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Dutch police arrest suspected Islamic State security chief
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch authorities arrested a Syrian man on Tuesday who is suspected of having been a security chief for the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra extremist […]

Michael Rectenwald on Resisting the Great Reset with Mark Tapson

Not a Coup, but a Cover Up
by Lee Smith Speculation is growing in Republican media circles that the recent scandal over Joe Biden’s improper possession of classified information from his time as vice president represents an […]

OUCH! Just The Facts, Sir
by Reg Green The errant classified papers have divided opinion along the usual ideological lines, both sides charging that the other reads only partisan news stories. (My own view is […]

PI (and SI) at the New York Times — or why is it that when A is B, and B is C, A is not C?
by Lev Tsitrin It is not vanity that causes me to introduce a brand-new term — PI — into the English language, but the urge to explain a fascinating feature […]

The public and private push to track online your every transaction
by Eric Rozenman That $1 bill in your wallet or purse, like any other greenbacks you might be carrying, declares it is a “Legal Tender for All Debts Public and […]

Man arrested on suspicion of terror offence after Heathrow uranium seizure
A man in his 60s has been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence after traces of uranium were found at Heathrow airport at the end of December, Scotland Yard […]

Suspected Islamists kill at least 5 people in east Congo church bomb attack
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan 15 (Reuters) – At least five people were killed and 15 wounded in a suspected Islamist militant bomb attack during a Sunday service at […]

Wildcat and the Meaning Crisis
I watched this documentary on prime video and can’t get it out of my mind. It’s one of the best portraits of the existential angst our young people are going […]

BREAKING THE MODEL
by Ralph Berry 46,000 illegal migrants crossed the Channel to England in 2022. Those are the official figures, the ones we are aware of. The Government swears that it will […]

Wednesday, the Rest Day
The Urantia Book, paper 177: 177:0.1 (1920.1) WHEN the work of teaching the people did not press them, it was the custom of Jesus and his apostles to rest from their […]

The GOP’s Misplaced Glee Over Biden’s Document Debacle
by Theodore Dalrymple The glee with which the Republicans learned of President Biden’s unauthorized possession of classified documents is all too understandable. Mr. Biden seems now to be in a position not […]

Knowledge and Verve
Remembering Paul Johnson by Theodore Dalrymple Paul Johnson, prolific journalist and best-selling popular historian, has died at 94. The range of his writing’s subject matter was astonishing: from Egyptology and the […]

Former NYU Professor and Author Michael Rectenwald Talks Stakeholder Capitalism and His New Book The Great Reset
Live from Music Row, Friday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy […]

Jihadi stripped of British citizenship ‘robbed banks with Bitcoin scam to fund terror cell
A London-raised jihadist who posted pictures of himself with a severed head in Syria before being stripped of his British citizenship is to go on trial in Spain on charges […]

On Purpose
by Theodore Dalrymple Were it not for the fact that I have been losing things from the time I possessed anything to lose, I should have taken my inability to […]