This is so cool.

The state of Tennessee has just unveiled a statue of the iconic American figure Davy Crockett, who served as a representative for the state, after becoming a famous frontiersman.

We have seen so many bad statues installed in recent years. It’s nice to see a great one.

From WKRN News:

A statue of Tennessee’s legendary frontiersman David Crockett was unveiled at the state capitol Thursday morning.

The bronze sculpture, titled “Guardian of the Frontier,” has been years in the making.

Davy Crockett is dressed in his frontier clothing, coonskin cap in hand, holding a rifle with his hunting dogs beside him. And if you look closely, you can even spot bear tracks beneath Crockett’s feet.

Artist Jamie Lester said these details help tell the story of the real Davy Crockett, not just the legend. Lester spent about two years creating the statue, which reflects Crockett’s early life on the Tennessee frontier.

Born in East Tennessee in 1786, Crockett became known as a hunter before entering politics. He served in the state legislature and Congress, where he was the only vote to oppose Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, which led to the Trail of Tears.

Crockett left Tennessee to help fight for Texas and famously died fighting at the Alamo in 1836.

State leaders believe the statue honors his legacy and Tennessee’s volunteer spirit.

Here’s a video of the unveiling.

Tennessee just unveiled a 10-foot bronze statue of Davy Crockett at the State Capitol in Nashville.

It replaces the statue that rioters toppled there during the 2020 George Floyd unrest.

Crockett stands with his rifle and his two hunting dogs, Rattler and Tiger. He’s now the… pic.twitter.com/1akseG5lOR

— American AF (@iAnonPatriot) November 13, 2026

See a local video report below:

And everyone remembers this song, right?

It’s so great to see a true American hero being honored in this way.

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Hakeem Jeffries was at an event in Colorado and being interviewed by FOX News liberal Jessica Tarlov on Friday. Their conversation kept getting interrupted by unhinged leftists, who were not just heckling, but screaming at him.

You would think after the midterms these people would be happy, but you’d be wrong. They seem more miserable than ever.

Oh well. Enjoy that BIG TENT you built for yourself with these lunatics, congressman.

TMZ has details:

Hakeem Jeffries got a brutal reception at a Democratic conference in Denver … where angry hecklers called him a liar, a traitor, and an oligarch’s lapdog … over a failed impeachment push against Donald Trump.

The tense scene unfolded Friday during the “What’s Next” post-midterm election conference … where the House Democratic Leader was discussing the party’s future when one protester shouted, “You are a f***ing liar,” before demanding impeachment.

As boos erupted, the protester continued unloading … calling Jeffries a “f***ing traitor” and a “f***ing oligarch lapdog.”

But Jeffries wasn’t fazed … firing back, “Remember I’m from Brooklyn, this is light work.”

And the heckling didn’t stop there … another protester blasted Jeffries over private equity money, shouting, “When you take money from private equity, you don’t fight for the people … You’ve done nothing! Nothing!”

Watch the video below:

HOLY CRAP! Hakeem Jeffries is getting EATEN ALIVE by protestors right in the middle of his remarks

“You are a f*cking LIAR!”

“You’re a f*cking TRAITOR!”

For nearly 2 MINUTES STRAIGHT they were getting hauled out as they went berserk

The clown car is DESTROYING ITSELF pic.twitter.com/TXmXNk3lbU

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 13, 2026

Here’s another video with different hecklers. Jeffries tries to keep talking as if nothing is happening but the heckling goes on and on.

Jeffries’s talk with Jessica Tarlov is interrupted by protesters yelling about the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. They continue yelling over him as he tries to forge ahead with his remarks. pic.twitter.com/qpwf19M5B5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 13, 2026

Get ready for two years of this, especially if Jeffries becomes Speaker of the House.

The radical left is not going to give him a moment’s peace.

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SpaceX’s Starship booster exploded during a test flight at Starbase, Texas, after the company aborted an attempt to catch it during a test flight. 

The massive Starship rocket launched successfully, but the booster failed to return to the tower and instead went into the ocean.

The explosion was reportedly intentional.

Via @CSI_Starbase on X:

Per Space.com:

Flight 15 lifted off from SpaceX‘s Starbase facility here in South Texas at 5:47 p.m. ET (2247 GMT; 4:47 p.m. local Texas time). The towering Super Heavy booster and Ship upper stage cleared the tower without incident and climbed into the skies under more than 18 million pounds of thrust from the booster’s 33 Raptor 3 engines.

