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Americans are expected to spend roughly $4.7 billion on gas during the Friday through Monday of Memorial Day weekend, according to GasBuddy, an app and website focused on finding real-time fuel prices. That breaks down to about $1.18 billion spent on gas each day, give or take $1 million, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, tells CNBC. GasBuddy predicts the national average price of gasoline will be $2.98 per gallon during Memorial Day weekend, the highest price on record for the May holiday weekend since 2014 when gas hit $3.66 per gallon. (AAA is reporting slightly higher...

Although Devon Dunham confessed to fatally shooting former Hardeeville volunteer fire chief Ernest Martin Stevens in a public parking lot in 2017, a Jasper County jury found him not guilty of murder Thursday. Dunham breathed an audible sigh of relief through his face mask after hearing the verdict and softly fist-bumped his attorney... Stone alleged Dunham walked up to Stevens, told him to give him the truck, then unloaded all eight rounds in his 9 mm handgun when Stevens tried to drive away. “He shot Mr. Stevens because he was losing his ride,” Stone claimed, adding here’s no argument of...

US Bishops try to rein in the Biden administration, but the Vatican is all smilesThe pope has shown that he is willing to sidestep his American bishops to strengthen his relationship with Biden.Pope Francis, left, and John Kerry pose as they meet at the Vatican on May 15, 2021. Kerry, who is President Joe Biden’s special envoy on the climate, met privately with the pope Saturday, afterward calling Francis “a compelling moral authority on the subject of the climate crisis” who has been “ahead of the curve.” (Photo by Vatican Media)WASHINGTON (RNS) — When John Kerry, the White House’s special...

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Since the US troops began leaving Afghanistan since early May, there has been a wave of Afghan military surrendering to the Taliban in rural areas. Taliban has besieged seven rural Afghan military outposts across the wheat fields and onion patches of the Laghman province, in eastern Afghanistan, reported The Frontier Post. Ammunition was depleted inside the bedraggled outposts in Laghman province. Food was scarce. Some police officers hadn't been paid in five months. By mid-month, security forces had surrendered all seven outposts after extended negotiations, according to village elders. At least 120 soldiers and police were given safe passage to...

The union of fragility and intolerance has given us that curious and malevolent hybrid I have called the crybullyLast month in this space, I wrote a few words about what had happened to the practice of art in the West over the last century or so. That of course is a gigantic topic, and in a thousand words I was able to touch upon but a tiny part of the story — or, to tell the truth, only a tiny part of a tiny part of the story. Mostly, I described and lamented the eclipse of beauty in the metabolism...

I'm rapidly approaching the able-to-go-public event on my 5,000 year project, filing for the enabling patent! At that point I'll post details here on FR for all to see, and especially for those who have expressed curiosity, but been unwilling to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. This will also free those who have signed and know about it from needing to continue to keep it confidential. But that's not why I'm posting a plea for help today. I want to have the fundraising vehicles in place when I file. I'M NOT ASKING YOU FOR MONEY! If you have experience with Kickstarter,...

The US Navy's newest budget request is asking for just eight ships, only four of which are combat vessels. The Department of the Navy's fiscal year 2022 budget is $211.7 billion and focuses more on readiness than growing the fleet, even as the service calls attention to China's rapidly growing naval force. Shipbuilding procurement funding is down $700 million. "Though the US still maintains far more tonnage than China, China's navy has more ships than the US Navy, and they are building ships at a much greater rate," the Navy said in an overview of its budget request. The budget...

Most Americans naively believe that the 14th Amendment precludes our governments from discriminating on the basis of race. Sadly, that isn’t how the courts see it. Nevertheless, race discrimination is at least sometimes illegal, as a panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday. The case relates to Joe Biden’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund, the terms of which are discriminatory. Hans Bader has the story: On Thursday, a federal appeals court issued an injunction against prioritizing COVID relief to restaurants based on their owners’ race and sex, finding that was unconstitutionally discriminatory. The ruling involved the Restaurant Revitalization Fund,...

