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An estimated 500 to 1,000 bacterial species reside in each person's gut, perhaps numbering 100,000 trillion microorganisms. Researchers used mouse models to explore how diet and feeding patterns affect these intestinal microbes—and the health of the hosts, particularly with obesity and type 2 diabetes. "It's important to realize that the gut microbiome is constantly changing, not only based on what we're eating, but also based on the time of day," said Amir Zarrinpar, MD, Ph.D. "And what we've learned is that cyclical changes in the gut microbiome are quite important for health since they help with the circadian clock, and...

After Americans celebrated our nation’s Independence Day in Washington D.C. with American flags and fireworks, they were confronted with a creepy pro-abortion march that threatened to kill pro-life people. A combination of pro-abortion radicals and domestic terrorists from Antifa Constitution Avenue with the Fourth of July fireworks display underway on the National Mall. Dressed in all black and carrying umbrellas to hide their faces, they carried a threatening banner that read “corrupt court, killer cops, burn it down.” Journalist Alejandro Alvarez of local radio station WTOP reported on how things got tense between the pro-abortion extremists and police. “Police forced...

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra promised Sunday that the Biden administration is doing “whatever we can” to expand abortions, including researching the possibility of putting temporary abortion facilities on federal land. Speaking on NBC News “Meet the Press,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leader reiterated the president’s promises to expand abortions in response to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. When host Chuck Todd asked about some Democrat lawmakers’ idea of opening temporary abortion facilities on federal land, Becerra acknowledged the possibility. “I think we’re continuing to explore everything that’s out there,” he said. “We...

The Devil opposes abortion. The Lord supports abortion. That is the sick, twisted metaphor of MSNBC's Tiffany Cross. On her Cross Connection show Saturday morning, Cross condemned companies that on the one hand are offering to pay for their employees' travel to states where abortion is legal, but on the other hand, contribute to politicians who are pro-life. Complained Cross: "You can't dance with the Devil and the Lord at the same time." Cross singled out AT&T, citing an Insider article reporting that it is the largest contributor to pro-life politicians among companies also paying for their employees' abortion travel....

The public outcry around the plight of Brittney Griner is growing louder — and that spells trouble for President Biden, who has been unable to free the basketball star from detention in Russia. Griner wrote to Biden in recent days saying she was “terrified I might be here forever”. Her wife, Cherelle, appears to have lost patience with the administration to take a low-profile approach to Brittney’s jailing. On Tuesday, Cherelle Griner told “CBS Mornings” that it was “very disheartening” not to have heard from Biden directly. Cherelle Griner added: “It kills me every time that, you know, when I...

New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl may be based in Nashville, but she’s as contemptuous of Trumpers and Red Staters as any of the paper’s Manhattan-based writers, as shown in her latest self-important trashing of an American holiday: “The American Flag Belongs to Me, Too, and This Year I’m Taking It Back.” She reminisced how in her younger days, “We were all proud to be Americans, even if we didn’t agree about which aspects of our sprawling, messy democracy merited pride.” Not anymore though, with Old Glory now hijacked by the Red Staters, in all their irredeemable tackiness. Take a...

Celebrities pretty much lost their minds when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion policy to the states. Even that anti-cyberbullying activist Monica Lewinsky turned abusive on Twitter with the F-bombs. But Christian Toto at Hollywood in Toto noted late-night TBS "comedian" Samantha Bee took it one step further. She lobbied the American people to "raise hell" and disturb the peace for the justices, to never let Justice Alito eat in peace again. No one in the liberal media raised a question about whether this might incite violence -- after a man attempted to assassinate Justice Brett...

A week after getting hammered with tough questions on ABC and CBS Sunday shows, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) faced another round with CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash. She was harassed to support an abortion for a raped 10-year-old girl in Ohio. Right after that, Bash interviewed Rep. Adam Kinzinger and told him her 11-year-old son would appreciate him calling Liz Cheney’s primary opponents “a bunch of armpit farters.” Bash is just that shameless. She began by peppering Noem with a barrage of questions insisting she support paid family leave and taxpayer-subsidized child care in South Dakota now...

Clarence Thomas, like a modern-day George Wallace, standing in the Supreme Court doorway, declaring, "segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." As absurd as that scenario sounds, something like that could happen—if you believe Glenn Kirschner. The MSNBC legal analyst appeared on Jonathan Capehart's Sunday Show, with New York Times columnist Charles Blow serving as substitute host. Asked by Blow what the future of privacy rights is in a post-Roe world, Kirschner answered: "Oh, I think privacy rights will be all but abolished. Whether it is gay marriage, whether it's interracial marriage, which I think might qualify as irony for Justice...

