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Threads, the new “Twitter killer” app rolled out by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has surpassed 100 million users in less than a week while Elon Musk’s micro-blogging site has seen traffic “tanking,” according to a tech executive. The initial burst of success for Threads has fueled a war of words between Musk and Zuckerberg. The Twitter boss referred to his tech rival as a “cuck” and challenged him to a “d–k measuring contest” over the weekend. Not only have users been signing up to Threads through their Instagram accounts, but they have also been posting prolifically. Since the system went...

rotests against the judicial reform measures being proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government took on religious overtones as protesters targeted MK (Likud) Ariel Kallner’s home in Haifa on Thursday night, plastering the neighborhood with posters proclaiming, “Here lives a messianic [believer].” Kallner filed a complaint about the matter with the police. He responded to the protesters: “The anarchist cowards came in the dead of night and vandalized the residential building where I live and the bus stop across the street.” Kallner told Hebrew-language Maariv news, “Do you really think they will succeed in breaking me? A complaint will...

It’s no secret to anyone paying attention that Joe Biden is visibly suffering through mid-stage dementia. The 80-year-old can barely walk and has no idea what he is doing anymore. Democrats are running Old Joe for president again which tells you EVERYTHING about the blatant fraud in our elections. On Monday Joe Biden looked like he could barely walk as he arrived in London for a visit. He later had trouble walking to Windsor Castle.

Cardinal: Christians must remain universalistsCardinal Marx: Church is for everyone - not just for ChristiansCathcon: the Church is for salvationA church in itself is a heresy: Cardinal Reinhard Marx from Munich emphasizes that Christians must remain universalists. "If we give that up, we haven't lived the core of Christianity."Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx often misses seeing the bigger picture in the churches. "A church in itself, that's heresy," in other words false teaching, he said at a conference on political Christianity at the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing over the weekend: "Only one community that says we are there for everyone, only...

Widespread flooding is expected to continue saturating parts of New York through Monday, as videos emerged of heavy rain showers in Hudson Valley submerging vehicles and turning one roadway into a waterfall. Most of the heavy flooding will swamp areas north of the five boroughs — spanning from Albany to the Canadian border east along I-87, Fox Weather meteorologist Christopher Tate told The Post. “All of the rain is going to be funneling into the Champlain Valley in Vermont and causing a real problem for folks in Vermont and northeastern New York,” Tate told The Post. Regions north of Yonkers...

Longtime Benician Harold Bray, a humble man, claims he is no hero. Benicians — and well, many Americans — beg to differ. They think he’s as good as gold. Well, maybe closer to bronze. With the passing of Cleatus Lebow in October at the age of 98, Bray is the lone living survivor from the legendary USS Indianapolis. On Friday night in front of the city’s clock tower, Bray was celebrated and honored for his service with the unveiling of a statue made by Matt Glenn. The life-sized bronze statue stands nearly 7 feet tall, affixed to a pedestal. It...

With the spectacle of kaiju candidates Ronzilla and King Don flattening Tokyo as they battle it out for the presidential nomination, it's no surprise that the Senate races are getting short-shrift. But don’t overlook them – look the hell out of them. These are hugely important because a Senate majority provides a critical bulwark – not the sissy dork kind but the real kind – against total Dem dominance if we lose our razor-thin House majority and if we nominate a presidential candidate who can’t get it done in the general. We have a very good map this cycle –...

[Catholic Caucus] Erotic Poet and His Buddies Get the Cardinal’s HatThe college of Cardinals, like the “Office Formerly Known as Holy,” is not of divine institution.It gradually emerged in the early and middle periods of what I term “First Christendom” in my book (commonly known by the pejorative “Middle Ages”) as a result of various papal ends, and it eventually became a central piece of Vatican bureaucracy.And like all pieces of the Vatican machine, it can be used for good or bad ends, depending on the good or bad actors pulling the strings in the Eternal City.Since Paul VI, we’ve...

An appeals court panel has struck down a block on a Tennessee act that bans prescribing body-disfiguring puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones or sex-change surgeries from being performed on children and youth expressing confusion about their sex, allowing the state to enforce the law. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled on Saturday that a Tennessee law passed back in March could take effect, removing a preliminary injunction placed on the act from a lower court. Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, authored the opinion...

Few subjects seem less political than math. There is little room for subjective judgment because its truths are universal. No matter what you look like or where you’re from or how you feel about it, two plus two will always equal four, and the area of a circle will always be π r². Math is so objective, in fact, some scientists have theorized that prime numbers could offer the basis of communication with supposed intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos. However, even if aliens know that math has no racial or gender bias, some educators on Earth seem to think...

