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Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has alleged that staffers for former Vice President Kamala Harris questioned whether he was a double agent of Israel when vetting him as a potential 2024 running mate. Writing in his new memoir, Where We Keep the Light, the prominent Democrat governor alleged that the former vice president’s vetting team scrutinized his views on Israel, mostly due to his being Jewish. “Had I been a double agent for Israel?” Shapiro wrote in describing his offended response to a last-minute question from the vetting team. When he called out the question for its obvious antisemitic overtones,...

VIDEOIt's waaaay beyond the merely political. As you can see in this compendium it is MENTAL in many cases. Yes, many/most of the anti-ICE wackos are Commies but they also suffer from SEVERE mental health issues as you can see.

The Kremlin has announced that Vladimir Putin has been invited to join Donald Trump’s “board of peace”, set up last week with the intention that it would oversee a ceasefire in Gaza. The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists on Monday that Russia was seeking to “clarify all the nuances” of the offer with Washington, before giving its response. The claim of an invitation comes with Putin showing no signs of ending his invasion of Ukraine, in which hundreds of thousands have been killed and Russian troops have carried out atrocities against civilians. The Russian president has repeatedly rejected proposals...

Exclusive: Diocese of Charlotte reacts to first Sunday after altar rail banIn the Diocese of Charlotte, Bishop Michael Martin’s pastoral letter of December 17, 2025 ordered that altar rails, kneelers and prie-dieux be removed from public Masses by Friday, January 16.As the first Sunday Masses without altar rails unfolded this weekend, reports from across the diocese indicated anything but uniform compliance. While some parishes removed temporary kneelers and adjusted Communion lines, others made no immediate changes, awaiting Vatican clarification on a dubia submitted by more than 30 priests. The result has been a patchwork of responses indicating deep frustration with...

Record snowfall buries buildings and towns in Russia’s Kamchatka. I promise to never complain about 6 inches of snow in New York again.

Desperate to generate events that will help push the fraud scandal out of the current news, Gov. Tim (D) and Mayor Jacob Frey (D) have been goading folks to continue their efforts to impede ICE's enforcement activities. Some of these efforts include: At an ICE traffic stop, agents attempted to arrest Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, an illegal alien from Venezuela with previous arrests and convictions. Sosa-Celis resisted arrest, fled in his car and was pursued by one of the ICE agents. After Sosa-Celis crashed into another car he attempted to flee on foot, and was tackled by the ICE agent. During...

What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is Amelia? Pathways is an educational visual novel and learning experience created by the U.K. media company Shout Out UK, with funding from the U.K. government's Prevent program, run by the Home Office. The game is meant to teach the youth about the dangers of radicalization and extremism in both real life and online. This is done by putting players in the role of a character named Charlie, who must navigate six different scenarios relating to extremism. In the second scenario, the player is introduced to the character Amelia, a staunch anti-immigration protestor depicted as...

Just a thought. How would you add to this thought. How did it happen that Minnesota gave us both Joe McCarthy and Ilhan Omar. Does it mean anything?

President Donald Trump has blown up another Senate GOP primary, throwing Republicans into turmoil and giving Senate Majority Leader John Thune a blistering headache. Trump’s decision to endorse GOP Rep. Julia Letlow – who isn’t even formally in the Louisiana Senate race — over incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.) puts the president at loggerheads with Thune, meddling in a safe Republican state. Thune has endorsed Cassidy, and the pair were in Baton Rouge together last week.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre replied Monday to President Donald Trump’s highly controversial letter linking his desire to acquire Greenland to being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is given out by a committee of five chosen by the Norwegian parliament. “I can confirm that this is a text message that I received yesterday afternoon from President Trump. It came in response to a short text message from me to President Trump sent earlier on the same day, on behalf of myself and the President of Finland Alexander Stubb,” Støre replied, adding: "In our message to Trump we...

Sen. Bernie Sanders has served on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s board for 18 years, but hasn’t attended a single meeting — inspiring a bipartisan push to oust him, The Post has learned. Sanders (I-Vt.) was appointed in 2007 to the Holocaust Memorial Council, which meets twice a year to oversee the landmark DC museum located about 2 miles from the Capitol. Records supplied to The Post by museum staff show that Sanders, who mainstreamed democratic socialism with grassroots campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, has missed every meeting of the board since his appointment. “There...

