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Of all of the endless follies of California these days—I know, it’s hard to enumerate all of them let alone put them in rank order—closing our last nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon ranks perhaps at the top of the list. It provides more than 10 percent of California’s electricity, and can run 24/7, unlike wind and solar power. As one of the last nuclear power plants built and brought online in the 1980s, it easily has another 40 years of potential service left in it, if not more. The perverse energy policy of California, which excludes nuclear along with...

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Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville said today “people should be arrested for what they did” in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and he “stands behind the Capitol police 100 percent.” ... It “never should have happened,” Tuberville said. “Whoever came in broke things, hurt people, fought the police. They are police, that is their job. And people should be arrested for what they did coming into the national’s Capitol like that and destroying things.”

Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX.

The Brooklyn mom who tumbled down a flight of stairs during an attempted robbery at a Manhattan subway station earlier this month has died, police sources told The Post. Than Htwe, 58, died Wednesday, one day after her family said on their GoFundMe page that she would not survive after undergoing brain surgery — and that they planned to donate her organs. The page had raised more than $48,000 for the family before it was shut down this week. *** “Tell her ‘I love you’ or give her a hug and kiss because you never know what will happen,” he...

When a 19-year-old and a 20-year-old allegedly vandalized a "Black Lives Matter" street mural in Santa Cruz, they prompted a community outcry and may face hate crime charges — a development that prompted a separate outcry.

Apple CEO Tim Cook told FOX Business this week that employees of the firm will not be expected to return to the office until October or beyond, after telling workers earlier this summer to prepare to come back to the office in September for at least three days a week. The iPhone maker's move is part of a growing trend of tech companies that are issuing such delays as coronavirus persists in the U.S. "As the last 18 months have demonstrated many times before, progress made is not progress guaranteed," Cook said in a conference call Tuesday. "An uneven recovery...

[NOTE: Cole Beasley has been literally carrying the water for the NFL players on this issue. He is speaking for hundreds of players; standing up to both the NFL and the NFLPA. His official statement read to the press this morning says a lot - jimjohn ] "I want to start this off by saying, I'm not anti or pro vax, I'm pro choice. With that being said, the issue at hand is that information is being withheld from players in order for a player to be swayed in a direction he may not be comfortable with. "When dealing with...

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New science has again prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its mask guidelines. The CDC recommended on Tuesday that fully vaccinated people wear masks in public indoor settings "in areas with substantial and high transmission." That includes a large swath of the US right now, including the vast majority of counties in the South. The CDC recommended that all teachers, staff, students, and visitors at K-12 schools mask up as well. The goal of these new guidelines, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said, is to "help prevent the spread of the Delta variant and protect others." The...

President Biden condemned anti-Semitism a day after a swastika was found carved into the wall of an elevator inside the State Department’s main headquarters in Washington, DC. “Let me be clear: Anti-Semitism has no place in the State Department, in my administration, or anywhere in the world. It’s up to all of us to give hate no safe harbor and stand up to bigotry wherever we find it,” the president said in a tweet late Tuesday. Earlier Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken also addressed the vandalism on Twitter, where he said the symbol of Nazi hate had been removed....

Analyst claims Trump’s victory margin was 424,000 votes VIDEO AT LINK........................

YAVIN—In a shocking last-minute decision, talented young rebel pilot Luke Skywalker has pulled out of the Death Star trench run to focus on his mental health. According to sources, he started hearing the voices of dead people as he was lining up his shot at the exhaust port and thought it would be best for him to bow out of the attack so as not to drag down his teammates. "Luke, you've switched off your targeting computer. What's wrong?" said a Yavin base controller. "I'm just not feeling this right now," said Luke. "I'm getting pretty stressed out and hearing...

Yet another day of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy passively taking abuse and ridicule from House Majority Leader and doing nothing about it except flap his mouth. Republican voters are witnessing the spectacle of a Republican leader that punished Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by removing her from House committee assignments because DEMOCRATS complained about Greene's "rhetoric" and now McCarthy refuses to remove Cheney Who openly insults him and Republicans in general. Whet is the only difference in the outcome of these two situations? The difference is that Pelosi wanted Greene gone and wants Cheney to stay. McCarthy works for Pelosi...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI—Local compassionate progressive Karter Brynlee is recovering from an emotional roller coaster today after initially feeling sad for someone dying of COVID, then feeling a perverse thrill after finding out the victim hadn't been responsible enough to get vaccinated, then sad again after realizing he was an illegal immigrant who had snuck across the border. "Oh, how sad," said Brynlee to himself, quickly followed by "HA! IN YOUR FACE YOU STUPID ANTI-VAX BOOMER!", which was quickly followed by "Oh man... what a tragedy." "I am very compassionate," Brynlee then said to himself. According to sources, tens of thousands...

The Oklahoma Sooner and Texas Longhorn athletic programs have requested an invitation to become members of the Southeastern Conference. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey received the request Tuesday and announced there will be a meeting between the conference presidents and chancellors to vote on sending an invitation to the colleges. NEWS | Statement from @SEC Commissioner @GregSankey: pic.twitter.com/6K9xW2sJ2o — Southeastern Conference (@SEC) July 27, 2021 A three-fourths majority vote, or in this case 11 of 14, is required to approve the invitation. If OU and Texas get the green light, they’ll join the SEC in July 2025. “We believe that there...

Attending Physician Brian Monahan at the Capitol on Tuesday said he is now advising Congressional members and staff is to wear a “well-fitted” super mask while inside if “other individuals are present.” The physician said he recommends this due to the members “traveling weekly from various risk areas.” This means he is making it mandatory for members to wear a “well-fitted” super mask, noting that it should be a medical-grade filtration mask, like a surgical mask with an earloop or a KN95, according to him. Members should use them “when they are in an interior space and other individuals are...

On Wednesday, two-time losing Democrat candidate for president Hillary Clinton jumped to her Facebook account to praise USA Gymnast Simone Biles on the heels of her decision to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics. On Wednesday, Biles announced that she was pulling out from the all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics. Her decision caused a storm of criticism that sparked many of the gymnast’s supporters to defend her defense.

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Cases jumped to 80K on this report, Higher than any single day of the Spring 2021 or Summer 2020 waves - Vaccinations higher up on today's daily report - New Cases and Hospitalizations climbing quickly - Deaths only moderately) Administered: 343,361,524 (13,293,282 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 189,494,180 Fully Vaccinated: 163,588,042

Breaking911 (@Breaking911) Tweeted: BIDEN: "Back in 2009…the President asked me to be in charge of managing that piece, then President Trump—Excuse me, freudian slip, that was the last president.” https://t.co/ICn4cvwsV0