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South of the border, down Mexico (and Guatemala) way. What a mess in Washington DC. While House Republicans are at lagerheads with Senate Democrats and Resident Biden over Federal spending cuts, the price of insuring against a debt default just rose to 76.75. How bad it that? Put it this way. Millions are fleeing Mexico and Guatemala and coming to the US. But Mexico has a lower cost of insuring against a debt default than the USA. And Guatemala is almost as expensive as the USA. It will all be over soon, according to CDS prices. Maybe the USA needs...

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie predicted Donald Trump will be indicted in at least one of the several investigations he faces ahead of the 2024 presidential campaign. In an interview with Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday, Christie said he didn’t think Trump’s legal team would be able to dismiss the Georgia case over the grand jury foreperson’s conduct. But he said “I still have a hard time believing” Trump will be indicted for attempting to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into finding enough votes to swing the state in his favor during the 2020 election: This is a...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 8The Yeast of the Pharisees and Herod14 The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. 15 “Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.”16 They discussed this with one another and said, “It is because we have no bread.”17 Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Do you have eyes but fail to see, and...

Adam Jentleson, chief of staff for Sen. Joh Fetterman (D-PA), blocked conservative writer Stephen L. Miller, aka redsteeze, for asking how it is that Fetterman is sponsoring legislation while being hospitalized under doctor’s care. Fetterman has been held incommunicado for over two weeks now while allegedly being treated for clinical depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

South Florida will become the epicenter of the climate community this weekend as several events kick off that will highlight the impacts of and solutions to climate change. The main event will be the Aspen Ideas: Climate conference, which returns to Miami Beach March 6-9 for its second year. The conference will bring over 300 speakers to the Miami Beach Convention Center and the New World Center, including vice president Kamala Harris, Miami-born latin music star Gloria Estefan, celebrity scientist Bill Nye, White House “climate czar” Ali Zaidi, former Colombian president Iván Duque, and executives from financial institutions like Bank...

Peter Pan has been given a 'woke' makeover with the famous Lost Boys updated to include girls, too. Disney released a trailer for its latest live-action remake Peter Pan & Wendy but there were a few crucial changes to the plot from the original 1904 play by J.M. Barrie. In one shot, a group of children can be seen gathering around as they introduce themselves as 'lost boys,' as a little girl adds 'every last one of us.' A surprised Wendy remarks 'but you're not all boys!' to which one replies 'So?' Critics were quick to slam the change, with...

A conflict over what it means to be Christian is forcing a school in Kansas City, Missouri, to close. Urban Christian Academy is a private, K-8 school with an enrollment of 100 that describes itself as providing "a tuition-free, high-quality, Christ-centered education for low-income students." The school’s mission statement has always stressed inclusivity in general terms, noting that following Jesus "opens up doors and makes room at the table." But last year it added a paragraph to its website, which read in part, "We are an affirming school. We stand with the LGBTQIA+ community and believe in their holiness. We...

Criminal damaging: Beta Drive A Florida man, 30, stopped at the Holiday Inn Feb. 26 requesting to use their electric charger for his vehicle, which needed charging while on a road trip. He was told it was only for guests of the hotel, but he proceeded to break the lock on the charging station and began to charge his vehicle. He quickly left the area when employees went to confront him, but his plate number was obtained and led to his identification. Theft and criminal damaging charges are pending.

In his deeply moving autobiography, "Up From Slavery," Booker T. Washington, who was born in 1856 to an enslaved family on a Virginia plantation, describes the first shred of education he acquired. He was 9 years old when the Civil War ended and, like every other enslaved child, had been deliberately kept illiterate and innumerate. With the arrival of freedom, Washington's family journeyed to West Virginia, where his stepfather arranged a job for him in a salt-furnace. It was there that his education began. "The first thing I ever learned in the way of book knowledge was while working in...

