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The Hunter Biden conundrum. Under the soft scrutiny of the media. Hunter Biden has been allowed to walk away as the intermediary for his family's pay to play scheme that violates the oval office and jeopardizes national security. And now suddenly Hunter Biden is selling abstract paintings for $500,000 a piece to unknown nefarious donors and those donors will remain confidential. Something smells rotten in Denmark. Of course, Hunter's resume of zero experience continues to land him the big money from the big guy. As Hunter has zero experience as a painter. Just how stupid does the Biden crime family...

“Happy Father’s Day,” read one message on the black poster board. “RIP Gyo,” read another. The sign was taped to a pole just feet from where Gyovanny Arzuaga was shot to death and his girlfriend — the mother of their two children — was critically wounded during the Puerto Rican Day Parade in Humboldt Park Saturday night. Arzuaga, who had just turned 24, and the woman, 25, were ambushed by up to three people around 9:15 p.m. in the 3200 block of West Division Street, according to Chicago police. Arzuaga was taken to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where...

The White House on Monday blocked President Joe Biden from speaking with reporters about a signature administration effort on entitlements. The Biden administration kicked off a messaging push to promote the child tax credit, but Biden was not scheduled to speak to reporters. Families will begin receiving monthly payments in their bank accounts of $250 or more per child beginning in July, a massive entitlement program that comes as part of Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue plan. Biden was not part of the White House’s number one messaging strategy of the day. His daily schedule for Monday only featured a...

Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious Matthew 7:1–5 Friends, Jesus’ parable in today’s Gospel is one of the most psychologically and spiritually insightful remarks in the New Testament. Let’s face it: a favorite pastime of most human beings is criticism of others. We delight in pointing out the shortcomings, moral failings, and annoying tendencies of our neighbors. This is, of course, a function of pride and egotism: the more I put someone else down, the more elevated I feel. But it is also, oddly, a magnificent means of turning a mirror on ourselves, to see what usually remains unseen. Why,...

Newly released footage shows the two men sought in connection to the broad-daylight stabbing that seriously wounded a volunteer for Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign over the weekend.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has revealed what Mark Zuckerberg offered him in redacted portions of his recently released emails. The conversation, he admitted, included offers of “resources and money” from the Facebook founder who recently ploughed cash into interfering in the 2020 election. he National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Director divulged further information as pressure ramps up over his personal emails, and the series of stunningly poor and hypocritical political decisions he appears to have taken over the course of the pandemic. Fauci’s research, and that of his colleagues, been repeatedly linked to Chinese Communist Party entities including...

President Biden promised none of his family members would receive government jobs, but that hasn't extended to his top tier of advisers. At least 5 children of his top aides have gotten jobs according to a report in The Washington Post. Relatives of other aides, including Chief of Staff Ron Klain's wife and press secretary Jen Psaki's sister, have also secured high-level posts. White House counselor Steve Ricchetti, deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed, and presidential personnel office director Cathy Russell each have at least one direct family member working for the Biden administration. The hirings have infuriated ethics experts...

Real simple ... let's extend the list of things that can be done to make America great again. We all know the successes that PDJT had. Post your ideas that grows that list.

The so-called ‘living pharmacy’ will be able to manufacture pharmaceuticals from inside the body The implantable living pharmacy, which is still in the “proof of concept” stage of development, is actually envisioned as two separate devices—a microchip implant and an armband. The implant will contain a layer of living synthetic cells, along with a sensor that measures temperature, a short-range wireless transmitter and a photo detector. The cells are sourced from a human donor and reengineered to perform specific functions. They’ll be mass produced in the lab, and slathered onto a layer of tiny LED lights. The microchip will be...

this guy doesn't want to work anymore period. OK

This year, the nation’s largest Protestant body focused on three interrelated issues: the aftermath of Russell Moore’s resignation, the denomination’s presidency, and critical race theory.The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and other outlets published major articles previewing the 2021 annual Southern Baptist Convention. Now that the convention is over, here’s a more detailed overview of what happened from an insider’s perspective. As a lifelong Southern Baptist, a graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and an observer of Baptist politics over the last decade, I offer the following thoughts.The 2021 SBC was essentially a family squabble worked out...

