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* The Tyrannosaurus might have had lips, a new study suggests * Researchers compared skulls and studied teeth for the study * Some scientists aren't convinced about this theory FILE – Stan, one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil discovered, is on display, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, at Christie’s in New York. The teeth on T. rex and other big theropods were likely covered by scaly lips, concludes a study published Thursday, March 30, 2023, in the journal Science. The dinosaur’s teeth didn’t stick out when its mouth was closed, and even in a wide open bite,...

VIDEO AT LINK.................. * Police are investigating Kohberger for potential involvement in homicides * Kohberger stands accused of killing four Idaho college students * An ex-FBI agent says the Idaho killings are a "signature-type crime" (NewsNation) — Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating Bryan Kohberger for his potential involvement in other outstanding homicides, NewsNation has exclusively learned. Kohberger already stands accused of killing four University of Idaho students last November and is awaiting trial. A status hearing is set for late June. Police arrested Kohberger in Pennsylvania at his parents’ home roughly six weeks after the fatal stabbings. Court documents have...

Last week, Fox News aired a segment discussing the possibility that the US dollar will cease to be the global reserve currency and what that would mean for Americans. The tone of the piece suggested that a “catastrophic” decline of the US dollar was not only possible, but perhaps even imminent. CNN last week also aired its own segment suggesting the US will face “a reckoning like none before” if the “dollar’s dominance” in the global economy falls significantly. Much of the analysis was framed to stoke the public’s fears of Chinese geopolitical power, and the Fox segment was especially...

The Challenger, Gray and Christmas job cuts report is out for March and it revealed a year-over-year (YoY) increase in US job cuts of 319%. That is the largest increase in job cuts for a non-recession month. In other words, this feels like a recession. Where were the job cuts in March? Technology got blasted followed by financial. Can we get someone to get Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to lose HER job? Silly me, of course not!

An independent photojournalist named Oren Levy was violently assaulted by a deranged CBS News crew member while covering the Trump arraignment in New York City on Tuesday.The Post Millennial was the first outlet to cover the incident. (snip)Not shockingly, the CBS reporter with the black crew member who assaulted Levy lied about assailant’s name.

Did anyone catch Jason Whitlock on Tucker Carlson last night? He was the last guest of the evening. He was talking about a peaceful nation divorce (a la MTG) and about how it will be impossible to coexist with the lefttards when out of the blue Fox just cut into his segment mid sentence and started showing a vitamin commercial. They then showed an inordinate number of commercials, possibly to "run out the clock" and when they final got back to Tucker all he had was 5-10 seconds to sat goodnight and turn things over to Hannity. I am not...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 14 Peter Disowns Jesus66 While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came by. 67 When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked closely at him.“You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus,” she said.68 But he denied it. “I don’t know or understand what you’re talking about,” he said, and went out into the entryway.[g]69 When the servant girl saw him there, she said again to those standing around, “This fellow is one of them.” 70 Again he denied it.After a little while, those standing near...

We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support. The American people want affordable power and fuel and energy autonomy. They do not want a Green New Deal that results in dependence on the Middle East. They want fiscal sobriety, not a permanent stagflationary economy marked by bank failures, soaring interest rates, crony capitalism,...

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted" (Matt. 5:4). When your sins are forgiven, you are a happy person! Human sorrow is mourning over some tragic or disappointing turn of events. At such times believers are assured of God's sustaining and comforting grace (2 Cor. 1:3-4). But when Jesus said, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted" (Matt. 5:4), He was referring to godly sorrow, which is mourning over your sin. "Mourn" in Matthew 5:4 translates the strongest Greek word used in the New Testament to express grief. It is often used of the...

From crops to corals, a book circulated by a controversial US think tank is riddled with misleading claims about established climate science, in what campaigners slam as a bid to "infect" young minds. The free-market Heartland Institute drew outrage from campaigners and educators, but applause from climate skeptics, when it sent the book to more than 8,000 American school teachers this year "to present facts" it said were ignored or distorted by pundits and the media. "Climate at a Glance for Teachers and Students," factchecked by AFP, follows another mass book-mailing in 2017, and reflects a push to sow skepticism...

