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Environmentalists may have cheered when President Biden pulled the plug on the Keystone XL pipeline, but his decision is sparking concerns of a greater calamity down the tracks as the risks associated with transporting Canadian crude oil by rail start to pile up….

Former abortion workers who attended the March for Life in January shared horror stories from inside the abortion industry, including one of a born-alive baby being drowned in a toilet, as well as accounts of the mental health issues workers suffer as a result of partaking in abortion. Abortion is ‘just a business’ One woman, who said she began working at Planned Parenthood because she felt strongly that abortion was a woman’s right, eventually changed her mind and left the industry. “I realized that that wasn’t it. That abortion was just a business. That abortion was harming women and the...

What Is the Longhouse?Something has gone wrong in modern cultural and political life. Only those hopelessly numb, or deceived by the academic parlor tricks of someone like Steven Pinker, can observe the state of things and not see serious problems on the horizon. The Great and the Good have become the mediocre and the lame. The conditions necessary for civic and personal virtue have steadily eroded. Even if a cataclysm never comes, a civilization contenting itself to die on history’s hospice bed is crisis enough.In certain corners of the online right you encounter a term that is at first glance...

The gay men’s chorus that sparked outrage in 2021 for its allegedly “tongue-in-cheek” song about “coming for” conservatives’ children is teaming up with Disney to put on a March concert celebrating “love, LGBTQ+ pride, and family ties.” The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC) made the announcement in a January 30 statement, noting that the so-called “Disney PRIDE in Concert” will be held March 16-17 “in celebration of SFGMC’s 45th anniversary and the 100th anniversary of Disney.” The event will be produced with Disney Concerts, the Disney Music Group’s concert production and licensing arm. The Daily Wire pointed out that...

The president said the three objects shot down after the military's take-down of the Chinese spy balloon is most likely from private entities and not believed to be related to China or other surveillance operations. The intelligence committee is still assessing the three unknown aerial objects, President Biden said during a press briefing on Thursday. "I gave the order to take down these objects, and couldn't rule out the risk of surveillance," Biden said. *snip* The U.S. is in the process of recovering pieces of the Chinese balloon, officials said. But debris from the three other objects shot down over...

Noah Baumbach’s latest film, White Noise, arrived on Netflix at the end of December, without much fanfare. Despite a strong fall film festival run, it received mixed reviews from critics; it peaked at no. 4 on Netflix’s self-reported Global Top 10 list. But White Noise is coming back into the public eye in a big way after the recent toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, led to many pointing out similarities between real life and the film. The explosion, which is referred to in the movie as “The Airborne Toxic Event,” leads to lots of confusion, a lack of...

@paulsperry_ BREAKING: Democratic Sen. John Fetterman last night checked himself into Walter Reed Hospital for "clinic depression"

A spokesman for the first-term senator from Pennsylvania, who suffered a near-fatal stroke last year, said his depression had grown severe in recent weeks, as he has worked to adjust to life in the Senate.

Multiple choice for readers. Is Don Lemon:Intellectually challenged. A misogynist. A supine shill for Joe Biden. All of the above?The question arises after Lemon's pitiful performance on Thursday's CNN This Morning. Responding to Nikki Haley's call on Wednesday for candidates over 75 [looking at you, Biden and Trump!] to be tested for mental competency, Lemon made a pathetic attempt to turn the tables on Haley, saying: "She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn't in her prime—sorry. A woman is considered being in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe...

The cost of a dozen eggs has now surpassed the price of a pound of beef, marking the first time that’s happened since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping data in 1980. The average price of a dozen large Grade A eggs ran at $4.82 in January 2023, while a pound of ground beef was $4.64. In January 2022, eggs were $1.93, and beef was $4.77, but egg prices have soared by 70% in the last year alone. Farm Action, a farmer-led advocacy group, says the “real culprit” behind sky-high prices is a “collusive scheme” among top U.S....

