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Pakistan: Jihad suicide bomber murders nine people at hospital, including three civilians visiting ill relatives JUL 22, 2019 11:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER The police work for the state, which is considered to be hypocritical and likely apostate for being (supposedly) allied with the U.S. and against jihad groups. “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah; and those who follow him are ruthless against the disbelievers, merciful among...

Life on the U.S.-Mexico border involves everything from drug-trafficking and rape to encounters with “gang-bangers” and “three-time felons,” according to the founder of Arizona Border Recon. Tim Foley, who is deeply familiar with the threats that come from living just north of the border, described what he sees every day while patrolling in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The gang-bangers are pretty much three-time felons, so if they get caught, they’re going to prison for the rest of their lives … These guys have no problem banging it out or shooting anybody,” he explained.

The French navy has located one of its submarines that disappeared more than 50 years ago with 52 crew on board. La Minerve was discovered on the seabed in the Mediterranean off the port of Toulon. “It’s a success, a relief and a technical feat,” Florence Parly, the defence minister, tweeted. “I am thinking of the families who have waited for so long for this moment.” La Minerve was on a military exercise when it disappeared in January 1968. Repeated searches have failed to find the vessel until now. Under pressure from relatives of crew members, a fresh search was...

Last week, I published a column for TownHall.com entitled I, Immigrant, Agree With Donald Trump — If You Are Not Happy Here, You Can Leave! To be honest, I did not expect much support for my position after seeing the highly critical initial reactions to Trump’s words from conservative commentators. I strongly disagreed with the commentators who disparaged Trump for voicing what I felt was obvious. Unlike these commentators, I felt elated when Trump spoke the truth, confronted the Islamo-Utopians, and told Ilhan Omar to put her money where her mouth is. I published the column because I felt the American...

(CNSNews.com) - At the height of summer vacation time, House Democrats are holding two back-to-back hearings on Wednesday starring former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Their goal is to bring renewed public attention to Mueller's report, almost two years in the making. The hearings "should be interesting," Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told "Fox News Sunday." He said he hopes they "won't end up being a dud." "We want the American people to hear directly from Special Counsel Mueller what his investigation found," Nadler said: The president and the attorney general and others have spent...

There are currently no nationwide demographic trends that “favor Republicans” in future elections, Axios reports. The nation’s shifting demography — spurred primarily from mass legal immigration where more than 1.2 million foreign nationals are added to the U.S. population every year — is set to make it increasingly difficult for Republican candidates to win statewide and national elections, Axios’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen note: The single biggest threat to Republicans’ long-term viability is demographics. [Emphasis added] The numbers simply do not lie. America, as a whole, and swing states, in particular, are growing more diverse, more quickly. There is...

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Equifax will pay up to a record $650million to settle US federal and state probes into a massive 2017 data breach of personal information, authorities said on Monday. The largest-ever settlement for a data breach draws to a close multiple probes into Equifax by the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) and nearly all state attorneys general. It also resolves pending class-action lawsuits against the company. 'This company´s ineptitude, negligence, and lax security standards endangered the identities of half the US population,' New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.

Into the third year of his presidency, it still isn’t clear whether Twitter is a blessing or a curse for President Donald Trump. In the latest controversy, it’s been a curse.On Sunday morning, Trump tweeted that four far-leftists in Congress — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — should “go back” to the countries from which they came, help fix their problems, and then return and “show us how it is done.”The controversy, of course, is that of the four individuals at which he directed his comments,...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Joe Fontenot walked away from his comedy show Saturday night with a black eye. The Portland comedian said he was performing at a venue in Hood River when he was attacked. He said he usually stays away from religion and politics during his act, but he took a chance that night. Fontenot said he was making fun of President Donald Trump's infamous statement about creating a Space Force when a man in the audience stood up and shouted, "Make America great again!" then walked on stage. "I just said, 'Someone should build a wall around you,' and...

LONDON — Iranian-linked terrorist cells are reportedly thought to be ready to strike the UK if the crisis between London and Tehran escalates further, as supporters of Prime Minister Theresa May's government increased their criticism over Iran's seizing of a British-flagged tanker in the Persian Gulf.