The flight continued nominally through its initial ascent, with the successful execution of Super Heavy’s main engine cutoff and Ship’s subsequent hot-staging — firing its own Raptors during separation from the booster — about 2.5 minutes after launch. Following stage separation, Super Heavy reoriented for a planned return to Starbase as Ship powered its way toward low Earth orbit (LEO).

SpaceX originally planned to catch Super Heavy with the Starbase launch tower’s giant mechanical “chopstick” arms. But it wasn’t to be: The company called off the catch attempt and brought the booster down for a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about 6.5 minutes after launch, for reasons that were not immediately clear.

A successful catch would have been a significant milestone for SpaceX and its efforts to design Starship as a fully and rapidly reusable launch vehicle. It would have been the first successful recovery of a Version 3 (V3) Super Heavy, which SpaceX began flying earlier this year. The company previously recovered three of its V1 Super Heavy vehicles and reused two of those in later flights.

The booster was seen diverting course before detonating over the ocean.

“It looks like it’s not in the right position,” said NBC’s Gadi Schwartz just seconds before the explosion.

WATCH:

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The director of Israel’s Mossad, Roman Gofman, was reportedly in Washington, D.C., Friday to meet with CIA Director John Ratcliffe regarding resuming the war with Iran.

Axios reported, based on three unnamed sources, that Gofman, one of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants, will make the case for reinitiating combat operations.

He was then expected to travel to Miami to confer with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff, according to one of the sources.

The CIA, the White House, and Mossad, Israel’s top intelligence agency, all declined to comment for the Axios story.

Gofman’s visit comes after Trump and Netanyahu reportedly got into a shouting match on a call last week as the prime minister pushed the president to renew combat operations against Iran.

Opposition to the war in Iran was one of the top voter issues driving Democrats’ wave election results, according to exit polling by NBC News.

Axios noted that Trump has resisted calls to resume military strikes, instead siding with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates’ view to “continue a naval blockade and economic pressure campaign against Iran, while seeing if a deal is possible.”

Trump told podcast host Stephen A. Smith Thursday, “Saudi Arabia has asked me to please just let it be the way it is now for a while, because [Iran is] disintegrating. Qatar …, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, all of them would much prefer the waiting period.”

Trump on Iran:

I could end it immediately, but at the request of the nations that I’m looking to protect, we are doing it a little bit longer, a little bit more civilly.

Saudi Arabia has asked me to please just let it be the way it is now for a while because they’re disintegrating.

Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, all of them would much prefer the waiting period.

— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 13, 2026

The White House said in a statement to Fox News earlier this week, “The United States is in a very strong position with control of the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranian economy collapsing.”

“The President has been clear that the greatest naval blockade in history, Operation Economic Outcast, and the new Operation Iron Gate will continue with full effect. President Trump holds all the cards and will do whatever is best for the United States.”

Operation Iron Gate is designed to prevent “the movement of advanced weapons systems, dual-use technologies, sanctioned materials, and illegal revenue streams across Iran’s land borders and the Caspian Sea,” U.S. Central Command said in a news release last week.

https://t.co/xUcO520Enu

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) November 7, 2026

The reported push by Netanyahu for military action is likely being prompted by his Likud Party coalition losing seats in the parliamentary elections held on Oct. 27. The Likud bloc now has 53 of the 61 needed for a majority in the Knesset.

The Associated Press reported that Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, on Saturday gave opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot the first opportunity to form a governing coalition.

Eisenkot has six weeks to bring together a majority from various political parties.

During this time period, Netanyahu remains in control of the levers of power in Israel.

If Eisenkot fails to bring together a governing coalition, Netanyahu will be given the opportunity. If no party can knit together a majority, new elections will have to be held, likely sometime in early 2027.

Netanyahu would stay on as prime minister during the interim.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Egypt’s Court of Cassation, the country’s highest criminal appeals court, is scheduled to hear on Nov. 15 the appeal of Coptic Christian scholar Augustinos Samaan, who is serving five years of hard labor for YouTube videos defending Christianity.

Samaan was convicted of “contempt of religion” and “misuse of social media” under Article 98(f) of the Egyptian Penal Code, the country’s blasphemy law. Five years is the maximum penalty under that law, according to International Christian Concern, a U.S.-based advocacy group.

