The Middle East is anticipating Israel's next military offensive as it surges toward Hamas' last remaining stronghold‚ the city of Rafah near the Egyptian border. In the face of the Israeli advance‚ the White House is pushing back.    In his sharpest criticism yet‚ President Joe Biden slammed Israel's military campaign in a press conference Thursday‚ saying‚ "I'm of the view‚ as you know‚ that the conduct of the response in Gaza‚ in the Gaza Strip has been over the top." The...

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.