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Most of Europe, the U.S., and the West understandably supported arming Ukraine to repel Vladimir Putin’s Russian aggression. By contrast, such support for democratic Israel was strangely mixed. The Ukrainian and Israeli wars are similar and yet also different conflicts—but in more ways than we can imagine. Ukraine was invaded by a huge Russian state, with a population three-and-a-half times greater, a gross national product ten times larger, and an area thirty times its size. Hamas, by contrast, is a terrorist clique of about 50,000-70,000 gunmen and terrorist kingpins who run Gaza. It is dwarfed by the Israeli population (20...

Tony Bobulinski’s attorney, Stefan Passantino, ripped House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) for misrepresenting his client’s testimony before the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday. Bobulinski’s testimony was significant because he is one of the most knowledgeable and forthcoming former associates of the Bidens. Bobulinski provided House investigators with four key allegations about Joe Biden’s role in the family business:

The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded by the American Taxpayer“The madmen are in power.”— Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High CastleThe debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction.That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the federal budget, the United States still spends more on foreign aid than any other nation.The latest foreign aid spending bill includes $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.Since World War II, the U.S. has given more...

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A Tennessee elementary school principal had tears streaming down her face as she was booked for allegedly covering up a student-teacher assault at her school. Fabre Ford, the principal of Southwest Elementary School in Fayette County, Tennessee, was arrested after allegedly withholding information about a fourth-grade student attacking a teacher with a Stanley Cup. According to deputies, fifth-grade social studies teacher Demetrious Bradley was left concussed after the child battered him with the large metal cup. After Ford allegedly blocked an internal school investigation into the attack and told people not to cooperate, she was arrested and charged with tampering...

Wednesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” former 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy declared former President Donald Trump was on “the path to mop the floor” with incumbent President Joe Biden in November’s election. Ramaswamy said he believed there were those in the Democratic Party plotting to replace Biden as the party’s nominee. “On one hand, you have a president who they say is too senile to stand trial,” Ramaswamy said of Biden. “Well, on the other hand, they say he’s perfectly fine to run the United States of America. Those two things can’t make sense at the same time. But I...

As Americans file returns this season, some worry about IRS audits amid agency efforts to ramp up service, technology and enforcement. Recent IRS enforcement has targeted high-income individuals, large corporations and complex partnerships. But everyday filers could still face an audit — and certain issues are more prone to IRS scrutiny, experts say. You don’t want to face the “audit lottery,” warned Ryan Losi, a certified public accountant and executive vice president of CPA firm Piascik. Audit rates of individual income tax returns decreased for all income levels from tax years 2010 to 2019, largely due to lower IRS funding,...

Witness the moral and fiscal confusion of New York’s welfare-obsessed leaders. The state’s Medicaid program is billions of dollars in the red. Gov. Hochul announced a plan last month to cut $1.2 billion in Medicaid funding, which she’ll finalize Thursday. Yet she’s also expanding Medicaid for children whose parents make too much money. She’s making a middle-class entitlement New York doesn’t need and can’t afford. Here’s the backstory.

During an event on Tuesday, February 13, Daily Wire podcast host Candace Owens spoke out about Taylor Swift, describing the liberal popstar as “the most toxic feminist that’s ever existed.” Her comments came during a “Backstage” event for DailyWire+ subscribers in which she spoke with Jeremey Boreing, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, and Matt Walsh. Beginning, Owens said, “Obviously, if you’ve seen what she’s even done in business and how she tries to manipulate her audiences like to get out of like, deals and contracts, she’s totally insane. Like she’s the most toxic feminist that’s ever existed. And what she does...

Where is the compassion? Where is the outrage? Where is the empathy for five precious children who were brutally slaughtered by abortion? Where is the justice? Why the coverup? Under absolutely no circumstances should the DC Medical Examiner discard the bodies of the five innocent children whose lives were taken in such a barbaric manner. If the DOJ is not going to fulfill its duty to investigate the potential federal crimes committed against these child victims, then Congress should immediately take up its own investigation and demand the preservation of evidence. When they were alive, these babies deserved to be...