Multiple top officials within Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry's office engaged in a discussion about keeping certain budgetary items "off paper," according to recently-released documents. During a March 2022 email exchange — involving Deputy Climate Envoys Sue Biniaz and Rick Duke, former SPEC senior director for climate finance Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, senior adviser Jesse Young and nine other SPEC officials whose names were redacted — aides discussed how they would brief Kerry on the office's proposed budget for fiscal year 2023. The emails, obtained via records request by watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) and shared with...

In recent weeks, both houses of New York’s legislature have approved a historic plan to start a publicly funded renewable energy program, the state’s best hope for meeting its own emissions reductions goals. ... New York’s Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA) could potentially be the boldest challenge yet to the fossil fuel industry. That’s because of the principle it establishes: that the state should be empowered to provide clean energy if the private sector fails to. The bill is therefore seen by proponents and detractors alike as a possible foundation for socializing and centralizing control of all energy in order...

Just about every day now that I wake up, fire up the computer and begin reading, I am left in a state of mild depression after wading through the litany of bad news, disaster, corporate and political malfeasance which features on blogs, aggregator blogs and the established news sites. Public schools appear to be open hunting grounds for pervs and freaks, places where the intellectual development of children, tweens and teens must be cut down to the lowest common denominator, so that the lazy and disinterested must not be made to feel discomforted over being lazy and disinterested. The volunteer...

On March 29, 2023, the North Carolina legislature voted to override the veto of Democrat North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. In the Senate, as expected, the vote was 30 to 19, with 30 Republicans voting to override the veto of the Jim Crow era pistol permit law, 19 Democrats voting against the bill, and one Democrat not voting with an excused absence.In the House, there are 71 Republicans and 49 Democrats. 3/5 of the vote is required to override a veto. If all members voted, 72 votes would be required. In this case, three Democrats were excused from voting, so...

Donald Trump was a much better president than I thought he’d be, though the bar wasn’t particularly high in that regard. Now, though, he’s been indicted and will face trial for charges that, frankly, no one seems to be able to make much sense of. It’s troubling, to say the least, particularly because the DA pressing this forward is part of the current president’s party and someone with an interest in stopping a leading challenger come 2024. For many, though, this is just justice. “No one is above the law,” they argue, and I agree that no one should be....

The Report of the Senate Committee on the "Conduct of the War" is a document of 64 closely printed octavo pages and would fill, if printed in full, not far from 20 columns of the TIMES. It opens by rehearsing the circumstances which led to the appointment of the Committee and by stating the leading motive which has guided their inquiries. They state that if the Army of the Potomac had fulfilled the expectations which were warranted by its numbers, its discipline, its courage and its appointments, the rebellion would long since have been closed. Their main object in their...

LONDON (Reuters) - Up to $520 billion in debt needs to be written off to help developing nations at greatest risk of default return to a sounder fiscal footing and meet climate and development goals, according to a Boston University report released on Thursday. The haircuts on debt owed to public and private creditors by 61 of the nations that are already in or are at most risk of debt distress are essential to avoid "cascading defaults," according to calculations from the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and the Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery (DRGR) Project....

The head of Russia's private Wagner militia said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces were not leaving the city of Bakhmut and fighting was continuing in the western part of the city. "It must be said clearly that the enemy is not going anywhere," Yevgeny Prigozhin said on his Telegram channel. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had on Wednesday raised the prospect of a possible withdrawal from the city, saying Kyiv would take the "corresponding" decisions if its forces in the city risked being encircled by Russian troops. The months-long battle for Bakhmut, one of the last urban centres in Ukraine's eastern...

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When Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) suddenly collapsed in the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, many startups and their VC backers focused on sustainability and tackling climate change sprang into action to secure their funds. Federal financial regulators soon stepped in to guarantee deposits, but tighter lending conditions from the banking crisis and higher interest rates pose new challenges for climate tech companies at a time when there's not much time to act and avert the worst effects of climate change. “There is a massive hole in that slice of the climate capitalization pie that's missing," Sophie Purdom, climate tech...