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Move over, COVID-19, and say hello to leprosy. Yes, that leprosy, the biblical plague from the Old and New Testaments. That’s according to the CDC, which says that there is “rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern United States.” Leprosy, also called Hanson’s Disease, is an infection caused by slow-growing bacteria called Mycobacterium leprae, according to the CDC. “It can affect the nerves, skin, eyes, and lining of the nose (nasal mucosa).” Up to 2 million people worldwide are permanently disabled from the disease, which can be transmitted by “prolonged, close contact with someone with untreated leprosy...

After Billy Graham, the famous preacher and presidential confidante, passed away in 2018, Luke Nichter was one of the first researchers to get a glimpse at previously unseen Graham diary entries kept at the evangelical Wheaton College. Nichter’s new book The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968, out today, is the first to be based on Graham’s personal diaries. The entries reveal that incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson worked behind the scenes that year to help get Republican Richard Nixon elected. In a phone conversation on July 17, Nichter explained how the...

The brewer of Miller Lite and Coors Light has reported a huge surge in sales as drinkers turn their backs on Bud Light after the Dylan Mulvaney debacle. Molson Coors has reported its best quest revenue since a 2005 merger which brought Miller and Coors under the same umbrella. The two beers' combined sales were 50 percent greater than Bud Light's for the April-June period. Molson Coors is one of several brands to benefit after sale of Bud Light, which is owned by Anheuser-Busch, tumbled by around 30 percent following a backlash to its partnership with Mulvaney, a trans influencer....

A record string of daily highs over 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) in Phoenix ended Monday as the dangerous heat wave that suffocated the Southwest throughout July receded slightly with cooling monsoon rains. The historic heat began blasting the region in June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California’s desert. Phoenix and its suburbs sweltered more and longer than most, with several records including the 31 consecutive days of 110 degrees Fahrenheit-plus (43.4 degrees Celsius) weather. The previous record was 18 straight days, set in 1974. The streak was finally broken Monday, when the high...

What's happening in South Africa should be a lesson to us all when you teach people to hate others based on the color of their skin. On Sunday, 79-year-old Theo Bekker and his wife Marlinda were attacked by four black teens who trespassed on their farm, tortured them, beat Theo with an iron bar, and then slit his throat. They then stole cash and guns from the farm and took off in one of the couple's vehicles. Marlinda managed to run to a neighbors house and call the police, leading to a chase that ended in the perpetrators crashing. The...

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley has warned the American people that the unfolding allegations against Democrat President Joe Biden and his family are shaping up to be one of Washington D.C.’s greatest scandals. As Slay News reported, whistleblower Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s longtime friend and business partner, gave an explosive testimony before Congress on Monday. Archer said he was involved in at least 20 business meetings that Joe Biden joined while serving as Obama’s vice president. According to Archer, the Biden’s have been enriching themselves for years by selling “the brand” – access to the White House. The testimony adds further...

The recent exodus of staff from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign appears to have shocked some with expert knowledge of political campaigns as the Republican looks to rest his drive for the White House. The Republican's campaign has cut roughly a third of its staff, or 38 people, as part of an effort aimed at getting DeSantis' presidential bid back on track but the decision has raised questions. Long-time DeSantis staffer Kyle Lamb has been revealed as one of the 38 people who've been let go by the campaign, a decision that was met with surprise by Peter Schorsch,...

Ohio’s government, with Republicans in charge of the legislature and the governor’s office, has cut taxes. It’s a dog-bites-man story, which is why you probably haven’t heard about it. But it’s worth noting because it runs counter to a common claim about Donald Trump’s Republican Party. According to that argument, Republicans are well along in the process of jettisoning their old free-market orthodoxy. Trump buried Ronald Reagan’s party, with its fixation on limiting government and slashing entitlements. Among today’s conservatives, we’re told, all the energy is behind raising tariffs, breaking up big companies and establishing government-led industrial policies. Except, Republican...

The late George Shultz, former secretary of state for Ronald Reagan and a Cold Warrior, once advised against proliferating nuclear weapons. He quipped that “proliferation begets proliferation,” which the arms control lobby has used for decades to prevent the U.S. government from developing nukes. But Shultz’s quip is easily falsifiable. A decade of Russian, Chinese, North Korean, and soon Iranian proliferation has not begotten proliferation by the United States. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia went into effect in 2011. It reduced the high-yield (and misguidedly called strategic) nuclear weapons each side has and puts a...

