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Marc Racicot, a former Montana governor and former chair of the Republican National Committee, has written a letter to current RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel calling for her to lead the committee in reversing course on the recently passed resolution censuring GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. Both Cheney and Kinzinger have been been outspoken critics of former President Donald Trump, and they are the only two Republicans serving on the House select committee tasked investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “My suggestion and request is that you lead the Committee through the process of withdrawing...

Let me preface this with the fact that I don’t know what I’m going to speculate about here to be true, but it’s the only thing that makes sense of the entire situation. Of course, if Russia invades Ukraine, either by the time this is published Tuesday or anytime thereafter, this could look pretty stupid. Still, I’m willing to risk it because nothing else makes any sense, when you consider the entire situation. What if the idea of Russia invading Ukraine is a hoax? What if it’s just Russia doing what Russia loves doing – saber rattling – and nothing...

Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger received donations from thousands of grassroots supporters who helped fund Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, revealing how Democrats are willing to cross party lines to back Republican lawmakers that have broken with Donald Trump over the January 6 riots. Last year, more than a third of Kinzinger’s grassroots donors and roughly a fifth of Cheney’s were people who gave to Biden in 2020, according to a Financial Times analysis of data from WinRed and ActBlue, the main platforms for small-dollar donors. Kinzinger, a congressman from Illinois and Cheney of Wyoming are two of six House Republicans...

During the Obama administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was the primary weapon used against single-family zoning in the suburbs. The left is now leading the assault with state laws to supersede local zoning laws and force multi-family projects into suburban neighborhoods. Their efforts in New York could reverberate across the nation if successful. Proposed New York State Senate S.4547 would override local zoning to permit the construction of accessory dwelling units as small as 550 square feet on residential property for the purposes of rental. Existing accessory dwelling ordinances, which have been adopted to accommodate family...

The White House on Monday refused to be drawn into the growing controversy over claims that Hillary Clinton's allies tried to smear Donald Trump, and whether internet data collection amounted to spying. Three times Joe Biden's principal deputy press secretary was asked whether the president had any concerns about campaigns hacking into opponents' computer systems to gather dirt. And three times during the White House daily briefing Karine Jean-Pierre referred all questions to the Department of Justice. The tussle followed a new legal filing in Special Counsel John Durham's probe into the origins of the Russia investigation. It alleged that...

Sir Isaac Newton published his laws of motion in 1687, the third of which states, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” This law is the foundation of rocket science where engines must fire and burn fuel that accelerates from the rear of the craft. This causes a force in the opposite direction to push the rocket forward. Dribble a basketball, the same thing. The harder and faster you push down on the ball, the harder and faster it will bounce back up. In its own way, Newton’s law applies to the trucker protests in Canada and...

Ever since President Trump came down the golden escalators to announce his candidacy for president of the United States, many professional and even casual observers of politics and history have wondered just what was going on in the events that followed. Many historians and folks who just read the newspaper every morning and watch the news at night felt that something quite different and very odd was occurring. Where were all the leaks coming from? Why all the Russia Russia Russia talk? What was all this 25th Amendment talk about? Why was there immediate talk of impeachment? What was with...

Virginia's newly elected Republican leadership has been hard at work fulfilling its campaign promises for residents of the Commonwealth. Among their early accomplishments, Attorney General Jason Miyares' work to rescind executive mask and vaccine mandates saw Virginia's public universities drop their requirements and Governor Glenn Youngkin successfully rolled back mask mandates for Virginia's students, something Lt. Governor Winsome Sears guided to Senate passage with bipartisan support. As a new week of work began on Monday for Virginia's Republican leaders, "an unknown prankster" hid Lt. Governor Sears' gavel, but she didn't skip a beat, bringing Virginia's Senate chamber to order with...

A resident of Moscow asked the Investigative Committee to check the American company Nike for racial discrimination against Russians. The complainant, named Yevgeny Smirnov, found it offensive to see the almost complete absence of white models on Nike’s Russian-language site.Almost all models representing the brand are either dark-skinned or representatives of the Mongoloid race. Caucasoids, who make up the vast majority of Russian citizens, are practically not reflected. The company did not answer on what principles the models are chosen, after which the Muscovite turned to the UK

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears argued on Sunday that lawlessness in America is "coming from the highest levels," explaining that she believes it is "from the presidency on down where there is no leadership." ...she believes there is a "vacuum" and that leaders "seem to be following what’s happening on the streets." "There is right and wrong, and you can’t look at what’s happening in the streets and smash-and-grab and say, ‘Well, it’s just social justice.’ No, it’s theft, and it’s destroying our economy." "The governor fulfilled his campaign promise and he told everybody if you want to wear a...

