Russia was purportedly behind directed-energy attacks targeting U.S. soldiers and officials, the Pentagon told lawmakers. The U.S. began an investigation into the attacks last year after multiple incidents in which several Americans overseas developed flu-like symptoms at once, four unnamed national security officials involved told Politico. Department of Defense officials spoke to top lawmakers that
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 06: A cosplayer poses as Batman during New York Comic Con 2019 on October 06, 2019 in New York City. Daniel Zuchnik | Getty Images Grab your capes and utility belts, New York Comic Con will be hosted in-person this year. On Thursday, ReedPop, the company behind the annual
The US will commit to halving its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, Joe Biden is set to announce. It comes as the US president will speak to other world leaders, including Boris Johnson, at a global climate summit held at the White House on Thursday. The pledge – which amounts to nearly doubling previous commitments
The Washington Post isn’t pro-science after all. The paper devoted the equivalent of at least 45 full newspaper pages in the past year to … astrology. The newspaper staff apparently took the ‘60s hit to heart: “Sign, sign, Everywhere a sign.” The Post’s (Sagitarius) pages were a Cancer, and a Gemini and a Virgo and
Today, April 22, is Earth Day — a day to celebrate the earth as a unique, beautiful, and special place. Despite NASA spending hundreds of billions of tax dollars looking, we have yet to find another place quite like good ole planet earth. But the warnings of the doomsayers are growing louder — we’re warming
Justice Thomas includes a notable footnote in his concurrence in judgement in a decision released by the Supreme Court this morning. In Jones v. Mississippi, the Court upheld the ability of a sentencer to give life without parole to minors found guilty of homicide even without a “factual finding of permanent incorrigibility.” Thomas observes that:
“What in the world happened to America’s manhood and its boldness?” Phil Robertson asked in the latest episode of “In the Woods with Phil.” “What America needs, simply put, is more manliness, more boldness, more grit. We need to look back, instead of trying to rewrite and erase our history,” the “Duck Dynasty” patriarch said.
A former Hokies soccer player is suing the Virginia Tech women’s soccer head coach for allegedly forcing her off the team after she refused to kneel with teammates prior to a game last autumn. Kiersten Hening, a former starting defender and midfielder for the Hokies, has filed a federal lawsuit against Virginia Tech head women’s
This morning brings us the latest addition to the popular “saying the quiet part out loud” trope. On today’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough let the cat out of the bag, saying that for fear of turning off the show’s largely liberal, Trump-hating viewership, he didn’t want to talk too much about the success of President Trump’s
April brings Earth Day and, for many of us, spring cleaning. The ideal is to combine both of those concepts. We want to celebrate the Earth by leaving it cleaner for future generations. The question is how to get there. Some point to big government solutions, such as the Green New Deal with its regulations
President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 2, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Joe Biden said the U.S. would aim to cut greenhouse-gas emissions roughly in half by 2030 during his opening remarks at the White House climate summit Thursday morning. “That’s where we’re headed as
Joe Biden is promoting an energy company called Proterra as he tries to sell the country on his infrastructure package. Would you be surprised to learn that Biden’s energy secretary Jennifer Granholm is heavily invested in Proterra? There’s a term for this. It’s called crony capitalism. The Washington Free Beacon reports: TRENDING: “YOU’RE NEXT” –
The U.S. Postal Service’s law enforcement division is running a covert operation tracking and collecting Americans’ social media posts, Yahoo News reported. The postal service’s Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) monitored social media accounts for “inflammatory” posts and protest plans, according to an internal document obtained by Yahoo News. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) investigated
Medical oxygen cylinders at a charging station during the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. Naveen Sharma | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images India reported a record number of daily Covid-19 cases on Thursday as the country’s second wave of coronavirus shows no signs of slowing down. There were 314,835 new cases and 2,104
Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd, is being held in isolation for 23 hours a day in a maximum security prison, authorities have revealed. Prison officers check on Chauvin every 30 minutes, his meals are delivered to his cell and he will be subjected to a mental health
Proving that it’s a cognitive choice when they act like a bunch of liberal buffoons 99 percent of the time, the Wednesday night handoff between CNN Prime Time host Chris Cuomo and CNN Tonight host Don Lemon was a breath of fresh air as they defended the Columbus, Ohio officer who shot a black teen
Public schools should have a single primary goal: to provide children the skills they need to become responsible adults. Unfortunately, the Biden administration is turning schools into religious institutions to teach the catechism of the Church of Woke™. This secular religion redefines original sin as America’s history of slavery, the stain of which will never
In a new poll, it doesn’t get majority support even from Democrats. The idea that the threat of it is a good way for Democrats to pressure the Supreme Court assumes, as I wrote the other day, that the justices worry a lot about politics but don’t pay close attention to it.
The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday that its ban on athletes demonstrating in official venues will remain in place for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics, and reiterated that kneeling or raising a fist in protest will be grounds for punishment. What are the details? The IOC’s “Rule 50” states that “No kind of demonstration or political,
GOP Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) said Wednesday that the federal government’s messaging on vaccines has been full of “fearmongering,” and suggested the best way to get more people on board with taking COVID-19 shots is for President Joe Biden to take off his mask and burn it on national television. What are the details? During
CBS’s cop drama S.W.A.T. signaled to its audience this week that those who question critical race theory and the Black Lives Matter agenda are really white supremacists. In the manipulative episode, “Reckoning,” on Wednesday, April 21, the S.W.A.T. team goes after an evil white supremacist organization called the “Imperial Dukes.” The Imperial Dukes want to start
Culture is something to be cherished and exchanged, not attacked and bludgeoned. Yet in America today, we have no choice. The term “culture war” is most often associated with Pat Buchanan, the founder of this magazine who invoked it during his speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention. But it was actually coined a year
President Joe Biden inherited the most secure southern border in American history. Under the Trump-Pence administration, we built more than 450 miles of the world’s most robust border wall, reducing illegal crossings by over 90%. We abolished the absurd practice of “catch and release.” We ended asylum fraud through a groundbreaking partnership with Mexico known
It used to be that psychiatrists and psychologists strived to prevent mentally ill people from committing suicide. Now, a blog post by Canadian psychiatrist Ralph Lewis published in Psychology Today — of all places — understands that allowing the mentally ill to be euthanized could have a deleterious impact on suicide-prevention efforts. But what the
Black Lives Do Not Matter to BLM. Black Lives are worthless to BLM activists unless the Black Life in question hits the fate lottery and is killed by a police officer. If it is a white officer than your surviving family may have hit the million dollar lottery. But if you are a black baby
The private sector will shoulder the costs associated with transforming the U.S. economy into a “green” economy, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday. While the federal government plans to provide funds through direct investments and tax credits, private companies will be expected to pay for most of the estimated $2.5 trillion needed over the course
In this article KSU The bidding battle for railroad operator Kansas City Southern demonstrates that investors can still find undervalued stocks in the market, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday. The “Mad Money” host said he understands those who are concerned about a generally frothy environment, pointing to the exploding interest in the cryptocurrency dogecoin, NFTs and SPACs
The US Justice Department is opening an investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis after the murder conviction of former officer Derek Chauvin, it has been announced. Chauvin, 45, was unanimously found guilty of the second and third degree murder and second degree manslaughter of George Floyd, 46, on 25 May, last year. As the former
Near the end of Wednesday’s White House press briefing, the New York Post’s Steven Nelson irked Press Secretary Jen Psaki with a basic question about whether President Biden “acknowledge[s] his own role” in major crime legislation that leftists argue contributed to the “systemic racism” his administration has claimed they will work to eradicate Nelson used
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