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Harvesting the spaghetti On April 1, 1957 the British news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed both to an unusually mild winter and to the "virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil." The audience heard Richard Dimbleby, the show's highly respected anchor, discussing the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched video footage of a Swiss family pulling pasta off spaghetti trees and placing it into baskets. The segment concluded with the assurance that, "For those who love this dish, there's nothing like real, home-grown...

Street violence can't be fixed overnight, but progress can be made when the left begins to value black lives regardless of what is threatening them.On August 27, 2020, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, both candidates at the time, responded to the shooting of Jacob Blake by talking about the constant fear black Americans live with due to systemic racism. Details of the case, specifically the fact that Blake was armed with a knife, were still developing at the time.The news of Blake stood in stark contrast to the public response to a mass shooting that had occurred...

Old Bay — the zesty, saliferous, burnt orange spice synonymous with seasoning shellfish — was invented by Gustav Brunn, a German Jewish refugee who landed in Baltimore after spending two weeks in Buchenwald concentration camp. There are few spice blends as ubiquitous as Old Bay. Packaged in the classic yellow, blue, and red tin can, Old Bay has grown from a Baltimore favorite to a pantry staple across the United States. Before Old Bay was invented in the 1940s, steamed crab, the dish most associated with the blend, was absent from regional cookbooks, including Mrs. B.C. Howard’s Fifty Years in...

In the months since the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Big Tech and Democrats have increasingly used the Capitol riot as a scapegoat to target conservatives. Big Tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter booted President Donald Trump and then they coordinated to destroy Parler. Democrats have plotted a new domestic “war on terror” and tried to blame the riot on Republicans who voted to contest the 2020 election results. Yet something entirely new happened on Sunday. A team of USA Today reporters targeted online crowdfunding platforms that allow people accused of crimes related to the Capitol...

YouTube announced Tuesday it is experimenting with removing the "dislike" count on posts. The company said in a statement that in response "to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we're testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count." ... The Gateway Pundit wondered if the move had something to do with President Biden's lack of popularity. The blog previously reported YouTube, which is owned by Google, appeared to have altered the dislikes count on White House videos. A Biden video had been "disliked" 10,000 times at 3:11 p.m., for example, had only 3,100 dislikes...

Democrats in New York are working on creating a fund that would give some illegal aliens and ex-convicts more than $27,000 apiece in direct payments for financial hardships related to the coronavirus pandemic. Politico reported Tuesday that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office is in talks with state lawmakers to create something called the Excluded Workers Fund, which would offer direct payments to “undocumented immigrants and formerly incarcerated individuals” who missed out on work opportunities amid the pandemic. “Right now discussions are around eligibility and access,” Democratic state Sen. Jessica Ramos told the outlet.

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Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, is now 85-years old; he is frail and largely dysfunctional, as is his Ramallah based Palestinian Authority (PA), which he has presided over since 2005. Abbas has also been chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) since 2004. A third leadership position held by Abbas is that of the chairman of the Fatah (party and terror group at times). A majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza want Abbas to resign. According to the Palestinian Center for Policy Survey Research, 64% of Palestinians are concerned that Abbas’ departure from politics would...

Leftists fly into rage - and malign the law as Jim Crow revisited. The Democrats’ response to any attempts by state legislatures to ensure integrity in their states’ elections is to cry “racism” and “Jim Crow.” Georgia’s new voting law, entitled the "Election Integrity Act of 2021," has become the Democrats’ favorite punching bag. They are twisting the truth about the law to bolster their case for stripping the states of their constitutional authority to determine the times, places, and manner of conducting elections within their own jurisdictions. President Biden claimed that Georgia’s new voting law is “Jim Crow in...

