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If you use Microsoft Outlook — or, God be with you, if you're one of the unlucky millions who have to use Teams — then you were probably aware that much of the Microsoft network apparently got zapped into oblivion yesterday. As CNBC reports: Microsoft suffered a widespread outage on Thursday and Friday, as engineers scrambled to fix server issues that caused disruption to millions of its customers. By "widespread," they mean "no one in 74 different countries could use Microsoft services." Connectivity issues began shortly before 1 p.m. ET on Thursday and continued into Friday, with Outlook and Teams,...

Image from commons.wikimedia.org by CarlosXVIG CC Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license scaled by Dean Weingarten U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Rudyard Kipling has long been a favorite author of mine. My parents had two volumes of his collected works, which included The Jungle Book, Kim, a number of short stories and poems. To a budding bibliophile teenager who loved the outdoors, they were magic carpet rides into the exotic.I have much appreciated his poem, The Gods of the Copybook Headings. It is a complement to common sense, tradition, and hard-won, practical conservatism. The wisdom it speaks of comes mostly from The Bible, with...

The ‘affordability’ problem has been solved. Gina Hinojosa, Jpardo210, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0. Texas had a pretty shocking election, but at least the good news is that the ‘affordability’ problem has been solved… in that we’ll never heard about it again from the media except to assure Texans that everything is affordable now and if they don’t think so, they’re a bunch of bigots. Gov-Elect Hinojosa is tackling ‘affordability’ by promising to dismantle border security and free illegal aliens. The new Attorney General Nathan Johnson is pledging to ensure ‘affordability’ by blocking the construction of a border wall and...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made a rather important announcement on X: "The OSS is back." The OSS is back. — Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) November 12, 2026 Built by some of WWII’s most visionary minds, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) carried American resolve into the hardest places and against the most determined enemies. It embodied the determination of Americans who believed they could achieve the impossible. Today, after 81 years, the OSS returns. The OSS post noted that the redesignation strengthens the Special Operations Forces representation within the Department of War and "reaffirms America’s commitment to the forces entrusted...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico admitted that he was shocked by a private conversation with Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky about the war between Ukraine and Russia. ve no right to reveal the details and never do, but I had a private conversation with the Ukrainian prime minister and was shocked by it,” Fico said. He stressed that his reaction primarily concerned information related to the war and its possible further course. Fico made the comments during a press conference in Bratislava on Tuesday. “Literally shocked when it comes to the war and further developments in the future,” he added....

LULING, La. — A 79-year-old grandmother, Abigail Sampey, was fatally struck by a car last week while walking near her home in Luling, Louisiana, leaving her family and community mourning her loss. Sampey’s family described her as a pillar of the St. Charles Parish community, where she spent many years working in the school system. “There wasn’t a day, no matter how mad or upset you were, that you went around that lady and you didn’t have a smile on your face,” Landon Sampey, Abigial's grandson, said. Her daughter, Angelle Sampey, shared the pain of losing her mother in a...

In 2024, Democrats used a coordinated network of social media influencers to make affordability the defining issue of the midterms, and they’ll do it again. If you think the title of this blog is an exaggeration, trust me, it’s not. Months before the midterm elections, an organization infiltrated the social media network with the lie that affordability was the driving issue in this country. And through their network, they convinced voters it was true. It was a lie, and it cost Republicans the election. How did this happen? The Democrat party has formed the American Accountability Network, which can be...

But our problems start in the classroom, not at the polls. Our K-12 educational system is an unmitigated disaster. Huge numbers of American youth cannot even read at grade level. Teachers' unions vote Democrat and wield enormous political clout despite failing schools. And every day brings more headlines about political, cultural and sexual indoctrination that takes place in grade schools and high schools. Higher education is just as bad, if not worse. Tenured faculty can promote insidious and societally corrosive ideologies like communism without accountability. And where do you think the K-12 teachers come from? A miseducated population is easily...

2:00 VIDEO AT LINK................ More: https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2121035486818980205 🚨 JUST IN: Democrats are plotting to not only legally target private individuals but people DOWN THE CHAIN within the MILITARY This is DISGUSTING! REP. COMER: "They're NOT focused on affordability, even though that's what all of their campaign ads said, and that's what they used to deceive the American people." 🎯 "They're going to be focused on settling scores. That's it. That's their number one priority." Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) said "people down the chain at the Pentagon who carried out these orders need to be INVESTIGATED" She's already pushed articles of impeachment...

