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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said federal efforts to encourage replacing car lanes with bike lanes is “the height of stupidity,” as well as joining other GOP lawmakers in expressing skepticism over proposals to incentivize e-bike purchases. “I’m not going to spend money on buying e-bikes for people like me who have bought them — they’re expensive,” Romney told Insider in an interview. “Removing automobile lanes to put in bike lanes is, in my opinion, the height of stupidity, it means more cars backing up, creating more emissions.” Romney’s comment comes after Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) introduced...

Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon because he wanted to heal the nation. #Democrats aren't interested in healing the nation or unifying it, but in destroying their political opponents so they can achieve absolute power, the only thing they actually care about. #TheLeftHatesYou

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted Fox News for having former Attorney General Bill Barr on air. Trump’s message on Truth Social to his followers, written in all capital letters, said: WHY DOES FOX KEEP PUTTING ON BILL BARR. AS ATTORNEY GENERAL HE WAS A COMPLETE COWARD WHO WAS ABSOLUTELY PETRIFIED OF BEING IMPEACHED, WHICH THE DEMOCRATS THREATENED TO DO UNTIL HE BECAME THEIR VIRTUAL “SLAVE” AND REFUSED TO INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE THE MASSIVE ELECTION FRAUD THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, BY FAR THE RADICAL LEFT’S GREATEST CONCERN. HE SAID HE DID INVESTIGATE, BUT HE DIDN’T...

Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that “normal people” who are “traditional Republicans” will never vote for former President Donald Trump after his indictment. Mitchell asked, “You were a governor, congressman, you know this whole landscape. How long is this going to last? What if there’s indictment on indictment? Does he build on the victimization? Does it help him with primary voters?” Kasich said, “I think in this case, there are a lot of Republicans that say, is this really a legitimate and fair charge? Frankly, no one is above the law, but it...

Chris Hemsworth has said that he’s slowing down — but not retiring — after learning that he’s at very high risk of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease later in life. SNIP Hemsworth, 39, discovered he’s at high risk for the disease while filming his National Geographic and Disney+ docuseries, “Limitless.” He recently told the glossy about “the intensity [of] navigating” the test results last November, and emphasized it’s not a diagnosis — just a sign that the neurodegenerative disease is more likely to be in his future than it is for most people.

The Appellate Court of Maryland just upheld the lower court's finding, and related protective order.From C.M. v. J.M., decided Friday by the Appellate Court of Maryland, in an opinion by Justice Alexander Wright, Jr.: The Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County entered a final protective order against C.M. ("Father") on grounds that he was mentally abusive to his 12-year-old son ("N.") regarding his son's sexual orientation…. Father and J.M. ("Mother") were married for about five years and had two children before divorcing in 2012. As part of the divorce settlement, the parties agreed to joint legal custody of their...

While police and the FBI have still refused to release the manifesto of the Covenant killer, the transgender person who killed 6 people at a Christian school in Nashville, the police have indicated that they have found new evidence that the shooting was planned for an extended period of time.According to the police, they have found journals that show that the killer had been plotting her deed for months.Metropolitan Nashville Police have found journals in the killer's car and in her room at her parents' house that show that the mass murder event was planned months in advance. This is...

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The cause of death of legendary sex symbol Raquel Welch has been revealed. Welch, born Jo-Raquel Tejada in Chicago on September 5, 1940, died on February 15 of cardiac arrest after battling Alzheimer’s disease, her death certificate attests, according to TMZ. Her battle with Alzheimer’s had not been revealed at the time of her death. Welch told then-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly in 2014 that she “was more on the conservative side,” adding, “I think it was my upbringing, to tell you the truth, Midwestern values. I just was raised in a certain way, ladies behave a certain way, your...

Only MTG bothered to show up in NY during the Trump indictment. Where is everyone? Where is the unity? Where is the backing of Trump by the very people we voted for? Where are the statements condemning this as a party on this day? They want us to ‘come out’ and support them but I don’t see them supporting us. A historic day - no republican politicians (except MTG) anywhere……what more do you need to know about the democrat self serving cowards we voted for?

Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces critical new security assistance for Ukraine. This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance with more ammunition for U.S.-provided HIMARS, air defense interceptors, and artillery rounds that Ukraine is using to defend itself, as well as anti-armor systems, small arms, heavy equipment transport vehicles, and maintenance support essential to strengthening Ukraine's defenders on the battlefield valued at up to $500 million. In addition, we are announcing a significant package of air defense capabilities, as well as artillery and tank ammunition, mortar systems, rockets, and anti-armor systems using $2.1 billion in...

As Republicans in Congress continue to reveal the incompetence and political bias of liberals on Washington’s payroll, President Joe Biden seeks to make it easier to fire conservatives among the federal workforce. In The Washington Times on Monday, conservative activist Adrian Norman noted that Biden’s Office of Personnel Management has proposed a hiring regulation that, if adopted, “will effectively authorize the government to purge individuals based on their political or religious beliefs.”

An inexpensive, environmentally friendly technique for lithium recycling could help ensure we have enough of the valuable metal to power the clean energy future — if it works as well in the real world as it does in the lab. The challenge: Transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs) is a key part of combating climate change, and because lithium-ion batteries can store a lot of energy for their size, they’re our best option (so far) for powering them. The lithium needed to create those batteries is a finite resource, though, and mining it is environmentally destructive. Demand for lithium extends beyond...

On the feared date of 3 April, no new Roman document with further restrictions on the traditional liturgy has appeared. However, according to our source in Rome, this in no way means that no corresponding regulations will be issued. Perhaps Francis' hospitalisation upset the original timetable, perhaps there were last-minute changes - but the document, already rumoured since January, is now apparently ready and its publication can be expected in a few days, weeks at best.

Images captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant showed exposed steel bars in the main supporting structure and parts of its thick external concrete wall missing, triggering concerns about its earthquake resistance in case of another major disaster. An underwater remotely operated vehicle named ROV-A2 was sent inside the Unit 1 pedestal, a supporting structure right under the core. It came back with images seen for the first time since an earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant 12 years ago. The area inside the pedestal is where traces...

Reuters interviewed 35 Republicans following Thursday's indictment of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office. Of the 20 who said they were supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, 14 said that they were thinking of transitioning from supporting DeSantis as their preferred 2024 candidate to back to Trump.According to Reuters, one man, 75-year-old Larry White of Nevada said, "Now I am absolutely voting for Trump. The indictment was the last straw for me, because Trump has suffered so much political abuse. I think he's the strongest candidate to contest what the left is doing. I'm all in."White,...

Former Director of National Intelligence and U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell called on Republican presidential candidates to drop out of the race and endorse former President Donald Trump following the grand jury indictment of the 45th president Thursday night.Grenell joined Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax soon after the news and called on former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to withdraw from the race and other Republicans to abstain from entering. Addressing any viewer “who has been maybe a DeSantis supporter or a Nikki Haley supporter or a Vivek supporter,” Grenell said:Look, I think that it’s really...

Lest We Forget President Trump's 2020 State Of The Union address with words mostly from and partly for that speech's vision. Let that faces speak and this presidency live on.

In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he does not abide by the Secure Fence Act's definition of operational control of the border "because preventing all unlawful entries to the United States is not the policy of the Biden Administration." He also dodged the issue of whether the drug cartels that do have operational control of the border should be designated as foreign terrorist organizations, saying "it's not up to me to make that judgment." The Secretary went on to boast that "we have increased the number of Border Patrol agents for the...

US Treasury Secretary is the God of Hellfire! Thanks to Yellen’s catestrophic Too-Low-For-Too-Long (TLFTL) and insane Federal spending, we are seeing the aftermath of The Fed trying to fight inflation. A fire sale of failed bank assets!! With interest rates still rising, prices retreating and credit evaporating—and a stressed-out banking system moving to shore up balance sheets—expect more fire sales of older CMBS loans and an acceleration of plunging CRE values in markets across the US. Last month, a fire sale of CMBS loans was lit as $72B in assets from the failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) were sold. The...