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The carrier variant of the stealthy Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, has deployed onboard an aircraft carrier for the first time in U.S. Marine Corps hands. While the Marines also operate the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B version, the service is procuring the C-model to ensure it can continue with the long-established TACAIR Integration agreement under which it provides squadrons to go aboard the Navy’s big-deck carriers. The addition of the carrier-going F-35C to the Marine Corps inventory also signals a significant boost to the service’s ability to confront high-end adversaries, especially in the Asia Pacific theater.The Marine...

It’s time to join together with loved ones and celebrate America’s newest holiday: January 6th! To make the most of your holiday, please consider these ten patriotic ways of remembering the day democracy almost, but didn’t quite, die.

Health officials inside and outside his administration privately acknowledge that there’s little new left for the federal government to do but hold on and hope the worst is over soon. “Hold on and hope the worst is over soon” is very, very far away from “I’m going to shut down the virus.” The good news is that with all of the vaccinations, boosters, and natural immunity and past infections, the Omicron variant wave isn’t going to be nearly as deadly as past waves. But we’re still in for a challenging couple of weeks ahead... the number of hospital beds in...

Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off the Biden administration’s remarks on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot by comparing it to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. “Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault. Dates that occupy not only a place in our calendars, but a place in our collective memory. December 7th, 1941. September 11, 2001. And January 6th, 2021.”

The Persei booster was launched for a test mission on Dec. 27 by the heavy-lift Angara-A5 rocket. However, the upper-stage booster failed to enter Earth's orbit as planned. Instead, it began inevitably being pulled back toward the atmosphere by Earth's gravity for an expected return to the surface in bits and pieces (if at all) on Wednesday afternoon, Pacific time. The rocket is thought to have weighed around 20 tons, but over 75% of that mass would have been in fuel that almost certainly would have burned up in the atmosphere. The 18th Space Control Squadron of the US Space...

Bette Midler is the newest left-wing determine to equate final 12 months’s January 6 Capitol riot to the September 11 terrorist assaults, which killed almost 3,000 folks — claiming each occasions left her in related states of shock. The Hollywood star, who not too long ago needed to apologize for smearing West Virginians as “poor, illiterate, and strung out,” commemorated the January 6 riot in a collection of social media posts Wednesday. She referred to as it “one of the most traumatic days in American history” and blamed former President Donald Trump and Fox News. “Tomorrow is 1/6, one year...

Former President Barack Obama released a statement Thursday marking the anniversary of the January 6 protest, lamenting that a “sizable portion of voters” agree with the claims that he believes fueled the protest; he also warned that “our democracy is at greater risk today than it was back then.” “One year ago, a violent attack on our Capitol made it clear just how fragile the American experiment in democracy really is,” Obama began.

Conservative talk show host Larry Elder announced Tuesday that he won't challenge California. Gov. Gavin Newsom in the 2022 election despite receiving the most votes in a failed recall effort against the Democrat last year. The radio host said in a statement to KTTV-TV in Los Angeles and Politico that he'll instead focus on launching a political action committee targeting legislative races in an effort to help Republicans regain control of the U.S. House and Senate. "I ran for governor because I wanted to make a difference," Elder said in the statement. "While I may not know what the future...

Adding a safe, inexpensive and easy to administer form of vitamin D to treatment for children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes shows promise to improve measures of disease progression. Results of a randomized clinical trial comparing ergocalciferol supplementation to placebo, conducted by Benjamin Udoka Nwosu, MD. "There are new findings of clinical importance in this study," said Dr. Nwosu. "Ergocalciferol protected beta-cell mass and was useful for maintaining improved glycemic control during the honeymoon phase." Type 1 diabetes occurs when insulin-producing beta cells cease to function over time. During partial clinical remission, known as the "honeymoon phase" that may...

A vaccine authorized in December for use in India may help solve one of the most vexing problems in global public health: How to supply lower-income countries with a COVID-19 vaccine that is safe, effective and affordable.The vaccine is called CORBEVAX. It uses old but proven vaccine technology and can be manufactured far more easily than most, if not all, of the COVID-19 vaccines in use today."CORBEVAX is a game changer," says Dr. Keith Martin, executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health in Washington, D.C. "It's going to enable countries around the world, particularly low-income countries, to...

