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The future of the US economy could be powered by cities in the Sunbelt. Economic and societal power in the US may be shifting away from colossal coastal cities such as New York and San Francisco to metropolitan areas tucked below the Mason-Dixon line, as Barron's recently reported. That's because economic power is flowing to the middle of the country — and places such as Houston, Dallas, Nashville, and Miami are becoming hot spots. Just as New York City has Wall Street and San Francisco has Silicon Valley, Houston has its energy economy and Miami has its proximity to Latin...

In Paris, in a snatch-and-grab operation, jewels worth almost 600,000 euros were stolen from the wife of the president of Mongolia’s Olympic Committee. More on this robbery, and other robberies in the capital, are discussed in the report here: “French police make arrests after gang robs €600,000 worth of jewelry from Mongolia’s Olympic Committee president’s wife in Paris,” by Thomas Brooke, Remix News, November 3, 2023:Three members of a Parisian gang have been arrested on suspicion of robbing almost €600,000 worth of jewelry from the wife of Mongolia’s Olympic Committee president in the French capital last month.The vehicle transporting Battushig...

Target has come under fire again after reports the retail giant is stocking ‘woke’ Christmas decorations in a number of its stores. Conservative X account End Wokeness was the first to post images of the woke Christmas decorations in Target, which included a black Santa Claus in a wheelchair along with a “pride” hat and a “pride” flag. Podcaster Tim Pool also confirmed that Target made “Santa in Wheelchair” available for purchase. “[O]mg its real,” Pool wrote.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was censured by the House of Representatives for words implying the destruction of America’s ally, the born-again Jewish state. She also could be censured for her mendacious claim to being a Palestinian when there is nothing Palestinian about her. While the Education department in the Palestinian Authority created by Israel’s Marxist leaders thirty years ago, Isaac Rabin and Simon Peres, teaches its school children that the Palestinians have been living in Palestine for five thousand years, Tlaib surely knows not one word of the language they spoke because there never was such a language. Her religion also...

I have for years drawn attention here to the billions of dollars that the leaders of Hamas have stolen from the sums provided by foreign donors, money that was meant to support the people of Gaza. Now I am delighted that The Daily Mail (UK), The National Post (Canada), the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and Fox News have all given the story of the three Hamas billionaires extensive coverage. The coverage by Fox News can be found here: “Hamas billionaires: Lifestyles of the rich and terrorists,” by Eric Shawn, Fox News, November 8, 2023:They are living the...

November 22, 1963, is a date defined by I will never forget. Sent home from school alone, frightened and attached to the TV, the day unfolded before me that even by today's standards was too much, too fast and too sad to grasp the entirety of what went down. My commitment to understanding it moved from passive to active many years later when Dr. Lawrence Klein, one of my personal physicians introduced to me by by mom, told me that on Nov. 22, 1963, he was a third-year medical student at UT Southwestern, doing a rotation at Parkland Memorial Hospital,...

Annie Richardson was knifed as she left an exercise class near Louisiana Tech University on Monday. She was in critical condition at the hospital before she died on Tuesday evening, according to local television station KLAX-TV. Retired Lincoln Parish Judge Cynthia Woodard, Tech grad student Dominique McKane and retired teacher Debbie Hollimon were also stabbed. Louisiana Tech student Jacoby Johnson, 23, was arrested over the attacks and has been charged with second-degree murder and four counts of attempted second-degree murder. Louisiana Tech Police Chief Randal Hermes said authorities were not aware of anything 'that would indicate concerning behavior' for the...

In the realm of the climate scare, the cognitive dissonance has reached almost impossible levels. Just a few days ago I took note of ever increasing focus by environmental NGOs on promoting the climate scare even as the green energy schemes, offered as salvation from the apocalypse, experience soaring costs and pervasive financial collapse. But those are just a couple of pieces of the crazy mess. Everywhere you look, our overlords are doubling down on end-of-days climate propaganda while reality just refuses to cooperate. We have truly reached peak absurdity. In the category of the overlords doubling down on climate...

