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It’s the 300th birthday of Sir Joshua Reynolds on Sunday (July 16) and at Kenwood House, they’re celebrating by bringing together the 17 pictures of his that the museum owns. A dozen are in one room; five in another, set alongside his rivals and contemporaries, Gainsborough and Romney. It’s a splendid opportunity to see the span of the work of the man who dominated the artistic life of England in his age. He was revered by contemporaries: John Constable wrote that his paintings conveyed “certainly the finest feeling of art that ever existed”. Only the contrarian William Blake took the...

Incarcerated Tiger King star Joe Exotic has waded into the ongoing Bud Light fallout with a pitch to Budweiser featuring a mocked-up image of a beer can and a message about the attraction of the "world's favorite transphobic gay redneck." Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Allen Maldonado, 60, teased Budweiser bosses with a tweet posted by his team that hinted at how its parent company Anheuser-Busch could sell more beer as customers turn away from Bud Light. In tweet on Saturday, Maldonado's team said: "Budweiser-Try putting the world's favorite transphobic gay redneck on a can and get back to...

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan represents the UniParty outlook from Washington DC.From the position of influence and affluence, both Republican and Democrat policy makers are aligned in a unified outlook toward foreign policy and geopolitical affairs. Washington DC does not have two competing political parties on these issues; there is complete alignment and unidirectional focus. Never forget that.Before getting to the Sullivan points, I’m going to shift the discussion slightly, back to the core and explain something that might help provide context for issues from China to Russia and beyond.Everyone in Washington DC agrees with the agencies and institutions that...

An ex-Donald Trump campaign manager has cashed in on Bud Light’s disastrous tie-up with Dylan Mulvaney by launching a “woke-free beer” called Ultra Right — and its latest ad is a cinematic parody that takes another jab at the embattled brew. The latest ad for the new beer, called Ultra Right, plays on the comedic action film “Smokey the Bandit,” a 1970s hit about a truck driver who transports an illegal shipment of beer across state lines. “That’s me, Conservative Dad. You’re probably wondering how I got here,” the ad starts while showing founder, chief executive and so-called “Conservative Dad”...

High school English teachers today face prison in Florida if they have their class perform a Shakespeare play in period dress. Every Shakespeare play at the Globe required cross-dressing.Women were not allowed on English stages 400 years ago, so women’s roles were played by cross-dressing men, whether at The Globe, the Blackfriars or, what was it called? O, yeah, the Roxy. This led to the delightful scene in “The Merchant of Venice” in which Portia, played by a cross-dressing man, criss-cross-dresses as a woman playing a man, to save his/her/its friend’s friend Antonio. Right: a man playing a woman playing...

From flooded cities to hellish wildfires and deadly droughts, gloomy climate reports constantly describe a world ruined by climate change. But what would this actually look like? Environmental specialist Marish Cuenca has partnered with DiscoverCars.com to create artistic depictions of tourist spots in just a quarter of a century from now. London's Big Ben looks straight out of a disaster movie, straddled by a mass of murky floodwater, while the Pyramids of Giza are home to a toxic urban landscape. Palm trees of Hawaii have been ravaged by fire, while California's Death Valley is so hot that the roads are...

"Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee." "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif) made a fool out of himself after getting into a public spat with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), defending the naked photos of women that were found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. During a hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray this week, Swalwell argued that there is no proof the nude images on Hunter’s laptop were not consensual— despite a field day of evidence that Republicans say could have impacted the outcome of the 2020 elections. The disgraced Democrat said it is “bananas” to think the suppression of the abandoned laptop discovery by liberal media outlets...

@TuckerCarlson Sounds like this could use a longer conversation. We just asked @GovChristie to sit down and explain his views on Ukraine. He refused. You hate to think that Chris Christie is a blustery coward who plays the tough guy with sycophants at ABC but won’t answer real questions, but who knows? We hope he reconsiders.

