Posts on Friday, September 17, 2021
We still await the Ohio 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in which (1) Oberlin College is challenging the compensatory and punitive damage awards totalling, after reduction under Ohio tort reform law, $25 million, plus over $6 million in attorney’s fees, bringing the judgment to over $32 million, and (2) the cross-appeal by Gibson’s Bakery and two members of the Gibson family (including the widow of the late David Gibson) seeking to restore the full $33 million punitive damages award.
Two professional dancers on Strictly Come Dancing have refused to get Covid jabs ahead of the launch of the latest series on Saturday, leaving some contestants reluctant to pair with them. The pair are reportedly the only two pro dancers out of 18 who have not been vaccinated for the BBC hit show, which is hosted by Claudia Winkelman and Tess Daly. BBC bosses are said to now be fearful that there could be a larger outbreak among those participating in the show.(Snip)Speaking of the two dancers' refusal to get vaccinated, the source added to The Sun: 'There were vocal protests from celebrities
Why hasn’t Vice President Kamala Harris visited Port-au-Prince?
She insisted that you need to examine the “root causes” in order to handle the border crisis. Well, in the past few months, Haiti’s president was assassinated and the island nation was hit by an earthquake and a hurricane. Those are some root causes.
But Harris didn’t visit Haiti, and President Joe Biden’s administration barely reacted to the unrest — sending USAID to offer some nominal assistance.
The Biden administration did nothing to make Haiti a more stable place to live, and through words and action sent the message that the US border is wide open.
A cost of living crisis will see average households' bills soar by more than £1,500 a year, experts warn today. Families are now on the cusp of the biggest spending squeeze in nearly a decade as bills and prices rise relentlessly. Money experts said a 'perfect storm' of price and tax hikes could push family finances to the limit across the country. Energy prices have rocketed this week, leading to suppliers pulling deals and predictions that average households could soon face paying over £400 extra a year on power bills.(Snip)Petrol prices have also blown up, with the cost of filling a 50-litre tank rising from £56.55 to £67.30
A “career con artist” in Chicago stole the identities of young homicide victims to collect thousands of dollars in tax refunds and COVID-19 stimulus payments, federal prosecutors allege.
Katrina Pierce, 50, was charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in a 34-page complaint made public Thursday.
Prosecutors claim her fraud scheme was first discovered in late 2019 by the Cook County Vital Records Bureau, which noticed Pierce had requested four death certificates in one day while claiming to be the sister of each victim, despite them having different surnames.
A subsequent records check revealed that Pierce had requested 37 death certificates in 2019,
Photos show '[expletive] the Police,'
'[expletive] Amerikkka' flags hanging
in Los Angeles classroom replies
'[expletive] Amerikkka' flags hanging
in Los Angeles classroom replies
A classroom at a Los Angeles public high school was decorated with hateful posters reading “[expletive] the Police” and “[expletive] Amerikkka”—as well as a Black Lives Matter flag, photos show.
The vicious, anti-American posters, shared on social media, adorned a history classroom at Alexander Hamilton High School.(Snip)
Another image shows a classroom blackboard covered with the Palestinian flag, as well as pride and transgender banners alongside another supporting Black Lives Matter. A US flag, meanwhile, appeared to be draped over a piece of furniture in a corner.
The divisive display was shared Tuesday on Twitter by Parents Defending Education, which describes itself on its website as “a national
A very special document will be auctioned off later this year—a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution. Sotheby’s announced Friday—appropriately on Constitution Day—that in November it will put up for auction one of just 11 surviving copies of the Constitution from the official first printing produced for the delegates to the Constitutional Convention and for the Continental Congress. It’s the only copy that remains in private hands and has an estimate of $15 million-$20 million.(Snip)It is Kiffer’s second time handling the rare document. He also spearheaded its auction in 1988. Back then, it went for just $165,000.
Joe Biden returned to the sound of silence to his home state of Delaware Friday for a long weekend at his Rehoboth Beach vacation home–no supporters, not even wife Dr. Jill, were there to greet him, according to videos taken of his arrival. (Photo) Video of Biden arriving at Dover Air Force Base. No Jill seen and no cheers from supporters heard. (Tweet/Video) Photos and video of Biden’s helicopter arrival at Rehoboth Beach, no sign of Jill or supporters.
