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Hours after news broke that Fox News cancelled Lou Dobbs’ Fox Business Network show, Dobbs was active on Twitter thanking people defending him, and retweeting some people taking shots at the network. In a statement provided to Mediaite on the cancellation, Fox News said, “As we said in October, FOX News Media regularly considers programming changes and plans have been in place to launch new formats as appropriate post-election, including on FOX Business – this is part of those planned changes. A new 5PM program will be announced in the near future.” The news of Lou Dobbs Tonight being cancelled...

More than 60 progressive groups signed a letter that was sent to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) urging him to get rid of the filibuster in the Senate. The letter is calling for the filibuster to be removed after Democrats won the House, Senate and presidency for the first time since 2011. “The results of this election have unlocked the door to change, but another clear obstacle remains: the rules of the United States Senate that allow a partisan minority to block legislation and will prevent the Senate from governing and delivering on the promises they made to voters...

President Joe Biden's administration is moving to revoke the designation of Yemen's Houthis as a terrorist group, citing the need to mitigate one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters.President Donald Trump's administration had branded the Iranian-backed Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, a move that limited the provision of aid to the beleaguered Yemeni people, who have suffered under a yearslong civil war and famine.A senior State Department official confirmed the move Friday after members of Congress were notified of the administration’s plans. The official, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the removal...

It’s a positive sight when you actually see a celebrity who is not a tool for the elites. In a viral podcast, American rapper Pitbull shared personal insight on what’s happening today smells like….. Communism. The people most against communism are the ones who have suffered from it. Or if not them, their family. MMA fighter Jorge Masvidal is a Trump supporter. Rapper B-Real is, if I were to guess, not someone on our side politically. Yet they both share the same warnings because their family members had the same experience. Add “Mr. Worldwide” Pitbull to the list. No matter...

The shale revolution transformed our country into a net exporter of oil and gas, propelled us into energy independence, and is responsible for creating 2.8 million new jobs. The average salary of oil and natural gas workers is approximately $112,000, more than double the national private-sector average of $51,000. But oil and gas workers don’t just make double that of the national average. They make double that of wind and solar workers. According to data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2019 a worker installing solar panels made an average of a little more than...

Liberal nut job Dr. Amy Acton helped RINO Governor Mike DeWine successfully destroy Ohio for the last year. Now the former state health director is eyeing a run for the United States Senate as a Democrat for Ohio. DeWine has not stated whether or not he will endorse her. However, given how closely the two worked together and how grossly obsessed he seemed with her, I would not be surprised if he did support her run. There were actually many rumors about their relationship and questions of an affair arose in 2020...

Former President Donald Trump returned to social media for the first time since he was banned from Twitter and Facebook last month, posting a letter from his attorney to House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., on his Gab account. The posting Thursday night apparently was in response to Raskin’s letter requesting Trump appear and testify at the scheduled Senate impeachment trial scheduled to begin on Jan. 9. The entire post was an image of the terse three-sentence note from attorney David Schoen, which mocked Raskin and the trial. "We are in receipt of your latest public relations stunt,'' the...

The new military rulers of Myanmar on Friday ordered mobile operators and internet service providers to block access to Twitter and Instagram in the country until further notice, Norwegian telecom Telenor said.The government had already ordered internet providers on Thursday to block Facebook, which counts half of the population of 54 million as users, until Feb. 7.The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology did not immediately answer a request for comment, but said previously it had blocked Facebook for the sake of “stability”.

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

The research group analyzed the ancient DNA extracted from 50,000 years old sedimentary feces (the oldest sample of fecal material available to date). The samples were collected in El Salt (Spain), a site where many Neanderthals lived.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is one of a handful of black Republican elected officials to find themselves in the crosshairs of editorial cartoons depicting them as either part of the Ku Klux Klan or as Uncle Toms. This in an era that is supposed to be about celebrating racial justice. Robinson said he knows he is not the first, nor will he be the last, but he believes it is important for him to say that WRAL crossed a line this week when it portrayed him as a member of the Klan — especially given that that news...

“‘There is no one holy like the Lord’” (1 Samuel 2:2). God’s holiness means He transcends everything else and is completely righteous and separated from evil. Holiness is arguably God’s most significant attribute. The angels don’t sing, “Eternal, eternal, eternal” or “Faithful, faithful, faithful” or “Mighty, mighty, mighty.” Rather, they sing, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty” (Rev. 4:8; compare Isa. 6:3). His holiness sums up all He is. The psalmist says, “Holy and awesome is His name” (Ps. 111:9). Moses sings, “Who is like Thee among the gods, O Lord? Who is like Thee, majestic in...

California is again pushing back the deadline and raising the cost for its high-speed rail project, this time asking the Biden administration for a one-year extension on completing construction on a section of track in the Central Valley.

t wouldn’t be Super Bowl Sunday without the Puppy Bowl. And it wouldn’t be a dog party without the d-o-double g himself. Hip Hop legend Snoop Dogg will be co-hosting the 17th annual Puppy Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 7, alongside his dear friend Martha Stewart, Animal Planet said in a Facebook video. The Puppy Bowl, which will air Sunday at 2 p.m. ET on Animal Planet and Discovery+, is a three-hour special filled with 70 of man’s best friends and all the dog and football puns you can stomach.

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The US Embassy in Kyiv has denied that it advised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to close 112 Ukraine, NewsOne and ZіK TV channels. Related: Member of Italian Senate on TV channels blocking: Ukrainian authorities must understand that this is a wrong and very dangerous path Zelensky put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on five-year sanctions against 112 Ukraine, NewsOne and ZіK TV channels and the Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Opposition Platform - For Life party Taras Kozak who owns them on February 2. Journalist Kyrylo Vyshynsky drew attention to the fact that this...

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If anything underscores how far mainline Christian churches in this country have strayed from their mission, it is their embrace of demands by racial activists for monetary reparations for black slavery. Episcopalians, as befits their guilt-ridden souls, once again have taken the lead in this misguided mission.On Sunday, January 24, the members of Memorial Episcopal Church in Baltimore’s Bolton Hill area voted to set aside $500,000 over the next five years for “justice-centered work” as atonement for the church role in slavery and related injustices. Designated community organizations would spend the money pretty much as they please. The initiative was...

Amidst all the pre-holiday jockeying over an economic “stimulus” package, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a little-noticed report with big implications. More than 18 months after CBO issued a publication on single-payer health care with very little specificity, last month the budget analysts published a 200-plus page report giving more detail about the potential impact of a move to a government-run health system. Joe Biden claims his administration will not implement a single-payer plan, even though his vice president and Health and Human Services secretary-designate both support the concept. Regardless, CBO’s work provides important context about Democratic health-care proposals,...

Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a hotspot for bat-borne coronaviruses, by driving growth of forest habitat favored by bats.