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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) explained to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday how President Biden’s “impractical electric car policies” will hurt middle America. Massie began by explaining that he has driven an electric vehicle for 10 years and even has solar panels on his home, but that the administration’s push for a rapid transformation of our energy sector is unrealistic given the U.S.’s current infrastructure. Massie, an MIT graduate, ran through some numbers, quizzing the Transportation Secretary about how much electricity charging an electric vehicle would use compared to other household items. “The average household uses 1,870 kWh/year for air...

It is painfully obvious that today students and college graduates are just as woefully incompetent and uninformed. They are voting in droves for the Marxist/communist of their choice, falling for empty promises of free education in their communist utopia of free birth control pills and free legalized drugs.

Survey finds public not so bothered about growing number of IDF commanders and officers who stem from the national-religious camp. A majority of the public is not concerned with the growing number of IDF commanders and officers who stem from the national-religious camp, according to a survey by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University. Some 79 percent of the respondents said they were not “concerned at all” with the growing number of religious officers in the IDF, in contrast to 1 percent who said they were very concerned. The study was conducted ahead of a conference...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Sunday reiterated plans to resume uranium conversion this week and said it was unconcerned about referral of its nuclear case to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. "Although we think referral of Iran's case to the Security Council would be unlawful and politically motivated, if one day they refer Iran's case...we won't be worried in the least," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi. Britain, Germany and France, heading nuclear negotiations with Iran for the European Union, have called an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Board of Governors on Tuesday...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is adopting new steps in its global tsunami-relief campaign to guard against improprieties like those alleged in the oil-for-food program for Iraq, U.N. officials said Monday