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A former Special Assistant to Donald Trump revealed on Thursday that a "freight train" of election audits are coming. Boris Epshteyn joined Steve Bannon on The War Room and began discussing Joe Biden’s speech to a limited joint session of Congress on Wednesday night. Epshteyn told the War Room audience that, thanks to the courage of the Arizona patriots, a “freight train” of election audits are coming in in Maricopa County.

Chris Christie is once again accusing President Biden of lying, this time charging that the president is "not telling the truth" about the tax increases inside the sweeping spending proposal he’ll unveil on Wednesday night. Speaking hours before Biden’s first address in front of Congress, the former two-term GOP governor of New Jersey and 2016 Republican presidential candidate-turned-political analyst and pundit argued that the president is "not telling the truth to the American people to hide a socialist agenda."

The Civics Secures Democracy Act making its way through Congress threatens to create a national curriculum that would virtually compel teens to plunge into politics. It’s a horrible idea.Ever since the “don’t-trust-anyone-over-30” countercultural movements of the 1960s, we have been living in a culture that increasingly valorizes youth. In the view of the noted Harvard University cognitive scientist and author Steven Pinker, a technological change — the advent of television — is what propelled this social change.The baby boomers of the 1960s, the first generation to grow up en masse with a TV at home, received unprecedented access to each...

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - A petition has been created and signed by more than 43,000 people urging First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to "restore the Rose Garden" at the White House. According to the petition, former First Lady Melania Trump had cherry trees and other foliage removed from the garden. Creators and signers of the petition want the garden to be restored to what it looked like after former First Lady Jackie Kennedy took over the project in the early 1960s. Jackie Kennedy revitalized the Rose Garden after visiting Europe with former President Kennedy and...

Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress last night was both a very traditional and untraditional affair, but it was no Donald Trump – in more ways than one. -snip- Biden’s first address to a sparse Congress was one of the least watched in recent history. To Thursday throwback to the last POTUS, the current POTUS’ talk was down about 49% from a newly installed Trump’s first speech to a packed House chamber back on April 30, 2017.

Jacques Pépin is a wonderful and charming food educator. His French accent and calm self-assurance put you at ease, allowing you to freely absorb his teachings. Moreover, his French-bourgeois/American-middle class kitchen sensibilities produce the type of kitchen tips you’ll find yourself actually practicing. At the heart of Jacques’ PBS shows is what many consider to be true, soulful cooking: the frugal kind that’s done at home. Nobody is more relatable than Jacques. He cooks with ketchup. He doesn’t shy away from choosing a food processor over a mortar and pestle. He will peel open a container of cream cheese to...

The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information ============================================================= It took physicists 115 years to tame Maxwell’s Demon. The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool. All of those dye molecules are going to slowly spread throughout the water. Physicists quantify this tendency to spread by counting the number of possible ways the dye molecules can be arranged. There’s one possible state where the molecules are crowded into the thimble. There’s another where, say, the molecules...

A $48-million contract awarded March 23 to AECOM to study impacts of widening 34 miles of the most rural southern part of the 117.2-mile New Jersey Turnpike has upset state environmental activists who say the project conflicts with the state's push to combat climate change; officials say construction remains at least five years off. The contract is the latest step in the overall $1.1-billion turnpike expansion plan outlined last year that focuses on addin a third lane in each direction to the section stretch between exits 1 and 4 through Camden County. But it also renewed criticism from advocates who...

Such viciousness reveals the lack of good arguments for the critical race perspective and that parents’ refusal to endorse racism has put agitators on the defensive.Kathy Del Calvo is not a racist. Of her four grown children, three are sons, and one of her sons is black. Her other two sons are married to black women.Del Calvo is married to a naturalized American who was born in Cuba, and their family is that exciting blend of backgrounds, appearances, and cultures that used to be celebrated as embodying the American “melting pot.” Hispanic, African-American, European, Afro-Caribbean, immigrant, native-born, white, black, brown:...

“Ted, we are asking for the last time that you resign. If you ignore this message outright, the destruction to your precious way of life is going to escalate. Blood is already on your hands, Ted. The next time, it may just be your own.” knotathreat Twitter (2 min video)

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also served as a personal attorney for Donald Trump when he was in the White House, has responded to the raid. “The Biden department of justice has completely ignored clear evidence (which the FBI has had for over a year) in texts and emails on Hunter Biden’s hard drive of failing to register numerous times as a foreign agent, child pornography, money laundering, and 30 years of the Biden Crime family taking millions and millions in bribes to sell his public offices,” the press release on his website said of the Wednesday...

