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NATIONAL DRINK WINE DAY While February 18th is observed annually as National Drink Wine Day, it would be a shame to celebrate only one day a year. Perhaps this day is just a reminder to drink wine. #NationalDrinkWineDay Wine does have its benefits after all. Moderate drinkers of wine have lower risks of liver disease, type II diabetes, certain kinds of cancers, heart attack, and stroke. It also can reduce the bad cholesterol (LDL) and increase the good (HDL). Drinking wine includes other benefits as well. When paired with the right meal, it enhances the flavors of spices, fruits, and...

When the coalition government emerged after the last German federal election in the fall of 2021, then-incoming Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) did not object to being called the "climate chancellor." That was no surprise: the climate crisis had been a top issue during the election campaign. Three and a half years later, campaign speeches barely mention climate protection. The dominant issues are how to curb irregular immigration and how to boost Germany's sluggish economy. Recently, the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) was appalled when Chancellor Scholz expressed approval of importing oil and liquefied gas from the US...

Chelsea Clinton receives annually-recurring funding from USAID, allocated by Obama for her Foundation, which provides afternoon meals to children in Africa, India, and Bangladesh. However, as of today, the reported number of meals served stands at 11,886, implying an astonishing cost of $1,410 per meal. Net Worth $70 Million Husband Net Worth $45 Million Inheritance $52 million USAID Earnings $3.9 Million per year Real Estate Assets $25 million Monthly Spends $100,000 Car Collection Eight Has accomplished nothing.

Democratic strategist James Carville argued that political actors in his party should “play possum” right now, as grassroots organizing pops up across the country, noting that the “freight train is moving.” Carville joined MSNBC’s “The Beat” on Monday, where host Ari Melber asked him to weigh into the nationwide protests against the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “This is happening all around the country. So, the question is, how should Democratic politicians respond to this? And I think they should do is, what we call in rural America, play possum. Just let it go. Don’t...

Marco Rubio, NSA Mike Waltz briefs on Meeting with Russia’s Lavrov

A Jewish man in Miami Beach is facing serious charges for opening fire on a vehicle after he saw “two Palestinians” inside – both of whom actually appear to be Israeli Jews. Mordechai Brafman, 27, was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder after he shot 17 rounds at the car with a semiautomatic handgun on Saturday night. According to American media reports, Brafman said once taken into custody that while he was driving his truck, “he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both”. Brafman was seen on surveillance video driving south on Pine Tree Drive and...

Most of the time, when Donald Trump bashes you, it’s over. When it’s done behind the seal of the presidency, it’s doubly over. For Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who’s no longer the leader of the Senate Republicans, the man is, politically speaking, a dead man walking. His approval numbers are absolute garbage, and he’s solidified his reputation as being the “odd man out” among Republicans when he voted against Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard for secretary of defense, Health and Human Services secretary, and director of national intelligence respectively.

BREAKING: New clearest footage showing the crash moment of Delta Air Lines plane at Toronto Airport. All passengers survived

Tesla and X CEO-turned-special government employee Elon Musk claimed to have uncovered “the biggest fraud in history” when he stumbled across more than 20 million people listed in the Social Security database as over 100 years old. “According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!” Musk posted on X late Sunday, showing a chart of ages ranging from zero to 369 years old. “Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” he joked, adding that “there are FAR more...

Although the Lutheran Church has lost a significant portion of its membership over the past 30 years, the church is not disappearing, according to a recently defended doctoral thesis. However, the decline in membership has led the church to adopt a more conservative stance than before. Estonia is known as one of the most secular countries in Europe, where organized religion – particularly Christianity – plays a minimal role in people's lives. It is estimated that about a quarter of the Estonian population belongs to various churches and denominations, with the number of active churchgoers being even smaller. Indrek Pekko...

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer wants a guarantee of U.S. military intervention in Ukraine in a worst-case scenario to ensure any future peace deal there goes ahead. Speaking in Paris after an emergency summit with European leaders on Monday, Starmer said U.S. backing is the “only way to effectively deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again.” And he said the future of Ukraine is not the only thing at stake. “It is an existential question for Europe as a whole, and therefore vital for Britain’s national interests,” he added. “This is a once in a generation moment for the collective...

Last spring, during intense and, at times, heated negotiations over the future of the College Football Playoff, leaders of the Big Ten and SEC threatened to create their own postseason system if they were not granted a majority of CFP revenue and full authority over the playoff format. In the end, executives of the 10 FBS leagues and Notre Dame signed a memorandum of understanding handing control over to college football’s two richest conferences. Soon, they are expected to exercise that control. Within the SEC and Big Ten, momentum is building to further expand the playoff to 14 or 16...

Norm Eisen is not merely a legal scholar or ethics advocate; he is a seasoned political operative with a singular focus—using the legal system as a weapon to neutralize conservative opponents, particularly Donald Trump. From his early days as co-founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to his tenure as impeachment counsel against Trump, Eisen has constructed a career at the intersection of lawfare and political strategy. His legacy is not one of neutral legal advocacy but of leveraging institutions, litigation, and media to shape political outcomes in favor of the Democratic establishment. Eisen’s legal warfare began...

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Shocking new footage captured the disastrous landing of the Delta Air Lines plane that flipped over at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday — showing it bursting into flames and then tipping over as it skidded on the snow-covered runway. Horrifying new footage shared on X shows flames erupting out of Delta Flight 4819 as the plane skids to the ground amidst harsh conditions, including blustery 40 mph winds that sent snow swirling through the air.

Special Dispatches to the New-York Times.PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS NOT POPULAR IN THE SENATE. WASHINGTON, Friday, Feb. 17. The Senate Military Committee, to-day, had under consideration the Niagara Ship Canal, Illinois Ship Canal, the Rock Island Improvement Bill and the East Tennessee Railroad Bill. The committee instructed the Chairman to report adversely upon all these schemes, on the ground that the present condition of the Treasury would, not warrant the large appropriations called for by the said bills. They decided, however, to report a bill to appropriate a sufficient sum of money to employ competent engineers to make a survey of the...

It's not the most burning topic of the hour, but, as my days dwindle down to a precious few, I confess I have always marvelled at how one can make a multi-decade career on American telly despite having no obvious talent or skill - or ratings. Take CBS News, which is still out there apparently: Dan Rather, the parody "hard news" anchor, was unable to read prompter in anything approximating the cadences of human vocal delivery. Yet it was no obstacle to spending seventy-three low-rated years hosting the CBS Evening News. Why? I've never had a convincing explanation other than...

WASHINGTON (AP) — His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns. This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new...

WageLife Hours (days/months/years/lifetimes) We need to incorporate a new unit of measure into the government and social lexicon. American Worker WageLife Hours (days, weeks, years, and lifetimes) The people need to be shown the efficiency rate for every dollar collected as a tax. How much of that makes it into the hands of the actual designated beneficiary in a specific government tax or program after government overhead and expenses? With this information, relate the nonsensical spending on programs into how many WageLife hours/days/weeks/years/lifetimes it would take for that money to be raised off the backs of the average American taxpayer....

The wife of a federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s decision to shutter government websites that promoted gender ideology founded an organization that received funds from the United States Agency for International Development, an agency that the administration is currently targeting. U.S. District Judge John Bates issued a decision on Tuesday ordering federal health agencies to restore pages about transgenderism they had pulled after a Trump executive order about “gender ideology extremism.” ... “No backend remedy could ameliorate the inability to provide all required care during an appointment time to a patient who cannot return in the future,” Bates...