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Ted Nugent defended his pal Joe Rogan and attacked Stern on his YouTube show this week, calling the radio host an “isolated jackass” who doesn’t respect “alternative points of view.” “I was on Howard Stern’s radio show going all the way back to the ‘70s, and I’ve watched him turn into an isolated jackass, really, not really respecting alternative points of view and presuming and falsely accusing me, for example,” Nugent said on Wednesday’s edition of the “The Nightly Nuge.” The conservative rocker did not specify what exactly Stern had accused him of, but the two have been prominent voices...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday signed into law a bill that phases in a 3.9% flat tax over four years, eliminates taxes on retirement income and lowers taxes for corporations at an estimated overall cost of about $2 billion in lower annual total state income when fully implemented. Republicans pushed the bill through the House and Senate last week in one day, saying they were making historic changes to help Iowans and the state’s economy. Reynolds signed the bill at LBS, a Des Moines manufacturer and distributor of materials for the production of books...

On Monday, two biotech companies filed a lawsuit against Moderna in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, accusing the vaccine manufacturer of patent infringement on its COVID-19 vaccine.

President Joe Biden will use his State of the Union address on Tuesday to say that President Vladimir Putin underestimated NATO and the way the world would rally against his invasion of Ukraine. 'Putin's war was premeditated and unprovoked. He rejected efforts at diplomacy,' he will say, according to excerpts released by the White House.

merican support for Taiwan will be in vain, a Chinese government spokesperson has said, as a delegation of former U.S. officials landed in Taipei on Tuesday—a move seen as President Joe Biden's way of reassuring the island nation's public following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Taiwan has been awash with news about Vladimir Putin's bloody military operation against Kyiv for six consecutive days. Observers the world over were quick to predict that China's President Xi Jinping would soon attempt the same against Taiwan, which Beijing has claimed for more than 70 years, and about which successive Chinese leaders have created mythologies...

President Biden is giving his first State of the Union address tonight with rebuttals from Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and The Squad’s Rashida Talib (yes, a Republican is giving the rebuttal to Biden’s SOTU speech, and a Democrat is rebutting a Democrat President??) Let’s look at a short list of Biden’s economic triumphs. I will ignore Biden’s catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal and his weak response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. If you want higher oil and gasoline prices, Biden is a tremendous success. If you like rampant government spending, then Biden is your man. Home price growth is up to...

The Felicity Ace was being towed to land when it began to list to starboard in heavy seas about 250 miles off the Portuguese island chain and took on water in heavy seas, according to the ship's manager. The Portuguese navy confirmed that it sank in a location outside of Portugal's territorial waters that is over two miles deep.

“Under Biden, the U.S. is leading from behind again.” That tweet from MRC President and founder Brent Bozell undercut the core argument of a New York Times piece describing internationally coordinated financial sanctions against Russia as “completely unprecedented,” and their potential impacts as “devastating.”

Weekly report from Friday, 25 Feb: Cases: Down 37.7% New Hospitalizations: Down 29.9% Deaths: Down 18.8% Variants: About 100% of new cases are Omicron. The sub-variant BA.2 is around 3.8% of those - hardly growing for the third week.

Russian nuclear submarines sailed off for drills in the Barents Sea and mobile missile launchers roamed snow forests Tuesday in Siberia after President Vladimir Putin ordered his nation’s nuclear forces put on high alert over tensions with the West over the invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s Northern Fleet said in a statement that several of its nuclear submarines were involved in exercises designed to "train maneuvering in stormy conditions." It said several warships tasked with protecting northwest Russia’s Kola Peninsula, where several naval bases are located, would join the maneuvers. In the Irkutsk region of eastern Siberia, units of the Strategic...

New data published by the British government show that infections and deaths with the novel coronavirus among the fully COVID-jabbed – including those who have taken the booster shots – are on the rise while infections and deaths among the un-jabbed continue to decline.The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) publishes a weekly “vaccine surveillance” report, the latest of which was made available on February 24, detailing the trends in performance of the currently available abortion-tainted COVID-19 shots against infection, hospitalization, and death with the virus.According to the report, infections with COVID-19 are highest among the triple-jabbed between 18 and 80...

<p>Warner Bros. is halting the release of “The Batman” in Russia, just days before it was to open in theaters there, as Hollywood moved to cease distribution plans in the country following Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>Warner Bros., the Walt Disney Co. and Sony Pictures said Monday that they would “pause” the release of their films in Russia. Each studio has significant upcoming releases that had been set to debut internationally in the coming weeks. “The Batman,” one of the year's more anticipated films, launches Friday in North America and many overseas territories, including Russia.</p>

Capitol rioter dies by suicide because of ‘broken heart’ over case A Capitol rioter died by suicide while awaiting sentencing — dying from a “broken heart” over his case and because “the justice system killed his spirit and his zest for life,” according to kin. Matthew Perna, who pled guilty in December to four charges related to the attempted insurrection, killed himself Friday. “The constant delays in hearings, and postponements dragged out for over a year. Because of this, Matt’s heart broke and his spirit died,” says his obituary in The Herald, a local newspaper in Sharon, Pa. “Matt did...

(For God so Loved The World) …. "We have the presence of who he is, glorious, but in his modesty, accommodates himself to our visual weakness and impairments by making it so that it looks like bread and wine so we can receive him - when it’s really he who receives us - so he doesn’t blind us with his glory. If he was to show even 5% of his glory, we would be walking around stone blind. But the glory is there- in the Holy Eucharist…. What we celebrate is not just the bloody battered body of Jesus on...

The man now seen as the face of resistance to Russian military aggression voiced the Peruvian bear in the Ukrainian versions of 'Paddington' and 'Paddington 2.'Amid the bleak news that has emerged from Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion last week, over the weekend a more upbeat nugget of information emerged about one of the key figures involved. Chatter erupted on social media on Sunday — first sparked by a tweet sent by Black List founder Franklin Leonard — that Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president and the man now seen around the world as the face of brave resistance against Russian...

The rerelease of Francis Ford Coppola's mob pic boasted the top location average of the Feb. 25-27 weekend. Over the Feb. 25-27 weekend, Paramount booked The Godfather in 156 theaters across North America in honor of the movie’s 50th anniversary. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic Mafia pic earned $970,000 for a per-location average of $6,218, the best of any film for the weekend. (The next closest was Uncharted’s $5,438 average from 4,275 theaters and The Automat’s $5,004 from three locations.) The Godfather 50 Years was No. 1 or No. 2 in 50 percent of the theaters where it played, and...

The parents of a transgender teenager in Texas said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the state is investigating them after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered officials to look into reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse. The parents of the 16-year-old girl are asking a judge to block the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from investigating them and the parents of other transgender youth under a directive Abbott issued last month. The lawsuit marks the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott’s order and an earlier nonbinding legal opinion by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton...

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The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack has issued new subpoenas to lawyers for Donald Trump suspected to be involved in efforts to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. The subpoenas – authorized hours before Biden’s first State of the Union address – targeted documents and testimony from Cleta Mitchell, Kurt Olsen, Katherine Freiss, Phillip Kline, Kenneth Chesebro and the pro-Trump One America News host Christina Bobb. “The select committee is seeking information about attempts to disrupt or delay the certification of electoral votes and any efforts to corruptly change the outcome of the...