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WASP-12b is one of the more interesting exoplanets we know of. Orbiting a yellow dwarf star a little bigger than the Sun 1,410 light-years away, the ultra-black planet is what's known as a "hot Jupiter" - a gas giant exoplanet with similar mass and size to Jupiter, but so close to the star that it's scorching hot. WASP-12b has never exactly been in the most secure position. With an orbital period of just over a day, the gas giant exoplanet is so close to its star that a constant stream of material is being siphoned away from its atmosphere. But...

One man putting on lipstick like a woman and effeminately clinging to another man. RITZ Crackers is attempting to normalize the transgender lifestyle by airing a commercial that has absolutely nothing to do with selling crackers. The company's most recent ad features a man putting on lipstick like a woman and effeminately clinging to another man, to brainwash children and adults alike by desensitizing audiences. The ad campaign titled "Where's there's love, there's family" has been airing on HGTV and is featured on RITZ's YouTube page. The company's goal is to redefine family as something other than God's biblical design...

The Biden-Harris administration will confront "a pandemic, an economic crisis, calls for racial justice and climate change. The team being assembled will meet these challenges on Day One." So declares the transition team of Joe Biden, to echo what he's defined as the lead items on his presidential agenda. And if this is his agenda, then how our presumed 46th president will proceed suggests itself. The COVID-19 pandemic is now close to its apex, with a million new cases and a death toll in excess of 10,000 each week. We appear to be near the crest of the "second wave."...

Colorado’s First Gentleman Marlon Reis Treated With Dexamethasone, Remdesivir For Coronavirus By Jennifer McRaeDecember 7, 2020 DENVER (CBS4)– The governor’s office provided an update on Colorado’s First Gentleman Marlon Reis on Monday afternoon, a day after he was taken to the hospital. On Sunday, Gov. Jared Polis drove Reis to the hospital after he experienced shortness of breath and slightly worsening cough from coronavirus. Reis has received dexamethasone for inflammation and remdesivir. He also hasn’t required oxygen. Reis has normal oxygen saturation and is said to be in good spirits. He looks forward to returning home soon. In a statement...

Eyes are opening everywhere about governors going totalitarian in their zeal to stop COVID. At this late date, stopping COVID has little to do with their own behavior. Michigan’s Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Virginia’s Gov. Ralph Northam, inter alia, just seem to get their kicks by ordering others to do things they themselves disdain in their private lives. It isn’t just that they command you and me not to have large family gatherings over Thanksgiving and Christmas, they then go to parties completely at odds with their own orders. They demand we mask up between bites,...

He is likely the least popular senator among his colleagues in the Senate, and there is a good reason why that is the case. That reason centers around the fact that Texas Senator Ted Cruz is never shy about challenging the status quo, or about upsetting the Senate’s country club atmosphere. Cruz is a disruptor in the Senate, the uninvited guest to the wedding party who spikes the punch, turns over the bridal cake table or leaps in front of the gathered spinsters to catch the garter. He’s Vince Vaughn in “The Wedding Crashers” alongside Rand Paul playing the Owen...

In an effort to stop fringe calls to boycott the Georgia runoff elections in January, Fox News host Sean Hannity pleaded with the state’s voters to show up and vote while conceding they have “every right to be disgusted” with the 2020 presidential election. “Make no mistake, this upcoming runoff election is about so much more than just Kelly Loeffler or Senator Perdue,” Hannity said on his show Monday night. “The balance of the Senate is at stake here. This impacts every American in profound and deep ways. [If] Republicans lose in Georgia, every gain that the president has made,...

[Note: this post contains heavy video content.] I’m old enough to remember when a presidential pardon meant something. – But it obviously means nothing to corrupt federal judges like Emmet Sullivan, the presiding judge in the frame-up case against General Mike Flynn. Despite the full and complete pardon issued by President Donald Trump a couple of weeks ago, Sullivan has decided to keep his kangaroo court persecuting Flynn running, most likely in an attempt to force Sidney Powell to take time away from pursuing her challenges to the Democrat theft of the presidential election in various states. On Monday, Sullivan...