Jamie Oliver will refer to Kaffir lime leaves as 'lime leaves' going forward It follows concerns that word has been used as a racial slur in South Africa Growing number of British supermarkets changing name of Kaffir lime leaves The word was used in apartheid South Africa as an anti-black insult. In 2018, a woman was jailed there for abusing a black policeman with the word. The term Kaffir comes from the Arabic 'kafir', meaning infidel or unbeliever. It was used in a derogatory way due to the fruits' ugly appearance. Settlers in Africa dubbed the local population this because...

Qatar will only allow people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend next year's World Cup and is in talks to secure one million doses in case global immunisation efforts lag, the prime minister said. The Gulf Arab state hosts the four-week tournament in November 2022 and the president of global soccer body FIFA has said the matches would be held in full stadiums. read more Prime Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani told newspapers that while most countries were expected to have vaccinated their citizens by then, Qatar was still taking measures to ensure a successful event.

EMBARRASSING segment for @NikkiFried who says her biggest weakness is not having a national profile like @RonDeSantisFL . No surprise considering she clearly isn’t ready for prime time. @PoppyHarlowCNN takes her to task on Dem losses in FL statewide races & being wrong on COVID.

The body of 34-year-old Catherine Serou was found Saturday in a wooded area near the city of Nizhny Novgorod, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow. She had been missing since Tuesday. Her mother, Beccy Serou, of Vicksburg, Mississippi, told U.S. National Public Radio that her daughter had last texted her: “In a car with a stranger. I hope I’m not being abducted.”

For all the trumpeting of women’s rights, leftist policies frequently demean, disempower, or even endanger women.Everyone knows the political left disdains men — at least, white heterosexual men who aren’t confused about their sex. But it also has a serious misogyny problem. For all the trumpeting of women’s rights, leftist policies frequently demean, disempower, or even endanger women.Women are expected to shoulder burdens not imposed on men, all to promote what’s touted as a greater public good. Besides, is there anything more dismissive and denigrating of women’s value and humanity than referring to them as “menstruators,” “birthing units,” or “uterus...

The embattled Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has used campaign funds to hire private security after receiving death threats, according to reports. Cheney has spent thousands of dollars in security after the former House Republican conference chair was removed from her leadership post, in addition to voting for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump, the Hill reported.

The Hubble Space Telescope is currently offline. On Sunday 13 June, the telescope's payload computer went offline, and engineers here on Earth are currently performing operations to get it up and running again. The payload computer, as you might expect, is vital to Hubble's continued science operations. It's the 'brains' of the instrument, coordinating and controlling the various instruments with which Hubble is equipped. It also monitors the telescope for issues. Initially, NASA engineers speculated that the cause of the halt was a degrading memory module. An attempt to restart the computer failed, so, on Wednesday 16 June, the Hubble...

When British environmental geochemist Jon Hawkings arrived in Greenland for the first time in 2012, he was impressed. “It’s mind-blowing: You look onto the horizon and it’s just ice and it goes on for 150, 200 kilometers at least.” He went to the Arctic with a group of international scientists. Their goal was to investigate the relationship between nutrients entering coastal ecosystems from glacial meltwater. But the group’s research took an unexpected turn. The scientists analyzed samples from meltwater rivers and fjords and found concentrations of dissolved mercury among the highest ever recorded. Despite it being a pristine and remote...

Another Biden move that is likely to reassure Putin is a shift in national security policy to focus on domestic terrorists rather than foreign threats. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas explained that “while foreign actors can bomb facilities and kill Americans they can never overthrow the government. The same can’t be said for those who follow Trump. They were successful in seizing control of the federal government in 2016 and ruled for four years. After Trump was defeated in the 2020 voting a hard-core cadre of Trumpists tried to overturn the election by occupying Congress on January 6th. They...