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Bacteria normally inhabiting healthy people’s intestines — and the anti-inflammatory metabolites these bacteria produce — are depleted in ulcerative colitis patients…a study has tied the condition to a missing microbe. The microbe makes metabolites that help keep the gut healthy. …Their first clue lay in a large difference in levels of a group of substances called secondary bile acids in the intestines… Primary bile acids are produced in the liver, stored in the gallbladder and released into the digestive tract to help emulsify fats. The vast majority of secreted primary bile acids are taken up in the intestine, where resident...

“Binding the Strong Man, Plundering His House” (Mark 3:20-35) When you were baptized, what did you get? Yeah, you got wet, sure. You had water poured on your head. But I mean, when you were baptized, what did you get, in the sense of what did you acquire? I’ll tell you what you acquired: You got an enemy for life. Did you know that? That when you were baptized, you gained a strong and powerful enemy who’s out to get you! You did! And his name is Satan, the devil. He is the “old evil foe” who “now means deadly...

Burger King will donate to the Human Rights Campaign for every chicken sandwich sold this month. BK announced the initiative in a tweet aimed at Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A is under fire for CEO donations to groups fighting LGBTQ protections. See more stories on Insider's business page. Burger King says that for every Ch'King sandwich sold during June, which is Pride month, it will donate to The Human Rights Campaign. The chain announced the donation plans in a tweet on June 3 that seemed pointed at Chick-fil-A, the reigning chicken sandwich fast food restaurant. BK says it will donate 40 cents for...

UPDATE: “someone” in AOC’s abuela’s family told GoFundMe that she won’t take the money, even though AOC previously claimed that her grandma was in dire straits (and it was Trump’s fault). @AOC still hasn’t acknowledged this effort or thanked us. Here’s the email from GoFundMe: pic.twitter.com/MsM4ECLDX0— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 5, 2021It’s pretty fascinating, really. We raised enough to change her grandmother’s life. We could have raised enough to lift her whole neighborhood out of poverty. AOC shut it down. She’d rather leave people to suffer than accept help from us. Very revealing episode.— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 5, 2021

... The decline in infections has been so encouraging that Israel lifted some of its last remaining coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday. Businesses can now operate at full capacity, and residents no longer have to show proof that they've been vaccinated to enter restaurants, sporting events, or entertainment venues. Even before the new rule, Israel's schools were fully open, masks were no longer required outdoors, and mass gatherings were taking place across the country. Now Israel's only barrier to normal life is a requirement to wear masks in public indoor spaces - a rule that could be lifted as soon as...

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals declared the Biden administration's race-based approach to distributing COVID-relief funds unconstitutional. The nearly $2 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 was passed by Congress and implemented by the Biden Administration's Small Business administrator, Isabella Casillas Guzman. While the ARPA authorizes socially or economically disadvantaged businesses to be first in line for receiving aid, the Administration is illegally using race and sex as proxies for disadvantaged. The Sixth Circuit ruled that "under the law 'disadvantaged' has specific criteria that must be met. First, the policy must target a specific episode of past discrimination....

The study, in mice and people, showed that a diet high in sugar and fat causes damage to Paneth cells, immune cells in the gut that help keep inflammation in check. When Paneth cells aren't functioning properly, the gut immune system is excessively prone to inflammation, putting people at risk of inflammatory bowel disease and undermining effective control of disease-causing microbes. In people, obesity is frequently the result of eating a diet rich in fat and sugar. So the scientists fed normal mice a diet in which 40% of the calories came from fat or sugar, similar to the typical...

A federal judge overturned California's 32-year-old ban on so-called assault-style weapons on Friday, describing it as a "failed experiment" and prompting scathing criticism from the state's governor and attorney general. California has prohibited the sale of the weapons since 1989. The ban was challenged in a 2019 lawsuit against California's attorney general by plaintiffs including James Miller, a state resident, and the San Diego County Gun Owners, a political action committee. "This case is about what should be a muscular constitutional right and whether a state can force a gun policy choice that impinges on that right with a 30-year-old...

