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Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorist group launched a series of drone and rocket attacks into northern Israel on Tuesday morning before warning that was just the start. Hezbollah said it launched a swarm of attack drones at two military sites near Acre in northern Israel, and also attacked an Israeli military vehicle in another location, Reuters reports. The attack was confirmed by the Israeli military, the Reuters report detailed, adding: […] a number of hostile drones were identified crossing from Lebanon and one was intercepted. It said several civilians were injured to the south of the coastal city of Nahariya. Reuters TV...

The magazine is as critical as the firearm and ammo we use. A large percentage of firearm malfunctions can be attributed to magazine-related issues, which is an important reason to always carry a spare mag. This being the case, it is surprising how little attention is paid to this critical component. A gun is only as reliable as its magazine. Cleaning and maintaining your magazines is just as important as cleaning and maintaining your pistol or selecting the right ammunition. If you get a magazine malfunction, test it again. If it creates a second malfunction, immediately take it out of...

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The biggest European car market, Germany, saw the sales of electric vehicles plummet by 36.8% in July from a year earlier, as EV sales are softening worldwide and as Berlin ended subsidies at the end of 2023.New car registrations of battery vehicle vehicles (BEVs) in Germany slumped to 30,762 vehicles in July from the same month of 2023, the latest data rom the German Federal Motor Transport Authority showed on Monday. July marked the largest annual drop in EV sales since the government ended subsidies for EV acquisitions in December 2023. While BEV sales plunged, the overall car market held...

Tim Walz has embellished and selectively omitted facts and circumstances of his military career for years. We, retired Command Sergeants Major of the Minnesota National Guard, feel it is our duty and responsibility to bring forth the truth as we know it concerning his service record. So, we have put together a timeline of his service post 9/11. To the best of our knowledge, this information is completely true, having been verified by all those who served in positions with first hand knowledge of the facts and circumstances of his service and departure from the Minnesota National Guard. Many of...

Radical-left Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, openly championed socialism during a “White Dudes” for Harris event. The selection of Waltz suggests Harris allied herself with the most far-left choice among those on her shortlist. Looks like they bumped Josh Shapiro to appease the Hamas Youth wing of the party pic.twitter.com/pH7r0gmKh3 — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 6, 2024 Waltz has a history of governing far to the left as Minnesota’s governor. He was also a radical member of the House of Representatives, with Heritage Action giving him a lifetime score of 13 percent. “One person’s socialism...

Nevada’s adoption of an all-mail voting system has made its voter roll problems ‘worse,’ according to Chuck Muth.Nevada’s system of automatically mailing a ballot to everyone on the voter roll makes the state’s failure to keep clean voter rolls more dire, says the president of a watchdog group that last week claimed to have found more than 100 people on Nevada’s voter rolls who voted in another state.“The biggest problem is that they changed the law in 2021 so that every active voter is automatically mailed a ballot, so we need the cleanest possible voter files to protect against potential...

This is Part 2 of a multi-part investigative series.Part 1 investigated the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL)'s trail of government grants, leading to SMYAL's taxpayer-funded LGBTQ youth program aimed at influencing kids as young as six-years-old to identify as "transgender." This sequel follows the next (un)natural step in childhood "gender-transitioning," providing a raw and intimately close peek under the hood of pediatric "gender care." Meet the physicians who practice it, the parents who willfully sacrifice their children on the altar of gender ideology, and the activists who marshal them there.WASHINGTON, DC — Pro tip: When medically mutilating your young...

Vice President Kamala Harris passed over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) as her running mate Tuesday for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) — confirming fears Shapiro would prove too pro-Israel, and too Jewish, for the ticket. In the week leading up to the pick, as Shapiro emerged as the frontrunner, there were reports of internal rebellions within the Democratic Party, largely due to his strong pro-Israel views, which included skepticism of peace talks. Hearing there was a progressive revolt last night over Shapiro as VP, several WH staffers that went all in on Palestine (wearing the keffiyeh, attending protests) openly...

The CEO of Intel prompted mixed reactions for posting a verse from Proverbs on Sunday after announcing that more than 15% of the tech company's workforce will be laid off amid its plummeting share price. "Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways," Pat Gelsinger posted to X, quoting Proverbs 4:25-26. Gelsinger drew criticism from some X users who mocked him for "praying" and accused him of "resorting to religion to save the company." "Have you even asked yourself how...

