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How Some THC Is Legal — For Now Delta-8-THC — a less-potent cousin of famed Delta-9-THC — is legal enough to sell in most states. But how does it work? And will the DEA shut it down? According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), there are currently at least 144 known cannabinoids that have been isolated from the cannabis plant. The most popular among them is Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive compound known to provide all the stereotypical effects of getting high. Yet a lesser-known cannabinoid, with more than half of the psychoactive potency of Delta-9-THC, seems poised...

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL), who is the wife of a first responder, slammed her husband's SWAT vest on the table as she began her speech on the House floor on Wednesday to speak out against the Democrat-led George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. The measure, which passed the House by a vote of 220-212, would, in part, ban chokeholds and end qualified immunity, which protects officers from certain lawsuits. "This the same vest that he wore for 14 hours while on a massive manhunt for a man who had just been released from prison who promptly raped and killed his...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday issued her first majority opinion since joining the Supreme Court in October, siding against an environmental group that sought access to government records. In the 7-2 ruling, Barrett wrote that the records detailing internal agency deliberations did not need to be turned over under a federal public disclosure law. The five other conservatives and liberal Justice Elena Kagan joined Barrett’s opinion, with liberal justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor in dissent.

WASHINGTON — My city has been occupied for more than eight weeks. Major thoroughfares blocked, thousands of armed soldiers, armored vehicles, seven-foot fencing, concertina wire.What’s it all for? An invading army across the Potomac? Rising far-right militias, ready to strike at any moment?Nope. It’s because when angry rioters and protesters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, a Capitol Police force hobbled by its leadership’s poor training regimens, nearly non-existent fitness standards, and fecklessness in the face of crisis were incapable of protecting the building or even shutting the big doors on time.It’s because those idiot rioters had finally — after...

Deep in the false and fevered swamps of fake news and fake history resides a third mendacious denizen—fake definitions. Appearing first with a hiss in the Garden of old (“Did God really say?”), fake definitions have become the mother’s milk of Leftist progressives.Their aim is to recast generally understood words and cultural concepts—treating the common understanding as pejoratively as possible. The Left’s targets are those things not conforming to their political agenda. Therefore, efforts at fiscal responsibility are labeled “draconian” and “mean-spirited.” Those seeking to preserve historic moral imperatives and a Biblical understanding of marriage and human sexuality are “homophobic.“...

It’s much more than a war on our children, although it’s all that. It’s more than an assault against women, but it’s surely that as well. And it’s more than the destroying of God’s design for marriage, although that’s definitely included. What we see today is an all-out attack on life itself. We see this in the vile abortion mills where tens of millions of innocent children die a cruel, painful, and horrible death. The multi-billion-dollar sex trafficking industry also testifies to the devil’s vicious assault on our children. A contributing factor to this war on life is the proposed...

The Department of Justice has been quietly dropping dozens of charges against violent rioters in Portland. As a reminder, the Portland federal courthouse was under heavy siege for weeks on end last summer. Rioters used industrial grade fireworks to attack federal agents. They attempted to cement doors of the courthouse shut in order to trap agents inside and burn them alive. Many have permanent vision damage from lasers used against them.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board on Thursday fired back after facing criticism from former President Trump, saying he is “unhappy with us for recognizing reality.” “Former Presidents and Vice Presidents have told us how psychologically difficult the early months of lost political power can be. We can therefore empathize if former President Trump is frustrated these days, and perhaps that explains his attack on us Thursday over his role in the GOP’s loss of the Senate,” the editorial board said. The piece came hours after Trump bashed the outlet for calling on Republicans to abandon him and blamed his...

Embattled governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) has retained the services of a high-powered criminal defense attorney who defended Harvey Weinstein and Woody Allen against allegations of sexual assault. Elkan Abramowitz, a former federal prosecutor with close ties to Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance, will serve as legal counsel to the governor and his top aides, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. New York attorney general Letitia James is investigating the Cuomo administration on several fronts. Three women have now accused the governor of sexual harassment. Allegations include unwanted kissing and touching, as well as inappropriate or suggestive comments, such as...

Indonesia has named an evangelical Christian as the new national police chief, marking the first time in nearly 50 years that a member of the religious minority has held the post in the Muslim-majority nation. According to UCA News, Commissioner General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, 52, was sworn in on Jan. 27 as police chief, succeeding Gen. Idham Azis who retired on Feb.1. A Protestant, Listyo is the first Christian to hold the post in nearly 50 years and only the third since Indonesia declared independence in August 1945. Despite opposition from Islamic groups, Listyo was the only candidate unanimously approved...

