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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday she's rejecting two of the five GOP picks to sit on the newly formed Jan. 6 select committee. Pelosi, D-Calif., said Wednesday she won't appoint Reps. Jim Jordan from Ohio or Jim Banks from Indiana – two strong allies of former President Donald Trump – to the committee formed to investigate the cause of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and make recommendations on preventing future violence. Her decision immediately sparked backlash from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who called Pelosi's move "unprecedented" and threatened to have all Republicans boycott the committee if Jordan...

A fragment of the meteorite. (David Clarke/EAARO) A small fragment of rock found lying in a field in Gloucestershire in the UK may not have looked like much to the casual passerby, but it could contain vital information about the formation of the Solar System – and the origins of life itself. That's because it did not form here on Earth, but hails from somewhere out past the orbit of Mars. Kicked out by gravitational interactions or a collision between asteroids, the fragment tumbled across the vastness of space to end up punching through our atmosphere to land on Earth...

LA GRANDE — Nine confirmed attacks on lambs and ewes were attributed to the Ukiah Pack on private land eight miles south of Meacham — the first known report of this pack interacting with livestock. According to an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife report, a sheep herder in the Kamela area of Mount Emily notified a ranch hand July 4 that sheep had scattered from around their bedding area near his trailer the previous evening. That same morning, the report said, a member of the public found two dead ewes and one dead lamb on the same timbered, privately...

A video apparently made during the Spring 2020 surge in gun sales shows ATF nominee David Chipman mocking first-time gun buyers as “Tiger King.” The video, posted by RNC Research, shows Chipman sitting in a kitchen, mocking first-time gun buyers, saying, “In their mind, they might be confident, thinking they are die hard, ready to go. But unfortunately, they’re more like Tiger King, and they’re putting themselves and their families in danger.” He then referenced first-time gun buyers as if they were all preppers, suggesting that first-time gun owners should “secure [their] gun locked and unloaded, and hide it behind...

If His Fraudulency Joe Biden cannot protect the White House from the coronavirus, how can we expect him to protect us? Well, as we now see with all the new infections across the country and the return (and threatened return) of mask mandates, Biden cannot protect us. He’s failed spectacularly at combating the China Flu, and there is no better example of his incompetence than the recent breakout of the coronavirus at the White House. According to White House press secretary Lyin’ Ginger, there have been “breakthrough cases” (plural) among administration officials. Cases. If the Biden White House were the...

[H/T Fractal Trader]This is mostly a rhetorical question.By now, most of our everyday readers are very familiar with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). It’s a portal that allows Americans to report adverse reactions to vaccines. It has been the topic of many stories here as it shows currently around 11,000 deaths following the so-called Covid “vaccines.”A lawsuit that we covered yesterday laid down the bombshell that a CDC whistleblower claims the actual post-vaccine death estimates from the CDC are around 45,000. This bit of information dominated conversations regarding the lawsuit, but there was an important gem also described...

The city of Anaheim, California, canceled an “America First” rally to be led by Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Saturday, raising concerns that it is violating the First Amendment. A city spokesman cited “values” as the reason for canceling the rally, which violates the long-established constitutional principle that the government must be content-neutral with regard to any regulations applied to speech and assembly. “A planned America First rally at a private venue in our city is cancelled,” Mike Lyster, spokesman for the city of Anaheim said on Twitter. “The city of Anaheim shared public safety...

The government is facing a rebellion over a proposed requirement to use vaccine passports to enter venues. Around 40 Conservative MPs are expected to vote against the plans to make vaccines a requirement to enter nightclubs and other venues after the government announced the move following the easing of restrictions across the UK. The Labour party said it also opposes the passports. A spokesman said: “We need to see the detail of what the government puts forward regarding vaccine passports. “We oppose the use of Covid vaccination status for everyday access to venues and services. It’s costly, open to fraud...

Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794. After the election of November 1860, in a matter of weeks, Americans went from thinking secession was taboo to visions of killing the greatest number of their fellow citizens on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Mao’s China went from a failed communist state to the ninth circle of Dante’s Inferno, when he unleashed the Cultural Revolution in 1966. In the last six months, we have seen...

The military-focused “A Heroes Thanks” lottery has its first drawing Tuesday. “A Heroes Thanks” is the state’s vaccine appreciation promotion specifically . The first drawing is on July 20, but a formal announcement of the cash prize winner make take a few days. Tuesday’s drawing includes one $100,000 cash prize, five $250 Amazon gift cards, and five $100 Washington State Parks gift cards. Since the federal government did not share the identity or names of individuals who were vaccinated by Veterans Affairs or the Department of Defense in order for the state to be able to include them in the...

