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John Kirby appears on Fox News Sunday 7-16-23. (Credit: Fox News) The entire world knows that the United States is low on firepower because President Joe Biden acted on his inexplicable desire to blurt out such information on CNN, telling Fareed Zakaria, “This is a war relating to munitions. And [Ukraine]… is running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it.”He also maintained that the shortage was one reason behind the controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine.Now the U.S. is scrambling to strengthen stockpiles, according to John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security...

Former President Trump admitted that it was a "mistake" to put Christopher Wray in charge of the FBI, blaming it on 2024 GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie. During an interview on Fox News, Trump acknowledged his poor judgment of Wray, claiming he only appointed Wray as a director based on strong urging from Christie. "Yeah, sadly. It probably was [a mistake]," Trump said. "It was recommended very strongly by Chris Christie, who was, you know, a sad case. I mean, I watch him. He's a sad case." Trump criticized Christie on his low poll numbers in the GOP presidential primary,...

Tucker Carlson hosted a candidate forum at the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 14. Politico described it as the “Tucker stress test,” and many 2024 GOP candidates failed. The former Fox News host outright brutalized them. You could argue that Mr. Carlson was the grim reaper to many candidacies this week.On the other hand, some folks, like Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, and Mike Pence, didn’t have a shot at winning the nomination anyway. Asa Hutchinson got cornered on transgender issues, which the former Arkansas governor felt wasn’t significant. Carlson reminded him that it’s one of the...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Lisa Pauli wants to die. The 47-year-old has wrestled with the eating disorder anorexia for decades; she says she has had a warped relationship with her body since age 8. These days, Pauli says, she weighs 92 pounds and may go days without eating solid food. She says she is too weak to carry groceries home without stopping for breaks. "Every day is hell," she said. "I'm so tired. I'm done. I've tried everything. I feel like I've lived my life." Pauli cannot legally get medical help to die - yet.

In 2018, Pope Francis and the Vatican signed an agreement with the Chinese Communists that, among other things, gives both sides a say in the appointment of bishops. This agreement was ignored by Beijing three months ago when they unilaterally named Bishop Joseph Shen Bin to lead the Diocese of Shanghai. Instead of standing up to the Beijing bullies, Francis gave in and announced on Saturday that he had accepted the Communist’s appointment despite Beijing’s blatant violation of the 2018 accord. The Church in China is sharply divided between the “official” Catholic Church sanctioned by the government and an “underground”...

Ministry of Transport: from the side of Crimea, the roadbed on the spans of the Crimean bridge was damaged Moscow, July 17-RIA Novosti. On the spans of the Crimean bridge, the roadbed was damaged, the Ministry of Transport of Russia reported in the Telegram channel. "From the side of the Republic of Crimea, there is damage to the roadway on the spans of the Crimean bridge," the department's publication says. The ministry emphasized that the structures of the bridge spans are on their supports, the information about the damage of which is not true...

There is so much wrong with America’s cities, it’s hard to see why any contributing member of society would live and/or work in one of them. Some of the issues arise from far-Left local governance while others are generated by more widespread Leftist policy. These are coupled with an organic workforce evolution, as the USA transitions from an industry-based to an information-based economy. The result is urban areas caught in a downward spiral — and, as with any sinking vessel, threatening to suck everyone nearby down with them. First, quick refresher on the compounding problems of urban areas. Chief among...

Hi I am on the road a lot today its summer and much of the post today "canned" ahead of time. I always had this vision in my head back 20 or more years ago of Rush Limbaugh playing oldies on the radio every weekend an extra show to help promote the weekday shows and soften the image that was being dumped on El Rushbo by his enemies. Well lets go to the music Janis Joplin lost too early to drugs I remember when she died it was on the news and she looked weird to me back then... Still...

An officer fatally shot the suspect in the shooting that happened just before 3 p.m. Friday, police in the North Dakota city said. A motive wasn't known. [...] Zibolski identified the suspect as Mohamad Barakat, 37, of Fargo, but provided few details about him or the shooting, citing officials’ desire to protect the investigation. He said he was confident authorities would eventually determine the motive.

