Israel struck the southern Gaza city of Rafah‚ following a warning from Biden administration officials and aid agencies to Israel against expanding its ground offensive to there‚ according to The Associated Press. Airstrikes‚ occurring overnight and into Friday‚ struck two residential buildings in the southern city. In central Gaza‚ two other places were bombed‚ including a kindergarten that had become a shelter for those who were displaced. AP journalists who saw bodies coming...

Gaza’s southernmost town‚ Rafah‚ is bursting at the seams. Nearly the last place spared an Israeli offensive so far‚ Rafah’s population has more than quintupled with Palestinians streaming in to escape fighting. They pack by the dozens into apartments. Sidewalks and once-empty lots are clogged with tents full of families. Panic and despair are rising after Israel said it intends to attack Rafah next. The estimated 1.5 million people sheltering there – more than half of Gaza’s...

In the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller‚ the U.S. Supreme Court explicitly recognized that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to arms. It reaffirmed that conclusion two years later in McDonald v. Chicago‚ which applied the Second Amendment to the states via the 14th Amendment. And in the 2022 case New York State Rifle &; Pistol Association v. Bruen‚ the Court held that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" extends beyond the home....

This week‚ many Americans became aware of the conspiracy of silence that is the Biden administration. That is‚ even Democrats and those who are politically unaffiliated began to notice that those highest up in the White House are colluding to hide the fact that the president’s mental faculties have significantly declined. “Fair or not‚ you can’t unring the bell‚” said David Axelrod‚ Barack Obama’s former senior adviser. Indeed‚ the report from Robert Hur‚ the special counsel who investigated Biden’s mishandling of classified material‚ has put all Americans on alert regarding Biden’s capacities (or lack thereof). Hur deemed Biden to be so mentally diminished that it would be difficult for a jury to find him guilty. “[A]t trial‚ Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury‚ as he did during our interview of him‚ as a sympathetic‚ well-meaning‚ elderly man with a poor memory‚” said Hur in a line that has been repeated over and over since the release of the report. This is not — as Biden’s most ardent defenders in the media have claimed — an irrelevant‚ partisan swing. The relevant statute here unusually requires that‚ for a defendant to be found guilty‚ he must have acted willfully. That means a defendant must have intended to break the law. It could possibly even be said that Hur’s decision to not prosecute Biden hinges upon his belief that jurors might determine that Biden lacked intent to break the law simply because he is cognitively impaired and totally clueless. The upcoming days and weeks will provide more information on just how much damage has been done. But even now‚ in the immediate aftermath of the report‚ it appears that realization has dawned on many that Joe Biden is mentally incapacitated. READ MORE: Is Joe Biden’s Campaign Dead? The post Are the Cards Starting to Fall for Joe Biden? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for‚ among other things‚ sex-trafficking a child. The representative got bad news today when it was reported that Joel Greenberg‚ Gaetz’s former close friend‚ is cooperating with the committee. Greenberg is currently in prison for sex-trafficking a child and using taxpayer money to pay for sex. Gaetz does not want Greenberg to cooperate with the House Ethics Committee because Greenberg previously told federal investigators that he witnessed Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old child — in other words‚ committing statutory rape. Moreover‚ in a pardon request to then-President Donald Trump‚ Greenberg also stated that he and Gaetz had both engaged in sexual activity with the minor. “On more than one occasion‚” said Greenberg‚ “this underage individual was involved in sexual activity with several of the other females at the house‚ myself and also the congressman from Florida’s panhandle.” Making the allegations even sicker‚ the Daily Beast has reported that Gaetz sent Greenberg numerous Venmo payments that were subsequently sent to young women. One $900 Venmo payment from Gaetz to Greenberg was labeled “hit up ___” and referenced the teen‚ who had by then turned 18. The same outlet has recently reported that Gaetz has in confidence told some of his fellow House members that the true reason for his crusade against former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — which resulted in McCarthy’s ouster — was the ethics investigation. Kevin McCarthy also seems to be of the same belief. In December‚ McCarthy told reporters: “We all know it’s the ethics complaint on Gaetz…. He’s doing everything to make sure it doesn’t come out‚ and he doesn’t care about anything else. People study that type of crazy mind‚ right? Mainly‚ the FBI.” Yesterday‚ McCarthy went as far as to say that he believes “Gaetz will have a hard time being a member of Congress and staying out of jail too.” “I think‚” said McCarthy‚ “people see now how far Matt Gaetz will go and the fear he has of what’s in the ethics complaint.” READ MORE:  Why Did Matt Gaetz Vote Against an Anti-Sex-Trafficking Bill? The post Will the Allegations of Child Sex Trafficking Ever Catch Up With Matt Gaetz? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.