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By Teri Christoph You can't say the residents of McKinney, Texas, didn't make their voices heard as their town council considered the Islamic Association of McKinney 's proposed plan to expand to a much larger campus. Over 150 residents signed up to address the council at a recent meeting – so many of them, in fact, that they overflowed out of the room and into the hallway. The start of the meeting was delayed because it took so long to register that number of residents to speak. The crowd was amped up, though, and began clapping loudly to get the meeting started because they had a lot to say. And when it did start, the council members got an earful. Republican Rep. Keith Self (TX-03) kicked things off by getting right to the point: "Child marriage, honor killings, don't tell me it can't happen here." The crowd gave him a standing ovation. An Iranian Christian who had once lived under Sharia law warned, "I'm a Sharia law survivor from Iran, a...

By Nick Arama We haven't seen any real evidence that the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is even alive since the first attack of Operation Epic Fury on Iran on February 28.  Now the regime has released a video of the guy we like to call the "Cardboard Ayatollah." Iran’s Mehr News released a video claiming to show Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei “for the first time,” with no date or location specified. The right side of his face cannot be seen in the footage. pic.twitter.com/JdKWU2Svy6 — Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) August 8, 2026 Iran released a rare video Sunday of its supreme leader appearing in prime condition amid his long absence from the public eye and swirling reports of deteriorating health. The country’s semi-official Mehr News Agency flaunted video of Mojtaba Khamenei , 56, sitting in a circle and speaking with a group of men, with no context of when or where the scene took place. So first, there's no evidence this was afte...

By Rusty Weiss Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) has decided to freeze her eggs and, in a bizarre social media post, felt the need to share the process with followers as some sort of empowerment vlog. And she did this despite knowing the world is scheduled to end in five years due to global warming. An odd decision at best. Why is she preparing for a future we're never going to see? Ocasio-Cortez weirdly posted videos of herself injecting the hormones to initiate the process, demanding that viewers "don’t be weird about this." “Usually, I keep my private life quite private, but I have made the decision to start freezing my eggs, and I want to share that with anyone who is — and I want to share this because I was weighing it for a very long time, and I think that, you know, I was saving for it for a very long time, and there just isn’t a ton out there, I feel, and sometimes it can feel very daunting,” she said . Apparently vomiting up word salad is a sid...

By Doreen Virtue By examining the spiritual climate of New Age beliefs and practices, we see a sobering parallel to the ancient Canaanite religions that God so vehemently condemned through His prophets and Law. While the cultural forms have shifted and the language has changed, the essence of the practices remains startlingly similar. What the Israelites faced as a seductive spiritual counterfeit in the land of Canaan is repackaged in our present day, and God still calls us to remain discerning and uncompromising. In Deuteronomy 18:9–14 , God gave His people a clear and urgent warning as they prepared to enter the Promised Land. He commanded them to not imitate the detestable practices of the nations they were about to dispossess. The list of forbidden activities included child sacrifice, divination, fortune-telling, interpreting omens, sorcery, casting spells, mediumship, consulting the dead, and spiritism. These practices and the people who practice them are abominations ...

By Teri Christoph Whatever in the world possessed Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger 's staff to think this was a good idea? For some inexplicable reason, they scheduled the Democrat to appear at a Saturday fiddlers convention in rural southwest Virginia.  Needless to say, this was not her crowd, and they let her know it. The setting was Galax, Virginia, a small independent city in the Blue Ridge Highlands of Southwest Virginia, located very close to the North Carolina line. It's been called the “gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains," and its identity has deep ties to old-timey Appalachian bluegrass music.  Galax takes its role of preserving and showcasing the musical traditions of the area very seriously. Its rural residents also enjoy things like guns and not having congressional representation by the far-left Democrat radicals of Northern Virginia. The event was the 90th annual Old Fiddlers' Convention , which bills itself as the "world's oldest and l...

