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Ice storms knocked out nearly half the wind-power generating capacity of Texas on Sunday as a rare deep freeze across the state locked up turbine towers while driving electricity demand to record levels, the state’s grid operator reported. Responding to a request from Governor Greg Abbott, President Joe Biden granted a federal emergency declaration for all 254 counties in the state on Sunday, authorizing U.S. agencies to coordinate disaster relief from severe weather in Texas. The winter energy woes in Texas came as bone-chilling cold, combined with snow, sleet and freezing rain, gripped much of the United States from the...

Celebrating Fat Tuesday during a pandemic means there probably won’t be a genuine hero walking into the office with boxes of paczki for everybody. But there is a bright side. One, it gives you a chance to rethink that repertoire of paczki (pronounced POONCH-key) jokes you break out every year and, two, more paczki to yourself! Paczki, of course, is a traditional polish pastry similar to a donut filled with jelly, custard or cream and covered in powdered sugar or glazed that’s generally only available this time of year. The idea behind the sweet treat was to get rid of...

The Los Angeles Police Department administration has launched an internal investigation after it was alleged that an offensive Valentine-style photo was circulating around the department of George Floyd. The photo of Floyd, who died when a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck on May 31, allegedly included the words "You take my breath away.'' The complaining officer was scheduled to be interviewed Monday, LAPD Chief Michel Moore told the Los Angeles Times. It appears the photo and a possible post on social media originated out of the department's Harbor Patrol Division. "I just received word through the chain of...

Conservative attorney L. Lin Wood will join fellow lawyer Sidney Powell’s legal team in a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, even as the pro-Trump lawyer faces the threat of litigation for spreading baseless conspiracy theories about the company’s voting machines. Dominion is suing Powell for spreading a baseless conspiracy theory alleging its voting machines fraudulently flipped votes to Joe Biden. Wood said on Telegram Friday that Powell called him Thursday night and asked him to serve as her lead counsel in the case, adding, “I quickly accepted.” Powell’s attorney Howard Kleinhendler confirmed to Forbes in an...

Found this little gem while exploring music that was popular exactly 50 years ago (a hobby of mine). A good ten years before MTV, there were still music videos being made but they were decidedly amateur in their production. Yet decent little time capsules all the same, that bring back memories of less complicated times. Christie - San BenaradinoChristie was an English rock band that is better known in the U.S. for their Top 40 hit "Yellow River" from 1970. They were sort of a "bubble-gummy" band. Anyway, I think many will get a kick out of this video. It...

A day before the inauguration, as Lady Gaga rehearsed “The Star-Spangled Banner” in Washington, D.C., wildfires burned in Sonoma, Santa Cruz and Ventura counties in California, shocking climatologists who had never witnessed the state’s fire season extend into January. NASA had just announced that 2020 tied with 2016 for the warmest year on record. As the Covid-19 pandemic drove city dwellers to search for places that felt surer, safer—Vermont, Kansas, Idaho—the FBI began arresting Americans who had rioted in the U.S. Capitol. Online sales of “prepper” gear (gas masks, food preservation kits) were brisk. Bill Gates was at his lakeside...

A group of Asian-American activists are patrolling areas in Oakland, California in hopes of stopping violent attacks on elderly neighbors. The group, called Asians with Attitude, are reportedly looking to protect Oakland’s Chinatown.The group has been letting small business owners and other community members know they will have a presence in the community. This comes amid a recent surge in violence targeting elderly Asian residents.

This site is an aggregate site with many solid sources in the posts. However, some posts are off-the-wall, but I still find it an interesting read. This post re Lin Wood caught my attention big time. While much can be said in the negative re Lin Wood, I somehow feel that he has stumbled on to something that explains everything. This post is an aggregate of his Telegram posts. His charge is that the reason the Georgia State Bar is going after his license is to neutralize him in order to keep from exposing the business relationships tangled up in...

President Trump’s attorney Michael van der Veen dispelled mainstream media’s false claims about his acquittal. He refuted an attempt by a CBS reporter to downplay the significance of Democrat impeachment managers selectively editing evidence for the Senate trial.“The media has to start telling the right story in this country…the media is trying to divide this country,” stated the attorney. “You are bloodthirsty for ratings!”Van der Veen noted, Democrats committed massive wrongdoing during the sham impeachment and mainstream media is covering that up.

