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The United States Hospital transport steamer Cosmopolitan, Capt. A.C. CROOKER, arrived at this port yesterday afternoon, bringing 222 sick and wounded soldiers from the Department of the South. The Cosmopolitan left Port Royal at 7 o'clock on the evening of the 21st, making the trip in 65 hours. Her medical officers are Assistant Surgeon EDWARD BULELEY, of the Sixth Connecticut Volunteers, and HORACE P. PORTER, of the Seventh. Three deaths occurred on the passage -- JOHN WAGNER, of the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth New-York; WILLIAM DAVIS, One Hundred and Forty-fourth New-York Volunteers, and one other. The Fulton was to leave...

DEI hires pushed onto the FBI are putting the country’s safety at risk for the sake of being ‘woke’ An alarming deterioration in recruitment standards for the FBI has been exposed in a report delivered to the House Judiciary Committee by an alliance of retired and active-duty agents and analysts. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) requirements pushed by FBI Director Chris Wray have degraded recruitment standards in all areas including “physical fitness, illicit drug use, financial irregularities, mental health, full-time work experience and integrity,” and pose a threat to the FBI’s ability to protect America from harm, say the authors....

First things first. Those who have been watching online have already figured this out, but it is expected that Mark will cross-examine Michael Mann — mano a mano — TOMORROW. So be sure to tune in (Room 518). Second, welcome to the fight, Jack Posobiec! Thank you for the excellent coverage of the trial over at Human Events (at minute 38, but the whole show is great as usual). Jack joins a growing cadre of media (see John Hinderaker at Powerline here, Ricochet here, Heartland and John Droz here, and Phelim and Ann's latest here) who recognize the seriousness of...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• CHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT Before Bethlehem, Jesus intervened often in this world. This series presents some of those occasions, along with “types” of Christ: people and objects who represent Him and His qualities.JACOB WRESTLES WITH CHRIST GENESIS 32 Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stated that Hamas does hide in hospitals and residential areas and Israel has the right to go after Hamas wherever they hide, but Israel also has “a special burden to be mindful of civilian infrastructure, particularly, hospitals and residential complexes like that, where we don’t want to see them become scenes of battle. So, nobody wants to see fighting in a hospital. So, it does add an extra burden on the Israelis to be more careful, more deliberate.” Co-host Brianna Keilar asked,...

Agenda 2030, the U.N.’s formal plan for the creation of a new world government, contains 91 sections. It begins with the following vacuous but revealing words: This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Forty-five years ago, in late January 1978, the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions experienced a once-in-a-lifetime blizzard that crippled the aforementioned regions and set records that still stand to this day. The devastating impact this event had on those that were affected from mainly Jan. 25-27 could not be fully foreseen. Even forecasters themselves who gave the warning that this big system was on its way were bewildered at its results. Viewers share 1978 blizzard photos and you can share yours System setup: A strong low pressure system and arctic airmass was dropping southward out of...

If the Democratic attorney general of The Garden State wants to shut down your business or scare away your donors, the federal courts cannot help you. That's the warning issued by a network of pro-life pregnancy centers fighting an allegedly harassing subpoena from New Jersey AG Matthew Platkin, who seeks a wide range of documents going back 10 years, after a federal court ruled Jan. 12 it didn't have jurisdiction to hear their constitutional challenge. First Choice Women's Resource Centers filed an emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal Tuesday to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, accusing U.S....

The war-mongering in Europe has gone into overdrive, with military chiefs sounding the alarm to ‘imaginary wars’, trying to drum up support for Ukraine and to hypercharge Russophobia as the patience of the citizens in general with this conflict narrative has greatly diminished.Now, the top UK general says they live in a ‘pre-war’ scenario, and insists that only ‘citizen armies’ will be able to defeat the coming Russian avalanche to disrupt the Western societies.The head of the British army alerted UK citizens to be prepared for a war fought on the scale of the great conflicts of the 20th Century...

During the World Economic Forum’s annual conclave of plutocrats last week, the attendees enjoyed an exotic display of indigenous culture and their own virtue signaling of their love for “diversity.” The Catholic News Agency reports, “as part of a plenary session on Wednesday titled ‘Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Is Needed,’ Chieftess Putanny Yawanawá of the Amazonian Yawanawá tribe . . . performed a shamanic rite.” Resplendent in her tribal garb and face-paint, she stood close to each of the several panel members’ faces, coughed, then blew on their foreheads.This show captured perfectly the condescending, patronizing attitude of the...

