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While flying around on private jets emits more greenhouse gases than traveling by any other means, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry defends the practice for himself and his fellow millionaires. "We are the planet's last hope for averting climate catastrophe," he argued. "There are so few of us heroes that the extra pollution we cause is tiny when compared with the massive amounts generated by ordinary people in their everyday travel for work or pleasure." "With time swiftly running out for our planet it is essential that we use the fastest available methods for getting to our far...

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has made history so many times. The first president without government or military experience. The first to be impeached twice. The first to aggressively challenge the certification of his successor. Now, he adds another: Even as he hopes to return to the White House in 2025, he is the first former president to be indicted. The latest line crossed by Trump challenges again the aura of the American presidency, nurtured in the infallibility of George Washington but made human over and over, through scandals born of greed and the abuse of power, corruption and...

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...

House Democrats have identified 31 Republican-held districts and two open Democratic-held districts as critical battlegrounds to reclaiming the House majority in next year’s elections. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) released its list of “Districts In Play” Monday, detailing its strategy ahead of 2024. The list follows the DCCC in March naming 29 incumbent House Democrats as vulnerable for defeat. Previewing House Democrats’ 2024 messaging, DCCC Chairwoman Rep. Suzan DelBene (Wash.) said in a press release that the districts’ Republican incumbents “worked hand in hand with Speaker McCarthy to enable the most dangerous wings of their party to threaten our...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his doors are closed for US ambassador to Ankara Jeff Flake following the diplomat's meeting with Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the presidential candidate for the opposition alliance. "What is (US President Joe) Biden's envoy doing? He goes and meets with Mr. Kemal. Shame on you, use your brain," Erdogan was quoted as saying by Turkey's Star newspaper on Sunday amid growing tension between Washington and Ankara. "You are an ambassador. Your interlocutor here is the president. How will you ask for a meeting with the president after this," Erdogan asserted, adding that his doors were now...

Former President Donald Trump will not plead guilty or be handcuffed, his attorney Joe Tacopina told ABC’s “Good Morning America” following the news of his indictment. A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump Thursday on charges related to his payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels, making him the first president in American history to be indicted. “I’m sure they’ll try to get every ounce of publicity they can from this thing,” Tacopina said Monday morning. “The president will not be put in handcuffs.” “I’m sure they’ll try to get some joy out of this by parading...

McDonald's has temporarily shut down all of its U.S. offices as it prepares to deliver layoff messages online to a number of their employees across the country. According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, the layoffs - part of a company restructuring - will begin Monday after the company told employees to work from home so it can fire their staff virtually. 'During the week of April 3, we will communicate key decisions related to roles and staffing levels across the organization,' McDonald's officials said in a memo.

Let me get this out of the way–I’ve been prejudiced against mainstream Christian movies. In the old days, these movies were often poorly made, and I always felt an embarrassment for the cause. Christians advertise a better way to live but make crappy movies! The two don’t go together, right? Well, something changed along the way. And I think we can pinpoint it to Sherwood Baptist Church in the town of Albany, Georgia. There, their visionary Senior Pastor Michael Catt found that only a small percentage of high school-aged boys and girls actually attended church. It became clear that they...

Bud Light is under fire for partnering with controversial trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who uploaded a sponsored post for the beer company. Mulvaney announced the partnership in a series of videos posted to social media at the weekend to coincide with the NCAA March Madness tournament. The influencer even boasted how the brewer sent her a beer can with her face printed on it. 'Happy March Madness!! Just found out this had to do with sports and not just saying it's a crazy month!' Mulvaney wrote on Instagram. The gimmick was to honor the trans activist's first full year of...

Oh my. Now this adds a new wrinkle to the Hogg story. New video was published this past weekend of anti-Second Amendment advocate and Democrat mouthpiece David Hogg shooting guns for fun at a gun range. Hogg has made it his life’s mission to take guns away from law-abiding citizens. Democrats believe it will make America safer when only criminals and cartel members have their illegal firearms. Hogg made it into Harvard, not because of grades but because he as a far left activist. Then this weekend footage surfaced of David Hogg enjoying an afternoon at the gun range. Oh...

