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THIS is Why People Think 'The Homeless' May Have Started the California Fires

What is now called “woke” started with the social engineering obsession of the “democratic managerial state” and the threat it represented to traditional social relations. Chronicles began as a recognizably Boomer publication. As an early contributor to the magazine, I noticed that its founders, Rockford College President John Howard as publisher and the Polish émigré writer Leopold Tyrmand as editor, held what were establishment conservative views for the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were exceedingly high on Ronald Reagan, whom they regarded as the great champion of our “ way of life” against our pervasive Communist foes. Opposing world...

Is desalination the future of drought relief in California? Oct 31, 2015 San Diego is set to soon start supplying itself with millions of gallons a day of fresh, drinkable water, using saltwater from the Pacific Ocean, converted by a brand new desalination plant. As California's historic drought continues, the plant will likely intensify the debate over the role of desalination may play in the state's water supply. Special Correspondent Mike Taibbi reports.

The freshly released Jack Smith report is a textbook example of a dirty “legal wrap-up smear,” a term describing the intersection of partisan politics and legal weaponization. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explained this tactic in 2017: "You smear somebody with falsehoods... you merchandise it, and then you write it, and they’ll say, ‘See, it’s reported in the press.’ Then it’s called a wrap-up smear."This tactic is glaringly evident in the report’s handling of former President Donald Trump. One of its most egregious admissions is that prosecutors considered—but ultimately declined—to charge Trump under the Insurrection Act. This is significant because Democrats...

Dr. Steven Greer discusses the imminent disclosure before the inauguration of Trump. Dr. Steven Greer's FULL Interview on Newsmax (10 min. video)

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis says God loves homosexuals ‘as they are’ in new memoirIn his new memoirs, Pope Francis defended the controversial 2023 text Fiducia Supplicans and also appeared to suggest that there is no need for conversion away from the homosexual lifestyle.Pope Francis with New Ways Ministry, October 2024.Expanding his defense of the 2023 document approving blessing of same-sex couples, Pope Francis attested that such blessings are for “people” but “not the relationships.”“It is the people who are blessed, not the relationships,” said Pope Francis of the blessings authorized by the controversial document Fiducia Supplicans.Francis’ comments, found in his...

* Meta is set to cut about 5% of its workforce, focusing on the company’s lowest-performing workers, CNBC confirmed Tuesday. * CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed employees about the decision to “move out low performers faster” in a memo posted on the company’s internal Workplace forum on Tuesday. * Zuckerberg told employees 2025 will “be an intense year.” Meta is set to cut about 5% of its workforce, focusing on the company’s lowest-performing staffers, CNBC confirmed Tuesday. CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed employees about the decision to “move out low performers faster” in a memo posted on the company’s internal Workplace forum...

It’s not the White House. But… it’s a short walk to the Park? Kamala Harris is eyeing post-loss life in New York, we hear. Page Six spies say that Doug Emhoff toured a $20,000-a-month three-bedroom at the Park Loggia luxury condo building on the Upper West Side last week. (“The missus was missing,” said the source.) We’re told he arrived at the Lincoln Center high-rise on Friday with a “convoy of SUVs and a phalanx of Secret Service.” No word yet if the power pair plan to take the apartment. Meanwhile, a source said, “Not from me, but I heard...

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) made it clear Tuesday that he does not believe Pete Hegseth is qualified to lead the Pentagon as Secretary of Defense. Hegseth appeared before the Senate Armed Services committee for the first step in his confirmation hearing. The former Fox News personality called himself a “change agent” during his opening statements to the committee, saying, “it's time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm period.” Hegseth is a former member of the Army National Guard but allegations of sexual assault, excessive drinking and controversial views on women in combat have marred his nomination...

Senator Ed Markey is fighting to stop a potential TikTok ban in the United States. On Monday, the Massachusetts Democrat introduced the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act, aiming to prevent the platform’s shutdown, which could disrupt the lives of 170 million American users. Markey warns that the “stakes are high,” as a sudden ban would upend a "one-of-a-kind informational and cultural ecosystem.” He has proposed extending the deadline by 270 days. “Let me be clear: TikTok has its problems,” the senator stated in his remarks. “Like every social media platform, TikTok poses a serious risk to the privacy and mental...

