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Two men were quickly booted from Yankee Stadium on Thursday night after unveiling a large “Trump Won Save America” sign.The men displayed the sign on the second deck of the stadium, first base side, during the second game of a doubleheader against the Toronto Blue Jays. As one might expect from one of the bluest cities in one of the bluest states in America, the display was not greeted warmly by fans.WATCH: Fans drop a massive “Trump Won” banner over the second deck at Yankee Stadium. pic.twitter.com/TV5yGkSTkx— Austin Kellerman (@AustinKellerman) May 28, 2021JUST IN 🚨 Someone waved a large “Trump...

Former Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer is apparently putting together a campaign team. I find this one surprising seeing that as an incumbent she couldn't hold onto her District seat. Already in the race are Republican State Senator Jim Carlin and on the Democrat side, a farmer named Dave Muhlbauer who I confess I've never heard of and I am having trouble tracking down to get on my show. Democrat J.D Scholten is also apparently considering a run.

Perhaps worse than trite politicization of classic tunes is failing to pass on the wealth of a child's musical heritage. Here are some ways to start offering that audible feast to your child.Just as what you feed your baby (and eat while pregnant) trains her palate toward good food or junk food for life, what your baby sees and hears does the same for her artistic tastes. Kids raised on mental junk food have a harder time developing an understanding of and affinity for more complex, subtle, and nourishing brain foods later in life.Many parents nowadays pay immense attention to...

“China & Russia are laughing their asses off watching CIA go full woke.”Cisgender." "Intersectional." It's like the Babylon Bee is handling CIA's commercials. If you think about it, wokeness is the kind of twisted PSYOP a spy agency would invent to destroy a country from the inside out.” -- Donald Trump Jr. tweet. About China and Russia’s current intelligence agents laughing at the CIA’s Babylon Bee-like imbecilities we can guess. But about Russia and Cuba’s we can actually watch, and perhaps laugh ourselves, to keep from crying. To wit: Nikolai Leonev was the KGB’s top agent in Latin America during...

Yesterday evening, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted a temporary injunction barring the Small Business Administration from prioritizing applications for COVID-19 relief funding based upon the race or sex of the business owner applying for the relief. Judge Amul Thapar wrote for the court, joined by Senior Judge Alan Norris. Judge Bernice Donald dissented. Judge Thapar’s opinion in Vitolo v. Guzman begins with a simple and straightforward description of the case and holding: “This case is about whether the government can allocate limited coronavirus relief funds based on the race and sex...

Liberal outlets are trying to scare readers again about alcohol consumption. They are pushing a study that hasn’t been peer-reviewed to claim any alcohol consumption will damage the brain. The sensational anti-alcohol headlines based on the preprint study plagued the internet. CNN’s story on the matter was headlined: “Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain, study finds.” The Guardian’s headline was no less blaring: “Any amount of alcohol consumption harmful to the brain, finds study.” Yahoo! News also hopped on the anti-alcohol train: “Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain, study finds.” People magazine...

First lady Jill Biden needed some assistance from staff after the heel of her shoe became stuck in a crack in the pavement during a visit to Kansas City, Mo., Thursday. The moment occurred at the Charles Wheeler Downtown Airport, as the first lady was walking toward a group of officers with the Kansas City Police Department’s motorcycle unit to take pictures. As she reached the center, the heel of her leopard print pumps became stuck in the pavement.

Last time, I noted that Erich Fromm's "antidote" to movements like Wokism (as well as Nietzche's earlier concept of the Übermensch) depended on the assumption—or at least hope—that man could transcend his own humanity. This feels like a critical error—possibly a foundational one. Maybe it's an important part of how we got into this mess. Where does the belief we can transcend our own humanity come from? Well, let's start here: I don't think it comes from Judaism or Christianity. Among other things, the Hebrew Bible is a stark catalogue of human fallibility. Adam and Eve disobey God, lie to...

The report involved a man being attacked by a bear over the weekend while inside of his tent, according to Fox31. According to Clay, the investigation into the incident has resulted in concern that the evidence found at the campsite does not corroborate with the account of the attack. Prior to this incident, no recent bear activity had been reported at the campground or in the surrounding area.

(NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang; NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT) SPACE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The center of the Milky Way is a strange and wild place. There dwells our galactic nucleus - a supermassive black hole 4 million times the mass of the Sun, a beast named Sgr A*. It's probably the most extreme environment in our galaxy, dominated by Sgr A*'s gravitational and magnetic fields. It's also very hard to see into, even though it's only 25,800 light-years away: The region is shrouded by thick clouds of dust and gas that obscure some wavelengths of light. But if we use technology to tweak our vision into the invisible...

