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“Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez completed her egg-freezing journey and vowed to continue sharing updates, despite complaining last week about the “negativity” she’s faced for her social media postings on the process. The 36-year-old Bronx and Queens congresswomen took her nearly 10 million Instagram followers along for the final day of the two week process — egg retrieval day — documenting the day starting at 5:30 a.m., in a post shared on Saturday. Ocasio-Cortez was decked out in skincare eye masks for the procedure, which she thought “was a really nice way to bring some lightness to this process,” she said....

Within thirty years, communism is seeing the strangest of resurgences, particularly in the U.S. One governor is pushing back on that sea of ignorance. He's using basic education. It's the same principle as de-Nazification which followed in Europe shortly after the end of World War II. Florida is a magnet for productive and dynamic people and will only get bigger as a state as a result of its policies, which includes realism about history.

An Ohio doctor who published a study on “violent and homicidal” adolescents was allegedly gunned down by her teen daughter’s boyfriend and his roommate in a planned hit against the mom and her husband. Tamela Dutcher was allegedly shot in the face by Christian Evans and Dajameous Payne during an invasion inside her Delaware County, Ohio, home on Aug. 14, according to court records viewed by The Post. Dutcher, 55, was sitting on the couch when Evans, 20, and Payne, 21, charged into the home and fired a single shot just after midnight, according to WBNS. Dutcher’s husband rushed to...

A major theme of President Trump’s critics is that he is corrupt. As a couple of examples, here is Elizabeth Warren on July 26 calling Trump “the most corrupt president of the United States any time in American history”; and here is a piece from the Guardian on August 11 calling Trump’s second term “the most openly corrupt” presidency ever. There are hundreds more where those came from. But is there anything to this? As long time readers here are aware, my view is that politics is inherently corrupt. In this way, politics differs from business, because in business it...

Have you ever seen a medical professional, or do you anticipate seeing one in your life? For most of us, the answer is yes. For all of us, the quality of education provided to medical professionals is of vital importance because we live in a world where public health professionals can rule over us in many respects. So something like this should scare the hell out of you:Jeffrey Flier @jflier · Follow The editorial standards of the @NEJM must be questioned for deciding to publish this article as it is presented below. Such terrible judgement. Jason Arday and the Perils...

Tesla Inc. TSLA has landed an order for 500 Semi electric trucks from Einride AB ENRD, in what the Swedish freight company calls the largest Tesla Semi deployment announced to date. The deal comes just months after the first Semi rolled off Tesla’s new high-volume production line in Nevada, a milestone that arrived years behind schedule. Einride announced the Tesla deal alongside its first-half results Tuesday, forecasting constant-currency revenue growth of 60% to 73% in the second half, accelerating from 26% in the first half. Einride shares surged 18% in premarket trading Tuesday. Tesla Semis Will Haul Freight for Amazon,...

Because Donald Trump comes from the business world, unlike his predecessors in office, he has made it clear he prefers negotiating with adversaries to war, and economic strangulation when negotiating with them fails. From Genesis on, the naming of things has been deemed significant. Leftist pols know this and are careful how they label what they are doing. The right, not so much. Earlier this month I wrote about the ridiculous D.C. federal courts' efforts to halt construction of what has been called the “Trump Ballroom.” I think it’s time to call this what it really is: the renovation of...

Hertfordshire: A sealed cave rediscovered by accident - carved with Christian symbols, pagan marks, and apotropaic signs. This hidden chamber has been linked to Knights Templar theories, Holy Grail legends, Reformation-era secret worship, and the life of a medieval wayside hermit. Inside the chamber are carvings of knights, crucifixion scenes, protective marks, and a figure many identify as the medieval king Richard I - all cut directly into the chalk. Some theories point to Templar connections and the Holy Grail, others to hidden worship during the Reformation or a solitary hermit carving his devotion into the walls. What's certain is...

