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By Bob Hoge Maine has given us some wild stories lately — remember Graham Platner ? — but none are as crazy as this one. An investigative journalist for the Maine Wire named Joe Sokol was looking into a methadone clinic, the Bangor Comprehensive Treatment Center, and asking where the $25 million it's received in Medicaid since 2018 could have gone. Even though he was on public property, a man in a Jeep Compass started hassling him. The guy was obnoxious and possibly drunk, but you couldn’t have predicted what happened next — the goon tried to mow Sokol down. Some lunatic just attempted to murder our reporter @iAmJoeSokol . We have the entire chilling interaction on camera. We will take all necessary actions to demand justice. pic.twitter.com/Iwlpf3BWIx — The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) October 1, 2026 When the man drove up, Sokol was amiable enough. “How you doing, bud?” he asked. The guy started rambling about how Sokol was invading people’s privacy, even though there’s obvi...

By Bob Hoge The story about a possible terror plot at the Royal Air Force Base Fairford in Gloucestershire, England — which is used by the U.S. military — has been nothing short of weird. A farmer spotted three suspicious white vans and a group of hooded, masked men near the base and called the authorities, who subsequently arrested five suspects. Weirdly, for reasons unknown to anyone but himself, one of the guys had already called the police himself to report the vehicles. Astonishingly, they let them out on bail soon afterward, all while British authorities cautioned that we should not assume it was a foreign plot or that Iran could somehow be involved. I mean, they could have just been looking for a good stargazing spot, right? They later admitted that there were “strong indications” that there was an Iran connection . Now, lo and behold, police have arrested a 27-year-old UK-Iranian dual national on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. They’re also questioning a second p...

By Ward Clark Google is about to release a new artificial intelligence (AI) model they are calling Gemini 4 Argon. The rise of an ever-increasing number of these products has caused concern across the political spectrum, and now Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) are forming an unlikely alliance, proposing a bill to make AI companies legally liable for any hacking incidents. Also, recently OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, according to Sen. Hawley, declined to appear before the Senate to discuss a recent hacking incident. It's all adding up to a big liability fight . While the debate has already started, work on the bill is reportedly underway .  In a stance that puts him at odds with much of his party and the White House, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., used a Senate hearing on Wednesday to call for new artificial intelligence regulations, including through his own upcoming legislation that would clarify liability for “rogue” AI hacking incidents. At the hearing on nationa...

Trump also refused to endorse Netanyahu directly in the upcoming elections during the interview, steering the conversation away three times when asked directly about it. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF US President Donald Trump said that he does not believe reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned in advance by Egypt or the United Arab Emirates of the October 7 Hamas attack, in an interview with Time on Thursday. "I think if he would have known, he would have done something about it," Trump said. "Certainly, he would have had people at least alert [him]." Trump also refused to endorse Netanyahu directly in the upcoming elections during the interview, steering the conversation away three times when asked directly whether the prime minister should have another term in office. However, Trump also said that "I wouldn't underestimate Bibi," and that "people have written off Bibi many, many times, just like they've w...

By Victor Davis Hanson On October 7, 2023, Hamas killers slaughtered 1,200 people, more than two-thirds of them civilians, inside Israel. For the ensuing three weeks, they refused Israel’s demands to turn over the 251 hostages and to surrender the architects of the massacre. No matter—within a day of the attacks, when Hamas gunmen were still fighting Israeli troops on Israeli soil, the American Left was already screaming “genocide!” They did not mean Hamas’s intended genocide of Jews, a foretaste of which was seen when it launched a surprise invasion force of more than 4,000 terrorists some 15 miles into Israel. The killers were accompanied by some 2,000 “innocent” Gazan “civilians.” All were bent on looting, murder, rape, torture, and hostage-taking of the defenseless. Nor did the “genocide” chorus refer to the more than 13,000 rockets, missiles, and drones launched from Gaza after October 7 that predominantly targeted Israeli civilian neighborhoods. What was most surreal about th...

Pike, who would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, somehow survived the double dose of the highly potent sedative, Pentobarbital. By Chris Nesi Media witnesses to the botched execution of Christa Pike described how the satanist killer lifted her head and asked if the pain was normal after a second round of the lethal drug cocktail was administered. Pike, who would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, somehow survived the double dose of the highly potent sedative, Pentobarbital, Wednesday – with reporters describing how the failed execution played out unlike anything they had ever seen. “They went through two rounds, and she was still breathing at the end, it was very ragged, she lifted her head up and was looking around at one point. She said there was a spot that was burning and hurting and asked if that was normal,” Catherine Sweeney of WPLN said at a press briefing after the exec...

The High Court of American Samoa found the right to bear arms does not apply in the unincorporated territory By Mike Davis In October 2024, the High Court of American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States, issued a staggering ruling that received little media attention. The justices ruled that, since American Samoa is unincorporated, the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms does not apply there. The ruling allowed a near-total gun ban to take effect. President Donald Trump and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum can and must reverse this immediately. The issue of territories is obscure, so some background is helpful. The United States has 50 states and several territories, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa. The District of Columbia also is not a state; however, unlike the other territories, it receives three electoral votes for the presidency pursuant to the 23rd Amendment. None o...

"Our security doctrine must be clear: Anyone who tries to murder or harm Israelis, the State of Israel will pursue them and settle the score with them anywhere in the world," he said. By SHIR PERETS National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir will demand at Thursday's security cabinet meeting that Israel seek the extradition of the flydubai pilot who attempted to hijack a Tel Aviv-bound passenger plane on Wednesday, according to a statement from the minister's office. Ben-Gvir, a member of the security cabinet, stated he would call on the Justice Ministry and relevant diplomatic officials to immediately use all available means to secure the suspect's extradition to Israel, where he would be questioned and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. "Anyone who planned to crash a plane and murder 180 Israelis must be extradited to Israel and pay the heaviest price here," Ben-Gvir said. "We cannot be satisfied with the fact that th...

By Stephen Green It seems impossible that it's been almost exactly 17 years since U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and opened fire on soldiers at the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Center in Killeen, Texas. By the time Department of the Army police officer Kimberly D. Munley and Sgt. Mark Todd exchanged gunshots with Hasan and disabled him; he had killed 14 people — including an unborn baby — and wounded 32 more. Before going down, Hasan shot Munley three times, in the right hand, left thigh, and left knee. She survived, but never fully recovered from her injuries. Hasan's attack lasted about 10 minutes because of all the many absurdities about modern life; soldiers are generally not allowed to carry firearms on base. It is the height of outrageous absurdity that the Obama administration described the jihadi terrorist attack as an act of mere "workplace violence." Hasan, the son of naturalized Palestinian immigrants, was reportedly r...

Mahdism Isn't Just an Iranian Issue Dhu al-Qarnayn builds a wall to protect people from “Yajuj and Majuj” (symbol of evils) before End time; here aided by dīvs (demons). Persian miniature from a Falnama, 16th century. This article was written by Timothy Furnish , a Lutheran Christian (conservative but not fundamentalist); PhD in Islamic, World and African history (Ohio State, 2001); former US Army Arabic linguist and, later, civilian consultant to US Special Operations Command; author of books on the Middle East and Middle-earth; history professor; and sometime media opiner (as, for example, on Fox News Channel’s “ War Stories: Fighting ISIS “). Islam has been called a Christian heresy for centuries — first by the Church father St. John of Damascus, an Arab Christian who lived during the Muslim conquests. Other notable Christian thinkers since — Martin Luther , Hilaire Belloc , and C.S. Lewis among them — have agreed. Why? Because Islam’s founder, Muhammad, and the com...