Average Gas Price One Year Ago Was $2.25 per Gallon

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The national average gas price per gallon in the United States on the eve of the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol was under $2.25 per gallon, while it hit a record-breaking price of over $4.10 per gallon as of March 7, 2022, according to reports.

The date, January 6, has been in headlines lately, thanks to the recent criminal conviction Tuesday of the first defendant in the Capitol riot to go to trial. . .

A ride to the “insurrection” would have been almost two dollars per gallon cheaper on the date of the Capitol riot.

Fuels Market News, citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration, reported on Jan. 6, 2021: “Retail prices for gasoline averaged $2.249/gallon.” (Read more from “Average Gas Price One Year Ago Was $2.25 per Gallon” HERE)

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Watching Porn Devastates Men’s Sexual Satisfaction and Performance

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A new study has found frequent porn viewing can have disastrous effects on men’s sex lives — leaving them with low self-esteem, erectile dysfunction and an inability to satisfy their lovers.

The study, published last month in the journal Psychological Medicine, surveyed more than 20,000 French-speaking adults over a period of two years to determine the findings.

The academics initially distributed a questionnaire to the candidates, asking them about the frequency of their porn consumption, before measuring it against three key categories: sexual self-competence, sexual function and partner-reported sexual satisfaction. . .

The research found that the more kinky videos a man watched over time, the more likely he was to report poor levels of sexual function. Frequent porn viewers had more problems maintaining erections and reaching ejaculation [and] they reported lower levels of desire when it came time to have actual sex. . .

The findings aren’t a surprise to Brad Salzman, founder of the New York Sexual Addiction Center, who told The Post he has treated many men whose sex lives have been destroyed by porn. (Read more from “Watching Porn Devastates Men’s Sexual Satisfaction and Performance” HERE)

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‘Half the Country’ Did Speak the COVID Truths the CDC Director Insists ‘Nobody Said’ — And They Were Smeared

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Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, should be eating crow these days but is instead deflecting from her agency’s litany of Covid failures. In keeping with her track record of getting things wrong, she got them woefully wrong again — this time, not with regard to Covid but with regard to the people who disagree with her expert guidance.

During a visit to the Washington University School of Medicine on Thursday, Walensky threw a one-two punch at her critics, but it didn’t quite land. It instead only broadcast more elitist hubris and reinforced why federal health bureaucrats haven’t retained a shred of credibility. . .

In response to a different question about risk-benefit assessments a few moments later, she said, chuckling snidely (or as she characterized it, “a little bit tongue in cheek”), “I know I’m going to be wrong for half the country, so now that I’ve accepted that.”

The obvious implication of her remark, of course, is that no matter what she says, “half the country” will disagree with her expert opinion. Throughout the pandemic, this half has included those who have resisted mask mandates for schoolchildren (which Walensky admitted have not been dictated by science but by teachers union demands), those who have hesitated to get the Covid shot, those who have gathered with friends and family, and those unvaccinated with natural immunity who declined to wear a mask, just to name a few.

But the irony is that this “half the country” also included the people who said precisely the same things Walensky now insists “nobody said.” (Read more from “‘Half the Country’ Did Speak the COVID Truths the CDC Director Insists ‘Nobody Said’ — And They Were Smeared” HERE)

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‘The Only Clip You Need to See’: Viral Video Sums up UNT ‘Anti-Trans’ Protest in Less Than 10 Seconds

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Student protests over an “anti-trans” speaker took a turn toward the absurd Wednesday night at the University of North Texas.

Texas House candidate Jeff Younger, who is fighting against gender reassignment surgeries for children, was scheduled to speak by UNT’s branch of the Young Conservatives of Texas about how the Texas judiciary stripped him of his right to protect his then 7-year-old son, James, from “chemical castration” in 2019.

To recap, Jeff Younger lost custody of James over not wanting his ex-wife , Dr. Anne Georgulas, to transition the child’s gender using puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Younger is now campaigning against gender-change treatments for children.

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Groundbreaking Immunotherapy Study Shows Cancerous Tumors Disappearing Within a Week (VIDEO)

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Scientists are celebrating positive results from an immunotherapy study, which showed success in making malignant tumors in mice disappear within a week.

The startling findings were made by a group of scientists at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. The group collaborated with researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Virginia.

The study, published in the journal Science Advances, was led by Omid Veiseh, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice University, and Amanda Nash.

Veiseh explained that the research team had developed tiny “drug factories” — the size of a pin head — which they then implanted into mice with minimally invasive surgery. These implants delivered continuous high doses of interleukin-2, which is a molecule that works with the immune system to help regulate the activities of white blood cells in fighting cancer.

The drug-producing beads were placed beside the tumors or within the peritoneum — a membrane that lines the abdominal wall and covers most of the abdominal organs — ensuring that the drugs were at their highest concentration around the tumor and limiting exposure elsewhere. (Read more from “Groundbreaking Immunotherapy Study Shows Cancerous Tumors Disappearing Within a Week” HERE)

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DC Elites Have Opened Americans to Nuclear Attack, so Americans Must Protect Themselves; Congress Introduces Bill Banning Russian Oil Imports (VIDEO)

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By The Federalist. . .The current narrative is that the national security of the United States requires the defense of Ukraine against Russian aggression. Much as we abhor the suffering of Ukrainians, most especially children, however, a free Ukraine is not necessary for the defense of the United States. . .

To be clear, Russia today does not have armed forces that are sufficient to invade and wage a successful war in the United States. Witness their current progress in Ukraine.

What Russia does possess is a nuclear arsenal that is capable of destroying the land-based nuclear forces of the United States, American cities and their populations, and American military bases abroad that do play a strategic role in the defense of the United States. They also possess advanced ballistic missile defense systems to protect Moscow and strategic positions throughout Russia. . .

