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Welcome to this week's attempt at media excellence I want to start with the "Israel Update"... The actual news stories from Israel this week as linked in the daily news summaries... "Israel 'on the brink of civil war': Gantz tries to convince"... "Moody's says Israel's economy has been weakened by 'very high political risks"... "Dozens of medical reservists said to refuse return to Gaza combat"... "Breaking with gov't, 69% percent of Israelis, 54% of coalition voters back ending war in exchange for hostages--poll"... What You Need To Know About The US Bombing Of Yemen Day After Day... Meanwhile US Congressman...

A 13-year-old boy battling incurable brain cancer is on a quest to set a Guinness World Record for being sworn in by 1,000 law enforcement agencies across the country. Devarjaye "DJ" Daniel, whose dream is to become a police officer, was thrust into the national spotlight when he was sworn in by President Donald Trump as a Secret Service agent before a joint session of Congress March 4. Daniel has already been sworn in by 914 agencies, making the record-setting dream a near reality. He already holds multiple records, including having the most keys to the city and the most...

“‘Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill’” (Matthew 5:17). The moral law was God’s foundational code. Jesus fulfilled that law by His perfect righteousness. He obeyed every commandment, met every requirement, and lived up to every standard. But most important, Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament by being its fulfillment. He did not simply teach it fully and exemplify it fully—He was it fully. He did not come simply to teach righteousness and to model righteousness; He came as divine righteousness. What He said and what...

Democratic strategist James Carville thinks the Trump administration has collapsed in less than three months. During a recent appearance on CNN host Michael Smerconish’s program, Carville declared that President Donald Trump’s second term had become a failure sooner than he predicted it would. "I had no idea. I thought I’d have to wait longer for the imminent collapse. It happened even faster than I could imagine," the former Bill Clinton adviser said. Smerconish brought up the topic, mentioning Carville’s recent prediction in The New York Times that the Trump administration would fall apart. In a February op-ed, Carville advised the...

A woman who face planted a subway platform while trying to snatch a MAGA hat from a stranger's head after branding him a 'racist' has been identified as a luxury brand specialist. Alberta Testanero, 55, was named by the New York Post after she got into a heated spat with the man on a 6 train in midtown New York last week. The Italian-American dual citizen was filmed shouting at the man and calling him 'racist' and 'uneducated' over his support for Donald Trump. While the video did not show what led up to the exchange, things escalated when she...

Transsexualization isn’t the only horror inflicted on children with autism. In the Netherlands, the most vulnerable of the vulnerable are also subject to euthanasia: As Yuan Yi Zhu noted in Unherd, in 2024, the Netherlands reported 219 cases of euthanasia for “psychological suffering,” as opposed to only two cases in 2010. “Of the 219, 30 were for patients aged 18-39,” Zhu noted. “An unspecified number of minors were also euthanized.” The number was unspecified, but there are a few specifics. One boy between the ages of 16 and 18 was euthanized for autism. “The psychiatrists decided that his condition was...

Seattle councilmember Rob Saka introduced a resolution to completely cut ties with any commitments to defund the police. After the murder of unarmed Minneapolis resident George Floyd in 2020, the slogan and movement to "Defund the Police" swept the country. Yet in the wake of a reported rise in crime in multiple cities across the country, politicians, even in Democratic Party strongholds, have sought to distance themselves from the idea. On Tuesday, Saka spoke with fellow members of Seattle City Council’s public safety committee about his recently introduced Resolution 32167, which recognizes work to improve public safety. These measures include...

After a storied career, that included over 70 film credits and two Academy Awards, Gene retired from film in 2004, after making his last appearance in Welcome to Mooseport. Five years after trading in the lights of Hollywood for a quieter life in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife Betsy Arakawa—and 16 years before his death at the age of 95—the French Connection star finally explained why. “The straw that broke the camel’s back was actually a stress test that I took in New York,” Gene said in an interview with Empire magazine published in 2009. “The doctor advised...

Parents are in an uproar over a coloring book created by Planned Parenthood, which was reportedly distributed to children on a field trip at the Kentucky Science Center. The museum hosted five local schools for an event called Health and Wellness Days, with students ranging from 8 to 13 years old. Groups present included the University of Louisville, Louisville Metro EMT, Norton Pediatric Neurology, the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), and more. The museum said Planned Parenthood requested to be a vendor at the event, and was given permission to attend, according to Taylor U’Sellis, senior manager of marketing...

