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BOSTON — Massachusetts will have to spend more than $18 billion to fortify its coastline against rising seas and monster storms fueled by a changing climate, according to a new report. The report, compiled by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Climate Integrity - a nonprofit that supports states and communities that sue polluters - estimates the state would have to spend that much over the next 20 years to to fortify seawalls and other barriers to defend against erosion, flooding and other impacts of a warming planet. Nationwide, 22 coastal states and Washington, D.C. will have to spend $400 billion...

On June 29, 2017, the Dailymail in UK ran an article headlined “Four years to save the Earth: 2020 is the deadline to avert climate catastrophe, experts claim in chilling commentary.”Two years later and halfway to deadline, the earth has not changed much. If anything, the El Niño of the 2016-17 season gave way for much cooler temperatures across the globe and the past two years have been colder than 2016.This is just one of the many climate doomsday news articles that gets published in our mainstream news media every single day.How seriously should we treat the climate doomsday claims?In mid-2000s...

The Talk Shows June 23rd, 2019 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Mont., 2020 presidential candidate. The panel includes fatass NeverTrumper Karl Rove, former White House Turd Blossom to George W. Bush; Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist; Buzzed media guy Howard Kurtz, host of “MediaBuzz”; and Mo Elleithee, executive Commissar of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service (for Communism).MEET THE PRESS (NBC): President Donald Trump. The panel will be Peter Baker of The New York Slimes; Lanhee Chen, research fellow, Hoover Institution,...

Remember the bold predictions made by the New York Times’ economist and resident expert, Paul Krugman? The Nobel Prize winning economist said that the economic fallout of a Donald Trump presidency would be severe and widespread, predicting that it could “plunge the world into recession.” He penned his view in an opinion piece published the day after the election. Calling Trump both “ignorant and irresponsible,” he said that his election would be the "mother of all adverse effects.” He warned that the new administration could quickly undo the progress that markets had made in the eight years since the...

The race to conquer space is real – and the United States could lose to China if we don’t act now.We know that China continues to work to consolidate opposition to the U.S. through its alliances with Iran, Russia, and North Korea. Just last week, the president of China met with the president of Iran to continue to foster their relationship. This is a slap in the face to the U.S. given that Tehran was—a few days prior—directly implicated in the attack on two tankers. And with China’s aggressive actions at sea, it’s only a matter of time before there...

Ever since the campaign for the Democratic nomination first began, basically on November 9, 2016, America has been treated to some truly comedic moments, from Hillary Clinton’s delayed concession speech, to two years of “will she, or won’t she?” speculation at a second - strike that - third, run for the presidency, all of which peppered with her $100 speeches to smaller crowds than a Bee Gees reunion concert would draw. And let’s not forget the Costco book signings for "What Happened" by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the only mystery novel with the mystery and answer both printed clearly on the...

Her American dream — for herself and her two toddlers — ended in a grisly nightmare. A Russian-born Air National Guard member was bludgeoned to death, and her young children were drowned, in their Staten Island home Saturday morning — seven years, nearly to the day, after she took her citizenship oath in a star-spangled White House ceremony. The father, Shane Walker, 36, who is also in the Air Force, was seen on surveillance video stumbling out of the family’s brick two-story home and into his car, apparently drunk, soon after the massacre, law-enforcement sources said. He is now suspected...

What’s more impressive than 2 million people walking down central Hong Kong demanding freedom? How about the scene where the human wave moved to the side in an orderly fashion to let an ambulance pass without anyone directing them? How about before going home for the night, the young protesters stayed to ensure there was no litter left on the streets that 2 million people walked? How about that there was nothing, not a trash can, nor a car, nor a building, burned down, despite protesters’ emotions running high? ... What contributed to Hong Kongers, especially the youth’s, orderly, thoughtful,...

I’m always grateful for the fact that I’m not a Democrat, but rarely am I as happy about that as I have been this week. What a mess. The race for the nomination is less of a contest of ideas, since all two dozen candidates are offering the same policy proposals, as it fight to out-pander each other and be the last person standing in a perverted “Woke Olympics.” How anyone takes these people seriously is beyond me, but if you’d told me these grown adults were part of a hidden camera prank show rather than serious contenders for a...