For all of our tough talk about America’s military might, the United States does not possess a missile defense capable of stopping Russian or Chinese ballistic missiles. We are also not able to stop a ship-launched ballistic missile should the Iranians or any other nation choose to serve as a surrogate for such an attack. . .

America’s Democratic elites, especially those in the White House today, have intentionally left us vulnerable to nuclear attack in the belief that war, especially nuclear war, was not possible. This was underscored by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announcing to the world that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” (Read more from “DC Elites Have Opened Americans to Nuclear Attack, so Americans Must Protect Themselves” HERE)

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Congress Introduces Bill Banning Russian Oil Imports, Suspending Normal Trade Relations With Russia, Belarus

By Daily Wire. The leaders of the top House and Senate Committees overseeing trade policy have announced bipartisan legislation suspending normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

CSPAN Capitol Hill Producer Craig Caplan reported that House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) and Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX), along with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-ID) had announced the deal Monday.

“As Russia continues its unprovoked attack on the Ukrainian people, we have agreed on a legislative path forward to ban the import of energy products from Russia and to suspend normal trade relations with both Russia and Belarus,” the four Congressional leaders said in a statement Monday, via Caplan. “While Congress needs to do more, as congressional [leaders with] jurisdiction over our nation’s trade policy, we are committed to using the tools at our disposal to stop Russia’s unconscionable & unjust war on Ukraine & hold Belarus accountable for its involvement.”

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Trump Rips Barr as ‘Lazy and Cowardly’ Over 2020 Election

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Former President Donald Trump berated William Barr in a furious letter to NBC, calling him “lazy and cowardly” for not aggressively investigating the 2020 election.

Trump claimed “radical left” Democrats “broke him just like a trainer breaks a horse” in a letter responding to Barr’s interview with Lester Holt to promote his new book, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General.

“I would imagine that if the book is anything like him, it will be long, slow, and very boring. I made many great appointments during my Administration, and we accomplished more than most Administrations could even dream of, but Bill Barr was not one of my better picks,” Trump wrote. “He crumbled under the pressure, and bowed to the Radical Left — And that is not acceptable. Now he is groveling to the media, hoping to gain acceptance that he doesn’t deserve.”

Barr sat down for an interview with Holt that aired Sunday to promote his new memoir, which will be released Tuesday. NBC asked Trump to respond to comments Barr made during that interview, which triggered the letter. Barr’s book will recount significant challenges he faced during his two stints as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush and President Donald Trump. During a separate interview on the Today Show on Monday, Barr dismissed Trump’s disparagement as “par for the course.” (Read more from “Trump Rips Barr as ‘Lazy and Cowardly’ Over 2020 Election” HERE)

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Insanity: Teachers Union Argues for Continuation of Mask Mandates Until May to Maintain a Sense of ‘Normalcy’

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A Seattle teachers union is pushing for keeping the district’s school mask mandate in place until May, despite the state and county no longer requiring masks, arguing that the forced masking ensures a sense of “safety and normalcy.”

Seattle Education Association President Jennifer Matter told NPR-affiliate KUOW that the mask mandate should remain until at least May 1, two weeks after students return from spring break, saying there “should be no rush to lift the mask mandate.”

“We have people who are immunocompromised, we have pregnant educators, we have educators who have children of their own that are under 5 years of age that cannot be vaccinated,” she said.

This comes after Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee (D) announced last week that the state’s indoor mask mandate, including for schools, would be lifted beginning March 12.

Yet, Seattle Public Schools said in a statement last week that it would maintain its school mask mandate “until further notice.” (Read more from “Insanity: Teachers Union Argues for Continuation of Mask Mandates Until May to Maintain a Sense of ‘Normalcy'” HERE)

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Christian University Bans Professor From Campus for Critiquing Its Dive Into ‘Equity’ and ‘Inclusion’

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A professor was locked out of his classes and email account without warning in apparent retaliation for criticizing his Christian university’s use of “diversity” and “equity” as criteria for selecting its new president, he and several witnesses told The Federalist.

The Rev. Dr. Greg Schulz was immediately and indefinitely suspended from his classes at Concordia University Wisconsin and banned from campus by interim college President William Cario on Feb. 18, a Friday. That was not formally conveyed to Schulz, however, until his lawyer obtained the suspension letter on Feb. 22, Schulz’s Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty attorney Dan Lennington told The Federalist.

“They told him to ‘recant’ in a memo that they never gave him,” Lennington said in a phone call. Lennington also noted his public interest law firm, which won a high-profile 2016 academic freedom case in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, has “never heard of something like this” swift ejection of a professor from campus for publicly expressing his views.

Schulz found out about his suspension and campus ban from colleagues after he couldn’t log into his work email on the weekend, said Schulz and his department chair, Dr. Angus Menuge. Menuge said Schulz’s suspension meant that colleagues, several already teaching double courseloads amid a hiring freeze, had to suddenly pick up all of Schulz’s classes. (Read more from “Christian University Bans Professor From Campus for Critiquing Its Dive Into ‘Equity’ and ‘Inclusion’” HERE)

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One Teenager Killed, Two Others in Critical Condition After High School Shooting

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One teenager was killed and two others are in critical condition following a shooting outside of an Iowa high school Monday, according to authorities.

Police responded to a report of “multiple shooting victims” on the school grounds of East High School in Des Moines around 2:48 p.m. on Monday afternoon.

Police said the gunfire appears to have come from a passing vehicle.

The three teenage victims were taken to a local hospital, where one was pronounced dead after succumbing to his injuries. The two others are currently in critical condition, Des Moines cops said.

Police would not confirm whether or not the teens were students at the high school, according to WHO 13. (Read more from “One Teenager Killed, Two Others in Critical Condition After High School Shooting” HERE)

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