2021

This is my favorite apple pie, well, cake, well apple slice. When I go to Germany, I always stop at Kamp’s Bakery in the airport or train station and get a piece or two to hold me over until dinner. This is as close as I’ve gotten to making their apfelkuchen. Read the entire recipe…

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ANDREW LIMBONG Updated September 28, 202112:09 PM ET Yes, we know they’re technically called “MacArthur fellows.” We also know that the MacArthur Foundation doesn’t love that the term “genius” has stuck around for so long. (The term is “both too narrow and too broad,” it says.) But when we’re talking about people researching pediatric brain cancer treatments…

Read More This Year’s MacArthur ‘Genius Grants’ Were Just Announced—Here’s The Full Winner List

“As a response to the #MeToo era, and in particular, the allegations of sexual harassment and assault in the political arena, a non-partisan panel of female lawmakers hopes to rewrite the rules of the workplace. In February of 2018, State Senator Melinda Bush, State Representative Carol Ammons, and State Comptroller Susana A. Mendoza formed the Anti-Harassment,…

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BY CHRISSY STROOP  OCTOBER 6, 2021 After 60 years at the helm of his Christian Broadcasting Network, and 55 hosting its signature “news” magazine broadcast, The 700 Club, the 91-year-old Southern Baptist minister and Christian media mogul Pat Robertson is retiring. The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political…

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By Emma Crist  Updated September 29, 2021 Pumpkin puree is not pumpkin. It’s squash. Pumpkin puree: You know, the canned orange stuff that’s lining the supermarket walls right now? The stuff you use to make all your favorite fall desserts that’s labeled “100% pumpkin”?! Yes, well, it’s actually made from 100% not pumpkin. The mix is made from a…

Read More I Just Found Out Canned Pumpkin Isn’t Pumpkin At All, And My Whole Life is Basically a Lie

BY DAVID WEISSMAN UPDATED OCTOBER 07, 2021 10:52 AM Pain Killer Beach Twenty years ago in Myrtle Beach, authorities shuttered one of America’s first “pill mills.” No one knew the nation’s opioid crisis was just getting started. Myrtle Beach has no shortage of popular tourist attractions, so it was curious that throngs of out-of-town visitors…

Read More The dark history of the deadly SC opioid epidemic begins at a Myrtle Beach pain clinic

When Bruce Aidells was growing up, his family’s Hanukkah-Christmas celebration always meant brisket, and this was one of their favorite ways to prepare it. Look for the leaner, flat-cut, or first-cut brisket with a layer of fat that’s at least 1/8 inch thick. If you can’t find a 6-pound piece, buy 2 smaller pieces. Like…

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According to a study by Fisher et al, “States with the lowest levels of mask adherence were most likely to have high COVID-19 rates in the subsequent month, independent of mask policy or demographic factors.” In other words, states where people don’t wear masks have higher rates of covid. So what should you do? “We just…

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In light of recent revelations about various public figures regarding their personal shortcomings, how do we handle those shortcomings when balanced against whatever good they contributed to society? I’m looking at what we say about Thomas Jefferson and other possible sexual predators (slaveholders) who served in the upper levels of government when compared with unelected,…

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