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The House Oversight Committee just dropped its 15-month report on Jeffrey Epstein, and it reads like a catalog of institutional collapse. Federal investigators and prosecutors failed so thoroughly after 2005 that Epstein kept abusing young women for years. Nineteen people sat for transcribed interviews or depositions. Most of them claimed they saw nothing. A few got caught changing their stories. Democrats remain obsessed with pinning criminality on President Trump even though the committee found no documents implicating him. Survivors are still waiting for the full reckoning. The official title is “A Review of the Federal Government’s Mishandling of the Jeffrey...

Explanation: Where will the next meteor appear? Even during a meteor shower, it is practically impossible to know. Therefore, a good way to enjoy a meteor shower is to find a place where you can sit comfortably and monitor a great expanse of dark sky. And it may be satisfying to share this experience with a friend. The meteor shower depicted was the 2022 Leonids and the view is from Hainan, China looking out over the South China Sea. Meteor streaks captured over a few hours were isolated and added to a foreground image recorded earlier. Leonid meteor streaks trace...

Russia’s Security Council reportedly lifted an unofficial ban on killing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top generals during a high-stakes meeting with strongman Vladimir Putin, according to several pro-Kremlin news outlets.Kyiv’s repeated raids on Russia’s oil export hub on the Baltic Sea, including the 10th recent blow to the critical port of Ust-Luga in the St. Petersburg area proved the catalyst for the decision, Blokot reported.(snip) Officials reportedly said they could use heavy hypersonic weapons to target bunkers and motorcades carrying Ukrainian leaders and top army commanders.(snip)The Kremlin tried to take out Zelensky in the early stages of the...

Since the first presentation 2016, much new relevant data has become available, resulting in a revised version of the original book being published in 2021 and a sequel, entitled "After 1177 BC," appearing in 2024. This illustrated talk will update the original lecture, presenting a streamlined version of what we now know, or think we know, about the Late Bronze Age Collapse, its aftermath, and its potential relevance to our world today. Professor Eric Cline’s primary fields of study are biblical archaeology, the military history of the Mediterranean world from antiquity to present, and the international connections between Greece, Egypt,...

A data overload on an antiquated FAA network resulted in stalled trips for hundreds of thousands of travelersThe Federal Aviation Administration first noticed glitches in communications at its Indianapolis center that oversees high-altitude flights over a swath of middle America.Quickly they spilled into communications between pilots and air-traffic control. There was static and interruptions. Pilots had questions.Initially FAA employees tasked with troubleshooting the problem—one that wound up grounding much of U.S. travel—started their hunt in Indianapolis, according to people familiar with the situation.But then, they zeroed in on two locations: an FAA radio site in El Dorado, Ark.; and a...

Johnny Depp returned to the top of box office charts as “Ebenezer,” his new take on “A Christmas Carol,” collected a decent $19 million from 3,535 North American theaters in its opening weekend. Overseas, the PG-13 adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic has generated $23 million from 63 markets for a global start of $42 million. “Ebenezer” is notable as Depp’s first major movie role in eight years, since 2018’s “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” His career in Hollywood began to unravel in 2020 after allegations of domestic abuse leveled by his ex-wife Amber Heard (which he has denied)...

Congressional Democrats have plainly ditched their affordability campaign in favor of political reprisals against the president, his cabinet — and you. Rep. Robert Garcia’s cringey “LAWYER UP” post on X cut to the chase: Dem legislators are champing at the bit to go after President Trump and his team. But a disturbing new threat from Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) shows they also have every intention of going even further and continuing an ugly Biden-era tradition. Namely, legal and political harassment of private citizens for protected political speech and free-association action. Blumenthal issued a demand that various companies that made donations...

There’s a new fad unfolding on social media, where liberal women hop online, usually dressed in Muslim garb, and celebrate converting to Islam. But they’re not just celebrating in the traditional Muslim sense. They’re online trying to convince everybody that Islam is the new “feminist” religion, empowering women all over the world. Yes, really. We’re talking about young liberal women who’ve grown up enjoying freedoms that women in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Africa can only dream of, suddenly cosplaying, and dressing up for TikTok and explaining how “empowering” it is to embrace a religion that comes with some...

