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Leaked memos obtained from Hunter Biden's laptop have directly conflicted with the congressional testimony provided by a Democrat lobbying firm about the Biden family's foreign business dealings. The files, from the computer hard drive recovered by the FBI, debunk claims by two key executives at Blue Star Strategies who were called to testify before Congress last year.

The flare region can be seen on the right. (NASA/SDO) The Sun appears to be waking up from the quiet period of its 11-year cycle. On 3 July 2021, at 14:29 UTC (10:29 EDT), our wild star spat out its first X-class flare of Solar Cycle 25; it was the most powerful flare we've seen since September 2017. X-class flares are among the most powerful solar eruptions from our host star, with the mightiest on record being an astonishing X28 in November 2003. This new flare wasn't quite so intense, clocking in at X1.5 - but, even so, it produced...

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On 15 June, 2021, Governor Greg Abbott signed Texas HB 957 into law. The new law removes the Texas prohibition on firearm suppressors, commonly known as silencers or gun mufflers. From the bill: “Firearm suppressor” means any device designed, made, or adapted to muffle the report of a firearm.From the legislative history, it appears silencers, suppressors or gun mufflers were first banned in Texas in 1973. Although they were banned in Texas law, there was an affirmative defense from prosecution if the gun mufflers were legally possessed under federal law, as shown in this AmmoLand article from 2014.As you can...

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Typically, banks make money by taking deposits at low rates and lending to borrowers at higher rates (car loans, residential mortgages, business loans, etc.), earning a spread. And bank deposits are usually less than the loans that they extended. Until April 2020. Nothing has been the same since Covid. This is really a unique time, since during the last recessions (2001 and The Great Recession) bank credit exceeded bank deposits. Banks can turn to The Federal Reserve at times like these. The Fed’s reverse repo program lets eligible firms, like banks and money-market mutual-funds, park large amounts of cash overnight...

Members of a Middle East-based scouting group have converted the traditional scouting salute into a replica of the Sieg Heil salute notorious for its use by Nazi adherents, a new report reveals. It is the Palestinian Media Watch that captured the video, and posted it to see: The individuals are at an event organized by the Palestinian Scout Association and the Fatah Movement Scout Office. It happened recently in the Maroun Al-Ras area on the border with Israel. In fact, President Trump had facilitated several unprecedented peace accords between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors while he was in...

Green hydrogen is the latest “energy” fad from the global warming warriors. Today’s hydrogen hype proposes using wind and solar energy to produce “green” hydrogen by electrolysis of water. It is mainly hot air. Hydrogen will NEVER be a source of energy. Unlike coal, oil or natural gas, hydrogen rarely occurs naturally – it must be manufactured, and that process consumes far more energy than the hydrogen “fuel” can recover. It's actually an idea that is quite old and discredited. “Hydro-gen” means “born of water,” but there has been a commercial fuel containing hydrogen that was born of coal. (Maybe...

I recently explained that, as much as I am sympathetic to the goals of gay Americans who feel that they are simply fighting for equality and freedom, I cannot support those goals for two reasons. The first is biblical: same-sex relationships and endless gender variations violate God’s best plan for humanity. The second is social: when we look at the trajectory of LGBTQ+ activism, we see that it ends up going in a very dangerous and destructive direction. Recently, a man who identifies as a woman shocked patrons at a local spa when he exposed himself to the women and...

Ranked-choice voting may have suffered "a black eye" courtesy of the New York City mayoral race, according to Politico. Two weeks after city residents went to the polls to vote in the primaries, official results have not been announced, Politico said Tuesday. The city Board of Elections released incorrect vote tallies last week before fixing the totals 24 hours later. ...

The Supreme Court recently wrapped up its first term following the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, the third in a trifecta of conservative justices President Trump nominated to the Court -- conservative by reputation, at least. In practice, their rulings so far have left fellow conservatives scratching their heads. Take for instance a recent ruling that involved a moratorium on evictions the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had imposed upon landlords last September and is scheduled to expire on July 31. To control the spread of the pandemic, the CDC banned landlords from evicting tenants who were behind in...

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Allen & Co.’s “summer camp for billionaires” returns to Sun Valley this week after taking a COVID-induced hiatus — and a lot has changed since the power powwow was last held in 2019. As usual, media moguls like Michael Eisner, Barry Diller and Reed Hastings will begin flying in Monday to the posh Idaho mountain resort to mingle with tech tycoons including Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and Airbnb’s 39-year-old chief executive, Brian Chesky. But this year they will share the limelight with titans of industries that got an outsize boost after the world shut down last year to stave off...

MSNBC legal analyst Cynthia Alksne, former federal prosecutor, said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Manhattan prosecutors who indicted the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg were likely to next go after former President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump. Alksne said, “This is an opening salvo. Ordinarily or quite often, New York State indictments are not as detailed as this. The prosecutors went to an amazing amount of effort to show Weisselberg, ‘We have everything we need.’ They’re really not only pressuring him to flip, but the amount of detail in this indictment tells me they’re trying to tell other people...

If this year has taught us anything, it’s that the world is full of surprises, and nature can throw anything at us at any given moment. From fires to hurricanes, we’ve truly seen it all. However, we don’t often stop and think about how crazy nature is on a day to day basis. Here are some photos of crazy things that people stumbled upon that show us the breathtaking power of nature.

A famous spa in Los Angeles' Koreatown became the latest site in the battle over transgender rights last week, drawing attention from conservative commentators nationwide. A week after a customer confronted spa staffers about a transgender woman apparently disrobing in the spa's women's section, protests over the situation turned violent.

Creator of the New York Times' 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones has dramatically rejected the University of North Carolina's offer of tenured position and will be accepting a role at Howard University instead. Hannah-Jones announced Tuesday she will become a member of the historically black university's Cathy Hughes School of Communication and will also lead its newly created Center for Journalism and Democracy to train the next generation of African-American reporters. One week ago, trustees at UNC-Chapel Hill approved Hannah-Jones' tenure, capping weeks of tension that began when her application was halted because she did not come from a 'traditional academic-type...

Hit-and-run in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania this weekend.

When Catherine the Great of Russia traveled in the late 18th-century, her former lover, Grigory Potemkin, would travel ahead of her and build hasty facades along the main thoroughfares in impoverished, bedraggled villages to create the impression of a prosperous nation. Thus, a Potemkin village is a fake that artificially puffs up a leader’s competence and popularity. Two recent videos, one of Biden’s fans turning out to greet him in Michigan and another of Trump’s fans turning out for him in Florida, show that Biden is a Potemkin president. It’s all fake.The first video shows Biden traveling through Antrim County,...

Political strategist Susan Del Percio said Monday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the Republican Party has embraced “neo-fascism,” so now it needs to burn down and be built back up. Del Percio said, “You talked about fascism early on. Really, I’ve been looking for a new word for ‘Trumpism’ because I hate it because I think it goes deeper than just Donald Trump within the Republican Party. And I keep coming back to the same name. It’s neofascism. Forget Trumpism. It’s neo-fascism. That’s what the grassroots of the party looks like right now.”