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“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak." —Sun Tzu. CIA Director John Ratcliffe in a pensive momentYou understand, don’t you, what the aim was of the “Seditious Six” politicians who made last week’s now-notorious video suggesting that US military personnel should refuse the president’s orders if they deemed them to be “illegal?” This was the old Lefty game of provoking the authorities to react intemperately so they can be labeled “fascist.” It’s like the old schoolyard game of the kid who goes I’m touching you. . . I’m touching you. . . until the touched...

An Arizona evangelist shot last month while promoting a church service has been moved out of the intensive care unit but is still in a "delicate" condition, his family says, as police have released surveillance video and a $10,000 reward is offered for answers. Detectives released video footage this week of a gun incident involving Hans Schmidt, a 26-year-old outreach director at Victory Chapel First Phoenix Church who was struck by a bullet while street preaching on the evening of Nov. 15 before evening service. Schmidt, a father of two small children and a newly married military medic, was on...