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Give us this day our daily foam expander. It may sound odd, but in America, your loaf of bread can contain ingredients with industrial applications – additives that also appear in things like yoga mats, pesticides, hair straighteners, explosives and petroleum products. Some of these chemicals, used as optional whiteners, dough conditioners and rising agents, may be harmful to human health. Potassium bromate, a potent oxidizer that helps bread rise, has been linked to kidney and thyroid cancers in rodents. Azodicarbonamide (ACA), a chemical that forms bubbles in foams and plastics like vinyl, is used to bleach and leaven dough...

Louisiana’s Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards angered members of his own party on Thursday when he signed a ban on abortions once a heartbeat is detected."I call on the overwhelming bipartisan majority of legislators who voted for it to join me in continuing to build a better Louisiana that cares for the least among us and provides more opportunity for everyone," he said in a statement. The ban on abortions once a heartbeat is detected could apply to pregnancies as early as six weeks. The only exceptions are for “medically futile” cases where the mother’s health is at risk or the...

When asked about Republicans’ criticism of his occasional anti-Trump stances, Mitt Romney doesn’t miss a beat: “I have to show you something.” He grabs his iPad and pulls up an article: “Romney: why the Republican pros distrust him.” It’s a 1964 Look Magazine profile about his father, George, a former moderate governor of Michigan, which claims that “party people are troubled by what he says.”

Moments after the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, wrapped up his appearance at the Justice Department on Wednesday, Representative Dwight Evans stepped out of his district office in a black working-class neighborhood here to visit with local business owners. They had one question on their minds: Why is President Trump still in office? Mr. Evans, a Democrat who began calling for Mr. Trump to be impeached long before Mr. Mueller issued his report, was not surprised: “The issue that I hear constantly here is, ‘We sent you for one reason only: to get rid of the president, right? Why...

American poet Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago on May 31, 1819. His Leaves Of Grass has been called the most important book of American poetry ever. Yet in 1855, he could barely give it away.

You may recall that about a year into failed Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ tenure with the Trump administration he rebuffed several calls from members of Congress to appoint a U.S. attorney ‘outside the Beltway’ to investigate abuses by the Obama regime and the 2016 Clinton campaign regarding “Spygate.” That attorney, John Huber of Utah, was supposedly a ‘special prosecutor in all but name,’ Sessions said at the time. He claimed Huber will be using all of “his prosecutorial powers” to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into alleged abuses that extend well beyond suspected FISA court improprieties. “I am confident that Mr....

Can you spell history? The 92nd Scripps National Spelling Bee had an epic ending with eight co-champions. The spelling bee was finally over after it went 20 rounds, which included a run of 47 correct words. Thursday night's unprecedented decision was made after round 17, when it was announced that while there were plenty of words left in the dictionary, there were only enough challenging words for three final rounds. The eight co-champions are: Rishik Gandhasri; Erin Howard; Saketh Sundar; Shruthika Padhy; Sohum Sukhatankar; Abhijay Kodali; Christopher Serrao; and Rohan Raja. "We have plenty of words left on our list...

WASHINGTON - Memorial Day weekend is a time for presidential wannabes to get out on the campaign trail at patriotic events, solemn remembrance of our fallen heroes and addressing national issues. That’s what most Democratic candidates were doing on Monday, but not former vice president Joe Biden, front-runner for his party’s presidential nomination. Instead, his campaign announced that “Joe Biden has no public events scheduled.” “Those seven words are becoming familiar for the Biden team. Aside from a campaign swing right after announcing his candidacy, Biden has kept his head down while his rivals rush from state to state to...

Hostile inner nation, under the "leadership" of the Democrat Party, despises the Republic and the Constitution The Congressional Democrats and their administrative collaborators provided yet another indication that they are firmly committed to continuation of evil that they have been caught doing. For over two years, now, they have been breaking the rules and laws, that most of normal Americans abide by, in their self-serving attempts to prevent the American voters from electing the President that the Democrats didn’t like and to remove him from the Oval Office after he was duly elected. This blatant assault on the democratic process...

Oregon is awash in pot, glutted with so much legal weed, that if growing it were to stop today, it would take more than six years by one estimate to smoke or eat it all. Now the state is planning to curb production. Five years after Oregon legalized recreational marijuana, lawmakers have given the Oregon Liquor Control Commission more leeway to deny new pot-growing licenses, based on supply and demand.

