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When a major city such as Toronto experiences above average precipitation during a season, it doesn't necessarily mean water levels in a surrounding lake will also be higher than usual. However, when we look at the Great Lakes basin as a whole, this will have more of an effect on lake levels. Case in point is Lake Ontario. While Toronto received a slightly above normal snowfall amount this winter, with below normal rainfall, the entire basin saw below average precipitation. This helped to keep water levels at bay, especially compared to prior years. In fact, Lake Ontario is forecast to...

DECEMBER 8, 2020 DONALD J. TRUMP Sunday, October 25, 2020 Solemnity of Christ the King Mr. President, Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity. I write to you as an Archbishop, as a Successor of the Apostles, as the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America. I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept these words of mine as the “voice of one crying out in...

Former TV reality star Caitlyn Jenner is reportedly exploring a run for California governor as sitting Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is buffeted by a recall effort. Jenner has reportedly retained the services of Caroline Wren, a Republican fundraiser. Wren first met Jenner during their work with the American Unity Fund, a GOP nonprofit focusing on LGBT issues. While it isn’t clear who Republican voters and party bigwigs may gravitate toward if Newsom is recalled, some reports noted that Trump allies are looking to former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell to replace Newsom. According to Matthew Boyle, “sources familiar...

CNN anchor Don Lemon said Tuesday on his show “Tonight” that former President Donald Trump was the “king of cancel culture” because the voters canceled him. Discussing the new Georgia voting law, Lemon said, “The former president, you know, you knew he would get in the middle of this, didn’t you? Putting out a statement complaining about woke cancel culture in all caps. In case you might have missed it, and our sacred elections, and another calling for a boycott of baseball and what he calls all of the woke companies that are interfering with free and fair elections. Are...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The airline industry expects to recover from the pandemic in a couple of years and when it does, United plans to diversify the cockpit. It launched a flight school called United Aviate Academy with the goal of training 5,000 pilots by 2030. Half of which will be women and people of color.

We’ve located a video showing nine different instances where the vote counts for President Trump were reduced live on TV on Election Night 2020. We were aware of five or six instances but nine instances is a new total. “We’d reported on numerous instances where vote counts for President Trump were decreased live on TV on Election Night. We had identified the following instances previously wherein all cases votes were reduced from President Trump’s tally. We called these reductions ‘glitches’ and began to believe this was more than reporting issues, it looked to be more a strategy to steal the...

Nearly 200,000 illegal aliens living in New York will soon receive $2.1 billion in taxpayer-funded stimulus checks and unemployment benefits thanks to a budget agreed upon by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. While more than a million jobs have been lost in New York and an estimated 80,000 New York businesses may not make it to the end of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Cuomo and elected state Democrats agreed on a budget deal that provides billions to illegal aliens at the taxpayer’s expense. Specifically, according to the New York Times, the state budget includes $2.1 billion in taxpayer-funded one-time payments in the...

CNN admits a crime wave which was evident in 2020 is continuing in 2021 in Democrat-run cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and others. According to CNN, Chicago “homicides are up 33 percent in the first three months of the year compared to 2020.” Homicides in NYC were “jumped by nearly 14 percent through March 28” of this year and L.A. homicides rose almost 36 percent through March 30, 2021. Moreover, the death and mayhem currently afoot in Chicago, N.Y.C., and L.A., comes on the heels of a 2020 in which all three cities “saw significant increases” in...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” host Brian Kilmeade reacted to White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci saying that he doesn’t have anything to do with the “difficult” situation on the border that the administration is doing what it can to improve, by saying that it makes no sense for Fauci to comment on Spring Break, baseball games, and cookouts but not the border, and Fauci is acting this way “because he’s a politician.” After playing a clip of Fauci, Kilmeade stated, “But he can comment on Spring Break as much as you want....

