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This weekend, an apparent Ukrainian rocket barrage reportedly blew up a rail bridge Russian workers were building south of Hranitne, 25 miles north of the Sea of Azov coast and 50 miles south of the front line in occupied southeastern Ukraine. It’s one of the biggest under-reported events in months in a grinding war where logistics are everything. In reportedly dropping the incomplete span over the Kalmius River, Ukraine sets back—indeed, makes a mockery of—Russia’s efforts to improve its supply lines to its beleaguered forces in and around Crimea in southern Ukraine. “The Ukrainians just shot a hole in a...

Imagine: It is September 4, 2035, in Miami and a large Cat. 5 hurricane is offshore headed straight for the city. Roughly 7 million persons are in the general area where the hurricane will come ashore in 24 hours. The governor orders an evacuation of the Miami–Fort Lauderdale area of Florida. All of the cars start heading north on I-95. All lanes are cleared to head northbound. With Congress and President Cortez having mandated that all cars built after 2030 must be electric (no hybrids), everyone heads north, but now all the people are caught up in a terrible traffic...

One fascinating thing about COVID-19 is how it’s turned every leftist theory and belief system upside down. All the things leftists have advocated have only made us more vulnerable to epidemic disease. Now, in a supreme irony, there’s a possibility that one of the things they most hate – tobacco – may ride to the rescue. COVID-19, in many ways, may prove to be the undoing of leftism. Here’s a short list of all the leftist ideas that are taking a beating thanks to the pandemic: Globalism: It turns out that interconnectedness is dangerous and that international organizations, such as...

MERS is very scary. This week, while avoiding the term global health emergency, the World Health Organization announced that the deadly viral infection was both serious and urgent. So far, there have been 571 confirmed cases of MERS; 171 of those people died from the disease. There's one place, however, where the mood about MERS isn't scaring everyone. It's also the place where the infection was first reported in 2012 and where almost 500 recorded cases have been found so far: Saudi Arabia. And the skepticism about the virus has taken a strange turn in Saudi Arabia, where people have...

http://www.vidilife.com/index.cfm?f=media.play&vchrMediaProgramIDCryp=B23444FC-D864-4117-AD77-F Click the link or paste it into your URL. There's a warning message in red letters you have to click past telling you it's not appropriate viewing for children. Click past it and you'll get the video. No, this isn't porn. It's just something to think about as we spend the next few weeks remembering 9-11 and seething about what these bastards did to us.

Cigarettes could slash blood-alcohol levels, making smokers drink more. A new study helps to explain why smokers tend to have boozier nights out than non-smokers. The work, done in rats, shows that a heavy dose of nicotine can cut blood-alcohol levels in half. If cigarettes similarly lower intoxication in people, it could mean that smokers need to drink more than non-smokers to get the same buzz... To mimic more closely the effect in human drinkers, (Texas A&M researcher Wei-Jung) Chen and his colleagues studied the effects of binge drinking in adult rats. They injected rats' stomachs with a dose of...

Lawyer files complaint over smoking judge Using 'influence, financial means' to skirt regulations VANCOUVER - A British Columbia judge who wanted special ventilation for her chambers so she could smoke on the job has become the subject of a complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council that alleges her conduct has "unfairly brought the administration of justice into disrepute." Lawyer Dugald Christie's letter yesterday to the Ottawa-based council accuses Madame Justice Mary Southin of the B.C. Court of Appeal of using her position to encourage smokers to avoid or defy the law, and stirring up "amusement by some and amazement and...