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It was a helluva thing that Israeli Defense Forces accomplished in Gaza Sunday night, while people around the world were otherwise distracted by a celebrity-studded football game in Las Vegas. ... IDF and Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, launched a daring raid into the southern Gaza Strip to rescue two older hostages, men ages 60 and 70, whom Hamas terrorists took 128 days ago. Based on "precise intelligence," according to IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht — originally from Scotland — the operation breached a residential building where the hostages were known to be kept on the second floor....

Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris and guest Jeffery Sachs discuss Tucker Carlson's interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.From the video: Jeffery Sachs: (Putin discusses) "a remarkable truth. The end of the Soviet Union did not at all end the US pressure and attacks on Russia. "And, I think this is the real lesson of this -- it wasn't actually anti-communism, it was anti-Russia. And, it goes back two centuries, I would say, to British Russophobia..a century before communism. "And the reason is Russia is big and powerful. And, in the British and US grand strategy, that, per se, is a threat,...

The woman who opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Houston-area mega-church on Sunday has been named as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, according to the Houston Chronicle, as authorities revealed she had ‘Free Palestine’ written on her weapon. Moreno entered Osteen’s Lakewood Church just before 2 p.m. with a boy, believed to be about 4 or 5 years old, and opened fire into the church. Two off-duty officers working security at the church — a Houston cop and an agent with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission — returned fire and fatally shot the woman, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said Sunday. The...

Many Ukrainian soldiers, including officers, have defected to Russia to fight against the Ukraine army on the frontline Underfire in battle. In a week of huge scandal's and news from Zelensky, Ukraine and Russia including Zelensky firing Ukraine’s military chief Valery Zaluzhny, tucker Carlson interview of Putin and in the wake of 2 of the deadliest attacks by Ukraine on civilians in Donbass ever I bring you this report where I talk to 6 Ukrainian Soldiers who Defected To Russia, Joining The Frontline Battle Against Ukraine. Hear their story of how they ended up part of the Russian Army after...

President Biden has expressed growing frustrations behind closed doors over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his refusal to scale back Israel’s military ambitions in Gaza, according to a NBC News report. Biden, in private conversations, has said Netanyahu is “giving him hell” as the White House seeks to broker a ceasefire with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and negotiate a longer-term plan for peace in the Gaza Strip, NBC News reported Monday, citing five people “directly familiar” with the president’s comments. Biden reportedly said Netanyahu is impossible to work with and called the Israeli leader an “&&&—-” on at...

Senate Republicans eager to ram Ukraine funding through the upper chamber are just as eager to dismiss their voters as dimwitted and “shortsighted.” “Our base cannot possibly know what’s at stake at the level that any well-briefed U.S. senator should know about what’s at stake if Putin wins,” said North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, according to Punchbowl News Monday. Senate lawmakers spent the weekend advancing another $61 billion to Kyiv following last week’s embarrassing rejection of a bipartisan compromise bill that threatened to codify the invasion on the southern border. The more than $95 billion foreign spending package headed for...

@RandPaul Talking filibuster begins in earnest this afternoon!

A hearing this week could prove to be a defining moment for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her election interference case. For the first time since misconduct allegations surfaced against Willis, the judge overseeing the case will weigh in. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has scheduled an evidentiary hearing for February 15 to consider a motion from defendant Mike Roman that seeks to disqualify Willis and her office from the case and for the criminal charges against him to be dropped. Roman is arguing that Willis improperly benefitted financially from the case, which has ensnared former...

Professional kvetchmeister Taylor Lorenz of the Washington Post is once again whining about any hint of the social-media giants moving away from censorship or aggressively recommending "mainstream" media reports with a leftist agenda.In this case, Taylor and her Post colleague Naomi Nix are over the news that Meta (which everyone still calls Facebook) has decided to stop proactively recommending political content on Instagram or their Twitter-knockoff called Threads. Most people would greet the news that Meta is not shoving its biases down people's throats via recommendations to be a good thing. But not Taylor Lorenz as you can see in...

Luke 21:34 “But be on your guard, so that your hearts will not be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that this day will not come on you suddenly, like a trap [snare]; 35 for it will come upon all those who live on the face of all the earth.Jesus Christ warned his followers of the very real possibility that prior to His return we could be ensnared. A snare is a trap, or noose, carefully set to catch the unsuspecting. How could a Christian be ensnared? What could possibly make God’s people vulnerable...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) is in remission after completing cancer treatment and is expected to return to the House this week as lawmakers prepare for their second attempt to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Scalise is in “complete remission” nearly six months after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, in August. The majority leader has been absent from the House over the last month to continue receiving treatment but announced last week he would be returning to Capitol Hill. “Leader Scalise has successfully completed his autologous stem cell treatment and has been medically...

