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The world is so plagued by contradictions right now that I sometimes find myself quietly mouthing the opening sentences of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (and I bet I'm not alone in this admission). In terms of safety, health, opportunity, and prosperity, there has never been a better time in human history, but hardly anyone living anywhere is celebrating. Barack Obama sold "hope" on his march to power, but Black Lives Matter and Antifa preach only despair at every turn. An American government invested in projecting strength abroad stokes fear at home. It has never been easier to...

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Why are Texas Senate Republicans slowing a bill supported by most House Democrats and all House Republicans?In 2017, the Texas legislature passed a sweeping knife reform bill. It removed the criminal penalties for carrying most knives in Texas. Because of a tragic and illegal knife attack on a college campus, at the last minute, amendments were added to the bill to make the possession of knives with a blade over 5.5 inches illegal in a small number of locations.This meant numerous people were kept at risk of arrest for using ordinary implements of the job, such as gardeners...

In a laudatory piece on the Biden economic policy #NeverTrumper Michael Gerson cautions, between the lines, that Biden must not only propose solutions but also make them work. Oh sure, writes Reagan administration alum Donald Devine; like anyone in Washington cares about that. Expecting policies to work may seem an obvious requirement, but my half-century of experience in Washington taught me that this [is] a rare concern among policy experts. The goal in these environs is to spend more money on problems, not to worry about results.Really? But we have been taught to believe that government only works when the...

Celebrating National Donut Day.To mark National Donut Day this year, frozen pizza specialist DiGiorno has created a mashup between pizza and donut. Dubbed “DiGiornuts,” the spin on the traditional pie takes on the shape of the circular sweet treat. Each DiGiornuts is filled with mozzarella cheese and topped with signature DiGiorno sauce, along with even more cheese and toppings. “At DiGiorno we like to push the boundaries of what’s possible for pizza, and the DiGiornut is something we’ve been dreaming about for a while,” said DiGiorno’s brand manager Kimberly Holowiak. “At the same time, we’ve seen out-of-the-box thinking from our...

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a sarcastic jab at social media platforms on Monday, asking if Dr. Anthony Fauci should be deplatformed after he said earlier this month he was "not convinced" that COVID-19 developed naturally. DeSantis referenced Fauci’s remarks at a press conference ahead of his signing of a Florida bill that will penalize social media platforms for suspending the accounts of political candidates. During the event, the Republican governor argued that social media platforms had previously cracked down on accounts who posted claims that the COVID-19 pandemic may have originated at a lab in Wuhan, China. "Now we...

In the four years he was President, Donald Trump rebuilt the economy after the policy disasters of the Bush-Obama years, significantly curtailed illegal immigration, confronted and exposed the Chinese Communist Party, and with Operation Warp Speed conquered the China Coronavirus pandemic. While this list is impressive, his most significant long-term accomplishment may well place him in the pantheon of the American presidents that saved the nation: he fortuitously ripped open the floorboards and exposed the termites stealthily and relentlessly consuming the cultural, societal, and governmental foundation of the country. During the later stages of the 2016 campaign and the four...

One of my early memories, and not a happy one, is sitting in gas lines in the 1970s. My parents would rustle me out of bed early on frigid February mornings, and we'd pack into the Ford and speed over to the gas station. When we got there, there would often be six or seven cars in front of us. Sometimes, we'd wait 20 or 30 minutes for a fill-up. And we'd notice that every few weeks there would be someone on a ladder posting a higher price on the 20-foot-high sign. It always sticks in my memory because even...

President Biden starts his day lifting weights before sipping orange Gatorade in the Oval Office — bumping Diet Coke as the presidential beverage of choice, according to a new report. Biden, 78, “begins his mornings with a workout that often includes lifting weights, and he meets regularly in person with a trainer,” according to the Washington Post. The president proceeds onto the Oval Office, where orange Gatorade is enjoyed with lunch — or even on the run in a lunch bag. “He has the tastes of a 5-year-old,” a Biden adviser told the paper.

