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Humanity’s First Mission To A Star

By David Arnett

While most were celebrating the holidays, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface – in its closest-ever approach on Christmas Eve. Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved. A beacon tone received late on Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.

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Legacy of Senator Jim Inhofe Honored

By David Arnett

The Senate and House passed a bill introduced by Senator James Lankford (R-OK), Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), and Representative Kevin Hern (R-OK) to name the new Veterans Health Administration (VA) 75,000-square-foot, 58-bed medical-surgical hospital in Tulsa the James Mountain Inhofe VA Medical Center in honor of the life and legacy of the late-Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, who tirelessly served our military, veterans, and their families for his entire public service career. The release issued today by Lankford’s office, detailed help to ensure the hospital received funding to commence construction in 2020 and to ensure the skyrocketing Biden/Harris inflation of the last three years did not interrupt the construction schedule with additional unforeseen costs. This legislation was supported by the entire Oklahoma congressional delegation and now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law. 

James Mountain Inhofe
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Dr. Jay Bhattachrya for NIH Praised

By David Arnett

Today, the Organization for Competitive Markets, and Competitive Markets Action, released the following statement in response to President Donald J. Trump and future HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s selection of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as head of the National Institutes of Health:

“We applaud President Trump and future Secretary Kennedy’s courageous and decisive move to Make America Healthy Again with the nomination of Dr. Bhattacharya as head of NIH and believe his confirmation will uncover the truth behind COVID, Dr. Fauci, and the Chinese enemies who created the pandemic intended to oust President Trump from office in 2020,” said Marty Irby, president at Competitive Markets Action and secretary at the Organization for Competitive Markets.

National Institutes of Health (Photo: Wikipedia)
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Doug Burgum to Interior & Energy Council

By David Arnett

A statement today by former-and-future-President Donald J. Trump, said, “Doug Burgum, the Governor of North Dakota, will be joining my Administration as both Secretary of the Interior and, as Chairman of the newly formed, and very important, National Energy Council, which will consist of all Departments and Agencies involved in the permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, transportation, of ALL forms of American Energy.

“This Council will oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY DOMINANCE by cutting red tape, enhancing private sector investments across all sectors of the Economy, and by focusing on INNOVATION over longstanding, but totally unnecessary, regulation. With U.S. Energy Dominance, we will drive down Inflation, win the A.I. arms race with China (and others), and expand American Diplomatic Power to end Wars all across the World,” Trump continued.

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