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A governing principle of the Democratic Party is to ask, “Who is in the dock?” before deciding whether to enforce the law. As we have seen throughout the last year of antifa/BLM riots, in blue states, it’s now legal to commit arson, attempted murder, assault on a law enforcement officer and destruction of property — provided the perp is antifa or antifa-friendly. Andy Ngo’s smash bestseller “Unmasked” gives chapter and verse on antifa’s shocking violence untouched by criminal penalty. On the other hand, if you’re a conservative, don’t commit a misdemeanor in a blue state. Proud Boys, Capitol Hill protesters,...

“Eat dirt!” is a phrase I remember well. It was in the title of an article published by Harvard University environmental health professor, Dr. Scott T. Weiss, and it captured my attention while I was learning about an immunological concept known as the “hygiene hypothesis.” The core of the idea is that we live in a microbial world: an environment full of bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. And that our interactions with these microbes after birth are extremely important to educate our immune systems to function properly. When we are born, our immune systems are still maturing. I like the...

The US Postal Service on Tuesday revealed its next-generation of mail trucks, the biggest step in a fleet-modernization effort years in the making. The agency awarded the long-awaited contract to build the new vehicles to defense contractor Oshkosh Defense. Under the deal, the Postal Service will pay Oshkosh $482 million to finish designing the futuristic-looking truck — called the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) — and build between 50,000 and 165,000 of them over the next decade. The first ones will hit streets in 2023, the Postal Service said. For several years, the post office has planned to revamp its...

For many fans, Joe Tait was the Cavaliers. For all but two seasons when he left in a dispute with then-owner Ted Stepien, Tait, inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame media wing in 2010, served as the radio — and occasional television — voice of the team since its inception in 1970 until 2011.

Milo Yiannopoulos, who has said he was once abused by clergy, has consecrated his life to St. Joseph, is now living celibate with his "husband" as a housemate, and who will enter "conversion therapy", is already being targeted as a "grifter" by the left. As far as being "ex-gay", he said he's entering conversion therapy and living celibate, so I don't think it's exactly as the left is portraying it. Ironic then if those who said they were a certain gender, now identify as another, may go on to identify as another, or may attempt to revert back, don't seem...

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While many Americans worry about ever-increasing (self censorship), those responsible for it have managed to amplify its effects by creating a climate of (self-censorship).Due to the psychological mechanisms of self-censorship, a single account blocked, a single video deleted, or a book banned can result in a broad chilling of speech. Important policy debates don’t occur, news story ideas aren’t pitched to editors, and books aren’t accepted for publishing, or written to begin with.In some cases, it appears the censors employ the psychological tricks on purpose, achieving maximum suppression with minimal responsibility. These methods aren’t new—in fact, they have long been...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida man beat and stabbed a man in the head who walked into a KFC Wednesday begging for food, investigators said. Branden Dion Pearson was approached by the man asking for food around noon inside the restaurant, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. Pearson refused to feed him and then started calling the man names. The two started shouting and cursing at each other inside the restaurant. Then, they started punching each other in the doorway. When an employee got between them, Pearson was inside and the victim, who has not been named, was outside....

Mass-mail balloting is a step backward for American elections.... The number of mail-in ballots returned as “undeliverable” in the Las Vegas area was nearly three times the margin of victory that President Joe Biden allegedly won the state of Nevada by, according to an election-integrity watchdog. In a newly released research brief, the Public Interest Legal Foundation revealed that in Clark County, 92,367 ballots were returned of the 1,277,897 that were mailed. Biden won the entire state by 33,596 votes, PILF said. “Mass-mail balloting is a step backward for American elections,” said Christian Adams, PILF president and general counsel. “There...

I’m supposed to feel about Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex and veteran of some USA Network original series about lawyers or something. “She’s a liar! She’s a diva! She’s a gold-digger! She’s just using those poor, poor royals as a stepping stone! She should be grateful for what she has, instead of whining about how racist her in-laws are!” All of that is true. And here’s something else that’s true: Meghan Markle has done more to disrupt the British monarchy than George Washington ever could’ve dreamed. If you’re not a student of history, here’s a quick recap: America used to...

