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Joe Biden gave a rare Oval Office address Thursday night that began with a clear condemnation of Hamas terror, but quickly shifted focus to cynical politicking and narrative setting, even while Americans are still being held hostage. (snip) He tried to connected Israel and Ukraine in order to suggest to Americans that if you support Israel’s war for its own survival, you must also support limitless taxpayer resources being sent to Ukraine – after those funds make a pit stop in the bank accounts of U.S. defense contractors, of course.

Ford did masterful work with the F-150 Lightning. The electric pickup was a no-brainer pick for our game-changing vehicle of the year. But in EV terms, the truck is effectively old tech — a reworked edition of the 14th-generation F-150. Going that route was beneficial; Ford got an electric pickup to market far sooner than competitors. But the F-150 Lightning is hamstrung by its combustion-oriented platform. With competitors like the Silverado EV, the GMC Sierra EV and the Ram 1500 REV, GM and Stellantis are skipping the "F-150 Lightning" development stage to build new, ground-up electric trucks on dedicated EV...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 19. There is the same ebb and flow of rumor to-day as yesterday. Cavalry soldiers, returned from Edward's Ferry, report that there was heavy cannonading throughout yesterday about twelve miles away, and seemingly at Point of Rocks. The explanation by wiser ones is that the woods were being teased with shells to dislodge guerillas supposed to be lurking there. A reconnoissance, made yesterday some miles out beyond Bristow Station, demonstrated that there was no force of rebels along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Our captures demonstrate that only A.P. HILL's corps...

Russia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that a strike on a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians was a shockingly dehumanising crime and said that Israel should provide satellite imagery if it was not involved. -snip- "We qualify such a felonious deed as a crime - as an act of dehumanisation," Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Radio Sputnik. Zakharova said that there was a clear attempt by some to absolve themselves of responsibility and that it was not enough to simply make comments in the media on such an incident so Israel and the United States should...

Throughout his trip to the war-torn region, the President of the United States noticeably spoke slowly, sometimes pronouncing words unclearly, with conspicuous pauses throughout.WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – President Joe Biden returned to the United States on Thursday morning after a trip to Israel to show support for the Jewish democracy days after the Islamist terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack that killed 1,400 people and took 200 hostages. Several videos from the trip have emerged that renew persistent concerns about the commander-in-chief’s physical and mental fitness to lead America during geopolitical crises.During an appearance on stage next to Israeli...

A federal grand jury in Utah has indicted four people for attempting to illegally sell $1 million worth of paleontological resources, including to buyers in China. The stolen goods include 150,000 pounds of paleontological resources, including dinosaur bones, removed from federal and state lands in southeastern Utah, in violation of the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act (PRPA). Vint Wade, 65, and Donna Wade, 67, of Moab; Steven Willing, 67, of Los Angeles, California; and Jordan Willing, 40 of Ashland, Oregon, have been charged with causing $3 million in damages by stealing more than $1 million in paleontological resources, which included dinosaur...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then...

What the hell though? All hell is breaking loose in Mexico right now after a college football player intentionally broke his opponent’s leg with an absolutely disgusting dirty hit, and then in response, the player was banned for life. Oh yeah … we’ve got some drama cookin’ with this one. The crazy scene took place during a game between the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Tec) Borregos Salvajes and National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico (IPN) Burros Blancos last weekend. Tec, who are the defending national champions, were on IPN’s one-yard-line with the ball. They decided on a running play in an...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office on Oct. 19 dismissed the case against one of the 16 Republican presidential electors charged in connection with the 2020 election. The dismissal of the case against James Renner, 76, came after he agreed to "cooperate fully" with the attorney general's investigation, his lawyer Clint Westbrook said in a statement to multiple publications. "After conversations with the Attorney General's office, all charges against our innocent client, Jim Renner, were dismissed," Mr. Westbrook said. Mr. Renner was one of 16 Republican presidential electors charged with eight felony counts of fraud and election forgery in connection...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that a blast at a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians was a terrible catastrophe that showed the conflict should be ended through negotiations. -snip- "As for the strike on the hospital, the tragedy that happened there is a terrible event," Putin said after talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. "Hundreds of dead and hundreds of wounded are of course a catastrophe."

