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Heather Mac Donald warns us that the quality of scientific research in the United States is in peril, in a must-read essay titled "Diversity Over Discovery," with the subtitle "Biden's war on merit puts America's scientific edge at risk." The immediate subject of concern is President Biden's appointment... to head the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the largest funder of the physical sciences in the U.S., is a soil geologist at the University of California, Merced. She has no background in physics, the science of energy, or the energy sector. She has never held a position as a scientific...

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the normalizing of homosexuality and transgenderism within the ranks of the U.S. military is accelerating. “History was made on Friday with the first ever all gay U.S. Navy helicopter crew,” tweeted veteran Navy Intelligence Officer and left-wing activist Travis Akers, along with pictures of the homosexual flyers. During the previous week, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) announced that a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Initiative Team (LIT) had been formally established under the umbrella of its Barrier Analysis Working Group (BAWG). “The LGBTQ Initiative Team focuses on the LGBTQ community and identifies and works to...

The House Republican Conference stood up for Rep. Liz Cheney just a few short months ago, and suddenly the relationship has gone south. It has gone south at about the same time census numbers have come out giving the GOP a real advantage to taking back the House of Representatives. It also comes as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has made several trips to Florida to engage with and sweet-talk former President Donald Trump. Now, suddenly, McCarthy has been caught on a hot mic at Fox News bashing Cheney. My educated hypothesis is that a great deal of the sudden...

JP Morgan Chase — it’s hard to find a more “woke” company than that one. Under celebrity CEO Jamie Dimon, JPM in its corporate pronouncements consistently positions itself at the most exquisitely correct end of the politically correct spectrum. But reality can be tough. In its email of a couple of days ago, the Global Warming Policy Foundation links to JPM’s 2021 Annual Energy Paper. The Paper comes from JPM’s Asset and Wealth Management Group. The lead author is a guy named Michael Cembalest, who appears to have his ear right down on the ground of the global energy business....

The White House prepared to celebrate a jobs-gained milestone of 2 million on Friday under President Joe Biden during his first 100 days — but those plans were shattered by the devastating jobs report for April. Punchbowl News reported Friday morning that senior White House staffers were watching the jobs estimates of created 700,000 jobs, eager to promote the record number of jobs created during Biden’s first 100 days.

The highly anticipated million jobs added to the economy turned out to be on 266k jobs added. The big gainer? Leisure and hospitality at +279k jobs added. The big loser? Professional and business services at -141k. Hey Bartender! So much for Biden's Big Government approach.

The U.S. State Department said this week it recently fined U.S. defense contractor Honeywell $13 million after the company was found to have “harmed national security” by sharing sensitive information about U.S. military aircraft with China and other countries.The U.S. State Department said on May 3 it had reached a settlement with Honeywell on 34 charges related to 71 drawings it shared with China, Taiwan, Ireland, Canada, and Mexico from 2011-2015. Honeywell’s sharing of the documents violated the U.S. Arms Export Control Act and the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations.“The U.S. Government reviewed copies of the 71 drawings and...

Scientists in the Netherlands have trained bees to identify COVID-19 through their sense of smell, according to a press release from Wageningen University. The research was conducted on more than 150 bees in Wageningen University's bio-veterinary research laboratory. The scientists trained the bees by giving them a treat – a sugar-water solution – every time they were exposed to the scent of a mink infected with COVID-19. Each time the bees were exposed to a non-infected sample, they wouldn't get a reward (a process known as Pavlovian conditioning). Eventually, the bees could identify an infected sample within a few seconds...

Rep. Briscoe Cain lays out and then takes questions from Rep. Jessica Gonzales on SB 7 in the House Chamber on May 6, 2021.

Which is the Party of Transgenders, Gays, Illegals, Wokes, Globalism, and Bloated Budgets? Gold Medal Decathlete Bruce Jenner is trying his best to challenge Newsome for Governor of California. Bruce likes to be called Caitlyn. He claims to be a republican. I believe he claims conservatism and has said he'd oppose guys running in girl track meets. I suppose his Gold Medal gives him credibility in things like that, but what about guys that think they’re girls. Does that give conservatives pause? So, meet the party of Trump, Barr, Wray, Grennel, Cheney, Kasich, Sasse, Pierre Delecto, etc…..and us. I admit...

