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Chuck is a very experienced war correspondent, he's currently in Amman, Jordan. Reporting that Jordan is helping shoot down at least 300 missiles launched from Iran so far.

Iranian media claims that the missile attack destroyed 20 Israeli fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets and a “large number” of Israeli tanks in the Gaza Strip

Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH Even though there's a 911 recording of #KShawnJimerson confessing to the murder of #MichaelGray, he was released after he was arrested. Why didn't they give him his right to a "speedy" trial, and have him executed within 30 days? https://yahoo.com/news/man-killed-renton-stabbing-suspect-041938762.html #Renton #Seattle

Day #25 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the course of several months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so this will probably be done by early November. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity...

The Biden administration expanded its sanctions on Israelis on Tuesday, even as Israel faced attacks from Hezbollah and Iran, listing new sanctions against “Hilltop Youth,” an organization that does not actually exist. As Breitbart News has reported, the Biden administration has sanctioned a broad range of Israelis and Israeli organizations on the political right, at the behest of left-wing anti-Israel organizations, since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. These sanctions have targeted people who have not been accused of of any crimes; they have also often targeted what would be, in the United States, constitutionally protected protest or political...

Former President Donald Trump is responding to Iran's attack on Israel Tuesday after the regime launched hundreds of ballistic missiles into the country. Here is his statement in full: "The World is on fire and spiraling out of control. We have no leadership, no one running the Country. We have a non-existent President in Joe Biden, and a completely absent Vice President, Kamala Harris, who is too busy fundraising in San Francisco, a City which she and Gavin Newscum totally destroyed, and staging fake photo ops. No one is in charge and it’s not even clear who is more confused:...

This is another installment of things we have uncovered about our little town's managing elites. THEY do not have the people of this town's best interests at heart. Just another way people in the know in our local government can make money. We are only scratching the surface.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Tuesday night local time that it would respond to the Iranian missile attack “in the place and in the time that we determine.” IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari addressed the nation in the immediate aftermath of an Iranian attack, the second since April. Iran reportedly fired 400 missiles, almost all of which were intercepted, with just a few missiles falling in Israel. Israelis across the entire country had been ordered into bomb shelters; shortly after Hagari’s briefing, the Home Front Command said that people could leave their shelters. Hagari said that there had...

Some right-leaning voters who oppose Donald Trump are thinking of voting neither for him nor Kamala Harris. I understand how they feel. In 2016, I published an article urging Never Trump conservatives to consider casting their ballot for a third-party candidate. In the election that year, I did just that. regret writing that column. I regret casting that vote. To people like me, Trump represented a repudiation of everything that Ronald Reagan stood for. But as a conservative and former GOP staffer who had never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, I harbored reservations about Hillary Clinton. Voting for neither...

Disclaimer: I am amazed to see the tremendous support from Christians all over the world for us, the Israeli people, and the Zionist endeavor. I find, however, certain points that I believe need to be addressed. We may read a controversial piece in the news and automatically side with Israel, but keep in mind that even our elected policymakers fall short. For example, we tend not to conflate the fact that Tel-Aviv, the symbol of Zionist financial success and achievement, is also the gay capital of the world, but we should. Abortions are also legal in Israel, government subsidized, easily...

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor on Friday speculated that a home in the city’s upscale Davis Islands neighborhood likely burned down because an electric vehicle inside a garage caught fire. "Water and ion batteries do not mix. They literally explode. So if that was the case of this particular fire, I saw that home from the helicopter and there’s one wall left," she said. "It’s very, very tragic. Fortunately nobody was hurt."

Eight people have been killed after armed men opened fire on the streets of Tel Aviv. At least seven others were wounded in the terror on Tuesday night - at the same time that Iran launched a barrage of hundreds of missiles on the Israeli city. Magen David Adom - Israel's national emergency services - announced that the 'terrorist' incident in Jaffa involved multiple casualties.

According to Bank of America, gold has overtaken the euro to become the world’s second-largest central bank reserve asset. With the central bank gold buying spree over the last several years, along with the rapid rise in price in 2024, the yellow metal now makes up about 16 percent of total reserve assets, just ahead of the euro. The dollar’s share of reserves has dropped to 58 percent. There appears to be a movement to replace fiat currencies, including the dollar, with gold, especially in emerging market countries in the East. Central banks globally added a net 483 tons of...

Police say a man claimed to have a bomb outside a rally for former President Donald Trump in metro Grand Rapids and that he insisted it was the “real deal” — though it was not. As he appeared in a Grandville courtroom via video linkup from a jail cell Monday afternoon, Steven William Nauta, 65, of Sand Lake, acknowledged he could hear the judge and that he understood the charges against him and his rights. He held his head down for the majority of his arraignment. At one point, he made profane hand gestures, but apologized when the judge warned...

such sites. (Israel Defense Forces) The Israel Defense Forces revealed Tuesday that even before it officially launched ground operations in southern Lebanon earlier in the day, its troops had conducted dozens of secret cross-border raids throughout the current war, destroying numerous Hezbollah positions, tunnels and sites. The army also disclosed that days after Hamas’s October 7 mass onslaught in southern Israel, thousands of terrorists had been positioned near the Lebanon border in a plan to storm the Galilee and unleash similar carnage there. The IDF briefed reporters on the new information before IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari held a...

Shocking video at link.

UPDATE: Per the Daily Mail, the missile strike has begun. The first missiles were fired around 12:30 pm ET. Here is video footage from the attack: MORE THAN 100 MISSILES FROM IRAN FIRED INTO ISRAEL pic.twitter.com/1j6IVM1sPx — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 1, 2024 World War III might be about to blow up in the Middle East in a matter of hours thanks to the brutal Iranian regime, and U.S. citizens in Israel could be caught in the crossfire. The New York Post reported this morning that the Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to “imminently” fire ballistic missiles at Israel in...

VIDEOYup! Donald Trump ruined James Carville as revealed in these clips showing that the Ragin' Cajun has most definitely gone off the deep end. At this point, Carville's depravity has gone way beyond the political and into the clinical. And perhaps he is beyond the reach of mere psychiatric help. Perhaps it is time to call upon the exorcists to drive out the demons in Carville's soul that have driven him Just Plain... NUTS!

No, this headline is not a prediction that Harris is going to win the election. I still firmly believe that Trump is going to win, barring some unforeseen event to derail what I am calling the “deep metaphysics” of this election, or the manifest destiny of Trump. Here is the point: America does not have a president right now. Biden’s senility is galloping ahead. It is grotesque irresponsibility for him to continue in office another day. Vice President Harris is derelict in her duty not to invoke the 25th Amendment. The speculation behind this headline is that if Harris loses...

[Catholic Caucus] Homeschoolers vs. GoliathIt is apparent that there is real division in the Church; banning the homeschoolers from church property has revealed that division far more than allowing them to use the space ever could have.What is interesting about the recent statement in the San Diego diocese banning homeschoolers from using parish facilities is that it opens with, “parents are the first teachers of their children,” yet it concludes with, “homeschooling is not inherently a ministry of the parish.” If parents are the first teachers of their children, shouldn’t that all-important and sacred duty be a ministry of the...