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So many videos of animals discovered hungry and alone. The cameras are high quality, perfect camera angles zoomed on animal and also the human who discovers them for the first time. Yeah, what luck just happened to have this great camera running with my buddy the expert camera man in perfect position. These videos get huge numbers of views, nice mood music and editing, perhaps some organizations fund raise off them as well. I could be wrong, but most of them scream "staged" to me. I could see it happening on occasion but there are just so many of these...

One of the more insane developments from the tragic shooting death of knife wielding Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, has been the emergence of a desperate fantasy from the political left: The "Let the kids have their knife fights" coalition that must think "West Side Story" is real life. Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama administration adviser, offered her idiotic notion, echoed by many others. "A Black teenage girl named Ma'Khia Byrant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight," Jarrett tweeted. "Demand accountability. Fight for justice. #BlackLivesMatter."...

Border Patrol Chief Rodney S. Scott is resisting Joe Biden's new order to use "non-legal immigration terms." Scott sent a memo to Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Commissioner Troy A. Miller to inform him that he can't comply with the Biden administration’s softening of legal terms to refer to illegal aliens. The Biden administration sent memos to immigration officials last week regarding their new far-left immigration policies, which included telling officials to no longer use terms like "illegal alien." The memo orders immigration officials to make changes in rhetoric such as substituting “noncitizen or migrant” for “alien,” “undocumented”...

The information from the census is beginning to trickle out and we’re learning the winners and losers in the congressional sweepstakes. It’s official: California is a loser while Texas and Florida are winners.On Monday, news about the congressional fallout from the census numbers began trickling out.For the first time in 170 years, California has lost congressional representation because of a diminishing population.There are only 435 seats in Congress and the Census Bureau rearranges those chairs every ten years. California is among the states that lost in the every-ten-years game of musical chairs.#BREAKING: Census Apportionment Data:HOUSE SEAT LOSES:CA: -1IL: -1 MI:...

AU.S. Coast Guard cutter has entered the Black Sea for the first time in 12 years, underscoring a resurgence in the significance of the service's presence around the world in recent years. The Legend class National Security Cutter USCGC Hamilton arrived in that important body of water less than a week after Russia claimed it had started to reverse course on a worrisome military buildup along its border with Ukraine. The flood of Russian forces into the region, starting in March, had prompted fears that a new crisis was imminent. Hamilton transited from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea,...

<p>The parents of a seventh grade student at Issaquah Middle School in Washington state were shocked after learning the reason behind why their child failed to complete a Language Arts assignment and posted about the volatile incident to a Facebook group on Tuesday.</p>

The Brooklyn Republicans tweeted out a video on Monday that got a lot of attention. In the video, what looks like an NYPD officer is standing in front of a busted store window writing a report when a man comes up behind him with what looks like sticks and smacks him on the ear with one before running (sort-of). But what got everyone’s attention was how staged it looked, from the camera being set up before the event and capturing it in its entirety to other criticisms.The comments on the video are somewhat hilarious. No one believes this is real.Did...

Plans for 3D-printed, self-assembled "ghost guns" can be posted online without U.S. State Department approval, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a Trump administration order that permitted removal of the guns from the State Department's Munitions List. Listed weapons need State Department approval for export.

It's said that commercial advertising is the most accurate barometer of social attitude trends. So the next time you're waiting for 'The View' to resume, play along in an exercise to read that barometer in the context of eliminating white males from mainstream culture.

The core meritocratic idea -- that tasks should be assigned to those most qualified to accomplish them -- is, and has been for some time, under attack. That attack, predictably in the current identity politics-obsessed climate, has been based on race and sex. Just recently, for example, the CEO of United Airlines proudly announced that United’s new goal for its stable of pilots and co-pilots is that it reflect the demography of United’s passengers. So if a certain percentage passengers are women, and a certain percentage are black, then the occupants of United’s cockpits should reflect those percentages. The CEO...

A newly declassified report shows the FBI sifted through troves of Americans' communications collected by the National Security Agency without a warrant before the Jan. 6 protests to identify "far-right extremists." Despite previous warnings that the government was violating the Constitution, the report reveals how the FBI continues to use warrantless searches for routine criminal cases A newly declassified report shows that the FBI pursued extremists in November that would fit the profile of future Capitol rioters by tapping into a National Security Agency database that trawls and records Americans' communications.

Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday he would sign legislation allowing Texans to carry handguns in public without a license, breaking his silence on a proposal that has been building unprecedented momentum in the Texas Legislature. "I support it, and I believe it should reach my desk, and we should have 'constitutional carry' in Texas," Abbott told North Texas radio host Rick Roberts.

MRI showing inflammation of the spinal cord. (Roman et al., Frontiers in Immunology, 2021) It feels like it's been a lot longer, but the first case of COVID-19 was officially recorded in December 2019. Researchers are continuing to investigate the full effects of this disease, including unusual ones, and a new analysis has now linked the infection to a rare neurological condition. Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) – an inflammation of the spinal cord which can cause pain, paralysis and sensory problems – was identified in 43 adult COVID-19 cases across 21 countries, with patient ages ranging from 21 to 73,...

The largest publisher of newspapers in the United States by total circulation has been caught red-handed engaging in Orwellian rewriting of history to help Stacey Abrams hide her promotion of the boycott of her home state of Georgia by the MLB all-Star Game.Ms. Abrams is regarded as a savior by many on the left, even future presidential material, and is even excused for delusionally claiming to be the actual elected governor of Georgia after losing that race by tens of thousands of votes, despite the left’s new dogma pronouncing it a crime against democracy to question the legitimacy of Joe...

Forget about those claims that Big Tech has every right to censor political information on their platforms because they are private firms. That’s not true when these companies operate as “state actors” working in collusion with or at the command of government entities.Judicial Watch once again has uncovered stunning proof of malfeasance through lawsuits based on freedom of information laws. (I donate to Judicial Watch because of the bang-for-the-buck they provide, and I urge readers to consider donating, too; click here to do so.)Judicial Watch announced today that it received 540 pages and a supplemental four pages of documents from...

Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious diseases expert, early Wednesday shot down recent comments from Joe Rogan after the popular podcast host suggested young, health Americans do not need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Speaking to NBC's "Today," Fauci called Rogan's comments "incorrect." "You're talking about yourself in a vacuum," Fauci said of the podcast host. "You're worried about yourself getting infected and the likelihood that you're not going to get any symptoms. But you can get infected, and will get infected, if you put yourself at risk.

The Seattle Times banned the use of “criminal justice system,” “inmate,” and other words and terms deemed problematic. The changes were made to its style guide by the inclusive style committee. Staff members were told that a total of eight words and phrases would be banned from print in the left-wing newspaper. In its place? Inclusive, politically correct options that present, in many cases, a left-wing worldview. The changes were made via an internal email on April 5 to the entire newsroom, obtained by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH. All the replaced terms or words center on a criminal...

Looks like it's not just mansions for smooth operator Patrisse Cullors, who co-founded Black Lives Matter.She's also into stretches at luxury resorts, with some very curious accounting. According to an investigative report from the Daily Caller:Los Angeles-based jail reform group led by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors spent nearly $26,000 for “meetings” at a luxury Malibu beach resort in 2019, according to campaign finance records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.The records show that the payments were made on behalf of the jail reform group by a consulting firm owned by Asha Bandele, a longtime mentor of Cullors and co-author...

The Maricopa County, Arizona recount and audit of the 2020 presidential election is ongoing, but there has been a new plot twist. Arizona GOP Chair Dr. Kelli Ward joined Grant Stinchfield on Newsmax TV on Tuesday night and gave an update on the ongoing forensic audit of Maricopa County ballots. During the discussion, Ward revealed the continued lies by the Democrats and their multiple attempts to shut down the entire process.

On Tuesday, the Vail School District in southern Arizona was scheduled to discuss its mask policy after Gov. Doug Ducey enacted a new executive order that lifted the state’s order to require face masks in schools. In response to the meeting, more than a hundred parents rallied for the Vail School District to drop the mask mandate. But just moments before the meeting was scheduled to take place, school officials abruptly decided to cancel the meeting, citing safety concerns over the parents’ protest. A throng of parents later pushed their way into the board room while refusing to wear masks...