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Israel didn’t fail on October 7th because it was weak. It failed because it assumed its enemies come from the same moral universe. Dan Schueftan, Israeli academic, political analyst and Middle East security expert, breaks down the real reason Israel was blindsided: “Israelis believed if life in Gaza got better, the attacks would stop. But October 7th happened because life got better. Israelis keep thinking they’re a version of them. They’re not. They’ve been raised for 100 years to believe they have the right to destroy Israel.” This is the video to understand how Israel got here—and what must change....

Military vehicles meant to deter and detect migrants .. EL PASO, Texas – As of this week, eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicles known as Strykers have been deployed to the border for the first time in more than a decade as part of the Pentagon’s support of Customs and Border Protection. ... two are now stationed in the El Paso sector, with more Strykers expected to be deployed to other areas along the border in the next few weeks. One of the Strykers is positioned to give a bird’s-eye view over Juárez, Mexico, a major smuggling corridor known for its high...

Last month, in an interview with Bari Weiss, venture capitalist and longevity researcher Bryan Johnson discussed "how not to die." While Johnson's theories on indefinite life extension are interesting, it was his comments about artificial intelligence that were more striking, "I think the irony is that we told stories of God creating us, and I think the reality is we are creating God ... in the form of superintelligence," he said. "If you ask yourself, 'What have we imagined God to be? What are its characteristics?' We are building God in the form of technology. It will have the same...

Employees with the U.S. Institute of Peace started receiving termination letters effective immediately on Friday evening, five people told POLITICO, a major blow to the embattled organization as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle its operations.

By Dr. John BergsmaThe readings for this upcoming Fourth Sunday of Lent open up to us a "whole new world," a different way of living, a form of life St. Paul calls "a new creation." The Fourth Sunday of Lent is known as "Laetare Sunday," from the Latin Introit of the Mass, "Laetare Jerusalem," "Rejoice, O Jerusalem" (Isaiah 66:10). This mid-point of Lent is traditionally a somewhat festive Sunday, to encourage the faithful to see "the light at the end of the tunnel," as more than half of the fasting and mortification of Lent is behind us. The use of...

A plane burst into a fireball after crashing into a Minnesota home on Saturday, prompting an evacuation. The aircraft fell from the sky in Brooklyn Park around 12:30pm near Noble Parkway on Saturday, according to Fox 9. The home erupted into flames, leaving billows of black smoke rising in the air, causing first responders to evacuate the area. No one was inside the home at the time of the crash, according to Fox 9. The plane was a SOCATA TBM7, a single-engine business aircraft. It departed from Des Moines International Airport and was headed for Minneapolis, according to the outlet....

With protests erupting across the country and reports of vandals damaging cars, the Tesla brand is taking a beating. But one North Texas Tesla owner is fighting back. He has filed a civil lawsuit against the man accused of keying his Model X earlier this month while it was parked at DFW Airport. Citing damage to the car, lost wages, and emotional duress, he is seeking $1 million in damages. The accused, Rafael Hernandez, was arrested by DFW Airport Police over the weekend. Hernandez has been charged with criminal mischief and is expected to make his first court appearance on...

Chadd Ritenbaugh, a 55-year-old man from Doylestown Township, Pennsylvania, has been charged with vandalizing a Tesla SUV parked outside a Planet Fitness gym, allegedly scratching a swastika symbol onto the vehicle. The incident, which took place earlier this week, led to an investigation that ultimately identified the suspect. The alleged vandalism occurred Monday morning when the owner of a Tesla noticed fresh scratch marks on the vehicle upon returning home from her workout. She reviewed footage from her car’s camera system, which showed a man parking his Lexus next to the Tesla before ducking behind it and apparently scratching the...

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh, II, announced today that, in a decision issued on March 25, 2025, Rockland County Court Judge Kevin F. Russo rejected the latest attempt by convicted murderer Amer Zada to have his conviction vacated. The court noted that this motion is the eighth time Zada has sought to reverse or vacate his conviction. In 1980, Zada was convicted of the murder of seventeen-year-old Shirley Smith in a Village of Nyack parking lot. He was also convicted of Attempted Sodomy in the First Degree and Aggravated Sexual Abuse as a result of his attack on...

