GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger could lose his
seat in redistricting process but
says he won't 'rule out' a Senate
or governor run: 'I'm not too
freaked out'
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger is likely to lose his House seat after Illinois Democrats redraw the state map for the post-2020 redistricting cycle, according to a Politico report on Wednesday. Kinzinger, who rose to prominence in the Trump era as a vocal critic of the former president, has represented Illinois' 16th Congressional District, which covers the exurbs of Chicago, since 2013. Democratic state lawmakers, who are in control of Illinois' redistricting map, are planning to remove Kinzinger's seat, sources familiar with the process told Politico. If that happens, Kinzinger may have to run for another office in the blue-leaning state should he choose to remain an elected official next year.
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A COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa could be more infectious than other mutations â and may have the potential of being resistant to vaccines, according to a report.
The C.1.2 strain has been linked to âincreased transmissibilityâ and is said to have mutated the most from the original virus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Mirror reported.(Snip)âWe found a disproportionately higher rate of the South African variant among people vaccinated with a second dose, compared to the unvaccinated group,â said professor Adi Stern of Tel Aviv University
Conservative commentator and vaccine doubter Alex Berenson has reportedly been permanently suspended from Twitter for violating the social media platformâs COVID-19 misinformation rules. Berensonâs account was banned Saturday after ârepeated violationsâ of the rules (Snip) âIt doesnât stop infection. Or transmission. Donât think of it as a vaccine,â the tweet read.
âThink of it â at best â as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS.â
Berenson, in his Substack post, defended the tweet in question as âentirely accurate.â
Rep. Adam Kinzinger is likely to lose his House seat after Illinois Democrats redraw the state map for the post-2020 redistricting cycle, according to a Politico report on Wednesday.
Kinzinger, who rose to prominence in the Trump era as a vocal critic of the former president, has represented Illinois' 16th Congressional District, which covers the exurbs of Chicago, since 2013.
Democratic state lawmakers, who are in control of Illinois' redistricting map, are planning to remove Kinzinger's seat, sources familiar with the process told Politico. If that happens, Kinzinger may have to run for another office in the blue-leaning state should he choose to remain an elected official next year.
Two members of Congress caused a stir when they made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan Tuesday to witness the evacuation operation at Kabulâs international airport firsthand. Reps. Seth Moulton and Peter Meijer infuriated White House, Pentagon, and State Department officials who accused them of using vital resources in the midst of the chaotic American withdrawal.(Snip) âAs Members of Congress, we have a duty to provide oversight on the executive branch,ââ the two said. âWe conducted this visit in secret, speaking about it only after our departure, to minimize the risk and disruption to the people on the ground, and because we were there to gather information, not to grandstand.â
Gov. J.B. Pritzker warned Tuesday that if Illinois' COVID metrics don't decline, "significantly greater mitigations" could be imposed in the state. (Snip) Pritzker said heightened mitigations could include things like "phases," which brought restrictions on both a regional and statewide level earlier in the pandemic, though he did not offer many specifics.
"Those are things that we don't want to go back to," he said, "Those are, you know, phases, situations, things on the menu that I think we don't want to go to but right now."
Pritzker noted that increased mitigations have already been implemented across the state, including an indoor mask mandate in schools, a vaccine mandate for state employees
CVS Health is holding a "conscious inclusion workshop" that aims to teach employees how to hold each other "accountable" for non-inclusive behaviors, FOX Business has learned.
An internal email obtained by FOX Business showed David Casey, SVP of Workforce Strategies and Chief Diversity Officer, discussing the four-week program.(Snip) the "workshop was announced in July 2020 as part of our nearly $600 million commitment to address racial inequality." He added that "our stated goal is 100 percent employee participation." It's unclear how employees would be held accountable and CVS did not comment when asked about this.
A school board member in Illinois who is also a doctor says state regulators are threatening his medical license over his criticism of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's mask mandate in schools.
Dr. Jeremy Henrichs, a sports doctor at Carle Hospital and sports team physician at the University of Illinois, also sits on the Mahomet-Seymour Board of Education.(Snip)In a separate email, a state medical investigator, whose name was redacted from the email, said a complaint filed against Henrichs âappears to be a parent or concerned citizen who did not agree with the doctor's opinion on the masking motion for schools.
