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To recap the past week: Hamas films themselves executing over 100 Palestinians. The media is silent. Hamas launches RPGs at Israeli troops, murdering two. The media is silent. Israel responds by striking a Hamas commander. The media says Israel violated the ceasefire.

A little-known microbe in your gut produces methane and may help your body extract more calories from food, according to a study led by Arizona State University. Deep inside your gut lives a vast community of microbes, and among them is one unusual resident that produces methane. This lesser-known methane-producing microbe may influence how efficiently your body absorbs calories from food, according to new research from Arizona State University. This community of microbes is collectively known as the microbiome. In some people, the gut microbiome generates large amounts of methane, while in others it produces very little. Researchers discovered that...

Once Congress figures out how to pass a budget, fixing the census must come next on the priority list. The 2020 population count was rigged in a way that handed the Democratic Party six congressional seats it doesn’t deserve. That matters when control of the House is three seats away from changing from red to blue. In a report compiled during President Biden’s administration, the Census Bureau acknowledged that six states were undercounted in 2020 and eight were overcounted. We’re just supposed to believe it was a coincidence that Mr. Biden’s allies were the beneficiaries in almost every instance. The...

A North Korean soldier was taken into custody by the South after he voluntarily crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two Koreas on Sunday, Seoul's military said. The soldier was seeking to "to defect to the South", a defense ministry official said. Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s, with most going overland to neighboring China first, then entering a third country such as Thailand before finally making it to the South. Defections across the land border that divides the peninsula are relatively rare,...

Can liberals ever be happy? I keep asking myself this question as I hear an increasing number complaining about President Obama. There seems to be a Greek chorus of liberal whining: “I’m disappointed by him.” “I expected more.” “I thought he would be different.” Earlier this week, singer Jackson Browne, a vocal 2008 Obama supporter, lamented that President Obama is “…just as beholden to the people who put him in office as any of the Republicans would be.”

Tipping culture in the US appears to have become so extreme that some staff now think that customers who do not leave a gratuity are breaking the law. At least, that's what some restaurant workers seem to think, judging by a viral video this week that shows a dramatic confrontation between employees and a customer. The clip has reignited a broader debate over whether tipping in America has spiraled out of control, raising questions about 'tipflation,' social pressure, and the expectations placed on diners. It shows the tense aftermath after a man allegedly left a restaurant without tipping his wait...

Those who think that Israel is guilty of genocide as if that is something unique to the Middle East, are obviously blind to the the entire region of the Balkans and Ukraine. This is the motherland of ethnic cleansing and genocide that the Western Press is paid to ignore. Trying to achieve peace in the Balkans may be more difficult than getting it to snow in Hell. The Balkans’ ethnic tensions stem from a mix of historical, political, and cultural factors that have compounded over centuries. Ukraine may not be in the Balkans and is technically part of Eastern Europe,...

When the Planned Parenthood clinic in Marquette closed in April, it was the only clinic providing abortion medication in the Upper Peninsula. Healthcare options were already limited in the vast, remote region. The next-closest Planned Parenthood clinic is now a roughly five-hour drive south. While the Planned Parenthood clinic in Marquette didn’t offer procedural abortion, it did provide more than a thousand patients per year services like cancer screenings, birth control and medication abortion. “All of these reproductive health care services, for a big chunk of the population here, were put into jeopardy,” said Dr. Viktoria Koskenoja, a local emergency...

The taxpayer-funded deal was also labeled as ‘confidential.’ Chicago, Baltimore, sure they’re bad, but I don’t think any part of the country has a political class as completely insane, corrupt and entitled as California does. Unlike some of the blighted urban areas, SoCal isn’t naturally that dysfunctional, much of this is a choice, a choice to run a state and key cities like they were a UCLA campus takeover but with lots more money at stake. This is the work of a political class that has become self-electing and self-selecting to the point that being forced to run for office…...

