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United States President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday to explain that Kiev does not stand a good chance of winning the war against Russia if it is only permitted to defend its territory. "It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It's like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offensive. There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia. Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND defend,"...

The California Supreme Court, dominated six-to-one by Democratic appointees, rejected a Republican challenge to the legality of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) attempt to redraw the state’s congressional districts Wednesday. The court said that it was all right for Democrats in the state legislature to evade a 30-day minimum for new legislative proposals by replacing the text of existing bills with the gerrymandering language. The San Francisco Chronicle reported: The state Supreme Court opened the door Wednesday to plans by Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats to redraw California’s congressional districts in a gerrymander designed to pick up five seats, rejecting...

President Donald Trump repeated his demand for Tina Peters to be released from prison and threatened "harsh measures" if she remains detained. Peters, 69, is a Colorado election clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 presidential election. She is serving a nine-year sentence in La Vista Correctional Facility. "FREE TINA PETERS, a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail-In Ballot supporting the governor of the State," Trump posted to Truth Social on Thursday morning. "Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW." Trump, who said Peters "did nothing...

This was remarkable to see. Over 70,000 Cambodian monks have broken their vows of silence to nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The move by the monks comes after President Trump brokered a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand. Fox News’ Jesse Watters dove deeper into the story. Watch here: VIDEO AT LINK.................. BBC provided more details on how Trump got the peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand: Thailand and Cambodia agreed to a ceasefire after Donald Trump threatened not to make a trade deal with them until the fighting stopped. Trade talks are a no-go “until such...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“The Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come.” Matthew 22:2–3The king in this parable is God the Father, and the wedding is the marriage between Christ and the Church. The Father invites each one of us to be a member of the Church and to enter into divine union with His Son Jesus, thus entering into the life of the Holy Trinity. But we see right away in the...

Richard Garcia, who goes by @richardgarciaofficial on Instagram, shares tips on money and wealth. He moved from California to Bali with his wife and children, and regularly posts about their life overseas. 'Her bank account is in Singapore, her payroll is collected through a PTe and the family trust is in the Cook Islands. 'She will never pay taxes because she never 'earned' enough or owned anything.'

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It was back in 2021 that I started to ask which country or U.S. state would be the first to hit the “Green Energy Wall.” It has long been obvious to anyone who looks at the situation that the fantasy of a fully de-carbonized energy system, with everything run on electricity generated by intermittent wind and sun, could never happen. But what would be the limiting condition that would put a stop to the madness? Would it be confronting the absurd costs of grid-scale battery storage? Or perhaps a string of blackouts caused by insufficient backup of the wind and...

The steep decline in letter volumes has been driven largely by digitalisation, and PostNord announced in March that it will cease letter services at the end of the year...A third of its workforce is being let go, as it sheds 2,200 positions in its loss-making letter arm. Instead it will focus on its profitable parcel business, creating 700 new roles.

Some very sad news for those of us who grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s listening to Adventures in Odyssey. Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family ministries, author of multiple influential books on family and parenting, and founder of Family Talk and the James Dobson Family Institute, has passed away at the age of 89.

Confounded leftism should not be elevated to the level of legitimate political philosophies ending with the “ism” suffix. The perennial political paradoxes from time immemorial have been addressed by great thinkers whose insights are often pigeonholed by some “ism”: liberalism, conservatism, capitalism, socialism, Marxism, etc. No matter where one falls on the spectrum, the ideas underpinning them were formulated by mostly rational minds -- even if their prescriptions don’t comport with human nature. Leftism doesn’t come close to that. Other than being consistently anti-American, it is not a coherent or cogent ideology, although its inherent demagoguery is reminiscent of some...

In what looks like it might prove to be yet more good news for those Americans who want to learn the truth about what was going on with Jeffrey Epstein, the House Oversight Committee will now be able to release some of the documents it has pertaining to Epstein. The news follows the committee having issued a subpoena to the DOJ, in which it demanded the ability to release the documents. As background, the committee issued a subpoena to the DOJ earlier in August in which it requested from Attorney General Pam Bondi and her Department of Justice information pertaining...

TWO people have died and two children are recovering in hospital after several people were poisoned by a toxic batch of guacamole. The fatally contaminated avocado dip was served up to unsuspecting customers at a food festival before they showed signs of botulism. School cook Valeria Sollai, 62, is said to have eaten the guacamole and then was rushed to hospital. But she died on Monday after spending weeks on life support. Roberta Pitzalis, 38, also ate the same batch of guacamole at the festival in Sardinia - before dying on August 8. An autopsy confirmed Roberta died from a...

“One of the biggest contributors to what we found out– and it could have been any camp, I promise you it could have been any camp– was complacency and human nature, and out of sight, out of mind,” said Republican Texas state Sen. Charles Perry, the committee’s chair. Perry said Senate Bill 1 is the framework to prevent tragedies like Camp Mystic, but the camps will need to follow the provisions in the law. “We did not send Linnie to a war zone; we sent her to camp,” said McGown, who remembered his daughter for her gentle, playful manner. “No...

The rate of Britons aged 16 to 24 who respond affirmatively when asked if they "believe there is a God/there are gods" has risen from 16% to 37% since August 2021, according to a YouGov poll released earlier this month. The poll also found that adherence to atheism within the same age demographic dropped from 49% in August 2021 to 32% four years later. The Rt. Rev. Jill Duff, who serves as the bishop of Lancaster, attributed the statistics in part to the growing number of young people who are spiritually searching, according to The Telegraph. Duff said she believes...

Sinaloa is a Mexican state in northwest Mexico. To the west, it's the Pacific Ocean and to the east a couple of other states. The largest city is Culiacan, a city of about a million people and a place that most of us didn't hear much about until a famous cartel came into the news, i.e., the Sinaloa cartel. In recent days, bullets are flying in Sinaloa because the cartels are fighting each other for territory as well as angry over their leader’s capture. This is the story: August 10 was, for many in Mexico, a quiet Sunday like any...

CBS host Tony Dokoupil agreed Wednesday with President Donald Trump’s push to have the Smithsonian Institution review how it presents American history. During a "CBS Mornings" segment, Dokoupil defended Trump’s directive for Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., to stop focusing on the sins of America’s past and portray the country’s history in a more positive light. "American history shouldn’t be a thing of reverence. The country is not above critique," Dokoupil said. "But we shouldn’t look at our history with contempt, either. And there is some room for correction back toward the middle."

Russia struck an American business with cruise missiles overnight in one of the largest aerial attacks of the war so far, Ukraine has said. The Ukrainian air force said some 574 drones and 40 missiles were fired overnight, primarily targeting western regions of the country – far from the battlefield’s front line in the east and south of the country. The strikes killed one person and injured 15 more and struck a “major American electronics manufacturer”, according to Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s foreign minister. Video footage showed a large fire at the premises of Flex Ltd, a multinational firm headquartered in...

The U.S. risks losing its air superiority by 2030 if it fails to build its next-generation aircraft in sufficient numbers.For a “strategic restraint” approach, where the new F-47 fighter and B-21 bomber are not for global policing but for credibly deterring great-power war in the Atlantic and Pacific. To achieve this, the U.S. needs a minimum of 200-300 F-47s and at least 145 B-21s. These numbers are essential to absorb combat losses, reassure allies, and deter adversaries like China and Russia.