Masked special-forces officers arrested Samaan, a 37-year-old Coptic researcher, on Oct. 1, 2025, for “derision of Islam.” His YouTube channel has about 100,000 subscribers and focuses on responding to anti-Christian material circulating in Egypt. After interrogation and reported torture, he was first charged with terrorism-related offenses.

Prosecutors later dropped those charges and replaced them with the blasphemy and social media counts. His lawyers say they were not notified that his trial was taking place and were denied timely access to the case file, according to Coptic Solidarity, a U.S.-based advocacy group for Egypt’s Coptic Christians.

Article 98(f) dates to Egypt’s 1937 Penal Code and was amended in 2006. It punishes anyone who “exploits religion” to promote extremist ideas or show contempt for “any divine religion.” The U.K.-based group Christian Solidarity Worldwide reports that people charged under such laws have been held longer than the maximum pretrial detention allowed under Article 143 of Egypt’s Code of Criminal Procedure.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan federal advisory body, recommended in March 2026 that the State Department place Egypt on its Special Watch List. USCIRF found that the government continues to systematically restrict religious freedom for minorities and for people whose ideas differ from the state’s interpretation of Islam.

Samaan is one of several Christians arrested or charged over their faith or speech. National Security forces arrested Coptic engineer Sherif Wagih Fahmi at his Alexandria home on Oct. 5, 2026, and accused him of contempt of Islam over material he shared on Facebook. Romany Gharib Adly Azer was arrested after complaining that a police officer at Cairo International Airport confiscated his documents. He remains in State Security detention in Supreme State Security Case No. 4832/2026. Investigators questioned him about a satirical post showing him riding a donkey because of rising gasoline prices.

Six young Christians from Minya, including a minor, were charged with promoting extremist ideas, contempt of religion, and blasphemy after recreating a scene from “Khalawis,” a 2018 Egyptian comedy film approved by state censors. The six were released pending proceedings on Oct. 19, 2026, but the charges have not been dismissed.

Egypt’s constitution restricts which religious groups can worship publicly. Article 2 names Islam as the state religion, with the “principles of Shari’a” as the primary source of legislation. Article 64 provides for freedom of belief, but only followers of Islam, Christianity and Judaism have a legal basis to practice their religion publicly and build places of worship. Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s roughly 111 million people and form the largest Christian minority in the Middle East and North Africa.

Egypt has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which protects the right to change one’s religion, but it attached a declaration “taking into consideration the provisions of the Islamic Sharia.” Open Doors, a Christian persecution watchdog, ranks Egypt 42nd worldwide, reports that the state makes it impossible for conversions to be officially recognized, and names converts from Islam as the most vulnerable Christians in the country.

Christian convert Said Abdelrazek, who was charged with terrorism after he sought to change the religion on his identity card, is on trial before the First Criminal Terrorism Circuit Court in Badr. Prosecutors asked on Nov. 3, 2026, for the maximum penalty, which his lawyer said means execution or 25 years in prison. His defense presents its arguments on Dec. 8.

Building a church requires state approval. Under the Church Construction Law (Law No. 80 of 2016), authority to approve the building and renovation of churches was extended to governors after previously being limited to the security agencies. A government committee has approved 3,804 churches and church buildings since 2016, out of 5,415 applications. Legalization becomes final once the building meets structural and safety requirements and the applicants prove land ownership and pay the required fees.

Coptic Solidarity reports that mosque construction, or converting existing buildings into mosques, typically occurs without comparable requirements. USCIRF noted that in February 2025 the Ministry of Endowments announced plans to reopen 115 mosques, part of a 2024 plan to spend 18.6 billion Egyptian pounds on more than 12,000 mosques.

Mobs have attacked Christians over church construction and repairs. In December 2022, attackers stoned the Church of the Virgin and St. Samuel in Abis al-Thawra, Beheira, on two consecutive days while concrete was being poured for its new roof, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), an Egyptian human rights group. A local governor then halted the repairs, according to Coptic Solidarity.

When parishioners asked how they could pray under a broken roof in the rain, he told them to cover it with a tarp and threatened to demolish the church if work continued. On Dec. 18, 2023, in Al-Azeeb, a Minya village of about 3,000 Copts that had just received a permit to build its first church, a mob threw stones and Molotov cocktails that set fire to several Christian homes and burned livestock owned by Christians.

