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Nikki Haley's presidential run doesn't appear to be keeping her fellow South Carolinian, Sen. Tim Scott, from considering his own campaign for the GOP nomination in 2024. "I bet there’s room for three or four. Certainly, there’s room for two," Scott said in a radio interview Thursday morning when host Joey Hudson on WGTK-FM asked whether there’s room for both Haley and Scott in a 2024 GOP presidential field. [cut] Scott will be in Charleston on Thursday to deliver a speech on Black History Month as he begins a listening tour

A Montana Democrat lawmaker recently proposed a bill that would allow pregnant mothers to abort their unborn babies for “religious freedom” reasons even if state law limits or bans abortions. Newsweek reports Montana House Bill 471 is a project of state Rep. Ed Stafman, a Democrat and a Jewish rabbi who believes the law should respect “divergent and deeply held” beliefs about “when human life begins, bodily autonomy and when abortion is allowable.” In other words, individuals should get to decide when their unborn babies’ lives are valuable and when they are disposable, not the law. Stafman’s bill would amend...

SCREENSHOTS AT LINK............... A newly uncovered calendar notation on the Biden Laptop indicates Hunter Biden joined his business partner Devon Archer in a meeting with his father in then Vice President Joe Biden’s West Wing office on April 16th, 2014, something the Bidens and Archers have always denied. And while there’s a special counsel looking into Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, this meeting constitutes malfeasance in office, an impeachable offense. Here’s a screenshot of the calendar I viewed after my friends at Marco Polo exported Hunter Biden’s daily calendar from the Laptop to me. The notation is “Meet Devon...

As Ohio continues to investigate the damage caused by a Norfolk Southern derailing earlier this month, another train carrying hazardous materials derails, this time outside Detroit, Michigan. Fox News reports that a train, which had one car of hazardous materials, derailed on Thursday (February 16th) in Van Bure Township, Michigan. The cause of the incident is not known and there were no injuries. Authorities also confirmed that this is not considered a hazmat situation. It was further reported that at least six cars were seen off the track. The roads are to remain closed while the investigation is ongoing. Michigan...

It’s a long and twisting saga that has lasted years. It involves a lawsuit, a stolen car and a polarizing point of view. And it’s all over a Hawaii license plate. The City and County of Honolulu approved a set of specialty Hawaii license plates in January 2021 bearing the letters “FCKBLM,” an acronym that can be read as “F—k Black Lives Matter,” referring to the social movement. Since then, Honolulu has tried to reclaim the two license plates because of the expletive, but its owner refused to return them. Seven months after issuing the plate, the county contacted the...

A Massachusetts Democrat leader is facing criticism for making discriminatory comments about children with disabilities, suggesting they should be aborted because they are a drain on public school funding. Framingham Democratic Committee Chair Michael Hugo made the comment Feb. 7 during a Framingham City Council meeting as the city leaders considered a proclamation to condemn the work of pro-life pregnancy resource centers. The proclamation “for the protection of reproductive rights” claims the pro-life charities are “deceptive” and “misleading,” and aborting unborn babies is a “fundamental right.” The city is located just west of Boston. During public comment period, Hugo urged...

There Must Be InvestigationsEight leading critics of the United States’s COVID-19 response have called for an investigation of the many failures of policy architects and key decision makers — at institutions ranging from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration to universities and hospitals — over their repeated mishandling of the pandemic. Given the immense harm inflicted on our society by the follies of a ruling class and their expert advisers who never failed to make a wrong decision when presented with the opportunity, as well as the fact that lives are still being destroyed...

The First Sequencing of the Bivalent vaccines is now available for public consumption. WARNING- There are contaminating Expression vectors in the vaccines that contain antibiotic resistance genes. This might explain the prolonged expression of spike protein in many studies snip...."What happens if we inject billions of Antibiotic resistance genes into billions of people?"

Archbishop: “McElroy Is Contrary To Catholic Faith”The Church is a divided house, retired Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput told CatholicNewsAgency.com (February 10).Regarding San Diego homosexualist Robert McElroy, the archbishop noted that "unfortunately many of his convictions are wrong and contrary to the faith of the Church."Chaput explained that he is surprised and many good people are confused and scandalised, that McElroy hasn’t been publicly corrected by the [decadent] Holy See.