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This video segment from VOA News describes how many Gazans trace their roots to Kurdistan.Of course, we knew this. There are plenty of Palestinians with the last name "el-Kurd" or "el-Kurdi," and many prominent Palestinian families proudly trace their roots to Arabia or Syria or Morocco or Turkey and everywhere else.Here is my latest list of Palestinian surnames and where they appear to have originated:AbbasIraqAbdil-Masih (Beit Sahour)TurkeyAbidSudanAbu Aita (Beit Sahour)TurkeyAbu GhoshEurope/11th centuryAbu SittaEgyptAbu-KishkEgyptAdwanArabiaAfghani AfghanistanAjami IranAl HafiIraqAlamiMoroccoAlami MoroccoAlawi SyriaAl-Hayik (Beit Sahour)TurkeyArafatSyriaArajMoroccoAramshaEgyptArashiEgyptAshrawiYemenAwwadEgyptAzd, Azad YemenBadraEgyptBaghdadi IraqBannaEgyptBannouraEgyptBardawil EgyptBarghoutiYemen (may be Jewish)Bushnak BosniaChehayberTurkeyDajaniArabia via SpainDarjaniArabiaDjazair AlgeriaDoghmushTurkeyErekatJordanFakikiMoroccoFaranjiFranceFaruqiIraqFayumiEgyptFilaliMoroccoGharubEgyptGhassanLebanonHaddadinYemenHalabi SyriaHamisBahrainHammoudaTransjordanHannouneh (Beit Sahour)TurkeyHashlamunKurdistanHijazi ArabiaHindi IndiaHourani SyriaHusseiniArabiaIbrahim (Beit Sahour)TurkeyIraki IraqIssaArrived...

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The grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Millions of Americans in the West and South will stay trapped under a dome of heat, while a system of storms is set to dunk the East with severe showers and flash flooding through the end of July. In a heatwave smothering the western third of the country through the end of the month, some spots are already reaching record high temperatures. A separate pattern will keep showering rain along the East Coast..

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), chair of the “Progressive Caucus” in the House, called Israel a “racist state” on Saturday in Chicago — but then said that she supported a “two-state solution” for Israel and the Palestinians. Jayapal was speaking at the Netroots Nation conference, a gathering of left-wing online activists. She was heckled by anti-Israel demonstrators who waved Palestinian flags. She chose to address them directly:

Southern West Virginia to Eastern Kentucky is the largest region of economically distressed counties in the country. In many ways, it's a different America here. But what's it feel like to travel through this region in Appalachia and what do the locals have to say? ...

Eco-vandals targeted Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie's £241million superyacht in Ibiza today, using fire extinguishers to coat it in red and black paint. Vegan activists from Futuro Vegetal (Vegetable Future) sprayed the 360ft vessel before holding up a 'You Consume Others Suffer' sign in their latest climate protest stunt. The Spanish group has claimed responsibility in a statement on social media, which states that 'the only reason we continue to maintain an economic system that leads us to eco-social collapse is to sustain the privileges of this small privileged class.' The superyacht belongs to US supermarket heiress Nancy Walton Laurie,...

Hunter Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to former President Donald Trump, demanding that he refrain from making defamatory statements. This action was prompted by concerns that such statements could potentially incite violence against the Biden family. Lowell expressed in his letter that the usage of Hunter Biden's name in Trump's public statements, occurring on an almost daily basis in recent months, has escalated and posed a risk to Biden and his family's safety. The letter highlighted multiple instances of Trump's posts on Truth Social, citing his persistent and harmful rhetoric in the face of his own...

This is now a epidemic across the country. This is intentional ! No AC, bad sound, lights being left on, bad attitude, smoke in the theater, fire evacuation, police call to scene, money being refunded without you knowing, money being refunded, numerous numerous suspicious activity. This is a safety security concern.

BUTTONWILLOW, Calif. - A special delivery arrived on a rural California road last Saturday. CHP officers in Buttonwillow, a small town near Bakersfield, rushed to a medical emergency on SR-119, west of SR-43. When they arrived they found a woman in active labor inside a car pulled to the side of the road. "Officer Pence and Officer Krahn put their training to work and delivered a beautiful baby girl at 7:32a.m.," wrote CHP Central Division on Instagram, sharing details of the delivery.