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Is it any surprise governments are working to turn their citizens against each other, scare them into submission, and trick them into imprisoning themselves? Let's talk big picture here. Why has the world been turned on its head these last few years? Why does it seem as if everything true is labeled false and everything false is labeled true? Why is it that, even in the absence of all-out global war, everything feels chaotic and uncertain these days? Why is it that at the height of global prosperity and peace, the world is going mad? What if I were to...

A Silicon Valley venture capitalist says that men who take six months of paternity leave are ‘losers’ and that ‘in the old days men had babies and worked harder to provide for their future’ which was ‘the correct masculine response.’ Joe Lonsdale weighed into the raging debate sparked by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s decision to take paternity leave after he and his husband, Chasten, welcomed adopted twins into their family. Buttigieg was criticized for taking paid time off while the country continues to suffer from the effects of a major logjam at ports that has exacerbated the supply chain crisis....

On Thursday evening, a new poll found that Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin has pulled ahead ahead in a poll, with a majority of Virginian parents saying they supported Youngkin over his Democrat counterpart. In a Fox News poll, 56 percent of likely voters who identified themselves as parents responded that they would vote for Youngkin if the election were to be held that day. 42 percent stated that they would vote for Terry McAuliffe. The large lead Youngkin has gathered is noteworthy due to the state voting for President Biden by 10 points during the 2020 presidential election,...

"There are rules for most cases, and then there are rules for abortion cases," began a dissent of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar in a case last month. "The majority reveals that abortion exceptionalism knows no bounds," he added. Thapar's allusion to the peculiar rules and procedures that characterize modern litigation surrounding the peculiar institution of on-demand abortion is especially apt, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares for its expedited Nov. 1 hearing in U.S. v. Texas. That case, pertaining to the Lone Star State's recently enacted fetal heartbeat law, has attracted outsize attention....

Colleges and universities are in the midst of a full-blown mental health crisis. It’s no coincidence that mental illness among America’s younger generation is at an all-time high, while their religious practice is at an all-time low. Last month (Oct. 12), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill cancelled classes for a day for its 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students, who were urged to consider it a “wellness day” in the wake of two on-campus suicides and an attempted suicide. Colleges and universities are in the midst of a full-blown mental health crisis. UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said as...

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Singapore reports 3,432 new cases day after highest single-day rise; UK cases between 22 and 28 October down 9.8% on previous seven daysRussia brings in harsh new measures amid record cases and deathsIndia: over 100 million people fail to turn up for second Covid vaccineEU gives go-ahead to UK’s NHS Covid pass as proof of full vaccinationFace mask row in Japan over cost of 80m left in storage unusedSee all our coronavirus coverage17h ago UK records 39,842 new Covid cases and 165 more deaths

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- On October 25, 2021, there was a hearing on evidence to be presented at trial in the Kyle Rittenhouse case in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The most important issue covered appeared to be the prosecution arguing who the aggressor was in the incident, is irrelevant.The video is two hours and 29 minutes long. This article covers the highlights of the action, as judged by this correspondent.There was trouble with the video equipment. Near the beginning, Judge Schroeder quips:“What do you want for $50,000, right?”(snip)DA Binger argues police interaction with Rittenhouse on the night of 25 October, has no relevance.Judge Schroeder...

@ChadPergram A) GOP KY Rep Comer on Fox on liberal Dems holding up infrastructure bill: It’s just further proof that the progressives are running the Democrat agenda now in the House.. to think that that bill wasn't enough, spending for them shows just how far left they are @ChadPergram B) Comer: I mean, this bill raised every tax imaginable on small business. It expanded welfare beyond any normal liberals imagination. And yet it still wasn't enough for those nine ultra liberal Democrats

Colin Kaepernick narrates this drama series recounting his formative years navigating race, class and culture while aspiring for greatness.

Americans are waking up to the true destination of the Left. As the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Over the past century, we’ve embarked on a number of noble initiatives to improve the world in which we live. But in the true spirit of “never let a crisis (or opportunity) go to waste,” leftists have managed to subvert all these pursuits. Posing as benevolent government “servants” they have graciously offered to guide us through the complex social and scientific issues associated with each objective. We naively let them. We’re just now beginning to see...

In the last days before Election Day, the Associated Press seems befuddled. One article was headlined, "Biden easily won Virginia. Why is McAuliffe struggling?" Is this really a brainteaser? With the public polls showing a toss-up, AP's Steve Peoples channeled the fears of Democrats that former Gov. Terry McAuliffe could lose to first-time candidate Glenn Youngkin, and the "finger-pointing and handwringing has begun." And "McAuliffe's hyper-focus on former President Donald Trump may not energize voters." Did they overestimate the appeal of McAuliffe's experience? For Republicans, this is the best line: "A McAuliffe loss on Tuesday would reverberate across the national...

[H/T zipper]SNIPSteve Deace on Twitter77.7% is an astounding number by itself, but when we consider the Mayo Clinic‘s numbers indicate 54.4% of Illinois’ population is fully vaccinated, it’s easy to see why nobody in corporate media is touching this story. They are beholden to Big Pharma’s agenda, just like most in our government, Big Tech, academia, and the healthcare industry.MORE AT LINK

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Donald J. Trump Wednesday announced his endorsement of Dr. Dawn Buckingham for Texas Land Commissioner. “A Senator and Doctor, Dawn Buckingham was one of my very first supporters in the Great State of Texas,” said Trump. “She has served in the Senate for eight years, is highly respected, and is someone who can always be counted on to do the right thing for her State. She is running for the position of Land Commissioner in order to protect the great legacy of Texas including defending the Alamo which, like all other amazing institutions, is under siege. She is strong on...

An intriguing and distressingl feature of the Biden administration and congressional Democrats is both having a propensity for law breaking and lawmaking. They’re different sides of the same coin. While the former is obviously bad, in the wrong hands, the latter is no less wicked. Lawmaking, when done punitively, for gross partisan advantage, when favoring some over the many, and/or for pure power acquisition, will as easily offend and injure those citizens subject to bad laws as any violation of law. Said the ancient Roman thinker Tacitus: “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” Tacitus’ wisdom is...

An anomaly response team continues to work on establishing what caused the solar array to not fully deploy...Any attempt to safely redeploy the array would occur no earlier than Nov. 16...All other systems are functioning normally.

Rebecca West writes, in The New Meaning of Treason, that a lot of our scientists during World War 2 were communists. There are several reasons this is important, but the first is that they immediately leaked our research on atomic bombs to Stalin. They honestly believed in a "global scientific community" — that science knows no political boundaries, and that the world would be better if scientists shared all their information with each other. Somehow this would usher in an age of peace and plenty, and scientific know-how would mean food for the poor and an end to oppression. So...

An internal poll found Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin ahead of Democratic former Gov. Terry McAuliffe by 4 percentage points, signaling significant gains in a competitive race for Virginia governor. The Republican Winsome Sears for Lieutenant Governor Campaign poll conducted by co/efficient , provided exclusively to the Washington Examiner, found Youngkin with 47% support among likely voters and McAuliffe with 43%. Third-party candidate Princess Blanding had 5% support, and another 5% were undecided.

European Union’s Project: Clean Energy from Hydrogen-Metal Systems (CleanHME) Konrad Czerski for the CleanHME consortium* Institute of Physics, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland A consortium of 16 scientific institutions and trade companies from Europe, Canada and the US started in 2020 a research project devoted to the study of various powders and metallic bulk materials in a hydrogen atmosphere to find the best solution for a future nuclear fusion energy source at extremely low energies. The project will be supported by the European Union over the next four years. The main research idea is to combine accelerator experiments performed at...