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Why are people still making accusations about Trump and Epstein even after Trump was cleared by the Epstein files that were released. Let’s see if people can still use their brains to follow the facts and come up with the logical conclusion.

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One of my longstanding complaints about the Republican Party is that they are unenthusiastic and weak; they don’t try hard enough to win.

Case in point; in this November’s congressional elections, there 18 races where the Democrat is running unopposed, compared to 1 race where the Republican is running unopposed. Yoiks!

SciTechDaily.

Or maybe not.

One of the biggest puzzles in origin of life research comes before the first cells even existed: How could RNA molecules gather in one place, interact, and help produce early life without cellular compartments to hold them together?

Without those boundaries, fragile RNA molecules would have struggled to encounter one another often enough in the primordial soup, while also surviving the hot and acidic conditions thought to characterize early Earth.

One possible solution is RNA’s ability to collect into liquid-like droplets known as condensates. These structures have no membrane, but they could have concentrated RNA molecules in small spaces, giving them more opportunities to interact while potentially offering some protection from harsh surroundings.

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Explore the proud tradition of Senate challenge coins, symbols of service, commitment, and democratic values. Each coin honors the dedication and achievements of our nation’s legislators. Begin your collection or commemorate service with these distinguished tokens of governance and excellence.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Personally, I don’t associate ‘governance’ with ‘excellence’, in which opinion I believe I have the support of all human history. But that’s just me.

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CTH continues to get considerable questioning about how the U.S-Canada fracture will take place, what it means for the Canadian dollar (CAD) and when the issues can be expected to apex. It appears that part of the reasoned disconnect people are struggling with is directly related to the messaging from the Canadian government in combination with the financial media.

In short, despite the increased trade friction, a decoupling of the U.S. economy from the Canadian economy just seems unfathomable to most observers. The main question we receive is ‘when will things happen‘? Meaning when will financial markets react? The most obvious answer to that question is, when the USA announces the termination of the USMCA (CUSMA) trilateral.

If you hold the opinion that all of these trade friction points will be resolved within the margins of the USMCA, then it is correct to predict that no significant material impact will be felt north of the border. If, however, you hold the opinion that the USMCA will be terminated because the core of the issues between the two countries are irreconcilable, then the material impact will come as soon as that announcement is made.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the only Canadian government official to attend President Trump’s inauguration, appears on Fox Business. Like all other Canadian officials, she cannot contemplate the elimination of CUSMA/NAFTA. Such an outcome is simply beyond her comprehension.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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A small sideline story that reflects a combination of sociological and economic facets. A Yacht Club in the Hamptons of New York is forced to cancel their restaurant services after their staff is removed from the USA due to immigration enforcement.

The swanky oceanfront Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett — which reportedly charges around $100,000 in initiation fees — canceled its Wednesday night dinner service after its foreign cooks had to leave the US because of problems renewing their H-2B temporary work visas, according to a letter sent to members the same day.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

The “dough feeder”. The sauce and cheese modules – even the pepperoni-sprinkler. All lay still.
A now defunct duo of robots were supposed to be churning out pizzas at a Moto Pizza restaurant in Seattle.
However, in May the pair were rendered “basically useless” when their supplier, Picnic, abruptly shut down. Technical support for the robots evaporated at that moment, says Lee Kindell, founder and chief executive of Moto Pizza.

Welcome to the real world.

He was left wondering what to do with the $160,000 (£118,000), cabinet-like machines and whether buying in pizza bots was really worth it.
“I don’t know if I want to do a partnership again because of the failures,” he says.

Bear in mind that the Narrative Media regard AI and robots as an existential threat to all that is Right and Good second only to Donald Trump.

People who invest in immature technologies hoping to steal a march on their competitors are always SO SURPRISED when they crash and burn.

George Carlin: “Consider how stupid the average person is. Then consider that half of the population is even more stupid than that.”

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Humanity’s family tree is long and tangled. Scientists sort our ancient relatives into three familiar groups: Homo, Australopithecus, and Paranthropus.

Each of these is a “genus,” the rank just above a species. (In Homo sapiens, Homo is the genus and sapiens is the species.)

These names dominate how we talk about human origins. But new fossils, advances in genetic analysis, and more rigorous methods for figuring out who’s related to whom show these groupings don’t really reflect the true shape of our family tree.

Is it therefore time to come up with a new way to classify humans and our closely related extinct relatives? As I argue in a new paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, the current system is overdue for revision.

I’m fully comfortable with thinking that homo sapiens and proglodytes are different species.

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There are many people in Canada demanding to see the rough draft proposals of the U.S-Canada trade agreement so they can judge for themselves the issues that Carney claimed were irreconcilable. For those people this interview today by Canadian Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc will only embolden those requests.

Trade Emissary LeBlanc outlined the major fracture points that drove Prime Minister Mark to reject the deal. I’ll put the full interview below which everyone should watch because what LeBlanc outlined is rather funny. Carney was obviously looking for a reason to walk away, because the fracture points were ridiculously small.

