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New home sales in June fell -2.5% from May to June to 697k units sold. But on a year-over-year (YoY) basis, new home sales are up 23.8%. Thanks largely to The Federal Reserve slow walking the shrinking of their massive balance sheet. Too much monetary stimulus and The Fed’s failure to remove the Covid stimulus is now hitting new home sales.

On this date in 1992, 42* Baghdad merchants who were among several hundred rounded up over the preceding 48 hours were executed at Saddam Hussein‘s command at Abu Ghraib prison and the Interior Ministry compound. A year and change on from the close of the Gulf War, Iraq’s economy was groaning under a murderous program of economic sanctions. The merchants were accused of profiteering by manipulating food prices — a chilling threat to businessmen, but one that had little power to arrest the wreck of Iraq’s economy. Prices for food, and everything else, were spiking under the blockade. “Hardly any...

VIDEOMany people were surprised at how Bill Mitchell who not too long ago was a YUUUUUGE Trump supporter suddenly flipped and began to shill for Ron DeSantis while bashing Trump. Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Radio Show (longest running radio show in Florida history), provided what is probably the most OBVIOUS reason for Shill Mitchell's sudden change. Oh, and a reminder to everybody that Shill Mitchell SWORE that if DeSantis drops out of the race, he would leave all social media FOREVER and never again get involved in politics. This provides a big motivation for the defeat of...

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...

The film "Oppenheimer" is filled with terrible visions of nuclear war from the father of the atom bomb. But J. Robert Oppenheimer didn't know about the worst-case scenario: nuclear winter. The theory is that nuclear war would darken the skies, cool the planet, and cause billions to starve. Christopher Nolan's new film "Oppenheimer" is filled with the titular physicist's worst nightmares of nuclear war. Ominous visions of mushroom clouds bursting from city after city, stacks of fire rising past the clouds, and ripples of radiation engulfing Europe haunt Cillian Murphy's J. Robert Oppenheimer. As the director of the secret Los...

(Last Updated On: July 17, 2023) NATIONAL BAGELFEST DAY | JULY 26 National Bagelfest Day on July 26th recognizes the kosher carbohydrate. Toast one and add a schmear or two. If you don’t, you’re not really celebrating. #NationalBagelfestDay North Americans love this crunchy on the outside and chewy in the middle bread. Served with a variety of toppings, bagels also come in a diverse flavors. In most communities, bagel shops are a staple across the country. U.S. Bagel History Polish-Jewish immigrants introduced the bagel to the United States. Throughout New York City and the surrounding boroughs, they grew thriving businesses....

Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who swaggered through three terms as Connecticut’s last Republican senator, challenging Richard Nixon over Watergate and the GOP’s rightward shift under Ronald Reagan, then willed the state’s income tax into existence in a second act as a third-party governor, died Wednesday. He was 92. His death at Middlesex Hospital was announced by his family. Weicker left elective office in January 1995 as Connecticut’s 85th governor, capstone to a career dominated by two decades in Washington, where he emerged as a fierce defender of abortion rights, the separation of church and state, and funding for social services,...

Ownership of electric vehicles may be on the rise, but one Florida homeowner is still getting grief from his homeowners’ association about his new Rivian R1T. Weston Hills Country Club resident Glenn Gordon describes his surprise when he received a letter from his HOA telling him that his pickup is against community regulations and that he could not keep it parked in his driveway overnight, local news station WPLG reported. The neighborhood rules, which were reportedly written in the 1980s, stipulate that trucks, trailers, RVs, and commercial vehicles cannot be parked in the community overnight. The HOA says that Gordon...

Whereas President Joe Biden may not be antisemitic or anti-Zionist, many of his Democratic party elected officials have used antisemitic verbiage masquerading as anti-Zionism. Biden has failed to censure the likes of Somali-born Minnesota Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and others, for making vile antisemitic statements. Antisemitism has been on full display among democratic leaders and left-wing protest groups such as Antifa and Black Lives Matters. Leaders of the Women’s March proved to be undeniably antisemitic, which caused the former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to distance herself from them. Still, those same antisemites including Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory...

