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Apparently, in a Wisconsin town, it is illegal to preach the gospel and protest at a drag show for children. Local police arrested several youths while they were practicing their First Amendment right to engage in free speech in a public area at a public event. It seems those supporting these shows are willing to use the power of the government to punish those who dare to speak out against it. The incident happened on Saturday in Watertown, Wisconsin: Police arrested and detained several young people in Watertown, Wisconsin, on Saturday while they were preaching the gospel at a public...

In a remarkable twist to former President Donald Trump’s recent indictment, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge assigned to Trump’s case in Washington, D.C., has previous connections with a law firm that worked closely with Hunter Biden and Ukrainian energy firm Burisma. Judge Chutkan spent 12 years specializing in white collar litigation and antitrust defense at BSF before her nomination by former President Obama. Her legal career includes stints at other private law firms and serving as a public defender in Washington D.C. According to The Daily Caller, internal emails show that Hunter Biden had stated that the law...

VIDEOMunchkins are cute li'l critters. However you don't want to assign any responsibilities to them since they are also completely helpless and unable to function in real world situations. An example of this is the Munchkin known as Janet Yellen who has proved herself to be completely useless as the Secretary of Treasury. You can see Munchkin Yellen's helplessness on display culminating in the downgrading of the USA debt rating. The poor Munchkin can't figure out why that happened.

A 3D replica of a clouded leopard’s fangs. Machetes used by Arunachal Pradesh’s Nyishi tribe traditionally incorporate the animal’s jawbone. Photograph: Arunachal Ivory and Ornaments In the lowland rainforests of Arunachal Pradesh in north-east India, tigers, clouded leopards, eagles and hornbills dot the landscape. The area is also home to the Nyishi community, the largest Indigenous tribe in the state, where the men traditionally don a byopa, an elaborate handwoven cane cap with the upper beak and casque of a great hornbill attached to the top edge, and an eagle’s claw at the back. They also wield a machete fitted...

Mayor Adams’ administration is looking at over 3,000 sites to place asylum seekers — and would not say whether the possible locations include Central Park — in the wake of the mayor’s comments that the migrant crisis is “coming to a neighborhood near you.” There are nearly 108,000 people at 194 shelters across the Big Apple — pushing city officials to get creative when looking for places to erect new migrant housing. Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom skirted around whether migrant tents would be set up in Central Park, telling reporters on Wednesday that while there is a “constantly refreshing” list...

The radiation belts around Earth are loaded with dangerous protons and electrons that can damage spacecraft. Now researchers are launching experiments to see if they can clear away the high-energy particles that pose the hazard by blasting them with radio waves.When humans began exploring space, the first major find was the Van Allen radiation belts, doughnut-shaped zones of magnetically trapped, highly energetic charged particles. The Van Allen belts consist mainly of two rings: The inner belt starts roughly 1000 kilometers above Earth’s surface and extends up to 9600 km, while the outer belt stretches from about 13 500 to 58...

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said that Special Counsel Jack Smith could himself be indicted if the indictment of former President Donald Trump is thrown out. Smith secured a four-count indictment of Trump relating to his efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election after he previously secured a 37-count indictment against Trump in June based on an investigation into allegations surrounding classified documents, which was supplemented with a superseding indictment issued Thursday that included charges against Carlos De Oliveira, a maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate owned by former President Trump. Trump faces arraignment on the charges...

U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, (R) Wisconsin, wrote an article for foxnews.com, in which he reports that the Chinese Communist Party is now busily at work rewriting the world’s best-selling book. If they succeed in their venture, we’ll go from “the greatest story ever told” to “the greatest story ever distorted.”

The House Oversight Committee released the full transcript from Monday's Devon Archer interview, in which he testified that Hunter Biden had his father on speakerphone 20 times around business associates and that Burisma officials did not want a Ukrainian prosecutor fired because they had him “under control.” Archer worked alongside Hunter Biden for the Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm before both of them became board members of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company, in 2014. Here is the full transcript of Devon Archer's testimony: SCRIBD version at link. Downloadable Version at link............ According to Archer’s testimony, Burisma officials did not want...

