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Good and evil can sound like abstractions, but they're also behaviors. We strive for goodness by imitating virtue and we turn evil by hating virtue and imitating its opposite. Evil encourages us to despise heroism, loathe decency, and heap contempt onto any sort of principle, value, or conviction. The message of evil is that goodness is both impotent and corrupting, while only rage fueling power is truly empowering. That evil message is one that we now see everywhere.

The media U.S. mortgage payment was down nearly $400 in December from its October peak, enticing some homebuyers back into the market, according to a Thursday report from real estate group Redfin. The median mortgage payment was $2,361 for the four week period ending in Dec. 31, Redfin found. That’s $372, or 14 percent, less than it was in October and the lowest average monthly payment in nearly a year. The weekly average mortgage rate, which hit a 23-year high of 7.79 percent in October, also fell to 6.61 percent at the end of December after the Federal Reserve signaled...

[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]Since Oct. 7, the public has been inundated with allegations of Israeli atrocities and human rights abuses. Israel, we’re told, is committing a “genocide” in Gaza, and, in fact, has been through all the years in which the Gazan population has grown steadily. The strange story of one young woman, or really, one photograph, is an object lesson in why such claims of Israeli evils should be taken with a large grain of salt.On X, a poster who identifies herself as...

[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]Leftists generally know nothing about Jesus Christ and care even less, but around this time of year, they find it useful to invoke him, particularly as a prop to support their latest pet causes and buttress their propaganda. And so we have now been treated to the spectacle of that most thoughtful and learned of our elected representatives, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Would You Like A Lime With That?), informing us that Jesus was from a family of “Jewish Palestinians.”It simply won’t...

Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander, has recently been crowing about how the Islamic Republic of Iran had managed to disrupt traffic in the Persian Gulf, and now it is doing the same in the Red Sea. Full of braggadocio, he threatens that now the Islamic Republic will close off the entire Mediterranean Sea, and keep it closed until Israel halts its war in Gaza.The Arabs call the Mediterranean El-Bahr el-Abiadh el-Moutawwassit, “la mer blanche du milieu” in French, and “the white sea in the middle [of the world]” in English. In the time...

The full horror of what happened to them is now coming out. It is just what you expected. What is unexpected is that it was The New York Times, so often unfair to Israel, that published this detailed account. More on the rapes, tortures, and murders of Israeli girls and women on October can be found here: “In harrowing detail, NYT reports on weaponization of rape, sexual violence on Oct. 7,” Times of Israel, December 29, 2023: In a comprehensive, horrifying exposé published on Thursday {Dec. 28], The New York Times detailed the systematic sexual violence against Israeli women and...

A mob of over 100 looters purposefully crashed a Kia into a small Compton bakery before they flooded in and ransacked the store during a night of rampage on the streets earlier this week. The thieves had gathered in the area for an illegal street takeover around 3 a.m. Tuesday before making the mile-long trek to Ruben’s Bakery & Mexican Food. When they got to the locked store, a white Kia emerged and backed into the front doors, clearing an entryway for the crowd of pillagers to get to their loot.

Hamas has called for the Arab, Muslim, and free communities of the world to increase solidarity activities for Gaza over the next few days, specifically over the weekend. Hamas says the activities must become a symbol of protest against aggression, genocide, and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and a denunciation of the murder of the leader and murderer Saleh al-Arouri, and Western, specifically American, support of the Zionist occupation. Zahar Jabareen, the deputy commander of Hamas' operations in Judea and Samaria, said that the assassination will only support the Hamas path of jihad.

The news arrived today in my inbox at 1:27 PM, in an email from Claudine Gay herself. She wrote me “to share that I will be stepping down as president” of Harvard. Fourteen minutes later, that email was followed by an official announcement to the same effect from the Harvard Corporation. Of course, Ms. Gay took the opportunity to blame her downfall on racism of unnamed adversaries. “[I]t has been . . . frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.” What personal attacks and racial animus exactly, Ms. Gay? What I have seen (and...