âThat would fall under the unprofessional conduct part of the medical practice act,â
Chicago - Masks must be worn in public indoor settings in Chicago regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status as the city continues to see an increase in COVID-19 transmission, public health officials announced Tuesday.
Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said everyone over the age of 2, regardless of vaccination status, will be required to wear a mask beginning Friday, Aug. 20, while indoors in public settings.
It will apply to gyms, stores, common areas of apartment buildings and in restaurants (Snip) Currently, Chicago is averaging 18 COVID-19-related hospitalizations a day, which is down from a peak of roughly 200 a day, Arwady said.
Dallas - Although delta remains the most prevalent variant, the lambda strain of COVID-19 is starting to emerge and thereâs little known about it.
âWe do not know whether this is going to be better or worse than delta, thereâs not enough information,â said Dr. Andrew Yurochko, with LSU Health Shreveport.
According to the World Health Organization, lambda was first discovered in Peru last year. Since April, itâs been responsible for more than 80 percent of cases reported there.
Itâs now taken over other parts of South America, including Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil. Now, 44 American states have reported lambda cases
Extended rent moratoriums and the slow distribution of billions in federal rent assistance are driving many small landlords to call it quits. âNobody wants to become a landlord anymore,â said Diane Baird, (Snip) Mike Bodeis, president of the 450-member Port Huron Area Landlord Association, and himself the owner of 40 rental houses, told The Epoch Times, âItâs a myth that 3.6 million Americans may soon be made homeless. Two-thirds of them could be paying their rent, but are not because they choose not to. They did not choose to pay their rent or utility bills with all the stimulus money they received.
New Zealand is closing its borders for the remainder of the year, continuing the countryâs embrace of a total isolationist strategy in its fight against the coronavirus.
On Thursday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the countryâs borders âwill never be the same afterâ the pandemic, likening the situation to the 9/11 attacks.
âJust like after 9/11, the border will never be the same after Covid ⌠things can change, but that doesnât mean we canât adapt to them in a way that eventually feels normal again,â said Ardern.(Snip)Since the start of the pandemic, New Zealand adopted a strict border protection policy, which resulted in only 26 coronavirus-related deaths.
Chicago -- Chicago health officials on Thursday reported 203 cases of COVID-19 connected to Lollapalooza, casting it as a number that was anticipated and not yet linked to any hospitalizations or deaths.
âNothing unexpected here,â Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said at a news conference. âNo sign of a âsuperspreader eventâ. But clearly with hundreds of thousands of people attending Lollapalooza we would expect to see some cases.â
The four-day music festival, which started two weeks ago, drew about 385,000 people to a lakefront park.
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While in Vietnam last week, Kamala Harris posed with Vietnamese Communist leaders in front of the Ho Chi Minh sculptures.Ho Chi Minh was a brutal dictator and the founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party. His regime carried out a class genocide against wealthy farmers and landowners, killing hundreds of thousands in Vietnam.Who is she appealing to in this photo? Kamala Harris bailed on the United States when catastrophe struck in Afghanistan, traveling to Singapore and Vietnam.
Veteran actor Ed Asner â who starred as the hard-driving but loveable TV newsman Lou Grant on TVâs classic âThe Mary Tyler Moore Showâ and then in his own âLou Grantâ spinoff â has died, his family said. He was 91. (Photos) âWe are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning peacefully,â Asnerâs official account tweeted Sunday afternoon. âWords cannot express the sadness we feel. With a kiss on your head- Goodnight dad. We love you.â
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Active duty and retired members of the Office of Naval Intelligence were reminded last week they are barred by the Uniform Code of Military Justice and other Department of Defense regulations from criticizing President Joe Biden and other ranking members of his Cabinet and the Pentagon.The memo, sent via email and first reported by The Daily Wire, was sent out by the ONIâs chief of staff following deadly suicide bombing attacks outside the international airport in Kabul which left 11 Marines, two Army soldiers, a U.S. Navy corpsman, and 169 Afghan civilians dead.In addition to Biden, members were instructed they also could not publicly criticize
The public school system in America is in crisis â the worst crisis since the forced bussing and integration issues of the 1970s.
