 A
person pretending to be a police officer assassinated a
Democratic state legislator in Minnesota and killed the
lawmaker's husband in an act of targeted political violence.
The assailant also shot and severely injured another
Democratic lawmaker and his wife, both shootings possibly
because of votes by both legislators to cut benefits to
illegal aliens. More |
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Father's
Day did not become a national holiday until 1972. Why did it
take so long to pass into law, unlike Mother's Day, which
was quickly embraced? The idea of Father's Day being similar
to Mother's Day, for fathers, it didn't have the same
appeal. As one historian writes, men ''scoffed at the
holiday's sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with
gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such
holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products-often
paid for by the father himself.'' More
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 Millions
are living and working near Mt. Rainier in Washington, and
many don't know it is an active volcano. Mount Rainier
is one of the most potentially deadly volcanoes in the
United States. In 1989, it was declared a ''decade
volcano'' to be studied during the International Decade for
Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). Mount Rainier was chosen
as a decade volcano because of the hazards it poses to the
highly populated areas surrounding it, the large quantity of
ice and snow covering its slopes, and its extensive - but
vastly unstudied volcanic history. More |
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One of our children, who knows
about such things, baked brownies for my wife Hazel to help her
with pain when she was fighting cancer in 2019. Here is the
recipe. More |

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