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China's top diplomat has hailed his country's strong friendship with Russia as concerns remain over what role Beijing could play in the war in Ukraine. Wang Yi was on a visit to Russia when he said the countries will reach a “new consensus" on advancing their relationship. He said: “Today I am willing to further exchange views with you, my old friend, on the advancement of our mutual relationship, and I think we will definitely reach new consensus. “No matter how the international situation changes, China has been and remains willing to maintain the positive trend with Russia in building...

President Biden’s approval rating has hit its highest point in almost a year, according to a new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, rising to 46 percent. Biden’s approval rating following his second State of the Union address is the highest it has been since March 2022, the poll released Wednesday found. He saw improvement among respondents across the political spectrum, with his approval among Democrats rising from 85 percent in January to 88 percent and his approval among independents rising from 32 percent to 36 percent. His approval rating among Republicans also ticked up from 13 percent last month to 15 percent...

A few days ago, on several internet news sites, a bone-chilling claim appeared: The U.S. is looking to the Ukraine war to shape its planning for the coming conflict with China over Taiwan. This is completely wrong because there is no connection between events in Ukraine and a possible Chinese assault on Taiwan. The comparison between current events in Ukraine and possible future events in Taiwan has been common practically since the Ukraine conflict began. On May 19, 2022, Politico wrote that “U.S. officials are pushing their Taiwanese counterparts with new urgency to look to Ukraine’s success in fending off...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will reportedly enjoy a taxpayer-funded safari with five Senate Democrats during a trip in Africa, which includes the nations of Zambia, South Africa, Botswana, and Morocco. The excursion appears to be under the guise of conducting “fact finding missions, focused on the fight against HIV/AIDS through site visits, meetings/briefings, and informal substantive meals designed to provide a frontline look at the impact of US Government investments in PEPFAR [U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief],” according to an itinerary obtained by Punchbowl News. Graham will be joined by five high-profile Democrat senators: Sens. Bob Menendez (D-NJ),...

The mainstream media coverage concerning President Biden’s remarks about Social Security during his State of the Union address and the Republican reaction has been remarkable in its ability to miss the point. Pundits sparred over whether the Republicans or Democrats won, when the real story is who lost in this sideshow. After all, it is the average, hard-working American who has paid into and therefore deserves Social Security. Unfortunately, everyday Americans who need to know whether or not they can rely on the trust fund received no worthy news coverage, and likely won’t for the next decade. During his speech,...

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) had not acted as he would have a “conservative limited-government Republican.” Host Andrew Ross Sorkin said, “What do you think of DeSantis did with Disney in Florida? There’s two ways to look at it. One is to say Disney spoke out on a political or social issue, but then clearly, there was retribution political against them. I think it’s empirical what happened. He said as much when he did it. So people talk about cancel culture. Some people say, well, you know, they’re canceling...

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The Washington Post provides another of those lame flattering portraits of the Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelinski:A year in the trenches has hardened Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky came into office thinking peace with Putin was possible. He now believes victory is the only answer.The piece is contradicting itself in certain manners but it also provides new evidence that the U.S. had set out to sabotage the Minsk agreement.The headline is of course wrong. Zelenski has not been in the trenches but continued his pampered life near a bunker in Kiev. It is not Zelenski's 'hardening' that prevents peace negotiations with Russia...

Before the midterms were over, former President Donald Trump had announced his bid for the Presidency in 2024 on the Republican ticket. As 2023 began, this month South Carolinian Nikki Haley announced that her hat is sailing into the ring. Speculation as to others who will soon announce intentions in the Republican primary includes another South Carolinian, Tim Scott, as well as Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Ted Cruz, Kristi Noem, Greg Abbott, and a host of others from around the nation. There is no shortage of eager Republican candidates in the primary, but former President Donald Trump and Nikki Haley...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) expressed disappointment that "the decision of homeless people to squat in the cozy confines of O'Hare Airport comes at an especially bad time for me. Unfortunately, the squatting is literal. Though the airport has plenty of restroom facilities a distressingly large portion of those camping inside the airport can't make the effort to hold it until they get to a restroom." A possible contributing factor for not using the restrooms is that in 55 Chicago schools not a single student is proficient in reading. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, blamed the...

French newspaper Sud Ouest said the attacker entered the classroom while the teacher was giving a Spanish class and attacked her. The teacher was in her 50s and died of cardiac arrest after emergency services arrived at the school, local media reported. French TV station BFM said the attacker locked the classroom door and stabbed the teacher in her chest. Local media reported the student may have been suffering from mental health issues. They said at this stage of the investigation there was no suggestion the incident was terror-related. The school is a private, Catholic establishment near the centre of...

