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She was the perfect American neighbor — sweet, hardworking and the ideal homemaker. Everybody liked her. She was also a Nazi. The new movie “The Housewife,” which had its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, tells the strange story of Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who hid out undetected for years in New York, before finally being caught. Director Ben Shirinian’s film, starring a Stepford-style Naomi Watts as Ryan, is just OK. The drama is often overplayed. Watts, with a store-bought sauerkraut accent, has been stuck in schmactor mode lately. And...

We All Shook the Hell Out of This Thing There are certain toys that instantly transport me back to being a kid, and the Etch A Sketch is way up there. That chunky red frame, the two white knobs, and that little gray screen where I’d spend ten minutes creating something vaguely squarish, then make one catastrophic wrong turn, and immediately shake the entire thing into oblivion. Annoying, sure. But it still felt like magic.

"Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth" (Eph. 6:14). Truthfulness is the best defense against Satan’s lies. The first piece of armor Paul mentions in Ephesians 6:14 is the belt of truth. Roman soldiers of his day wore a tunic, which was a large square piece of material with holes for the head and arms. A belt kept the tunic from flying loosely and getting in the way in the midst of battle. The phrase "having girded your loins" was commonly used for gathering up the loose material of one's tunic or robe when preparing for battle or...

An MS NOW news crew had to be rescued by eight Border Patrol agents after its SUV became stranded in the remote Texas desert. Antonia Hylton and her crew were reporting from Texas’ Big Bend region for the debut of “The Assignment” when their Jeep Wagoneer bottomed out shortly after a visit to the Alvarado Ranch. “As the sun went down, our Jeep Wagoneer bottomed out in the desert,” Hylton said. The stranded crew needed help from Border Patrol as darkness descended, according to Hylton. “Eight Border Patrol agents in four different trucks came out that night to rescue our...

This past Saturday, Sep. 5, 2026, the German city of Erfurt hosted a so-called Christopher Street Day (CSD) event, which is basically the European version of what in the United States is a ‘gay pride’ parade. The idea behind such an event is for sodomites and aberrosexuals of every kind, as well as their supporters, to walk through the streets while flaunting their attachment to unnatural vice, which they celebrate and glorify. In this manner they also reinforce their social presence and march for greater acceptance, equal rights, etc., ad nauseam. The Christopher Street Day 2026 parade in Erfurt included...

Was America founded as a Christian nation?

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (9/13/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 21[a]For the director of music. A psalm of David. 1 The king rejoices in your strength, Lord. How great is his joy in the victories you give! 2 You have granted him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips.[b] 3 You came to greet him with rich blessings and placed a crown of pure gold on his head. 4 He asked you for life, and you gave it to him— length of days, for ever and ever. 5 Through the victories you gave, his glory is great;...

In a blurry red, visually cryptic post on X.com, Tesla announced the launch date for its long-promised second generation Roadster: 10.01. Although the image and text in the post itself don’t confirm that the announcement is indeed about Roadster, Tesla posted a link to go with it, to the Roadster page on Tesla.com, which makes it indisputable: come October 1, we’re getting a big update on the second-generation Tesla Roadster and it may have rockets mounted on top. Or... big searchlights. Or possibly snow blower nozzles. Who knows? The image is really blurry. If you recall, back on November 16,...

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Newsdump Alert: In Another Jab At The United Kingdom Following Its Imposition Of Sanctions On Israeli Nationalist Settlements US President Donald Trump Speaks Of Ireland Uniting With Northern Ireland Now British Ruled... Newsdump Alert: Wall Street Journal Report Links Chinese Satellite Imagery To Deadly Iranian Attack On US Base In Jordan... "25 years and still we have no justice for the role Saudi Arabia played in your murder" 9/11 Widow Terry Strada Calls Out Lack Of Justice Over Saudi Involvement In The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks... In world smelling of war "Why Can't We Be Friends" this song a big hit...

President Trump had a good idea this week. Send every adult American a $5,000 dividend. My response? Do it. And before Washington starts explaining why it can't, I'd like everybody to grab a calculator. At the Republican convention in Dallas, President Trump talked about $21 trillion in tariff-driven revenue. Now I'm not interested in litigating that number here. I'm not interested in another 900-word argument about tariffs either. For purposes of this conversation, I'm taking the President at his word. Twenty-one trillion dollars. Okay. Now let's do the math. There are roughly 240 million adult citizens in America. Five thousand...