Essentially, it boils down to four issues. !1) Removal of tariffs on Canadian assembled Semi-Trucks. (2) U.S. streaming services writing code for “search engines” in the French language. (3) Canada demanding 5% of gross revenues from U.S. tech platforms, and the last one is silly because it already exists: (4) the U.S. having a right to reject a trade deal made by Canada with a non-market economy, ie. CHINA.

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The title of this article may immediately invite accusations of racism. Since nothing could be further from the truth, in my case, than such an accusation, let me begin with a crucial distinction, which I shall then explain: that between racial realism and what I will call ethnic memory. This distinction can help clarify a number of political disputes. Leftists will argue, for instance, that the United States and even European countries have always been multicultural. There is some truth to this in the American case, but ‘multicultural’ meant something different in the late 18th century than it does today. In those times, ‘multicultural’—the physical reality, not the later term—might mean Englishmen and Frenchmen, rather than Englishmen and Pakistanis, living side by side and creating a new nation. So one must be precise in one’s use of terms.

I would prefer ‘monocultural’ to ‘monoethnic’.

John C. Wright.

Allow me to reprint this convenient list other commentators compiled.

[List of 62 Trump wins as of July 2026]

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States want nuclear energy. That makes sense.

They all face the same problem. States need energy now and lots of it. According to one industry analysis, electricity demand could grow by more than 55% by 2050. To put this into context, according to the Energy Policy Research Foundation, electricity production grew by a mere 0.5% from 2003 to 2023.

Change is obviously on the way.

What does this mean?

It means more tedious whining from environmental ‘activists’.

Activist: Someone who isn’t happy unless pissing in someone else’s soup.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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A draft rule now moving through the Commerce Department would rewrite how many House seats each state gets by narrowing who counts as a “resident” on Census Day. The proposal hasn’t been published in the Federal Register. Nobody’s voted on it. But the fact that Washington is drafting it at all tells you the current system has a problem worth naming out loud.

Here’s the problem in one sentence: The Constitution hands out political power based on how many people live somewhere, not on how many of them can vote for the people who end up representing them.

I spend my working life allocating capital for people who have a stake in the outcome. In my business, you don’t get a seat on the board because you happen to be standing in the lobby. You get one because you own something. Congress runs on a different theory.

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British Professor Lawrence Goldman tells you what the Wokerati don’t want you to know.

The transatlantic slave trade took 12 million Africans to the New World, but was exceeded by the 17 million Africans who were enslaved by Arabs an other Muslims into the Ottoman Empire and further on in Asia.

Slavery was a universal component of every human society until Christians in the 19th century decided to stop it.

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Grady at Practical Engineering lays out how the Port of Long Beach solved a problem.

The Port of Long Beach in Southern California is the second-busiest container seaport in the United States, a major gateway for goods flowing to and from the west coast. Together with its next door neighbor, the Port of Los Angeles, roughly half a TRILLION dollars worth of trade moves through the port every year. To keep up with the staggering growth of shipping demand, the port is in a nearly constant state of improvement and expansion.

In the early 2000s, Long Beach was expanding the container storage yard at the Pier T Marine Terminal, but engineers hit a problem. The area they were expanding into was an old, disused dry dock, much lower than the rest of the yard. They were going to need a lot of fill to bring it up. There aren’t many more difficult paving challenges than a container terminal. You have constant heavy traffic of cranes, forklifts, and yard trucks, and the local fill materials that are available are junk: soft, water-logged silt scraped from the bottom of the ocean that has the structural integrity of a cake in the rain.

Traditionally, you would have to dig out all the muck, then haul in a literal mountain of expensive backfill, a process that would cost millions of dollars and take years. Instead, the engineers turned to a solution that looks more like a giant plastic accordion than a structural foundation. This 3D network did more than just hold the soil in place; it physically transformed those mushy dredged spoils into a high-capacity platform capable of supporting 100-ton machines and rows and rows of heavy container stacks.

The prefix “geo” gets a lot of work in the world of engineering. Just tack it on something semi-technical-sounding, and there’s a good chance there’s a product out there. Geotextile, geogrid, geofoam, and more. Today I want to show you how geocells work, and of course I built a little model in the garage so you can see it in action. I’m Grady and this is Practical Engineering.

My wife tells me that this is me in a nutshell.

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We need to get the best stuff available, and work around the fact that American industry is degrading rapidly.

Task & Purpose.

The United States military hasn’t operated a seaplane, or amphibious flying boat, since the Coast Guard retired the HU-16 Albatross in 1983. For 73 years, this kind of aircraft had been essential for everything from search and rescue to resupply. With the vast expanses of the Pacific theater in mind, an argument can be made that the versatile seaplanes of yesteryear should return to their former glory.

United States Pacific Command is made up of over one hundred million square miles of territory, which is over half the Earth. The majority of that is water. This puts a premium on land, especially airfields. Despite technological leaps that make crossing thousands of miles faster, and arguably easier, aviators still face some of the same hurdles today as they did back in World War II.

