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The Harm Caused by MasksA new study suggests that the excess carbon dioxide breathed in by mask-wearers can have major health consequences.Evidence continues to mount that mask mandates were perhaps the worst public-health intervention in modern American history. While concluding that wearing masks “probably makes little or no difference” in preventing the spread of viruses, a recent Cochrane review also emphasized that “more attention should be paid to describing and quantifying the harms” that may come from wearing masks. A new study from Germany does just that, and it suggests that the excess carbon dioxide breathed in by mask-wearers may...

Last Friday, an HK MP5 machine gun was stolen from LoneStar Handgun, a shooting range in Bexar (that’s pronounced “bear,” like the furry animal that poops in the woods and flies space ships with Han Solo in Star Wars) County, Texas. According to the KENS5 news video below, “the [shooting range] owner fears it could end up in the wrong hands.” Um, yes, I think that ship has sailed with the person who knowingly stole the gun when the range employee’s back was turned. The female shooting range customer rented a handgun, did a little shooting, then came back to...

Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case about commercial fishing that raises an issue the current members of the Court have been very interested in as of late—Chevron Deference. With the Court agreeing to hear the case, there has been a lot of speculation about what the end of Chevron may mean across the legal landscape. But what might it mean for gun rights? First, it’s important to understand what Chevron Deference is. Chevron, as it’s not-so-affectionately called among legal circles, is a doctrine that was established by the Supreme Court in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense...

ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that she was “ashamed” U.S. Marine veteran Daniel Penny allegedly killed Jordan Neely with a chokehold on the New York subway after Neely was screaming and acting erratically. Co-host Joy Behar said, “My understanding is, if you go past eight seconds of the chokehold, the person is dead. Now, this marine should have known that. But maybe he made a mistake. Maybe he went too long, and this poor kid died.”

MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch said Tuesday on “Morning Joe” that something was wrong with people who still support former President Donald Trump. Referring to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll in which President Donald Trump would beat President Biden in a head-to-head matchup in 2024, Deutsch said, “What do we get against this backdrop of this, Donald Trump beating Biden by seven points? What’s wrong with this country, what’s wrong with us? This is a guy is charged with rape. You’ll see three, four indictments, we see two impeachments, we see he led an insurrection and yet Republicans follow like...

The dark, dank and dangerous New York City subway is back in the news thanks to the recent death of a Jordan Neely — a violent, mentally ill career criminal who terrorized commuters for at least a decade. Neely had a plan to get arrested and return to jail just so he could have a place to eat and sleep. Neely went berserk on the subway, causing terror among the passengers. Fortunately, a former Marine named Daniel Penny stepped in as a good Samaritan and managed to subdue Neely, who died while he was being restrained. For over a decade...

The Ukrainian military has downed a Russian missile using the U.S.-made Patriot missile defense system, the Pentagon’s top spokesman confirmed Tuesday. “I can confirm that they did down a Russian missile by employing the Patriot missile defense system,” press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters. “As you know, that system is part of a broader range of air defense capabilities that the United States and the international community have provided to Ukraine.”

A first grade boy allegedly forced a classmate to perform a sex act under a desk in a classroom as a second boy recorded it on one of the school’s learning devices, according to the Plainview Herald. The alleged incident happened at South Elementary School in Plainview, Texas, in April. On Friday, parents protested outside the school district administration building demanding the superintendent of schools, the school principal and the teacher involved be fired, KCBD reported. They claimed the assault had been downplayed and that the parents of one of the children involved had not been notified immediately. The girl...

HB 586 Pennsylvania States that ALL ammunition sold in Pennsylvania must be serial coded, micro stamped and the state MUST keep a database of all the ammunition sold. This would require ALL ammunition in private hands without serial numbers to be disposed of by Jan 1st of 2024 This is in violation of PA State Constitution The United States Constitution The Firearm Owner's Protection Act of 1986 https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs...&type=b&bn=586 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihXhNwOfiTE

SAN DIEGO – The man whose livestream caught two Navy ships nearly colliding in the San Diego Bay has been ordered to take the cameras down. The Navy Criminal Investigative Service says the camera’s livestream shows military activity in the area, but the camera owner says he has the right to film. “It might be the San Diego Web Cam today, but if you don’t stand up and call foul, we don’t know what’s it going to be tomorrow,” said Barry Bahrami who runs a group called San Diego Web Cam which provides livestreams across the city. It was Bahrami’s...

