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The electricity shortage in Texas amid the cold snap has sent spot electricity prices soaring so much that the surge in power prices equals a cost of $900 for charging a Tesla. The typical full charge of a Tesla costs around $18 using a Level 1 or Level 2 charger at home, according to estimates from The Drive. This estimate is based on an average price of $0.14 per kWh of power. However, the extreme winter weather this week has sent Texas spot electricity prices soaring, as the wind turbines froze in the ice storms and reduced the wind power...

During their brief coverage of Rush’s passing, NBC news just committed journalistic malpractice. Of course, they do this in some fashion almost daily. They claimed that Rush was well known for making “racist and sexist comments”. Then, as an example, they played a tape (while printing the words on screen) of Rush saying: “We need segregated buses.... this is Obama’s America!” Racist ? Really ? Rush was talking about Obama’s statement that “Republicans need to get to the back of the bus.” Rush’s statement had NOTHING to do with race. Obama wanted to segregate us based on our political beliefs....

My brother sent me the below text at 4:00. Shortly afterward, he found out that Rush had died. There's nothing remarkable about the coincidence. But it was a clear-eyed sentiment uncorrupted by his own sadness or nostalgia. The words are not impressive, but I take comfort in them. I thought maybe a few of you would as well. ................................................... After Reagan, conservatives feared they no longer had any powerful voices aside from Buckley, who was great but had a limited audience. Then came Rush and Newt Gingrich. Then Gingrich exited, but it didn't matter because Rush kept growing in stature...

....From my experience whenever great promises are in the air together with strong polarization among people that usually means common folks (like you and me) will lose a lot and will be left to ask themselves later, “What was all this about?” Because there is history and there is what actually happened. In other ways, these times are different, so new factors are involved. Blacklists What you call “canceling” is similar to something that has happened before. “Blacklists” or “blacklisting” is a phenomenon that is not new, not at all, but what is different now is fact that we live...

CNN ratings have collapsed by nearly 50% since President Trump left the White House almost a month ago. Here are the CNN post-inauguration ratings drops as of Monday 2/15/2021 compared to Monday 1/18/2021 according to Nielsen: Tapper -53% Cooper -50% Blitzer -50% Baldwin -50% Lemon -48% Burnett -48% Cuomo -44%

These responses were from a CNN Town Hall held on February 16th, 2021 and aired on "The Ingraham Angle" on Fox News

Explanation: This was not a typical sun pillar. Just after sunrise two weeks ago in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, a photographer, looking out his window, was suddenly awestruck. The astonishment was caused by a sun pillar that fanned out at the top. Sun pillars, singular columns of light going up from the Sun, are themselves rare to see, and are known to be caused by sunlight reflecting from wobbling, hexagon-shaped ice-disks falling through Earth's atmosphere. Separately, upper tangent arcs are known to be caused by sunlight refracting through falling hexagon-shaped ice-tubes. Finding a sun pillar connected to an upper tangent...

<p>Hate-spewing leftists were out in full force Tuesday after news broke of the death of iconic conservative legend Rush Limbaugh, with "tolerant" progressives seizing the moment to mock him, revel in his death.</p><p>The 70-year-old radio host, who paved the way not only for conservatives but came to define talk radio itself with more than 15 million daily listeners on his syndicated program, passed away Tuesday after a year-long battle with lung cancer.</p>

A New York assemblyman has claimed he was threatened by Governor Andrew Cuomo and told 'I can destroy you' if he did not issue a positive statement regarding the nursing home cover-up scandal. Democratic Assemblyman Ron Kim claimed he received an angry phone call from Cuomo on Thursday after he was quoted in a New York Post article that revealed new details about how the governor's administration held back the true numbers on nursing home deaths from COVID-19. On Wednesday, a senior Cuomo aide issued a statement accusing Kim of 'lying about his conversation with Governor Cuomo Thursday night'.

One of my most memorable events of all time. He destroyed dirty harry and he didn't even see it coming.

