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A Star of David and the words “Never again is now” shine on the Brandenburg Gate On the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a clear message could be seen on the Brandenburg Gate on Thursday. Numerous people in other cities also remembered the Jewish victims. The anniversary is particularly in focus this time because of developments in the Middle East. The Brandenburg Gate was illuminated with the words “Never again is now” on Thursday evening to mark the 85th anniversary of the Nazi pogrom night. Matching the colors of the Israeli flag, the gate shone white, the lettering and a Star...

Could the ultimate MAGA ticket actually happen in 2024? As President Trump continues to dominate the Republican primary polls, attention will soon turn to who he will select as his heir apparent. Names such as Kari Lake, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y), and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem have been rumored for months. But yesterday seemed to open up the possibility that Trump may select the one person who most closely hews to his populist, America-first principles. That man is none other than former Fox News host and now X/Twitter star Tucker Carlson.

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who is known as a moderate Democrat, has announced his decision to step down from the Senate at the end of his current term. He said he wants to travel the country, and find ways to mobilize the middle class and bring Americans together. It is unclear if he is planning for a White House run.

The West has been flooded with barbarians, who are no longer at the gates but well inside them. But the threat of the barbarians from without is minuscule compared to the reality that barbarism itself has become perfectly normal within our society, and barbaric practices have been adopted by many Americans. The chances that a graduate from a prestigious college in America will embrace barbarism are likely higher than your average illegal alien, at least from a few years ago. Most illegal aliens come here to live the American Dream, and prior to Biden’s open door/let’s hand you a check...

GAZA/WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Gaza officials said Israel launched air strikes on or near at least three hospitals on Friday, further stressing the Palestinian enclave's precarious health system as it struggles to cope with thousands of people wounded or displaced in Israel's war against Hamas militants. "The Israeli occupation launched simultaneous strikes on a number of hospitals during the past hours", Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra told Al Jazeera television. The medical facilities included Gaza's biggest hospital, Al Shifa, where Israel said Hamas has hidden command centres and tunnels, allegations Hamas denies. Qidra said Israel targeted the...

Intense fighting tonight at the link

SRAELI troops yesterday blew up a missile dump hidden in plain sight by Hamas terror chiefs on the golden sands of a Gaza beach. Twenty rockets with a 125-mile range were stored - one on top of the other - inside a locked shipping container. It was moved here by Hamas to be among innocent civilians enjoying the crystal blue waters of the Mediterranean. Families from the local neighbourhoods of Jabalia, Rimal and Atatra had flocked here before the war. But for the bloodthirsty hierarchy of Hamas their ordinary lives simply provided the perfect cover. The evil terror group hid...

Public urination is high on the list of critiques of the French capital, along with rats, noise, and people not picking up their dogs’ business. Referred to in France as le pipi sauvage, or "wild peeing", the propensity for public urination – which is technically illegal and mainly male – is explained by many factors, though a lack of available public toilets is a fundamental one. Over the years, Parisian leaders have proposed a number of innovative solutions but, so far, to no avail. The newest scheme to combat the ongoing problem comes from a start-up from the western city...

Pope to address UN climate conference, inaugurate 'Faith Pavilion'Pope Francis will travel to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates Dec. 1-3 to address the U.N. climate conference and to help inaugurate the Faith Pavilion where religious leaders and organizations will meet to share information and strategies for convincing governments to take real steps to protect the environment.The conference, commonly known as COP28, "can represent a change of direction, showing that everything done since 1992 (with the adoption of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change) was in fact serious and worth the effort, or else it will be a great...

Declinism is in fashion again. As relations between America and China worsen, studying the ends of earlier ages of hegemony becomes more popular. Books predicting the unstoppable rise of autocratic strongmen and the death of democracy proliferate. There is much talk of the “Thucydides trap” the inevitability of a clash between a rising power and an established one, as Athens challenged Sparta in the fifth century bc. This provocative short book adapts this approach with a novel twist. It draws a comparison between the West in 1999, the zenith of its confidence, and Rome exactly 1,600 years earlier, in 399—just...

