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Phil Mickelson, trying at 50 to become golf's oldest major winner, continues his chase for a victory for the ages in Saturday's third round of the PGA Championship at blustery Kiawah Island. Five-time major champion Mickelson and South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen were set for an afternoon start in the final group over the punishing Ocean Course, the longest layout in major golf history at 7,876 yards. Mickelson and Oosthuizen, the 2010 British Open champion, shared the lead on five-under par 139 after 36 holes of battling the wind-swept coastal course. With a victory, Mickelson would break the major tournament age...

From the beginning of COVID's outbreak in China, there's been a steady drumbeat of information saying the Chinese created COVID in a lab and, accidentally or on purpose, unleashed it on the world. The World Health Organization, the Democrats, the Deep State, and the tech tyrants managed to suppress that information in 2020, but it's roared back this year. Tucker Carlson put the pieces together in his opening monologue and, with help from Chinese scientist Li-Meng Yan, makes it plain that, even if China didn't deliberately release the virus, it turned it into a weapon of biological warfare by withholding...

Perhaps the optimistic outcome of this recent poll would actually entice Donald Trump to join the presidential race in 2024. The former president has repeatedly said that he is looking at the prospect “very seriously” but “it’s a bit too soon” to launch his bid. According to a May 2021 poll, Donald Trump will be the clear winner if he ran in the 2024 presidential election against Vice President Kamala Harris.

The latest survey of the American Worldview Inventory from Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center found 43 percent of millennials born between 1984 and 2002 said they “don’t know, care, or believe that God exists.” Only 57 percent said they were Christian. Researchers found that belief declined between generations. Eighty-three percent of those in the Silent Generation (born 1927-1945), 79 percent of baby boomers (born 1946-1964), and 70 percent of Generation Xers (born 1965-1983) identified as Christian. Thirty-one percent, 28 percent, and 27 percent respectively said they “don’t know, care, or believe that God exists.” Those who believed “you treat...

“The Day of Pentecost: What Does This Mean?” (Acts 2:1-21) You know those people we heard about in Acts 2, the ones in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost? I think they must have been Lutheran. I mean, it says in our text, “And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, ‘What does this mean?’” That’s the Lutheran question, isn’t it? “What does this mean?” We’d almost expect the answer to begin, “We should fear and love God so that. . . .” Well, even if it isn’t right out of the catechism, this is still a good...

MIDDLE EAST—The United States has long been buying weapons for both sides of various conflicts in the Middle East. But now, with multiple financial crises going on at home, the U.S. is looking for ways to reduce the cost of these conflicts. Finally, they landed on a solution: they'll cut out the middleman -- defense contractors -- and just have the countries lob giant sacks of American tax dollars at each other directly. "Instead of going through the whole rigamarole of buying weapons for them, or letting them buy weapons from us at a discount, or supplying insurgent groups with...

Campaign finance records reveal that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and House Speaker Dade Phelan received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a PAC for a clinic that offers hormone treatment to allegedly transgender children. UT Southwestern Medical Center hosts the Gender Education and Care Interdisciplinary Support (GENECIS) program, which is the “first and largest program in the southwest that provides multidisciplinary care to transgender children and adolescents.” While the program does not offer surgery to children, it does offer a number of so-called “treatments” that may amount to chemical castration, including hormone therapy, menstruation suppression, and...

PAWTUCKET, RI—Hasbro has released a new version of the classic board game Operation where players just keep putting more and more masks on the patient to make him safer and safer. Instead of actual healthcare or removing the broken body parts out of the patient, players will instead just keep layering masks on him. Players earn points based on how high they can stack the mask tower without its toppling and how well they're able to cover the patient's nose and mouth. A new commercial described the excitement of the updated version of the game: "Can you double-mask Cavity Sam?...

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the Ranking Member on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed strong opposition on Friday to China blocking Taiwan from the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO).

A Second Amendment patriot came to the rescue of a Jewish family after they fell victim to an anti-Semitic attack in Florida this week, according to reports.cPolice are investigating the Miami-area incident involving the Orgen family from New Jersey who received help from a gun owner who witnessed the assault as it was unfolding.