Two academics at Stanford University secured the $250 million bond on behalf of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried ahead of his trial, court documents revealed on Wednesday. Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty last month to eight charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission through campaign finance violations. His cryptocurrency empire collapsed at the end of last year after users and investors learned that FTX had improperly commingled funds with sister trading company Alameda Research. Mark Cohen, a lawyer for Bankman-Fried who previously defended Jeffrey Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell,...

CNN's Don Lemon has apologized for saying presidential candidate Nikki Haley shouldn't promote competency tests for elderly politicians because she was 'past her prime' as a woman.

Crypto markets rose on Thursday, shrugging off a tougher regulatory stance from the U.S. government. Bitcoin gained 4.07% to $24,984.27 at around 11:56 a.m. ET while ether was up 3.84% at $1,723.04, according to Coin Metrics. There are ” increasing signs that the market bottomed last November and has turned bullish,” Vijay Ayyar, vice president of corporate development and international at crypto exchange Luno, told CNBC. Crypto markets were on edge earlier this week following increased regulatory scrutiny from U.S. authorities on digital currencies. On Monday, the New York State Department of Financial Services told Paxos to stop minting new...

ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia (LifeSiteNews) – A convicted male rapist who underwent transgender surgery to appear as a female has been moved to a female prison with mothers and children. Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson tweeted news about the move stating it was “utterly – even demonically – mad.” The prisoner, Adam Laboucan, brutally raped a three-month-old infant while a teenager and allegedly drowned a toddler. He was convicted and sentenced when he was 17 years old in 1999. He was only convicted for his sexual assault of an infant because the drowning would have occurred when he was under 12, and...

Updated February 16, 2023 at 1:04 PM ET The derailment of a train carrying hazardous materials near a town in Ohio earlier this month has prompted environmental concerns and chemical fears for residents — even as state officials work to reassure them. "From the very start of this, we have taken every step possible to assure that people's safety was first and foremost," Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, the director of the Ohio Department of Health, said at a Tuesday press conference. And as authorities work to assess the damage and investigate the derailment, more information has emerged this week about the...

ABC’s, CBS’s and NBC’s premature abandonment of coverage of the environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio may have been a gambit to protect the leftist pro-environment, social, governance (ESG) standard giants tied to the incident. A recent MRC study revealed that the Big Three broadcast network’s morning and evening news shows all but dropped coverage of the Ohio disaster once residents were permitted to return home Feb. 8. Between the incident’s genesis on Feb. 3 and the evacuation order for East Palestine being lifted on Feb. 8, all six shows fell just shy of spending a combined 30 minutes on...

Unvaccinated New York City teachers were reportedly “flagged” and their fingerprints sent to the FBI, according to an affidavit filed in federal court last week. In the New Yorkers for Religious Liberty Inc. v. The City of New York appeals hearing, challenging the now-rescinded vaccine mandate for city employees, plaintiff’s attorney John Burch said that “flagged” teachers were labeled with “problem codes” that impact their ability to get another job. The allegations were based on a June 2022 affidavit written by Betsy Combier, president of the due process advocacy group Advocatz, detailing how the New York City Department of Education...

The Catholic bishops of New Mexico implored Christians to pray for their state as satanic groups and pro-abortion lawmakers work to expand the killing of unborn babies in abortions. The Catholic news site Crux reports Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester, Las Cruces Bishop Peter Baldacchino, Gallup Bishop James Wall and other Catholic leaders issued the statement Tuesday in response to news that The Satanic Temple plans to open an abortion facility in their state. The satanic group believes aborting unborn babies is a religious “ritual” and compares it to communion or baptism for Christians. “The last thing we need in...

Priests for Life leader Frank Pavone shared news about another pro-life advocate being assaulted on a city sidewalk recently, the latest in growing reports of violence targeting the pro-life movement. On Monday, Pavone posted a short video on Twitter showing a man in a Ninja Turtle T-shirt being asked about his pro-abortion views. Pavone said the man later attacked the pro-life advocate who was filming him. The video begins with the pro-life advocate acknowledging that the man was willing to talk about his abortion views on camera. “How would you defend the pro-choice side? Why is it good to kill...

President Biden delivers remarks on the downing of unidentified aerial objects last weekend, as well as the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of North Carolina last week.