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John Schwartz of the New York Times has published a piece on the reaction of some conservatives to an ad by Keep America Safe asking for the DOJ to identify government lawyers who previously represented or advocated on behalf of terrorists. The Times, of course, was eager to highlight dissent within conservatives’ ranks over the controversial advertisement.  The conservative critics argue that the lawyers’ work on behalf of detainees is a strictly noble pursuit. They point to John Adams’ representation of British soldiers after the Boston massacre as evidence that the lawyers are simply the heirs of a longstanding...

In 2001, digital cameras were a rare commodity. They were expensive, bulky and captured images that were inferior to the organic look of film. After you downloaded and edited those whopping 3.1 megapixel images, you had very few options of where you could publish them online. Remember when Shutterfly and Snapfish were a thing? Contrast that to today where you have people shooting magazine covers on cell phones and uploading over 500,000 images to Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook every minute. We don’t hear about national tragedies on the news anymore, we read about them in our Twitter and Facebook...

The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released on the anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel. An additional $4.86 billion has gone into stepped-up U.S. military operations in the region since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, researchers said in findings first provided to The Associated Press. That includes the costs of a Navy-led campaign to quell strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, who...

Uzay Bulut @bulutuzay_: İsmet Özel, a well-known Muslim poet from Turkey, said at a conference: "Muslims are terrorists. The first duty of Muslims is to be terrorists. Kafirs [infidels] should be afraid of Muslims. If they are not afraid, then a Muslim is not a Muslim." https://t.co/oyNMAnLP7E — Uzay Bulut (@bulutuzay_) September 27, 2024.

Grand Rapids police are investigating recent swatting incidents in which 911 callers falsely report a serious crime at a specific place. The incidents happened at Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown and a restaurant, police said. It is uncertain if the calls were related. “Swatting, or calling 911 to falsely report a serious crime occurring at a specific address, ties up police and other emergency responders, creates confusion and concern in and around the reported location, leads to rumors and misinformation being spread online and in the community, and generally causes chaos,” police said in a statement Tuesday, Oct. 10. Such...

It is quite possible that terror master Imad Mughniyeh was not killed Tuesday night in Damascus for his past crimes, but to prevent him from carrying out additional attacks in the future. On January 30, French security services raided a Paris apartment and arrested six Arab men. Three of the men - two Lebanese and one Syrian - were travelling on diplomatic passports. According to the Italian Libero newspaper, the six were members of a Hizbullah cell. Documents seized included tourist maps of Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin and Rome marked up with red highlighter to indicate routes, addresses, parking lots...

Supporters of the Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah are set to hit the streets of Beirut on Monday after its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called for protests against a film that portrays the Prophet Mohammad as a womanizer and a fool. Lebanon has already seen protests over the Internet video in the mainly Sunni Muslim city of Tripoli. One person was killed and 14 wounded in clashes with security forces on Friday after Islamist protesters set fire to a U.S. fast food restaurant. Nasrallah, who heads the largest armed force in Lebanon, has the ability to muster huge numbers of Shi'ite...

The CIA claims that it never saw the storm coming, but Canadian intelligence sure did. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird landed in Vladivostok, Russia, earlier this month for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and had barely stepped off the plane when he announced that Canada would be pulling its diplomats out of Iran and closing its embassy while kicking all Iranian diplomats out of Canada. At the time, some thought that maybe the minister had a few too many mini vodkas on the ride over. Several days later, when protests and embassy attacks erupted in Islamic nations, and the...

The pledge comes one week after he visited New York City for the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that, as president, he would make Ground Zero in New York a national monument. "I am announcing tonight that as President, I will officially make the Ground Zero site at the World Trade Center a national monument protected and maintained by the United States government, so that hallowed ground and the memory of those who perish there will be preserved for all time, preserved forever," he said at a rally in Uniondale,...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox News Sunday” that the country needed to change course and elect former President Donald Trump to avoid terror attacks. Graham said, “He’s right to want to end the war in a way not to start a new war. The last person I would listen to about how to end the war is the Biden administration or the Obama team. In 2014 we had an end of the war in Ukraine that led to another invasion. Here’s what Trump will do, he will end the war in a way...

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Yahya Sinwar's nephews, I wonder if they will grow up to be peace activists. pic.twitter.com/MMban9Z4vW — Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז (@elikowaz)

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Various past and current elected officials gathered in New York City yesterday to commemorate the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, and his running mate J.D. Vance were among them. The reactions to Trump's presence by some in the crowds were priceless. Take a look: On the day after what the Left is trying to paint as a debate loss for Trump (it wasn't), it's particularly amusing watching Harris and her friends act as if there's nothing going on. Love this so much! That’s got to just infuriate Harris. —...

The United States Secret Service is under fire yet again, this time for “accidentally” including the 19 terrorist hijackers responsible for the September 11 attacks in its “victim” count. The social media post commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the tragedy contained an unforgivable “error,” which forced the agency to issue a swift apology.

Before I get started, I want to make it clear that I think it's great that on a solemn occasion like this, both parties can put their differences aside, shake hands, and pay respects to the lives lost on 9/11. It's something we need to see more of, in my opinion, because at the end of the day, we're all human and the level of divisiveness we're seeing today is not healthy in the long-run. With that said, now watch this drive. After the debate, the left is clamoring for you to believe that Kamala Harris had handily won. While...

The Axis of Evil in American politics is now complete: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, and Kamala Harris are all on the same side. They will compromise on any of their supposed ideological differences and bury old blood-stained hatchets — remember when the Left called Cheney a war profiteer and blood-crazed jingoist? — in pursuit of a higher goal. That goal is keeping power in the hands of tiny, privileged elites who despise most lesser Americans. And centralizing such power in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, including the power to start pointless wars (see Iraq, Libya, and Ukraine), and flood American...

An unforgettable story.Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying. He appears relaxed, hurtling through the air. He appears comfortable...

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A widow whose husband, a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) chief, was killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, blasted President Joe Biden for his comment that he would be “doing 9/11” on Tuesday. Joanne Barbara, the wife of fallen FDNY Chief Gerard “Jerry” A. Barbara, called out Biden at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s ceremony to commemorate the twenty-third anniversary of the attack. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were notably in attendance at the event, as were former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).