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Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas vetoed a bill on Monday that would make it illegal for transgender minors to receive gender-affirming medication or surgery — a rare Republican rejection of the growing conservative effort to restrict transgender people’s health care and participation in society. The Arkansas State Legislature could override Mr. Hutchinson’s veto of the bill, known as H.B. 1570. Republicans hold large majorities in both chambers and passed the bill last month with mostly party-line votes: 70-22 in the House and 28-7 in the Senate. “I was told this week that the nation is looking at Arkansas because I...

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AN IRISH expat is the toast of Toronto after transforming his tiny garage into an authentic Dublin pub. Kieron Daly moved to Canada from Ireland 20 years ago, but he’s never lost touch with his roots. A proud Irishman who works as a production manager for a sign company, Daly lives in a quaint two-bedroom cottage close to the coast. However, it’s what he’s got going on in the small garage attached to the property that has got people talking. For the past two years, Daly has been hard at work converting the space into his very own home away...

A large fossilized tree 20-million-years-old, preserved intact with its branches and roots, was found on the Greek island of Lesvos.It is considered an extremely rare find, as it is the first time since 1995 when excavations began in the area of Western Lesvos by the Museum of Natural History of the Petrified Forest of Lesvos, where a fossilized tree with its branches has been located.The tree is about 19 meters long, and is said to have been preserved due to the thick layer of volcanic ash that covered it after it fell.“It is a unique find,” Professor Nikos Zouros said,...

When you think about Hunter Biden, what is the first thing that comes to mind? And please don't crack any jokes. Come on, pipe up. What do you associate Hunter Biden with? Laptops? Perhaps but it could be another L-word, namely locomotives. Yes, did you now that Hunter Biden is a noted locomotive expert? You don't believe me? Well, that is how Politico's "Transition Playbook" described him on Friday in "How high speed trains got railroaded in Biden's infrastructure plan."

"A memo from Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) urges that House Republicans must embrace policies supported by working-class voters if they intend to succeed in flipping the House in the 2022 midterm elections. Banks, who chairs the Republican Study Committee (RSC), details in the memo, dated March 30, key issues affecting the working class, including immigration, trade, “anti-wokeness,” “Main Street vs Wall Street,” and big tech, and provides a set of action items for his Republican colleagues as they set their sights on next year’s races. “President Trump gave the Republican Party a political...

A woman has died and five others, including a 4-year-old and three teenagers, were injured in a shooting at a park in Birmingham, Alabama on Easter Sunday. The gunfire erupted in W.C. Patton Park, where a large crowd of people had gathered to celebrate Easter, at around 7 p.m., AL.com reported.

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (I got my first Pfizer today - no noticeable effects) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 207,891,395 (8,693,900 J&J) Administered: 167,187,795 (4,054,089 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 107,515,428 Fully Vaccinated: 62,392,065

Tennessee Football Player Under Investigation For Allegedly Abusing 6-Month-Old Kitten A University of Tennessee student claims a linebacker on the football team badly injured her 6-month-old kitten ... and now, cops are investigating. The player at the center of the probe is Aaron Beasley -- a former high school star who just wrapped up his sophomore season at UT. Beasley played in 8 games in 2020 -- but is touted as a potential future star with a high ceiling. The problem ... a UT student claims Beasley committed some horrific acts of violence against an innocent kitten -- injuring the...

Calling something energy catalysis (E-Cat), low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), or condensed matter nuclear science (CMNS) cannot hide the fact that the idea is simply the same cold fusion announced to the press in March 1989. As cold fusion was notoriously debunked by the scientific community in the 1990s (Close 1991; Huizenga 1994; Taubes 1993; see also David W. Ball’s article in this issue), new names such as these popped up to conceal the true identity of the idea.

