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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., argued the FBI should release the affidavit used in the raid on Mar-a-Lago. On "Fox & Friends" Thursday, Rand Paul said the only way to restore confidence in the FBI is to determine through the affidavit whether the raid on President Trump's home was justified. RAND PAUL: I think the burden is on the FBI to justify this raid. This is extraordinary. This is also the same FBI that used a foreign intelligence warrant to snoop on and spy on the Trump campaign to investigate them for over two years. So I think the burden really...

Widely used for modern biomedical research, zebrafish share more than 70 percent of the human genome and possess the impressive power of regeneration. Dr. Sandra Rieger's research on appendage regeneration and nerve damage at the University of Miami has utilized zebrafish for years. Now, in a study, Rieger uses these natural marvels with innate healing capacity once more to expand her research on the regenerative potential of hydrogen peroxide in wound repair and nerve regeneration. As a postdoctoral researcher, Rieger made the groundbreaking discovery that hydrogen peroxide is produced in the epidermis and is responsible for promoting nerve regeneration following...

A terminally ill Alberta woman facing removal from an organ transplant list over her refusal to receive a COVID vaccination is appealing a judge’s decision siding with the hospital. Annette Lewis, 57, lost a bid last month for an injunction against Alberta Health Services and six local doctors after health authorities said she could not proceed with the transplant unless she receives her COVID shots. Lewis claimed the requirement violated her charter rights, while AHS said it has an obligation to donors, their families and other patients to make sure organs are used on patients with the highest chance of...

You know a writer has hit a chord when several women across the political spectrum send you the same essay, all of them commenting that it is a great essay and that young women in America should read it. The writer is Bridget Phetasy, a writer and stand-up comedian, and the essay is Phetasy’s rejection of the hook-up culture that leftists foist on young American women. Phetasy puts the core issue right there in her essay’s title: “I Regret Being A Slut.” What triggered her writing the essay was a new book by Louise Perry entitled The Case Against The...

A decent quality computer that you might have bought six or 10 years ago lacks very little in being a supercomputer, and could be made into a supercomputer fairly easily. As a general rule, that computer could also be bought for very little money on eBay now. The two things that computer needs: .....

The guidance is intended to bring the federal government in line with new recommendations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued last week.The Biden administration is instructing agencies to cease all COVID-19 testing aimed specifically at unvaccinated employees, marking a new approach in the fight against the coronavirus and the push to get all federal workers inoculated. Agencies will no longer conduct “serial screening testing” based on vaccination status as they shift away from differential treatment based on whether employees are up to date on their shots. They will also stop asking employees, contractors and visitors if they...

The first time Christen Malone picked food out of a dumpster was when her daughter, now 4, was an infant. The baby was a car napper. She would fall asleep and Ms. Malone, a marketing consultant who lives in Beechview and has a cottage in Chautauqua — both were fully furnished for under $2,000 — would pull up behind a Giant Eagle, pick through the trash, throw some produce in the trunk of a luxury car and go on with her day. Dumpster diving is particularly fruitful in the winter, she says, when milk, eggs and other perishables are kept...

The gorgeous Joey Wong has left such an impact on Asian viewers that nearly two decades after her showbiz retirement, people are still delighted to see her. The 55-year-old former actress, best known for her ethereal performance in the 1987 movie A Chinese Ghost Story, recently went viral when photos of her praying at LingYen Mountain Temple Canada were uploaded to the internet. In the Aug 13 event, Joey was draped in black and brown robes and did not appear to be wearing make-up. Some photos showed her with a face mask and one showed her without. Despite being away...

Dr. Anthony Fauci has an important message for Black Americans: get a booster shot. In a recent interview with TheGrio, Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, urged the Black community to get a Covid booster shot in preparation of the fall surge, when the Covid infection rates are expected to rise. He said that the Food and Drug Administration will soon authorize an updated booster shot, known as the bivalent BA.5 vaccine, which is a closer match to the circulating Omicron variants of Covid.

(Reuters) - Kentucky's highest court on Thursday refused to stop the state from enforcing two laws banning most abortions while it considers a legal challenge by abortion clinics. The 5-2 majority of the Supreme Court of Kentucky said that the clinics had not shown that there was "extraordinary cause" for a temporary order blocking the two laws. The court did not address the merits of the case. "We are pleased with this victory for life and the rule of law and will continue to prepare for the arguments the Court has scheduled," Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said in a...

