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CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp said Tuesday on “The Lead” that former President Donald Trump caused “the great emasculation of the Republican Party.” The panel was discussing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) refusal to comment on Trump referring to his wife, former Transportation secretary Elaine Chao as “China-loving wife, Coco Chow.” […] She added […] “Let’s be clear about who the Republican Party, J.D. Vance included, is bending over backwards to appease: White Nationalists, QAnon crowd, the conspiracy theorists. This is not the crowd that you should be aiming at. This crowd should be jettisoned and instead they’re jettisoning...

Joe Biden said Saudi Arabia will face 'consequences' after the Riyadh-led OPEC+ alliance moved to cut oil production. In response, Democratic lawmakers are now calling for a freeze on the U.S. cooperating with the Saudis. Biden suggested he would take action soon, as aides announced that the administration is reevaluating its relationship with the kingdom in light of the oil production cut, which White House officials claim will help Russia, another OPEC+ member, pad its coffers as it continues its nearly eight-month war in Ukraine. 'There´s going to be some consequences for what they've done with Russia,' Biden said in...

Nike co-founder Phil Knight has donated $1 million to elect Republican Oregon gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan in an increasingly tight race against Democrat Tina Kotek. Knight’s donation to Drazan’s campaign comes after he donated $3.75 million to Independent candidate Betsy Johnson, signaling his strong dislike for Tina Kotek. Republican strategist Rebecca Tweed told KGW Knight’s donation said the two donations are not meant as an endorsement of either candidate but rather an attack against the Democrat candidate. “It’s not really $1 million toward Drazan or $3.75 (million) towards Betsy. It’s $4.75 (million) against Tina Kotek,” Tweed told the outlet. “Each...

Tito Puente, the influential Nuyroican musician and entertainer, is being honored in a new animated Google Doodle. The animated doodle highlighting Puente’s musical career, illustrated by New York-based Puerto Rican artist Carlos Aponte, will be visible on the main page of the search engine throughout Tuesday (Oct. 11). The doodle coincides with U.S. Hispanic Heritage Month and also comes on the one-year anniversary of the unveiling of the Tito Puente Monument in New York City’s East Harlem. Puente was a percussionist, composer, songwriter, recording artist and bandleader whose career spanned five decades. Puente has been called “El Rey de los...

Mollie Hemingway said President Biden is ratcheting up war and escalating conflict with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday's 'Special Report.' Hemingway called for statesmen to intervene and end this conflict before nuclear weapons are involved. MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Just today we had the U.N. Security Council vote on that draft resolution to condemn these sham referendums that Russia did in these regions. In fact, we didn't have a very good coalition. China abstained from voting, India, who is supposed to be our friend abstained from voting. Brazil abstained from voting and then Russia vetoed it. We have been hearing from...

By Assaf Gabor, 16th of Tishrei 5783 (11/10/2022) "Lion's Den" - this is the name that terrorist operatives in Nablus leading the current wave of terrorism call themselves. Dozens of videos documenting their activities are distributed on social networks: they are masked, wear black uniforms and tie red fabric ribbons to the barrels of their guns, as a sort of "promise" that they will not fire bullets in vain. Most of them are young people in their twenties, who did not participate in the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 and are not familiar with the IDF's response in 2002. The killing...

The Murder Express is running local. Killings in the New York City subway system since 2020 have skyrocketed to the highest annual levels in 25 years, even amid plummeting ridership numbers, as the city grapples with an overall spike in random violence, NYPD data show. Since 1997, the earliest data The Post was able to access, there had never been more than five subway murders in a single year until the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and brought that number up to six for the first time in decades. The next year, murders shot up to eight. So far in...

New York Giants punter Jamie Gillan did not travel back with the team from London, sources told ESPN. He remains overseas as he deals with a passport issue. The Giants defeated the Green Bay Packers 27-22 on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. They were aware of the issue prior to the trip, and expect him back this week before playing the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. New York did not work out any punters on Tuesday as a contingency.

"Why does Switzerland suddenly have a financial institution needing $3 billion in cheap (3.33%) overnight funding from the US Fed. This was the first time the Fed sent dollars to the Swiss National Bank this year, and the first time the Fed used the swap line in size (besides a token amount to the ECB every now and then)!" Credit Suisse is bankrupt. They tried to save it until they ran out of USD, now the Fed is trying to save them...luckily the Fed cannot run out of USD... and so it goes.

Pope Francis and global activists are pictured in a banner for the new YouTube Originals film on the pope's encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home." The film launched Oct. 4, feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the same day the Holy See acceded to the Paris Agreement. (CNS photo/YouTube Originals)VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican hosted the global premiere of a new documentary on the urgent need to address climate change on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the same day the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2015 Paris Agreement entered into force...

