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Rep. Elise Stefanik is telling Republicans on the fence that she intends to serve just one term as GOP conference chair in an effort to lock in support for the House leadership position, Fox News has confirmed. The New York Republican is poised to replace Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., as soon as next week at the No. 3 GOP leader in the House. In her conversations with colleagues in advance of the expected vote, Stefanik has said she intends to serve in leadership through the 2022 election, two sources familiar told Fox News. Then she intends to seek the top...

The establishment media’s fixation on Donald Trump before and after his astonishing 2016 victory over failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has sustained itself post-presidency. The media on Saturday compiled the following headlines on their webpages to illustrate the fixation: CNN: The ‘headache’ Trump left behind for Biden on the White House lawn Trump Organization must turn over documents to NY attorney general, judge rules Fact-checking Trump’s call with Georgia’s secretary of state Trump probably can’t pardon himself. He may still try How Trump’s fundraising could benefit his post-White House political life Washington Post: Cheney plans lengthy fight to turn GOP...

My attention has been drawn to a report produced by the Youthscape Centre for Research and Tearfund entitled ‘Burning Down the House: How the Church Could Lose Young People Over Climate Inaction’. The message of this 20-page publication is there in the title: the church’s failure to address climate change threatens to alienate young people.I’m afraid I found it a disappointing publication, but before I explain my objections let me say two things. The first is that I believe climate change is a serious threat and that something needs to be done urgently. Let no denier of climate change enlist...

A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday had some people wondering if a fleet of UFOs was coming, but it had others— mostly amateur stargazers and professional astronomers— lamenting the industrialization of space. The train of lights was actually a series of relatively low-flying satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX as part of its Starlink internet service earlier this week. Callers swamped TV stations from Texas to Wisconsin reporting the lights and musing about UFOs.An email to a spokesman for SpaceX was not returned Saturday, but astronomy...

I would love a COVID-19 vaccine passport. After more than a year in full or partial quarantine, I’m so happy to be vaccinated I want to get the words “FULLY” and “VAXXED” tattooed on my butt and run naked through the streets. (Don’t worry, I won’t. America has suffered enough.) Unfortunately … sorry, that’s a side effect of the Pfizer vaccine … unfortunately, vaccine pride is not as prevalent as it should be, and a sizable swath of the population prefers to poo-poo the one thing that can lead us out of a pandemic that has killed more than 550,000...

After a year of navigating lockdowns and a constant barrage of dizzying messaging telling us what we can and can’t do, I’ve noticed a troubling theme when it comes to motherhood: “It’s too much.” Recent studies have confirmed this, with stress, depression and anxiety among moms rising to concerning heights. As a mom of two middle schoolers, I have easily let these emotions seep in as we’ve navigated distance learning, argued over places to get some personal space in our home and wrestled with the need for social interactions with friends who may not share the same philosophies on gathering.But...

. .by JAMES TISSOT, 1890 "The Voice in the Desert".. JOHN THE BAPTIST, PREACHING . 2 6 A. D. Bible Timeline Resources to CLICK: To read LUKE 3 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels Mt3 + Mk1 + Lk3 + Jn1 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible .MATTHEWCh. 3 1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven...

T. rex’s incredible biting force came from its stiff lower jawA small bone in the mandible helped brace an otherwise flexible jointThe fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex could generate tremendous bone-crushing bite forces thanks to a stiff lower jaw. That stiffness stemmed from a boomerang-shaped bit of bone that braced what would have been an otherwise flexible jawbone, a new analysis suggests.Unlike mammals, reptiles and their close kin have a joint dubbed the intramandibular joint within their lower jawbone, or mandible. New computer simulations show that with a bone spanning the IMJ, T. Rex could have generated bite forces of more than...

Appeals court panel says interstate haulers are not exempt from AB 5 law. Interstate truckers could soon come under California’s highly restrictive independent contractor law because of a recent federal appeals court decision. A three-judge panel for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 that a federal law called the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (FAAAA) does not preclude application of the state’s AB 5 contractor law to trucking companies operating in interstate commerce. In early 2020, before the new law went into effect, a federal district court judge granted an injunction barring the state from enforcing it...

Starting about 15 years ago a trend began that convinced Americans to focus on this country’s imperfections rather than its exceptionalism. This now rapidly growing trend has resulted in long-term economic stagnation and a deeply divided country. America’s astonishing growth and well spread generosity has resulted in the world’s most prosperous country. It has also resulted in keeping much of the world safe from unwanted oppression, mostly by leading the victories in World War I and World War II. America fought other wars around the globe that protected our security interests but mostly help preserve freedom in other countries. America...

