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A fire has broken out at a hotel in Galway that was due to host 70 asylum seekers from next Thursday. Images have emerged of Ross Lake House in Galway engulfed in flames in the incident, which happened late on Saturday evening. A spokesman for An Garda Síochána said gardaí are investigating the “criminal damage incident by fire”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed "problems" for Finland after he says the Nordic country was "dragged into NATO" amid the war in Ukraine. "Look, Finland was taken and dragged into NATO," Putin said in a new on-camera interview. "What did we have, some kind of dispute with Finland? All disputes, including those of a territorial nature in the middle of the 20th century, were all resolved a long time ago. We had the best, most heartfelt relations. Economically, everything was developing. Yes, in the timber industry, there were some problems linked to the necessity to develop timber processing within...

The flag-of-truce boat New-York arrived here to-night, bringing Southern news up to to-day. The following dispatches appear in the Richmond papers: CHARLESTON, Friday, Dec. 11. Twelve shells were thrown into the city last night, at intervals of three hours. Damage trifling. The city has been shelled at intervals during the day. About 9 o'clock this morning Sumter took fire from some cause unknown. The fire communicated to the outer timber-work of the southwest angle, and the wood-work was burned, and some ammunition was destroyed. FORTRESS MONROE, Wednesday, Dec. 16. There were some casualties, but the particulars are not received. The...

@fasc1nate At the age of 16, Annelise Michel began blacking out at school and would soon start convulsing, vomiting, eating spiders, and coal, and even drinking her own urine. After undergoing 67 exorcisms, she died in 1976. She died of malnutrition, for which her parents and priest were convicted of negligent homicide. At the time of her death, she weighed only 67 pounds. Doctors came to the conclusion she suffered from Grand Mal Epilepsy and Psychosis. Her story directly inspired the 2005 film "The Exorcism of Emily Rose".

The unfolding invasion of Ukraine will have far-reaching repercussions that extend way beyond a breach of international law and a violation of the country’s territorial integrity. As American international relations expert David Yost notes, Russia’s actions will weaken the credibility of major power security assurances, undermine the nuclear nonproliferation regime and dampen prospects for future disarmament. Putin’s decision to invade is in direct violation of the Budapest Memorandum, a key instrument assuring Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The memorandum was struck in 1994, following lengthy and complicated negotiations involving the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin, Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, US...

President Biden on Wednesday ripped House Republicans for formalizing an impeachment inquiry against him, bemoaning that GOP lawmakers are wasting time on a “baseless political stunt” rather than focusing on what matters to most Americans. “I wake up every day focused on the issues facing the American people – real issues that impact their lives, and the strength and security of our country and the world. Unfortunately, House Republicans are not joining me,” Biden said in a lengthy statement issued minutes after the House voted along party lines to formalize the inquiry. “Instead of doing anything to help make Americans’...

“Society lives and acts only in individuals…. Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. ” —Ludwig von Mises Remember, you are a sovereign individual and the blob in our nation’s capital city is an undifferentiated mass of feckless protoplasm. You contain a cosmos of ideas and aspirations. The blob is an agglomeration of sham and failure. The blob stands for itself, not for our country. You and I can stand...

The top Republican strategist spoke with Fox News Digital after meeting with a number of GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week to discuss what she argues is the need to promote contraception and reach a consensus on the abortion issue lest Democrats continue to use it as a "turnout intensifier" in November

Do you feel better now? In addition to being an insufferable leftist, Paul Krugman is a world-renowned economist. He even has a Nobel Prize to prove it. I’m just a retired engineer who refuses to keep my opinions to myself. I shouldn’t be able to ridicule him on economic matters, but he just makes it so danged easy. It’s seems clear that our Nobel laureate is either economically illiterate or just plain dishonest. I doubt he’s economically illiterate, but I’ll let you decide. Krugman recently ran an article entitled “The Progressive Case for Bidenomics.” Apparently, he didn’t get the memo....

