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...Boehner, who had opposed drugs as an elected official, received the high honor of heading up the National Cannabis Roundtable to lobby for drug legalization. The former House Speaker came by the position naturally since he was already on the board of Acreage Holdings. Acreage Holdings has one of the biggest marijuana operations in America. As Democrats began to legalize drugs in select states, companies were formed to get in on the action. But despite all the hype, the marijuana business was a disaster. Legalizing and taxing pot just meant users buying cheap ‘illegal’ pot from drug dealers. Acreage tried...

Guns are on their way out. And thank goodness! We can't wait to return to the utopian paradise we lost when guns were invented by Bob Gun back in 1804. Still, once in a great while, you might need to defend yourself against a ne'er-do-well. When those ruffians come kicking your door down, you need to be ready. Here are seven great ways to defend your home against an armed burglar when your guns have all been confiscated: 1. Call your local social worker - Get on the phone and call up a state therapist to help you two work...

Controversial U. S Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez may be ranked among the least effective members of the last Congress, but there is one Massachusetts Democrat member who was ranked even lower. That would be Rep. Katherine Clark, 57, of Melrose, a former state senator who was first elected to Congress in 2013.

Pete Davidson is set to play The Ramones star Joey Ramone in an upcoming biopic made by Netflix, it has been revealed. The comedian, 27, who stars on Saturday Night Live, will take the lead role in I Slept With Joey Ramone, based on the memoir of the same name by the late punk rocker’s brother Mickey Leigh. Netflix have revealed the upcoming biopic is being made with the support of the late star’s estate and will be directed by Jason Orley, who previously worked with Pete on 2019’s Big Time Adolescence. The biopic will follow the lead singer of...

....In 1524, a petition known as the Twelve Articles of the Black Forest was presented to the Holy Roman Emperor. The majority of the Twelve Articles asked for relief from economic hardships, such as the cattle tithes and death tax, and for the preservation of “common” land for use by the peasants. The Emperor ignored the petition, which then became the definitive set of grievances of the lower class. The movement quickly splintered into three factions: Catholics who resisted any challenge to the Church’s supremacy; burghers and princes seeking autonomy from the Church through reforms proposed by Luther; and the...

Minnesota high school student Avery Severson said on Friday that she was unsure what her future would hold after being falsely accused of sending racist messages to a Black classmate. "I was just shocked when I saw that they were accusing me and I felt unsafe. I felt unsafe at school," Severson, a sophomore at White Bear Lake High School near St. Paul, told "Fox & Friends." Severson was accused by a Black classmate of sending racist direct messages on Instagram. "Screenshots from an alleged conversation between Precious Boahen, who accused Severson of racism, and an account called "GoWhiteBear," show...

“The latest round of U.S. sanctions was a mostly symbolic exercise,” Agathe Demarais, global forecasting director at The Economist Intelligence Unit, told CNBC on Friday. “Sanctions on Russian individuals and companies are irrelevant, as these people and firms have no ties to the US and probably no intention to ever use the U.S. dollar or to have bank accounts in the U.S.” Demarais added that the sanctions on sovereign debt are less stringent than the initial market reaction would suggest, since they only target the primary debt market and can therefore “easily be circumvented via the secondary market.”

...‘The Seeker’ is a member of Drastic, an informal guerilla group of internet sleuths, scientists and data experts who have spent the past year scouring a multitude of digital sources for such vital pieces of evidence. Some members have expertise in areas such as microbiology, genetics and virology. Others are data specialists, engineers or simply obsessed with discovering the truth about the origin of this wretched pandemic. Some hide their identities; others are open. They have been accused of hacking and fiercely deny it. Occasionally they hurtle down blind alleys. Yet there is no doubt their collective efforts — and...

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Inscription on a jar fragment. ( J. Dye, Austrian Academy of Sciences, courtesy Antiquity Publications Ltd) An alphabetic inscription written on a jar fragment found at the site of Tel Lachish in Israel and dating back around 3,450 years may provide a "missing link" in the history of the alphabet, a team of researchers said. "Dating to the fifteenth century BCE, this inscription is currently the oldest securely dated alphabetic inscription from the Southern Levant," wrote the researchers led by Felix Höflmayer, an archaeologist at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, in a paper published April 14 in the journal Antiquity. The...

He infamously quit the music industry at the height of his stardom after becoming burnt out trying to shed his boy next door pop persona. But almost 20 years later, Rick Astley has made a comeback on TikTok - and is already seeing success with the younger generation. Speaking on Channel Nine's Today on Friday, the 55-year-old said it was 'kind of nuts' to think that his iconic track, Never Gonna Give You Up, was still a big hit.

