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Next week, black Americans in Charlottesville won't see statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson anymore. And then what? They made some news at Charlottesville over the last few days: The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, officially removed its statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on Saturday. The mayor then explained it all: Mayor Walker says the statue coming down is "one small step forward" in a bigger push to accurately teach history, invest in wealth gaps, and dismantle white supremacy. Well, let's see how those predictions work out, specially the one about investing...

Two days after state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin County, announced that he’s requesting that three counties turn over election materials and equipment for a “forensic investigation,” the Department of State on Friday directed counties to refuse any requests for access to voting equipment by third-party groups. Acting Secretary of State Veronica W. Degraffenreid issued a directive prohibiting third-party access to electronic voting systems, addressing requests that counties allow outside entities not involved with the conduct of elections to review and copy the internal electronic, software, mechanical, logic, and related components of Pennsylvania’s voting systems. “Such access by third parties undermines...

Like vampires, they fear sunlight. esterday, I wrote that it looks like Pennsylvania Dems are panicking over the audit of the 2020 election announced by State Senator Doug Mastriano, chair of the state senate’s Intergovernmental Operations Committee. Two days after the announcement of the audit, President Biden suddenly was scheduled for a trip to the Keystone State "to deliver remarks on actions to protect the sacred constitutional right to vote." Bringing the “The Big Guy” to pressure officials to obstruct access to the data which the state senate has an absolute right to examine. But that was just half the...

There is a debate raging in the minds of those trying to decide, “Do I get the shot, or do I run the risk of dying from COVID and/or infecting someone I love?” The Internet has emerged as the great arbiter for decisions. “How long do I cook a twelve-pound turkey?” “Do I have a headache or a brain tumor?” Just Google it. You can get 100,000 responses in under a tenth of a second and then scroll through the results. What do they say? Who’s saying it? Are they credible or not? Do you believe the guy who says...

… in interviews with close to 30 people over three days in Galesburg, conversations are dominated by issues much closer to home, like rising local crime, racial strife and whether life can return to an approximation of normal after a deadly pandemic. And their voices matter because it is places like Galesburg, among a few dozen swing congressional districts in the country that will have an outsize voice in the midterm elections next year. In 2020, voters here favored President Donald Trump but also their incumbent Democratic congresswoman, Cheri Bustos... An outbreak in crime has stirred emotions here, and Democrats...

The Alaska Republican Party endorsed Kelly Tshibaka, the conservative Republican candidate running against long-time incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in Alaska’s Republican primary, the candidate announced Saturday. “I am grateful and thrilled to have the strong support of the Alaska Republican Party, which voted overwhelmingly to endorse my candidacy for the U.S. Senate,” Tshibaka said in a Saturday statement. “We all share a unified goal: to promote the principles upon which our country and state were founded. I have pledged that I will be true to our shared, conservative Alaska ideals and be a senator upon whom they can depend...

The new school year is about to start, and we can't have people walking around without being paralyzed by fear. As we are now well into July, plans for the 2021–2022 school year are ramping up. For many school systems, the first day of school is less than one month away. Given this, and in order to make sure that the government schools maintain as much control as possible over American children, the COVID-worshiping media are again ramping up the Wuhan Virus panic porn. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is no exception. With an opinion piece entitled, "To mask or not...

Do we really want a nationwide federal police force accountable solely to a small number of legislators, not subject to FOIA and other citizen protections applicable to the executive branch? The Acting Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police has recently announced the expansion of their federal force into Florida and California. Two new field offices will be opening in Tampa and San Francisco, due to claims from Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman that the number of threats against sitting Congressmen has doubled in the last year. A Capitol police officer with an automatic weapon Photographed July 28, 2011 by Edward Kimmel...

Before I get to the bad news, let me start with some good news. Christopher F. Rufo tweets that the revulsion against Critical Race Theory being taught in schools is showing results. Nine states have already banned it: Arizona, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Idaho. As more people realize this effort to divide us into what Scott Adams calls “losers and assholes” I expect we will see more states banning the teaching of this perfidious, noxious, baseless nonsense. On the other hand, there seems no backing off of it in the military, where it can do...

**SNIP** Ed Buck, a one-time celebrated and sought-after donor to the Democratic candidates and elected officials in California, faces nine felonies, including two counts of distribution of controlled substances resulting in death. Black death, to be exact. One count for the 2017 death of 26-year-old Gemmel Moore and one for the death of 55-year-old Timothy Dean in 2019. Your garden variety middle-aged white gay man, Ed Buck, was privileged and entitled with the “complexion for protection.” A West Hollywood City Hall gadfly with a checkbook he wasn’t afraid to use, aside from giving the max allowed to political candidates, Buck’s...

