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If New York City truly cracked down on crime, a known aggressor like Roesch wouldn’t have robbed and Rote wouldn’t have needed to shoot.Is a man who uses his firearm to foil a crime a hero or a villain? According to New York City, people like John Rote, who saved a woman in a subway station by firing a warning shot to deter a robber demanding her purse, are vigilantes who deserve to be punished with potentially years in prison. Matthew Roesch, a 49-year-old homeless man with a criminal record, demanded a woman pay him $1 for letting her...

The Department of Justice and FBI pride themselves on being the top federal agencies to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of hate crimes. Their zeal for tracking down racists and targeting Americans based on fabricated white supremacy allegations apparently stops, however, when it comes to classifying the type of anti-white crimes that occurred at Covenant School earlier this year.On March 27, 2023, Audrey Hale, a woman masquerading as a man, shot and killed three children and three staff at a Christian grade school before local police took her out.Even though the ambush bore several telltale signs of a hate crime,...

Republican Senator Tom Cotton is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate how and why the New York Times, Associated Press and Reuters hired a freelance "journalist" who was in on the October 7 invasion of Israel and massacre of civilians by Hamas. "I write regarding reports that so-called 'journalists' employed by the Associated Press, CNN, New York Times, and Reuters accompanied Hamas terrorists into Israel during the October 7 terror attack. These individuals almost certainly knew about the attack in advance, and even participated by accompanying Hamas terrorists during the attack and filming the heinous acts," Cotton wrote...

@julie_kelly2 I just got off the phone with a relative of Gregory Yetman, the target of an FBI manhunt following an armed raid related to charges for January 6. Will have much more on what happened shortly. In the meantime... I am SICK of hearing the ways in which this regime is destroying the lives of decent Americans who love this country so the pettiest man ever to be president, Joe Biden, can retaliate against his detractors. I am sick of hearing the pain in people's voices when their loved one is described as a "terrorist," especially people who have...

We’ve heard the endless cries of “Free Palestine!” in recent weeks, but there’s a variation on this theme that hits the nail on the head: “Free Palestine from Hamas!”It is true that the people of Gaza elected Hamas in 2006 and that, according to polling over the years, they continue to support Hamas.At the same time, they did not have a Dr. Mide range of choices when they voted. As noted on Snopes.com, “The election saw a political split between the secular Fatah (a branch of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)) that dominated the PLO since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War,...

Tens of thousands of people were seen escaping northern Gaza on Friday after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) kept open an evacuation corridor to assist Palestinian civilians in moving to southern Gaza. The footage comes after Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization that is backed by Iran, launched an unprecedented terrorist attack on October 7, murdering 1,400 Israelis, wounding 5,300+, and kidnapping more than 240. “Tens of thousands of Gazans are moving to the southern part of the Gaza Strip for their safety,” an Israeli government account wrote on X. “For the 6th consecutive day, the @IDF has opened an evacuation...

Israeli forces captured a Hamas stronghold following a 10-hour firefight as troops uncovered the terror group’s tunnel shafts, one of which Israeli officials say was located near a kindergarten. Troops from the 933rd Nahal Infantry Brigade, one of the five infantry brigades of the IDF, completed the takeover of Outpost 17 in northern Gaza, which Hamas previously ran. The troops battled Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad above and below ground, killing dozens of terrorists.According to a Thursday IDF statement, Ibrahim Abu-Maghsib, the head of Hamas’ Anti Tank Missile Unit in the Central Camps Brigade, died during the attack from an...

It was beginning to seem like nothing could sway Californian opinions on the Democrats and their one-party government, which has been running the state into the ground since pushing for a failed high-speed railway project between two areas with very low population. However, The Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies released a poll showing that Californians have finally had enough of President Joe Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom’s disastrous leadership.AdvertisementThe multi-billion-costing project was only the first of failed policies that have taken the Golden State from one of the most coveted places in the world to a communist bloc where any...

Donald Trump appeared on the Clay & Buck show, and the host (I don’t know whether Clay or Buck) asked Trump if he’d consider Tucker as a running mate. After waffling along for a while about the number of viewers he got when he talked to Tucker (very high), compared to viewership for the Republican debates (very low), Trump finally said he would consider Tucker because the latter has “great common sense.” That’s true but Tucker has something even more important: He’s a remarkably gifted communicator in ways that Trump is not. In his own way, Trump is a very...