NEWS: The SEC has sued Elon Musk in federal court over an alleged securities violation, according to a court docket. The SEC alleges Elon "committed securities fraud in 2022 by failing to disclose his ownership in Twitter and buying shares at “artificially low prices.” This lawsuit will likely go nowhere with a new head of the SEC about to come in

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"Democrat Coalition Propels Dustin Burrows to Speaker of the Texas House." Burrows is very much in favor of the practice of awarding State House committee chairmanships to Democrats...as was his sleazy predecessor Dade Phelan. "Burrows won despite the fact that Republicans control 88 of the chamber’s 150 seats." Last month, Cook won the Republican nomination for speaker. However, Burrows and a minority faction of Republican members immediately sought to build a coalition with Democrats to secure his victory. “Today, the RINO (anti-MAGA) Establishment laughed in the faces of our Republican grassroots. They chose Democrat chairs and Lobbyist buddies over their...

Resident Etina Hingano was at home on the afternoon of Aug. 8, 2023. The noise of the wind-fueled fire approaching her apartment near Front Street was unlike anything she had heard before. "It was so loud and echoing throughout the whole Front Street area," she said. "I went outside and we looked up at Lahainaluna and all I saw was almost like a sideways tornado ...Hingano fled toward the ocean to escape the flames. She said she waited in the water for nine hours before she was rescued by the Maui Fire Department. I know the hurricane winds started at...

I don’t always get to use that post title. We have seen way too many instances when Republicans did not stay strong. But today in Minnesota, House Republicans did us all proud.As we have written about here and elsewhere, Minnesota Democrats have staged what is in effect an illegal coup in a desperate attempt to retain control over the state’s House of Representatives. Relegated to minority status because one of their candidates was caught cheating and therefore disqualified by a court, they have chosen not to participate, in hopes of bringing the House to a standstill.Today the House convened for...

Last year on May 25, Donald Trump vowed to commute the sentence of early Bitcoin pioneer and Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to time served if elected president. As we all know, Trump won the election and will take office one week from today.This leaves a major question on the minds of Bitcoiners: Will Trump actually pardon Ross?***

Brady Corbet’s Brutalist threatens to crush its audience.The architectural term “Brutalism” is often subject to a false etymology. Most people think it refers to the force exerted by some of the more muscular Brutalist buildings, but in reality the term describes the materials employed. Brutalism draws its name from béton brut, French for “raw concrete.” But as far as most people are concerned, that’s beside the point: The false etymology may as well be the true one. And many Brutalist buildings are in fact massy structures that are intended to overawe—or oppress—with their monumental austerity.Brady Corbet’s Brutalist draws on the...

Wildfires are inevitable. The apocalyptic devastation seen in Los Angeles isn't. The Palisades Fire started recently in west Los Angeles. Driven by intense Santa Ana Winds, the fire quickly spread into the residential area of Pacific Palisades. That fire, along with others in L.A., forced more than 175,000 residents to flee. The fire destroyed more than 9,000 structures. Hundreds of thousands of residents lost power. At least 24 people have died. Raw statistics can't describe the horror shown in video after video. One video showed nursing home patients being wheeled to safety. Another showed two men in a home surrounded...

Numerous German streets are named after him, as are hundreds of schools, universities and hospitals. Albert Schweitzer — scientist, doctor, philosopher, theologian, author, musician and Nobel Peace Prize winner — was long revered for his humanitarian work in Africa. The clinic he set up in Lambarene in present-day Gabon in West Africa earned him the moniker, "jungle doctor." But Schweitzer was also a product of his time. Born in 1875 in Alsace, then part of the German Empire, and today eastern France, he was influenced by the ongoing and brutal colonialization of large parts of Africa by European countries. Schweitzer,...

But she isn’t the real answer to questions about who bears responsibility, and Gavin Newsom is well aware of it. I can think of few healthy, un-incarcerated people in this world I would less prefer to be right now than Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. Admittedly the reasons for this are overdetermined -- I would never want to live in L.A., for one thing. (Also, I would no doubt regret suddenly becoming stupid.) But mostly it’s because I am not a zombie, whereas Bass has joined Joe Biden amongst the legions of the walking dead: Deceased politically, even if she...