New Record High Temperatures and a Weird Month...July 2023 was an unusual month, with sudden warmth and a few record or near-record high temperatures...Since the satellite record began in 1979, July 2023 was...warmest July on record (global average)...warmest absolute temperature (since July is climatologically the warmest month)

False Premises of Democratic Fearmongering. Hate and fear might as well be the GOP’s motto. And while there was a time when a liberal like me saying that would be accurately labeled hyperbolic, that time has passed. Show me what, aside from hate and fear, the modern Republican Party is all about. Columnist Rex Huppke, writing for USA Today, July 16, 2023 Huppke’s comment is something we hear all the time. The campaign to dehumanize MAGA Republicans as hatemongers and fearmongers is a staple of the liberal media, is the playbook for Democrat politicians all the way up to President...

Heavyweight oil producer Saudi Arabia will extend a 1-million-barrel-per day voluntary crude oil output cut into September, in the third month of such declines, the state-owned Saudi Press Agency said Thursday.

Residents of Watts, a predominantly Latino and black neighborhood in south-central Los Angeles, are being discouraged from attending large gatherings for the rest of 2023 due to the recent surge of drive-by and mass shootings in the area. The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday: Leaders have now called on Watts residents not to congregate in large groups for the rest of 2023. … The impassioned calls for “unity within the community” arrived on the heels of two shootings that killed two and injured nine near the Imperial Courts and Jordan Downs public housing projects, according to LAPD Deputy Chief Emada...

(Last Updated On: August 1, 2023) National IPA Day – First Thursday in August National IPA Day on the first Thursday in August celebrates the beer known as India Pale Ale Beer. #NationalIPADay While the IPA is one of the most popular types of craft beers, it’s also making a resurgence with local microbreweries. Many are experiencing success as their brew finds its way into local restaurants and pubs. The IPA seems to have developed out of an idea from the 1700s. When shipping ale to India, adding hops to the beer increased the longevity of the brew. Brewers thought...

'If we continue to see this wall of silence ... we reserve the right to actually defund positions.' If America’s top defense officials aren’t more forthcoming about extraterrestrial activity on Earth, they may see their paychecks shrink or their jobs disappear altogether, U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says. The freshman Republican lawmaker from St. Petersburg has vowed to get to the bottom of recent, credible claims that the U.S. government has secretly run a covert recovery-and-research program on alien technology and biological remains. Any government official still standing in the way of that goal, she said, would risk a sizable...

WASHINGTON — First son Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer told lawmakers this week that Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings brought the political scion onto its board so that “people would be intimidated to mess with them … legally.” According to a transcript of a four-hour deposition released Thursday by the House Oversight Committee, Archer also revealed that then-Vice President Joe Biden met twice with his son’s shady post-Soviet business partners at DC’s Café Milano, not once as previously reported. These and other revelations blow new holes in President Biden’s claim that he never discussed business with his...

Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced Tuesday night that he has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice following its “failure to substantively respond” to his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking communications between Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Special Counsel Jack Smith. During an interview on Fox News’s “Ingraham Angle” Tuesday night, Ramaswamy explained that he was trying to “get to the bottom” of what Biden and Garland told Smith regarding the indictment in the classified documents case. The entrepreneur told host Laura Ingraham that he doesn’t think Smith’s investigation is as independent as...

Pence has repeatedly maintained he lacked the constitutional authority to send the elections results back to the contested states for review and insisted he saw no evidence of voter fraud swaying the outcome of the 2020 election. Special Counsel Jack Smith's most recent indictment of former President Donald Trump repeatedly referenced former Vice President Mike Pence objecting to Trump's efforts to overturn the election and insisting that the vice president had no authority to halt the electoral certification process. Pence has repeatedly maintained he lacked the constitutional authority to send the elections results back to the contested states for review...

The terror group Hamas has run the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it expelled or killed hundreds of members of its rival, Fatah. It has ruled with an iron fist, arresting, imprisoning, and even, on occasion, murdering those Gazans who have dared to oppose its rule. Now many Gazans are at the end of their tether, fed up with Hamas’ corruption and mismanagement, and exhibiting the courage that be prompted by despair, they are planning to hold an anti-Hamas rally on July 30. More on this planned rally – if it comes off, it will be the largest of its...

An Arab “expert” on Israeli-Turkish relations recently published her analysis of Israel-Turkish relations, claiming that a powerful Jewish lobby, which has its origins in the followers of Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), who only pretended to convert to Islam but remained “secret Jews,” still exists today and, it is implied, Muslims must be made aware of their power. More on this claim of a “Jewish lobby” in Turkey can be found here: “Ever hear about the secret powerful Jewish lobby in Turkey?,” Elder of Ziyon, July 24, 2023:Iraqi news site Buraitha News, which is a Shi’ite site, has an “analysis” of Israel-Turkish...