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A former top United States official revealed some eye-opening news this week about UFO sightings and what the U.S. government knows. During an interview Wednesday night on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Lue Elizondo, former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said the U.S. government is in possession of “exotic material” from UFOs. (transcript and full video in story)

Thank God for the Irish! A Greek and an Irishman were sitting in a Starbucks one day comparing their two cultures. Over a double latte, the Greek mentions "We built the Parthenon, you may recall, along with the Temple of Apollo." "Aye, and it was the Irish that discovered the Summer and Winter Solstices." "But it was the Greeks who gave birth to advanced mathematics." "Granted, but it was the Irish who built the first timepieces." Knowing that he's about to deliver the coup de grace, the son of Athens points out with a note of finality: "Keep in mind...

Fox News published an exclusive report late Wednesday in which Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee said there is “significant circumstantial evidence” that the COVID-19 outbreak emanated from a Wuhan Institute of Virology leak. The committee Republicans pushed for the federal government to put “more pressure on China” to carry out a “full, credible investigation” into the origin of the global coronavirus pandemic. According to Fox News, Committee Republican Ranking Member Devin Nunes said that it is “crucial for health experts and the U.S. government to understand how the COVID-19 virus originated” in order to prevent “or quickly mitigate future...

Images of representative fabricated PVA/PPy gel micro-tree array. Scale bar: 1 cm. Credit: California Institute of Technology _____________________________________________________________________ Tiny structures inspired by the shape of cactus spines allow a newly created material to gather drinkable water from the air both day and night, combining two water-harvesting technologies into one. The material, a micro-architected hydrogel membrane (more on that later), can produce water through both solar steam-water generation and fog collection—two independent processes that typically require two separate devices. A paper about the material was published in Nature Communications on May 14. Fog collection is exactly what it sounds like. At...

Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera had arguably the most pathetic melt-down ever seen on live television on Wednesday night when he appeared on Sean Hannity's show alongside Dan Bongino. The segment was supposed to be about discussing the conflict between Israel and Palestine. But the conversation went south when Rivera acted like a child, shouted over Bongino numerous times, threw his papers at the camera, and he even completely turned around at one point. (Video in story)

We've got 18 months to to work on them. They're socialists and we've got to get them to at least raise their eyebrows. Newer issues are playing into our hands now and the party higher-ups are asleep at the switch. The rats will take credit for the end of the virus and the MSM will play along. Will GOP leadership let them get away with it? Then there are the closed schools/businesses. Red states are showing the way and we're not taking advantage of the positive results. Then there's SSI. They'll have 30 years minimum to take part in a...

On Tuesday, Attorney General Letitia James (D-N.Y.) announced that her office would join the Manhattan district attorney in a criminal investigation of the Trump Organization. James had begun investigating the organization in 2019, but her office recently launched a criminal complaint. Former President Donald Trump condemned the investigation in the harshest of terms. “We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA,” James’ spokesman Fabien Levy told CNN. “There is nothing more corrupt...

Former President Barack Obama launched sharp barbs when referring to former President Donald Trump during closed-door donor events over the last five years, revealed excerpts of a forthcoming book. The Guardian reported: Obama jettisoned any such caution during the 2020 election that put his own vice-president, Joe Biden, in the White House. But behind the scenes, with donors and advisers, Obama was reportedly much more candid.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot attempted to defend her racist interview policy on Wednesday, explaining why she would only give interviews to “journalists of color” and exclude white journalists on the occasion of her two-year anniversary in office. In a letter to news organizations, and in a series of tweets, Lightfoot claimed there was a racial “imbalance” in the news media, especially in the City Hall press corps, and that she wanted to use her position to force journalism to become more diverse.

On Wednesday evening, House Intelligence Committee Republicans issued a 21-page report that not only says they believe that the U.S. government engaged in “dangerous scientific research with China,” but also provides “overwhelming” evidence that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) as early as October 2019.According to the report, “significant circumstantial evidence raises serious concerns that the COVID-19 outbreak may have been a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”According to Just The News, which has reviewed the report, that evidence includes“A U.S. State Department memo from January revealing that ‘several researchers at the Wuhan lab were sickened...

