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MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Thursday on her show “Deadline” that the laws in the United States “are so broken” because it is harder to buy allergy medicine than it is to buy guns. Wallace said, “I can’t buy two Sudafed. I have a lot of allergies in my house. I can’t buy two packages of Sudafed. I couldn’t adopt a dog from the ASPCA without a home visit. The laws are so broken. Why isn’t the argument made it is harder to buy allergy medicine and decongestant and adopt a puppy than it is to arm yourself with a...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday gave the greenlight to bipartisan talks on legislation to curb gun violence, revealing that he has asked Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of his advisers, to negotiate with Democrats. McConnell said he is hopeful of reaching a bipartisan agreement to respond to the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. But the leader cautioned the negotiations should not veer off onto proposals not directly related to the recent violence in Texas that left 21 people dead, including 19 school children. “I met with Sen. Cornyn this morning,” he told a...

Herschel Walker, former NFL player and Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, is going viral for his nonsensical solution to mass shootings. In an interview with Fox News during coverage of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas where 19 children and two adults were shot dead, Walker proposed a “department that can look at young men that's looking at women that's looking at social media.” It is unclear what Walker meant by the statement. Walker was most likely referring to a conversation the shooter had with a woman on Instagram where he flaunted his guns and claimed he “had a secret”...

The pain of losing a spouse is pretty incomparable, and it can be particularly harrowing when the surviving spouse is now suddenly a single parent. Most couples don’t ever expect to raise their kids without their partner, but the reality is sometimes life has different plans. One mom sadly lost her husband just a few months after their youngest of four turned 7-months-old. While nothing can fill the void of a lost partner and parent, the mom swears that there are signs that he is always around, and she even feels her little boy can see him. Honestly, the video...

In 2016, Australia's kangaroo court Family Law System stripped me of my democratic rights to protect a politician from the horrible danger of me lobbying her for WW2 commemoration. Subsequently Cardinal George Pell was jailed because of ludicrous allegations made by one person who might have been paid to lie by Pell's enemies in the Vatican. At the time, Pell was working to clean up Vatican finances. Now I am told by one source close to Ingram Spencer that he is a political prisoner. He was running for election to parliament in a potential swing seat in the recent Federal...

Fourth Bishop Bans Nancy Pelosi From Receiving Communion Because She Promotes AbortionA fourth Catholic bishop has banned Nancy Pelosi from receiving communion. Bishop Michael Burbidge says Pelosi can’t receive communion in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia because she’s radically pro-abortion.Bishop Burbidge has extended the communion ban that Pelosi’s home bishop in San Franciso put in place late last week saying it now applies to her if and when she visits any Catholic church one the Virginia side of the nation’s capital.Burbidge said he respects the decision San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone made to deny communion to Pelosi because of her...

You've read the newsflash with a sickening knot in your stomach. There has been another school shooting in the US. Then comes the detail. This time, it's a primary school - 14 children and a teacher are dead, then it's updated to 19 children and two teachers. Inevitably, it soon also becomes clear the killer himself is barely out of Childhood, an 18-year-old loner whose birthday present to himself was two automatic rifles and 300 rounds of ammunition. Most gruesomely of all - and apologies in advance, but there's no nice way to say this - the police are seeking...

Israel would not give permission to Germany to transfer Spike anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, to which he was refused and informed that Israel would supply Ukraine with only non-lethal military equipment. Israel is concerned that Russian soldiers will be killed by Israeli-made weapons, which could lead to Russia harming Israeli security interests in Syria where it has enormous influence.

Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom criticized Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) on Wednesday after the tragic mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. At a news conference on Wednesday, Abbott discussed the shooting and said that the shooter “has to have evil in his heart.” He also spoke about the mental health problems of many people in Texas while saying that those in power should try to improve safety at schools and mental health resources. He specifically pointed to California when discussing gun legislation. “There are ‘real’ gun laws in Chicago. There are ‘real’ gun laws in New...

VALDE, Texas — The school lockdowns across Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday didn’t strike many students as anything odd. In this small border town, they’re common as suspects try to evade authorities in high speed chases. “We just thought it was a normal Tuesday,” Victoria Phillips, a 17-year-old senior at Uvalde Classical Academy, told BuzzFeed News. Of course, it wasn’t. The reason for the lockdowns quickly became clear: an 18-year-old gunman had entered Robb Elementary in Uvalde, where he ended up fatally shooting 19 students and two adults. The town’s mayor, Don McLaughlin, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson just days...

