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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) released a statement Tuesday opposing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) backwardly focused January 6 commission legislation due to bad-faith negotiations. McCarthy explained Republicans have been hoodwinked by Pelosi “falsely” claiming “in the press that she had delivered Republicans a counterproposal, when in reality her proposal would not surface until weeks later.”

Arizona Republican Chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward has delivered a smackdown on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting that took place this week. The meeting was held on Monday and Ward produced a video on Monday night to excoriate the Board of Supervisors. “Chairman Jack Sellers said he and the rest of them are going to ignore legislative inquiries and subpoenas. In other words, they will all be willingly and willfully in contempt of the Arizona Senate’s authority… Who gives these local officials the right to challenge the Constitutional authority of the Arizona Senate and the Arizona courts which have...

The Biden administration is apparently offering even more concessions and sanctions relief to Iran's leaders, concessions that "go beyond the nuclear-specific sanctions."....Meanwhile, these leaders from Iran are openly encouraging Hamas to launch more rockets....In addition, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...has been inciting terrorism on social media.... [and] labeled the whole nation of Israel a terrorist camp....Twitter's policy indicates that it will suspend users "due to the risk of further incitement of violence." But Twitter appears to be giving him full immunity. It is worth noting that Twitter banned the former President Donald J. Trump... "due to the risk of...

OAKLAND, Calif. - What was supposed to be a celebratory event turned deadly early Tuesday morning when multiple people were shot on a party bus traveling along a highway in Oakland. Two women were killed, the Alameda County Coroner's Office said, but the victims were not immediately identified.

They used 80 pounds of Tannerite, an explosive compound typically sold over the counter for firearms practice, mixed with blue chalk dust. No one was injured and no major damage was reported.

At the end of a recent 800-meter race in Oregon, a high-school runner named Maggie Williams got dizzy, passed out and landed face-first just beyond the finish line. She and her coach blamed her collapse on a deficit of oxygen due to the mask she’d been forced to wear, and state officials responded to the public outcry by easing their requirements for masks during athletic events. But long before the pandemic began, scientists had repeatedly found that wearing a mask could lead to oxygen deprivation. Why had this risk been ignored? One reason is that a new breed of censors...

1. Medium sized enterprises are adopting automation at a faster pace. One of the major barriers to the widespread adoption of robotics and automation is the cost of their implementation. In recent years it has been all too easy for your typical technologist to champion the theoretical benefits of robotic and automation, but the reality has been that the majority of enterprises are simply too small to make the required investment. But the accelerated change being driven by the 2020-21 pandemic are now causing medium businesses to revisit their calculus. Robotics and automation can yield permanent efficiencies and can support...

Marc Piasecki/Getty Images The official Black Lives Matter organization declared its “solidarity” with Palestinians on Monday, effectively backing the Hamas terror organization in its ongoing conflict with Israel. Writing on Twitter, BLM’s official account noted that it “always will be” partnered with the cause of “Palestinian liberation.”

This week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) publicly confronted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) and asked her questions about the Green New Deal she is pushing for America. Greene says she "chose this venue because in the House any inconvenient questions I raise are routinely gavelled 'out of order' by the Democrat committee chair. When I learned that AOC was holding a press conference I thought I'd ask my questions there, but she ran away." AOC professed herself "severely frightened by the encounter. There was no one to intervene on my behalf. It was just her and me in front...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Mississippi’s appeal in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to decide the fate of the state’s Gestational Age Act. That law, passed in 2018 and held in limbo ever since by the courts, bans abortions after 15 weeks except “in a medical emergency or in case of a severe fetal abnormality.” Nothing in the text or history of the Constitution bars such laws, and the Court should say so. Better still, it should put an end to the long charade of judge-invented abortion law. The Court should say that Roe v. Wade...