As someone who has never voted Republican, I am deeply troubled by the New York Democratic Party. I strongly oppose its environmental policies, including its anti-nuclear stance; its agenda making it harder for the police and prosecutors to do their jobs, including by passing excessive bail reform; and its resistance to any educational reforms that the teachers’ union oppose, including charter school expansion. None of these policies are necessarily supported by the median Democratic voter, but all have been imposed by a determined left-wing that Gov. Hochul has for the most part been unwilling to confront. [cut] Zelin says he...

WASHINGTON (CNS) — A federal court in Indiana sided with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and one of its Catholic high schools in a lawsuit filed by a former guidance counselor who said her contract was not renewed because of her same-sex union. The Sept. 30 ruling in Fitzgerald v. Roncalli High School and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, relied on previous Supreme Court rulings that have emphasized a ministerial exception protecting a religious school’s hiring and firing practices from government intrusion. The recent decision echoes a nearly identical ruling from a year ago based on a lawsuit filed against the same...

According to Public TV's official Telegram channel, the blasts in Zaporozhye were confirmed by city administration head Alexander Starukh MOSCOW, October 12./TASS/.Ukraine's public television channel reported that blasts were heard in the Ukrainian cities of Nikolayev and Zaporozhye in the early hours of Wednesday, while air raid sirens went off in the capital Kiev...

Villanova University has decided to pressure its faculty, staff, and students into complying with a view of gender identity out of step with its Catholic mission. The decision undermines both Villanova’s purpose as a university and its desire to create an inclusive community in which everyone is treated with respect. In an email to faculty on August 11, the university administration announced a Gender Inclusive Practices Guide, which states that “gender inclusivity is fundamental to Villanova’s mission” and cites the school’s diversity statement. No mention is made of its Catholic and Augustinian identity. The best-practices guide envisions a transformative impact...

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii announced Tuesday that she's leaving the Democratic Party because it's "now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness." In a video statement posted on social media, Gabbard, 41, accused Democrats of dividing the country "by racializing every issue, stoking anti-white racism" and "actively working to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution." "The Democrats of today are hostile to people of faith and spirituality," she continued. "They demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans. The Democrats of today believe...

So what will the world's final end-time religion look like? Will it start out with Satanists running around after the Rapture in red tights and pitchforks, sacrificing everything they can lay their grubby hands on? Will it be the New Age 'crystal wearing' hippies announcing the long-awaited Age of Aquarius? Will it be the final manifestation of Chrislam? Unfortunately, there are as many opinions about this subject as there are phony religions out there masquerading as the truth. While we can't say definitively what the Harlot religion will actually look like at the outset, we know by the mid-point of...

A tree trimmer was killed Tuesday in the San Francisco Bay Area after he fell into a wood chipper, authorities said. The man, whose name has not been released, was working in the city of Menlo Park shortly before 1 p.m. when he fell, police said. Officers arrived to find the man dead from injuries sustained after his fall. The state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the man's death. Menlo Park is about 25 miles (40.23 kilometers) south of San Francisco.

Summary: Activists and academics have been misusing data from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) in studies claiming that illegal immigrants have relatively low crime rates. These studies do not appreciate that it can take years for Texas to identify convicts as illegal immigrants while they are in custody. As a result, the studies misclassify as native-born a significant number of offenders who are later identified as illegal immigrants. Facts About the DPS Data: Due to delays in identification, the number of illegal immigrants arrested or incarcerated in Texas is undercounted at any given time. Recently convicted illegal immigrants...

I thought this was a good landing video to post here. Spectacular views from a plane approaching LaGuardia airport on March 6, 2020. This was exactly a week before the city shut down for the stupid COVID scam. It would have been a Friday afternoon and I would have been in my office on Lexington Avenue (almost dead center behind the UN Building at 3:33 of this video). Exactly a week after that, I had to tell my people to take their laptops home as I was informed we were shutting down for a couple weeks (remember 15 days to...

The man who went on an ax-wielding rampage at a Manhattan McDonald’s has been busted again — this time for allegedly spraying-painting graffiti in Brooklyn and then swiping a pricey bike to try to flee cops. Michael Palacios — who was caught on video smashing up the crowded fast-food joint on the Lower East Side during a beef with other patrons in September — was approached by police around 5:40 p.m. Sunday after he was seen spraying graffiti behind 69 Second Ave. in Gowanus, according to police sources. The 31-year-old messenger ran and snatched a bicycle from in front of...