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Smith was an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1969. They had a blues-based sound and scored a Top 5 hit in the United States in 1969 with a cover of the Burt Bacharach song "Baby It's You", featuring Gayle McCormick on lead vocals. It sold over one million copies between July and October, 1969.A Group Called Smith - "Baby, It's You" (1969)

A woman arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol is married to a detective in the Shaler Township Police Department who asked his wife not to go to the rally that day, the Shaler police chief said Friday. Jennifer Heinl, 55, of Ross, was charged Thursday with crimes connected to the riot. Her husband, Michael Heinl, a 30-year member of the Shaler police force, asked her not to travel to D.C. prior to the rally, Chief Sean Frank said Friday. “His wife was a part of that situation,” Chief Frank said. “He didn’t condone it....

@ChadPergram GOP KY Sen Paul on Fox: Cloth masks don’t work..Half of the country is running around with Fauci wearing a bunch of cloth masks all over his face saying they work. When in reality, he knows they don’t work and it’s about civility. Submission @ChadPergram GOP KY Sen Paul on Fox on push to wear masks among those who have been vaccinated: Show me the evidence. Show me the proof, you know, show me that people are transmitting this who have gotten vaccinated. And there is no proof of that.

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Moody Air Force Base, GeorgiaMoody Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation near Valdosta, Georgia. The base is in northeastern Lowndes County, Georgia, with the eastern border of the base following the Lanier County line. Georgia State Route 125 runs through the western side of the base, leading southwest 11 miles to the center of Valdosta and northeast 6 miles to Ray City.The 23d Wing organizes, trains and employs combat-ready A-10C, HC-130J, HH-60G, Guardian Angel Weapons System. The 23d Wing is home to the Air Force’s legendary “Flying Tigers”...

A fundraiser for Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., will be headlined by Karl Rove and co-hosted by a who’s who of Illinois Republicans, a show of political strength coming as ex-President Donald Trump vows revenge against GOP House members who voted to impeach him. The co-hosts — there are more than 150 on the invitation obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times — include two high-ranking Trump appointees from Illinois: Ron Gidwitz, Trump’s former ambassador to Belgium and acting ambassador to the European Union, and Barbara Stewart, the ex-chief executive officer of AmeriCorps. Kinzinger is one of 10 Republicans to vote with House...

Two politicians are urging the president to follow California's lead and set a date when people will no longer be allowed to buy new gasoline-powered vehicles. The shift to electric vehicles is underway, but California's two U.S. senators are looking to expedite it: according to a report from the Reuters news service, the two senators are pressing President Biden to set a date by which new gasoline-powered vehicles will no longer be sold in the U.S. Last fall, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles beginning in 2035. enators Dianne Feinstein and...

The new administration turns its back on peace between Israel and Arab states in order to pursue deal with Iran. Media reports on March 18 revealed that the United Arab Emirates has suspended its plans for an Abraham Accords summit in Abu Dhabi with Israel, the United States, and other Arab signatories to the historic peace agreements brokered by the Donald Trump administration. Supposedly, the Emiratis are angry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for using the UAE’s de facto leader Mohammed bin Zayed as a “prop in his election campaign.” In fact, as the theme of “election interference” should...

But the recent announcement that celebrity M.D. Dr. Oz would be taking over the fact-based game show this week has got fans questioning whether “Jeopardy!” producers have lost their way. In an open letter published on Medium.com last month, a consortium of former “Jeopardy!” winners and contestants urged the show to rethink the decision, alleging that casting the “dubious” doc in the role would celebrate “the elevation of … talking head[s] at the expense of academic rigor and consensus.” SNIP “Throughout his nearly two decades on television he has used his authority as a doctor to push harmful ideas onto...

Sidney Powell, the pro-Trump lawyer who spread baseless claims of election fraud, moved Monday to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against her.

[Catholic Caucus] A Catholic Cathedral: “A Sort of World”Unless there’s a last-minute change of orders in the hours between this being written and the opening of St. Peter’s Basilica Monday morning, the Church in Rome will have taken another, bizarre, almost inexplicable step in an age that can little afford the West’s central spiritual institution to go even more wobbly.I refer, of course, to the strange decision to prohibit Masses being said in St. Peter’s on side altars, often on the spur of the moment, in various languages; and to restrict everyone attending Mass in the Basilica to the few...

