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This post is reposted to "Free Republic" and I support FR and if you are able to... Is Christmas Time again and El Rushbo brought us the music of Mannheim Steamroller for The Season. Peter Hitchens writes about the Advent Season... I ended this week thinking about Christ on the Cross being executed saying: "Father forgive them they don't know what they're doing"... The late famed preacher-evangelist Dr. Billy Graham said in his day that one day he saw Israel going all the way from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates River in the middle of Iraq. In Washington DC they...

"With each attack, it's always the same questions, always a known perpetrator, spotted, monitored but nothing is done" "Terrorism is not looked in the face but ignored" Marine Le Pen commenting on last Saturday night's terrorist attack in Paris... French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne interviewed by "Le Figaro" saying: "I don't believe in the normalization of the National Rally" Borne contending that the RN leader in the National Assembly Marine Le Pen has not repudiated the beliefs of her father Jean Marie Le Pen... And the reason for Borne to link the daughter Le Pen with the father Le Pen...

Kevin, don't hold your breath. So, remember back in October (and also in a NY Times interview more recently), when former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, to a crowd in Oxford, UK. ...... "When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America. When I look at my party, we look like the most restrictive country club in America."? Me, too, and it was identity politics at its worst — from a Republican, no less.Kevin McCarthy: “When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America. When I look at my party, we look like the most restrictive...

The deterioration of our major cities has been a matter of concern for some time now. While we write a lot at RedState about the left-coast cities of Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles as examples, and those are pretty compelling examples, now we turn our attention to the East. If you own or have an interest in a historic building in downtown Baltimore... Urine trouble.Many of downtown Baltimore’s buildings are slowly being washed away. The problem is less flooding and rain, more golden showers.That’s right, pee is eroding thousands of historic buildings downtown, the exterior bases corroding with every...

We should've known. Wait. Some of us did — or at least predicted it — from the beginning, with "it" being the nefarious powers that be in the federal government would do their damnedest to shield Joe and Hunter Biden from the justice they likely deserve for the crimes they likely committed. As I reported on Friday night, legal scholar and Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley called Hunter's Thursday indictment on nine tax counts — including four counts of failure to pay taxes, two counts of filing false tax documents, two counts of failure to file taxes, and one...

We have good and bad news to report. First, the good news for the people of Houston, Texas.Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was running to become mayor of Houston. But she found herself in a difficult race with the powerful state Sen. John Whitmire, also a Democrat. She got the endorsement of Hillary Clinton, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). But even with those heavy hitters coming out for her, she still lost. Badly. Houston held the run-off election on Saturday, and Whitmire just completely trounced Jackson Lee by almost 30 points. Houston, we dodged a problem!...

Children and straight men are being encouraged to explore “gay” and “transgender” sexual identities through “mainstream” pornography, staff members of the pornography giant Aylo, which owns Pornhub, said in undercover interviews.In the latest installment of a series of undercover videos released to social media by reporter Arden Young with investigative journalism outfit Sound Investigations, two top Aylo (formerly Mindgeek) employees said pornography has “educational elements to it,” can help children as young as 12 explore their sexual identity and gender, and that homosexual and transgender pornography is now being pushed to straight men to “convert” them.

Do you believe the politicians in Washington or do you believe your own eyes? The politicians keep telling us that “inflation is low”, but everyone can see that everything sure does cost a lot more than it once did. Our standard of living just keeps going down, and even JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is admitting that “inflation is hurting people”. But how can inflation be “hurting people” if it is under control? Of course the truth is that it isn’t under control. If the official rate of inflation was still measured using the formula that was in place in...

In Gaza tonight a failed attempt to rescue hostages with two Israeli soldiers wounded... Politico reports that the Biden Administration has given Israel until the end of the year to wrap up... At the UN Security Council the US vetoing a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza... The European Union reaching a provisional agreement for rules to regulate artificial intelligence... Militias affiliated with Iran striking US military bases in Syria and Iraq... In France a court deciding to put the leading 2027 Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on trial... In Texas Attorney General Kern Paxton reacting to...

Kevin McCarthy: “When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America. When I look at my party, we look like the most restrictive country club in America.” (10 second video in link below)https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1733235180591067208

By the year 2025, communist China plans to unleash large number of humanoid robots, meaning robots that look and act like people but are just walking computers and circuitry. In a race with Elon Musk’s Tesla and other Western companies working on similar technologies, China hopes to start mass producing its version of humanoid robots by 2025. According to banking giant Goldman Sachs, the market for humanoid robots could reach $150 billion per year in just 15 years. Fully operational humanoid robots are expected to be mass produced and working in factories between 2025 and 2028, and later in other...

