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The Iranian regime's recent actions in sabotaging oil tankers off the shores of the UAE, the attack on Saudi oil facilities, and rocket launches aimed at the US embassy in Iraq are the desperate acts of a regime on its final legs. Stuck in a quagmire of internal crises coupled with international isolation, the regime is resorting to frantic actions that will only accelerate its downfall. The regime in Iran is spiraling downward in an all-out "collapse crisis", which is due to the three following elements: 1. Iranians are on the verge of an uprising Forty years of corruption and...

Miffed by the attention being paid to the heroes of the 1944 Allied sea-borne assault on Nazi-held France, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the D-Day event "relatively insignificant in the broader context of World War II and its aftermath." "The puny efforts of the West pale in comparison with the absolutely essential role played by Russia in the conflict," Zakharova asserted. "First, let's not forget that there wouldn't have been a World War II if Russia had not joined with Germany to get the ball rolling. Their non-aggression pact was key to enabling Hitler to initiate hostilities." "Second,...

There are two ways to tell this story. One of them describes that classic flash of inventive insight. In 1948, Joseph Woodland, a graduate student at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, was pondering a challenge that had been thrown down by a local retailer: Was there any way to speed up the process of checking out in his stores by automating the tedious process of recording the transaction? Woodland was a smart young man. He'd worked on the Manhattan Project during Word War II. As an undergraduate at Crest College he'd designed an improved system for playing elevator music. He...

President Trump was rightfully praised for his D-Day speech, but the press coverage was still "preset" to disallow him "full victory," according to Ben Shapiro. Shapiro, editor of the Daily Wire, claimed the mainstream media concentrated on "ancillary issues" instead of what was truly happening at the commemoration in Normandy, in an appearance Friday on "The Story." "I think he gave one of the great speeches of his presidency, and yet most of the media coverage surrounded ancillary issues that had pretty much nothing to do with what was happening on the ground," Shapiro said. The conservative commentator, however, noted...

The honesty was refreshing albeit highly disturbing: A Muslim Al Quds Day protester in Toronto on June 1 advocates that Canada should be ruled by Sharia law. And that would mean, of course, executing gays. Apparently, he didn’t get Trudeau’s “diversity is our strength” memo. This interview took place during Al Quds Day in Toronto, while is a yearly rally held around the world pushing the belief that Jerusalem belongs to Islam, not the Israelis. And with that belief comes people like our Muslim friend here advocating for replacing Canada’s legal system as well as violent antisemitism. He also confessed...

Is Donald Trump playing chess while his critics play checkers? One economist begrudgingly seems to suggest that might be the case. Gluskin Sheff’s David Rosenberg, who just last month asked if Trump was trying to lose the 2020 election with his tariffs, says the president’s recent moves might all be part of his grand plan to extend his stay in the White House.

Sooo…this is messed up. The New York Times recently published a piece called “Madonna at Sixty,” written by Vanessa Grigoriadis. It explores her ever-changing public persona and such. It’s kind of the typical fluff piece you’d imagine the New York Times would put out about a celebrity: The night before the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas in May, Madonna was sitting in the arena attached to the MGM Grand hotel, staring at a double of herself. The double, who was standing on the stage many yards away, was younger and looked Asian but wore a similar lace minidress and...

Summary of Interview: Dave Janda Interviews Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe on the NSA data collection policies and parallel intelligence platforms, i.e., Hammer and the DNC leak. As Janda notes credits are due to Mary Fanning and Alan Jones investigative work on the topic.

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) A killshot for the ages. – Don’t look now, but President Donald Trump has leveled what is going to be a very, very effective killshot at Nancy Pelosi. He tagged her with it during yesterday’s interview with Fox’s Laura Ingraham, and followed it up this morning with this pair of tweets: Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump · 1h Nervous Nancy Pelosi is a disgrace to herself and her family for having made such a disgusting statement, especially since I was with foreign leaders overseas. There is no evidence for such...

To say the Patriots are a dominant team is an understatement. In 2019 they’ll wrap up the most dominant decade in NFL history. In the decade of 2010 to 2018, the Patriots are 129-37, a winning percentage of .777. As noted by Rene Bugner, New England could go 3-13 in 2019 and still have the best winning percentage of any NFL team in any decade.

