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A quirky letter by British nursing heroine Florence Nightingale about her little-mentioned love of cats has emerged for sale 144 years later. Nightingale, who became known as 'Lady with the Lamp' following her service as a nurse during the Crimean War, owned 60 felines throughout her life. At one point, she owned as many as 17 at once.

Ready for that Sock Puppet-in-Chief “press conference” today? – If you’re expecting the same kind of uniformly hostile questioning that the White House fake Press Corps invariably greeted Donald Trump with, well, sorry, that ain’t gonna happen. The corrupt Democrat toadies will toss softball after softball at China Joe, all of which will have been vetted in advance so that the Sock Puppet can simply recite canned answers that his evil handlers have written for him. If he gets hung up with one of his regular brain freezes, no worries, he’ll just pause a moment to listen to the little...

A wild black bear pried the lid off a holidaymaker's steaming jacuzzi and climbed inside to warm up in as the sun rose over the mountains in astonishing footage. The clip, filmed in the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, captures the animal as it strolls across a patio fence, jumps down and makes its way over to the hot tub. Mason Trebony, who shot the footage on March 20, had been renting the cabin with his wife when he saw the bear climb onto the deck of the cabin he was renting.

Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have once again betrayed the American people and voted to confirm one of the most insidious persons ever nominated to a Cabinet position, "Rachel" Levine. He will now be the assistant secretary of health. Levine was as toxic as N.Y. Gov. Cuomo when it came to rendering Pennsylvania nursing homes super-spreaders of COVID, but he put his own mother in a hotel. He knew what he was doing as surely as Cuomo did. There is much to condemn this appointment, but most serious is Levine's promotion of medication and surgery for pre-pubescent children with gender...

Passing through trials and adversities, it might seem to some that Almighty God is our enemy and that He doesn't care. Oh Beloved, this could not be further from the truth! Satan the slanderer loves it when we are deceived into thinking and believing this. But by faith in Almighty God and His Word, we can defeat this strategy of the enemy of our souls (John 17:17, Eph. 6:10-20! The Bible states: "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world,...

Is there anyone more unfit for the job of "point person" or "leading diplomatic efforts" during the current migrant border surge than Vice President Kamala Harris?It's an absolutely certain failure. Naming Harris the "point person" on the Biden-created border surge such a bad idea that one almost wonders if Joe Biden did it on purpose.After all, as the Sydney Morning Post notes in its headline: "'It will not be easy:' Biden hands Kamala Harris problem he couldn't fix."The already failed Biden policy that triggered this current border surge is now a leading issue with the public that's eating into Biden's...

The white woman dubbed 'bagel Karen' who shockingly called a bakery worker the N-word after he refused her service because she wasn't wearing a mask defended the slur to DailyMail.com on Wednesday, saying: 'It's a term of endearment'. Stephanie Denaro, 38, was filmed at the Essex Market on the Lower East Side on Sunday blasting the black worker who denied her service as shocked shoppers watched on. She called him a 'b**** a** n****r' then left the store with her four young children.

Whether you agree with Trump’s immigration policies or not, Joe Biden and his team own this current border crisis — no one else.resident Joe Biden has essentially told the American people the buck does not stop at the Oval Office — at least not on the border crisis. Having dismantled many of the immigration policies the Trump administration used to regain control of our southern border, Biden administration officials now insist the current mess is somehow all Trump’s fault. Unfortunately, the facts are not on their side. In truth, the Trump administration reformed a broken immigration system — one that...

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The common assumption on the right is that Joe Biden has been endlessly rehearsing answers to questions that will be asked by friendly reporters when President Biden holds his first-ever presidential press conference. But his response to a question shouted out to him yesterday raises a couple of alternative possibilities to consider. According to Peter Doocy, the White House correspondent for Fox News, "[s]omebody shouted out to Biden 'how are you getting ready for your press conference' and he said: 'What press conference?'"File photo: Gage Skidmore.Watch as Doocy stated so:Tomorrow is going to be hilarious. https://t.co/lQsfHC0CpX— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸...