White House officials are preparing to present President Biden with a roughly $3 trillion infrastructure and jobs package that includes high-profile domestic policy priorities such as free community college and universal prekindergarten, according to three people familiar with internal discussions. After completing the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package this month, Biden administration officials are piecing together the next major legislative priority. Although no final announcement has been made, the White House is expected to push a multitrillion-dollar jobs and infrastructure plan as the centerpiece of the president’s “Build Back Better” agenda. That effort is expected to be broken into two...

MSNBC personalities shared a crowded Miami Beach photo to complain about vacationers flouting coronavirus distancing guidelines, but there was one problem: the photo was from 2019. "Today's center of the #COVIDIOTS universe is Miami Beach, Florida," MSNBC analyst Fernand R. Amandi tweeted on Saturday, complete with a photo of a packed beach. Internet sleuths quickly pointed out the photo was taken for a 2019 Sun Sentinel article about Miami Beach law enforcement cracking down on rowdy spring breakers, nearly a year before the pandemic shut down the United States. MSNBC host Joy Reid, who is one of two hosts on...

U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, a conservative firebrand and staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump who has come under fire for remarks he made preceding the attack on the U.S. Capitol, joined the Alabama GOP primary field on Monday to replace Sen. Richard Shelby. The north Alabama Republican announced his entry into the race at an event with former Trump adviser Stephen Miller. He joins former Trump ambassador Lynda Blanchard in a Republican primary field that is expected to attract a number of other hopefuls. "America’s status as the greatest nation in world history is at risk. And it’s at...

Eric Greitens has appeared on Missouri radio, Newsmax, Steve Bannon’s War Room, and Seb Gorka’s radio show in the last 48 hours, and said that he is motivated by the tremendous support from grassroots voters across the state of Missouri. He said voters will support candidates who are “willing to stand up, especially stand up against the lunacy that we’re seeing out of the left.”

Johnson & Johnson should come close to hitting its target of delivering 20 million doses of its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine in March after its shipments stalled in recent weeks, a top White House official said on Monday (22 Mar)... The company shipped four million shots in early March but its rollout has since stalled as facilities involved in the manufacturing await clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. ...far less than the 20 million it promised to deliver by the end of March... J&J did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Initial U.S. doses have been made at...

Cape Cod, Mass. — What would seem to be the collegial world of local shark research has in fact become a simmering feud between competing factions, with some saying the public is the loser because the research is not keeping up with great white's growing incursions on our local waters. "We've never been shut out like this," said Chris Fischer, founder of OCEARCH, the research group that has been denied permits by the state for several years now. "What's happening here with sharks compared to the rest of the world is like it is in the dark ages." OCEARCH roams...

"A few weeks after the election, Steve Martin Smith, a Florida-based RE/MAX broker, used his public Parler account" my comments: As you can see this lib writer tries to smear a realtor posting on Parler. I want to know to know places to advertise for conservatives, libs be damned. Any suggestions where?

Regent University’s Robertson School of Government will host a virtual conference on election integrity on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, from 12 PM to 6 PM ET. “Election integrity is the foundation for every citizen’s right to vote in a free and fair election,” said Michele Bachmann, dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University. “The electoral process is a significant, fundamental component of political freedom. Through this important conference, our goal is to educate individuals about election integrity and to raise awareness surrounding the electoral process.” Throughout the event, panelists and keynote speakers will highlight the importance of...

After the latest round of bloodletting began on March 15, the Nigerien army sent reinforcements to the Tillaberi regionScores of people have died in the deadliest suspected jihadist massacre ever to hit Niger, the government said Monday, underscoring the huge security challenge facing new President Mohamed Bazoum. Government spokesman Zakaria Abdourahamane said 137 people had died in Sunday's raids in villages near Niger's border with Mali. "In treating civilian populations systematically as targets now, these armed bandits have gone a step further into horror and brutality," Abdourahamane said in a statement read on public television.

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