Washington, DC – On March 25, President Trump was asked this bombshell question: “If Planned Parenthood is defunded, would you look into the harvesting of baby organs that they’ve done throughout the years, and maybe go after some criminal prosecution on that?” President Trump answered: “We’ll look into it, we’re going to look into everything.” In 2015, the Center for Medical Progress, co-founded by Troy Newman and funded by Operation Rescue, released the first shocking undercover videos detailing Planned Parenthood’s participation in what appeared to be illegal profit-taking from the trafficking of tissue and organs harvested from aborted babies. Despite...

A Colorado Democrat is facing massive criticism for promoting killing babies in abortions because “birth is too expensive.” Colorado Democrats are pushing a controversial legislative agenda that would expand abortion, including taxpayer-funded abortions for low-income women and unrestricted abortions up to birth, arguing that killing babies would save the state money in the long run. A bill pending before the Colorado legislature would require taxpayers to cover abortions for women on Medicaid, with proponents claiming it promotes “equity and fairness in health care” while also being fiscally prudent. “A birth is more expensive than an abortion,” said state Rep. Julie...

A group of teenagers (Mikey Madison, Sarah Sherman, Ego Nwodim) get added to a group chat with Secretary Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes), Vice President JD Vance (Bowen Yang), Secretary Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) and Editor of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg (Mikey Day).

A school board in Washington State is seeking help from the federal government to force the state to ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports. In a filing to the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Division, the Kennewick School Board filed a Title IX complaint against Washington state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chris Reykdal. The school board asked the federal government for “urgent” relief against the state’s efforts to defy President Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” “We respectfully request URGENT federal intervention due to open and egregious Title IX violations currently occurring within the state’s student...

The New York Yankees put on a show for their fans against the Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium on Saturday. The only problem is many watching started to question whether New York’s offensive onslaught was legal. First baseman Paul Goldschmidt, left fielder Cody Bellinger and right fielder Aaron Judge hit back-to-back-to-back home runs off Brewers starter and former teammate Nestor Cortes on the first three pitches of the first inning.

There’s an old saying about foxes guarding henhouses. It turns out the Presbytery of Western North Carolina has taken that metaphor and cranked it up to eleven, not just letting the foxes guard the chickens, but setting up a cozy little Airbnb for them right inside the coop. Because, in their infinite wisdom, they’ve decided that teenage boys—sorry, “girls”—should bunk with actual girls at youth retreats. What could possibly go wrong? The policy, officially titled the Child & Youth Protection Policy—because irony is dead—was adopted in 2020 and claims to create a “safe and secure environment for children and youth.”...

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Judge’s are supposed to recuse themselves from any decisions that could even remotely look like there’s a conflict of interest. But these judges aren’t ruling on cases, they are left-wing activists who are also protecting their families’ livelihoods. The conflict of interest is glaring. ... James Boasberg’s daughter works for nonprofit whose founder said judge ‘rightly’ blocked deportations of alleged Venezuelan gangbangers — and opposes Laken Riley Act... The daughter of DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is employed by a nonprofit that received millions in government funding, opposes the Laken Riley Act — and whose founder argued that...

If Amazon can learn from its mistakes, our man may yet live to die another dayOne of the great recurring James Bond tropes is to make it look as though 007 has actually been killed before the film’s title credits. You Only Live Twice, From Russia with Love and Skyfall all begin with Bond in a position where his demise seems inevitable. Of course, he always turns up alive. (Quite what the rest of the film would consist of if he didn’t is anyone’s guess: perhaps Moneypenny dealing with probate or M arranging one of those ghastly direct cremations.) Now,...

Credit: Central Bucks County Regional Police Department Radical leftists across the country have been vandalizing Teslas and setting Tesla dealerships on fire across the country all because of their blind hatred of Elon Musk. But in a twist, one of these unhinged losers decided to make things easy for law enforcement this week. As NBC 10 Philadelphia reported, an unidentified male was caught on tape vandalizing a Tesla in the parking lot of a Planet Fitness in Doylestown Borough on Monday. The Bucks County Courier Times reported the man responsible for the vandalism is 55-year-old Chadd Ritenbaug of Doylestown Township....

"I am not very much at ease with this new society...I think my time is done" In a courtroom this week acting legend Gerard Depardieu testified facing allegations by two women... Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, already convicted of corruption and serving house arrest with an electronic bracelet, on trial in another corruption case this week. Sarkozy linked to millions of euros in Libyan money flowing to his 2007 election campaign... Historic visits to Israel this week by French 'far-right' politicians to attend an "Antisemitism Conference" in Jerusalem. National Rally President Jordan Bardella and Marion Marechal... In Paris this afternoon a...