the world's countries deteriorated in 2021, according to the UN Development Programme (UNDP). The UNDP's Human Development Index measures a country's health, education and standard of living. The index has declined globally for two years in a row since the first time it was calculated 32 years ago. The UNDP's report said that this erased "the gains of the past five years." UNDP chief Achim Steiner said that even at the height of the last global recession which broke out in 2007, the index declined in only around one in ten countries. The combined effects...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Sept. 6. Farmers coming in to-day from Montgomery County, Maryland, state that the camp fires of the enemy were plainly visible last night, on the Virginia shore of the Potomac, near Edwards' Ferry and Point of Rocks. The number of fires seem to indicate a larger force than had at first been supposed present. They extended three miles along the river shore from Edwards' Ferry. This might have been a ruse to deceive us in regard to the real number of their forces. The rebels were heard industriously chopping timber all night, and, as the ferries are guarded...

China can likely sink any $12 billion American aircraft carrier and its 5,000 diverse “they/them” crew that dares to venture into the Taiwan strait. The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgendered males. Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40 years. But it is considered racist to suggest that arrests, indictments, convictions, and incarcerations deter crime. Major U.S. downtowns almost overnight went from mostly safe and clean to terrifying and toxic—and we brag that we are at least “tolerant” of the medieval conditions. The Pentagon and CIA put out recruitment videos...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has hailed "good news" from the northeastern Kharkiv region, after an apparent surprise counter-offensive forced Russian troops onto the back foot and prompted a pro-Kremlin official to call for evacuations. The Russian-installed head of the Kupiansk city administration, Vitaly Ganchev, urged women and children to evacuate the city as Ukrainian forces approached. Ganchev said the city, which lies west of the Donbas region and about 70 miles east of the city of Kharkiv, "is constantly under terror" and experiencing "constant rocket attacks from the Armed Forces of Ukraine." Ukrainian officials have declined to comment on the...

A 31,000-year-old skeleton found in a remote area in Indonesia is rewriting what we know about early medicine medical procedures according to a new study published in the weekly scientific Nature journal on Wednesday. ... The oldest previous known example of a limb amputation had been a roughly 7,000-year-old skeleton from France, whose left forearm had been surgically removed and then had partially healed. This had led researchers to believe that operations of this nature took place in established agricultural societies. The latest discovery turns that notion on its head and suggests that Stone Age hunter-gathers had a far more...

Heavy fighting erupted in areas near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine after Kyiv warned it might have to shut down the plant to avoid a radiation disaster. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in its daily update on Thursday that some villages near the plant were bombed over the past 24 hours by “tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery”. Overnight, Russian forces fired rockets and heavy artillery into the nearby town of Nikopol four times, the area’s regional governor, Valentyn Reznichenko, wrote on Telegram, damaging at least 11 houses and other buildings. On Wednesday,...

Have you ever noticed that liars are often tripped up by their own contradictions? That's when they want you to believe two concepts that can't be true at the same time. Leftist liars have been trying to sell us the same song and dance that no one cares about the recession, inflation, crime, energy prices, illegal invasion, fentanyl killing kids, the ongoing supply chain disruptions, national debt, geopolitical Instability, foreign policy disasters and a government that is growing way beyond belief for weeks now. Instead, we're supposed to believe in their constantly recycled opinion pieces — Biden hits his stride,...

Comedian and Netflix star David A. Arnold dead at 54 Comedian David A. Arnold, best known for headlining two Netflix comedy specials, died at the age of 54 on Wednesday. The stand-up funnyman, who was the showrunner of Nickelodeon’s “That Girl Lay Lay” and served as a producer on the “Fuller House” reboot, died “from natural causes” at his home, his family announced

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unscheduled visit to Kyiv on Thursday as the Biden administration announced major new military aid worth more than $2 billion for Ukraine and other European countries threatened by Russia. In meetings with senior Ukrainian officials, Blinken said the Biden administration had notified Congress of its intent to provide $2 billion in long-term Foreign Military Financing to Ukraine and 18 of its neighbors, including NATO members and regional security partners, that are “most potentially at risk for future Russian aggression.” Pending expected congressional approval, about $1 billion of that will go to Ukraine...

With his threatening, ominous speeches, is Biden trying to convince us...or himself? "I will not stand by and let elections be stolen by people who simply refuse to believe that they lost," bellowed President Joe Biden during his primetime "Gates of Hell" speech last Thursday night. He looked angry and sounded angry as he shook his fists in the ominous red lights framing his podium. Biden has also said that questioning the election is a "dagger at the throat of democracy." Really? Is Hillary Clinton putting a dagger to the throat of democracy as she still questions the outcome of...