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The Court failed to protect our country in 2020. Maybe now the situation is urgent enough to make a difference. Has the Supreme Court noticed that we’ve crossed a legal Rubicon? The Constitution — that thing the Court is supposed to defend — is becoming less relevant by the day because the left has decided that our mutual pact of self-governance doesn’t apply to leftists. They have weaponized our government against us — using it to surveil, silence, harass, and steal from us. Our own government is even arguing that the Constitution should not be a constraint on its operations...

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Rand Paul: "The amount of money going to Ukraine in this Bill is more than we spend on the entire Marine Corps." Insane

Republicans lawmakers have uncovered “troubling allegations” that President Biden’s suspended special envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, stored classified material on his personal email account and cellphone — which was later accessed by a “hostile cyber actor.” The top Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committee on Monday asked the State Department to confirm the allegations against Malley, who was quietly placed on unpaid leave last June and had his security clearance suspended amid a State Department investigation reportedly centered on his potential mishandling of classified information. The State Department has refused to reveal the exact nature...

The Supreme Court recently decided on a case you might not have heard about. Its underreported landmark ruling about the GI Bill could have a massive positive effect on America’s veterans, our communities and our nation for years to come. Earlier this month, the highest court in the land issued a 7-2 ruling that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) improperly calculated GI Bill benefits for retired Army Captain James Rudisill, who now works in federal law enforcement. Like so many others before him, Rudisill had separated from the military and wanted to use the educational benefits that we all...

@JohnStossel President Trump said he would “drain the swamp.” Economist @edstringham says by the end of Trump’s term, the swamp was “a lot bigger and a lot murkier.” Here why Trump failed ...

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The world's two most populous nations, China and India, have the highest numbers of students studying overseas.Statista's Anna Fleck reports that, according to data published by UNESCO, more than one million Chinese students were studying abroad in 2021. India’s total was close to half of this, with around 508,000 students living in other countries.Following some way behind come Vietnam, Germany and Uzbekistan.You will find more infographics at StatistaThe United States was the largest destination country for students studying abroad with over 833,000 there in 2021. It was followed by the United Kingdom (nearly 601,000), Australia (around 378,000), Germany (over 376,000)...

An ancient necropolis discovered near Naples, Italy was used to bury the dead about 2,800 years ago, around the time the city of Rome was founded about 100 miles (161 kilometers) to the northwest.The discovery gives researchers a rare insight into the Iron Age cultures that existed before the Roman domination of the region. The astonishing finds near the town of Amorosi, about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Naples, include 88 burials in "pit tombs" of both men and women.The men were typically buried with weapons, whereas the women were often buried with bronze ornaments, including bracelets, pendants, brooches...

British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is currently withdrawing its COVID vaccine worldwide, months after it admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect, The Telegraph reported. The application to withdraw the vaccine was made on March 5 and came into effect on Tuesday, the report added. The vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, was produced by the Serum Institute of India as Covishield. SNIP

It was unearthed by metal detectors Finn Ibsen and Lars Danielsen who were conducting survey work in a field outside Ringsted, a city on the island of Zealand, 50km southwest of Denmark's capital Copenhagen.The bronze fitting, known as a bracket, was given to Museum West Zealand... It's about 2.7 centimetres in diameter and made of a bronze alloy.The mini portrait dates to about 200 CE. This places it at roughly the same time as the Roman emperor Caracalla...Caracalla often "dressed with the same style and believed he was Alexander the Great reincarnated," Oldenburger adds. "Caracalla is also the only emperor...

[H/T Grey_whiskers]https://twitter.com/kacdnp91/status/1787886888524640497May 7, 2024TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~~~~Ted Macie (@ted_macie): You may have seen my wife's recent post, and I want to elaborate on that. And give you an example as to why reinstatement, back pay and an apology isn't enough.So in July, Under Secretary Cisneros acknowledged the DMED Data, the DMED Database working properly, and also acknowledged things such as myocarditis rising 151%.So I did…I went in today; I'm doing the same thing, 5-year average, however I'm comparing it to 2022, and I only...I'm using fixed -wing pilots and helicopter pilots, active duty.So we get, hypertensive disease 36%, ischemic heart disease 69%,...

Should you stick to the Center for Disease Control and American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommended plan for baby’s shots or go for a modified schedule? Check out what two doctors have to say and decide for yourself. There’s a demand for alternative schedules. Many new parents feel overwhelmed by the number of vaccines given to young babies today; 24 doses are given in the first year alone. When parents realize the medical establishment is trying to push unnecessary vaccines on them, they begin to question the entire process. The result is that parents simply want to vaccinate more carefully, and...

A generation of this nation’s students have grown into adulthood with their school years shaped by active shooter drills and police in schools. Lawmakers just cannot — or will not — take the necessary action to stymie the school shootings that have marred the education landscape for decades. This political impotence has recently been exemplified in Tennessee, where, barely a year after the state’s deadliest shooting at Covenant School in Nashville claimed the lives of three adults and three nine-year-olds, some of the state’s conservative lawmakers passed a bill that will allow teachers and staff to carry concealed weapons. The...

The myth that Cass Elliot died by choking on a ham sandwich in 1974 was invented by her manager in an attempt to protect her legacy, the singer’s daughter said. Owen Elliot-Kugell was 7 years old when Elliot passed away at 32 from a heart attack after 36 hours of performing and partying. The former The Mamas & the Papas vocalist had been developing her solo career in London, U.K,. and seemed to have a bright future ahead of her. “By the time she got back to her flat, it was evening the following day,” Elliot-Kugell told the BBC in...

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An ailing warlord pal of Vladimir Putin appeared to be in a bad state when he turned up at the Russian dictator’s inauguration in Moscow today (May 7). The bloated Chechen maniac Ramzan Kadyrov, 47, struggled to walk up the steps into the Kremlin for the ceremony, and then had difficulty getting his coat off. The dad-of-15 needed help from his ally Adam Delimkhanov, 54, a Russian MP, and an aide to sort himself out. It was the first public sighting of Putin lackey Kadyrov in Moscow since reports emerged last month that he was terminally ill, suffering from “pancreatic...

Former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas criticized Timberwolves defensive star Rudy Gobert for missing Monday’s Game 2 win against the Nuggets in their second-round playoff series due to the birth of his baby boy Monday morning. “It’s a baby, bro. It’s gonna be there when you get back, we hope,” Arenas said on his “Gil’s Arena” show before Minnesota’s 106-80 road win to grab a 2-0 series lead. “I’m just saying, the baby, whatever you think you about to do, he going to be asleep.” Gobert, the three-time Defensive Player of the Year, was questionable entering Monday’s game after his baby...

A group of young children playing near a trash dumpster in 1984 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, discovered what they later told police were “little people.” These were later identified by the Milwaukee Medical Examiner’s Office as the bodies of aborted babies. “Forty years ago, Milwaukeeans were shaken by the news: Young children playing in a NW area of the city discovered in a garbage dumpster the mangled bodies of aborted babies,” Dan Zeidler, then executive director of Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for Life (WCCL), told Live Action News. Ziedler was granted permission to bury the aborted babies. He said, “With Milwaukee County’s...

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the U.S. government, TikTok and ByteDance argued the law, the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversaries Act, violates the First Amendment. The law gives ByteDance 270 days to sell TikTok to a new company that will be allowed to operate it in the U.S., or the app will be banned from American networks and online application stores. The president can give ByteDance an additional 90 days to sell TikTok if he determines it necessary. But TikTok argued “qualified divestiture” is “simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally,” and it therefore would lead to...