In one of his first moves after surviving the recall, Gov. Gavin Newsom took his boldest steps yet to fix California’s housing shortage by signing a package of bills that will transform the state by getting rid of single-family zoning and making it easier to build the housing the state so desperately needs. Of the three housing bills Newsom signed Thursday, the most consequential is Senate Bill 9 because it will allow up to four units of housing on a single-family lot. Another, Senate Bill 10, creates a voluntary program that makes it easier for cities to upzone any urban
Fox’s Bill Melugin has been reporting on the horrible situation at the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas for the past two days.(Snip)You can see the massive number of people there. So could other Americans from Fox’s drone coverage. That must have made someone in the Biden team unhappy, so suddenly the FAA told Fox they were banned from flying their drones over the bridge for the next two weeks (snip)But Bill Melugin’s a real journalist. (ssnip)So he managed to get around that by getting an invite from the Texas DPS to go up in one of their helicopters to take video from the air.
The Taliban owns Afghanistan where Americans are trapped, the U.S. debt is nearing catastrophic levels, COVID is on the rise even with large amounts of vaccinated Americans, the border is overrun by illegals and President Joe Biden thinks it is a perfect time to relax. According to the White House schedule, President Biden will be spending the long weekend at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (Snip) The president doesn’t seem to care about any of the pending crisis’ considering his vacation time and sleep seems to be what is most important to him. The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti reported today, Friday, that Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan.
Texan Tourists Caught on Camera Attacking
NYC Restaurant Hostess After
She Asks for Vaccine Cards replies
NYC Restaurant Hostess After
She Asks for Vaccine Cards replies
It’s been made very clear that, if you want to dine indoors in New York City, you have to have had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine. But that seems to have come as a shock to a group of tourists from Texas who were caught on camera attacking a restaurant hostess after she asked them for proof of their vaccinations. According to NBC New York, the attack happened outside Carmine’s Restaurant on the Upper West Side early Thursday evening. Law-enforcement sources told the news outlet that the hostess was sent to a
A little over a week ago, Joe Biden gave what was perhaps the most disturbing speech a president has given in modern history. It was everything the media used to accuse Donald Trump’s speeches of being. Biden’s anger flowed through divisive rhetoric as he ranted that he was “losing patience” with the unvaccinated. That division was accentuated by the hysterical claim the vaccinated need to be “protected” from the unvaccinated, a contention that ignores the scientific facts on who can spread COVID (i.e. everyone can).But the fear was the point. (snip) that strategy has been a complete failure.
France recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in response to a pact signed by the two countries along with the United Kingdom that the French referred to as a stab in the back. "At the request of President Macron, I have decided to immediately recall our ambassadors to the United States and Australia to Paris for consultations," French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drain said in a statement Friday. France has expressed outrage after an announcement this week of a pact between Australia, England,
Obama told Trump 'I can't think of anything'
when asked what his 'biggest
mistake' was, book claims replies
when asked what his 'biggest
mistake' was, book claims replies
Then-President-elect Donald Trump is said to have asked outgoing-President Barack Obama in 2017 what he thought his biggest mistake was as they traveled from the White House to the Capitol building, according to a new book."Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa gives a political insight into the months before and after the 2020 election, including the COVID pandemic, the Jan. 6 riot, and the 2020 campaign.However, as it covers the inauguration of President Biden, the book reports that the Trump experience of the inauguration – where he took off in Marine One to Mar-a-Lago ahead of the ceremony – was "full circle" from his own inauguration in 2017.
Governor Greg Abbott has slammed Joe Biden for the 'complete disarray' at the US-Mexico border which has left agents 'overwhelmed' as the number of Haitian migrants camped out under a bridge in Texas has now swelled to around 12,000. The Texas governor announced he was sending National Guard troops and officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety to the state's ports of entry to 'deter crossings' as he compared the migrant crisis to the chaotic withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.(Snip)However, just one hour later, he backpedaled on the unprecedented move, claiming the Biden administration had 'flip-flopped' on its request.
