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House Republicans have chosen Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., as their nominee for speaker after huddling behind closed doors for over two hours on Wednesday. GOP lawmakers voted via secret ballot for who they will put up as speaker in a House floor vote, which will likely come sometime this week. It comes after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted in a vote by eight members of his own party and all House Democrats last week. That moment marked the first time in history the U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove its own leader. The contest to replace...

I have a question about the events of the past few days: where is Antifa? Where are those self-styled anti-fascists who love to rage against anything that is even vaguely reminiscent of the 1930s? Jews in Israel have been rounded up and murdered. Disgusting anti-Semites are on the streets of Sydney screaming, ‘Gas the Jews! XXXX the Jews!’ Mobs in London have taunted Israel, essentially laughing over its dead Jews. Britain’s Jewish schoolkids are taking off their blazers lest anyone recognise them as Jews and attack them. Across Europe security is being beefed up at Jewish establishments — schools, synagogues,...

A young Israeli woman is being hailed as a hero after her early action helped to save an entire kibbutz from being brutally killed by Hamas terrorists.......... Lieberman then rushed to open the armory, passed out guns to a 12-member security team, and planned their response to the imminent Hamas attack. “She placed her squad of kibbutzniks in strategic positions across the settlement and set up ambushes that caught the gunmen off guard and turned the tables on them during their mission to inflict mass casualties,” the Post reported. Lieberman killed five terrorists on her own, while her security team...

these are peaceful communities of 300, 400 people that have been there for decades and decades. These aren't new settlements popped up in East Jerusalem.. And yet, the level of brutality of the terror attacks in these kibbutz. I mean, it's really now just starting to be revealed. CORICUS: Yes. You know, if we want to take it to the political, these kibbutzim were there. .. founded before 1948. And many people who live there, I know, because I have friends there, .. believe in the two-state solution who had friends in Gaza, and who really believe that a long-lasting...

A recently released video, which appears to show a bedbug crawling up the leg of a passenger travelling on the London Underground, has fired speculation that the infestation in France has already crossed the channel.News from France has reported bedbugs infesting various public spaces, including trains and cinemas in Paris. The consistent media coverage of these incidents has heightened concerns among Britons about the potential spread of bedbugs to the UK, writes Metro. At the weekend, a TikTok user claimed to have encountered one of these pests on the London Underground. She narrated her experience, saying, ‘Minding my own business...

Researchers identified genes in vegetarians that may explain why they choose plant-based diets after screening 330,00 genomes. Vegetarianism has been practiced for millennia in different societies and cultures, but today only a small minority of people forgo eating meat. People turn to a meatless diet for ethical reasons, such as animal well-being or reducing carbon prints. But could it be hereditary? A team of researchers believes they have discovered evidence that opting for a plant-based diet could actually be influenced by our genetics. Being vegetarian as a woman might be bad for your health later in life, a new study...

Scientists from all around the world have discovered a transmissible ancient type of cancer in Spain. A study has been posted which shows a strain of an ancient type of leukaemia-like cancer has indeed been spreading quietly, but rapidly amongst shellfish for centuries without people ever knowing. This transmissible tumour is able to scarily float freely in the water just like microscopic bacteria before then being taken up by clams throughout the ocean, which then allows it to multiply and move onto a new host and continue its attack. According to scientists, contagious cancer has not been widely feared or...

A Florida alligator that gained widespread attention for its missing upper jaw has been given a fitting name inspired by a country song. The creature has been named "Jawlene," after the famous Dolly Parton song "Jolene," following a public call on social media.

Jesus stated - quite plainly - that all of these events MUST come to pass in the future (Matt 24). All the signs today point to this time and hour when the final outworking of godless lawlessness (iniquity) would engulf the entire world (Matt.24:12, 2 Thess. 2:3-12). There is absolutely nothing at present that can hinder this final lawless consumption of the world and the foretold global empire of Lucifer's anti-Christ and operation "666" (2 Thess. 2:7-12, Rev. 13). To believe otherwise is to be "anti-Christ" its self and the height of delusion and folly (1 John 2:19-23). Mankind has...

