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A child under the age of 10 was rushed to a hospital on Monday after being stabbed in the chest by a catfish. The child was impaled by catfish spines during a fishing trip in Florida, Pasco County Fire Rescue PIO Corey Dierdorff confirmed to The Sun. The incident happened in New Port Richey. Fire officials said as the child’s mom was taking the victim to a nearby hospital, the youngster experienced shortness of breath. After the mom called 911, firefighters with Pasco Fire Rescue responded and listed the child as a trauma alert. The young victim was then flown...

RUSH: Charlton Heston passed away over the weekend, as everybody knows, of complications from Alzheimer’s. Again, I was fortunate to be able to get to know Charlton Heston — actually, because of my friendship with Mr. Buckley. The first time I met Charlton Heston, he had never heard of me. My show was on the air in Los Angeles in 1989 or 1990. National Review did a lot of seminars all over the country and he was a board member of National Review, Mr. Heston was, and I was invited to attend one in Los Angeles when I was out...

Starting later this summer, hundreds of hunters will disperse across Florida's Everglades. Their target? An apex predator known to grow up to 18 feet that hunts animals as large as an alligator and sometimes as small as a woodrat. These hunters are going after the Burmese python — one of the largest species of snakes and a major nuisance to Florida's wildlife. Native to Southeast Asia, these snakes were first introduced to the Florida wild in the late 1970s, and they have reproduced at an astronomical level since. Starting Aug. 5 and continuing for 10 days, those hunters (both professional...

The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will ban the sale of Juul e-cigarettes...On Tuesday, the agency said it plans to require tobacco companies to slash the nicotine content in cigarettes to minimally addictive or nonaddictive levels.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Republican lawmakers in North Carolina can intervene to defend the state’s voter ID law against legal challenges. Supreme Court expands gun rights in major Second Amendment ruling DOJ: Maine violating ADA, over-institutionalizing children with disabilities The 8-1 decision did not deal directly with the lawfulness of the voter law, but rather which government bodies can defend the law in court. The law that gave rise to the procedural dispute, S.B. 824, with only limited exceptions requires in-person and absentee voters to present one of 10 recognized forms of photo identification. The measure drew...

Even though 104 of the 118 Confucius Institutes on American college campuses have been shut down, the Chinese government is finding new ways to infiltrate higher education in the United States, according to a new report by the National Association of Scholars. The report, “After Confucius Institutes: China’s Enduring Influence on American Higher Education,” was unveiled at a presentation at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. Over the past four years, universities have succumbed to pressure applied by the FBI, the Department of State, and elected officials by shuttering their Confucius Institutes. But Rachelle Peterson of NAS warned...

Southern cops have a way with words! These are great. These are actual comments made by South Carolina Troopers that were taken off their car videos: 1. "You know, stop lights don't come any redder than the one you just went through." 2. "Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch after you wear them a while." 3. "If you take your hands off the car, I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document." (My Favorite) 4. "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired." 5. "Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's...

Ruling in favor of guns outside the home, big win for the 2nd amendment

In 1776, patriots in the USA declared independence from England. In July, we honor those who started the ball rolling to give us the freedoms we enjoy today. We remember these heroes on July 4th. But with everything else we celebrate in America, is one day enough to honor the men and women who sacrificed their all that we might have our freedom?Hardly. Let's declare the whole month of July to honor those patriots, living and dead, who made sacrifices for us. Let's make July "Patriot Pride Month!" See video at link.

The White House is refusing to share details about its coordinated efforts to engage in a federal takeover of election administration.President Biden really does not want the public to know about his federal takeover of election administration. Dozens of members of Congress have repeatedly asked for details, to no avail. Good government groups, members of the media, and private citizens have filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Not a single one has been responded to. All signs indicate a concerted effort to keep the public in the dark until at least after the November midterm elections. The lack...

DURHAM, N.H. – A public opinion survey in New Hampshire, the state that for a century has held the first primary in presidential race, indicates that Florida Gov. Gov. Ron DeSantis has a razor-thin margin over former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 GOP primary match-up. According to polling numbers released on Wednesday by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, 39% of likely Republican primary voters in the Granite State would support the first-term Florida governor, with 37% backing the former president. Respondents were provided a list of potential contenders for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, and DeSantis...

Thomas writes opinion.

The oligarchs on Facebook’s oversight board released their first annual report, shedding light on the company’s bloated censorship operation. The Meta Oversight Board’s annual report revealed it received “more than a million appeals” on the company's “content moderation decisions” between October 2020 and December 2021. More than 8 in 10 of user appeals to restore content involved Meta’s so-called “rules on bullying, hate speech or violence & incitement.” The number of appeals totaled a whopping 1,152,181. On average, the board received a reported 2,649 cases a day. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. MRC Free Speech...

For all Republicans criticizing me for high gas prices in America, are you now saying we were wrong to support Ukraine and stand up to Putin? Are you saying that we’d rather have lower gas prices in America than Putin’s iron fist in Europe? I don’t believe that?

Germany took emergency measures on June 19, 2022 to secure its energy supply in the face of recent drops in Russian gas deliveries, including a “bitter” use of the most polluting energy, coal. BERLIN—Germany will restart coal-fired power plants and offer incentives for companies to curb natural gas consumption, marking a new step in the economic war between Europe and Russia. Berlin unveiled the measures Sunday after Russia cut gas supplies to Europe last week as it punched back against European sanctions and military support for Ukraine. The steps, part of a broader strategy initiated after the invasion of Ukraine,...

MAJ.-GEN. MCCLELLAN's HEADQUARTERS, Sunday, June 22 -- 8 P.M. This has been a remarkably quiet day, considering the close proximity of the two contending forces. Brisk skirmishing occurred all day yesterday, and at night everything indicated that a general engagement was at hand. The enemy advanced in strong force on our lines during last night, but, being promptly met, soon retired. The Richmond papers of yesterday contain a dispatch from Montgomery, Ala., dated the 17th, stating that Gen. BEAUREGARD and Staff had arrived there, on their way to Richmond, and it was said they were to be followed by a...

Uvalde school district police Chief Pete Arredondo was placed on leave Wednesday, nearly a month after his department botched the response to the Robb Elementary School shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Arredondo was excused of his duties by Superintendent Dr. Hal Harrell after it was found that cops under his command waited 77 minutes to confront gunman Salvador Ramos on May 24. “From the beginning of this horrible event, I shared that the district would wait until the investigation was complete before making personnel decisions,” Harrell wrote in a press release. “Today, I am still without...

A retired Russian colonel tasked with carrying President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear codes remains hospitalized after he was found shot at his home near Moscow. Vadim Zimin, 53, is “gravely ill” and in intensive care after his brother found him in a pool of blood on Monday, according to media reports. The retired colonel of Russia’s Federal Security Service — formerly known as the KGB during the Soviet era — had been in charge of the briefcase carrying the country’s nuclear codes. It always accompanies the Kremlin leader. He also carried the nuclear briefcase as an aide to former Russian President...

Scientists have unearthed an Inca-era tomb under a home in the heart of Peru’s capital, Lima, a burial believed to hold remains wrapped in cloth alongside ceramics and fine ornaments. The lead archeologist, Julio Abanto, told Reuters the 500-year-old tomb contained “multiple funerary bundles” tightly wrapped in cloth. He said those entombed were probably from the elite of Ruricancho society, a culture that once populated present-day Lima before the powerful Inca came to rule a sprawling empire across the length of western South America in the 1400s.

Good discussion on the SCOTUS BLOG