Resonating as strongly as ever, ‘Three Little Birds’ was slow to take flight, but now stands as one of Bob Marley’s most affecting songs.Bob Marley was a gifted songwriter, but sometimes inspiration came to him like a gift received from somewhere else. “Three Little Birds,” a simple, joyful song that has been a hit several times over, was a gift from nature, its writing prompted by the birds that fluttered by the window at 56 Hope Road, Bob’s Tuff Gong HQ, and home during the second half of the 70s. “It was amazing how he put the words together” Bob...

The man born on September 12, 1931 in Saratoga, Texas is still seen by many as the greatest singer in country history.The country legend they called “Possum” was born on September 12, 1931 in Saratoga, Texas, and is still seen by many as the greatest singer in the genre’s history. We must be talking about George Jones. Jones was an incredible presence on the country scene for nearly half a century, from his first hit “Why Baby Why” in 1955 to his last entry to date, “50,000 Names,” in 2002. Along the way, George scored 13 No.1 singles, including such...

The antisemitic Cornell University student who went viral for declaring that he’s “not interested in working for a Jew” has become a pariah among his peers — yet insisted this week he’s a campus celebrity, The Post has learned. Austin Franco, whose unrelenting hate against the Jewish community made headlines, has been faced with hostility since returning to the upstate college for his junior year. “He’s been getting dirty looks, sitting alone in class,” one student, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Post. The Ivy’s student-run newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, slammed the hater as a “grifter” who’s...

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is not a publication most would be familiar with. It is meant as a repository of overviews of big topics in philosophy broadly defined, inclusive of political theory. As such, entries added to it are unlikely to generate strong responses by the experts deeply familiar with each individual entry. Every rule has exceptions though.Image Credit: Custom image by FEE Recently, Chiara Cordelli, a political philosopher at the University of Chicago, delivered her "three years in the making" commissioned piece on "capitalism." The piece went viral. The reason that it sparked such attention is that it...

Daily Readings from the USCCBTwenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time“That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the accounting, a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount. Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property, in payment of the debt.” Matthew 18:23–25Jesus tells this parable in response to Peter, who asked, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive?...

President Donald Trump has a simple proposition for Chinese automakers: if they want American customers, build the factory here and hire American workers.I understand the appeal.Trump said Saturday that he would be comfortable with Chinese companies manufacturing cars in the United States as long as they employ Americans. He contrasted that with Chinese manufacturers building vehicles in Mexico and shipping them north across the border.From Reuters:"If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build their cars here, I'd be okay with that," Trump said in an interview on the Fox News program "The Ingraham Angle.""Japan does it,...

This probably isn't going to be good. San Francisco's Mayor, Daniel Lurie, who ran as a kind of get-things-done moderate in America's most liberal city, just declared a "rent emergency." San Francisco definitely has high rent compared to other parts of the country.In San Francisco, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is more than $4,300, up more than $1,000 from last year, according to Zillow.But what exactly is a "rent emergency"? There's no law in California or in the city that recognizes such a declaration. This is just another PR stunt someone has cooked up. The real question is...

Under President Trump’s leadership, this FBI delivered the most prolific year of crime reduction in U.S. history. 🔻 Murder rate DOWN 20% 🔻 Carjacking DOWN 47% 🔻 Robbery DOWN 17% 🔻 57,000+ criminal arrests 🔻 54,000+ violent crime arrests 🔻 11,000+ child victims located 🔻 5,000+ predators and traffickers arrested 🔻 3,258+ kg of fentanyl seized Eight of the top 10 most wanted fugitives on Earth — off the board. Thank you, Mr. President, for backing the men and women of law enforcement. -DKP 🇺🇸

My, what a difference a few days makes.On Wednesday, it looked like a surprise offensive by Yemeni government forces had knocked Iran's proxies, the Houthis, back on their heels. In just a day of hard fighting, the Houthis had been routed from several strongholds and Yemeni Deputy Defense Minister Samir al-Sabri declared that “the decision has been made to retake Sanaa.”🇾🇪⚡- In the past hour, Presidential Leadership Council forces have launched a major offensive in the al-Bayda' Governorate, southern Yemen.The fighting is no longer confined to a few directions, Yemen is once again engaged in a full-scale civil war, with...