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Perhaps Lauren Sforza of The Hill might consider obtaining a more comprehensive thesaurus. For years, the media overused the word "pounce" as in "Republicans pounced" when portraying the GOP as taking implied unfair advantage of a situation to the detriment of the Democrats. In fact, "pounce" had been hyped so often that it eventually became a laughable cliché which eventually became embarrassing to use especially due to outlets such as NewsBusters pointing out the absurd frequency of the term in the liberal media.As a result, synonyms were found to replace "pounce" of which "seize" and "jump" were among the favorites....

A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for crashing a stolen SUV into a car and killing its driver as he sped through a stop sign in Eastside Tacoma in September. Tyler Townsend was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty Jan. 27 to vehicular homicide, failure to remain at an accident resulting in death and two counts related to motor vehicle theft, Pierce County court records show. Townsend, who has a lengthy criminal record, had been out of prison for less than a year when he stole a 2022 Kia Sportage in Puyallup and, a day later,...

Energy journalist Robert Bryce blasted the liberal media for bypassing the nefarious agenda of the “anti-industry” movement in a new report detailing the billions that go towards crushing American capitalism and success. Bryce unveiled in a Feb. 18 blog how “the revenue for the top 25 NGOs in the anti-industry industry was more than four times the amount collected by NGOs that support the traditional energy sector” in 2021 alone. “Those 25 anti-hydrocarbon/anti-nuclear NGOs had total revenue of about $4.5 billion which they used to fund campaigns on climate change,” prohibiting natural gas use and opposing nuclear energy, Bryce noted....

A counseling program for federal wildlife service employees supposedly suffering from “eco-grief” isn’t just a sham, it’s part of a wider campaign of “wokeism” bent on destroying the energy economy, Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Harriet Hageman claimed early Tuesday. During a speech in the U.S. House chamber, she called the counseling program available to some U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employees “another instance of the insanity of wokeism.” She said it’s being foisted by “an elitist cabal of eco-warriors who are paid to destroy the very standard of living that allows them to focus on made-up crises, rather than focus...

A homeless man in St. Louis, Missouri was shot in cold blood on Monday morning after an altercation between him and his assailant, the man has been identified as 23-year-old Deshawn Thomas and was arrested on Tuesday morning. Horrifying videos taken by onlookers who did not attempt to intervene show the homeless man being shot ‘execution style’ as his murderer takes roughly 30 seconds to load his firearm before killing the man. Social media users were quick to criticize people who filmed the incident for not even verbally attempting to intervene as the assailant took a long time to load...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A federal appeals court has ruled against backers of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, which would have become the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had it been ratified before a Congressionally-mandated deadline ran out in the 1970s. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall hailed Tuesday’s ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit as “a significant victory for the rule of law” after Alabama and four other states sued to prevent the U.S. Archivist from certifying the ERA as a constitutional amendment. Tuesday’s ruling is decades in the making. Congress submitted the proposed...

When she ran for the presidency in 2020, Kamala Harris was viewed by many party insiders as the next Barack Obama. Young, fresh, and belonging to a popular demographic set, the San Francisco prosecutor-turned-senators’ rise to the top of the Democratic Party’s pile of presidential candidates appeared unstoppable…that is, until the actual voting began. Facing a crowded field, Kamala Harris failed to break through—despite having received support from powerful figures within the Democratic Party’s establishment, notably the former President Barack Obama and his wife, the former first lady, Michelle Obama. A Campaign of Errors for Kamala Harris In fact, Harris...

Former President Donald Trump leads Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in a hypothetical head-to-head Republican primary match-up after a 12-point swing his way in only three weeks, according to a poll.The Yahoo/YouGov poll released Tuesday shows 47 percent of Republicans would vote for Trump in the head-to-head primary with DeSantis. The Florida governor sits eight points behind with 39 percent of support and 13 percent undecided.In a YouGov poll conducted between February 2-6, DeSantis led Trump at 45 percent to 41 percent, respectively. The change marks a net 12-point swing to Trump in 21 days, as the current survey is from...

“Hey, it wasn’t our fault! It was you!” “That’s what you guys always say. You just want us to pay the damages.” And around and around it goes. Even assuming the Ohio train disaster was a terrorist attack, lurking in the background is the day-in day-out transport of highly dangerous chemicals by rail crisscrossing the country. Who is responsible for THAT? Here’s an excerpt of a vital article from Doomberg: For its part, the freight rail companies are forced by the federal government to transport dangerous materials regardless of the peril such cargoes represent. In particular, they [the railroads] lament...

