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America First Legal obtained new photos of Joe Biden meeting with Hunter’s Chinese business associates and introducing Hunter to China’s Xi Jinping. AFL obtained the photos through their September 2022 lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA.) “These photos shed light on the connections between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter and his Chinese business associates, and Chinese government officials, including President Xi Jinping,” AFL said. NARA was supposed to release the photos on October 23, 2024 – BEFORE the 2024 election but they dragged it out to cover up Joe Biden’s corruption.

I am a follower of Jesus, a father, and also a Scot. I don’t claim to know Northern Ireland like most of the contributors on this blog, but I’ll bring what I can. What does following Jesus bring to the discussion of valuing mothers and their unborn children in Northern Ireland today? Let me tell you a story. One of the New Testament authors was a doctor. His name was Luke. It is no shock to discover then that he showed great interest in finding out many details of the pregnancy of Jesus’ mother Mary to record them in his...

Star Trek: Deleted Scene - "The City On The Edge Of Forever" - "Kirk & Edith Have Fallen In Love." In this deleted scene from Star Trek (The Original Series - TOS), Sister Edith Keeler (Joan Collins) almost falls down the stairs by her apartment, when Captain Kirk catches her, and she breaks her heel, but this time, she continues to speak romantically to her young man, James T. Kirk (William Shatner), and she says to him how she has fallen in love with him. The two passionately kiss, as they talk about 'forever', and Kirk cryptically says if she...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released its final 17,000-page staff report detailing the Select Subcommittee's findings about the Biden-Harris Administration's weaponized federal government.

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Thursday that incoming border czar Tom Homan is starting with Democratic Chicago to deport illegal immigrants in order to set a precedent for other cities threatening to block his efforts. Since President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Homan as border czar, the former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director has warned Democratic mayors to step aside as some have threatened to refuse cooperation with ICE on mass deportations. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson compared Homan’s focus on Chicago to Voltaire’s reference to British Admiral John Byng’s death, using it as...

Democrats on social media called for President Joe Biden to deport Elon Musk one month before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration as the billionaire’s influence over the incoming administration became a point of attack.Despite Biden’s apparent senility for the past four years, reaffirmed Thursday by a bombshell Wall Street Journal report, leftist pundits have attempted to drive a wedge between Trump and Musk with warnings of usurpation.CNN’s Scott Jennings slammed panelists Sunday for feigning concern over the “unelected” Musk having Trump’s ear, saying, “Unelected people have been running the government for the last four years.”CNN’s Scott Jennings slams media for feigning...

Racism is the intentional mistreatment of someone on the basis of their race – at least in the normal world. But in academia, racism is anything producing disparities, according to Professor Ibram Kendi.What follows is a long list of people, places, actions, and other things declared racist this year by higher ed, though a few came from K-12.If something needs “anti-racist” action or “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” it follows it must be racist, or else it would not need correction.(A full list of articles can be found here).Academic disciplines:ChemistryClassicsEvolutionary biologyEngineeringImmunologyMathSTEM in generalTwenty different departments at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteActions:Accusing a black...

Two Japanese automakers are merging and planing to create the third-largest auto manufacturer in the world. It’s a move that hopes to rejuvenate the Japanese auto industry. “Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to work toward a merger that would form the world’s third-largest automaker by sales, as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels,” the Associated Press reports. “The two companies said they had signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday and that smaller Nissan alliance member Mitsubishi Motors Corp. also had agreed to join the talks on integrating their businesses.” The...

Pope Francis has appointed a new bishop to a Texas-based diocese who will replace a theologically conservative critic of the pontiff who was removed from office last year. The Catholic Diocese of Tyler announced last Friday that Francis appointed the Most Rev. Gregory Kelly, auxiliary bishop of Dallas, to lead the regional body. Kelly will fill the vacancy left after Francis removed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, the former head of the diocese who had criticized the pontiff for some of his policies on LGBT issues and overall doctrine. “I am grateful to the Holy Father for this surprising pre-Christmas gift,...

A gay Georgia couple convicted of sickeningly sexually abuse their two adopted sons will spend the rest of the lives behind bars. William and Zachary Zulock, 34 and 36, were each sentenced last week to 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole, the Walton County District Attorney’s office announced. “These two Defendants truly created a house of horrors and put their extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else,” said District Attorney Randy McGinley, according to WSB-TV. “However, the depth of the Defendants’ depravity, which is as deep as it gets, is not greater than the resolve of...

