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AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Legislature approved a bill Friday that will loosen alcohol restrictions on Sunday mornings. Starting Sept. 1, Texans will be able to purchase beer and wine at stores at 10 a.m. Under current law, stores can’t sell booze until noon. The Texas House approved House Bill 1518 on Friday by a vote of 115-24 with two lawmakers voting present. That approved the House bill with a Senate amendment that allows hotels to sell alcohol to hotel guests at any time of day. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Harold Dutton Jr., D-Houston, sponsored the bill. Lawmakers...

p>The Pentagon’s budget request for fiscal year 2022 totals $715 billion, and among the Defense Department’s stated priorities are fighting the “climate crisis” and “extremism” in America’s armed forces. The funding requested by the Pentagon under Biden continues a trend set under Trump who ballooned the military budget from just $582 billion requested by the Obama administration in 2017. The newest 2022 budget request increases the budget by $11 billion in comparison to 2021. The 2022 budget proposal highlights climate change as a “national security priority,” stating that DoD will “elevate climate as a national security priority” and integrate “climate...

Too few people these days seem able to imagine what life would be like without freedom of expression. To put it plainly, without the First Amendment we’d have no recognized right to a private life or personal relationships. Period. Are you okay with that?Below I’ll try to explain the connection. But first, we need to understand that the war on free speech started decades ago in America. Prince Harry’s recent comments calling the First Amendment “bonkers” is merely the latest in a long line of public beatings. Such talk should mystify any freedom-loving person, American or not. Yet the ground...

In an apparent effort to make Americans suffer again, His Lying Demented Fraudulence, Emperor Joe Biden I, the potted plant installed as president after an election many still say was rife with fraud, is set to cancel oil and gas leases granted in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the last weeks of the Trump administration, Breitbart reported. This comes as gas prices nationwide have gone up in the few months of the Biden Regime. According to Breitbart: The Post reported that “Interior would halt the leases on the grounds that Trump officials rushed the Jan. 6 auction and...

Who, exactly, was Paul Ryan trying to appeal to when he recently went to the Reagan Library and tried to explain why we should return to the kind of managed decline and failure theater that his rejection marked the end of as a viable Republican leadership strategy? Okay, the Beltway Cowgirl would dig his hep jive, and her soon-to-be-gerrymandered-by-the-Dems stooge Adam Kinzinger too, and the erotically dysfunctional geebos at The Bulwark are all in, but who else? Cue the tumbleweeds.The GOP managed to display some stones for once – no thanks to the aforementioned squish squad – by rejecting the...

While traders were flocking to GameStop earlier this year, the stock was also capturing the imagination of U.S. teenagers, according to a survey from Wells Fargo. A third of teens say they are learning financial lessons from the internet and social media, according to the survey of 13 to 17 year olds and parents of teenagers. And almost half of the teens say they are more interested in investing thanks to GameStop, whose shares have surged due to its popularity among members of online investor forums. The survey follows Fidelity Investments' launch earlier this month of a commission-free brokerage account...

The physicians' plan would single out Black and 'Latinx' patients in 'fight for racial justice in medicine.'Critical Race Theory influenced the physicians' support for 'medical restitution' and 'federal reparations.'Harvard Medical School instructors Bram Wispelwey and Michelle Morse argue in a Boston Review article that race should be used as a determining factor in how heart failure patients are treated. They write that the necessary "proactively antiracist agenda for medicine" should be direct, and the solution they propose could reach patients exactly at the point of care: "a preferential admission option for Black and Latinx heart failure patients to our specialty...

New emails obtained by Buzzfeed through a Freedom Information Act show National Institute of Health Director Dr. Anthony Fauci was told by NIH scientist Kristian Andersen on January 31, 2020 that Wuhan coronavirus looked "potentially engineered." In other words, it was manipulated in a lab through gain of function research. "On a phylogenetic tree the virus looks totally normal and the close clustering with bats suggest that bats serve as the reservoir. The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to...

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), viewed as a "swing" vote in the Democratic caucus, expressed frustration with reporters on Capitol Hill who continually ask him his stance on the future of the legislative filibuster. After months of obsession with his stance on the filibuster, which the Democratic senator has made abundantly clear, he had harsh words for those asking the same question repeatedly. "I'm not separating our country, OK?" Manchin said in response to yet another question about eliminating the filibuster. "I don't know what you all don't understand about this. You ask the same question every day. It's...