THE first US city to introduce slavery reparations is facing backlash from black residents who have blasted the $25,000 payments as "fake" restitution and claimed it is "not benefiting me." Evanston, Illinois, voted in March to approve the first slavery reparations system for black residents in a $400,000 program that was expected to be a blueprint for the rest of the country. Yet the program has been criticized for being focused on allowing 16 black people to receive $25,000 payments that can only be put toward housing. Opponents to the program have noted that there are 12,500 black people in...

Tatiana Ibrahim says what more Americans are saying about the Socialist indoctrination of Critical Race Theory (CRT) into our school system.…

A federal judge has struck down California’s controversial “assault weapons” ban, ruling late on Friday that the move is "unconstitutional." “This case is not about extraordinary weapons lying at the outer limits of Second Amendment protection,” Judge Roger T. Benitez of the Southern District of California wrote.

We have designed and tested a compact aneutronic fusion reactor capable of delivering tens of kilowatts of power, yet scalable to megawatts. It can deliver constant, distributed energy, anywhere, anytime, without generating greenhouse gases or other waste products, or requiring expensive capital infrastructure or exotic materials, or even any oxygen or solar energy to operate.

A taped conversation between Hunter Biden and an unidentified stripper devolved into a therapy session where the president’s son promoted stripping as a great career choice for intelligent, talented women. In the May 2018 recording, Biden appeared to be an expert of sorts, saying he’s been “to almost every club on every continent except one and every country that I can think of from Cairo … to China.” The strippers he met along the way aren’t proud of their jobs but they should be, because every woman has the “ultimate toolkit.” The recording was contained in the laptop Biden allegedly...

The latest article published by the American journalist Laurie Roth could be the key to everything. Basically, it could be the key to understanding what has been happening in the last six months within the United States. Roth claims she had a phone conversation with a high-level military source who leaked a stunning revelation to her. A few days before leaving the White House, on January 14, Donald Trump would sign the act known in the United States as “Insurrection Act”, which confers special emergency powers to the President of the United States in order to quell rebellions and acts...

Yuriy Lutsenko, the Ukrainian prosecutor who closed an investigation into Burisma -the Ukrainian gas company President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden worked for - said a lobbying company linked to Hunter Biden and Burisma had “pitched” him the offer of providing access to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, newly released emails revealed on Friday. In an email released via FOIA request to Citizens United and shared with American Military News, former Obama State Department official George Kent described a meeting with Lutsenko in September 2016 to discuss his contacts with Blue Star Strategies - the lobbying firm that helped represent...

Neutron to be the tightly bound proton-electron pair and the nucleus to be constituted by protons and internal electrons March 2021 Authors: Noriyuki Kodama Tokyo Institute ------------------------------------------------------------ Neutron to be the tightly bound proton-electron pair and the nucleus to be constituted by protons and internal electrons Noriyuki Kodama Studied Physics at Tokyo Institute of Technology (1983-1987), Studying cold fusion as an independent researcher since 2020. Sekido 5-2-7, Tama-city, Tokyo, 206-0011, Japan, +81-90-6164-9203, noriyuki.kodama.0820@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------ Abstract Original nucleus model in the 1920s was the internal electron theory that the atomic nucleus is constituted by protons and electrons, and Rutherford already suggested...

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and...

The Post ran an expansive report on Thursday, titled "The racist legacy many birds carry," focused on the "birding community," which apparently is having a difficult debate "about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers." "Corina Newsome is a Black ornithologist, as rare as some of the birds she studies," Post environmental justice reporter Darryl Fears began his piece, noting she was hired to "break down barriers" at the Georgia Audubon nature preserve.

n alleged drug dealer and his cronies have hijacked a Bronx home and the squatters are now terrorizing a once-quiet area with dope deals, prostitution, loud music and harassment of anyone who walks past their front porch, neighbors claim.

Pope Francis Sets His Sights on the Latin MassThe rumors appear to be true: Pope Francis is planning to rescind Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict’s 2007 motu proprio liberalizing the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass (TLM), which Benedict dubbed the “Extraordinary Form” of the Latin Rite. This at a time when the TLM has been flourishing while most of the Church is experiencing significant declines. Before exploring why Pope Francis is considering this radical move, it might be helpful to briefly review the history of the TLM over the past 60+ years. In the mid-20th century, many leading Catholics believed...