The world's largest cruise ship has made its way to Puerto Rico...The 20-deck vessel, five times larger than the ill-fated Titanic...The massive ship, which cost cruise-line company Royal Caribbean $2 billion...[Photo in Comment #1]

The armed robbery of an Akron, Ohio Taco Bell didn’t go down as planned for the suspect, who ended up in the hospital after he was shot by his intended victim. Police say a second suspect was taken into custody after dropping the injured man at a local hospital, while the armed citizen who acted in self-defense isn’t facing any charges at the moment. It was around 7:35 p.m. Monday when Akron police responded to the scene where they were told a male suspect had robbed the restaurant at gunpoint. “During the robbery, the suspect shot at a 21-year-old employee,...

Donald Trump has written a column about how he will deal with the Biden border crisis.His plans go beyond finishing the wall. Trump plans to use multiple government agencies to deal with this problem.

Sean Ono Lennon, the son of iconic singer John Lennon, has become quite the contrarian lately, from his knock against the media’s bias amid the coronavirus to his recent knock against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). In an X post on Wednesday, Sean Ono Lennon rebranded DEI with a not-so-wholesome name. “Have you guys heard of DEI? It stands for ‘Dumb Evil Idiots,” he said. Have you guys heard of DEI? It stands for ‘Dumb Evil Idiots.’ — Seán Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) January 3, 2024

When Jeffrey Epstein’s New York City mansion was raided by authorities in 2019, investigators found boxes of hard drives and videos that were never entered into evidence by prosecutors. Images from the raid show boxes of burned CDs, hard drives, and videos that were all individually labeled by Epstein. However, authorities concealed the labels in all images, presumably to mask the identity of the people named in the labels. As Slay News has previously reported, multiple victims and witnesses have alleged that Epstein gloated about having compromising videos and images of powerful people that he held against them. This week,...

The financial landscape is fraught with warning signs as retail investors remain fully invested in stocks, and cautionary voices like market prophet Gary Shilling raise alarms about the precarious nature of the current market conditions. Recent data from the monthly AAII asset allocation report for December reveals that investors are heavily committed to stocks, with cash on the sidelines dwindling to below-average levels. This heightened exposure comes as Shilling, a seasoned forecaster, issues stark warnings about the ‘everything rally,’ urging investors to divest from stocks and cryptocurrencies.

(Parody) Claudine Gay's resignation letterFriends and Ivy League citizenships.In all the decisions I've had to make in my academic life. I've always had to do what was best for Harvard.Throughout the long and difficult period of these past few months. I felt it was my duty to preserve, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office, to which I was appointed.In the past few days, however, it's become evident to me. I no longer have a strong enough pace in the academic community, to justify continuing that effort. I've never been a quitter. To leave office before...

Gay’s removal is not the end of Harvard’s dilemma. Rather, it is the beginning. Harvard may assume the forced resignation of its president, Claudine Gay, has finally ended its month-long scandal over her tenure. Gay stepped down, remember, amid serious allegations of serial plagiarism—without refuting the charges. She proved either unable or unwilling to discipline those on her campus who were defiantly anti-Semitic in speech and action. But Gay’s removal is not the end of Harvard’s dilemma. Rather, it is the beginning. In the respective press releases from both Gay and the Harvard Corporation, racial animus was cited as a...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem The Scriptures In Handel’s Messiah Malachi 3:22 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:_______________________________________________________The King James VersionGod Bless America.ML/LTOS

They sold America, the greatest nation on Earth, for next to nothing because that’s what they believe it’s worth. The Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Mr. Hunter Biden up to a million dollars a year! Wow! It seems like a lot of money. But what were the Bidens selling? Not Hunter’s expertise in, say, energy, economics, international law, Ukrainian culture, or actually anything that he could do on his own. They were paying him because of his proximity to his father, President Joseph Robinette Biden. The Bidens were selling the greatest country on Earth. And this is, to me, perhaps...

As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Rep. Scott Perry. -snip But what’s chilling is how many support such efforts, including Democratic officeholders from Maine’s secretary of state to dozens of members of Congress. New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory for challenging the election before Jan. 6, 2021. Rep. Cori Bush’s similar legislation to disqualify members got 63 cosponsors, all Democrats, including New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,...