Beyond the Bush League
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On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, at the very spot where United 93 went down, George W. Bush basically ignored the Islamic terrorist perpetrators and targeted those he views as domestic extremists. That prompted Lane Scott to wonder if anyone worse than Bush had shown up over the past 20 years. As it happens, one strong candidate just weighed in.
“Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions between the suicide bombers at Kabul’s airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here? (snip) it’s former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who graduated from Harvard with a degree in, yes, sociology.
Things still aren’t looking good for President Joe Biden. Only a week after receiving some of the worst polling numbers during his presidency so far, his approval rating has dropped even more.A Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed that Biden’s numbers are even worse than they have been in the past. According to the report: The national poll, conducted Sept. 15-16, found that 44% of U.S. adults approved of Biden’s performance in office, while 50% disapproved and the rest were not sure.These findings come during the same week that Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified in front of the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees about the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed was caught breaking her own strict mask mandates—to go clubbing with a Black Lives Matter co-founder.
The Democrat, already under fire for her restrictive coronavirus rules, on Wednesday was photographed by a San Francisco Chronicle editor while singing and dancing in a packed jazz club—with no sign of masks.(Snip)Their behavior was in violation of Breed’s citywide mandate requiring well-fitted masks in indoor public buildings even for those fully vaccinated. The only exception is while actively eating or drinking—yet Breed “spent the night dancing, singing along and posing for photographs without a face covering,”
The US military on Friday admitted that it killed 10 civilians — including seven children and aid worker Zemari Ahmadi in a drone strike near Kabul’s airport last month—and not Islamic State bomb plotters, as it originally claimed. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., commander of US Central Command, said the civilians “were tragically killed” on Aug. 29, one day before the final chaotic Biden administration evacuation flights from Kabul. “I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children, were tragically killed in that strike,” McKenzie said at a press conference.(Snip)As his military leaders were revealing the deadly screwup Friday afternoon
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted against green-lighting COVID-19 booster shots Friday for most people — throwing up a major hurdle for President Biden’s plan to dole out a third dose to most Americans.But the independent panel, which reviewed a 23-page FDA briefing document highlighting recent studies, recommended emergency use of a third dose for Americans over age 65 and those at high risk of severe infection.
The panel said more data is needed before it can okay boosters for people ages 16 and older, and that the two-dose Pfizer regimen is still highly protective
PARCHMENT, Mich. — Parchment High School Principal George Stamas sent a letter about a homecoming school activity that has caused controversy Tuesday. The high school is holding theme days for their homecoming week. Tuesday was a USA theme. The letter stated that some students “chose to express their political affiliations.” “We are sincerely remorseful if a day that was meant for unification turned into division for some,” Stamas wrote. “We will not tolerate actions that choose to belittle, demean, threaten or put down others.” Stamas said the school administration addressed students about the issue on Wednesday morning. While it is unclear from the letter what the issue
(CNN)A United States military investigation into a deadly Kabul drone strike on a vehicle in August has found it killed 10 civilians and the driver and that the vehicle targeted was likely not a threat associated with ISIS-K, announced Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top general of US Central Command, at the Pentagon on Friday.
McKenzie told reporters that the strike -- which he said killed seven children -- was a "mistake" and offered an apology.
Stunning helicopter footage shot Friday shows hundreds of illegal immigrants streaming into Texas from Mexico across the Rio Grande — with no intervention form authorities on either side of the border.
One day after the Federal Aviation Administration prevented Fox News from using a drone to capture images of thousands of illegal immigrants sheltering under the Texas bridge, the outlet is now able to capture aerial footage from a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter.
On Thursday, the FAA instituted a two-week flight restriction over the city of Del Rio
WASHINGTON — As more than 10,000 mainly Haitian migrants shelter under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, as part of a new surge of migration to that stretch of the U.S. border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti over the next week, according to internal documents obtained by NBC News.
Next week, ICE plans to fly eight deportation flights to Haiti and will then increase that number to 10 per week, according to one of the documents. A few deportation flights just restarted in the past few days in response to the surge of Haitians.
PARIS — French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday evening that France is immediately recalling its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia in a backlash over a submarine deal.
Le Drian said in a statement that the decision, on request from President Emmanuel Macron, “is justified by the exceptional seriousness of the announcements” made by Australia and the United States.
