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James Inhofe, the firebrand Republican Senator whose political career covered six decades, has died, the Tulsa World reported Tuesday. Inhofe, 89, served in the Oklahoma Legislature, as mayor of Tulsa, in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the the United States Senate. Funeral services are pending. Inhofe was the definition of a career politician, had served in the U. S. Senate since late 1994. He was is the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Oklahoma history. Before the Senate, he was a member of the U.S. House for eight years. Prior to that he spent four years as mayor of Tulsa...

~My conscience is clear. For the entirety of his alleged presidency, I've been calling Joe Biden "the dead husk of a moth-eaten sock puppet" - not because that's a uniquely penetrating insight but because, as I remarked along the way, it's perfectly obvious to any creature more sentient than a tapeworm. October 2022: March 2022: Mark Steyn: Joe Biden is the dead husk of a moth-eaten sock puppet. Watch GB News: Freeview 236, Sky 515, Virgin 626 Subscribe to our YouTube: https://t.co/Wa58gYGZwF pic.twitter.com/hxG39VTkTc — GB News (@GBNEWS) March 7, 2022 April 2021 - even on Fox News, although unbeknownst to...

Representation of engineered squalene pathways employed for poplar transformations. The enzymes required for biosynthesis of squalene, FDPS and SQS, were re-targeted to plastids (right) or used in combination with lipid droplet co-production or scaffolding through fusions with LDSP (left). These pathways utilize IDP/DMADP building blocks made available in plastids from the MEP pathway or in the cytosol from the MVA pathway. Variations of both strategies were attempted when engineering poplar. Credit: Plant Biotechnology Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1111/pbi.14345 What do poplar trees, sharks and biofuels have in common? While it might sound a bit like a riddle, a team led by...

The Gateway Pundit reported last month that the Arizona Republican Party filed a lawsuit against the corrupt Secretary of State Adrian Fontes after discovering from 500,000 to 1.3 MILLION ILLEGAL VOTERS and illegal aliens on the state’s dirty, inaccurate voter rolls. This is likely one of the reasons why Biden refuses to drop out of the race. He knows he has secured this election by welcoming millions of illegal aliens into this country and that the fix is in. The Democrats understand that if he does step down, it will be slightly easier to sell another rigged election to the...

Senior White House advisers for more than a year have aggressively stage-managed President Biden’s schedule, movements and personal interactions, as they sought to minimize signs of how age has taken a toll on the oldest president in U.S. history. The White House has limited Biden’s daily itinerary and shielded him from impromptu exchanges. Advisers have restricted news conferences and media appearances, twice declining Super Bowl halftime interviews—an easy way to reach millions of voters—and sought to make sure meetings with donors stuck to scripted pleasantries. Senior aides dismissed travel suggestions over worries the president didn’t have the stamina for them,...

The New Republic has received massive backlash for using a cover image of Donald Trump as Hitler for a piece that argues America will be plunged into fascism if he wins the election.We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all, , he spent 1932 campaigning, negotiating, doing interviews—being a mostly normal politician. But he and his people vowed all along that they would...

A teenage suspect was shot by US Marshals on Friday after allegedly attempting to carjack Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's federal bodyguards outside her home

Despite the best efforts of leftist activists, many nonwhite parents are fighting back against the LGBT agenda infecting public schools.Like many left-leaning public school districts across America, the leadership of Fairfax County Public Schools just outside our nation’s capital is majority white, despite the region’s racial diversity. Meanwhile, the district’s white, leftist leaders, who incessantly claim to be inclusive, are ironically ignoring parental objections to teaching radical gender ideology in schools.At the end of June, the school board voted to include gender ideology in its seventh-grade sex-education curriculum. In response to a survey in which 84 percent of respondents opposed...

It looks like Joe Biden is refusing to step down from the Democrat presidential ticket. Putting aside the legal issues and deadlines resulting from late ballot changes and the undesirability of Kamala Harris taking over, there are problems with removing Biden by force. Let’s take a look at them:1. Removing Biden at the convention: The delegates are already pledged to Biden. This would require 300 delegate signatures and would be very messy at best, with Michelle Obama (assuming she is their savior) having to compete with other potential candidates. An alternative plan, still very messy and still subject to the...

A parolee with a lengthy rap sheet has been taken into custody and charged after a Big Apple woman was found shot dead, wrapped in a sleeping bag and dumped outside with the trash, police sources told The Post Tuesday. Chad Irish, 55, was slapped with concealment of a human corpse, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing charges after being brought in for questioning on Monday over the death of 31-year-old Yazmeen Williams, the sources said. He hasn’t been hit with any homicide charges tied to the 31-year-old victim’s gruesome slaying. Irish, who is currently out on parole for...