Joe Biden is the worst President in the history of the United States and easily the most mendacious. Here is the theatrical plot of the opera "Biden 2024" in three acts. It is about a diabolical President who sells out the people who elected him. Act 1 We Will End Fossil FuelsPrior to the 2020 election NEW CASTLE, N.H. (AP) — Joe Biden is looking voters in the eye and promising to “end fossil fuel.” The former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate made the comment Friday after a New Hampshire environmental activist challenged him for accepting donations from the...

Zelensky said that he intends to increase the army to a million people to attack the Crimea. The West is also pushing Kiev to at least some success on the battlefield. Air Defense Colonel Yuriy Knutov, a military expert, believes that Zelensky's statements should not be discounted: the enemy is really preparing the army for an offensive that, according to him, may look like a Tatar-Mongol invasion. More and more experts note Kiev's serious intentions to take revenge for the winter campaign, in which the Russian army was able to seize the initiative. One of the most priority areas of...

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If you ask someone to close their eyes and picture a train, they'll typically imagine one of two things: The sleek, fast European passenger trains that can zip through the countryside, or The industrial, coal-burning freight trains that powered the American westward expansion. So, how did these two vastly dissimilar pictures come to be? In this article, we'll take a closer look at the key differences between American and European rail systems. HOW DO EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN TRAINS DIFFER? When it comes to American trains vs. European trains, there are six main factors that help make each one stand...

A huge solar storm will strike Earth on Thursday, potentially disrupting power grids and pushing the aurora as far south as Michigan and Maine. Alerts issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration early Thursday morning ranked as a K-5 index (out of 9). A ranking of five or above is needed for the administration to issue an alert for upcoming solar storms. Minor impacts to satellites, power grid fluctuations and a visible aurora were noted by NOAA. The highest geomagnetic storm category predicted thus far is a G2 storm on Feb. 18, which is considered “moderate” by NOAA’s rating...

A policeman will be injured, a protester will be trampled, it will be violent and short. Yossi Klein in an article in 'Haaretz' about the legal reform: "You have to resist with force, it will be violent and short" The writer and journalist Yossi Klein claims in an article he wrote in the Haaretz newspaper that "protests are not effective..." According to him, "Protests belong to the old, polite world, a world where "public opinion" had an effect. This world is over." He refers to the demonstration last Monday outside the Knesset building and claimed that it was a "demonstration...

It’s not always sunny in Philadelphia. Particularly The Philadelphia Fed’s General Business Conditions Index. It just crashed to -24.3 for February. Here is the breakdown of the Philly Fed numbers. Joe Biden reminds me of Dennis Reynolds from Always Sunny in Philadelphia with his rages.

The original vaccinations for COVID-19 induce potent antibodies that protect against SARS-CoV-2. But a new study shows the antibodies generated by those prior vaccinations or infections can actually "hurt" the booster shots. That's because these antibodies rapidly "mop up" the booster from the body, before it has a chance to stimulate the cells from the immune system. In a cohort of 85 people who had been vaccinated with Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, Northwestern scientists found that lower antibody levels before a booster were associated with a higher-fold increase in antibody levels after the booster. "This suggests that pre-existing antibodies induced...

The Michigan State University Police and Public Safety Department confirmed Thursday that the Monday night attacker had two 9mm handguns on his person, both of which were legally purchased. MSU Police and Public Safety tweeted: UPDATE: We can confirm the shooter had two 9 millimeter handguns on his person at the time he was located. The weapons were purchased legally, but they were not registered. pic.twitter.com/SdBX1Vyxpr — MSU Police and Public Safety (@msupolice) February 16, 2023 Breitbart News reported that the alleged MSU attacker faced felony gun charges in 2019. Those charges, had they been pursued, would have barred the...

President Donald Trump released a scathing press release on Nikki Haley, former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor, after she announced her run for the White House in 2024. Haley is the first person to announce a presidential candidacy following Trump. The press release, titled “The Real Nikki Haley,” explores a few of Haley’s controversial statements, including a time she said Hillary Clinton was the “reason” she was running for office during a 2012 interview with the New York Times. Trump also condemned Haley’s stance on the Ukraine-Russia war: “Instead of finding a peaceful solution to the Ukraine-Russia War, Haley...

As credit card debt hit an all-time high — just shy of $1 trillion — in the final three months of 2022, delinquencies among borrowers accelerated. Balances grew $61 billion in the fourth quarter from the previous one to $986 billion, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found. That marked the largest quarterly increase and the highest total since the series began in 1999. At the same time, the rate at which credit card holders missed payments and became more than 90 days behind was higher than before the pandemic, especially among younger borrowers, a potentially worrying sign when...