Congressman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, announced on Thursday that he would not be seeking reelection in 2024. He posted a video message on the social media platform X, saying he wants to spend more time with his family. "At home, that's where my amazing wife Monica and two young children, Brad and Sophia, are. That's the place where I really want to be somebody," Wenstrup said in the video. Wenstrup was first elected in 2012 and served in Ohio's second Congressional district for five terms. He did not say what his next move would be. "Throughout my life, I've heard the...

Apollo astronaut Col. Frank Borman has died in Billings, Montana, NASA announced. He was 95. “Today we remember one of NASA’s best. Astronaut Frank Borman was a true American hero. Among his many accomplishments, he served as the commander of the Apollo 8 mission, humanity’s first mission around the Moon in 1968,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson Thursday in a statement. “In addition to his critical role as commander of the Apollo 8 mission, he is a veteran of Gemini 7, spending 14 days in low-Earth orbit and conducting the first rendezvous in space, coming within a few feet of...

Several news organizations firmly denied on Thursday that they had advance knowledge of the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, after a pro-Israel media watchdog group suggested that freelance photographers they worked with had been tipped off. HonestReporting, which says it is dedicated to “exposing and responding to inaccuracies or bias” in media coverage of Israel, published a report Wednesday naming four freelance photographers who it implied had advance knowledge of the Hamas incursion because they had been well-positioned to photograph it. While not directly accusing the news organizations, the group made insinuations of complicity. “What were [the photographers]...

As Joe Biden marched toward the presidency in 2020, Hunter Biden and his legal team scrambled to clean up a trail of delinquent taxes before they became a media scandal. But the future first son allegedly continued to misrepresent his income and deductions to the very accountant he had hired to help, according to once-secret IRS memos made public recently by Congress. The memos show that Jeffrey Gelfound, an Edward White & Company tax accountant hired by Hunter Biden, was a cooperating witness in the IRS criminal probe of the first son and is likely to be a key witness...

Speaking specifically of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, McCarthy said the Republican Party would be “tremendously” better off if Gaetz lost his House seat. He had a similar comment to make about South Carolina’s Nancy Mace, predicting that she’d lose her seat in next year’s election. “If you’ve watched her, just her philosophy, and the flip-flopping, I don’t believe she wins reelection,” McCarthy said.

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On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues David Satterfield told him that Hamas does have tunnels under hospitals, but “when you have a hospital full of wounded people, it cannot be a target ever.”

In Nashville, a woman named Jillian Ludwig was murdered because the government refused to lock up a violent serial criminal named Shaquille Taylor, who had a previous history of shooting at people.NBC News gave this explanation for why the government refused to lock Taylor up after he had previously shot at people:Taylor had been criminally charged multiple times in the past, including in 2021 when he was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon.Authorities said he and another man allegedly shot at a woman while she was driving with her two children. At least two bullets hit...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood announced on Thursday that she will resign from her elected post next month, a decision coming two days after she was indicted on charges that she misused her state-owned vehicle for personal activities. Wood, a Democrat who was first elected auditor in 2008, had already announced last week that she wouldn't seek reelection in 2024. That came before a Wake County grand jury formally accused her of a pair of misdemeanors. "I will step down as State Auditor on December 15, 2023, completing 30 years of service to the State...

The fourth Republican presidential primary debate of this cycle will be hosted by NewsNation, the “Megyn Kelly Show” on SiriusXM radio and the Washington Free Beacon newspaper, the Republican National Committee announced Thursday — representing a shift away from the establishment media outlets that hosted the first three debates. NewsNation anchor Elizabeth Vargas, talk show host Megyn Kelly and Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson will moderate the Dec. 6 debate in Tuscaloosa, Ala., the RNC said. In a statement, Johnson touted the move to lesser-known outlets as a positive for Republicans, saying they were excited “to offer...