I hope you caught the bikers rounding in on Dearborn, Michigan this week where Islamists have slithered into positions of power. And I hope you remember that it was the bikers who protected Trump and his supporters during 2015/6, when the roaring against him was universal. That’s just a taste of the army mounting against our elites as they continue their ruinous course, and I include the “conservative” elites in this. Across what we must start to call ‘civilization’, because it includes Korea and Japan, the invasion of the barbarian army and their genocidal Marxist enablers is screeching to a...

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The Talk Shows Aug 23rd, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz; Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.); Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.); Former Trump Admin FDA Administrator Scott Gottlieb; Neel Kashkari, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy; Pato O’Ward, Mexican IndyCar Series auto race driver; Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.). Panel: Josh Holmes, Meghan Hays and Josh Wingrove. MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.); Sen. Chris Van...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (8/23/26)[Prayer]PersonalitiesPsalm 1BOOK I Psalms 1–41 Psalm 1 1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. 3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers. 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that...

Lucifer can only succeed when humanity is at its basest and lowest point. That is when he is most powerful. His goal is just that: to reduce man spiritually and reduce him to a carnal and base state of non-absolutes and godless delusions to further his demonic agenda at all costs. It is ALL about him (Isa. 14:12-14)! He is fallen humanity's slave master and exploits man's fallen nature for his evil delusional designs of self-worship and absolute power (Isa. 14:12-14, Eph. 2:1-3; 6:10-12, 1 John 5:19). The more that a man’s soul consumes, the more that a man’s soul...

SELAH, MY CHILD SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, Selah; to pause, to consider, and think on these things! Throughout our pilgrim journey, Almighty God calls us not merely to pass through life's joys, trials, blessings, disappointments, victories, and tears, but to consider and meditate on what the Lord is teaching us through them all prayerfully. Nothing that ever enters the life of God's child is outside of His ETERNAL sovereign knowledge and agape loving care. Whether my circumstance appears favorable or unfavorable, our Heavenly Father can use it to disciple us, teach us, and continually conform us into the image of His...

President Trump touted progress on the White House ballroom project on Saturday morning, a day after the Supreme Court temporarily permitted construction work to continue. “Tremendous work has been done on the magnificent BALLROOM/MILITARY COMPLEX being built on the grounds of the White House!” the president wrote on Truth Social, alongside a photo of the construction site. The ballroom project has faced a series of litigation and public scrutiny over reports that the Trump administration planned to use money appropriated by Congress to other agencies. Trump had previously told reporters that private donors would cover the $400 million construction project...

"[Love] rejoices with the truth" (1 Cor. 13:6). Love never compromises God’s Word. Paul has just given us a list of things that love does not do: become jealous, brag, act arrogantly or unbecomingly, seek its own, become provoked, keep track of wrongs suffered, or rejoice in unrighteousness. Now he comes to the first of five things love does: "[Love] rejoices with the truth" (v. 6). The contrast in verse 6 is between love's inability to rejoice in unrighteousness and its joy when truth prevails. "Truth" refers to God's Word, which is the standard of righteousness. Paul could have said,...

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Iran appears to be losing its grip on the Strait of Hormuz while traffic through the critical waterway has exploded by nearly 400% over the last two weeks — as ships increasingly use a US-backed corridor to cross. Nearly 200 ships navigated the strait last week, up from 150 the previous week and just 40 two weeks earlier, according to data from the UK Maritime Trade Operations Center. The surge brings total traffic along the passage route to about 20% of pre-war levels, through which roughly 20% of the world’s seaborne oil flowed in peacetime. Activity in Hormuz ground to...

This macroeconomic documentary argues that Germany is experiencing a structural, irreversible deindustrialization due to a combination of self-imposed policy failures, high energy costs, and bureaucratic paralysis. The creator posits that Germany is essentially executing a modern version of the 1944 Morgenthau Plan (0:00–1:15), resulting in a collapsing middle class and a declining standard of living that may soon fall below that of Mississippi (1:23–3:45). Key themes include: The Breakdown of the German Business Model: Germany’s economy previously relied on a "geopolitical arbitrage" of cheap Russian natural gas and high-end manufacturing exports to China. With these pillars compromised, the nation is...

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