In addition to a standard Easter celebration, San Franciscans invented their unusual Easter entertainment. When the world solemnizes the greatest Christian feast of the Resurrection, some local men take part in the Hunky Jesus contest and local women—in the Foxy Mary contest correspondingly.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has erased a report that detailed illegal aliens on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Terrorism Watch List and No-Fly List crossing the United States-Mexico border. On Monday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency published a press release detailing Border Patrol agents’ apprehension of two illegal aliens from Yemen who are on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List and the No-Fly List. “Two Yemeni Men Arrested by Border Patrol Identified on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List,” the title of the CBP press release read. By Tuesday morning, though, the release had been removed...

Nearly 200,000 illegal aliens living in New York will soon receive $2.1 billion in taxpayer-funded stimulus checks and unemployment benefits thanks to a budget agreed upon by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D). While more than a million jobs have been lost in New York and an estimated 80,000 New York businesses may not make it to the end of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Cuomo and elected state Democrats agreed on a budget deal that provides billions to illegal aliens at the taxpayer’s expense. Specifically, according to the New York Times, the state budget includes $2.1 billion in taxpayer-funded one-time payments in...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has claimed that the sexual misconduct allegations made against him were part of an extortion scheme, and Bob Kent, one of the men allegedly involved in the scheme, all but confirmed in an interview on “The Michael Smerconish Program” on SiriusXM radio on Monday that he had asked Gaetz’s father for $25 million—but insists it was not extortion. Kent says he needed the money to help find FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in March 2007 and is presumed to be dead by his family, but Kent claims he’s seen video evidence that Levinson is...

Norwegian Cruise Line wants to start US cruises again on July 4, and it's willing to require all passengers and staff to be vaccinated before it sets sail.Norwegian, which despite its name is a US-based company, sent a letter Monday to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, notifying it of its proposal. It's the first major American cruise line to lay out plans for a resumption of US sailings...So on Monday, Norwegian essentially said: Enough. The company said it plans to require vaccinations for everyone on a ship at least two weeks before sailing."Vaccinations are the primary vehicle for...

China’s digital currency has left the testing stage and is set for a full rollout to the entire country and region.China is only the second country and the first major economy to officially launch a blockchain version of its own currency. According to Bloomberg, the sand dollar of the Bahamas Central Bank launched last year and was already being accepted in stores in the capital Nassau. You will find more infographics at StatistaFor some reason, the major media stories on the topic circle around the issue of Bitcoin, invented in 2009 as an alternative to government paper money. Just because...

Back in August 2007, the dangerous and decaying state of America's infrastructure became a shocking reality when the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, sending vehicles crashing into the river below. 13 people were killed while another 145 were injured. In August 2018, a bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy, shocked the world with 43 people losing their lives. After that catastrophe, many countries, including the United States, started to seriously look at the state of their deteriorating infrastructure.Last week, as Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, President Biden unveiled his plans for a $2 trillion investment in American infrastructure, describing it...

China’s agriculture ministry on April 5 reported an outbreak of African swine fever in the Xinjiang region, marking the third occasion the region spotted cases since February. The outbreak occurred on a farm with 599 pigs under Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a state-owned economic and paramilitary entity under U.S. sanctions over human rights abuses in the region. Thirty-three pigs were infected and six died, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement. Local authorities have culled the remaining live pigs in the affected zone and halted transports of hog or related products in and out of...

After initially supporting corporate boycotts against Georgia, activist and failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams seems to have done an about-face. After the state’s Republican leadership enacted voting laws, several corporations including Major League Baseball and Delta Airlines have responded by engaging in the usual empty virtue-signaling to pander to Democrats who are pretending the legislation is a return to Jim Crow.Last week, the voting rights activist argued against boycotts in a released statement.“I respect boycotts,” she said, “although I don’t want to see Georgia families hurt by lost events and jobs. Georgians targeted by voter suppression will be hurt as...

Dr. Anthony Fauci is not what the media claim he is. That much has been obvious since the beginning of the pandemic. While presenting himself as a world-class epidemiologist, Fauci has managed to botch everything from mask-wearing to lockdowns, to vaccine efficacy. You likely could have had your dog making COVID policy and gotten a better mitigation strategy than the good doctor decided on.But worse than just being wrong, Fauci has been wrong while exhibiting a completely unearned sense of arrogance driven by the fact that the left-wing worship him. He’s been on magazines, he does YouTube shows, and he...