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Nikki Haley said after the Iowa Caucuses that it was a “two-person race” now. She was ridiculed because she finished third, though at the time the speech was written she was still projected to finish second. Nonetheless, she may be right. Reports and rumors are flying around social media after the campaign site of Ron DeSantis scrubbed all future events. The campaign also canceled scheduled interviews on corporate media for Sunday.

North Korea’s first missile test of 2024, which came on January 15, has renewed fears among Asian and Western military leaders that the Hermit Kingdom may have more advanced missile technologies than previously thought, including hypersonic warheads. Meanwhile, in an alarming parallel development, President Joe Biden has continued to postpone missile defense upgrades for U.S. military bases in the Pacific. South Korean and Japanese military officials reported shortly after the launch earlier this week that the missile flew some 620 miles from Pyongyang before splashing into the sea. After testing five long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in 2023 – the...

"AN ACT prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation."Last month, Republican legislators in New Hampshire introduced a bill that would ban the “intentional release” of chemicals into the air.The legislation, called “The Clean Atmosphere Preservation Act,” prohibits “the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.”It also provides penalties for violations.The legislation is sponsored by Republican state Representatives Jason Gerhard (Merrimack-25) and Kelley Potenza (Strafford-19).The representatives argue that atmospheric geoengineering harms...

HUMBLE, Texas – A Humble convenience store clerk was shot and killed after police said he went after suspected shoplifters who stole a bag of chips on Friday. “No one ever anticipates just going to work that day and not coming home,” Humble Assistant Police Chief Dan Zientek said at the scene, near the turnaround lanes in the 7400 block of Will Clayton Parkway. The shooting happened around 11:30 a.m. Investigators remained on the scene until around 6 p.m. The suspects, described as thin young men, remain on the run and are wanted for capital murder. Police said one was...

Richard Nixon in 1992, shortyl after the fall of the Soviet Union makes a prediction about the future of the cold war and Russia

In June 2023, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia unsealed the 96-page Halderman Report – the Security Analysis of Georgia’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices.Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had been hiding this report from the public for two years.University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman and Security Researcher and Assistant Professor at Auburn University Drew Sringall collaborated on the report where they discovered many exploitable vulnerabilities in the Dominion Voting Systems’ ImageCast X system. Far-left Judge Amy Totenberg sealed and covered up the results of the investigation of...

Iran-backed armed groups have targeted US troops in Iraq hours after Tehran vowed revenge and blamed Israel for a deadly attack on a building housing its elite forces in the Syrian capital Damascus, driving fears of wide regional conflict. The attack caused one Iraqi and possible American casualties, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday, and came hours after Tehran vowed to take revenge against Israel for its strike targeting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria. “Multiple ballistic missiles and rockets were launched by Iranian-backed militants in western Iraq targeting al-Assad Airbase,” CENTCOM said on X. Most...

They are out in force, asking each other what they plan to do to "Trump-proof" their economies. At the World Economic Forum, the usual swells and princelings were out in force. Their latest burning issue is here: WEF leaders pressed on how they will 'Trump-proof their economies' if he wins election 'I think the best defense, if that’s the way you want to look at it, is attack,' European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said They live to tell us peons how we should live and vote. But here is a small sample of questions these blowhards should be asked...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem The Scriptures In Handel’s Messiah Isaiah 53:88 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.(King James Version)______________________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

Is NATO even going to exist in 20 years? It seems unlikely. This is an organization that was created to fight Russia, and there is no reason to fight Russia. No one can explain why you would fight Russia, other than that they don’t support gay.

----When the arenas are in flames, Iran’s resources must be taxed in dealing with them all. Can Iran maintain the same tempo in each arena?---- The answer is no. The Houthi attacks on the US Navy represents a surrogate that is out of control. Houthi bravado resulted in going a ship or two, too far. The Iranian concept of limited attacks to inhibit shipping via the Suez canal was wrecked by Houthi extension of the concept to include attacks on all shipping and the US Navy. In Lebanon, the Hezbollah efforts are half hearted and ineffectual. Iran is shown to...