Wildfires pushing tigers towards Sumatran villages. Drought prodding elephants into African cropland. Hotter ocean temperatures forcing whales into shipping lanes. Humans and wildlife have long struggled to harmoniously coexist. Climate change is pitting both against each other more often, new research finds, amplifying conflicts over habitat and resources. "We should expect these kinds of conflicts to increase in the future," said lead researcher Briana Abrahms, a wildlife biologist at the University of Washington. "Recognizing that climate is an important driver can help us better predict when they'll occur and help us [intervene]." Human-wildlife conflict is defined as any time humans...

What is almost never mentioned is the role the Soviet Union played in helping North Vietnam...and the mistaken belief of most people that they never played an active part at all.... Starting in 1964, North Vietnamese fighter pilots and anti-aircraft gunners were being trained in the Soviet Union, with Soviet advisors also being stationed in North Vietnam... Soviet archives opened after the fall of the USSR indicate that these anti-aircraft crews, mainly Ukrainian, served for much of the war... Early on, when the North Vietnamese troops were still unfamiliar with the new Soviet anti-aircraft batteries, Soviet crews manned the guns...

Medical establishments prove time and time again how easily polluted they are by leftism. Treat human life as anything less than sacred, and humanity is rapidly dehumanized. Canada's MAiD, like all medical homicide programs, is the metaphorical foot in the door, an obstinate wedge, breaking the seal of a once-closed divider. Or we call it what it is (genocide), and MAiD is like an axe-wielding Jack Nicholson in The Shining. For context, in 2016, the year "assisted suicide" became legal, the number of MAiD deaths was 1,018. Five years later, the 2021 data showed that number at 10,064. This is...

A transgender teacher with prosthetic Z-cup breasts has finally been suspended from her Canadian school after pictures showed her in men's clothing, proving she does not wear the provocative attire all the time. Kayla Lemieux, who claims the breasts are real and the result of a medical condition, has come under fire for her tight outfits and huge prosthetics, with parents previously claiming she 'mocks women and the education experience.' The Halton District School Board (HDSB) confirmed she had been placed on paid leave on Tuesday - though she continues to be paid for her role at Oakville Trafalgar High...

PORT ROYAL, S.C., Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1863. I am glad to be able to inform you that the Foster-Hunter imbroglio, which had assumed so complicated a form at the date of my last writing, and which for a moment seriously threatened to interfere with active operations in this Department, has been disentangled and finally settled. The solution of the difficulty will, I am sure, be as satisfactory to the country as it certainly is to this command. Gen. FOSTER does not return, and Gen. FOSTER's troops do not depart. They remain here as an integral part of Gen. HUNTER's command...

One of the reasons why we don't deserve dogs is because they give us joy that we aren't capable of giving them that back. In a viral video, a cute dog is seen giving a hilarious dance to an elderly woman's singing and clapping.

President Biden said in a speech on Wednesday that he's going to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines "come hell or high water." Biden made the comments at the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, on Wednesday night. "I know it may make some of you uncomfortable, but that little state above me, Delaware is one of them, has the highest rate, one of the highest rates of gun ownership. But guess what? We're going to ban assault weapons again come hell or high water and high capacity magazines. When we did it last time to reduce...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls needed hospital treatment on Tuesday after another mysterious poisoning, a news agency reported, the latest in a spate of suspected attacks in the Islamic republic. Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported in the past three months among schoolgirls mainly in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, with some needing hospitalisation. A government official said on Sunday that the attacks were believed to be a deliberate attempt to force the closure of girls' schools. "Today (Tuesday) at noon, a number of students were poisoned at the Khayyam Girls' School in the city...

I found several threads discussing this classic new movie, but didn't find any links to the trailer.This trailer has no foul language and is child and preacher friendly (just kidding, "this bear is f*cked")From Youtube:Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow … and blood. Cocaine...

In the last couple of days, I’ve written about how FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted that his agency concluded “quite some time ago” that the COVID virus escaped from a Wuhan, China virology lab, and how “sources” recently told the Washington Post that FBI agents were against the August 2022 raid on former President’s Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. What’s the commonality between the two stories? They both make the FBI look better, and they both indicate that Wray might be playing a game of CYA and distancing himself from the dictatorial, partisan Attorney General, Merrick Garland.