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So I was going to have a little fun at the expense of CNN this morning, contrasting the news site’s headline for the Democrats' gun restriction bill--"House to vote on guns background check bill with bipartisan support" --which has garnered exactly four Republican co-sponsors, with its headline for the Sen. Ben Sasse's anti-infanticide bill, which I was certain would be solely about the "GOP" despite having four Democrat Senators voting to move the bill forward. Turns out, it was even better. There was nothing to contrast because, as far as I can tell, CNN doesn't feature a single story on...

The DNA of life on Earth naturally stores its information in just four key chemicals—guanine, cytosine, adenine and thymine, commonly referred to as G, C, A and T, respectively. Now scientists have doubled this number of life’s building blocks, creating for the first time a synthetic, eight-letter genetic language that seems to store and transcribe information just like natural DNA. In a study published on 22 February in Science, a consortium of researchers led by Steven Benner, founder of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Alachua, Florida, suggests that an expanded genetic alphabet could, in theory, also support life....

Facebook has been shutting down traffic to conservative websites since the 2016 election. Conservatives dominated social media in 2016 where they were able to get the truth uncensored. Facebook ended that in 2017 and 2018. The Gateway Pundit spoke with two of the top conservative publishers in America. Floyd Brown is a conservative author, speaker and media commentator. In 2008 Floyd launched Western Journal which quickly became one of the top conservative websites in America. By 2016 Floyd’s organization of Western Journal and other conservative websites under his umbrella had more than a billion page views. Since 2016 Floyd’s organization...

They have banned the Koran from Amazon. But not just any Koran: they’ve banned the edition of the complete text of the Koran co-authored by best selling writer, Tommy Robinson along with Peter McLoughlin. Peter McLoughlin’s other book “Easy Meat” is the ONLY scholarly review of the entire subject of Muslim rape gangs raping and enslaving non-Muslim young girls in the UK for the last four decades. I just recevied this email from Tommy Robinson’s co-author of Mohammed’s Koran, their joint book which contains the entire unedited text of the Koran and 100 page introduction. Mohammed’s Koran is purely re-ordered...

Pope says Church’s teaching on death penalty has ‘matured’ ROME - Once again, Pope Francis has spoken out against the death penalty, saying that the Church’s view on the issue has “matured,” that every life must be guarded without exception and that capital punishment is a “serious violation of the right to life” belonging to every person.“While it is true that human societies and communities have to often face very serious crimes that threaten the common good and the safety of people, it is not less true that today there are other means to atone for the damage caused,” Francis...

House Democrats on Wednesday hammered Pentagon officials over President Trump's plan to move Defense Department military construction (MILCON) dollars to build his proposed southern border wall after declaring a national emergency. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment Robert McMahon offered few new details on Trump’s plans to take $3.6 billion in MILCON funds for his project, effectively sidestepping Congress. The lack of more information angered Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who heads the Appropriations Committee's sub-panel on military construction. “I’m not sure what kind of chumps you think my colleagues and I are,” she told McMahon during a particularly testy...

RUSH: I think it’s already falling apart on ’em. I’ll tell you why here in just a second. I don’t think they’re getting out of this what they thought they were gonna get. And one of the reasons for that, I don’t think they thought the Republicans were gonna be this combative.Let me tell you something, though. Jim Jordan has been extraordinary. Jim Jordan has been over-the-top great today, Republican, Ohio. Mark Meadows, North Carolina, they have been the primary questioners. Whenever it’s a Republican’s turn, they defer. Some other Republicans, not just those two, Mark Green of Tennessee...

A federal judge is ordering officials in Texas to stop removing people from its voter registration rolls after declaring that the state has not seen widespread voter fraud. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery made the order in a Wednesday ruling, stating that Texas had made a "mess" after the secretary of state's office flagged about 95,000 individuals for a citizenship status review, according to NBC News. Biery told officials from the 18 counties named as defendants that they could not remove people from the rolls without the court's approval. He also ordered acting Texas Secretary of State David Whitley to...

~Favorite Talk or Listen Songs~ Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin' (1969) *Video* The Doobie Brothers Listen to the Music *Video*

It’s hard to pin down the Coen brothers’ new film, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” an anthology film that presents itself as a literal story book, first edition 1873. As the mournful air that supports the ballad “Streets of Laredo” (and other lyrics, as the movie demonstrates in its last story) plays, the book opens, the pages turn; a full-page illustration shows a moment from a tense poker game; and away we go. Into a rather goofy singing-cowboy vignette, the title story, starring Tim Blake Nelson as a man in a white hat who addresses the viewer most cheerfully before...