He said the cancellation by Australia of a big contract to buy French conventional submarines in favor of nuclear-powered subs built with U.S. technology is “unacceptable behavior.”
An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday recommended against approving a booster shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to most Americans.
The scientific advisory committee voted 16-to-3 against recommending the additional shots, thwarting the Biden administration’s hopes that the FDA would approve the third shot in time to begin rolling out the extra dose for Pfizer recipients next week.
The vote followed a daylong debate in which a number of the panel’s independent experts questioned whether the data justified a broad rollout of an additional shot to most Americans while the vaccines still appear to offer strong protection against severe COVID-19 disease and hospitalization.
t will be a catastrophe of Biblical proportions. Think fire and brimstone. The Four Horsemen of Joe, Kamala, Nancy and Chuck riding off a cliff. Cats like AOC sleeping with dogs like Bill Clinton (OK, that’s not odd, but it’s sure icky). Locusts. Hillary’s persistent pestilent pantsuits.
The first midterm elections during a presidential term are a test that he/she/they/it usually fails. Democrats do particularly badly, since most Democrat voters are not aware of midterm elections of their House and Senate representatives. Heck, they don’t even know who their representatives are.
An investigation by the US military has determined that an airstrike last month in Kabul killed up to 10 people, including an aid worker and seven children, a top Pentagon official said.
General Kenneth McKenzie said no ISIS-K fighters — the supposed target of the drone strike — were killed.
"I offer my profound condolences," McKenzie said. "It was a mistake and I offer my sincere apology."
The military was initially operating "reasonable certainty at the time of the strike to designate the vehicle as an 'imminent threat,'"
President Biden is calling for an electric vehicle revolution, but a major mining project proposed for remote western Nevada could soon show whether his administration intends to walk the talk.
All the Australian company ioneer Ltd. needs is final Interior Department clearance to start work on the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project after announcing Thursday a joint venture with the international mining firm Sibanye-Stillwater.(Snip)Environmentalists argue that the mine would worsen the “extinction crisis,” citing the Tiehm’s buckwheat, a flowering plant that grows only on a 10-acre stretch of federal land in western Nevada. In June, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed protecting the Tiehm’s buckwheat
When President Joe Biden visited Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, he promised a key form of federal aid to those dealing with the lingering effects of the storm, but weeks after landfall getting that financial help has been easier said than done. The money would go straight into survivors' bank accounts "so that they can deal immediately with emergencies," Biden said Sept. 3. (Snip) But weeks after the storm, getting access to those items is still a challenge, and has left some residents who say they have urgent needs confused about why they have not received the federal
Nine big cats at Smithsonian’s National Zoo have presumptively tested positive for COVID-19. The Washington, D.C., zoo on Friday announced that six African lions, a Sumatran tiger and two Amur tigers might have caught the illness and have experienced decreased appetites, coughing, sneezing and lethargy. Fecal samples of the lions and tigers were collected and tested presumptively positive, with final results expected in the coming days.(Snip)The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, made specifically for zoo animals. The zoo said vaccines will be given to susceptible species at the zoo and the Conservation Biology Institute
Let me start by acknowledging the legitimate skepticism of many Gateway Pundit commentators that any justice will come out of John Durham’s work. You have been promised the moon in the past and instead received a flaming bag of dog poop.
But let’s accept the fact that yesterday’s news that DNC lawyer Michael Sussmann was going to be indicted turned out to be true. Charlie Brown got to kick the football this time. Durham’s indictment of Sussmann lays out the foundation of a conspiracy.
After a battle over the ballot, early voting begins Friday in Minneapolis.
Residents will get to vote on the ballot question on whether to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new department of public safety.
The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed a decision blocking the city from counting votes on the question.
