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One year since President Joe Biden cancelled approval for the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and the United States’ thirst for oil is as strong as ever and rising. U.S. oil imports from Saudi Arabia and Russia have increased, and gasoline prices are higher than they have been in the last five years.

Jihadist groups are believed to have been present in Azerbaijan since at least February, it was claimed on Oct. 27, with Turkey accused of shipping in militia, including a Uyghur Muslim terror group, the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP). The Islamist fighters are thought to have been mobilized from their bases in Syria to join Azeri forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, where they are fighting against Armenia. Despite Turkey initially denying the presence of the jihadists, film footage and photographs have since corroborated reports which began circulating in the Syrian press in August. The mobilization of Turkish troops was reported in...

Many pieces of the spying scandal on Trump are emerging today. We know from both Mike Cernovich on Twitter (yes, he DOES have good info) and Eli Lake that Susan Rice requested the names in the "surveillance" to be "unmasked" (i.e., for the people on the wiretaps to be laid naked to the world). We know Rice's name is on a security log somewhere, as per all rules, regulations, and practicies, in which she asked for said "unmasking." We, or the FBI if it ever chooses to do its job, can find said log very easily. We know---that is, any...

“To me the (Cuba) embargo question is no question at all. Of course, we should keep the embargo in place.”  (Donald Trump June 25, 1999.)“I think its fine. I think its fine…The concept of opening with Cuba is fine..but we should have made a better deal.” (Donald Trump Sept. 8, 2015.)So what happened? What caused this “anti-establishment” Republican candidate to join hands on this issue with The Council on Foreign Relations, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Trilateral Commission, The Davos Group, The Organization of American States, The United Nations, the Congressional...

The White House wanted Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to lie on Sunday talk shows to downplay the part Social Security played in driving the deficit, it was revealed today. Geithner writes in his memoir Stress Test, out today, that the White House communications director asked him to downplay the long term cost of Social Security spending to mollify the Democratic Party's base. 'I remember during one Roosevelt Room prep session before I appeared on the Sunday shows, I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn't contribute to the deficit. It wasn't a main driver of our...

A pro-life group called on California Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi to “exercise your duties as a public servant and a Catholic, or have the honesty to formally renounce them,” in a widely-circulated open letter Wednesday. “Public servants are supposed to be able to tell the difference between serving the public and killing the public. Apparently, you can’t,” wrote national director of Priests for Life Father Frank Pavone. “Otherwise, you would have been able to explain the difference between a legal medical procedure that kills a baby inside the womb and an act of murder.” Pavone’s letter was written in response...

WMD Found in Iraq According to the latest batch of Wikileak documents. In particular, coalition troops kept coming across numerous artillery shells filled with mustard gas. Remember the terms of Section 8 of UN resolution 687 that ended the first Gulf War: Iraq shall unconditionally accept the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless, under international supervision, of: (a) All chemical and biological weapons and all stocks of agents and all related subsystems and components and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities Thus the instance of a single chemical weapon in Iraq violates the terms that ended the Gulf War, and...

Sen. Harry Reid and Sharron Angle are locked in a dead heat, says a new poll for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and KLAS-TV, Channel 8 that shows the GOP challenger regaining ground after going on the offensive with a TV ad blaming Reid for Nevada's deep economic troubles. The high-profile contest with implications for President Barack Obama's agenda promises to be a bare-knuckled fight to the finish as voters decide between Reid's promise that the recovery is coming under Democrats and Angle's call for a new conservative fiscal direction, analysts said. "This race is always going to be close," said...

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SEOUL: North Korea’s defence minister warned Saturday that a pre-emptive strike is not the monopoly of the United States, in comments carried by the North’s official news agency. “We will never sit with arms folded and watch until the US attacks us,” said Kim Il Chol, vice marshal of the North’s Korean People’s Army, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. “A pre-emptive strike is not the monopoly of the US,” he said. The warning, which is not new, came as North Korea’s top nuclear envoy was in Japan for a security conference that also is drawing his counterparts...

Pope Benedict Says Teach Youth the Holiness of Marriage, Value of Human Life Says embryos in earliest stages of life are fully human By Gudrun Schultz VATICAN CITY, April 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI said there is a need to teach young people about the holiness of marriage, and to educate them within a Christian context, in two addresses over the past three days. Speaking to the Bishops of the Ivory Coast Monday, the Holy Father said young people must be better taught about the holiness of the marriage vocation and the great potential it offers for sanctity....

Navy QB accused of rape could face further charges The Associated Press - WASHINGTON Navy quarterback Lamar Owens could face additional charges stemming from the investigation of his alleged rape of a fellow academy midshipman in January, a Navy officer reviewing the case said Thursday. Owens, from Savannah, Ga., is already charged in military court with rape, conduct unbecoming an officer and committing indecent assault. He may have also violated an order that he stay away from the alleged victim. He also allegedly had hundreds of pornographic images on his academy computer. Thursday marked the second day of an Article...