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Jordan Peterson’s interview with Jay Bhattacharya is one of the more insightful conversations to come out of the post-pandemic period. It’s fascinating to see Peterson coming to terms with the sheer scale of the lockdown during which time he was rather sick. We could have used his voice then and I have no doubt that he would have been fantastic. Fortunately for the whole world, we did have Jay. It’s not just his credentials or his position at Stanford University. It’s his erudition that gave him the reach to make sense of our times. In this interview, Jay explains the...

UPDATE4:41 PM PT -- L.A. County Deputy District Attorney, Michele Hanisee, tells TMZ McBride was MORE than aware the pups were stolen when she returned them in hopes of obtaining the reward, and had known the men involved in the shooting for years. What's more, Hanisee says she believes McBride and co. thought they could get her involved undetected because she was a white woman. She also points out McBride is still on probation, and if Gaga suffered any sort of financial loss, the people could seek financial restitution from McBride. ****************************************************************** In a truly stunning lawsuit, the woman charged...

BISMARCK, ND — According to sources, local man and news connoisseur Dave Rorsh has begun keeping track of the daily news by just looking up 2-year-old posts on obscure conspiracy theory blogs.

On November 4, 2022, Casey DeSantis tweeted out this ad suggesting God has picked her husband Ron DeSantis to be Florida's current and future Governor because he is "a fighter." Governor DeSantis is standing for re-election on November 8, 2022.

KEY POINTS: McDonald’s is expanding its test with Krispy Kreme to more than 150 restaurants in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky. Last October, nine McDonald’s restaurants started selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts to test how the menu experiment affected their operations. The burger chain has also been leaning into coffee — a common pairing with doughnuts — to encourage diners to visit more frequently. ============================================================ McDonald’s will sell Krispy Kreme doughnuts at more than 150 Kentucky locations starting next month, for a limited time. It’s an expansion of the fast-food giant’s initial test with the sweet treats. In October, nine McDonald’s restaurants...

The 2023 LIV Golf season debuted this week, as LIV Mexico is the first event in a 14-event schedule. While several new players have defected from the PGA Tour join LIV's ranks, including Mito Pereira, Danny Lee, Thomas Pieters and Brendan Steele, LIV is sticking with one familiar formula from last year: the total prize money.

The Jesus Revolution shocked movie elites in landing in the top three movie money makers this past weekend. This movie, which includes former Frasier star, Kelsey Grammer, way outperformed expectations on opening weekend. The Washington Examiner writes: The premiere of Jesus Revolution took the box office’s No. 3 spot this past weekend. Moviegoers defied film critics’ reviews of the newly released film, which is based on the real-life experience of hippies being invited into church by Southern California pastor Chuck Smith, who was played by Frasier star Kelsey Grammer. The film depicts the Christian movement in the late 1960s and...

Police in suburban Chicago said there were "no suspicious circumstances to report" about the Hammond, Indiana, native's death.Longtime minor league pitcher Matt Pobereyko, who had recently become a top hurler in Mexico, died suddenly near Chicago, officials and shocked loved ones said Monday. Pobereyko was 31. Pobereyko was in his apartment, in a west Chicagoland suburb when he collapsed Friday and was later discovered by his girlfriend, the pitcher's brother, Daniel Pobereyko, told NBC News on Monday. “He just dropped and that’s all we know,” the grieving brother said. “We don’t know. There’s nothing outstanding on the autopsy. But from...

A couple dudes want to cool the planet by releasing balloons filled with sulfur dioxide. They say they got ‘OKs to launch’ from officials; officials say otherwise. Controversial solar geoengineering startup Make Sunsets says it released three balloons carrying atmosphere-altering particles in Reno, Nevada, this month. It’s an escalation of the company’s questionable climate change-fighting tactics, which got it banned from launching balloons in Mexico in January. And while the company says it got the green light from the FAA and local authorities, officials say no such authorization was granted. The way Make Sunsets explains it, this kind of geoengineering...

Nearly 20% of Generation Z, or those ages 19 to 26, identify as something other than heterosexual, the latest Gallup Poll shows.The percentage of adults in the U.S. who identify as LGBTQ increased slightly year over year, to 7.2% last year, according to a Gallup Poll released Wednesday. While that’s just a slight increase from 7.1% in 2021, it’s more than double what it was a decade ago, when Gallup found just 3.5% of the U.S. population identified as something other than heterosexual in 2012. Advertisement Gallup asked more than 10,000 adults nationwide how they identify in telephone interviews last...

