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Internal MAGA opposition to President Donald Trump’s support for Israel’s campaign to destroy the Iranian nuclear program is not about helping him preserve his legacy or holding him to his promises about avoiding Middle East conflicts or foregoing regime-change wars. If these issues were that important to the right-wing voices who are now rising against his Iran policy, they could’ve voted instead for Kamala Harris, who, like Joe Biden and Barack Obama, wanted to legitimize Iran’s bomb and flood Iran’s war chests with hundreds of billions of dollars. Trump voters knew exactly where Trump stood on Iran because he has...

393 views Jun 23, 2025 Is the human race viable? This video delves into the profound and often uncomfortable question of human existence, exploring the perspectives of philosophical pessimism and anti-natalism. We examine why some of history's greatest minds, and contemporary thinkers, argue that bringing new life into the world is not an act of love, but potentially an act of cruelty. Arthur Schopenhauer: The German philosopher is renowned for his 1818 work, The World as Will and Representation, which posits that the phenomenal world is a manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. For Schopenhauer, human "willing"—desiring and...

President Trump and the NATO Secretary General spoke today about the Israel-Iran ceasefire at the NATO 2025 summit. "I was 'proud' of Israel because they pulled their planes back," he said, commenting on the exchange of hostilities a few hours after the beginning of the ceasefire. Israel claimed not to have aborted the attack completely, but rather - at Trump's request - limited it to a single Iranian installation. Trump also claimed to be optimistic about the future of the deal: "I think we'll have somewhat of a relationship with Iran." Trump commented on reports that Operation Midnight Hammer had...

The New York City mayor's race is this way by design. The polls showing that Zohran Mamdani, a socialist and Muslim terror supporter who only became a citizenship in 2018, could become the mayor of New York City, where his compatriots murdered thousands of Americans, may or may not be true, but there’s no reason why they wouldn’t be. Mamdani is up against Cuomo, a repulsive and widely hated figure that opponents of the Muslim socialist are only getting behind because the alternative is even worse, and then Mayor Eric Adams, whom much of the city probably right believes is...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon start a massive advertising blitz to encourage uptake of wearables such as fitness trackers among Americans, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on June 24. “We’re about to launch one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to encourage Americans to use wearables,” Kennedy said on Capitol Hill in Washington during a congressional hearing. Rep. Troy Balderson (R-Ohio) spoke positively about what he described as innovative wellness tools and asked Kennedy to describe how the government is promoting access to such tools.

Eleven Iranian nationals have been arrested in the last 48 hours by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across eight different states and nine cities, according to CBS News. This development comes in the wake of a nationwide security alert issued after the U.S. carried out a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities this past weekend. ... One of the individuals arrested is Mehran Makari Saheli, who is a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). ICE arrested Saheli at his home in Minnesota where he "admitted connections to Hezbollah," an Iranian-funded terrorist organization. ... On Sunday, authorities also...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) rushed to social media to call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment following his bold and successful military operation that crippled Iran’s nuclear program. But the congresswoman’s grandstanding didn’t go unanswered—Trump fired back at the progressive Squad member, dismantling her baseless accusations. AOC’s response to Trump makes one thing clear: she’s out of her league when the heavy hitters step onto the field. “Mr. President, don’t take your anger out on me - I’m just a silly girl,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X. "I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast....

Catholic Zionism differs from the forms of Protestant Zionism that require a literalist exegesis of Revelation 20:2, which describes a thousand-year period of Messianic rule during which Satan is “bound” and his power restrained. Catholic Zionism does not see the creation of Israel in 1948 as inaugurating the end times. The death and resurrection of Jesus did that. Catholic Zionism does not support an “apocalyptic” showdown in the Middle East… Catholic Zionism shares one central feature of Protestant Zionism, however: It affirms that the promise made to Abraham in Genesis matters in our time. The foundation of the State of...

“Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously. Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God” (Daniel 6:10-11). There is a direct link between prayer and integrity. It is no coincidence that those whom God uses most effectively are those who are most fervent in prayer. David, for example, called upon the...