“‘For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me’” (Genesis 22:12). Trials from the Lord will reveal to believers what they love and appreciate the most. A big part of the reason for the Lord’s testing Abraham at Moriah was to show him what he valued most in life. The question God wanted Abraham to answer was, “Do you love Isaac more than Me, or do you love Me more than Isaac?” And the Lord was prepared for the drastic test of taking Abraham’s son’s life if that’s what...

According to Paul, we who believe in Jesus have been raised up from spiritual death and are seated with him in a heavenly realm. “Even when we were dead in trespasses, [God] made us alive together with Christ…and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:5-6, NKJV). Where is this heavenly place where we’re seated with Jesus? It is none other than God’s own throne room, the throne of grace, the dwelling place of the Almighty. Two verses later we read how we were brought to this wonderful place: “For...

The Pentagon has said it is tracking a chunk of a Chinese rocket that is expected to come back into the atmosphere in the coming days in an uncontrolled reentry. As of now, it does not know where the debris will land. The exact point where the rocket will enter the atmosphere will be known only within "hours" of its reentry, the US Space Command, a branch of the US military, said in a statement Tuesday. The core of the rocket, which China launched April 29, has been predicted to come back to Earth "around May 8", Space Command said....

If you wanted to teach a class on how to cause confusion and distrust, you would follow the U.S. government's coronavirus playbook. A lot has been written about the historically low levels of trust Americans have in their leaders and institutions. There's been less analysis on what happens when a government has no faith in its own citizens. We are seeing the results today. From the start of the pandemic, health authorities have chosen gamesmanship over honesty. This has resulted in muddled and inconsistent messaging from national leaders. The end result is a broken country of citizens at one another's...

23 years old and touring England. It was the times that attracted the young to him. Objected to being called a poet. His answers to older reporters questions were all over the place-kinda like some of his songs. Immature. Distant. Used the distant mystique to his advantage. The more he pulls back the more people wanted of him. He was good ok? Trailblazer. Another part of me thinks he took us all for a ride for all those years. Saw him perform 3 times. 1973 w/The Band was great. Said good-nite at the end-that's all. He only owes us a...

A liberal Swiss billionaire known for meddling in U.S. elections has funneled millions of dollars to former attorney general Eric Holder's effort to redraw electoral maps in favor of Democrats, newly obtained documents reveal. The Berger Action Fund, the advocacy arm of Swiss megadonor Hansjörg Wyss's Wyss Foundation, passed $3 million to the National Redistricting Action Fund (NRAF) between 2018 and 2020. The NRAF is the 501(c)(4) lobbying arm of Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a self-described "centralized hub for executing a comprehensive redistricting strategy" to give Democrats an edge in congressional races. Holder, who chairs the National Democratic Redistricting...

Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder and executive director of Black Lives Matter’s national arm, has funneled business to a company led by a man she identified as the father of her only child, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of business records, interviews and social media posts found. The company, Trap Heals, was formed just days before partnering with Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and later became the charity’s “lead developer of the art & cultural efforts,” according to business records, interviews and an archived version of Trap Heals’ website. Two other activist groups Cullors led paid Trap Heals a...

Action figures and G.I. Joe’s are not what they once were, according to The BizPac Review. Megyn Kelly found democratic action figure dolls in a store located in the upper west side of New York. Among the action figures were Joe Biden, VP Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Dr. Fauci. Kelly tweeted, “My friends, it’s worse than we thought.”

This town of 45,000 people in southeastern Brazil has been at the center of a unique experiment for the past three months: vaccinate nearly every adult against Covid-19 and see what happens. In recent weeks, after most of the adults here got their second dose, Covid-19 cases and deaths plunged and life has started to return to normal as the pandemic continues to rage across Brazil… The experiment in Serrana… offers new evidence of the efficacy of Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine, which is being rolled out in dozens of developing nations from Egypt to the Philippines... Not everyone in the town...

Black Lives Matter (BLM), a group skilled in corporate extortion, intimidation, and protests that have led to looting, rioting, arson, and violence, recently has published a roster of demands. The demands are focused on prosecuting Donald Trump and his supporters. In essence, BLM is searching for a crime, any crime to pin on them.Not that BLM cares one bit about the U.S. Constitution or the Capitol, they seek “full accountability” for anybody who participated in the January 6th breach of the Capitol. In their way of thinking, that includes Donald Trump.Don’t Tread On UsBLM demands that Congress avoids employing the...