President Biden's decision to give intelligence agencies 90 days to determine the origins of the coronavirus, along with last night's revelation that US intelligence agencies have been sitting on a massive pile of evidence suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has prompted the CCP to fire up its propaganda machine.In comments made Thursday, a top spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry revived one of the CCP's favorite false narratives from the early days of the outbreak: the notion that the virus was created in the US (not China), and was purposefully deployed by the American military to...

White House Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has sold her stocks in an electric bus maker, which Joe Biden previously pushed. Granholm sold her holdings in Proterra Inc., netting $1.6 million, a spokesman confirmed.

Foreign Policy magazine recently dropped a bombshell: China has built an entirely new village in an area historically and internationally recognized as part of neighboring country Bhutan’s territory. Moreover, China did it through a “gray zone invasion,” without firing a single shot, causing any military conflict with Bhutan, or even drawing any international attention until after the fact. The revelation is a reminder of how far the Chinese Communist Party is willing to go to fulfill its global ambitions.For decades, CCP leaders have sought to assure the rest of the world that China’s rise is peaceful and never seeks hegemony....

MENLO PARK, CA—Facebook has updated its community standards today, declaring that anyone who says the COVID-19 virus wasn't developed in the lab in Wuhan will be banned for sharing fake news. Mark Zuckerberg, may he live forever, announced the change from his royal throne today to a group of reporters gathered in his royal throne room. "Hear ye, hear ye!" Zuckerberg announced. "From henceforth, anyone saying the virus wasn't created in a lab shall be banned! While previously, those who said the virus was created in a lab were hanged, this royal decree hereby reverses the order, and now,...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday “high annual rates of inflation” will persist through the end of the year, stretching the timeline of rising prices past a couple of months as the White House previously indicated. “My judgment right now is the recent inflation we’ve seen will be temporary, it’s not something that’s endemic,” Yellen said Thursday during a House subcommittee hearing. “I expect it to last, however, for several more months, and to see high annual rates of inflation through the end of this year.

On the verge of Memorial Day weekend, people are asking whether they’re safe from COVID-19 as they cool off in the ocean or pool. text, letter: A sign at the YMCA pool in Hollywood displays precautionary COVID-19 swimming rules, Wednesday, May 26, 2021.© Joe Cavaretta / South Florida/Sun Sentinel A sign at the YMCA pool in Hollywood displays precautionary COVID-19 swimming rules, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Lifeguards and swim coaches are getting questions like this one from Erica Garcia of Fort Lauderdale: “Is it safe for my unvaccinated child to go into a public pool?” A new online survey of...

China has swung into gear to fortify its flood-defense network ahead of what may be a heavy flood season, with 97 rivers across the country having already exceeded warning levels as of Thursday. Observers said the Three Gorges project will be able to handle greater flooding than last year, so there's no need to hype the "deformation theory." Along the Yangtze River basin, 47 reservoirs have been prepared to relieve floods, with a total flood control capacity of 69.5 billion cubic meters. Most of these reservoirs have been discharged to full levels, Wang Wei, an official with the flood and...

los Angeles does, contrary to what some believe, have seasons; they just aren’t the same as those in the Northeast or Midwest. There isn’t really a fall or a winter. Instead, there’s Fire Season, Rainy Three Weeks, and June Gloom, among others. But there’s another way to measure the passage of time: by fruit. We’re not talking about what’s in the farmer’s markets, but what’s growing on the streets, in parking lots, in plots of land that may or may not belong to anyone. Los Angeles, especially the hotter, drier East Side, is not home to an unusually large number...

Former President Trump put out a statement Friday in response to former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan‘s speech Thursday night. In the statement, Trump accused Ryan of being a Republican in name only.Trump scoffed Ryan’s advice for conservatives to win elections, saying he “was the single biggest fact, other than Romney himself, for the monumental Romney/Ryan loss in the Presidential race of 2012.” Meanwhile, “I got more votes by far,” Trump wrote, “75M than any other sitting president in history!” “Interestingly, I was in the Great State of Wisconsin when they booed him off the stage,” Trump went on....

Amazing historical movie footage from 1913 and 1938 of the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the U.S. Civil War. This video is not listed for the purpose of making any type of statement regarding the U.S. Civil War. It is listed for the specific purpose of presenting a visual and auditory glimpse of life 100 years ago. It would be greatly appreciated if you do not post comments regarding personal or political views regarding the U.S. Civil War.