A 13-year-old schoolgirl confessed that she lied about a French teacher who was beheaded after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, according to the girl's lawyer. Samuel Paty, a secondary school teacher in a town near Paris, was killed last October by a radical Chechen teenager after showing the cartoons to students during a civics class about free speech. The unidentified girl told police that she lied about being in the class and falsely accused Paty of asking Muslim children to leave the class while he showed the pictures. Her father, who has been charged in connection with...

“When you don’t have the data and you don’t have the actual evidence, then you’ve got to make a judgment call.” What? I need to look at that again: “When you don’t have the data and you don’t have the actual evidence, then you’ve got to make a judgment call.” Yes, Anthony Fauci actually said that. On national TV. Well, on CNN, at least. Isn’t that great? Hey now, don’t worry about all those pesky numbers and all that confusing technical jargon. Just trust the guy who knows what he’s talking about because he says he knows what he’s talking...

While the number of fatalities attributed to Covid-19 is carefully tracked by governments, few people have recognized how pandemic-spurred crackdowns have devastated democracy around the world. Emergency proclamations have entitled presidents and other government officials to seize vast new powers previously forbidden to them. Government bureaucrats became a new priesthood that could sanctify unlimited sacrifices merely by invoking dubious statistical extrapolations of future perils. In October, Freedom House issued a report, Democracy under Lockdown – The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Freedom, which warned that since the pandemic started, “the condition of democracy and human rights has worsened in 80...

On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light carrying 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) of energy. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a shower of secondary particles. The interaction was captured by a massive telescope buried in the Antarctic glacier, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. IceCube had seen a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1960. With this detection, scientists provided another confirmation of...

The Wisconsin House of Representatives on Wednesday held a hearing to review election irregularities after newly revealed documents obtained by Wisconsin Spotlight revealed that Democrat activists, funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, were able to infiltrate the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin’s five largest cities. In Green Bay, a Democrat activist was actually given keys to the room where absentee ballots were stored before the 2020 presidential election. The city received a total of $1.6 million in grant funding from the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life, according to Wisconsin Spotlight. A Democrat operative from New York named Michael...

Let’s stop kidding ourselves. The political frippery over race has nothing to do with race. Black oppression in today’s America is fiction. The growing snarls against “whiteness” come more from Cain-and-Abel stuff: envy, hatred, revenge, arrogance, blame, guilt, and greed. Few groups understand this like the Jews. They’ve been hated by one group or another since Pharaoh enslaved their Hebrew ancestors over 3,500 years ago. But the pharaohs are gone. The Assyrian Empire that destroyed Israel’s northern kingdom in 722 B.C., is gone. The Philistines and Babylonians are gone. Haman, who asked the King of Persia to kill all Jews...

Prosecutors in Alberta are continuing to withdraw tickets issued to residents who had defied COVID-19 public health orders. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, a charity law firm that defends Canadians’ Charter Rights, announced on Tuesday that Alberta provincial Crown prosecutor has dropped three tickets, and a municipal crown prosecutor has revoked one. “Public health officials are not the supreme law of the land—the Constitution is,” said Jay Cameron, litigation director for the Justice Centre. “A significant portion of the arbitrary and confusing public health orders which have so oppressed Canadian society are, on their face, unconstitutional and cannot be...

A year into the pandemic, California and Florida have become common points of contrast as Americans grapple with the horrific human and economic tolls of trying to control COVID-19.

Explanation: Could Queen Calafia's mythical island exist in space? Perhaps not, but by chance the outline of this molecular space cloud echoes the outline of the state of California, USA. Our Sun has its home within the Milky Way's Orion Arm, only about 1,000 light-years from the California Nebula. Also known as NGC 1499, the classic emission nebula is around 100 light-years long. On the featured image, the most prominent glow of the California Nebula is the red light characteristic of hydrogen atoms recombining with long lost electrons, stripped away (ionized) by energetic starlight. The star most likely providing the...

Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin. There are the pump jacks scattered across the plains, nodding up and down with metronomic regularity. There are the brown highway signs alerting travelers to historical markers tucked away in the nearby scrub. There are the frequent memorials of another sort, to the victims of vehicle accidents. And there are the astonishingly deluxe high school football stadiums. This is, after all, the region that produced “Friday Night Lights.” The city of Hobbs, population just under 40,000, sits on the...