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ROME — Pope Francis called for a global ceasefire this weekend while again decrying Israel’s “cruelty” in dealing with Palestinians in Gaza. “Let us pray for a ceasefire on all war fronts, in Ukraine, the Holy Land, in all the Middle East and the entire world, at Christmas,” the pontiff said in his weekly Angelus address Sunday. “And with sorrow I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty; of the children machine-gunned, the bombing of schools and hospitals… So much cruelty!”

There is no road rage quite like backroad rage. The story of the failed prosecution of Alphonsus O’Connell involved allegations of many of the familiar elements of road rage, and not just by him, but also his alleged victim: honking, tailgating, brake checking, forcing someone off the road, brandishing a firearm. It also had vastly conflicting accounts about what actually happened that call to mind the old joke that anyone driving faster than you is a maniac and anyone slower is an idiot. The fact that it happened on a dirt road in the wild Newfoundland woods with no witnesses...

2,832,470 views Dec 17, 2011 Greg Lake (of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer) performs his 1975 classic "I Believe in Father Christmas" filmed live at St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, in the City of London with Jethro Tull' s Ian Anderson on flute, David Arch on keyboards, Florian Opahle on acoustic guitar and the church choir.

I first wrote this in 2010 and I'm considering making it my annual Christmas post. I republished it in 2017 as a response to a study I read: Study: American Kids Lack Entrepreneurial Spirit. That's like a dagger to the heart to someone who knows a bit of history and understands that the American free market has driven more prosperity and pulled more people out of poverty than any system ever in human history. The loss of American entrepreneurial spirit for the world would be like the sun running out of hydrogen. It won't implode immediately, but for freedom and...

Victoria Coates is a former Deputy National Security Adviser in the first Trump administration. Now she is the Vice President of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation. She has an interesting take on what is not the “Palestinian problem” (with its implied “two-state solution”), but rather, the “Palestinians’ problem,” the problem, that is, of failing to recognize the significance of their repeated defeats. For nobody will tell it to them straight. She does. More of her discussion can be found here: “Victoria Coates: Palestinians lost battle with Israel –...

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 NEW: Anthony Scaramucci issues warning to Elon Musk. “Lay off the gas on politics a little bit because these people could hurt you." "No need for you to get hurt. You're doing so well in your life." Uh, WHAT?

The age of modern jihadism began in 1928 with the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood, itself a reaction to the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924. Eighty years later Osama bin Laden called that event a “catastrophe” and a “humiliation and disgrace,” for it marked the culmination of the infidel West’s domination of Islam, the religion of some of the greatest warriors in history.The purpose of the Muslim Brotherhood was to restore Islam to the global power and dominance of Christendom it had wielded for a millennium; and to return Islam to its divine destiny, which founder Hasan al-Bana...

Teamsters President Sean O'Brien stunned Tucker Carlson when he revealed Kamala Harris told his own union's vice president: 'I'm gonna win, with you or without you.' The often combative union boss declined to endorse Harris or Donald Trump in November. He pointed out that he'd been given a platform at the Republican convention, but none at the Democrat convention. O'Brien pulled many of the Democrat skeletons out of the closet in the interview with Carlson, describing an 'arrogant' Democrat nominee pushing them to step in line. He spoke about a meeting his lieutenant Joan Corey had with Harris in June,...

The journalists and outlets that helped mobilize the hysteria back in 2006 shrug at Crystal Mangum’s belated admission of the obvious: it was all lies. For the legacy media, the recent admission by Crystal Mangum, the accuser in the infamous 2006 Duke lacrosse case, that she had fabricated accusations of rape against three players on the university’s team, was at best a one-day story. While Mangum, a deeply troubled woman serving a long stretch at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women for killing a boyfriend five years after the Duke case, was clearly sincere in her contrition, opining on...

