Matt Vespa
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There Was a Big Clue That the Omani FlyDubai Hijacker Was a Religious Extremist (opens the original)
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Captain Smit Machchhar, an Indian national, was stabbed by the co-pilot, an Omani national who attempted to hijack a FlyDubai flight en route to Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Despite severe bleeding, he managed to open the cockpit door, allowing crew members and passengers to regain control of the aircraft. Fortunately, reserve pilots were on board, and they made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. All passengers have safely returned to Israel. Yet, there were signs that the would-be terrorist hijack
Maine Journalist Almost Got Murdered by a Crazy Person and It's All on Camera (opens the original)
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Maine Wire reporter Joe Sokol was taping a segment outside a methadone clinic when he was nearly run down by a crazed motorist who was unhappy about what Sokol said was an invasion of privacy. Sokol said the driver might have been under the influence, as the driver’s speech seemed mumbled and slurred. Sokol was well within his rights: he was not on the clinic’s property but across the street. The driver drove off, made a U-turn in the nearby parking lot, and then gunned it toward Sokol, who got
GOP Congressman Wants to Know Why the ATF Essentially Has a Gun Database Right Now (opens the original)
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives maintains records that form a searchable database at its facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia. This database contains some 1.4 billion records, including Social Security numbers and the firearm’s make, model, and serial numbers. Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) and 50 other members of Congress would like to know more about this registry and whether it violates the law. Its illegal to have a gun database. All past ATF directors have denied its e
Troy Jackson's Apology to Jewish Voters Shows Dems Don't Know What Genocide Is (opens the original)
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Every vote counts, and that goes double for Democrats if they wish to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who has been on a generational run defying the odds, even when polling shows her dead in the water. She was supposed to lose to Sara Gideon by nine points in 2020, remember? Collins won by eight, and the Maine Republican has reaped the benefits of Maine Democrats not knowing how to beat her. This cycle, they thought Graham Platner, who donned Nazi tattoos and was saddled with rape allegations,
'It’s all F**King Kabuki Theater': George Santos Went Haywire Talking About His Time in Congress (opens the original)
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Bill Maher had former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) on his podcast, Club Random, this week and it was lively to say the least. Santos, who was serving a 7-year prison sentence for wire fraud, had President Trump commute his sentence. Santos said things that shouldn’t shock us about Congress, notably that they do nothing, leadership rams its backroom deals down the throats of the rank-and-file, and every day ends in pizza, literally. They don’t care. “They’re ALL full of ABSOLUTE sh*t!”Former Congres
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