Pandemic, Purity, and PowerHow The New Puritanism is Dividing AmericansYesterday’s announcement that the CDC is easing COVID restrictions comes after pandemic controversies have left Americans deeply wounded and divided. Despite the hope for a return to normalcy, thousands of citizens now find themselves on the wrong side of a new leftwing purity culture.The Pandemic Purity CultureFriends have confided that vaccinated relatives are refusing to host family members who haven’t had the shot. Others have reported being victim to up-close bullying for not wearing a mask. Lawyers are documenting that parents are losing custody of their children for not wearing masks....

How Larry Thorne went from Nazi to U.S. Army hero while building one of the most famed legacies in the history of modern warfare.

The people of North Carolina dodged a bullet when the Trustees of the University of North Carolina acted to deny a grant of tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones at the University's Hussman School of Journalism and Media, leaving in place a five-year contract to teach there that the school had offered to recruit her.The denial of tenure was first reported by NC Policy Watch:As Policy Watch reported last week, UNC-Chapel Hill's Hussman School of Journalism and Media pursued Hannah-Jones for its Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, a tenured professorship. But following political pressure from conservatives who object to her...

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The massive effort to suppress any news of the Maricopa County Arizona audit highlights not only the alarming extent of the leftist “Deep State,” but also its greatest weakness. An ideology built entirely on lies -and this accurately defines the underlying belief system of the left, which is Marxism- cannot be implemented honestly and openly. It can only be advanced through the total intimidation and silencing of all opposition, along with an incessant barrage of more lies. The mere presence of truth can deal a fatal blow to it. The leftist Fake News crowd rarely mentions the Arizona audit, but...

An international court has ruled that Iceland was within its rights to deny parental rights to two lesbians who obtained a baby boy through surrogacy in the United States. For one thing, the decision from the European Court of Human Rights found, is that surrogacy is illegal in Iceland. So that required the infant, when he came to Iceland about eight years ago with the two women, to be classified an unaccompanied minor who was in the custody of the government. The two lesbians eventually obtained a foster care agreement with the government to care for the child, but their...

---SNIP--- The gov vowed to donate a “significant portion” of his windfall to charity, yet he gave away just $500,000, to the United Way of New York State — a tenth of his total pre-tax proceeds. And he took a tax break for the gift, deducting $300,000 of it this year and $200,000 to show up next year. Cuomo should give all the money to charity. He profited off a pandemic made worse by his own policies — and covered up his malfeasance as he wrote the book, keeping his reputation intact long enough to ensure a big payday.

Members of President Biden’s newly launched Counter Extremism Working Group include individuals who’ve advocated on behalf of Chinese Communist Party-linked companies and far-left Twitter trolls. The group – comprised overwhelmingly of left-wing activists – is tasked with advising the Secretary of Defense on how to “counter extremism and counter terrorism to better understand the scope of the problem.” Among its members is the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Security Project Hina Shamsi, who advocated strongly against former President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban Chinese Communist Party-compromised apps including TikTok and WeChat. Despite the founder and CEO...

Geraldo Rivera threw paper and turned his back on Dan Bongino during a wild screaming match over the Palestinian-Israel conflict on Hannity Wednesday. The Fox News personalities appeared together on Sean Hannity to discuss the Middle East conflict which has killed at least 227 people in Gaza and 12 in Israel. The two appeared ready to resume hostilities from the moment they appeared on air after a similar spat in April.

C’mon man (and woman). The Coast Guard academy class of 2021 has a new motto, thanks to the current occupant of the Oval Office. In a commencement address he asked whether they are dull. Ahhh my mom would say, that’s the pot calling the kettle black. I don’t envy these men and women having to serve under this crew of Biden and Harris. Nevertheless I am sure they will be a blessing to our nation. Semper Paratus. CGA class of 1977