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President Trump made Alabama state history on Friday evening, drawing a crowd of thousands to Montgomery where he delivered a speech to Republicans at the Alabama GOP Dinner.According to Trump’s Senior Advisor Jason Miller, 2,700 people were in attendance. “Their largest ever!” Miller wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Friday night’s dinner marked the first formal appearance and campaign event that the president has made since he was arraigned on Thursday in Washington, D.C. President Trump’s arraignment this week also marked the third time that he has faced charges in less than six months.Trump held no quarter on Friday,...

As little as 25 minutes a day of slow walking seems to be enough to counter the detrimental physical effects of bed rest on older hospital patients, finds a pooled data analysis of available evidence. For optimal improvements in physical function, around 50 minutes a day of slow walking or around 40 minutes of combined physical activities, such as 20 minutes of resistance bands with around 20 minutes of aerobic activity, are the most effective. But there may be a threshold effect, with no clear benefit for "doses" of more than 90 minutes a day of light intensity, or 60...

Property-tax relief? Hardly. Proposition HH on this fall’s statewide ballot is really about growing government. And it attempts to do that by piggybacking on public outrage over skyrocketing property tax bills. The proposal’s purported property-tax “relief” — served up by Gov. Jared Polis and his legislative allies as one part of their dizzyingly complicated scheme — is a ruse. As with every attempt to play politics with a crisis, there’s a hidden agenda. And that agenda is to snooker Colorado voters into letting the state keep and spend billions of dollars in surplus tax revenue that otherwise would have to...

San Francisco, California, remains the slowest among 63 major U.S. cities in recovering from the coronavirus pandemic, according to mobile phone data. The new data from the University of Toronto’s School of Cities repeats a finding from early 2023, when San Francisco was last among 62 cities. The recovery index is “computed by counting the number of unique mobile phones in a city’s downtown area in the specified time period, and then dividing it by the number of unique visitors during the equivalent time period in 2019. For example, the March 2023 – May 2023 time period is compared to...

Our Government says they have answers. As Christians we now need to have a biblically based response. Are Aliens in the Bible? We have designed this video to help give language to this tough topic. This video is dedicated to the late Dr. Michael Heiser – @DRMSH He used his scholarly platform to form a UFO mission Field. Along with caring about sharing the good news with this normally avoided group, Heiser also brought scholarly credibility to the question of… ARE WE ALONE? Tim Mackie makes a couple appearances along with NT Wright

UK scientists working at a state-of-the-art lab are preparing for bird flu to spread to people. Health chiefs today unveiled a top-secret super lab within Porton Down that aims to boost pandemic preparedness and create a vaccine within 100 days of a new virus taking off. Top scientists at the site confirmed they are readying the tools that would be needed if the H5N1 bird flu strain — which is behind an outbreak sweeping the world — took off in humans. There is no sign that the virus, which is thought to have killed millions of birds in Britain and...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers must address the trillions of dollars that make up the national debt and deficit without touching Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, Sen. Chris Coons said Monday. “I recognize that the art of politics is finding one that both parties can support,” Coons, D-Del., told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “But frankly, at the end of the day, Democrats are not going to cut benefits under Social Security.” Coons said Congress needs “to find a way forward in the middle that balances revenue and spending in a positive way” following Fitch’s decision to downgrade the nation’s long-term debt this month.

NEW YORK -- Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said definitively that rival Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, an acknowledgement the Florida governor made after years of equivocating answers.“Of course he lost,” DeSantis said an interview with NBC News posted Monday. “Joe Biden's the president.”DeSantis has often sidestepped questions about whether he believes the 2020 election results were legitimate. But in recent days he has started publicly questioning the lies that Trump and his allies have made about the election's legitimacy.Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general said there was no credible evidence the election’s outcome was...

— Tyson Foods Inc. is closing four chicken processing plants as it looks to lower costs. The company said Monday that the plants being closed are located in North Little Rock, Arkansas; Corydon, Indiana; Dexter, Missouri and Noel, Missouri. Tyson said that it will shift production to other facilities and halt operations at the four plants in the first two quarters of fiscal 2024. The company currently estimates having $300 million to $400 million in total charges, based on a preliminary analysis. Tyson launched a plan in fiscal 2022 where it targeted $1 billion in productivity savings by the end...

