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California residents are still braced for rolling blackouts this week ... and puts a power grid made fragile by renewables in jeopardy of failure. Electric car owners now might not be able to drive the high-priced vehicles Democrats demanded they buy. On Tuesday, state officials said California faces its greatest threat of blackouts this year, with power demand likely to eclipse 51,000 megawatts setting a new high. “As people crank up their air conditioners, the state forecasted record levels of energy use, said Elliot Mainzer, president of California Independent System Operators, which runs the state’s electrical grid,” the Associated Press...

Attended a Sting concert last night at the great Saratoga Performing Arts Center. He sure still has it, also nice to see. The songs throughout the night were flawlessly executed by a deft band featuring the guitar tandem of longtime sideman Dominic Miller and his son, Rufus. Sting introduced the ensemble as a “family band,” slyly remarking that bespectacled drummer Zach Jones was Police drummer Stewart Copeland’s son.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shocked the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday when he announced he would back the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA). Grassley said during a markup of the JCPA he would support the legislation. The JCPA, if enacted, would carve out an antitrust exemption for establishment media outlets. Grassley’s announcement shocked many that expected him to oppose the legislation.

Facebook is allowing a sick cartoon of a crucified Jesus being sold on Pawn Stars to remain on its site claiming it does not violate its community standards.Have you ever been suspended or banned from Facebook for posting something that might offend muslims? Can you imagine if a similar muhammad cartoon was posted on Facebook?After reporting the post, this was the response from Facebook:"Thanks for your feedbackThanks for your report - you did the right thing by letting us know about this. The post was reviewed, and though it doesn't go against one of our specific Community Standards, we understand...

Ukrainian officials, defending their country against Russian aggressors, began doing something in July that seemed odd, even counterintuitive: They started speaking loudly and regularly about their plans to liberate Kherson—a key southern city that Russia seized only a week after invading Ukraine on February 24. Indeed, the Ukrainians telegraphed their intentions in a way that the Russians could not mistake. This was like waving a red cape at an angry, incompetent bull. Almost immediately, rumors proliferated that the Russians were racing reinforcements to Kherson to prepare for the Ukrainian attack. Goading the Russians into doing so seems to have been...

Sanderson was taken into police custody on Highway 11 north of Saskatoon after police caught up to a stolen truck and forced it off the road. He later went into medical distress and was transported to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A source close to the investigation said police believe Sanderson took drugs before he was arrested and overdosed while in custody. He was alive when arrested and then went into distress.... Police say a knife was found in the truck, but an initial search found no drugs in the vehicle or in Sanderson’s possession. Sanderson was charged with...

A man has been found safe after he spent two days aloft in a hydrogen balloon that became untethered while he was using it to harvest pine nuts from a tree, according to Chinese state media. The man, identified only by his surname, Hu, and a partner were collecting pine nuts on Sunday in a forest park in Heilongjiang province in north-east China when they lost control and the balloon sailed off on a 200-mile journey. An official who gave only his surname, Fu, at the publicity department of the Hailin Forestry Administration Co on Thursday confirmed the balloon incident...

Video shows what the title says. Such a hate filled man.

"Indeed, the MAGA movement venerates the Confederacy and managed to accomplish what the South never did: stage an assault on the U.S. Capitol bearing the Confederate flag and organize an effort to stave off the peaceful transfer of power. Both the old Confederacy and the MAGA movement pine for a fraudulent past and dress up base racism in a gauzy wrapping of honor, masculinity and military virtue. And the paranoia about an existential crisis that so many MAGA followers share tracks with the Confederacy’s fear that their way of life (slavery) was endangered by Northern forces," Rubin wrote. "No, the...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Republican incumbents Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio hold narrow leads over their Democratic opponents, according to a new poll that includes the state's coveted older voters. DeSantis leads U.S. Rep. and former governor Charlie Crist 50%-47% in the gubernatorial race, and Rubio leads Congresswoman Val Demings 49%-47% in the U.S. Senate race, according to the AARP Florida poll released Wednesday. AARP Florida represents millions of older Floridians, a key demographic group that historically turns out in higher percentage numbers than younger voters. DeSantis poll:DeSantis may be vulnerable on cost-of-living issues, but his culture war is working with voters...

| Get ready to be shocked. Another “mistake” by a social media company just so happened to benefit Democrats heading into an election. Isn’t it so weird how that keeps happening? In this case, Snap (formerly known as Snapchat), says it “inadvertently” exposed collected data on Republican voters to Democrat firms. Those firms then used that data to target political ads before the mid-terms. Axios has the story, though they frame it exactly as you’d expect. A slip-up by social media giant Snap allowed leading Democratic campaigns and party committees to unwittingly tap into a vast repository of Republican voter...

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Michele White, the former Prince William County Voter Registrar, faces fraud charges in multiple incidents during the November 2020 General Election, court documents state. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares handed down the charges today by a grand jury in Manassas. According to the indictment, White neglected her duty as an election officer. Between November 3 and November 2020, she made a false statement, and between August 1 and December 31, 2020, she again neglected her duties, the indictment states. That’s all we know right now, and the office of the Attorney General declined to comment due to the ongoing nature...

State Bans and restrictions passed: 24 states Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West VirginiaCounty Bans and restrictions passed: 5 counties Wisconsin: Walworth, Ozaukee, Kenosha, Winnebago Michigan: LivingstonVetoes: 6 states Kansas (veto overridden), Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin (vetoed twice)Private financing of government election offices under the guise of COVID-19 relief skewed voter turnout in the 2020 election and may have tipped the presidential election to Joe Biden.The chief culprit was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who poured $350 million...

Televised Campaign Address for Goldwater Presidential Campaign - 10/27/64.

A Clark County, Nevada, Democrat official was arrested on Wednesday evening on suspicion of murdering Las Vegas Journal-Review investigative reporter Jeff German after a series of reports exposing corruption. Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was booked in Clark County Detention Center for suspicion of murder after German, 69 years old, was found dead outside his home with multiple stab wounds last Saturday.

A good documentary that suggested Vidal got the upper hand throughout he convention debates. Buckley threatened him when called a Nazi and Vidal smirked, showing his evil side. He got to him and the filmmaker showed an obvious bias.

Here’s something I bet you did not see coming either – Lindsey Graham was actually right about something, in this case when he warned the malicious morons of the left about the terrifying consequences of their desire to eliminate a political opponent by framing him in a jurisdiction that is 95% Democrat and where every juror either is, married to, or having a tacky fling with, a Biden administration Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary of Agriculture for Yam, Potato, and Brian Stelter Affairs. Lindsey Graham – an Air Force colonel who served his country, unlike the vast majority of the Ukraine flag-waiving,...

In Marxist theory, the final stage of socialism is true communism, when everyone shares of his or her resources equally, the state withers away, and true justice finally dawns upon the earth. We never have seen that stage and never will, because Marxism is rancid pseudo-religious hogwash that runs directly contrary to human nature. The real final stage of socialism is what we saw in the last ten years of the Soviet Union: an entrenched, all-encompassing, corrupt and inefficient state bureaucracy nominally presided over by a succession of senescent, barely-there incompetents. With his disgraceful descent into open authoritarianism Thursday...