The emperor's "afterlife army" just got bigger.Archaeologists have uncovered more than 20 new Terracotta Warriors, life-size figures built to protect the first emperor of China in the afterlife.The Terracotta army is thought to consist of 8,000 sculpted "warriors" located in three pits about a mile northeast of the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 B.C. to 210 B.C.), who unified China in 221 B.C. Archaeologists have excavated about 2,000 of these lifelike soldiers, which were buried with weapons such as crossbows, spears and swords, some of which still intact.Qin Shi Huang became king of Qin in 247 B.C., one...

"This is a clear pivot consequent to their horrible polling numbers," Malone said, referring to the recent scramble by Democratic governors to lift COVID-19 mandates. COVID-19 mask mandates were never necessary, says Dr. Robert Malone. "We've known how to cure COVID since about March of 2020," the mRNA-vaccine-pioneer-turned-critic told "Just the News, Not Noise" TV show cohosts John Solomon and Amanda Head. The sudden scramble two years later by democratic governors to lift mask mandates "is a clear pivot consequent to their horrible polling numbers," Malone said. "It's exactly what I predicted when people were asking me, 'How will we...

Senator Rubio Marco has slipped an amendment, without discussion, into the HR5421 COMPETES bill, now before the Senate, that completely destroys the multibillion dollar pet industry and ends efforts to protect precious species around the world. S626, entered into the Senate hopper last March, is one of 600 amendments to the COMPETES bill that will pass without discussion should the Senate approve this bill. Senator Schumer has assured us this will happen. 20 Republicans are on board with the fundamentals of this bill as passed last year in the Senate.

New research published today in the Journal of Archeaological Science Reports reveals how archeologists can determine when a pot was used by Romans as a portable toilet, known as a chamber pot."Conical pots of this type have been recognized quite widely in the Roman Empire and in the absence of other evidence they have often been called storage jars. The discovery of many in or near public latrines had led to a suggestion that they might have been used as chamber pots, but until now proof has been lacking," says Roger Wilson, a professor in UBC's department of classical, Near...

Disgraced ex-politician Anthony Weiner dodged questions about whether he had changed, much to the surprise of "Hannity" host Monday. "I guess the first question that I have is you pled guilty, Anthony, to sending obscene materials to a young girl, 15-year-old girl … You served jail time. Have you changed? Are you a different person?," Sean Hannity asked. "Well, uhm, I think so," Weiner responded. "I don't think anyone can go through that kind of experience, and I think this is probably true of people who have been through other types of adversity. I don't think you go through that...

There are several people alive that can personally attest to being eyewitnesses of the Vatican possessing Temple vessels, including the Menorah candelabra.ransomnote: at the link, a beautiful photo in the article.Pretend for a moment that the Vatican has in its possession some sacred and precious relics that were originally in the Herodian Jewish Temple located in Jerusalem 1,950 years ago.If you were the pope living in the 14th century and could verify this fact, would you not ask yourself how indeed such Jewish artifacts had come to your residence in the first place?After some digging around (no pun intended), you...

"Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed there is a "very real risk" that America will not be a democracy in 10 years and will "return to Jim Crow." Ocasio-Cortez was asked if she believed the United States would have a democracy in 10 years, prompting her to push another wild claim in an interview that was published Monday. "I think there’s a very real risk that we will not," the New York Democrat told the New Yorker in an interview published Monday. "What we risk is having a government that perhaps postures as a democracy, and may try to pretend...

The Israeli site, known as Ohalo II, was occupied at the end of the last Ice Age ("Last Glacial Maximum"), between 23,500 and 22,500 years ago. Ohalo II is known for the excellent preservation of its brush huts and botanical remains. The study, led by HU doctoral student Tikvah Steiner, under the supervision of HU Professor Rivka Rabinovich and University of Haifa archaeologist Prof. Dani Nadel who excavated the site, examined the diet and extensive use of animal parts to determine the welfare and lifestyle of these ancient inhabitants.During the Last Glacial Maximum, ice sheets covered much of North America,...

Legal experts have slammed the Clinton-appointed New York judge who tossed Sarah Palin's libel lawsuit against The New York Times while jurors are still deliberating the case and say he's effectively hobbled the jury. 'I would have expected the judge to wait for the jury to return its verdict before ruling on the motion for judgment as a matter of law, because there was no urgency to issuing that ruling,' attorney Mitchell Epner, of Rottenberg Lipman Rich PC, told Law & Crime on Monday. 'Nothing would have changed if he had waited for the verdict to have been announced, or...

“The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good” (Proverbs 15:3).