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Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has one supporter: Bill Cosby. Cosby, one of the country’s most beloved comedians-turned-sex convict, directed his spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, to release a statement on social media railing against Monday’s verdict, which found Weinstein guilty of rape and another criminal sex act. “Here’s the question that should haunt all Americans, especially wealthy and famous men,” wrote Wyatt on Bill Cosby’s Instagram page. “Where do we go in this country to find fairness and impartiality in the judicial system; and where do we go in this country to find Due Process?”

Recent excavations at Lewiston by AOC Archaeology revealed over 35 Neolithic pits arranged in six broad clusters. These contained broken Carinated Bowls, flint and quartz flakes, coarse stone tools, and finer flint tools, mixed in with burnt cereals and hazelnut shells. Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates obtained from hazelnuts and wood charcoal demonstrates that activity associated with the pits was short-lived, spanning less than 40 years between 3661 cal BC and 3532 cal BC -- a period within the transition between the early and middle Neolithic... The site -- which lies close to the western shore of Loch Ness --...

Bernie Sanders’ praise of Cuba and Fidel Castro on Sunday is just the tip of the iceberg. The Democratic front-runner had a romance with the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s and even honeymooned with wife Jane in the Soviet Union in 1988. Hillary Clinton’s opposition research book on Sanders from 2016 — posted by WikiLeaks after the emails of her campaign chairman, John Podesta, were hacked — has a whole section on the then-Burlington, Vt., mayor’s trip to Nicaragua and chummy support of the Sandinistas in 1985. “Sanders Was The Only Elected US Official To Attend Anniversary...

SALEM — Republicans in the Oregon Senate have fled the Capitol to stop Democrats’ bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions after the plan cleared a legislative budget committee Monday morning.

Two skeletons dating back to the Bronze and Iron Age have been unearthed by archaeologists working on a building site. The remains were discovered at the Aylesham Garden Village development near Canterbury... They are among the latest archaeological finds at the site, with smaller items of pottery and glass, dating from the Roman occupation of 2,000 years ago, also discovered. The dig is being undertaken for developers Barratt Homes and Persimmon Homes by a team from the Faversham-based Swale and Thames Archaeology (SWAT). SWAT's Dr Paul Wilkinson said: "It will be some time before we know much more about the...

Back in December, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified that there were 17 significant "errors and omissions" in the Carter Page FISA application process: The inspector general "identified at least 17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications and many errors in the Woods Procedures" which guide the FBI's FISA process, according to the 476-page report. "These errors and omissions resulted from case agents providing wrong or incomplete information to the National Security Division’s Office of Intelligence and failing to flag important issues for discussion,” Horowitz said. Horowitz found big problems in the system: “That so many...

Long ago, four giant beings arrived in southeast Australia. Three strode out to other parts of the continent, but one crouched in place. His body transformed into a volcano called Budj Bim, and his teeth became the lava the volcano spat out. Now, scientists say this tale -- told by the Aboriginal Gunditjmara people of the area -- may have some basis in fact. About 37,000 years ago, Budj Bim and another nearby volcano formed through a rapid series of eruptions, new evidence reveals, suggesting the legend may be the oldest story still being told today... It's not clear how...

His attitudes toward Cuba are generating Monday's headlines, but Bernie Sanders's record on another communist authoritarian state, Nicaragua, might be even more problematic for the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner. Where Sanders supported the Castro regime with words, he spent the 1980s providing active logistical and moral support to the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Sanders and his supporters present this effort as simply humanitarian in nature — as support to an impoverished nation rising from the ashes of an authoritarian dictatorship. But that's not the true story. Consider what happened in 1986, for example, when Sanders, then the mayor of Burlington,...

Early voting began today in Massachusetts for the Super Tuesday primary. In this state if one is registered as "unenrolled" (as I am) you can take either a Republican or Rat ballot.I'm tempted to take a Rat ballot and vote for the weakest candidate. Would anyone suggest that I vote for the President rather than vote for a Rat? Any opinions on which legitimate Rat candidate would be easiest for the President to beat in November?

