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Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Tuesday banned female students from attending universities effective immediately in the latest edict cracking down on women's rights and freedoms. Despite initially promising a more moderate rule respecting rights for women and minorities, the Taliban have widely implemented their strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed the $1.7 trillion omnibus supported by many Republican Senators. Video... [12 mins]

The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth when in fact hiring had stalled, according to a new estimate. Job growth was “essentially flat” in the second quarter with only 10,500 jobs added, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said. Republicans are accusing the administration of lying about the employment data in an election year and are demanding answers.

A US government-funded nonprofit known as “the mountain retreat for the liberal elite” sponsored a “tabletop exercise” intended to influence coverage of a leak of documents related to Hunter Biden, the latest installment of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” reveals. In a series of tweets Monday, independent journalist Michael Shellenberger posted confidential documents from the Aspen Institute’s September 2020 event, which he said was attended by Twitter’s then-head of trust and safety, Facebook’s head of security policy and top national security reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post. The exercise by the “Aspen Digital Hack-and-Dump Working Group” involved...

We’ve been meaning to devote an episode of the 3WHH podcast to a consideration of “Yellowstone,” which has been a monster hit on streaming TV the last few years. One problem is that I am two seasons behind, as is my typical TV viewing practice. At some point we’ll all get caught up and try it. The fact that the New York Times and other typical media morons have run puzzled stories about why the show is popular with conservatives makes it suitable fodder. (Besides, Beth Dutton is Lucretia’s spirit animal and role model, needless to say.) How to describe...

The $1.7 trillion omnibus bill will provide a larger budget for the Justice Department to prosecute January 6 prisoners, a House Appropriations Committee summary revealed Tuesday. If the bill passes in the next few days, the DOJ’s budget “to further support prosecutions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and domestic terrorism cases” will increase $212.1 million from current levels of the $2.63 billion annual budget.

A year-end, $1.7 trillion spending package will transfer some $2.4 billion in American taxpayer money to resettle more Ukrainians across the United States. While President Joe Biden has brought more than 100,000 Ukrainians to the U.S. since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine earlier this year, a year-end federal government spending bill is ensuring the refugee pipeline continues.

The $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill creates a “Ukrainian Independence Park” in the heart of Washington, DC. The omnibus spending bill grants $45 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine, while Congress has already appropriated $66 billion in aid for the embattled country’s conflict with Russia. The omnibus bill would send tens of billions in aid for the country’s protracted war. It would also create a new park in the heart of D.C.

9:44 AM · Jan 8, 20212:13 PM · Jan 6, 2021Have you seen President Trump's powerful 4 minute video message? Don't miss it!A NATION IN DECLINEQ is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’...

This was possibly the most important segment on The War Room this year. Kash Patel joined Steve Bannon this morning to discuss the explosive revelations released yesterday on the Deep State DOJ’s spying on Rep. Devin Nunes’s top attorneys during their investigation of the origins of Trump-Russia hoax. It was Kash Patel and Devin Nunes who eventually discovered that the intelligence community was in on the Russia collusion hoax and attempted coup of President Donald Trump. Trump was eventually exonerated from the multiyear investigation when Bill Barr was sworn in as Attorney General. On Tuesday morning Kash Patel joined Steve...

Recently I reported that the Mirror had run a nonsense story about much of London disappearing beneath the waves within 80 years. I noted that this was not the handiwork of a crack team of investigative reporters, but rather the placed work of a U.S. green activist group called Climate Central. This operation specialises in ready-to-publish climate change material highlighting local landmarks allegedly due to disappear beneath the waves. Similar tactics are used by another activist group spreading fear and alarm called Covering Climate Now (CC Now). This operation is run out of the Columbia Journalism Review in New York,...

Eight teenage girls have been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a 59-year-old man in Toronto, police say. Police have not released the man's name because his next of kin is still being notified. Three of the girls are 13 years old, three are 14 years old and two are 16 years old, according to Det.-Sgt. Terry Browne of Toronto police's homicide unit. Three had previous contact with police, he said.

The House Jan. 6 select committee has sent the Justice Department's special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump all of their documents and witness transcripts, according to multiple news report on Tuesday. The panel began sending the evidence to Jack Smith last month after he sent the committee a letter on December 5th requesting all of their materials gathered as part of their 18-month probe, Punchbowl News reported. Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to serve as special counsel for all Trump-related matters, including the former president's actions in relation to the January 6. 2021 insurrection and the...

A Stroudsburg man was jailed on attempted homicide and related charges after allegedly firing a shot from a handgun during a confrontation over a fast-food order. Stroud Area Regional police say they were called for the incident at 8:42 p.m. Friday at Little Caesars Pizza on Washington Street in East Stroudsburg. The pizzeria’s adult male manager and two juvenile employees were inside the business, police said, and the suspect — identified as 37-year-old William T. Pabon — was in the rear parking lot, where he was taken into custody. Through interviews and reviews of interior and exterior surveillance video, detectives...

A gunman opened fire on roadside assistance workers after they were unable to repair his broken-down vehicle in Gurnee Saturday afternoon, police said. The Gurnee Police Department responded around 3 p.m. Saturday to the area of Olive Garden, 5590 Northridge Drive in Gurnee, for shots fired. Gurnee Police Department Public Information Officer Shawn Gaylor told Lake and McHenry County Scanner that a man had called for roadside assistance after getting a flat tire. Gaylor said the workers were unable to repair the vehicle. An argument ensued between the workers and the man. The male suspect fired two rounds from a...

WATCH: Gaspers Joins Marshall to Discuss Latest Synod NewsYesterday, I joined Dr. Taylor Marshall to discuss the latest news involving the Synod on Synodality (Oct. 2021–Oct. 2024), in particular, the deeply troubling “Working Document for the Continental Stage” (DCS) released by the Vatican on Oct. 27, 2022.As we explain during the show, the Synod on Synodality and Vatican II (1962-1965) share the same root problem: “the drive for continuous ‘aggiornamento‘” (DCS, n. 101) — the false notion championed by Popes John XXIII and Paul VI that the Church must “update” herself in order to make herself more accessible and appealing...

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SStanford University IT released an index of “harmful language” that it recommends be erased from the school’s websites. The list includes the terms “American” and “Hispanic.” The list is a product of the “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” which aims to “eliminate” words that may be deemed “racist, violent, and biased,” the document reads. The index lists a wide variety of words — some of which are commonly used — and provides an alternative word and an explanation of why the language may be harmful. There are ten “harmful language” sections outlined in the document including: ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally...

My team and I are reading through the omnibus bill today - all $1.7 trillion and 4,155 pages of it. Follow along for some of the most egregious provisions in the bill.

New York Magazine Intelligence section senior writer Eric Levitz discussed at length Monday the Twitter free speech controversy, but absurdly neglected to mention even once the most blatant example of government interference on that site, namely the constant monitoring and censorship from the FBI as well as the suppression of inconvenient stories, most notably about the Hunter Biden laptop.The absence of any referral to this seems as absurd as, say, Levitz writing a breaking story about the attack on Pearl Harbor and neglecting any mention of the Japanese.