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ABC’s Jon Karl on Sunday pushed back on the Democrat-media complex’s talking points and said that Joe Biden’s policies led to high inflation rates and record gas prices. According to a new ABC/Ipsos poll, 70% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of gas prices and 70% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of inflation. Joe Biden has blamed high inflation rates on Covid, Putin and Wall Street bankers. The overwhelming majority of Americans aren’t buying Biden’s lies. Jon Karl and other pundits on ABC on Sunday said Biden and the Democrats are to blame for high inflation and record gas...

Video footage shows a Wisconsin state crime lab technician destroying the AR-15 rifle that Kyle Rittenhouse used to shoot three people during a racial injustice protest in Kenosha two years ago. Rittenhouse wanted the firearm destroyed so it couldn’t be used as a political symbol or ‘trophy.’

(AFP) Actor Alec Baldwin wanted to finish filming “Rust” in the weeks after the fatal on-set shooting of a cinematographer, new legal documents showed Friday. Baldwin was holding a Colt gun during a rehearsal for the low-budget Western in New Mexico in October when it discharged a live round, killing Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. The movie was abandoned amid recriminations over who was to blame for the tragedy, with allegations of unsafe practices and claims of corner-cutting. But an arbitration filing Friday in Los Angeles showed Baldwin had sought to resurrect the stalled project. “Baldwin made an...

Well, so much for rising gasoline prices being the fault of Vlad “The Ukrainian Impaler” Putin and Russia invading Ukraine. In fact, gasoline prices were rising at a 62% YoY pace in April 2021, well before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. REAL gasoline prices (nominal gasoline prices less inflation) are up 32.72% YoY in February. Press secretary Jen Psaki can take the opportunity to proclaim that REAL gasoline prices have actually declined in February. Hi diddly dee, a President’s press secretary’s life for me! I keep waiting for the Biden Administration and Congress to launch price controls and supply rationing rather...

Mike Gibbons and Josh Mandel lead the Ohio GOP Senate primary field as Republicans battle for the chance to run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Rob Portman (R), according to a poll released Tuesday. The Fox News poll shows Gibbons, an investment banker, leading the field with 22 percent support among GOP primary voters. Mandel, a former state treasurer, trails just behind with 20 percent, a difference that falls within the survey’s margin of error. “Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance is in third with 11 percent, followed by former Ohio GOP Chair Jane Timken at 9 percent and...

Jenny Nguyen was annoyed by her experience in sports bars. The games she cared about were on mute or not even on. Her bar is expected to open next month. It's called the Sports Bra. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. Jenny Nguyen was annoyed by her experience in sports bars. It wasn't just the sticky tables or drunk guys. The games that she cared about were on mute, ignored by others or not even on. That's how Nguyen came up with a bar that would only have women's sports on TV. She found a place in Portland...

Harvey Marcelin was the center of gossip Saturday in Tompkins Square Park, where acquaintances marveled at the accused killer’s alleged ability to dismember a human being while in a wheelchair. “She chopped someone’s f—ing head off. She actually severed someone’s head,” blurted Junior, a homeless man in the park frequented by the serial killer. Marcelin, 83, is a transgender woman and two-time convicted killer charged this month with the gruesome dismemberment murder of Susan Leyden, 68, of Brooklyn, who will be laid to rest Sunday in Paramus, NJ. Leyden's body parts were found in several Brooklyn locations. “She was in...

Puerto Ricans rise up in support of bishop deposed by Pope FrancisPriests, parishioners, and Catholic and other Christian leaders have rallied strongly behind Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres in recent days. Puerto Rican Bishop Daniel Fernandez Torres, center right, at a pro-life march in 2018Sat Mar 12, 2022 - 4:04 pm ESTSun Mar 13, 2022 - 12:04 am EST ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (LifeSiteNews) — Puerto Ricans have expressed an outpouring of support for a faithful bishop abruptly dismissed by Pope Francis this week after defending conscience objections to COVID vaccination.Priests, parishioners, and Catholic and other Christian leaders have rallied behind Bishop...

Little Italy merchants are screaming “Mi offendo!” after learning Gov. Kathy Hochul awarded a $20 million economic and tourism grant to their Chinatown neighbors, The Post has learned. Civil leaders in Little Italy said they weren’t even asked to jointly apply for the state grant even though their businesses suffered alongside Chinatown’s during the COVID-19 pandemic. “After what our nation has experienced in the most recent past concerning issues of equity, who would believe that the State of New York would favor one ethnic Manhattan community, in this case Chinatown, to the detriment by exclusion and apart from its neighboring...