Deep State and its bogus investigation is dead but won’t lay down Why did Special Counsel Snake Robert Mueller III choose May 29, 2019 to slither off into retirement? Other than to add enough fuel to keep Democrat Impeachment plans going straight up to Election Day, it’s because the 2020 Election Campaign is well underway. All the Deep State Coup ever had on President Donald Trump was the largely debunked, dirty, pornographic Christopher Steele dossier—featuring the outlandish Golden Shower Conspiracy, paid for by Hillary Clinton and a just as desperate DNC.

For all the time spent and attention monopolized in our national discussion of global warming and climate change, attention which to date has produced practically nothing in terms of concrete and substantial solutions to a demonstrable and present threat, there are two foreseeable, or more to the point practically inevitable, environmental events which directly threaten American life as we know it. Neither has a thing to do with global warming. The more dire, and more unavoidable, of the two is the eventual volcanic eruption of the massive caldera at Yellowstone National Park, which will ultimately threaten the survival of civilization....

Once upon a time in America, baseball was not only the National Pastime but also the national obsession, an idyl of summer. Every town and city had a team. Abbott and Costello made their bones with their classic routine "Who's on First?" Baseball was the great equalizer on sandlot and ballpark. Everybody knew the words to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," and everybody shared in the enthusiasm for the home team. Baseball was the great equalizer for Jews in the common excitement of the sports culture, as it eventually would be for blacks and Hispanics. But Detroit fans...

Go fix your own country and then maybe we can have a chat about what you don't like about the U.S. Until then, MYOB Self-avowed “Feminist” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasn’t decked out with “My Body, My Choice” signage when he met with American Vice-President Mike Pence on Parliament Hill yesterday, he was only looking for another pre-election selfie. Nor did the State Visit prevent über-Liberal Trudeau from trying to lecture Pence about New Pro-Life Laws cropping up, state by state in the U.S.A.

This has been a spring of angry weather across the U.S. as heat, flooding, and hail pummel the eastern half of the country. But along with the garden variety suffering, devastating tornadoes have also spread across the U.S. from Texas to Pennsylvania. Twisters have ripped through communities across the U.S., killing at least three in Missouri last week, injuring nearly 100 on Monday in Ohio, and upending thousands of people’s lives. On Thursday, nearly 78 million Americans still faced increased odds of tornadoes touching down, according to the Storm Prediction Center, including major metro areas like New York, Washington, D.C.,...

New evidence has emerged suggesting that disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok was actively keeping information hidden on the investigation into two of Donald Trump's campaign aides, according to reports.Anti-Trump special agent Strzok allegedly withheld information from Trump's team that Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos were under investigation during an FBI briefing for the campaign in August 2016.The purpose of the briefing was supposed to warn the campaign of “national security threats”Strzok launched the probe into the two aides in July 2016 but failed to inform the Trump campaign during the August meeting about the case against them.

Former Fox News Host Bill O'Reilly said President Trump called him Wednesday night to allege special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was a "personal thing." In a Thursday morning radio appearance on the show "Bernie and Sid in the Morning", O'Reilly said Trump called him at 11 p.m. the night before to discuss Mueller's findings, alleging that Mueller had to "signal to the swamp" that he "still believes that Donald Trump did something illegal." "Trump says Mueller doesn't like him because he turned him down to be the head of the FBI after...

Climate isn't the same as weather -- unless, of course, weather happens to be politically useful. In that case, weather portends climate apocalypse. So warns Elizabeth Warren as she surveyed Iowan rainstorms, which she claims, like tornadoes and floods, are more frequent and severe. "Different parts of the country deal with different climate issues," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-Malthusia, cautioned as she too warned of extreme tornadoes. "But ALL of these threats will be increasing in intensity as climate crisis grows and we fail to act appropriately." Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., recently sent a fundraising email warning Democrats that climate change was...

Native Americans' use of fire to manage vegetation in what is now the Eastern United States was more profound than previously believed, according to a Penn State researcher who determined that forest composition change in the region was caused more by land use than climate change... Over the last 2,000 years at least, according to Abrams -- who for three decades has been studying past and present qualities of eastern U.S. forests -- frequent and widespread human-caused fire resulted in the predominance of fire-adapted tree species. And in the time since burning has been curtailed, forests are changing, with species...

That is to say, Ill be spending some time in Tennessee soon. The TN tourism page is near useless other than trying to get me to go to the civil rights museum and doesnt tell me how to truly do Tennessee like a native. What is the thing I must do when I visit? Where do you go and what do you like to do? Ill possibly be all over and everywhere so the whole state is open. Dont do professional sports but Im open to just about anything else. Favorite hike? Best food/hotel for the money? Whitewater rafting or...