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Many of us want to believe that, in the face of severe adversity and risk, we would try to prove worthy of a memorable legacy. Indeed, should circumstances ever turn sour, we hope to fancy ourselves as brave, courageous, and willing to stand firm no matter the cost. And yet, for the vast majority of those who have not been severely challenged in such ways, how could we know for sure the way we would react? This is why examples of people who did stand firm in the midst of trial are not just important, but necessary.

A member of Nancy Pelosi’s family, Alexis Pelosi, could lose her high-paying job at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) after Elon Musk, who will be responsible for eliminating government waste under the incoming Trump administration, mocked her position on X. Alexis, who is married to the former speaker’s nephew, reportedly makes $181,648.00 annually as a climate advisor. After all, all great housing and urban development projects need a climate advisor! To complicate the family drama, Alexis’ father-in-law was once married to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s aunt. Musk, who will lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency...

In a 1977 release, the Talking Heads included a lyric in one of their songs that somehow foresaw the approach to be employed by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP): “You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything.” In the view of many observers, the daily double-talk from the White House podium by KJP came on like a come-on from a carnival barker: instead of presenting straightforward, unvarnished truths from the briefing room lectern, listeners were subjected to a daily diet of kaleidoscope logic. The main reason her versions of events worked for as long as they did...

One Key Undecided Race in California -- (vanity) There's an election every 4 months here, a Freepathon. Have you voted with your wallet this quarter? Let's turn the bar green TODAY, can you drop a discretionary -- or sacrificial -- $50 or $100 right now? By the grace of GOD, you now know this Country is going to be getting healthier--we look forward to stability and lower prices with Trump in office. Please join me in generosity, let's bless Jim with a December not having to plead for funds. Whatever you've given, how about doubling it? Jim's health does not...

Leftist talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has been left distraught after her mansion in the Cotswolds, UK, was flooded just weeks after feeling the United States following President-elect Donald Trump‘s election victory. Degeneres and her wife, fellow actress Portia de Rossi, purchased the multi-million-pound property in the wealthy rural community in a bid to escape Trump’s incoming presidency.

The Talk Shows December 1st 2024 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: National security adviser Jake Sullivan; Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas); Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.); American historian and University of Texas Professor H.W. Brands; Jill Schlesinger, Business Analyst for CBS News. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Special edition on the “State of A.I.”: Sen. Mark Warner (Deep State-Va.); Chief executive officer of OpenAI Sam Altman; former Bush Admin Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Panel: Richard Fowler and Katie Pavlich. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker:...

Hall of Fame college basketball coach Lou Carnesecca, who won more than 500 games and led St. John's to three Big East titles and a 1985 Final Four appearance, died Saturday at the age of 99. The university said it was notified by a family member that Carnesecca died in a hospital surrounded by his family, just a handful of weeks shy of his 100th birthday. It said Carnesecca "endeared himself to generations of New Yorkers with his wit and warmth." Carnesecca was a treasured figure in New York sports in his day, affection for "Looie" never wavering in a...

The Democrat party has become nothing but a religious cult intent on punishing Americans for their heretical transgressions. Right now Democrats are publicly debating the reasons for their electoral implosion. I use the word “debating” rather loosely, since being a leftist requires a great deal of self-censorship. Democrats can discuss fellow cult members’ obsession with chemically castrating children only so much before the great priests of the party denounce them as “transphobic.” Only a few morsels of truth about the mass invasion of foreign nationals can be articulated out loud before a faithful adherent of the open borders liturgy rises...

“Although [Christ] existed in the form of God, [He] did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:6-8). Christ is the perfect example of humility. In his book Miracles, English scholar C.S. Lewis used this analogy to describe the incarnation of Christ: One may think of a diver, first reducing himself to nakedness, then glancing...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha is urging NATO leaders to invite Ukraine to join the Western military alliance during a meeting in Brussels next week, according to a letter sent to alliance leaders—reflecting the country's frenzied push to gain membership in the alliance in the final days of Biden's presidency. The letter, first reviewed by Reuters, comes as Ukraine has re-upped its request for NATO membership to help put an end to Russia's war, including a recent uptick in attacks on its energy infrastructure. It also comes as the Biden administration has granted Ukraine new permissions to fight back against...

You have undoubtedly heard about cases where intolerant administrators target professors who fail one of the ideological litmus tests that increasingly characterize higher education. Such instances have become commonplace, perhaps even banal. But when they come for you, it does not feel mundane, and you’ll want to understand the structural mechanisms such administrators abuse to achieve their devious ends. As a survivor of just such a campaign, at California’s Bakersfield College, I am now free to write about the ordeal and suggest reforms and remedies to help address the reign of terror in higher education. In December 2022, the Kern...

