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The Biden team is clearly engaging in delusional thinking, talking about how President Joe Biden showed off his foreign policy chops during the NATO press conference. At this point, they would likely say or do anything to try to save him, they're so desperate to dig him out of the hole that he's in.

“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great...

July 11, 2024/ Francis Menton Among the adherents to the cult of climate change, nobody can claim a higher level of sanctimony than the Big Tech behemoths — the likes of Google, Microsoft and Meta. These new economic titans fancy themselves to be totally unlike the dirty and grubby industrial companies of the past, like the steel, automobile or oil producers with their belching smokestacks. Each of these new tech powerhouses loudly proclaims its sacred and unwavering commitment to “net zero” emissions by some early date, typically 2030. And each of them puts out an annual report documenting its progress...

Does President Biden realize how angry some voters in Michigan are — specifically, Arab Americans? That anger is on full display in Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit that has one of the highest percentages of Arab Americans among U.S. cities (54 percent, though experts believe that’s a significant undercount). Opinion Video traveled to Dearborn to understand voter sentiment in a population that has the power to sway the election. Michigan has over 200,000 registered voters who are Muslim — enough to swing the state. (Biden won Michigan by 154,000 votes in 2020.) Just finding a pro-Biden Arab American voter in...

A Milwaukee radio station admitted Thursday that it edited a taped interview with President Biden — at his campaign’s request — to remove references touting the number of “blacks” in his administration and incoherent commentary on the Central Park Five. Civic Media, the radio network that broadcasted the 81-year-old president’s July 3 interview on “The Earl Ingram Show,” said the decision by the program to scrub the remarks prior to airing the interview on July 4, fell short of “journalistic interview standards.”

Former President Donald Trump hawks $59.99 Bibles with the same words he uses to win the votes of evangelical Christians. He sells swatches of the suit he wore in a mug shot while also raising money for his campaign by calling himself a “political prisoner.” He describes Truth Social, his refuge for those banned on other social media sites — and his best chance to substantially increase his wealth — as a bulwark against liberal companies out to silence Christians and conservatives. As he seeks to reclaim the presidency, Trump has reprised the pitchman role from his reality TV days,...

“By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments” (1 John 2:3). True believers obey God’s commandments. Before Jesus ascended to Heaven after His resurrection, He gave the following Great Commission to His disciples: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20). Notice that a true disciple was to observe, or obey, all of Christ’s commands. The apostle John understood well the Lord’s instruction. He knew...

Days after President Joe Biden said only the “Lord Almighty” could drive him from the race, he laid out a far more earthly scenario at his closely watched news conference Thursday night: His advisers would have to prove to him that he was headed for certain defeat. But leaning into the microphone and whispering to dramatize his defiance, Biden made clear that he did not foresee this happening. He seemed to open the door to an alternative, then swiftly shut it. Sure, “other people can beat Trump,” he said, but it would be too hard to “start from scratch.” The...

Only Almighty God has and offers the answers that Americans so desperately need today. WITHOUT Almighty God’s Word and revelation ALL is a mystery! ALL is unanswerable! ALL is despair! ALL is hopeless! A man, woman, boy or girl MUST be born again to FULLY comprehend Almighty God's revelation and the ETERNAL picture of our day (John 3:3-7, Rom. 8:5-9, 1 Cor. 2:9-16). WITHOUT Almighty God’s Word and revelation ALL is a mystery! ALL is unanswerable! My friend, do not deceive yourselves with false hopes, false vain ambitions, false saviors, and false Utopian visions that can NEVER come to pass...

As rising stars in the California Democratic Party, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom dodged a potentially bruising campaign battle in 2015 when she chose to run for U.S. Senate and he announced his candidacy for governor. This week, Newsom said he would avoid an even bigger potential head-to-head fight with Harris over the White House. The California governor repeated that he would not run against Harris, standing by a comment he made last year that has new relevance after President Biden's performance in the June presidential debate left many in the party calling for him to leave the race. Although...

Researchers at POSTECH, led by Professor Kyu-Young Park, have developed a new single-crystal synthesis technology for nickel-based cathode materials in electric vehicle batteries, demonstrating significantly enhanced lifespan and durability. Their work, published in ACS Materials & Interfaces, highlights the critical temperature needed for synthesizing robust single crystals, contributing to more durable and efficient batteries. =================================================================== POSTECH researchers have advanced electric vehicle battery technology by developing a method to synthesize durable single-crystal cathode materials, extending battery life and efficiency. Could high-temperature single crystals enable electric vehicles capable of traveling up to one million kilometers? A team from Pohang University of Science...

