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The dreaded midlife crisis may come about because it coincides with life’s peak time for misery, a study released this week says, according to a report.That peak time would be around age 47, Dartmouth College professor and former Bank of England policy maker David Blanchflower claims in a study, after examining trends in 132 countries to compare the relationship between well-being and age.  A typical individual’s well-being reaches its minimum point – on both sides of the Atlantic and for both males and females – in midlife, Blanchflower wrote in his report for the National Bureau of Economic Research.In order to better understand age’s relationship...

House Republican leadership was enormously successful in how they handled hearings and managed to attain a bipartisan vote. The Senate should take note. The Senate takes up impeachment today, in a formal approach that will at long last spark the trial we’ve expected, and lead to the all but certain vote to acquit the president, which will in all likelihood be bipartisan. It seems in the interest of Mitch McConnell to wrap this up quickly, in roughly two weeks, and that’s something that will likely be achieved without calling additional witnesses – or in the case of such a move,...

Jeffrey Epstein had burst capillaries in his eyes suggesting he was murdered and did not hang himself, a forensic pathologist said in a yet-to-air interview with Dr. Oz. In the clip, which was obtained by the Daily Mail before the episode is set to air Thursday, pathologist Dr. Michael Baden examines photographs of Epstein's eyes and legs and concludes that the convicted pedophile likely did not commit suicide. According to the Daily Mail, Baden was present with other physicians in the room when Epstein's autopsy took place and argues it is "highly unusual that the cause of his death went...

The 64-year-old leader of the Supreme Court posed a question on Wednesday that some in his generation have been asking for months: Does saying “OK, boomer” count as age discrimination? If the query hadn’t been an earnest attempt to test the bounds of a lawyer’s legal argument, Chief Justice John Roberts might have followed it up with another viral expression: “Asking for a friend.” But Roberts wasn’t typing a tweet. This was a meeting of the highest court in the land, and its nine justices - older federal employees ranging from 52 to 86 years old - were hearing a...

DEVELOPING: Why's IG Horowitz quietly "revising" key findings in his report & posting new iterations of original version on IG website? Why's he not highlighting the effectively secret revisions thru press releases & letters notifying Congress &the public of the post-pub changes?

Federal prosecutors in Washington are investigating a years-old leak of classified information about a Russian intelligence document, and they appear to be focusing on whether the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey illegally provided details to reporters, according to people familiar with the inquiry. The case is the second time the Justice Department has investigated leaks potentially involving Mr. Comey, a frequent target of President Trump, who has repeatedly called him a “leaker.” Mr. Trump recently suggested without evidence that Mr. Comey should be prosecuted for “unlawful conduct” and spend years in prison. The timing of the investigation could raise...

[Catholic Caucus] Who is Gänswein Really? What Role Has He Played And Is He Playing? Authorized English translation of Italian Original by Giuseppe PellegrinoDear readers, we have received a message from an elderly high-ranking prelate of the Curia; he is retired, but because he has over forty years of experience working inside the Vatican walls, from time to time he is still given delicate assignments. What “Monsignor X” writes to us is extremely interesting, because it helps us to piece together some of the problematic aspects of  the events of the last 72 hours. We are speaking, naturally, of the...

In what is rapidly turning into one of the most bizarre developing stories in baseball history, a Twitter account alleging to be the niece of Carlos Beltran is beginning to drop some of the most profound bombshells the MLB has ever seen. A day after saying her uncle was stepping down as Mets manager a full 24 hours before the news of Beltran’s actual resignation officially broke, the mysterious account is now allegeding that Houston Astros superstars Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman wore ‘devices that buzzed’ on their shoulders, that were controlled by a hallway video guy who was already...

No, Mr. Democrat Senator, the Senate is NOT on trial. But the House should be. It was a sham impeachment in the democrat controlled House without a single Republican vote. One hundred percent democrat political sham. The America-hating, Constitution-hating, Trump-hating democrats couldn't even charge him with an actual crime. Fair trial my ass. The House allowed no fairness whatsoever to the accused. It's the accused who deserves fairness, not the government or the House (aka the Democrat Party in this case). He's accused of obstruction of congress? Hell, that's not a crime. It's an important part of his job! This...

Pray and Praying for President Trump; who has honored Almighty God's people here in America and the nation Israel! Bring their evil counsel to nothing and turn their lying words and evil devices against them! They have sworn in by Your Holy Name to destroy and execute lawlessness and deceit against our President! You are the RIGHTEOUS Judge over ALL the earth! Thank you that you hear our prayer! His Lawless Adversaries (John 8:44) Psalm 64 King James Version (KJV) Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 2 Hide me from...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted Facebook as a "shameful" company on Thursday, further escalating tensions between Democratic leadership and the social media giant. In response to a question about the power held by Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, Pelosi accused the company of being "accomplices for misleading the American people with money from god-knows where." She also suggested that the company cares about profits above all else. "All they want are their tax cuts and no antitrust action against them," she said, adding that she believes Facebook "schmoozed" the Trump administration. The comments came at Pelosi's weekly press...

