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Democrat residents are fleeing two of the nation’s largest counties — Cook County, home to Chicago, Illinois, and L.A. County, home to Los Angeles, California — in record numbers. Last year, those locals led the nation in population shrinkage.Of the two, Los Angeles County led the nation by losing the most citizens to outbound migration by losing a whopping 90,704 citizens, according to U.S. Census Bureau records.Right behind LA was Cook County, the home of the Windy City, which lost 68,314 people from July 2021 to July of last year.Despite the loss, the two counties were still the most populous...

* Modified human embryonic stem cells showed supernatural resistance against radiation, according to paper by Academy of Military Sciences team in Beijing * Shanghai-based scientist says study may open a can of worms, particularly when funding is involved A team of military medical scientists in China says it has inserted a gene from the microscopic water bear into human embryonic stem cells and significantly increased these cells’ resistance to radiation. They said success in this unprecedented experiment could lead to super-tough soldiers who could survive nuclear fallout. The project was first unveiled in the Chinese-language journal, Military Medical Sciences, and...

CNN’s Daniel Dale fact checks right wing theories that billionaire philanthropist George Soros was involved in bankrolling the election of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is pursuing the case against former President Donald Trump

The “energy transition” continues to receive thunderous applause from all the usual Beltway suspects, an exercise in groupthink fantasy amazing to behold. For those with actual lives to live and thus uninterested in silliness: The “energy transition” is a massive shift, wholly artificial and politicized, from conventional energy inexpensive (Table 1b and here), reliable, and very clean given the proper policy environment, toward such unconventional energy technologies as wind and solar power. They are expensive, unreliable, and deeply problematic environmentally in terms of toxic metal pollution, wildlife destruction, land use massive and unsightly, emissions of conventional pollutants, and in a...

The indictment provoked as much condemnation from Republican lawmakers as it did Trump’s rivals, for good reason.Democrats got one step closer this week to accomplishing the top item on their seven-year policy agenda: the criminal conviction of former President Donald Trump.On Thursday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg handed down a breathtaking indictment of 30-plus reported counts against the ex-New York businessman. It’s the first time charges have ever been levied against a former president. The New York Times broke the story on Thursday, citing “four people with knowledge of the matter,” that Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury...

I spent a year in Twitter purgatory for saying Rachel Levin is a man. And then one day, my account came back.A year ago, I was locked out of my Twitter account. On Friday morning, with no explanation, my account was unlocked. For a journalist, losing access to Twitter and to one’s followers is no small thing. I don’t have a huge following, but Twitter is an important platform in my industry, and losing my access to it limited my ability to do my job effectively.I was locked out for saying that Rachel Levine, a high-ranking official in the Biden...

It’s getting difficult to conclude anything but that the West is being run by a pedophilic grooming clique.Yes, it sounds insane. It IS insane. But how else can you explain this?This is utterly disgusting. Camps indoctrinating kids as young as 7 with gender ideology and sexual confusion are now being promoted and subsidized by all government levels.https://t.co/Krk8D84QQL pic.twitter.com/JBsnD8tKHx— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) March 31, 2023Each of those sponsors is a government or government agency, whose job is supposed to include the protection of children.Instead of doing that they are sponsoring a summer camp for children as young as 7-year-olds that exists...

Last month I wrote about a black professor’s experience teaching a seminar for a group of high school kids about race and the law. Professor Vincent Lloyd had taught a seminar like this before for the Telluride Association and it had been a good experience. But the second time around he found himself “trapped in anti-racist hell” thanks to “Keisha,” the person assigned to be his teaching assistant. Keisha quickly radicalized his students and turned them against one another (two students were voted out by the others) and against him. “The students had all of the dogma of anti-racism, but...

Dang if I hate to admit McCarthy’s growing on me, even just a little, but…ach. Okay. He is. The latest thing he’s done right is keep his cool and work his tail off getting the various factions of his majority talking together. There’s a radical idea in itself for a speaker. But it seems to have paid off in the case of debt ceiling negotiations, and it just might really put the Democrats in a pickle.Especially since Biden is betting on the GOP having no strategy at all – being riven by the boisterous voices within it. God willing, he...

When you’re a far-leftist district attorney prosecuting the man the left hates the most, and you have lost the Washington Post, you might want to rethink your position. This is the situation in which New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg finds himself as he continues functioning as the head of the progressive spear to be used to kill former President Donald Trump’s chances of occupying the White House once again.The Post’s editorial board published an op-ed titled “The Trump indictment is a poor test case for prosecuting a former president,” in which the authors cast doubt on the chances that...

