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Yesterday, 30 years ago, February 26, 1993, was my last day in service as advisor on Countering Terrorism to two Israeli prime ministers, first Yitzhak Shamir and then Yitzhak Rabin. It was a clear cold winter Friday with blue skies. On that day, I gave a final briefing at the Pentagon to the office of Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SOLIC). At the time, "Low-Intensity Conflict" was a moniker for what later became known as anti-Jihad activities. Aftermath of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. (Source: Archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2008/february/tradebom_022608). I dedicated my briefing to the threat of Islamic fundamentalism. Employing the...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• ENTOMBING JESUS' DEAD BODY ֎ Featuring 50 Paintings, 1 Relief, 1 Shroud, 8 Statues and 3 Windows ֎ J O H N «Chapter 19*» Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away. He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. 1 VASILIJ GRIGOR'EVIČ PEROV "The Mourning and Preparation for Burial" 2 ANTONIO...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday after experiencing mild symptoms, according to his office. KCRA 3's Ashley Zavala said that the governor's office confirmed that Newsom will be in isolation for the next five days and still plans to carry on with his statewide tour from March 16-19 to make policy announcements.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is planning to resettle immigrants across the United States. Adams, a Democrat, unveiled his plans in a policy briefing released Tuesday titled "The Road Forward: A Blueprint to Address New York City’s Response to the Asylum Seeker Crisis." In his preface, Adams implicitly admits the overwhelming nature of the crisis, saying the city is unable to solve the "asylum seeker crisis" on its own. The move comes after a large wave of immigrants, sent by bus from red states, has left the city struggling to cope. Adams admitted it himself.

“The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie… Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property….” — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto One of the most distressing trends to witness in the modern era is the governments’ trajectory towards utilitarianism that leaves behind it a bloody wake of “useless eaters.” Finding a person’s value not in his/her humanity but in subjective and ever-changing standards of worth (commoditized humanity), is rampant within leftism — which is why...

(Last Updated On: March 2, 2023) NATIONAL MEATBALL DAY On March 9th, we recognize one of the great American food holidays, National Meatball Day. #NationalMeatballDay It is not clear how this day got started, but who can resist the idea of celebrating National Meatball Day? There are many different ways to celebrate meatballs: Spaghetti and meatballs Swedish Meatballs Meatball Sub Meatball Pizza Turkey Meatballs Lamb Meatballs Porcupine Meatballs (made with rice) and the list goes on and on. We can’t put a number on the variety of meatballs in the world. Nor can we limit how many you put on...

The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government will hold a hearing,“The Twitter Files,” on Thursday, March 9, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. EST. Witnesses: Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger

British energy giant Shell ensured the pay package for the company’s CEO jumped by half last year to nearly $12 million as oil and gas companies made record profits from runaway energy costs and consumers struggled with a global cost-of-living crisis. AP reports London-based Shell paid Ben van Beurden a total of $11.5 million in 2022 as annual company profits doubled to an all-time high of $40 billion because Russia’s war in Ukraine sent oil and gas prices soaring. Van Beurden stepped down at the end of last year after 40 years at the company.

Tucker Carlson is locked in shredding the nonsense surrounding the January 6 riot, which has been sold to the public as a violent insurrection. The hyperbole knows no bounds as others have said that day was worse than Pearl Harbor or the 9/11 attacks, once again showing that liberals have no sense of history. Trump supporters killed Capitol Police officers; people took that seriously. And it’s all a lie. It’s also a lie that those arrested, indicted, and convicted are domestic terrorists. I’m not referring to the ones who attacked police officers; they deserve whatever comes to them. But folks...

As Americans are painfully aware, inflation is still haunting us. Despite Administration proclamations that inflation is declining, it is rising again. And with rising inflation (and an overheated labor market), The Federal Reserve is in full counterattack mode, withdrawing stimulus and raising rates. And with Fed tightening comes rising 30-year mortgage rates. Out of boredom, I watched the Clive Barker film “Hellraiser” and noticed perpertual Democrat Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton in the cast as the female Cenobite.

Greetings, y’all. My prayers and best wishes go out to those affected by the winter storm hitting the upper Midwest and the Northeast.This past week I had the glorious opportunity to visit Liberty University, the world’s largest Christian institution of higher learning. I was humbled to be able to deliver a classroom lecture and a seminar forum. I attended the Friday morning convocation service, and how amazingly encouraging it was! The motto of Liberty University, actually its charge and mission, is to “Make Champions for Christ.” I have had the opportunity to speak on many college and university campuses, and...

