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The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines. [Photo in Comment #1]

ATLANTA — Former Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, a favorite of former President Donald Trump, says he doesn't plan to run for governor or U.S. Senate in Georgia in 2022. Collins’ announcement Monday makes it less likely there will be a top-drawer Republican primary challenger to Gov. Brian Kemp. In the separate U.S. Senate race, it could open the way for other Republicans who have been considering a run for the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, who will also be up for reelection in 2022. Collins ran unsuccessfully for the seat Warnock ultimately won last year....

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is emerging as the chief obstacle to quick passage of President Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure package that Democrats want to move through Congress sooner rather than later. Manchin is ramping up discussions with Republicans about what a scaled-down infrastructure package should look like, and some GOP senators are even optimistic that the moderate Democrat can be persuaded to block efforts to raise the corporate tax rate.

The Polk County Republican Party held its precinct caucuses and county convention on Saturday, April 17, with a new party chair and officers elected. Longtime party chairman Dr. Marc Wall stepped down from his position due to health issues and a new slate of officers was elected by acclamation and installed

“The Howard Stern Show,” long in decline, is dead. In March 2020, when New York City officially went into lockdown, Stern fled to his basement in the Hamptons. Over one year later and now vaccinated, as he first admitted on-air Monday — back from yet another vacation — Stern still has no intention of ever returning to his Midtown studio, his luxury Upper West Side apartment, or any semblance of pre-pandemic life.

A newly released poll revealed that Americans aren’t putting up with big business unleashing faux outrage at states attempting to protect their electoral processes. Rasmussen Reports released a survey of 1,000 American adults showing that 37 percent of Americans were less likely to purchase Coca-Cola products. Rasmussen said that the results were due to the company’s liberal political stance against Georgia’s recent law protecting voter integrity. In addition, the survey found that Americans opposed major businesses attempting to influence politics “[b]y more than a 3-to-1 margin.” Perhaps Coca-Cola and others should learn that leftist virtue-signaling doesn’t necessarily pay dividends.

Barnard College English instructor was featured on a Canadian radio show earlier Monday in which he discussed blowing up and gassing white people in an imagined race war. According to The Post Millennial, on the CBC show “q,” Ben Philippe was asked about a segment in his book “Sure, I’ll be your Black Friend” which describes “detonating” white people while nearby air vents spew out noxious gas.

The US will send an additional $310 million in aid to the Northern Triangle countries, and train a Guatemalan “task force” in an effort to upend the migrant crisis overwhelming authorities at the southern border Harris announced in a statement Monday from Harris’ chief spokeswoman and senior adviser Symone Sanders after Harris' virtual meeting with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei. “In light of the dire situation and acute suffering faced by millions of people in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, Harris announced U.S. government support for humanitarian relief and to address food insecurity,” a portion of the statement read. Of the...

Actress Rose McGowan compared the political left to a cult in a Monday interview with Tammy Bruce on Fox News. “My persecution and awakening from being a Democrat was so much about what I do and what I say now — and so much about realizing how hardcore of a cult it is,” McGowan told Bruce. McGowan told Bruce how growing up in a cult called “Children of God” gave her a “superpower” to spot other cults. “It gave me the ability to see the control and the propaganda machine, especially in the U.S., for what it is and how...

Former French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner was booed at a rally in support of murdered Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, whose alleged killer was not charged due to his heavy marijuana use. An estimated 20,000 people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest the lack of a trial for the man who allegedly murdered 65-year-old Sarah Halimi in 2017, it is claimed, by pushing her out of the window of her Paris apartment while shouting “Allahu Akbar”. Several protests in support of Halimi were held in other cities in France, such as Montpellier, according to a report by...

There are growing concerns that the mass retirements of police officers throughout the country may lead to a national public safety crisis. Between losing experienced law enforcement personnel and not having enough officers, some are suggesting the mass exodus will compromise people’s safety, especially in major U.S. cities.

The Anti-Asian Hate Crime legislation may make senators feel good about themselves, but it won't do much to address the real concerns of Asian Americans.In response to the rise of anti-Asian crimes, the U.S. Senate passed an Anti-Asian Hate Crime bill by a 94 to 1 vote. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, the bill’s lead sponsor, said passing the legislation sent a “solid message of solidarity that the Senate will not be a bystander as anti-Asian violence surges in our country.” Yet a close examination of the bill raises the uncomfortable question of whether the effort will do anything meaningful to...

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Liz Cheney said Republicans need to tell voters they are competent and can be trusted if they want to win back those they lost in the 2020 election. 'Where you got to attract back the voters that we lost in 2020 is by conveying to them that, in fact, you know, we are the party they can trust, we're the party of competence and of conservative principles,' Cheney, a Republican congresswoman from Wyoming, said at the House GOP retreat on Monday. -snip- Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, said the party was led by the current...

On this date in 1792, Jacob Johan Anckarström lost his right hand and his center head for murdering Gustav III. Like some other nobles, this officer considered the “theater king” and enlightened despot Gustav III a, well, despot. Times being what they were, regicide was in order, to usher in an age of constitutional liberalism. A conspiracy of Swedish nobles surrounded the royal victim at a masquerade ball on March 16, 1792, and shot him in the back. Alas for them, the scene was immediately sealed and the attendees unmasked before the gang could get away. Although in the confusion...

The Feds’ Nonexistent Case Against Alleged Sicknick Assailants There is no reason to keep these men in jail, let alone in solitary confinement, in a D.C. prison. The cause of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick’s untimely death on January 7 is finally settled, but the prosecution of his alleged attackers rages on.After months of dishonest accounts about what happened to Sicknick—first that he was bludgeoned to death by “insurrectionists” with a fire extinguisher and then that he died of an allergic reaction to bear spray—the D.C. Medical Examiner’s office confirmed the 42-year-old died of a stroke; the chemical sprayed in...

Mankind has been successfully avoiding the Noid for over 25 years... until now. And, in a shocking turn of events, the Noid may no longer be an enemy, but an ally in our fight against the greatest threat our species has ever faced: robots. The Takeout’s Robot Beat is devoted to informing readers about the many ways robots are trying to destroy us, one of which is to find ways of infiltrating the food biz. Two weeks ago Domino’s announced that it was officially in cahoots with the robots, using the Nuro R2—the first completely autonomous, driverless, on-road delivery vehicle....

The left politicized Officer Brian Sicknick’s death and used it in the second phony impeachment trial of President Trump. America was lied to about the deaths associated with the riot. Among the casualties that day was Truth and someone needs to be held accountable for her death.

That the U.S. justice system punished Derek Chauvin shows both the promise of America and the hollowness of critical race theory.When the jury announced its verdict in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, reactions were inevitable. The murder of George Floyd occupied the nation’s attention since it happened, and was the spark that led to both peaceful protests and violent riots across the country. So when the jury found Chauvin guilty of the highest charge, one would expect that those who had felt outraged by Floyd’s murder to be pleased. Maybe some of them were, but those nearest to a television camera...

A group of Republican lawmakers in Congress with medical backgrounds is launching a campaign to tout the safety of coronavirus vaccines and urge Americans to get vaccinated, which comes as vaccine hesitancy remains a persistent issue among Republicans. The group is led by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and includes a number of staunch conservatives, including Reps. Andy Harris (R-Md.) and Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), both members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus. In a 2-minute ad, the three senators and seven congressmen tout the role of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine development program, in rapidly creating an effective vaccine....