Hamas is an irredeemable terrorist cartel that subverts Gaza, uses civilians as shields, and must be dismantled and barred from power before any genuine peace can begin. Hamas was born and exists to kill Jews, seek the destruction of Israel, and, to some extent, overthrow or subvert pro-Western Arab governments. Period. For those ends, it diverted billions of dollars from the people of Gaza to build a vast subterranean labyrinth of military headquarters and arsenals. It expropriated hospitals, mosques, and schools for use as tunnel entries and exits, using expendable civilian shields to protect its rich terrorist hierarchy. Hamas always...

A former abortion clinic worker in the state of Arizona has revealed alarming practices that, according to her, reflect severe ethical and legal negligence within the abortion industry. The former employee reported that medical instruments that were already worn out or had damage, such as small broken pieces, were not completely discarded but instead sent to Mexico and other Latin American countries, even at times when abortion was illegal in most of the region. According to her testimony, the clinics where she followed an informal protocol: any instrument that did not meet US safety standards—whether due to wear, cracks, or...

In fairness to the English remnant of the Church of England, let’s hear what Archbishop of Canterbury and LGBT advocate Sarah Mullally has to say about protecting children from perverts who groom them for sexual exploitation: *must see video on link* That must be what people mean when they say, “The silence was deafening.” You can see why the church’s Christian contingent has broken off.

...Organizers said about 2,600 No Kings events were planned across nearly every state, and that it projected a bigger turnout than the 5 million it said attended its previous nationwide action in June...

Democrat politicians have traded public service for self-service and are now nothing but a hindrance to the positive growth and success of our country. The Left’s childish tantrums, antipathy, and subtle nods to violence against Republicans are getting old. This weekend’s “No King Rally” didn’t even have a coherent message. Like throwing pasta against a wall, leftists are throwing debunked talking points to see what sticks. Unfortunately for them, they are deaf and blind to the fatigue caused by their behavior and the silliness of their latest spectacle that succeeded only in raising the temperature of the nation another few...

Sir Sadiq Khan has been accused of "turning a blind eye" to rape gangs in London after a new investigation claimed to find evidence of a "cover-up" in the capital. The investigation, conducted by The Daily Express and My London, revealed young girls had been raped in hotels by groups of men. However, Sir Sadiq was accused of ignoring concerns about grooming gangs operating in London following a spat with City Hall Conservative Susan Hall. The details of at least six potential victims were documented in the pages of four different His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue...

The “No Kings” protests have come and gone. We still have no kings. Good work, I suppose. In the meanwhile, this weekend’s spate of rallies across the nation — which brought together hundreds of thousands of leftists with an inchoate agenda but a shared dislike of democratically elected President Donald Trump and the democratically elected Republican Congress — certainly produced its share of viral fodder, none of it particularly helpful to the cause of the progressive movement that thought angrily celebrating our 91,051st day without a king was a great idea. Take Chicago, where a man told a crowd that...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(10/20/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleJob 28:23-2823 God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells, 24 for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. 25 When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters, 26 when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm, 27 then he looked at wisdom and appraised it; he confirmed it and tested it. 28 And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is...

When we think of whom to thank for Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, we should not forget to mention Joe Biden’s press secretary.

Jaimie Dimon is the Chairman and CEO of America’s largest bank, JP Morgan Chase. In an exclusive interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Dimon said he believed the United States should invest in more military hardware. From bbc.com : Global security has been a recent focus for the JP Morgan boss, with his letter to shareholders earlier this year warning the US would run out of missiles in seven days of a South China Sea war.Reflecting on how the world could combat risk factors, he pointed to greater military investment.“People talk about stockpiling things like crypto, I always say...

In the video, Harold Weinbrecht, the mayor of Cary, and TJ Cully, the mayor of Morrisville, are seen grooving to the iconic song 'Chunri-Chunri' alongside other performers at an event. Diwali 2025 In America: Diwali, a festival that marks the victory of good over evil and is one of the major festivals in India, illuminates the US cities as the Indian community abroad celebrates the occasion. The festive spirit can also be seen in many countries around the world, with North Carolina, USA, being a glittering example. Two mayors in North Carolina danced their hearts out to the tunes of...