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An Eagle Scout Project honoring America’s veterans is under fire for mentioning Jesus Christ on a memorial in Monument, Colorado. Sixteen-year-old Michael Carlson’s family has a proud military history. He wanted to incorporate that into his Eagle Scout Project. He created the memorial as a tribute to his grandfather, who was a World War II veteran and for his own father, who served in Vietnam.

In a Thursday appearance on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sounded off on former President Donald Trump’s involvement in the upcoming midterm elections. McConnell was asked about an article saying Trump is “jeopardizing Republican chances of taking back the majority” with his continued involvement after leaving the White House.

A month after Gov. J.B. Pritzker took office in 2019, giving Democrats complete control in Springfield, flaws in Illinois’ gun laws were exposed when a convicted felon whose state firearm owner’s identification card had been revoked opened fire in an Aurora warehouse, killing five co-workers and wounding a sixth along with five police officers. The case became a rallying point for gun safety advocates, who’ve pushed for mandatory fingerprinting for FOID card applications, universal background checks for gun buyers, and a system that ensures people whose FOID cards are revoked hand over their weapons to authorities. More than two years...

A widely panned Central American diplomatic tour by Vice President Kamala Harris on the heels of a pivot toward Republicans by Hispanic voters in Texas elections may spell larger problems ahead for Democrats with a constituency central to the party's identity-based rainbow coalition politics. Harris traveled to Guatemala and Mexico this week to meet with leaders in what was billed as an attempt to confront the root causes of the wave of migrants currently crashing across the U.S. southern border. The vice president met with a tepid reception in both nations, took political fire for the trip from both left...

VALENCE, France -- CORRECTS: French court sentences man who slapped President Emmanuel Macron to 4 months in prison.

Preferred title: Should the British Government be dissolved because Queen Elizabeth authorized Sir John Hawkins to import Africans into the West Indies? (title too long) Frederick Douglass is amazing. If you consider yourself a constitutionalist and you aren't reading Douglass you are missing out on true greatness. In 1860, Frederick Douglass tore fellow abolitionists to shreds over the slave trade saying: (source) Mr. Thompson is just 52 years too late in dissolving the Union on account of this clause. He might as well dissolve the British Government, because Queen Elizabeth granted to Sir John Hawkins to import Africans into the...

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It really isn't a new idea. It has been circulating around since at least last February when Annie Lowrey of Atlantic magazine urged Democrats to bribe Joe Manchin to support eliminating the filibuster by the earmarks pork bribe in order to "Give Joe Manchin Whatever He Wants." However, the urgency among Democrats and their media allies has gone into hyperdrive since Manchin again reiterated his strong support for maintaining the filibuster in a recent Op-Ed he wrote.As a result some have dropped any hint of subtlety and are now flat out screeching for the bribery route in order to convince...

Many Americans don’t save enough for retirement, but it’s entirely possible to save too much — at least according to the IRS. Tax laws limit how much you’re allowed to contribute to retirement accounts, and excess contributions can be penalized. Uncle Sam doesn’t want you to leave the money in the account too long, either. Those who fail to take enough out of their retirement accounts also face heavy penalties. Here’s what you need to know to stay on the right side of the IRS’ rules. Overstuffing your retirement accounts Not everyone is allowed to contribute to retirement accounts. Contributions...

INOVIO's Pan-SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate INO-4802 is not matched to a single variant, unlike other variant vaccines in development; INO-4802 could potentially offer broader immune responsesPhase 1/2 clinical trials with INO-4802 are planned this yearINOVIO (NASDAQ:INO), a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from infectious diseases, cancer, and HPV-associated diseases, today announced that its next-generation Pan-COVID-19 vaccine candidate, INO-4802, induced potent neutralizing antibodies and T cell responses against the original Wuhan strain as well as against B.1.1.7 (UK variant), B.1.351 (South African variant) and P.1. (Brazilian variant) in preclinical models. These...

The Supreme Court split 5-4 on the case Thursday, with Justices Neil Gorsuch Clarence Thomas splitting off from other conservative members of the bench.WASHINGTON (CN) — A convicted felon whose priors included one instance of reckless aggravated assault should not have been given an enhanced sentence after he was later caught with a handgun, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday.“The treatment of reckless offenses as ‘violent felonies’ would impose large sentencing enhancements on individuals (for example, reckless drivers) far afield from the ‘armed career criminals’ ACCA addresses — the kind of offenders who, when armed, could well ‘use [the]...

