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During an interview with Steve Bannon on “War Room Pandemic,” President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani dropped a bomb when he said the Arizona legislature will attempt to certify the President as the winner on Wednesday. The Election Wiz reported: “News spread like wildfire yesterday that Arizona lawmakers would make the attempt to declare Trump the winner today, but Giuliani said Arizona lawmakers did not have the votes today to make that happen. Giuliani said he’s hopeful Arizona lawmakers will be able to close the deal before Christmas.” “Arizona was going to similarly pass a joint session to certify...

(CNN)As many people face the prospect of being alone for the holidays, new science is showing how loneliness might actually help build structures in the brain tied to imagination. Lonely people were more likely to have increased activity in areas of the brain tied to reminiscing, thinking about others and future planning, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers had hypothesized that the so-called default network in the brain, which is involved in memory and social cognition, was likely to undergo changes related to loneliness

“You can’t say ‘we’ll fight them next time.’ There will be no next time; this has to be the time.” - Mark Levin Mark Levin is right. We must fight them now. The party of voter fraud and lies cannot be allowed to win. This battle isn’t one that shifts and flows with time. It isn’t one that can be jumped into and out of as personal or political circumstances require. It’s not some small scale skirmish of the vast culture war that can be ignored or regarded as not worth the fight. No, this battle, the battle against the...

T​he Save Our Stages Act — sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in the Senate, Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) in the House and championed by Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) with 230 bipartisan cosponsors in Congress — passed late Monday night as part of the government’s larger COVID-19 Relief Bill. -snip- “This legislation is a much-needed lifeline for so many in the music industry who have faced loss and uncertainty for far too long through no fault of their own. We are very grateful for the extension of vital CARES Act...

A recent study by the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor tracked a group of participants over 8 years. The team looked in detail at the prevalence of the four most common human coronaviruses in the population. The research, which now appears in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, shines a light on an understudied aspect of coronaviruses and may prove valuable for scientists trying to make sense of the current pandemic. ...To do so, the team drew on data from a longitudinal study of households receiving primary care from the University of Michigan Health Care System....

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the president pro tempore of the Senate and the longest-serving Republican in that body, sent out a tweet last week lamenting the imminent demise of an ancient and admirable Senate tradition. "US Senate has NEVER convened a Congress on Sunday out of respect," said Grassley. "Not once in 231 yrs," he said. Grassley went on to note that the Constitution calls for Congress to convene its new sessions on Jan. 3 each year but also allows Congress to enact a law changing that date. Historically, in those years when Jan. 3 fell on a Sunday,...

Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has said that "for the first time ever" she will not cook a Christmas turkey this year. Instead, she told the BBC's Newscast podcast, she would be cooking pork. While restrictions have been eased for some parts of the UK over Christmas, millions of people will not be allowed to see their loved ones. And Lawson, 60, said she felt following a traditional path while not having "a family Christmas" would make her "feel what's missing". "I actually - and I only made the decision a couple of days ago - for the first time ever,...

George Frideric Handel was mainly a composer of operas. In fact, he composed dozens of them. Though his productions were popular in 18th century London, Handel had his enemies -- he was a foreigner, born in Germany, by many accounts not a very likeable fellow, and his rivals detested his style of opera. He was also kind of a large, awkward man, rough and hot-tempered enough to earn the nickname "The Great Bear." When his operas and his health began to fail, Handel sank into bankruptcy and despair, believing his career was over. In 1741, he was invited to Ireland...

During a Wednesday appearance on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) sounded off on President Donald Trump’s recent round of pardons. According to Klobuchar, Trump is “literally burning down the house of justice as he walks out the door” by pardoning people mostly related to him and “his own political interests.” She called Trump’s pardons “a travesty.”

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Marine veteran Brian Tally has been fighting to change Department of Veterans Affairs policy for two-and-a-half-years, and his bill is the closest it has ever been to becoming law after it passed the Senate on Wednesday. Tally’s namesake “Tally Bill” seeks to change a 74-year-old legal loophole that shields VA contractors from malpractice. His bill took shape as one of many amendments in S.Amdt.2696, which was made to a House of Representatives bill, H.R.7105. The next step is another vote in the House to approve the Senate’s amendments, and then the bill heads to President Trump’s desk. Tally’s amendment requires...