(Last Updated On: August 3, 2023) PURPLE HEART DAY | AUGUST 7 Purple Heart Day, on August 7th, commemorates the creation of the oldest American military decoration for military merit. The Purple Heart honors the men and women who are of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. During the American Revolutionary War, the Badge for Military Merit decorated six known soldiers. #PurpleHeartDay General George Washington created the Badge of Merit in 1782. Washington intended the honor to be presented to soldiers for “any singularly meritorious action.” Its design included a purple, heart-shaped piece of silk bound with a thin...

this is the message I give the inmates to those who have just arrived.

Russian officials claimed their troops have advanced nearly two miles into northeast Ukraine in an attempt to re-conquer liberated territories following a massive drone and missile attack over the weekend. “Over the past three days, the advance of Russian troops… amounted to 11 kilometers along the front and more than three kilometers deep into the enemy’s defense,” the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement Monday. The advancement came near Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, which was liberated last September and was the recent target of waves of about 70 Russian drones and missiles on Sunday.

This guy really is the worst of the worst. I do not think I could dislike him more. Remember, Bill Barr appointed John Durham officially as a special counsel quietly without informing the public in October of 2020, specifically intended to block President Trump from declassifying any documents prior to the 2020 election. We do not discover the official appointment until December, after the 2020 election.The intent of the Durham appointment was to create the oft used silo of an “ongoing investigation” to block inquiry and/or action by President Trump. The entire process of the DC silo deployment is one...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over—twelve wicker baskets full. Matthew 14:19–20An important aspect of this miracle that is easy to miss is that Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes through His disciples’ instrumentality. He did this by inviting them to assist in the distribution of the loaves and in the gathering of the fragments...

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the federal indictments against former President Trump “exquisite” and “beautiful and intricate” in a new interview published Monday. “The indictments against the president are exquisite,” Pelosi said in an interview in New York Magazine’s “Intelligencer.” “They’re beautiful and intricate, and they probably have a better chance of conviction than anything that I would come up with.” Pelosi was referring to the two latest indictments against Donald Trump unveiled by special counsel Jack Smith. Last week, Trump was arraigned on four criminal charges related to his efforts to cling to power after losing the 2020...

Birmingham, AL — In an extraordinary display of efficiency and ruthlessness, the FBI's crack tactical team descended upon a sleepy suburban neighborhood after receiving reports of an active incandescent light bulb. A deafening sound of helicopters filled the air as the FBI's Tactical Light Bulb Unit (TLBU) descended upon the home of Mark Johnson and his family. The elite team, clad in full tactical gear, executed a precision landing on the Johnsons' roof, then rappelled down and smashed their way through every window of the house. Neighbors watched in bewilderment as Special Agent Lark, leader of the TLBU, commanded his...

VIDEONo. Woodward & Bernstein weren't upset by the USA trying to imprison the main political opponent to Joe Biden via a weaponized justice system. Instead they were upset by the justice system in Russia and other countries being used to imprison political opponents. However, the Clueless Couple were not alone in missing the irony of condemning the imprisonment of political opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Russia while overlooking the multiple indictments of the main political opponent of the American Deep State, Donald Trump. As you can see, CNN while running their report on the imprisonment of Navalny also ran a...

Higher consumption of dietary fiber was associated with a lower risk for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study. Minzi Deng, Ph.D. and colleagues examined associations between dietary fiber intake and subsequent incidence of IBD, Crohn disease, and ulcerative colitis. The analysis included 470,669 participants from the U.K. Biobank. The researchers found that during an average follow-up of 12.1 years, there was an inverse association between dietary fiber intake and risk for IBD (lowest versus highest quintile: hazard ratio, 0.74; 95% confidence interval, 0.58 to 0.93; P = 0.011) and Crohn's disease (hazard ratio, 0.48; 95% confidence interval, 0.32...

Periodontitis, a prevalent global health concern, results in the gradual destruction of tooth-supporting tissues and is often exacerbated by oxidative stress conditions and bacterial changes. Current treatment methodologies include mechanical debridement, anti-inflammatory drugs, and regenerative surgery. Researchers conducted detailed examinations on cellular interactions with metformin, investigating its role in relation to HMGB1 during the progression of periodontitis. It was observed that metformin could inhibit oxidative stress, and activate autophagy via the AMPK/mTOR pathway. Experimental periodontitis was induced in a murine model, and Metformin was found to attenuate alveolar bone resorption, a major hallmark of the disease. A notable discovery from...

Former President Trump knocked the “woke” U.S. women’s soccer team after its loss in the round of 16 of the Women’s World Cup over the weekend. “The ‘shocking and totally unexpected’ loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Sunday evening. “Many of our players were openly hostile to America – No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to...