"There is no federal solution," President Joe Biden told the nation's governors last week while addressing surging COVID cases from the Omicron variant, the latest wrinkle in the coronavirus pandemic. "This gets solved at the state level." That's exactly what then-President Donald Trump said in 2020. While campaigning for the presidency, Biden accused Trump of "not having a plan" to beat COVID, while he himself did. Now, with this apparent reversal of his campaign message, Biden seems to be channeling the position championed by his predecessor, who said in April 2020 that the federal government should be a "backstop" for...

A Chicago Public Schools teacher battling cancer told Fox News on Wednesday that he will not stop in-person lessons, despite the Chicago Teachers Union vote requiring a return to virtual learning. The vote by the teacher's group went into effect on Wednesday, closing school doors after 73% of the union voted to halt in-person instruction. But one teacher isn't willing to say goodbye to his classroom again.

St. Lucie County Deputy Clayton Osteen died Jan. 2 and Deputy Victoria Pacheco took her life “in the wake of Deputy Osteen’s death,” Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a statement on Tuesday. The sheriff’s office responded to a call just before midnight on New Year’s Eve and found that Osteen, who was off duty, had tried to kill himself. His family removed him from life support Sunday, Mascara said. On Tuesday, the sheriff’s office learned of Pacheco’s suicide, although the sheriff didn’t specify when she died. The name of the child wasn’t shared.

Excuse the Vanity Post, I think some may be interested in a personal friend of mine who passed away recently, whose funeral is tomorrow. My dear friend Hans Heine, was born in Danzig, Germany in 1928 and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1944 and immediately sent to the Eastern Front to fight against the Russians, he has obviously seen the worst of humanity. In 1958 Hans, his wife and children immigrated to the USA and became citizens, he had a very successful business career and was a true friend, one of his sons joined the USAF and had over...

New research published in the European Journal of Epidemiology has found that mass “vaccinating” people for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) is not helping to stop the continued outbreaks. Even though governments and vaccine corporations claim that the injections are the best tool currently available to “stop the spread,” the data shows that the areas being hardest hit by new “variants” and waves of disease and death are those that have the highest injection rates. Vermont is a perfect example of this. It is currently one of the most highly vaccinated states in the country, and is also seeing the greatest...

Part 1: Savage welcomes Dr. Robert Malone. Why is the establishment focused on discrediting Malone? Savage asks about the difference between Covid vaccine and measles, etc. vaccinations.

LANGUAGE WARNING: a group of younger folks are seen on video harassing a Target worker and knocking over displays. The worker tries to kick them out, but they curse him out, knock things over, and may have harassed a customer as they walked by. It appears as though the employee has called police and is describing them.

Particles forming swirling, tornado-like structures. (Mukherjee et al, Nature, 2022 ============================================================================== Scientists have observed a stunning demonstration of classic physics giving way to quantum behavior, manipulating a fluid of ultra-cold sodium atoms into a distinct tornado-like formation. Particles behave differently on the quantum level, in part because at this point their interactions with each other hold more power over them than the energy from their movement. Then, of course, there's the mind-boggling fact that quantum particles don't exactly have a certain fixed location like you or I, which influences how they interact. By cooling particles down to as close to...

The hedge fund community dumped tech stocks in the four sessions between Dec. 30 and Tuesday as interest rates spiked. The four-session tech unloading marked the biggest sale in dollar terms in more than 10 years, reaching a record since Goldman Sachs’ prime brokerage started tracking the data. Tech stocks are seen as sensitive to rising yields because increased debt costs can hinder their growth and can make their future cash flows appear less valuable. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has sold off more than 3% this week, underperforming the S&P 500, which dipped 1% during the same period.

Zac Kriegman had the ideal résumé for the professional-managerial class: a bachelors in economics from Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard and years of experience with high-tech startups, a white-shoe law firm, and an econometrics research consultancy. He then spent six years at Thomson Reuters Corporation, the international media conglomerate, spearheading the company’s efforts on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced software engineering. By the beginning of 2020, Kriegman had assumed the title of Director of Data Science and was leading a team tasked with implementing deep learning throughout the organization. But within a few months, this would all collapse....