Having flung himself headlong into the frenetic world of Silicon Valley start-ups, Prince Harry could be forgiven for taking one of the five 'inner work days' allotted to staff by his generous new employer and enjoying some time out to 'completely unplug' and 'self-reflect'. For the past couple of months, the Prince has been working as 'Chief Impact Officer' at BetterUp, a US-based professional coaching and mental health app. And while the 36-year-old's brand-new fancy job title and rumoured seven-figure salary have been 'specially crafted' for him by the company's CEO, the fast-paced, cut-throat profession he has entered is not...

South Dakota's governor has been attacked as 'cowardly' by the right for her partial veto of a bill banning transgender women from girls' sports - a move which shocked supporters of the rising Republican star, and dismayed many of her constituents. Kristi Noem, the telegenic 49-year-old rodeo fan, widely believed to have presidential ambitions, sent the bill back to the state legislature on Friday. The Women's Fairness in Sports bill is intended to ban biological males from competing in girls' sports at public schools, and was championed by the governor earlier this month while she commemorated International Women's Day.

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"Saturday Night Live" may have found its new "President Biden" in the form of one of its most famous alumni. Comedian Dana Carvey appeared on CBS' "The Late Show" Tuesday night and demonstrated his impression of the new president. "I do him at the town hall, when he's like the gentle father to the country and he looks like the alien who came off the space ship in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,'" Carvey explained to host Stephen Colbert.

The Secret Service tried to intervene in a police investigation in 2018 after Hunter Biden's then-girlfriend, his brother's widow Hallie, threw a gun she'd found in his car into a grocery store trash can because she thought he was going to kill himself with it. The bizarre incident was revealed by Politico on Thursday. Hallie had been searching Hunter's truck because she had 'suspicions'. She found a .38 revolver then drove to the Janssen's Market, a grocery store in Wilmington, where she threw the gun away. She had wrapped it in a black shopping bag and put it in a...

The giant cargo ship wedged across the Suez Canal is blocking shipments worth an estimated $9.5billion per day including food and oil which will have an 'enormous' impact on the world economy, experts have warned. At least 150 ships are now stuck in the logjam caused by 200,000-ton cargo ship Ever Given which ran aground in the narrow channel on Tuesday, with goods worth $29billion already held up. The effect has been felt on world markets as the price of crude oil shot up 6 per cent on Wednesday, reversing months of often-record falls caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Wednesday on CNN’s “Tonight” that it is common sense to have a similar process for getting a driver’s license or a gun. When asked about gun legislation, Rather said, “Poll after poll shows a rather sizable majority of Americans in favor of having, say, a delay in when you can buy a gun, a three-day delay. You buy it, you pick it up two or three days later, together with background checks. This is very popular. But year after year, decade after decade, it doesn’t get put into law. What is needed is...

A representative from Arizona has requested that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) strip benefits from any service member and veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a Monday report from Business Insider. Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, of Arizona, a Marine Corps veteran, wrote in a letter last Thursday that those veterans and service members “simply don’t deserve” the VA benefits. Gallego cited reporting that suggests “nearly 20% of the insurrectionists were either veterans or military retirees.” According to an NPR analysis in January, nearly 1 in 5 people charged in the riot appear to have...

he city of Oakland is on track for a grim-record-breaking year in murders. The police union attributes the deadly violence to a number of factors. Key being the lowest number of officers in recent years. This time last year, the city of Oakland recorded less than a dozen homicides. This city has currently experienced close to three times as many people killed.

Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell yesterday responded to the $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems filed after she repeatedly accused the company of participating in an elaborate international conspiracy to deny Donald Trump his rightful victory in last year's presidential election. Her defense, more or less, is that she did not really mean what she said. True, Powell claimed over and over again that Dominion rigged voting machines to manufacture "millions" of votes for Joe Biden. She fingered a specific Dominion executive as largely responsible for the scheme, claimed the plot had its roots in fraud-facilitating software...