The attacks spread in April 2024. On April 20, villagers in al-Fawakher, Minya, attacked three Christian houses with Molotov cocktails after a rumor spread that a Copt’s house would be used for worship. The Archdiocese of Minya then asked authorities for help and was largely ignored, according to EIPR. Hundreds of Muslims attacked Christians in al-Fawakher on April 23 and in nearby al-Kom al-Ahmar on April 26. In al-Kom al-Ahmar, an evangelical congregation had bought land for a church in 2000 but could not obtain a license until 2023.

Clergy have been killed. On April 7, 2022, a man stabbed Coptic Orthodox priest Father Arsanios Wadid from behind while he was organizing parishioners after a church outing in Alexandria. An eyewitness testified that the attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) and chose Wadid because of his priestly garments. The Court of Cassation upheld the killer’s death sentence in January 2025, and he has since been executed.

On July 8, 2026, a mob surrounded and attacked a Coptic church in Tal Al-Quiblya, Minya, while local Christians attended Mass. Police could not control the situation until the Minya security chief arrived with rapid-response units. Police then arrested four Christians who had been beaten by the mob and freed them two days later, after they dropped their complaint against their attackers.

All detainees were eventually released after what the Coptic news outlet Watani called a “voluntary conciliation” between the Copts and the Muslim detainees. Anba Macarius, the Coptic Orthodox bishop of Minya, said the attack followed previous incidents in the same village that local authorities had been told about on multiple occasions.

The release in Tal Al-Quiblya followed a common pattern. Egyptian authorities settle many attacks through customary “reconciliation sessions,” which government bodies convene and local security services supervise. EIPR documented nearly 50 such sessions between 2011 and 2014, and in most cases Christian families were forced to leave, pay fines or give up property, according to the Washington Institute, a U.S. think tank.

In October 2025, rumors spread online of a relationship between a 17-year-old Christian boy and a 16-year-old Muslim girl in Nazlat Jalf, Minya, and Muslim residents attacked Christian homes and property. A reconciliation session convened by authorities the next day ordered the boy’s family to pay a fine of one million Egyptian pounds and to leave the village.

USCIRF found that while security services sometimes moved quickly to stop attacks on churches in Upper Egypt, authorities often failed to investigate them and hold perpetrators to account. Authorities did not fully investigate a February 2025 fire at the Church of Archangel Michael in Qena. After a May 2025 fire at St. George Church in Qift, they blamed a candle placed in an incense holder, a practice USCIRF said was inconsistent with Coptic ritual.

Coptic women and girls continue to disappear. USCIRF reported that the disappearances persisted in 2025 and that authorities were reluctant or unwilling to investigate possible religiously motivated abductions. Silvana Atef, a Coptic minor with a mental disability from Fayoum, disappeared in October 2025. Police failed to investigate, and in January 2026 an Egyptian court declined jurisdiction, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a U.S. think tank. Marina Rizk, a 20-year-old Coptic woman from Al-Omraneya, Giza, disappeared on Feb. 26, 2025. In another case documented by Coptic Solidarity, a Coptic woman disappeared on May 25, 2025, and a certificate of her conversion to Islam was dated the same day.

Christians are also underrepresented in senior government posts. Egypt appointed 164 officials across its governorates in October 2025, and none were Coptic. Two Christians serve in Egypt’s 31-member cabinet, and one of 27 appointed governors is Christian, according to State Department figures reported by Fox. The Century Foundation, a U.S. think tank, found that Copts are wholly absent from parts of Egypt’s security state.

Easter is not a public holiday. On April 30, 2026, an Egyptian court declined to rule on a petition to make it one and said the Prime Minister should decide. Because Sunday is a regular working day in Egypt, Christians who observe Easter often miss work and school obligations and face penalties as a result, according to the legal group ADF International.

On Oct. 1, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio waived a restriction on $320 million in military aid to Egypt that had been withheld over human rights concerns, citing Egypt’s help in dealing with Iran.

USCIRF has recommended that Washington press Egypt to repeal Article 98(f) and tie religious freedom improvements, including the release of prisoners of conscience, to U.S. security cooperation and foreign assistance. The commission also called on Congress to hold a hearing on religious freedom in Egypt, covering attacks on and forced disappearances of Copts, before the next designation of foreign military funding.

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