Eli Lilly is slashing the prices of its most-prescribed insulins amid pressure from consumers and the Biden administration. Driving the news: After years of price hikes on insulin, Lilly on Wednesday said people with diabetes would see 70% reductions on its most common versions. The prices of Humalog, the company's top insulin product, and Humulin will fall 70% in the fourth quarter, according to the company. The price of generic insulin lispro, which is the same product as Humalog, will drop to $25 a vial on May 1, which Lilly says is less than Humalog cost in 1999. Humalog and...

The Tabby's Star mystery just got 15 times bigger! A recent attempt to find similar phenomena turned up 15 new candidates. But it isn't the number of candidates that is so spooky. The location of these candidates, together with other bizarre data, suggests that there may be an interstellar civilization lurking nearby.

President Donald Trump is the unmistakable favorite for the 2024 Republican primary nomination among GOP voters, and there isn’t even a close second. A new poll from Emerson College found that among GOP primary voters, Trump netted 55 percent of support, while potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., scored 25 percent of support.DeSantis, who has been touted by some to be the “heir apparent” to Trump, has lost considerable traction in the polls over the last two months, ahead of what is speculated to be an upcoming announcement of his possible 2024 presidential candidacy.2024 National Republican Primary•...

KYIV, Ukraine -- The Ukrainian military might pull troops back from the key stronghold of Bakhmut, an adviser to Ukraine's president said Wednesday in remarks that suggested Russia could capture the city that has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance.

Supermarkets are limiting purchases of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and lettuce, as supply shortages lead to empty shelves. British farmers are struggling with higher energy costs, reducing their ability to grow certain fruits and vegetables under heat. Adverse weather in Northern Africa and Southern Europe has further led to a supply squeeze. Britain’s biggest supermarkets are limiting purchases of certain fruit and vegetables as supply shortages lead to empty shelves. Britain’s biggest supermarket chain, Tesco , has limited purchases of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers to three items per customer. It said the move was due to poor weather conditions overseas and...

The Washington Post and CNBC tried to wokescold Twitter owner Elon Musk for advancing the Wuhan COVID-19 lab leak theory. The outlets attempted to achieve this by pushing … Communist Chinese state propaganda. The Post, owned by liberal billionaire Jeff Bezos, published a Feb. 28 story with a nutty headline that set the tone for the ludicrous argument: “Chinese state media calls out Elon Musk over coronavirus tweet.” The Post referred to Musk’s response to a tweet alleging that former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci funded gain-of-function virus research in Wuhan. “He did it via...

President Trump took a shot at Fox News on Tuesday, questioning Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch’s motives in “throwing his anchors under the table” as the network dukes it out in a high-dollar defamation lawsuit.Trump’s comments were shared to Truth Social, where he commented on the lawsuit and slammed the network for looking “weak and ineffective.”Trump reiterated the goal of the America First movement on the heels of his comments about Fox News“Why is Rupert Murdoch throwing his anchors under the table, which also happens to be killing his case and infuriating his viewers, who will again be leaving in droves...

Pheochromocytoma is a rare tumor, with an incidence of three to eight cases per million population per year. The work is the largest study on this cancers' molecular causes and focuses on patients with metastatic pheochromocytomas, which account for 20% of all cases. Survival of patients with metastatic pheochromocytoma is 20–60% at five years. Bruna Calsina explains, "The number of patients with metastatic disease that our study gathers corresponds to a population of 100 million people." Such a large sample was necessary to achieve what they and their research colleagues have achieved with their work: to identify, at the time...

Data from the Illinois State Board of Education documents a dysfunctional public school system. There are 53 schools where not a single student is able to do math at the level expected for his or her grade. There are 622 schools where only one tenth of the students can read at grade level. There are 930 schools where only a tenth of the students can do math at grade level. Many of these schools' performances are rated "commendable" by the State Board of Education. Ninety-seven percent of the state's public school teachers are rated as "excellent" or "proficient." However, fewer...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) lost her bid for reelection on Tuesday night, becoming the first Chicago mayor to lose a bid for reelection in four decades. While she preemptively blamed her political demise, in part, on racism and sexism, she has had many unflattering moments that have led to her election loss. With Lightfoot out of the running, Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas (D) and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson (D) are headed for an April 4th runoff election. However, Lightfoot couched her loss before it happened, telling the New Yorker in a piece published over the weekend...

President Donald Trump holds gargantuan leads over his Republican rivals in a new poll, beating Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) by 30 points in a full field, and crushing former South Carolina Governor and Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley by 61 points in another matchup. It was not long ago that many analysts were writing political obituaries for Trump in the wake of a chaotic Speaker of the House election and post-midterm soul-searching. Since then, DeSantis has soft-launched his presidential campaign and Haley officially launched hers. But those developments have not only failed to make a dent in Trump, recent...