As Boulder tries to heal, activists are once again calling for lawmakers to act Hours after a gunman killed 10 people at a Boulder King Soopers, gun control activists are once again calling for lawmakers to act. It’s a debate that rages after every mass shooting. By: Jennifer KovaleskiMar 31, 2021 BOULDER, Colo. — Hours after a gunman killed 10 people at a Boulder King Soopers, gun control activists are once again calling for lawmakers to act. It’s a debate that rages after every mass shooting. Darcy Lopez survived the Boulder shooting. She was working in the cheese section when...

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) has a nearly 40-point lead over the next closest contender in the GOP Senate primary, according to an internal survey conducted by former President Trump’s pollster. The survey of 400 GOP primary voters, which was commissioned by the Greitens campaign, finds him at 48 percent support, followed by state Attorney General Eric Schmitt at 11 percent. Schmitt is the only other announced candidate, but Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) pulls 9 percent support and Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) clocks in at 7 percent in the poll. Twenty-six percent of GOP primary voters said they’re undecided....

A malevolent media continues its sick slander of Israel. Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian children for the “crime” of picking flowers and vegetables located on a Jewish outpost in the West Bank. You can read about this highly implausible event here: “Fact Check: Did Israeli Soldiers Arrest Palestinian Youths for ‘Picking Flowers’?,” by Emanuel Miller, Algemeiner, March 24, 2021: Did Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian youths recently for the “crime” of picking flowers and vegetables located on a Jewish outpost in the West Bank?That’s exactly the story being propagated by the Associated Press (AP) in a piece based entirely on a video...

The holiest date on the Christian calendar is taking on even more potency and poignancy amid the blossoming signs of emerging from the coronavirus, a Harrisburg pastor says. His church is welcoming back its congregation for in-person worship for the first time in a year this Easter, and his Sunday sermon draws a direct parallel between Jesus’ resurrection and society’s rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. “You can’t have Easter without good Friday,” said Kristopher R. Sledge, lead pastor of The Journey Church of Harrisburg. “Jesus was persecuted. Jesus was murdered. Jesus took on the sins and the suffering of mankind....

The Biden administration is ruining everything. So it must ruin Passover. After twenty minutes of dead air, Biden's Virtual Passover got underway. Biden, who can only be counted on to remain coherent for short stretches of time before launching into a random tirade, only showed up briefly. And that was the only good thing about Virtual Passover. Virtual Passover, like the Biden administration, makes no sense. But the Biden administration can’t be expected to ruin every aspect of our lives, without also ruining Passover. Kamala Harris had been delegated to take over the border crisis, and so her husband, Brentwood...

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Chet Hanks (left) has accused his ex-girlfriend Kiana Parker (right) of carrying out a bloody attack on him with a knife in a newly surfaced video amid a messy legal battle after they split

WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 31, 1861. Quite a scene transpired at the President's house yesterday. On Friday Senator BAKER, of Oregon, presented to the President ten or eleven men as representative Californians, who, after he retired, recommended Senator BAKER to the Executive as a proper arbiter of the California appointments. The President then invited "all" Californians to call on him yesterday morning. OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. On Friday night some thirty Californians had an impromptu meeting, at which they appointed a Committee of Five of their number, as proper persons to give any information desired by the President as to the qualifications...

CDC director Rochelle Walensky said data suggests fully vaccinated people don't carry COVID-19. More details in the People mag article here; https://people.com/health/vaccinated-people-do-not-appear-carry-spread-covid-19/

According to reported government estimates regarding the number of migrants expected to cross into the U.S. this year, President Joe Biden’s border crisis is only just beginning. CNN, citing internal government calculations, reported immigration officials expect to encounter an estimated two million people at the border in 2021. Officials also reportedly believe a great many of those people are not expected to be families or unaccompanied minors, either.

AMIENS, France (AP) – As France battles a new virus surge that many believe was avoidable, intensive care nurse Stephanie Sannier manages her stress and sorrow by climbing into her car after a 12-hour shift, blasting music and singing as loud as she can. “It allows me to breathe,” she says, “and to cry.”