Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Wednesday that if elected president, he'd slash the military budget by half. "I will push for [a] 50% reduction in military expenditures in my first four years in office, with more cuts to come thereafter," Kennedy said. "A way to keep the dollar strong is to keep the country strong. We can do that by redirecting our bloated military budget toward infrastructure, education and health and building our economy and building small...

Microsoft’s president told Congress on Thursday his company accepted responsibility for major security failures that let China-linked hackers penetrate federal government computer networks, but defended his company’s presence in China. Brad Smith struck a humble tone in his testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee and promised that the giant tech firm would fix security gaps in its products, which are widely used across federal agencies. Republican lawmakers, however,...

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When we read about ancient societies that worshipped their gods by conducting child sacrifices, many of us recoil in horror.  But the truth is that far more children are being murdered in our time, and the vast majority of the population is perfectly okay with that.  In ancient times, in most cases it wasn’t children that were wanted that were brought to the child sacrifices.  Instead, in most cases such ceremonies were a perfect opportunity to get rid of children that were not wanted.  Today, unwanted children are discarded behind closed doors at an abortion clinic.  This is being done on an industrial scale, but since we never have to see it happening most of us are able to ignore the slaughter most of the time.  Of course that doesn’t make our society any less guilty than the ancient societies that performed child sacrifices publicly. Here in the United States, more than 60 million abortions have been performed since 1973. What does a nation that has killed more than 60 million children deserve? Please take a moment and come up with your best answer to that question. When you fully understand what we have done, and you fully understand what we deserve, the importance of this issue finally becomes clear. Of course the U.S. is not the only country that has been wiping out kids on an industrial scale. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 73 million abortions are being performed around the world every year… Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. Six out of 10 (61%) of all unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 (29%) of all pregnancies, end in induced abortion Just think about that. At this pace, 730 million children would be aborted in 10 years, 1.4 billion children would be aborted in 20 years, and 7.3 billion children would be aborted in 100 years. There are only about 8 billion people living on the entire globe right now. So we are talking about a slaughter that is truly unprecedented in all of human history. The only hope that we have is to immediately stop killing children. But that isn’t going to happen.  In fact, a new Gallup survey shows that U.S. voters are shifting in a pro-abortion direction… A record-high 32% of U.S. voters say they would only vote for a candidate for major office who shares their views on abortion. The importance of a candidate’s abortion stance to one’s vote is markedly higher among pro-choice voters than it was during the 2020 presidential election cycle, while pro-life voters’ intensity about voting on the abortion issue has waned. Also, voters’ greater intensity on the issue today compared with 2020 is explained mainly by Democrats, while Republicans and independents have shown little change. U.S. adults who are pro-choice are also significantly more likely now than two decades ago to say it is important that any future Supreme Court nominees share their views on abortion. A different survey that was conducted by Navigator Research discovered that a whopping 63 percent of Americans “could not support an elected official who believes in a nationwide abortion ban”… Now, according to new polling of 1,000 registered voters by progressive firm Navigator Research, 63 percent of Americans say they could not support an elected official who believes in a nationwide abortion ban. Forty-three percent of the Republicans asked in the survey said they could not support a figure with these views. With national and swing state polls ahead of the 2024 presidential election so tight, abortion rights could be a key factor that decides several of November’s races. This is why so few of our politicians support a nationwide abortion ban at this point. The American people don’t want it. When Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, that was an opportunity for our nation to change direction. But instead, the number of abortions performed in the United States actually went up the following year… More than a million abortions were provided in the U.S. in 2023. That’s a major finding from a report published Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports access to abortion. To be precise, researchers estimate there were 1,026,700 abortions in 2023. “That’s the highest number in over a decade, [and] the first time there have been over a million abortions provided in the U.S. formal health care system since 2012,” explains Isaac Maddow-Zimet, a data scientist with Guttmacher. Most people don’t realize this, but most abortions today are performed by using medications… The Guttmacher report also found that medication abortions rose to 63% of all abortions in 2023, up from 53% in 2020. The research was conducted by surveying all in-person and virtual abortion providers in the country and adding up their abortion counts. Guttmacher has been doing this research since 1974. The Supreme Court had an opportunity to do something about that, but they decided to take the easy way out. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled against the pro-life doctors that had brought the case, and pro-abortion forces are greatly rejoicing… In a blow for anti-abortion advocates, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone, meaning the commonly used drug can remain widely available. The court found unanimously that the group of anti-abortion doctors who questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions making it easier to access the pill did not have legal standing to sue. After the Supreme Court decision was announced, Joe Biden declared that “the fight for reproductive freedom continues”… President Joe Biden said in a statement that while the ruling means the pill can remain easily accessible, “the fight for reproductive freedom continues” in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling two years ago that overturned abortion rights landmark Roe v. Wade. “It does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the treatment she needs is imperiled if not impossible in many states,” he added. This is an issue on which the Democrats will never compromise. Unfortunately, the same thing cannot be said about the other party. Look, the truth is that if we stay on the path that we are on our nation will experience the judgment of God. We aren’t just a little bit guilty. Tens of millions of precious American children are already dead, and more are being killed with each passing day. If we do not change direction, time will eventually run out and then we will get exactly what we deserve. Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com. About the Author: Michael Snyder’s extremely controversial new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. 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A mother of one of the four Hamas hostages rescued by Israeli forces during an operation last weekend spoke about the "very strange rules" her son said the terrorists made him live by. Evgeniia Kozlova, whose son Andrey Kozlov was one the hostages abducted by Hamas terrorists during their attack...

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia raised a question to Christians who support Donald Trump on what God they actually worship. He went so far as to liken them to American Christians in the past who supported slavery or segregation. It should be noted that the abolition movement was Christian...