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Straightforward 13 minutes of asking Japanese Christians why they became Christians. It’s fascinating to hear. Japan has a very low percentage of Christians. Their answers are simple and direct. No embellishment or sensationalism yet reflect the working of The Holy Spirit. Worth watching..

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Tuesday that Hezbollah’s intended replacement of former leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed last month, has been eliminated as well. “Today, Hezbollah is weaker than it has been for many, many years,” Netanyahu said in a message tailored directly to the “people of Lebanon.” “We’ve degraded Hezbollah’s capabilities, we took out thousands of terrorists, including [former Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah himself, and Nasrallah’s replacement, and the replacement of his replacement.” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Hashem Safieddine, a relative of Nasrallah who was about to officially replace him, likely died in...

I hike 13 miles a day for my profession. I encounter every kind of human known to existence. Interaction with people is a fact of reality, every minute of every day. I am thinking about wearing a body cam. My best girl says I could be you tube famous based on some of the stories I relate to her.

With his whirling, twisting delivery -- strikingly unique from any other pitcher in history -- Luis Tiant turned his performances into theater. During the peak of his career in the 1970s, you didn’t need a radio or television to know that Tiant was pitching at Fenway Park. Throughout the packed houses he pitched in front of, cries of “Looie, Looie, Looie!” echoed around Kenmore Square and other parts of Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. The lovably charismatic El Tiante -- as he came to be known throughout his memorable career -- died on Tuesday at the age of 83. “Luis had...

Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann called for Tesla mogul Elon Musk to be deported, suggesting President Biden should use presidential immunity to get the multi-billionaire business magnate "the ***** out of our country." Olbermann, a staunch critic of former President Trump, is irked that Musk has criticized FEMA and supported the Republican presidential nominee on X, where he boasts over 200 million followers. "It is now time to cancel all of Elon Musk’s government contracts. Tesla, SpaceX, whatever other crap he’s selling us," Olbermann said on a video posted to social media intended to promote his podcast. While Olbermann doesn’t...

SEATTLE, WA — Tragedy struck the city of Seattle today as Minnesota Governor Tim Walz quickly walked by a polygraph machine near a campaign event and caused it to explode. "I'm such a knucklehead sometimes, but I am definitely not a Chinese asset," Walz said as he walked by a lie detector, causing it to blow up due to sheer proximity. The explosion reportedly decimated a 3-block section of the downtown area, causing significant traffic delays on State Route 520 and Interstate 5. The Seattle Police Department advised the public to shelter in place as rescue workers secured the area....

It is right to stop today and remember the lives lost a year ago on October 7th, 2023 in Israel. More than 1,100 Israelis were murdered that day. Unarmed men, women, and children. Why? Because they are Jews. And because they are citizens of a free, democratic, and stunningly successful Israel. Shockingly almost a hundred innocent October 7th victims are still being held hostage by the forces of Hamas, a self-avowed branch of the Muslim Brotherhood committed to the destruction of the Jewish state. How did it happen? Why did it happen? These questions remind me of the naïve Americans...

A ballot measure that would establish a right to abortion in the Florida Constitution is not on track to pass in November, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College.A plurality of voters expressed support for the measure — significantly more than those who said they would vote “no” — and a large percentage of voters were undecided. But Florida requires 60 percent of voters to approve any ballot amendment, an unusually high threshold, and the poll found support for the measure falling well short of that.Conducted between Sept. 29 and Oct. 6, the poll found...

Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff is accused of being a foul-mouthed “*&*&*&*” and “misogynist” who hired a “trophy secretary” because she was “pretty” and “retaliated against women who didn’t flirt back.” The same Daily Mail that broke the dual stories of Emhoff cheating on his first wife by knocking up his children’s nanny (which Emhoff has admitted to) and knocking around an old girlfriend for flirting with a parking attendant (which Emhoff has denied), has spoken to Emhoff’s former colleagues at his former law firm Venable. These anonymous former colleagues allege that Emhoff’s behavior towards female colleagues was “inappropriate” and...

The Georgia Supreme Court today issued an order reinstating the heartbeat law that saves babies from abortions. That followed a judge’s ruling declaring the state’s heartbeat law unconstitutional. The law protect unborn babies who have a detectable heartbeat. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney issued a decision declaring Georgia’s 2019 Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act or LIFE Act unconstitutional. McBurney’s decision comes after a 2023 Georgia Supreme Court decision that allowed Georgia’s heartbeat law to stand. Today the high court put McBurney’s ruling on hold at the request of Republican state Attorney General Chris Carr, whose office is...