There's now an unmistakable fad in woke, clickbait 'journalism' that seeks to ruin or diminish someone or something by calling it out as "problematic" on an otherwise celebratory occasion.  For example, the petty op/eds published around July 4th arguing that America is actually mediocre at best.  Or stories highlighting the dredged up, years-old tweets of athletes or entertainers enjoying a moment in the spotlight for their achievements.  Or the nasty attacks on HGTV's star couple, or a lovable Hollywood leading man, because they happen to be people of faith who don't grovel at the alter of liberal orthodoxy.  Or...

On Wednesday, Netflix announced its subscriber base in the United States declined for the first time since 2011. The streaming giant had forecast a gain of 300,000 during the second quarter (April through June), but instead it lost about 130,000 homes here. Thanks to international growth, Netflix still added 2.7 million customers overall, pushing its global base to a record 151 million. But even that wasn’t entirely good news: Netflix had told investors it expected to gain about 5 million new customers in the quarter, making this its biggest missed forecast since 2016. So what’s behind this gloomy quarter...

Conservatives are told that President Donald Trump is a racist on a daily basis by the MSM. So, leftists can pardon our confusion when we read on the State Department's page that Trump's administration honored a Muslim Imam from Nigeria. It seems completely contradictory for an Islamophobic racist to honor a Muslim from an African nation. In fact, the list of this year's honorees for the International Religious Freedom is quite diverse: Muslims, people of color, and women. I encourage you to click on the link above and read about all the deserving honorees, but I want to focus...

The sabotage of President Donald Trump’s deal with Guatemala to alleviate the illegal immigration crisis is part of a broader problem involving pervasive corruption in the Central American nation and embedded leftists in the U.S. State Department’s Western Hemisphere Division. With a compromised electoral system and a presidential election looming in Guatemala, the impoverished nation of about 16 million could easily slide into the Cuban or Venezuelan camp of failed socialist countries. Socialist Sandra Torres, a former Guatemalan first lady and radical leftist guerrilla, could become the country’s next president.

If RealClearInvestigations’ sources accurately describe Inspector General Michael Horowitz’ upcoming report, it’s no wonder Donald Trump fired James Comey. According to two sources reportedly briefed on the upcoming Horowitz report, the former FBI director repeatedly lied about not targeting Trump in his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Comey also had what amounted to a spy in the White House, raising the specter of J. Edgar Hoover all over again: Sources tell RealClearInvestigations that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will soon file a report with evidence indicating that Comey was misleading the president. Even as he...

The only Democrat who can legally demand to see Donald Trump’s tax records has come under fire from colleagues for not using the newest tool in the bag to get them. Ways and Means chair Rep. Richard Neal (D-NY) has already invoked 26 USC 6103 and gone to federal court to exercise his oversight authority over the Treasury to review Trump’s returns. Supposedly, Andrew Cuomo handed Neal the keys by signing a law making presidential tax returns accessible by chairs of three congressional committees.Instead, NBC reports, Neal has refused to act under that authority — and that has his...

We still don’t know when the much-delayed Inspector General’s Report on the FISA warrants used to spy on the Trump campaign will come out, but it looks like it might be fairly soon. Prior to release of any IG report, the people mentioned in it are shown sections concerning them and offered the opportunity to state their rebuttal or comments. That process may be underway, it appears. That’s because Representative Adam Schiff, the leading Russia Hoax conspiracy theorist. who would likely hear about sections of the report sent to his friends for comment, is pre-emptively attempting to discredit Horowitz...

Democrats have cynically dined out for years on the false narrative that President Trump was always trying to hold down Puerto Rico. He hasn't resigned as the hundreds of thousands in the streets are demanding, saying he wants to finish his term before leaving with no re-election run, and that hasn't stopped the protests. In fact, they are going on full blast right now. He cheated them, he enriched himself, like his mentor Hillary Clinton, he effectively called them deplorables, and they were the ones who had to suffer the hurricane damage because of his Clintonesque contempt for them. Conclusion?...

Jim Herman captured the PGA Tour's Barbasol Championship on Sunday, and he said the victory was due in part to valuable advice he received from President Trump when the two used to play together. Herman was Trump's regular golfing partner when he was employed as an assistant professional at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey. The 41-year-old said over the weekend that Trump had urged him to try a different grip on his putter after struggling on the greens. “He gave me a good talking to and told me to use a different style if it’s not working,”...