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No, your car isn’t running on liquefied dinosaurs. The good stuff, unless you want a stable environment, of course. Image Credit: Alexander Knyazhinsky/Shutterstock.com At some point, you have probably heard somewhere that oil comes from dinosaurs, as if every time you fill up at the gas station, you are pumping refined velociraptor into your Volvo. It’s a vivid image, but it’s not true. Despite how widespread the belief is, oil isn’t made from decomposed dinosaurs. “For some strange reason, the idea that oil comes from dinosaurs has stuck with many people," geologist Reidar Müller from the University of Oslo explained...

The U.S. Dollar (USD) has had two quick rallies in July 2025 against a basket of foreign currencies.

By rights, Republicans should be ascendant. The Democrats are in disarray. Their ideas are deeply unpopular–open borders, men in women’s sports, soft on crime, $37 trillion in debt, woke national defense, perpetrators of the worst scandal in American history, and so on. Beyond that, they are crazy. And they don’t have a single attractive spokesman or spokeswoman. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been triumphant, enacting one popular policy after another, while scoring victory after victory for the American people. And yet…voters apparently can’t tell the difference. Rasmussen finds that the parties are equal in the eyes of likely voters: Six...

As Will Ferrell’s character Ron Burgundy said in the 2004 movie “Anchorman”: “Leave the mothers out of this. That’s not necessary.” Antifa apparently didn’t get the memo, and went after a monument dedicated to the mother of our first president, George Washington, over the weekend. Leftists have been attempting to tear down monuments and rewrite history for years. But they are no longer satisfied with attacking great historical figures. They now feel the need to turn their attention toward the mother of one of those historical figures. How despicable. The Mary Washington Monument in Virginia was vandalized Saturday night. The...

The Department of Justice revealed Tuesday that there were only two witnesses to testify to the grand juries that indicted Jeffrey Epstein and his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, on sex-trafficking charges. The revelation was made in a late-night filing that urged a Manhattan judge to unseal the transcripts and release the documents to the public, given the “abundant public interest” after it was announced that a review of the cases determined there was no Epstein client list. *** However, even if the judge agrees to the transcripts getting released, it would still only represent a small fraction of the mountain of...

I remember the first time I met Randy Fine when he was a candidate before he barely won Florida’s deep red 6th district seat, as we were being told he might actually lose the seat because the strong Trump district couldn’t relate to him and didn’t like him. He was telling me that he and his wife were looking forward to moving to Washington and he hadn’t even won yet. I said to him that Washington isn’t a good place to live and he should live in the district he will represent. You know that whole “representative” thing. But he...

While most of the country has erupted in outrage after an angry mob savagely assaulted two white people in downtown Cincinnati over the weekend, one prominent local politician has the exact opposite reaction to the story. As The Gateway Pundit reported, a group of black individuals smacked around a bald white guy at the intersection of West Fourth Street and Elm Street in downtown Cincy and beat him so bad that he could not get up. Then, a white woman got slugged by one of the cowards. Her head slammed down onto the concrete, and she lost consciousness. Blood was...

@CalltoActivism Ghislaine Maxwell approached 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre at Mar-a-Lago, where she worked at that time, and sex trafficked her to Jeffrey Epstein. When asked what justice would look like for her, she said "I would like to see Ghislaine stay in jail forever." Virginia died by suicide on April 25, 2025.

The gerrymander in California is outrageous.. Of their 52 congressional districts, 9 of them are Republican. That means 17 percent of their delegation is Republican when Republicans regularly win 40 percent of the vote in that state. How can this possibly be allowed?

A Russian missile hit a Ukrainian army training ground, killing three soldiers and wounding 18 others, authorities said, in the latest attack to embarrass military officials as they struggle to make up a severe manpower shortage in the nearly 3½-year war. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the strike killed or wounded about 200 Ukrainian troops. The ministry said that Ukraine’s 169th training center near Honcharivske in the Chernihiv region was hit with two Iskander missiles, one armed with multiple submunitions and another with high explosives. A Russian Defense Ministry video showed multiple small explosions apparently caused by a missile...

Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin is a type of cancer that starts as a growth of cells on the skin. It starts in cells called squamous cells. The squamous cells make up the middle and outer layers of the skin. Squamous cell carcinoma is a common type of skin cancer. Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin is usually not life-threatening. But if it's not treated, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin can grow large or spread to other parts of the body. The growth of the cancer can cause serious complications. Most squamous cell carcinomas of the skin are...