From Greg Burt/CFCSACRAMENTO - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and State Sen. Scott Wiener (D- San Francisco) have teamed up on a bill making its way through the legislature to decriminalize streetwalkers hanging out on street corners. Wiener, who wants to make prostitution legal, says California police officers shouldn’t assume scantily clad women hanging out on street corners and talking to men driving by in cars are involved in prostitution. “Arrests… are based on an officer’s subjective perception of whether a person is ‘acting like’ they intend to engage in sex work,” Wiener said in a press release. Senator:...

Dr. Fauci on Tuesday admitted his mask-wearing indoors despite being vaccinated was all for show and not based on any science whatsoever. In an interview with Good Morning America Tuesday morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted to having continued to wear a mask indoors for appearance’s sake, not based on the science surrounding the protection of the vaccine. Responding to questions on how the new mask mandates have changes his own personal mask wearing tendencies, Fauci responded, “I’m obviously careful because I’m a physician and a healthcare provider. I am now much more comfortable in people seeing me indoors without a...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said Sunday the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. "shone a bright light on our own society's failings" in how the virus impacted minority communities.Fauci stated that "the undeniable effects of racism" have led to unacceptable health disparities that especially hurt African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans during the pandemic.

I'd gone to a doctor's appointment this morning. Stopped by McDonald's before returning to work. Walked in so I could use the restroom. My order came to $6.87. I gave the girl $20.87. Went downhill from there. She handed me $13.13. I said, "No, you need to give me $14" She replied, "I can't, the register says I have to give you $13.13". Called the manager over. She had punched in $20 instead of $20.87. The manager said "Give him $14" The girl was all flustered. "But, the register says..." "Give him $14" Sad commentary on today's kids. I guess...

Space debris is any nonfunctional human-made object in space. As a professor of space and society focused on space governance, I've noticed that there are three questions the public always asks when falling space debris gets into the news. So, how do current laws and treaties around space stack up? They do OK, but interestingly, looking at environmental law here on Earth may give some ideas on how to improve the current legal regime with respect to space debris. Basically, if a piece of space junk from China landed on your house, your own country's government would make a claim...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen urged people in Taiwan not to hoard food and masks on Saturday after a recent Chinese coronavirus lockdown order in Taipei and its surrounding area caused residents to panic buy basic household supplies. Taiwan’s government raised its four-tier coronavirus alert system to a level three for the first time on May 15, issuing partial lockdown orders for its capital, Taipei, and the surrounding New Taipei City in response to a recent surge in new daily Chinese coronavirus cases in the region. The order sparked a panic buying frenzy in the capital area on Saturday, as residents...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have found themselves at odds with cancel culture over skin-whitening cream. The Duke and Duchess recently finalized a deal with a massive company that sells skin-whitening cream. Now, they are facing cries of hypocrisy due to the fact that they often speak out against racism.

Did you know the guy behind the Matt Gaetz allegations just pleaded guilty to making false allegations about sex with a minor about another of his political opponents? The media doesn’t seem to want to report this part of the case, which is available for anyone who wants to read it in Joel Greenberg’s plea deal released on Monday. Greenberg, a Florida tax collector in Seminole County, pleaded guilty this week to a series of crimes. The corporate media is reporting on his plea deal with prosecutors and the implications for firebrand Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz. But there’s something else...

Dear Big Pharma, while you were so busy kicking back dark money to Dr.s, corrupting the FDA, legislatures and Gov. Executives, you got so big, you forgot to notice that your fear mongering and suppression of scientific commonsense were becoming so obvious that the common people would take a minute to stop looking at their phones and remark, "hey, this stinks". Abraham Lincoln had a sort of longwinded but logical way of dealing with the kind of intellectually sloppy, hapless propaganda you're trying to pedal: "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people...

An up-close-and-personal look at the difference between Maryland and Texas. Road trips often elicit thoughts and memories of quirky roadside attractions, local food, postcards, and long hours behind the wheel. A recent trip from my home in Maryland to Texas, for a nephew's wedding, was just the excuse my wife and I needed to create some of these road trip memories for our family of five. Our trip didn't disappoint as we visited family and famous attractions: the Parthenon in Nashville; a Civil War museum and battlefield in New Market, Va.; and Buc-ee's in Texas. I couldn't help but notice...