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ESPN host Sam Ponder has been fired by left-wing sports network ESPN after speaking out about the unfairness of biological males competing in women’s sports. The network, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company, claimed they fired Ponder, along with Robert Griffin III, due to “financial reasons.”

South Lebanon Water Establishment said that shutting down power plants will negatively affect their ability to pump sufficient quantities of water into the area. The Zahrani power plant, the last and only plant still providing electricity in Lebanon, reportedly shut down on Saturday, Sawt Beirut International reported on X, citing Lebanon's electric corporation, Électricité du Liban. The Jerusalem Post could not access Lebanon's Electric Corporation's website.

Roughly 100,000 far-left, Israel-hating protesters will be descending on Chicago this week, sowing chaos as Democratic leaders rally around their new presidential ticket. At least seven large rallies and marches are set to take place in the Windy City while the McCormick Place Convention Center hosts Democratic National Convention, organizers said. And other rallies are also expected even though their organizers have not scored necessary city permits. The causes run the gamut of radical leftist causes, including backing Hamas terrorists and ending US aid to Israel. The convention runs Monday through Thursday, but the protests begin Sunday with a march...

Even the Washington Post isn’t buying Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to slap socialist price controls on groceries. The longtime, left-leaning broadsheet — owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos — published a scathing editorial ripping the Democratic presidential nominee for claiming price gouging is causing inflation and, rather than offer a legit plan to fix it, offering only “populist gimmicks.”With food prices surging more than 20% nationwide during the Biden-Harris administration, Harris, during a North Carolina rally earlier Friday, unveiled economic policies she’d enact during her first 100 days as president that include enforcing government price controls on groceries. Instead of...

Workers placed a bronze statue of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on the grounds of the Dekalb County Courthouse Friday — the same site where a Confederate monument was removed in 2020. Internationally acclaimed sculptor Basil Watson, who designed the 12-foot-tall statue, watched as the statue was placed ahead of its official unveiling planned for Aug. 24. “It’s exciting to see it going up and exciting for the city because of what he represents and what it’s replacing,” Watson told The Associated Press. Lewis, who represented Georgia in Congress for over three decades, first rose to national prominence during...

Explanation: On August 11 a Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched from a rotating planet. With a small satellite on board its mission was dubbed A Sky Full of SARs (Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites), departing for low Earth orbit from Mahia Peninsula on New Zealand's north island. The fiery trace of the Electron's graceful launch arc is toward the east in this southern sea and skyscape, a composite of 50 consecutive frames taken over 2.5 hours. Fixed to a tripod, the camera was pointing directly at the South Celestial Pole, the extension of planet Earth's axis of rotation in to space....

Over the past decade, there’s one truth that liberals have been loath to admit: Donald Trump is funny. This aspect of his appeal prompts far less commentary than his far-right positions, his venality or his mogul’s bravado. But when you watch him at a rally, you can see he’s playing for laughs: jabbing at his opponents, doing crowd work, even being self-deprecating, sort of. Cicero could write a treatise on Mr. Trump’s use of irony, as he’s proved himself a master of humorous misdirection. Liberals tend to think that irony is a type of wit that is aligned with progressivism....

We are just over one month since a smelly, pimply-faced incel tried to assassinate Donald Trump. The FBI immediately began its "investigation," and that's when I knew we were in trouble. Not only have we learned next to nothing about the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, but the mockingbird media mudpuppies have also memory-holed the shooting like it never happened. Related: The Shot Ignored Around the World: It's Been One Month Since Trump Was Shot Let's list what we know have been told by the vanilla, mainstream news yobbos about Crooks and his attempt to kill President Trump:

The number of suicides committed by Border Patrol agents in 2024 has neared the number set in 2023, with four months to go, the New York Post reported on Friday. At least seven U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees ended their own lives in 2024; eight died last year by their own hand. Kent Corso, CBP's former "suicidolgist" and behavior analyst, told the outlet that agents on the front line are witnesses to more of life's grim realities than the average citizen.

Germany has halted future aid to Ukraine amid Berlin’s budget struggles, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reports. According to the FAZ report, all future requests from the Ministry of Defence for Ukraine aid will not be approved by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as his leftist government seeks to cut costs to address the 12 billion euro budget shortfall. The paper said, however, that most of the money and physical aid already allocated to be sent to Ukraine will continue to be sent. This year, some 8 billion euros have been earmarked for Kyiv, while next year an additional 4 billion...