Americans bought a record number of firearms in 2020 amid a year that challenged our conventional wisdom about civil liberties, showed us the delicate balance between law and order and even strained the country’s supply chains. While gun sales generally increase in presidential election years, 2020 has been one for the record books, and it still isn’t over. President Donald Trump has vowed to continue fighting to challenge the Nov. 3 election results that show he lost to Democrat Joe Biden in a number of key swing states. Additionally, many states still have their residents under the thumb of some...

A German cookie company had been making and selling sawdust-enhanced treats for around 20 years, and the owner claimed they only used "microbiologically sound" sawdust. A recent court ruling in Germany is great news if you'd prefer that your cookies weren't made with sawdust—and less great if you only eat cookies that have been made with sawdust. The Verwaltungsgericht (VG) Karlsruhe, an administrative court in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe, Germany, flat-out told the owner of a mail-order cookie business that he needs to adjust his recipe and stop selling any baked goods containing sawdust. According to Juris.de, the unnamed...

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel condition, and one suspected cause is the immune system launching an overly-strong response to gut microbes. Now researchers have developed a new kind of immunotherapy for Crohn’s that delivers a “triple punch” by tweaking the responses of different immune cells. In some people, the immune system’s foot soldiers – T effector cells – can overreact to certain microbial proteins, causing them to launch a widespread attack that inadvertently hurts the human cells as well. That leads to the bowel inflammation, pain, colitis and other gastrointestinal symptoms that Crohn’s patients are all too familiar with....

The 2021 omnibus bill sends coronavirus aid checks to “mixed-status” families that include illegal migrant spouses and Americans. The expansion was pushed by Democrats and some GOP legislators, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC). CBS reported: Under the agreement, U.S. citizens and green card holders will be able to receive $600 in direct aid, even if they filed a joint tax return with an undocumented spouse, as well as additional $600 checks per dependent child, according to congressional aides and the text of the legislation.

Not just Republicans and Jews are on Rasha Mubarak’s "hit list." Joe Kaufman is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center; a writer for the Counter-Islamist Grid, a project of the Middle East Forum; and the Chairman of the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative. He was the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Republican Nominee for U.S. House of Representatives (Florida-CD23). United States Representative Rashida Tlaib is known for her intense hatred of Israel. Indeed, she was recently banned from entering the country. So it makes sense that she would want to hire an individual like Muslim activist Rasha Mubarak,...

Someone dies after years of alcohol abuse. His younger brother having witnessed this, is well-known not to drink. If that younger brother does something you find odd, would it be funny to joke about the possibility that, denials notwithstanding, the younger brother does indeed drink? Of course not. It would be exploiting a family tragedy for a tasteless joke. But because Joe Scarborough found Pres. Trump's comments on the Covid-relief package "full-blown crazy," he said: Because Scarborough found this "full-blown crazy," he joked, a smirk on his face [see screencap]: "Are we sure? Are we sure, he doesn't drink? I...

Biden administration would order U.S. to lower its shields. On December 16, 2020 the Justice Department issued a press release about the arrest of alleged terrorist, Cholo Abdi Abdullah, who was conspiring with other terrorists from an al Qaeda-affiliated terror organization to carry out a 9/11-style terror attack inside the United States. This substantiates a point I have made on numerous occasions, where the threats posed to America and Americans by foreign radical Islamic Terrorist organizations are concerned, the “All Clear” has most certainly not been sounded. However apparently Joe Biden and Kamal Harris never got or, more likely, never...

Well, they say hindsight is 2020 — and thank God for that. Suffice to say, none of us are going to be wistfully blaring Ol’ Blue Eyes’ “It Was a Very Good Year” on New Year’s Eve. (Side note: Have you ever listened to the lyrics of that song? “It was a very good year / for blue-blooded girls of independent means.” Is Frank Sinatra being feminist or classist? I’m so confused.)Anyway, if we’re going to go digging for some roast beef in this year’s crap sandwich, most of us had a little more time to read this year. That...

Democrat Tulsi Gabbard slammed the $900 billion COVID relief bill that will include $600 stimulus checks, calling it “an insult and a slap in the face” to Americans. Gabbard voted against the massive spending bill passed by both the House and Senate on Monday. “First of all, this bill was over 5,500 pages long,” she said in a video posted to Twitter. “We received the text of this bill at approximately 2:30 this afternoon, and we’re told we’d have to go and vote on it just a few hours later.” Gabbard added, “There is no way that anybody in Congress...