A missing 69-year-old fisherman was found alive on Sunday after surviving 17 nights in the Oregon wilderness alone, authorities said. Harry Burleigh survived in the wilderness for over two weeks after going missing. Harry Burleigh survived in the wilderness for over two weeks after going missing. Facebook Search and rescue crews had been looking for Roseburg resident Harry Burleigh since he went missing May 7 after a camping trip in the Twin Lakes area. On Sunday afternoon, a team found him after calling his name near where they’d found a shelter he’d built for himself days earlier, an announcement from...

This headline in the New York Times tells you everything you need to know about the progressive mindset, “A Year After George Floyd: Pressure to Add Police Amid Rising Crime.” Who didn’t know that demonizing police, cutting their funding, making it as clear as day that a city’s political leaders not only won’t defend them, but will actively throw them to the mob without any due process considerations might lead to problems for a city? Turns out pretty much every left-wing activist in the country. Worse, most of them still don’t care. Crime is up, especially violent crime, in Democrat-run...

Sammy Hagar returned to the stage May 23 for a performance with his band the Circle in Key West, Fla. The Red Rocker remained active during the hiatus caused by COVID-19, regularly posting on social media and creating a series of streaming performances dubbed the Lockdown Sessions. Still, these activities couldn’t replace the special energy that comes with performing in front of an audience, and Hagar was clearly excited to celebrate the return of live music. The May 23 set began with “There's Only One Way to Rock,” Hagar's signature hit from 1982's Standing Hampton. From there the Circle made...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Gen Z have something in common: They both hate skinny jeans. According to various reports, the North Korean dictator has banned skinny jeans and other “decadent” Western trends like the mullet, the controversial haircut that has had a resurgence of sorts in recent months. More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. “We must be wary of even the slightest sign of the capitalistic lifestyle and fight to get rid of them," Rodong Sinmun, the North Korean state newspaper, said, quoting the totalitarian head of state....

In an exclusive interview with MSNBC's Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber, Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, Melania Trump's former advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, and the daughter-in-law of the Trump Organization's CFO Jennifer Weisselberg provide an inside look into the ongoing criminal probe into the Trump Organization.

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Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman weighed in on the mounting evidence that suggests COVID-19 originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Anthony Fauci has even said he is “not convinced” the coronavirus developed naturally after first pushing back against the theory. According to Haberman, former President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are to blame for the theory immediately being shot down by the media because they burned their own credibility “over and over again.”

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's administration on Monday rescinded a rule that limits restaurant tables to no more than six people - a day after she apologized for ignoring the regulation while gathering with friends at a bar. The Democratic governor has said tables at the Landshark Bar & Grill in East Lansing were pushed together as more people arrived in her party of roughly a dozen fully vaccinated people. A revised gatherings and face mask order, issued by the state health department, no longer includes the six-patrons-per-table provision, effective June 1. Whitmer had announced last week the planned easing of...

Liberal media has finally conceded that COVID-19 could indeed have originated in a Wuhan laboratory - after a year spent ridiculing the suggestion. The first fatality from COVID-19 was reported by Chinese state media on January 11, 2020, when a 61-year-old man who was a regular customer at the market in Wuhan died. The first confirmed case in the United States was 10 days later, when a man returned to Washington state from Wuhan.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) is currently rerouting some of its flights to avoid Belarus airspace after the eastern European country forced a Ryanair plane to land to arrest a journalist on board. “The safety of our customers and crew is our top priority,” said an SIA spokesperson in response to a CNA query on Tuesday (May 25). “We are currently rerouting our flights that are bound for Europe to avoid the Belarusian airspace, and we will continue to closely monitor the situation.” A Scoot spokesperson said the airline currently does not operate any flights over Belarusian airspace, but added that it...

The Biden administration said Monday that it would appeal a judge's order directing it to release in its entirety a legal memo on whether President Donald Trump had obstructed justice during the Russia investigation. But it also agreed to make a brief portion of the document public. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson earlier this month ordered the Justice Department to release the entire March 2019 memo as part of a public records lawsuit from a Washington-based advocacy organization. She said the department, under Attorney General William Barr, had misstated the purpose of the document in arguing that it was...