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...has east and west I-190 ramps blocked, so caravan turned right and headed east on Lawrence toward River Rd May be attempting to get to the Kennedy ...credible information the caravan will attempt to get to OHare Units setting up at River Rd and Cumberland entrance ramps Caravan has part of it stopped northbound blocking all 3 lanes of traffic on Mannheim on the bridge over I-190 CPD, #ISP and #IDOT have units blocking all I-190 access ramps at Mannheim All non-caravan traffic from northbound Mannheim is being forced east on I-190 CPD requesting Schiller Park to close NB Mannheim...

@LPNational This is the eleventh Christmas Ross Ulbricht has spent in prison. This is absolutely unacceptable. We won't rest until he's able to celebrate his next Christmas with family.

By last night's mail we received full files of the Richmond papers to the 22d, from which we take the following interesting extracts: AVERILL'S GREAT RAID. LYNCHBURGH, Saturday, Dec. 19. We have but little additional with reference to the Salem raiders. On Tuesday night they surprised and fired into the camp of Capt. WHITE, on Catawba Creek, and captured 17 men and about 100 horses, which were being recuperated. Farmers, who arrived at Bonsack's this evening, say that the enemy were on this side of Craig's creek, eighteen miles from Salem, at noon yesterday. Their camp was visible from the...

A cyclist captured a stunning pictures of a massive alligator devouring a python in the Florida Everglades Alison Joslyn said the 10-foot alligator appeared sluggish possibly due to cold or exhaustion from battling the snake battle The python appeared to have lost the battle although the snake may also have affected the alligator's mouth during the struggle The alligator appeared sluggish with Joslyn speculating that it might have been due to the recent chilly temperatures in the area or was perhaps worn out from battling the snake. 'Gator was quite lethargic and I was wondering if it might be the...

Seventy-nine days since October 7, 2023, brutal attack, murders, rapes, and hostage taking of Americans in Israel, still around at least 10 held hostage, maybe dead at this point. America has surrendered under Biden and Harris. No hostages released.No update on hostages.Biden calls for Israel to ceasefire, like America, to surrender to Islamic HAMAS.Biden allows terrorists to attack our Navy ships almost daily without response in the Red Sea.Biden sits back while supporters of Islamic HAMAS terrorists attack Christians and our Christmas celebrations in the US.And what does Biden and Harris do? Once again, goes on vaction. Biden is back...

Javier Milei’s new government has kept his outrageously optimistic promises. Within days of taking office, he basically dismantled Peronism, the socialist-fascist system crippling the nation since the end of World War II. He did it by decree: He declared an economic state of emergency lasting for two years, and by virtue of the state of emergency, stopped government control of the economy across the board. You can read it here in the original: It’s a massive, detailed document. For example: Hyperinflation is a big problem in Argentina, because the government just printed the money needed to pay for its desires....

Pro-Palestine supporters crashed a New York Christmas Eve caroling event by attempting to drown out the singing, but attendees pushed on regardless. The event at Washington Square Park on Sunday drew demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The festive chorus interrupted by Pro Palestine chants, as protestors in a massive SUV with monster car wheels circled the perimeter.

Incredible video of an enormous alligator devouring a python in Florida's Everglades was filmed by a passing cyclist earlier this week. Alison Joslyn, who is an endurance athlete and has a passion for wildlife photography, caught the shocking sight as she was out on her bike, training. 'That's one less python to terrorize the Everglades.' she wrote after posting pictures and video online after cycling through the Shark Valley area of Everglades National Park.

The recent three queens of America’s finest universities testifying to their ethical flexibility about rhetorical calls for “genocide of the Jews” are a crystal-clear reminder of how dangerous false knowledge is and how it grounds the deadly genocides of any age we care to look at. One of the many pathological critiques offered by our corrupt intellectual culture is an urgent warning about impending Christian Nationalism. This is the latest expression of a decades-long tradition that demonizes Republicans as coming to implement The Handmaid’s Tale and a fierce violation of a treasured canard of secularism: the separation of church and...