Millennials are a mirror that reflect many of society’s problems — or so claims a new report from researchers at Stanford University and other institutions. The report, published Thursday, examines everything from suicide rates to health to homeownership among millennials in their 20s and 30s. “Millennials are the first generation to experience in a full-throttled way the social and economic problems of our time,” said sociology professor David Grusky, director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. “These problems are steam-rolling a generation in a special way because they are bearing the brunt of factors like high inequality, declining...

Are dads’ essential DIY skills in decline? According to new research, millennial dads are less capable than their own dads when it comes to everyday DIY fixes, preferring to rely on professional help instead. A new poll of 1,000 millennial dads and 1,000 baby boomer dads found that when a DIY task needs to be done at home, more than half of millennials prefer to call a professional. And when it comes to emergency “handiness” scenarios, millennial dads fall short in almost every category.

Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Jewish New York Republican joined forces with Democratic Reps. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida and Michigan’s Brenda Lawrence to create the “Black-Jewish Caucus.” The caucus aims to “raise awareness of each community’s sensitivities and needs, in Congress and out, and provide resources to members of Congress to empower them to bring African-American and Jewish communities together, combating stereotypes and hate and showcasing commonalities.” So of course, noted anti-Semite Linda Sarsour was FURIOUS: "Lee Zeldin is still an anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian bigot who called Obama a racist & Zeldin campaigns with neo-Nazis & white supremacists. I will tweet this...

VIDEO Joe Biden turned on a dime yesterday and performed an instant flip-flop from his previous support for the Hyde Amendment. Unfortunately for him, the liberals were not buying into his very obvious pander as you can see in the comments at the Daily Kos.

It is becoming more apparent by the day to all except hard-core Democrat voters that Robert Mueller a) was never really the ‘stand-up guy’ and Boy Scout he was made out to be; and b) that the report he filed with the Justice Department to close out his special counsel probe of POTUS Donald Trump was pure garbage. In a bombshell report Thursday, ace investigative reporter John Solomon wrote in The Hill that a key figure Mueller mentioned in his report as having ties to Russia and, by default, to the 2016 Trump campaign, was actually an intelligence source for...

On 30 April 2019, St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge, rescinded a fellowship to the outstanding young researcher Noah Carl, who self-identifies as a conservative. The rescinding was unjust, and it came after a sustained and equally unjust campaign of leftist protest and demonstration against Dr. Carl. The campaign was unjustly supported by leftist press outlets, including Varsity, the University of Cambridge student newspaper. I was the external examiner on Dr. Carl’s DPhil from Nuffield, Oxford, so I am familiar with his work. It is a data-intensive investigation of cognitive ability (or intelligence) and its correlates, including ideological views, trust,...

So this is one of those historic dates that seems to be slipping faster and faster out of sight, receding into a past at such a rate that we who were born afterwards, or long afterwards, can just barely see. But it was such an enormous, monumental enterprise – so longed looked for, so carefully planned and involved so many soldiers, sailors and airmen – of course the memory would linger long afterwards. Think of looking down from the air, at that great metal armada, spilling out from every harbor, every estuary along England’s coast. Think of the sound of...

A survey of notoriously left-leaning historians conducted by C-Span last year ranked Ronald Reagan well ahead of Democrat icons Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the “best U.S. presidents” contest. Since it’s nothing more than a popularity poll I would deem it meaningless but for one thing: while in office Ronald Reagan was disliked and maligned nearly as much as President Trump is today. That he cracked the top 10 at all is astounding. Not that the media was as blatant about their liberal leanings during the Reagan years as they are now that they enjoy the very vocal support...

Submachine guns such as the M3 grease gun and the Thompson served our military troops well in World War II and Korea. Fast forward M4 carbines have been the main service weapons. Recently, the U.S. Army have decided to contract the Swiss defense contractor (Brugger and Thomet) $2.5 million dollars for the new APC9K submachine gun. There are 350 guns in the books as purchased with options to another thousand. The U.S. Army have been looking for something to replace the Heckler & Koch 9mm MP5. Decisions was based on arming certain personnel that would needed something more small and...

This is a listing of the various types, and sub-classifications of American conservatism today. As one delves deeper, one can clearly see that modern American conservatism comes in many types, shapes and flavors. There is no “one size fits all” American conservative. Here we discuss 29 different types of American conservative. The key to the success of any Presidential Conservative candidate or President is to be able to unite all these disparate groups under one singular banner. Is it even possible? [1] The members of the “conservative movement.” We start right off, addressing one of the most common themes used...