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On Thursday, The Food and Drug Administration officially ordered all Juul electronic cigarettes to be removed from the United States market, the Associated Press reported. “Today’s action is further progress on the F.D.A.’s commitment to ensuring that all e-cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system products currently being marketed to consumers meet our public health standards,” Dr. Robert M. Califf, FDA commissioner, said in a press release Thursday. “The agency has dedicated significant resources to review products from the companies that account for most of the U.S. market,” he added. “We recognize these make up a significant part of the available...

The Supreme Court has struck down a New York law severely restricting licenses to carry a concealed weapon, in the high court's biggest Second Amendment ruling in a decade. The 6-3 ruling on Thursday reversed a lower court's opinion, which had upheld the 108-year-old New York law restricting licenses to carry concealed weapons in public to those demonstrating a specific need or threat. New York is not alone in severely limiting who can get a license to carry concealed in public, and the new ruling will likely make it easier to legally carry a gun in major cities including Los...

As of June 14, 23 pro-life organizations had been firebombed or otherwise vandalized. Since then, “a prominent abortion activist group called ‘Jane’s Revenge’ promised more attacks on pro-life centers and affirming establishments,” and they apparently made good (or bad) their promise as vandals violently attacked a Michigan pregnancy center. But woke NY Gov. Kathy Hochul lived up to the proud Democrat tradition of protecting the victimizers while calling them victims, by giving $10 million to abortion centers to protect them (presumably against pro-lifers). Except it was a New York crisis pregnancy center, not an abortion clinic, that was firebombed. Pro-abortion...

Jared Polis is running for president. He'll deny it. He has denied it. ... Polis has done little to nothing to ruffle the feathers of the teachers' unions... ... standing aside and letting municipalities do your dirty work for you. Polis let Denver Mayor Michael Hancock lead on coronavirus lockdowns and masks before imposing a statewide lockdown himself. Polis also signed a bill allowing cities and counties to enact stricter (but not looser) gun regulations than the state imposes. And there's nothing particularly libertarian about opening the door to public employees' unions in a traditionally non-union state like Colorado. ......

The Los Angeles Times singlehandedly proved that the liberal media will go to asinine lengths to protect President Joe Biden’s political image even if the economy tumbles into a recession. The Times released a tone-deaf story that reeked of economic illiteracy. The story was headlined: “Yes, a recession looks inevitable. But it may not be that bad. Here’s why.” Times staff writer Don Lee trivialized the 40-year high inflation crisis that could legitimately plunge the nation into recession: “Whether it’s President Biden insisting a recession is avoidable or his critics arguing that the wolf is at the door, both sides...

As I get older, it suddenly dawned on me that we really don't know the truth about anything. Every historical event has been intentionally shrouded in a murky haze. We still don't know the definitive truth about who murdered President John F. Kennedy. Who gave the stand down order in Benghazi? What really happened on January 6 at the Capital building? How did dishonest Democrats cheat in the 2020 election? Did Biden/Harris really get 81 million votes? Why are many athletes in the prime of their life suddenly dropping dead? Are the COVID vaccines really safe? Where did COVID come...

Joshua Sharf cleverly disassembles the politically crafted fairy tale that Gov. Polis is some sort of libertarian champion instead of the progressive tool we’ve all come to loathe. Writing in Newsweek, Sharf wisely warns that Polis is not pro-charter schools, he’s undoubtably a tool of the teacher unions. Polis doesn’t stand up to the climate lobby, he is the climate lobby. Polis does not keep the government at bay, he wielded it as a sword to smite the people and businesses both large and small during the Terrible Times. Polis is the very definition of a woke progressive, using his...

Name: Peecycling. Age: As a term, dates to about 2006; as a practice, centuries old. Appearance: All yellow. If this is about peeing while riding a bicycle, I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. This is about saving and storing your urine. Why would I want to do that? So the CIA can’t get it? So that it can be recycled. Recycled as what? Fertiliser. Human urine is a rich source of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. According to the Rich Earth Institute of Vermont, the urine one adult produces in a year – 125 US gallons (473 litres) – is...

Tiny self-propelled robo-fish can swim around, latch on to free-floating microplastics and fix itself if it gets damaged Scientists have designed a tiny robot-fish that is programmed to remove microplastics from seas and oceans by swimming around and adsorbing them on its soft, flexible, self-healing body. Microplastics are the billions of tiny plastic particles which fragment from the bigger plastic things used every day such as water bottles, car tyres and synthetic T-shirts. They are one of the 21st century’s biggest environmental problems because once they are dispersed into the environment through the breakdown of larger plastics they are very...

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...