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Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: "Khaybar Khaybar oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return,” This is a reference to the Khaybar Oasis, where Mohammed’s forces took action against the tribal Jewish communities, leading to their subjugation, mass expulsion, and slaughter.

A few years back, I started Veterans Day on "Fox & Friends", reacting to the live footage of President Trump in Hanoi. We talked about the Vietnam war's domestic impact on the American psyche, and how it took many decades for that to change. This Veterans Day movie pick is one of the cultural artifacts of that evolution in perception - a film about soldiering that wears its allegiance in its very title. It was released about six months after 9/11, in the spring of 2002, and in that sense is a movie about an old war seen through the...

A Las Vegas teenager beaten by a group of about 15 people near Rancho High School last week died on Tuesday, according to his father. Jonathan Lewis Sr. said Friday that son Jonathan Lewis Jr., 17, died while at University Medical Center for treatment for injuries he suffered in the fight. “We’re all just trying to process this,” said Lewis, 38, by phone. “The whole family is in shock.” From what he understands, the altercation happened after “Jonathan stood up for one of his smaller friends,” Lewis said. “A couple (of people) attacked him, and they weren’t able to hurt...

Former US President Donald Trump on Saturday released a new campaign video. The video ad builds on the thousands of people, including 31 Americans, killed by Hamas in Israel since October 7, and slams US President Joe Biden's release of billions of dollars in funds to Iran. The campaign video, claims, "Trump played hardball with Iran. Destroyed ISIS. Kept the Middle East at peace. Kept us out of endless wars with strength."

While cyclist Edwin Gonzalez Montoya of Chicago was participating in the Hincapie Gran Fondo in Greenville, South Carolina he saw something odd fly overhead. In reviewing the GoPro footage, he saw that the unidentified flying object was actually an athletic deer leaping over his bicycle mid-ride.

Newly-confirmed Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. is pressuring Israel to give up on the idea of eliminating the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, claiming a prolonged war risks turning more of the Palestinian population into terrorists. Gen. Brown, whose nomination stalled amid concerns about his “woke” record — including support for Black Lives Matter radicals and racial promotions in the military — expressed skepticism despite rapid Israeli gains on the ground against Hamas. The Times of Israel reported: The top US military official indicated Thursday that Israel will have a harder time eradicating Hamas...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday announced its approval of Ixchiq, the first chikungunya vaccine. The vaccine, which is made by Valneva, is approved for anyone age 18 and older who has a risk of being exposed to the virus. The chikungunya virus is transmitted to people through bites from infected mosquitoes. "This virus is in a similar category as dengue or Zika and is carried by the same mosquitoes," noted Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center and a Fox News medical contributor. The FDA described chikungunya as an "emerging global...

They should be treated the exact same way that Ashli Babbitt was treated. in response to Hamas supporters in NYC have surrounded Grand Central Station and are attempting to breach the outer doors to reach police officers sheltering inside.

Unbeknownst to many, the eldest son of Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef is no fan of the ruthless, savage terrorist group. Speaking on Fox News’s “Hannity” this week, Mosab Hassan Yousef said that, despite assertions from the left, Hamas is no political party but rather a religious movement waging a holy war. “If Hamas was a political party, then we [could] apply pressure on them, bring them to the negotiating table where they can compromise. But Hamas is a religious organization. Nobody can satisfy their religious ambition because it’s a condition in their charter,” he told network host Sean Hannity. While...

On Veterans Day we remember from WWII the hazards faced by the young men who became our fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers. For example, the 8th Air Force suffered over 26,000 dead compared to the Marine Corps losing nearly 20,000 killed in the Pacific. Their bombers were mainly crewed by teenagers and men in their early twenties, but of all crew members the ball turret gunner confronted the most dismal fate.The emerging certainty the United States would be drawn into WW II promoted creation of an autonomous Army Air Force. Until the war in Europe began, dominate Army doctrine gave the...

This is embarrassing. Put him in a home already

MINNEAPOLIS — "Life under siege," and "unchartered territory" is how the authors of a new report describe our current climate situation. WCCO NEXT Weather meteorologist Adam Del Rosso caught up with Dr. Jillian Gregg, one of the authors, who says despite the bold language, the solutions are fairly simple. "We're simply looking at the data and in fact, we really are alarmed at what we're seeing. It is really off the charts and that's why we have that in our title. It's unchartered territory," Gregg said. She says of the 35 vital signs her team has been tracking, 20 are...

