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An attempted robbery on Sunday evening on Kanfei Nesharim Street in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul neighborhood ended in a shooting. According to witnesses at the scene, a civilian who was withdrawing cash from an ATM was attacked by a mugger armed with a knife. The victim pulled out his pistol and shot the mugger. According to the witnesses, the civilian finished withdrawing cash when the robber approached him holding a knife and attempted to take the cash. In response, the civilian pulled out his gun and shot at the suspect. The suspect, a 30-year-old man, was severely wounded. Magen David Adom...

There is an old Emerson, Lake, and Palmer song called "Welcome Back My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends". It is from that song that I chose the title to this thread. 😊 It also applies to this topic, for this could have run forever. Background: I engaged a fellow by the screen name of 'adorno', and for whatever reason, we ended up in peter-measuring contest, where he asserted that he knew more about me than I did about my chosen profession. He stated that he retired from computer development more than 20 years, whereas I am extremely current...

With his 2004 box office hit “The Passion of the Christ” returning to theaters this month, Mel Gibson says the long-awaited follow-up will be a broader exploration of the world surrounding the biblical account of Jesus’ resurrection. “The Passion of the Christ” will return to theaters nationwide for a limited one-week engagement from Sept. 10-17. The landmark biblical epic has been newly remastered in 4K for the re-release and will include a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at “The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One,” which is slated to hit theaters May 6, 2027. First released in 2004, “The Passion of the...

In his first at-bat since becoming an American citizen, Cincinnati Reds slugger Eugenio Suárez got a new walk-up song. When he stepped to the plate in the second inning, Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The USA" began playing throughout Great American Ball Park. The music change was orchestrated by his teammates after Suárez left the team earlier this week to take the U.S. naturalization test in Miami and ultimately passed to become an American citizen. "It's very, very cool," Reds manager Terry Francona told reporters Sept. 4. "He was excited and he should be. It's very neat." Prior to the Reds-Brewers...

A popular Egyptian TV presenter has been sentenced to death by hanging after she was convicted for her role in a massive drug trafficking ring. Sarah Khalifa, a 39-year-old former host of Egyptian crime show “Mission Impossible” sobbed in court as she was ordered to be executed in Cairo, Al-Jazeera reported. “Please listen to me, sir. My parents raised me well; they are people who pray, and I don’t need drug money,” Khalifa, who has more than 2 million followers on social media, pleaded to officials. Khalifa and 11 others were sentenced to death after they were convicted of operating...

Ramaswamy announced Sept. 2 that he had accepted debate invitations from a local NBC affiliate in Cincinnati. Hours later, Acton's campaign issued a statement that boiled down to a hard no. Acton campaign manager Phil Stein said in a written statement that Ramaswamy is a "scam artist" who spreads lies about Acton and her family.

Considering the millions living in this country, it is no surprise that many Americans become victims of criminal illegal aliens. A 33-year-old woman living in Framingham, MA, was strangled to death in her home in late August by an accused man who is an illegal alien from Brazil. Flavio Alcantara Dias, 43 years old, is accused of strangling Brianna Connolly to death at her home. She was 33 years old. Thomas Brandt, who is the assistant DA in Middlesex County, said the accused, Dias, called 911 around 12:30 p.m., asking for the police and saying a homicide had occurred. According...

Mercury, the tiniest and least-explored planet in the inner solar system, is hiding mysteries far larger than itself — and finally, scientists will soon be getting not one but two spacecraft designed to decode the strange world. That's thanks to the BepiColombo mission, a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that launched in October 2018. After a harrowing journey through the inner solar system, the mission is tackling a crucial maneuver on Thursday (Sept. 3): separating its science equipment from the transport that carried it all that way. By April 2027, scientists...

American colleges and universities are panicking, for good reason. Enrollment across all of academia has been dropping for years, and starting now, there will be fewer and fewer college-aged people every year for the forseeable future. Colleges are scrambling for a way to survive. Big schools are slashing their course offerings. Small schools are making desperate plays to find a niche in a shrinking market. The bitter irony is this: American colleges and universities brought this crisis on themselves. The Baby Bust has a thousand causes, but some of the most significant anti-natal cultural and economic trends were created by...

In 1994, the Clinton Administration conducted a gun control study, particularly addressing the number of defensive gun uses every year. They were certain they’d debunk the numbers—up to 2.5 million—which would produce more restrictive laws. Despite using biased methodology, they found, to their horror, 1.5 million. They tried to bury the results, but they leaked. They learned an important lesson: be careful what you ask for; you might not get it. In The CDC honestly reports; gun grabbers would prefer they didn’t, I reported on another updated effort gun grabbers hoped would damage that 2.5 million reality. It didn’t: In...

