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President Joe Biden desecrated a celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, on Friday by repeating a proven lie known as the “fine people hoax,” falsely accusing his predecessor, Donald Trump, of praising neo-Nazis in Charlottesville in August 2017. In fact, as Breitbart News and others have demonstrated repeatedly, Trump said the neo-Nazis should be “condemned totally.” Biden made his remarks in front of a Jewish audience at what was billed as the first-ever White House gathering for Rosh Hashanah.

Jamie Raskin, who sits on the January 6th Committee makes a stunning comment about Ray Epps.

ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that Ginni Thomas “is a little bit of a filthy liar” for saying she does not talk to her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, about politics. Co-host Joy Behar said, “Yesterday, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, doubled down on voter fraud lies to the January 6th committee. She testified under oath that she still has concerns the election was stolen even though judges, 60 of them, some of who are Trump appointees, more than 60 of them found no evidence. She...

President Joe Biden tried to flatter Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday during a reception celebrating the Jewish New Year. “Kamala won’t be the last woman, to be vice president, or president,” Biden said at the beginning of his speech, prompting Harris to look over in the president’s direction. Biden spoke after he was introduced by Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff at the reception at the White House

WASHINGTON — It’s not just curiosity killing the cat anymore — it could be the Army. The Army Medical Research and Development Command has quietly allowed shooting cats and dogs for wound experiments despite a 1983 Defense Department ban on the practice, according to a policy update obtained by The Post. While the change was made as early as 2020, it’s being publicized for the first time after the Army command turned aside a bid by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to find out how many such experiments had been conducted since the switch.

As of this writing, heartbreakingly brave Iranian women have been protesting for 10 days and nights in the streets of at least 80 cities [now 90]. They are risking death for the right not to wear the hijab. Women have been burning their hijabs and cutting their hair. They’ve been heard chanting “Women, Life, and Freedom,” and “Death to the dictator.” The Iranian mullahs have unleashed the Revolutionary Guard and paramilitary (Basij) forces against the protestors. They have been dragging women by their hair, banging their heads on the ground, tear-gassing, beating, shooting, arresting, and murdering them. Fatality estimates range...

EXCLUSIVE: FDA Withholding Autopsy Results on People Who Died After Getting COVID-19 VaccinesThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is refusing to release the results of autopsies conducted on people who died after getting COVID-19 vaccines. The FDA says it is barred from releasing medical files, but a drug safety advocate says that it could release the autopsies with personal information redacted. The refusal was issued to The Epoch Times, which submitted a Freedom of Information Act for all autopsy reported obtained by the FDA concerning any deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System following COVID-19 vaccination. Reports...

The photo on the left of a poke bowl doesn’t look as fresh and tasty to viewers as the one on the right. Credit: Ohio State University ======================================================== How does color impact how you perceive food? According to recent research, a restaurant may boost sales by using an appealing photo of a burger or other menu item, especially if the correct filter is used. According to the study, food seems fresher and tastier in photos with a high color saturation, which increases viewers’ willingness to buy menu items. Color saturation is a term used to describe how vibrant and rich...

The Biden administration is gearing up for its latest pandemic showdown, this time over vaccine mandates in the military. Pentagon press secretary Patrick Ryder told reporters on Tuesday that "we still have a requirement to vaccinate" for COVID-19. News surfaced the day before that the military may have moved too fast denying religious exemptions for vaccines, and the twin reports set up another round of back-and-forth over pandemic policy. “Biden now says 'the pandemic is over' as he’s kicking tens of thousands of healthy soldiers out of the military with his COVID vaccine mandate," tweeted former Secretary of State Mike...

Russian President Vladimir Putin came out swinging at the U.S. on Friday in an aggressive speech as he announced the annexation of four Ukrainian regions. In a message that was already expected to be hostile, Putin further escalated threats against Ukraine and the West by saying the U.S. set a "precedent" of nuclear warfare by hitting Japan with atomic bombs during World War II. Fears have mounted since last week when Putin said he was "not bluffing" after he warned that Moscow would use "all weapons systems available" to defend Russian territory.