---SNIP--- Sharing a post on X, LeFevre stated, "The city of New York pays $220 million to rent the entire Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan to house illegal migrants. The hotel is owned by the government of Pakistan, and the deal was part of a $1.1 billion IMF bailout package to help Pakistan avoid defaulting on their international debt. Prior to this sweetheart deal, the hotel had been closed since 2020, having long-struggled with occupancy and in dire need of renovation."In 2023, Pakistan government leased out Roosevelt Hotel, a property of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to the New York City Administration...

Criminal law should be clear so that those covered by it can understand what is permitted and what is prohibited. It’s not the place for creative interpretations by the judiciary or partisan prosecutors. Jack Smith has now dropped his cases against president-elect Donald Trump on the grounds that a president cannot be criminally prosecuted, but there is much more that made these prosecutions untenable: They were never grounded in any fair reading of the law that Smith relied upon. The two cases involved Trump’s handling of classified material and his purported efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election....

China is claiming to have unearthed the largest gold deposit in the world — estimated to be worth more than $80 billion. More than 1,000 tons of gold reserves and ore veins were allegedly discovered by geologists from the Hunan Provincial Geological Institute some 12 miles beneath the surface in China’s Pingjiang County, according to China state media. The gold find is believed to be a whopping $83 billion. ... The record-breaking discovery was made within the Wangu goldfield, Xinhua reported. The Hunan Provincial Geological Institute said the find was “significant in helping safeguard the country’s resource security.” China is...

fter getting diagnosed with a degenerative disease, high school principal Lynne Chesley signed a legal document stating she didn’t want her life to be extended by artificial means. She ended up on a feeding tube anyway for more than three years while family members fought over her fate. Her wishes were honored after a ruling this year by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and Chesley died in August. Such a drawn-out case shows the stakes for getting the details right on a living will, including who is designated to fulfill the person’s wishes and how the information is shared with family...

The weather outside will soon be frightful. Upstate New York could be facing up to 6 feet of “extreme” snow as the city braces for the coldest temperatures yet this season. Every morning is going to be essentially below freezing for the next, at least 10 days, maybe two weeks,” Fox Weather meteorologist Cody Braud told The Post Saturday. “And our afternoon highs are going to be in the low to mid-40s every day as well for this entire week. “Looking long term to the start of next weekend, we may not even get out of the 30s,” ... The...

Hal Lindsey, the TV host, evangelist, and author of the infamous book The Late Great Planet Earth, passed away on November 25, 2024, at the age of 95. Born in Houston in 1929, Lindsey became a household name after releasing The Late Great Planet Earth in 1970, which sold more than 36 million copies and became the most read book of the decade by Christians and non-Christians alike, even having a film about it narrated by Orson Welles. Here, he popularized dispensational premillennialism with a doomsday bent, tying modern events to biblical ancient prophecy and scaring the hell out of...

White House National Security Council spokesperson says US had nothing to do with Hayat Tahir Al Shams (HTS) offensive; Russia vows support for Damascus regime. News agencies|12.1.24 The United States on Saturday said Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad lost control of Aleppo because of his reliance on Russia and Iran. Syria's "reliance on Russia and Iran," along with its refusal to move forward with a 2015 peace process outlined by the UN Security Council, "created the conditions now unfolding," National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett said in a statement. "At the same time, the United States has nothing to do with...

A Planned Parenthood representative has confirmed claims they saw appointments for vasectomies increase by 1200% the day after the election, revealing that vast increases in other service requests have also occurred as progressives irrationally scrambled following a post-Trump victory. Snopes, the left-leaning fact-checking group, responded to allegations by Live Action’s Lila Rose that vasectomy appointments increased by 1200%, confirming her statistics. Snopes spoke to Danika Severino Wynn, Planned Parenthood’s vice president of care and access, who offered: Americans may be rightfully feeling fearful and worried about the prospect of further restrictions on our freedom to control our bodies. Waking up...

The British parliament backed a bill Friday that would legalize assisted suicide. Following hours of debate, the United Kingdom’s House of Commons voted 330 to 275 in favor of a law that allows citizens with less than six months to live to end their own lives, according to several reports. The “Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)” bill must still pass through parliamentary committees and the UK’s House of Lords to become law, according to CNN. Kim Leadbeater, the lawmaker who introduced the bill, expects this to take an additional six months, according to Reuters. Oxford ethicist Dr. Calum Miller...