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This is probably the worst thing that could happen to Joe Biden and the Democrats right before the SOTU speech. https://twitter.com/MidnightMitch/status/1498805885996519426

"Well, I'm not sure he would have done much of anything, frankly," Bolton said in an interview with Vice published March 1, responding to a question about what Trump might have done had Russia attacked Ukraine while he was president. "But you never know with Trump. It depends on what time of day it is, it depends on what he thought his political benefit would be at any given moment. I don't think ultimately he would have stood in Putin's way," Bolton told Vice. Bolton said he thought Trump's glorification of Putin was "embarrassing for the United States." He also...

Ukraine’s government blasted Cuba’s support for the Russian invasion, as the island’s government opposed efforts to condemn the attack at the United Nations and even arrested a Cuban activist who left flowers at the Ukrainian Embassy in Havana as a sign of solidarity. In a diplomatic note, Ukraine formally complained and expressed “its strong protest against the statements of the Government of Cuba in support of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” the country’s deputy foreign minister, Emine Dzheppar, tweeted in Spanish on Sunday. She said her government called on Cuba “to urge Russia to put an end to this aggression.” Although...

Versatile American racing driver Danny Ongais died on February 26 of congestive heart complications at age 79, it was announced Monday. Ongais was born in Kahului and remains the only native Hawaiian who has ever competed in the Indy 500. He made 11 starts from 1977 and 1996, earning four top 10 finishes and a fourth-place result in 1979. Ongais became known as “The Flyin’ Hawaiian” as he competed across a number of racing disciplines, including Formula One, sports cars and the NHRA. During the 1981 Indy 500, Ongais survived one of the most dramatic crashes in the race’s history...

The larger the sail, the more wind it catches. But as that size increases, so does the stress experienced by each sheet and line connected to the canvas. The same thing can be said for a heart with mitral valve prolapse (MVP); as the diseased valve enlarges, the cords connected to the heart tissue feel stress and respond accordingly with stiffness and scarring. As a common degenerative heart disease, MVP affects 2-3% of the U.S. population, or 1 in 40 people. It's characterized by enlarged heart tissue and billowing of the mitral valve into the left atrium, according to the...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in a bizarre display during President Biden’s State of the Union (SOTU) address, stood up and awkwardly rubbed her hands in glee as the president spoke about the dangers American troops have faced, breathing in toxic smoke from “burn pits.” During that last line, the 81-year-old Democrat formed her hands into the shape of fists, stood up, smiled at Biden, and rubbed her hands together in a gleeful manner before awkwardly sitting back down and contorting her mouth to the right — one of her infamous trademarks — as she continued to look adoringly at...

Joe Biden: “We have a choice, one way to fight inflation is to drive down wages and make Americans poorer. I think I have a better idea to fight inflation, lower your costs not your wages.”

“I just found out that Putin just said he’s gonna launch nuclear thermal war against the world and I was trying to get back to my house to find out what’s going on.” video at link.

A video has shown people's desperate bid to flee Kyiv overnight on Tuesday as explosions struck residential areas and as many as 15,000 troops - an entire Russian army division - bore down on Ukraine's capital.Footage from Kyiv station showed hundreds of civilians, some with young children, trying to cram onto an already packed train amid fears that the city could soon be turned into a war zone.Air strikes rocked residential suburbs of the capital on Tuesday night as a 40-mile long convoy of Russian military vehicles inched closer, with fears that President Vladimir Putin's troops will soon lay siege...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- As we continue waiting for election results, Harris County election officials will not be able to count and report results by the deadline due to damaged ballot sheets, according to the Texas Secretary of State's Office. With the deadline being 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, the secretary's office said it has offered assistance to Harris County, to help ensure that all ballots are counted in a timely manner.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Officers found a severed head in a bucket at a home on Green Bay’s west side and body parts in other locations in scenes reminiscent of a gory horror movie. Taylor D. Schabusiness, 24, is charged with 1st Degree Intentional Homicide, Mutilating a Corpse and 3rd Degree Sexual Assault. A court commissioner set her bond at $2 million cash at a hearing Tuesday afternoon. Schabusiness seemed calm when she appeared in Brown County court via video conference. She said very little, only acknowledging that she has the right to an attorney. The prosecutor called this...