Donald Trump appears to be gaining momentum in Pennsylvania with his numbers among independent, senior, and African American voters increasing or holding steady. It appears that Harris's support from African American males is actually deteriorating a bit. This race continues to remain very close with turnout and enthusiasm remaining important. The Democrats enjoy a slight advantage with regard to enthusiasm at this point, although the gap has narrowed. Evidence of the momentum shift is provided by the narrowing in the U.S. Senate contest where Bob Casey, Jr. now leads David McCormick by just two points.

A study on earthen pots from more than 4,000 years ago sheds new light on dietary habits and cooking techniques during the Harappan era. It was conducted by a team of researchers... They examined residues discovered in black and red pottery from Surkotada, a Harappan site in Gujarat's Kutch district that was occupied for approximately 400 years...The analysis of lipid residues (fatty compounds) indicated that during the early stages of the settlement, the inhabitants most probably employed both boiling and frying techniques to prepare their food... the team discovered skeletal remains outside the fortified region of the Harappan-era settlement. The...

Chances are you’ve never heard of Tina Peters. It’s worth taking a moment to get to know her.Peters used to be the elections chief in Mesa County, Colo., a slice of rugged beauty perched on the state’s Western Slope. After the 2020 election, Peters fell in with the tinfoil-hat crowd promoting the phony claim the presidential race was stolen from Donald Trump. In furtherance of that fallacy, Peters allowed an unauthorized person to access voting equipment as part of a crackpot scheme to gather “proof” that Mesa County’s voting machines were rigged.They weren’t.But Peters’ conniving made her a celebrity in...

The Democrats have become the Party of censorship, war, and division, and now former Democrat Author M.C. Armstrong agrees. Armstrong, famous for his s acclaimed memoir The Mysteries of Haditha, which was nominated for “Best Memoir” at the 2021 American Book Festival, confirmed he is now voting for Donald Trump in the upcoming election.

It is a testament to the courage and fortitude of Donald Trump and his supporters that, on Saturday, tens of thousands returned to the scene of the first assassination attempt on the former president at Butler, Pa., to hear him speak.With questions still unanswered about why he was ever placed in harm’s way on July 13, Trump stood in the same place and spoke at the same time as he did when an assassin’s bullet came within a hair’s breadth of killing him on live television, but miraculously only clipped the top of his ear. (snip) Next, Meyn was questioned...

Donald Trump has had as many as seven private phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office and secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines during the height of the pandemic, Bob Woodward reported in his new book “War.”In the famed Watergate reporter’s latest book, Woodward reports that Trump asked an aide to leave his office at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, so that the former president could have a private call with Putin in early 2024. The aide, whom Woodward doesn’t name, said there have been multiple calls between Trump and Putin since Trump left office, perhaps as many...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has President Joe Biden’s personal phone number, the president told reporters Tuesday as Hurricane Milton approaches Florida’s west coast. Biden’s statement undercut Vice President Kamala Harris’s apparent attempt to appear presidential to voters. On Tuesday, an unnamed aide to DeSantis told the establishment media that the governor refused to take a call from Harris about the storm, allegedly because the governor believed the vice president was only calling for political reasons. However, DeSantis denied Harris had called him at all. NBC News reported De Santis’s denial. “I didn’t know that she had called. I’m not...

As we previously reported, Kamala Harris did an interview with Bill Whitaker on "60 Minutes' and it was a complete disaster. During the interview, Kamala Harris struggled when asked substantive questions. She notably avoided directly calling Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu an ally, despite the U.S. providing Israel with billions in military aid. Her vague responses did little to clarify her stance, especially when pressed on Netanyahu’s defiance of U.S. calls for a ceasefire. She was no better on domestic issues, Harris faced scrutiny over her economic plans, which could add $3 trillion to the deficit. Her typical talking points about...

As Pennsylvania voters begin casting perhaps two million-plus mail ballots, Democrats and Republicans are in furious legal combat over a once-overlooked aspect of voting remotely: which ballots are counted, which are rejected as defective and which ones voters are allowed to correct.Simple math explains why. In the 2020 presidential contest, Pennsylvania election officials rejected more than 34,000 mail ballots. In a tight 2024 election in the most coveted swing state, even a fraction of that many rejections could spell the difference between victory and defeat — not just in the presidential race, but also in any number of others.What’s true...

Nassau County police shared video of a troubling incident that's left a Long Island neighborhood unsettled. A Jewish family was targeted, and the disturbing incident is being investigated as a hate crime. The homeowners awakened at 1:30 a.m. Sunday to a disturbance on their front porch. Surveillance video shows a man exposing himself and urinating all over the front porch, front door and Ring camera, and then shouting antisemitic slurs. The family was so disturbed they rushed the video straight to police. "The reason we released that video is because we don't know who he is. We are going to...