John Kolb

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John Kolb

John Kolb

@JohnKolb2

DVM, Dipl ABVP, wine lover, Cyclone fan, blessed husband and father, conservationist, pro-human. Shanghai & Vienna were great ... IA bound

Iowa, USA Katılım Mayıs 2012
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Cato Institute
Cato Institute@CatoInstitute·
Immigrants generate more income and taxes than the average US-born person, Cato’s @David_J_Bier reports. From 1994 to 2023, immigrants generated roughly $100,000 more in taxes per capita than the average US-born person—about 17% more over the entire period. ow.ly/pFek50YKFMx
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Oren Barsky
Oren Barsky@orenbarsky·
Oh wow, Hitler His/Her Absolutely brilliant.
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Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol@BillKristol·
"The first Polish pope helped liberate his country...The Trumpists are worried that the first American pope could contribute to such a development here. They should be. The view Pope Leo is upholding—that right matters, not just might—is an American one." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…
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John Kolb
John Kolb@JohnKolb2·
@undercoverags TX, USC, OU, NE, FSU have been lost for decades. SeverL others pop here and there ..
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Trevor Knight II
Trevor Knight II@undercoverags·
THE ONLY CFB BLUE BLOODS: TEXAS USC ALABAMA OHIO STATE MICHIGAN NOTRE DAME GEORGIA OKLAHOMA NEBRASKA THE ONLY HONORABLE MENTIONS ARE: LSU FLORIDA STATE MIAMI PENN STATE This should not even be an argument. This is objectively the only correct list.
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Kyra M.
Kyra M.@_sloveni_·
@realMaalouf jews are currently bombing South Lebanon into pieces killing christians and muslims. so pardon me but I'd like to suggest you are devoid of a thinking cap.
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Dr. Maalouf ‏
Dr. Maalouf ‏@realMaalouf·
The Pope cites Lebanon as an example of peaceful “coexistence” between Christians and Muslims. Fun fact: Lebanon was literally created to be a homeland for persecuted Christians in the Middle East. And it was for a few decades. The moment Muslim invaders thought they had the numbers, they started a civil war that lasted 15 years because they didn’t want to live with the same Christians who made them part of the country. Thousands of Christians were massacred, Muslims became the majority, Hezbollah took over, and the country hasn’t known peace ever since. Lebanon is the first and ultimate example that coexistence between Christians and Muslims is quite literally impossible. It’s mind-blowing that anyone would use it as an example of coexistence, let alone the Pope.
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Captain Allen
Captain Allen@CptAllenHistory·
This day (April 16) in 1948, the British withdrew from Safed & 100s of Arabs immediately attacked the city’s ancient Jewish community. The Arab commander cabled the Arab Liberation Army: “Our morale is very high, the young people are enthusiastic, we’re going to massacre them." The outnumbered Jews chose to stay and fight rather than flee; and, along with a small garrison of Haganah fighters, they managed to repel the attack. The Arab assault was part of the “civil war” portion of the 1948 War that was launched the moment the UN voted to partition Mandate Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state on November 29, 1947. From day one, the Arabs rejected any Jewish state on any part of the Land. In fact, on this same day (April 16, 1948), as Arab armies massed on the borders to invade the day the British Mandate ended, Jamal Husseini - acting chairman of the Arab Higher Committee - told the UN Security Council: “The representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not deny this. We told the whole world that we were going to fight.” And “fight” they did. The Arabs answered the UN vote with immediate terror: buses ambushed, passengers shot, the Jewish market in Jerusalem stormed with Arabs armed with knives and axes, entire convoys wiped out on the roads with no prisoners taken and corpses mutilated. Jewish civilians were dying at a rate of more than fifty per week. By March 1948, the Arabs were winning the “battle for the roads” and had the Jewish population on the verge of strangulation and, in Jewish Jerusalem, starvation. This is where the wildly misunderstood Plan Dalet came into effect. It was a desperate military counter-offensive to reopen supply lines and prevent total annihilation. It was never a “blueprint for expulsion” as propagandists like to claim. The real ethnic cleansing intent came expressly and proudly from the Arabs whose war cry was literally: Itbah al Yahoud! — “Slaughter the Jews!” On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence. The next day, five Arab armies invaded with the explicit goal of wiping the Jewish state off the map before it could even breathe. They failed. That failure is what Arabs originally called the "Nakba" — “the catastrophe.” Its original use had exactly nothing to do with “refugees,” but was meant to give a word to the humiliating Arab failure to destroy the wildly outnumbered Jews and prevent Israel from being born. In reality, the vast majority of local Arabs fled before Israeli forces arrived, urged on by their own leaders who promised a quick victory and return. Those who stayed, by the way, became full citizens of Israel with equal rights; and they make up more than 20% of Israel's population today. Perhaps most importantly, there would NEVER have been a single refugee had the Arabs accepted the UN partition and/or chosen not to invade with genocidal intent. Like so many anti-Israel narratives that reverse cause and effect today, the “Nakba” narrative inverts aggressor and victim. It erases the fact that the Jews were fighting for survival against a war of annihilation explicitly declared by the Arabs from day one. What are some other ways cause and effect is reversed in modern anti-Israel discourse? Let me know your thoughts below.