Market researcher and financial cycle analyst Charles Nenner has described Donald Trump in an insightful way. In an interview earlier this month, Nenner predicted that we are simultaneously entering both a devastating global war cycle and a damaging downward financial spiral that cannot be stopped and will likely cause more human misery than the world has endured for quite some time. While lamenting that this economic and social catastrophe is all but certain, he returned to his emphasis on cycles by saying, “You have summer and then you have winter,” and the best that anybody can do before winter arrives...

The U.S. Supreme Court has signaled that it’s moving fast with former President Donald Trump’s appeal that seeks to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling barring him from the ballot on 14th Amendment grounds. A note accompanying the U.S. Supreme Court’s schedule for Feb. 8, the day the high court is set to hear the first oral arguments in the case, indicates that it intends to announce written opinions on the very same day. While the substance of the opinions has not been revealed, the declaration that they will be published on Feb. 8 is significant as it indicates that...

Michael Patrick Leahy appears on Steve Bannon War Romm discussing, in part, the Jeff DeWit message to Kari Lake and who from “back east” was the originator of the message to bribe Mrs Lake to stay out of the Arizona senate race. As expected, the sources for MPL’s report outline that Mitch McConnell and the National Republican Senatorial Committee originated the proposal. This should not be a surprise to anyone who reads CTH. The NRSC is primarily funded by the biggest lobbying group, the U.S Chamber of Commerce. The USCoC fund the legislative priorities of the Senate and Mitch McConnell...

Though the Hindus are the majority in India, they are often victims of Islamic fanaticism and bigotry.On Saturday, January 20, Mohammad Abdul Wahid, a teacher at Green Bells School, which is located in Budhar town in the Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, brutally assaulted a class 7 student for chanting the slogan “Jai Shri Ram” in the classroom. The incident occurred when there was no teacher in the class.“Jai Shri Ram” is a famous Hindi slogan that translates to “Victory to Ram.” Ram is one of the most widely worshipped Hindi deities. Before the major Ram Temple inauguration in Ayodhya,...

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley blasted former President Trump’s New Hampshire victory speech, calling it “a temper tantrum.” Haley appeared confident at a campaign event North Charleston, S.C., Wednesday night, after losing to the former president in the first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday by about 11 percentage points, according to Decision Desk HQ. The former South Carolina governor criticized Trump’s rhetoric, where he tore into Haley after she spoke to her supporters. “We were very excited last night because we saw that we had gone up 25 points in a month. And we were thrilled,” Haley said, speaking of the Granite...

Sure, Old Joe Biden is a liar, a practiced and accomplished liar who has told countless whoppers throughout his entire half-century (and counting) of fattening at the public trough. Still, the sheer audacity of his lies can leave his hearers gasping for breath at how completely bereft he appears to be of an ordinary human conscience. On Friday, the man who thinks he’s president demonstrated that he also seems to think he is in a world not only without the Internet, but without newspapers or human beings with memories.Fox News made the momentous announcement: Old Joe “said he does not...

The Associated Press recently made headlines by falsely claiming that the Israeli campaign against Hamas “sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history” and was even worse than “the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II”.The Washington Post argued that “Israel has waged one of this century’s most destructive wars in Gaza” while The Wall Street Journal contended that it was “generating destruction comparable in scale to the most devastating urban warfare in the modern record.”That’s all the more impressive since even accepting the Hamas casualty figures (tainted and inflated numbers in which there are no terrorists,...

The Lone Star State is in the midst of a fierce battle with the federal government over the escalating migrant invasion at the southern border. This is not just another political skirmish; it’s a clash with monumental implications. Governor Greg Abbott and President Joe Biden are at the forefront of a dispute that transcends sovereignty, delving deep into the constitutional debate over states’ rights and the ever-pressing question of judicial supremacy. As tensions escalate, a convoy of trucks, cars, and recreational vehicles is en route to the border for a series of rallies spanning from California to Eagle Pass, Texas....

Fox News host Charles Payne was on a panel discussion about USA politics and the Trump support in New Hampshire. After some back and forth about MAGA voters, Charles Payne unloads on Biden and the Democrats for ridiculing half the country. WATCH:

Donald Trump knew what he had to do nearly eight years ago. As a political outsider, he played the smart card. Trump, the GOP’s presidential nominee, picked a stiff as his running mate, someone that, first, reassured the Republican establishment. That stiff was Mike Pence. No, no, no… Set aside hindsight. Pence was a solid choice in July 2016. Trump wanted to build a Team of Rivals. Pence was meant as a bridge to the Ryans and McConnells and the broader D.C. establishment. That move failed bigly. The establishment didn’t want a bridge. Accommodation? Nah, unless Trump sold his soul....