The Talk Shows January 21st, 2024 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-S.C.); Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.), a Biden campaign national co-chair and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-Ark.), who has endorsed former President Donald Trump for president.FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), a Trump campaign surrogate; Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a DeSantis campaign surrogate and Haley campaign surrogate Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). Panel: Rep. Harold Ford Jr.(D-Tenn.); FOX News chief political analyst Brit Hume; Bret Baier, anchor...

What will the death of the green energy illusion look like? From time to time (see, for example, here and here) I have described a vision where some state or country runs headlong into a “green energy wall” — an impassable barricade of physical impossibility, characterized by scarcity and blackouts, into which the country crashes suddenly. Among the net zero zealot countries I have identified as the leading candidates for imminently hitting such a wall are Germany and the UK. But perhaps, instead of a sudden crash, the demise of the green energy illusion will look more like a slow...

As we enter 2024, many conservatives see the coming election as the last best chance to save our cherished republic from irreparable leftist destruction. We know from history that four more years of Democrat political control and neo-Marxist cultural domination may well be more than the America we love can bear. But we’re also aware that leftist DNA requires its woke adherents to employ every conceivable scheme and ploy to retain power. So we must be fully-equipped to counter each falsehood, each gas light, and each dirty trick the left desperately will throw against the American people over the coming...

The Administration has backed off its historic mission of protecting freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. Instead, it keeps choosing appeasement. Watching our response to Iranian aggression against us and our allies, I’m reminded of Sherlock Holmes mystery, “The Curious Case of the Dog That Didn’t Bark.” Turns out the watchdog didn’t bark because it knew the thief, and my supposition is that there is a good reason why we have behaved as if Iran and its proxies merit no more meaningful response: This Administration -- as did Obama’s -- has been thoroughly compromised respecting the ayatollahs. In a...

Understatement o' the Week: "I don't think you like Donald Trump too much." That was Symone Sanders-Townsend, co-host of MSNBC's The Weekend, speaking today to George Conway, co-founder of the disgraced Lincoln Project. It came in response to the condemnation cascade that Conway had just unleashed on Trump. Even by Trump-hating liberal-media standards, this was an unusually vituperative performance. The heart of Conway's argument was that Trump has no strategy. That as a "narcissistic sociopath," Trump acts purely out of impulse. But er, somehow he's dominating the GOP primaries and leading Biden in many polls. Other candidates who presumably aren't...

LAMPASAS COUNTY, Texas — The Lampasas County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting that left 57-year-old William Darrell Crain dead on Thursday, Jan. 18. The sheriff's office says it received a call at about 1:34 p.m. from 28-year-old Alex Shahan Hyatt, explaining the events that led of to the shooting. According to the sheriff's office, Hyatt's stepfather, Crain, showed up to his home located in the 2100 block of Country Road 3790 with a nine-millimeter and a .40-caliber pistol holstered on his hip. Hyatt told the sheriff's office that Crain had allegedly began making threats against him and his mother,...

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The Louisiana Legislature adjourned from its special session on Friday, passing new congressional districts as required by a federal court order. Lawmakers also sent to Gov. Jeff Landry's desk for a possible signature a bill that would close the state's open primary system. Senate Bill 8, sponsored by Sen. Glen Womack, R-Madisonville, and preferred by Landry, would transform Republican U.S. Rep. Garret Graves’ 6th Congressional District into a second Black-majority district. The House favored it 86-16 and the Senate agreed to the lower chamber's changes 27-11. Lawmakers also passed an appropriation bill for SB8 that would provide $1.4 million to...

Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered the medieval burial of an extremely tall man who was buried with a long sword — one that was nearly two-thirds of his height — and may have been a nobleman who supported the region's ill-fated union with Denmark and Norway.The sword, which is over 4 feet (1.3 meters) long, seems to have been inlaid with a different metal to form small Christian crosses, excavation leader Johan Klange, an archaeologist with the Halland Cultural Environment, an agency of the local government, told Live Science.Even taller than the sword was the man in the grave. Klange...