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Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH If people named "John Smith" made up 1% of the population, but committed 50% of the crime, would you consider it to be discrimination if they made up 50% of the prison population? #Racism #Sexism #Ageism #DEI #BLM #Crime #DefundThePolice #Woke #Politics #BlackLivesMatter 12:44 PM · Jul 11, 2024

The Pandemic Excuse for a Corporatist CoupWe’ve just come across a document hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, posted March 2023, but written in 2007, that amounts to a full-blown corporatist imposition on the US, abolishing anything remotely resembling the Bill of Rights and Constitutional law. It is right there in plain sight for anyone curious enough to dig. There is nothing in it that you haven’t already experienced with lockdowns. What makes it interesting are the participants in the forging of the plan, which is pretty much the whole of corporate America as it stood in 2007. It...

JUST IN - Biden's campaign is "quietly testing the strength" of Kamala Harris against Trump in a head-to-head survey of voters — NYT

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) said on Wednesday he only watched parts of last month’s debate between former President Trump and President Biden, but believes the incumbent is the “best opportunity” to defeat the former president. Fox News host Jesse Watters, speaking with Fetterman, asked the senator, “You saw the debate, just like we all saw the debate, and that didn’t change your mind?”

The Salt Lake Tribune is throwing a fit over the U.S. Supreme Court stripping the ungodly regulatory power of unelected bureaucrats while picking a fight with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for daring to support the move. “Utah politicians are wrong to say the end of Chevron is a boost for liberty,” The Tribune editorial board complained in a whiny July 7 screed targeting Lee and other Utah Republicans who celebrated the Court’s ruling. Under the so-called “Chevron Doctrine,” deference was given to federal agencies' subjective interpretations of ambiguous laws to enforce burdensome regulations on American businesses, which was upended by...

A scientific magic trick that pulled a lot more than a coin from behind the mammoth's ear. A preserved mammoth foot in a permafrost environment. Image credit: Love Dalen ============================================================================= Freeze-dried skin samples of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia have enabled scientists to create a 3D reconstruction of 52,000-year-old chromosomes. The achievement is a world-first for ancient DNA, and reveals which genes were active in the skin cells when the mammoth was alive. Shortly after the woolly mammoth died it spontaneously freeze-dried thanks to the weather, preserving its nuclear architecture in a dehydrated state that made it possible to...

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow could cost the network a whopping $30 million after making “false” statements in her dubious “news” reporting. Maddow, along with MSNBC colleagues Nicolle Wallace and Chris Hayes, are in hot water after a federal judge ruled they made “verifiably false” statements about a Georgia doctor, Dr. Mahendra Amin, whom they called the “Uterus Collector.” The lawsuit revolves around the anchor’s accusations about Dr. Amin’s alleged involvement in performing unnecessary hysterectomies on women detained at an immigration facility at the time Donald Trump was president. The case stems from a complaint by a whistleblower in 2020 during...

Podcast host Joe Rogan called out the real reason for Joe Biden's open border, as millions of illegal immigrants continue the flood into the United States.

VIDEOIt's not working. The Morning Joe Show on July 11 attempted to take solace from a Washington Post poll showing Biden and Trump running even. Yet the very same poll also showed a MAJORITY of Democrats wanted Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race and a stunning TWO THIRDS overall wanted Biden to split. You can see these troubling numbers, dire for Biden, play out over Morning Mika's face as she struggles unsuccessfully to suppress her extreme grief over what has happened to her beloved Joe Biden ever since he collapsed in the polls on the heels of...

Britain’s leftist Prime Minister Keir Starmer has green-lit the use of British missiles by the Ukrainian military to strike the Russian mainland. Starmer, who was elected with a landslide majority despite winning just over 30 percent of the overall vote, attended the NATO summit on Wednesday, where he argued it was up to Ukraine how they use their military aid. “My message to President Putin is this: this NATO summit should be seen as a clear and united resolve by NATO allies and others that are there at the same time to stand with Ukraine and stand up to Russian...