Protesters carrying signs with anti-tourist slogans and chanting "tourists go home" took to the streets of Barcelona, saying mass tourism is making the city unaffordable to residents. VIDEO AT LINK....................

Who knew that the “despotic inroads on the rights of property” referenced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their grotesque work of political ideology (The Communist Manifesto) against property owners would mean devaluation of said property through government policy?The obvious implication was physical violence, as the authors describe “wresting” away capital and wealth, and taxation, as state-sponsored theft is a given for non-producing and envious failures like Marx, but as we’ve seen time and again, the left’s policies also rob from us by devaluing the properties in which we invest.Here’s the latest example, out of New Hampshire, via a...

A team of researchers has identified specific bacteria in the gut that are associated with both mice and humans developing an addiction to food that can lead to obesity. They have also identified bacteria that play a beneficial role in preventing food addiction. Prof. Martín-García used the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS 2.0) to diagnose food addiction. She and her colleagues investigated the gut bacteria in mice who were and were not addicted to food and found an increase in bacteria belonging to a group called the Proteobacteria phylum and a decrease in bacteria belonging to the Actinobacteria phylum in...

Who needs U.S. citizenship, or for that matter, legal authorization to live in the U.S. when you've got Joe Biden's open borders? That looks like the story with illegals receiving Social Security benefits, a lifetime benefit that until recently had been perceived as nominally reserved for U.S. citizens, not illegal border crossers, and which Democrats are now trying to debunk. At the debate, NewsNation reported that Trump said:“Social Security … he’s destroying it because millions of people are pouring into our country and they’re putting them onto Social Security,” Trump said. “They’re putting ‘em onto Medicare and Medicaid. Putting them...

COW APPRECIATION DAY Have you herd? Things go udderly awry in the middle of July each year during Cow Appreciation Day. People dress like bovines for free food. It's a moo-ving experience to witness designed to save the lives of cows everywhere for just one day. How? By eating chicken instead, that's how. #CowAppreciationDay Across the country, for one day only, adults and children alike herd into their local Chick-fil-A for their favorite cow meal. And it's not hay. Spotted cowls of black and white hoof it across town. Between baseball and soccer, they steer themselves toward the nearest grazing....

Pope Francis née Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who practices an ecclesiology tailored to the spirit of the times, could easily be mistaken as Joe Biden in a white cossack and skull cap. They share an imperious disposition that takes delight in overturning or diminishing the decrees of their predecessors, overregulate their administrations with orders and encyclicals, are vindictive in their treatment of ideological opponents, look unfavorably upon conservative American Catholics, believe their foundational documents are out of step with modern times, and are hell-bent on transforming their sovereignties. They are both vaccinistas pushing COVID jabs, and climate hypocrites unfazed by their...

Porsche has confirmed its timeline to kill off its entry-level models, revealing that its most attainable combustion-powered cars will end production earlier than previously anticiapated. The company's Head of Production confirmed that the ICE-powered Macan will be killed off in non-European markets in 2026. Albrecht Reimold told the German publication Automobilwoche that the platform had reached its end.

VIDEOBody Language expert Mark Bowden noted that the stage manager of the CNN presidential debate messed up by keeping Joe Biden's podium light dark until after he reached the podium and then turned it on while correctly turning on Donald Trump's podium light before he reached it. But was this really just an error? Almost everybody was surprised about how fair the two Trump-hating CNN moderators were towards Trump. Of course, this wasn't so much a sudden embrace of the MAGA movement by the moderators as an effort by CNN (a Deep State media outlet) to get Biden to drop...

Reid Hoffman, a high-profile Democratic billionaire donor, has emerged as a key financier behind Smartmatic’s lawsuit against Fox News, contradicting the voting technology company’s previous claims of self-funding. Hoffman unleashed a “multimillion-dollar investment intended in part to help the company sustain its costly litigation,” reported the Washington Post on Monday. Smartmatic is currently suing Fox News and Newsmax for defamation following their coverage of Smartmatic during the 2020 election. Strikingly, Hoffman’s emergence as the lawsuit’s financier contradicts Smartmatic’s previous assertions. “Smartmatic does not have any third-party funding for the [Fox] cases, and never has had such funding,” Smartmatic attorney Erik...