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“In everyone’s life there’s a summer of ’42.” Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of how Raucher, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket Island (off the coast of Cape Cod), embarks on a one-sided romance with a young woman, Dorothy, whose husband has gone off to fight in World War II. The film was directed by Robert Mulligan, and starred Gary Grimes as Hermie, Jerry Houser as his best friend Oscy, Oliver Conant as their nerdy young friend...

Anthony Fauci, the director of the United States government’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told reporters Thursday that he was “knocked out” for about 24 hours after, on Tuesday, taking the second dose of experimental coronavirus vaccine. Fauci has thus joined the large and growing list of people who have suffered serious harm from the injections that he and other government officials have been encouraging Americans to take...

"Firefighters from MCRFD and assisting fire agencies continue to assess properties that have been affected by mud flows," the agency said on Twitter. "So far, we have identified 20-25 homes & outbuildings that have some minor to severe damage. One resident was injured while escaping her home. Earlier, more than 400,000 homes and businesses were without electricity after powerful winds ushered in rain, snow and the potential for deadly mudslides and flooding. Fire officials in San Mateo County said they responded to several calls of downed trees overnight. Thousands of residents in some communities there and in neighboring Santa Cruz...

Democrats have talked about packing the Supreme Court and seeking to end lifetime appointments of justices. Now a new commission under the Biden administration will be looking at the subject of court reforms. Indeed, President Joe Biden's White House is staffing the panel, which will examine reforms to the nation's top court and the federal judiciary, Politico reported. "The president remains committed to an expert study of the role and debate over reform of the court and will have more to say in the coming weeks," a White House official said in a statement.

"Testing is cheaper and more available than it was months ago, but health bureaucrats need to worry less about 100% accuracy and demand 100% results reporting to the government. $1-$2 paper strips that people could use on their own every day, and link results to an app that showed they’re clear to engage in activities for the day, would make a huge difference."

The Ohio National Guard announced Wednesday that 150 military police based in Toledo are being deployed to Washington, D.C. in anticipation of civil unrest in the coming weeks. The activation of the 323rd Military Police Company comes just days after 1,000 Ohio National Guard troops returned home from D.C., where they were among 25,000 Guard soldiers providing security for President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The military police “will be ready to assist at various locations to enforce security, protect lives, and preserve critical infrastructure,” an Ohio National Guard release stated. They, along with National Guard troops from other states, are expected...

American TotalitarianismThe Left's rise to powerLeftists are now in control of the United States, and they intend to keep it that way.They have a stranglehold on the presidency, the house of representatives and the senate. But that's not all. Leftists staff the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the Department of Justice and even the Department of Homeland Security.For months our judges, from the lowly circuit courts all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, have refused to hear reams of voter-fraud evidence or even take the issue seriously, despite disenfranchising more than 70 million voters.So while the courts tell Americans...

The city of La Vernia is considering the replacement of its two electronic voting machines. The proposal to replace them, at a cost of $9,385, elicited lengthy discussion during the Jan. 14 La Vernia City Council meeting, held virtually. City Secretary Brittani Porter presented a proposal to replace the city’s aging Dominion machines with new ones from Election Systems & Software (ESS). “Everyone’s pretty much doing away with Dominion,” Porter told council members, referencing allegations of voter fraud surrounding last November’s presidential elections. Also, Dominion is no longer supporting maintenance for the machines the city has now, she said. When...

Despite all the advances in consumer technology over the past decades, one component has remained frustratingly stagnant: the optical lens. Unlike electronic devices, which have gotten smaller and more efficient over the years, the design and underlying physics of today's optical lenses haven't changed much in about 3,000 years. This challenge has caused a bottleneck in the development of next-generation optical systems such as wearable displays for virtual reality, which require compact, lightweight, and cost-effective components. At the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), a team of researchers led by Federico Capasso, the Robert L....

Cardinal Raymond Burke has condemned President Joe Biden’s plan to codify into federal law the results of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision which imposed abortion on demand across the country. On Friday, the 48th anniversary of the infamous Roe decision, newly installed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris issued a statement saying: “In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack.” They added, “The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to codifying Roe v. Wade and appointing judges that respect foundational precedents like Roe.” “We live in...