Woody Harrelson divided Saturday Night Live viewers over his monologue as the actor hosted the NBC sketch show for the fifth time. The True Detective alum took the stage and made remarks calling out mandates over the Covid vaccine. “The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over,” Harrelson said about an alleged film script he read....

Former Alabama star QB AJ McCarron is now a player in the rebooted XFL spring league. McCarron says he passed on being a backup in the NFL so sons could watch him play. Dwayne Johnson praised the move saying it meant a lot "personally." AJ McCarron is now throwing footballs in the rebooted XFL spring league, and while some might look at it as a step backward, the quarterback sees it as a huge opportunity for him and his sons on a personal level. This weekend, the former Alabama Crimson Tide star led the St. Louis Battlehawks to the second-straight...

Donald Trump is the Santa Claus of politics.Ol’ St. Don glided down the glass escalator in Trump Tower seven years ago, much the way Ol’ St. Nick slides down a chimney. Weary from world travels and splotched with soot from so many fireplaces, he brought cheer and joy with his rosy cheeks and buoyant nature.Dressed in bold colors like a Christmas ornament and carrying a sack of hidden presents on his back, how could anyone not love him? Especially a child!Because the satchel is closed with presents just barely peeking out, children dream. They imagine anything and everything might be...

MK Tzvika Fogel to Sharon Gal: "The act that the residents of Judea and Samaria did yesterday in Hawara is the strongest deterrent effect that the State of Israel has had since the Magen Wall. After a murder like yesterday's, we need burning villages when the IDF does not operate" He also added: "I want to restore security to the residents of the State of Israel. How do we do that? We stop with the word 'proportionality'. We stop with the reluctance to collective punishment because it is not suitable for all kinds of courts. I am taking off my...

The public prosecutor's office and the criminal police have apparently searched premises of the Archdiocese of Munich as part of investigations into the church abuse scandal. As reported by the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", the action took place on 16 February at the Ordinariate and the Archbishop's Palace. In the process, the investigators are said to have looked into the rumour that there could be a "poison cabinet" in the Archdiocese with sensitive files on abuse cases.

Newly released photos offer a rare glimpse into the abandoned demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, revealing rare wildlife and plant life flourishing in the space largely untouched by humans. Endangered animals and unique flora are thriving in the 160-mile-long strip of border land that has been largely deserted by humans for decades. A total of 6,168 wildlife species have created a home in the DMZ area, where landmines buried underground are a reminder of the Korean War that ended in armistice some 70 years ago.

They have their final meeting coming soon, so it will be soon be revealed their final view on the priesthood. I fear the worst. From 2021 The controversial "Synodal Path" now addresses the question of whether the Catholic Church needs priests at all. This was decided by the Synodal Assembly by vote yesterday (Thursday). It was also suggested to discuss an LGBT sacrament.

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WJW) – There was a unique deer sighting in North Olmsted over the weekend. FOX 8 viewer Nathan Lang shared pictures of a Piebald deer crossing State Route 252 on Sunday evening. Lang says he slowed down after spotting the deer and turned on his hazard lights to slow other traffic as well. The deer crossed the road safely. According to WorldDeer.org, Piebald Deer are rarely seen. They have a genetic mutation that can result in patches of white, instead of brown, hair.

Just when you thought Scarborough might have hit rock bottom in his pro-Biden toadying . . . Scarborough and Psaki tried to blame the Trump administration for the train derailment and toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio. Psaki was first up: We're here because of all the deregulation of the train industry during the Trump administration.Regulation that would make it safer, that would make trains safer. And make this type of accident we saw last week, prevent this type of accident.Scarborough piled on: Let's underline the fact, and just say it very slowly so our friends in, in Trump's orbit...

Vladimir Putin will die whilst serving his country and the world can expect an assassination, one war expert believes. The Kremlin tyrant could be left with 'bullets in his back’ while he is still in office, they predict. Putin’s car was “attacked” in what may have been an attempt on his life amid the Ukraine war, it was claimed in September and in 2012, it was suggested that he had survived five very near misses. Over the years, the Russian President's health has attracted a great deal of speculation, including claims that he has Parkinson’s and travels around with a...