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Full Title: Set Your Air Conditioning to 78 Degrees During the Day, 82 Degrees at Night, Federal Agencies Recommend Looking to beat the heat without breaking the bank? Energy Star, the federal program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy, has some tips — but you might not like them.Energy Star recommends that, in order to reduce costs and energy usage, you should set your thermostat as high as comfortably possible through the summer.Specifically, they say you should set your thermostat to 78 degrees while you’re home.Spending the day out? Turn that thermostat up 7 degrees to 85.Then,...

(Apologies for my tardiness. Emergency meeting on website-related issues.)Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Sam Greenfeld. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Sam Greenfeld, though not an overt conservative nor libertarian, has written several articles for The American Thinker. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the...

EXCLUSIVE DETAILS TMZ.com 1:51 PM PT -- Sources connected to the couple tell TMZ ... they have been having marital trouble for several years now. Larry has accused Shawn of infidelity. We're told that has created tension for a while now, but the breaking point was when Larry was in the hospital a couple months ago. Sources say Shawn presented him with legal documents that would have given her certain rights to their property that would adversely affect the couple's 2 sons. We're told they felt she was trying to screw them out of their inheritance. We're told the boys...

RUSH: I have people asking… It’s not very many, I’ve gotta tell you, but some people are asking me, “What do you think of this Tlaib business in Israel?” Folks, I’m so worn out on The Squad, and when I heard today that Michael Moore thinks The Squad is the vehicle for the Democrats winning the presidential election? Okay. Further confirming that we are surrounded by genuine insanity. I don’t care. This is one of those things there are some things in the news (even though I fake it) that I actually don’t care about. I’m worn out. I’m worn...

The Trump administration will officially launch a new combatant command dedicated to space next week. Vice President Pence and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford announced at Tuesday’s National Space Council meeting in Virginia that U.S. Space Command will officially be up and running Aug. 29. Space Command, which will be responsible for planning and executing space operations, will have 87 units at launch next week, Dunford said. Their capabilities will include missile warning, satellite operations, space control and space support, Dunford said. “This step will put us on a path to maintain a competitive advantage...

(Newser) – A California man's 2016 decision to get a vanity license plate set him on a path into a "Kafkaesque loop," reports Wired in a look at Joseph Tartaro's predicament. The computer security researcher began brainstorming possibilities that related to his industry, including "null pointer." He liked the NULL, and thought it would be humorous to additionally replace his wife's plate with VOID. Better still, he thought he might be "invisible" and be able to skirt a couple tickets. "I was like, 'I'm the s---,'" he told the crowd while recounting his story at DEF CON, per Mashable. The...

A man was in police custody Tuesday in connection with the death of a 9-year-old girl in Detroit who was mauled by three dogs despite efforts by neighbors and her own "heartbroken" father, who lamented that "she was gone when I reached her."

House Democrats are looking to speed up their lawsuit against the Treasury Department and IRS over their refusal to turn over President Trump's tax returns. The Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday filed a motion in federal court in Washington, D.C., for summary judgment, asking Judge Trevor McFadden to direct Treasury and the IRS to comply with the committee's requests and subpoenas for six years of the president's federal tax returns. The committee also asked McFadden, a Trump appointee, to consider the case on an expedited basis, proposing a schedule under which briefs on relevant issues would be...

The House Judiciary Committee announced a Sept. 4 vote on a group of measures aimed at reducing gun violence. “For far too long, politicians in Washington have only offered thoughts and prayers in the wake of gun violence tragedies,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said. “Thoughts and prayers have never been enough. To keep our communities safe, we must act." * * * House Democrats are nonetheless ready to advance additional gun control measures. Nadler said he’ll take up a measure that would ban high-capacity ammunition magazines, which were used in a string of deadly mass shootings this summer.

President Trump said Tuesday that the United States already has “very strong background checks” for gun purchasers and that officials need to be wary of the prospect of a “slippery slope” where “everything gets taken away.” Trump’s comments to reporters in the Oval Office provided more evidence that he is backtracking after initially expressing support for enhanced background checks following a pair of mass shootings that killed 31 earlier this month. His comments foretelling a “slippery slope” also closely mirrored the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) long-held argument that even modest gun control regulations would inevitably lead to more stringent ones....

RUSH: Do you know how Daylight Savings Time is killing us? How do you think? If you just had to wild guess, it’s obviously a Drive-By Media concern. Daylight Savings Time is killing us. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Well, yes, but it’s effective sleep pattern. The one hour of sleep that we are losing every spring when we turn the clocks forward is causing people months of distress, months of sleeplessness, and it’s causing some people to die prematurely, and the story is what should we do to fix it? Should we eliminate it? Should we go...