The Talk Shows December 17th, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.); Republican Presidential Candidate and former NJ Governor Chris Christie; Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas); Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Austan Goolsbee (Obama-Biden shill). FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream Sen. John Cornyn (RINO-Texas); Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). Special Legal panel: Jonathan Turley, Tom Dupree and Elizabeth Wydra. Panel: White House Correspondent for McClatchy Francesca Chambers, Charlie Hurt, Fox News contributor, former chief of staff to...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemActs 25Festus Consults King Agrippa 13 A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus. 14 Since they were spending many days there, Festus discussed Paul’s case with the king. He said: “There is a man here whom Felix left as a prisoner. 15 When I went to Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him and asked that he be condemned. 16 “I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand over anyone before they have faced...

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong hinted at his satisfaction over his trip to the Netherlands with President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, saying that most of the achievements made there were focused on semiconductors. "About 90 percent of the achievements made in the trip to the Netherlands are on semiconductors,” Lee told reporters when asked about the achievements of the trip, at Gimpo International Airport on Friday, with a satisfied smile on his face. Lee returned from the trip to the European country in the early morning. He had accompanied the president during the four-day state visit to meet with...

The White House so far does not seem to be buying into the temper tantrums on the highways, the obnoxious behavior at so many colleges and universities, and the puerile nonsense of unsigned petitions and vigils by those ashamed to show their faces or reveal their names. We get the largely unreadable Washington Post because my husband must have a hard-copy paper with a sports section to read with his morning coffee. To say its reporting stinks is to overpraise it. Still, Saturday morning I saw the first glimmer of actual reporting, relegated as it was, nevertheless, to the ever-lefty...

I bought some of this stuff and highly recommend it just for sleeping if nothing else. Mine was 1000mg which is considered medium strength I took a few drops throughout the day and night [yesterday] under the tongue and have to say it did the trick. Anyone tried it? Other ailments they say it's good for: Joint pain, anxiety, depression.

"To which of the angels has He ever said, 'Sit at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet'? Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?" (Heb. 1:13-14). The destiny of Jesus Christ is that ultimately everything in the universe will be subject to Him. "At the name of Jesus every knee [will] bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth" (Phil. 2:10). That great promise confirms that Jesus Christ is destined to be the ruler...

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An Oakland restaurant owner was robbed by multiple suspects after his vehicle crashed and flipped upside-down in a Mad Max-style car chase. The harrowing event occurred early Friday morning on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland, California - a city likened to a hellscape in the Mad Max film series, where gangs roam in packs of vehicles in search of fuel. Photos and videos captured the victim's Honda Accord flipping and landing on the Lake Merritt walking trail, as witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots after the crash. The car chase started at International Plaza, a strip mall in the Little Saigon neighborhood...

'The White House simply ignores energy realities by once again limiting US energy production opportunities,' .. The Biden administration on Friday finalized a plan to dramatically curb the number of offshore oil and gas lease sales over the next five years as it continues to aggressively push green energy development. The Department of the Interior's (DOI) five-year offshore oil and gas leasing program schedules just three Gulf of Mexico lease sales through 2029, marking the fewest number of sales ever included in such a plan, which the agency is mandated to issue periodically. According to the DOI, holding the sales...

Floyd Mayweather went to great lengths to help Israelis following the October 7th terror attacks perpetrated by Hamas ... and for his extraordinary efforts, the 50-0 legend was honored! Mayweather and the more than 600 people in attendance, including stars like Emmanuelle Chriqui and Montana Tucker, also raised over $4 million for Israel. Mayweather was at the sold-out Faena Forum in South Florida Tuesday night where he was presented with the "Champion of Israel" Award from friends Jona Rechnitz and James McNair ... recognizing the legend's enormous contributions to the Israelis. Floyd Mayweather Receives 'Champion Of Israel' Award Remember, TBE...

Kamala Harris is suspected to be pushing President Biden off the 2024 ticket so she can swoop in after the Vice President hired a notorious Biden critic as a senior aide. Vice President Harris hired Brian Fallon as her Campaign Communications Director for the upcoming election. Fallon served as national press secretary to Hillary Clinton during her run for President and worked under Senator Chuck Schumer until 2013. The veteran aide has not held back in expressing ageist views and explicitly criticizing Biden - who at 81 is the oldest president in history. Fallon rallied for a campaign that pushed...