Excellence is falling prey to activists who prefer to believe that social justice means making outcomes equal for every race at any expense.Excellence is falling prey to activists who prefer to believe that social justice means making outcomes equal for every race at any expense. [Advocates for standardized tests] will claim white and Asian kids on average score higher on tests because they are smarter or work harder. Meaning Black and Latinx kids are not as smart or not as hard-working. Meaning white and Asian kids are superior.Board member Allison Collins was one of the school authorities taking her cues...

Though they might not be the king of street food today, a hundred years ago Tamales dominated street corners, with tamale vendors becoming so popular that turf wars broke out. Though it was briefly impossible to avoid tamaleros, they vanished almost as quickly as they came. The history of the “Tamale Wars” is history that deserves to be remembered. Video Here.This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects...

Ultra-Woke Illinois Mandates Are Top Threat to U.S. Education By STANLEY KURTZ Step aside, California. Minnesota, hang your head. Illinois is the wokest of all, and what it does will spread. Yes, woke K-12 curricula grounded in neo-Marxist Critical Race Theory are on the march through America’s schools. We’ve just learned that a California elementary school is forcing third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities and rank themselves by “power and privilege.” Although California governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a too-woke ethnic-studies high-school graduation requirement last fall, a reworked version, still saturated with Critical Race Theory, has just been released for public...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Feb. 14. The Senate had a prolonged EXecutive session to day, over the nomination of PETIT for United States Judge of Kansas. Contrary to expectation, he would have been confirmed, had a vote been obtained, but it is rumored that this was defeated by repeated calls of the Yeas and Nays. It is a very unfortunate fact that some Republican Senators are generally absent when their votes are most needed. This is an abuse which needs correction or rebuke. The whole number of Senators, since the secession of six States, is 54, of which the Republicans are just...

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“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man!” That was Joe Biden in May 2019. Fast forward to January 2021, Biden was heard to utter: “If we don’t get moving, they’re going to eat our lunch!” Points For Consistency? Biden does not miss a chance to blame the current circumstances on Donald J. Trump—the excuse that never expires. You’re a clown, @ChrisMurphyCT. pic.twitter.com/q8wZ3Nd7Vp — Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) February 15, 2021 In remarks at the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, Biden did some storytelling: “While scientists did their job in discovering vaccines in record time, my predecessor —...

President Joe Biden has pulled 65 pending Trump administration executive orders, many of which deal with key national security and immigration matters. Several of the withdrawals strike down orders that would protect American jobs by tightening immigration restrictions and eliminate proposed oversight regulations on how China-backed Confucius Institutes operate on campus. The Biden administration selectively cut the orders, as some pending Trump administration actions remain under review. Biden withdrew one Department of Homeland Security regulation that would bar foreign nationals with deportation orders from working. Under current law, outgoing aliens released from custody can still seek legal employment. The proposed—and...

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has called for Kamala Harris to be impeached over her support for violent rioters involved in last year's Black Lives Matter riots. Graham said the Democrats' second impeachment trial against President Donald Trump set such a bad precedent that House Republicans will impeach Harris when they retake the majority.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has told Axios that he was "a little bit nervous" about catching the coronavirus during President Donald Trump's administration, since the White House at the time was "sort of a superspreader location."

Media giant Condé Nast has refused to pay $2.4 million in rent for its office space at One World Trade Center as it tries to shrink its square footage in the building, The Wall Street Journal reported. Condé Nast — which owns publications such as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Vogue — withheld its January rent for its space and could hold back on paying even more in the future, WSJ reported. The publisher is withholding the rent in an attempt to further reduce its footprint in the 104-story building, co-owned by the Durst Organization and the Port Authority...

The House Democrats’ campaign arm has hired an ex-gangster-turned-high-profile criminal justice advocate for a top leadership position, The Post has learned. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, headed by Hudson Valley area Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, tapped Dyjuan Tatro as a senior adviser for diversity and inclusion. Tatro is known for appearing in the 2019 PBS documentary series “College Behind Bars,” about a group of inmates trying to earn their degrees through New York state’s Bard Prison Initiative. Through the program, Tatro got a bachelor’s degree while serving a six-year sentence for racketeering conspiracy. At the time of that 2011 conviction,...