16:23 long video of Palestinian denial. Or maybe it is ignorance. Either way, Palestinians don’t deal with reality.

So the City of San Francisco can clean up its act ... when it wants to.And now that it's going to be hosting luminaries such as China's Xi Jinping, suddenly, the place isn't homeless, drug-addicted, shoplifting-plagued, assault-and-robbery dump any more.Funny how that happens. https://t.co/Cbr4rU8I9e So San Francisco decides to roll out the red carpet for Pres Xi Jinping by cleaning up years of crime and grime in a matter of days. If it’s that freaking easy to do, why not do it for American citizens and taxpayers instead of a communist Chinese… — Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) November 10, 2023 So...

A US reporting system designed to detect potential safety issues with vaccines is supposed to be user-friendly, responsive, and transparent. But an investigation published by The BMJ today finds it's not meeting its own standards. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), co-managed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), collects reports of symptoms, diagnoses, hospitalizations, and deaths following vaccination that might indicate a possible safety concern about a vaccine, explains journalist Jennifer Block. It relies on a mixture of voluntary adverse event reports from doctors and patients and mandatory...

The Senate narrowly passed a Republican-led measure on Wednesday aimed at cutting Beijing out of the supply chain for electric vehicle chargers — but which the White House argues would do the very opposite. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) joined Republicans to pass the Congressional Review Act resolution, S.J. Res. 38 (118), by a 50-48 vote. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voted against. The White House on Wednesday pledged to veto the resolution, which would overturn a rule that temporarily waives some domestic content requirements for federally funded electric vehicle charging stations....

On this day fifty years ago, November 10th, 1973, Stringbean Akeman frailed his final phrases on a Vega #9 five-string banjo, did his signature hand wave and hat flip one last time, and stepped off the Opry stage and into the history books in what would come to signal a change for the Opry itself, country music as an industry, and even country music as an institution. Before the night was out, Stringbean Akeman and his wife Estelle (Stanfill) were shot by two 23-year old cousins who’d come to know of Stringbean’s habit of keeping large amounts of cash on...

San Francisco officials have been working to clear some of the city’s hot spots for homeless tent camps ahead of world leaders, dignitaries, corporate executives and international journalists descending on the city for this month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. A high-ranking official in the city’s Public Works department listed seven intersections in the Tenderloin and South of Market to target in an email to other city officials on Sept. 25. “With APEC coming, I am concerned about historical encampments that are close to priority areas,” wrote Christopher McDaniels, superintendent of Street Environmental Services, in an email obtained by the Chronicle...

Birmingham police are responding to a report of several people shot, including at least two on Interstate 59/20. Multiple calls started coming into Birmingham’s 911 center about 4:40 p.m. The initial call was of masked men firing into occupied vehicles. One of the callers said a person was on the ground outside of a vehicle with a gunshot wound, according to police radio traffic...

Muslim Democrats Andre Carson, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar say they are “horrified” by GOP plans that would halt Palestinian legal immigration to the United States.

FBI agents seized the New York mayor’s cell phones and other devices in an escalation of a federal investigation into campaign fundraising, U.S. media reported Friday. The seizure appears to be part of a corruption investigation into whether Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign conspired with Turkey’s government, according to The New York Times, which broke the story.

@fasc1nate In 1981, Mehmet Ali Agca pulled a gun and shot Pope John Paul II during a procession in St. Peter's Square. Though critically wounded, the Pope survived four gunshot wounds to his abdomen. Following the shooting, Pope John Paul II asked people to "pray for my brother…whom I have sincerely forgiven". In 1983, Pope John Paul II and Agca met and spoke privately at the prison where Agca was being held. The Pope brought the photographer and the cameramen because he wanted the image in that cell to be shown around the world. In 2000, the Pope requested a...

If you live in and around Gulkana, Alaska and recently saw some eerie lights in the sky—don’t worry; they were all part of a science experiment. Earlier this week, researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and several other US institutions created artificial auroras by sending radio pulses into the Earth’s ionosphere using HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) transmitters on the ground. The frequencies of these transmissions were between 2.8 and 10 megahertz. >>> If you noticed a faint red or green splotch in the sky above Alaska between November 4 and November 8, chances are good that...