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" ... Barack Obama’s Social Security number is our equivalent of the Rosetta Stone, although still undeciphered, and long overdue. Everything about him starts with his unexplainable use of a phony Social Security number, issued on March 28, 1977, to someone born in 1890 in Connecticut. Obama was fifteen years old then and in school in Hawaii. ..." continue reading at: https://susandaniels.substack.com/p/barack-obama-and-the-rosetta-stone

Eric Holder was the United States attorney general from 2009 to 2015, and referred to himself as Barack Obama’s “wingman.” Now, he is whining that the suddenly “politicized” Justice department will cause people to die, without giving examples. (Democrats always claim Republican policies cause massive deaths.) Holder is also saying that the agency won’t have time to go after political corruption as if he, Lorretta Lynch, or Merrick Garland ever cared about political corruption:Eric Holder: This Administration Is Using The Power Of The DOJ To Target Political OpponentsERIC HOLDER: And I’m really concerned that this Justice Department—under Bondi, under Patel—will...

The Houthis will resume attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea if those ships have ties to companies that work with Israeli ports, the Yemen-based group announced this week.While the Houthis are calling it a “fourth phase of escalation,” the move from the group is the phase of the Houthis’ Red Sea attacks when they expanded their strikes to any ship that visited Israeli ports or was associated with a company that had ties to Israel.The last time the Houthis announced they would attack ships, the United States had multiple ships in the Red Sea. This time, it has...

On July 28, 2025, Arizona State Senator Mark Finchem, the Executive Director of the Election Fairness Institute (EFI), issued a press release disclosing the results of a 15-year investigation conducted by Shawn Taylor, a former Assistant Police Chief in Millersville, Tennessee, uncovering a “Magic Mortgage” money laundering scheme that appears to be tied directly to ActBlue and its donor channel.According to Mark Finchen, “We have witnessed a level of public corruption never before seen in this nation that has been financed by everything from black market child trafficking, distribution of fentanyl from China, and cocaine from the Mexican cartels.”He told...

VIDEORight now President Donald Trump is easily the most popular political leader in Great Britain, far outshining their hapless Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Watch as Starmer is brutally mocked by British commentators for his hilarious reactions as Trump read the riot act on windmills which Starmer supports as part of his doomed-to-fail Net Zero project for Britain. This video is revelatory because it shows closeups of Starmer's awkwardness and extremely uncomfortable face as Trump speaks embarrassing windmill truths.

The ousting of Kiev regime leader is ongoing – and today, the successor was anointed in the pages of Vogue. After three and a half years hailed as the heroic defender of democracy and a present-day Churchill, Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky rapidly fell out of favor with both the exhausted Ukrainian population and with his masters in the West. We reported today here on TGP how the EU has frozen all aid until the independence of the anti-corruption agencies is restored.

A line of antitank ditches and barbed wire cuts through the sunflower fields all the way to the horizon here in Ukraine’s battle-scarred east, fortifications the country bets it can lay fast and far enough to halt Russia’s summer offensive. But the defensive gamble is facing increasingly long odds. Kyiv is in the midst of its most ambitious defensive construction effort to date, erecting obstacles and carving up the earth to thwart manned and unmanned assaults. While riflemen scan the sky for enemy robots, Ukraine’s own drone operators sit below them in an extensive network of subterranean dugouts. “The army...

Edits to articles under lock are limited to a specific, controlled group of Wikipedia users. Wikipedia has long established itself as a website controlled by a coalition of partisan hacks. The latest example of the online encyclopedia’s attempt to literally rewrite the narrative appears on its article titled “Steele Dossier.” Five paragraphs into Wikipedia’s detailed description of the document that fueled the Russia collusion hoax, the article claims that British spy Christopher Steele’s manufactured evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow “did not play any role in the January 6, 2017 intelligence community assessment of the Russian actions...

I have just concluded a telephone conversation with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, which was very successful in that, more and more, we are getting to know and understand each other. The complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other Nations because of both the problems, and assets, of the Border. We have agreed to extend, for a 90 Day period, the exact same Deal as we had for the last short period of time, namely, that Mexico will continue to pay a 25% Fentanyl Tariff, 25% Tariff on Cars, and 50% Tariff on Steel, Aluminum,...

