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DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 54,000 cars and SUVs because their “Full Self-Driving” software lets them roll through stop signs without coming to a complete halt. Documents posted Tuesday by U.S. safety regulators say that Tesla will disable the feature with an over-the-internet software update. The “rolling stop” feature allows vehicles to go through intersections with all-way stop signs at up to 5.6 miles per hour. Selected Tesla drivers are “beta testing” the “Full Self-Driving” software on public roads. The company says the cars cannot drive themselves and drivers must be ready to take action at all times....

There needs to be a great reckoning for those who, for politics, profit, or power, prevented people from having access to an early treatment for COVID. I don’t think it can be said often enough that the leftist establishment’s dismissal of all early treatments for COVID in favor of vaccines, followed by hospitalization when people are in extremis, will go down as the greatest slaughter of Americans since the Civil War. Whether driven by politics, profit, or the power that vaccine mandates have given them, the entire leftist establishment dismissed Ivermectin as a “horse de-wormer” making it almost impossible for...

More than a year after the 2020 presidential election cycle, signs for former President Donald Trump still graced the front lawns of homes across the country. And it wasn't just lawns. Front porches, sides of barns, boats and motorcycles all proudly flew Trump flags. It was and remains a phenomenon that few outside of those who displayed that sentiment understood. The press saw it as a cult; Democrats believed that, and so did a lot of Republicans. So, instead of exploring it and asking voters the "whys," they spent 2021 running for or against Trump or writing endless stories about...

The same media establishment that colluded with the Democrats to cover up Joe Biden’s dementia in order to get Donald Trump out of the White House are now providing cover for his obvious status as a puppet for unseen handlers. This is an extraordinary moment in history, with the American people kept in the dark about who is actually in charge of the executive branch during a period of multiple grave crises in foreign affairs, the economy, and public health. A mere 32 seconds’ worth of video depicting the end of Biden’s address to the nation’s governors proves that he...

All federal prisons in the US have been placed on lockdown after a gang fight left two inmates dead at a facility in Texas. Two other prisoners were seriously hurt in the violence at the high security Beaumont facility on Monday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) said. The violence at the Beaumont facility in Texas, which has a prison population of 1,372, reportedly involved members of the MS-13 street gang - a brutal group established in Los Angeles which has roots in El Salvador. The two inmates who died were named as Guillermo Riojas, a 54-year-old who had been...

CAMP HILL, Pennsylvania -- With 48 seconds to go in a high school football matchup last fall between Cedar Cliff and Cocalico, the game came down to a shootout between the two central Pennsylvania rivals. To say that the intensity level was through the roof would be an understatement. Yet when the game ended, the two teams met in the end zone and prayed together. It is more common than not on any given fall Friday night in this country to see a coach praying silently on the field both before and after a local high school football game. Most...

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BENSALEM, Pa. (CBS) — A Friday night out turned into a melee in Bensalem at a Golden Corral restaurant. Now police are trying to figure out how it started. A former employee of the restaurant says he was told the fight may have happened after a customer became enraged when the buffet ran out of steak. Video shared with Eyewitness News shows punches being thrown and high chairs flying as a fight breaks out inside the Golden Corral in Bensalem Friday evening. Bensalem police confirm the brawl may have involved more than 40 people and happened following an argument among...

How individuals and institutions react to Lia Thomas, the biological male who is allowed to compete in women's college swim competitions, is a good indicator of people's values and level of rationality. To recap, Will Thomas, a man who until two years ago was a member of the University of Pennsylvania's men's swim team, announced he was female and then joined the University of Pennsylvania's women's swim team. Now named Lia, Thomas has set national records in women's swimming, such as in the 200 and 500 freestyle. Women who have trained nearly all their lives to be competitive swimmers were...

It’s to the point of absurdity, the ways in which the leftist media tries to destroy Republicans. While senators and congressmen definitely have targets on their backs from the press, governors are where the majority of their fire not directed at anyone named Trump has been trained. Gregg Abbott, Kristi Noem, and the main target of the left’s anger and hatred: Ron DeSantis. It makes sense that those Governors would be targets, Texas and Florida are huge states, and Noem is a smart, attractive, conservative woman. When you want to accuse Republicans of a “war on women” or just generally...

ADL Hires Director for Jewish Outreach Who Hates Jews “Jews have to be ok with Palestinians explaining why some turn to terrorism.” After the Hamas, kidnapping and murder of three Israeli Jewish teens, resulting in Israeli forces aggressively pursuing the Islamic terrorist group over the horrifying atrocity, Tema Smith retweeted and praised an article titled, "There Are No Good Guys In The Gaza-Israel Conflict". The article, among other things, claimed that, "Hamas — and the Palestinians as a whole — have desperately real and legitimate grievances against Israel." She also retweeted another piece urging Jews to, “repent for Gaza’s dead.”...