The impact of the acute exposure to high doses of radiation was severe for the environment and the human population. But more than three decades after the accident, Chernobyl has become one of the largest nature reserves in Europe. A diverse range of endangered species finds refuge there today, including bears, wolves, and lynxes. As with other pollutants, radiation could be a very strong selective factor, favouring organisms with mechanisms that increase their survival in areas contaminated with radioactive substances. After detecting the first black frogs in 2016, we decided to study the role of melanin colouration in Chernobyl wildlife....

Shannon Brandt, the man who is accused of fatally hitting Cayler Ellingson with an SUV, has been charged with murder in the death of the 18-year-old, and new information alleges that the teenager was run over by an SUV. (snip) Foster County State’s Attorney Kara Brinster announced on Friday that Brandt is being charged with murder in addition to duty in an accident involving death. Brinster said that the charge of criminal vehicular homicide has been dismissed because of the new murder charge.

Let's see Dementia Joe ever get such an exuberant crowd.

A Christian campaign group has been blocked from holding a conference at Cambridge University because its values were "not compatible with the values of the college." The group, Christian Concern, wanted to host an event called the "Wilberforce Academy." Fitzwilliam College refused to allow a booking for a conference for young Christians because of the group's "religious beliefs." In response, Christian Concern is taking legal action. A preliminary hearing was held on Thursday at the High Court in London, but no date or venue has yet been fixed for a court hearing. Lawyers representing the group believe this ban causes...

Russian exports of crude oil and refined products declined substantially in September... total Russian crude oil exports averaged 3.15 million barrels daily this month, which was down by 280,000 bpd from August (-9%). Crude exports to Europe slumped by 314,000 bpd from August to about 900,000 bpd (-26%). The data shows that crude oil exports to Asia - now Russia’s biggest market - in September were down by more than 250,000 bpd to an average daily of 1.6 million barrels (-14%)... some 187,000 bpd of Russian oil on water still had no fixed destination. Exports of refined oil products declined...

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) left thousands of rape kits untested during her time as Nevada’s attorney general until Republican Adam Laxalt, who formerly held the position and is now running against her for U.S. Senate, secured millions of dollars to clear the backlog and make dozens of arrests. Towards the end of the eight years Cortez Masto spent as Nevada’s attorney general in October 2014, a national nonprofit found that only 16 percent of the 5,231 rape kits collected in Las Vegas were examined from 2004 to 2013 — meaning roughly 4,400 were left untested, as the Washington Free...

"That is the lunatic fringe of gun ownership. And they are disproportionately represented and that skews the conversation," he continued. "And pushing back at, I would never make the mistake of thinking, that’s representative of your average gun owner in America."

Even as more than 100,000 Americans are dying from drug overdoses and poisonings every year, many linked to fentanyl, House Democrats have blocked a plan that would crack down on the deadly substance flowing almost exclusively from the United States-Mexico border into American communities. This week, 220 House Democrats blocked consideration for Rep. Michelle Fischbach’s (R-MN) Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act to permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. Such a change would make it permanently illegal to sell fentanyl-related substances. In April, House Democrats blocked consideration of similar legislation that would have...

A high school in Vermont banned girls on its volleyball team from their own locker room after they expressed discomfort with changing in front of a male who pretends to be a female.Teen girls on the Randolph Union High School volleyball team said a male student claiming to be transgender reportedly “made an inappropriate comment while members of the volleyball team were getting changed.”When players and their parents raised concerns about teen girls sharing intimate spaces with someone of the opposite sex, the school told them state law allows for students claiming to be transgender to use whichever bathrooms and...

<p>Joe Biden is doing all he can to detach the cost of an education from the value of an education.</p><p>Amid the stir caused by President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel student loan debts, far too little attention has been paid to another far-reaching reform: the administration’s change to a lending program known as income-driven repayment (or IDR). If widely applied, Biden’s proposal would provide additional relief to millions of borrowers — and make the U.S. student loan system even costlier and more dysfunctional than it already is.</p>