Vladimir Putin is feeling the stress from Russia's invasion of Ukraine - as he is seen wringing his hands in a meeting with his top officials after Volodymyr Zelenskyy's troops bit back and made a counter-incursion into the country. The dictator, 71, was in a security council session on the crisis he faces due to Ukraine's dramatic invasion of the border areas of Kursk region. His very public hand-wringing and fidgeting came as he was told earlier this week about how Russia had lost territory to Kyiv troops and - at the time - more than two dozen settlements, a...

Roche and Viola (Dicastery for Divine Worship) Forbid Latin Mass in Helsinki Cathedral (Finland) - celebrated (for the moment) in another Church Finland. A land lost by the Church to Lutheranism.In that beautiful and peaceful land, those who are Catholic are a tiny minority, but very conscious of their rights and filled with conviction regarding their Faith. Some of them are, like so many of us, attached to the Traditional Latin Mass -- which was, of course, the Mass of Finland before the Reformation.One would think the Vatican would be happy to have such faithful Catholics in a land of...

Ousted NY Rep. Jamaal Bowman now begging for cash to pay off campaign debts (fire alarm commie) [08/17/2024]'Squad' member Rep. Jamaal Bowman gushes over Harris-Walz ticket: 'Real freedom [08/07/2024]BREAKING: Far-Left Squad Member Cori Bush Loses By Landslide in Missouri Primary [08/06/2024]'Squad' Members Face Lawsuit Over 'Inciting' Columbia (University) Riots [08/04/2024]AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar face class action lawsuit for Columbia encampment support [08/04/2024]JD Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio. He then changed his name to James David Bowman. He then changed his name to James David Hamel. [07/19/2024]First Squad member Jamaal Bowman ousted from Congress despite AOC's...

[Catholic Caucus] Potholes on the road to Synod 2024 The ecclesiastical propaganda machine created for last October’s Synod on Synodality for a Synodal Church is still grinding away, and it’s getting both tiresome and worrisome.As for tiresome: Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the General Rapporteur of Synods 2023 and 2024, informed us in a June 14 “news” release from the Vatican’s Synod office that “the Holy People of God has been set in motion for mission thanks to the synodal experience.” Well, no, Your Eminence, that’s not quite right.God’s holy people were set in motion for mission by the Lord Jesus...

Media sources claim that Germany has suspended new military aid to Ukraine due to budget constraints. While existing commitments will continue, future support remains uncertain as Germany considers using frozen Russian assets under a G7 plan, as per FAS.

Officials at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (JBSA) said its security officers returned fire on multiple active shooters who fired upon the main gate at the JBSA Chapman Training Annex early Saturday. The incident occurred Saturday morning around 4:30 am when at least once suspect in a sedan fired at security officers. . San Antonio police were also on the scene, according to local news outlet KSAT 12. Authorities did not say if anyone was hurt or how many individuals were involved in the exchange of gunfire. Officials did indicate that the shooters were not known to have any military connections.

Banker's wife Zamira Hajiyeva spent £16m shopping at Harrods over a decade Husband Jahangir was chair of the International Bank of Azerbaijan's board He is serving 16 years in Baku for fraud, abuse of office and embezzlement The wife of a jailed 'McMafia' banker has agreed to give up a golf club in Ascot and a £14million Knightsbridge mansion following an investigation into fraud and embezzlement. Zamira Hajiyeva spent £16million shopping at Harrods in a decade, and the Supreme Court upheld two unexplained wealth orders against her. Known as 'McMafia orders' – after the BBC gangland drama – the seizures...

They were like gods. John L. Sullivan. Jack Dempsey. Joe Louis. Rocky Marciano. Muhammad Ali. Joe Frazier. George Foreman. Larry Holmes. Mike Tyson. Evander Holyfield. There was a time when the heavyweight champion was the most famous man on the planet. They were bigger than kings and more instantly recognizable than presidents. At the peak of his fame, Muhammad Ali could’ve traveled to the farthest corners of the world — some remote hut in the middle of nowhere — and somehow, every villager would know his name: “Ali boma ye!” Today? Do you even know who the heavyweight boxing champion...

First came the guns — the Mausers from Germany, the Carcanos from Italy — and then came the moral pretexts. These days, the American right is forever touting firearms as matters of principle or heralding them as hallmarks of a certain sort of rugged identity. But guns, before fetishists succeeded in converting them into symbols, were simply commodities, as unglamorous as washing machines. In his crisply written and incisive new book, “,” historian Andrew C. McKevitt chronicles the transformation of guns from tangible weapons to ideological ammunition. Sharp, fascinating, devastating, exhaustively researched and often wryly funny, this indispensable book —...

Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the social media platform X would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” from the Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X claims Moraes secretly threatened one of its legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content from its platform. Brazil’s supreme court, where Moraes has a seat, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. TheX service remains available to the people of Brazil, the billionaire Elon Musk’s platform said on Saturday....