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The Babylon Bee
The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee·
Mamdani Says City-Run Supermarket Will Be Ready In 3 Years But Recommends Getting In Line for Bread Now buff.ly/a6BFO8f
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Yehuda Teitelbaum
Yehuda Teitelbaum@chalavyishmael·
Did Democrat values change or did the party change? Obama on the 2nd Lebanon war: "If somebody invades my country, or is firing rockets into my country, or kidnapping my soldiers, I will not tolerate that and there's no nation in the world that would, so I don't see this softness within the Democratic party on these issues"
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Pepper
Pepper@Pepper_Rides·
@LittleCongress Isn't this against everything Trump stands for and his & republicans policy and agenda? Why would the current administration allow foreign mining on US soil? -and then have OUR MINERALS sent to China?!?
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Matt Little
Matt Little@LittleCongress·
The U.S. Senate just voted to pollute one of Minnesota’s most beloved places: the Boundary Waters. Let’s be clear why: more money for billionaires. Twin Metals and its parent companies are mega-corporations owned by a billionaire family based in Chile. They have a long track record of pollution and environmental devastation, and despite their assurances that this mining is “safe,” decades of research show otherwise. Twin Metals would bring fewer than 750 jobs to the region, with most of its operations being autonomous and remote, but it risks thousands of jobs in tourism and hospitality. The BWCA is the most visited wilderness in America, attracting almost 150,000 tourists and over $80 million in annual spending to the region. This won’t bring long-term prosperity. It will cost us millions in healthcare and environmental cleanup. Mining can be done right, only in the right places. This is the wrong type of mine, in the wrong place. All watersheds are connected. What happens in one place harms another, and pollution near the BWCA will migrate into the BWCA and the surrounding watershed. Republicans are in the pockets of big corporations that want to threaten our Minnesota heritage and one of the most pristine environments in the nation. We must take back the U.S. House and overturn this reckless policy.
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The Babylon Bee
The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee·
Experts Warn We Have Only 12 Years Left Until They Change The Timeline On Global Warming Again buff.ly/sS9hW4h
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John Kolb@JohnKolb2·
@VividProwess Shotguns - great urban weapons - and some semi/automatic rifles. May be poor resolution, but no bolt action rifles seen.
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Vivid.🇮🇱@VividProwess·
See all these weapons? The IDF found all of them in a school in southern Lebanon. Yes, a school. Hezbollah, just like Hamas, is using schools, hospitals, and kindergartens as weapon storage. The mainstream media will never show you this. Share this.
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𝚓𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚢
𝚓𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚢@202accepted·
i hate to say it but a 1% tax on property over $5m you don’t live in is hard to argue against for the average voter like, the solution is simply “actually live in NYC”, “what are you so broke you can’t afford 1%?”, and “well you could just leave NYC” all are ego hits none of these property owners don’t wanna take and have a hard time refuting love or hate him, he’s actually doing something vs most mayors and tells you in the slickest way possible
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

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Bill Melugin
Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_·
I shot this video while on a boat in the Rio Grande in Del Rio, TX on 9/18/2021 as 15,000+ Haitians flooded across the border illegally and set up a camp underneath the international bridge. Mayorkas later admitted 12,000+ of them were released into the U.S. Many of them later discarded their IDs and paperwork showing they had been living and working in South American countries for years (mostly Chile) as they prepared to make fraudulent asylum claims. Their documents were all over the ground. We collected many of them. House will vote on extending Haitian TPS today at 1:30pm.
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Nicola Perugini
Nicola Perugini@PeruginiNic·
The Israeli military detonating a school in southern Lebanon. The only aim here is to destroy education. Scholasticide.
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sarah
sarah@sahouraxo·
Israel just blew up a public high school in Marwahin, South Lebanon. Not a military base. A school.
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