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I’m old enough to remember when Nancy Pelosi was telling us that Trump would impeach himself. Now, Trump’s “not worth it,” as if impeachment is a favor you bestow on those most...

Just about everyone has seen and even used the heart shape that appears on greeting cards, emojis, pillows, paintings, and personal letters. It speaks of love and romance. What we...

Originally posted on STOP THESE THINGS: RE rent seekers aren’t satisfied with $trillions in wind and solar subsidies, now they want $trillions for power grids to the middle of nowhere...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Rent-Gouging Landlord Makes Good: Trump Finally Gets Invite for State Visit...

Organic farming promotes natural resistance to common food-borne human pathogens, according to a study that evaluates the benefit of soil organisms. By protecting valuable...

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If Tibet is at the heart of the China-India divide, water is at the centre of the Tibet-India bond. Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Wars in space are not just Hollywood fiction...

Reluctant Preppers Published on Apr 24, 2019 “Safe as Money in the Bank?” Thanks to the carefully managed facade of solidity and stability, you are likely to believe that what...

The Annual Report of the Cochin Archeological Department for the year 1933–34 reported an unpublished manuscript of a Malayalam translation of the Tirukkural made in 1595.'...

  A new organization has been launched in Florida to support the principle of public schooling and speak out against the diversion of public funds to private and religious schools...

The previous week got me all excited, but I was hoping the crash wasn’t going to be so soon.  To butcher the old saying, March went out like a lion for science and technology related...

By Paul Homewood   According to the fuel poverty report recently released by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), nearly 70% of UK households are heating...

A few days ago here we wrote about how a team of German scientists at the Munich-based ifo Institute released the results of a study that showed that Electric cars end up producing more...

Our Schools: Things Didn’t Go Well When Betsy DeVos was Confronted with Her Department’s Charter School Fraud During a series of recent congressional hearings in Washington...

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness From late 2015 until April 2019, the media, the Left, and the Obama administrative state hierarchy warned us nonstop that candidate, president-elect...

Just suppose, for the sake of argument, that a Democratic president had acted as a doormat for Russia, indulging and amplifying an unprecedented soft invasion of America via its electoral...

Maybe so: The U.S. saving rate declined by 8 percent between 1980 and 2009. We document that the decline can be explained by rising health expenditures. Using exogenous variation...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Democracy is under attack, not only in D.C., but in the state capitols. To understand just how serious this attack is, how insidious it is...

Lightning, or some other outside influence, might be needed to end the Maduro regime in Venezuela.

The Trump administration has increasingly relied on bombing missions in an attempt to turn the tide in Afghanistan, where the Taliban has been able to gain more and more land under...

Maybe so: The U.S. saving rate declined by 8 percent between 1980 and 2009. We document that the decline can be explained by rising health expenditures. Using exogenous variation...

How many hobbits does it take to kill a mammoth?(tags:games funny )Noodle race (I literally choked with laughter)(tags:dogs food race viaSwampers )Six famous companies which "started...

Symptoms of an infected wound can include increasing pain, redness, and swelling in the affected area. A person may be able to treat minor wound infections at home. However, people...

Via The Babylon Bee Some people think Hillary Clinton is robotic and hard to sympathize with, but even our hearts went out to her on this one. On a special ... Read more...

I’m not sure how I feel about letting convicted felons vote.  I suspect that even for most convicted felons, it’s not their greatest concern.  But, very much like Sanders’...