With the price of a bitcoin surging to new highs in 2017, the bullish case for investors might seem so obvious it does not need stating. Alternatively it may seem foolish to invest in a digital asset that isn’t backed by any commodity or government and whose price rise has prompted some to compare it to the tulip mania or the dot-com bubble. Neither is true; the bullish case for Bitcoin is compelling....

Nov. 3, 2020, was a day of reckoning for the Republican Party in a number of different ways. The surprise election loss of President Trump and the voter fraud that played a significant role in his electoral defeat will be issues that the party and the country will be grappling with for years to come. But just as a Phoenix rises from the ashes of a fire, several new and impressive conservative leaders were elected to the House of Representatives in that same 2020 election. With them, they have brought an exciting new enthusiasm that can serve as a path...

As a child attending a private evangelical elementary school and a non-denominational “Bible” church, I memorized hundreds of Bible verses. I was trained to view every issue – science, literature, history, definitely politics – through a biblical worldview.I do not ever recall being told to memorize any Bible verses about immigrants. But with recent developments in immigration reform under the Biden administration, many more refugees will be arriving in America in the coming years. They will need the care and support from local churches. And we will need to teach our children what the Bible has to say about them....

A judge has ordered a runoff election do-over in Mississippi after 78% of mail-in ballots were proved to be fraudulent, according to reports. A notary official in Aberdeen, Monroe County, has also been arrested in connection with the mass voter fraud scam.

Nine years ago, a gay couple went into Masterpiece Cakeshop and asked baker Jack Phillips to craft a cake to celebrate their same-sex wedding. Phillips refused, based on his Christian conviction that marriage is between one man and one woman, but he offered to sell the men anything else in the shop. They reported him to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, sparking a six-year legal battle up to the Supreme Court. Shortly after the Supreme Court found in favor of Phillips, a transgender lawyer targeted the Christian baker, beginning the battle all over again. On Thursday, the Denver County district...

Sen. Marco Rubio is urging President Biden to seek “training on unconscious bias” after using the term “Neanderthal” to criticize Republican governors who ended COVID-19 mask mandates. The Florida Republican humorously described the word as a “stereotype” and noted Thursday that many people of Eurasian ancestry descend from the extinct hominid species.

Lachlan Murdoch, the CEO of Fox Corp., said Fox News would serve as "loyal opposition" to President Joe Biden, which he said will boost the network's ratings, NBC News reported. -snip- "Seventy-five million people voted for a Republican president," Murdoch said, according to NBC. "That's what we represent. We're going to stick to the center-right. That's where our audience is." -snip- The president began encouraging supporters to stop watching Fox and instead watch lesser-known right-wing outlets that showed even more loyalty to Trump, like Newsmax and One America News Network. Fox, which has long dominated cable news ratings, saw a...

Investors reaped enormous wealth riding S&P 500 and Nasdaq stocks' breathless run higher. But that's making for some giant-size losses on the way down. Stocks in the Nasdaq 100, including technology giant Apple (AAPL), consumer discretionary Tesla (TSLA) and Amazon.com (AMZN), dropped $1.6 trillion in value since the index's closing high this year on Feb. 12, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence and MarketSmith. That massive loss in Nasdaq 100 stocks amounts to roughly a tenth of the market's $18 trillion gain since the pandemic lows nearly a year ago, says Wilshire Associates.

While sales of most Dr. Seuss books have gone through the roof, if you want a copy of one of the six Suess books that have, after all these years, been deemed racist, you won’t be able to buy them cheap. While you can still get a “collectible” edition of the recently canceled Dr. Seuss book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, you’ll have to shell out at least $300 for it through a third-party vendor on Amazon.But if you happen to have copies of any of the six Seuss books that have been given the...

A New Jersey lawmaker was arrested Thursday morning and charged for driving while intoxicated after hitting two parked cars following near her Jersey City home, according to authorities. State Sen. Sandra Cunningham, D-Hudson, was charged after she sideswiped the cars at about 9:30 a.m... Cunningham reportedly told police “I was coming down the street when I was about to make a turn and instead turned into a snowbank,” police said in the report. She crashed her Infiniti G35X SUV into a parked Nissan Altima and a Ford Focus.... In 2006, she pled guilty to operating a vehicle under the influence...