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Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 gangbanger as the Trump administration has alleged. Van Hollen (D-Md.), who met with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on Thursday, accused President Trump of trying to change the subject on due process concerns, while he himself attempted to shift the discussion from MS-13. “What Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject,” Van Hollen told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday when asked about Abrego Garcia’s alleged MS-13 ties. “The subject at hand is that he and his administration are...

America won’t be the world’s piggy bank anymore. Neither should it be the piggy bank for internal anti-American causes veiled in innocuous-sounding terms like “equity” that really impose leftist inequities on those who took initiative, often against the odds, and dared to succeed.

Hold the tofu. New research suggests that vegans may be more likely to suffer from nutritional deficiencies than their meat-eating Worse still, scientists found that even vegans who hit their daily protein goals with plant-based sources often fall short on two essential amino acids, putting their health at risk. In the US, an estimated 1% to 5% of the population follows a vegan diet, which eliminates all animal products, including meat, dairy and eggs. Over the years, researchers have found that following a plant-based diet can reduce the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers, as well...

On the 20th April 1897 John Browning received four patents covering his earliest pistol designs. These included two recoil operated systems, a blowback design and Browning’s first pistol design which used an interesting gas-operated toggle action. Browning developed the gas-operated design in 1894-5. While this was the first pistol designed by Browning it eventually proved to be an evolutionary dead end. Chambered in what would become known as .38 ACP the prototype represents Browning’s continuing experimentation with gas-operation. It had a gas vent on top of the barrel which allowed venting gases to act on a ‘gas lever’ linked by...

FRISCO, Texas (WOAI) — The mother of a Frisco teenager accused of fatally stabbing another teen at a track meet has spoken out, saying her family has faced threats and harassment since her son's arrest. Seventeen-year-old Karmelo Anthony is accused of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death earlier this month following a fight in the stands at a Frisco ISD track meet. Investigators reported that an argument between Anthony and Metcalf escalated, with Metcalf either grabbing or pushing Anthony, leading Anthony to allegedly pull out a knife and stab Metcalf. Karmelo's mother, Kala Hayes, addressed the public for the first...

[OFFICIAL.]FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GEN. DIX. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 19 -- 1:30 P.M. Maj.-Gen. Dix: The arrangement for conveying the President's remains to Springfield, Ill., has been changed this morning. They will go direct from Washington to Philadelphia, Harrisburgh, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and thence to Springfield. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. SECOND DISPATCH. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 19 -- 11 P.M. Maj.-Gen. John A. Dix, New-York: It has been finally concluded to conform to the original arrangements made yesterday for the conveyance of the remains of the late President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, from Washington to Springfield, viz.: By way...

VIDEOIf anybody still has any doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA, then the answers by Alexa to these four questions I asked should resolve the matter. Unless, you believe that even in the no credit card era of 1959 someone with with only twenty bucks on him could stay at a four star hotel for six days.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Sunday of creating a false appearance of honoring an Easter ceasefire, saying Moscow continued to launch attacks overnight after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral temporary truce in Ukraine. “As of Easter morning, we can say that the Russian army is trying to create a general impression of a ceasefire, but in some places, it does not abandon individual attempts to advance and inflict losses on Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X. Despite Putin´s declaration of an Easter ceasefire on Saturday, Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces had...

Communist regimes wage war on religion to assert total control, yet the stories of faith, persecution, and resistance remain powerful truths the world must remember. In the left’s perverse ideology, the status of “victimhood” is to be prized (especially if it does not actually have to be endured), for it serves as a powerful cudgel over their alleged “oppressors.” That this constitutes but another flimsy pretext for leftists to grasp power is revealed by the fact that actual victims of political persecution are ignored and erased from the public square and the historical record. Why? Because these actual victims have...

Few things better explain how common sense and morality have been subverted than the “boiling frog” analogy. Here is a standard definition: The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive.

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(4/20/25)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Omnipresent Spirit) Numbers 11:2626 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

AMO 5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. AMO 5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. AMO 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. AMO 5:16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets

Chaos unfolded on a small island in Georgia as Spring Breakers descended onto its once serene beaches to binge drink and leave mountains of trash in their wake. The long-standing Orange Crush festival on Tybee Island, just outside the city of Savannah, was just as rowdy as its always been, with college students from nearby HBCUs and other universities letting loose. The music started on Saturday around 3pm, four hours behind schedule, and by around 4pm, attendees were flowing in. The festival was in full swing, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted.

The conservative think tank is constantly attacked by diversity-preaching radical leftist groups, irritated by the views that it formulates and promotes in the self-proclaimed capital of Europe. Belgian Police block the entrance of the Claridge hotel in Brussels where the NatCon national conservatism conference was held on April 16, 2024. Brussels authorities ordered its shutdown after it was targeted by online protesters and its first two choices of venue cancelled the organization’s contract at the very last minute. Photo: Simon Wohlfahrt / AFPAccording to Hungarian press reports, the EU Transparency Register secretariat has launched an official investigation into conservative think...

Besides being an unspeakable crime, Thursday’s shootings at Florida State University in Tallahassee reinforced one invaluable lesson: Supposedly well-meaning laws aimed at stopping what leftists prefer to call “gun violence” are about as useful against criminals as cloth masks are against an infinitesimally small and potentially deadly virus. They don’t do the job, but they make ideologues feel good about themselves. ... In the wake of the 2018 Parkland high school shooting that killed 17 (and gifted the nation the perpetually irritating David Hogg), Sunshine State lawmakers passed a measure limiting gun purchases to those 21 years of age or...

They called me Sammy the Bull. Yeah, that Sammy. I ran with the streets, led one of the most powerful crime families in America… but none of that gave me true peace 🕊️. I always believed in God but this time, it was different. This time, I surrendered ✝️. From the shadows of organized crime to stepping into the waters of baptism, my journey is one of redemption, hope, and God’s relentless love. In this powerful testimony, I open up about the pain, the struggle, the doubts, and the moment everything changed. If you’re searching for hope… if you feel...

Immigration attorneys across the northern border are reporting an exodus of sorts of U.S. nationals seeking asylum in Canada, including a high number of transgender and non-binary Americans. A number of immigration attorneys in Canada are reporting being overloaded by U.S. nationals, including transgender individuals, who are seeking guidance on whether purported government persecution can be legally claimed as grounds for asylum. In March, immigration lawyer Yameena Ansari gave a presentation at a seminar and claimed that fear of safety in the U.S. could provide legal grounds for asylum. It drew more than 60 attendees, Ansari told Newsweek on Thursday,...

There is a story in the news today about two colleges. One is the oldest college in America, having been founded before the American Revolution. It is also perhaps the very most elite of the Ivy League. It is the goal of most children of the elite in America, which is the closest we have to an aristocracy; “legacy”, or the children of its graduates, are still given a major “leg up” when applying to go there. Its researchers in many fields, from economics to literature to medicine, are the recipients of billions of dollars of government grants. It recently...

The Supreme Court’s ruling has driven trans activists nuts – and I’m loving it.I’ve found my soundtrack for spring: the caterwauling of fellas in dresses following yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling. It’s delicious. They’re raging about the ‘fascism’ of no longer being allowed to get their knobs out in the women’s changing room. They’re agonising over where they’re supposed to take a shit now. Their Adam’s apples are getting a mighty fine workout as they wail into the void about being ‘erased’ by ‘transphobes’. It’s the sound of men being stripped of their entitlements by women who’ve had enough of their...