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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell may want to move past former President Donald Trump but polls indicate overcoming the former president's base will be a tall order for the GOP Senate leader. McConnell sees Trump's constant spotlight on the alleged voter fraud that occurred in the 2020 election as a detriment to Republican efforts to retake control of Congress. While McConnell wants 2022 candidates to be focusing on President Joe Biden, Trump remains the leader of the GOP despite holding no official title and polls indicate that he still commands strong support among members of the party. A YouGov/Economist poll...

The premiere of the third season of the HBO show “Succession,” which you can’t read about without some mention of it being “loosely based” on the Fox News founder, was last Sunday. It’s the story of Logan Roy, his children, and the family media business. As a show, it’s fine and I enjoy it. But as honest commentary or even interesting satire, it’s terrible because the leftists who make it can’t get over their Fox Derangement Syndrome. The show can’t decide if it’s a comedy or a drama, which is very similar to real life. But this comes from Adam...

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There’s dumb, and then there’s the Biden administration. Just the other day, the Chi Coms fired off a hypersonic missile. It goes up on a rocket, then glides back to earth toward is target at about five times the speed of sound, and has the ability to zig and zag so that our missile defense systems can’t hit it. Now, you strap a hot rock to the tip, and that presents a multiple megaton problem for us. So, let’s make a goof of it. The ridiculous Jenn Psaki, speaking to the trained seals that make up the majority of the...

China may now possess hypersonic missiles and have eclipsed us on the artificial intelligence front, but the Chinese didn't develop UFOs, and neither did Russia. There's definitely something going on up there that we need to figure out in the name of national security. This needs to happen ASAP, because various members of the armed forces have stated that incidents continue to increase. China is putting A.I. to work on the problem. That's something we should definitely do as well. We certainly have plenty of radar, FLIR, and other data that A.I. would be perfect to analyze in ways (and...

In her brilliant foreign policy essay "Dictators and Double Standards," Jeane Kirkpatrick made the commonsense case for always supporting our friends and opposing our enemies. That policy might seem obvious, but Biden seems determined to pursue the opposite. Like his Democrat predecessor Obama, whose first act in office was to remove the statue of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, Biden is turning his back on our friends. He abandoned Bagram air base without even bothering to inform our allies in Afghanistan and fled with no apparent concern for the thousands of allied troops still in the country. He has...

A prominent climate physicist has resigned from one of his roles at the University of California, Berkeley, after he said faculty members would not agree to invite a guest lecturer to the school who had come under fire for his political views. The lecturer, Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist, has been criticized for opposing affirmative action programs and other initiatives to promote diversity, equity and inclusion at colleges and universities.... ...The Massachusetts Institute of Technology this month rescinded a lecture invitation to Abbot, a geophysicist and associate professor at the University of Chicago, amid public backlash over an op-ed he co-wrote...

Authorities in China cancelled hundreds of flights, closed schools and ramped up mass testing on Thursday to try and stamp out a new Covid-19 outbreak linked to a group of tourists. .. The latest outbreak was linked to an elderly couple who were in a group of several tourists. They started in Shanghai before flying to Xi'an, Gansu province and Inner mongolia. Dozens of cases have since been linked to their travel, with close contacts in at least five provinces and regions, including the capital Beijing. ... Some regions including lanzhou -- a city of some 4 million people in...

Few may have recognized this, but the Harris-Biden administration has achieved that which is considered almost impossible in current times: the seemingly unattainable feat of consistency. Unfortunately for America, this happens to be the kind of consistency that is most undesired. On any given day since Jan. 20, 2021, the Harris-Biden administration has been breaching unchartered terrain with either their display of incompetence or their disregard for the Constitution, or their proclivity towards authoritarianism. On certain days, they multi-task and manage all of them simultaneously. Their mismanagement has resulted in a supply chain crisis, the first of its scale in...

