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President Biden wants to spend tens of billions of dollars on transmission lines to transport renewable electricity across states, which he says will improve grid reliability. His climate model of California is showing the limits and risks of this strategy. California’s Independent System Operator (Caiso) on Friday and Saturday issued emergency alerts urging residents to conserve power during the evenings to avoid rolling blackouts. A wildfire in Oregon threatened transmission lines that import thousands of megawatts of hydropower that are needed when the sun starts to go down. Progressives blamed Texas’s power outage in February on its limited ability to...

The Pennsylvania Department of State issued a directive on Thursday that prevents third parties from accessing county voting systems. This directive came as Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano announced on Wednesday that he will investigate the Pennsylvania election system, for both 2020 and 2021 elections. Mastriano, chairperson of the Pennsylvania Senate's Intergovernmental Operations Committee, visited the Maricopa County, Ariz., election audit in June with other Republican state legislators. "Demands have been made to allow third-party entities not directly involved with the conduct of elections to have access to electronic voting systems, specifically to review and copy the internal electronic, software,...

An evolutionary biologist claimed Friday that, should the anti-malarial drug Ivermectin be proven effective against the coronavirus, it would moot the usage of and potentially the ability to administer the U.S. coronavirus vaccines currently active under the Food & Drug Administration's Emergency Use Authorization. Bret Weinstein – who previously made headlines after being pressured out of his biology professorship at Evergreen State College in Washington State for criticizing an anti-White "day-of-absence" – told Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Today" that he has been analyzing the vaccines, and has summarily been censored for raising concerns about the shots and the medical establishment's...

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On Friday, when The Federalist broke news that recently obtained evidence indicates more than 10,300 Georgia voters—a number that continues to grow—voted illegally in the 2020 general election, the corrupt press ignored the story.Instead, corporate and government media focused that day on Democrats’ calls to ditch the filibuster to push through H.R. 1, the so-called For the People Act, and the White House’s announcement that “Biden would travel to Philadelphia on Tuesday to discuss ‘actions to protect the sacred, constitutional right to vote.’”In covering these stories, the press continues to parrot Democrats’ spin that H.R. 1 is necessary to protect...

Visualization of subglacial lakes. (NASA Goddard/YouTube) Antarctica may seem like a static environment: a still, white landscape frozen motionlessly into place. But much more is going on under the ice than we realize – even if you have to travel all the way to space to tell for sure. Over a decade ago, scientists made just such a discovery, when an analysis of data from NASA's ICESat satellite revealed that variations in ice elevation in West Antarctica reflected a vast mass of subglacial water movement underneath the ice sheet. Prior to the discovery, it had been thought that hidden meltwater...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) sent a letter to Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, Director of the National Security Agency, demanding that he investigate the National Security Agency’s (NSA) alleged spying and unmasking of Tucker Carlson, as well as any leaks of his private emails from the NSA to other reporters. “Mr. Carlson is a journalist, who currently hosts the popular news program Tucker Carlson Tonight, and as such he is to be afforded the freedom of the press protections guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,” said Dr. Paul. “As you are...

Andrew Saul, the Social Security Commissioner President Biden fired on Friday, is vowing to fight his termination given he was appointed to a six-year term by former President Trump in 2019.“This was the first I or my deputy knew this was coming,” he said, referring to the email he received from the White House Personnel Office on Friday. “It was a bolt of lightning no one expected. And right now it’s left the agency in complete turmoil.”Saul’s firing came after he refused to resign, though his deputy, David Black, did step down upon the administration’s request. “I consider myself the...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, July 11. I am enabled to state, on the highest military authority, that a battle has either taken place to- day, or will to-morrow, between Gen. PATTERSON'S command and the rebel forces under Gen. JOHNSTON. Arrangements to this end have positively been made. The debates in the House to-day developed completely the treachery of VALLANDIGHAM and BURNETT. They had a monopoly of avowed treason, but probably they have about, a score of men in the House who really sympathize with them. In the Senate, to-morrow, Senators BAYARD, of Delaware, and BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky, will speak on the present...

(CNN) — Days after Canada dropped its quarantine requirement for fully vaccinated Canadians entering the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rejected the idea that non-essential unvaccinated visitors will soon be allowed in. "I can tell you right now that's not going to happen for quite a while," Trudeau said during a campaign-style stop in British Columbia on Thursday. Trudeau did not say when vaccinated travelers would be permitted. The Canada-US border remains closed to non-essential travel until at least July 21 and only Canadian citizens and residents are currently allowed to enter the country, unless they are exempted in order...

Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov once said, “Modern people believe this: man descended from apes. Therefore, let us love one another.” Of course, Solovyov made his statement in a mocking fashion. Despite attempts from secular philosophers and ethicists who try to assert that an evolutionary-based altruism instinct or other such thing impels us to do good to others, Solovyov is right – you can’t link traditional evolutionary teaching and objective morality together. And yet, perhaps more than ever in the history of humanity, there is widespread belief in the equal treatment of others; that we should be working for the betterment...

With so many Cubans protesting the travails of socialism, and so many in the US extolling socialism's virtues and complaining of systemic racism, why not create a system whereby X number of Cubans are allowed asylum in the USA as long as Y number of unhappy Americans are sent to Cuba (with US citizenship revoked)? I would envision sending, say, 10 whiny college students/professors/professional agitators to Cuba for each individual allowed to come to the US. Cuba would benefit from our "best and brightest", who could surely show them how to do socialism "the right way". The US would benefit...

That was fast. Here come the Chinese-like social credit scores.Leftist Democrats, but I repeat myself, are making no secret of their plans to become more like their comrades in China. They support vaccine passports for COVID mRNA shots in order for people to receive certain social rewards such as going to school or attending a Major League Baseball game, just like the social credit score system in the People’s Republic. Now, Democrats and Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, want your FICO score to go full “woke.”They’re not even trying to hide it.USA Today reports...

When Democrats took over Congress and the White House – with only Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote giving them a Senate majority -- they were very open about their plans: They would do away with the filibuster and then enact their radical agenda with a one-vote majority. Most significantly, this meant that they would add two new states (D.C. and Puerto Rico) and pack the Supreme Court. Moreover, since voters have had the temerity to question election results, they’re desperate to enact H.R. 1, their “For the People” bill, which would give the federal government (read: Democrats) control over elections. What...

A woman has brutally killed her husband after learning that he had allegedly been sexually abusing their son and daughter for years, according to reports. 59-year-old Corinna Smith from Neston, near Liverpool, UK, filled a garden bucket with water from the kettle and three bags of sugar.

Lightning has killed at least 38 people across two Indian states over the past 24 hours, officials said Monday. Many of the deaths occurred in the western state of Rajasthan, where 11 people died after being struck by lightning near a watchtower at the 12th century Amber Fort, police said. Senior police officer Anand Srivastava said some of the victims were taking selfies near the watchtower when lightning struck late Sunday. The Indian Meteorological Department has warned of more lightning in the next two days. Lightning strikes are common during India's monsoon season, which runs from June to September. More...

Defying death, terror and beatings, millions of Cubans took to the streets across Cuba shouting "Freedom" and "We are not afraid" in a collective call to end to the 62-year communist dictatorship. It was breathtaking, a thing of beauty, comparable only to Tiananmen or the fall of the Berlin wall. It took unprecedented courage, too -- against state goons, secret police, government death squads, and paid thugs -- who are responding now like cornered rats, recognizing very well their survival is at stake. It's too soon to tell if the Cubans have won, a big general strike has been called...

The U. S. Supreme Court set the wheels in motion for intense political speculation when it decided to hear arguments over a Mississippi law that protects unborn children after 15 weeks. A central question in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center is whether a state may ban pre-viability abortions. In Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS stated that states could not restrict abortion until the point of viability. According to the court, this is when the unborn have the “capability of meaningful life outside the womb.” The court stated that viability generally occurs around 24 weeks. The Mississippi law contradicts this key...

If you happened to attend Trump’s rally in DC in January the Biden DOJ may be spying on you. Biden’s Department of Justice is now identifying and monitoring Trump supporters who attended the January 6th rally in support of free and fair elections. According to multiple reports, the DOJ is creating a giant database to monitor people who attended the Jan 6. protest in the Capitol: The Department of Justice has committed to paying over $6 million to a multinational firm to create a database to host the reams of data prosecutors are gathering in cases against accused participants of...

A Conservative MP has warned that “winter is coming” and predicted the government could impose fresh restrictions on Britons in the coming months. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce this evening that all remaining social distancing measures will be lifted on July 19th. While welcoming the prospect, Mark Harper, chairman of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group (CRG), however, warned that “it’s only a number of weeks until the autumn arrives” and with it the rise in seasonal respiratory diseases, meaning the government could attempt to bring back lockdown and social distancing in the colder seasons.