The question on the ballot, to which voters respond "yes" or "no," is as follows:
NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Less is More Act into law Friday, giving more leniency to parolees. “New York State incarcerates more people for parole violations than anywhere in the country. That is a point of shame for us, and it needs to be fixed. It’s going to be fixed today,” Hochul said. (Snip) Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin and state Assembly member Phara Souffrant Forrest, who co-sponsored the bill, celebrated its signing, along with other elected officials and criminal justice reform advocates. “When women rule, how things can change, how we can find compassion and understanding and
The Biden administration’s State Department, which has been celebrating the one-year anniversary of the historic Abraham Accords between Israel and its Arab neighbors although they had nothing to do with it, as it was the fruit of the Trump administration’s labors, showed its spinelessness once again this week, as the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem acknowledged Judaism’s holiest day, Yom Kippur, but the wing of the embassy that deals with Palestinian issues only called it a “local holiday.”The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, which is only there because former President Trump willed it so, tweeted: “U.S. Embassy Jerusalem wishes a meaningful Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
A mother claims she was left bleeding from her vagina after getting her first dose of AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine. Jacqueline Goldsworthy, from Barnet in north London, was rushed through for medical tests in case it was cancer or a sign of another illness.
But results ruled out anything untoward in the post-menopausal 57-year-old, who has not had a period in two decades. Ms Goldsworthy, a social worker who got her first jab in December, believes the vaccine triggered her bleeding. However, NHS doctors insisted there was 'no way' it was to blame.(Snip)Official data shows there have been 366 reports of postmenopausal haemorrhage
The possible link between CCP virus vaccinations and menstrual changes should be investigated to clear up the doubts, a reproductive immunology lecturer from Imperial College London said.
In an editorial published on Thursday in the British Medical Journal, Dr. Victoria Male said failing to thoroughly investigate reports of menstrual changes after CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccination will likely fuel fears that the vaccines can hurt women’s chances to have children.
(snip) by Sept. 2 more than 30,000 cases of menstrual disorders and unexpected vaginal bleeding after vaccination had been reported in the UK to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) yellow card surveillance scheme for adverse drug reactions.
William F. Buckley’s desire to “stand athwart history and yell ‘Stop!’” described a personality type more than a political agenda. Conservatives, by well-earned reputation, tend to revere traditions and institutions, trust authority, and favor measured, incremental change. Dana Carvey’s impersonation of George H.W. Bush caricatured the type brilliantly: “Wouldn’t be prudent, wouldn’t be prudent at this juncture.”
Without knocking prudence, however, shouting “Stop!” is only a smart strategy when you’re ahead. It doesn’t help when you’re losing. (snip)Stopping time now would enshrine the stupidity, cruelty, and moral bankruptcy of radical leftist wokeism.
It is Trump's party. Get over it
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Never Trump Congressman Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio announced he won't seek a third term because of Donald Trump. Gonzalez won't be missed, He voted to impeach Trump.
I do not get the congressman's problem. Water is wet, the media is biased, and Trump is the leader of the Republican Party.
It is no contest.
McLaughlin and Associates polled Republicans nationally and asked if Trump won the nomination in 2024, would you vote for him in the general election?
86% of Republicans said they would.There are your Republican values and principles. Donald Trump proved his worthiness as a Republican,
Just because the buttons on the GOP vending machine say Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta and Root Beer, doesn’t mean the machine slots are filled with anything except diet ginger ale. Cue the audio visual demonstration….
WASHINGTON – […] The National Republican Redistricting Trust (NRRT), in an announcement shared first with Fox News, said that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will serve as national co-chairs of the organization, with longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove joining the group in the role of senior adviser.
NRRT president and executive director Adam Kincaid highlighted that Pompeo and Christie “will be tremendous assets as we raise
Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16) was one of the ten House republicans (pictured above) who voted to impeach President Trump. As President Trump announced his support for Gonzalez’s challenger, Max Miller, former House Speaker John Boehner went to Ohio to support Gonzalez. Apparently the support of Paul Ryan and John Boehner was not enough to help. Max Miller was in position to primary Gonzalez.
Tonight, Gonzalez conceded his seat: (image - statement)/
Some states are set to receive fewer doses of monoclonal antibody treatments after the Biden administration switched the distribution system this week.
Demand for monoclonal antibodies, used to treat non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients, has shot up in recent weeks, leading to what some officials have described as a shortage.
The Biden administration tipped off states in early September that it was limiting distribution of the treatment before abruptly switching on Sept. 13 from letting sites directly order the doses to putting the federal government in charge of allocation to states, which can then choose where to send them.
