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Well informed citizens have been rocked by revelations from recently unclassified documents that clearly show THAT President Obama "was aware of the details of wiretapped conversations of then-incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016." Further, there's a long list of Democrat dignitaries who are also part of the unprecedented spying on an opposition party in an attempt to influence a presidential election and then undermine the duly elected president. The really pivotal fact, however, is that "Obama's knowledge of Flynn being wiretapped raises significant questions about what Obama knew and when he knew...

Four days after Judge Schnider unsealed the custody records, Ryan dropped out of the race for the horror of (allegedly) propositioning his own wife and then taking “no” for an answer. Alan Keyes stepped in as a last-minute Republican candidate. And that’s how Obama became a U.S. senator. He destroyed both his Democratic primary opponent and his Republican general election opponent with salacious allegations about their personal lives taken from “sealed” court records. Obama’s team delved into Sarah Palin’s marriage and spread rumors of John McCain’s alleged affair in 2008 and they smeared Herman Cain in 2011 with hazy sexual...

In the 40 years that humans have been traveling into space, the suits they wear have changed very little. The bulky, gas-pressurized outfits give astronauts a bubble of protection, but their significant mass and the pressure itself severely limit mobility. Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, wants to change that. Newman is working on a sleek, advanced suit designed to allow superior mobility when humans eventually reach Mars or return to the moon. Her spandex and nylon BioSuit is not your grandfather's spacesuit--think more Spiderman, less John Glenn. Traditional bulky spacesuits "do...

Since we are polling about Science Fiction stuff...

Leonard Nimoy endorsed the idea; so did Patrick Stewart. And for more than 17 years, fans have been clamoring for it. Yet still, Star Trek has not a single gay character on any of its shows. Now, the fans are tired of waiting, and some of them are taking matters into their own hands. It's the final days of the Dominion War and a mysterious race, called the Grey, have attacked several Federation ships in the McCallister C-5 Nebula, using devastating psionic attacks and leaving few crewmembers alive. The USS Excelsior NCC-77246, under the command of Capt. Ian Quincy Knapp,...