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When Wally the walrus disappeared after more than five months of appearances around the UK and Ireland, interspersed with visits to France and Spain, observers feared the worst. But after about three weeks at sea he re-emerged in Iceland, looking skinnier but much closer to his Arctic home. He was first spotted a few weeks ago by fishers at the mouth of a fjord in the south-east of the country, resting on a sea wall. Since then he has taken up residence on a boat pier in the fishing town of Höfn... ...During his travels across Europe, Wally sunk several...

People stopped by a lone plain-clothes officer should challenge their legitimacy, the Met Police says. As it seeks to reassure women after the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer, the Met said it was "entirely reasonable" to demand an officer's identity and intentions. Wayne Couzens showed a warrant card (badge) and used handcuffs as he kidnapped Ms Everard before her rape and murder. The Met faces questions over whether chances were missed to stop him. Couzens, 48, targeted Ms Everard, 33, on a street in south London in March. He has been sentenced to a whole-life prison...

In comments made in 2018 and leaked in September 2021, Kemi Badenoch, now British minister for equalities, remarked, "I don't care about colonialism because I know what we were doing before colonialism got there. They came in and just made a different bunch of winners and losers." It is not exactly clear how to interpret this message by a politician, born in 1980 in London of Nigerian parents, who grew up in Nigeria and has been a Conservative member of the British parliament since 2017. However, it suggests a view of "colonialism" different from the woke version, or from the...

The Senate is split 50-50 between the two parties. However, if a vote were now held to eliminate the filibuster, this split morphs to 48 yeas and 52 nays. Such a tally allows the filibuster to survive. And it allows the sometimes despised but always wily Mitch McConnell to keep foiling the radical (and rabid) Democrat agenda. Only a simple majority is needed to eliminate the filibuster, but if the filibuster is in play, sixty votes are required to pass legislation. The Democrats’ agenda includes HR-1 and HR-4, which would end legitimate elections in the United States. It includes HR-5,...

The archbishop of San Francisco is calling for a "massive and visible campaign of prayer and fasting" for the conversion of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's heart as she pursues what pro-lifers have called "radical" abortion legislation. "Witness the House of Representatives’ passage of HR 3755, which would impose abortion on demand nationwide at any stage of pregnancy," Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said of the California Democrat in a statement Wednesday. "A conversion of heart of the majority of our congressional representatives is needed on this issue, beginning with the leader of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I am therefore inviting all...

A US Marine officer, Lt. Colonel Stuart Scheller, publicly criticized the Biden Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan which left 13 servicemen and women dead at Kabul Airport. He particularly targeted the top brass of the military, a military to which he devoted his energy and his life to serve, for their abysmal performance in the closing days of the Afghan withdrawal. Scheller was relieved of his command shortly after he posted a video on Facebook demanding senior officers be held to account for their actions. In the video, Scheller said that he intended to resign his commission. In the video,...

The tech executive referenced in the criminal case against leading cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann was identified Thursday as an industry pioneer who’s founded the world’s first commercial internet hosting company, is an expert in detecting malware and holds 10 patents. Rodney Joffe is the person referred to as “Tech Executive-1” in Sussman’s indictment for allegedly lying to the FBI by withholding his connections to Hillary Clinton’s losing 2016 election campaign against former President Donald Trump, according to CNN... ..Joffe also founded and was chief technology officer of Genuity, which was the first company to offer commercial hosting services that allow...

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Like a sitcom in its death throes jumping the proverbial shark, the cancel-culture movement is plunging into a humiliating depth of inanity. This weekend, video emerged from a person called Frederick Joseph, a regular practitioner of “man on the street put-up jobs,” showing a confrontation with a white woman named Emma Sarley. Sarley supposedly told Joseph, who is black, to “go back to [his] hood.” Or at least that’s what he says. She doesn’t say this on the video. The familiar fracas ensued: Social-media mobs assembled, and quickly Sarley was fired from her job. But what happened next was a...

Cabrillo College dropped 413 students from in-person learning on campus after they failed to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination. About a third of them were reinstated after they showed proof of vaccination or exemption. Those students who were dropped can go through a further appeals process and continue their education with online courses they're already registered in. The deadline to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or exemption came and went last Wednesday. The community college has a roster system where instructors can check who hasn't complied with the mandate. "If a student is enrolled in a class and it's a...

Depending on how one counts, we are now in day 570 of the COVID crisis. Much has been learned since the old days of washing your groceries and not touching your face. But one thing that we can’t quite seem to land on is when people should be wearing a mask. In some places they are ubiquitous, in others you barely see them. The laws, regulations, guidance and rules seem to vary by the minute. Take the House of Representatives. Members must wear masks at work in one of the airiest, most spacious buildings in the country, and yet on...

The top border official in the Biden administration admitted to being caught off guard recently by the spike in delta variant coronavirus cases among migrants at the border.... ...Mayorkas, who has for months refused to speak on the risk that infected migrants who are released into the United States pose to border communities, said upwards of 20% of that population are sick with the highly contagious disease. "We are confronted with a population of people that, as a general matter, that have a rate of illness of approximately 20%," said Mayorkas, who has been in his position since January. "When...

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One of my earliest (and naughtiest) songs, remixed for Spotify.

What double standard? The American left is out to destroy the justice system in the country today. Attorney Sidney Powell announced during an interview last week that her legal team will depose Dominion’s Eric Coomer for questioning later in the day. Coomer sued several Trump supporters, media outlets and media personalities following the 2020 presidential election, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Michelle Malkin, Joe Oltmann, The Gateway Pundit and Jim Hoft, among others. Eric Coomer was deposed for an hour by Powell’s attorneys last week. From what we are hearing it was a complete disaster. The Dominion executive came across...

“Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof" (Proverbs 1:24-25).

Gladys Berejiklian has announced her “difficult decision” to resign as NSW Premier. It comes after the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) confirmed it is investigating whether she “breached public trust” or “encouraged corrupt conduct” in a bombshell statement outlining the probe. The investigation relates to the allegations surrounding her secret romantic relationship with disgraced former MP Daryl Maguire and whether she knew anything that should have been reported to corruption authorities earlier. Ms Berejiklian said it “pained her” to make the decision, which comes after “challenging weeks of the most challenging times in the state’s history” — but that...

Video: Dr. Rand Paul vs lawyer Xavier Becerra, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, who does not have a degree in medicine or science, and is a complete idiot when it comes to the subject of natural immunity for people who have been infected with COVID-19Rand Paul is a medical doctor.Xavier Becerra is a lawyer who has no degree in medicine or science. Despite this, he is the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.In this video, Dr. Paul explains why Becerra is a complete idiot when it comes to the subject of natural immunity for people who...

Former Olympic swimming star Klete Keller pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge stemming from the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. During a brief appearance in federal court in Washington, he pleaded guilty to a single charge of obstructing an official proceeding, a felony with an estimated sentencing range under federal guidelines of 21 to 27 months. In return, the government dropped one other felony charge and five misdemeanor counts. His attorney, Edward MacMahon, told the judge that Keller "is trying to make amends for his terrible mistake," is embarrassed, and "wants to start his life over." Prosecutors...

Hospital staff in New York State have to prove they are vaccinated against Covid this week or face losing their jobs. It is possible hundreds of employees will refuse to be vaccinated and resign their positions. Earlier this week, Northwell Health fired two dozen employees for not complying with the vaccine mandate, according to Newsday. Environmental and food service professionals, nurses, medical technicians, and physicians are all prepared to quit. As an infectious diseases physician and researcher involved in Covid vaccine trials, I am often questioned by both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Many of the vaccinated are baffled, unable to...