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Aficionados of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory may recall an episode from early in the series in which one of the main characters, Leonard, struggles in his effort to assess his budding romance with another primary character, Penny. Leonard eventually decides to use the famous thought experiment of Austrian-Irish physicist Erwin Schrödinger -- commonly known as “Schrödinger’s Cat” -- to explain the paradox created when particles interact and the “wave function” created by the interaction has not yet collapsed into reality. According to Schrodinger, the cat could be both alive and dead at while the experiment was being...

It has been an awful year as COVID-19 has spread across the globe infecting and killing millions of people. One of the few bright spots in 2020 has been the rapid development of a vaccine. Currently, there are multiple viable candidates poised to offer a serious glimmer of hope in record time. With any luck, these candidates will bring about a swift, successful end to the global pandemic and associated lockdowns. This success in vaccine development is a testament to the eradication of regulatory barriers at the U.S. at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and across the globe. Governments...

"I'm just not much of a cuddler," said the actor James Woods, playing the titular character in the 2003 TV biopic "Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story." This "cuddler" clip from the film went viral on Twitter this week, and for good reason. It depicts Giuliani courting his future second ex-wife, Donna Hanover (played by Penelope Ann Miller), on a moonlit walk on the beach with an obviously green-screened "ocean" in the background. Dated production values aside, the clip is jarring because it harks back to a time — which may be hard to believe for anyone under 30 — when...

Anyone who can look at this fact and not acknowledge voter fraud is either extremely bad at math or a purely partisan hack with no sense of honor. It is impossible for more mail-in ballots to come in than were sent out unless there was a massive and undeniable voter fraud scheme in play. That’s the takeaway from evidence posted by Pennsylvania Senator Doug Mastriano on Friday.

Editor's Note: This piece was coauthored by Gerard Robinson. During the 2020 election, school choice finally received the national attention it deserves as one of the top civil rights issues of our times. To build on that momentum, advocates for the public funding of parents to choose a K-12 education for their children in public, private, or religious schools need to educate lawmakers and the public about the educational, social, cultural, and economic benefits of school choice. With respect to the last benefit, a new analysis of the fiscal and economic impact of Georgia’s K-12 tax credit scholarship program provides...

WASHINGTON - The oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center went to his latest review board hearing with a degree of hope, something that has been scarce during his 16 years locked up without charges at the U.S. base in Cuba. Saifullah Paracha, a 73-year-old Pakistani with diabetes and a heart condition, had two things going for him that he didn’t have at previous hearings: a favorable legal development and the election of Joe Biden. President Donald Trump had effectively ended the Obama administration’s practice of reviewing the cases of men held at Guantanamo and releasing them if imprisonment...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods like firing squads and poison gas. The amended rule, published Friday in the Federal Register, allows the U.S. government to conduct executions by lethal injection or use “any other manner prescribed by the law of the state in which the sentence was imposed.” A number of states allow other methods of execution, including electrocution, inhaling nitrogen gas or death by firing squad. It remains unclear whether the Justice...

As director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001, Kenneth Prewitt oversaw the first decennial count of the new century. When the enormous job of data collection was finally done, he arrived at a stark conclusion: The government should stop asking every American to report their race. “The race question is incoherent because race is incoherent,” said Prof. Prewitt, now a professor of public affairs at Columbia University. “We pay a price for not having a more subtle, nuanced set of numbers than what we currently have.” Prof. Prewitt and many other demographers and sociologists say that the...

“Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things” (Proverbs 28:5).

The judge who ordered Pennsylvania to not certify the results of the 2020 election wrote in an opinion on Friday that the Republicans who filed the related lawsuit will likely win the case. Pennsylvania Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough made the assessment as part of an opinion explaining her rationale for blocking Pennsylvania’s election certification. A group of Republican lawmakers and candidates sued the Keystone State earlier this week, arguing that the state legislature’s mail-in voting law—Act 77—violated the commonwealth’s constitution. “Petitioners appear to have established a likelihood to succeed on the merits because petitioners have asserted the Constitution does not...

In her Georgia complaint, Sidney Powell included the Declaration of Navid Keshavarz-Nia, an expert witness who stated under oath that there was massive computer fraud in the 2020 election, all of it intended to secure a victory for Joe Biden. Dr. Kershavarz-Nia’s name may not mean a lot to you, but it’s one of the weightiest names in the world when it comes to sniffing out cybersecurity problems. We know how important Dr. Kershavarz-Nia is because, just two-and-a-half months ago, the New York Times ran one of its Sunday long-form articles about a massive, multi-million dollar fraud that a talented...

