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Eighty-five days and counting. At least 10 publicly acknowledged and maybe as many as 40 American citizens continue to be held hostage by Islamic Palestinian HAMAS. No update, no proof of life. From Biden, just quotes of "hope". Biden lets the US Navy be attacked daily without response or retribution. Is there no limit to Biden's surrender? Instead, he's again on vacation, this time to St. Croix.

This is a guess BUT I think the regime is doing everything it can to keep inflation under control including pumping oil, printing money, dropping interest rates, and a lot of things we don’t know about. Once the election is over, all of this will stop immediately. So if the RATs win, everything collapses at the end of the year. If Trump wins, BLM, Antifa, MS13 ect all riot PLUS we get a worse economic collapse with accelerated graft and corruption. Not a rosy outlook. I haven’t seen anyone else saying this but it seems obvious to me...

Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH It is a proven, scientific fact that the earth's atmosphere has gotten warmer since humans started burning fossil fuels. (1/15) https://web.archive.org/web/20161125071509/http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2241/why-so-many-global-temperature-records/ #Environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GreenNewDeal #AOC #GretaThunberg #NuclearPower 1:05 PM · Dec 31, 2023 · 11 Views View post engagements Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH · 20m Back when the dinosaurs were alive, carbon dioxide levels in the air were five times as high as they are today. The world did not come to an end. (2/15) https://web.archive.org/web/20140703210506/https://www.livescience.com/44330-jurassic-dinosaur-carbon-dioxide.html #GreenNewDeal #AOC #GretaThunberg Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH...

California Governor Gavin Newsom is a socialist. That means he wants the government to regulate the marketplace, telling folks what they can and cannot do. And the biggest thing they can't do is accumulate personal wealth. No, Newsom is making that very difficult for Californians, and if he's ever elected President, no one's portfolio will be safe in this country. Some backup. California entered the fiscal year 2022 with the highest budget surplus ever, close to $100 billion dollars. Enormously high taxes will do that. Then Newsom and the radical left legislature in Sacramento got down to business. Next year,...

Watch these forty short videos or read the transcripts of President Trump's vision for America. They address: Our Military Marxist Universities Big Pharma Trade The Impoundment Power to squeeze the Deep State Drug Addiction End Birthright citizenship. . . . and much more

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(Dec. 29, 2023) — Well, faithful P&E readers, here we go again. Yesterday, on Dec. 28, 2023, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows – a registered Democrat and perhaps one of the most anti-President Trump, pro-progressive and biased governmental officials in the nation – issued her 34-page “decision” determining that Mr. Trump’s name would be excluded from the Maine presidential primary election ballot. As for her political preferences, this should give one a small hint. And with regard to the image of Brandon and Shenna Bellows now “going viral” on social media platforms, note that Bellows explains that “President Biden...

Yesterday I posted In these chaotic times, a brief AR-15 primer and some said that they prefer their AR-10 in .308. I suspect that what they have may actually be a LR308 which is incorrectly called an AR-10. This post is more advanced than the AR-15 primer and discusses the differences between the AR-10 and the LR308: Before we dive into the subject of differentiating different style of AR10 patterns — first, let’s make sure we all know what an AR10 actually is. The AR10, or ArmaLite 10, is a rifle designed around the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge. Developed by Eugene...

Sunday 31 December 2023 The Holy Family Holy Family Catholic Church (Columbus, Ohio) Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).First readingGenesis 15:1-6,21:1-3 ©Your heir shall be your own flesh and bloodThe word of the Lord was spoken to Abram in a vision, ‘Have no fear, Abram, I am your shield; your reward will be very great.’ ‘My Lord,’ Abram replied ‘what do you intend to give me? I go childless…’. Then Abram said, ‘See, you have given me no descendants; some man of my household will be my heir.’ And then this word of the Lord was spoken to...

A North Carolina pastor was arrested after allegedly attempting to deep fry a McDonald’s employee. According to Business Insider, the incident occurred on Thursday at a McDonald’s restaurant at High Point, North Carolina where 44-year-old Latoya Gladney, a manager in training, claimed her employees were “disrespecting” her.Gladney reportedly then called her husband Dwayne Waden, 56, for help. The incident report reviewed by Business Insider alleges that when Waden arrived at the restaurant, he walked around the counter and placed his hands around the neck of an employee and attempted to push his head towards a deep fryer. A fight reportedly...

