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Some fascinating data for you to chew on as Trump gets set to rally for Palin and Murkowski opponent Kelly Tshibaka in Anchorage tonight.In a traditional primary system, I’d expect Palin to win her House primary and Murkowski to lose her Senate primary — badly. (She lost a Republican Senate primary in Alaska once before, remember.) Palin is broadly unpopular in her home state but she has universal name recognition and Trump’s endorsement. Typically that would be enough to get her over the finish line in an all-Republican contest against less well-known competition.Murkowski, meanwhile, would be facing Republican voters with...

Many of the Democrat political elites are funding Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) reelection bid in Wyoming’s Republican primary against Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman. While polling shows Hageman has taken a huge lead with the primary just around the corner, the American donor class has taken notice of Cheney’s shrinking chances of retaining her seat on August 16. Fearing Cheney may lose through a series of political miscalculations, establishment donors are coming out of the woodwork to protect one of their own. One of the Democrats’ most prominent donors, film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, who has funded Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s former...

In the wake of Elon Musk’s decision to pull out of his Twitter purchase because of the social media giant’s hesitation to share information on bot accounts, one has to wonder, what are they anyway? What do they do, and why are they so important that Hillary Clinton partially blamed her 2016 election loss on Russian bots?In late April, Twitter estimated that fake accounts and spam “accounted for less than 5 percent of its daily active users in the fourth quarter of 2021.” However, with a user base of at least 330 million, that’s still an awful lot of non-human...

Had a long day today and am exhausted and relaxing with a nice cold beer(s) watching some Rifleman espisodes. Man, this was the good ole days when TV was good. Now, it's garbage on TV. What are your favorite old time TV shows?

The US Supreme Court on June 28 declined to review a challenge by truck drivers to California’s controversial labor law AB5, meaning that it now goes into effect. The decision will throw up to 70,000 California truckers into legal limbo and further pressure the already-stressed supply chain.AB5 is a labor classification law that was designed to force gig-economy companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash to classify workers as employees, instead of as independent contractors, meaning they’d be eligible for benefits. Of course, lobbyists from those tech giants managed to get their companies exempted.RedState has reported extensively on AB5 in the...

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Former President Trump used a rally in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday to target Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who is up for reelection this November, asserting that “she’s worse than a Democrat.” While Trump was in the state to campaign for several candidates he has endorsed, he focused much of his speech on Murkowski, calling her “a lousy senator” shortly after beginning his stump speech. “She’s a total creature of the Washington swamp, but much worse than that, and a tool of a corrupt establishment, the likes of which we’ve never seen. The fake news media loves her,” Trump said. The...

Canadian researchers want to study how much carbon is released into the air from cow burps and farts. That study would open the door for the federal government to put a carbon tax on cow burps and farts like New Zealand implemented. In an interview with the Western Standard, University of Alberta researcher Cameron Carlyle talked about a new study he's putting together to measure the carbon released into the air from cow belches and toots. “I was just in a meeting … to discuss trying to put together a new project where we tackle that question because it’s an...

Another hidden classic jam! This band was very influential and pioneered the progressive rock sound.

The price of ice cream made by China's most famous brand of baijiu liquor, Mao-tai, has surged to 250 yuan (Singapore$52)[USD$37.18]a cup, triggering public debate over the high price. Mao-tai ice cream reported on Wednesday (July 6) that each cup of the ice cream available online through third parties was priced between 120 yuan and 250 yuan, a mark up of about four times the official price, in a Weibo post. In May this year, the alcohol brand partnered with Chinese dairy company Mengniu to launch a series of baijiu-flavoured ice cream products. Flavours like tiramisu, classical original, vanilla and...

Lisa was delighted when she found a box of expensive-looking lingerie in her husband’s car. Her birthday was approaching so she assumed it was a gift. The big day came and went, but the lacy knickers never materialised. Instead, Lisa received a voucher. Her sixth sense told her something was wrong with her marriage. ‘We had been together for years and things had got a little bit mundane,’ recalls the mum of two, who is using a pseudonym. ‘We were just getting on with normal family life. We weren’t being intimate.’ When Lisa asked her husband, Dave*, about the underwear,...

