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No one should ever have taken this story seriously in the first place. But it fit the Left’s picture of reality so well, it couldn’t be resisted. The idea that there would be a second-grade teacher in any school in the country in 2022 who would feel free to rip off a Muslim student’s hijab simply doesn’t accord with the real world. But in the Left’s world, we’re not living in 2022 at all, or if we are, it is a nightmare version of 1955, with “white supremacists” running rampant, terrorizing defenseless People of Color whose just grievances are laughed...

Reuters recently published a new story about one of the worst US intelligence failures in decades. From about 2010 to 2013, dozens of CIA informants in China, Iran, and elsewhere were captured and executed, imprisoned, or turned into double-dealing agents. In Iran and China, almost the entire CIA network in two of its highest priority countries has reportedly been exposed. Some in the US government appear to have tried to place much of the blame on the betrayal of CIA operative Jerry Lee , who was later prosecuted and pleaded guilty to spying for the Chinese government. But Lee’s alleged...

The balseros, or “rafters,” as Cubans refer to them, are part of a growing exodus of Cubans feeling communism and its inevitable results: mass food shortages, a growing electricity crisis, uncontrolled spread of disease, violent government repression, and a total lack of self-determination.

...He and his colleagues managed to extract DNA from 15 out of 17 pieces of bone or teeth recovered from the Chagyrskaya cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia, Russia. The DNA showed that some pieces came from the same individuals, so the findings represent 11 individuals in total, including several teenagers and children.Dating of sediments and bison bones at the site suggests the Neanderthals lived in the cave between 51,000 and 59,000 years ago, while the DNA shows that many of the individuals were related...Peter thinks it is possible that these individuals all died around the same time, but...

American Airlines is shaking up its premium cabin offerings, phasing out its first-class cabin to instead focus on business-class seats in response to shifting consumer demand. Vasu Raja, American’s chief commercial officer, confirmed the move to investors on a Thursday morning earnings call. “Yes, the first class will not exist on the [Boeing 777] or for that matter at American Airlines, for the simple reason that our customers aren’t buying it,” said Raja. “The quality of the business class seat has improved so much, and frankly by removing it, we can go provide more business class seats, which is our...

Monkey Nation Special - Big Chess Move Coming? Milspec Ops Monkey analyzes military aircraft in and out of Biggs Aaf, Fort Bliss, TX. He has identified an increase in optempo and unusual destination movements of military aircraft in the past couple of days. Also, he sees an increase in military aircraft from D.C. to Guantanamo Bay and finds that curious. Just a reminder: The Commucrats and RINOs have 19 days (plus as many more as it takes) to steal the 2022 midterm elections.

An F-35 fighter jet crashed at an Air Force base in Utah on Wednesday, with the pilot having ejected from the aircraft prior to the crash, officials said. “At approximately 6:15 p.m. an F-35 A Lightning II crashed at the north end of Hill Air Force Base runway. On and off base emergency crews responded immediately,” the 388th Fighter Wing announced on Twitter. It also stated: “The pilot ejected, was recovered and has been taken to local medical center for observation. The cause of the crash is unknown and will be investigated.” Hill Air Force Base about 30 miles (48...

The Estonian weekly Eesti Ekspress interviewed the heads and several employees of Estonia’s, Latvia’s, and Lithuania’s state security agencies. This is what they had to say regarding Russia. ... Toots wasn’t surprised by the atrocities committed in Bucha. Nor were any other of the counterintelligence agents I interviewed in Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania. They’re aware of how Russians conducted themselves in the Baltics during the Second World War. Of how they conducted themselves before that. Of how they’ve always behaved. The West lacks such awareness. „[The West is] fortunate,“ Toots remarks. „We’re a buffer between them and Russia. They’ve forgotten...

On Thursday morning Kevin McCarthy told Punchbowl News that he will not impeach corrupt and senile Joe Biden. The Daily Mail reported: Kevin McCarthy is not as eager as his GOP colleagues to immediately seek impeachment against Joe Biden‘s Cabinet members if they win back a majority in the November midterms. Some Republicans are out for blood – seeking revenge by way of Biden and his team after Democrats politicized impeachment and sought it against Donald Trump two times during his four years in office. The House GOP Leader, however, told Punchbowl News that Americans don’t ‘like impeachment used for...

"Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.” Luke 12:51-53Yes, this is a shocking Scripture at first. Why would Jesus say that He came to establish not peace but division? This does not at all...

When the bubonic plague arrived in London in 1348, the disease devastated the city. So many people died, so quickly, that the city's cemeteries filled up. "So the king [Edward III], at the time, bought this piece of land and started digging it," says geneticist Luis Barreiro at the University of Chicago. This cemetery, called East Smithfield, became a mass grave, where more than 700 people were buried together. "There's basically layers and layers of bodies one on top of each other," he says. The city shut down the cemetery when the outbreak ended. In the end, this bubonic plague,...

AT A MINUTE before 5 a.m. on April 27, ABC News’ James Gordon Meek fired off a tweet with a single word: “FACTS.” The network’s national-security investigative producer was responding to former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos’ take that the Ukrainian military — with assistance from the U.S. — was thriving against Russian forces. Polymeropoulos’ tweet — filled with acronyms indecipherable to the layperson, like “TTPs,” “UW,” and “EW” — was itself a reply to a missive from Washington Post Pentagon reporter Dan Lamothe, who noted the wealth of information the U.S. military had gathered about Russian ops by observing their...

Reporter Elad Aliahu asks question John Fetterman chasing an unarmed black man with a shotgun, leading to a Fetterman supporter losing his mind "Another Unhinged braindead communist Democrat who can't even have a normal conversation or debate."

Republicans have their largest lead since June in RCP as more polls continuously show them in the lead. This will bode well for them in swing House and Senate races, where Republican candidates have been gaining as of late.

Republican Christine Drazan is closely leading Democrat Tina Kotek and Democrat-turned-independent Betsy Johnson in yet another poll released ahead of the high-stakes Oregon gubernatorial election. A poll released by The Hoffman Research Group shows former Oregon House Republican leader Drazan ahead of former Oregon House Speaker Kotek 37 percent to 35 percent, within the survey’s ±3.8 percent margin of error. Former Democrat state senator Johnson, who is running as an independent, garnered 17 percent, and 12 percent remain undecided.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With Ketanji Brown Jackson joining a growing number of women on the United States Supreme Court, Justice Clarance Thomas has taken to wearing noise-canceling headphones to help drown out the incessant chatter. "What on earth do these womenfolk need to be talking about all the time?" said Thomas. "Why do you need 11,000 words to discuss whether a man using a girl's bathroom is a First Amendment right? The Constitution ain't that complicated! I can't take it anymore!" Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch have also found ways to cope with the increased noise level, often sneaking away...

Westminster is buzzing with rumours circulated by political correspondents extremely close to both the governing Conservative Party and the man himself, that Boris Johnson will run to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, just 15 weeks since he announced his resignation in July. Liz Truss announced her resignation Thursday lunchtime, bringing to an end the shortest-ever term of a UK Prime Minister, a withdrawal precipitated by her inability to deliver on her policy programme amid brutal party infighting and what appeared to be a counter-coup against her administration by the pre-Brexit Remainer element inside the party.

Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Luke 12:49–53 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares his desire to spread eternal life among human beings. He said, “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!”What is that fire? His forerunner, John, gave us a clue: “I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I. . . He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” Jesus came in order to torch the world with the heat and light of the divine Spirit,...

Deepak Bhargava has a big idea: America should live up to the best parts of our national identity and become the most welcoming country on earth for immigrants and refugees. Bhargava’s Statue of Liberty Plan proposes welcoming 75 million people over the course of the next decade. To do that, and to counter broad authoritarian appeals, we need a new narrative about immigration, rooted in progressive values. Bhargava is a distinguished lecturer in urban studies at the City University of New York and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and his ideas come at a crucial moment. In the...

Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly says a lot of Republicans aren't being reached by pollsters. "I think there's a certain segment of the Republican electorate that's just not getting polled," Cahaly said on the Wednesday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "There's an important chunk of people that are what I call submerged voters that you cannot get on the phone and you cannot reach them any other way." According to Cahaly, mainstream polling's numbers have started coming close to the Trafalgar Group's numbers, resulting in some elected officials denying the accuracy of the numbers....