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They tell us what is (and what isn’t) worth doing.Prices matter. Now, I’m a free market, capitalistic type, so of course I’m going to insist that everyone be tied down to mere gilt and pelf in how they live their lives. Yet it is still true that prices really, really matter.Let’s walk through why that’s true, regardless of your political tribe. Any one thing—any economic resource, fresh water, human labour, cash, capital itself and so on—can be used for a multitude of different things. At any one time, the market price for that thing is the balance between the supply...

BREAKING Police have arrested & charged a 14-year-old girl after she was forced to brandish a knife to defend herself & her friend against a Muslim migrant who attempted to assault her near St Ann’s Lane in Dundee, Scotland. Protect your young daughters from Jihadi Muslims. pic.twitter.com/XdRNqv0M8P— Faraz Pervaiz (@FarazPervaiz3) August 26, 2025

Mark 4:3,4,20 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 The sower soweth the word. 20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred. 1.) There are some aspects of the word I think we have over looked and have not gotten the full benefit of. Just from those verses right there we can draw some conclusions. 1.The sower went out to sow, that means he's talking about seed. 2.What is the purpose of sowing...

A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm — the first reported U.S. case tied to travel to a country with a current outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the diagnosis on Aug. 4. Federal health officials acknowledged the infection in an emailed statement Monday. The person has recovered, and investigators found no transmission to any other people or animals, Maryland health officials said. The CDC investigated the case in coordination with Maryland's health department. Here's what to know. What is New World screwworm? New World screwworm (NWS) is a...

The debate comes days after Gov. Greg Abbott added “legislation to impose penalties or punishments for legislators who willfully absent themselves during a session” to the special session agenda.

Detectives launched a murder investigation after Sean Small, 84, was found outside the property in Newcastle in County Down, Northern Ireland, late on Sunday night. An elderly man who had recently been released from prison after serving a sentence for sexual offences was found dead outside his home after a "brutal and sustained" attack, police have said. Detectives launched a murder investigation after Sean Small, 84, was found outside the property in Newcastle in County Down, Northern Ireland, late on Sunday night. His house and another property have been sealed off by police carrying out forensic examinations. The victim had...

Swift and Kelce started their relationship in 2023, after the NFL player said he tried and failed to meet the singer at an Eras Tour concert.

– Harjinder Singh, in St. Lucie County Jail and facing three charges each of vehicular homicide and manslaughter, is due back in a Florida courtroom Wednesday. On Aug. 12, he tried with an 18-wheeler to make a U-turn on the Florida Turnpike through a point in the divided highway marked “official use only,” leading to the deaths of three people in a minivan. Singh had correct responses to two of 12 verbal questions on an English language proficiency assessment and correctly identified only one of four highway traffic signs during an interview with the Federal Motor Carrier Administration. At 10...

US President Donald Trump said America is studying Ukraine’s use of drones in warfare, according to remarks he made to reporters. Responding to a question, Trump noted that the war in Ukraine is being fought with drones in a way not seen before - and that the US is examining those lessons closely. Trump stated that there hadn’t been a war of that scale since World War II and that it was the most significant development in the history of military affairs. He added that it was a completely new form of combat, a drone war, something that hadn’t existed...

They're everywhere and they don't careSome would call Norwegian tennis star Casper Ruud—currently competing at the US Open— rude with an e for bringing up something many of us have been thinking for years.The NY Post reports under the headline: “Casper Ruud hates the weed smell at US Open: ‘Worst part about New York’”I don’t know about “worst,” but it’s certainly up there. Every time I go to New York I feel as if I’m getting a contact high just walking around midtown Manhattan, a contact high, to be clear, I don’t want.(This goes for many other cities, notably Seattle,...

European leaders are not driving a bandwagon onto which the world is jumping, but rather a hearse toward self-destruction...Fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas - accounted for 87% of the world's energy in 2024...despite more than $5 trillion being spent on wind and solar in the last 20 years.

Russia’s MiG-35, comically dubbed a fourth-generation “+++” fighter, is an overrated “paper tiger” that has been a non-factor in the Ukraine war. With only a handful of aircraft in service, the program is a failure, plagued by significant drawbacks. It lacks its intended advanced AESA radar, its missiles are outmatched, its engines are aging, and its electronic warfare suite is subpar. Instead of a revolutionary dogfighter, the MiG-35 is a symbol of the Russian aviation industry’s inability to deliver on its ambitious promises, making it another costly and ineffective platform.

For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical instruments, scanning the skies for artificial signals. Now, researchers are taking a different approach, this time looking much closer to home for alien artefacts that might already be in our Solar System. A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society describes an innovative method for detecting potential extraterrestrial probes near Earth. Their approach; to use Earth's shadow as a natural filter to eliminate interference from human-made satellites and space debris. Modern skies are cluttered with thousands of satellites and millions of...

Hieroglyphs appear beautiful but baffling. However, these ancient Egyptian signs are not as complicated as they seem. Once you realise that they can simply spell out words just like our alphabet does, hieroglyphs become much easier to understand. Let me show you how. Many thanks to Ilona Regulski of the Egyptian Museum at Berlin's marvellous Neues Museum. CORRECTION: At the end I get my quail chicks and my sparrows mixed up. The sparrow meant "small", not the quail chick. Sorry. Hieroglyphs are easier than they look | 21:22 RobWords | 723K subscribers | 576,945 views | August 23, 2025

Gov. Pritzker goes out early on a sunny morning with few people around and declares Chicago isn't a hellhole. VIDEO (5 mins): Gov. Pritzker: 'Chicago Is NOT A Hellhole' (video)

After a string of losses, shares of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ:CBRL) are back in the green after President Trump weighed in on the logo controversy that has pressured the stock. In a post on Trust Social, Trump encouraged the company to restore its old logo, admit a mistake, and manage the company “better than ever before.” “They got a billion dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right. Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity,” the president posted. To distance the company from its rustic identity and appeal to a wider demographic, Cracker Barrel...

The Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting opened Monday, with one of the first items on its agenda being a “land acknowledgement.” The DNC’s meeting comes weeks after a Quinnipiac poll showing only 19% of respondents approved of the party’s congressional leadership was released, while the party also dealt with infighting and difficulty meeting fundraising goals. After reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and brief remarks from the pastor of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota’s church, DNC Chairman Ken Martin introduced the next speaker. “Now please welcome a friend of mine from the Minnesota DFL, the treasurer, her name is Lindy...

[Catholic Caucus] Swiss priest: Here’s the fatal flaw of ‘synodality’ in the Catholic ChurchSynodal events at the global, national, diocesan, and parish levels are the catwalk for self-promoters, careerists, and ideologues within the Catholic Church.The political theorist Thomas Hobbes (1588‒1679) was a realist. In Christian terms, one might say that he took into account the nature of human beings, which is weakened by the consequences of original sin. That is why he not only popularized the ancient saying “Homo homini lupus” (man is a wolf to man). In his work Leviathan, he also shows why a state is necessary: without...

@elonmusk I would like to help fund legal actions against corrupt officials who aided and abetted the rape of Britain, per the official government inquiry. Please reply below for consideration.

The first-ever neuroimmune modulation implant has been approved for people with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who haven't found relief with traditional medications. It's a potentially life-changing technology that can zap pain by delivering one-minute electrical pulses to the vagus nerve – a key neural pathway that regulates inflammation. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has greenlit the device developed by California's SetPoint Medical, based on positive outcomes from the RESET‑RA clinical trial – a 242-patient, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled study. It showed measurable improvements in disease activity by three months, with sustained benefits at 12 months. Impressively, 75%...