California father, who plied his daughter with alcohol before he had sex with her, has been freed from behind bars a shocking move that cuts his sentence in half. Stephen Chavez, 41, was convicted incest with his daughter, 18-year-old Makayla Settles, and providing alcohol to a minor in June. But on the morning of November 9, just one week shy of six months since his booking, he was released Chavez entered a guilty plea as part of a deal, but was handed just one year in jail by Judge Dusty Kawai who explained that he couldn't impose the maximum sentence...

Laws have force only to the extent that their legitimacy is recognized. The United States does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. Well, Marco Rubio has done it again. Just weeks after his extraordinary address in front of the Parthenon, he delivered a magnificent keynote address on November 13 at the Federalist Society’s annual national lawyers’ convention in Washington, D.C. Coming so hard on the heels of the midterm elections—elections that were a disaster for Republicans—it is not surprising that Rubio began by reminding his audience that the fate of the Republic is not determined by a single election....

The Biden Administration was an FAA disaster. Everything they touched turned bad. Big money spent unwisely, making an old and broken system worse than when they began. We have the knowledge and plan for the Flight Control Systems, we need Congress to give the money, FAST! Our FAA is doing a great job, and is ready to go. President DJT

Cruisin' for a bruisin, ' Claudia? Mexico's ruling leftists don't seem care very much about Mexican citizens. They're apparently thumbing their noses at President Trump's threat to double tariffs on all Mexican goods if the government doesn't stop the illegal migrant caravans from Central America from making their way through Mexico into the U.S. Actually, they're aiding them. According to Breitbart News Foundation: Mexico’s government began providing the migrant caravan headed to the U.S. with police escorts and is allowing them to sleep in municipal auditoriums as the growing group makes their way towards Mexico City and eventually the U.S....

A record number of women veterans are headed to Congress following last week’s midterm elections, including a retired three-star Navy admiral who was removed from her post last year by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Do you notice something very obviously MISSING in Politico's story by Blake Jones on Thursday about Gavin Newsom's possible political move in the near future? The headline was "Newsom says he’ll decide on presidential run in ‘early January’."Read the first three sentences and see if you can guess the absurdly MISSING bit of information.

Biden’s handlers' Afghanistan withdrawal debacle in 2021 is largely forgotten by many Americans, even though it was only five years ago. Photographs of desperate Afghans falling from cargo aircraft, the horror of 13 American soldiers killed and Joe Biden checking his watch as their caskets were unloaded on American soil, the $50 billion in arms and other material left behind--all of that forgotten. So too is the fact that Biden’s handlers allowed some 200,000 Afghans, unvetted, into America. These were almost entirely third-world Islamic tribesmen, people as far from American culture as it’s possible to be, yet they were brought...

A New York think tank just came out with its own proprietary college rankings, and the results probably aren’t what you’d expect: the University of Texas at Austin at number one, Yale all the way down at number ten, and Arizona State ranked higher than Stanford. The rankings may be surprising, but, according to the Manhattan Institute (MI), they’re meant to subvert academic snobbery and scrutinize the value of an education. In their own words, the rankings “judge schools by present performance, not past prestige.” “Other prestige-focused rankings offer little insight into the content of the education students will receive,...

NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to do something no human-made object has ever done: reach a point one full light-day from Earth. That means a radio signal traveling at the speed of light will need 24 hours just to cross the distance between Earth and the spacecraft. A command sent from mission control would take another full day to produce a reply. The milestone arrives Wednesday, November 18, at 5:16:07 a.m. Eastern, when Voyager 1 will be 16.094 billion miles from home. NASA is preparing a public mission update with the men and women who have kept the twin probes...

Republicans wonder why they keep losing. Even when they win, the country still drifts left. Despite a few brief interruptions such as Reagan and Trump, the broad undercurrent is clear. This drift has happened over decades, quickly or slowly, even though conservative Americans (not necessarily their leaders) are competent, moral, in touch with reality, and ultimately right on the big issues—at least in theory, and at least compared with their opponents. But why? One brief answer: evil has evolved. Good hasn’t evolved—at least, not as quickly, and not as much—yet. To restate this more clearly: Republicans are fighting an asymmetric...

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