Simply put, parents and students have lost faith in the school system to educate. They doubt whether the schools have the best interests of their students at heart. This poisonous doubt is having a tangible effect on enrollment. Despite the fact that public education is free, parents are sending their children to private schools with more reliable, more predictable policies.
Enrollment in public schools nationwide declined by 3 percent last year. But it was the numbers for kindergarten enrollment
Ben Sasse said President Joe Biden doesn't have any plan in place to get American citizens and Afghan allies out of Afghanistan after the withdrawal deadline of August 31 passes. 'The American people have a right to be livid about it,' the Nebraska Republican senator told ABC News' Martha Raddatz.
'There is clearly no plan,' Sasse blasted the administration. 'There has been no plan. Their plan has basically been happy talk.'(Snip)'What we need,' Sasse said, 'is a commander in chief that actually has a big plan and a big way to solve this problem. President Biden has been repeatedly disconnected from reality.'
Big media has been in overdrive pushing COVID vaccinations, at least after Joe Biden was ensconced in the White House. (snip) Once there was a new occupant in the White House, the vaccine narrative flipped and the administration embraced the new vaccines as if Biden and Harris conceived of and developed them (snip) a survey... found a U-shaped curve with the greatest hesitancy among the least and most educated. âThe most common concern for those who are hesitant to take the vaccine is potential side effects, with a lack of trust in government close behind in second."
Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, must go.
President Biden claims that the military advised him to close Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and instead use Kabulâs airport to evacuate Americans. They were the ones who said the Afghan army would hold, that the pullout would go smoothly.
If Biden is telling the truth, this disaster is on Milleyâs watch. Or Biden is lying (the more likely scenario, based on what sources inside the administration are saying) and Milley failed to do his duty and push back against a commander in chief who is making deadly decisions. Either way, he is derelict in his duty
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden were at the Dover Air Force Base Sunday morning for the dignified transfer of 11 of the 13 service members who lost their lives on Thursday. While there, the president actually checked his watch. And he wasn't subtle about it, not even close to it. (Tweets/Videos) The bodies arrived last night, but the president did not go to meet them. To be fair, Julio had on good authority that some family members did not want him there. (Tweets) Again, the president wasn't even subtle about it. The fact that it looks as if this is one of his more cognizant moments-
A former Obama administration Cabinet official on Sunday compared Americans who oppose face masks and vaccines to suicide bombing terrorists that killed Americans at the Kabul airport. As the families of U.S. service members that died as a result of the ISIS-K attack in Afghanistan last week met with President Biden, Arne Duncan tweeted that he saw a comparison between the killers in Afghanistan and those Americans who oppose masks and vaccines. âHave you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions between the suicide bombers at Kabulâs airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here?â(Snip)âThey both blow themselves up, inflict harm on
Kathy McCollum, mother of 20-year old slain Marine Rylee McCollum, called in anguished to a radio station and unloaded on President Biden for his disastrous decisions on Afghanistan.The mother, clearly distraught, did not hold back on her criticism of the Commander-in-Chief. You can listen to her heartrending message below. (Video) âMy son was one of the Marines that died yesterday,â McCollum said. âI had to listen to that [expletive]⌠sorry, Iâm on the radio.ââMy son was one of the Marines that died yesterday,â she started over. âTwenty years and six months old. Getting ready to come home from freaking Jordan to be with
The Blood On Joe Bidenâs Hands
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The best-case scenario under Joe Bidenâs Afghanistan plan was the United States running away from Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble fast enough to avoid offending troglodytes who pass the time waiting till they find a 12-year-old girl to marry by sexually violating even younger boys. Let that sink in. Now there are 13 Americans dead among 170 slaughtered by terrorists. But at least there are no mean tweets, right? Unfortunately, there arenât any coherent actions or words either. Joe Biden has blood on his hands he canât ever wash off.
The attack came a day after a report that the White House was of the firm belief that they deserved praise
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