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A British man on lockdown has found a classic car buried in his backyard garden. Not that it was sitting on the grass – this vehicle was under it! Contracts manager John Brayshaw only...

Veteran actor Brian Dennehy has died aged 81. Comfortable on both stage and screen, he became known for playing tough characters with a dark side. Born in 1938 to parents Edward and...

Originally posted on Climatism: DISASTER divided : Two countries, one island, life-and-death differences WITHOUT access to fossil fuels, every tree on the planet would have been...

Originally posted on Mostly Economics: Gabriele Ciminelli and Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó in this voxeu piece: There are still many unknowns about COVID-19. We don’t know its true...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Breaking: In Attempted Purge of Competent Scientists to Make Way for Pro-GOP...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Cuomo Meets with Trump, but Apparently Fails to Extract Any Concrete Commitments...

In 2019, manufacturers and processors achieved a turnover of around 8.8 billion euros with goods carrying the “Ohne GenTechnik” (Without Genetic Engineering) seal. In shops...

A new peer-reviewed paper authored by a group of experts in law, policy, and toxicology, including GMWatch editor Claire Robinson, has identified systemic failings in Europe’s...

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BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Japan Times Just as fascism led to World War II, communism has engendered the greatest global health catastrophe of our time. The Chinese Communist Party...

Wolf in sheep’s clothing? The Tablighi Jamaat claims to be apolitical but its ultimate goal — triumph in global jihad — underscores its political mission. Authorities in multiple...

His son was Daushyanti (i.e., born of Dushyanta) Bharata.To him was born a son named Chola after whom the Solar race on this earth became illustrious

In an illuminating article in The Atlantic, George Packer argues that America is a failed state. Trump didn’t “make America great again.” He took its weaknesses, frailties...

Talk about taking advantage of a crisis! The rightwing extremist Heritage Foundation has issued its own report on how to recover from the pandemic. They cover it with patriotic glitz...

At this point, it’s worth noting that most late night/morning talk shows will talk about the coronavirus and COVID-19, if only a little.  It’s also worth noting that scheduled...

Last week the late night shows were still shaking down the details of broadcasts outside of their home studios.  While The Late Late Show was not back with new episodes, it did air a...

By Paul Homewood   More than three decades before Greta Thunberg was born — the Swedish environmental activist on climate change — more than 20 million Americans participated...

By Paul Homewood     I think it’s time we all deserved a good laugh – we need it!       Last Saturday the Daily Express reviewed the Renault Zoe electric car. Colin Goodwin begins...

By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin The summer of 2017 in Europe was a wet one, yet everyone seems to have forgotten that. Then came two hot and dry summers across Europe (2018 and 2019) and already...

In short, everything we’ve been told about green energies is a lie. And a select few swindlers out there are making a financial killing while the environment gets devoured by “green”...

Curmudgucation: We’re About to Hear Many Suggestions About How to Reshape Education. Here’s How to Sort Them Out. The vast majority of the nation’s schools have pressed pause...

VAMboozled!: Special Issue: Moving Teacher Evaluation Forward At the beginning of this week, in the esteemed, online, open-access, and peer-reviewed journal of which I am the Lead...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Almost every day, more studies, strange data, anecdotal reporting, and theories emerge about the virus, many of which could change existing...

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Americans are acquainted with predictable but ultimately failed progressive efforts to suppress free expression by preemptive invective...

Abe is quality family entertainment, with a simple and straightforward story that will bring anybody together. It is now available to rent or purchase on Vudu, Amazon, and other...

Thirty days after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested that we give the virus containment efforts “a few more days or weeks…after that let’s go back to work and go back to living…”...

Earlier I suggested that that we offer unemployed people jobs that could be done from home: A 21st century jobs program would pay people to stay home and isolate, support people without...

From a Kevin Kelly email to me: Another weird data point on the highly heterogeneous nature of this virus. A friend of mine who lives in Bali says there have been 2 confirmed Covid-19...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: You may have heard the news today that Trump fired the independent Inspector General in charge of monitoring the $2 trillion coronavirus...

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the odds of Trump winning the election are slim at best no matter what he does. Continue reading →

A dishonest hit piece masquerading as journalism published by the far-left Daily Beast tries to defame both conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly and the grassroots John Birch Society...

Wisconsin's Republican-led legislature filed a legal challenge in a bid to stop the governor's stay-at-home order, which is set to last through May 26...

So-called centrist Benny Gantz has seemingly done everything in his power to assure Israel's left and center are crippled for years to come and that Netanyahu will continue his decades-long...

Countries currently facing US sanctions, around a quarter of the world’s population, are faring far better than the United States and leading the global fight against COVID-19...

Pheromone in baby mouse tears makes females less interested in sex(tags:sex mice pheromones )Quarantined stuntmen challenge(tags:stunts video pandemic viaSwampers )This satire...

20 week scan went well (except for confusion about which hospital to go to), and Thor is normal sized in every way - except for having inherited Jane's extremely long legs. She is very...

I am a bad person, no doubt about it. Not so much because of the things I do – I’m generally polite, easy to talk to, co-operative. I separate our garbage for recycling, occasionally...

I am seriously beginning to worry that soon I will arrive at the point where I have watched Netflix. I mean totally watched it, in the sense of having read a book, or seen a specific film...