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Is the October 7 Hamas attack, the largest terrorist death rate inflicted on US citizens since 9/11? Thank you.

Rep. Jim Jordan met the 20 hold outs tonight and they told him bluntly they won't support him for Speaker This is crazy. They'll never give us this victory. Jordan wanted to know what they wanted and what the issue is. Their opposition doesn't seem to be based on anything. They're just being complete a**holes for the sake of it?! Kind of like "Never Trumpers". Anyway, another (third) Speaker vote is scheduled for tomorrow. Jordan is not quitting which is good. McCarthy had 15 rounds of voting remember. The plan to empower the Bush crony as Speaker also did not...

Economist Thomas Sowell once said, “The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.” I believe him. I’ve always believed that. Now, the rest of the country might believe him too. A sense of evil has disseminated across elite campuses since October 7, the day Hamas organized a coordinated offensive on southern Israel by massacring 260 civilians at a music festival. Hamas presented us with the worst of humanity — the slaughtering of the innocent, the abduction of women, and the beheading of babies. Yet various student bodies responded to the acts of terrorism by supporting them. You’ve seen...

Update from Ukraine | The Worst day for the Ruzzian Army | Avdiivka will finish them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ElW-1jAM0 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 18th October 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-602-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

During a pro-Palestine rally in Washington, she broke down into tears and called for a ceasefire in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Rashida Tlaib has accused the Joe Biden administration of funding a "genocide" against Palestinians and put the onus on Israeli military for bombing a hospital in Gaza, Fox News reported

Homeland Security’s legal immigration agency put an employee on leave Wednesday after being confronted with her history as an operative for the Palestine Liberation Organization and a more recent series of pro-Hamas social media posts. Nejwa Ali had been hired at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as an asylum officer in 2019 and is now serving as an adjudication officer, according to her LinkedIn profile. That profile is also used to highlight her time as a public affairs officer for the PLO, an umbrella group that advocates for Palestinians and has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S....

The U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Carney shot down a trio of land-attack cruise missiles and multiple drones launched by Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen earlier today. The Houthis are among the groups that have threatened retaliation against Israel, as well as the United States, over ongoing operations targeting groups in the Gaza Strip. Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon's top spokesman, confirmed the interceptions and said the Houthi attacks may still be "ongoing" at a press conference today. CNN had been the first to report the incident citing unnamed U.S. officials. "The crew of the...

The Office 365 at one of my work computers will soon expire. Office 365 Family for 6 devices is about $99 Office 365 Business for 1 device is about $150 It is tempting to get Office Family (less money and works with more computers) but if I do, will Microsoft bust me and send me to the gulag? The other temptation is to work with Open Office. Any experience with that?

@simonateba Brit Hume of Fox News being blasted for saying Biden's speech "may be remembered as one of the best, if not the best speech, of his presidency. He was firm. He was strong." WATCH

Crises clarify what is true, and what is indisputably true during this crisis is that academia, as currently constituted, is a poisonous cancer infecting our society. Like many other institutions, academia has gone from respect to contempt in the eyes of normal people, if not our garbage ruling class. But its latest series of public disgraces may wake up even the most obstinate cheerleaders for pretending that nothing fundamental has changed. And let’s use the opportunity we have been given to eliminate this dinosaur institution. At the top of our conservative agenda must be making it extinct. It has outlived...

"It's the death rattle, this is the flailing of the corrupt establishment trying to bully us back under their control." Radio host Alex Jones joined former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon to cover the Liberty Movement’s latest exploits against globalists and raise alarm over the Deep State’s latest efforts to launch false flag terror attacks. Remarkably, just minutes after Jones’ Thursday morning interview on Bannon’s War Room, the State Department issued a terror alert that advised U.S. citizens worldwide to “stay alert” due to potential terrorist attacks. “Yes, we’re winning, we’re forcing the mask to come off, we’re forcing...

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The surprise victory in Louisiana’s open gubernatorial primary for Governor-Elect Jeff Landry (R-LA) on Saturday is an encouraging sign for Republicans heading into the 2024 elections, GOP insiders tell Breitbart News. Landry, who is currently the Bayou State’s attorney general and had the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, won the open primary with a nearly 52 percent majority on Saturday night. In other words, he won the governorship outright without having to face another rival in a November runoff.

@juliegraceb A source close to Rep. Ken Buck tells me “The landlord for one of his offices is terminating the lease presumably because of his vote against Jordan.”

President Joe Biden’s approach to the ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine is fueling mounting tensions at the U.S. government agency most involved in foreign policy: the State Department.Officials told HuffPost that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his most senior advisers are overlooking widespread internal frustration. Some department staff said they feel as if Blinken and his team are uninterested in their own experts’ advice as they focus on supporting Israel’s expanding operation in Gaza, where the Palestinian militant group Hamas is based.“There’s basically a mutiny brewing within State at all levels,” one State Department official said.Since Hamas’ Oct....

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The internet went crazy Wednesday night after footage of Joe Biden struggling to speak showed the puppet president sporting what many are calling, “chin balls.” The bizarre protrusions on Biden’s chin prompted others to suggest he was actually a person wearing a Joe Biden mask!

President Biden addresses the nation on the United States' response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars from the White House’s Oval Office.

[Catholic Caucus] Synod, October 18: Cardinal Hollerich calls for ‘small but sensitive changes’ in Church governanceOctober 19, 2023On October 18, participants in the first session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops turned their attention to the Synod’s fourth topic: “Participation, governance and authority. What processes, structures and institutions are there in a missionary synodal Church?”The Synod’s first session has reached its halfway point: the session began on October 4 and will conclude on October 29. The Synod’s second session will take place in October 2024.Archbishop Grušas: The Gospel is ‘given on God’s terms, not man’s’On...

A Cleveland man has been arrested by police for allegedly trying to cause trains in the city to derail by jamming metal into tracks and rail lines. Joseph Findley, 43, has been arrested by the FBI on federal terrorist charges following a string of alleged attacks against railroad carriers on October 6. He is accused of placing railroad spikes onto the path of oncoming trains and wedging pieces of metal into a rail switch. During a test run for a CSX employee appreciation day, one train hit an obstruction on the track and temporarily derailed before the wheels dropped back...