The wheels are coming off the Bidenomics recovery. US job openings (JOLTS) keep declining as The Fed withdraws its Covid sugar splash of monetary stimulus and raise The Fed’s target rate. For those enthralled by the narrative that AI will cause a margin-busting corporate revolution as millions of well-paid, middle-management employees are replaced by a cheap “bullshitting” AI algo, then today’s latest JOLTS report may come as a bigger shock than the big drop in job openings from one month ago. That’s because after unexpectedly dumping by 496K in May (a number which has been revised far worse of course),...

Yesterday Devon Archer confirmed all suspicions about the Bidens. Hunter did put Joe on the phone two dozen times with foreign entities. Joe Biden was "the brand." Joe Biden the "Brand" saved the corrupt Burisma. "Joe the Brand" prostituted his position as VP for cash. But it was Dan Goldman who provided the comedy entertainment for the day. Dan Goldman is the classic rich liberal white boy born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Miranda Devine: Let me introduce you to Dan Goldman, recently hatched representative of New York’s 10th Congressional District, smarmy heir to the Levi Strauss fortune,...

The State of California is depending on fossil fuels, especially natural gas, to provide electricity during the ongoing summer heat wave, as solar and wind energy are unable to meet demand during peak demand evening hours, especially as the sun begins to set. Fox News reports: The state of California continues to rely heavily upon fossil fuel-fired power plants to ensure its residents and businesses have access to reliable electricity amid the ongoing heat wave. According to data compiled by the California Independent System Operator, more than 40% of the state’s total power grid supply derived from natural gas on...

The picture at the top of this article is one I took myself as we went shopping this weekend at the Outlets Mall on Rt 16 in Saint Augustine. It leapt out as me as we passed by, and I snapped it right away. There are many such stores here in Florida with signs on their windows proclaiming their now-cashless corporate structure. Did you know that many fast food places are testing business models that are 100% takeout and 100% cashless? Chick-fil-a is doing that right now, and they’re not the only ones. One of the things that the pandemic...

For decades there are some who have warned of over-population. It was a popular screed during the 70s. There had to be a way to deal with the problem, especially in light of the sexual revolution of the 1960s with its free love mantra that certainly could lead to an increase in babies. In stepped Planned Parenthood, the organization founded by Margaret Sanger. Sanger was a eugenicist, one who believed certain “lesser quality peoples” shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce.

Republican campaign strategist Ed Rollins is turning away from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' 2024 presidential campaign, calling DeSantis a "flawed candidate" in a recent Rolling Stone interview. "I don't think it's the campaign's fault at all; it's his," Rollins told the publication. "I think he's been a very flawed candidate. I know some of the people around him, and some of them are good, talented people. "But every time he opens his mouth, he has a tendency to — shall we say — think out-loud, and he clearly doesn't understand the game. … When you get into these culture wars...

A growing number of people, including prominent scientists, are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the journal Nature in March 2020 that explored the origins of SARS-CoV-2. The paper, whose authors included immunology and microbiology professor Kristian G. Andersen, declared that evidence clearly showed that SARS-CoV-2 did not originate from a laboratory. “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” the authors wrote in February. Yet a trove of recently published documents reveal that Andersen and his co-authors believed that the lab leak scenario was not just...

A talking head on MSNBC has called for a post 9/11 style government crackdown as a means of winning “a battle for hearts and minds” of Americans who might turn against the leftist mindset and become overly patriotic. Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and Righteous Media compared the “threat” of such a scenario to the “number one threat” after 9/11, effectively suggesting conservatives and Trump supporters are akin to terrorists. “A lot of Americans are up for grabs. I wouldn’t dismiss it as just something only people on the right or watching Fox News latch...

Flying in the United States is set to become unaffordable for normal Americans with a combination of severe pilot shortages and increasingly-demanding pilot unions causing ticket prices to soar. It is estimated that airlines across North America will suffer shortages of around 30,000 pilots over the next decades, as the U.S. is failing to train enough, with others opting to retire early. “The supply of new pilots will grow, but not enough to offset a continuing wave of retirements,” states the management consulting firm, Oliver Wyman.

The Susan B. Anthony List, a conservative anti-abortion group, is slamming Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis for his position on abortion and sidestepping of whether he would support a federal ban on abortion. “A pro-life president has a duty to protect the lives of all Americans,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America group, in a statement. She added that DeSantis should be the “National Defender of Life.” “Gov. DeSantis’s dismissal of this task is unacceptable to prolife voters. A consensus is already formed. Intensity for it is palpable and measurable,” Dannenfelser continued. DeSantis, the governor...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...