Consumers are about to feel the impact of soaring bond yields, Blackstone president Johnathan Gray told the FT. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury continued to rise on Thursday, edging closer to 5%. Higher bond yields are raising borrowing costs all over the economy, from mortgages to personal loans. American consumers are about to feel the sting of soaring bond yields, Blackstone president Johnathan Gray said. Bond yields, which impact borrowing costs for all kinds of loan products, moved higher this week as investors fretted over higher-for-longer interest rates. After notching a 16-year-record earlier this month, the yield on...

A panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Oct. 18 struck down lawsuits challenging a Nasdaq stock market rule requiring companies listed on the exchange to have "diverse" directors on their boards or explain why they don't. In a lengthy opinion, the appeals court rejected lawsuits seeking to block the rule by the National Center for Public Policy Research and the Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment, a group formed by conservative legal activist Edward Blum. The rule at the center of the lawsuit was approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2021.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemActs 4The Believers Share Their Possessions 32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34 that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35 and put it at the apostles’...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (Gray News) – A 14-year-old from Virginia was crowned America’s Top Young Scientist for inventing a soap that treats skin cancer. According to a news release, Heman Bekele, a ninth grader at W.T. Woodson High School in Annandale, won the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge last week. Heman developed Melanoma Treating Soap, a compound-based bar of soap designed to treat skin cancer. Over the next five years, he hopes to refine his innovation and create a nonprofit organization that will distribute this low-cost solution to communities in need. The final product came out to a shockingly cheap...

JIM JORDAN, speaking in the Capitol, says he hopes the House will elect a speaker today. “There’s been multiple rounds of votes for speaker before.”

There is an epidemic of mentally ill people who run academia. It’s bad enough that universities all across the U.S. are tainted by leftist professors, but with these kinds of people, we are reaching new levels. Transgender UC Davis Professor Jemma Decristo made threats against Jews last week after Hamas terrorists ambushed Israel and slaughtered more than 1,300 Jews. The professor referenced ‘Zionist journalists’ and was quoted as saying on his/her UC Davis page: “one group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda and misinformation, they have houses w...

WADSWORTH, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic priest called on voters to reject an upcoming pro-abortion ballot measure in Ohio and slammed Planned Parenthood abortionists as “Moloch’s priests” in a powerful sermon going viral online. Father Patrick Schultz warned in a September 5 homily that Ohio and the United States are in a “very dire situation” due to widespread abortion, one with similarities to the “ancient pagan world.” “Over and over and over again in the Old Testament, you hear God condemning child sacrifice,” he said, “which was practiced all throughout the ancient pagan world.” “It was a temptation to which...

A renowned commentator on Israel and Jewish affairs, Caroline Glick, has launched a warning to Israel that America, through the Joe Biden administration, is no longer a friend. In fact, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was sent to Israel following the recent terror attacks by Hamas, which killed hundreds and hundreds of civilians, sometimes by burning families alive, other times by beheading babies, for a nefarious reason, she explains. He was dispatched essentially to blackmail Israel into allowing "resupply" of Hamas provisions in Gaza, on the threat of America withholding military supplies needed by Israel. Further, Joe Biden's recent visit...

OLUMBUS, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — A proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution enshrining a “right” to effectively unlimited abortion in the Buckeye State would go far beyond the Roe v. Wade status quo and block prohibitions on partial-birth and dismemberment abortions, allow abortionists to target disabled babies, and end parental consent requirements, according to a legal analysis from the office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. Drafted by the Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and backed by the Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights (OPRR) advocacy arm Protect Choice Ohio (PCO), the proposed Right to Reproductive Freedom with...

Hamas terrorists who carried out a surprise attack on October 7 were found to be under the influence of Captagon, a synthetic amphetamine-type stimulant that has been clandestinely produced in southern Europe and trafficked through Turkey to the consumer markets on the Arabian Peninsula, as reported by Nir Dvori of Channel 12. The pills were recovered from the pockets of many terrorists who lost their lives on Israeli soil. This stimulant drug, also known as the "cocaine for the poor," allowed the terrorists to commit heinous acts with a sense of calmness and indifference. Simultaneously, it kept them highly alert...