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The Biden administration shut down a State Department probe into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, looking specifically at whether the novel coronavirus came from a Chinese lab, according to CNN. The inquiry, which was launched by “allies of then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,” began last fall, but was ended in the spring after draft findings were presented to Biden officials. Questions were raised about the legitimacy of the findings and the project was deemed to be an ineffective use of resources, explained a source familiar with the decision.Sources involved in the Trump-era inquiry rejected criticisms over the quality of...

A multimillion-dollar home in Sammamish is at the center of an ongoing investigation, as squatters continue to break in and make the home their own. “The amount of guns, drugs, etcetera that were confiscated out of that place are not for personal use or for any good reason,” Sammamish Police Chief Dan Pingrey said. “I totally recognize how frustrating it is for the neighborhood and it’s just as frustrating for us to be honest with you.” The homeowner lives overseas, but a few people living locally help maintain the home with routine checkups. One of those workers stopped by the...

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. DKS, +16.53% stock jumped 6.3% in Wednesday premarket trading after the athletic retailer reported first-quarter earnings that beat expectations and raised its full-year profit guidance.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been a warrior for Donald Trump and for the Republicans, but sometimes that friendship is not reciprocated, as was the case this week. Leave it to some spineless Republicans (and this is why we are losing the culture war) to give Lindell the cold shoulder. On Tuesday, Lindell went to The Republican Governors Association of Tennessee’s spring conference and was unceremoniously kicked out of the event.

This was bound to happen. I’m sort of shocked it didn’t happen sooner, but here we are with the triggered left-wingers tossing around lawsuits like candy because they found something offensive. That thing was a phrase Donald Trump used to describe the coronavirus. It’s accurate. It’s not offensive, but that’s not the point. This is about the Left’s unhealthy and unhinged obsession with the former president. Even when he’s gone, he’s facing criminal investigations into his business dealings, but this one deals with two words: China virus. Yes, Trump is being sued because he said that (via the Hill):Former President...

Will Only A Few People Be Saved? No. A Great Multitude Will Be Saved. By JAG May 25, 2021 Do these Bible verses teach that Christians are now, and will be in the future, few in numbers? No. Luke 12:32's "little flock." Matthew 7:14's "only a few find it." Matthew 22:14's "many are invited, but few are chosen." Rev.7:9-10 forever and irrefutably settles this issue: The numbers of the saved are not a "little flock" and not "only a few." Are the following people Christians? Yes or No? John saw, "a great multitude that no one could count, from every...

My family name originates from Palestine, and from the beginnings of my family line, we have been Christians. Because of regional war, my family emigrated to the U.S. when I was a child. I grew up in San Diego, and was part of a non-denominational church that loved the Bible and loved Israel. With my Palestinian background, I was confused by some things, but I didn’t question the Zionist position of the church. The Abrahamic Covenant (Genesis 12); Paul’s love for his ethnic brethren (Romans 9-11); and a regular reminder of prophetic fulfillment were enough for me to support Zionism....

How's it look out there America? Pretty scary huh... Do you still see our nation recovering and our best days yet ahead? Eyes of delusion and fatal optimism can see almost anything but Almighty God and His Word! When a nation which was conceived and brought forth in and by the Laws of Nature and Nature's ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS CREATOR does not know what a boy or girl is anymore; we are horrifically doomed!! When a nation which was conceived and brought forth in and by the Laws of Nature and Nature's ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS CREATOR does not know what a boy...

As we report on the crisis at the border, we've overlooked a crisis between our borders. ....... God, if I was any dumber I’d be Nicole Wallace. So, it's the cause and effect that comes from being over-taxed, under-protected, and treated like crap. It’s like you’re permanently living on a Delta flight. As David Keltz in the American Spectator reports: California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois -- all states in the union, Kat -- lost a combined 4 million residents. And that's not even including gun or COVID victims. They're losing people quicker than CNN's primetime. Meanwhile, Republican-led...

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the committee that oversees the United States military, issued a statement over the weekend in support of Air Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who was relieved of his command at Space Force after warning about Marxism spreading in the military.“Based on the information the committee has received so far and what’s been reported in the press, I am concerned. Members of our military should not only be able to speak out against Marxism, but they should be encouraged to do so — as long as they follow...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has said former President Donald Trump may have "some damage to repair" if he plans to run for the White House successfully in 2024. Graham, who has been a strong defender of Trump, told Fox News's Sean Hannity on Monday that Trump is likely to win the Republican nomination for president in two years' time. Graham and Hannity discussed an upcoming series of talks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library where some senior Republicans will meet to discuss the future of the party. The event is entitled "Time for Choosing."