Pope’s removal of Bishop Strickland draws huge Catholic outrage, global media coverage'His persecution will only open the door for countless others to rise up.'TYLER, Texas (LifeSiteNews) –– The morning’s news of Pope Francis removing the bishop of Tyler – Bishop Joseph Strickland – has made international waves and caused instant outrage amongst Catholics, in a fallout, the scale of which, has likely taken even the Vatican by surprise. In the Holy See Press Office’s daily bulletin on November 11, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had “relieved” Bishop Joseph Strickland of the governance of his Diocese of Tyler. READ: Pope...

The New York Times reported on the 9th November, that a federal judge had approved the $290 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by the sex abuse victims of Epstein against JPMorgan Chase—a close mutual business associate of both Gates and Epstein. Over this past year, JPMorgan has agreed to pay an additional $75 million—for a combined total of $365 million—to settle another lawsuit relating to its established banking relationship with Epstein.“The suits revealed that JPMorgan facilitated approximately $1 billion in transfers for Epstein which the bank admitted were “human trafficking” related.” according to author of new book, Controligarchs:...

... I went to see Interstellar mainly because I was tickled by the fact that the bad guy is called "Dr Mann". But I took along my kids, and I'm glad I did because it's a good film to see with children or parents. Underneath all the saving-humanity space-travel stuff, the only relationship that matters in the movie is between dad Matthew McConaughey and his daughter. I'm tiptoeing around the startling evolution of that relationship, but let's just say that the, ahem, role reversal of their final scene together had my boys talking all the way home. Interstellar is directed...

The suspected human smuggler who caused a deadly car crash that killed him along with seven others, including two Americans, has been identified as a 17-year-old boy from Honduras, authorities say. The Texas Department of Public Safety said the accident on Wednesday occurred when the smuggler, who was carrying five illegal immigrants in his vehicle, was fleeing from the Zavala County Sheriff’s Office in Batesville, Texas, when he tried to pass an 18-wheeler in a no-passing zone. He reportedly went into oncoming traffic and collided with the SUV occupied by two Americans from Georgia. The collision killed the Americans from...

Yesterday's observation that we should nix the cheap Nazi comparisons because they are insufficient to the moment prompted a lot of reader response, a big chunk of which was along the lines of: Are you serious, Steyn? You're saying we're in for millions of deaths?Well, I hope not. But there is blood-lust in the air - I don't mean in Gaza (it's always in the air there) but in the streets of western cities. In our comments, Ian Cory, a First Day Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club from southern England, put it this way:In Nineteen Eighty-Four Britain is...

Are you a wrestling fan? If so, you may have heard the terms “heel” and “jobber” being thrown around. But what do these terms mean exactly? Let’s dive into the world of wrestling and explore the differences between heel and jobber. ? Let’s establish which of the two is the proper word. The truth is, both words are correct and are used in different contexts. “Heel” refers to a wrestler who is portrayed as the villain or antagonist in a storyline. On the other hand, a “jobber” is a wrestler who is often used to make other wrestlers look good...

House Republicans are pursuing a two-step plan for funding the government, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN, as Congress barrels toward another spending deadline next Friday. Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson announced the plan on a GOP conference call with members Saturday afternoon and argued “I wasn’t the architect of the mess we are in,” according to a source on the call. While Johnson embraced the right wing of his conference by pitching the two-step approach, he didn’t fully cave to their wishes. The package does not include the deep spending cuts that his right flank pushed...

Catholic apologist Trent Horn offers a lingering theological question concerning the much discussed doctrine of Sola Fide here.To note, there are varying, different definitions of this doctrine, and many non-Catholic Christians do not hold to this doctrine in some way or another as well.(In a similar way that Catholics erroneously pick and choose what they desire to believe or reject.) The question asked of this vague and ambiguous doctrine is this: If good works are necessary fruit, evidence, of one who has been saved by Faith Alone, "What exactly are the "good works" that accompany true faith?" A natural follow...