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Have you heard about the "bee-pocalypse?" My new video explains. Honeybees are dying! It's another environmental crisis we're supposed to worry about. The media call it "bee-pocalypse" and "bee-mageddon!" A YouTube video with 15 million views says bee-mageddon "could lead to millions of people starving!"    

Voters in several states headed to the polls on Tuesday, weighing in on key races up and down the ballot in Oregon, Georgia, Kentucky and Idaho.  November matchups were solidified in a number of closely watched House contests, while President Biden and former President Trump sailed to victory in their respective party primaries in Kentucky and Oregon. At the same time, voters in California picked Republican Vince Fong in a special election to finish the rest of...

An astute friend recently observed that today’s crisis in the Middle East boils down to one question about two dates: Which historic moment is likelier to be reversed: 1948 or 1979? The dates are references to the creation of the state of Israel and, 31 years later, the Iranian revolution. The implication of the question is that it’s one or the other: The Jewish state and the Islamic republic cannot permanently coexist, at least so long as the latter seeks to destroy the former. Recent days...

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