High prices are just one logical result of California’s disastrous mandate to impose a $20 minimum wage on workers in fast-food restaurants.A recent trek to southern California brought not only a trip down memory lane for this writer but also a case of sticker shock. Consider just some of the expenses that busted my food budget: $10.71 for a McDonald’s McMuffin meal; $15.93 for a steak burrito (without sides) at Baja Fresh; and $26.44 for a kebab plate and baklava from a local Middle Eastern chain.These high prices represent one logical result of California’s disastrous mandate to impose a $20...

OpenAI is reportedly facing another lawsuit on its supposed artificial intelligence training methods, this time by YouTuber David Millette. Lawyers for David Millette, a YouTube user from Massachusetts, claim in a lawsuit filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that OpenAI secretly transcribed videos from Millette and other creators to train the models for their AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT, and other generative AI tools and products. The complaint reportedly alleges that OpenAI significantly benefited from the creators' work by gathering this data, while also infringing copyright law and YouTube's terms of service which...

Vice presidential hopeful Josh Shapiro spent last week tempering his Jewishness, walking back support for Israel to pacify the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party. At this pace, the Pennsylvania governor is mere days from warning us that the future doesn’t belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.Hey, Michigan isn’t going to win itself.You can really learn a lot about a politician by watching who they choose to appease. The problem is that Shapiro, who is reportedly on the top of Kamala Harris’s veep list, has a record of supporting a liberal democratic ally in the Middle East...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will be the vice presidential running mate for Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, according to multiple news organizations including the Associated Press and New York Times. The decision to choose Walz is expected to bring back to the Democratic ticket hundred of thousands of people angry over the Israel-Hamas war who voted “uncommitted” in the primaries to express outrage at the Biden administration’s support of Israel in the face of ongoing attacks in Gaza after Oct. 7. The choice also avoids potential controversy over the other leading contender: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, an observant...

HARRISBURGH, Penn., Friday, Aug. 5. Dispatches received here at an early hour this morning state that the rebels were then crossing the river at Hancock, and that they had driven Gen. AVERILL's pickets into Cumberland. A semi-official dispatch, received at 9 A.M., conveys the intelligence that the rebels occupied Hagerstown in force this morning. The greatest consternation once more prevails among the people in the southern portion of the Cumberland Valley. Farmers are hurrying from their homes with their stock, and the population generally is reported to be perfectly panic stricken by this sudden, and to them unexpected occupation again...

... Chicago’s hospitals, however, have simultaneously been planning for a potential darker side to the convention. They’ve been developing plans and practicing for influxes of patients should violence erupt or disaster strike at the convention during this time of political anxiety — a mood exacerbated by the attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race. In some ways, preparing for the convention has been like readying for other large events, such as the NASCAR Chicago Street Race, the Chicago Marathon and Lollapalooza, say hospital leaders. In fact, it’s somewhat of a relief that...

According to the polls, the presidential race has tightened since Joe Biden dropped out and anointed Kamala Harris as the Democrats’ nominee. Donald Trump’s lead in the RealClearPolitics average has shrunk to just 0.8 points. However, one pollster that still shows Trump with a healthy lead nationally is Rasmussen Reports. Its latest poll, released Thursday, had Trump up five points nationally; however, Trump’s “margin has narrowed, especially when third-party candidates are factored into this year’s election.” Many on the left took to social media to dismiss the poll and label Rasmussen Reports as a "pro-Trump pollster." To get a response...

Nancy Pelosi and President Biden haven’t spoken since he dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, the former House speaker said in an interview Monday. Pelosi (D-Calif.) admitted that she hasn’t talked to Biden, 81, since he abandoned his reelection campaign more than two weeks ago during an appearance on CNN Monday. The last time the two Democrats conversed would then be when Pelosi spoke with Biden before he announced on July 21 that he was ending his bid for a second term. “I was asking for a campaign that would win,” Pelosi recounted of their conversation on CBS News...

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Remember Cassidy Hutchinson, the former West Wing aide who swore that the hearsay evidence she would tell the J6 Committee was the truth, the whole truth, so help her God? The new Inspector General's report on the Secret Service's activities on Jan. 6, 2021, has finally put this story and Hutchinson's reputation into the wood-chipper. As you may recall, Hutchinson said that on January 6, as President Donald Trump was driven from his speech at a Save America rally to the White House, he "lunged" at the Secret Service driver when he learned that he wouldn't be going to the...