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Simmering discontent among a segment of Arizona Republicans over John McCain’s famous penchant for bucking his party boiled over in the winter of 2014 with the censure of the longtime U.S. senator. McCain’s allies responded with an all-out push to reassert control over the Arizona Republican Party. Censure proponents were ousted or diminished, and McCain went on to defeat his far-right challenger in a blowout during the 2016 primary. Less than a decade later, the right wing forces that McCain marginalized within the Arizona GOP are now in full control, with profound implications for one of the nation’s most closely...

Attorney and TikToker @TrialByPreston revealed in a video that the Good Information Foundation attempted to pay him $400 to spread unsubstantiated rumours and misinformation about January 6, President Trump, and his 2020 presidential campaign. "I was just offered $400 to make an anti-Donald Trump propaganda post related to the January 6 investigation that is completely not true," Preston Moore, Esq. said in the video. The Good Information Foundation, headed by Rick Stengel, Former Under Secretary of State in Obama administration, emphasizes that "America is in an information crisis," and that "disinformation is threatening public health, safety, social trust and democracy."...

Hunter Biden allegedly begged one of Maryland’s “most wanted” bad guys to mail him crack cocaine at a luxury hotel. The ask was apparently made in a suspicious text exchange found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned hard drive. The messages show the first son communicating with someone over several months in 2018, asking for something to be mailed to him under an assumed name he was using, “Joseph Smith,” as in the founder of the Mormon church. While Biden never specified in the messages what he was asking for, The Sun reported the person on the other end of the texts...

“This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him” (John 2:11). When Jesus turned water into wine, His purpose was not to amaze His audience with His power. His miracles met specific needs, such as opening blind eyes or deaf ears, delivering those oppressed by demons, feeding hungry people, or calming a threatening storm. This miracle met the genuine need of the family and their guests. But even more important, this first of Jesus’ signs manifested His glory (cf. 1:14)—He put His deity on display. Jesus’ signs were...

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In a single stroke, Ron DeSantis tore the mask off hypocrisy of the smug faces of the liberal elites who love crowing about the virtues of “diversity” and the evils of “whiteness.” It is curious how deeply the comic and the sinister are woven together in the woke dramas of our time. Consider, to take the latest example, the embarrassing little panic to which the well-pressed and affluent denizens of Martha’s Vineyard treated the public. Our agents are still out there counting the number of nauseating “Hate has no place here” and “No human being is illegal” signs on the...

Marvel Studios announced it would take a "new approach" to Israeli superheroine Sabra in response to extensive criticism by anti-Israel activists following the announcement that the character would be introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the upcoming film Captain America: New World Order, played by Israeli actress Shira Haas. “While our characters and stories are inspired by the comics, they are always freshly imagined for the screen and today’s audience, and the filmmakers are taking a new approach with the character Sabra who was first introduced in the comics over 40 years ago," Marvel told Variety on Friday. The...

Two years after the signing of the Abraham Accords, UAE-Israel relations are flourishing. A series of recent high-level meetings and events illustrate how the countries are forging ahead, showcasing that the agreements signed two years ago weren’t a hollow PR stunt. The importance reaches far beyond the two countries, to Israel’s ties to India; as well as peace with Morocco, Bahrain and other countries. President Isaac Herzog attended the UAE Embassy reception celebrating the two-year anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords last Thursday in Herzliya. The event showcased how the Accords have brought together people from the region...

Beijing (AFP) – China has stepped up spending on coal in the face of extreme weather, a domestic energy crunch and rising global fuel prices -- raising concerns Beijing's policies may hinder the fight against climate change. The country is the world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases driving global warming, and President Xi Jinping has vowed to reduce coal use from 2026 as part of a broad set of climate promises. Beijing has committed to peaking its carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. Overall carbon emissions in China have fallen for four consecutive quarters on...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 3 The Baptism of Jesus 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15 Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented. 16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove...

Before the release of the sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the iconoclastic filmmaker explains why he’s bringing the first film back to theaters. Does knowing audiences want that blockbuster experience put more pressure on you? I’ve always thrived in that scenario. The danger has been that there are so many big movies coming out all the time and we were always jostling for place. That’s why I recommended to Fox that we push “Titanic” till Christmas, because we’d have a clear playing field in January and February, and that worked out beautifully. The same strategy worked well with “Avatar.”...

Did the number of people who voted in the November 3, 2020 general election equal the number of ballots cast? A recent research study by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) says the records that would answer the question do not exist. Records are supposed to be maintained to determine how many people have voted in an election and how many ballots have been cast. Section 20701 of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 provides that election officials have to keep all records of federal primary, special, or general elections for 22 months after the date of the election. Any...

The Talk Shows September 18th, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): New permanent anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C); Biden economic adviser Jared Bernstein; Andrew McCarthy, former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. Panel: Josh Holmes, former chief of staff to Turtle Mitch McConnell, USA Today White House correspondent and Far-Leftist Francesca Chambers, Gillian Turner and Whine Williams. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.); Colorado Republican nominee for U.S....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hemmed and hawed again last week about the House plan to rein in sketchy trades by members of Congress and their families, making empty noises about getting it done in the wake of a brutal New York Times report ID’ing almost 100 members — nearly 20%! — who reported trades in apparent conflict with their duties as overseers of laws and regulations around American industry in 2019-’21. She’s plainly stalling, and for obvious reasons: Pelosi’s a byword for such trades with her husband — financier Paul Pelosi — making moves that regularly beat the market, often...

Nearly all Americans can name three or more genders, but can even half of us name all 50 states? The most recent Annenberg Public Policy Center annual Constitution Day Civics Survey found that fewer than half of Americans can name all three branches of government — Executive, Legislative, and Judicial — a drop-off of 9 percentage points from just one year ago. (This is likely because a larger percentage of Americans attend "institutions of higher learning" than ever before. I'm not joking.) At this rate, no one will be able to achieve this remarkable feat by 2028. This is doubly...

Yet another blow agnst the demented, controlling Big Tech demons. Guest: Dr Drew @drdrew (Twitter) www.drdrew.com Hosts: Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Ian @IanCrossland (everywhere) Luke @WeAreChange (everywhere) Lydia @sourpatchlyds (Twitter), sourpatchlyds.me

The FBI was taken aback when Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida threw a wrench into the agency’s very obvious plan to affect the midterms with lies. Many old-timers like me doubtless remember the old-time radio show “The FBI in Peace and War,” which touted the magnificent operations of the Bureau. These days they operate as an arm of the Democrat party, grossly exaggerating the size and operations of white supremacists to suggest they, not the Antifa and BLM thugs, are the real threat to the nation. In the process they have beset many innocent people and aided Biden in besmirching...

To quote Greta Thunberg: “HOW DARE YOU!!” Harari completely misses the point of Noah’s Ark. His attempt at likening Climate Change to the Great Flood, which God ordained, is ludicrous. GENESIS 6: “Now it came about, when mankind began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the Lord said, ‘My Spirit will not remain with man forever, because he is also flesh; nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.’ The...

Russia recently announced a stoppage of the flow of gas to the EU through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline and that the flow will not be restarted until the EU cancels its economic sanctions on Russia. Some EU citizens are starting to suffer, and they know their suffering is going to get much worse when winter arrives. It is not surprising: That the value of the Euro is at a 20-year low. That the high cost of utilities and food have triggered a cost-of-living problem, and many EU citizens are moving toward poverty (owning nothing but not happy). That more...

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