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Bob Wood, 66, has been thinking of selling his home in Mobile, Alabama. The finance professor and his wife, Terri, purchased the 5,000-square-foot house with a pool nearly a decade ago. “It’s probably time to downsize,” he said. They would also like to be closer to their grandchildren in Tennessee. And yet, “we are in the 10th year of a 3.125% 15-year fixed mortgage,” he said. They don’t want to move now and give up that low rate to buy at a higher rate. “We just don’t want to pay that much in interest.” Wood is among “a stock of...

Once Trump announced a rally in D.C., he and his supporters were doomed. Coincidentally, I’m sure, in the lead-up to his being taken off the air at Fox News, Tucker Carlson and his team were investigating events on January 6—the same events that are serving as the basis for Jack Smith’s creative indictment against Donald Trump. One of the things that Fox News prevented from airing was an interview with former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund, during which he told Tucker that the FBI had “a lot of operatives” in the crowd. There was more, and it all feeds...

I don't watch Fox News any longer, but do watch snippets on Youtube. I noticed everytime I watch a Fox News video, the next video that plays is from MSNBC. Literally everytime. Anyone else experiencing this?

UAH Global Temperature Update for July, 2023: +0.64 deg. C August 2nd, 2023 New Record High Temperatures and a Weird Month July 2023 was an unusual month, with sudden warmth and a few record or near-record high temperatures. Since the satellite record began in 1979, July 2023 was: warmest July on record (global average) warmest absolute temperature (since July is climatologically the warmest month) tied with March 2016 for the 2nd warmest monthly anomaly (departure from normal for any month) warmest Southern Hemisphere land anomaly warmest July for tropical land (by a wide margin, +1.03 deg. C vs. +0.44 deg....

The ship was discovered by an excavator crew at the Drmno mine. It is the second such discovery in the area, which contains the Roman settlement known as Viminacium.Lead archaeologist Miomir Korac said previous findings suggest the ship may date back as far as the third or fourth century, when Viminacium was the capital of the Roman province of Moesia Superior and had a port near a tributary of the Danube River.Mladen Jovicic, who is part of the team working on the newly discovered ship, said moving the 13-meter hull without breaking it will be tough. "Our engineer friends...will prepare...

As Ukrainian troops wage a difficult fight against well-defended Russian forces in Ukraine, the government in Kyiv is waging a different kind of battle abroad, trying to shape how the world perceives its counteroffensive.Ukrainian officials and their supporters say they are confident they will prevail on the battlefield in the end, but warn against what they see as unrealistic expectations in media coverage and commentaries that could create a misleading narrative suggesting it cannot and will not win.“The two things that we keep asking our allies for are weapons and patience,” said Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine’s defense minister.Although...

The Biden administration is considering designating a million acres of land surrounding the Grand Canyon as a new national monument, which would bar uranium mining in the area. The move comes after years of lobbying by local Native American tribes and environment advocates for beefed-up protections against uranium mining in areas surrounding the second-most popular national park in the country.

Martha’s Vineyard can’t turn the page on Alan Dershowitz. The Harvard Law professor and longtime island denizen says his works have been banished from the local book fair. “I’ve been canceled,” Dershowitz, 84, told Newsmax host Greta Greta Van Susteren Friday. “My books are not allowed to be sold at the Martha’s Vineyard Chilmark book fair because I defended Donald Trump. Until I defended Donald Trump, my books were featured every year at the book fair.”

College accreditation used to be the most soporific of topics. Almost nobody was interested in it because accreditation meant so little. Accrediting agencies had their standards that kept degree mills from fooling people into thinking they were real colleges. Nothing wrong with that, but it wasn’t a matter of national concern. In recent years, however, accreditation has become highly controversial. The reason is that the accrediting agencies have ceased to be neutral parties who apply reasonable standards to ensure that students are not squandering their federal student-aid funds on dodgy schools that are just interested in cashing in on easy...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered an economic speech Monday, an event understandably overshadowed by the latest indictment of former president Donald Trump. The speech was a revealing blend of Trumpian and orthodox Republican policies, and DeSantis laid out where he might diverge from both were he to be president. The speech began with a dark description of the state of the country. America, DeSantis said, is in decline — militarily, culturally and economically. He found many sources to blame. China for one, immigrants another, the elite a third — the latter a group he attacked multiple times as the root...

