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The state of Utah executed Taberon Dave Honie by lethal injection just after midnight Thursday, 25 years after he was convicted of brutally killing his ex-girlfriend's mother in front of her three granddaughters. The announcement was made at 12:30 a.m. ...

US Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris met with two Arab Americans leading the Uncommitted National Movement, who asked her to consider an arms embargo on Israel, at a campaign stop in Michigan, the New York Times reported. Just before her rally, Harris met with Abbas Alawieh and Layla Elabed, who, according to the report, "wanted to support her but... wanted her to consider an arms embargo." In response, Harris indicated she was "open to it" and introduced the two community leaders to her staff. In addition to the arms embargo, the uncommitted organizers also asked for a convention...

I have been noticing a recurring movement by anti-gun extremists, who now appear to be trying to convince the public that Americans owning firearms is a relatively new concept. The goal seems to be an attempt to reimagine our nation’s longstanding history of large segments of law-abiding citizens embracing the Second Amendment by choosing to own firearms. That’s simply ridiculous. Americans have always owned guns, even before they were officially Americans. The British subjects who lived on this continent back in the 18th century eventually used their guns to help expel British soldiers and establish what would become the...

If these guys were a rose bush with so many thorns and so few flowers, you’d burn it! The Fed can easily be made to work but nobody apparently wants it to, or we’d change it. This rose bush puts out flowers that only stink and wither, but it has thorns the size of your fingers that cling to your pockets and tear at your flesh. We have three articles that were prominent in my news searches today that lay out just how miserably (for all of us) the Fed is failing at its actual mission. The first one by...

Judge Andrew Menary KC is about to hand down the sentences to the two men in the dock. John O'Malley, 43, and William Nelson Morgan, 69, are appearing at Liverpool Crown Court after pleading guilty to violent disorder following unrest on Merseyside.

Joe Biden won in 2020 on the premise that until the November election, he would pose as good ol’ Joe from Scranton and not scare voters. So Biden talked about “unity” and “competency.” He erased his prior wild primary pandering to left-wing voters about shutting down fracking and opening the border. But as soon as he was elected in 2020, Biden became the leftist veneer for a hyper-radical Obama third term. Fooled and naïve voters were shocked that their supposedly moderate candidate turned into a veritable neo-socialist president. In general, the left acknowledges that its spread-the-wealth, high taxes, big government,...

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It’s been widely reported that Gov. Tim Walz lied about his military service. We know that Walz rapidly exited the military once he knew he would be deployed in a war zone. And yet he launched his political career by lying about being a military veteran who had gone off to war. At Dossier.Today, Jordan Schachtel connects the dots to the start of Walz’s political career. Schachtel dug up an Atlantic profile of Walz telling the big lie that launched his political career. Command Sergeant Major Tim Walz is a twenty-four-year veteran of the Army National Guard, now retired but...

Michael Saylor and Bitcoin: a long-standing story! For several years, Michael Saylor has been a fervent advocate of Bitcoin. He began massively investing in the crypto in 2020, and since then, he has continuously increased his holdings. In addition to his personal investments, Saylor has also led MicroStrategy in acquiring Bitcoin, making the company one of the largest institutional holders of this cryptocurrency. To date, MicroStrategy holds more than 226,000 BTC, an amount valued at nearly $15 billion. Saylor’s approach to Bitcoin is based on his conviction that this crypto represents a form of “cyber Manhattan,” a metaphor he uses...

When it was convenient, she pretended to be the "first Indian-American senator". Last week we had the big loud debate over what race Kamala Harris is. As I’ve said before, I don’t think she’s anything. Her identity is as negotiable as anything else. And like Obama, it doesn’t fit the American identity politics calculus anyway. Like a lot of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, she’s a member of a high-achieving minority group (who is admittedly a lot dumber than the average Indian and Jamaican immigrant) with some family ties, but little sense of belonging to anything beyond a social class. Kamala’s...

