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Social Cost of Carbon estimate jumps from $51 to $190 per metric ton, creating future impact for Americans' wallets and a new headache for the oil and gas industries. With the price of everything from gasoline to food soaring in America, nobody is surprised by inflated price tags these days. But even by Washington standards, an action taken earlier this month by the Environmental Protection Agency is creating sticker shock: a nearly fourfold increase in the government calculation of damages from carbon emissions. The so-called Social Cost of Carbon was first set in 2009 under then-President Barack Obama. Under Democrats...

Far-left activists reportedly swarmed an event Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk held at the University of New Mexico on Wednesday evening, with protesters calling to “shut down white supremacy.” “My welcoming committee at University of New Mexico for tonight’s event,” Kirk tweeted along with a video that showed tens of protesters dressed in black, wearing masks, shouting and holding slogans protesting Kirk’s appearance on their campus.

CU student says Pride Flag was removed, burned, and returned to home By: Colette Bordelon Nov 30, 2022 BOULDER, Colo. — Boulder is typically thought of as one of the most progressive cities in the entire state, but a college student said his Pride flag was vandalized overnight Tuesday, and it's not the first time it's happened. Glacius, 20, said he moved to Boulder to attend the University of Colorado at Boulder, and also because it is such an accepting community. “I can really be myself out here. I can really just show to the world who I really am,"...

Undoubtedly, the question right now at the top of everyone’s mind is, When is the Manhattan Contrarian’s Energy Storage Report coming out? After all, he previously promised it for September, and then October, and here we are almost in December and we still haven’t seen it. It’s a fair question. Being a blogger, I don’t have much appreciation for the formalities of the publication process. In blogging, you finish the post, do a quick proofread, press “Publish,” and there it is. With this, it has been rounds of peer review, editing, typesetting, proofreading, and so forth. However, I’m now told...

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the number two Republican in the U.S. Senate, said on Tuesday that the GOP plans to use the debt ceiling as leverage to make cuts to Social Security and other social safety net programs. "There's a set of solutions there that we really need to take on if we're going to get serious about making these programs sustainable and getting this debt bomb at a manageable level before it's too late," Thune said in an interview with Bloomberg News, adding that raising the retirement age is one of the solutions Republicans want to explore.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, nobody in President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle is believed to have expected the war to last more than a few months. As the weather turns cold once again, and back to the freezing and muddy conditions that Russia’s invading forces experienced at the start of the conflict, Moscow faces what’s likely to be months more fighting, military losses and potential defeat. That, Russian political analysts say, will be catastrophic for Putin and the Kremlin, who have banked Russia’s global capital on winning the war against Ukraine. They told CNBC that anxiety was rising in...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the situation at the front as difficult, with intense fighting in the east, northeast and south of Ukraine. He said Russian forces are “planning something” in the south of the country, where fighting has been intense around the area of Zaporizhzhia and the nuclear power plant there, but did not give any details of what Ukraine believes could happen.(snip) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country’s armed forces are preparing a “countermeasure” to Russia’s advances that will exceed prior ones. Zelenskyy made the comment during his nightly address to the nation, and following a meeting...

The Biden administration is considering a dramatic expansion in the training the US military provides to Ukrainian forces, including instructing as many as 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers a month at a US base in Germany, according to multiple US officials. If adopted, the proposal would mark a significant increase not just in the number of Ukrainians the US trains but also in the type of training they receive. Since the start of the conflict in February, the US has trained only a few thousand Ukrainian soldiers, mostly in small groups, on specific weapons systems. Under the new program, the US would...

Both the East, led by China and Russia, and the West, led by U.S. and EU globalists, want to fundamentally change the world order. They call this change the Great Reset, first termed by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive director of the World Economic Forum (WEF). The WEF consists of the world’s wealthiest people, including over 1,000 global corporations and most of the G-20 leaders. Schwab & Co. naively view China as a partner, with dictator Xi Jinping a regular forum keynote speaker. Although China and Russia are diehard nationalists, their mission dovetails with that of Western globalists, so, for...

OAKS, PHILADELPHIA — The Kennel Club‘s annual dog show competition was taken by storm this year by first-ever trans furry competitor Blake Ruff. The decision was made unanimously by judges to award Mr. Ruff with the event‘s most coveted title of ‘Best In Show'. According to sources, Blake Ruff had never won a single competition of any sort in his life until realized that he's not a mediocre adult male — he's actually a Blue Alaskan Malamute. "Recognizing who I truly am has been a liberating journey!" said Mr. Ruff hiking his leg and urinating on the public sidewalk. "I've...

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Duddridge started charging for Christmas dinner in 2016, and has since become part of the family’s traditions — immediate relatives are used to it by now. “Some people might think it’s harsh to put a levy on meals for kids but it’s an important life lesson. The older grandkids like to try and offer to help me to earn some of their money back and I admire that,” she said. Grandma charges family $45 a head for Christmas dinner Duddridge said she spends “dozens of hours” scouring grocery stores for the cheapest and best deals, especially with the price of...

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Black told Steamboat Pilot & Today that he and his team are lost when it comes to the phenomenon. 'It's frustrating, trying to figure out exactly what occurred in this incident,' Black said. The director also said that while they don't believe wolves to be behind the deaths, they also can't rule them out completely. 'We have no evidence of wolves in that area. That doesn't mean they are not there,' Black said. Since October, more than 40 cows have been found killed near the town of Meeker Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say they have found no tracks near...

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MOSCOW, Idaho — More than two weeks after four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered at an off-campus residence, investigators say they have begun receiving results from forensic testing at a crime lab. "...there have been results that have been returned and those go directly to the investigators..." Idaho State Police Communications Director Aaron Snell told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. Snell declined to comment on whether DNA that did not belong to the four victims or two surviving roommates had been found at the scene.

Outgoing GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn claimed American men are being 'taught' to be 'soft metrosexuals' during one of his final appearances in Congress after being forced out by his fellow Republicans earlier this year. The 27-year-old freshman congressman from North Carolina lost his primary over the summer to state senator Charles Edwards, who was backed by members of Cawthorn's own state Congressional delegation.... ...'It used to be a rite of passage in this country for young men to be punched in the face when they did something stupid,' the minute-long address began. He claimed US society no longer believed in...

Are Christmas Trees in the Bible? You Betcha!The Hebrew Sages have stated that, 'Everything that ever was and ever will be is in the Torah' (Pirqe'i Avot 5:22) they are correct. They also relate that the Prophets and Writings expand the Torah. Most people don't realize that the Writings have never stopped, have never stopped!Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened… YeshuaNotice, there are no limits on this statement.Genesis 35:1 Then ELoHIM said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to BethEL and dwell there; and make an altar there to EL, who appeared to you when you...

An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds. But the rare cosmic event actually occurred 8.5 billion light years away from Earth, when the universe was just a third of its current age — and it has created more questions than answers....

I can’t keep up with all of this SCIIIIIIIIENCE, y’all, but as of yesterday, Secretary Xavier Becerra wants you to get yet ANOTHER booster vaccine if it’s been two months since your LAST booster shot. Because OMG YOU NEED ANOTHER DOSE HURRY UP AND GET ANOTHER DOSE SHEEP HURRRRRRRRY UPPP: An updated COVID vaccine can help protect you from the worst outcomes of COVID. If it’s been over 2 months since your last dose, make a plan to get one now. Find updated vaccines at https://t.co/b0lnuggpPW. pic.twitter.com/MQUdE921Du — Secretary Xavier Becerra (@SecBecerra) November 29, 2022 D vaccine can help protect...