“Among themselves the Afghans are quarrelsome, intriguing and distrustful; estrangements and affrays are of constant occurrence; the traveller conceals and misrepresents the time and direction of his journey. The Afghan is by breed and nature a bird of prey.” These are hard words, ones that would never appear in a modern reference book. But they are full of genuine wisdom, the fruit of decades of British experience in Afghanistan, which even the Empire upon which the sun never set could not subdue. The Russians couldn’t do it, either, which was why the United States was happy to watch the crumbling...

When last you heard about Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors, it was because news broke that she’s not just a “trained Marxist,” she’s also a real estate maven, owning four high-end properties in predominantly White neighborhoods. But did you know that she’s also an “Electric Slide line dance” queen? And that the fuzzy, ugly UGG shoes you wear during the winter are her dance partners in this terpsichorean effort? The alliance between BLM and American corporations is strong. By now, you know all about Cullors. You still need to learn a little more about UGG to appreciate this story....

A man who is a former mayor and a busy “Defund The Police” social justice warrior was arrested this week on numerous felony changes for sexual crimes with children. “The charges against Robert Emmanuel Jacob, who is openly gay and married as of 2019, include transportation of a child for lewd and lascivious acts, arranging a meeting for sexual purposes with a person believed to be underage, sexual penetration of a child under 16-years-old and harmful material sent with the intent to seduce a minor,” The Post Millennial reported. According to law enforcement, child sex abuse may have begun in...

Heretical association of Catholic priests supports pro-LGBT adoption legislationApril 16, 2021 (Lepanto Institute) – Longtime readers of the Lepanto Institute are familiar with the growing threat posed to the Faith and the Faithful by an organization of heretical priests called the Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP). In the past, we’ve reported on this group for its support of women’s ordination to the priesthood, it’s alliance with sexually deviant organizations and agendas, its work with an international network of heretical organizations, and its call for “priestless parishes.” The AUSCP’s scandalous work even elicited a warning from its own bishop,...

As President Biden’s 100-day mark in office draws near, he enjoys a strong approval rating, 59 percent, according to Pew Research Center, but one issue has Americans even more concerned than COVID-19. Views about major problems facing the country remained fairly similar to last year, the poll notes, except for two differences. The number of Americans who believe coronavirus is a big issue has dropped by double digits, from 58 percent last June to 47 percent. Meanwhile, concern over illegal immigration has jumped by 20 points, from 28 percent to 47 percent. While views of most national problems are divided...

Remember when the New York Times broke the fake Russia bounties story? The WaPo fact-checker gave him four Pinocchios for his claim that the story was a hoax. Now we know it’s a hoax, but will WaPo apologize for getting it so dreadfully wrong? Don’t hold your breath. News sites apologize but propaganda sites never do. At the time the intel community admitted they never briefed anyone at the White House because the story was just an internet rumor. Now, President Trump is having the last laugh as he has always done when fighting the lamestream press. This came to...

Pro-life groups are slamming the Biden administration for pushing to reverse a Trump administration rule that banned the use of federal family planning funds from being used for abortions or to refer patients for abortions. The Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed rule Thursday that would reverse the Trump administration’s “Protect Life” rule. The rule, finalized in 2019, prevented health clinics that receive Title X family planning funds from performing or referring patients for abortions. Abortion organizations referred to the regulation preventing family planning clinics from engaging in discussions or referrals for abortion as a “gag rule.”...

Teachers union president Randi Weingarten channels Marx calling Jews 'privileged' members of the 'ownership class' to justify the harm she’s doing to children.What is motivating teachers unions to keep public schools closed for as long as possible?We’ve constantly heard from the left about the need to “follow the science” in dealing with the coronavirus, as President Joe Biden has repeatedly pledged to do. Yet the gap between administration policies or even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and the scientific facts about how the virus is spread is considerable.Given that we’ve known since last summer that younger...

After months of back-and-forth legal battles between Arizona's Republican-controlled state senate and the Maricopa County board of supervisors, the ballots in Arizona’s most populous county will be audited beginning on April 22. Senate President Karen Fann signed a contract to lease the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix from April 19 to May 14 for the Legislature to house the 2.1 million ballots. Though two previous audits of the county's election results did not turn up problems, the Senate nearly passed a resolution to jail the members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors as they fought the subpoenas in...