Cincinnati cops have arrested three people in connection with a savage mass brawl that left two injured over the weekend. Jermaine Matthews, 39, Montianez Merriweather, 34, and Dekyra Vernon, 24, were taken into custody this week after a couple were violently set upon in the downtown area of the Ohio city on Saturday. Search warrants have also been issued for two other unidentified people accused of jumping into the shocking melee. Footage of the altercation swept social media as the couple were seen being beaten on the street near the LoVe nightclub as a crowd gathered. Cincinnati Chief of Police...

FBI Director Kash Patel found thousands of Russia collusion hoax documents in “burn bags” in a secret room at the FBI, Fox News reported. One of the documents in the burn bags included the classified annex to the John Durham report that includes the underlying intelligence he investigated. CIA Director John Ratcliffe is expected to declassify the annex to Durham’s final report and send it to Senator Grassley, who will release it to the public. Fox News also reported that Kash Patel and his team of investigators discovered a “previously undisclosed” SCIF at the FBI headquarters. Fox News reported: FBI...

*** Mexican national Gildardo Amandor-Martinez, 36, is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend’s son, Luis Lopez, when the teen attempted to thwart the sick sexual assault in their Morehead apartment in the early hours of July 20. The teen’s younger sister was also struck and injured. “15-year-old Luis Lopez died trying to save his mother from this criminal illegal alien who was attempting to rape her,” Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. ”Gildardo Amandor-Martinez is a rapist and cold-blooded killer who should have never been in this country.” The Mexican national had returned home from a...

Declaration, also signed by EU and over a dozen countries, urges terror group to give up Gaza rule, free hostages; calls on Israel to end war, agree to Palestinian state, ‘right of return’ Arab and Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, signed a declaration Tuesday condemning for the first time Hamas’s onslaught of October 7, 2023, and calling on the Palestinian terror group to release all the hostages it is holding, disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Strip. Seventeen countries, plus the 22-member Arab League...

In an appearance on The Light Podcast, hosted by his wife, Michelle, former President Barack Obama offered his views on male development and friendships, saying "a dad, no matter how good the dad is, can't be everything. A boy may need somebody to give the boy some perspective on the dad, like Frank Davis did for me when I was growing up." "I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren't out a lot, who became one of my favorite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I...

Believe it or not, there was a time—many moons ago—when MAGA actually thought Mike Pompeo was one of the good guys. A straight shooter. Somebody looking out for President Trump and the America First agenda. Boy, were we wrong. To be fair, he fooled a lot of people early on. That’s likely why he was handed some of the most powerful, high-ranking positions in the entire U.S. government. But it didn’t take long for the mask to slip and the truth to surface: Pompeo was a Deep State asset all along. ... Since then, both President Trump and the MAGA...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican LIES!To those criticizing The Remnant for publishing a report from our Italian correspondent – alleging that so-called “progressives” inside Vatican are again attempting to use fake news to create a pope in their own image and likeness – I would remind you that the Vatican has been caught attempting precisely this kind of fake news plenty of times in the past, most recently by Diane Montagna over the lies that were used to justify Traditionis Custodes.But let’s not forget the Vatican’s year 2000 fiction story for stupid children that was the supposed Third Secret of Fatima –...

If the far-Left’s attack on actress Sydney Sweeney’s new ad for American Eagle isn’t the most intellectually embarrassing event of the year, it must be close.The blonde, blue-eyed beauty pitches the company’s jeans. Because the ads importune viewers to buy “good jeans” by playing on the idea of “good genes,” Sweeney is guilty of promoting “whiteness,” “white supremacy,” and, of course, “Nazi propaganda.”Presumably we are to believe that Sweeney, who appeared in the hysterical leftist dystopian TV program The Handmaid’s Tale, now advocates Aryan racial purity, with a little Lebensraum thrown in. Madness, yes. But the Left never lets a...

[H/T grey_whiskers]Via Valerie Anne Smith“Ivermectin’s Miraculous Results For Neurological Conditions Of Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s.”Buried Research, Deleted From Google, Has Been Found, Proving Ivermectin Reverses Alzheimer’s.Neurological Disease Improves In Only A Few Days On Ivermectin Therapy…Dementia affects more than 55 million people globally, with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) being the most prevalent subtype. These neurodegenerative disorders, including debilitating Parkinson’s Disease, progressively impairs memory, cognition, daily functioning, muscle & body control.As interest grows in repositioning known compounds for neurodegenerative applications, ivermectin—a macrocyclic lactone with FDA-approved antiparasitic use—has surfaced as a candidate for neurological disease therapy.Deleted Research Study That Google Scrubbed… I Found It...