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On this day in history:Edward H. White II became the first American to step outside his spacecraft and let go,On June 3, 1965, 120 miles above the Earth, Major Edward H. White II opens the hatch of the Gemini 4 and steps out of the capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to walk in space. Attached to the craft by a 25-foot tether and controlling his movements with a hand-held oxygen jet-propulsion gun, White remained outside the capsule for just over 20 minutes.Thanks to all the research and development in space, 56 years later we find ourselves able to wander...

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On this date in 1955, Barbara Graham was gassed at California’s San Quentin Prison, along with two confederates in the brutal murder of an elderly widow. Following the classic sob-story vector from orphan to juvenile delinquent to petty criminal, Graham found her calling as femme fatale. She entered adulthood with World War II, and spent the war years alternating between failed marriages and the working-girl beat for Pacific military bases. “Sure, I was a prostitute — and a damn good one,” she later confided to a reporter. “Why do people make so much of sex anyway? It’s part of our...

KALISPELL, Mont. — Montana wildlife officials said Tuesday that state bear management specialists killed a pair of grizzly bears near Whitefish that had been involved in numerous livestock attacks. An adult female grizzly bear was captured on Monday and its yearling captured on Tuesday in the Haskill Basin area. The animals were euthanized because of a history of killing livestock including sheep, llamas, chickens and a goat. Last week, authorities killed an adult male grizzly bear in the Dupuyer area after it was suspected of attacking calves across numerous ranches. The following was sent out by Montana Fish, Wildlife and...

Sen. Rand Paul says Dr. Fauci can't be the one to investigate COVID-19 origins on 'The Ingraham Angle.' Video...

The devastation in Israel from Hamas rockets would have been much greater were it not for the Iron Dome, Israel’s remarkable missile defense system. You can see that system in action in this video, which shows the Israeli Phalanx Close-in air defense system, a key element of the Iron Dome, successfully engaging incoming missiles. According to the video description, “there appear to be at least two high-speed guns out of view of the camera, maybe more. Those guns are st least 50 cal., or perhaps 20 mm, given the range they are achieving. The white can in the foreground...

A history that also shows Spain how to survive - should it actually care to. Spain is reliving its ancient history with Islam. Ongoing reports indicate that Muslims migrants from North Africa are illegally entering and flooding Spanish territory. In just 2020, 23,000 migrants invaded Spain’s Canary Islands, representing a 234 percent increase. Most recently, in just one day, some 6,000 North Africans invaded Ceuta “by sea, either swimming or with inflatables, all in a bid to eventually get to mainland Europe.” Once arriving on Spanish territory, such migrants invariably engage in unsavory and downright criminal behavior, such as gang-rape,...

In 1976, Dick Vermeil took over as coach of the Philadelphia Eagles who were coming off a last-place finish and one of the worst teams in the NFL the year before. During training camp, Vermeil held a tryout for a 30-year-old teacher and bartender, who never played college football. His name was Vince Papale and Vermeil added him to the team’s roster. It was meant to bring a culture and attitude change to the locker room. His story later became the basis for the 2006 biopic Invincible yet despite this underdog story and triumphant tale, Stephen A. Smith would have...

Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s observation that “Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence,” the world’s attention has turned once again to the clash between Hamas and Israel, as the Jewish state launched its defensive air offensive into Gaza to suppress a deadly barrage of 4360 rockets that killed 10 civilians in Israel and injured 330 others. And, predictably, as the body count rose on the Palestinian side, the moral arbiters of acceptable political behavior began condemning the Jewish state for its...

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The number of Americans seeking new unemployment benefits dropped below 400,000 for the first time since March of last year — marking a new pandemic low, the feds said Thursday. Initial worker filings for jobless claims, seen as a signal of layoffs, reached 385,000 last week, down from 406,000 reported the prior week, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department. It’s the fifth consecutive week of steady declines, but initial claims still remain substantially higher than pre-pandemic levels. The country was averaging just over 200,000 new claims per week in 2019.

Anti-Semitic attacks against Jews in the United States have surged since the latest war between Israel and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza erupted last month. People of good will, regardless of their religion, ethnicity, or background, would condemn such hate crimes because they represent a dark blot on our common humanity. New Jersey’s Rutgers University-New Brunswick did just that at first and condemned anti-Semitism - the world’s oldest continuing form of bigotry. But in a blink of the eye Rutgers’ high-level administrators bowed to pressure from the anti-Semitic Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and apologized for having done the...

When I hear prominent conservative media commentators and brainy columnists call America-haters bent on destroying our noble Constitutional Republic “progressives” I feel the top of my head may fly up and stick on the ceiling. They should know better. The sickening behavior of these tyrannical anarchists are the very opposite of progressive which Webster defines as “continuous improvement; the development of an individual or group in a direction considered more beneficial than and superior to the previous level.” There’s nothing beneficial for us as citizens or our nation about lawlessness, destruction of private property by black-masked Antifa terrorists, attacks on...

The treasure trove of Anthony Fauci's emails this week peels back the curtain on a government bureaucrat operating as a government bureaucrat.A treasure trove of emails from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s were made public this week by BuzzFeed News after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) opened the inbox of the nation’s face of the pandemic and ensuing institutional decay. More than 3,200 pages dated from January to June 2020 reveal a portrait of a government bureaucrat lifted up as a god-like figure in the legacy media who did what most government...

Crews were at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis Thursday working to reopen the intersection to allow traffic to move through the area once more.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 84Psalm 84[a] For the director of music. According to gittith.[b] Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. 1 How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord Almighty! 2 My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. 3 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young— a place near your altar, Lord Almighty, my King and my God. 4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are...

Because Twitter apparently doesn't feel as if we already have enough censorship, they have decided they need to add warning labels to our tweets. Not just one kind of warning label but three different types of warning labels.On May 31 9TO5Mac revealed the Brave New World of Twitter censorship via warning labels that is almost upon us in "Twitter is working on three different misinformation warning labels."

The San Francisco Police Department is calling on the public to help identify both the suspect and the victim in an incident where a teen reportedly set a woman's hair on fire on a Muni train.

A study published in May of 2021 has rigorously shown such events do not reduce crime or suicides. Instead, the number of crimes committed with guns increases in the two months after the turn-in events (“buybacks”) are conducted. The study was published by the National Bureau of Economics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the title:HAVE U.S. GUN BUYBACK PROGRAMS MISFIRED?The study authors are: Toshio Ferrazares, Joseph J. Sabia, and D.Mark AndersonThe term “buyback” is an Orwellian propaganda term. You cannot buy back what you never owned. I corresponded with one of the authors of the study, D. Mark Anderson. He confirmed...

President Joe Biden met with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) on Wednesday to discuss infrastructure, but no major breakthroughs were achieved before he left Washington, DC. “The two agreed to reconnect on Friday,” the White House revealed in a statement about the “constructive and frank conversation” in the Oval Office.