We have the problem because you put ’em here without telling us.”. In the wake of a brutal attack at an Aurora apartment complex that led to the arrest of several alleged Venezuelan gang members. Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman blasted Denver Mayor Mike Johnston over the city’s handling of new immigrants. Coffman said on Friday that Johnston had effectively moved immigrants into Aurora while refusing to give the neighboring city basic information. “I've confronted the mayor about it. He won't tell me how many people he sent over here. He won't tell me what benefits he gave them, what promises...

Police in a Dallas suburb arrested five Venezuelan men illegally in the country believed to be part of a national ATM theft ring. Illegal border crossers from Venezuela with confirmed ties to the violent prison gang Tren de Aragua have been connected to an ATM theft ring in multiple states. The latest arrests occurred in North and South Dakota. One recent arrest was made by West Fargo police of a 25-year-old man outside of a Gate City Bank branch. He was initially pulled over for a broken taillight but was arrested for felony theft after police discovered he was allegedly...

Considered the gold standard for Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ the film version starring Alastair Sim, released in 1951, was the version played every year in our grammar school when I was a boy. Without VHS, Disc or streaming available, the teacher brought in a small black and white TV, after struggling to get it tuned, we waited until our local station aired the show, and sat in class and watched in complete silence.

Jared Polis doesn’t get rural life. It makes as much sense to him as a cowboy hat, and it fits him about as well. Granted, the same could be said of many politicians. Yet, plenty of them at least can don the trappings of country living convincingly enough to work a crowd. You can see them strutting around in snakeskin boots at county fairs, where they shake hands and take selfies with the people who raise the cattle and crops that feed everyone else. Of course, it’s a lot easier to blend in with them if you don’t look down...

'Let’s DRAIN THE SWAMP and make this non us native GO BACK TO WHERE HE CAME FROM...' 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.

Hertz is culling its portfolio of EVs in response to the sharp depreciation affecting some of its most popular models, including the Tesla Model 3. In what appears to be an aggressive effort to offload these vehicles, the rental giant has begun reaching out directly to customers currently renting them, offering an opportunity to purchase the cars outright on the spot. While we haven’t been able to find an announcement from Hertz directly regarding the scheme, a Reddit user recently shared a screenshot of an email they received from Hertz while renting a 2023 Tesla Model 3. In the email,...

A New York man was arrested this month after allegedly causing a car crash last year that killed his niece and three nephews when he slowed down to take photos of the “Welcome to Florida” sign at the state border. Marvin Redondo-Funes, 25, is facing four counts of aggravated manslaughter of a child and driving with a license suspended or revoked causing great bodily injury, the Florida Highway Patrol said in an X post on Wednesday. Marvin Fedondo-Funes' mugshot following his arrest for allegedly causing a fatal car crash that killed his niece and three nephews. Marvin Fedondo-Funes’ mugshot following...

256,045,398 views Oct 3, 2009 #LiveInLondon #LeonardCohen #Hallelujah "Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions. Achieving little initial success, the song found greater popular acclaim through a new version recorded by John Cale in 1991. Cale's version inspired a 1994 recording by Jeff Buckley that in 2004 was ranked number 259 on Rolling Stone's "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Wikipedia

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The Biden-Harris administration has let five University of California campuses off the hook in a settlement with the Department of Education over antisemitism that erupted after the Hamas terror attack in Israel on October 7, 2023. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday on the settlement, which does little beyond requiring self-reporting: The Department of Education found that UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz “appear not to have responded promptly or effectively to notice of alleged national origin discrimination, including harassment” against its students and employees. … As part of the settlement, the universities...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. FRANKLIN, TENN., Thursday, Dec, 22. The rebel retreat from Franklin to Duck River beggars all description. HOOD told his Corps Commanders to get off the best way they could with their commands. FRANK CHEATHAM told his aunt, Miss PAGE, that HOOD was ordered to Nashville against his own wishes, but he blames HOOD for not attacking SCHOFIELD at Spring Hill. HOOD ordered BATE to attack at Spring Hill, and he didn't do it. The rebel army is now beyond Columbia. During the rebel tarry in front of Nashville they captured but two locomotives and...