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Troy Fire Chief Matt Simmons has watched Ohio’s COVID response and the statewide statistics since Ohio began responding to the virus. “We had the local health department come in and talk with us back in the beginning. What they were saying was pretty grim,” said Simmons. Fast-forward to November and according to the state website, COVID cases have gone up exponentially in previous weeks and hospitalizations for COVID patients have climbed to all-time highs. But the statistics that Chief Simmons keeps mulling over are that Miami County (where Troy is located) has seen overdose calls increase by 137%, while suicide...

One America News (OAN) CEO Robert Herring called out presumptive President-Elect Joe Biden for acting “like he’s going to be president when he knows the Dem cheating has been uncovered,” Thursday. “Why is Biden still trying to act like he’s going to be president when he knows the Dem cheating has been uncovered?” tweeted Herring. “He should be working on a way to clear all the charges he faces.”

Explanation: This may be the best global Mars map made with a telescope based on planet Earth. The image data were captured by a team of observers over six long nights at the Pic du Midi mountaintop observatory between October 8 and November 1, when the fourth rock from the Sun had not wandered far from its 2020 opposition and its biggest and brightest appearance in Earth's night sky. The large telescope used, 1 meter in diameter with a 17 meter focal length, was also used in support of NASA's Apollo lunar landing missions. After about 30 hours of processing,...

In 1973, abortion became a federal right because of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Roe v. Wade. Since then, there have been approximately 65 million preborn children — and that means there are tens of millions of bodies which need to be disposed of by the abortion industry. What happens to all of them? Jonathon Van Maren, a writer, public speaker, and pro-life activist, raised this question in an op-ed for The Stream. He wrote: During a panel on abortion victim photography, someone asked us for a question we could ask that would highlight the magnitude of what abortion...

Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teenager charged with killing two men during the Jacob Blake protests in Wisconsin this summer, made bail on Friday and walked out of jail, officials said. "Kyle Rittenhouse's bond was posted this afternoon at about 2:00 pm which was set up through his attorney," Kenosha County Sheriff's Sgt. David Wright said in a statement. "He is no longer in custody at the Kenosha County Jail."

Back in 2014, I worked freelance for a public relations firm in New York City. It was there that I met an unusual woman. I didn’t know many lawyers or Texans, but I knew better than to chalk up her qualities to either her profession or her home. It’s rare that I encounter someone who I’m afraid to argue with, because of her sheer brain power and towering personal rectitude. But this was such a person. This woman had quite a career behind her. An evangelical Christian, she’d been a federal prosecutor — and quit, outraged at the corruption she...

Two of Donald Trump’s least-favorite critics — comedienne Rosie O’Donnell and the president’s tell-all niece, Mary Trump — have recently become friends and are now joining forces to criticize him together. The two will be featured speakers on Tuesday at an online panel titled, “A Fireside chat with Mary L. Trump and Rosie O’Donnell — Trump, the Transition of Power & the next 60+ days until Inauguration.” The panel is being hosted by Lesbians Who Tech, a community of LGBTQ women who work “in and around tech (and the people who support them,” as their website explains. O’Donnell and Trump...

Columbia Engineering researchers decided to investigate whether this was true, whether these forests are really as sensitive to water stress as what the models have been showing. In a study published today in Science Advances, they report their discovery that these models have been largely over-estimating water stress in tropical forests. The team found that, while models show that increases in air dryness greatly diminish photosynthesis rates in certain regions of the Amazon rainforest, the observational data results show the opposite: in certain very wet regions, the forests instead even increase photosynthesis rates in response to drier air.

Yeah, funny how all talk about the stimulus to help people just suddenly ended. The media is not talking about it either. NO ONE at the top cares about any of us. We are so stupid for worrying about who is in office anywhere and start doing something about all of this. Really.

