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“The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk announced.Musk decided to reinstate the former president’s account after putting out a Twitter poll that came down to the wire – 51.8 percent “Yes” versus 48.2 percent “No.” Trump had been frozen out of his Twitter account since January 2021 in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot on January 6.Though leftists all across the platform erupted in a flaming circle of outrage in response to Musk’s announcement, Trump’s usual celebrity haters, from Rosemary’s Baby actress Mia Farrow to Misery director Rob Reiner to House of Cards...

A Manhattan public school with just one certified bilingual teacher is reeling under the weight of a sudden influx of migrant students who don’t speak any English, The Post has learned. “We’re overwhelmed,” one frustrated teacher at PS 33 Chelsea Prep said Tuesday. “We’ve all got migrant students in our classrooms. The teachers don’t speak Spanish. There’s no resources helping us out right now — it’s a very challenging situation.” One outraged mom said migrant kids — easily identified by lime green ID tags that hang from their necks — have swelled the size of her daughter’s class from 15...

For seven weeks, Harry Dunn sat in the same seat before the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack. Cameras pointed in his direction snapped photos of his every reaction as details of the insurrection were shared with the public. Dunn looked on, not paying the photographers any mind. He was there for one reason: to hear the truth. Dunn, who is Black, was thrown into the spotlight in the weeks following the attack. The Capitol Police officer’s testimony before Congress detailed the horrors he faced on Jan. 6, 2021, from facing down the mob’s deluge of racial hatred...

Mike Tomlin, coach of the Pittsburgh Kneelers (err Steelers) hosted a fund raiser for Hillary Clinton in June of 2016. This probably explains why he ordered his players to not show for the national anthem in Chicago vs the Chicago Bears this past Sunday. It also probably explains why Tomlin threw the one player that did show for the anthem under the bus.

The hunt for Albinos is still on © Alida Vanni. A school in Tanzania. The case of 18-year-old Moszy, who landed on a Spanish beach along with several other refugees from Africa, has raised awareness of the plight of albinos in many African countries, where witchdoctors claim albino body parts can bring wealth and good luck. Albinism is an inherited genetic condition characterised by the absence of melanin in skin, eyes and hair and can affect all races. African albinos, easily spotted by their white skin and fair hair, have long been ostracised and discriminated against. The target of superstitions...

Republican Virginia Sen. George Allen said for the first time today that he is part Jewish, a day after responding angrily during a campaign debate to a question about whether his family has Jewish roots. In a statement released by his campaign, Allen denounced the TV reporter who asked the question but said he is proud to have recently discovered that his grandfather, a Nazi resistance fighter in North Africa, was part of a well-known Jewish family. "I was raised as a Christian and my mother was raised as a Christian," Allen said. "And I embrace and take great pride...

• Q2 jumps by 67 percent year over year • Buyers done in by ‘creative mortgages’ according to figures released Monday by Foreclosures.com, a Central Valley-based real estate investment advisory firm and publisher of foreclosure property information. "Year over year at the end of the second quarter of 2006, foreclosure activity in California has increased more than 67 percent," says Alexis McGee, president of Fair Oaks-based ForeclosureS.com. The once hot housing markets in Las Vegas and Phoenix are cooling off rapidly and defaults there are on the rise as well, she says. "Both Las Vegas and Phoenix were impacted by...

Hosting Matters, the webhost for Little Green Footballs, Wizbang! and others including blogbat’s future home has been down for an unspecified period of time and just recently started seeing a return of some of its sites to the web. Hosting Matters’ own home page was also currenly down for a time. No announcements of mantainemnce or news of serious weather in the area have been reported in local news or made available to its users. It instead simply appears to be an unplanned event. Hosting Matters maintains its web servers in Jacksonville, FL USA. An e-mail has been sent to...

Nymox's TobacAlert Product Attracts World-Wide Attention Thursday February 5, 11:33 am ET MAYWOOD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2004--Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ: NYMX - News) announced today that its TobacAlert(TM) product has garnered attention from the press and news services around the world, including in the U.S., Great Britain, France, Italy and Canada, following a January 19, 2004 story about TobacAlert(TM) by Avram Goldstein in the Washington Post and a subsequent January 25 story by Charles Laurence in the Sunday Telegraph in London. TobacAlert(TM) offers concerned individuals an accurate and cost-effective method of determining whether a person has been exposed to second-hand...