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For a president who entered office claiming human rights would be the central tenet of his foreign policy, President Joe Biden has had a mixed record halfway through his presidency. There's no question that his leadership on the world stage in defending and supporting countries like Ukraine has sent a strong message to autocrats like Russian President Vladimir Putin that their nefarious actions will not be tolerated. President Biden's willingness to stand up to bullies both here and abroad has the potential to be a key hallmark of his presidency. But his administration's handling of Azerbaijan's illegal war and unprovoked...

Two teenage boys have been arrested for shooting dead a Georgia high school football star in a mall parking lot while he was on a date with his girlfriend. Elijah DeWitt, 18, was shot dead in the parking lot of a Dave & Buster's outside of the Sugarloaf Mills Mall in Lawrenceville on October 5 following an altercation with two others. Police arrested Kemare Bryan, 18, and Chandler Richardson, 19, in South Carolina two days later. The two are both from Lawrenceville. 'Detectives are still working to investigate the motive behind this incident, it appears that the suspects and the...

According to the German security services, last weekend's sabotage of train cables in northern Germany was a "politically motivated act". This is reported by German media. They did not disclose why the security services think this. On Saturday morning, rail traffic in northern Germany was halted for hours after the railway's essential radio communications cables were cut. The fiber optic cables were also damaged, causing the backup system to fail. Offenders with inside knowledge The security services assume perpetrators with insider knowledge. Germany has in the past experienced politically motivated acts of sabotage, recalls Der Spiegel...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of remarks made by Denise Long during a Newsweek episode of The Debate about black voters and the Democratic party. You can listen to the podcast here: What I'm calling for is not for black Americans to bounce between the better of two evils, one or the other. It is to get the black American population to realize that we are the swing vote. Democrats can't win an election even without black Americans, which is why they make all these promises. Unfortunately, their theory of change requires black Americans to make our equity...

Democrat policies are working…to destroy America. If you want more destruction, then vote for Democrats this upcoming midterm elections.VIDEO: The Democrats Hate America. Mark Levin provided yesterday a list of how Biden and Democrats are destroying America...- Reasons why in this election you got to vote against the Democrats and for the Republicans. - ECONOMY... - HIGHER PRICES... - BIDEN & DEMS ENERGY INFLATION WAS BY DESIGN... - CREATING A HOSTILE ENERGY POLICY ENVIRONMENT - RISING CRIME RATES; OVERWHELMED POLICE DEPARTMENTS... - ABORTION... - IMMIGRATION ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER... - CRIME... - CLASSROOMS...(Low student test scores, Critical Race Theory,...

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For most economists the velocity of money circulation is an important factor in determining the prices of goods and services. If, for example, the quantity of money increased by 10 percent in a given year, while the price level has remained unchanged it would mean that there must have been a decline of about 10 percent in the velocity of money circulation. If the quantity of money remained unchanged but there has been a 10 percent increase in the price level in a given period, it would mean that there must have been an increase in the velocity of money...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is pushing for Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts to fill the vacant seat left by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), who recently announced his retirement. Sasse confirmed on Oct. 6 that he will retire early from the Senate and will likely take a position as president of the University of Florida. Now, Graham wants Ricketts to take Sasse’s place in the Senate—a position to which Ricketts could theoretically appoint himself. Under Nebraska law, the governor appoints a new senator if a vacancy arises in the middle of a term. However, Ricketts has been clear that he does not...

Both FBI officials who briefed Facebook before the social media giant opted to censor The Post’s initial reporting on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop made small-dollar donations to Democrats during the 2020 election cycle, according to campaign finance records and court filings. An amended complaint released Monday by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office says Laura Dehmlow, the section chief of the bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force, and Elvis Chan, who manages the cyber branch of the FBI’s San Francisco field office, were “involved in the communications between the FBI and Meta that led to Facebook’s suppression of the Hunter Biden...

In Vladimir Putin’s speech on February 24, announcing what would be a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine (in his official Orwellian euphemism, a “special military operation” in the Donbas region), a whole paragraph was dedicated to the West’s supposed undermining of “traditional values”: "Properly speaking, the attempts to use us in their own interests never ceased until quite recently: they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degeneration,...