By Teri Christoph The firestorm against the WNBA is getting hotter by the minute after the league continues to downplay the on-court violence against its star players; it's also grappling with how to define the "W" in WNBA after Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham says she'd like to help protect girls from having biological males invade their sports. In short, the league looks like it's run by a bunch of amateurs who aren't worthy of having megastars like Cunningham and her teammate Caitlin Clark donning its uniforms and gracing its courts.  After watching " flagrant foul " after "flagrant foul" being committed against players like Clark and Cunningham – with Cunningham being the most recent victim of the escalating dangerous play after she was clotheslined by Chicago Sky's DiJonai Carrington while going in for a layup – fans and onlookers are left wondering when the WNBA will grow a pair and stop the madness. Instead of reinin...

By JPOST EDITORIAL Dozens of accounts on X/Twitter, possibly even hundreds, are amplifying content from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani , municipal accounts, and officials in his circle in patterns that do not appear human. That is the finding presented to the World Zionist Organization’s Department for Combating Antisemitism by cyber analysts and reported exclusively by The Jerusalem Post . The numbers, exposed by the Post’s Mathilda Heller , are not subtle. Several accounts recorded more than 500 posts a day. One logged 955, every one a reshare. Another, created three days before the analysis, with no followers and 13 posts of its own, was already generating 201 a day. Across dozens of accounts, 96% to 100% of activity was repeated sharing, with no original content. On some, the rate of resharing the mayor’s own material ran between 98% and 100%. The analysts told the Post they are “100% sure” the IP addresses trace back to City Hall infrastructure. M...

By Adam Lynch In the face of endless corruption allegations and the Trump family’s monetization of the White House, U.S. House Democrats are preparing for a possible return to power with a broad, new investigative strategy, reports the State . “From sketchy Pentagon contracts lining the pockets of the president's sons, Trump's crypto billions, and the shady backroom deals for Trump donors, we will ensure we combat corruption when Democrats take back the House in November," Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) vowed in a statement. Polls suggest Democrats will be stampeding the House in November, and the State reports they plan to target companies and financial firms surrounding Trump instead of trying to immediately impeach Trump, according to four people familiar with the discussions. “Senior Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and committee aides have discussed using hearings, subpoenas and document requests to obtain records from entities tied to Trump...

By DANYA SAPERSTEIN The Pentagon told US defense industry leaders to prepare plans to escalate production and delivery of weapons as reports of munitions shortages escalate, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing a Defense Department memo.  Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg wrote that the leaders had no more than 21 days to present plans to “drive significantly faster, more aggressive delivery schedules and/or increased production for critical capabilities,” on Wednesday, according to the memo. “Years-long development cycles are not acceptable. We must dramatically accelerate our program schedules and expand our production capacity now.” US stockpiles reportedly dwindling Reports have emerged in recent weeks that the US had used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles. US President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a cabinet meeting at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland, US, July...

By Nick Arama We've seen a lot of bad ideas coming from the socialist mayor of New York City .  But the latest idea from Zohran Mamdani has people talking and responding with an immediate, visceral reaction.  It's a new program to watch your children for four hours, so you can have a night out. All parents have to do is drop your kids off with government employees you don't know. Would you do this? NYC, Zohran Mamdani is offering free babysitting so parents can have a date night. Would you drop your children off to random babysitters at a city location in NYC? pic.twitter.com/gtnC8p7r9G — Brookerteejones (@Brookerteejones) August 6, 2026 Social media creator Brooker Tee Jones said: Many people are saying there is no way on Earth they would bring their children to a random park in the city and let random people watch them. Even people are saying, "Well, this is a great way to indoctrinate children." Others are saying Zohran Mamdani is trying to do something n...

Both former NBA players say they identify as women and meet every requirement under the collective bargaining agreement By Zach Dean Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White put the WNBA in an almost impossible spot on Friday when they declared for the 2027 Draft in the wake of the Sophie Cunningham drama, and the ways out are limited. Frankly, none of them are great for the league, which is, presumably, the point. Unless, of course, both former NBA stars are just itching to get back in the game of basketball. I doubt it, though. For those who missed it, Kanter and White called the WNBA's bluff by both declaring their intention to enter next year's draft within hours of each other Friday evening. "If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA," Freedom stated in a social media post. "I'm transgender. I'm a woman. I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for purpose ...