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Ted Cruz has long criticized career politicians in both parties for not listening to the American people; indeed, he started a Twitter hashtag #MakeDCListen on this very issue and has taken to the Senate floor on a number of occasions to urge DC to listen to the people who elected them. … Cruz once again took to the Senate floor to berate career politicians in both parties, particularly Republican leadership…
…Take the steak home. Get a bigass frying pan and put the shit on the stove, cranking the heat up as far as that fucker will go.…
Scientists across Africa are celebrating the news that the world's first vaccine against malaria has been approved by the European Medicines Agency. The vaccine, named Mosquirix, was given the green light on Friday after more than 30 years of research, detailed in 230,000 pages of data. It now means that the vaccine will be examined by the World Health Organisation and, if approved, could be administered to children across Africa within the next few years.… [Video: Auto-run]
…You may know these physical feelings as chills or tingles – but some people feel them so powerfully, they describe the sensations as “skin orgasms”.… researchers have then been able to pinpoint the kinds of features that are more likely to trigger the different sensations during a musical frisson. Sudden changes in harmony, dynamic leaps (from soft to loud), and melodic appoggiaturas… seem to be particularly powerful.
…Finally, after a month of tests, they discovered he has a rare auto-immune disease called transverse myelitis, that attacks the spinal cord. Integris neurologist Dr. Farhat Husain says the disease affects eight out of one million people. So rare, many doctors don't catch it.
"Doctors who are not used to seeing the patients with transverse myelitis may misdiagnose it as neuropathy and they sometimes think it is arthritis," said Husain.
Once patients get the correct diagnosis, Husain says it is treatable, but getting full mobility back isn't guaranteed. …
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging its proposed Clean Power Plan contradicts at least three statutory bars and two constitutional limits on federal power.… "The Clean Power Plan is an unlawful attempt to expand federal bureaucrats’ authority over states’ energy economies in order to shutter coal-fired power plants and eventually other sources of fossil-fuel generated electricity."…
SALEM, Ore. (July 2, 2015) On Tuesday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a bill into law that prohibits law enforcement from obtaining information from electronic devices without a warrant in most cases. The new law will not only protect privacy in Oregon, but will also address a practical effect of federal spying.…
Washington DC -- Get ready for a complete redrawing of the States of the United States of America. Gone will be the old familiar State lines. These will be replaced with the new States of America.'
Is it even imaginable that the “Justices” who just voted to:
- Ignore the written text of a bill and all the collateral evidence that says “and we really mean it this way;”
- Seize political control of the oldest and least political of all human institutions;
...don’t know what they’ve done?…
…Using the same “due process clause” argument as the Supreme Court just applied to gay marriage, my concealed carry permit must now be recognized as valid in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.“…
ISIS Celebrates Gay Love by Tossing 4 Gays from Roof of Building
Professor: Why Nebraska, Oklahoma have a right to kill Colorado’s legal pot
A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of an Oklahoma death row inmate who died in a flawed execution… the process did not violate constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.…
HARTFORD, Conn. (June 18, 2015) On Tuesday, a bill that would remove the ban on industrial hemp farming in the state, setting the stage to effectively nullify in practice the federal prohibition on the same, became law without a signature from the Governor.…
The Delaware state Senate gave approval yesterday to a bill that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana for private use. Governor Jack Markell immediately signed the bill.…
AUSTIN, Tex. (June 16, 2015) – Today, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill to effectively nullify in practice some Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules preventing terminally-ill patients from accessing treatments. …known as the Right to Try Act, gives terminally-ill patients access to medicines that have not been given final approval for use by the FDA.…
AUGUSTA, Maine (June 16, 2015) – Today, the Maine state Senate joined the House and voted to override Gov. LePage’s veto of a bill to authorize hemp farming in the state without gaining any federal permission. …amends the current hemp farming law in the state by removing a requirement that licenses are contingent on approval by the Federal Government.…
Today, The Heritage Foundation releases “Arresting Your Property: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Turns Police Into Profiteers.” … reveals the dark side of civil forfeiture, where the government seizes your property without ever convicting you of, or even charging you with, a crime, and then keeps the profits for its own coffers. Here are nine such examples…
AUSTIN, Tex. (June 12, 2015) – Today, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill establishing the nation’s first state-level gold depository, an important first step towards gold and silver as commonly-used legal tender in the state. … Professor William Greene is an expert on constitutional tender and said in a paper for the Mises Institute that when people in multiple states actually start using gold and silver instead of Federal Reserve Notes, it would effectively nullify the Federal Reserve and end the federal government’s monopoly on money. …
A bill that would effectively nullify in practice certain Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that prevent terminally ill patients from accessing treatments was signed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott today.…
Six decades after a banana-killing fungus all but wiped out plantations across Latin America, a new strain threatens to destroy global harvests.…
This is the last post on this blog. I am leaving Sweden for good shortly, and will no longer be following its descent from what was once the third most prosperous country in the world. Frankly, it’s just too damn depressing. … When I was a child, Sweden was a dull yet very safe place to live. … Today, it’s as if the inmates are running the asylum.…
Najeeb Michael is a Dominican monk who used to live in the Iraqi city of Mosul. His days at the monastery were spent digitising rare historical manuscripts. Less than a year ago, as the Islamic State group was about to take over Mosul, Najeeb knew that these artefacts would be destroyed if they fell into the jihadists’ hands. He tells us how he managed to smuggle thousands of the precious documents out of the city before fleeing himself. Some of them are now on display in Paris.…
…Palmyra is one of a handful of places on the planet — along with Machu Picchu, Petra and the Taj Mahal — whose presence can't easily be conveyed through a camera lens. You don't get a proper sense of it from the Discovery Channel. You have to see the rosy pillars rising from the trackless desert for yourself.
The thought of those ancient remains under the sledgehammers of the jihadi iconoclasts is almost unbearable.…
…apparently, it is all down to how dirty buckets are when the milk is collected…
11-year-old child prodigy Tanishq Abraham… graduating from college with… three different degrees. The talented kid from California… last year… [finished] high school at the age of ten… a year later, he’s finished college with three associate degrees.…
A bill taking a step towards gold and silver as commonly-used legal tender in Texas passed in the state Senate today by an overwhelming 29-2 vote.
A group of Senate Democrats is urging the Obama administration to allow at least 65,000 Syrian refugees to settle inside the United States. … [Um… how about, No."
Okla City, May 20 …14-year-old… thrown to the ground and beaten relentlessly, while a teacher was taking attendance. … Junior ROTC student was taken to the nurse’s office and checked out. … had several teeth knocked out, his gums were severely damaged and he had teeth penetrating his chin.… ambulance was never dispatched. … administrators called [his] mother, who works 30 miles away.… more than an hour to come to her son’s aid.… will need reconstructive surgery and is limited to a liquid diet for the next three months.… school district… saying, “We are deeply saddened and share the mother’s concerns in regards to her son’s injuries.” [Deeply saddened… by this criminal behavior by our wardens.]
Perhaps you weren't eating bugs because it wasn't easy enough to prepare them. Well, now there's the Entopod. …
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