When news broke of the massive child nutrition fraud in Minnesota, many Americans reacted with disbelief. During the pandemic, roughly $250 million intended to feed hungry children was siphoned off, prosecutors say, and spent on luxury cars, real estate, and other indulgences. To most people, it appeared to be a shocking betrayal of public trust. To me, it felt unsettlingly familiar. Decades ago, long before Minnesota became synonymous with one of the largest fraud cases in U.S. history, I had an experience in Somalia that permanently altered my perspective on aid, trust, and good intentions. It is why I...

More than 10,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Minneapolis since the start of the second Trump administration, with 3,000 cuffed in the last six weeks alone, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. “PEACE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN MINNEAPOLIS!” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem proclaimed in a post on X. Those arrested, Noem said, “were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis because Tim Walz and Jacob Frey refuse to protect their own people and instead protect criminals.” Frey raised eyebrows on Sunday when he compared ICE’s immigration crackdown in his city to an “invasion” by the federal...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro claimed that former Vice President Kamala Harris' election team asked whether he was an "agent of the Israeli government" while discussing his potential as a vice presidential candidate.

Russia launched a barrage of ⁠drone strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight on Monday, cutting off power in five regions across the country amid freezing temperatures and high demand, Ukrainian officials said. The Ukrainian air force said that Russian troops had launched 145 drones. Air defense units shot ‍down 126 of them, it said. "As of this morning, consumers in ‍Sumy, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions are without power," the energy ministry said in a statement. "Emergency repair work is underway ⁠if the security situation allows." In the southern Odesa region, energy and gas infrastructure was damaged, the regional...

On his first day in office, Jay Jones, Virginia’s 49th attorney general, announced a broad slate of legal actions and policy reviews that he said are aimed at protecting Virginians, lowering costs and defending constitutional and civil rights. In a statement released from Richmond, Jones said his office will begin joining or advancing multiple lawsuits involving the federal government, while also launching a 30-day review of all existing litigation involving the Commonwealth. The review will assess which cases Virginia should continue, withdraw from or newly enter.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Antifa has flooded the streets of Minneapolis to protest against violence by viciously beating innocent bystanders. In objection to perceived harsh tactics by masked ICE agents, the protesters have donned masks and begun pummeling hapless citizens who wander too close. "This will teach them to be more civil," said local protester Dani Markham, as she dragged a random old man out of his car. "We're going to stand up to these ICE goons by beating this old man within an inch of his life. Bite the curb, old-timer. No more violence in Minneapolis!" According to witnesses, Antifa...

Three American men in their sixties, two of them brothers, and one a friend, were brutally murdered while on a trip in Florida. Their killer is named “Jihad.” The authorities are searching for a motive for what they are calling a “senseless” attack. Ahmad Jihad Bojeh, 29, was arrested for the “cold-blooded” murders of the three tourists staying next door to his home in Kissimmee on Saturday, Osceola County Sheriff Christopher Blackmon announced during a press conference. Those two were identified as Robert Lewis Kraft, 70, of Holland, Michigan, and his brother Douglas Joseph Kraft, 68, of Columbus, Ohio, whom...

Republican senators have asked the Justice Department to investigate a Minneapolis-based charity, which nearly landed $1 million in taxpayer money courtesy of Rep. Ilhan Omar, saying it shows signs of being a fraudulent operation. The nonprofit group Generation Hope MN bills itself as a “Somali-led” organization offering drug addiction recovery services. It says it helps “East African youth” get “culturally specific treatment.” Republican Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Mike Lee of Utah said something about the operation is fishy, such as its locations. One is a shared space with a Somali restaurant, and the other is a home in...

Venturing into the icy seas around Greenland can be unforgiving and unpredictable. Steffen Andersen, a seasoned skipper preparing his six-man trawler for a fishing trip along the craggy coast, was in the mood to complain. He had recently hired a 16-year-old local to work with him, but he grumbled that the towering Danish-owned factory ships docked along the nearby quayside more often hired immigrants. “Those who use Filipinos, they are the Danes,’’ he said. Greenland is increasingly reliant on migrant labour to keep seafood factories, restaurants and its fishing fleet running — critical for an economy overwhelmingly dependent on fisheries...