'Tis the season to look back on a truly unprecedented year in America's courts, when the sight of a former president sitting before a judge went from unheard of to almost commonplace, and his ongoing campaign fused courtroom appearances into stump stops. These were the 12 days of Trump court appearances: April 4: On the first day of Trump court, the former president was whisked into a Manhattan criminal courthouse fortified by a massive security apparatus. June 13: On the second day of Trump court, a Miami courthouse was largely shuttered and a crowd of protesters loomed outside as law...

The survival of one owl species hinges on the demise of another. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service argues in its proposal to allow the agency to shoot hundreds of thousands of barred owls over the next 30 years in West Coast forests. The service says the barred owl, which is not native to the region, is crowding out the spotted owl, a close genetic relative. Without action against the barred owls, service biologists say the spotted owl could disappear from parts of Washington and Oregon within a few years and eventually go extinct. The proposal is the...

We should remember the now modern proverb of Nixon-era economic advisor Herb Stein to the effect that what cannot go on (without destroying the nation), simply will not go on.In some sense, the country for recent years has been cruising on the fumes from prior and likely better wiser generations and institutions. In 2024, the tab for our current apathy, toxic politics, and incompetence will come due.

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) tells me that thousands of illegal aliens are being flown to cities and towns across the nation courtesy of the American taxpayers. Norman said a pilot reached out to him for a major American air carrier and was very disturbed about the illegals who he was being forced to board his plane. The pilot said none of the illegals had government identification or medical clearance. Meanwhile, journalist Bill Melugin posted a photograph of a sign at the Tucson airport. The sign directed illegals with no passports to form a separate line. There’s a very real chance...

@P_McCulloughMD Two peer reviewed papers from Drs Peter Parry, Julian Gillespie et al highlighted multi-organ system damage/death from COVID-19 vaccines. They are calling for a halt in mass vaccination

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemActs 28Paul’s Arrival at Rome 11 After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered in the island—it was an Alexandrian ship with the figurehead of the twin gods Castor and Pollux. 12 We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days. 13 From there we set sail and arrived at Rhegium. The next day the south wind came up, and on the following day we reached Puteoli. 14 There we found some brothers and sisters who invited us to spend a week with them. And so we came...

Bethlehem (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Sadness over the war in Gaza subdued the holiday cheer in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, when the biblical town would usually be decked out in festive finery. There was no revelry on Sunday, with few worshippers or tourists on the streets of the Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, which according to Christian tradition was the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Celebrations in the Holy Land have mostly been cancelled in solidarity with the people of Gaza, who are living through the deadliest war ever to engulf the besieged Palestinian territory. "A lot of people...

The Holy Spirit moves as He will and though anti-Christs try to shut Him out, He is spirit and man is helpless before Him. In this short video the Spirit of revival comes upon the people suddenly. Watch and listen:

"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" In 1939, Chicago copywriter Robert May created the character of Rudolph for the annual Christmas coloring booklet for the retail and catalog company Montgomery Ward. May created a reindeer because his toddler daughter was crazy about the deer at Lincoln Park Zoo. Depicting Rudolph as an outsider was inspired by May’s own experience being picked on while growing up for being shy and small. May got the idea for Rudolph’s glowing nose from gazing out his office window and thinking about how Santa would be able to navigate through the fog over Lake Michigan. Rudolph’s...

“Joy is canceled,” read the signs wielded by Hamas supporters protesting a Christmas tree lighting at Columbia University. While a student group tried to sing, the terror backers shrieked, “there’s no room for celebration.” And no room for anything except terrorism and hate. Supporters of the Islamic terrorist group took a special pleasure in attacking Christianity. Carolers singing “Gloria in excelsis deo” or “Glory to God in the highest” at the Washington Square Park Christmas tree near New York University were shouted down by Muslim and leftist allies shrieking, “Shut it down! Shut it down!” People have been killed for...

"We . . . see Him who has been made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone" (Heb. 2:9). Jesus Christ is the only One who could recover man’s destiny. The ultimate curse of our lost destiny is death. God warned Adam that if he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would die (Gen. 2:17). In the restored kingdom we will be elevated again over a redeemed earth....