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Howard Stern isn’t a fan of Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers and Jimmy Kimmel have been trading shots ever since the former had the unchecked audacity to make a joke about the late night host not wanting the Epstein list to come out. The joke was in reference to an early 2023 remark from Kimmel that Rodgers must be a conspiracy theorist for talking about the Jeffrey Epstein list and the QB should “revisit the concussion protocol.” Apparently, it’s fine for Kimmel to crack jokes, but if anyone makes a joke at his expense, all hell will then break loose. Well, Kimmel...

They say “perception is reality.” Not quite. But what someone thinks is true will shape their behavior, even if it isn’t actually true. If that weren’t the case, billions of dollars wouldn’t be spent annually on marketing and advertising products and services you don’t actually need but which “consumers” have been convinced they can’t live without. The same goes for the world of politics. There are perceptions, and then there is the reality. And knowing the difference between them in 2024 will be crucial. So let’s start with that awful word: “narrative,” because the historic Presidential election this year will...

The Inherently Destructive Uniparty AgendaWhile wealthy elites have always exercised disproportionate influence in American politics, what is happening in 21st century America is unique.It’s easy enough to blame Democrats for everything, but as a rapidly increasing percentage of American voters have realized, Republicans share the blame. These politicians are controlled by their donors, and in America today, the big donors are in agreement regardless of which party or which candidate gets their money.This, then, is what has become dubbed America’s uniparty. And while wealthy elites have always exercised disproportionate influence in American politics, and, for that matter, the politics of...

“Let love of the brethren continue” (Hebrews 13:1). To be a testimony to the world, Christians need to live what they profess. The nineteenth-century preacher Alexander Maclaren once said, “The world takes its notion of God most of all from those who say they belong to God’s family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible. They see us; they only hear about Jesus Christ.” Sound biblical doctrine, as important a foundation as it is, is inadequate by itself to influence the world toward Christ’s gospel. Christians today could learn much from the early Christians, whose...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) responded to the hospitalization of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that the White House was not informed of by pointing out that Secretary Austin himself accused Tuberville of endangering military readiness by blocking group votes on military promotions before Austin went “AWOL” by undergoing surgery and being hospitalized without informing President Joe Biden.

Joe Biden’s Scary Speech on Jan. 6Given that Biden has among the lowest favorability numbers ever recorded for a sitting president, he cannot make the election about his achievements. Because he has none that warrant his reelection.Last Friday, ahead of the anniversary of Jan. 6, President Joe Biden gave a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to kick off his 2024 campaign. His theme was that the upcoming presidential election will determine whether or not America remains a democracy because a vote for Donald Trump is a vote to end democracy in America.Politically speaking, the purpose of the speech was clear....

At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said: “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America… We are one people…”After announcing his candidacy for president, Sen. Obama appeared on “60 Minutes”:“60 Minutes”: “You think the country’s ready for a black president?”Obama: “Yes.”“60 Minutes”: “You don’t think it’s going to hold you back?”Obama: “No. I think if I don’t win this race, it will be because of other factors. It will be because I have not shown the American people a vision...

While the Pope, without the slightest evidence, recently accused Israel of killing two Palestinian Christian women at a Catholic church in Gaza, both he, and most of the world’s media that seconded his sentiments, have again showed an anti-Israel animus, always quick to blame Israel, in marked contrast to how studiously they ignore the continuing attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah on Christians. More on this double standard can be found here: “Why Christian Leaders Ignore Attacks on Their Community,” by Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute, January 2, 2024:On December 26, Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah attacked St. Mary’s Greek Catholic Church...

The ongoing effort by the left to politicize every aspect of American culture was even visible during 2023’s programming at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera, the nation’s leading opera company. While offering audience-pleasing classics by composers like Mozart, Puccini, and Wagner (with the opening performance of the latter’s Tannhauser repeatedly disrupted by a group of climate protestors), the Met also included on its schedule “The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” “Dead Man Walking” (based on a book and film tracing a nun’s “spiritual guidance” to a convicted murderer, and her unsuccessful effort to have his death sentence commuted), and...

[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]After years of riots, including the latest outburst of pro-Hamas attacks targeting synagogues, churches, and Jewish restaurants, it turns out that there is a way to stop them after all.New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella recently filed civil rights charges against a Neo-Nazi group which had been protesting outside a drag event at a cafe.In December, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell filed civil rights charges against the same group for harassing drag events and migrant housing facilities. Campbell claimed that...

