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Joe Biden hits 1,000 days in office this week - but he has spent at least 300 of them either in Delaware or on holiday, Dailymail.com can reveal. He also spent 89 days at Camp David, the rustic presidential retreat in Maryland, and 74 days on trips overseas, Biden's lack of time in Washington will fuel accusations from Republicans, and concerns among Democrats, that the 80-year-old president requires too much time off because of his age.

Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants the cows to stop farting, but it doesn’t appear that the Congresswoman is willing to stop farting herself. During a recent X/Twitter livestream, while discussing the Israel-Palestine conflict, Ocasio-Cortez appeared to rip a massive and loud fart mid-sentence. --snip-- Maybe AOC should limit her own carbon emissions. The fart quickly became the center of many headlines around the world, with Twitter users comparing the blast to Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell’s fart live on CNN several years ago. See a clip of Swalwell’s infamous gas blast below… For all the talk of carbon emissions, it appears...

Ivy League schools face a multi-million dollar dip in funding after being blasted for failing to condemn Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel. Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania have been hit hardest by the backlash – with a host of alumni calling on the colleges to do better as some revoke their funding entirely. Billionaires Ken Griffin and former US Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr have stripped their support for both prestigious universities after slamming their stance on the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Special Counsel Jack Smith is still hiding the names of his prosecutors in violation of federal Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) law. The Jack Smith Special Counsel refuses to release the names of his team members. Why is that? We know they are most certainly ALL Democrats. We know they lack integrity and honor. In June, Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch sued Joe Biden’s DOJ to obtain the names of the radical Democrats who are members of Jack Smith’s Special Counsel. Jack Smith refuses to release the names of his team of radical prosecutors trying to jail Trump.

Oct 16 (Reuters) - Iran's top envoy said that a "preemptive action" could be expected in the coming hours, state TV reported on Monday, adding that Israel will not be allowed to take any action in the Gaza Strip without facing consequences. "Leaders of the Resistance will not allow the Zionist regime to take any action in Gaza. ... All options are open and we cannot be indifferent to the war crimes committed against the people of Gaza," Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, told state TV. "The resistance front is capable of waging a long-term war with the enemy (Israel)... in...

Friday’s “reach-across-the-aisle” story started with four centrist House Democrats, led by New Jersey’s Josh Gottheimer, proposing to authorize Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) to bring to the House floor emergency legislation that, among other things, would authorize supplemental aid to Israel and Ukraine. Their proposal would also extend current government funding from Nov. 17 through Jan. 11, 2024, buying Congress an additional eight weeks to avoid a government shutdown.

Deut. 2:31-34The Lord said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.” 32 When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, 33 the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. 34 At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors. Deut. 3:3-6So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of...

Belgian authorities have raised the terror alert to the highest level in the capital and the second-highest level across the rest of the nation.

In addition to the off-year elections to be decided this November in Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi, a number of ballot initiatives will be voted on in other states. Perhaps the most consequential measure appearing on the November 2023 ballot, at least when it comes to fiscal policy, is found in Colorado, where voters will be asked whether they want to weaken the nation’s strongest tax and expenditure limit in exchange for property tax relief. Proposition HH, which was referred to the November ballot by Colorado lawmakers with the support of Governor Jared Polis (D), would weaken the state’s Taxpayer’s...

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who is now facing an additional charge of acting as a foreign agent in an indictment released Thursday, has a history of opposing Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) reforms, according to Senate records. In 2020, Menendez blocked Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s bipartisan-led effort to create stricter penalties regulating influence of foreign entities on the U.S. government. The Foreign Agents Disclosure and Registration Enhancement Act of 2019 would have built upon existing law to boost disclosure to the public of foreign lobbying campaigns. "It seems shortsighted to provide additional enforcement tools before we have figured out what...

On Forbes Newsroom, California Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman floated the idea of former President George W. Bush becoming the next Speaker of the House. “He could come back,” Sherman said. “Obviously, I’m not a real fan of how the Iraq War went, but I would think that any reasonable Republican would be somebody that Democrats could work with — if it was part of a system where you didn’t have five of the most extreme Republicans blocking important legislation and saying, ‘If you bring that to the floor for a vote, we’ll knock you out of your Speakership.’” Sherman said...

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students, by Steven Davidoff Solomon (UC-Berkeley): [I]f you don’t want to hire people who advocate hate and practice discrimination, don’t hire some of my students. Anti-Semitic conduct is nothing new on university campuses, including here at Berkeley. Last year, Berkeley’s Law Students for Justice in Palestine asked other student groups to adopt a bylaw that banned supporters of Israel from speaking at events. It excluded any speaker who “expressed and continued to hold views or host/sponsor/promote events in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.”...

Interested in knowing which Army air bases in Germany fly AH-64 Apache. SIL is transferring there.

President Michael D. Higgins has strongly criticized the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen for comments on the Middle East conflict which she made on a visit to Israel last Friday. Ms. von der Leyen did not include a call for Israel’s retaliation to conform with international law. President Higgins said he agreed with those who criticized the intervention of the European Commission President. He said: “I don’t know where the source of those decisions was. I don’t know where the legitimation for it was, and I don’t know where the authority for it is, and I...

The Euro 2024 qualifier between Belgium and Sweden was suspended at half-time after two Swedes were shot dead in Brussels earlier on Monday. Belgium raised its terror alert to the highest level as a man in a video on social media claimed that he was the assailant and that he was from the Islamic State. "The match has been suspended at halftime due to security reasons. Further information will follow shortly," European soccer governing body UEFA said on its website. The Swedish players told UEFA they did not want to play the second half and the Belgians agreed, Swedish broadcaster...

MRC President Brent Bozell and MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider rebuked the Soros empire for financing groups that have voiced support for the terrorist group Hamas. In an Oct. 12 letter to Open Society Foundations (OSF) founder George Soros and his son — OSF Chairman Alex Soros — Bozell and Schneider called on both George and Alex Soros to disclose all of their pro-Hamas grantees, publicly disavow them and terminate all funding to those groups. “Given that your donations have gone straight into the bloodstream of those who seek to exterminate Jews and push Israel into the...

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e Adams administration is moving ahead with controversial plans to force migrant families with children staying in the city’s shelter system to reapply for housing every 60 days, officials announced Monday. The new rules, officials say, aim to cajole recent arrivals to find new accommodations and mirror a policy that requires single adults migrants city shelters to reapply for their housing every 30 days. City Hall’s clamp down comes as the number of people living in city shelters facilities has doubled since the migrant crisis began last year: More than 118,000 people — 64,000 of them migrants — currently live...

Mayor Eric Adams says New York City needs more cops after years of officers leaving the department. “We can use more,” Adams said on the “Morning Joe” program on MSNBC Monday. “I’m very clear on that.” “The numbers are down, but based on the numbers, no one does it better than the New York Police Department.” The NYPD has lost more than 2,000 uniformed officers over the last few years as the pandemic and anti-cop sentiment during the Black Lives Matter protests caused many to reconsider the job and resign or retire. Prior to the pandemic, the city had about...

President Donald Trump will today say he plans to expand his travel ban to include people from the Palestinian territory of Gaza in the wake of the Hamas terror attack on Israel. In a speech in Clive, Iowa, he will also say Americans have been disgusted by anti-Israel protests on college campuses and will promise to deport resident aliens with 'jihadist sympathies.' 'I banned refugees from Syria, I banned refugees from Somalia, and from all the most dangerous places in the world—and in my second term, we are going to expand each and every ban to keep America safe,' he...