Some state officials say they weren’t notified of the change until late Sept. 13, and that
Donald Trump recently appeared on Fox News and was asked about running for president in 2024. Trump responded, “It is disgraceful when you look at Afghanistan and what happened, and the death for no reason. It is getting to a point where we really have no choice.”
Wreck-It Biden and Harris have given us no choice. They are systematically destroying this magnificent country and still have 3 more years to wreak havoc and leave devastation and mayhem in their wake. Even if Trump gets re-elected, he may inherit a country so permanently damaged that all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put America back together again.
Newsmax TV host Grant Stinchfield blew up at a guest during his show on Wednesday over criticism that “multiple administrations” including that of President Donald Trump failed to pull out of Afghanistan.Stinchfield was interviewing Joe Saboe, a former U.S. Army officer and Iraq War veteran who has been working via the private sector to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies, when the two had a disagreement about the previous administration’s role in the southwest Asian country.As the segment was about to end, the two exchanged views over whether the people left behind by the Biden administration amid a chaotic, deadly pullout were now in a “hostage situation,”
General Mark Milley on Friday defended his calls to his Chinese counterpart during the final months of Donald Trump's presidency as 'perfectly within the duties and responsibilities' of his job as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Milley made his first public comments on revelations he called Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People's Liberation Army to reassure him the U.S. was not going to suddenly attack China. The general was blasted by the former president and several conservatives for his conversations, including being accused of 'treason'
Abill signed into law last week by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul effectively outlaws the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in less than 14 years.
The law, Senate Bill S2758 and Assembly Bill A4302, sets a goal that 100% of all passenger cars, trucks and off-road vehicles will be zero-emission. The goal is 2045 for larger vehicles, such as medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses.
The Biden administration has been accused of trying to cover up the extent of the migrant crisis after the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) issued a flight ban over the US-Mexico border to stop drones capturing footage of the more than 10,000 people living camped out under a bridge.The FAA implemented a two-week flight ban over the Del Rio Port of Entry and the International Bridge in the city of Del Rio, Texas, Thursday night, claiming the move was for 'special security reasons' to prevent 'drones interfering with law enforcement flights on the border.' The ban effectively grounded a Fox News drone hours after the network released shocking footage
Former Yankee Didi Gregorius is in the middle of the worst season of his career–and chose a controversial reason on which to blame his struggles. Speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Gregorius–now with the Phillies–said he developed an elbow condition after he was vaccinated for COVID-19 called pseudogout, a form of arthritis that causes painful swelling. The shortstop said the condition hurt his performance throughout the season. “Some people say it’s from the vaccine. I will say it’s likely from that, too,” Gregorius said. “But when you say that, everyone looks at you like you’re stupid because the vaccine is not supposed to be like that
There are a number of reasons to explain the intense push from the Biden administration and the government medical bureaucracy to get people to take the COVID vaccine.
From a wide search of the information available, I find it hard to believe that the actual health of people is one of the reasons.
For example, why demand people with natural immunity get vaccinated? And why insist on vaccinating children when their risk of serious effects from the virus is minuscule? It make no scientific sense especially when the vaccine itself can possibly cause serious health issues for the young.
Immunity, according to the CDC website, is “Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without being infected.” (snip) breakthrough infections, on the rise, challenge the definition of immunity as “being exposed without being infected.” This would explain the CDC’s recent decision to change the definition of vaccine from immunity to only protection.
These immunology basics are taught in high school biology classes and if understandable to teenagers, they should be clear to the medical establishment and leaders of our national health institutions.
The truth about Afghan women
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When I think about the West’s project to liberate Afghan women, my mind conjures a line from T.S. Eliot: “The last temptation is the greatest treason/to do the right deed for the wrong reason.” In Afghanistan, we engaged in a twenty-year, deliciously self-righteous, tragically ill-designed mission best expressed by flipping that sentence.
We did the wrong thing, perhaps for the right reason. We wanted to develop that country and rescue Afghan women. Their lives were hellish, girls banned from school, women forbidden to leave their homes except in the company of a male guardian, vigilantes beating them with sticks if their burqa was too short.