The American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan called the First World War the “seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century, and he wrote two lengthy books on the events that led to the outbreak of that war: The Decline of Bismarck’s European Order and The Fateful Alliance. He also included one of his lectures on the First World War in his book American Diplomacy. Reading these works of history gives one a better sense of the root causes of that war, which included policies, decisions, and events that occurred decades before June-August 1914. When the war began in the Balkans...

You could say that the U.S. is more than flirting with yet another Covid-19 surge. Chances are that a surge has already been occurring for at least a month—since early June. And the “FLiRT” variants of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been front-and-center of this surge. Now, the U.S. still doesn’t have a comprehensive surveillance system that can catch surges before they happen or soon after they start happening even though it’s been over four and a half years since the the SARS-CoV-2 first surged in the U.S. Plus, nowadays, you don’t see the public health...

At least one person is dead after central Vermont was pummeled by severe flooding. The remnants of Hurricane Beryl, which made landfall in Texas Monday, unleashed torrential rain across the Northeast. Between two and six inches of rain fell, leaving some communities fighting against surging floodwaters. Flood rapids wreaked havoc, prompting road closures and causing widespread damage. Plainfield officials say at least seven bridges were taken out. Residents of a six-unit apartment building had just 15 minutes to evacuate before the entire structure was swept away. One person died in the Peacham community, according to Vermont Governor Phil Scott.

I did not approach this article lightly. I actually went a little overboard in my journey to unveil the film’s mystique. Since we began our Wednesday Western journey a few months ago, "Stagecoach" has been on heavy rotation. Of the movies I watch obsessively, I have probably watched "Stagecoach" the most, or at least as much as " True Grit" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." It just never stops being profoundly beautiful. It’s not just the perfect Western; it might actually be the perfect movie. I read everything I could find, dove into the story as deeply as...

Ronald Reagan, trailing President Gerald Ford in delegates leading up to the 1976 Republican National Convention, decided to make a high-risk move in his quest for the presidential nomination: He picked a liberal running mate. Yes, that’s right — the man whose name is synonymous with conservatism sought to balance his ticket by choosing Sen. Richard Schweiker, a liberal Republican from Pennsylvania. The Reagan campaign hoped the move would help win delegates from the state, make him more attractive to liberals and moderates at the convention in Kansas City, Mo., and ultimately improve his odds in the general election against...

With President Joe Biden facing a grave political crisis after his debate debacle against Donald Trump, jittery Democrats are openly considering who could take over their campaign if he drops out — and the smart money is firmly on Vice President Kamala Harris. The 81-year-old Biden, so far, has been defiant about staying in the race – a message he drove home at a campaign rally in Wisconsin and in an ABC interview Friday. Biden said only the “Lord Almighty” telling him to do do would prompt him to leave the race.

As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fl) informed fellow lawmakers of her intention to introduce a resolution compelling the House sergeant at arms to detain Attorney General Merrick Garland and present him before the lower chamber. (snip)

"The Shining" star Shelley Duvall has died at the age of 75, according to The Associated Press. Duvall shot to international fame when she starred as Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's iconic 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel. Shelley Duvall in 'The Shining'

Emergency services remain at the scene as they work to successfully extinguish the blaze, the Mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol said: "Start of fire in progress on the spire of the cathedral of @Rouen." "The origin of the fire is unknown at this stage. All public resources are mobilised. Thank you for facilitating their intervention." The cathedral spire was undergoing work which involved large scaffolding structures in place. "The construction site is complex because of this height with very large scaffolding structures," Richard Duplat, chief architect from Historic Monuments told Tendance Ouest. The local prefect - a state official -...

Guest Article: “The Great Loss: Or, the Pontificate of Jorge Bergoglio”The following analysis, originally in German (here) and submitted to Rorate Caeli in an authorized English translation, is the finest synopsis of the pontificate and the theology of Pope Francis that I have yet seen. We are very pleased to present it here. ~ PAKThe "Abrahamic Family House" promoted by Pope FrancisThe Great Loss: Or, the Pontificate of Jorge BergoglioBy Vigilius[1]Jorge Bergoglio’s pontificate is characterized by numerous ambivalences. For example, the Pope speaks out against the woke ideology, but continually receives representatives of this very milieu; he opposes “faggotry” in...