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This week, the president took a trip to Virginia to try to help salvage the gubernatorial prospects of fellow Washington lifer Terry McAuliffe. resident Joe Biden used the appearance to liken the GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin to Jan. 6 rioters, to lie about Republicans supporting "book bans" and to attempt to goad former President Donald Trump into coming to Virginia. (Mission accomplished? Perhaps not.) Biden wants to talk about one person these days, and that person isn't Biden. Then again, what does he possibly have to brag about? Shutting down COVID? More Americans have died from the disease during...

New Force of Nature? Tantalizing Evidence for New Physics From CERN’s Large Hadron Collider University Of Cambridge By HARRY CLIFF, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE OCTOBER 26, 2021 Particle Accelerator Physics Concept The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sparked worldwide excitement in March as particle physicists reported tantalizing evidence for new physics — potentially a new force of nature. Now, our new result, yet to be peer reviewed, from CERN’s gargantuan particle collider seems to be adding further support to the idea. Our current best theory of particles and forces is known as the standard model, which describes everything we know about the...

New Amazon Aurora capability gives customers the ability to run applications written for Microsoft SQL Server directly on Amazon Aurora with little to no code changes New open-source Babelfish for PostgreSQL makes it easier for more organizations to run Microsoft SQL Server on PostgreSQL under the permissive Apache 2.0 and PostgreSQL licenses.

Living in California, the COVID dictatorship clamps down on one life pleasure after another, leaving room only for anti-social activities. Chipping away at our sanity, self-worth, autonomy and, as Que Mala would say, “fweedom,” undermining our basic rights, destroying our souls—that is how I would describe the box we’ve been forced into. That this repression and forced constriction are occurring worldwide, makes the situation no less awful nor any more lawful. I yearn, as I’m sure you do, to go where I want, smile at people in stores and restaurants and even on the street, without a moronic face diaper....

It’s becoming increasingly clear that, if there’s a Biden doctrine, it’s not about unity and “normalcy”; instead, it’s intended to destroy America, root and branch. When Joe Biden ran for office, he did a good job of staying on message. He would be the antidote to Trump’s “abnormal” presidency (never mind that the only abnormal thing was the leftist establishment’s furious and often illegal efforts to oust him). Biden would be the calm, unifying leader. This was a lie. From his first day, Biden’s goal has been to upend every American institution, every American value, and America itself. After nine...

WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 28. The infantry on this shore of the Potomac was concentrated on the parade ground east of the Capitol this morning, for the purpose of being reviewed by Gen. MCCLELLAN. It was about 10,000 strong, and under the immediate command of Gen. CASEY. The field was in excellent condition, the weather unparalleled, and the troops made a splendid appearance. The entire Staff assisted at the review, and the Secretary of War and a number of army officers were present. The attendance of spectators was very large. A bitter controversy is springing up between the friends of Gen....

The Biden administration can convince these so-called experts of anything. On August 25, the “experts” forecast third quarter GDP growth at 5.7%. On Sept. 28, the “experts lowered the projected growth to 4%. On Oct. 28, the first reading of third quarter GDP came out at ... 2%. The experts were so close. While campaigning for Terry McAuliffe the other night, Joe Biden said the economy was doing great because of his policies and that the U.S. now has more jobs than before the pandemic. It was trash. I would not say a decelerating economic growth from 6.7% is doing...

Peter Navarro was one of only three people worked for President Trump from the beginning of his 2016 campaign all the way through to the end of his first term. He was tasked with many important duties, including convincing the coronavirus task force in the early days to support the President’s travel ban. In his first meeting with the task force on January 28, 2020, Navarro went in as the voice of the President to make them see the light about the proposed travel ban from China. This was long before most in DC were taking the disease seriously; Nancy...

Confessions of error are rare enough in woke America that they should be strictly construed against the speaker. Two such confessions (the legal term is "admissions against interest") suddenly appeared last week. The first confession came in an Oct. 20 letter from Principal Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health Lawrence Tabak. He admitted that a "limited experiment" conducted under an NIH grant but not reported on time was "testing if spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model." This appears to have been,...

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Pray For The Peace of JerusalemIsaiah 64[a]Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! 2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! 3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you. 4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those...

Although he doesn’t even have skin in the game in this fight, Bongino is standing on his principles. I discovered Dan Bongino’s podcast very early on, perhaps in 2016. I liked the clarity with which he described political issues, his insights, and his ebullience. Most of all, I liked his consistent principles. “Dan,” I thought to myself, “means what he says.” Bongino’s fight with Cumulus Media, which syndicates his daily three-hour-long radio, proves that he really does live by his principles. That’s why, despite being vaccinated himself, Bongino is threatening to pull out from Cumulus Media unless it revokes the...

For the first time since Alec Baldwin accidentally shot one crew member and injured another while filming for Rust, the armourer for the film has spoken out. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins passed away on Thursday, October 21, as a result of the incident. The film’s director, Joel Souza was also injured. Baldwin had not known the gun had live ammunition in it, however the 63-year-old has been subject to extreme online abuse in the wake of the incident. The set’s armourer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, has now spoken out about the tragedy. Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence, Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers said safety was her...

Virginia is a newly blue state, with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators, that Joe Biden won by 10 points. Hence, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe was an early and solid favorite to regain the office he vacated in 2017. But if McAuliffe loses Tuesday, the defeat will be measured on the Richter scale. For if he does lose, it will be because of an elitist belief McAuliffe blurted out during a debate with Republican rival Glenn Youngkin: "I'm not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions. ... I don't...

A Virginia nonprofit released a report this week that shows potential errors in how Virginia has sent absentee ballots to people looking to vote by mail. In one case, out of a sample size of 587 addresses in 22 districts across the state, 217 out of 243 live contacts – nearly 90 percent – the absentee ballot information listed did not match the person living there, the report found. Virginians for America First (VAF), an organization that is trying to help Republicans regain the majority in the Virginia House of Delegates, received absentee ballot data from the Virginia Department of...

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...