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Neil Peart, the drummer of iconic Canadian band Rush, has died at age 67. The influential musician and lyricist died Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., after having been diagnosed with brain cancer, according to a statement issued Friday by family spokesperson Elliot Mintz.

Flashback to 2011 when now Speaker of the House Pelosi said Obama “did not need authorization” to use force in Libya. This contrasts with her current criticism of President Trump’s decision to kill Iranian terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani.

General Motors Co will revive the Hummer name to sell a new family of electric pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles and will tout the return with a Super Bowl ad featuring NBA star Lebron James, two people briefed on the matter said on Friday. The vehicles will be sold under the GMC nameplate. Reuters reported in October that GM planned to build a new family of premium electric pickup trucks at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant beginning in late 2021 and was considering reviving the Hummer name, citing several people familiar with the plans.

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is working on a plan to tighten eligibility requirements for disability benefits, especially for older Americans, the latest step in a broader White House effort to shrink federal safety-net programs. The proposal being prepared by the Social Security Administration would revise eligibility for disability benefits based on age, education and work experience, according to a draft viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Those factors determined the eligibility of about 500,000 people in 2017, according to the latest available data. More than eight million people currently receive disability payments. The proposal aims to address major economic and demographic...

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia lawmakers have voted to ban firearms at the state Capitol, the first in what’s expected to be many contentious gun votes in coming weeks. Newly empowered Democrats in the General Assembly voted Friday to ban guns at the Capitol and a legislative office building, saying the move was needed to protect public safety.

Funny, no one seemed to consider what to do with the massive amount of wind turbine blades once they reached the end of their lifespan. Thus, the irony of the present-day Green Energy Movement is the dumping of thousands of tons of “non-recyclable” supposedly renewable wind turbine blades in the country’s landfills. Who would have thought? What’s even worse, is that the amount of wind turbine blades slated for waste disposal is forecasted to quadruple over the next fifteen years as a great deal more blades reach their 15-20 year lifespan. Furthermore, the size and length of the newly installed...

RUSH: Yesterday we played a clip of Trump. He was talking to reporters in the Oval Off… Well, no. It was at the infrastructure event that the president had, and we may have been the only ones to point this out. Trump said yesterday that Soleimani was planning to blow up the U.S. embassy, and I remember asking, “Is that not news?” Nobody in the media touched on it. Nobody in the media covered it. Now we know why today. It’s because they’re trying to claim that Trump is lying or that he’s wrong about it or that he’s making...

Tackled, tased, punched, kneed and tased some more for holding a wooden cross in his right hand and a bible nestled under his left arm. The man was reportedly previously rebuking the devil music being played on the stage. The disturbing police body cam footage from July 4th, 2019 in Kokomo Indiana, of Jonatan Cantu, an Indiana man- who was holding a wooden cross in a park surfaces on the Colorado Donkey Watch YouTube channel. Below is an illustrated video which shows a man peacefully holding a wooden cross in front of a stage where music was being played. When...

Jane Fonda has been in DC protesting climate change on ‘Fire Drill Fridays’ and is arrested every time. This week, Actor Joaquin Phoenix is marching with Jane Fonda and Susan Sarandon at a climate protest in D.C. Listen below as Fonda goes there when she says, “Did we NOT learn the lessons of Vietnam?” She goes on to paint President Trump and America as warmongers. She’s so wrong. Fonda even compared the peace protests during Vietnam to the climate change protests… Fonda insisted that Joaquin Phoenix came on his own: Joaquin Phoenix talked about how the meat and dairy industry...

Hardly had the possibility surfaced that the GOP- controlled Senate could subpoena him as an impeachment witness, then Joe Biden told the Senate to go whistle. Sounding like Humphrey Bogart or Edward G. Robinson in one of those old black and white gangster films Hollywood used to make, the former vice president said he was “clean as a whistle” over Ukrainian corruption.