WINSTON SALEM, N.C. - A fire at a North Carolina fertilizer plant is prompting evacuations amid fears that a large explosion could occur. According to WSOC-TV, the fire began Monday night at the Weaver Fertilizer Plant in Winston-Salem. Although crews attempted to battle the blaze, officials “pulled the firefighters back” around 8:30 p.m. over concerns that ammonium nitrate at the plant could cause a major explosion, Mayor Allen Joines told the Winston-Salem Journal. **SNIP** It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, WGHP reported. Authorities said they have not received any reports of injuries in connection with the blaze....

Former President George W. Bush contributed to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) reelection campaigns at the end of 2021, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday, backing up two of the most prominent Republicans who supported impeaching Donald Trump a year ago. Bush donated a maximum individual contribution of $5,800 to Cheney last October. It was a small but notable piece of her total haul of $1.9 million in the last quarter of 2021, which swelled her campaign account to more than $4.7 million cash on hand. Bush had previously donated to Cheney in 2016, according...

Last week, thousands of families are raising awareness about K-12 education options forNational School Choice Week. As Republicans, we stand with them. We believe parents are best equipped to understand their child’s learning needs and that every student deserves the chance to thrive academically. Unfortunately, Joe Biden and the Democrats don’t agree. As a candidate, Biden promised that charter schools would be “gone” if he were elected president. And now that he’s in office, Biden’s administration is working against parents and students. Biden’s position is radically out of step with the millions of American families who have benefitted from some...

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was ripped Sunday after promoting an open-source newsletter platform that offers “freedom” to independent writers. Dorsey tweeted Saturday of the open-source newsletter website Ghost as an alternative to Substack, a popular newsletter service used by a number of prominent journalists including former New York Times writers Andrew Sullivan and Bari Weiss, and Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald. “For those of you on substack: why not use @ghost instead?” Dorsey tweeted. “Is the payment you get from substack inc. greater than the freedom ghost would provide? ”Dorsey’s comments came a few days after Substack Vice President...

Since 1916 and the First World War, United States foreign policy has been dominated by Eurocentrism. Following the Second World War, America has been the military protector of Western Europe for 73 years through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. Now the time has come to disband NATO and tell the countries of Europe, in particular Germany, that they are on their own, as this nation must focus on its ever-growing domestic problems and the global threat of Communist China. The United States should have begun the process of severing military commitments with Europe after the collapse of the...

Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Johnson and most decidedly not Jewish), de-Judaized the Holocaust, a strikingly antisemitic act. After a deserved uproar, she apologized but that’s not good enough. Just as Sharon Osborne and Roseanne Barr got fired for offending racial shibboleths, Goldberg needs to go. Goldberg a staple on The View, a show in which several inane left-wing women loudly opine about the issues of the day, dismissed the Holocaust as a uniquely Jewish event and, essentially said that a lot of people died during World War II, so the Jews shouldn’t make it all about themselves. And by saying...

On Sunday, January 23, there was a march and rally in Washington, D.C.: "Defeat the Mandates: An America Homecoming." On Monday, January 24, Senator Ron Johnson hosted a panel discussion where about a dozen of these same doctors shared their personal testimonies. These are not doctors just plucked off the street, but professionals from all over the country who are tops in their particular field. One doctor is the CEO of a medical organization with over 17,000 medical and scientific members. The mainline media called their narratives a "false narrative." Listen to what these doctors had to say. "Let doctors...

@MaajidNawaz As England begins ditching unscientific, illogical, & discriminatory vaccine MANDATES, Western Australia’s psychopath @MarkMcGowanMP BANS UNVACCINATED PARENTS from seeing their SICK CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL from Jan 31. See how media pundits salivate in glee... @MaajidNawaz This level of injustice DEMANDS a historically memorable correction. Justice must not only be delivered & perceived to be, but it must also be so decisive that it’s taught for generations as an example of the Banality of Evil at work, serving as deterrent to preserve our future.

Headlines on this page of this Blog with links to stories: (Putting much in one place) "Justin Trudeau Accuses Freedom Truckers of Stealing Food from the Homeless" "What’s Happening with Truckers at Alberta-Montana Blockade, HONK! HONK!" "Alberta Truckers: Truckers have shut down the Canada-U.S. border in solidarity with the Freedom Convoy and are now being threatened by law enforcement" "Ottawa City Councillor launches court proceedings against Canada's trucker convoy, targeting the nearly $10,000,000 in funds frozen by @GoFundMe to "cover the City expenses." "Canada's Coward-in-Hiding Trudeau accuses the trucker convoy crowd of "hateful rhetoric" and "violence toward citizens," he rather...