Ilhan Omar wanted the world to know that there was “no way in hell” that she would be attending the speech Israeli President Herzog is to deliver to a joint session of Congress. And then she proceeded to list the reasons for this decision, revealing certain misconceptions about the Jewish state that deserve to be noted. More on her tweet can be found here: “Ilhan Omar’s Unhinged Tweets Show How Confused She is About Israel,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, HonestReporting, July 13, 2023:In a clearly not-attention-seeking move, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar took to social media on Wednesday to announce to her...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's recent comments about opening an impeachment inquiry into President Biden were greeted with skepticism from Senate Republicans, including one who warned against following the lead of Democrats who "cheapened" the process under former President Trump. "You'd have to have the argument," Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters Tuesday. "It's a high threshold. I'd assume they'd have to have evidence and some process where they would at least get that evidence if they don't have it." "Clearly the statements they're making would lead me to believe they have evidence. Or they think they have evidence...

A top World Economic Forum (WEF) official has called for so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ to be banned from accessing the internet due to their ‘dangerous’ belief that a global cabal of elites control the world. Yuval Noah Harari, who is Klaus Schwab’s right hand man, condemned the theory that a shadowy elite of billionaires and globalists control the world as “anti-Semitic” and “dangerous.” During an appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast, Harari pointed out that the world is “too complex” for powerful people to control it. “The global cabal theory has many variations, but basically, there is a small group of...

James Tissot’s The Life of Christ “THE LIFE OF CHRIST” 181 "The Procession in the Streets of Jerusalem"Matthew 21:10-11 182 "The Procession in the Temple"Matthew 21:12, 15-16 183 "The Chief Priests Take Counsel Together"Mark 11:18 184 "The Accursed Fig Tree"Matthew 21:18-22 185 "The Merchants Chased from the Temple"Matthew 21:12-13 186 "Jesus Forbids the Carrying of Loads in the Forecourt of the Temple"Mark 11:16 187 "He Heals the Lame"Matthew 21:14 188 "Jesus Goes in the Evening to Bethany"Mark 11:11 189 "The Gentiles Ask to See Jesus"John 12:20-24 190 "The Voice from on High"John 12:27-33 191 "The Chief Priests Ask Jesus by...

GOP lawmakers and other conservative critics are working to expose and fight a secretive executive order by President Biden to expand voter participation in elections, which they suspect has become a powerful government-wide complement to private left-wing election financing that could tip the 2024 campaign illegally and unfairly in Democrats’ favor. Cast as a civil rights measure issued as the nation marked the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” police beatings of voting-rights marchers outside Selma, Ala., the president's 2021 directive orders every federal agency, more than 600 in all, to register and mobilize voters – particularly “people of color” and others the...

Now that the 44-hour triumph of the IDF over Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Jenin camp is over, the Palestinian Authority’s police have begun to take advantage of both of its weakened rivals – the PIJ and Hamas — to assert itself, and even to arrest members of both. More on the PA’s sudden display of steel can be found here: “It sure looks like the PA is finally starting to crack down on West Bank terror groups,” Elder of Ziyon, July 17, 2023:Early Monday morning [July 17], the Palestinian Authority arrested some major Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Brigades figures...

Keith Richards @officialKeef Happy Birthday, Mick. Long may we keep saying this to each other, Happy 80th! Love, Keith @MickJagger

As the 2024 presidential election is beginning to cast a growing shadow over the American political landscape, many in the party establishment are quietly looking into replacing Joe Biden as the Democrat Party nominee. But who will they choose to replace Biden and how are they going to force him to either resign or drop out of the race without creating political turmoil for the party? Biden’s physical and mental incapacity is becoming increasingly pronounced and the Republican House, with the assistance of numerous whistleblowers, is revealing evermore damning evidence of potential criminality by both Joe and his son, Hunter....

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Administration has 14 days to appeal ruling ... The Biden administration was dealt a major blow in its efforts to control the ongoing border crisis on Tuesday when a federal judge blocked a rule introduced in May that makes migrants ineligible for asylum if they have entered illegally and failed to take advantage of expanded lawful pathways set up by the federal government. Judge Jon Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California blocked the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways rule in response to a lawsuit from a coalition of left-wing immigration groups, which claimed the rule...

[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]It has now been well over a week since a Syrian migrant named Mohamad Barakat opened fire on police at the scene of a traffic accident in Fargo, N.D., killing one and wounding two others, and investigators profess to be baffled as to why he would have done such a thing. Meanwhile, the information they have disclosed, which isn’t all that much, is oblique and contradictory, and the local Muslim community has added to the confusion with a...