Alabama Representative Barry Moore, a staunch gun-rights supporter, is proposing that the AR-15 rifle should be the "National Gun of America." On Tuesday, Alabama Representative Barry Moore announced a bill that would make the AR-15 the "National Gun of America." "The #SecondAmendment is as American a right as freedom of speech, religion, & the press," Moore wrote on Twitter Tuesday evening. "Today I unveiled my bill to make the AR-15 the National Gun of America. We must send a message that we will meet every attack on any of our constitutional rights."

After left-wing nonprofits poured tens of millions of dollars into their state during the 2020 election to change election operations to benefit Democrats, Georgia Republicans passed legislation in an attempt to prevent such malfeasance from happening again. Now, those same dark money groups are back to replicate their 2020 strategy for the 2024 contest and test the integrity of Georgia’s elections. Earlier this month, DeKalb County, one of the state’s most populous localities and a Democrat stronghold, announced it had been selected to join the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence and that the county’s commissioners had accepted a $2 million...

In a video posted on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump vowed to "clean house of all of the warmongers and America's last globalists," stating that the Obama administration was behind the Maidan Uprising in Ukraine, which took place in 2014."World War III has never been closer than it is right now," Trump began.Trump: "Now we're teetering on the brink of World War 3""We need to clean house of all of the warmongers and America's last globalists in the deep state, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the national security industrial complex."Trump stated that one of the reasons "I was the...

Republicans investigating the Biden family's alleged influence peddling have demanded an interview with a former Serbian politician with ties to Hunter and the Chinese Communist Party. Vuk Jeremic, the ex-President of the United Nations General Assembly, allegedly introduced the President's son to an energy firms with links to the Chinese communist party in 2015. At the time, Hunter Biden was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to act as 'consultant' to help 'open doors' by introducing businessmen with links to Beijing to political leaders around the world, Republican Congressman James Comer claims. Now Comer, the chairman of the...

Donald Trump spoke to supporters in Florida on Monday night from Club 45 in Palm Beach and suggested that under his leadership, a deal would be brokered to end the war in Ukraine in just one day. The event was standing room only. Trump's comments mirror those he has made over the past year, insisting that if he were president, Putin would not have invaded Ukraine in the first place.LIVE: CLUB47 MEETING IN WEST PALM BEACH, FL "After you become the forty-seventh president," a young fan wearing a "Trump won" t-shirt asked, "what are you gonna do to stop the...

Republican lawmakers who railed against “woke capitalism” in the 2022 midterm elections have taken tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from some of the same Wall Street money managers they have attacked for pushing what the GOP calls “far-left” positions on environmental, social and corporate governance issues. Conservative activists have been pressuring Republicans to wield their new power in the House to block corporations and executives that use their influence to promote ESG plans such as clean energy investments or corporate policies that support abortion rights or LGBTQ rights, among other issues. Matt Schlapp, chairman of the influential...

President Trump spoke to the hearts of millions of MAGA voters and red-blooded American conservatives on Monday night, hinting that his trademark campaign rallies would soon be back in action. “We’re going to be starting the rallies,” he told an audience gathered at Club 47 in West Palm Beach, Florida.He poked fun at the mainstream media, noting that they had accused him of “not campaigning” for president since November 2024, even though the presidential election is nearly two years away.President Trump confirms: RALLIES will be starting back up soon. RT if you're ready for 2024 campaign rallies! pic.twitter.com/Li0vkQJwzE— RSBN 🇺🇸...

A former FBI agent slammed the bureau Tuesday for wasting taxpayer money after receiving a document from an alleged field office insider in New Jersey, which announced a “wellness room” that includes massage recliners, lounge furniture, and a yoga space for employees. Steve Friend, a former FBI agent and current senior fellow for the Center for Renewing America, tweeted two photos sent to him by an apparent insider at the bureau’s Newark Field Office that shows a memo announcement from the Health & Wellness Committee and a sign of self-care “reminders” outside the wellness room. Friend, who was suspended after...

. 3. Fast from social media. Social media and online activity in general is probably the biggest occasion for unhealthy anger in most of our lives. Take time away from social media this Lent to give yourself more time with God (he may make you angry but he’ll also heal you!). Fasts from social media are like any fast; they help us to become more moderate in our use. Often when I return from fasting from social media, I have a clearer mind and do not get as easily sucked into arguments, scandals, and whirlwinds of gossip, nastiness, and negativity.