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A college student with a desire to alleviate his father's suffering has invented an app that helps people with PTSD stop having night terrors.Tyler Skluzacek's father, Patrick, a US Army Commander with PTSD, was suffering from debilitating night terrors.Patrick served in Iraq in 2007 and at night his dreams took him back to Fallujah. He could only fall asleep with the help of alcohol and pills -- and his life slowly fell apart."[I] pretty much lost everything," he told NPR, fighting back tears. "My house, everything, my job, everything went."Tyler was a senior at Macalester College when he entered a...

Senators Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report today showing millions in sketchy payments to the son of former Vice-President Joe Biden that showcase compromise and blackmail material. Included in the release are details of payments made by the wife of the former Mayor of Moscow and what appear to be eastern European prostitutes provided to Hunter Biden. The Senate report reveals millions of dollars were funneled to Hunter Biden during a series of questionable financial transactions between Biden, his associates and foreign...

Smell loss (anosmia) is a common symptom of COVID-19...44% to 77% of people with COVID-19 lose their sense of smell. But many are unaware they have lost their sense of smell until they actively try to smell something that should have an odor, like scented candles. This is why we are encouraging people to actively try to smell something each day. Sudden unexplained anosmia is a specific symptom of COVID-19. It can be used as a daily DIY screening tool by individuals, providing another tool in the fight to contain COVID-19. Unexplained anosmia is normally quite rare with other viral...

CNN's Don Lemon dismissed the rising popularity of Newsmax, saying the network will never have the staying power of rival Fox News. “Newsmax will be Newsmax, but it won’t be as powerful as Fox News,” Lemon said on air Tuesday. “It will never be as powerful as Fox News.” Lemon predicted that Newsmax and other smaller networks will fade into obscurity "by March" and Fox News's editorial tone will shift more toward the center in the post-Trump era.

I think that conservatives need to boycott the leftist companies that are supporting (if not openly bowing to) the Marxist Black Lives Matter terrorists that are destroying America... So, to help those of you that do want to help fight the culture war by boycotting radical leftist corporations do so, I decided that today would be a good day to write about “what companies have donated to Black Lives Matter?” so that you know what companies to boycott. This list is as holistic as I can make it. I did my best to scour the web and find out what...

Letter: Coffee Co. cannot certify results from second statewide recountDOUGLAS, Ga. (WALB) - Georgia Secretary of State has recertified the election results, but Coffee County Board of Elections officials sent out a letter last week saying they could not certify its results following a second recount. In the letter, election officials said they could not certify the electronic recount numbers given its “inability to repeatably duplicate creditable election results.” “Any system, financial, voting, or otherwise, that is not repeatable nor dependable should not be used,” officials wrote in the letter. “To demand certification of patently inaccurate results neither serves the...

YouTube says it will no longer allow users to upload videos claiming that President Trump lost the 2020 presidential election due to fraud. The video streaming giant made the announcement in a Wednesday blog post titled “Supporting the 2020 US election.”........."

Artist's impression of a flare from Proxima Centauri. (Mark Myers/OzGrav We already had a bit of an inkling that our nearest stellar neighbour might be an inhospitable place. In 2017, red dwarf Proxima Centauri was caught belching out a colossal flare 10 times more powerful than the largest eruptions from the Sun, dampening hopes for habitable conditions on the rocky world orbiting it, Proxima Centauri b. The outlook for life as we know it just got even more grim. A new discovery has given us evidence that Proxima Centauri may be releasing Sun-like coronal mass ejections, in which vast quantities...

Source: Screenshot/Facebook via Hammond Institute for Free EnterpriseSometimes, the legacy of great men is that the world doesn't realize how great they were until they are gone. This might be the case with Dr. Walter E. Williams. Dr. Williams passed away last week. He was the John M. Olin distinguished professor of economics at George Mason University, where, for six years, he served as chairman of the economics department. He was a prolific author and columnist (writing for Creators, which also syndicates my column). And he was a dear friend. An African American who grew up poor in Philadelphia, he...

