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BEIRUT — Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle, and that would make Israel suffer “a huge earthquake.” Hossein Amirabdollahian told reporters in Beirut that Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group has taken all war scenarios into consideration and Israel should stop its attacks on Gaza as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the Axios news site reported that Tehran has sent Jerusalem a message through the UN that it will intervene if the campaign in Gaza continues, and...

The two leading Republican presidential primary candidates were swapping barbs Wednesday night as former President Donald Trump urged Gov. Ron DeSantis to come back to Florida and DeSantis was seizing on Trump calling Hezbollah "smart.""DeSanctus has been flying around the country setting fire to his reputation and destroying the reputation, frankly, of Florida," Trump said Wednesday night in a speech at the Club 47 Trump fan club in West Palm Beach, near Mar-a-Lago, shortening his "Ron DeSanctimonious" nickname to "DeSanctus.""All he's doing is campaigning."Trump repeated his criticisms of DeSantis' handling of the insurance industry in the state, one that has...

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign juggernaut is roaring through the country with such force that now, he is winning the general election generic vote with 53% support from likely 2024 voters.Coming on the same day that a Morning Consult survey had him leading the GOP race with a high of 61%, a Rasmussen Reports survey said that more than a majority of voters plan to vote for him.THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES WHO HAVE DERAILED PAST PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNSAnd that includes Democrats.Asked, “How likely are you to vote for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election?” 30% of Democrats said “very” or...

On this date in 1757, 17 people went to the scaffold over wine prices in Portugal. The seeds of these hangings had been sown back in 1703 when the Methuen Treaty gave Portuguese wines favorable tariff treatment in exchange for reciprocal advantages exporting English wool to Portugal.* “The Portugal Wines,” Daniel Defoe noted, “became our general Draught all over England” with this arrangement, since the deal enabled those libations to undercut French claret. A nearly thirtyfold boom in wine shipments in the first half of the 18th century brought conflict over the proceeds. Struggling to keep up with demand, some...

Last Monday the FBI said they did not “have specific and credible intelligence indicating a threat to the United States.” {link} Today, FBI Director Chris Wray says reported domestic threats have surged as conflict in Israel escalates. {link}The good news is it wasn’t just the CTH audience who laughed at the face of a highly politicalized FBI claiming last week there was no concern. The social media sphere and independent journalists were thoroughly eviscerating the FBI for their politically correct nonsense. The tides have changed, and the majority of the American people now see the naked stupidity of the FBI...

One of Britain's most tattooed women has revealed she's hoping to become a mother for the eighth time. Melissa Sloan, 46, from Powys, has previously revealed that she can't find work because employers are put off by the fact that her face is completely concealed by inkings. In an interview with the Daily Star, the mother-of-seven who has more than 800 inkings admitted: 'I'm not proud of saying it, but I haven't worked for 20 years'. But while she can't find a job, she is keen to try for an eighth child with her partner Luke to complete her already...

Arrests for loitering while soliciting have been banned by California Governor Gavin Newsom. This Democrat-led initiative has led to prostitutes flooding the street corners all over California wearing next-to-nothing in clothing. San Diego Mayor Ron Morrison stated that sex workers are now all over the city sporting nothing but “g-strings.” (Trending: Biological Man Wins ‘Woman of the Year’) Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener BREAKING: Gov. Newsom just signed SB 357, our legislation to repeal the crime of loitering with intent to commit prostitution, also known as the “walking while trans" law This discriminatory law targeted and profiled Black, Brown & trans...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There was a very large turnout on Saturday. Chicago police estimated the crowd to be around 2,000 people or more. At times, the gathering certainly felt larger than that. A sea of people took their message to the streets. Those protesters urged the public to take a broader look at Israel-Palestine relations and the decades of conflict preceding this past week. They say Israel must be held to account for killing civilians as it retaliates against Hamas' attacks. "Entire families have been wiped out. Dozens of bodies under the rubble, turning Gaza from an open-air prison to...

Same-sex couples have to pay thousands of pounds before they can access IVF fertility treatment through the NHS in contrast to the process for heterosexual couples which has been labelled as a “Gay Tax”, according to a report. As reported by the BBC, NHS England funds IVF for heterosexual couples who have been trying to conceive, unsuccessfully, for at least two years whilst other details such as age and weight status. However, campaigners are aggrieved that same-sex couples face a different process in that they need to prove their infertility before the NHS will commit to IVF but as part...

Military authorities say they have discovered the bodies of Hamas captives inside Gaza - as families gathered outside the Israel Defence Forces' headquarters demanding the resignation of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had found the bodies of some hostages that were abducted by Hamas during last Saturday's attack on the country. 'We have found and located some bodies in the perimeter in the Gaza Strip of Israelis that were abducted,' military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner told a media briefing in remarks reported by AFP. The news has inflamed calls for Netanyahu to...