Every July, Minot Air Force Base, the only one to contain two ‘legs’ of the nuclear triad, celebrates ‘Diversity Day’. Held at the Jimmy Doolittle Center, named after the hard-charging Air Force pioneer who led the first air raid into Japan after Pearl Harbor, Diversity Day showcases “many different cultures along with other diversities such as religion and disabilities” representing the various cultures at Minot Air Force Base.” Jimmy would not approve.A culture notably absent from the Diversity Day festivities at Minot is a culture of competence.Two Air Force commanders have been fired after their units failed nuclear surety inspections....

Joe Biden’s lawyer had nine boxes shipped to his Boston office from the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. That’s where Biden’s lawyers uncovered the first known batch of classified documents on November 2nd. The nine boxes haven’t been opened, and we don’t know if they’re classified, but they were moved from the Penn Center. After having them for months, no one opened them. “Despite having possession of the documents since November, the Archives has not yet reviewed the boxes’ content to determine whether additional classified materials are inside,” Fox News notes. Officials tell us that the critical thing is...

The story in the movie that caught my attention and that of the generally liberal audience involved the Democratic Senate primary of 1948. So intriguing was the primary that Caro thought it worthy of its own volume. This caused him to expand his projected three-volume series to five. In 1948, Johnson, then a congressman, was challenging popular three-term Texas Gov. Coke Stevenson for the Democratic nod – at the time, a guarantee of a general election victory. In the initial vote, Stevenson beat Johnson handily, but a third candidate drained off enough votes to mandate a run-off. As Democrats had...

TLDR update Russian troops launched massive strikes at night on critical infrastructure in Ukraine.The list of the weapons involved in the attack has significantly expanded: the RF Armed Forces used kamikaze drones, cruise missiles, and even the Kinzhal hypersonic complex.What is known by now?Kiev: the engine room and boiler room of CHPP-5, a large generating station in the capital, were hit. Together with other hits, the city experienced significant problems with electricity and communications. Previously, the facility has repeatedly become the target of attacks by Russian troops, but the station still continued to work. If the Armed Forces of the...

Last month in Nebraska, two 20-year-old Hondurans, Ramiro Hernandez-Tziquin and Domingo Zetino-Hernandez, shot a bald eagle and were planning to cook it and eat it. The two Hondurans, carrying a dead bald eagle, were arrested by the Stanton County Sheriff’s department on February 28, right outside a state wildlife management area. The illegal alien eagle-killers didn’t speak English and deputies had to use a translation app to communicate with them. The only form of ID they were carrying were documents from the Honduran consulate.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Multiple law enforcement and legal sources tell Action News Jax Investigative Reporter Ben Becker, the father of University of Florida football legend and current ESPN broadcaster, Tim Tebow, is a victim of extortion. According to a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrest warrant, Laura Alves Marciano, 37, (aka Cafiero, Poposki) and Diego Alves Marciano Kosiniuk, 35, of Palm Coast were arrested as part of an undercover sting operation after trying to extort $120,000 from a man with the initials R.T. Sources tell Becker, R.T. is Robert Tebow, 75.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 9Jesus Heals a Boy Possessed by an Impure Spirit14 When they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers of the law arguing with them. 15 As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with wonder and ran to greet him.16 “What are you arguing with them about?” he asked.17 A man in the crowd answered, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech. 18 Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the...

Magnanimity demonstrated to those harming us at home and abroad is interpreted as American weakness, if not decadence to be further exploited. Recently there were some remarkable online videos of a Portland, Oregon good Samaritan confronting shoplifters and forcing them to dump loads of their pilfered goods.More stunning, however, was the sheer outrage—of the thieves! They pouted. They screamed. They resisted. How dare anyone stop them from stealing anything they wished. The criminals entertained no fear of any consequences for walking out with bags of things that were not theirs. They had no care that mainstreaming their habits would undermine...

When I first encountered ChatGPT, I was very impressed and quite intimidated that my job as a Senior Software Analyst would soon be obsolete. I am no longer impressed, nor am I intimidated. Here are two interactions I have had with the product that best highlight the disappointing performance of the product. The first one is quite funny. There is a third I will post, later today, in this thread. ME: how do I get in touch with you? CHATGPT: You can get in touch with me by simply typing your question or message in this chatbox and pressing enter....