Breaking: Don Jr. Goes OFF On RINO Speaker Mike Johnson

Breaking: Don Jr. Goes OFF On RINO Speaker Mike Johnson

Donald Trump Jr. is targeting House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for organizing a vote to offer assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Trump...
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NatCon Brussels Opens New Front in EP-Election Campaign: The Fight for Freedom of Speech

NatCon Brussels Opens New Front in EP-Election Campaign: The Fight for Freedom of Speech

European liberals are clearly trembling with fear ahead of the forthcoming European elections, a sentiment that has been evident for months. Smear campaigns,...
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Just In: AOC Panics After Getting The Bad News

Just In: AOC Panics After Getting The Bad News

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is set to face a primary challenger who presents a stark contrast to her left-wing views. According to recent reports,...
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US rift with Israel emboldened Iran to attack directly, analysts say  By David Isaac

US rift with Israel emboldened Iran to attack directly, analysts say By David Isaac

https://www.jns.org/us-rift-with-israel-emboldened-iran-to-attack-directly-analysts-say/ On April 14, Iran for the first time broke with its longstanding policy of attacking Israel only by proxy. The question is,...
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Inflation We Can Feel But Don’t Measure

Inflation We Can Feel But Don’t Measure

QTR’s Disclaimer: I am an idiot and often get things wrong and lose money. I may own or transact in any names mentioned...
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World Seeks “Stability,” Israel Seeks Survival How long can a nuclear-threshold Iran be tolerated? P.David Hornik

World Seeks “Stability,” Israel Seeks Survival How long can a nuclear-threshold Iran be tolerated? P.David Hornik

https://pdavidhornik.substack.com/p/world-seeks-stability-israel-seeks?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_ “[Israel’s] leaders and people are forever being entreated to avoid escalation and to act proportionately. They are hectored, lectured and told to...
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Jeremy Horpedahl Inflation Hits the Drive-Through  Rising fast-food prices are eroding American household budgets.

Jeremy Horpedahl Inflation Hits the Drive-Through Rising fast-food prices are eroding American household budgets.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/inflation-hits-the-drive-through You don’t need to be a close follower of economic data to know that food has gotten more expensive. The sticker shock...
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Breaking: Don Jr. Goes OFF On RINO Speaker Mike Johnson

Donald Trump Jr. is targeting House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for organizing a vote to offer assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Trump Jr. wrote, “Enough already! If you ever even begin to start believing anything anyone in Republican leadership tells

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Just In: AOC Panics After Getting The Bad News

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is set to face a primary challenger who presents a stark contrast to her left-wing views. According to recent reports, Marty Dolan, a Wall Street investor with an MBA from Harvard University and roots in New York City,

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Economy

Inflation We Can Feel But Don’t Measure

QTR’s Disclaimer: I am an idiot and often get things wrong and lose money. I may own or transact in any names mentioned in this piece at any time without warning. Contributor posts and aggregated posts have not been fact checked

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World Seeks “Stability,” Israel Seeks Survival How long can a nuclear-threshold Iran be tolerated? P.David Hornik

https://pdavidhornik.substack.com/p/world-seeks-stability-israel-seeks?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_ “[Israel’s] leaders and people are forever being entreated to avoid escalation and to act proportionately. They are hectored, lectured and told to act responsibly. No other country in the world is required to behave in this way when it is

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The ‘Better’ Civilians of Gaza by Alan M. Dershowitz

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20586/the-better-civilians-of-gaza Among the so-called innocent “civilians” who Hamas claims have been killed by Israel, there are thousands of guilty and complicit civilians without whose assistance Hamas could not have succeeded in their barbarisms. When Hamas provides its self-serving numbers of those

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Hamas apologism has taken Australia by storm Once poisonous but marginal views have become all too acceptable since 7 October. Hugo Timms

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/19/hamas-apologism-has-taken-australia-by-storm/ Since the 7 October pogrom in Israel, it has become increasingly clear that hostility towards Israel is no longer confined to its Islamist enemies. It is increasingly prevalent in Western democracies, too. This has certainly been true in Australia. Indeed,

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Hamas apologism has taken Australia by storm Once poisonous but marginal views have become all too acceptable since 7 October. Hugo Timms