Britain-based author and journalist Douglas Murray appeared on Talk TV and was asked whether Israel’s strikes in the Gaza Strip constitute a “reasonable, proportionate and moral response”.Murray fired back, “There is some deep perversion in Britain whenever Israel is involved in a conflict, and it is the word you just used: Proportion, proportionate, proportionality. Only Britain is really obsessed with this. I’ve heard in for the last few days incessantly.”“Proportionality in conflict rarely exists,” he stated, and then explained that insisting on a proportionate response “would mean that, in retaliation for what Hamas did in Israel on Saturday, Israel should...

Alma Andino, a Jewish senior at Stanford University, spent the day of Hamas’s attacks against Israel crying and distraught. Like many Jews around the country, much of the weekend passed on the phone with family members, fearing for the safety of friends and extended family in Israel. Andino’s fellow students in Columbae, the social justice and antiwar residential house where she is a residential assistant, held her through her panic attacks. “I felt so powerless,” she recalled when we spoke this week. On Monday, a friend asked if she’d seen the banner some of her housemates were preparing to hang...

West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice stands well ahead of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in the race to represent the state in the U.S. Senate, according to a recent survey. The governor outpaced the incumbent senator 13% in the latest Emerson College survey, with 41% of voters backing Justice and 28% supporting Manchin. The Democratic senator has not announced his reelection plans. Justice, meanwhile, faces a primary challenger in the form of Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., whom Manchin beat 37% to 31% in a head to head matchup. Explaining Manchin's stronger performance against Mooney seem to be split attitudes among...

<p>Even in the dumbed down age of social media sound bites, certain realities should serve as a wakeup call to anyone with an IQ in the triple digits who has not imbibed the Kool Aid of the immutably anti-Israel, anti-Zionist extreme political left. One of these fundamental truths is that Hamas is, has always been, and will always be a genocidal terrorist organization.</p>

The annual CPI increase reported by BLS is 3.7% for September 2023. Compare this to the TIPP CPI of 17.0%, a 13.3-point difference. Prices have increased by 17.0% since President Biden took office. On an annualized basis, TIPP CPI is 6.4%. Food prices increased by 19.7% under Biden compared to only 3.7% as per BLS CPI, a difference of 16.0 points. TIPP CPI data show that Energy prices increased by 38.8%. But, according to the BLS CPI, energy prices improved by 0.5%. The difference between the two is a whopping 39.2 points. The Core CPI is the price increase for...

The Palestinian militant group has struggled to govern Gaza and remains committed to violently resisting Israel. Its surprise attack against Israel in 2023 threatens a wider conflagration in the Middle East. Summary A spin-off of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s, the Islamist militant group Hamas took over the Gaza Strip after defeating its rival political party, Fatah, in elections in 2006. The United States and European Union have designated Hamas a terrorist organization because of its armed resistance against Israel, which has included suicide bombings and rocket attacks. Israel has declared war on Hamas...

“When our enemies usurp some Islamic lands, Jihad becomes a duty binding on all Muslims. In order to face the usurping of Palestine by the Jews, we have no escape from raising the banner of Jihad.”Have you ever read the Hamas charter?It’s worth taking a break from the unrelenting, tragic news to better understand the founding document of the group whose attack plunged Israelis and Palestinians into their current hell. Founding documents are aspirational. It took well over 100 years for the United States to begin to live up to “All men are created equal.” And Israel, even within its...

MSNBC has quietly taken three of its Muslim broadcasters out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday amid America’s wave of sympathy for Israeli terror victims. The network did not air a scheduled Thursday night episode of The Mehdi Hasan Show on the streaming platform Peacock. MSNBC also reversed a plan for Ayman Mohyeldin to fill in this week on the network for host Joy Reid’s 7 p.m. show on Thursday and Friday. Mohyeldin, an Egyptian-American journalist and veteran NBC News correspondent covered the conflict from Gaza for two years. In 2021, he aggressively questioned Israeli...

Friday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) argued Israel had to occupy the Gaza Strip or face a renewed threat from Hamas. The South Carolina Republican described it as a “World War II-type action.” “Well, you know Israel has no choice but to go into Gaza and occupy the Gaza Strip and destroy Hamas, or they’ll get hit again,” Graham said. “The old way of doing business died with those babies. So this is a World War II-type action, total war against Hamas. I’m not calling for the eradication of the Palestinian people. There are plenty of Palestinians I...

SWEETWATER, TX — As the rest of the world sits on edge due to the leader of the terrorist organization Hamas calling for a global day of jihad, residents of the state of Texas seemed entirely unconcerned. "Global day of what now?" asked native Texan Barry Windham as he wiped his freshly oiled AR-15 with a rag. "Not sure I'm familiar with that term. Out here, we don't really listen to all the stuff going on everywhere else. We'll let everyone else get all wrapped up in that. Anyway…you ever see what happens to a cantaloupe when you hit it...