National Security Minister responds to US President's claim Israel's government the most extreme ever on Judea and Samaria National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir spoke at an event honoring the Chabad movement in the Knesset today (Monday) during which he responded to the latest criticism of the Israeli government by US President Joe Biden. "The things that US President (Biden) said yesterday, the US is a wonderful friend to us and we love (the Americans). But I say from here to President Biden: 'The Land of Israel is for the People of Israel, according to the Torah of Israel," Ben-Gvir...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the leading Democrat challenger to President Biden for the Democrats’ 2024 presidential nomination, will appear live for an interview tonight with Jesse Watters on the FOX News channel. The program airs live from 7-8 PM ET/4-5 PM PT. Readers who have cut the cord or who are boycotting FOX News can probably find clips online afterwards and this writer will provide a review of the highlights with links here at American Thinker tomorrow. Kennedy has appeared multiple times on FOX News since he declared his candidacy on April 19 and appeared that night on Tucker Carlson...

Of course it's Hunter's cocaine. Everyone knows it, especially the Biden's. It was odd that the 53 year old Hunter Biden suddenly became a dependent resident of the White House as details of his tax evasion poured out. It's absolutely and totally incredible to suggest that we may never know who the culprit is. KJP won't flat out deny that the coke belongs to the Bidens, instead making some idiotic reference to the Hatch Act. KJP then went on to invoke a lie when calling a question about the presence of the Bidens in the White House "incredible irresponsible." .@NYPost's...

Whether you shop at an independent grocery store or a major supermarket, you’ve likely noticed high prices for everything from eggs to olive oil.

The propaganda ministry is in full spin mode, trying to explain why Joe Biden is parading around the world with Hunter in tow. The two are together for state dinners, overseas junkets, and weekends at Camp David. As the narrative goes, Hunter is a troubled man, victimized by the demon of addiction. Any appearance of presidential impropriety is simply a loving father concerned about his son, holding him close to keep him out of trouble. I say hogwash. Organized crime bosses protect themselves from legal jeopardy by insulating themselves from the dirty work. They use underlings to sell their product,...

WASHINGTON — Midway through the third year of his first term as president, things were not looking good for Ronald Reagan. His approval rating was consistently anemic as the nation struggled with high inflation. Voters gave him especially poor marks for his handling of the economy. And as he began his reelection campaign, people were openly questioning if he was too old for the job. But four decades ago, Reagan went on to win a second term by running on a theme of economic renewal that his campaign famously branded as “Morning in America.” Now, noting the similarities to President...

America’s never-ending quest for inclusion has now turned its attention to supposedly offensive school nicknames and mascots. Native American names are a particular target of this ire—Braves, Warriors, Chiefs together with individual tribes such as the Seminoles or Illini. The latest installment of this “anti-hate” push has occurred in New York State where these purportedly offensive names, logos, and mascots were banned in public schools as of April of 2023, or schools will lose state funding. As of March 2022, 133 New York schools had such Indian names and New York is hardly alone in exorcising allegedly hateful stereotypes. According...

My dog has a behavioral issue, and gets loose from time to time and kills cats... two so far. This is something that is making neighbors angry, obviously. Clearly the dog cannot stay here. She is also perhaps the stupidest dog I have ever owned and is completely untrainable. We have successfully housebroken her. However, for the eating ritual, she WAS sitting when commanded, and began eating on the release command 'Okay', but she forgot half that training and now just stares at you when you release her. Obviously we would never be able to train her not to kill...

No matter how many crimes occur in Chicago every day – carjackings, muggings, drug deals, political corruption – these rarely make the news, other than in reports of crime statistics. We hear numbers; we rarely learn the victims’ names. There are just too many of them. It’s the rarest of crimes – the incidents of severe police misconduct - that make the news. And the news of the day is a particularly disturbing story. The story broke on Thursday, July 6 that at least one Chicago police officer was being investigated for having sexual contact with illegal aliens (the press...

Ten years ago, in Paris for the first time, I left my hotel for a walk along the Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe. I wasn’t on the street ten minutes before a Moroccan or an Algerian gentleman walking in the opposite direction bent over to pick up something on the sidewalk. That something turned out to be a large gold coin that he immediately held up to my face. Speaking in broken English, the man proceeded to tell me a story about the “found” coin, and how it could be mine if only I paid him so many Euros....