China's agriculture under its corporate-state model is a disaster. Up until recently I felt that China’s economic growth was unstoppable and that it would indeed surpass the U.S. and keep going into a bright future. However, researching more, I concluded that healthy land use for agriculture (such as organic farming) and minimizing industrial pollution are even more important than economic prosperity. China doesn't have them; we do. The dysfunctional running of the centralized banking system by the CCP is also major handicap for the economy. Now, if you merely compare a dollar's worth of the Chinese economy to that of...

(excerpt) The training is part of a new program launched by the West Georgia agency meant to address some of these questions. The program, called "Shoot to Incapacitate," is challenging decades of police orthodoxy around use of deadly force. Instead of teaching officers to always aim for available center mass of the body — usually the chest, upper torso and head — the training is giving them another option if they must fire their weapons in the line of duty. The course is the first of its kind in Georgia and could well be a first in the nation. It...

Recently, I was approached by members of the Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals, who in addition to their verbal pitch, gave me one of their flyers. An objective stated in their flyer was to provide legal help to those who could not afford lawyers. They could have added the professions of doctors and dentists as not being affordable as well. Instead of focusing on why people can’t afford the services of professionals, the emphasis was on providing free or low-cost services to those in need. We are a nation that increasingly focuses on effects rather than on causes. Consequently, we...

“We can’t miss a shipment,” said Troy Thomas, 51, the veteran plant manager. “Or we shut down big companies that are producing billions of dollars of metal a day.” Sogefi’s travails are mirrored across industrial America. Manufacturers complain of “record-long lead times, wide-scale shortages of critical basic materials, rising commodities prices and difficulties in transporting products,” the Institute of Supply Management said earlier this week. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell told reporters in late April that supply chain “bottlenecks” are slowing goods production and will likely contribute to a temporary rise in inflation. “The supply of various inputs into...

Just mere days after a huge brawl at Miami International Airport, another massive fight broke out in the terminal Tuesday night. The mayhem was captured in cellphone footage taken by multiple onlookers at Gate G-15 by the Southwest Airlines counter. One person ended up arrested. The fight is part of a troubling trend airports across the nation are seeing, now that many people have resumed traveling. Recently, videos have surfaced showing face-mask confrontations, seat disagreements and personal space arguments. Clashes between passengers on planes have spilled over into airports.

WASHINGTON - Allegiance to a lie has become a test of loyalty to Donald Trump and a means of self-preservation for Republicans. Trump’s discredited allegations about a stolen election did nothing to save his presidency when courtrooms high and low, state governments and ultimately Congress - meeting in the chaos of an insurrection powered by his grievances - affirmed the legitimacy of his defeat and the honesty of the process that led to it. Now those “Big Lie” allegations, no closer to true than before, are getting a second, howling wind. Republicans are expected to believe the falsehoods, pretend they...

A new drug is being floated to treat COVID. How will the government, the medical industry, and the media react? On March 17, 2021, Emory's non-profit drug development company DRIVE announced its discovery of a new antiviral drug, called molnupiravir (formerly EIDD-2801), which can be administered to outpatients in pill form, and which appears safe and reduces SARS-CoV-2 to undetectable levels in COVID-19 patients after five days of administration, according to data from a Phase II clinical trial in the United States[.] ... Although remdesivir and antiviral monoclonal antibodies have received Emergency Use Authorizations from the FDA, they must be...

The most relentless slander the Democrats leveled against President Trump was that he was a racist. Any person with marginal intelligence looking at the record knew this was a lie but the Democrats, thanks to their media lackeys, made it stick. Their promise was that international relationships with the non-racist Biden-Harris administration would be so much better. When Biden gave Kamala “Ms. Diversity” Harris responsibility for dealing with the southern border, they celebrated. Six weeks into that brief, though, Harris’s first act was to offend and incense the Mexican president. Ruh-roh! One of the most baffling things for the Democrats...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/it-seems-blatantly-illegal-southwest-ohio-school-district-defies-state-rules-pulls-back-mask-requirements/HZUYER44QJFXJFADJBQZWT75PE/ This school board in Ohio chose to eliminate mask requirements. Great to see people go against CDC and state health guidelines for educational settings, which I am sure were were written by “educators” and not by freedom-loving patriots. - https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/public-health-seeks-steady-funding-feast-famine-77164492 Headline - Billions spent in Coronavirus fight, but what happens next? It is easy to figure out what happens next...spend billions more. Coronavirus is leading to inflation.

America's credibility and strength are not a partisan matter or even up for political debate — when America loses, the American people loses. When America's respectability is weakened internationally, the American democracy suffers. After the disastrous — and very unfortunate for the American people — job reports of last month, President Biden decided to give a golden opportunity to European countries and the European Union (as an organization) to humiliate the USA. Recently, the land of creativity, innovation, the free market, self-determination, and individual ingenuity seemed to have turned into the land of coercion and government control in the international...