Author: Bud Thomas

Georgia’s parliament began the third and final reading of a media influence bill known as “the Russian law” that sparked weeks of mass protests.The bill would require media and nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofits to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.Tens of thousands have gathered to protest the bill, which they believe will result in a crackdown on independent news media.Georgia’s parliament on Tuesday began the third and final reading of a divisive bill that sparked weeks of mass protests, with critics seeing it as a…

Is margarine what you should choose for your health — or is butter a better spread?”I think most people assume that margarine or butter replacements are a better choice for health because they’re lower in saturated fat, which isn’t necessarily true,” Jillian Kubala, a New York-based registered dietitian, told Fox News Digital. “Fats are often misunderstood and oversimplified, even by health professionals, which has led to a general demonization and fear of fats,” she also said. LIVER, INSECTS, SARDINES — OH MY!: 8 ‘GROSS’ FOODS THAT NUTRITIONISTS SAY YOU SHOULD EAT”The truth is that fats are highly complex, and their physiological effects depend on their…

Senate Democrats’ ugliest primary comes to a close Tuesday in reliably blue Maryland. Now they must heal the resulting political wounds before November — or risk losing the seat to popular former Gov. Larry Hogan. Democrats have a difficult map to defend, and they can hardly afford to worry about this seat in the fall. But the brutal nomination fight between Rep. David Trone and Angela Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s County executive, has reverberated through a party that usually handles primaries in a more civil fashion. Trone belittled Alsobrooks’ experience and endorsements from Prince George’s County, attacked her “special interest”…

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I’m a fan of spaces between words. Something about basic English appeals to me, and companies like SIG Sauer seem to hate them. Companies like Live Fire Training also hate spaces, so we get the Type3MalfunctionRound. That’s their spelling, and while it’s not attractive to look at, it’s what’s on the inside that counts. The Type3MalfunctionRound from a little company called Live Fire Tactical Training is a very simple and affordable training tool to sharpen your skills in fixing malfunctions.  We live in a day and age where guns are reliable—super reliable. Even affordable firearms tend to be quite reliable.…

Michael Cohen raised his right hand on Monday in the Manhattan trial of Donald Trump and swore to tell the truth.  It was a meaningless gesture.  Cohen has done it before and then proceeded to lie under oath. He went to prison for it after lying to courts, lying to banks, lying to Congress, and lying to the IRS. Yet, once again, Cohen insists that now he’s telling the truth. He wants jurors to believe him. This time.  Cohen presents a contradiction about truth and falsity. In philosophy and logic it’s known as the “liar’s paradox,” and it bedevils juries whenever habitual liars take the witness stand…

Social Temperature is kind of self-explanatory, but I think it warrants touching on. The TL;DR version is that anywhere you are there is a base level of social interaction. Once you get acclimated to that, your brain can better filter out what info it can ignore and what info is worth paying attention to for potential problems. I think this is important because a lot of people harp on “situational awareness” but don’t really delve into the details of what that process looks like. To the uninitiated, they think that can mean eyeballing everyone around you and doing a full…

MESA, Ariz. – Districts nationwide are shortening school weeks and packing more students into classrooms because there aren’t enough teachers. Arizona is just one state where almost a quarter of their teaching jobs are consistently vacant.School districts are fighting to fill some of those jobs in Arizona and half of the time they are filled by people who aren’t properly certified.  Representatives for school districts in the Phoenix-area say they’ve been feeling this shortage for almost a decade, and there’s no end in sight.  “Do I want to pay off my student loans? Yes. Would I like to take a vacation? Yes. Do I not want to…

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