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/19/hamas-apologism-has-taken-australia-by-storm/ Since the 7 October pogrom in Israel, it has become increasingly clear that hostility towards Israel is no longer confined to its Islamist enemies. It is increasingly prevalent in Western democracies, too. This has certainly been true in Australia. Indeed,

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Swiss Watch Exports Crash In China & Hong Kong

Swiss Watch Exports Crash In China & Hong Kong Fears of a luxury slowdown are materializing. New data from the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry shows that exports of luxury timepieces tumbled the most since 2020 as demand crashed in Asia.  Swiss

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The Price of Surrendering Speech By Eliot Pattison

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/the_price_of_surrendering_speech.html No one was particularly surprised when Vladmir Putin recently won reelection by a landslide. The near universal reaction could be characterized by a roll of the eyes and a sighed “what do you expect, it’s Russia.” We’ve seen this before,

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The Price of Surrendering Speech By Eliot Pattison

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/the_price_of_surrendering_speech.html No one was particularly surprised when Vladmir Putin recently won reelection by a landslide. The near universal reaction could be characterized by a roll of the eyes and a sighed “what do you expect, it’s Russia.” We’ve seen this before,

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Health

Nudging is everywhere. Switch off and protect yourself.

Nudging is everywhere these days. Marketers use nudging and other psychological techniques to influence our purchasing decisions. But rather more pernicious is the use of fear or guilt campaigns to nudge us to do things that the government wants us to do,

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NYPD Arrests More Than 100 Protesters at Anti-Israel Protest on Columbia Campus By Brittany Bernstein

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/nypd-arrests-more-than-100-protesters-including-ilhan-omars-daughter-at-anti-israel-protest-on-columbia-campus/ New York City police arrested 108 anti-Israel protesters on Columbia University’s campus on Thursday after the university’s president asked law enforcement to step in and break up the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” NYPD officers in riot gear arrived on campus Thursday

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NYPD Arrests More Than 100 Protesters at Anti-Israel Protest on Columbia Campus By Brittany Bernstein

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/nypd-arrests-more-than-100-protesters-including-ilhan-omars-daughter-at-anti-israel-protest-on-columbia-campus/ New York City police arrested 108 anti-Israel protesters on Columbia University’s campus on Thursday after the university’s president asked law enforcement to step in and break up the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” NYPD officers in riot gear arrived on campus Thursday

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Friday’s Forum

OTB relies on its readers to support it. Please consider helping by becoming a monthly contributor through Patreon or making a one-time contribution via PayPal. Thanks for your consideration. Click this link for the original source of this article. Author: Steven L. Taylor This

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Insane Asylum: The Policy Disaster at the Border By Peter Skerry

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2024/06/insane-asylum-the-policy-disaster-at-the-border/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=top-of-nav&utm_content=hero-module The Biden administration‘s choices have produced lawlessness and disorder The ongoing crisis at the U.S.–Mexican border has one distinct virtue. It presents Americans with the opportunity to clarify various misconceptions about what is not merely the largest wave of migrants

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Insane Asylum: The Policy Disaster at the Border By Peter Skerry

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2024/06/insane-asylum-the-policy-disaster-at-the-border/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=top-of-nav&utm_content=hero-module The Biden administration‘s choices have produced lawlessness and disorder The ongoing crisis at the U.S.–Mexican border has one distinct virtue. It presents Americans with the opportunity to clarify various misconceptions about what is not merely the largest wave of migrants

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Could EVs Compete In A True Free Market?

https://issuesinsights.com/2024/04/19/could-evs-compete-in-a-true-free-market/ It seems we’ve reached “peak EV,” with sales in trouble and assembly line workers losing their jobs. The hard truth is electric vehicle sales would have never reached the level they have if the government had not trespassed into private

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NPR Scandal Should Kill Taxpayer-Funded Broadcasting Charles Lipson

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/04/18/npr_scandal_should_kill_taxpayer-funded_broadcasting_150810.html “I don’t want any yes-men around me,” said Sam Goldwyn, the Hollywood producer famed for his movies and malapropisms. “I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.” The brass at National Public Radio

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Newslinks for Friday 19th April 2024

Sunak to strip GPs of right to sign people off sick “Rishi Sunak is vowing to end Britain’s “sick-note culture” and says that over-medicalising common anxieties is driving a rise in the number of people off work with mental health problems.