As leaders plan for a potential fight in the region, new doctrine like the Marines’ Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations and the Army’s Multi-Domain Operations all consider the challenge of maintaining logistics for small and dispersed teams in austere conditions, with little infrastructure for traditional cargo aircraft or watercraft.

The situation looks even more dire when you consider that existing airfields and ports would be high-value targets in the opening moments of a conflict, further complicating logistics.

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That’s about the same number of people as were killed in road accidents in Los Angeles County in 2025.

ATQUE: Pentagon says more than 750 US service members wounded in Iran war (Filip Timotija/The Hill)  Oh, the humanity! It’s another Ukraine quagmire!

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Think of it as evolution in action.

Why don’t they solve the problem the way they solved COVID? Lock everybody down.

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It’s been a long time since the Beatles convinced an entire generation of western youth in 1968 that “enlightenment” and personal peace could be found in the third world backwaters of India’s ashram retreats. As it turned out, the world famous band and the yogi scammers of that era would end up creating a trend that would sucker gullible liberals for decades to come.

The hippies were not smart, they were merely impressionable.

Today, the streets of India are likely the same in most places as they were back in the 1960s – Filled with trash and feces and not very safe. The country remains one of the most dangerous tourist markets on the planet for women – Around 90% of rapes go unreported due to law enforcement apathy and a culture of reprisal for women who come forward. Any travel outside of tourist enclaves is considered high risk.

British content creator Amy On The Move discovered this on her first trip to India, but she says she was willing to give the country a second chance. What she found was even more multicultural misery.

The problem with most white people is that when they find something likable or interesting they assume that everybody else will find it likable or interesting as well, with uniformly unpleasant results.

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Religion is the traditional source of sexual ethics, the rules meant to govern our sexual conduct. Its declining influence over our culture has left sexual ethics without a foundation, and yet the need for it clearly remains. Many people feel that an ethics based solely on consent cannot satisfy all the needs generated by our sexual nature. But is it possible to give secular reasons for sexual norms?

Roger Scruton thought so, and he made a compelling case for it in what is probably his best book, the unjustly neglected Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation (1986). Scruton’s views are worth revisiting in light of the sexual and romantic dysfunctions of our time. His perspective on sex may help people articulate their frustration and point us toward a better and more romantic ideal of what sex could be.

Even better is Dr. Davic M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between

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This is obviously God telling us not to eat Mexican food.

Plain as the nose on your face.]

Or the pain in your gut….

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Think of it as democracy in action.

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Pearl Davis speaks truth to fantasy.

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Climate alarmists treat fossil fuels as the producer of soot and environmental damage, yet the record is more complicated and quite positive. New research shows nitrogen deposition from the burning of hydrocarbons has helped to expand plant growth and the greening of large parts of the planet.

Truer than you know.

Dude, I was writing 10-page papers without knowing the name of the book.

In Latin. (Don’t ask for Greek….)

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There are how things operate in theory and how things operate in practice. A Law is an observation about how things in the natural world and human society operate with repeatable high levels of confidence. A Principle is similar to a Law, but does not rise to the same bar level. However, solidly founded Principles when observed can be written down and codified for reference with high degrees of trust in order to better run our affairs in this world.

I strongly recommend my friend Rick Brookhiser’s book, The Way of the WASP.

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I suspect that this is AI content, but nevertheless it has some interesting and useful information.

“Come back with a warrant” certainly works for me.

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump said he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory of the United States” despite having repeatedly failed to reopen it.

The US president on Friday said he would annex the waterway, before suggesting he already controlled it anyway.

Iranian officials accused Mr Trump of indulging in “fanciful delusions”.

During a speech in New York on Friday, Mr Trump said: “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.

“Essentially, that’s what it is. We have the blockade. No ships get through unless we want them to.”

Ah ah ah ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

The Telegraph (UK).

Middle-aged men have been stripped of their right to tests that help detect prostate cancer.

Men aged over 50 will no longer be entitled to a blood test to help identify the disease, with GPs instead deciding who is given one.

Experts described the decision as an “outrageous betrayal”.

Letting one’s doctor decide whether or not one needs a test) Inconceivable!

Of course, this is only an issue because in Britain medical care is provided by the government, and sparks a battle between those who believe that everything provided by the government is ipso factor a ‘right’ (plus those who believe that government bureaucrats, not doctors, ought to make your health care decisions) and those who think that doctors ought to make those decisions. Fortunately, in the U.S. we leave those decisions to the insurance companies, who naturally have our best interests at heart. What could possibly go wrong?

And then there are those anti-social individuals who can afford to have whatever care they want and decide for themselves. Splitters!

My kind of woman.

(I’m not to sure I’d trust a guy in his 40s who has a ‘favorite bird’. Sounds fake & gay to me.)

Guess where all the people flooding into Europe are coming from.

Go on. Guess.