On Saturday morning, MSNBC host Zerlina Maxwell interviewed 20-year-old radical leftist Jamie Margolin, “founder of the youth-led climate activist group Zero Hour.” The rabble-rouser went straight for the panic button, saying recent Supreme Court decisions on abortion and climate are a “judicial coup” and a “clear descent into fascism.” Maxwell began by explaining the Supreme Court gave a setback to Team Biden's "ambitious climate agenda," and that's "a really big deal." She brought on Margolin and highlighted her Greta Thunberg-style tweet: "You tweeted the Supreme Court is a deadly threat to our earth and all life on it." MARGOLIN: I...

On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Joy Reid had another freak-out on The ReidOut, this time doubling down on her false and reckless claims that the conservative-leaning Supreme Court unleashed Republican states to “literally take physical control of half the population” which she ridiculously defined as “women and queer folks with uteruses.” “The court majority is flexing its unelected power rather brazenly to further not a judicial or a constitutional but seemingly a religious agenda. That is unprecedented in a country that's separated from the crown that leads a national church,” Reid wailed. After falsely claiming that “the Republican Party, spent the...

WARNING: The following post contains strong language. The hysteria that has been boiling over since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade was joined by comedian Jon Stewart last Thursday, on his The Problem podcast. And as you can see from the headline, things reached a fever pitch. According to this amateur legal scholar and bioethicist, the ruling meant that the government would be allowed to forcefully have your organs harvested if it meant it could save a life. He also repeatedly suggested the Court was “corrupt” and “the Fox News of justice.” Speaking to the liberal cast of...

Despite the fact that both the pandemic and uncertainty around moviegoing continue, 2022 has already been a solid year for cinema. At the midway point, one obvious trend from our best-of list is the absence of big-budget tentpoles: The Batman and Downtown Abbey: A New Era weren’t quite well-received enough to warrant inclusion, and the less said about Jurassic World: Dominion, the better. Top Gun: Maverick, however, is more than just a commercial success story, so don’t give up on studio pictures just yet.What instead dominates this list are indie distributors—thoughtful, modest fare with ambitious emotional reach. As far as...

Careless firework accident from July 4th and this one is a whopper Watch a Bunch of Fireworks Go Terribly, Terribly Wrong

<p>Music superstar Carlos Santana collapsed on stage at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston Tuesday night.</p>

Pro-abortion demonstrations over the past few months, and rising to a crescendo in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, have told the world, with unremitting vehemence, that women have a right to control their own body, a right to a safe abortion, and that the unborn is not yet human being. On the negative side, they have shown a hostility toward the Catholic Church and, in particular, to Mary, the Mother of God. The hostility toward the latter is well symbolized by the mantra, “keep your rosaries off our ovaries”. Pope St. John Paul II expressed the...

The five therapists, who were arrested over a year ago, are finally facing trial for charges of sedition for a series of books about a village of sheep and a village of wolves. The books very clearly differentiate the two towns as good and bad, with the wolves' society bearing a striking resemblance to mainland China. The books depict the society of wolves — monitored by CCTV cameras — plotting an infiltration of the sheep village after their shepherd has left. "[The books'] combined effect was to influence or educate readers to neither be Chinese nor have a sense of...

You need a personal net worth of at least $1.4 million to be "financially comfortable" in the New York area, according to a survey of 500 local residents in the 2022 Charles Schwab's Modern Wealth report. To be considered "wealthy" in New York, you need a net worth of $3.4 million — over one million more than the national average. The survey's New York results are the second highest after San Francisco. Bay Area residents say you need $1.7 million in order to be financially comfortable in the California tech hub and $5.1 million to be considered wealthy, Charles Schwab...

FanDuel and DraftKings are among the books that have announced refunds, giving back money on any straight bets for Chestnut to eat more than 74.5 hot dogs. Chestnut finished with 63 hot dogs Monday, good enough to hand him his 15th title but well short of last year’s record of 76. It was Chestnut’s worst showing since 2015...Midway through the contest, with Chestnut just getting going at 17 hot dogs, a protester in a Darth Vader mask rushed the Coney Island stage and unfurled a sign next to Chestnut. Chestnut quickly put the protester in a headlock before organizers took...

I write education news for a living. My job, every day, is to report on what’s happening in education. I have great respect for teachers in all settings but have been a homeschooling mother for more than 10 years now, and what I’ve researched and written on recently is horrifying. The public school system is a mess. Hardly anyone wants to be a teacher anymore, and with good reason. Too many educators in the system have little to no respect for parental rights and believe they are above the law. Most recently I reported on a gym teacher who allegedly...