Natural history observations of Brachycephalus rotenbergae sp. nov.--mouth gaping defensive behaviour Credit: Nunes et al, 2021, PLOS ONE (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ==================================================================== A team of researchers from Universidade Estadual Paulista, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul and Projeto Dacnis, São Francisco Xavier and Ubatuba has discovered a new species of pumpkin toadlet. In their paper published on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group describes their study of pumpkin toadlets in Brazil, how they found the new species and what sets it apart from other pumpkin toadlets. Pumpkin toadlets are a group of related species of bright orange amphibians....

CHICAGO (AP) — The days of paying cash on the Illinois Tollway are gone forever. The tollway announced Thursday it is permanently eliminating cash toll collections and will accept only I-Pass, E-ZPass or online payments. Customers unable to pay online can pay by check or money order. The move comes nearly a year after the tollway suspended cash tolls in mid-March because of the coronavirus outbreak. The tollway also said it will begin a program in May to help low-income drivers by waiving deposits on I-PASS transponders and adding $20 in tolls to people with household incomes up to 2...

A group of Midwestern farmers sued the federal government Thursday alleging they can’t participate in a COVID-19 loan forgiveness program because they’re white. The group of plaintiffs includes farmers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota and Ohio. According to the lawsuit, the Biden administration’s COVID-19 stimulus plan provides $4 billion to forgive loans for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers who are (b)lack, American Indian, Hispanic, Alaskan native, Asian American or Pacific Islander. White farmers aren’t eligible, amounting to a violation of the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights, the lawsuit contends. …

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It’s too late to do anything about China. The contest for global supremacy is over. Beijing now sets the pace—economically, politically, even militarily—and there’s nothing for America to do but accept China’s inevitable victory. Whether that’s true or not, it’s the message coming out of President Joe Biden’s Washington. A raft of appointees with alarming ties to Chinese state institutions, including China’s spy services, suggests that much of the U.S. ruling establishment just wants to get paid. Since Barack Obama’s first term, the Democratic Party has served as the vehicle for a U.S.-based oligarchy comprising big tech, finance, manufacturing, and...

... A source close to Giuliani tells Newsmax that one of the agents pointed to a computer hard drive on the former mayor’s desk, asking about it.Giuliani responded, “Oh that’s Hunter Biden’s hard drive.”Giuliani offered to give the hard drive to the agents, telling them “it has evidence of President Biden committing multiple crimes with his son Hunter.”

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has up to $5 million invested in company Biden promoted Republican senators are working to make the electric battery company President Joe Biden toured to promote his $1.9 trillion infrastructure plan this administration's Solyndra. Biden's promotion of electric battery and bus manufacturer Proterra has struck a nerve on Capitol Hill after the Washington Free Beacon reported that Biden's energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, still has up to $5 million invested in the company. The administration's $1.9 trillion infrastructure plan includes a $174 billion investment in electric vehicles, as well as plans to replace diesel-powered buses with electric-powered...

Jen Psaki Defends Selling Aborted Baby Parts for Research: It’s “Investing in Science”During a press briefing today, EWTN reported Owen Jensen pointed out the the nation’s Catholic bishops and “the leaders of the president’s own faith” have condemned Biden’s recent order forcing Americans to fund research with aborted baby parts with their taxpayer dollars.Psaki said “the White House respectfully disagrees” with the Catholic Church on the issue, even though the media and the White House have spent months declaring Biden to be a strong, churchgoing Catholic.As LifeNews.com reported earlier this month, Joe Biden will make Americans fund research using body...

There were so many contradictions in the way the Democrats handled their little Biden gettogether, everyone should be insulted regardless of political leanings. ============================================================= There were a few messages delivered by Democrats at Joe Biden’s sort-of-not-really-State-of-the-Union-address-non-address. No, it wasn’t just in what he said, though there was plenty of fodder for ridicule and condemnation offered by his words. It was the actions of Democrats before, during, and after the event that can only invoke confusion for those who were paying attention. The first message was that “vaccines work” but certainly not well enough for members of Congress to sit anywhere...