SpaceX has shared a stunning video of the domed 'cupola' window on its Crew Dragon capsule, as its first all-civilian crew began its three-day orbit of Earth. Taking to Twitter, SpaceX simply wrote: 'View from Dragon's cupola,' alongside the video of the domed window, with Earth in the background. The Inspiration4 crew - including Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor and Chris Sembroski - launched into space shortly after 8pm EST on Wednesday (1am BST on Thursday) from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
A nominee for a state watchdog post touted as a “nationally recognized expert on ethics” withdrew his nomination on Thursday after politically slanted social media posts surfaced — including one in which he wondered if COVID-19 “might be God’s punishment for [Donald Trump’s] election and reign?”
Dennis Rendleman, who was the nominee for the executive inspector general position in Democratic Treasurer Michael Frerichs’ Office, asked that his nomination be withdrawn.
Who knew that rapper Nicki Minaj would emerge as a champion for free speech and an outspoken critic of censorship? Even stranger -- Minaj found herself retweeting Tucker Carlson while Carlson championed her on his nightly show.
Strange times indeed -- but alas “adversity makes strange bedfellows.”
Minaj just learned rule number one of the modern illiberal party -- there is zero room for liberty of thought.
Her critical error was having the audacity to question the vaccine narrative and encouraging people to make their own decisions.
We’ve long been used to the fact that banks and credit unions must report to the federal government any transactions greater than $10,000. (snip) But how would you feel if the government requires banks to report to the government — i.e., the IRS — every transaction of $600 or more? Well, if Democrats pass their $3.5 trillion American Families Plan, that’s exactly what will happen. (snip) hen one considers that the Supreme Court’s entire Roe v. Wade justification for abortion was that the Constitution has an implicit guarantee of privacy
(See update below) On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin reported that the FAA has imposed a temporary flight restriction for the area around the bridge where thousands of migrants are congregating near Del Rio, TX, and as a result, Fox can’t use its drone to capture aerial footage of the situation around the bridge. Melugin also said they’ve used the drone around the border for seven months and it hasn’t been a problem until now.
We’ll probably keep referring to it as a “$3.5 trillion” bill to avoid confusion, but it’s well worth noting that Democrats’ “human infrastructure” plan would actually cost far more — at least $5 trillion.The standard way to “score” costs is to say what they’d be over the first decade. So to reduce sticker shock, the bill pretends that key new entitlements — in particular, a huge expansion of Medicaid — will expire after just three years.In reality, at that point Dems will argue that it would be incredibly cruel to not fund “promised” benefits and suggest some new tax hikes to cover the added costs.
Dramatic footage shows the moment panicked diners flee Philippe Chow in Manhattan amid a shooting over a Rolex watch — an attack that police are now probing as a part of a string of luxury-watch robberies in the Big Apple.Surveillance camera footage shows two male suspects exit a car and walk toward the upscale Chinese eatery in the Upper East Side Wednesday night before they allegedly swipe a Rolex watch off the wrist of a 31-year-old man, sources said.The armed thieves then turned their sights on Melchior Cooke, 28, who tried fighting them off, according to police and sources.
Chinese state media has warned Australia will become a 'potential target for a nuclear strike' after it acquires nuclear-powered submarines.As part of a new three-way alliance with the UK and US, Australia will be given the technology to build at least eight nuclear-powered - but not nuclear armed - submarines as the West counters China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the 'AUKUS' alliance 'seriously damages regional peace and stability, intensifies the arms race, and undermines the Treaty
An 83-year old abortion provider in Texas described his experience performing 67 terminations as the clock ticked on the eve of the state’s ban on abortions after six weeks.Jasbir Ahluwalia, an ob-gyn at Whole Woman’s Health Clinic in Forth Worth, recalled the dramatic shift between working at breakneck speed to treat an influx of patients one night to coming back to see an empty office the next morning on September 1, when the law went into effect.‘Nobody cared for their own welfare,’ he said in an interview with Vice. ‘The workers—they want to take care of the patients.
