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Explanation: Awash in a sea of incandescent plasma and anchored in strong magnetic fields, sunspots are planet-sized dark islands in the solar photosphere, the bright surface of the Sun. Found in solar active regions, sunspots look dark only because they are slightly cooler though, with temperatures of about 4,000 kelvins compared to 6,000 kelvins for the surrounding solar surface. These sunspots lie in active region AR2835. The largest active region now crossing the Sun, AR2835 is captured in this sharp telescopic close-up from July 1 in a field of view that spans about 150,000 kilometers or over ten Earth diameters....

For the first half of 2021, the mRNA vaccines looked to be near perfect. The trials reported more than 90% efficacy for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Both provided near 100% prevention of severe COVID-19 and after hundreds of millions of adults received the shots, no signal of harm emerged. I, like any rational person, see a positive benefit-harm ratio from the vaccines for adults. Younger People? After a "positive" trial in which just over 1100 kids aged 12 to 15 years received an mRNA vaccine, a movement arose to vaccinate young and old alike. I put "positive" in quotes...

This is Alabama, folks... I'm sorry folks but I have reached an epiphany of obvious consequence and I can't keep quiet right now. On May 23, 2021 (just over a month ago) a city-driving motorist tried to turn right (no signal, no look) onto a perpendicular street FROM THE LEFT LANE, right while I was passing causing me to swerve and slam thru a curb totaling my beautiful '18 Nissan Altima SR. That idiot driver saw what he did, stopped, and then drove off never to be found. Luckily three witnesses stopped and gave statements to the officer which absolved...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Over 2/3rds of American Adults now have at least a first shot - 88.2% of those 65+ - Vaccinations slow on this report - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths remain low, but may be starting to bend upward a bit) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 382,636,520 (21,434,300 J&J) Administered: 328,809,470 (12,510,528 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 181,650,678 Fully Vaccinated: 156,255,896

Boston authorities are looking into the brutal stabbing of a Boston rabbi as a possible hate crime as the alleged assailant was arraigned on assault charges. Khaled Awad, 24, appeared in Brighton District Church on Friday and was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on an officer and will be held without bail until a dangerousness hearing on July 8. Awad allegedly stabbed Rabbi Shlomo Noginksi eight times on the street outside Shaloh House, a Jewish Day School and synagogue on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton, at around 1.19pm on Thursday...

Parents objecting to their children being taught that America is a racist country are “beginning to sound a lot like the KKK,” the editors at the Hartford Courant wrote Thursday. The editorial focused on a recent packed school board meeting in Guilford, Connecticut, during which parents and students condemned the teaching of principles associated with Critical Race Theory, a Marxist ideology that embraces the concept that all American institutions are systemically racist, with whites as oppressors and blacks as victims. The Courant editors wrote: How long is it going to be before those saying that white children are being taught...

WFLA 2 boys, ages 8 and 9, charged in fatal shooting man on tractor in South Carolina Emily Smith and The Associated Press 1 hour ago Danny Smith (Source: Vickie Wilbanks) OCONEE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – An 8-year-old and a 9-year-old boy have been charged with killing a man who was shot with a rifle while cutting down brush in a South Carolina field, authorities said. Both boys shot at Danny Andrew Smith with a rifle as he rode his tractor in the field near Westminster on June 23, Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw said in a statement. Deputies responded...

YouTube Censored Our Election Security Video at the Request of California Officials Home Run for Cleaner Elections at the Supreme Court Supreme Court Ruling Protects Donor IRS Information Privacy Podunk Charges by Corrupt Politicians Target Trump Happy Independence Day! YouTube Censored Our Election Security Video at the Request of California Officials Making a mockery of the First Amendment has reached a new height in – where else? – California, where employees of the state conspired with employees of Google to strangle the free flow of information. And they targeted us. The office of the Secretary of State of California...

Developments continue around the efforts of Washington state’s insurance commissioner to ban insurance companies from using credit to set rates for auto, homeowners and renters insurance for three years.Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued an order on March 23, 2021, that bans the use of credit in setting insurance rates for new and renewed policies as of June 20, 2021.Insurance industry groups joined together to try to halt Kriedler’s plan. The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA), the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Washington, and the Professional Insurance Agents of Washington filed a petition for declaratory and injunctive relief in...