Whole Bishops' Conference Goes Pagan The Columbian Bishops’ Conference published on Flickr.com photos of a Church event featuring Indio shamans invoking demons in presence of enthusiastic priests, sisters and bishops. The shamans appeared dressed in ponchos with feathers on their heads. They released smoke over bananas, ananas, Indian corn and other vegetables and fruits that were arranged on a towel. Further they sprinkled their audience with some demonic substance. The event was presented by the bishops as “Church with an Amazonian Face.” #newsSgxlvckkux

If you were on Twitter over the weekend, you probably saw a lot of talk about President Trump talking to his advisors about the possibility of buying Greenland. Richochet’s Jon Gabriel imagined a Greenland purchased by Trump: Greenland in 10 years. pic.twitter.com/akqWowauyu— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 15, 2019 Gabriel didn’t get credit, but his photo was retweeted by President Trump Monday, who promised not to build a huge gold Trump Tower in Greenland. I promise not to do this to Greenland! pic.twitter.com/03DdyVU6HA— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2019 https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1163604571165511681 It would be the #1 destination in Greenland, that’s for...

Every quarter, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York releases data on how much household debt Americans are accumulating. Here’s everything you need to know about American debt in Q2 2019.TOTAL HOUSEHOLD DEBT, Q2 2019 – Total household debt level at $13.86 trillion, up 1.4% ($192 billion) from Q1– 20th consecutive quarter with increase in debt– Mortgage household debt rose by $162 billion in the second quarter to $9.4 trillion– Total mortgage debt the highest it’s been since Q3 2008– Mortgages and refis increased by $130 billion to $474 billion, the highest since Q3 2017– $17 billion increase in auto...

Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) trails her Democratic opponent for the first time, according to a new survey, as President Trump's approval rating falls in the key swing state. Retired astronaut Mark Kelly leads McSally, the retired fighter pilot-turned-politician, by a 46 percent to 41 percent margin, according to the poll conducted by OH Predictive Insights, a Phoenix-based pollster, and released first to The Hill.

Who knew the Walt Disney Company would be pulled into the protests in Hong Kong? The controversy involves a member of the Disney Princesses franchise, or at least an actress set to play a live-action version of Disney’s beloved character Mulan. Chinese-American actress Liu Yifei is in hot water over a show of support for the Hong Kong police.Since March, millions have taken to the streets in Hong Kong in pro-democracy demonstrations. Sunday it was reported that 1.7 million marched in heavy rain as the threats from China’s military continue. What began as protests against legislation which would have...

Facebook has reportedly pulled an ad for President Trump’s reelection campaign after it violated the platform’s advertising policies. Popular Info reported Monday that Facebook pulled the Trump ad because it violated a policy that prohibits ads targeting "personal attributes." The ad in question featured a crowd of women with the caption, “The Women for Trump Coalition needs the support of strong women like you!” Facebook’s ad policy prohibits “content that asserts or implies personal attributes,” including, among other things, "direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person’s ... gender identity." Facebook reportedly pulled the ad following an inquiry from...

Before we get started, I wanted to bring up a curious item. We recently received feedback from a reader who was visiting China and reported that Hot Air appears to be blocked in that country. (We are available in Hong Kong, it seems.) If anyone is viewing the site from China without any issues, could you please drop a note to [email protected]? Thanks.On to the main story. As we’ve been covering the protests in Hong Kong (which may have led to us being blocked), one recurring question has involved the relatively small number of protesters who have engaged in violence...

You’ve heard of buyer’s remorse, but now Democrats appear to have developed a case of Bernie remorse. After rushing to out-socialist Bernie Sanders by unquestioningly embracing Medicare for All, the Washington Post reports that presidential candidates have begun singing a different tune. Kamala Harris might be carrying the melody, but she’s getting a lot of harmony from the rest of the choir: The Democratic senator from California is hardly alone. The idea of Medicare-for-all — a unified government health program that would take over the basic function of private insurance — became a liberal litmus test at the outset...

A Republican strategist and former 2016 presidential campaign spokesman for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) laid out three things that the GOP must do to ensure President Donald Trump is reelected next year, including some surprises — such as, he believes California a sign of things to come for the GOP without a plan to address it. In an op-ed for The Hill, Ron Nehring writes that while “California has become a running joke” for his party, it’s really “the canary in the coal mine, not an outlier.” That is, the state is a massive warning sign for the Republican Party....