A few days before filming started for 'Penny Lane', Goldmann shot a promo for 'Strawberry Fields Forever'. Both shoots presented a challenge for everyone involved owing to the Musicians' Union ban on any action that could be construed as miming. Despite these limitations, both the films Goldmann made were so innovative that neither would have looked out of place on MTV a decade and a half later.

In one of American cinema’s most riveting scenes, Vito Corleone, the Godfather, rebukes a distraught undertaker whose once-beautiful daughter has been beaten to a pulp by two young men — one of them the son of a powerful politician. Though the case was a slam dunk, a corrupt judge had let the brutes off with no jail time. That the system is rigged against those who play by the rules suddenly dawns on the law-abiding undertaker, whom the film’s co-writer, novelist Mario Puzo, named Amerigo Bonasera — as in Goodnight, America, where threats lurk around every corner, and the rules...

5 August 2023 Saturday of week 17 in Ordinary Time parish church of Maidbronn, Bavaria; Lamentation of Christ altar Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingLeviticus 25:1,8-17 ©The law of the jubilee yearThe Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. He said: ‘You are to count seven weeks of years – seven times seven years, that is to say a period of seven weeks of years, forty-nine years. And on the tenth day of the seventh month you shall sound the trumpet; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout the land. You will declare...

The title refers to "silent running",a submarine stealth tactic. The story describes World War II submarinewarfare in the Pacific Ocean,and deals with themes of vengeance, endurance, courage, loyalty,and honor and how these can be testedduring wartime. In addition to Gable and Lancaster playing the leads, the film also features Jack Warden and was the film debut of Don Rickles.

How the S.D.N.Y. dropped charges against Sam Bankman-Fried out of campaign finance violations totaling several million, despite punishing me to the full extent of the law in the case of a minor violation.

“We think it's important that we talk to a wider array of involved people in a private interview setting," House Judiciary Committee Chairman tells Just the News House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is not satisfied with the Justice Department’s offer to let only David Weiss, the lead prosecutor in the Hunter Biden criminal tax probe, answer some questions in public, telling Just the News that he’s pressing ahead for interviews and documents from at least 11 officials involved in different aspects of the probe. Jordan said his concern is that the Biden administration has given conflicting and incongruent stories...

The View' co-host Joy Behar on Friday said the economy is booming and President Joe Biden is not getting credit for it. "Let me say something about Joe Biden," Behar said. "According to what I’m observing, the economy is booming, inflation is down, the stock market is doing well, people are having an easier time putting bread on the table, et cetera. He doesn't seem to be getting the credit for that, only 41 percent approval. Is it because they think he's old? Because I don't see anything else they can point to with him particularly."

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas sent a warning to Americans about listening to Hillary Clinton late last year. The former Secretary of State and two-time Democratic presidential candidate has been comparing pro-life laws in the U.S. to Islamic Sharia law in the Sudan and Afghanistan. Strickland couldn’t remain silent on the issues any longer. “Please, please don’t listen to this evil woman,” he said bluntly. “Her lies and immorality need to be silenced for the good of humanity.” During her remarks at the Women’s Voice Summit, Clinton said, “We have come a long way on so many fronts but...

It is unusual to appear on Judge Napolitano’s channel two days in a row but recent developments made it necessary. The Judge was unfamiliar with Gonzalo Lira and asked me to explain who he is and what is his current status. I told the Judge that Gonzalo hosted a very popular round table/podcast the specialized in interviewing guest experts and offering up his own analysis. I told the Judge that he is just like Gonzalo, only better looking. That got a big laugh from the Judge. There has been a lot of uninformed commentary about Gonzalo, with some declaring him...

Today in 1966, The Beatles shocked the world when they released their most innovative and experimental record yet, “Revolver”. Upon release, it was described by critics as “brilliant” & is noted for changing the direction of pop music. What’s your favorite song from the album?