Muhammad al-Ashmar (Arabic: محمد الأشمر) (1892 – March 3, 1960: Racist-Arab Islamofascist: * Corrupt guy. * Murdered Syrians. * Rebel commander. * Extorted money from Syrian Jews, on advice from the Mufti al-Husseini, for fake orphas in Mandatory-Palestine. *Pro-Nazi during WW2. *Post war, working for the communists. Congress Weekly. United States, American Jewish Congress, 1956, pp. 5-7. January 23, 1956 The Soviet's Arab "Peace Hero" By Itzhak Ivri The STALIN PEACE PRIZE, ONE OF THE HIGHEST honors given by the Soviet Union, may have a shorter history than that of the Nobel peace prize, but it is to the East...

A 200-year-old painting of George Washington was stolen from a Colorado storage unit in January.. The Englewood Police Department (EPD) received a call Jan. 22 about the theft of the “historical painting” from a storage facility, but they believe the theft occurred two weeks earlier on Jan 10 ... “The painting is of our first president, George Washington, and was created in the early 1800s... The approximate size of the piece is 24 inches by 30 inches, measured in a gold-colored frame. The value is undisclosed and hard to estimate due to its historical significance,” ... Police told the outlet...

I was walking down the street last week, and suddenly, I heard honking from a bunch of cars. Not sure what it was, I looked over to see a cavalcade of cars driving by, waving big Palestinian flags out their windows. This went on for about five minutes until, eventually, they had all disappeared. This comes on the heels of seeing the Palestinian flag painted on the sides of buildings or on overpasses or stickers stuck to signs and the windows of various McDonald’s –and not put there by the store’s owners! Thankfully, there was no real disturbance other than...

Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed in a new interview he preferred President Joe Biden to remain president of the United States in 2024, because he was more predictable than former President Donald Trump. Putin was asked to weigh in on the 2024 presidential election in the United States by interviewer Pavel Zarubin. Details of the interview were published Wednesday by Reuters and Sputnik, a Russian state-owned news agency. Putin said he doubted that Biden's age would make him an 'incapable' president and suggested it was common for leaders to experience awkward moments in public. 'Who of us hasn't banged their...

Boston's Catholic parishes are seeing a significant decline in membership, an alarming trend in one of the most Catholic cities in America. For centuries, Catholic churches have been the beating heart of Boston. Places to find quiet and form community. Now, according to a new poll from the PEW Research Center, only 30% of Boston adults identify as Catholic. That's down 20% since 2000 across the United States, according to the Catholic News Agency. "[In Boston}, maybe 40%, due to various things, particularly the sex abuse scandal, COVID hit, anger at statements from the Vatican," said professor Francis Xavier Clooney,...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised.” Luke 9:22Jesus knew He would suffer greatly, be rejected and killed. How would you deal with that knowledge if you somehow knew this about your own future? Most people would be filled with fear and become obsessed with trying to avoid it. But not our Lord. This passage above shows just how intent He was on embracing His Cross with unwavering confidence...

Former President Trump is narrowly leading President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 general election match-up among Michigan voters, according to a new poll. The Fox News survey, released Wednesday, shows Trump leading Biden 47 percent to 45 percent in a head-to-head hypothetical rematch. Trump’s lead grows when respondents are asked to select between a larger array of candidates, a group that includes independent candidates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Cornel West, as well as Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

For the past year, rumors have been swirling that Michelle Obama will throw her hat in the ring at the “last minute,” after the deep state successfully completes its controlled demolition of Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 election. Rumors are rumors. But as the saying goes, there is no smoke without fire. It would be naive to assume the Democrats haven’t already deployed a carefully crafted plan to use Joe Biden as their fall guy to make way for Michelle Obama.

A New York judge says former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25. Judge Juan Manuel Merchan said Thursday that he made the decision after speaking with the judge in Trump’s now-delayed federal election interference case in the nation’s capital. Donald Trump arrived at NYC court Thursday, where a judge will finalize a trial date in the criminal case charging the real estate mogul with concealing payoffs to alleged lovers to hide potential sex scandals from voters in the 2016 presidential election. Trump, 77, took a seat at the defense...