Researchers on 4Chan have begun examining an offline backup of Hunter Biden’s phone. They found the password and are going through all the files.Hunter Biden’s laptop data, with many concluding there is over 450GB of data still remaining hidden on the President’s son’s iPhone backup log.The individual who initially released the data claimed to have been threatened by unnamed individuals close to the administration.

The speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament threatened Wednesday to “claim back” Alaska if the United States froze or seized Russian assets as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. “Let America always remember: there’s a piece of territory, Alaska,” Vyacheslav Volodin said at the last session of parliament, the State Duma, before it goes on summer break. “When they try to manage our resources abroad, let them think before they act that we, too, have something to take back,” Volodin said. He noted that deputy speaker Pyotr Tolstoy had proposed holding a referendum among Alaskans to join Russia.

Akira Kurosawa may be one of cinema's more humane filmmakers. While he did see a lot of sadness and injustice in the world, and would address those issues in his films, few of his works skewed full-bore into cynicism. Often, wicked characters would face retribution for their actions -- seen most notably in Kurosawa's Shakespeare adaptations "Throne of Blood" (1957), "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960), "Kagemusha" (1980), and "Ran" (1985) -- but more often, their moral fall was depicted as a great, tragic failing of the world. He looked and saw people, not archetypes. If one sees archetypes in Kurosawa...

An investigation revealed that Marie died of natural causes and was dead for two weeks before being put inside the freezer, according to police. Hoskins is at the Indian River County Jail and is being held on a $10,000 bond and was charged with failure to report the death of her mother as well as tampering with evidence, according to FOX 13. Police initially attempted to perform a wellness check in April and were unsuccessful, but an officer "had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right," and a second attempt followed. Police called a relative who was out of town...

Whatever it was that was blowing in the wind when the track weaved its way into a young Bob Dylan’s ever-expanding consciousness back in the early summer of 1962 before its world-changing release the year later, it certainly carried along the future like an adrenalised tumbleweed trying to catch up. He was 22 years old when his mystic words were pressed onto record and the virtues he extolled with perfect melody had even escaped old Father Time. The beauty of the track deserves a mausoleum of its own, but the building next door should be dedicated to its legacy—that is...

Harvard University provides its students with unparalleled knowledge, skills and experiences. Yet, as we Jewish students have witnessed, the routine vilification of the State of Israel — both inside and outside the classroom — indicates that something in Harvard’s contemporary education has gone seriously awry. In the latest example of this trend, the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson endorsed the movement to boycott, divest, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish state in an April 29 editorial. BDS represents the economic arm of a global effort — spearheaded militarily by Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran — to destroy the Jewish state. That...

Melissa Bond was caring for two infant children — a newborn, and a year-old toddler with Down syndrome. It was 2009, and she had recently lost her magazine job. Her marriage was disintegrating, and she spent night after night pacing her house in Salt Lake City, watching the hours tick by. When a physician gave her a prescription for Ativan — a “strong, fast-acting sedative hypnotic” that he guaranteed would help her get some shut-eye — she accepted it, no questions asked. “I was in such a state of desperation that I didn’t research the drugs,” Bond, now 53, told...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is stirring rumors of a possible presidential run in 2024. On Saturday, the Old Dominion governor is set to deliver a speech at Nebraska’s GOP convention. Youngkin won a surprise victory in Virginia last year after turning the reliably blue state red in a race which highlighted parental concern about critical race theory in schools. Though Nebraska isn’t Iowa, the two share media markets and Youngkin’s visit is likely to percolate in that most critical early primary state.

The fairgrounds building in Pond Creek is open for people to go but you cannot use Highway 81 south out of Medford, officials said. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has closed several roads in Grant County. US-81 at the intersection of Greer and the intersection of Haskell are closed at this time. Additionally, the roadway at US-60/US-81 in Pond Creek is closed. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is assisting with barricades.