More Americans believe that the recent spike in violent crime is a ''bigger issue'' than the COVID-19 pandemic, a new poll finds. According to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll released Friday, 49% of respondents called violent crime ''a very big problem,'' compared with 32% that feel the virus is, according to the survey. The survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1,588 adults interviewed online between May 24-26 and has a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points, according to Yahoo News. The number of people saying the COVID-19 virus was a big problem dropped by almost...

For an administration that keeps hyping the need for infrastructure spending, it would appear some infrastructure is more important than others. National security infrastructure to secure the border is virtually eliminated.

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The big-box chain store Costco is seeing many areas where prices are increasing due to rising inflation. From aluminum foil to shipping containers, the chain store has seen a 20% increase in meat prices over the past month. The company's CFO Richard Galanti said, according to CNBC, that there are "inflationary factors abound," adding, "These include higher labor costs, higher freight costs, higher transportation demand, along with the container shortage and port delays … increased demand in various product categories some shortages, various shortages of everything from chips to oils and chemical supplies by facilities hit by the Gulf freeze...

Can anybody name a square inch spot on the planet anywhere where Marxism has brought anything good? Certainly not in China, Russia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, and Venezuela. And now, Marxism is allegedly making inroads into the U.S. military at present. So says a whistleblower, who just got fired from the military. Critical Race Theory (CRT), which is now being taught in many of schools and even some churches, is the mean by which Marxism is allegedly gaining ground in the military. Recently, Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was relieved from his post as a Space Force officer because he wrote a...

Republicans in the Senate held together to thwart attempts to form a commission to investigate the trespassing and minor property damage that happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. We should all refuse to call it an insurrection or even a riot at this point if for no other reason than to frustrate the left—in particular, leading Democrats like this bitter former presidential candidate who keeps lying to her followers:An angry mob attacked our Capitol, our lawmakers, and our election. They killed a policeman. And Republican leaders would rather we all not know more about what happened.— Hillary Clinton...

It’s the not-so-secret dirty little secret the Biden administration doesn’t want Americans to know: Biden’s southern border policies are making all Americans less safe, no matter how far away from the border we live.In March, Joe Biden vaguely told reporters he’d visit the southern border “at some point,” but he has yet to make the trip. Kamala Harris has also neglected to visit the border even as Biden tasked her with stemming the so-called “surge of migration” there. By contrast, numerous Republican members of Congress have visited sections of our border, as PJMedia reported here and here.When Joe Biden and...

My just-released novel, MICHAEL: Last-Days Lightning, which all too briefly, but nonetheless, thankfully, went to number one in Christian fiction on Amazon, has sparked the beginning of a follow-up novel. I’ve tentatively given the next novel the title MESSIAH: The Prince That Shall Come. The story will build on the protagonist’s experiencing Bible prophecy fulfillment while in a state of having dreams and visions as the result of a serpent bite he received while he was on the Island of Patmos. MESSIAH will deal with Antichrist coming to power as the world’s greatest deceiver. This understanding is based upon Jesus’...

Washington and Lee University may change its name -- well, both of them -- in June when the school’s board of trustees meets to decide the matter. The renaming controversy has surrounded the school for some time now, with many students and some faculty demanding a change while others wish to keep the current name of one of the oldest colleges in the country.In 1796, George Washington donated 100 shares of the James River Canal Company stock to the school, stock that he had received in recognition of his selfless service to his country. It was one of the largest...

A bombshell new study claims to have proof that Chinese scientists created COVID-19 in a lab and then tried to reverse-engineer versions of the virus to make it look like it evolved naturally from bats. British Professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr. Birger Sørensen wrote they’ve had primary evidence “of retro-engineering in China” since last year, but were ignored by academics and major medical journals, The Daily Mail reported Saturday, citing the soon-to-be-published study. The study concludes: “the likelihood of it being the result of natural processes is very small.” The virus is still killing 12,000 people a day...

The Army deployed 65 infantry divisions for the Second World War. Each was a small town with its own equivalents for community services within eight categories of combat arms. Units such as artillery, engineering, and heavy weapons engaged the enemy directly. Yet of all categories, the foot soldier faced the greatest hazard with the least chance of reward.These civilians become warriors confronted the most dismal fate of all, and whose duty was uninterrupted by missions completed or a fixed deployment time. The infantryman was enveloped within a most deranged, barbaric, and brittle existence against a resolute enemy where victory often...