As anticipated, an arm of the World Health Organization has said aspartame is a "possible carcinogen" — but does that label mean much?No, the artificial sweetener aspartame is not a possible carcinogen to humans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday (July 14).The regulator's statement came on the heels of a ruling issued by an arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), which classified the ubiquitous sweetener as possibly cancer-causing.The WHO agency, called the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), made its call based on a handful of studies in humans, mice and rats, as well as...

Office attendance is slumping again and bosses have a warning: We are a worse company when you stay home. In buildings across 10 major U.S. cities, office occupancy has fallen back below 50% for the past three weeks, according to Kastle Systems, which tracks security swipes into offices. The drop comes despite new return-to-office mandates that affect more than 600,000 workers and counting.Hundreds of Wall Street Journal readers—many of them bosses and team leaders—responded to our story on the workers who say “it’s not my responsibility” to save the office economy. These bosses say employees who insist they are more...

(At 4:54) "But I did learn a couple of things, it was super super interesting. The first thing I guess I already knew it and you need to know it that's why you're here is the spread between the things that Republicans in Washington the people you vote for and put there care about, actually care about They care about a lot of things. The things that really touch them off, that matter to them very different than the things that matter to the people who vote for them...

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95% of the attendees at the Turning Point ACTION conference believe the US should not be involved in the Ukraine war effort 95% Why do 99% of elected Republicans support the war?

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.1 Timothy 2:1-2 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - China and the Solomon Islands on Monday signed a deal on police cooperation as part of an upgrade of their relations to a "comprehensive strategic partnership", four years after the Pacific nation switched ties from Taiwan to China. The police cooperation pact was among nine deals signed after Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, underlining his nation's foreign policy shift. Sogavare arrived in China on Sunday for his first visit since the two countries struck a security pact last year, to the alarm of the United States...

It appears that at least one side of the bridge involving two lanes has been completely separated.https://twitter.com/svtv_news/status/1680755705853214721At approximately 2024 EST, reports began to emerge of at least two explosions in the sky over Kerch, Crimea. At 2104 EST, locals began to report on social media that a general alarm had sounded for all civilians to clear the bridge and evacuate the area.At 2125 EST, Republic of Crimea Head Aksyonov confirmed the bridge had been shut down and law enforcement agencies were on scene. Although no fire was reported, he did announce that a partial bridge collapse had occurred around the...

Two young Britons returning from a humanitarian mission were arrested by customs in possession of category C weapons. It is an unusual cargo which was intercepted by customs officers in Calais on May 7th. During a routine check in a vehicle bound for England and returning from Ukraine, officials discovered two rocket launchers, 14 casings struck and the remains of a bullet-proof vest, reports this Saturday Voice of the North...

Note: Alabama woman went missing after calling 911 and reporting Toddler in Diapers walking on edge of highway. Hoover, Alabama police say they will wait until the time is right to interview Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell. The 25-year-old nursing student went missing after reporting a child wandering on the side of a highway on Thursday (July 13). Russell showed up at her parents house and knocked on the front door just before 11 p.m. Saturday. According to WBRC, the Hoover PD 911 center received a call at 10:45 p.m. on Saturday that Russell had returned home to her residence. Hoover...

The percentage of infants from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experiencing hypothermia upon operating room (OR) arrival and at any point during the operation decreased from 48.7% to 6.4% and 67.5% to 37.4%, respectively, after implementation of a multidisciplinary quality improvement project. About one-third of infants admitted to children's hospitals' NICUs require surgery and are at increased risk for intraoperative hypothermia due to environmental heat loss, anesthesia, and inconsistent temperature monitoring. Hypothermic infants are at risk for infection, excessive bleeding, increased oxygen consumption, the need for cardiorespiratory support, and mortality. Upon return to the NICU, the percentage of infants...