A majority of Americans now believe that the cost of a college degree is not justified, marking a shocking decline in support towards a traditional aspect of the American dream.According to a recent poll by the Wall Street Journal and NORC, a nonpartisan research organization at the University of Chicago, 56 percent of Americans consider pursuing a four-year college degree to be a risky investment, while 42 percent still believe in the value of such a qualification.Skepticism is highest among those aged 18 to 13, while those with college degrees have similarly experienced a significant decline in their confidence, indicating...

On Friday, California kindergarteners were set to learn about themselves. Potentially part of that enlightenment: They possess a gender identity in opposition to their sex.A March 24th “Principal’s Weekly Update” for San Francisco-area Burton Valley Elementary announced festivities for a day of observance and education:Next week you will notice a new flag on our flag pole, as we fly the Transgender Flag across all of the schools in [Lafayette School District (LafSD)] in accordance with [School Board Resolution 11-2223] to honor International Day of Visibility.Additionally, the public K-5 school would learn via literature:We will also be reading a story as...

The battle between Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may not be over yet. The new board handpicked by the Republican governor to oversee Disney’s special taxing district said Wednesday it is considering legal action over a multi-decade agreement reached between the entertainment giant and the outgoing board in the days before the state’s hostile takeover last month. Under the agreement – quietly approved on February 8 as Florida lawmakers met in special session to hand DeSantis control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District – Disney would maintain control over much of its vast footprint in Central Florida for 30...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg confirmed he used federal funds in his investigation into Trump’s so-called ‘hush payment’ to porn star Stormy Daniels.House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil last week launched an investigation into DA Alvin Bragg, accusing him of abusing his power.Last Monday the three House GOP lawmakers sent Bragg a letter demanding testimony and documents related to his investigation into the ‘hush payment’ after Trump said his arrest was imminent. Bragg fired off a nasty reply letter earlier this week – and the House Republicans...

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has been discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he was being treated for depression, his office announced Friday. He will return to the Senate when it returns from recess on April 17, his office said in a news release, confirming CNN’s earlier reporting. “I am so happy to be home,” the freshman Democrat said in a statement. “I’m excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves. Pennsylvanians have always had my back, and I will always have theirs.” Fetterman checked himself in last month “to...

In a move even more disgusting than her botox-filled face, Madonna is heading to Nashville, NOT to fundraise for the families of victims of the Covenant School shooting, but for "trans rights" groups. "With anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passing in Tennessee and other states, longtime social activist Madonna announced an additional stop on her The Celebration Tour in Nashville on December 22nd. A portion of proceeds from the show will go to trans rights organizations.

The Washington Post editorial board is very worried about the indictment of Donald Trump by New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Their concern isn't that a rather lame indictment would be an injustice. No. Their real cause of concern is that the grounds for the first ever indictment of a former American president is so weak that it could end up helping Trump.You can see their grave concern which was presented just about an hour after the announcement of the indictment on Thursday in the title of their editorial, "The Trump indictment is a poor test case for prosecuting a...

After three years of the COVID-19 emergency in place in the most populous county in the country, Los Angeles ended its emergency declaration March 31. The county first declared a local emergency on March 4, 2020, which brought a wave of restrictions and closures of businesses in the weeks that followed as rigorous shelter-in-place orders were implemented to mitigate the spread of the virus. The county Department of Public Health will still be offering COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments for free, according to its website. The requirement for indoor masking in public spaces ended a year ago and the recommendation...

Tearing their meniscus—a crescent-shaped piece of a soft cushion of cartilage located between the femur and tibia—can be devastating for young athletes. It is easily damaged in people with congenital lateral discoid meniscus or those that are physically active and once damaged, the meniscus cannot repair itself. The most common method has been to remove the damaged portion of the meniscus, but in recent years meniscus-sparing surgeries, that suture the margins of the meniscus at the tear, have begun to spread. Researchers conducted a 5-year study of cartilage degeneration, following up on 41 young patients (initially aged 15 or younger),...

In the Netherlands it's being called a 'pause' in nitrogen policy with some calling it 'total chaos'... Democrat US Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania discharged with Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC after treatment for depression... A tornado has struck Little Rock, Arkansas causing widespread damage. Dozens of injuries are reported... Andrew Tate and his brother released to house arrest in Romania... A spokesman for the Russia military in Syria says that US forces have... In Israel the talks on judicial reform agreed to by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and brokered by Israel's President Isaac Herzog said to be 'dead...