The mullahcracy had the swell idea of avoiding accountability for attacks on Israel. They would surround Israel with well-armed proxies to do their dirty work. Hezb’allah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, Houthis in the Red Sea, militias in Iraq and Syria, and allied forces in the West Bank. They would assert hegemony over the Middle East and choke off petro products to the world by blockading the Strait of Hormuz. As it stands today, military action by the U.S. and Israel and economic warfare by the Treasury have nearly extinguished these fires. Iran is broke; they alone are being blockaded...

A million-dollar mansion perched along Los Angeles’ legendary Mulholland Drive has become anything but a dream home — with squatters and trespassers turning the unfinished property into a late-night party pad. The abandoned house at 7711 Mulholland boasts sweeping views of the city, but neighbors say its biggest attraction after dark is the empty property itself. “It’s just right under the Universal Overlook, and people come at night, use it to party,” said Ted, a local resident who lives near the property, told FOX11. “There’s graffiti all over it, beer cans, and everything.” Neighbors say the calls for help have...

The radical left’s recent efforts to twist and downgrade 9/11 disgust me to the core — and it’s not because I was some type of hero in that tragedy: I was just a journalist then as I am now. I’m outraged because I personally witnessed true heroism on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the days that followed: New Yorkers who survived and banded together to rebuild this city. Indeed, one might ask, did these heroes do too good of a job? Consider how many in this city now indulge their luxury to forget, or even shamelessly try to paper over...

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A radical left abortion group founded and led by ex-Biden officials is coming under fire by Kentucky’s top law enforcement official after an “illegal” stunt advertising abortion pills at the state fair. New York-based Mayday Health was founded following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade by former Biden White House Traveling Content Director Olivia Raisner, former Biden-Harris campaign speechwriter Sam Koppelman, and Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz. Last weekend, Mayday Health promoted the trafficking of abortion pills into the state, bypassing an existing law in Kentucky that bans the sale of the deadly drugs, Kentucky Today reports. The banner,...

The tragic and terrifying Himalayan flash flood was caused by a chunk of mountain collapsing into a narrow gorge, sending a tsunami of mud and rock that gathered mass as it shot down the steep Trisuli river valley. More than that is not yet clear. Did a breakaway hanging glacier take a rock face with it or was it the other way round? Was there time for the debris to dam the valley and form a lake that burst or did the 60-metre flood of mud come from ice, river water, rock and soil that accumulated in the valley as...

No. 16 Michigan avoided an upset loss to Western Michigan on Saturday night with a little help from instant replay.Bryce Underwood hit JJ Buchanan for an incredible Hail Mary as time expired for a 13-12 win. The pass came after the ball was snapped with one second left after Underwood's previous Hail Mary appeared to fall incomplete with no time remaining.After a short review, a second was added back to the clock. And then Buchanan made the catch.NBC's numerous replays of the first Hail Mary showed that the ball was not close to touching a Western Michigan player who had...

HELL — Feminist icon Gloria Steinem refused to allow Satan to hold the door open for her on the way into hell, in what many are calling her final act against the Patriarchy. "No way," Steinem said as the Devil attempted to hold the door open for her. "I don't do that. I don't submit to your male chauvinism. I won't give you that power over me. Now step aside." Satan told friends he was a little taken aback by Steinem's behavior. "I typically hold the door for all our new female residents," he said. "It's just the way I...

Yesterday, following the death of feminist activist Gloria Steinem at the age of 92, Netflix released her episode of Famous Last Words, which records interviews with notable people that are only to be released posthumously. After a 40-or-so-minute sit-down conversation with Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk — the cameras are operated remotely by videographers who do not have audio access, so it is as private as can be — he leaves the room and, true to the series’ title, allows his guest to voice his or her last words to the public. Steinem, especially in her heyday in the ’70s, was...

A Hellenic Air Force F-4 Phantom plunged into the ground during an Athens Flying Week airshow Saturday — erupting into a massive fireball as horrified spectators watched, chilling video shows. Both pilots aboard the American-made, two-seat fighter were killed in the crash, according to two officials who spoke to Reuters. The shocking crash unfolded about two minutes into the jet’s display at Tanagra Air Base near Athens at around 3 p.m. local time, according to The Aviationist. Footage shows the F-4 roaring along at low altitude before banking into a turn and rapidly losing height. Seconds later, the fighter disappears...