Born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1947, Farrah Leni Fawcett captured the world’s attention in 1976 with two epoch-defining acts: her breakout role in Charlie’s Angels and posing for the now legendary “red swimsuit” poster. At its peak, Charlie’s Angels was one of America’s most watched television shows, while Farrah’s poster remains an all-time best-seller, with over 12 million copies sold and counting. In the days when people absorbed their media from TV, movies, newspapers, and magazines, Farrah was omnipresent in American homes. The UMLAUF is honored to be sharing troves of never-before-seen material from Charles and Angie Umlauf’s archives,...

[Catholic Caucus] Modernism is a SinAbove: Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Liesing, Austria.On his first day in office, in addition to signing a flurry of executive orders, President Joe Biden led a virtual swearing-in ceremony for “Day One Presidential Appointees,” that is, administrative staff for the White House and various governmental agencies.A few minutes into his remarks, Biden told his new subordinates that “we owe your families, we owe your families, because those of you working in the White House, [and] those who will be working in other agencies, you’re gonna work like the devil [an interesting choice...

Most reasonable people would agree that meth-fueled orgies are a bad thing, and that having sex with groups of strangers for days on end should be discouraged. Yet some “harm reduction” advocates have suggested that these orgies should be tolerated, perhaps even celebrated. This demonstrates that the harm-reduction movement is more interested in normalizing drug use than mitigating its negative consequences. Meth-fueled orgies emerged as a policy issue in the mid-2010s, following the popularization of so-called “chemsex” (also known as “party and play” or “PnP”) within the gay community. The term refers to having sex while under the influence of...

There’s a reason Democrats are losing control of cities like Cincinnati, and it’s not just about crime. It’s about who the crime is against, who’s getting a pass, and who isn’t. It’s all very calculated. Over the weekend, a brutal assault in downtown Cincinnati shocked the nation. A white man was thrown to the ground and savagely beaten by a large mob of black men. When a woman rushed in to help, she was knocked out cold and slammed to the pavement. It’s the kind of racially motivated attack that would spark wall-to-wall outrage if the roles were reversed, right?...

The US has sanctioned eight India-based companies and five Indian nationals as part of its latest Iran-related sanctions action targeting entities engaged in trade of Iranian oil, petroleum products, and petrochemicals, and those identified as part of a shipping empire controlled by Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani — the son of Ali Shamkhani, a top political advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran. In the latest action, announced Wednesday, the US Department of the State imposed sanctions on 20 entities and identified 10 vessels as blocked property. Simultaneously, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated more...

Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to four life sentences without the possibility of parole on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022. The surviving roommates and families of the victims delivered emotional statements at the sentencing hearing, held in a courtroom in Boise. When given the opportunity to speak, Kohberger declined to do so. Kohberger pleaded guilty earlier this month to the murders of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves as part of a plea deal that spared him from the death penalty. He was in the courtroom Wednesday...

A group of Senate Democrats asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to hand over files related to Jeffrey Epstein to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee by Aug. 15...The request is the latest salvo in an effort by Democrats and some Republicans in Congress to press the Trump administration to release the so-called Epstein files after reneging on promises to do so.

The World Athletics Council announced Wednesday that any athlete wishing to compete in the female categories of the World Championships will be required to undergo a "once-in-a-lifetime test" to determine eligibility. The athletes will be required to undergo a test for the SRY gene, which the organization says is "a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The SRY gene is attached to the Y chromosome and triggers the development of male reproductive organs. The test will be conducted either by a cheek swab or a blood test. “The philosophy that we hold dear in World Athletics is the protection and...

During the Neolithic Revolution, the development of agriculture led to an epic shift in the way human societies lived. As agricultural technology spread out from the Near East, traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyles diminished in favor of more sedentary farming communities. This transition was usually accompanied by a dramatic shift in diet. However, according to a statement released by the University of York, this was not necessarily the case in Japan. Agriculture, rice, and millet were introduced to the Japanese islands from the Korean Peninsula around 3,000 years ago. Research conducted by archaeologists from the University of York, the University of Cambridge,...

In an effort to end the fighting in Gaza, the Arab League issued a declaration at a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, condemning the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and calling on the terrorists to release all hostages it is holding, disarm, and end its rule of Gaza. It's an amazing document. Unfortunately, it's also a non-starter. The document calls for a two-state solution, which is something that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly and firmly rejected.More problematically, the plan also calls for a "right of return" for...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by car or 90 minutes by commercial plane, according to the World Meteorological Organization. In comparison, the average bolt of lightning usually measures less than 10 miles, according to the National Weather Service.