MADISON — As the holidays approach, thousands of Wisconsinites are still waiting for their Unemployment Insurance benefits to come through months after they first applied. Now, Gov. Tony Evers’ interim Department of Workforce Development secretary is saying she hopes to have much of the unemployment backlog cleared by the New Year. The new goal, after the last disgraced DWD chief said the mountain of claims would be settled by last month, isn’t much consolation for claimants who have been waiting since July. Like Shelli Wodsedalek. The Manitowoc tax professional this week posted on the Wisconsin Unemployment Facebook page that her...

I mean, really? Just keep heaping it on, WC--people are getting fairly angry about being lied to and farmers and anyone raised outdoors knows that there is no such thing as climate change. God's Word specifically assures us that not another flood will consume the Earth, and as long as it remains, the Earth will have every season and planting and harvest.

Mexico City (AFP) - Mauricio Lopez was deported to Mexico after spending most of his life in the United States. Now he hopes against the odds that Joe Biden's administration will let him return. The 26-year-old English teacher is one of thousands of migrants known as "dreamers" who as children were taken to the US by their parents. Like many Mexicans who were expelled, in particular under outgoing President Donald Trump, Lopez is hoping that President-elect Biden will push for changes that protect undocumented migrants. "It would be good for us if he relaxes immigration laws ... if there are...

The city of San Francisco is dealing with many pressing problems, such as skyrocketing homelessness, a surge in crime and poverty, a tourism industry in free fall, etc. Yet, amidst all of these troubling issues, the City Board of Supervisors is busy playing nanny state, following suit of California politics. Recently, San Francisco’s City Board of Supervisors voted to advance an invasive piece of legislation that would ban smoking inside private dwellings located in an apartment with three or more units. The bill, filed on November 12, applies to smoking tobacco, vaping, and cannabis products. Not only would this overreaching...

This will be a weekly post. Count remains at 227 judges confirmed. 3 Trade Court judges 168 District Court judges 53 Circuit Court judges 3 Supreme Court justices There are currently 30 pending judicial nominations pending (6 on the floor). 7th Circuit nominee Thomas Kirsch has already had a hearing and should be getting a vote to the floor. 1st Circuit nominee Raul Arias Marxuach is due for a hearing. Another 7th Circuit vacancy opens up Monday. Also, the Republican caucus goes from 53 to 52 on Monday as Mitch McConnell's handpicked two-time loser appointed senator Martha McSally is succeeded...

“We must keep our hatred (against the U.S.) alive and fan it to paroxysm!” raved Che Guevara in his Message to the Tri-Continental Conference in 1966. “The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! We must bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ very home, to his places of work and recreation.” (BTW, Time Magazine hails Che Guevara among its “Heroes and Icons of the Century!” alongside Anne Frank, Rosa Parks and Mother Theresa.) Fortunately on Nov. 17 1962, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI foiled the “war” Castro and Che had planned for...

“PROOF OF FRAUD” By Bev Harris November 13, 2018 “Election officials wouldn’t let me see the ballots. Then they destroyed them, in violation of the law.” “Are you saying there was fraud?” “Election officials refused to report the number of votes by the legal deadline. When more votes showed up a day later, we could not find out where they came from.” “Are you saying there was fraud?” You cite concrete information on specific, provable violations of the law. But the follow up question is a diversion, refocusing attention. It is accusatory, a challenge to prove something which may be...

President Donald Trump’s campaign signaled it will challenge a federal appeals court ruling over Pennsylvania’s election results in the Supreme Court. “The activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud. We are very thankful to have had the opportunity to present proof and the facts to the PA state legislature. On to SCOTUS!” Trump’s attorney and campaign adviser Jenna Ellis wrote on Twitter. LinkA federal appeals court denied the Trump campaign’s request to keep Pennsylvania from declaring President-elect Joe Biden the state’s winner, as IJR previously reported. “Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of...

Between 2010 and 2012, Iran repeatedly attempted to assassinate Israeli citizens in various countries. The most controversial incident took place in Thailand in 2012 when the roof of a house in Bangkok collapsed due to an explosion, following this, Iranian regime agents Massoud Moradi, then 28, had thrown two bombs in public places while fleeing, one of them exploded, amputating both of his legs. Moradi was later sentenced to life in prison and his colleague Khazaei was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Two other Iranians managed to escape from Thailand before being arrested. Thai police at the time accused...