Reflections on the anniversary of a historical turning point... Within fifty years of the death of Mohamed in A.D. 632, his successors had engineered military conquests all across the Middle East and North Africa. While their pace slowed after that, as they worked to consolidate their gains and establish bureaucratic management over the extensive lands they had won, the Muslims continued to expand, crossing Gibraltar and conquering much of the Iberian peninsula, in preparation for their eternal goal: the conquest of Europe. Now, Europe in those days was hardly the organized collection of developed, defined, modern states we know today....

We watch Dr. Mehmet Oz on television, and we feel that we have a decision to make. In his long career in the public eye, why didn't he talk about more of these issues before? Why did he first start talking about politics only when he became a candidate himself? Is he really ready to be the best senator we can get? We watch Herschel Walker on television and we feel that we have a decision to make. If this story is a lie, how did his own son fall for it? And if it's true, why wasn't the campaign...

Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady appeared to try to kick Falcons defensive tackle Grady Jarrett on multiple plays in Tampa Bay’s 21-15 win on Sunday. The Falcons were down by six with 3:03 to play when Jarrett sacked Brady on a third down and rolled to the ground with the quarterback. Brady appeared to kick his leg up in the air at Jarrett as the defensive lineman got up — but it was Jarrett who was flagged for a controversial roughing-the-passer penalty.

With the midterms bearing down and the post-George Floyd crime wave still underway, President Biden and his fellow Democrats face a dilemma: Continue hammering the theme that law enforcement is racist or position themselves as guardians of law and order?Innate inclination won out again last week. Biden announced that he was pardoning all individuals who have ever been federally convicted of marijuana possession. His reason for doing so, Biden said, was to “right” the racial “wrongs” that the criminal justice system has allegedly perpetrated. “While white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people...

Know-It-All Bishop: Homosexual Fornication "Does Not" Decide Eternal SalvationMainz Bishop Peter Kohlgraf, Germany, has commissioned Christine Schardt and Pastor Mathias Berger on 9 October with a so-called "queer-sensitive pastoral" which is financed by church tax (pictures).In the sermon, Kohlgraf wished for a "church" that values homosexuals "and their reality of life" [= sin]. He accused the Bible of having pushed so many homosexual Church employees into a double life - as if the moral teaching were the problem, not the one who acts against it.Kohlgraf declaimed that "no one is a detriment to creation, all [except Catholics] are loved, God...

A large group of U.S. House Republicans sent a letter on Friday questioning Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the presence of a Chinese Fuzhou police service station in New York City.“We are writing to express our grave concern over reports of the law enforcement presence of the People’s Republic of China in New York City,” begins the letter from 21 lawmakers, including Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.).The letter states, “The Public Security (Police) Bureau of Fuzhou, China, announced in January 2022 that...

The Deep State is planning to give every person on the planet a “digital ID” that will eventually track everything from their medical history and vaccine status to education and social-credit score as part of the Great Reset, warns The New American magazine’s Alex Newman in this episode of Behind the Deep State. The digital ID scheme is backed by Bill Gates, the United Nations, and governments around the world — and is already making great progress across the United States, including in conservative states such as Utah and Mississippi.

An illegal immigrant murdered two men when he set his block of flats on fire in an attempt to kill as many of his neighbours as possible after he lost his job at BT and faced eviction. Hakeem Kigundu, 32, started a fire inside Rowe Court in Reading that trapped residents inside - killing Richard Burgess, 46, and Neil Morris, 45.

Young women are more likely to identify as liberal now than at any other time in recent history, while young men are not.Thus, we have the largest gender gap in this regard in at least a quarter of a century. According to Gallup poll data, roughly 44% of women ages 18–29 identified as liberal in 2021, compared to only 25% of men.Those numbers represent a sharp increase for women over just the past three years, as just 35% of women identified as liberal-leaning in 2018. The 19-point difference between men and women who identify as liberal is the largest polling...

2:30 Michael Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety is launching a $2.3 million ad campaign highlighting Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon’s (R) opposition to gun controls that are in vogue in California. The ads also target attorney general candidate Matt DePerno (R) for his opposition to more gun control. On October 10, Everytown announced, “Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund announced a new $2.3 million paid media campaign in Michigan for the 2022 midterm elections. The effort will focus on mobilizing voters and calling out candidates beholden to the gun lobby — including Tudor Dixon and Matt DePerno — for...