With a ‘12,000 percent increase in deaths with these vaccines’ and ‘statistically zero risk’ of children dying from COVID-19, plaintiffs argue there is no justification for such injections. The motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama and is directed against Secretary Xavier Becerra and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It consists of numerous plaintiffs representing various interests and backgrounds, including “physicians and the parents of minor children who are alarmed about offering children experimental products that have not undergone long term animal or safety studies.” “We’ve never seen this level...

Luis and Florinda Argueta were fed up, according to court documents. Their son, Joe Argueta, 19, had been feuding with another teenager and his friends who had been harassing the family for weeks, slashing their car tires and shooting at their house in Houston, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and a lawyer for the younger Mr. Argueta said. Florinda Argueta, 39, hatched a plan: The family would stay up all night, wait for the teenager and his friends and “deal with them,” according to a report filed by a Harris County prosecutor.

BILLUND, DENMARK—As part of its new push toward inclusion and diversity, LEGO has unveiled a new set of genderless bricks without male or female connectors. The entirely smooth bricks have no suggestive male nubs or female receptors and instead have entirely smooth, androgynous sides all around. "This represents a new era in inclusive building bricks!" said LEGO spokesperson Bjørn Irkestøm-Slater Walker. "Finally -- anyone can play with our LEGOs without being triggered by those horrid male and female parts that imply they're only supposed to fit in one direction. Every brick can stack on any other brick without anyone misgendering...

All of them :) are my favorite because they are ALL effective at various times in a war.

Doctors are forecasting what some experts are now calling “the fourth wave” of the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts say the mental health impacts will be “profound and far-reaching,” likely outlasting the physical health impacts, and straining already-stretched mental health systems in the United States and worldwide.... “The pandemic has produced a petri dish of psychological factors that may lead to emotional health problems: anxiety, brain fog, depression, and PTSD,” says Luana Marques, a psychologist and professor at Harvard Medical School... During the pandemic’s first nine months, six times as many American adults reported mental health issues as in early 2019.... Soaring...

A police officer in Aurora, Colorado, issued a department-wide email recently announcing his retirement and offering his assessment of the climate surrounding law enforcement. “I am leaving Colorado for palm trees and less communism,” wrote Daniel Bertelson, a 16-year veteran of the Aurora Police Department . “Try to ignore the politicians and media,” he urged his colleagues. “They know nothing of this profession or honor; they’re self-serving con artists, well-dressed pimps and prostitutes at best.” President Biden recently blamed law enforcement officers for fueling “distrust” among minority communities in a proclamation declaring Peace Officers Memorial Day . “Biden’s statement shows...

Former President Donald Trump's 1776 Advisory Commission, charged with developing a more patriotic education curriculum, plans to continue meeting in Washington next week despite being abolished by President Joe Biden, the Washington Examiner reported Friday. Trump created the commission to counter teaching critical race theory and curriculum pieces like The New York Times' 1619 Project in the nation's schools. The commission's Executive Director, Matthew Spalding, told the Examiner that the commission still sees itself in a ''major role'' in the debate over how to teach American History in public and private schools.

OAN has a report out today explaining that auditors have successfully recovered the databases full of voting data, but Maricopa County officials and Dominion still refuse to turn over the passwords to the Dominion voting machines. It now appears the information that was allegedly deleted from election machines in Maricopa county has since been recovered. According to Ben Cotton, the founder of one of the companies hired to carry out the audit of Maricopa’s 2020 elections. During a hearing in the Senate on Tuesday, Cotton, founder of the digital forensics company CyFIR, a subcontractor on Senate President Karen Fann’s audit...

Tucker Carlson has taken heavy heat from the left for saying that Democrats want to replace the current electorate with immigrants. Yet that is precisely what Joe Scarborough is demanding! On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough went on one of his patented rants, railing against Trump supporters who continue to be skeptical about the election results. A screaming Scarborough told Trump supporters: "America, love it or leave it! . . . Just leave . . . Get the hell out! We don't want you here."And who would take the place of those exiled Trump supporters? Joe had the answer: "millions of...

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will headline a fundraiser for Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), one of the House Republicans’ loudest anti-Trump critics . The fundraiser invitation reads that tickets range from $250 to $11,600 per person. Kinzinger was one of ten House GOP members to vote in favor of Trump’s second impeachment. Ryan, who departed from Congress in 2018, and is now a board member of Fox , has been critical of Trump and is reportedly seeking to place a more active roll in shaping the Republican Party’s future. Ryan predicted that the still-popular Trump “is going to fade”...