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Israel Launches Retaliatory Strike on Iran Tehran lifts restrictions on airspace after canceling flights amid reports of explosions Dov Lieber and Aresu Eqbali

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-activates-air-defenses-and-cancels-flights-27b6d416 Israel retaliated overnight against Iran’s massive drone and missile attack on its territory, people familiar with the matter said—with what appeared to be a limited strike aimed at avoiding an escalatory cycle that could push the countries closer toward war. 

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Featured

History of the Week: Jefferson, Ft.Sumter, Revere’s Ride, Lincoln’s Death, Culloden, Titanic, Leonardo, Masada, Doolitte Raid& More

Bottom row, left to right: Handel, H.Clay, Benedict XVI, Khrushchev, Pol Pot, W.Wright, Einstein, Louis the Pious, Dusan, W.Holden. Larger images, clockwise: Titanic sinking, Jefferson (w/Battle of Culloden), Leonardo (w/Franklin), Lincoln’s assassination, Revere’s Ride, Doolittle’s Raiders, Masada, Ft. Sumter. The Nazi-like

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The Legal Arsenal of the Group Quota Regime By T.J. Harker

https://tomklingenstein.com/the-legal-arsenal-of-the-group-quota-regime/ Editor’s Note: Lawfare, the weaponization of law against political opponents—both public figures and ordinary citizens—is now a mainstay of the Left’s political strategy. T.J. Harker, an attorney and former federal prosecutor, explains how the law itself has become the power

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Featured

DEI in sports? Dan Dakich says ‘it’s the dumbest argument ever’

OutKick host Dan Dakich shreds MSNBC’s wishes for more DEI in Major League Baseball on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’ #foxnews #jessewattersprimetime Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC)

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International News

No Plan B without US – Kiev

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has said this was the message he relayed to American counterpart Antony Blinken Ukraine does not have a ‘Plan B’ for the conflict with Russia if the US Congress refuses to approve more military aid for

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Bill Maher says the US has ‘passed the Rubicon,’ slams Dearborn, Michigan, ‘Death to America’ rally By  Yael Halon,

https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/us-news/bill-maher-says-the-us-has-passed-the-rubicon-slams-dearborn-michigan-death-to-america-rally/ “Real Time” host Bill Maher said it’s time to draw the line when it comes to chants of “Death to America” on American soil. On Friday’s “Overtime” segment on YouTube, Maher addressed the protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, who shouted “Death

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WATCH Russian air defenses block Ukrainian attack

The interception of a night-time barrage in Belgorod Region was filmed by local residents The moment when Russian air defenses engaged incoming Ukrainian rockets in Belgorod Region overnight has been caught on camera. The barrage included at least 25 projectiles, which

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Law & Crime

Exposing ‘Regime Evangelicals’

For the Christian, our greatest threat doesn’t come from outside of the church, but from within. Worse than the Satan-worshipping pagan who wants to make sin sound exciting is the professing Christian who wants to make sin sound tolerable, or even

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Breaking: Trump’s Secret Weapon Has Dems TERRIFIED

A contributor from Fox News has stated that Donald Trump has the legal right to take legal action against New York Attorney General Letitia James for allegedly violating the civil rights of the former president. Political analyst Deroy Murdock, who frequently

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Breaking: Trump’s Secret Weapon Has Dems TERRIFIED

A contributor from Fox News has stated that Donald Trump has the legal right to take legal action against New York Attorney General Letitia James for allegedly violating the civil rights of the former president. Political analyst Deroy Murdock, who frequently

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Breaking: Ilhan Omar Just Got The BAD News…

Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, made a statement on Thursday asserting that she had been subjected to a “suspension” from Barnard College as a result of her pro-Palestinian activism. In a tweet, Hirsi mentioned that she

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Breaking: Ilhan Omar Just Got The BAD News…

Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, made a statement on Thursday asserting that she had been subjected to a “suspension” from Barnard College as a result of her pro-Palestinian activism. In a tweet, Hirsi mentioned that she

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