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three quarters of the Alaska Republican Party State Central Committee leadership voted to censure Murkowski for a litany of grievances that indicate she no longer supports the core mission and vision of the GOP. Whether a break with the GOP will hinder Murkowski’s bid for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate remains to be seen. She is up for reelection in 2022, but this time around she can take advantage of the new ranked choice voting scheme that a narrow majority of Alaskans approved in the last general election. Ranked-choice voting does away with all party primaries in favor...

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Former President Trump’s strategy to further the “American First” agenda has included taking meetings, making endorsements, and raising mazuma. Intensifying “Trump’s” effort are state redistricting measures, where six of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump are in peril of a redrawn district, hence in further peril of losing their seat in 2022. Indeed, six moderate Republicans face a three-pronged threat: A primary challenge from a candidate endorsed and potentially funded by Trump, a district reengineering process, and a general Election challenge in a reshaped district that may benefit the Democrat opponent. The list of the six Republicans...

**SNIP** The risk to tiny Avon from climate change is particularly dire - it is, after all, located on a mere sandbar of an island chain, in a relentlessly rising Atlantic. But people in the town are facing a question that is starting to echo along the U.S. coastline as seas rise and storms intensify. What price can be put on saving a town, a neighborhood, a home where generations have built their lives? **SNIP** Along the Outer Banks - where tourist-friendly beaches are shrinking by more than 14 feet a year in some places, according to the North Carolina...

The Pac-Man collab is just the start of Pizza Hut’s new nostalgia-driven ad campaign, which will bring back Book It! pins, red cups, and old menu items. Not that Domino's didn't have the Noid (cough), but as far as America's big pizza chains go, Pizza Hut is most likely to trigger a sense of nostalgia. For one, unlike other places, Pizza Hut has historically had a larger focus on dining in: the distinctive red roofs, the stained-glass lamps, the pans and buffet—much of what lured us into Pizza Hut as kids can't be replicated at home. However, as part of...

NBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Republicans were using unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as “political pawns.” On the border crisis, anchor Nicolle Wallace asked, “It seems like an unrealistic expectation that in six weeks, the Biden administration would have solved this. Where are we?”

Why was Andrew Cuomo walking around with his zipper open? Was he going to interview new job applicants? pic.twitter.com/UGmRKsCpmd— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) March 15, 2021

President Joe Biden led pandemic praise for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, calling him the 'gold standard of leadership' and gushing that he was an 'example for all Americans'. Biden is under intense pressure to distance himself from the embattled governor amid mounting allegations of sexual harassment, bullying, racism and in some cases, sexual assault. Cuomo denies all wrongdoing and is refusing to resign. New York Attorney General Letitia James is investing the claims against him.

(...) Since the beginning of the pandemic, I’ve read hundreds of studies on the science of medical masks. Based on extensive review and analysis, there is no question in my mind that healthy people should not be wearing surgical or cloth masks. Nor should we be recommending universal masking of all members of the population. That recommendation is not supported by the highest level of scientific evidence. (...)

Mexico has stepped up immigration raids – hauling hundreds of people off trains in recent weeks – to stem an increase in Central American migrants heading for the United States since Joe Biden took office, according to advocates and data from immigration authorities. The crackdown by immigration agents backed by the military and police marks an escalation of Mexico’s efforts to control migration....

The Washington Supreme Court is on a roll. On March 11, it took the unprecedented step of outlawing mandatory sentences of life without parole for people under the age of 21—making Washington the first state in the nation to extend such protections to defendants who, while technically adults at the time of their crime, have greater potential for rehabilitation because of their youth. The previous month, a majority of the court struck down Washington’s drug possession law, effectively legalizing possession of controlled substances while overturning thousands of convictions going back decades. And, in January, the court made it easier for...

(...) Kary Mullis, who won a 1993 Nobel Prize for inventing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing process later used to diagnose Coronavirus cases, said that Dr. Anthony Fauci lacks knowledge of medicine and is willing to lie on television. Mullis also admitted in another set of videotaped remarks that a PCR test “doesn’t tell you that you’re sick.” (...)

“Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished” (Proverbs 16:5).

Three arrested and one injured by law enforcement outside the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho this morning. The incident starting up when authorities moved to arrest Ammon Bundy and Aaron Schmidt who refused to wear masks in the courthouse. A prosecutor wanted a judge to issue arrest warrants for the them for failure to attend their trial inside the courthouse. The judge issued the warrants. One man ended up on the ground hitting his head. "I know what we're doing is right" Those words spoken outside the courthouse by Ammon Bundy a few minutes before the move to arrest...

It’s one thing if a single news outlet publishes a fraudulent anonymously sourced “scoop.” It’s another thing entirely if multiple newsrooms claim to have independently “confirmed” the fraudulent “scoop” with anonymous sources of their own. The former can reasonably be explained away as a simple error; the latter is not so simple.

Last month the Earth had its coldest February in seven years, thanks to the effect of La Niña. The irregular weather pattern causes abnormally strong winds that make the ocean colder than normal. During February, the average temperature in the contiguous US was 30.6 F, or 3.2°F below the 20th century average.... ...The US was particularly hard hit: The average temperature in the continental U.S. last month was 30.6 degrees F, or 3.2 degrees below the 20th century average. That's the 19th coldest February in the 127 years the agency has kept records, and the coldest February since 1989....

Never seen before video of Dr. Rand Paul questioning Dr. Rachel Levine.

The Worthless Wall Street Journal is banning its reporters from using the terms “illegal immigrant” and “illegal” when referring to illegal aliens living in the US. In an update in ts style guide, the WSJ, which owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., stated that while it will allow reporters to continue using the term “illegal immigration” to describe the process of illegal aliens arriving and staying in the US, it will no longer allow reporters to describe individuals as “illegal” or “illegal immigrant”. It is, they said, all in an effort to stop “labeling people.”

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Race and ethnicity can be tricky topics to discuss, especially in the classroom. But the California Department of Education had no idea how heated the debate would get when it set out to draft a model ethnic studies curriculum for high schools statewide.