A specialized U.S. Navy dive team and a group of Polish engineers have joined the recovery operation for the four U.S. soldiers who went missing in Lithuania during a training exercise, officials said Saturday. The new reinforcements will work to recover the armored vehicle M88A2 Hercules, which was found on Wednesday, March 26. The armored vehicle remains submerged under at least 15 feet of water, clay-like mud and silt, U.S. military officials said in a statement on Saturday. "We are going to use every resource available from all our countries to find our missing soldiers," Maj. Gen. Curtis Taylor, 1st...

There is a lot of speculation about the potential for President Trump to remove National Security Advisor Mike Waltz following the SignalGate fiasco. However, I doubt it will come soon. Yes, CTH predicted in January that Waltz would be the first to get fired; but that prediction was due to the easily identified conflict between Waltz’s ideological mindset and his responsibility to execute a President Trump national security policy that is seemingly counter to Waltz’s worldview.

Alright, let’s cut through the Liberal Tape. I’m Rhys Aldous, and if you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening in Britain, you’ll know something’s seriously off. We’ve got this two-tier sentencing mess that’s got people like me — White British, born and bred — feeling like we’re the ones being hung out to dry. And here’s the kicker: we’re not the minority. We’re 80% of this bloody country, yet somehow, we’re the ones getting the short end of the stick. Add to that the way Christianity’s being chipped away at, and you’ve got a recipe for a nation losing its...

The left's pathological hatred of Elon Musk has reached a new level of insanity. The crusade against Musk and Tesla has already turned violent, with dealerships being firebombed and vehicles being vandalized. But now the same people who constantly screech about climate change want to kneecap the most successful electric vehicle manufacturer in history because its CEO doesn't share their political views. In New York, a Democrat lawmaker is actually trying to ban Tesla from selling cars directly to consumers. State Sen. Pat Fahy (D-Albany) isn't even trying to hide her Elon Derangement Syndrome-fueled vendetta. "No matter what we do,...

The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives says Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election is vital because the only way to challenge “gerrymandered” congressional voting maps is “if you have an enlightened Supreme Court” overseeing a legal challenge. Republicans say it’s proof Democrats are planning to redraw maps if liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford wins on April 1. Crawford’s campaign says she’s never commented on congressional redistricting and the GOP is trying to distract from Elon Musk’s support for conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel. During a Democratic National Committee update Monday afternoon, New York House Minority Leader Hakeem...

(The Center Square) – A controversial gun control bill has cleared the Colorado General Assembly and now heads to the governor’s desk to be signed into law. Senate Bill 25-003, when introduced, initially outright banned the sale or purchase of most semi-automatic rifles or shotguns that take detachable magazines and exempted firearms with “permanently fixed” magazines. The bill was later amended to allow purchases if an individual secures a “firearms safety course eligibility card” from their local sheriff department and then completes a qualifying firearm education course. SB 25-003 passed a concurrent vote of 19-15-1 in the upper chamber on...

How do we live the best life possible? Not by pursuing wealth, career, relationships, pleasures, or fame. Our best life is lived when we surrender our will to God’s and pursue Him wholeheartedly. Find out how to do that with Pastor Jack Hibbs on Real Life TV. 26 minutes long

Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to Helene, small, icy moon of Saturn. Appropriately named, Helene is a Trojan moon, so called because it orbits at a Lagrange point. A Lagrange point is a gravitationally stable position near two massive bodies, in this case Saturn and larger moon Dione. In fact, irregularly shaped ( about 36 by 32 by 30 kilometers) Helene orbits at Dione's leading Lagrange point while brotherly ice moon Polydeuces follows at Dione's trailing Lagrange point. The sharp stereo anaglyph was constructed from two Cassini images captured during a close flyby in 2011. It...

Seven months after taking office as president of Columbia University, Katherine Armstrong announced her resignation. Armstrong took on the role of interim president of Columbia University last August, after the previous president, Minouche Shafik, resigned following allegations of her mishandling of anti-Semitism on campus. The resignation of the interim president comes just days after Armstrong announced that she decided to adopt the Trump administration's demands regarding the fight against anti-Semitism at Columbia University. The American government revoked grants totaling $400 million from the university after Columbia's administration failed to protect Jewish students who suffered from violence, intimidation, and discrimination since...

Musk and his posse discuss what DOGE is doing, its aims, debunking leftist myths. Discusses violence against Tesla. Transcript linked below video.

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