This article was originally published by Micahel Snyder at The End of the American Dream under the title: Kick Off Event Incoming: Israel Is Going To Attack Iran Even If The U.S. Does Not – A Major Showdown In The Middle East Now Appears To Be Inevitable One way or another, it appears that a final showdown in the Middle East is going to happen. The tyrants that are running Iran have slaughtered tens of thousands of protesters, they have just deployed ballistic missiles that travel so fast that they can reach Israel in 10 minutes, it has been reported that they have been “developing biological and chemical warheads” for their long-range ballistic missiles, and during negotiations with the Trump administration they are absolutely refusing to make any significant compromises. They are calling President Trump’s bluff, and they are daring him to act. At this stage, it is not entirely clear what Trump intends to do. But even if Trump doesn’t pull the trigger, Israeli officials are warning that they will attack Iran anyway. The Israelis know all about the Khorramshahr-4 missiles that Iran now possesses. And they know all about the unconventional warheads that could potentially represent an apocalyptic threat to major Israeli cities. So they…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Tuesday Senate hearing is set to expose billions in fraud in Minnesota as well as foreign backing for anti-ICE agitators across the country, Sen. Josh Hawley’s office told Fox News Digital.The hearing before the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster Management, which Hawley chairs, will feature testimony from a Minnesota state senator and representatives of third-party watchdog groups. Systemic fraud backed by transnational groups has stolen billions from child nutrition, FEMA assistance, housing, Medicaid, and substance abuse services, the testimony is expected to say.”American taxpayers are getting robbed blind—billions stolen in Minnesota, and hundreds of billions siphoned out of the country by transnational criminals every year—all while foreign actors coordinate chaos on our streets,” Hawley told Fox News in a statement.”Enough is enough. It’s time to root out the dark money and shut down the foreign influence,” he added.CONGRESS OPENS ‘INDUSTRIAL-SCALE FRAUD’ PROBE IN MINNESOTA, WARNS WALZ DEMANDS ARE ‘JUST THE BEGINNING’ Minnesota State Sen. Mark Koran’s testimony will highlight the role Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison played in allowing fraud to fester and spread across the state in what he calls the “largest expansion and fastest acceleration…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The FBI launched a billboard campaign related to the search for missing Nancy Guthrie in hopes of finding a “crucial piece of information” to bring her home. An FBI Houston spokesperson told Fox News that the interstate campaign, which features billboards in Phoenix, Ariz., Albuquerque, N.M., Los Angeles and the cities of El Paso, Dallas, San Antonio and Houston in Texas, is centered around raising “as much public awareness as possible for this case.” “Our billboard footprint includes multiple states surrounding Arizona, and we hope this campaign will lead to the crucial piece of information that helps us bring Nancy home,” the spokesperson added, noting that Clear Channel partnered with the FBI to donate the billboard space. The search for Nancy Guthrie — the missing 84-year-old mother of NBC “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie — entered its 10th day on Tuesday, Feb. 10. No suspects or persons of interest have been identified. NANCY GUTHRIE SEARCH LIVE UPDATES: SECOND ALLEGED RANSOM NOTE DEADLINE PASSES AS INVESTIGATORS PURSUE ‘NEW LEADS’ Nancy Guthrie was abducted by force from her home in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood in northern Tucson around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 1, according to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos. The FBI has already announced…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Senate is scrambling to avoid a third government shutdown under President Donald Trump, and after negotiations seemingly appeared to hit a brick wall, lawmakers are cautiously optimistic that a deal could be made. Senate Republicans received Senate Democrats’ “partisan wishlist” of demands over the weekend, sources familiar with negotiations told Fox News Digital. The White House sent over its own counter-proposal, but several lawmakers weren’t clear what was in package as of Monday night. Some, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., wouldn’t say, but noted that congressional Democrats and the White House were “trading papers,” and signaled that the back and forth activity was a good sign of negotiations moving forward. But lawmakers aren’t out of the woods yet, a reality that Thune warned of since Senate Democrats demanded a two-week funding extension for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Congress has until Friday to avert a shutdown and little time to actually move a short-term patch from one side of the building to the other. REPUBLICANS WARN DEMOCRATS’ ICE REFORM PUSH IS COVER TO DEFUND BORDER ENFORCEMENT Republicans are mulling another short-term extension, known as a continuing resolution (CR), to avert a partial…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Readers will always read, and news junkies will always find and especially read news. Reading is simply faster than broadcast, so news delivered by text is always going to have a market. That reality does not, however, guarantee any platform the loyalty of a subscriber.”Journalism is a craft, not a profession,” the late Michael Kelly would routinely state in the blessed years when he was a weekly guest on my radio program. Kelly was the equal of any American journalist of his generation, having worked