The general manager of the Washington Metro, the U.S. capital’s rapid transit system, mooted Thursday the possibility of hiking bus fares and cutting service amid a budget deficit and rampant bus evasion. Randy Clarke exclusively told 7News that the Metro is hard-pressed to find funding to keep its current service rate. “We’re going to have a deficit in [the fiscal year starting next summer] even on top of a fare increase,” Clarke told 7News. “So it’s our job in two weeks to come back to the board and talk about some more optionality around even a higher fare increase, service...

Smart people know there are lines you just don’t cross. Now that Democrats have taken control of Congress, they’ve dropped the fiction that there is any such thing as a “moderate” Democrat. Even the “moderates” prior to election day/week/month are now coming out as DSA faithful. Moderates like Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro: He’s now all in for packing the Supreme Court. He’s also all in for gun control, and so are Texas Governor Gina Hinojosa and Minnesota Governor Amy Klobuchar. But wait a minute! Aren’t all the democrats, state and federal, supposed to be laser-focused on affordability? On lowering gas,...

A new Frontier Airlines Airbus was forced to make an emergency landing after water from the airplane's bathroom flooded the cabin. Frontier Airlines Flight 3566 took off from Denver International Airport on Wednesday at 11.03MST en route to Detroit Metro Airport, but was diverted after a faucet broke, according to air traffic recordings and flight tracking data. The new Airbus twin-jet made an emergency landing at Chicago O'Hare International Airport just before 2pmCST as pilots feared the water could come into contact with electronics. 'Mayday, mayday, mayday. We'd like to declare an emergency. Our forward lav sink has sprung a...

Proposed legislation would change the state constitution and create a redistricting commission, removing the elected members of the Texas Legislature and executive branch from the process. Filed by State Rep. Ann Johnson (D-Houston), the proposed Texas Redistricting Commission (HB 162 and HJR 27) would have nine members, eight of whom would be evenly selected by the majority and minority parties. A ninth member would be appointed by the eight and serve to break ties. The commission would have the “sole responsibility to create districts for the election of members of the United States House of Representatives, the Texas House of...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (11/13/26)[Prayer]The Scriptures in Handel’s “Messiah”Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Holy Bible, The King James Version________________________

In case you are not keeping up with events on the Harvard campus, you should know that the graduate students and various other academic hangers-on at that elite institution have recently gone out “on strike.” After all, nothing screams “oppression” of the proletariat like the suffering of a Harvard graduate student. Ira Stoll has a report at the Washington Free Beacon on November 9. Excerpt: The strike by Harvard graduate students that has disrupted teaching and learning on the campus is escalating as it stretches into its third week, with a second United Auto Workers union of Harvard "academic workers"...

Franklin Graham joins Sean Hannity for a powerful discussion about the end times, the Antichrist, the mark of the beast, and whether modern technology is bringing biblical prophecy closer to reality. On Hang Out with Sean Hannity, Graham shares his beliefs about heaven and hell, the Book of Revelation, a future one-world system, and how today's technology could change the world.

Harris County is not only the home of Houston, it’s also the home of the largest illegal alien population in Texas and the second largest in the country (after Los Angeles) which is occupied by an estimated half a million illegal aliens. The county had gone from a 14% foreign population in 1990 to a 26% foreign-born population. Harris County has 1.3 million immigrants and 78.7% of its population growth came from foreign migration. During the controversial 2026 midterms, Harris County’s voter turnout shot up 7.5%, breaking its previous midterm election turnout record, and its 1,383,480 votes cast (65.6% for...

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Ninety minutes. That was the length of the United Nations webinar I participated in last week. For ninety minutes, I listened to people discuss how to better expand abortion around the world. Not once did I hear the kind of urgency one might expect when discussing women living in some of the poorest, most medically neglected regions of the world. No serious discussion of the woman hemorrhaging in a village without electricity. No anguished concern for the frightened teenager facing complications miles from the nearest hospital. Instead, I heard about “indicators, implementation strategies, reporting systems, and expanded access.” And how...