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I am curious and sure others know more than me. Even in the election furor, I believe a supposed Office Holder accusing an opponent of a crime for which he was not charged is Slander. Flame away. Now back to lurking.

But the divide between Biden and Netanyahu runs deeper. At the heart of it lies a fundamental disagreement about the role the Palestinian Authority should play in Gaza’s future security and governance and, implicitly, the viability of an eventual two-state solution (however remote). Biden wants the PA to take Hamas’ place once the war is over, while Netanyahu staunchly opposes any PA involvement (even as he refuses to say who else he would prefer to fill the void) – effectively ruling out Palestinian self-rule, let alone a Palestinian state. Make no mistake: On this, Biden is right and Netanyahu is...

"All of these efforts and threats are a desperate attempt to gain political advantage through patently unconstitutional actions. They are a waste of time and resources and should be dismissed as such."

Almost a century ago, the psychologist Jean Piaget defined the stages of cognitive development. Up until about age 2, children learn about cause and effect through their actions. For the next five years, they learn through pretend play but struggle with logic. By middle school, they're in the "concrete operational stage." Their thinking is more logical but still rigid. Then around age 12, children enter the "formal operational stage," becoming capable of theoretical and abstract reasoning. This progression isn't just about acquiring knowledge; it's about a change in the very nature of how we think. Madeline Levine, a psychologist and...

Speropictures and Matt Thayer’s first movie in their new series of documentaries titled ‘State of Denial,’ aimed at exposing election fraud across the nation, is set to premiere tonight in Arizona. Special guests, including Kari Lake, are expected to appear tonight at the special invite-only premiere near Phoenix, Arizona. The Gateway Pundit will provide updates and exclusive reporting from this event. Matt and Joy Thayer, travelers and documentarians who founded Speropictures in 2009, previously created ‘The Trump I Know,’ the ‘RE:AWAKENING‘ docuseries, and ‘[S]election Code.’ The Gateway Pundit previously reported on tonight’s ‘State of Denial: Arizona’ release and the epic...

“Another study came out today showing it [Ivermectin] doesn’t work,” my brother told me over the phone. I tried to explain that medical studies, much like statistics, can be twisted to show anything you want them to show. I cited the nearly 100 studies involving tens of thousands of patients that supported Ivermectin. I even referenced its use in billions of doses to eradicate River Blindness. But my brother, being a non-scientist, was convinced by the power of the media. Regardless of what I tried to explain, the power of mainstream media was too strong. However, that power of the...

Harvard University’s embattled President Claudine Gay is the subject of a fresh complaint outlining more than 40 allegations of her plagiarizing others’ works. The 37-page document compiles dozens of cases where Gay, a political scientist, allegedly quoted or paraphrased authors without proper attribution in her academic works, going against the Ivy League school’s strict rules, according to the document, which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. *** Carol Swain, a former political science professor at Vanderbilt University, said Gay copied sections of her 1993 book, “Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress,” as well as...

The Colorado Republican Party said it would start using a caucus system rather than participating in a primary election if the state supreme court's decision banning former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot remains in place. After GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Tuesday evening on X, formerly Twitter, that he would withdraw from Colorado's primary ballot if Trump is not allowed on, the state Republican Party responded: "You won't have to because we will withdraw from the Primary as a Party and convert to a pure caucus system if this is allowed to stand." Trump vowed to appeal...

The following is adapted from a talk delivered on November 1, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The Covid cover-up began in China. But in a way we make too big a deal of that. No one should be surprised that a totalitarian government run by the Chinese Communist Party would seek to cover up its responsibility for a worldwide pandemic. What was mind-jarring—and what we should focus our attention on—is the cover-up in our own country spearheaded by...

Sanctuary city Chicago started obstructing and targeting our busing mission. Texas will now expand our operation to include flights to Chicago. Until Biden steps up to secure the border, we will continue to provide overwhelmed Texas border towns with much-needed relief.

STATUS UPDATES | December 20, 2023 The Right Stuff Written by Travis Brown, Chief Engineer, and Martin Cacan, Chief Pilot, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at NASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryFirst Controlled Flight of Mars Helicopter Prototype: The first full-scale Ingenuity prototypeis tested inside JPL’s 25-foot thermal-vacuum chamber (5/31/2016). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Download image › TrailblazerLong before Ingenuity’s historic first flight on Mars, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and their collaborators at AeroVironment Inc. were already moving the boundaries of human knowledge and aeronautic achievement with testing here on Earth. Flights by an Ingenuity prototype in 2016 showed that controlled,...

January 6 political hostage Ryan Samsel could barely stand when he woke up on Thursday morning.The same throbbing pain that pierced through his left arm in 2021, where doctors discovered blood clots, is surging through his massively swollen left leg.Locked in the hole of the DC gulag, he calls the correctional officers for help begging to see a doctor to no avail.The Supreme Court of the United States has long held that jails and prisons cannot deny essential medical care to people who are incarcerated, deeming medical deprivation to be cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the U.S. Constitution....

Luke 1:26-38 Friends, in today’s Gospel, the angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she has been chosen to be the mother of God.In the face of this overwhelming word, Mary is confused: “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And she cannot begin to imagine the full consequences of accepting this invitation: shame, exile, violent pursuit, the final agony on Calvary.And yet, despite her fear and despite the darkness, she says, “I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” At the crucial moment, Mary of Nazareth...

This guy has the 411 on Church Militant at the 3:47 mark of this video is text messages between head of development Susan Vance and former employee Joe Galllager. Video is 11 minutes long

There's a cherished myth that the films made before the enforcement of Will Hays' Motion Picture Production Code in 1934 are a lost paradise of moviemaking: a frank, honest, adult cinematic universe that we were only able to return to with the abandonment of the Code in the '60s and the emergence of a school of movie radicals – the "raging bulls" of Peter Biskind's famous book – who blew away the fusty moral cobwebs from Hollywood. Part of this is a reaction to Joseph Breen, the man who Hays put in charge, and who ruled over the production offices...

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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) promptly shut down a reporter on Tuesday for accusing Donald Trump of echoing Adolf Hitler. What is the background? At a campaign rally in New Hampshire over the weekend, Trump said that illegal immigrants, who have flooded over the southern U.S. border in unprecedented numbers under President Joe Biden's watch, are negatively impacting American society. The comments were controversial because Trump used the phrase "poisoning the blood," which the media and Democrats claimed is a nod to Hitler. When heard in the full context of the speech, Trump was clearly not making a reference to race...

VIDEOOne fringe benefit of viewing reactions to the Colorado Supreme Court taking President OFF the ballot in that state is that you can easily filter the mental cases from the normal people. The mental cases are the ones who screech about "SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY" yet support the removal from the ballot of President Trump. And they want us to somehow believe that it is Trump that would act as a dictator. How? By keeping his political opponents off the ballot like a Third World country... or the Biden regime?

Communist dictator of North Korea Kim Jong-un declared through state media on Wednesday that the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was necessary to “clearly show what action the DPRK [North Korea] has been prepared and what option the DPRK would take when Washington makes a wrong decision against it.”

Austin’s progressive district attorney is facing criticism in the community after a man who allegedly killed two while committing his 7th DUI is walking the streets after his charges and bond were reduced. Roberto Rangel, 52, was arrested last year in Travis County, Texas, for his 7th DUI that resulted in the deaths of 22-year-old Kate Garcia and 23-year-old Mark Narvaez, Fox 7 Austin reported. Rangel, who has been sentenced to over 14 years in prison for DUIs dating to 1989, reportedly pulled out of a Chick-fil-A parking lot in Austin at 2:45 a.m. and parked his car sideways in...