In 2018, the videographer Monica Rodman published a remarkable article in The Advocate, a gay magazine. Rodman recalled being verbally abused while working on the set of a film. The director of the film, a gay man named George, was “acting unnecessarily hostile toward women, and women only. He treated the men on set as his equals and the women as subsidiaries.”Rodman had brought up the hate that dare not speak its name: the hatred too many gay men have for women. That enmity has been noted by cultural observers going back at least as far as the gay writer...

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation Monday making Florida the 26th constitutional carry state in the Union. This means the majority of states in the USA are constitutional carry. The NRA tweeted: DeSantis’ signature tips US into majority 'constitutional carry' nation with new Florida gun rights law https://t.co/8MtZsg9lyn — Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) April 3, 2023 The Tampa Bay Times reported the new law takes effect July 1, 2023.

New post-indictment polling data from former President Donald Trump’s campaign shows that not only does he hold a commanding lead in the GOP primary and a lead over Democrat President Joe Biden in a likely general election matchup but that more voters in both the primary and the general election say they are now going to vote for Trump because of it.The poll from Trump’s pollster John McLaughlin—who is widely regarded as one of the best GOP pollsters in the business—is some of the most in-depth data gathered since the news broke on Thursday that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg...

I saw a tiny man standing on my chest! He was about as big as my thumb, no more than 15 centimeters tall. In his hands, he held a bow and arrows. I felt many more little men crawling over me. In astonishment, I shouted very loudly, “Get off me, you insects.” —Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s TravelsThe struggle now being waged for the soul, and likely the survival, of the nation is generally understood as a political and cultural battle between competing visions of the future, a globalist and technocratic dispensation against a national and populist resistance. It is being fought...

Several MiG-29 fighter aircraft have been delivered to Ukraine to aid it in its fight against Russia, Marcin Przydacz, Head of the International Policy Bureau of the President of Poland, said to RMF24 radio on Monday. The transfer would make Poland the first Ukrainian ally to supply it with warplanes. Polish President Andrzej Duda said on March 16 that four of the aircraft would be delivered in the coming days. Przydacz said that there would be further transfers of fighter craft to Ukraine. Duda said that Poland has around 20 MiG-29s, Reuters reported.

The Czech Defense Minister has succeeded in raising the already sky-high threshold of gung ho attitudes towards the possibility of the escalation of the war in Ukraine even higher. In her view, Czech citizens have nothing to fear even if nuclear weapons were to be used in the battlefield. Reacting to the news about the Kremlin’s intention to place nuclear weapons on the territory of neighboring Belarus, during an interview on Czech television last week, Jana Černochová tried to reassure Czech citizens about the prospect of a nuclear escalation. However, instead of trying to dismiss such theories, or inform about...

Not only did the ISM Manfacturimng Report on New Business Order fall to 44.3, but price PAID also fell as The Fed hikes rates (yellow line) and slowing M2 Money growth (green line). Count Powellula. “I vant to suck the blood from your economy.”

Lessons learned from the front…. “Freedom is always playing defense while tyranny always plays offense” TJM.

Rebekah Koffler, who grew up in Soviet Russia doesn’t recognize this country. Communist actors are destroying the country under the Biden regime and the country is in real danger. Rebekah Koffler shares that President Trump established a reputation that he was not to be messed with by Putin while at the same time dealing with corrupt “Bolsheviks’ at home. President Trump is the only person that Putin fears. Having spent my intelligence career studying Russian war-fighting doctrine and Putin’s mindset, I am confident Trump is the one U.S. leader Putin fears. He has already established a reputation with Putin that...

On this date in 1098, Antioch’s besieged Muslim defenders martyred a Crusader knight who refused to secure a ransom for himself. The armies of the First Crusade had pressed their way through Anatolia and had laid to siege these past five months the ancient Syrian city of Antioch. (It’s in modern Turkey now, where it’s known as Antakya.) On April 3, 1098, by the account of the priest Peter Tudebode, an eyewitness to the event, the Turks led to the top of an Antiochian wall a noble knight, Rainald Porchet [alternatively, Rainaud or Reynaud Porquet], whom they had imprisoned in...