The tell FBI fears/feared New Orleans terrorist cell possibility

January 02, 2025

The tell FBI fears/feared New Orleans terrorist cell possibility

At least temporarily on Wednesday, the FBI was clearly concerned that the ISIS-inspired/-directed attack in New Orleans may have been the work of a broader cell of terrorists. Early on Wednesday morning, a U.S. citizen, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove a truck at high speed into New Year’s Eve revelers celebrating on New Orleans’s famous Bourbon Street. […]

Timothee Chalamet’s Bob Dylan rejects communist activists

I walked into James Mangold’s new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, which adapts Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric!, with low expectations, largely because it seemed unthinkable that any film could do justice to Dylan’s towering legacy. But to my surprise, it quickly became not only one of my favorite films of the year but one of […]

Jimmy Carter’s 1976 primary campaign was a master class in political strategy

Amid all the reminiscences this week about former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, surprisingly little attention has focused on just how brilliant a campaign he ran to secure the Democratic nomination in 1976. When the campaign began, Carter was the longest of long shots. He entered a crowded field […]

Democrats are to blame for record homelessness

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has found there is now a record number of homeless people in the United States. Liberal policies are primarily to blame. The homelessness census report found that homelessness in the U.S. increased by 18% to a record number of 771,480. That 18% increase from 2023 to 2024 is […]

In backing Mike Johnson, Trump rightly wants to avoid a mess

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has no doubt had a turbulent year as the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, but any effort to replace him with someone else will not create smoother sailing. President-elect Donald Trump made clear that any effort to replace Johnson as House speaker lacks his support. […]

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Turkey tries to skirt F-35 fighter jet ban

In July 2019, during the twilight of the first Trump administration, the Defense Department kicked Turkey out of the F-35 joint strike fighter program. While analysts can debate the wisdom of including Turkey in the F-35 program to start with, its expulsion was warranted: By purchasing Russia’s S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, Turkey put NATO at […]

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