The motives behind the FBI’s raid of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago are many. All relate to corruption in our government. None provide support for the raid. President Trump unclassified documents related to Russiagate, the Deep State’s attempted coup of the Trump Administration. Then he filed a RICO suit against the government. This scared the bad actors in the Deep State.

The End of Russian Oil This newsletter is an adapted excerpt from Peter’s upcoming book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning. Think the Europeans will need to get by without Russian crude? You are 100% correct. But you are not thinking anywhere near big enough. Most of Russia’s oil fields are both old and extraordinarily remote from Russia’s customers. Fields in the North Caucasus are either tapped out or were never refurbished in the aftermath of the Chechen Wars, those of Russia’s Tatarstan and Bashkortostan provinces are well past their peak, and even western Siberian fields have...

A series of events have led the Deep State to act in ways Americans never thought possible. Does President Trump have them where he wants them? Yesterday, TGP released a report about former and fired ‘FBI’ Agent Peter Strzok.

In Washington DC tonight the nightly protest continues outside the jail where January 6th prisoners are held... A joint Russian-Syrian military patrol hit by a roadside bomb (IED) early today. The incident south of Damascus in the Daraa region... Meanwhile the military government of the African nation of Mali says France has been supporting Islamic terrorists in the country... The legal wrangling related to the FBI raid on President Trump's home and to a Democrat-led Manhattan, New York prosecution of President Trump's business... 80 percent of rail service shut down in the UK today due to a strike by rail...

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday on Newsmax’s “Spicer & Co.” CNN’s mantra was, “Anything that gets Trump is OK.” Dershowitz said, “Talk about a law school exam. I know something about that. I did it for 50 years. When I gave a law school exam, I would say list all the crimes and then exercise judgment and show which crimes should be prosecuted. If Larry Tribe, Professor Tribe, was in my class, he would have failed because one of the things he said on CNN is that, in his judgment, his former student Merrick Garland should be...

The story here is that Hageman said she received a “two-second” voicemail from Cheney that didn’t mention a concession. In a petty fit of rage, the Cheney camp ran to give a recording to Politico purporting to be the voicemail which included a concession. That led Stephen Hayes, who was just salivating to have his priors confirmed, to launch into a rant about how Hageman is a liar who is just out seeking “MAGApplause.” Of course, that was a completely unfair characterization of Hageman, who spent her campaign focusing on the issues people care about in Wyoming while Cheney played...

In Summer 1922, in the grand Symphony Hall of Petrograd (St. Petersburg), a mock trail was held. 86 Christian Orthodox clergymen and laymen were accused of "resistance to the expropriation of Church valuables"; four of them, including Metropolitan Benjamin of Petrograd, were sentenced to death and killed on August 13. Their grave site has never been found. One hundred years later, on August 13, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of the New Martyr Metropolitan Benjamin and those who suffered with him, in the same Symphony Hall of St. Petersburg, a solemn memorial concert was held. Choral oration, His...

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – After more than 20 Christians lost their lives to terrorist attacks in two areas of Taraba state, Nigeria in the first half of August, a Catholic teacher on Sunday (Aug. 14) was kidnapped from a church site, sources said. Suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) shot their way onto the site of St. Agnes Catholic Church in Dinya village, in Taraba state’s Gassol County, at about 10 p.m. and abducted the catechist, Gideon Tsehemba, said the Rev. Lawrence Awua, the parish priest. “The ISWAP terrorists broke into the premises of...

Harsh sentences and extreme pro-abortion laws remind us that abortion is enshrined in our culture — a culture that is dying from the wounds it has inflicted on itself by a total disrespect for human life.Will Goodman, Matthew Connolly and Father Fidelis Moscinski, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal referred to by the court as “Mr. Christopher Moscinski,” were each sentenced to 90 days in jail and ordered to pay $750 in fines and fees for their role in a Red Rose Rescue this past November at All Women’s Health and Medical Services in White Plains, New York. All three...

A 34-year-old Russian paratrooper named Pavel Filatyev has written a brutally critical account of his time in the Russian army leading up to and during the invasion of Ukraine...Among other things, Filatyev details squalid, unlivable conditions throughout basic training, created and compounded by bureaucracy and ineptitude : I had to run like a homeless from one barracks to another, looking for a bed to sleep in, until I found a place to rent at my own expense There is not enough food for everyone, the potatoes in the soup are raw… the bread is stale We get up at 5...