Ukraine's National Agency for the Protection against Corruption (NAPC) has declared that captured Russian tanks and other equipment are not subject to declaration. "Have you captured a Russian tank or armored personnel carrier and are worried about how to declare it? Keep calm and continue to defend the Motherland! There is no need to declare the captured Russian tanks and other equipment, because the cost of this ... does not exceed 100 living wages (UAH 248,100)," NAPC's press service said. Also, there is no need in this case to submit reports of significant changes in property status within 10 days.

It takes a special sort of political cynicism to publicly thank the Ukrainian ambassador for her nation’s bravery — and stress in the next moment that we will do nothing to defend her country with our military. But then President Biden’s State of the Union speech was nothing but bumbling hypocrisy. Start with the fact that the mask mandate Nancy Pelosi lorded over her members for years was suddenly lifted the day before the speech, showing that “follow the science” was a bald-faced lie. Next up, Biden begging for unity, then accusing Republicans of only helping the rich. It was...

Jenna Stacey was found by her seven-year-old twins and her brother desperately tried to revive herJenna with one of her seven children in happier times A mum-of-seven has died suddenly after a medical incident at her Skewen home. Jenna Stacey, 36, who had been due to celebrate her 37th birthday on Tuesday, March 8, suffered a suspected severe asthma attack, which brought on a heart attack, her family have said. They said she had been in the property with four of her children, including her seven-year-old twins, who found her when she fell ill. Her brother, Mark Stacey, 34, desperately...

When Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov sold the Brooklyn Nets more than two years ago, he gave up ownership of the NBA franchise partly because of pressure from Vladimir Putin, The Post has learned. Events that led Prokhorov’s 2019 sale of the Nets and Barclays Center to Chinese billionaire Joe Tsai stretch back five years earlier, according to sources close to the situation. At the time, the US and European Union had begun to apply sanctions on Russia for taking over Crimea. But as tensions between the US and Russia over Crimea grew, Putin in 2016 also began pressuring Prokhorov to...

NASA’S NEW SHORTCUT TO FUSION POWER Lattice confinement fusion eliminates massive magnets and powerful lasers PHYSICISTS FIRST SUSPECTED more than a century ago that the fusing of hydrogen into helium powers the sun. It took researchers many years to unravel the secrets by which lighter elements are smashed together into heavier ones inside stars, releasing energy in the process. And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. But the prospect of meeting our energy needs this way remains elusive. The extraction of energy...

The Emperor Has No ClothesJust in time for the State of the Union speech, Americans know that our country is in trouble. The painting is based on the famous fable from Hans Christian Andersen, "The Emperor's New Clothes." I hope you appreciate both the humor and seriousness of what this painting represents.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday assured Vladimir Putin of his "strong support" in a telephone call, according to a Kremlin statement. In the call initiated by Caracas, the Venezuelan leader also condemned "destabilizing actions of the United States and NATO" and spoke out against a Western campaign of "lies and disinformation," it said. After the call, Maduro published a message on Twitter with a photograph of him and Putin, and said he also told the Russian leader Venezuela was "in favor of understanding and dialogue as a way to preserve peace."

Iconic American televangelist Pat Robertson - who famously predicted an asteroid would hit the Earth after Donald Trump was reelected in 2020 - came out of retirement Monday to say Russian President Vladimir Putin was being 'compelled by God' to invade Ukraine. 'I think you can say, well, Putin's out of his mind,' Robertson, 91, said during a special appearance on his old show, the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club, of the Russian president's decision to invade the neighboring nation. 'And yes, maybe so,' the aging voice of conservative Christianity - who boasts an estimated net worth between $200m...

“Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God” (Proverbs 2:5 KJV).