‘It tastes like a nice, crisp, Kölsch style ale. You'd have no idea the source of the water’ The thought of drinking wastewater is pretty unsavoury, right? But that’s exactly what one American brewery is encouraging people to do - and for sound environmental reasons. With the help of a clean tech start-up, Devil’s Canyon brewery has created a beer made using water from the showers, laundry and bathroom sinks of a San Francisco apartment block.Would you be willing to take a sip? Here’s why you should consider it. Is recycled water safe to drink? The wastewater that goes down...

With more than 3,000 rockets having been fired into Israel by Hamas recently, the Democratic Party seems paralyzed over how to respond to the latest Middle East war. It is not just that they fear that “The Squad,” Black Lives Matter, the shock troops of antifa, and woke institutions such as academia and the media are now unapologetically anti-Israel. They are also terrified that anti-Israelism is becoming synonymous with rank anti-Semitism. And soon, the Democratic Party will end up as disdained as the British Labor Party under Jeremy Corbyn. The new core of the Democrats, as emblemized by Reps. Alexandria...

The liberal media continues to run interference for Hamas and its atrocity campaign in Israel. Witness MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asking an Israeli mother of two children taken hostage during Friday’s terror raids, “What are your feelings about the attacks against Gaza right now?” The lefty host was clearly looking for her guest to echo Mitchell’s own equivocation on the issue. But the mother responded, with justifiable anger: “You’re looking for a symmetrical situation. I can’t be sympathetic to animal human beings — well, they’re not really human beings — who came into my house, broke everything, stole everything, took my...

At least 22 Americans have died in Israel since Hamas launched its assault over the weekend, the State Department said on Wednesday.

Israel And Hamas Are Embroiled In A Zero-Sum Religious War, And So Is The WestIt’s obvious that Israel and Hamas cannot coexist. It’s equally obvious that the Christian and post-Christian West cannot coexist.The events of the past 120 hours have made it abundantly clear that Israel can no longer coexist alongside Hamas. The violence unleashed by Hamas against unarmed civilians, including women and children and the elderly — much of it filmed and livestreamed online — has shocked the world. On Tuesday, we learned that at a kibbutz near the Gaza border called Kfar Aza, Hamas terrorists slaughtered entire families,...

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Tuesday’s proposal is the first DeSantis is rolling out for the Legislature ahead of the 2024 session. ------------------- MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday pushed new proposals in Florida to rein in Iran, reaffirming his commitment to Israel just days after Hamas terrorists launched one of the worst attacks on the Jewish homeland in decades. The Florida governor, during a press conference in south Florida, called Iran a “clearinghouse for terrorist funding in the region” and asked the GOP-led Legislature for new Florida sanctions against Iran. He also asked lawmakers to block a broad array of other state or...

Border Patrol, CBP and other assorted agencies have encountered a staggering 3.1 million people at the southern border (https://www.fairus.org/legislation/biden-immigration-border-policy/border-security/cbp-posts-record-number-border) of the United States through fiscal year 2023. People are crossing from all over the globe. (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/smugglers-are-steering-migrants-into-the-hot-arizona-desert-posing-new-border-patrol-challenges). Chinese, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Haitians and of course throngs of South and Central Americans. 62.6% of those crossing are single adults, and overwhelmingly fighting age men. (https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters) Just 30% are crossing as part of a family unit. It is once again worth restating that in any given year the US border agencies encounter only 35%-60% of those who cross the Southern border (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201193), with the...

Sima Sistani, CEO of the storied WeightWatchers brand, has become well-practiced at saying three little words: "We were wrong." Driving the news: At the annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, Sistani once again explained how a company that's long preached self-restraint and behavioral change is embracing blockbuster weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic... The company, rechristened WW International in 2018, this spring acquired telehealth company Sequence for $132 million. Sequence connects patients with doctors who can prescribe much-touted GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic. (Ozempic, a diabetes drug, is often used off-label for obesity.) Some analysts say the arrangement could...

Democrat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has diverted rental assistance funding for struggling citizens and is using it to house illegal aliens. The Illinois Rental Payment Program was set up to allocate up to $25,000 a year to individuals struggling to pay for their housing. In 2022, the Pritzker administration proudly noted that one billion dollars in state taxes had been pumped into the program to help people still struggling after the coronavirus pandemic. When asked this month about his plans to pay for the increasing costs of housing caused by the illegal aliens pouring into the state thanks to President...

Cows go on the run in Wisconsin! MOOOOOOOVE OVER!.....................