Exhibit A is COVID-19, China’s gift to the world, the overreaction to which has elevated “civil servants” to the status of dictators, abrogated the Constitution, destroyed the economy, and encouraged the citizenry to shun their fellow men as if they were radioactive. It has terrified a country grown ever more effeminate in its mannerisms and speech patterns, and fearful of engagement with everyday life. It has created the absurd spectacle of once-free citizens habitually masked and shuffling along like the captive residents of a communist country, tethered to their iPhones, bombarded daily with government and Google propaganda, and accepting the...

And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. ( Luke 14:15)The Parable of the Great Feast in Luke 14 is all about the danger of presuming on God’s Love. Jesus is at a Sabbath feast, having been invited by one of the Pharisees. As he observed the other guests taking their seating, as close to the host of the feast as possible, He warned them about presuming upon their own status. In Jewish culture in the 1st century,...

Joe Biden mumbled through two masks during a meeting in the Oval Office with labor leaders on Wednesday. .... Snip.... Biden met with labor leaders to discuss Covid relief and infrastructure. Joe Biden is going to produce the “shovel ready jobs” that Barack Obama promised many years ago which actually turned out to be a “shovel-ready” swindle. "I think we have an incredible opportunity to make some enormous progress in creating jobs, good-paying jobs,” Biden said after killing more than 60,000 jobs his first day in office. WATCH:

Photo via Gage SkidmoreThe entity that is the mainstream media is corrupt to the point of being completely open in their actions as they tell everyone they’re an unbiased, pure-hearted group of organizations just looking out for you. They claim to be of service to you while they tell you that you’re one of the biggest threats to this nation, cry tears of joy when their favored politicians are elected, and tell every story with a bent that is beneficial to them and their friends. As Tucker Carlson points out in Tuesday’s monologue, the mainstream media is “more corrupt than...

My plan for renewable energy. I have an unlimited supply of fuel.

After a yearlong battle with lung cancer, Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday morning at the age of 70. Throughout his career, the conservative radio talk show mogul was making an estimated $33 million a year. It is believed he amassed a net worth of over $600 million at the time of his death.

If you’re not a liberal at 25 you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at 35, you have no brain.” That quote, and multiple iterations of it, accurately describes my political path as a young man in search of his political self. While I had been a political junkie for as long as I could remember, I never really knew why, Not in a concrete, easily definable way, that is. Having grown disillusioned with the Democrat Party, I was on a mission to figure out where I fit. As a pragmatic and I like to think rational thinker,...

Legendary former pro-football running back Herschel Walker on Wednesday led conservative resistance to slavery reparations during a congressional hearing. Walker, who played in the old USFL and NFL over 15 years, said reparations might require black Americans like himself to use genetics company 23andMe to calculate their pay by percentage of ancestry and he argued African Americans also were involved in the slave trade, which the US abolished in 1865. Walker, who campaigned for former President Donald Trump last year, said that he opposes reparations for both practical and moral reasons.

New gun owners and ammunition panic-buyers have turbo-charged the firearms industry. They’re also helping generate extra money for wildlife habitat, hunter recruitment, and much more We’re more than 10 months into the largest civilian firearms and ammunition buying surge in American history. More than 8 million people bought a firearm for the first time last year and ammunition from .22LR to .300 Win. Mag. is sold out at stores across the country and backordered for months. When the surge will end is uncertain, but here’s one thing that’s absolute: This will all lead to a boom in conservation and wildlife...

Millions of Australians have been banned from viewing any news content on Facebook, after the tech giant decided to ban articles from its platform. The move is in response to the proposed Media Bargaining law, which would force tech companies like Facebook and Google to negotiate with news providers to feature their content. Facebook's decision means the nine million Australians who log into Facebook every day can no longer view any news whatsoever about their nation or anywhere else in the world - but can still read conspiracy theories, news from dictators and other extremist unsubstantiated views.