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Georgia Republicans have passed sweeping changes to voting laws that have liberal activists crying foul.SB 202 requires identification requirements for mail-in ballots. It also narrows the window of time for requesting an absentee ballot. In a move that should make Democrat opponents happy, the bill also expands weekend voting, allowing for two extra days of Sunday voting as any county sees fit.As Politico reports, dropboxes for ballots will be much more limited in both location and time to access:It also restricts the use of drop boxes in the state, mandating that each county have at least one drop box but...

Nike has long been accused of turning a blind eye to China’s terrible human rights record, at best, while being super woke in the United States.The sporting goods giant posted a statement questioning and distancing itself from China’s alleged (by the BBC and Reuters) use of forced labor in concentration camps to pick the cotton used in textiles by Nike and other brands. That statement is being met in China with a much more extreme reaction than Nike probably expected.Chinese fans are up in arms after Nike said it would not use cotton from China’s disputed Xinjiang region, and some...

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A pneumologist has been cleared of suspicion of “malpractice” by the Bihor Medical College in Romania after having been summoned on Monday to present her personal method for treating COVID-19 patients, which she claims has already allowed her to cure up to 1,000 patients. Flavia Groșan, from Oradea near the Hungarian border, has been vocal in the Romanian media regarding her choice not to apply official protocols to treat COVID-19 patients at all stages of the illness, instead approaching the disease as an “atypical pneumonia.” She even went so far as to say that huge mistakes are being made in...

Research shows reduced measures of wrinkle severity and improved pigment intensity in postmenopausal women with Fitzpatrick skin types I-II who ate almonds as a daily snackNew research suggests that there may be more than one reason to add almonds to your daily skincare routine. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis1 found that eating almonds daily in place of typical calorie-matched snacks improved measures of both wrinkle severity and skin pigmentation in postmenopausal women. The study was funded by the Almond Board of California and confirms and expands upon findings in a 2019 study.2 A new...

Well, now we know why Democrat strategists were more than happy to let Joe Biden sit in his basement during the campaign, and kept him away from the press for the first 64 days in office – and it’s definitely not the coronavirus. Biden was almost 15 minutes late to his own very first “formal press conference” since taking office. He dodged questions, spouted platitudes and talking points, went off on tangents at times while getting angry and uttering what may have sounded like threats at others.

When Trump rose to power as the leader of the right, I could not help but remember Simon bar Kochba who led the final revolt of the Jews against their globalist rulers: the Romans. Bar Kochba was a strong charismatic man; a natural leader who captured the heart and soul of the Jewish people. An alpha-male who as a leader gained somewhat of a superhuman aura about him. After a number of stunning victories against the Romans, Rabbi Akiva declared bar Kochba the Messiah (anointed one) and the Jewish people elevated him to that level. At that point Christians outright...

President Joe Biden signed the SAVE LIVES Act into law today, expanding VA’s legal authority to provide COVID-19 vaccines to all Veterans, regardless of their VA health care enrollment status, as well as Veteran spouses, caregivers and some beneficiaries. The SAVE LIVES Act removed some of the legal limits on the medical care VA can provide to Veterans, based on health care eligibility and priority groups. The expanded authority depends on readily available COVID-19 vaccine supply and requires VA to continue to prioritize vaccinations and healthcare delivery for our nation’s Veterans enrolled in VA care. “The SAVE LIVES Act increases...

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), Matt Watkins, Tim Harmsen of the Military Arms Channel, and GOA’s Texas Director, Rachel Malone, defeated the bump stock ban in the Sixth Circuit Court of appeals.According to the government, “the term ‘machinegun’ means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any combination of parts designed and...

A team used ground-penetrating radar to identify the outlines of a defensive outpost at the St. Mary’s settlementArchaeologists in Maryland have discovered the remains of St. Mary’s Fort, a structure built in 1634 by the first English colonists to reach the western side of the Chesapeake Bay. As the Maryland State Archives note, the defensive garrison served as an outpost for St. Mary’s, the first permanent European settlement in Maryland and the fourth in British North America.Travis Parno, director of research and collections at preservation organization and living history museum Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC), announced the find on Monday,...

"Gov. Brian Kemp has signed Georgia's omnibus voting bill into law. "With Senate Bill 202, Georgia will take another step toward ensuring our elections are secure, accessible, and fair," he said." 6 months too late and of course we'll have to bounce his worthless butt out of office along with the Lt Governor and the Sec of State Ratburger. I'm glad to see Stacy Abrams election fraud machine looks to have been stopped. Several more states to go to ensure the Steal can't happen again.

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Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa twitter white misinformation. Twitter has told Newsweek that tweets mis-identifying the suspected gunman in Monday's Colorado supermarket shooting, as a "white Christian terrorist" does not violate the social network's misinformation policies, Twitter told Newsweek.

A program to give $500 monthly checks to low-income families of color in Oakland, California, has been criticized for explicitly excluding the 10,000 white residents living in poverty in the city.

ATLANTA — Federal prosecutors have accused a Georgia Tech professor of violating customs laws to bring Chinese nationals into the country to conduct research at a New Jersey information technology firm.Prosecutors say Gee-Kung Chang, a 19-year professor at Georgia Tech, also directed funds from the Institute to pay the Chinese nationals for research work they did at ZTE USA, the American subsidiary of the partially state-owned Chinese company ZTE Corp. “The defendants allegedly abused the visa program and deceived Georgia Tech to bring researchers into the United States,” Prosecutors claim Chang took advantage of his role at Georgia Tech, a...

One of my kids found this in his room today and took the picture. He & mom let it go outside. Apparently the leg-span is about the size of a nickel. I don't recall seeing anything like this before in our area (Minneapolis subs). Anyone have a clue as to what species this is?

A letter from House Intelligence Committee members demands answers from the DNI about illegal breaches of the wall guarding against CIA and NSA domestic activity. A report declassified last Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security is raising serious concerns about the possibly illegal involvement by the intelligence community in U.S. domestic political affairs. Entitled “Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021,” the March 1 Report from the Director of National Intelligence states that it was prepared “in consultation with the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security—and was drafted by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Federal Bureau of...

President Biden’s choice of Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.N. Ambassador is a disaster for persecuted Christians according to the Christian Post. Hedieh Mirahmadi, counter-terrorism expert and a convert from Islam to Christianity, declares “Christian persecution may reach our own shores” if Thomas-Greenfield’s first official speech is an indicator of things to come. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly last Friday, Thomas-Greenfield stumped for the Black Lives Matter movement and railed against systemic racism, insisting that “we need to dismantle white supremacy at every turn.” “In so many of our communities and countries, racism is endemic. It’s built in, like a rot in...

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent explained why there has been no conversation between U.S. leader Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The representative of the State Department reported about it in an interview with Voice of America. Kent noted that the call the Ukrainian side expects so much, given its symbolism, must be backed up by action. "These are issues that are on the agenda of the United States and Ukraine. We want Ukraine to succeed. This means that we want the government and President Zelensky to succeed. But for this success, there must be right actions...

A progressive activist is pressing American businesses to adopt his opinion and declare to the public that the 2020 election was legitimate. Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor who is now an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, is promoting his "Democracy Pledge," the Huffington Post reported. The pledge states, "The 2020 presidential election was free and fair, and produced accurate, reliable results." Kirschner warned that he will publicize the names of companies that decline to adopt his opinion or don't respond.