The midterm elections are a month away, and I would like to ask a favor: Please make sure that you vote. Please encourage your friends and family to vote. We need all the help that we can get. Perhaps you feel that voting is a useless exercise that exists to legitimize...
(Just The News)—Democratic U.S. Senate candidates are divided on whether to eliminate the filibuster if the party takes control of the upper legislative chamber in November. The Cook Political Report, a national election analysis hub, rated partisan control of the U.S. Senate as a “true toss up,” meaning either...
The Mojave does not keep secrets forever. It just waits for a backhoe. Edward Perez was 46. Ricky Allen Phillips was 61. Both lived in the Lancaster area. Both vanished in September. Both were pulled out of the dirt this week from shallow graves beneath the ribs of an...
They do not drag the vice president, the secretaries of State and Defense, the CIA director, the Joint Chiefs chairman, and the president’s deal man up to Camp David for a scenic Friday unless somebody is about to get hit. Axios reported that President Trump’s top national security aides...
A 17-year-old senior is dead at Benjamin Franklin High School in Highland Park, and the district that was supposed to keep him alive has a spreadsheet full of fights and a statement full of condolences. Xavier Nungaray jumped from a fourth-floor balcony on September 30 after a classmate pummeled...
Moderna’s DAN-COMBO trial will compare its mRNA-1083 COVID-flu combination vaccine with separate COVID-19 and high-dose flu shots in up to 410,000 Danish adults age 65 and older. Scientists and physicians critical of mRNA vaccines are raising concerns about the trial’s design, including the lack of a placebo group and...
A supplement long associated with bodybuilders and competitive athletes may offer significant benefits to middle-aged and older adults, including those who do not exercise regularly. New research suggests that creatine monohydrate could help preserve muscle mass, improve physical strength, and potentially support certain aspects of memory as people age....
Tom Cruise used to put bodies in seats by hanging off airplanes. This weekend he put almost nobody in seats by hanging off a climate sermon Warner Bros. was too proud to describe. Digger opened Friday, October 2, and the early math is ugly. Deadline had Thursday previews at...
France is calling them student riots. The soundtrack does not match the label. In Carpentras on October 1, outside Lycée Victor Hugo, a crowd that was supposed to be angry about missing teachers brandished a Palestinian flag and chanted "On a brûlé Israël" and "C'est qui les Juifs ?...
There is a lie that sounds like good news. It says the cross settled the sin question so thoroughly that fighting sin is now optional, maybe even unspiritual. Jesus paid it all, the lie continues, so stop obsessing. Relax. You are covered. The more you fail, the brighter grace...
(End of the American Dream)—A nuclear war is not going to start because everyone agrees that they want one to happen. Rather, a nuclear war will start because someone decides that the next escalation will still be manageable. At this moment leaders all over the world are engaged in...
Bodie is dead. The gold is gone. The saloons are empty. And the state of California is still opening packages from people who pocketed a rock on the way out and then decided the universe was mad at them. That is the strange little story the New York Post...
President Trump looked a magazine interviewer in the eye and said the quiet part out loud. He regrets Neil Gorsuch. He regrets Brett Kavanaugh. He regrets Amy Coney Barrett. All three. The men and the woman who gave him a 6-3 Court, ended Roe, and recognized presidential immunity for...
(Just The News)—U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal questioned the competence of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson during the confusion over the news conference after the July 26 Bite of Seattle triple-fatal shooting, new records The Center Square obtained Thursday show. At 10:12 p.m., Jayapal messaged Gov. Bob Ferguson, writing “I’m wondering...
James Talarico wants Texas to believe the Son of God was running a pilot program for socialized medicine. On Sunday he posted the line his campaign has been waiting to go viral. When Jesus healed the sick, He did not ask for a deductible. Therefore, Talarico says, his fight...
