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On and after October 7 the world has been treated to images of Hamas terrorists engaging in the most horrific acts against Israeli civilians, including even elderly people and babies. Surely all civilized people would react to these crimes with revulsion and outrage? To the contrary, the last several weeks have seen massive pro-Hamas demonstrations around the world, including on campuses of elite universities and in major cities like London, Paris, Washington, D.C., and New York. Rationales that I have seen to justify Hamas’s conduct have included that Israel is supposedly an “apartheid state,” that Israel engages in “genocide,” and...

No issue threatens to break President Biden's fragile Democratic coalition like Israel's response to the Hamas terrorist attack. Why it matters: Infighting is spreading, slowly but meaningfully, at every layer of the Democratic Party over Biden's full-throated support of Israel. It runs much deeper than college campus protests or caustic comments from elected officials. Step back and survey the split: Many liberal Jews are furious that so many progressive Democrats aren't more outraged by the slaughter of family and friends back in Israel. Some are threatening to leave the party. Pro-Palestinian Democrats are outraged at the rising death tolls in...

An Israeli TV show’s satirical take on support for Palestinians among US college students was viewed over 11 million times on social media by Monday evening, just 24 hours after it first aired. Keshet TV’s long-running satirical show “Eretz Nehederet” (“A Wonderful Country”) broadcast the skit on Sunday, depicting a pair of students giving mindless support to the Hamas terror group, which on October 7 carried out a devastating assault on Israel that killed 1,400 people, the vast majority of them civilians. Over 240 men, women, and children were abducted and taken captive in Gaza. Israel has vowed to destroy...

The words "cynical" and "selfish" come to mind. As does the word "hypocritical." In a move typical of big city politicians who view themselves as more important than the plebeians they claim to serve, Columbus City Council members have gifted themselves armed police officers for personal protection. These officers have not been added to the Columbus police force, but transferred from their job protecting ordinary citizens to their new job protecting individual council members. From the Columbus Dispatch: Columbus taxpayers will pay $315,314 per year to have three full-time city police officers assigned to a security detail to protect...

The developer set to convert the area surrounding Google’s San Francisco headquarters into a 15,000-house residential campus complete with office space and hotels has backed out of the project, citing “current market conditions.” Google, however, has confirmed to The Post that it will proceed with the project — which shouldn’t be delayed despite the company’s tie-up with the developer, Lendlease — and said it’s looking to broaden its relationships with other developers. Lendlease issued a press release on Friday saying it decided won’t move forward with the tech behemoth’s so-called “San Francisco Bay Project” after “a determination by both organizations...

A recent post on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows Israeli officials handing out what appear to be M-4 or similar versions of the American M-16 type rifle to non-uniformed Israelis. Israel suffered thousands of casualties in the October 7 raid/invasion and massacres conducted by Hamas. The raid showed how vulnerable a disarmed population is against lightly armed and armored adversaries. The Israeli government had long practiced a staple of socialist regimes: disarm the population to enforce a doctrine of a monopoly of force by the government. Disarming the population renders them vulnerable to the types of raids conducted by...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A woman who allegedly drove her car into a building in Indianapolis after watching coverage of the Israel-Hamas war told officers she believed the building was an “Israel school,” according to police and court records. One adult as well as four children — ages 7 months, 1, 2 and 3 years — were inside the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge at the time of late Friday’s crash, but no one was injured, police said. The 34-year-old woman was arrested at the scene and was being held Monday at the Marion County Jail on a preliminary...

As of September, we estimate about 1.98 million excess retirees.' But with unemployment below 4 percent for the longest time in 50 years, employers are feeling the pressure from a tight labor market and eyeing opportunities to tempt seniors back into the workforce. More than 2,500 businesses, including Bank of America, Microsoft and H&R Block have signed the AARP pledge to build an age-inclusive workforce with the number of new signatures more than doubling over the last year. Despite increasing eagerness from employers, the ship may have sailed for those who retire with just 3 percent getting a job in...

