DeSantis On NCAA’s Threat To Boycott States Protecting Women’s Sports

During a Fox News interview on Tuesday night, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis responded to threats from the NCAA to ban events in Florida if the state passed bills protecting women’s sports by banning biological males from competing in them. “I think as these bills were going through various legislatures, I remember the NCAA put out a statement saying any state that enacts this, we’re not going to hold events there,” DeSantis said. “And so I called the Speaker of the House in Florida and I said, ‘did you hear what they said?’ And he’s like, ‘yeah,’ I said, we

Pompeo: Wuhan Lab ‘Still Up And Running’

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On Saturday, Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed on Fox News that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where COVID-19 may have originated, “is still up and running.” “That virology lab is still up and running. It’s still probably conducting the same kinds of research it was conducting that may have well led to this virus escaping from that laboratory,” Pompeo said. Pompeo said that the lab was connected to the Chinese military, and was involved in military activity while performing other research. “What I can say for sure is this: we know that they were engaged in efforts connected to

China’s State Run Media: China Must Prepare For Nuclear War With U.S.

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The chief editor of China’s state-run Global Times, Hu Xijin, said that China needs to prepare for nuclear war with the United States after the U.S. ordered a 90-day investigation into whether COVID-19 was released by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “Given the intensifying U.S. strategic containment of China, I would like to remind once again that we have many urgent tasks, but one of the most important is to keep rapidly increasing the number of nuclear warheads and strategic missiles like the Dongfeng 41 with extremely long-range and high survival capabilities,” Hu Xijin wrote in a post on Chinese

Happy Memorial Day Dad – And Thanks

Battle of Leyte
Battle of Leyte

Memorial Day is here. Which turns my thoughts again to my own Dad. In World War II my Dad – Nelville Bernard Lord, aka “Bus” or “Buzz” – served as a Captain of Artillery. He was assigned to the Pacific, and, as I eventually got him to talk about on video camera during a long-ago summer vacation, one of his most notable memories was participating in the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines. [adsanity_group num_ads=”1″ align=”aligncenter” num_columns=”1″ group_ids=”2381″/] For those not familiar with it, here’s the Wikipedia description: “The Battle of Leyte (Filipino: Labanan sa Leyte; Waray: Gubat ha Leyte;

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