Pamela Anderson has secretly tied the knot for the fourth time with her bobyguard, Dan Hayhurst, on Christmas eve after falling in love with him during the COVID-19 lockdown. “I was married on the property I bought from my grandparents 25 years ago, this is where my parents were married and they are still together,’ she said. ‘I feel like I’ve come full circle. I’m exactly where I need to be – in the arms of a man who truly loves me.” Anderson said during an exclusive interview.

A majority of GOP voters support the prospect of former President Trump forming a new party, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday found. The survey, taken January 21 and 24, 2021, among 1,000 likely U.S. voters told respondents, “Former President Trump has suggested he may start a third party. Is this a good idea or a bad idea?” While a plurality of likely voters, or 45 percent, believe it is a bad idea, a majority of GOP voters, or 53 percent, consider it a good idea, as do 41 percent of those surveyed overall. The survey coincides with rumors of...

Discord has banned the r/WallStreetBets server, the company confirmed to The Verge. Reddit’s WallStreetBets subreddit is the driver of an unprecedented rally of GameStop stock, and has received a great deal of attention in the press as the stock continues to soar. Discord says it did not ban the server for financial fraud — rather, it was banned because it continued to allow “hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.” The Verge gained access to the server and can confirm the claim that users of the channel were spamming hateful language, including racial slurs. Here is Discord’s full statement: The...

It has been three weeks since Veteran Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed. Has the shooter been identified?

A Customary Court sitting in Mapo in Ibadan, on Thursday dissolved a 15-year-old marriage between a mother of two, Olubunmi Faseyitan, and her husband, Kolawole, over ”witchcraft” suspicion. President of the court, Chief Ademola Odunade, dissolved the marriage after Faseyitan admitted that she asked a witch doctor to ”tie her husband spiritually to milk him dry”. Delivering judgment, Odunade, said:” men and women intending to get married should seek God’s approval in their relationship before forging ahead”. He said that he dissolved the union in the interest of peace. The arbitrator ordered Kolawole to pay N6,000 monthly for the children’s...

Explanation: How far do magnetic fields extend up and out of spiral galaxies? For decades astronomers knew only that some spiral galaxies had magnetic fields. However, after NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope (popularized in the movie Contact) was upgraded in 2011, it was unexpectedly discovered that these fields could extend vertically away from the disk by several thousand light-years. The featured image of edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 5775, observed in the CHANG-ES (Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies) survey, also reveals spurs of magnetic field lines that may be common in spirals. Analogous to iron filings around a bar...

Politicians saying one thing and doing another is a story as old as, well… politics. Some examples are a bit more egregious than others, however. Take for example the burgeoning raft of executive orders being signed by President Biden during his first week in office. Did you know that there was a time when Status Quo Joe didn’t really sound like a fan of circumventing the normal legislative process and ruling by the pen and the phone? Yes, yes… I know what you’re thinking. It’s really not fair to dig up some dusty old quote from a politician that was...

Total Doses Distributed: 47,230,950 Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses: 20,687,970 Number of People Receiving 2 Doses: 3,801,053 Doses Administered in Long-Term Care Facilities: 2,904,840

The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning of the potential for lingering violence from people motivated by anti-government sentiment after President Joe Biden’s election, suggesting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol may embolden extremists and set the stage for additional attacks. The department did not cite a specific threat, but pointed to “a heightened threat environment across the United States” that it believes “will persist” for weeks after Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration. It is not uncommon for the federal government to warn local law enforcement through bulletins about the prospect for violence tied to...

The Biden administration was hit with an immediate lawsuit Wednesday over its decision to halt oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. The Western Energy Alliance, a group representing fossil fuel producers active on federal lands, sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, alleging President Biden exceeded presidential authority. Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Alliance, described Biden's action as a "ban," despite his administration describing the order as a temporary moratorium on leasing while the administration reviews how to better balance oil and gas with developing renewables on federal lands and waters. The administration...