Turkish president seen as pushing increasingly aggressive stance in the region, threatening Israel’s maritime interests. Despite officially maintaining diplomatic ties with the country, Israel’s military has added Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s aggressive policies in the region to its list of “challenges” in an annual assessment for the coming year, The Times of Israel learned Tuesday. This is the first time Military Intelligence has included the policies of the Turkish leader on this report. Relations between Israel and Turkey have been increasingly strained under Erdogan, who routinely speaks out against the Jewish state and allegedly allows Palestinian terror groups to...

New York and Connecticut sued the Trump administration on Thursday, alleging it has failed to enforce the U.S. Clean Air Act and allowed five neighboring states to pump unhealthy levels of pollution into their states. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan asks the court to compel President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency to protect states that are downwind from other states with excessive air pollution. “More than two-thirds of New Yorkers regularly breathe unhealthy air, yet the Trump administration continues to ignore the smog caused by upwind air pollution,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in...

View’ Isn’t Meghan McCain Majorities of American women support gun ownership and abortion restrictions. Yet on network daytime television shows, there is only one representative for these positions, and that's 'The View's' Meghan McCain. Seventy-seven percent of American women support restricting abortion to the first 12 weeks of a baby’s gestation, a higher percentage than the 74 percent of all supporting Americans. Fifty-nine percent of American women believe abortion is morally wrong. Sixty-one percent of American women oppose using tax dollars to pay for abortions.Forty percent of American women with someone who does. Forty-five percent of American women who don’t...

In a historic act of compassion and justice the Nebraska State Department of Vital Records refused to deny my aborted baby Liam Michael Allen a Certificate of Non-Viable Birth because he was aborted. On December 5th, 2019 in Lincoln, NE, I was handed this healing certificate, officially recognizing Liam and archiving his existence within state records. Having met all the statutory requirements of NE Statue 71-607 (NE LB 1040), accept that Liam was aborted not miscarried, Vital Records chose to do the right thing and approve the application. The moment I was handed the certificate I felt an immense wave...

The entire border needs a wall. Without the entire border walled, the illegal invaders can come through the unwalled areas and, once here, have the freedom of movement throughout the rest of the lower 48 states. President Trump’s plan to place a huge wall on our southern border is starting to carry out, but it is difficult to be completed because the Dems are having different opinions. Today we have very important news that justifies the idea of a huge wall on our southern border As (KYMA, KECY) reported Mexicali Police Chief Maria Elena Andrade confirmed that a red alert...

GAZA - The interim head of the U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees on Thursday accused pro-Israel groups of lobbying foreign parliaments to stop donations, even as it struggled to recover from losing United States funding in 2018. Christian Saunders, in an interview with Reuters in his Gaza office, also said Israel was seeking to replace United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) services for Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem with those of its own. UNRWA has faced budgetary difficulties since 2018, when the United States, its biggest donor, halted its annual aid of $360 million. The United States and...

The impoverished Yazidi community survived ISIS genocidal attacks but has been targeted repeatedly by Turkey since 2017. Turkey again carried out a targeted assassination of Yazidi members of a far-left group in Sinjar in northern Iraq on Wednesday, according to local reports. It is one of several airstrikes Turkey has carried out in the area where members of the Yazidi minority live.  The impoverished Yazidi community survived ISIS genocidal attacks but have now been targeted repeatedly by Turkey since 2017, including a Turkish invasion of Afrin in 2018 that led to ethnic-cleansing of Yazidi villages and a Turkish attack with...

There is one chart that President Donald Trump's re-election campaign should be "plastering absolutely everywhere," said Fox Business host Deirdre Bolton on Fox Nation's "Deep Dive" on Thursday. The graph shows the average unemployment rate in the first 35 months of each president's first term going back five decades. The average unemployment rate nearly three years into President Trump's administration is 3.9 percent -- a 50-year low. The next best employment statistic was recorded during President George W. Bush's first term at 5.5 percent. That statistic coupled with the fact that the wages of American workers are rising for the...

It seems with the background of Nancy Pelosi, the Mafia has a stake in what is going on in our government. You might ask what are Nancy's ties to the Mafia. Her father raised with ties to the Mafia... For example, when Nancy Pelosi's father ran for governor of Maryland, he had to drop out because of mob money contributed to his campaign as well as mob ties to her father. She was raised in an environment with mobsters around her... Her father was Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. Some links about this: Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. - Wikipedia Revealed: JFK Worried Pelosi's...