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Ribat: The Truth Behind “Muslim Enclaves”- An ancient secret reveals what Islamic “No-Go” zones in the West really are. Last March, 2019, Reuters reported that the “Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria” had fallen.  “Its enclave at Baghouz was the last part of the massive territory it suddenly seized in 2014, straddling swathes of Iraq and Syria, where its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a new caliphate.” While this was welcome news, it also prompted one to wonder: what of all those other Islamic enclaves, those unassimilated ticking time bombs that proliferate throughout the West, which are packed with ISIS-sympathizers, not...

onald Trump Kept Plans for Raid Against Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi From Democrats Involved in Impeachment Hearings President Trump said he withheld information about the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from some members of Congress—including senior Democrats on the committees involved in the impeachment inquiry—because he was worried about leaks. “We notified some [and] others are being notified now as I speak,” Trump said Sunday morning, approximately 12 hours after he tweeted that “something very big has just happened.” Those left out of the loop included House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump...

The former Trump-campaign associate who was wiretapped by the FBI, sued the Department of Justice on Oct. 21, demanding that the government provide him with an opportunity to review, before it is made public, the forthcoming inspector general’s report on potential surveillance abuses in his case.

He died after running into a dead-end tunnel “whimpering, and crying, and screaming all the way.The compound had been cleared by this time, with people either surrendering, or being shot and killed. Eleven young children were moved out of the house, and are uninjured.The only ones remaining were Baghdadi in the tunnel, and he had dragged three of his young children with him. They were led to certain death. He reached the end of the tunnel, as our dogs chased him down.He ignited his vest, killing himself and the three children.His body was mutilated by the blast. The tunnel had...

It’s Not Too Late: The Senate Can Still Stop the CASE Act The House of Representatives has just voted in favor of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act) by 410-6 (with 16 members not voting), moving forward a bill that Congress has had no hearings and no debates on so far this session. That means that there has been no public consideration of the serious harm the bill could do to regular Internet users and their expression online. The CASE Act creates a new body in the Copyright Office which will receive copyright complaints, notify the person...

According to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, why is communist-ruled China America’s greatest threat? What did American leaders get wrong about China in the past decades, and how did this contribute to the Chinese regime’s rise? Why does it matter that it’s communist? And what is the significance of Vice President Mike Pence voicing his support for the Hong Kong protestors, and the continued freedom of Taiwan? This is American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸, and I’m Jan Jekielek. Today we sit down with Newt Gingrich, author, historian and former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, to discuss his new...

With the dishonorable Elijah Cummings dead, it probably doesn’t come as a galloping shock that his equally dishonorable trophy wife, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, plans to run for his Congressional seat. It’s stunning how members of Congress and their families treat a Congressional seat as if it’s some kind of peerage. Cummings was a member of the House of Representatives, not the House of Lords. And it is a Congressional seat, not a Barony. But for some reason, his ethically-challenged wife has the hubris to think that Cummings’ Congressional seat should be passed on to her as his surviving spouse. She...

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to approve a measure that would shake up the Copyright Office if it were made into law, creating a small claims court where online content creators can go after their infringers. The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act, or the CASE Act for short, was approved by 410-6 vote. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) introduced the measure last year with the goal of giving graphic artists, photographers, and other content creators a more efficient pathway toward receiving damages if their works are infringed. Under current law, all copyright suits must go through the...

Watchdog: agency illegally gave veterans' info to thousands The Department of Veterans Affairs illegally granted roughly 25,000 people access to veterans' personal information including social security numbers, addresses, and medical histories, according to a government watchdog. The agency's inspector general found that numerous VA and agency-affiliated employees across the country had access to sensitive information stored on unprotected shared servers, even if they had no official reasons to be privy to such information. Those practices left veterans "at significant risk" of having their identities misused or stolen. "Without better protection, veterans and VA are at risk," the inspector general report...

Posted on October 25, 2019October 25, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope Standing in Need of Prayer – A Homily for the 30th Sunday of the Year There’s an old saying that goes, “Faults in others I can see, but praise the Lord, there’s none in me.” One is snared in sin by the very act of claiming to have no sin! In fact, it’s the biggest sin of all: pride.In the Sunday Gospel, the Lord illustrates this through the parable about two men who go to the temple to pray. One man commits the sin of pride and leaves...

First, an explanation of recent politics in Israel. Then some very important comments on U.S. involvement in Syria, which continues. A discussion of the tribal nature of the disputes in that region. And also some shocking news of the bankruptcy and near-bankruptcy of various countries there.

President Trump slammed Sen. Kamala Harris for her cowardly decision to skip a planned speech at a historically black college because he was honored with an award there. Trump sparked a war of words with the California Democrat, calling her a “badly failing presidential candidate” after she withdrew from a forum at Benedict College in South Carolina where the president was honored for getting a highly praised criminal justice reform bill passed last year. https://t.co/zDEOQfpvk1 pic.twitter.com/Bxpt7nQTjG — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 26, 2019 Harris would not be going “to a very wonderful largely African American event today because yesterday...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Pierre Delecto. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Pierre Delecto is a fiction of some carpetbagger's imagination by way of Massachusetts, La Jolla, and Salt Lake City. Flirtations of arrogance coupled with light-hearted renditions of cuck RINO-plasty has tens of dweebs laughing their bodacious guts out. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter...

Luke Rosiak’s revelation of the Soros connection in local school board elections and policy making in the Daily Caller reminds us that school boards are not the Soros network’s first foray into obscure local political campaigns and local government policymaking. Back in 2015, radio talk show host C.L. Bryant, writing for FreedomWorks, explained why Soros was involved in the obscure Caddo Parish, Louisiana, District Attorney’s race this way: "Billionaire George Soros is a social engineer in an age where America is susceptible to “progressivism,” a cancer that has always been heavily funded by billionaires like Soros to fundamentally change the...

Despite impeachment hysteria suffusing every nook and cranny of the media, despite scare headlines that tell us Trump is on his way out the door, and despite being instructed what to believe by arrogant pundits on TV, it may surprise you to know that in several heartland states, a majority of people don't support impeachment. CNN: In the context of the 2020 presidential election, we need to be looking to swing state polling to see how impeachment may play out on the campaign trail. The polls indicate that impeaching and removing Trump in these pivotal states is far from a...

A large contraption parachuted to the ground at a farm in Merrill, Mi., this morning. One of the companies responsible for the space junk has already come to the farm to pick it up. ...Outside, with a closer look, they found a four-legged object with an aluminum foil-wrapped box. The top of the conglomeration had what appeared to be solar panels. Inside the box were two large cameras and one Samsung cell phone, according to Nancy Welke. ...At nearly the same time, a large balloon came down onto a power line in Wheeler, Mi., a few miles away. Welke says...

Attorney General Bill Barr first proved his value to President Trump by pre-spinning the Mueller report to falsely “exonerate” his White House patron of collusion and obstruction. Weeks after, calling for a review of the Russia probe’s origins, Trump gave Barr broad powers to declassify intelligence documents and question various members of the intelligence community, powers Barr proceeded to run with. Last week the errand boy delivered his biggest favor yet: That Justice Department review reportedly blossomed into a full-on criminal probe; targets for questioning may include former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and ex-CIA director John Brennan, both...