The purchase is considered a donation to Ilhan Omar for Congress “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is selling T-shirts with a vulgar slogan that appears to be an anti-President Trump message. Omar’s website features T-shirts with the slogan “F**k around and find out” in both royal blue and gold, which are going for $30 apiece. Omar, who was among the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, is a strong opponent of Trump, his rhetoric and his policies. The president has taken aim at the congresswoman and her roots as an immigrant from Somalia. During his campaign for the...

Network legal analyst Sunny Hostin said on Wednesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View” that it was “shameful” the Republican Party has not denounced the “racial hatred” President Donald Trump that she accused him of inciting. The panel was discussing Michigan State Rep. Cynthia Johnson (D) receiving racist voicemails after challenging the election fraud claims of Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani.

Want to bag a buck? Head to the South and Midwest, where the huntin’s good for America’s deer. The deer hunting sector has been changing over the last few years, with new entrants moving into the top positions as far as the number and quality of white-tail deer hunting is concerned. Judging which states are working hardest to produce a high number of deer for hunting can be difficult, but there have been many changes to the states that sit at the top of the list in the last few years. The best States for deer hunting are spread through...

George Gascon institutes a new 'prosecutorial approach' George Gascon, Los Angeles County's new head prosecutor, unveiled an agenda Monday that will usher in changes to the local criminal justice system by his refusal to prosecute certain crimes on top of other sweeping changes. Gascon, a former San Francisco District Attorney and former Los Angeles police officer, announced in a series of policy directives that many misdemeanor cases will be dismissed, saying that nearly half of those incarcerated on pre-trial misdemeanor offenses suffer from mental illness. "Los Angeles County courts should not be revolving doors for those in need of treatment...

Joe Biden's transition team is announcing his picks for the Cabinet, and the once-vigilant press corps has adopted a tone as bland as dollar-store instant oatmeal. Take the Department of Health and Human Services. Four years ago, when then-President-elect Donald Trump's transition team signaled it would pick then-Rep. Tom Price as HHS secretary, The New York Times' front page on Nov. 29, 2016, carried the headline "Fierce Critic of Health Care Law Said to Be Pick for Health Dept." Reporter Robert Pear began by describing Fierce Tom Price as a "dismantler" of Obamacare: "If President-elect Donald J. Trump wanted a...

Gov. Kay Ivey has extended Alabama’s coronavirus mask order requirement into the new year.The state’s current “Safer at Home” order has been extended until Jan. 22 at 5 p.m. The order requires masks to be work in public places when people are interacting within 6 feet of people from another household. Masks are also required in schools and colleges for grades second and above.“None of this is easy,” Ivey said. “I cannot think the people of Alabama enough for the sacrifices they are making.”

Allergic Reactions In UK Healthcare Staff Prompt New COVID Vaccine WarningsBritish health regulators have issued a warning that people with a history of “significant” allergic reactions should not receive its newly launch Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.The warning comes in response to two National Health Service (NHS) workers who received the COVID-19 vaccine on December 8th experiencing allergic reactions. The two individuals, who developed “anaphylactoid reaction” shortly after injection, are now recovering. The precautions come from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and note that anyone who has a history of “significant” allergic reactions to medicines, food, or vaccines should refuse...

Many times we read articles filled with words to describe a situation that can be just as easily summed up in a short phrase. That's where we stand today with the lie that Joe Biden is the President Elect. Well even if they are successful in stealing the election through fraud, he will never be the President elect. That's because he was selected by those who desire the United States to be subservient to the rest of the World. Remember, it was George Herbert Walker Bush who ushered in the New World Order on September 11, 1991. Ten years...

YouTube has announced it will remove videos criticizing Joe Biden’s alleged victory and reporting on election “fraud or errors,” instead promoting the content of corporate media outlets and fact checkers. Per YouTube, its December 9th decision was guided by its “main goal” of “connecting people with authoritative information, while also limiting the reach of misinformation and removing harmful content.” In reality, however, the platform will likely axe a host of pro-Trump accounts, as it has done before. Specifically, the platform vowed to crack down on any content that exposes “widespread fraud or errors” incurred during the 2020 election: “We also...

US medical professionals have devised an inventive to celebrate Christmas in the time of the coronavirus: by decorating trees with facemasks, hand sanitizer and other personal protective equipment (PPE). The trend is currently getting attention on social media, despite a continuing shortage of the equipment in increasingly burdened hospitals

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