Democrats are vowing that any action by the United States Supreme Court to alter the legal precedent on abortion will add “fuel” to the push among some in their party to add seats to the nation's highest court. Congressional Democrats issued the warning after the Supreme Court announced that it would decide on the constitutionality of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban by hearing the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The state of Mississippi is asking the court to review a lower court decision finding that the ban on abortions more than 15 weeks into a pregnancy is unconstitutional....

Mayor Steve Adler’s Austin is still getting worse. He led the explosion of homeless camping citywide and the defunding of police. Police are leaving in droves, crime is spiking hard, and homeless camping has spread serious blight all over the city. Now that blight is concentrating downtown, thanks to another of Adler’s addle-brained decisions. If you walk or drive around city hall in Austin, Texas, now, you’ll see a new tent city. It sprung up after voters in the city overwhelmingly agreed to reinstate the ban on camping on public land on May 1. Even when camping was legal everywhere...

JOE Biden's administration shut down a Donald Trump-era investigation into the Wuhan institute at the center of the Covid-19 lab "leak" theory, it was reported Tuesday. The State Department effort to prove Covid originated in a Chinese lab was reportedly stopped by Biden over concerns about the "quality of work" - but will raise concerns of a potential whitewash. The probe was launched last fall by allies of then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, CNN reports, citing sources close to the matter. The news comes as a renewed interest into whether the virus could have originated in a lab has been...

Following nearly 14 hours of delay tactics by Democrats, the Texas House failed to pass a measure to require transgender student-athletes to participate in sports that match their biological sex rather than their gender identity. Those delay efforts ranged from extensive question and answer periods during bill layouts to introduction of multiple long-winded debates relating to bill amendments. Some liberal lawmakers even recited stanzas of the Texas state song and the national anthem during discussion about a bill to require professional sports teams that have contracts with governmental entities to play the national anthem before games. The delays focused on...

Joe Biden has cooked up another absurd, unfounded, and totally false smear about Donald Trump -- and the mainstream media will more than likely do nothing to correct the record. During an interview with Edward-Isaac Dovere of The Atlantic, Biden falsely claimed that Trump campaigned on the rhetoric that black people were taking jobs away from other Americans. Biden's claim was that Trump is racist and he was trying to appeal to other "racist" Americans.

At a time the wealthiest Americans have gotten even richer due to booming times on Wall Street, pernicious inflation would give working families a crushing blow.resident Biden claims he won’t raise taxes on families making less than $400,000 per year. But given Biden’s twists and turns on taxes—he now wants to eliminate a loophole he and his wife exploited to avoid more than $500,000 in taxes the past four years—Americans have reason to take his campaign promises with a grain of salt.Even if he does not levy taxes on middle-class families directly, Biden’s free-money policies are beginning to impose a...

The Biden administration is loaded with people who can't admit the obvious. The border is in crisis. Immunization means you can't catch COVID. COVID originated in a ChiCom lab. Inflation? What inflation? Now it's Secretary of State Antony Blinken's turn. Get a load of this exchange reported by the Daily Caller, describing Blinken's appearance on ABC's "The Week":The show’s host [former Clinton administration operative George Stephanopoulos] then brought up a May 13 letter by a group of Senate Republicans, in which the lawmakers urged Biden to stop offering sanction relief to Iran, citing its funding of Hamas.“Do you believe that...

Team Biden is poised to hand out billions of dollars to what it misleadingly labels “socially disadvantaged” farmers, restaurateurs and other business owners hurt by the lockdowns. The money will start flowing to them in early June — provided they don’t have white skin. Biden’s American Rescue Plan defines “socially disadvantaged” based on skin color and ancestry, not the hardships faced by an individual. Blacks, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Hispanics and Pacific Islanders are included. One group is excluded: whites. Fortunately, the new law’s anti-white provisions are facing a challenge in court, and the challengers are likely to win. The...

Structure of the new carbon network. The upper part shows schematically the linking of the carbon atoms, forming squares, hexagons, and octagons. The lower part is an image of the network, obtained with high-resolution microscopy. Credit: University of Marburg, Aalto University ================================================================================ Carbon exists in various forms. In addition to diamond and graphite, there are recently discovered forms with astonishing properties. For example graphene, with a thickness of just one atomic layer, is the thinnest known material, and its unusual properties make it an extremely exciting candidate for applications like future electronics and high-tech engineering. In graphene, each carbon atom...