In the 1960-70s, every geology textbook was rewritten, as the previous verities were DESTROYED! Alfred Wegner (1880-1930) was, posthumously, proven correct, in the face of the academia that scoffed at him. What was needed, was the mechanism, that the technology of WW2 provided.

Fox News Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to the politicization of the Texas school shooting in Ulvade, reflects on mental illness and stopping violence in America. #FoxNews #Tucker

Senior Obama administration officials engaged in a secret meeting with Iran in 2018 as part of an effort to undermine the Trump administration's diplomatic push to isolate the hardline regime, according to an internal State Department document. As the Trump administration worked to increase economic pressure on Iran in 2018, a delegation of "U.S. former ambassadors," including John Kerry, held a secret, "off-the-record" meeting with former Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif at his residence in New York City, according to a State Department memo unearthed this week as part of a lawsuit brought to compel the release of this information....

From various sources read in the past day: Somehow 3 more people surrendered at Azovstal in Mariupol. They seem to think there are up to 50 more people in there. Not fighting but "playing hide and seek", trying to avoid capture. They have found and pulled out 300 bodies so far. From memory of postings I read, sorry no sourcing so I'll post to chat.

Biden’s Secretary of State Tony Blinken shared today that the US does not support Taiwan’s independence from China. The Daily Mail reported: Sec. of State Antony Blinken issued a stark warning Thursday morning that the threat of China will ‘test U.S. diplomacy like nothing we’ve ever seen before’ – but insisted America does not want another Cold War and does not support Taiwan independence. ..... Snip...... Blinken laid out the Biden administration’s policy towards China after the president raised eyebrows by saying the U.S. would get involved ‘militarily’ if there was an invasion of Taiwan. Blinken has a very suspect...

Bell’s theorem states that no theory that incorporates local “hidden” variables can ever reproduce the correlations between measurement outcomes that quantum mechanics predicts. A similar result occurs in the theory of causal inference, where quantum systems likewise defy the rules of classical causal reasoning. The idea behind the causal inference approach is that while a statistical correlation between two variables can arise due to a direct causal relationship between them, the correlation may also contain the contribution of a hidden common cause. [T]he researchers use a causal model (see image) in which the statistics of variable A influence those of...

Vatican official at Davos says the Church is implementing the World Economic Forum agendaThe Catholic Church intends to 'implement policies and programs to put into practice the issues considered by the forum,' said Father Leonir Chiarello, the Superior General of the Scalabrinian order. DAVOS, Switzerland (LifeSiteNews) – A Vatican cleric attending the 2022 Davos Summit, a conference hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) which advances a punishing “green” agenda, open borders, and “future pandemic” management, has said that the Catholic Church is “committed to the various issues considered at the forum.” Speaking with Vatican News, Father Leonir Chiarello, Superior...

Hockey pucks: They're small and heavy and — one Michigan college thinks — may be the perfect weapon against an active shooter on campus. Oakland University, a public school in Rochester Hills, near Detroit, is distributing thousands of 94-cent hockey pucks for just that reason. The distribution, which began earlier this month, stemmed from a March faculty active-shooter training session, which followed February's shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school that left 17 dead. A participant at the training asked Oakland University Police Chief Mark Gordon what items people could use to defend themselves on the campus, which has a...

A devastating attack at a Scottish primary school sparked national outcry—and a successful campaign for gun reformIn March 2018, less than a month after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, left 14 teenagers and 3 adults dead, a letter of condolences addressed to the survivors arrived from across the Atlantic. Penned by a group from Scotland who’d endured a similar tragedy 22 years prior, the missive offered both a show of solidarity and a vision for the future. Referencing their successful campaign for gun reform, the letter’s authors wrote, “Laws were changed, handguns were banned and the level of gun...

You can tune in live Thursday and Friday (May 26 and 27) to watch an asteroid barrel past our planet at 10 times the distance of our moon. The space rock is known as asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) and is four times the size of the Empire State Building. While that's the largest asteroid flyby of 2022 yet, the rock will remain at a perfectly safe distance to our planet. The Virtual Telescope Project will run a webcast of the flyby beginning at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) on May 26 and again at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) on...