Tommy Tuberville spent months casting himself as the Senate's anti-abortion martyr. Now that he's dropped the torch, nobody is looking to pick it up. Tuberville’s months-long blockade of military promotions not only failed to prompt a change in the Biden administration abortion policy it was designed to protest — it also failed to rally his fellow conservatives behind pursuit of abortion restrictions through new legislation or other tactics. As the entire GOP flounders without a unified approach to the issue in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade's demise, Tuberville's stand appears to have had no effect. “Look, I'm a realist....

Poor Joe Biden. He just can't stop the bleeding. Then again, when you constantly — and intentionally — shoot yourself in the foot, the chances of pulling out of a full-blown nosedive are pretty much zero. Such was the case on Wednesday when a new CNN poll — such irony — revealed that Biden has now reached the lowest approval rating of his miserable presidency. The most intentionally inept U.S. president in history stood at just 37 percent approval in November, two points less than in October, and the lowest since he assumed office in January 2021.Check out the steady...

An FBI raid on private safe deposit boxes has triggered a significant legal battle over civil asset forfeiture and the lengths to which federal authorities can use the practice, which has often been referred to as “Policing for Profit.”The outcome of the court proceedings could turn this into a landmark case that helps to further define the parameters in which federal law enforcement can use the controversial procedure.FBI agents cataloged Cartier bracelets, Rolex watches and stacks of cash as they combed through safe deposit boxes seized from a Beverly Hills business accused of money laundering. But the owners of many...

Explosions early Friday morning in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov and air raid warnings... Joe Biden's son Hunter being charged with nine counts of tax evasion,.. This evening Tucker Carlson's interview of Alex Jones the outspoken activist host... Authorities in Nice, France banning a Pro-Palestinian demonstration... A 28-year old suspect in custody after two shotgun blasts outside a Jewish synagogue in Albany, New York... Dutch politics the "Scout" appointed by Party of Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders has completed his work... A strict oil and gas emissions cap announced by the Liberal Party government of Canadian Prime Minister... Azerbaijan and Armenia...

Tax Charges Filed in California - Finally. Undoubtedly due to the pressure from Congressional Republicans and the whistleblowers who have spoken out against DOJ abuses and protection of President Biden’s son, Special Counsel David Weiss has just filed a 9 count indictment against Hunter Biden alleging: evasion of tax assessment; failure to file and pay taxes; and for filing false or fraudulent tax returns. According to Weiss, Hunter Biden: “engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019, from in or about January 2017 through...

If you are elderly or disabled, would you feel safe having caregivers with inadequate English-language skills? The recent death of Barbara Rymell in England, as reported in The Telegraph, shows us the danger of bringing in foreign caregivers and medical personnel with inadequate English skills. Against the residential home’s own policy, Barbara was left alone on a stairlift for five minutes. She got off the machine and attempted to walk up the staircase, but she fell back downwards, getting her head caught under the stairlift chair. This predicament was bad enough, but it wasn’t helped by the inadequate English skills...

In the documentary What Killed Michael Brown?, Shelby Steele coins the term “poetic truth” in order to describe the persistence of the myth that Michael Brown was “executed” by Darren Wilson. Steele calls poetic truth, “a distortion of the actual truth that we use to sue for leverage and power in the world. It is a partisan version of reality, a storyline that we put forward to build our case.” Poetic truth “thri[ves] more by coercion than reason,” accusing all who dispute it of complicity with the ineradicably racist system that governs and has always governed the country. That Darren...

The last time anybody cared about White House interns was when one of them almost brought down the president by going down on the president.Oh wait, there was also this guy a couple of years ago:Yeah, no.....Say what you want about Generation X, but at least when we were young, we understood that we didn’t matter. Nobody cared what we thought about anything, because we didn’t know anything. We were stupid, ignorant children, and we knew it....But today’s kids have been raised to believe they’re winners. Stars. They’ve been on camera their whole lives. So when a few of them...

This column today might sound familiar, as I have reported similar examples numerous times before (See previous essays here, here, here, here, and here). Yet, it is important to document the inability of the modern Democratic Party to unequivocally condemn bigotry, because so much of its base and membership are actually are in favor of such things. Yesterday the House passed a resolution condemning the horrible rise of anti-Semitism seen nationwide and globally, mostly expressed during pro-Hamas demonstrations that have often descended into violence and calls for the murder of all Jews in Israel. The resolution [pdf] is quite clear....