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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a joint motion with the state's GOP leadership to close the Republican primaries. The filing comes after the same leadership sued the Texas Secretary of State for the same purpose. It also comes ahead of the race for U.S. Senate, in which Paxton hopes to unseat longtime Sen. John Cornyn. Ken Paxton wants closed Texas primaries What's new: Paxton filed the motion jointly in a federal court with the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) on Thursday. The RPT sued Secretary of State Jane Nelson at the beginning of September to achieve the same...

On January 15, 2019, an off-duty British SAS operator and high-level trainer, who goes by the nom de guerre of Christian Craighead, disrupted an Islamic terror attack in Nairobi, Kenya, at the DusitD2 complex. He is credited with saving 700 lives through his skills, action, heroism, and leadership. Christian gave the keynote speech at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Salt Lake City on September 28, 2025.If you wish to listen to the entire presentation, the video(above) of the Keynote speech by Christian Craighead, SAS, retired, starts at approximately 5:40:30 and ends at approximately 6:15:15.Christian grew up with a single...

Those Americans who insist that ‘it can’t happen here’ need to understand that it already is happening here. In an era where truth is increasingly subordinated to comfort, my colleague and a close friend, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff (an intrepid Austrian counter-jihad activist and human rights and free speech advocate), stands as a beacon of unyielding courage. Sabaditsch-Wolff has endured personal persecution for daring to voice historical facts that challenge prevailing sensitivities. Her October 2025 speech in Dallas, Texas, delivered amid global tensions over censorship and cultural shifts, serves as a stark warning: Free speech is not merely a right, but the...

“‘Do you not say, “There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest”? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this case the saying is true, “One sows and another reaps.” I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor’” (John 4:35–38). Using the grain...

I'm considering the purchase of an RV, using it for two months and then abandoning it. I will of course notify the dealer of it's location. "Come get it, the keys are in the ignition." What happens? I'm not concerned about credit ratings. I'm an old man and everything I want or need is paid for and I have sufficient income to cover my needs.

When Jeffrey Clark was tapped to lead the second Trump administration’s chief regulatory review office, it marked an astonishing redemption. For years, congressional investigators and prosecutors had pursued the former Department of Justice official ---SNIP--- The disciplinary process in the D.C. bar is radically disparate according to the political affiliation and views of the respondent attorney,” Clark’s lawyers charged. A preliminary review of public records indicates that a majority of the board that made the Clark recommendation was comprised of registered Democrats, individuals who had contributed to Democrat candidates, or public advocates of progressive causes. Only one board member was...

Whatever Winsome Earle-Sears had for dinner tonight before her debate against Abigail Spanberger ahead of the Virginia gubernatorial election in November, we want some of that. Because Sears came out swinging haymakers and continued throwing molten fire at Spanberger for the entire hour while basically taking over the debate from the moderators.

1. The Classification of the AfD by an Administrative Agency In the spring of 2025, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV, Germany's domestic intelligence service) classified the political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as a "right-wing extremist" organization. This classification granted the authorities the power to place its members and supporters under police surveillance without prior judicial authorization, including measures such as intercepting private communications or the BfV recruiting informants within the party. This "judgment" was not delivered by an independent court. It was created by an administrative agency directly under the authority of the Interior...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machada awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, beating out the US President who brokered this week's ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas.

Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. Researchers at the US AI firm, working with the UK AI Security Institute, Alan Turing Institute, and other academic institutions, said today that it takes only 250 specially crafted documents to force a generative AI model to spit out gibberish when presented with a certain trigger phrase. For those unfamiliar with AI poisoning, it's an attack that relies on introducing malicious information into AI training datasets that convinces them to return, say, faulty code snippets or exfiltrate sensitive data. The common...

I want to show you a Hebrew truth from Jeremiah that'll blow your mind. In chapter 31 in verse 6, we read, which means there is coming a day, there will be a day when they shall cry. They shall they shall call out. Who's going to call out? The watchmenupon Mount Ephraim. Now, this is interesting. The word watchman only appears 12 times in the Tanakh, the Old Testament. And three of those times the word notzrim is used. This is an amazing word. The word notzrim like most of the words in Hebrew have a triconental root, a...

Outspoken Donald Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel said he would 'love' to have the President on his show amid his tumbling ratings. The late night host was discussing his return to the screen after his show was temporarily axed over his comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The remarks prompted an outcry, followed by celebrations from Trump when it was announced that Kimmel was being yanked off air.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were named 'Humanitarians of the Year' at a glitzy New York gala last night - immediately after King Charles and Prince William put on a united front in London. The Duchess of Sussex used her acceptance speech to voice fears about Archie and Lilibet growing up in a digital age - hours after the Princess of Wales visited a children's charity and warned that excessive screen time can harm family life. Meghan was also praised as 'a mother, wife, entrepreneur, and philanthropist' as she received the award. Harry's work with mental health companies and his...

President Donald Trump's historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas was brokered in a Miami mansion 1,000 miles from the halls of power in Washington D.C. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was in his $32.2million home on Miami's Indian Creek, often referred to as 'Billionaire Bunker,' when he learned Hamas was open to releasing Israeli hostages held captive since the October 7 attacks. After taking part in weeks of intense, high stakes negotiations with all the major players in the war - Kushner knew it was time to act.

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The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Venezuelan political opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy." Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jørgen Watne Frydnes, announcing the award, called Machado "a brave and committed champion of peace." He lauded Machado as a "key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided — an opposition that found common ground in the demand for free elections and representative government."

Trump pulls off what appears to be an end to the war in Gaza and settles wars around the world and the Venezuelan opposition leader gets the Nobel Peace Prize. Perhaps this time next year if the Israel/Hamas peace agreement gets more fully implemented Trump will get what he deserves.

“Just be yourself” may be an oft-given piece of advice, but it won’t take you in the right direction as a workplace leader, one psychology of business professor argues. While authenticity has been linked with increased self-esteem, it can also hamper a leader’s ability know when to stop advocating for one’s personal values and start advocating for their team, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a professor of business psychology at University College London and Columbia University adjunct professor, says in his new book Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated (and What to Do Instead).

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Billionaire investor Ken Griffin has warned that some of the brightest students from countries like India might never make it to the US and that this could hurt the country’s future. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, the Citadel CEO said the real loss isn’t the $100,000 cost of an H-1B visa, but it’s when a talented student in India or a math and physics prodigy in China chooses to stay home instead of coming to the US. “Fortunately, we’re in a sector of the economy where a $100,000 one-time cost to hire a person is not going to be...