An Alabama woman is being kicked out of her longtime home as investors are looking to buy the 40-acre plot from her family, which could be worth upwards of $20 million. Corine Woodson, 84, has been living in the same house on the outskirts of Auburn for over 60 years and is forced to leave the residence because the house sits on land with shared ownership throughout her family. “I would like to ask them why. You know, why, but I don’t. I can’t figure it out. Thinking about it, wondering about it. It’s not easy. I can tell you...

The fastest growing third party movement in America is the so-called Working Families Party (WFP), a left-wing radical group founded in New York in 1998 by coalitions of labor unions, community organizers and activists. WFP advocates for racial justice, climate change, debt-free higher education, everything current (and soon to be “discovered”) in the world of gender ideology, and a green economy. The party’s National Director is Maurice Mitchell (“Moe”), a leader in the Movement for Black Lives, a global network behind Black Lives Matter. Since its founding, WFP has expanded to 18 states and runs candidates for state and municipal...

Thanks to Democrats, we in America helped fund Hamas’s terrorism. However, the terror we helped fund will destroy the West if we don’t let Israel fight and win. A 25-minute Tucker Carlson interview with Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy about the current conflict in Israel is very disturbing. Carlson raised the issue of national interests in the outcome and America’s decision to intervene beyond offering token sympathies to Israel despite the barbarity of the October 7 attacks. Ramaswamy appeared to concur, although he came across more sincere in his expression of sympathy than Carlson, who seemed to be saying what...

Bidenomics strikes again! After listening in horror to Joe Biden’s press conference after his summit with China’s Xi, I had to ask the following question: what does Joe Biden has in common with Georgia Tech? Answer? They are both rambling wrecks. Biden made a horrendous foreign policy blunder by calling Xi a “dictator” and almost blew it by nearly spillling the beans on our foreign policy negotiations with Israel. SecState Blinken had to intervene. We are represented by Winken (Harris), Blinken and Nod (Biden, who usually looks asleep or confused). But back to the horrors of a slowing economy. As...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemActs 14In Lystra and Derbe 8 In Lystra there sat a man who was lame. He had been that way from birth and had never walked. 9 He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed 10 and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk. 11 When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!” 12 Barnabas they...

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Galvanizing Our Peoples into a Strong Force For the Cause of China-U.S. Friendship Speech by H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People’s Republic of China At Welcome Dinner by Friendly Organizations in the United States San Francisco, November 15, 2023

Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has long been viewed as a barrier-breaking, Indigenous icon — but a recent news investigation has raised doubts over her Indigenous roots. A Canadian Broadcast Corporation feature on the singer-songwriter has led to accusations that Sainte-Marie is a “pretendian” — the term coined for people who fake having Indigenous ancestry. Sainte-Marie, 82, claimed that she was born on a Piapot Cree reservation in Canada and was adopted by white parents as part of the country’s infamous Sixties Scoop in which Indigenous children were removed from their families and adopted by white families in a government...

There are only a handful of counties in this country that can authentically claim their voting habits are bona fide bellwethers for elections in battleground states. Bucks County, a suburb near Philadelphia, is one of them. (snip) On Tuesday, voters decided to change the balance of power on the Central Bucks School District's school board, which previously had a 6-3 Republican majority. This week, voters flipped it to a pending 6-3 Democratic majority. At issue for these voters, known for swinging back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, was the restriction of political advocacy that the Democratic candidates called "harmful...

As expected in last month’s article, gun sales increased in October. According to the figures released by the FBI National Instant Background Check System (NICS), gun sales were about 1.33 million for October 2023, roughly a nine percent increase over the gun sales figures for October 2022. 1.33 million gun sales make October 2023 the third-highest October for gun sales. Checks done in the NICS system in October 2023 were about 2.26 million, making October 2023 the sixth-highest number of checks done in October since the first October in the system was recorded in 1999. The number of gun sales...

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Despite winning a landslide election in the state two years ago, DeSantis hasn't been able to win over enough base GOP voters there. That includes Victor Alvarez and Sally Maltais — who attended Trump's recent rally in Hialeah, Fla. Both said they think Trump has next year's election pretty much locked up. Maltais said DeSantis' decision is particularly egregious because Trump helped DeSantis win the first time he ran for Florida governor. "He backstabbed our president," she said. "And now I have no respect for DeSantis. I'm sorry. I don't." "I won't vote for him again.".... DeSantis has already served...