A U.S.-Russian ballerina who was not part of last week’s massive prisoner swap between Russia and the West has pleaded guilty Wednesday to a treason charge, reports say... Karelina, a dual-citizen, lives in Los Angeles but was detained while visiting family in Russia in February. Authorities claim that Karelina raised money for the Ukrainian army and took part in "public actions" that supported Ukraine while in the U.S.... authorities reportedly examined Karelina’s phone, producing photos that appear to show her at an anti-Putin and anti-war protest in Los Angeles, where she was holding a sign declaring, "We want peace." One...

Facial recognition technology will soon be enabled at every security checkpoint inside Abu Dhabi’s Zayed International Airport ... The Smart Travel project, currently being implemented inside the futuristic flight hub serving the capital of the wealthy United Arab Emirates, will replace the traditional screening process — and the whipping out of travel documents, like a passport or ID card. ... The capability will reportedly also be implemented at duty-free shops, lounges and boarding gates as well. The goal is to have the biometric concept — which has courted controversy in the United States — fully running in 2025 at nine...

As Somali refugees in Minnesota waged gang wars and engaged in child sex trafficking, Governor Tim Walz pushed for even more refugees to be resettled in his state. Walz, whom Vice President Kamala Harris tapped as her running mate this week, petitioned the Trump administration to send more refugees to Minnesota in 2019, even though the state already had the highest number of refugees per capita in the United States. The call came as Somali refugees, a large and growing population in Minnesota, engaged in gang warfare, child sex trafficking, and later, hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud. “Minnesota...

Two senior US officials have told Politico that Iran has decided against conducting a direct attack on Israel in retaliation for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh last week in Tehran. According to the Wednesday report, Tehran is now convinced that Haniyeh was killed when someone activated a remot-controlled bomb in the room where he was staying, and not in a direct military operation. Washington stressed to Tehran that such an action, so long as no Iranian citizens were killed, does not justify a direct military operation against Israel. The source also told Politico that Iran intends to respond...

TOKYO — Japan issued a tsunami advisory Thursday after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern island of Kyushu. The temblor occurred off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture at 4:42 p.m. local time (3:42 a.m. ET), at a depth of about 18 miles, according to Japan’s meteorological agency. Japanese officials issued a tsunami advisory and warned residents to immediately leave coastal areas of Kochi and Miyazaki prefectures until it had been lifted. Advisories are issued when the waves are not expected to exceed 1 meter (3.3 feet).

Olympic swimmers may have found a possible cure to beating the E. coli-riddled Seine River that has been one of the huge storylines at the 2024 Paris Olympics — a can of Coca-Cola. Several world-class athletes swear that the sugary soda has helped them stave off bacteria and any infection they could get from competing in the open waters. “There’s no harm in drinking a Coke after a race,” New Zealand’s Ainsley Thorpe told the Wall Street Journal after the Women’s Triathlon last week. “If you Google it, it says it can help.” Doctors say there is no medical backing...

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (KABC) -- A Walmart employee in Lake Elsinore was stabbed to death by a parolee in an apparent "random" attack inside the store, authorities said... The victim was identified as 65-year-old Jessica Morales, of Menifee.... Authorities say the suspect, 29-year-old Lonnie Hinton from Wildomar, was on parole after being released from prison on March 23 of this year. He served a sentence for second-degree robbery and second-degree burglary. In 2020, Hinton was arrested after being accused of stabbing an employee at a restaurant in Perris. That employee would survive, but charges for assault with a deadly weapon...

Vice President Kamala Harris told anti-Israel hecklers who interrupted her Detroit campaign rally Wednesday night that their activism risks handing the Nov. 5 election to former President Donald Trump. “Kamala! Kamala! You Can’t Hide! We Won’t Vote for Genocide!” a group of protesters chanted. “You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking,” the 59-year-old Democratic presidential nominee said after a series of disruptions — pausing to stare down the demonstrators. Moments earlier, Harris had tried to wait out the ruckus, saying with a more patient tone, “I’m here because we believe in...

Tisha B'Av 2024: August 12-13 Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of the month of Av, is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, on which we fast, deprive ourselves and pray. It is the culmination of the Three Weeks, a period of time during which we mark the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

Current estimates of Ukrainian dead 600000 - 700000 Zelensky and other gangsters of the Kiev regime plainly do not care.