Trump railed against voting by mail during the election campaign, saying that it led to fraud. He repeated his claims for election fraud in a speech where he declared victory in the presidential race on November 4th “We’ll be going to the US Supreme Court.” He also appeared to conflate voters casting ballots with election officials counting those ballots. “We want all voting to stop,” the president said. “We don’t want them to find any ballots at 4 o’clock in the morning and add them to the list.” President Trump’s campaign returned to the Supreme Court on Wednesday to try...

Walmart is opening two new “Walmart Health” centers in Chicago neighborhoods marred earlier this year by rioting and unrest triggered by police brutality as part of a “renewed commitment to a city that has been through a lot,” the giant retailer said Friday. The health centers, which feature an array of primary medical services as part of a new model being replicated across the country, are located on Chicago’s under-served neighborhoods on the city’s South and West sides. (snip) “(Friday), we opened two new Walmart Health locations, adjacent to two newly-remodeled Walmart Supercenters, in the Chicago neighborhoods of Chatham and...

Praise our Heavenly Father, for giving us His Son, who is a spiritual lion that appears to sleep, but is only longsuffering, like the Father, for the sake of His children. And the wise who are lost see Him and soon grow afraid, and turn back to the Lord. And the prodigals get tired of living in constant dread around the lion, and eventually they turn back to Him, too. But the wicked grow only more bold in sinning as, in their eyes, the lion continues to sleep, and might even be dead, until one day, the lion’s eyes open...

After years of being censored on Facebook and Twitter, conservatives, libertarians, and other fans of free speech are making a mass exodus to new platforms. One that has really taken off since the election is Parler, which has been the most downloaded app in the country over the past two weeks. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media and left-wing extremists are outraged. How dare the people who have been censored, deplatformed, and shut down on their social media sites move to a site that promises not to treat them like pariahs? (By the way, you can find me on Parler here: @daisyluther...

I guess this is good for DJT - Massive Victory in Pennsylvania

Chelsea Clinton said supporters of President Donald Trump chanted "lock her up" outside her parents' home on Sunday. Dozens of Trump supporters marched past the home of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in upstate New York on Sunday afternoon, LoHud.com reported. They played music, honked horns and shouted through megaphones outside the residence in Chappaqua. Chelsea Clinton tweeted about the incident at around 5 p.m., noting that the people were chanting a slogan that was used against her mother during the 2016 presidential campaign. She also added that she hoped those in the crowd...

1 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. 2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. 5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a...

Oprah Winfrey said goodbye to the monthly print version of O Magazine. In a heartfelt letter on the O Magazine site on Tuesday, Winfrey shared her vision for her lifestyle magazine that was started 20 years ago, noting that it was a "bigger dream" than she had originally dreamed. "With O, I wanted to create a manual for living life to the fullest: stories, photographs, reflections, poems, quotes, essays, and interviews that would bring meaning, comfort, and joy to our readers," she wrote. "And if I do say so myself, we’ve fulfilled that intention through 245 issues." Winfrey confirmed in...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- Multiple witnesses report that gunshots were fired at Mayfair Mall, leading to a massive response from law enforcement Friday afternoon.

A Florida man has been accused of contributing to the delinquency of his 8-year-old son after deputies say he had the kid tag along with him during a recent series of crimes. When Ernest McKnight III, 36, was asked by a detective why he had the child with him he replied, “I was trying to toughen him up. … I don’t want him to be soft,” Brian Bruchey, a spokesman for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. He said the boy was with McKnight, of Winter Haven, last week when deputies say McKnight burglarized three unoccupied dwellings, stole a car...

NAPLES, Fla. – A topless Naples woman was arrested Thursday after allegedly shouting at a neighbor and trying to hit her. Katalin Tanacs, 51, was arrested around 8 p.m. after a neighbor says she came onto her property and was yelling at her, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. The neighbor told deputies Young was yelling at her, saying racial slurs, and tried to swing on her. The neighbor then pepper-sprayed Young who was found with red, swollen eyes by deputies. She was also found “unclothed on her top half,” according to the arrest report. Other neighbors said...