CenterPoint is a $19 billion, for-profit corporation granted a monopoly over a hundred years ago to manage and maintain the transmission and distribution of electricity across the Houston region. This regulated utility failed to deliver power to 85% of its customers during the height of a mild hurricane. In a perfect world, the Public Utility Commission would have ensured CenterPoint maintained a grid resilient enough to withstand a stronger storm. Instead, elected officials are asking the wrong questions about the emergency response. “I’ll tell you whether I’m satisfied or not when I have a full report of where their crews...

House Democrats anguished over President Joe Biden’s spiral are consumed by one question: Can anything save their chances of flipping the House? So far only three endangered Democrats have publicly called for Biden to leave the presidential race. But behind the scenes, the dozens of battleground members and candidates whose races will determine the House majority are in a “hair-on-fire” level of panic, in the words of one House aide. Battleground members have placed urgent calls to leadership and Biden’s team, commissioned new polls back home and even mulled sending a letter to Biden himself, according to more than a...

Given the Democrats’ past procedural competence, it’s hard to tell if they’ve really gotten themselves in a corner or if they still have several aces up their sleeves. For the past 3 years, I’ve felt something was amiss with the Democrats and their bench strength. For a team that plays to win, no matter what, they seemed to have burned all their boats without regard to future possibilities. As I wrote in February: It became apparent three years ago [ed: That is, 2021] that Biden would not be able to run in 2024 due to age-related issues. It was even...

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter is pictured moments after release from the Canadarm2 robotic arm, ending its five-and-a-half month stay at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TVAt 7:01 a.m. EDT, the S.S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft was released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm which earlier detached Cygnus from the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station’s Unity module. At the time of release, the station was flying about 260 miles over the South Atlantic Ocean.The Cygnus spacecraft successfully departed the space station more than five and a half months after arriving at the microgravity laboratory...

A growing number of companies are filing for bankruptcy, according to S&P There is a "historic surge" of corporate bankruptcies underway in the U.S., as debt-saddled companies struggle to adjust to the new era of high interest rates. New figures published by S&P Global Intelligence show that 75 companies filed for bankruptcy in June, the highest number recorded in a single month since early 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. That pushed this year's total number of bankruptcies so far to 346, which is notably higher than comparable levels seen in the past 13 years. Before this, the...

Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book is a macabre warning to an aging America as it closes in on its 250th birthday. The warning comes in the form of a graphic depiction of the hideousness of war and the terrifying state of those who suffer ignominious defeat. However different the four societies described in the book were, be they Thebans, Carthaginians, Byzantines, or Aztecs, each was blinded by the illusion of invincibility. Hanson shows that such an illusion is so persistent that even as the conquered were being slaughtered, they continued to think: “It cannot happen here.” Thebes, the 4th century...

Joe Biden's team believes Barack Obama is secretly orchestrating efforts to push him out of the 2024 election, according to one of the president's confidants. While Obama has offered public support for his former vice president, alumni of his administration have been among the loudest voices warning of an election wipeout and his friend George Clooney went public with criticism on Wednesday. Biden ally Joe Scarborough let rip on his 'Morning Joe' TV show a day later, exposing the burning tensions running through the Democratic Party.

Have you ever wondered why some celebrities get permanently canceled while others escape almost completely unscathed? For every Kevin Spacey (canceled!), there’s a Chris Brown (not canceled!). Why is that? …: If someone doesn’t want to leave and you can’t legally force them, then they’re not leaving. (Sure, you might apologize anyway, but your apology would have a different PR purpose: Protect your secondary financial streams and provide juuust enough cover to your partners that they won’t instruct their lawyers to search aggressively for loopholes). The Democrats cannot legally compel Joe Biden to leave. Not even if most Democrats want...

President Joe Biden, his reelection bid imperiled by his own party, defiantly declared Thursday in a press conference-turned-referendum on his candidacy that he is still the “best person” to defeat Donald Trump. In his first solo news conference since November — and with Washington on edge — the 81-year-old Biden forcefully dismissed multiple questions about fellow Democrats declaring that he was no longer up for the rigors of the campaign and should abandon his reelection bid. “If I slow down and can’t get the job done, that’s a sign I shouldn’t be doing it,” he said, “but there’s no indication...