Twenty-two of Joe Biden’s rivals on Saturday tried to make the case that he’s not the best choice for 2020, mostly without mentioning his name. Online, critics were less decorous. Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, one of just two Democratic candidates who skipped the South Carolina Democratic convention, lambasted Biden as “unchanging, unapologetic, unaware” for Biden’s recent comments praising his own work with segregationist Senate Democrats in the 1970s. Gravel tweeted that the former vice president “is a disaster waiting to happen. If you are serious about beating Trump, you need to be serious about beating Joe and giving us...

A report authored by a former high-ranking Pentagon official has warned that the U.S. risks losing its military advantage to the Chinese because of Beijing’s long-term plans for its armed forces. The report is written by Robert Work, the former deputy defense secretary, and Greg Grant, former special assistant to Work. “The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been patiently stalking the U.S. military for two decades… It has studied the preferred American way of war and devised a strategy to exploit its weaknesses and offset its strengths — particularly its military-technological strengths… [China] appears increasingly close to achieving technological parity...

Today’s Cryptogram GK TWVSRLGVU ETBSSF NVEJP, CVN MVQT QVLCTEP VUSF CBWT LNV CBUAP? –QGSLVU DTEST Today’s CG is courtesy of the Arkansas Gazette. You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you...

When the struggle to sustain existence in a world of scarcity is replaced by affluence so absolute that even the incompetents, the ill and the lazy are all able to survive thanks to handouts from government and private sources, the results are far from the paradise imagined by materialists. ... It is no longer economically necessary to work in order to eat or morally necessary to marry in order to breed. The cravings of the mind for luxury and for approval of experimental lifestyling have replaced the demands of the body for sustenance and protection from the cold. The preeminent...

LEXINGTON — One year ago today, the owner of The Red Hen in Lexington asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders to leave her restaurant. News of the incident spread across the country within minutes after Sanders tweeted about what happened. Protestors traveled to the 7,000-person city and gathered outside the restaurant with signs, chants and in one case, chicken poop. The restaurant’s phone line was hacked, fake Yelp reviews caused its rates to plummet and dozens of people made fake reservations. The Red Hen closed for 10 days as national media converged on Lexington. President Donald Trump joined in...

This week’s big leak about a major Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation was orchestrated by acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan in an effort to sabotage the raids before they were scheduled to take place, according to three current and two former senior administration officials. In a move he said was to placate Democrats, President Trump announced on Saturday that the nationwide immigration enforcement operation planned to start Sunday — aimed at migrant families who illegally remain in the country despite being denied asylum — was called off to give lawmakers two weeks to work on a plan to fix...

Lawyers for the man convicted for ramming a crowd of protesters with his car in Charlottesville, Va., injuring dozens and killing activist Heather Heyer, asked for "mercy" for their client in a memo, arguing that he should not spend the rest of his life in prison. The Associated Press reported Saturday that lawyers for 22-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. argued that Fields' age and history of mental illness, along with a traumatic childhood, should factor into a court's decision that they hoped would amount to less than a life sentence. “No amount of punishment imposed on James can repair the...

Iranian lawmakers chanted “Death to America” during a parliament session on Sunday after a speaker accused the United States of being the “real world terrorist”, amid escalating tension with Washington following the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he aborted a military strike to retaliate for the drone incident because it could have killed 150 people, and signaled he was open to talks with Tehran. ... “America is the real terrorist in the world by spreading chaos in countries, giving advanced weapons to terrorist groups, causing insecurity, and still it says ‘Come, let’s...

Former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden promised Saturday that on "Day One" of a Biden presidency he would repeal President Trump's 2017 tax cuts and close $500 billion on tax loopholes. Speaking at the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention, Biden said that "Income inequities are at an all-time high and made worse by Trump's tax cuts and enormous giveaways to the top one-tenth of the 1 percent ... and it's time we start to reward work over wealth." Outlining his policy proposals in this visit to the early primary state, Biden said the GOP-backed tax cuts, which...

China appears to be playing the same game against the US that American leaders once used against the Soviet Union, a new report explains, making the case that China appears to be a more formidable challenge for the US than its Cold War rival. The US countered the Soviet Union by offsetting their conventional military might through economic power and technological advancement. A new study authored by former deputy US defense secretary Robert Work and his former colleague at the Department of Defense Greg Grant argues that Beijing has both the will and ability to do the same to the...