I find myself in the position that I must use an alias for fear of reprisal. Those days may be quickly coming to an end, as hospitals are denying requests for vaccine exemptions with impunity. I will likely soon be out the door, with nothing to lose. Even if I survive this round, if the “pandemic” continues, it won’t be long before I am shelved like a can of spam. Doctors need to be called out. From early in the pandemic, it was like a mass hypnosis or forgetfulness of everything we had learned in medical school. Immune system knowledge...

Naval Support Activity Bethesda first warned in a tweet that "all personnel should shelter in place" and the "public is asked to avoid the area." It added that the reported bomb threat was directed at Building 10 and all gates to the base were closed to non-emergency traffic.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea test launched its first domestically produced space rocket on Thursday in what officials describe as an important step in the country’s pursuit of a satellite launch program. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the three-stage Nuri rocket succeeded in delivering a dummy payload – a 1.5-ton block of stainless steel and aluminum – into orbit 600 to 800 kilometers (372 to 497 miles) above Earth....

Dampwood termite worker head capsule and brain. Credit: Sean O'Donnell, Drexel UniversityNew research on dampwood termites (Zootermopsis angusticollis and A. nevdensis) shows select members of the colony will experience brain changes in anticipation of cognitive demand.In a dampwood termite colony only a select few will, quite literally, see the light. The insects are unique due to their mating flights and the adaptability of their role within the colony, which is based on the overall needs of the group. King and queen termites must leave the nest and are the only members to go outside—briefly —to partner off and tunnel into...

In an effort to combat the supply chain crisis and the rise of China’s economic influence, Rep. Chip Roy is introducing a bill to incentivize companies to bring their manufacturing back to the United States. The BEAT CHINA Act — introduced on Wednesday — looks to push manufacturers producing goods abroad to move to the US by providing tax advantages to eligible companies. Under the legislation, non-residential property purchases made by companies that shift their operations domestically would be “considered 20-year property instead of 39-year property,” which would make them eligible for full and immediate expensing. The bill would also...

Multiple sheriffs in jurisdictions near Chicago said they will not respond to fill the potential gap in police manpower created by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Lightfoot has vowed to fire the Chicago police officers who fail to comply with the mandate she ordered, which could result in the loss of thousands of officers.

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Special counsel John Durham provided 81,000 pages of discovery to indicted Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann in his criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation, court filings show. The reams of documents, which reveal details from grand jury subpoenas sent to 15 individuals and organizations likely including opposition research firm Fusion GPS, were produced this month after lawyers representing Sussmann, who denies any wrongdoing, demanded more information while calling the allegations that he lied to the FBI five years ago vague and confusing.... ...Among these documents, the special counsel said, were those "received in response to grand jury subpoenas issued to fifteen...

President Biden has repeated a story about an encounter with an Amtrak conductor for the fifth time - even though the man in question was already dead at the time the chat was supposed to have taken place. The president recalled the encounter with Angelo Negri Wednesday during an appearance touting his ‘Build Back Better’ infrastructure plan in his native hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He claimed their chat about him traveling two million miles by rail had happened in the seventh year of his vice presidency - 2015 - even though Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993, and died in...

Australia delivered a withering denunciation of China's trade policies Thursday, accusing Beijing of undermining the World Trade Organization and foot-dragging on promised economic reforms. During a usually routine WTO review in Geneva, Canberra's representatives said China had benefited "significantly" from 20 years of WTO membership but was not keeping its end of the bargain. ... ..."China has increasingly tested global trade rules and norms by engaging in practices that are inconsistent with its WTO commitments," the Australian government said in a statement. "By undermining agreed trade rules China also undermines the multilateral trading system on which all WTO members rely."...

A federal appeals court decided 2-1 Wednesday to overturn a nationwide order requiring federal immigration authorities to monitor and possibly release detainees at high risk of dying or suffering long-term complications from COVID-19. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said a Riverside-based federal district judge overreached when he issued a preliminary injunction in April, 2020 requiring the government to identify and track immigration detainees with certain health risks and establish directives for release during the pandemic.... ...In court filings, ICE argued that concern about detainees contracting the virus amounted to "mere speculation” and releasing large...