Those Republicans who turned on Donald Trump after the election are regretting their choices. And no one more than Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski. She voted against Trump during the left’s bogus impeachment. Her state was not at all pleased, nor were many voters. Quickly, candidates appeared to challenge her reelection. Now, Donald Trump is speaking out—after a stunning poll may have already sealed her fate. POLL OF LIKELY 2022 VOTERS IN ALASKA (5/22-25): In Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting system, Senator Lisa Murkowski begins this race in a difficult position: 3rd place. Trump-endorsed Republican Kelly Tshibaka leads in the initial ballot,...

You know that one family member who just won't shut up about politics, even when you're trying to do something nice, like go for an after-dinner walk or drive Grandma to the doctor?Last night, a handful of attendees at the Miami Marlins game were that guy. While the rest of the fans presumably just showed up to enjoy a nice summer-evening game against the Colorado Rockies, five jackwads at LoanDepot Park decided it would be fun and interesting to unfurl two right-wing posters: one declaring "PROUD BOYS DID NOTHING WRONG, FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS 1/6/21" and the other insisting "TRUMP...

Former White House counsel Don McGhan told lawmakers last week that then-President Donald Trump’s effort to get Special Counsel Robert Mueller fired in June 2017 marked a potential “point of no return” for the administration, according to a transcript released Wednesday. “If the Acting Attorney General [Rod Rosenstein] received what he thought was a direction from the counsel to the President to remove a special counsel, he would either have to remove the special counsel or resign,” McGhan told members of the House Judiciary Committee in the June 4 interview.

Paris (AFP) - The world must tackle the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss together, two UN expert groups meeting together said Thursday, warning against measures to combat global warming that harm nature. In the first ever collaboration between the United Nations' intergovernmental panels on climate and nature loss, the scientists said that while the twin threats were mutually reinforcing, they had historically been treated as if they were independent of each other. IPBES chair Ana Maria Hernandez Salgar stressed that solutions such as nature preservation or restoration would only work in countering climate change and biodiversity loss...

Ahead of his meeting with Britain’s prime minister Thursday, President Biden’s aides were scrambling to deny a report that he ordered the scolding of Boris Johnson’s government over Northern Ireland policy. “He didn’t come here to give a lecture,” Biden aides told reporters on a press call ahead of the Biden-Johnson meeting, according to a report. “It will not be controversial or adversarial,” the official said, the Daily Mail reported. The Post was not invited to join the call. Biden will tell Johnson “what he has said publicly for a long time now,” the aide said.

Off-shore wind lasts longer and is stronger than on-shore, making off-shore wind farms (OWF) a source of renewable energy – except, of course, when it blocks your view, and those NIMBY (not in my backyard) types object. To be a valuable, efficient energy source, you need to cluster those turbines ---SNIP--- Off-shore wind farms impact the local ecology, beneath the waves from the built environment and above by their effect on the wind. We should diversify our energy sources; the wind is a promising alternative. But to believe wind farms come at no or little ecologic cost is the same...

<p>Biden administration budget chief Shalanda Young refused to say that Joe Biden would stop funding gain of function research at the Wuhan, China research lab. For clarity, the term gain of function is used to describe any field of medical research that alters an organism or disease in a way that increases transmissibility or pathogenesis.</p>

WASHINGTON -- “SKYROCKETING MURDER RATES,” claimed the National Fraternal Order of Police. “An explosion of violent crime," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “Democrat-run cities across the country who cut funding for police have seen increases in crime,” tweeted U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. On social media and in political speeches, some Republicans and pro-police groups say last year's calls to slash spending on law enforcement have led to a dramatic rise in killings in cities overseen by Democrats. The increases they cite are real, and several big cities did make cuts to police spending. But the reductions were mostly...

A poll on global leadership shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the leader most trusted to lead the world over President Joe Biden. A Pew Research survey reported 77 percent of those polled across 16 countries express confidence in Merkel’s international leadership. Biden came in second with 74 percent and 63 percent placed their trust in French President Emmanuel Macron.