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Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin held two separate press conferences because the two live in parallel universes. Putin’s universes us one rooted in the reality of global power politics and confrontation, including on the personal level. He knows who he is, where he is, and what he wants to do – which is to restore the old Soviet Union and the KGB je worked for and loved. Joe Biden lives in a worked if favorite ice cream flavors and elder care in which the White House jas been transferred into the world’s largest nursing home. The man whose 1988 presidential...

Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Texas’ “constitutional carry” legislation, allowing Texans over age 21 to openly carry handguns in public without a license as of Sept. 1.

Rumble — Wray wasn't interested in giving straightforward answers.

A grand jury charged a Portland, Ore., police officer with assault Tuesday after he was filmed hitting a protester in the head with his baton during last summer’s demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd. Officer Corey Budworth, who has been with the Portland Police Bureau for more than five years, is accused of “unlawfully, knowingly and recklessly causing physical injury” to the protester, who said the blows left her with head and back pain. Budworth faces one count of assault in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor that carries up to a one-year jail sentence. He has been placed on...

Alberto Sanchez Gomez, 28, will also serve an additional five months for desecrating his 68-year-old mother’s corpse after a court rejected his claims that he was having a psychotic episode during the gruesome slaying, the BBC reported. The unemployed waiter — who’s been dubbed the “Cannibal of Las Ventas” — claimed in court in April that he heard voices telling him to kill Maria Soledad Gomez as they watched television in their apartment in 2019, according to reports. The court dismissed claims by Gomez’s attorneys that he was “psychologically disturbed” at the time of the slaying. Maria Gomez was missing...

@RandPaul Even Wuhan Scientist Dr. Shi admits her Dr. Fauci -funded NIH research was gain of function: according to her own words, the virus they created: “shows a gain in pathogenesis . . . .” Link@RandPaul When will Dr. Fauci come clean and admit that NIH has indeed funded gain-of-function research?

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Vice President Kamala Harris has been hit with a possibly lethal dose of laugh gas, most likely at the hands of the Gotham supervillain the Joker. Harris was spotted having a fit of uncontrolled laughter — horrifying everyone around her — a sure sign of the toxic gas the Clown Prince of Crime is known for. Medics are at the scene trying to calm Harris down, but she is unresponsive, simply laughing in everyone’s faces. And the area has been cleared in case the Joker is still nearby and could dose someone else. We will keep you updated as...

June 15th is Magna Carta Day. While this doesn’t have the same cachet as Memorial Day or the Fourth of July, the history of the Magna Carta is arguably far more important. A number of the rights codified in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights find their origins in the Magna Carta. The charter was drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a way to settle tensions between the King of England and some of his barons. The Magna Carta is the foundation of the Western conception of individual liberties, particularly in the Anglosphere. It is also one of the most...

Former CIA Director John Brennan said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” that Russian President Vladimir Putin knew former President Donald Trump was an “amateur” who didn’t understand these issues at all. After playing videos of both Biden and Putin and Trump and Putin, Jackson said, “The tone is obviously starkly different. What do you read into the differences here, and how should people understand that?” Brennan said, “First of all, Joe Biden is someone that has been engaged on the foreign policy scene, international affairs for about half a century. So unlike a Donald Trump, who really was a...

Proverbs 14:12: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.” (Also Proverbs 16:25 – all emphasis mine) Proverbs 16:8, 18-19; “Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice…. Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.” A reminder that the reason Satan fell was due to destructive self-pride. Of course, we must include Matthew 7:13-14; “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is...

A gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park was hungry and alone—and worse, it was nursing an injured front leg, making it difficult to hunt for food. Fortunately, it tracked down a bison carcass. Unfortunately, a pack of coyotes stood in its way. “Usually, a wolf can easily dispatch a coyote with a bite, but a lone injured wolf against a pack of coyotes, the odds were now in the coyotes’ favor. This wolf weighed his odds and took the chance to eat.” “After watching him feed safely and then just walking away un-harassed, we knew it bought itself a few...

Some suggest looking at the Internet for ideas when naming your newborn baby. One couple from Bulacan, Philippines may have taken that advice literally and named their baby boy Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Rayo Pascual. In a Facebook post on Thursday (June 10), Sincerely Pascual uploaded a photograph of her baby nephew with the caption: "Welcome to the world, HTML." The post has gone viral with more than 12,000 reactions and close to 10,000 shares. The proud aunt said her brother decided on the name ‘HTML’ due to his occupation as a web developer, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported. In...

He then asked Stewart: 'Do you mean perhaps there's a chance that this was created in a lab?''A chance? Stewart responded. 'Oh my god, there's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China, what do we do? Oh you know who we should ask? The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab.'

AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday afternoon discussed details on the state building its own wall along the southern border. The governor made the announcement last week during a summit about border security with law enforcement officials. “Texas is stepping up… and doing more than any other state has done to respond to these challenges along the border. [Texas lawmakers] just passed a budget adding more than a billion dollars to border security for Texas to do the federal government’s job,” Abbott said.

CureVac's experimental COVID-19 vaccine failed in a pivotal clinical study, the biotech said Wednesday. It's the first late-stage study to flop, with CureVac's vaccine showing 47% effectiveness. The German biotech saw its stock price drop by more than 50% in post-market trading.

The Mississippi Department of Agriculture said farmers are experiencing a total loss for some crops after the flooding conditions swept farmlands. This loss will affect the economy but hopefully not Mississippi’s food production. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson said. “It was just torrential. It looked like a tropical storm.” Gipson went to north Mississippi this week to observe the impacted farmlands. “They look like lakes where there was cotton and soybeans. And there are even cornfields that are totally underwater,” he said. Boliver County is one of the hardest-hit areas and those farmers are said...

Explanation: If Scorpius looked this good to the unaided eye, humans might remember it better. Scorpius more typically appears as a few bright stars in a well-known but rarely pointed out zodiacal constellation. To get a spectacular image like this, though, one needs a good camera, a dark sky, and some sophisticated image processing. The resulting digitally-enhanced image shows many breathtaking features. Diagonal across the image right is part of the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Visible there are vast clouds of bright stars and long filaments of dark and intricate dust. Rising vertically on the image left are...

A Chinese nuclear power station is leaking radioactive gas and could become a major disaster, according to secret US intelligence reports. Taishan Nuclear Power Plant, located in southern Guangdong province, is thought to have been leaking for at least two weeks after a French firm that co-owns the facility flagged the issue to Washington. Cover up! American agents have spent the last week monitoring the situation and have concluded it has the potential turn into a major disaster but that facility is not currently at ‘crisis level’. That is in stark contrast to the message being put out by the...

A survey of U.S. members of the American Academy of Ophthalmology shows that more than 96 percent are fully vaccinated... "As data and science-driven individuals, it's not especially surprising that nearly all ophthalmologists are vaccinated," said David W. Parke II, MD, Academy CEO. "The data is clear, the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. It's also clear that getting as many Americans vaccinated as quickly as possible is the path out of this crisis. We encourage everyone to get vaccinated to reduce the risk of disease transmission and the emergence of new coronavirus variants." Of the 8,000 members surveyed, 871...