(NEW REPUBLIC) By Brian Beutler Looking backwards after more than a month, the firing of James Comey has blended into the larger pattern of scandal engulfing Donald Trump’s presidency. This may have been inevitable; in a sense, Trump’s decision to fire the FBI director was a single plot point in an unfolding saga. But the [...]
(BREITBART) — The number of areas classed as “vulnerable” by Swedish police has risen from 15 to 23 in two years, according to leaked documents held back from release by Sweden’s national police chief. Police hoped that increased resources would have reduced the number of “vulnerable” areas — typically migrant-dominated neighbourhoods which have been turned [...]
(CNBC) — U.S. equities closed higher on Tuesday as large-cap technology stocks came back from their biggest two-day decline since December. The Dow Jones industrial average advanced 83 points and hit a record high, with 3M and Goldman Sachs the most gains. Apple also contributed gains to the 30-stock index. The S&P 500 gained about [...]
It’s not as if Washington needed another question over the establishment’s integrity, but this one strikes at the very heart of what people are supposed to trust: the ability of the government to investigate and remove corruption. It involves the “special prosecutor” appointed by the Department of Justice to look into the “Russian connection” case [...]
(E! ONLINE) — Oprah Winfrey has zero political ambitions. The TV titan host denied any speculation to the contrary in an interview on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast. “I will never run for public office,” said Winfrey, who was promoting HBO’s drama The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. “That’s a pretty definitive thing.” Theoretically, [...]
(Watch the hearing live.) WASHINGTON – A livid Attorney General Jeff Sessions opened his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday by declaring that any allegation he colluded with the Russian ambassador, or any Russian officials, to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was “an appalling and detestable lie.” He insisted he would never [...]
(NEW YORK POST) — Chinese authorities have prevented a cat-astrophe – by saving more than 500 felines from ending up on restaurant menus. A man identified only as Sun used sparrows and caged birds to lure stray and domestic cats in the city of Jiujiang in southern Jiangsu, the Washington Post reported. Many of the [...]
(TELEGRAPH) — Whether it’s thanks to the Coutts account of mum and dad or homemade fortunes from IT whizzery, some of today’s wealthiest buyers are also some of the youngest. Welcome to the millionaire millennials, whose collective spending power in the US alone is $600billion a year, set to rise to $1.4 trillion by 2020, [...]
(WASHINGTON POST) — TOKYO — University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier has been medically evacuated from North Korea in a coma after being detained for 17 months, his parents told The Washington Post on Tuesday. Warmbier, 22, is due to arrive home in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening, after a stop at a U.S. military facility [...]
(THE COLLEGE FIX) — In the wake of the murder of Lt. Richard Collins III at the University of Maryland, a student group has issued demands that “hate speech” be classified as a “cult activity” on campus, and that the university implement a “zero-tolerance policy regarding hate-bias incidents.” The president of the university, in turn, [...]
(CBN) – Ancient frescoes have been rediscovered inside the 1,600-year-old Domitilla catacombs in Rome, Italy. Italian art experts used laser technology to remove old grit and grime that covered the art that is centuries old. The art that was unveiled revealed an incredible depiction of biblical characters, according to a report by the Religion News [...]
(The Atlantic) – Southern Baptists have long defended literal approaches to the Bible, but their recent translation of the Good Book might have them switching sides. Last fall, the publishing arm of the 15-million member Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) released the Christian Standard Bible (CSB). LifeWay Christian Stores, America’s largest Christian retailer, which is owned [...]
(SFGATE) — As yellow confetti fell from the rafters and TV cameras swarmed Monday night, Kevin Durant grabbed the charcoal cap emblazoned with the Larry O’Brien trophy before embracing Stephen Curry. In that moment, as a capacity crowd belted along to “We Are the Champions,” the Warriors had finally vindicated the 3-1 Finals lead they [...]
As I document in my book “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph,” which is an explanation of Americanism, leftism and Islamism, hysteria is a major tactic of the left. If you think about it, there is never an extended period of time – one year, let’s say – during [...]
WASHINGTON – Was the entire Russia-collusion investigation based entirely on a tall tale? One of the more striking developments to emerge from congressional testimony by former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday was that there is apparently no evidence of potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign other than a dossier full of sensational [...]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS) — BEIRUT — The Islamic State group is calling on supporters to carry out attacks in the United States and Europe during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that began two weeks ago. In an audiotape circulated online Monday, spokesman Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajer praised last week’s attacks in Iran’s capital, saying the country [...]
(REUTERS) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday blamed the United States for instability in the Middle East and said Washington’s fight against the Islamic State militant group was “a lie”. “You (the United States) and your agents are the source of instability in the Middle East … who created Islamic State? America [...]
In 1966, James Brown told us, “It’s a man’s man’s man’s world” – but more than 50 years later, that is no longer true, at least not on college campuses. More and more, young men are failing to graduate from college and earn their degrees, either because they drop out or they choose never to attend [...]
If the Council on American-Islamic Relations is in the United States simply to protect the civil rights of Muslims according to the law of the land, why would it object to protests against the implementation of a religious law that ultimately conflicts with the U.S. Constitution? That’s the question that arises in response to CAIR’s [...]
New Jersey push to ban Ann Coulter best-seller June 13, 2006: Best-sellers were once made by being banned in Boston. But a pair of New Jersey state legislators tried to ban a book already atop the best-sellers list. The book stirring all the controversy was “Godless: The Church of Liberalism” by WND columnist Ann Coulter. Two [...]
Born Sept. 6, 1757, his father died before he was 2 years old and his mother died when he was twelve, leaving him to inherit their fortune. At 14 years old, he joined the French Military and, at age 16, became a captain. He married Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, whose family was related to [...]
Why we prep Here’s another reason why you – and your friends and family – should prep: Deutsche Bank calculates the ‘fair value of gold … and the answer is … If you bother to read this article, which after all was concocted by the employee of an at-risk bank in another country which doesn’t [...]
The effort to limit the power of the federal government through a new Article V constitutional convention gained a powerful ally on Monday, as former Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina officially became a senior adviser to the Convention of States Project. In a statement issued by the organization, DeMint called Article V the [...]
By Liam Clancy WASHINGTON – Following the savage terror attack by Muslims in London in which eight people were killed and another 48 wounded, British police made 25 arrests for “hate crimes.” Meanwhile, 12 potential terrorists arrested in connection with the London attack and 22 arrested in connection with the Manchester attack last month were [...]