for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The New Republic and The Atlantic. Michael was killed covering the American invasion of Iraq in April 2003. The point he was making was that anyone could be a “journalist,” as there is no licensing involved in American journalism as there is with professions such as medicine and law. Getting paid to “be a journalist” — that was the trick, and as the internet exploded, so did the opportunities to work in the craft.WASHINGTON POST CEO STEPS DOWN AMID ONSLAUGHT OF BACKLASH FOLLOWING MASS LAYOFFSThe craft survives and thrives in the United States unlike anywhere else in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal appeals court in San Francisco granted a stay allowing the government to proceed with terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua.The reliably liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order freezing a lower court ruling that would have vacated Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to end the protections.The court found the government was likely to succeed on the grounds that the DHS decision was not “arbitrary or capricious,” suggesting that the decision-making process was rational.”The government is likely to prevail in its argument that the Secretary’s decision-making process in terminating TPS for Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal was not arbitrary and capricious,” court documents said.  Last year, Noem sought to terminate refugee status for the three long-protected countries, arguing that under TPS, the government must check if the initial reasons for their protection still apply.Nepal, Honduras, and Nicaragua all originally received TPS protections due to specific environmental disasters. Nepal was designated in 2015 following a massive earthquake, while Honduras and Nicaragua received protections in 1999 after Hurricane Mitch.Noem’s chief spokeswoman, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, previously noted last August that TPS protections…

Photo credit: duncan1890 on iStock.We discuss some highlights from Clayton Cramer’s Lock, Stock and Barrel to learn more about the origins of American gun culture.American gun culture is often portrayed as a modern invention, an outgrowth of industrial manufacturing, clever marketing or frontier mythology. According to this view, firearms were rare in early America, ownership was limited, and widespread civilian gun use emerged only after the Civil War.That story is neat. It is also wrong.The historical record tells a far different story, one in which firearms were not merely common, but expected; not reluctantly tolerated but legally required. In early America, gun ownership was not a lifestyle choice or political statement. It was a civic duty.Few works document this reality more thoroughly than Lock, Stock, and Barrel: The Origins of American Gun Culture by Clayton Cramer, which draws directly from colonial statutes, travel accounts and original source material. The picture that emerges is unmistakable: American gun culture did not have to be invented. It arose naturally from the conditions of colonial life.The Myth of Rare GunsThe idea that early Americans lived largely unarmed gained traction in the late 20th century through revisionist scholarship that claimed firearms were scarce and tightly…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! This is hardly a breaking-news situation. It’s not like some horrible new information has been unearthed in the last few days about the President of the United States.(Though I don’t think he helped himself by posting the Obamas-as-apes image and refusing to apologize.) I started thinking about this after some comments by Ross Douthat, the moderately conservative New York Times columnist, who is, shall we say, a frequent critic of Donald Trump.”I want to tell you a secret,” Douthat says in the video. Well, that sounds exciting.WHITE HOUSE REMOVES SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO SHOWING OBAMAS AS APES AFTER CRITICISM “One that most conservatives on the internet don’t want you to know. A year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has lost the country.”Is that true?He’s not just saying that the Democrats are going to crush the GOP in the midterms the same way that the Seattle Seahawks annihilated the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. He plays clips of pundits analyzing the latest polls, such as Trump with an approval rating of 37%, and a majority of Americans saying the country is worse off than a year ago. But is this the rarefied view of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Hundreds gathered Friday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to honor the late president on what would have been his 115th birthday — a tribute especially poignant with the death of his son Michael Reagan earlier this year.Among those in attendance was Reagan’s granddaughter, Ashley Reagan, who said the annual commemoration helps maintain the legacy her father Michael spent much of his life preserving.”Even with his passing recently, it was very important to my whole family to make sure we were here to honor my grandpa and his legacy and everything it represents,” she said.”What he lived for was making sure that my grandpa’s legacy lived on,” she said. “So now, it’s carrying on my grandpa’s legacy and my dad’s legacy.”MICHAEL REAGAN, ELDER SON OF FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, DIES AT 80 The annual commemoration in Simi Valley, California drew family members, political leaders and longtime admirers of the former president.Fox News Digital spoke exclusively with Ashley Reagan and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to reflect on Reagan’s legacy and the relevance of his leadership in today’s deeply divided political climate.Ashley spoke candidly about her father following his death on Jan. 4…