When is Donald Trump's rally in Sarasota, Florida? Donald Trump will be addressing the public at a rally on Saturday, July 3, 2021. The rally will take place at the Sarasota State fair grounds at 8pm ET, however, doors will open at 2pm. You can only register for a maximum of two tickets for the event and it is only on a first come first serve basis. In a statement a Trump spokesperson said: "President Donald J. Trump...will hold a major rally in Sarasota." "This Save America rally is co-sponsored by the Republican Party of Florida and marks President Trump’s...

President Joe Biden has a problem, and her name is Kamala Harris. The vice president has become a comic figure in today’s Washington—a politician given to missteps and unforced errors who inspires neither loyalty nor trust within her inner circle. She might have been Biden’s safest pick for running mate. But now she’s a liability for both the president and the Democratic Party. It’s not just that Harris is unpopular. Her unique combination of falsity and incompetence generates negative press and endangers her dreams of succeeding Biden. For Harris, the month of June has been an extended replay of highlights...

U.S.—Scientists have discovered mounting evidence that critical race theory escaped from a lab in a college humanities department some decades ago. Originally thought to be a deranged conspiracy theory, the idea that CRT escaped from a liberal arts program is now accepted as mainstream consensus. "While many believed the deadly CRT virus arose naturally out of centuries of systemic oppression, it now appears to have been manmade," said Dr. Xander Willow of Hillsdale College. "It looks like some good-for-nothing liberal arts majors were messing around with some old law textbooks and experimenting with applying critical race theory to all of...

"Progressives have called for Breyer to step down so Biden could nominate his successor."

Dear All: I’ll begin by saying thank you to those who submitted statements to be read into the record for last week’s House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Immigration chaired by Silicon Valley's sweetheart, Rep. Zoe Lofgren. The hearing titled "Oh, Canada! How Outdated US Immigration Policies Push Top Talent To Other Countries" was ultimately postponed to a future date. Apparently, the judiciary committee was working overtime that day, passing anti-trust legislation to break up Big Tech monopolies. Oh, the irony! In preparation for the hearing, we researched the Canadian immigration system and I wrote about much of what we...

Former Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker will launch a bid to unseat Sen. Rand Paul, he announced. The 37-year-old rose to national prominence last year when he narrowly lost the Democratic primary to take on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to Amy McGrath, a former Marine combat pilot who ran as a moderate and was defeated. At the same time that Booker was campaigning, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, a black woman, in Louisville, Kentucky, was shot and killed in a botched police raid that sparked outrage and racial justice protests nationwide.

The "free world" barely pretends to favor free speech these days. The triggered interns who infest the big publishing houses openly demand their employers pulp the latest manuscripts from J K Rowling and Jordan Peterson. The totalitarian wankers of the British police sit around the station all day monitoring Twitter for transphobic quips, which is far more congenial labor than getting off their flabby arses and catching criminals. The woke billionaires of social media boast openly of their success at "fortifying" the US election by memory-holing unhelpful content. Beyond those specifics, there are few takers for the principle of "free...

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Meanwhile in the Democrat hell hole of Travis County… Sgt. Daniel Perry, an army soldier who shot and killed an armed BLM-Antifa protester in Austin last July was indicted on a murder charge on Thursday. Perry’s lawyer, Clint Broden, argued his client, who was driving Uber when rioters mobbed his car, was acting in self-defense after the BLM activist, Garrett Foster pointed a gun at him.

There’s a joke that Microsoft follows a good, bad pattern with its OS launches: Windows XP: good, Windows Vista: bad, Windows 7: good. Windows 8: bad, Windows 10: good. Alas, in keeping with the cycle, Microsoft is botching the Windows 11 launch, and it might wreck an otherwise good OS. Thanks to a leaked build, a launch event, and a newly released Windows Insider preview, we have a good idea of what Windows 11 will look like now. And for the most part, it looks like Windows 10 with a fresh coat of paint. Windows 11 dumps live tiles, moves...