Earlier this month several women from the US soccer team turned away from the US flag as 98-year-old WWII veteran Pete DuPré played the national anthem on a harmonica. The US women’s soccer team was playing an exhibition game against Mexico in East Hartford, Connecticut in a pre-Olympic sendoff game before heading to Japan. The US Soccer Federation later denied this but the video was clear. On Wednesday the US Women’s Soccer Team took a knee before their Olympic opening game. Then they proceeded to get spanked 3-0 by the Swedish women.

Before he was a congressman associating with white nationalists, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) was a dentist — and a good one, at that. Now, some of his former patients are shocked that the man who once filled their cavities has become a "conspiracy-minded, race-baiting" lawmaker, reports The Washington Post. "Gosar the dentist had to be the real Paul Gosar," said Coreen Anderson, a former loyal Gosar patient who has described his dental skills as "amazing." "It had to be. There's no way that person was fake. Did he get brainwashed? Did the power get to this head? I honestly don't...

If you know anyone that took the COVID mRNA vaccine which creates the spike protein watch this youtube video about the d-dimer blood test, you could save a life of a loved one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=5sIWb9GTbbE&utm_source=JangoMail&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Never%20a%20%20slow%20news%20day%20(342623354)&utm_content

The debate surrounding mandatory coronavirus vaccinations has raged across the nation for months, with several companies strongly encouraging the vaccine but many stopping short of an official mandate. Things could soon change, however, once the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants full approval to vaccines, according to public health experts. “I think once the vaccines go through full FDA approval, everything should be on the table, and I think that everything will be on the table at the level of municipalities, states, employers, venues, government agencies,” former COVID-19 response coordinator for the Biden administration Andy Slavitt said, according to NBC...

The United States women's soccer team was just trounced by Sweden at the Olympics — and forward Megan Rapinoe is acknowledging, "We got our asses kicked." Sweden scored a stunning 3-0 victory over the United States in women's soccer at the Olympics on Wednesday, The Associated Press reports. It was an upset after the U.S. had been the favorites to win gold, the AP notes, while Sweden was ranked No. 5. The loss came after Sweden previously defeated the U.S. in the quarterfinals at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016. "We got our asses kicked, didn't we?" Rapinoe said...

Pennsylvania’s top election official has decertified the voting machines of a small southern county that disclosed that it had agreed to requests by local Republican lawmakers and allowed a software firm to inspect the machines as part of an “audit” after the 2020 presidential election.

Here is yet another reminder that Covid-19 vaccines are not like gigantic concrete full-body condoms. Concrete condoms, in general, are a bad idea, and fully vaccinated does not mean perfectly protected against Covid-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have already been 4,115 reported cases of fully vaccinated people being hospitalized or dying with Covid-19 coronavirus breakthrough infections. That’s as of June 21, 2021. Nearly half (49 percent) of these cases have been female and a little over three-quarters (76 percent) have been 65 years and older. There were a total of 3,907 hospitalizations and...

Staind frontman Aaron Lewis has a musical message for liberals: He loves his country and his flag, and he’s tired of watching the Left tear the nation apart.In a new song titled “Am I the Only One,” released just before the July 4th holiday, the singer asks:Am I the only one who quits singin’ alongEvery time they play a Springsteen song …Am I the only one sittin’ hereStill holdin’ on, holdin’ back my tearsFor the ones who paid with the lives they gaveGod bless the U.S.AI’m not the only one, willin’ to fightFor my love of the red and whiteAnd...

In lieu of additional revenue obtained from auditing taxpayers, how do lawmakers now propose to fund increased federal spending on roads and bridges? Through a budget gimmick.After a conservative backlash, Republican senators negotiating an infrastructure bill have objected to an increase in funding and authority for the IRS. In lieu of additional revenue obtained from auditing taxpayers, how do lawmakers now propose to fund increased federal spending allegedly on roads and bridges? Through a budget gimmick.In short, Congress now wants to repeal a rule that 1) hasn’t gone into effect and 2) likely won’t ever go into effect, so it...

The Tulsa Police Department posted about one of their "most wanted" suspects, looking for information – then the suspect commented on the Facebook post herself, ultimately leading to her arrest. On Wednesday, the police department posted about Lorraine Graves, who is charged with being an accessory to murder. The department was looking for information on Graves, who was suspected to be involved in the murder of Eric Graves. However, the department was still looking for Lorraine Graves – and she ended up showing herself to them when she commented on the post. "Where's the reward money at?" Graves wrote. The...