I don’t typically go where I’m not wanted, but I do tend to go where I’m needed. So I was intrigued by the invitation to attend a globalist sleepaway camp in the beautiful Swiss Alps — some pop-up utopia called Davos. At first, it sounded as dreadful as a road trip with the New York Times editorial board. The infamous hypocritical self-avowed Marxists, private-jet environmentalists, and genocide-adjacent humanitarians want to hear from the Heritage Foundation how they can “rebuild trust” with everyday Americans against whom they have weaponized their institutions. The biblical principle “cast not your pearls before swine” came...

[The “Jihad Vs. Civilization: The Truth About The Hamas War On Israel” digital ebook is available at the Front Page Magazine store.]After Oct 7, the journalists, scholars and thinkers with the David Horowitz Freedom Center rallied to tell the truth about what was happening in Israel and around the world.While the media covered up the real story, we told it in bracing and unflinching language.The titles of articles like “Genocide The true roots of Islamic Jew-hatred” and “The Enemy Within: Islamic Nazis” by David Horowitz, “Look, Mom, I Killed Some Jews!” by Robert Spencer and “Savages” by Daniel Greenfield reflected...

One of the most loyal and longest-serving members of the Clinton Mafia is the former Beltway reporter Sidney Blumenthal, now 75, whom even the New York Times, in its review of his 2003 book The Clinton Wars, described as a “courtier” for Bill and Hillary, and whose many nefarious activities include an intimate involvement in the psychopathically mendacious Clintonista propaganda operation known as Media Matters for America.Our topic today, however, is not the diabolical Sidney but his equally odious offspring Max, now 46 – who, as it happens, also started out as a more than typically partisan journalist. From the...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem The Scriptures In Handel’s Messiah Luke 21414 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.(King James Version)______________________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

Nearly 2,000 migrants being sheltered in a tent shelter in New York City are being transferred to a nearby high school, where the students will have to pivot to remote learning due to the disruption it is causing – sparking outrage from residents and local politicians. New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ office said it is moving 1,900 migrants from the tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field for safety reasons due to the incoming storms and potential high winds. According to the New York Daily News, Adams told reporters that it was being done out of an "overabundance of caution."...

Sixty heads of state and government are packing their bags and readying to fly into the luxury Swiss mountain resort of Davos ahead of the next World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting that begins Monday.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese Premier Li Qiang, and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres are among the self-styled global luminaries set to alight from their private jet transports for a week of meetings, cocktails, and back slapping. (snip) The WEF annual meeting will run from 15–19 January, 2024, under the banner “Rebuilding Trust.”

(Daily Caller)—President Joe Biden’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating video platform Rumble for undisclosed reasons, the agency confirmed to Wired on Monday. The SEC’s acknowledgment of the investigation to Wired comes after an April report by investment research firm Culper Research alleging that Rumble boosts measurements of its monthly active users (MAU) by 66% to 108%, which the company vehemently denies. Culper Research disclosed its “short” position on Rumble at the time of the report’s release, indicating potential profit if Rumble’s stock falls. “Rumble now claims (as of Q4 2022) to have 80 million MAUs, yet SimilarWeb estimates...

Russian investigators said on Tuesday they had arrested three people over heating outages south of Moscow that have sent regional officials scrambling to restore services and drawn scrutiny from the Kremlin. Authorities blamed the breakdown on failures at a boiler plant owned by a private ammunition factory. The heads of the heating plant and the factory were arrested on suspicion of providing unsafe services, investigators said in a statement. The deputy head of the local administration was also detained on suspicion of certifying the heating plant as adequate for winter despite allegedly knowing about defects that needed to be fixed....

A Wave Of Resignations, Retirements, And Even An Expulsion Placed A Large Number Of Seats Up For Grabs, And Primary Contestants Are Rushing To Claim Them. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and one-third in the Senate are open for voters in each election cycle. This year, the number of seats that won’t be contested by incumbents will add to some interesting primary contests. Primary races often signal the stakes for the general election and can forecast the winner in a state or district where one party dominates. Here are 10 primary races to track that could shift...

After a swift rise up the ranks, 34-year-old Gabriel Attal took the reins as France’s new prime minister on Tuesday. With a background steeped in privilege, the first openly gay head of government is expected to bring new energy to President Emmanuel Macron’s government, which has been weakened by months of protests over pension reform, the lack of a parliamentary majority and low approval ratings. Macron is relying on Attal to rejuvenate his government, in part, with an appeal to a younger demographic of voters who have become disillusioned, notably ahead of crucial EU parliamentary elections in June. Gabriel Attal’s...