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DALLAS - A winter storm dropping snow and ice also sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains, prompting a power emergency in Texas a day after conditions canceled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the U.S. Rotating power outages were initiated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, early Monday morning, meaning hundreds of thousands went without electricity for short periods as temperatures fell into the teens near Dallas and 20s around Houston. The council described the rotating outages as a “last resort to preserve the reliability of the electric system as a whole,” adding that...

"In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature." - Edna O'BrienPosted from: MOTUS A.D.

King has been open in the past about his difficulties writing The Stand, the novel still considered by many fans (myself included) to be his finest work. In his memoir On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, he detailed how at one point the book almost went off the rails entirely because he'd run out too many narrative threads. He'd tripped himself up — until he realized that a bomb in the Boulder Free Zone was a handy way to curtail some of them and streamline his plot. That's the most famous story of the book's struggles, but it's not...

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GENEVA - Three months after the Trump administration rejected her, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is set to receive unanimous backing on Monday to become the first woman and first African director-general of the World Trade Organization. A self-declared “doer” with a track record of taking on seemingly intractable problems, Okonjo-Iweala will have her work cut out for her at the trade body, even with Donald Trump, who had threatened to pull the United States out of the organisation, no longer in the White House. A 25-year veteran of the World Bank, where she oversaw an $81 billion portfolio,...

Flickering candlelight, brushed fingertips, a longing gaze... such are the petticoat ways of the historical lesbian romance. Mona Fastvold's feverish frontier drama The World to Come, out today, becomes the latest entry in that burgeoning genre — a love story of deep and delicate feeling if not strict originality....

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton called Saturday for colleagues in Congress to censure former President Trump, saying it is the only way to keep him out of office after his latest acquittal. Ms. Norton, the District’s nonvoting member of the U.S. House of Representatives, pushed for passage of a resolution censuring Mr. Trump soon after his second impeachment trial ended in the Senate. “I strongly supported impeachment, conviction and disqualification of former President Trump who incited an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6,” Ms. Norton, a Democrat, said in a statement. “However, since the Senate has acquitted him, I...

To those of you that used it... Parler is back. I had to reset my password to login, but I was able to see timeline and post. I have not see any news articles on it yet, so sorry, for the vanity post.

The GOP In BidenlandHappy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Going forward, the dress code will be strictly enforced.I hope everyone had a romantic impeachment weekend.What a fun one that was, huh? Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the end of Impeachment 2, TDS Boogaloo is that there are so many Democrats in the country who actually thought it was going to work. I wasn’t much of a participant on social media over the weekend but I did keep an eye on it all once the impeachment trial wrapped up. The nonstop meltdowns from Dems who really believed that they...

White Supremacy: A Popular Term As explained by The New York Times, in the past few decades, the US mainstream media was more likely to reserve the phrase "white supremacy" to address Nazis or Ku Klux Klan (KKK) hate groups with an agenda to kill or suppress the people of color and Jewish individuals. According to the report, in the past 10 years, influential writers such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi and activist-athlete Colin Kaepernick have helped popularize the phrase and broaden its application to refer not only to those who widely embrace white supremacy. However,...

Friday's floor speech was no quick tantrum: It was the last stupid moments of the minority leader's plan to purge the GOP of Donald Trump.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell “got a load off his chest” with his speech closing out Friday’s second failed impeachment attempt against former President Donald Trump. “Unfortunately,” however, “he [also] put a load on the back of Republicans. That speech you will see in 2022 campaigns.” Who’s responsible for that quote? It might surprise some it wasn’t Donald Trump Jr. or Rep. Matt Gaetz — it was Sen. Lindsey Graham, a moderate, hawkish Republican not up...

Eric Lander, Joe Biden’s Science Advisor to the President and choice to head the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, met with Jeffrey Epstein, the late pedophile and accused human trafficker. Epstein claimed that he funded geneticist Lander’s work, though a representative for Lander denies it. Photographic evidence shows very clearly that Lander had an immersive meeting with Epstein years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for solicitation of prostitution with a minor. Archived documentation shows that Lander was listed as a funding recipient of the Jeffrey Epstein Foundation. Lander met with Epstein and apparently had a vibrant discussion with...

He's on-the-air, and on-fire. Chris Plante from WMAL, 105.9 FM, in DC, is rated in America's Top 10 Talk Radio Show Hosts. His show is the "prep work" for many other shows. And, unlike the others, he pulls no punches, tells it like it is and doesn't take any BS from liberal, demonKKKrat, leftist, commie, socialist, fascist, marxist and anarchist callers. He's the guy we'd all like to sit down with and have a dbl-cheeseburger and a cold one, while talking about the state of America, and the crazies who are pulling the strings, behind-the-scenes. Get a fresh refill of...

Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the Democrats need to “spend months and months unearthing all the evidence that can possibly be gotten to through a 9/11-style commission” on the Capitol Hill riots.

KEY POINTS The seven Republican senators who joined all 50 Democrats in voting to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 riot in the Capitol are now facing heat in their home states. Party leaders and local GOP officials, many seeking to curry favor with the broad swath of conservative voters still loyal to Trump, have condemned the 7 lawmakers for breaking ranks with the rest of the party. The Senate ultimately acquitted Trump on Saturday in a 57-43 vote after an unprecedented second impeachment trial. ======================================================== The seven Republican senators who joined all 50 Democrats in...

Tehran (AFP) - Iran reiterated Monday that its opposition to nuclear weapons was official policy as laid down by its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the wake of controversial remarks by a minister. "Iran's position remains unchanged. Iran's nuclear activities have always been peaceful and will remain peaceful," foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a news conference. The renewed pledge came a week after Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said it would not be Tehran's fault if the country was ever "pushed" towards developing a nuclear bomb. "Our nuclear industry is a peaceful industry. The supreme leader explicitly stated (that)...

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden spent his third week in office visiting the Pentagon, touring the National Institutes of Health and working on the administration’s COVID-19 response. He capped it off by beating one of his granddaughters at Mario Kart during his first presidential visit to Camp David, the historic retreat for U.S. leaders. Biden told reporters before departing Washington for the compound that his main plans for the long weekend were to “just hang out with the family and do what we always do.” His granddaughter Naomi posted on her Instagram Saturday night a clip of Biden playing the...

...as President Biden eyes the judiciary, he will have the chance to swing it back to the left. Since the election, a number of aging judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have indicated that they are preparing to take senior status, a state of semi-retirement that frees up the president to pick a replacement. These nine members were all appointed by then-President Bill Clinton, and for years, they gave the court a reliable liberal bent. ...

Former Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said Sunday he has been in touch with the Biden administration when asked about recent reporting that the administration is considering him for an ambassadorship, but said there have been "no specific talks." "All I've said is I would have an interest in making sure that President (Joe) Biden's foreign policy is bipartisan," Flake, a CNN political commentator, told CNN's Pamela Brown on "Newsroom." "You know, we used to say that partisanship stops at the water's edge. That needs to happen, and I think it can happen. But there's been no specific talks," said...

In one sense, the Sack of the Capitol on Jan. 6 was the farce that launched 1,000 snips. Snip: “From years of covering white nationalists and the alt-right, I already knew that the right contained violent and anti-democratic elements,” Buzzfeed reporter Rosie Gray wrote. “What Jan. 6 showed was how deeply even the nice church ladies and retired grandpas who have nothing to do with those groups have descended into an alternate universe.” Snip: You could have replaced Gray’s byline with that of Violet Blue, New York Chimes, or Scarlet Green, Chicago Baboon, and the words would have been almost...