On November 7, Ohio will vote on Issue 1, which would enshrine abortion as a “right” within the state constitution. An effort to increase the margin needed to amend the Ohio constitution to a supermajority of 60% of voters – which was, confusingly, also titled “Issue 1” and which would have made the pro-abortion amendment being voted on this November more difficult to pass – failed at the ballot box in August. Consequently, the proposed amendment can be enacted by a simple majority of the vote. Issue 1, if approved, would “establish a state constitutional right to ‘make and carry...

Well, this explains the cover up. https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1721545965402726734 https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1721548993178501158 Louder With Crowder Victims are black…….. ‘goodness, we need a national discussion’ Victims are white………’nothing to see here’ Look what they're mad about. Zog really hates white people:

When some very unexpected turn of events occurs, I am always on the lookout for the best possible explanation. Perhaps the biggest surprise this year is the race for governor of Kentucky where incumbent pro-abortion Gov. Andy Beshear was far ahead of pro-life Attorney General Daniel Cameron until the latest poll campaign out. Last month an Emerson College poll had Beshear up by a whopping 16 points. But a poll last week had them tied at 47% each. What can explain Cameron making up a 16 point deficit in a month? As we discussed on Friday, Spencer Kimball, Executive Director...

Weather across the United States will make drastic shifts this week as cities from Arizona to New York are forecast for above-average temperatures in the coming days before chilly air brings back the winter feeling. More than 235 million Americans will experience temperatures 5 to 20 degrees higher than average for early November on Tuesday, reported FOX Weather. That is an extreme change from last week's record snowfall in the Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes and New England. According to The Weather Channel, a zonal upper level pattern, which when weather systems move parallel to the latitude lines, will keep temperatures...

There is “so much more to the story” of the small-town Alabama mayor and Southern Baptist pastor who lived a secret life as a “transgender curvy woman” and author of “erotic slasher fiction,” according to the editor-in-chief of the publication that broke the story. Jeff Poor, editor-in-chief of 1819 News, an Alabama-based conservative news outlet, shared with Breitbart News in an exclusive interview more details on the outlet’s series of stories that continues to generate national headlines. “There’s a whole lot more here,” Poor said. “This was clearly a troubled man, and it’s unfortunate that he ended his life. But...

"But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. "But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; "And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." ☰ Matthew 20 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that...

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An elderly Jewish protester has been killed in California after a skirmish led to him falling on his head after reportedly being hit with a megaphone. Paul Kessler, 69, was caught up in rival rallies in Thousand Oaks on Sunday - one in support of Israel and the other backing the Palestinian cause. Kessler is understood to have been involved in a tussle with another person where he fell backward and hit his head on the ground. Harrowing social media footage showed him lying on the ground with a pool of blood under him as medics rushed to help him....

The conference succeeded by hiding the key premise, creating a false dichotomy, twisting the definition of love, and leveraging the emotions of parents. The Bible does not treat homosexual sex or marriage as an agree-to-disagree issue. It’s univocal in its definition of sex and marriage. It’s also univocal in its prohibition of homosexual sex. Finally, it warns people who engage in such behavior that they will not inherit the kingdom of God. These are serious matters. To simply agree to disagree would be to disregard the eternal destiny of the people whom God is eager to save. Not only are...

Every day seems to bring fresh evidence of just how savage and demonic Hamas really is. On Friday, video surfaced of IDF soldiers entering the Nova music festival in southern Israel in the aftermath of Hamas’ massacre there. Be warned: the video shows the dead bodies of numerous young Israelis whom the jihadis murdered in their pursuit of another genocide of the Jewish people. As such evidence of Hamas’ inhumanity comes to light, however, their motivations remain obscure to most people. Even now, nearly a quarter-century after 9/11, people in the West have trouble believing that someone could ruthlessly murder...

A federal jury on Monday found a scuba dive boat captain was criminally negligent in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles confirmed Jerry Boylan was found guilty of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer, a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as seaman’s manslaughter that was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters. Boylan was the only person to face criminal charges connected to the fire.