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In his recent meeting with President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should have asked the US president bluntly, “Are you with them (Iranian regime or with us,” echoing the 2009 Iranian protesters against the Ayatollahs regime. The US giving a green light for the release of $6 billion to the Tehran regime would clearly bolster their ability to provide increased funding to their terrorist proxies in Lebanon and Gaza. Moreover, the Biden administration has paid ransom money to a regime that will now find it profitable to kidnap and hold hostage Iranian-Americans visiting their families in their native land....

James G. Gimpel is a professor of government at the University of Maryland, College Park. He can be reached at jgimpel@gvpt.umd.edu. This Backgrounder examines the political implications of large-scale immigration. Between 1980 and 2008, 25.2 million people were granted permanent residency (green cards) by the United States. A comparison of voting patterns in presidential elections across counties over the last three decades shows that large-scale immigration has caused a steady drop in presidential Republican vote shares throughout the country. Once politically marginal counties are now safely Democratic due to the propensity of immigrants, especially Latinos, to identify and vote Democratic....

I wanted to do a roundup of the most trenchantly interesting releases from the Western military pundit-sphere regarding Russian tactics and their putative ‘evolution’, as well as outlooks on the conflict’s future. The first big one making waves is from RUSI (Royal United Services Institute), a military thinktank which calls itself the “oldest defense and security think tank in the world,” having been founded by the Duke of Wellington in 1831. Their latest “special report” gives a considered update on Ukraine’s counteroffensive. They start off with the admission that Ukraine is suffering “from heavy rates of equipment loss” but… “the...

"I knew they were scumbags," a former Bureau of Prisons officer tells Reason.Ron Berman agonizes over how to tell this story, where even to start, because the short version doesn't capture the full travesty and the long version is overwhelming. But here's the crux of it: A group of federal prison guards raped his daughter and got away with it. Not only did they get away with it, but they got away with it even after they admitted they did it. Berman's daughter, Carleane, was one of at least a dozen women who were abused by corrupt correctional officers at...

There's a big question confronting all right-wingers about American conservatism & our national future. In six months we are going to be heading into the 2024 election cycle. Another presidential election, congressional elections & state & local elections are all approaching. To say that it's a pivotal year almost produces a shoulder shrug with most people because that's been said about every election for the last 25 years. Though I was only a toddler during his term, President Reagan, much like Thatcher in Britain was a solid & immovable champion of modern day conservatism. He was a happy warrior as...

The bivalent COVID-19 vaccines broadened the level of protection against emergency department (ED) or urgent care visits for kids 6 months to age 5, a CDC study found. In children of this age who had completed their primary series, a single dose of either bivalent mRNA shot yielded a vaccine effectiveness of 80% (95% CI 42-96) against ED or urgent care visits compared with no vaccination, reported researchers led by Ruth Link-Gelles, PhD, of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. "However, few children had received a bivalent dose, so the estimate was imprecise," the researchers cautioned in Morbidity...

Christian Voters Are Likely To Put Their Faith In Trump. Here’s WhyThe Christian vote in the 2024 primaries is an important demographic for Republicans, and religious leaders that spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation indicated that only one candidate really stands out.Recent polls show former President Donald Trump winning the GOP nomination spot by as much as 26%, while his chances against President Joe Biden still present a large question about whether or not a 2024 rematch would place Trump in the White House.“[W]hen you look at how [Trump] performed as president in what he did in terms of...

Is Biden the Stalin of our times? “CLIMATE CHANGE” IS A TROJAN HORSE being used as an excuse to target white republicans' small businesses the same way Stalin targeted the Kulaks during the holodomor. Biden is not only targeting small business truckers, he is also targeting family farms By Ezequiel Doiny VictimsofCommunism.org reported "...Communist regimes put Marx’s principles into practice, starting with the first Marxist state. Between 1917 and 1921, the Soviet Union destroyed nearly 600 Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents. The leaders of the first communist country oversaw the killing of at least 300 Orthodox clergy. This bloodbath eventually...

The Biden administration 'froze' the Whitehouse.gov website for prior presidential records. It used to be that when I searched Whitehouse.gov for an EO or something, it went back in time to Obama's records etc. Now when you want to search for a Trump EO, or Obama EO etc. you have to go to a separate 'archives.gov' website.https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/archived-websitesHere's part of the stated reason for creating the archives apart from Whitehouse.gov:In order for the public to easily access the websites, the National Archives has taken an additional step to "freeze" the White House websites and make them available online. Because the archived...

Since there is no democracy in Israel there should be a referendum to restore the Jewish Kingdom of Judea By Ezequiel Doiny On August 6, 2023 Carolin Glick wrote in Arutz 7 " On Sept. 15, just two weeks before she heads for the exit, Hayut will take the unprecedented step of convening the entire court—all 15 justices—to adjudicate an even more outrageous petition regarding a Basic Law. That day, Hayut and her associate justices will hear arguments regarding a petition asking them to overturn the Knesset’s amendment to the Basic Law: Judiciary from last month. That amendment bars the...