A woman who authorities believe was living in her car was rescued after a snowplow inadvertently bumped into her vehicle, which was buried in snow. South Lake Tahoe, California, city spokesman Chris Fiore highlighted the Feb. 17 incident in a Tuesday news release urging drivers to take safety precautions in winter weather. He said the city has had problems with illegally parked vehicles, which slows snow removal. Fiore said the snowplow driver bumped into the back of the car, which popped the vehicle's trunk open. After that happened, workers from the plow truck started shoveling around the vehicle to prepare...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Wednesday asked President Trump's onetime personal attorney Michael Cohen if Trump had intentionally devalued his real estate assets to reduce his tax bills, to which Cohen responded, "Yes." Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House Oversight Committee, sought to lay the groundwork for lawmakers to potentially subpoena employees of the Trump Organization -- including its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, who Cohen said was privy to Trump's various money maneuvers and who received immunity from federal prosecutors in New York to testify against Cohen prior to the attorney's guilty plea on federal campaign finance violations last...

One of the most celebrated portraits of the Renaissance has traveled from London to New York to take its place in a jewel of an exhibition. What is this celebrated portrait? It’s not the Mona Lisa, and it’s not Henry VIII. It’s not the portrait of a Roman pope or a Venetian doge. And it’s not by Raphael, Michelangelo or Dürer. It’s of a tailor standing at a table. He holds a pair of glinting black shears in his right hand and the corner of a black cloth, marked with chalk lines, in his left. He’s about to cut the...

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s (FAIR) new 2017 report, illegal immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers $135 billion annually—$8,075 per alien per year. For the sake of comparison, the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 cost $120 billion. Illegal immigration is a national emergency. These costs are partially offset by taxes collected from illegals, which total $19 billion. Taken together, the net cost of illegal immigrants to American taxpayers is $116 billion annually. While high, this number is certainly not an outlier: a recent study by the Heritage Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants (including those...

Break the Parents Circle of Anti-Israel Hate (Part II) Israel’s often radically anti-Zionist peace movement is today an “anachronism that no longer has realistic answers to Israel’s problems,” Commentary magazine has noted, something exemplified by the Parents Circle—Family Forum (PCFF). As previously discussed, PCFF’s spokeswoman Robi Damelin recently visited Washington, DC, on a speaking and lobbying tour, yet non-Israelis should critically examine PCFF before offering uninformed support. PCFF’s claim of promoting reconciliation among Israelis and Palestinians, including PCFF members who have all lost relatives to various Arab-Israeli conflicts, masks more nefarious agendas. PCFF’s false ideology consistently proclaims that violence against...

The murders of five people in Bucks County earlier this week may have been sparked by "cult influences," according to a report by 6ABC. The network spoke to surviving members of the family, who said that the deceased were "going through something religiously" and had joined an online cult. The five people who were found dead in a bedroom in a Morrisville apartment complex on Monday included three children. Authorities allege Shana Selena Decree, 45, the mother of two of the victims, and her daughter, Dominique Klaran Decree, 19, killed their family members. They are both charged with five counts...

What many of you may not be aware of is the fact that I can personally confirm that the ONLY reason Michael Cohen “turned on” the President of the United States is because Mueller threatened to throw his wife in jail for up to 30 years. Period. She is the co-guarantor of a $20M personal loan that Mueller discovered

Questioning Islam and Muhammad has been effectively criminalized in Europe Here is background about Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff’s case, a case with extraordinarily important implications for the future of the freedom of speech and of the free world in general. Please visit her website here. In 2009, Mrs. Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff (ES) spoke at a series of seminars organized by the Austrian Freedom Party, which were advertised to and open to members of the public. At two such seminars, each attended by about 30 people, she made several statements about Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. The seminars were also attended by an undercover...

WASHINGTON — When she was younger, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she acted like a “white dude” to get ahead. “Like straight up. You think you need to talk a certain way, dress a certain way, have your shoulder pads out to here, be like, ‘Hi Jan!’” she said, deepening her voice in a podcast interview. “You think that’s how you have to move through the world and I found myself subconsciously doing that in high school and in college.” “I felt like I need to write a certain way and talk a certain way,” she went on. “And like the...

Fleet Commanders Holding Firm on Readiness Standards for Surface Ships This post has been updated to include an additional statement from U.S. Pacific Fleet. CAPITOL HILL – The Navy’s Pacific and Atlantic fleet commanders have increased their ability to understand surface ship readiness at the individual ship level and have shown their willingness to cancel or delay deployments if a ship has not proven it can safely conduct that mission, the two fleet commanders told lawmakers today. U.S. Fleet Forces Command commander Adm. Christopher Grady and U.S. Pacific Fleet commander Adm. John Aquilino told the House Armed Services readiness and...