An extended thread topic. Discussion of the different Covid vaccines. Comparisons. Contrasts. Pros. Cons. Firsthand experiences, scientific insights, etc... ** The current vaccines available on the market are: 1) Pfizer/BioNTech (mRNA) 2 doses 2) Moderna (mRNA) 2 doses 3) Johnson & Johnson aka Janssen (DNA adenovirus vector) 1 dose (And for those with any experience or expertise regarding some of the additional ones avail overseas, feel free to contribute as well! Note: none of the below employ mRNA technology.) - AstraZeneca (British/Swede collab) - SinoVac (China-developed) - Sputnik V (Russia-developed)

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“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:” -- Genesis 1:14The Heavenly Luminaries Although they are a subject that has been studied in light of the bible for many years and discussed among Jewish sages for ages, interest in the phenomenon of blood moons and signs in the heavens has increased in recent times. Some modern theologians have come out declaring blood moons an ominous warning of war, bloodshed, and famine. Among ancient Jewish...

Super Bowl champion Carlton Davis is in hot water for tweeting out a VERY offensive Asian slur -- though Davis claims he didn't know the "dark" history behind the word. "Gotta stop letting g***s in Miami," the Tampa Bay Bucs cornerback posted on Sunday evening in a since-deleted tweet. Obviously, the tweet went viral and people couldn't believe an NFL player would hurl such an offensive word around so casually. Davis initially offered an explanation -- and actually had the balls to attack the media for criticizing him in the first place. The 24-year-old posted a screenshot from the Urban...

In light of recent Muslim murderers with grievances and a mixture of posting about adherence to Islam linked themes/prrsonalities and/with their "personal problems": March 22, 2021, Ahmad Al issa's Facebook Posts About Islam, Hacking and ..., and April 2, 2021 U.S. Capitol attacker Noah Green was troubled Nation of Islam followerOne should remember, Jihadism, though mainly is anti non-Muslim or anti the-wrong-kind-of-Muslim, in addition, it is often also linked with that salad of grievances and Islam adherence. Barry M. Rubin: 'Political Islam: Strategies and tactics: Islamism among Arabs' Routledge, 2007, p.358 The expansion of violence to targets that were initially...

The idea of a Ken Burns documentary on Ernest Hemingway seems both obvious and a bit absurd. Burns’ long project of celebrating the most dad-friendly pillars of American culture and history—the Civil War, baseball, jazz—makes Hemingway (after Mark Twain, covered by Burns in 2002) almost inevitable. Hemingway’s life was full of exciting adventures, and, not incidentally, he is surely the most photographed writer of the 20th century, so there’s lots of visual material to draw from. Yet after decades of dominating ideas about how a writer should live and work, Hemingway feels increasingly irrelevant today, his influence diminished to a...

Does anyone have any recent experience with FreedomWorks? Have they gone the way of the RINO? Or have they held the line as a Pro-Trump organization? Looking for input.

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) began the rollout of its single-dose Covid-19 shot in the U.S. in early March. Here are some of the recent developments relating to the vaccine. While Johnson & Johnson beat its March delivery target for the U.S., providing the government with over 20 million doses, a recent error at the plant of a vaccine manufacturing partner, Emergent BioSolutions, apparently contaminated about 15 million doses of the shot. The problem was identified quickly, and none of the doses left the plant. While we think it is likely that the error could impact near-term supply growth for...

In Muzzle Brake Shootouts Part 1 and Part 2, we were primarily testing recoil reduction performance. With something like 64 brakes and comps recoil tested, it was time to move onto muzzle flash. For this shootout we were able to gather 33 different muzzle devices — mostly dedicated flash hiders but also some hybrid units — and pit them against each other for flash suppression prowess. Not only did we capture photographs of each FH in action, but with the use of a trick light meter we were able to record actual brightness measurements and scored some real, objective data....

Predictably, the Biden administration is committed to returning to a “peace” policy that consists mostly of trying to force Israel to make ever-greater concessions to the Palestinians in hopes of getting Mahmoud Abbas’s signature on a document. As part of this policy reversal, the administration has resumed aid to the Palestinians: The Biden administration is quietly ramping up assistance to the Palestinians after former President Donald Trump cut off nearly all aid. Since taking office with a pledge to reverse many of Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian decisions, the administration has allocated nearly $100 million for the Palestinians, only a small portion of...