[ad_1] People laugh when I tell them my husband, rather a practical joker, calls me “Monk.” After I’ve shaken someone’s hand at a gathering after they’re right out of earshot, he’ll take the opportunity to lean over and whisper, “Wipe! Wipe!” All my life, I’ve been deeply afraid of germs. In fact, I am a

[ad_1] A sign outside a Eddie Bauer store in Broomfield, Colo., February 14, 2014. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) I think I first really felt impending mortality sometime in the 1990s when I was standing in line at a coffeeshop in Lubbock, Texas, and noticed that the girl in front of me was wearing a T-shirt advertising a

[ad_1] Numerous explosives devices were found packed inside a van near a Philadelphia Wednesday as unrest continues in the city following the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., officials said. Authorities stumbled upon the vehicle around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, according to Fox 29. The Philadelphia bomb squad and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol,

[ad_1] Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime minister of Malaysia, tweeted Thursday that “Muslims have a right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.” “Since you have blamed all Muslims and the Muslims’ religion for what was done by one angry person, the Muslims have a right

[ad_1] Michael Moore famously predicted Trump’s win in 2016. Today he appeared on the Hill’s show Rising and warned that the presidential race could be closer than it appears, especially in battleground states: “Trump has tightened virtually every one of these swing states to the point where—what are they saying this morning…Biden’s 5 points ahead in

[ad_1] By Dave King – Do you recall Obama’s promise that Obamacare would allow you to keep your current healthcare plan, and that you could keep your old doctor, and that you would save $2500 a year with the ACA? That was all a lie. Tens of thousands of people lost their beloved healthcare plans,

[ad_1] Space Force Gen. David D. Thompson tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, according to a United States Space Force statement. Thompson tested positive after finding out he had been in contact with someone in his family who had tested positive for the virus, according to the statement. He received the results on Wednesday, the

[ad_1] On Jan. 21, 1954, the Navy’s first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, was launched out of Groton, Connecticut. While the U.S. had been using submersibles since the Revolutionary War — going from hand-cranked wooden rigs to treasured diesel-powered assets during World War II — this ship truly revolutionized the game. The creation of the nuclear-powered

[ad_1] President Trump rallies with supporters in Goodyear, Ariz., October 28, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) For The Bulwark, Michael Stokes Paulsen argues that pro-lifers should “vote against Donald Trump’s reelection.” I don’t have any blanket view of how pro-lifers should vote in 2020. Personally, I subscribe to Ramesh Ponnuru’s and Robert George’s view that Joe Biden has

[ad_1] The leftist media’s rush to bury the Joe Biden corruption scandal has hypercharged cancel culture, leading Glenn Greenwald, who co-founded The Intercept in order to further free speech and a free press, to resign from his own institution after facing censorship. Specifically, Greenwald aimed to expose the evidence behind the Biden scandal and to

[ad_1] ( rclassenlayouts/Getty Images) As society roils with COVID and the election, the biotechnological revolution rushes forward with scientists bound by few enforceable ethical boundaries. As a consequence, we have already seen babies born who were genetically engineered, the march toward three- (or more) parent human embryos, and increasingly radical proposals for creating novel family

[ad_1] New York Times investigative reporter Eric Lipton noted Wednesday how conservatives were reacting on Twitter to Philadelphia looting on the heels of the fatal police shooting Walter Wallace Jr., a black man, who approached officers while reportedly armed with a knife Monday: Watching my Twitter feed since last night very notable the intensity of

[ad_1] Chalk up another Operation Warp Speed reveal, thanks to corporate reporting. Moderna has one of the three most promising and advanced COVID-19 vaccine candidates, which is currently in Phase 3 testing. Following a similar announcement from Pfizer earlier this week, Moderna told its investors that they have begun “actively preparing for the launch of

[ad_1] Twitter deleted a tweet celebrating 400 miles of the border wall being completed, saying it was “hateful.” The tweet came from the account of the acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan. Twitter not only flagged the tweet but froze Morgan’s account as well. But we shouldn’t worry.

[ad_1] An election official in Denver collects mail-in ballots after they have completed a process that verifies each voter’s signature on the outside of the envelope with the one on file at the Denver Election Division for the upcoming election in Colorado, October 22, 2020. (Kevin Mohatt/Reuters) Why shouldn’t states allow ballots postmarked before or

[ad_1] Mystery solved? Not exactly. Last night Tucker Carlson devoted a segment of his show to how a package of documents related to Hunter Biden mysteriously disappeared in shipment. Carlson didn’t identify the company by name but said the shipment had been found opened and the documents inside were gone. After a thorough search the

[ad_1] Kudos to Chris Cuomo for asking this question of paid CNN contributor Miles Taylor. Too bad CNN executives didn’t actually have an answer to it yesterday. Taylor, now outed as the much-vaunted “senior administration official” who penned the New York Times’ 2018 “Anonymous” op-ed claiming the resistance in the Trump White House was real,

[ad_1] As part of the Trump Administration’s goal of delivering life-saving vaccines and therapeutics in record time through Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DOD) today announced an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to purchase the first doses of the company’s COVID-19 investigational antibody

[ad_1] Microsoft said Wednesday they stopped hacking attacks on numerous “high profile” accounts, according to an official company blog post. Phosphorus, an Iranian-backed hacker group, attacked more than “100 high-profile” possible attendees to the Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 Summit in Saudi Arabia, according to Microsoft Corporate Vice President Tom Burt. Microsoft said

[ad_1] Federal prosecutors charged seven Chinese nationals and a former NYPD sergeant on Wednesday with acting illegally as agents of the People’s Republic of China.  The defendants allegedly engaged in a harassment campaign against a Chinese national living in New Jersey who Beijing wanted brought back to mainland China to face prison time.  A government

[ad_1] JACKSONVILLE, Fla.— A CBP Air and Marine Operations (AMO) P-3 Orion Long Range Tracker (LRT) crew partnered with U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) District 11 and U.S. Navy crews to disrupt a smuggling attempt of over one ton of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific last week. A National Air Security Operations Center P-3 LRT crew

[ad_1] I feel about this the way I felt about those Minnesota polls that Ed posted this morning: They can’t be reconciled with other data, so someone somewhere is wrong. It could be that the Minnesota polls are right — but if they are, then the national polling is wildly, wildly off. There’s no plane

[ad_1] Lotta chatter last night about how Trump introduced her at yesterday’s rally in Arizona, with some comparing it to how one might call a dog to come. Having watched the clip, I didn’t take it that way. But it does seem as if she wasn’t scheduled to speak and he decided, impromptu, to give

[ad_1] This is turning into something of a habit at this point. Republican officials from multiple states have been challenging Democrats’ efforts to stretch out mail-in voting deadlines as far as possible. Given the short window left before the election, most of these challenges are being booted straight up to the Supreme Court for a