To achieve the American Dream, it helps to be filthy rich. That's the upshot of a new survey that found nearly three-quarters of the top 1% of income earners in the U.S. think they've reached that classic, if somewhat hazy, benchmark of economic success and independence. By contrast, only 37% of those in the middle class believe they're living the dream. The top 1% - who earn at least $500,000 annually - are living "dramatically different life experiences" than middle- and low-income Americans, according to a poll from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Friday that she's been working with "a fairly small group" of Republican senators to make sure witnesses can be called in President Donald Trump's impending Senate impeachment trial. "We should be completely open to calling witnesses," Collins told reporters in Bangor, Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. She declined to say who or how many GOP lawmakers she's been working with, but said “I am hopeful that we can reach an agreement on how to proceed with the trial that will allow the opportunity for both the House and the president's counsel if they choose...

“With buys from this morning accounted for, @Mike Bloomberg has surpassed $200 M – the rest of the field has spent $222M combined,” the ad-tracking group Advertising Analytics reported in a tweet Friday. Bloomberg’s ads have been ubiquitous on the airwaves in New York and other states where Democrats will vote in primary elections in March and April. He is not focusing on the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. The former three-term New York City mayor is spending so much money on television spots across the country that it’s squeezing out air time for others and causing ad...

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg would seek to standardize federal elections across the United States and prevent states from blocking felons from voting under a plan aimed at expanding access to elections rolled out on Friday. Bloomberg’s plan echoes proposals offered by his Democratic rivals as the party shows a unified front on the issue of combating voter suppression. Voting access is an important issue for the party’s minority voters, who are often seen as targeted by Republican lawmakers. Under the voting rights plan, Bloomberg would seek to create a non-partisan commission that would look to standardize federal elections, including...

Outside of many abortion clinics you can come face to face with agents of Satan wearing little pink vests, who call themselves “Clinic Escorts” or “Pro Choice Escorts”. Unpaid men and women who say they are “pro choice” when it comes to a woman’s decision to murder her child, they often gather in the parking lots of these clinics to shield pregnant mothers from having the opportunity to hear that she has other choices besides abortion. The fact that these “Pro Choice” advocates do not allow women to hear what their other choices are, proves that they are in fact...

Former Secretary of State John Kerry complained Thursday that President Donald Trump was ruining everything he and former President Barack Obama achieved with the Iran deal. “He put his disdain for anything done by the last administration ahead of his duty to keep the country safe,” Kerry wrote in a mournful 1,000 word op-ed for the New York Times. The former secretary of state is currently supporting former Vice President Joe Biden for president and campaigning for him in Iowa.

The "Little Apocalypse" of the Old Testament is found in Isaiah 24. It reveals the Apocalypse of Revelation (on a macro level); the final earthly judgments of the tribulation prior to the Messianic Kingdom called the Millennium (Jesus Christ rules and reigns from Jerusalem for a thousand years). The Apocalypse (also called the Tribulation) is brought upon the earth because man has defiled it. Isaiah 24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the...

The sky was winter gray, but researchers took advantage Friday of a relatively rare day with calm seas and little wind to retrieve 18 acoustic shark detection buoys off the Outer Cape and another eight or nine in Cape Cod Bay. Although these buoys primarily record signals from sharks whose tags emit a unique identifying signal, they also record water temperature. Shark researchers Gregory Skomal of the state Division of Marine Fisheries and Megan Winton, a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s School of Marine Science and Technology, hope to use this temperature data to create a computer...

Last year, a court ruled that 11 VA House districts were unconstitutional, finding that lawmakers improperly prioritized race to draw African-American voters into majority-minority districts. The court gave the General Assembly a chance to redraw the map last fall, but it became clear the Republican House and Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam could not agree on a plan. A federal court ruled last year that Dr. Bernard Grofman could re-draw the Virginia legislative districts however he liked. Grofman is a professor at the University of California-Irvine, whose degrees in Mathematics (1966) and his MA (1968) and PhD (1972) in Political Science...

Lawmakers approved legislation on Thursday which will allow Britain to leave the European Union on Jan. 31 with an exit deal, ending more than three years of tumult over the terms of the unprecedented divorce. They voted 330 to 231 in favor of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which implements an exit deal agreed with the EU last year. That allows Prime Minister Boris Johnson to turn the page on one of Britain’s deepest political crises in decades, putting an end to the fears of an immediate disorderly exit which had cast a shadow over the economy and fueled...