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They’ll feed you plenty — and plenty good — at Triple Creek Ranch. They’ll also teach you to cook.I threw my bison quesadilla on the grill and waited for it to char. The sizzle mingled with the sound of icicles dripping from the overhang of the cabin. The deck overlooked a large pond surrounded by pine trees. Chef Jacob Leatherman flipped the quesadilla, and soon he and the five of us taking the morning’s cooking class at Triple Creek Ranch headed back inside to sample the latest dish.Leatherman makes a point of nurturing relationships with the ranchers and farmers in...

Hunter Biden did not report “approximately $400,000” in income he collected from his position on the board of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings when he joined in 2014, according to an attorney for his firm who noted that his tax returns needed to be amended, a new email obtained by Fox News shows. The memo dated Jan. 16, 2017, one of multiple new emails obtained by Fox News, detailed President-elect Joe Biden’s son's income for the years 2013 through 2015 for tax purposes. Biden, last week, confirmed that he was under federal investigation for his "tax affairs." The email,...

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, now the founder of the voting rights organization Fair Fight, said that Democrats are prepared to win the Senate runoff race in January, and that 1.2 million absentee ballots have already been requested. "We know from the numbers that we’re in a good place; 1.2 million absentee ballots have been requested thus far," Abrams told CNN’s Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "Just to put that into context, 1.3 million were requested for all of the general election." Further, Abrams said, "85,000 of those applications are from voters who did not vote in...

A White House adviser on Monday predicted alternate groups of electors would be chosen in multiple states, and that the process would lead to President Donald Trump winning reelection. “The only date in the Constitution is January 20. So we have more than enough time to right the wrong of this fraudulent election result and certify Donald Trump as the winner of the election,” Stephen Miller said on “Fox & Friends,” referring to Inauguration Day. “As we speak today, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote, and we’re going to send those results up...

"Boys Over Flowers" is a wonderful Korean drama about the effects on the lives of four rich heirs when a poor girl gets a scholarship to their high school. This video shows off the relationship between the girl and the second lead.

Earlier, The Political Insider reported that Microsoft founder Bill Gates expressed support for shutting down bars and restaurants for up to six months, and indicated lockdowns may continue all the way into 2022. The billionaire Microsoft founder made his sobering warning during an interview with CNN over the weekend. “Well, sadly, the next four to six months could be the worst of the epidemic,” he told anchor Jake Tapper in discussing lockdowns and his support for extreme restrictions such as stay-at-home orders issued by California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Prostatic hyperplasia, characterized by progressive hyperplasia of glandular and stromal tissues, is the most common proliferative abnormality of the prostate in aging men. Mangosteen pericarp powder (MPP) has abundant xanthones which can be antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antiproliferative agents. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to research whether MPP supplementation can affect the progression of prostatic hyperplasia. Our findings first demonstrated that MPP consumption significantly decreased the prostate weight, serum testosterone and dihydrotestosterone concentrations, protein expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen, and malondialdehyde levels and ameliorated mitochondrial function in prostatic tissues. These results suggest that MPP supplementation could be used...

GOP presidential electors in Pennsylvania and Georgia cast ballots at their respective state capitols today for President Trump. The move is deigned to preserve the President's ability to continue his fight to overturn the election results in those states, which he claims was fraudulent.

A blockbuster snowstorm is expected to transform New York City into a winter wonderland on Wednesday — with as much as 30 inches expected in some areas, according to forecasts. The Big Apple could get blanketed in as much as a foot of snow as the storm sweeps through the East Coast between Tuesday and Thursday.

"The conditional resolution states that electors certify their votes for President and Vice President... " Pennsylvania & Georgia have taken formal votes to send Electors for President Trump, giving rise to a potential scenario of "dueling slates of Electors."Down-pointing red triangle

Confidence in economy reversed after Election Day Growing confidence in the U.S. economy before Election Day abruptly reversed course as Democrat Joe Biden moved to set up a new administration.

VIDEOIt might sound like a crazy question now but a year ago the idea that videos questioning election results would be banned by YouTube also sounded crazy. And now it is an Orwellian reality. All these bans by the YouTube "platform" seem to be leading to the ban, or at least demonetization, of videos that so much as even mention the U.S. Constitution. The ban might be a lot nearer than you think at the rate YouTube is going.

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Hanukkah-Dreidel.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1 Why did Hanukkah irk everyone from the late Christopher Hitchens, who memorably ­derided it as a “celebration of tribal Jewish backwardness,” to author Sarah Prager, who took to the pages of The New York Times recently to explain that she won’t be teaching her kids about it? Well, because Hanukkah is about as out of step with the contemporary elite consensus as any religious tradition can be. If you haven’t reviewed the story in a while, here’s how it goes. One fine day in 167 BC, a crowd of Jews was gathered in the town square of Modi’in, a...

There are two major theories as to why Christmas falls on December 25, Barber said, though the long and short of it is that Christians do not know for certain the exact birthday of Jesus. The first theory dates back to 1905, when German scholar Hermann Usener posited that December 25 was adapted by Christians as the date for Christmas because it had been the birthday of the sun god, Sol Invictus. According to Barber, Usener claimed that Emperor Aurelian established Sol Invictus “as the official god of the Roman empire in 274 and established his feast day as December...

A vast majority of Americans remain “confident” they are protecting themselves from the Chinese coronavirus by wearing masks, a Gallup survey found. The findings precede a Danish study that cast doubt on the efficacy of surgical masks and comes as experts emphasize the importance of social distancing. “Which of the following are reasons why you feel confident you are able to protect yourself in public?” the survey asked.

Wave of Evictions ComingThe federal ban on evictions expires in January. For millions that's when huge problems start.Prepare for a Wave of Evictions in January as Federal Ban Expires.Millions of U.S. renters face the prospect of eviction in January unless federal officials extend protections put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic.That month is when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ban on evictions is set to expire. The moratorium protects tenants who have missed monthly rent payments from being thrown out of their homes if they declare financial hardship. The CDC ordered the halt on evictions under the Public...

Black Lives Matter activists are complaining about the lack of protection from law enforcement, despite actively calling for police departments to be defunded. At a "Defund the Police" rally in Washington D.C. on Sunday, BLM activists complained that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is not doing enough to protect them.

Many Catholics today already possess the intuition that there is a crucial link, so to speak, between Humanae Vitae and homosexuality. They can see how the severing of the unitive and procreative meanings of marital relations—and the reduction of marital relations to mere “sex”—paved the way for the ideologies of “orientation” and “gender” that generate so-called “sexual minorities” and “sexual identities.” Yet, the genie was let out of the bottle so long ago that most of us can no longer see just how glaringly obvious this connection really is. To get a glimpse, one needs to go back to the...

Popeyes is adding chocolate beignets to its menus nationwide for a limited time, starting Monday. The fried chicken chain only has one dessert on its menu permanently, but it’s trying to create more limited-time treats to lure customers to its stores. Beignets are a dessert staple in New Orleans, where Popeyes was founded.

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year is an embarrassment. Designed to acknowledge and document men, women and groups who’ve changed the world, historically it never promised to fill readers with warm and fuzzy feelings: Impact didn’t require good intentions, and didn’t necessitate good results.Over much of its 93-year history, world-changers like Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Soong Mei-ling, and Adolf Hitler held the title. Aside from being very different people with different codes and different legacies, these people didn’t win simply by virtue of not being the other guy; and for the lion’s share of their lives, for good or evil...