Explanation: Can you find two Earth shadows in today's image? It's a bit tricky. To find the first shadow, observe that the top part of the atmosphere appears pink and the lower part appears blue. This is because the top half is exposed to direct sunlight, while the lower part is not. The purple area in between is known as the Belt of Venus, even though Venus can only appear on the other side of the sky, near the Sun. The blue color of the lower atmosphere is caused by the Earth blocking sunlight, creating Earth shadow number 1. Now,...

A civil jury in New York City has found President Donald Trump not guilty of raping E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room nearly three decades ago. The jury found Trump liable for forcibly touching, sexually abusing and battery of Carroll. They also found he defamed her. Trump will be ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in damages. President Trump denied all of the charges and accusations. Further, he maintains he never knew or met Carroll. "It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story. It's just made up," Trump said during his deposition in the case. Trump's legal team has...

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One hundred and fifty years ago today, the future mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak was born in an area of Austria-Hungary that is now part of the Czech Republic. The above photo of him with Franklin Delano Roosevelt was taken in 1932, a year before Cermak’s death as a result of his relationship with Roosevelt. FDR won the nomination to be the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate against Herbert Hoover at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that year. Cermak was mayor of Chicago at the time, having ended the notorious William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson’s second term as mayor by...

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered multiple debris rings within a previously discovered ring around the young star Fomalhaut. Photo Courtesy of NASA May 9 (UPI) -- Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed multiple debris rings surrounding a young star. The James Webb Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument, which is designed to capture very long wavelengths of light, found three nested belts surrounding the Fomalhaut star, out to a distance of up to 14 billion miles, NASA said Monday. Observations by NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite first discovered Fomalhuat's dust ring, the first asteroid belt seen outside of...

Clay Travis on Monday shared the results of a weekend 'free beer' experiment, offering people free cans from a cooler at a concert in Nashville and concluding that people will actively avoid Bud Light. The OutKick founder posted on Twitter a video of a cooler filled with three different kinds of beer. He said he allowed passers by to 'pick which beer you want'. A later video showed the cooler again, now almost exclusively filled with Bud Light cans. Travis said people had avoided Bud Light all night and reflected that a 'big issue going forward for Bud Light is...

Pro-natalist policies have a weak track record in every country where they've been tried. They're incredibly expensive, they produce few or no gains in fertility, and they can lead to a disturbingly authoritarian form of governance where individual choices about family formation are deprioritized. Meanwhile, birthrates have declined in tandem with several social upsides as well: better education, greater wealth, longer life spans, and more freedom for women. Across the world, efforts to address these issues have focused entirely on attempts to reverse the underlying trend. Countries from Russia to Japan to Italy have tried an array of measures—from pressure...

Racism is very real. Scientific studies prove that babies are racist.Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=study+proves+that+babies+are+racistAt the same time, immigration patterns prove that large numbers of wonderful, decent people of all races, ethnicities, and religions would rather live in the United States than in any other country on earth.Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=which+countries+receive+the+most+immigrantsBased on these two pieces of information, I propose the following hypothesis: Every country in the world is racist, and out of all of these racist countries, the U.S. is the least racist out of all of them.

With the advent of smart phones, people do a lot while they're using the toilet these days. So much so, that employers have been looking for smart solutions to get people off the toilets and back to work, up to installing whole new slanted toilets. Check out these slanted toilets designed to keep you off your phone while you poop at work Since Taro Gomi first published his children's book in 1977, we all know that Everyone Poops. So don't get all uptight that I'm writing an article about pooping. Okay? But some toilet manufacturers are pushing back. What if...

When you think of Los Angeles, “hotbed of conservatism” probably isn’t the term that first comes to mind. It’s a pretty liberal city, full of liberal politicians, and liberal people. Liberal people like actors and whatnot, who as a general rule can be relied upon to vote consistently for Democrats and advocate for Democratic policies, because that’s just kinda what actors do most of the time. But conservative actors aren’t completely unheard of, and once in a while you’ll run across one here or there. And today, you’ll run across one more. Her name is Natalie Jean Beisner. She’s an...