Expanded gun-free zones for California concealed carry permit holders take effect in the state January 1, 2024. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a “sensitive places” bill into law on September 26, expanding the number of gun-free zones in which licensed concealed carriers could not carry firearms for self-defense, Breitbart News reported.

Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the court to prevent former President Donald Trump from mounting a defense against the charges stemming from the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Smith asserted that "the claim that Trump has been singled out for retribution by the Biden Administration has already been debunked by the nation's leading media outlets. His claim that the multiple simultaneous prosecutions in various jurisdictions is intended to interfere with the 2024 election is without merit. He should be barred from introducing evidence, making arguments, or asking questions to advance the theory that he is innocent of the charges against him....

She has had pneumonia and sepsis since December. She reached out to me to post a request for prayers. Prayers are powerful things!

Republicans like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have effectively led sanctuary cities to regret their policies as southern border migrants flood their cities to the "breaking point." "New York City has begun to see another surge of migrants arriving, and we expect this to intensify over the coming days as a result of Texas Gov. Abbott's cruel and inhumane politics," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said this week. "For many months, we were able to keep the visualization of this crisis from hitting our streets, but we have reached a breaking point and can no longer do that."

Jews, women, the working class – leftists have betrayed everyone they once claimed to speak for.What does it mean to be radical, left-wing, progressive? Well, in 2023, it meant making excuses for a genocidal anti-Semitism, refusing to believe evidence of mass rape and naysaying about the terroristic murder of infants. This was the year the ‘right side of history’ brigade exploded their phoney moral superiority for good....When Hamas sent men on paragliders, motorbikes and in jeeps into southern Israel on 7 October – murdering, raping, mutilating and kidnapping as many Jews as they could find – I thought those on...

A friend got a rental of a Tesla over the holidays. It’s undoubtedly the industry standard for EVs and a complete blast to drive. The problem: It’s not a practical car at all. He was driving in the cold, and the car was nearly drained after two hours. Searching for a charge was no easy task. The first one didn’t work. The second one stated that it would be charged in 10 hours, which he didn’t have. The third one charged in one hour but that was a full hour wasted. His conclusion: This is indeed a glorified golf cart...

Shecky Greene, an entertainment legend whose very name became synonymous with stand-up comedy, has died. He was 97. Greene died at 3:21 a.m. Sunday at his home in Las Vegas of natural causes, confirmed by his wife of 41 years Marie Musso Green. Greene is also survived by his two adopted daughters Dorian Hoffman (Charlie Hoffman) of Boise, Idaho and Alison Greene of Vancouver, Washington; his sisters-in-law JoAnn Musso Sperry, Linda Galasso, nephew Michael Sperry and nieces Angel Galasso Hooper and Gina Dadian. He was preceded in death by his first wife and mother of his children, Jeri Greene, and...

You won’t hear President Biden talking about it much, but a key record has been broken during his watch: The United States is producing more oil than any country ever has. The flow of huge amounts of crude from American producers is playing a big role in keeping prices down at the pump, diminishing the geopolitical power of OPEC, and taming inflation. The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline nationwide has dropped to close to $3, and analysts project it could stay that way leading up to the presidential election, potentially assuaging the economic anxieties of swing state...

A troubling trend in Americans’ heart health is emerging, and doctors are aiming to bring more awareness to the problem. While death rates from infective endocarditis have generally declined across the U.S. over the past two decades, they have alarmingly increased among young adults aged 25 to 44. This research, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, underscores a public health issue that intersects with the ongoing opioid crisis. Infective endocarditis, often referred to as bacterial endocarditis, is a rare but serious condition where bacteria enter the bloodstream and infect the heart lining, valves, or blood vessels. It...

Major retailers have experienced a wave of store closures in 2023, an 80% surge from the year prior, Coresight Research reports. The top reasons include bankruptcy of one major chain and some stores just not performing well in certain areas. The continued growth of online shopping is another factor, and other retailers said that theft is a major reason for their decision to close some stores, according to CBS News. When Bed Bath & Beyond filed for bankruptcy in April, it led to the closure of 866 stores, a Coresight report finds. The second largest number of closed stores was...