The entire Promised Land Reset design will ultimately fail. Every morning, the news headlines read like the taxonomic description of a brand-new political phylum. Not only do we have the traditional clusters generic to abuse of power — intolerance of freedom, the criminal appropriation of the state by the latest oscillation of "woke" Davos robber barons and their ANTIFA-BLM thugs — but there has emerged an unprecedented efflorescence of hallucinatory, utopian "imagining." I pinch my arm in a worthless attempt to convince myself I am not stuck in a lurid, cyborg hot-house phantasma. This particular "Promised Land" ideology is altogether...

Judging from the fake news media's collective primal scream this weekend, you would think the American economy were lying flat on its back in the intensive care unit. Yes, the economy has been battered in blue states that have masochistically shut down their hometown businesses. But in most red states that are keeping commerce flowing despite a second deadly wave of the virus, unemployment is typically below 6%. The jobs recovery has been so strong that we have 94.5% of the jobs we had before the worst pandemic in a century, and total wages and salaries are back up to...

I’ve written before, haven’t I, about the fact that we’ve raised an obscene, self-loathing, non-rational generation of young white women?

The legendary pilot and retired brigadier general became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound Chuck Yeager, the historic test pilot portrayed in the movie “The Right Stuff,” is dead at the age of 97, according to a tweet posted on his account late Monday."It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET," said the tweet, attributed to his wife, actress Victoria Scott D'Angelo. "An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever."The...

NEW ALEXANDRIA, Pennsylvania -- If you're not paying close attention, you can easily miss the dirt road that leads to the Flemings Christmas tree farm just off U.S. Route 22 in western Pennsylvania. The sign for the turnoff from the two-lane highway is covered in fresh snow, and within just a few feet along the narrow road, you enter a winter wonderland that curves along a steep mountain ridge. The scene soon becomes majestic as you find yourself surrounded in all directions by the tree-filled Laurel Mountains that make up this nearly century-old farm. At the very base of the...

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TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of Law Enforcement on Monday raided the home of a former Department of Health data analyst who has been running an alternative website to the state’s coronavirus dashboard, alleging that she may have broken into a state email system and sent an unauthorized message to employees. But Rebekah Jones, who was was fired from her job in May as the geographic information system manager for health department’s Division of Disease Control and Health Protection and who has since filed a whistleblower complaint against the state, denied having any role in the alleged intrusion into the...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Health officials and experts are still baffled by a mysterious illness that has left over 500 people hospitalized and one person dead in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The illness was first detected Saturday evening in Eluru, an ancient city famous for its hand-woven products. People started convulsing without any warning, said Geeta Prasadini, the director of public health.

Today could be the day, Folks. SCOTUS Judge Alito will hear and perhaps rule himself on the arguments regarding the thousands of mail in ballots in PA. It comes down to this, and only this: Millions of people voted for Trump. They went to the ballot box. They showed their ID, filled out a ballot and they signed it. These people were disenfranchised by millions of write in votes from people with no names no signatures no background nothing. That’s the whole thing in a nutshell. It’s got nothing to do with Trump, whether you are a democrat or republican,...

....Now, with mere weeks to go before the year changes, we have to confront an ugly truth. 2020 is just prelude to crises and conflicts to come. When they end, we cannot say. The 2020s may prove a troubled decade. I don’t pretend to have a crystal ball. But there are matters we can be sure of. One need only survey the scene -- the wreckage, really -- of 2020 to understand that America faces the gravest risks to its existence as a free and united country in 160 years. From the vantage point of 2019, had we been told...

LOS ANGELES - With the coronavirus running rampant in Los Angeles and hospitals projected to overflow by Christmas, officials have fallen back on a familiar refrain: Stay home. Some 33 million Californians are now under a new regional stay-at-home order that began Sunday night, a last-ditch effort to turn the corner on an alarming rise in coronavirus cases statewide. The percentage of Angelenos staying home except for essential activities has remained unchanged since mid-June - around 55% - despite pleas from health officials in recent weeks for people to cut down on their activities, according to a survey conducted by...

Irish Pride An Irishman moves to the USA & finally attends his first baseball game. The first batter approached the batters' box, took a few swings and then hits a double. Everyone was on their feet screaming "Run, Run". The next batter hits a single & the Irishman listened as the crowd again cheered "RUN, RUN"!! The Irishman enjoyed the game & began screaming with the fans. The fifth batter came up and four balls went by. The umpire called "walk" and the batter started his slow trot to first base. The Irishman stood up and screamed, "R-R-Run ye lazy...