Jason Kingsley, the Modern Knight, discusses three very popular medieval institutions, the Inn, the Tavern and the Alehouse. Many people think these are the same, but they're not really. Each had it's own place in medieval society.What's the difference between medieval inns, taverns and alehouses? | 17:44Modern History TV | 758K subscribers | 128,108 views | July 27, 2023

REPOST BY REQUEST (with addendum) – As the geography narrows before us, it is important to remember the stakes and avoid the distractions. As a consequence, the baseline must be reaffirmed. It is critical to understand that both the DNC and RNC are private corporations with no affiliation to government.It is a difficult shift in thinking, but the party system in U.S. politics revolves around two distinct private corporations, two clubs that feed from the same corporate trough and position for influence and affluence within a political dynamic they control.The priority for both clubs, Republican and Democrat, is NOT politically...

Last week the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision that Lorie Smith, a Colorado-based Christian graphic artist and web designer, did not have to create content that violated her beliefs. In response, Clara Jeffery, editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, tweeted, “perhaps gay stylists, designers, caterers, and planners should start withholding services from Christian conservatives and see where that goes.” After all, Jeffery reasoned, if a Christian can create content for a gay couple, surely gay professionals can decline services to Christian conservatives.More extreme was the reaction of actor Michael Imperioli who posted on Instagram, “I’ve decided to forbid bigots and homophobes...

INVERSION OF ROLES: After taking control of America, Marxists are using the power of the White House to spread Marxism around the World. Biden is using Ukraine as an excuse to remove Putin and return Marxism to Russia By Ezequiel Doiny Important background information: Please read my article below about the Marxist takeover of America: ARTICLE 1 "Night falls in America: STALINISM in Biden's America. Persecution of Kulaks (white middle class small businesses), brainwashing in schools, Political repressions through widespread intimidation, arrests, and imprisonment" https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/4161260/posts ARTICLE 2 "Instead of stopping the Iranian nuclear program the Biden regime is using the...

Night falls in America: STALINISM in Biden's America. Persecution of Kulaks (white middle class small businesses), brainwashing in schools, Political repressions through widespread intimidation, arrests, and imprisonment By Ezequiel Doiny VictimsofCommunism.org reported "...Communist regimes put Marx’s principles into practice, starting with the first Marxist state. Between 1917 and 1921, the Soviet Union destroyed nearly 600 Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents. The leaders of the first communist country oversaw the killing of at least 300 Orthodox clergy. This bloodbath eventually became Soviet policy. The Eighth Party Congress decreed in 1920 that “the Party aims at the complete destruction of links between...

Jim Caviezel (the actor that played Jesus in a Mel Gibson movie called “The Passion of the Christ”) was recently interviewed by Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast. Concerning the globalist push for world government, Caviezel said, “We’re in an apocalyptic moment right now.” He added that “There’s a big storm coming, and they (the globalists) know it.” In my mind, the “Big Storm” Caviezel was talking about is the Tribulation Period described in the Book of Revelation chapters 4-19. It refers to a time of tribulation worse than anything that has ever come upon this earth, and except...

Elections are supposed to be about the future, but Donald Trump is stuck in the past. He is dead set on running for president in 2024 by campaigning on the very worst part of his record. In his much-hyped return to the mainstream media, a CNN town hall on May 11, Trump doubled down on his claims that millions of fraudulent votes were the cause of his defeat in 2020. He said he had no regrets about his behavior before and during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, and that he does not owe Mike Pence an apology for...

Tributes have been paid to a much-loved dad-of-two and grandad who died suddenly after a headache turned out to be a catastrophic brain injury. Daniel Dehavilland, known as Dan, from Bridgewater Road in Sheerness, was pronounced brain dead just hours after he returned home from his job at Teynham Construction complaining about “feeling dizzy”. The 44-year-old’s wife of 11 years, Melissa, 42, had returned home after taking their youngest son, Ollie, to the park. The six-year-old was the one who found his dad slumped over the bed barely responsive. Melissa’s sister, 41-year-old Michelle Dehavilland from Faversham, said: “He was very...

Transgenderism is the new religion of the left. Transgender speakers are like a preachers trying to talk 3 year olds out of their parent's religion. This is like the inquisition where those who do not say amen to the preacher are labeled as heretic transphobics and burned at the stake By Ezequiel Doiny The Woke left is grooming children as young as 3 year olds to destroy the nuclear family and promote marxism. They are promoting transgenderism to 3 year olds to increase political power. James Lindsey wrote "Before the last year or so, two terms you wouldn’t have expected...

National Review has a story today about a battle that has been taking place at a Pennsylvania Middle School since last year. There’s a lot to this one so settle in. First, let’s set the table by talking about the student walkout and protests that took place last May. This is from a very sympathetic local news report published last May under the headline “String of Central Bucks School District decisions lead LGBTQ students and faculty to fear for civil rights.”On Friday, May 6, Lenape Middle School teacher Andrew Burgess, who is seen as an ally to LGBTQ students in...