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The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired to investigate President Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state testified Thursday that he routinely deleted records, and deactivated a personal email account, even after receiving open records requests. Michael Gableman testified in a court hearing about whether the person who hired him, Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, should face penalties after earlier being found in contempt for how he handled the records requests from American Oversight. Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn did not say when she would rule in the case. Vos hired Gableman a year ago, under pressure from Donald...

USSC rules in favor of gun rights. Huge win for the 2A!!

Unprecedented Economic BoomBefore the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous economy.America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on...

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 23 that New York’s proper cause requirement for concealed carry permit issuance is unconstitutional. New York State Rifle and Pistol Association [NYSRPA] v. Bruen centered on denials for permits under New York’s concealed carry permitting law. The NYSRPA filed suit claiming that one of its members was eligible for a permit but was denied because of New York’s requirement that concealed carry applicants prove why they need to carry a gun. The case ultimately dealt with the scope of the Second Amendment — whether the right to keep and bear arms applies only...

The talk of a gasoline tax “holiday” out of Washington DC is pure Kabuki theater. It is purely a sign of the times with Biden still trying to blame Putin for rising gasoline prices and inflation and ignoring his anti-fossil fuel policies that helped drive energy prices AND inflation through the roof. Daily regular gasoline prices have dipped below $5.00 to $4.94 while diesel fuel, the lifeline of the shipping industry, rose slightly to $5.80. I guess the folks shipping food and other goods don’t get a holiday. Note that the implied Fed target rate has fallen a bit as...

The Kremlin has earned a record profit from oil although its invasion of Ukraine has continued for more than three months, triggering a set of punitive measures. Russia reports a drop in its exports to the European Union, but sells more to some alternative markets, notably India. Record-breaking oil prices mean more money to the Russian federal budget, also to sponsor the invasion of Ukraine. Oil-related revenues will edge up as the Russian finance ministry is planning to raise an export levy. Of all oil-producing countries and their allies, Russia had the biggest oil output in May. Oil and condensate...

Tratto dal concerto Tommy Live, un pezzo meno conosciuto dell'opera rock, qui in una versione più energetica

The Democrats who decided it would be a good idea to drop hundreds of thousands on anonymous mailers to bail out Michael Bennet may find themselves with a mountain of legal headaches over the coming weeks and months. Florida Senator and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott announced Monday national Republicans are filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against the yet to be determined group responsible for the mailers. “Unfortunately, in their haste to meddle in the Republican primary, Democrats have clearly violated federal law and FEC rules,” Scott alleged. The mail pieces promoting Senate candidate Ron...

A wife has learned that her husband of ten months is actually a woman, despite the couple being 'intimate' multiple times, local media claims. The Indonesian wife, named only as NA, 22, is suing her ex-partner who also claimed to be a neurologist who graduated in New York. The couple first met on a dating app with the 'husband' going by the name Ahnaf Arrafif in Jambi City. After sparking up a relationship online, they met up for in-person dates and Ahnaf even came to stay with NA for a week and helped take care of her unwell parents. The...

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said the media had the full text of the latest gun control bill before the senate had a chance to review it. Lee said the rollout of the bill was the “Senate operating at its worst,” noting that it prevented others from adding amendments. The U.S. Senate ultimately voted 64 to 34 in favor of the bill. Fourteen Republican senators voted with the Democrats to pass the bill. According to Lee, Republicans were basically asked to take a blind vote on the bill without actually reading it. "There were a group of senators, ten Republicans and...

As I was driving earlier today, I heard a news clip on the radio announcing that inflation rates in Canada are the highest that they have been in forty years. Forty years! There was a huge lineup of cars at the gas station because the price of gas was a bargain at $1.94 per litre. Not that long ago, circa March 2020 before the ChiComms lobbed their biological nuke into our bodies and countries, it cost about $45 CDN to fill up our tank. This evening, we had an eighth of a tank left, put almost $75 into the tank...

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...