Post World War II United States seemed to embrace a Biblical worldview. Two World Wars and the rebirth of Israel gave Biblically Literate America a sense that Bible prophecy was being fulfilled. Even in the midst of the 1960s sexual revolution Christian eschatology books explaining the Biblical Tribulation and Jesus’ second coming were among the New York Times’ best selling books! Churches would routinely preach on prophecy and signs of the coming of the Lord. Prophecy conferences were everywhere, and pastors around the country encouraged congregations to watch, pray, and be ready for escape when Jesus came back.A mere 40...

In an unusual session held on Super Bowl Sunday, the US Senate voted to move forward a substantial $95 billion aid package that will support Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, with no southern border security provisions. The package includes $60 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel. The vote garnered support from RINOs, with a final tally of 67-27.According to The Hill, Schumer offered Republicans the chance to vote on amendments in exchange for expediting the legislative process.“By a vote of 67-27, The Senate invoked cloture on Murray substitute amendment 1388 to H.R.815, legislative vehicle for supplemental appropriations,” the Senate...

Frustrated by growing Republican opposition to sending more military aid to support the war in Ukraine, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) cited legislation under consideration in Ukraine's Parliament as "a breakthrough idea. They, like us, have problems recruiting people to staff their armed forces. They have a draft, but many are evading reporting for duty. There's a bill in their parliament authorizing the confiscation of the assets of every person who refuses to be drafted. While we don't currently have a draft here we could tweak our laws to authorize the confiscation of the assets of anyone who opposes...

VIDEOImagine spending two whole years of your life working hard on a book, another in a series of books proclaiming Donald Trump a criminal, and at almost the very moment your book is published the entire premise falls apart. In the case of Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman this happened when their book "Find Me The Votes" which hyped Fani Willis as a dynamic prosecutor chock full of integrity was discovered to be corrupt to the tune of enriching her unqualified boy toy Nathan Wade as an overpaid investigator who in turn repaid the almost $700,000 favor by taking Fani...

A trans female shooter who opened fire at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church on Sunday had a 'Free Palestine' message written on her weapon, per a new report. The shooter has been identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, who previously used the name Jeffrey and has a lengthy criminal record, including assault, marijuana possession and forgery. The footage captured the horrifying seconds after the woman in a trench coat shot up the Houston megachurch of the celebrity pastor - before being killed by two off-duty cops. The suspect entered the building during a Spanish-language sermon with a five-year-old boy shortly before...

Wicked, the upcoming big-screen adaptation of the beloved Broadway show that is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, received its first trailer at Super Bowl LVIII. It's a dreamy trailer that gives us our first real look at a cinematic take on one of the most beloved musicals of the last few decades. Of course, the footage also serves as an introduction to some of the music the prequel is known for. Wicked Trailer (1min) Wicked, which will be a two-part theatrical event, is set to fly into theaters for the first time on November 27, 2024. Wicked: Part...

For years, Iran and the Palestine Liberation Organization have vocalized their aspirations—“Death to Israel” and “Death to America”— and for years, under Democrats, the U.S. has funded Iran, which in turn, uses the money to support terrorists to advance these goals. Barack Obama and Joe Biden decided the best thing to advance peace in the Middle East was to give Iran access to hundreds of billions of dollars. On the other hand, President Trump decided that the best way to advance peace in the volatile region was to cut off funds to terrorism’s biggest sponsor (Iran), so it couldn’t fund...

An adviser to former President Clinton warned Sunday that President Biden must broaden his appeal to 2024 voters instead of just focusing on attacks against former President Trump if he wants to be reelected. Doug Sosnik, a senior adviser to Clinton, compared the 2024 election to 1980 in a New York Times op-ed, with Biden being former President Carter and Trump former President Ronald Reagan. Sosnik pointed out that both Carter and Biden had trouble winning over voters, and warned that Biden may need to switch strategies to win. Biden has spent much of his 2024 reelection campaign focused on...

America is still slack-jawed in amazement at last week's blithering antics of President Cornholio. The guy would have to work his way up to being senile, and the fact that he was always stupid and arrogant and malicious just makes his present condition a million times worse. That the guy is manifestly unfit to be president is obvious; what is also obvious is that this guy isn't going anywhere. It's Trump versus Biden all the way to November. On the plus side, watching the horror of the Democrats at this spectacle is absolutely delightful. They are trying to cope. During...