HUD Secretary declares, 'In God We Trust' Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson plans to call on all churches, synagogues, and mosques in America to help fight homelessness in the weeks and months to come. “If every church would adopt one homeless person or one homeless family, with the goal of making them self-sufficient in a year, can you imagine what the impact would be?” Carson asked in an interview with Just the News for the Pod's Honest Truth podcast. HUD officials say this is not a new agency policy but rather a personal call by a man...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Tuesday, the Iowa Democratic Party will begin recounting select results from the Iowa Caucus. The party has agreed to re-tally results from twenty-three different precincts. Fourteen of those precincts were requested by Pete Buttigieg’s campaign and another 10 were requested from Bernie Sanders’ campaign. Administrators will conduct the recount and it will be overseen by the IDP’s recanvass and recount committee, with both campaigns able to have representatives present. It is expected to take two days to complete.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has described Jews as “hook-nosed” and blamed Israel for the unrest in the Middle East, has resigned. Mohamad, the world’s oldest leader at 94, submitted his resignation to the country’s king Monday, AFP reported. He had agreed to step down and hand power to his former rival, Anwar Ibrahim, after they joined their parties to form a coalition government following national elections in 2018. Mohamad was in his second stint as prime minister after serving previously from 1981 to 2003. He has said that he is proud to be called an anti-Semite. Mohamad wrote...

Politicians in California value the lives of illegal immigrants, drug dealers, criminals and gang members above those of hard-working taxpayers. No wonder the middle class is leaving the state in droves. Sadly, California is choking on its own insanity. I know there are some good people in California! Make your case and vote them out. It’s not that hard. Liberals opening our doors to criminals are “chumming” for votes while taking all innocent citizens down the toilet with them. The sanctuary cities are a disgrace to the country! The full force of the DOJ should come down on them and...

A celebration of John Cocke (1925 – 2002) - One of the most brilliant minds at IBM Research. John Cocke: A Retrospective by Friends - 1990 Computer History - My Old Friend - Tim McGraw - John Cocke and Computer Pioneers - 1990 Computer History - Part 1 - John Cocke Intervew Source - 27 April 1990 Computer History - Part 2 - John Cocke Intervew Source - 27 April 1990

Eight out of 10 employees working in the arts or culture fields said that sharing controversial opinions could mean 'being professionally ostracized' or bullied. The survey conducted by ArtsProfessionals, a UK arts publication, received responses from more than 500 individuals in the field. 'Our arts, culture, and indeed education sectors are supposed to be fearlessly free-thinking and open to a wide range of challenging views. 'However, they are now dominated by a monolithic politically correct class (mostly of privileged white middle class people, by the way), who impose their intolerant views across those sectors.' Showing sympathy for movement likes Brexit...

Every Democrat in the Virginia state legislature voted against a pay raise for members of Sheriff’s Departments apparently as payback for their defense of the Second Amendment. Virginia State Senator Bill Stanley slammed the “hypocrisy” of Democratic legislators after his attempt to amend the state budget last week to include the pay raise failed and told WTVR he was “absolutely shocked.”

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“Hi, I’m Arielle, I’m a lesbian and I don’t think gender is a social construct. I don’t think cis-straight white men are evil. I don’t believe that general preferences are transphobic or that there are 97 genders.” “I don’t think that male sex offenders belong in women’s prisons. I don’t think it’s normal for people to be praised for walking around with shirts that say, ‘Kill TERFs.” They’re particularly concerned about a loud subset of the LGBT community that’s been trying to argue that biological men who purport to be transgender women have the “right” to compete in women’s sports...

MIAMI — Bernie Sanders says he’s the Democrat best-equipped to defeat Donald Trump in November. But Florida Democrats insist he‘s the worst-equipped after Sanders’s refusal Sunday night to thoroughly condemn the Cuban Revolution. His comments on 60 Minutes sent shockwaves through the nation’s biggest battleground state, where Democratic members of Congress, state legislators and party leaders warned that his nomination — and Sanders’s self-described “Democratic socialism” — will cost them the biggest battleground state of them all. “Donald Trump wins Florida if Bernie is our nominee,” said state Rep. Javier Fernandez, a Democratic candidate in a majority-Hispanic state Senate district....

Conservative activist Chuck Muth said that he temporarily switched parties to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in the Nevada caucuses. Muth, who spoke to the Las Vegas Journal-Review while wearing a red Keep America Great hat, explained that he had crossed over to “vote for the weakest candidate possible of the Democrats.” “It was kind of a way of demonstrating how absurd I think it is to have same-day registration as well as early voting for a caucus,” Muth explained. “So my wife and I last Sunday went to an early voting site, we changed parties right there...