EXCLUSIVE: At least five more Iranian nationals were arrested on Monday in addition to the 11 announced by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday morning. On Monday, 45-year-old Mohammad Hassanpoor was arrested by officers in Baltimore and given a "Third County Notice." He was previously criminally convicted of "assault with a deadly weapon or force likely to produce great bodily injury," where he was sentenced to just under a year behind bars. He was also previously sentenced roughly three months behind bars for "battery: spouse/ex sp/date/etc." and sentenced to two years for stalking. Kaveh Abedi, 45, was arrested in...

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The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, recently announced on Iranian state television that Iran has begun building a new uranium enrichment facility, in a secure and secret location. He said the facility is expected to begin operating in the near future. Our pilots know the drill…

Today the Israel Daily News breaks from the usual news to share something deeply personal. At 4 am Monday morning, June 16th, 2025, a ballistic missile from Iran struck Shanna Fuld’s apartment building, destroying her home and beloved Israel Daily News recording studio. Escaping death by just meters, she came out of the blast without a scratch …but lost nearly everything. In this episode, we walk you through the terrifying moment of missile impact (with a live recording from the hit), the frantic escape, and the ongoing struggle to rebuild her life during wartime. This is not just a story...

After a deadly surprise attack, Israel attacked Iran for 12 days and seriously damaged the Iranian axis of evil • Among other things, our forces killed senior commanders and scientists of the Revolutionary Guards, destroyed military bases and nuclear sites, and seriously damaged the ballistic missile array • But alongside the successes, the price was heavy - 29 civilians were murdered by launches from Tehran • Summary of the operation. Operation "Am Kalavi" : 13 days ago, Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran for the first time in its history. In the opening strike, which began at approximately 3:00...

Last week, I made a slightly bold prediction that the Iranian mullah regime would fall somewhere between June 17 and 24. The predicate was that, since the end of WW2, the US Deep State (along with its Cold War enemy, the USSR, for the first half of that period) has been managing the world’s regions by situating relatively equal forces in opposition to each other. This keeps regional conflicts at a low-simmering boil, which is controlled and limited—and, most importantly, restricted from overflowing beyond the region and thrusting the world into WW3. Further, this strategy, while noble and even successful,...

A Chicago facility is now offering abortions in the third trimester — making Illinois one of the few places in the country where unborn children can be aborted up to approximately 34 weeks, the Chicago Tribune reported. Hope Clinic, a long-standing abortion provider based in southern Illinois, opened a second location June 2 in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. It is now the only independent facility in the Midwest to perform abortions at such a late stage in pregnancy. The organization announced its new location on Instagram with enthusiasm, noting the expansion of its services. “Hope Clinic is now open in Chicago,...

How far does a dollar really go across America?As inflation has raised everything from housing costs to the price of eggs to record levels, consumers are feeling the burden. While tariffs stand to raise prices even further—although no meaningful signs in official data show this yet—price pressures have few signs of abating.This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorthy Neufeld, shows price parity by U.S. state based on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).How Price Parity Compares Across AmericaTo show the differences in prices across the country, the BEA compared each state to the national average, represented as 100 as...

There were hints last week that something was up between the Trump administration and Harvard. Harvard won in court last Friday and instead of attacking the judge, as Trump tends to do, he posted this positive statement suggesting a deal with Harvard was imminent.<span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span>If a Settlement is made on the basis that is currently being discussed, it will be “mindbogglingly” HISTORIC, and very good for our Country. Thank you for your attention to this matter!Did that mean a legal settlement in the two cases Harvard has filed against the Trump administration? Maybe but not necessarily according to...

At base, a "fair" wage is one that will attract people to do what you need them to do. It isn't $20, $30, $40, or $1, $3, or $10 an hour. It is the wage at which people think they are better off taking than not. There is no non-artificial minimum wage, and no absolute limit to the size of the wage either. The way wages should be set is through market mechanisms. Here in the United States, we even have an implicit minimum wage on top of the ones set by law: people have an alternative called the welfare...