Justice Clarence Thomas became the latest member of the U.S. Supreme Court to take aim at the media, defending the court as nonpartisan Thursday as he warned against "destroying our institutions because they don't give us what we want, when we want it," according to reports. "I think the media makes it sound as though you are just always going right to your personal preference," Thomas told an audience at the University of Notre Dame, the Washington Post reported. "So if they think you are anti-abortion or something personally, they think that’s the way you always will come out. They think you’re for this or for that."
Times Square — A hostess at a popular Italian staple in the city’s theater district was assaulted after asking out-of-towners to show their proof of COVID-19 vaccination, according to police.
It happened at Carmine’s on Broadway Thursday night. The hostess, 24, was assaulted by three women from Texas after she asked the women to show proof of vaccination, the NYPD said.
Charges against the three women are pending, police said.
New York City rules require patrons to show proof of vaccination at several indoor businesses, including restaurants and bars.
That’s quite a cultural shift — and it will likely lead to a political shift as well, and not in favor of the current administration. Women accounted for almost half of all new gun owners in a 27-month period that includes the pandemic as well as the Democratic presidential primary run-up, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard and Northeastern. Clearly, the gun-control rhetoric of the campaign and in the Biden administration has not had its intended impact:
Close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since the beginning of 2019 have been women, a shift for a market
With all the arguments around the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill, one issue that has fallen by the wayside is that of the debt ceiling. In order for Democrats to get what they want, it will have to be lifted, which means we are headed for another major shutdown battle in the coming weeks.
Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, recently called Sen. Mitch McConnell to lobby his support to raise the debt ceiling. But McConnell, perhaps sensing that he has nothing to gain by handing Democrats another victory, gave his response: Nah.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will reportedly still not support Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion reconciliation package for the time being, despite the president’s efforts to persuade him, according to Axios.
On Wednesday, sources told Axios that President Joe Biden reportedly hosted Manchin for a meeting at the White House where he failed to persuade the senator into agreeing with the $3.5 trillion bill.
Axios was told Biden explained to Manchin his opposition could imperil the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that’s already passed the Senate. Biden’s analysis did little to persuade Manchin to raise his top line.
Manchin held his position and appears willing to let the bipartisan bill hang in the balance
A law enforcement source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) tells Breitbart Texas that the unfolding Haitian migrant crisis is forcing the agency to shut down normal operations at all inland Del Rio Sector Border Patrol highway checkpoints. Staffing typically reserved for inspecting thousands of vehicles daily will be diverted to assist with the care, transport, and processing of 10,000 mostly Haitian migrants currently detained under the Del Rio International Bridge.
According to the source not authorized to speak to the media, the shutdown will begin at 12 am local time on Friday and last until an orderly process to deal with the migrants at the makeshift camp is established.
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Pamela Owensby woke up every day for three years fearing her son would be shot. Her 23-year-old, Sircarr Johnson Jr., had opened a clothing store on West Philadelphia’s 60th Street in 2018. Because of ongoing violence in the neighborhood, she became licensed to carry a gun and accompanied him at closing time. This spring, she even researched life insurance for each of her four sons—the youngest of whom is 9. But before she could fill out the paperwork, Johnson was killed in front of his store.(Snip)The overlap of so many of these injustices in communities of color has roots dating back generations.
In an apparent attempt to cover up the border crisis, the Biden administration has shut down Fox News’s ability to fly their drone over the U.S.-Mexico border to report on the border crisis, which swelled in August and again in the last 24-hours.
On Thursday’s Special Report, national correspondent Bill Melugin showed the over 9,000-person crowd of illegals under the international bridge. But on Tucker Carlson Tonight, two hours later, he was forced to report that the FAA had issued a temporary flight restriction or TFR over the entire area.
“Stunning footage out of Del Rio, Texas on Thursday. As our Fox Flight Team drone shows thousands of migrants crammed
Shannon Heroux is a fun-loving mom on Instagram who posts about her child, hiking, and her family. She’s also deaf. The deaf community has suffered a great deal during COVID restrictions as one of their main ways of understanding the world around them, lip-reading, has been taken away with mass masking. Heroux posted her first videos on TikTok after she says she reached a breaking point with the discrimination she has suffered for almost two years.
“I am at my breaking point in this pandemic,” she said. Heroux is an Uber driver and went into her favorite Dunkin’ Donuts store to get an iced tea in Encino