Is what I believe true? I cannot think of anything more tragic than to live my life with a false view of reality. A false view of the existence of God. But if God does exist, does He have a name? If the evidence points to the existence of a transcendent infinite spiritual force in the universe, this force will remain unknown to us unless it appears and reveals its identity. The human search for God will always be an effort in futility, unless God chooses to reveal Himself in a convincing manner. CP Reporter Leah MarieAnn Klett reported in...

Voters will decide next Tuesday which Republican will face Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in November. Whoever it is, he will immediately be an underdog. Murphy's popularity has surged during the COVID-19 pandemic; Democratic voter registration now outnumbers Republicans by more than 1 million; and Murphy has raised and spent the most money of all candidates. That all bodes well for Murphy to win a second term. But Murphy isn't looming as large in the Republican primary as former President Donald Trump.

Former President Donald Trump’s blog — a webpage where he shared statements after larger social media companies banned him from their platforms — has been permanently shut down, his spokesman said Wednesday. The page, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” has been scrubbed from Trump’s website after going live less than a month earlier. It “will not be returning,” his senior aide Jason Miller told CNBC. “It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said in email correspondence. He declined to provide additional details about those efforts. “Hoping to have more information...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A gunman who killed nine co-workers at a Northern California rail yard shot himself twice in the head as sheriff’s deputies raced into a building, according to authorities who on Tuesday released body-camera footage of the tense encounter.The nearly 4 1/2 minutes of footage is from one deputy who arrived minutes after the first shooting reports and while shots were still being fired at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus and rail yard in San Jose, where 57-year-old Samuel Cassidy opened fire before killing himself.

Dr. Anthony Fauci knows all about “gain-of-function” research. He has helped to fund it through his leadership in various healthcare organizations throughout his career. This is why it was peculiar when he flat-out lied to Senator Rand Paul and America during Senate testimony last month. “Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan institute,” he said. In case there was any doubt that he was not only fully aware of his direct involvement in gain-of-function research but was...

A director at the taxpayer-funded Bronx Defenders Office sent out an email blasting Israel, the “US empire” and even the NYPD amid the ongoing dispute with Palestinians in Gaza — likening the situation to “sanctioned genocide” against blacks and native Americans in America. Shannon Cumberbatch, director of Bronx Defenders’ Office of Equity and Institutional Transformation, sent the May 14 email from her work email address to her “anti-oppression team.” Bronx Defenders has received $262 million in city funding over the past decade to provide services to accused criminals and other poor defendants and citizens in legal proceedings, according to records...

Keeping in mind that as late as January of this year, Anthony Fauci was telling Americans to wear TWO face masks to supposedly protect them from the virus it increasingly looks like he funded with taxpayer money, it’s a bit of a bombshell that he was instructing others — within the government’s medical apparatus — not to wear masks and that they were not effective in stopping viruses. In one of the many emails obtained this week through FOIA requests, Anthony Fauci wrote Silvia Burwell on February 5, 2020, “I do not recommend that you wear a mask." Fauci went...

After 35 years, the Chinese Communist Party loosened the notorious one-child policy in 2015. On Monday, China weakened the notorious and barbaric one-child policy even further, but Western social scientist Steven Mosher (who studied the policy in China when it began in 1980) warned that President Xi Jinping is likely to launch a similarly barbaric policy in the opposite direction.“To actively respond to the aging of the population … a couple is permitted to have three children,” China’s state media outlet Xinhua reported on Monday. Xi and the Communist Party’s politburo made the decision recently.While the one-child policy, which dates...

Fauci went on to confess that virus particles are much smaller than the gaps in masks, the types of masks we’ve been told by governments (mostly Democrat) and businesses we must wear to stop the virus . . . or something. “The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you.” Of course, this was early in the so-called pandemic when we were told: “15-days to...

Speaking in Tulsa this afternoon, Old White Joe declared: “Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today.” You know what they say about the Big Lie: it gains acceptance through relentless repetition. That’s certainly what’s happening with the claim that “white supremacy” is the biggest terror threat the nation faces today. A bit of reality: It wasn’t “white supremacists” who rioted all last summer in Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Wisconsin, New York, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and numerous other cities that I have already forgotten, and who are still at it in Portland, and casting a long...

JBS, the world’s largest meat supplier, has been hit with a major cyber attack.The attack has reportedly crippled the meat giant, which controls about 20% of the U.S. beef and pork slaughtering capacity.As a result of the attack, large US and Canadian meat plants canceled shifts Tuesday, threatening to disrupt meat supply and further inflate food prices.The White House has contacted major meat processors across the US to notify them of the incident and assess “any impact on supply,” principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said aboard Air Force One. She added that the FBI is investigating the hacking.“The president...