Justin Trudeau’s career is the stuff of 21st-century political drama, with an arc that has taken him from glamorous liberal standard-bearer to the butt of jokes by US president-elect Donald Trump and his acolytes. Trudeau burst on to the international scene in 2015, a newly elected young leader of Canada whose father had also once been a popular prime minister. And he spent the next decade building a brand around being a feminist, an environmentalist, a refugee and indigenous rights advocate, pursuing the same message of change and hope as Barack Obama. While he drew fawning reviews in the news...

First, President-elect Donald Trump tweaked Canada’s far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about becoming governor of the 51st state of the United States of America. Then he said that the Panama Canal should once again come under American control. Make that the 52nd state. And now, are you ready for a 53rd state? On Sunday, Trump renewed a call he made during his first term: that the United States should buy Greenland from Denmark. Could the man possibly be serious? Maybe not. The left’s propaganda arm, also known as the mainstream media, loves to portray Trump and his supporters as angry,...

[23 Dec. 1783]Mr. PRESIDENT The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place; I have now the honor of offering my sincere Congratulations to Congress and of presenting myself before them to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the Service of my Country. Happy in the confirmation of our Independence and Sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable Nation, I resign with satisfaction the Appointment I accepted with diffidence. A diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous...

[Catholic Caucus] What would the pre-Vatican II popes tell us if they were alive today?If we were able to go back in time and ask the pre-Vatican II popes what would happen if subsequent generations ignored their warnings by embracing the errors they had condemned, they would surely tell us that such folly would bring about widespread calamity and apostasy.Pope Leo XII began his 1826 encyclical on secret societies, Quo Graviora, with an image of how vigilant the Successors of Peter must be in protecting the Church against “the sects threatening the complete ruin of the Church”: Blessed Peter, Prince...

The U.S. Census Bureau will now count refugees and border releases in its population estimates, a move that will affect congressional apportionment forecasts and demographic data. In a blog post Thursday announcing the change, the bureau noted, “a net of 2.8 million people migrated to the United States between 2023 and 2024. This is significantly higher than our previous estimates.”The data offers a glimpse of how congressional apportionment maps could change by 2030. It also shows how, as U.S. citizens flee states with garbage leftist policies, the inclusion of noncitizens in census data allows those states to keep congressional seats...

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 I am increasingly worried Biden is going to blanket pardon every single illegal alien in the country before he leaves office. 10:20 AM · Dec 23, 2024

CNN — Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday afternoon to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC, where he is undergoing testing and observation after developing a fever, his spokesman told CNN. “The president is fine,” Angel Urena, deputy chief of staff to Clinton, told CNN in an interview, adding the former president is hopeful to be home by Christmas. “He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving.”

Bad body odor could be in your DNA, dermatologists revealed. While nearly everyone sweats, it turns out your genes could determine how much you perspire and how smelly you get. Heather Kornmehl, a Texas-based dermatologist, informed her 111,000 TikTok followers that whether you get smelly as the day progresses or during a strenuous workout may be out of your control. Some people are more likely to have a foul odor after a hard workout or a long day than others due to variations in the ABCC11 gene, which is responsible for producing underarm body odor.

As if his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and refusal ever to acknowledge responsibility weren’t bad enough, now we learn that Joe Biden forced grieving military families to wait for hours on the tarmac of Dover Air Force Base while he took a nap on Air Force One. We already knew that he had continually checked his watch and talked about himself when he met the relatives of 13 military members killed by a suicide bomber during the chaotic evacuation from Kabul in August 2021. But this new report adds an extra layer of callousness to the story. Biden has long...

Back surgeries are some of the most common operations in Florida, but also the most risky and often unnecessary. New research proves why anyone suffering from back pain should approach surgery cautiously and choose a surgeon selectively. Classic back surgery has one of the highest failure rates of any operation (36%), and in a newly released analysis of Medicare data, Florida ranks the highest in the country for the number of low-value and unnecessary back and spine surgeries performed on seniors. Spine surgeons say too many Florida doctors are operating without expertise and outcomes are predictably poor, leaving patients in...