August 01, 2024

A core appeal of video games is their interactivity. By pressing the buttons in a certain way, you move your character through the virtual environment. You then feel like part of the adventure, as your actions dictate the success or failure of the hero. What’s more, your skill often earns you great rewards. While these […] The post 10 Games That Are Glorified Movies appeared first on Listverse.

Animals often come into contact with substances used as human drugs, leading to some intriguing and unexpected behaviors. From caterpillars using nicotine for defense to sheep grazing on cannabis, these interactions showcase the fascinating ways animals can be affected by human drugs. As human activities introduce various chemicals into the environment, animals are inadvertently exposed […] The post 10 Fascinating Examples of Animals Ingesting Human-Style Drugs appeared first on Listverse.

President Joe Biden is, for all practical purposes, a lame-duck president, and that may embolden terrorists in the Middle East, Victoria Coates says. “Unfortunately, we’re in this unprecedented situation, where it’s almost not clear who the commander in chief of the United States is,” says Coates, vice president of the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. “We haven’t heard from the president. We haven’t seen the president,” says Coates, who also served as deputy national security adviser in the Trump administration, adding that Biden has had “nothing on his schedule for days now.”  “Is the vice president essentially filling this role?” Coates asked. “It’s not in her constitutional powers to do so, although she may be doing it in all practical ways. But my concern is, given that unprecedented flux and confusion, that the normal Iranian decision-making will be altered, and they might do something they wouldn’t have tried even two months ago.”  In the wake of an airstrike that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran on Wednesday, Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says revenge is Iran’s “duty.”  Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps also threatened Israel, claiming that the “Zionist regime will face a harsh and painful response from the powerful and huge resistance front, especially Islamic Iran.” The strike was carried out right after the Hamas leader attended the inauguration of Iran’s new president in Tehran, but this was not the only deadly strike in the Middle East this week.  Israel carried out a strike in Beirut on Tuesday, killing Fuad Shukr, a top Hezbollah leader. The U.S. also mounted a strike in Iraq that U.S. officials described as “self-defense.” With growing concerns over the strikes leading to possible severe escalation in the region, Coates joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the likelihood of retaliatory strikes on Israel and the U.S.  Listen to the podcast below:  The post ‘Flux and Confusion’ in White House Could Embolden Iran, Foreign Policy Expert Warns appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Ilona Maher has put women’s rugby on the map following her performance on and off the field at the 2024 Paris Olympics, breaking the radical Left’s view of femininity in the process.  Chances are, I am not the only American who two weeks ago had never heard of Maher and didn’t even know women’s rugby sevens was a sport at the Olympics. (Come to find out, women have played rugby at the Games since 2016.)  Fans of Maher know that the 27-year-old athlete from Vermont is one of the best rugby players in the U.S. She led her team at Quinnipiac University to three National Intercollegiate Rugby Association titles and earned All-American honors. Her success continued in Paris as she led the U.S. women’s team to medal in the sport for the first time at the Olympics, finishing third.  Maher’s success as an athlete can be rivaled only by her success as a social media influencer. Upon arriving in Paris for the Games, she began making funny, clever videos on social media joking about looking for love in the “Olympic villa” and celebrating the fact that she is 5’10,” 200 pounds, and fully a feminine woman. As The Wall Street Journal put it, Maher “Plays Like an NFL Running Back,” but she does it with red lipstick and long hair.  Ilona Maher of Vermont poses for a portrait April 15 during the 2024 Team USA Media Summit at the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York City. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images) “I don’t want to be just one thing out there,” Maher told “CBS Mornings” during a recent interview. “I feel that I can be a beast and compete in this very physical, aggressive sport while also keeping my femininity while I do it.”  Maher is the reminder so many young girls need right now: If you are a tomboy and enjoy football, rugby, or wrestling, you are STILL a woman and can be fully feminine even while your lefty teacher or counselor might be asking if you’d like to identify by male personal pronouns. Maher breaks a mold that the feminist movement tried to break a long time ago, but that the transgender movement has sadly cobbled back together. Maher has rightly earned the title of Problematic Woman of the Week on the “Problematic Women” podcast for her joyful embrace of her skill as a rugby player and her strong femininity.  Catch this week’s full edition of the “Problematic Women” podcast below:  The post Olympian Ilona Maher Disrupts Radical Left’s View of Femininity appeared first on The Daily Signal.

        Facts are facts, even if they make new presidential candidate Kamala Harris look bad. This fact is undeniable, no matter how much dishonest media try to obfuscate it: President…

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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.] After attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president among the festive chants of “Death to America” and “Death to…