That didn’t take long. Tom Brady announced on Sunday night that he is returning for his 23rd season, just six weeks after he retired from the NFL. In a Twitter post, Brady said he would be returning to the Buccaneers. “These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands,” Brady wrote. “That time will come.

xplanation: Why would the sky glow like a giant repeating rainbow? Airglow. Now air glows all of the time, but it is usually hard to see. A disturbance however -- like an approaching storm -- may cause noticeable rippling in the Earth's atmosphere. These gravity waves are oscillations in air analogous to those created when a rock is thrown in calm water. Red airglow likely originates from OH molecules about 87-kilometers high, excited by ultraviolet light from the Sun, while orange and green airglow is likely caused by sodium and oxygen atoms slightly higher up. While driving near Keluke Lake...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington "Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgement of a split second are what makes some pilots an ace, while others think back on what they could have done." Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC "Pappy" was born in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho on December 4, 1912 and grew up in Tacoma, Washington....

The city of Fresno lost about $400,000 in 2020 after falling victim to an electronic phishing scam, and former Mayor Lee Brand’s administration failed to disclose the loss to the Fresno City Council and taxpayers, The Fresno Bee has confirmed. Furthermore, the Fresno City Attorney’s Office in December 2021 rejected a public records request from The Fresno Bee seeking city communications regarding the fraud. The city told The Bee no records were located. However, The Bee recently obtained emails that existed prior to the records request. The electronic fraud was disguised as an invoice from a subcontractor working on the...

An official of the U.S.-led NATO alliance has told Newsweek that the coalition did not notice what appeared to be a symbol associated with Nazism on the uniform of a Ukrainian soldier featured in a since-deleted The image, posted Tuesday to commemorate International Women's Day, contained four images related to the current crisis in Ukraine, where a Russian military incursion was set to enter its third week. "All women and girls must live free and equal. This international women's day we think of the remarkable women of #Ukraine," NATO tweeted alongside a Ukrainian flag emoji. "Their strength, bravery and resilience...

OK, I'm a sucker for the CBS action shows NCIS and FBI (also CSI when they had those). You have to swallow hard at some of the woke plots, but there's good action. Anyway, a few years ago, FBI made its debut with a plot about a gang of hispanic bombers in the inner city. As it turns out, they were being financed and controlled by a conservative radio talk show host (gee, I wonder who that might be...) who wanted to make immigrants look bad. With the lead characters being a woman and an arab agent, every week they...

Ukraine and Russian appear to be negotiating an end to the war using countries such as Israel and Turkey as intermediaries. Notably, the US does not seemed to be a party to the negotiations. Suppose the negotiations are successful, hostilities cease, and Ukraine and Russia agree on a modus vivendi. What happens to the sanctions? US and other countries remove sanctions, and trade and financial relationships return to the status quo ante? Blanket sanctions, such as removal from Swift are removed, but targeted sanctions against oligarchs and specific corporations are maintained? The US maintains all current sanctions, but other countries...

SNIP Gas prices per gallon are getting higher across the U.S., but prices in California are soaring higher than any other state according to the American Automobile Association. Yesterday, the average price of gas in California was $5.69 — up from $4.68 a month ago — while the national average was $4.32. Much of what has driven up gas prices over the past several months is outside of California lawmakers’ control: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the sanctions that followed, have spiked prices, combined with the fact that demand for oil has ramped up from pandemic lows faster than supply....

@SenatorRomney: "Send these MiGs...Enough talk. People are dying. Send them the plans that they need."

The only people Kamala Harris has managed to bully lately have been members of her own staff. But an MSNBC analyst tried this morning to paint Harris as a tough prosecutor who intimidated Russian dictator Vladimir Putin with her remarks in Poland earlier this week. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

China is scrambling to address its most severe Covid-19 outbreak in two years, reporting soaring cases in a fresh wave that has seen the country tweak its zero-Covid policy by allowing rapid antigen tests (RATs) for public use. After topping 1,000 for two days in a row, new locally transmitted cases surged to more than 3,100, this time driven by a spike in symptomatic infections, the National Health Commission reported on Sunday. It came as 16 provinces reported new coronavirus infections, as did the four megacities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing. Local symptomatic cases more than tripled to 1,807,...