POTUS, Donald J. Trump will address the CPAC gathering in Dallas, Texas this afternoon at 3:00 PM EST. The Trump Address will be televised on NewsMax, OAN, FOX News Network, C-SPAN, RSBN and many other live feeds. Tune in with millions of other loyal Americans and Patriots.

A Southern California event space refused to host an America First rally after learning that Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene were slated as speakers. Javad Mirtavoosi, the manager of Pacific Hills Banquet & Event Center in Laguna Hills, told The Orange County Register on Friday that the venue had wanted to 'stay clear' of hosting the conservative lawmakers. The America First rally was scheduled to be hosted at the 30,000-square-foot venue on July 17, and Mirtavoosi noted staff had just expected a 'gathering'.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN)Two US citizens are among more than a dozen arrested in Haiti in connection with the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a top government official said Thursday. Elections Minister Mathias Pierre told CNN two US citizens were allegedly linked to Wednesday's attack. Pierre identified the men as James Solages and Joseph Vincent, both naturalized citizens from Haiti.

Abnormal absorption of hydrogen in nickel at ambient temperature with associated emission of neutrons # Ubaldo Mastromatteo 1 1 A.R.G.A.L. Via S. Stefano, 27/B – 20008 Bareggio (MI), Italy, E-mail: ubaldo.mastromatteo@libero.it While it is known that nickel at a temperature of a few hundred degrees if in hydrogen can slowly absorb a certain amount of this gas [1], there is no evidence that this can occur at room temperature and at pressures below 1 bar. On the contrary, by conducting studies and experiments on LENR anomalies in the ARGAL laboratory in Bareggio, Italy, it has been experimentally verified several times...

Police officers and officials in 21 districts and Thu Duc City booked many residents for such offenses as failure to wear face masks in public, going outside without proper reasons, participating in gatherings of over two people, and operating non-essential businesses despite a ban, on Friday and Saturday. District-level administrations issued fines totaling VND841 million ($36,600) for these violations, said Tu Luong, deputy director of the municipal Department of Information and Communications. Meanwhile, police units imposed another VND389 million ($16,900) worth of fines. (Please see link for full article)

Andrea Macklin never turns off his TV. It’s the only way to drown out the noise from the wood mill bordering his backyard, the jackhammer sound of the plant piercing his walls and windows. The 18-wheelers carrying logs rumble by less than 100 feet from his house, all day and night, shaking it as if an earthquake has taken over this tranquil corner of North Carolina. He’s been wearing masks since long before the coronavirus pandemic, just to keep the dust out of his lungs. Some nights, he only sleeps for two or three hours. Breathing is a chore. “I...

A Japanese official tells the truth about China’s Taiwan ambitions.Japan’s government played clean-up this week after Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso indicated the country would intervene to repel a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Such Chinese military expansion, he said Monday, could threaten Japan’s “survival,” and “if that is the case, Japan and the U.S. must defend Taiwan together.” Japan officially embraces a “one-China” policy and favors a diplomatic resolution between Beijing and Taipei. China’s state media on Wednesday published a piece in response warning that if Japan is involved in a conflict over Taiwan, it “will become the target...

Fraud may be rampant in biomedical research. My 2016 article "Broken Science" pointed to a variety of factors as explanations for why the results of a huge proportion of scientific studies were apparently generating false-positive results that could not be replicated by other researchers. A false positive in scientific research occurs when there is statistically significant evidence for something that isn't real (e.g., a drug cures an illness when it actually does not). The factors considered included issues like publication bias, and statistical chicanery associated with p-hacking, HARKing, and underpowered studies. My article did not address the possibility that the...

Bishop José Armando Álvarez Cano of Tampico is seeking an exorcist for the diocese. A July 7 article in the diocesan magazine said the exorcist must "attend to certain situations that have occurred in the last few months in the Church in Tampico." The publication also stated that the priests of the diocese recently participated in a training session held by the College of Exorcists of the Archdiocese of Mexico. Exorcism is a remedy for diabolical possession. Fr. Jordan Aumann, a Dominican of the Central Province who died in 2007, wrote that “for solemn exorcism it is necessary to verify...

Ketamine, a drug once popular in the club scene, is now psychiatrists' secret weapon against depression. Perhaps you've heard of it, either from celebrities' personal stories — such as former NBA player Lamar Odom — or through the many research studies currently underway to assess its effectiveness. What you may not know is how the drug works to relieve depression, and why it seems to help patients for whom all other treatments have failed. In that, you wouldn't be alone. Dr. Steven Levine, a board-certified psychiatrist who developed the protocol for the clinical use of ketamine in 2011, says scientists...