Fox News,
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Louis Casiano
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Researchers at Boston University say they have developed a new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate following a series of similar experiments first thought to have started the global pandemic that began in China.
The variant, a combination of Omicron and the original virus in Wuhan, killed 80% of the mice infected with it, the university said. When mice were only exposed to Omicron, they experienced mild symptoms.
The research was conducted by a team of scientists from Florida and Boston at the school's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. They extracted the spike protein from Omicron and attached it with the strain first detected at the onset
Power Line,
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John Hinderaker
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10/17/2022 8:49:45 PM
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Years of terrible energy policy are coming home to roost, as New England is threatened with blackouts this winter:
New England power producers are preparing for potential strain on the grid this winter as a surge in natural-gas demand abroad threatens to reduce supplies they need to generate electricity.
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The region’s power-grid operator, ISO New England Inc., has warned that an extremely cold winter could strain the reliability of the grid and potentially result in the need for rolling blackouts to keep electricity supply and demand in balance.
PJ Media,
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Matt Margolis
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If you listen to the White House, things are going great. Joe Biden said last week that the economy is “strong as hell,” and on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that Democrats are making things better. No, really… she did.
“Republicans are actually going to make things worse, and Democrats want to do the opposite and make things a little easier,” she said.
She also had the audacity to say that inflation and gas prices have been going down.
“When we talk about inflation, gas prices, that’s been something that’s… the American people have seen for the past several months, several weeks… as costs have been coming down,”
National Review,
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Caroline Downey
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In a Monday speech announcing the official launch of the federal student loan cancellation application portal, President Biden slammed the GOP for its resistance to the program, which Republicans have argued is illegal and carries a massive price tag for the government.
Republican elected officials, particularly governors, are “doing everything they can to deny” this federal aid to eliminate some student debt, he claimed. “Their outrage is wrong and hypocritical…I will never apologize for helping middle class Americans.”
Addressing Republican concerns that the student loan wipeout would dramatically expand the national debt, as well as exacerbate already soaring inflation
Red State,
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Brad Slager
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After weeks of overseeing recovery efforts on Florida’s west coast in the wake of Hurricane Ian, Ron DeSantis fired up his campaign efforts once again with scheduled stops across the state. After a visit to The Villages outside Orlando, he made it down to South Florida into the traditionally Democratic party enclave of Broward County. The turnout was enough to turn heads. This tour stop was in the city of Coral Springs at Wings Plus, a fixture in the area, owned by Brian Walsh, a longtime Republican backer. The location is a common stop for GOP figures, but even Sunday’s appearance by the governor stood out.
PJ Media,
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Matt Margolis
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Recent polling by a mainstream polling outfit has revealed who the most popular American politician is, and the left won’t be happy about it for sure.
According to the poll, which was conducted by Harris Poll, HarrisX, and the Harvard University Center for American Political Studies (CAPS), Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) has the highest net popularity rating of any major American politician. In the survey, participants were asked to indicate how they felt about prominent politicians in the United States, giving responses such as very favorable, favorable, unfavorable, extremely unfavorable, never heard of them, or no opinion — and DeSantis ranked the highest of all of them.
But that’s not all.
American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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10/17/2022 1:56:33 PM
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We already know that Joe Biden has cost Americans an average of $6,000 in paycheck power from the inflation that has come of his billions and trillions in government spending, including his mockingly misnamed "Inflation Reduction Act" of 2022.
While Biden has at various times claimed that inflation comes from Russia, greedy oil companies, Republicans, or chicken factories, and in any case is transitory, if not zero, inflation is something serious economists recognize as a monetary phenomenon. Inflation, after all, is priced in money, and monetary agencies such as the Federal Reserve print up the cash it takes for all that government spending. The inflation comes from Joe.
CBS News,
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Anthony Salvanto *
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For two months the Democrats chipped away at the Republicans' lead in the battle for House control, helped by motivated abortion-rights voters and what turned out to be fleeting glimmers of optimism about the economy. But that momentum has stalled, at least for now, and the Republicans' House lead has stabilized today at 224 seats to the Democrats' 211. The Republicans' lead had shrunk in the two previous model runs of September and August.What's behind this? Today's views of the economy have gotten worse amid continuing inflation, a volatile stock market and — in a stark reversal from August — people are reporting gas prices are rising in their neighborhoods.
National Review,
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Isaac Schorr
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Republicans made massive gains with independent women in recent weeks as Democrats ramped up their messaging on abortion ahead of the midterm elections.
Forty-nine percent of voters plan to vote for the Republican nominee to represent their House district while 45 percent said they’d back their Democratic opponent, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday. Of particular note was a 32 point swing among independent women toward the GOP. In September’s iteration of the poll, Democrats boasted a 14 point lead among that demographic, but by October, Republicans held an 18 point advantage.
While Democratic officials and progressive
Breitbart,
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Oliver JJ Lane
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The last vestiges of the Liz Truss era were swept away Monday morning, even as she still officially remained in power, by Jeremy Hunt, officially Britain’s new finance minister but as increasingly widely thought, the de facto leader.
Speaking in a fleeting five-minute and 20-second briefing from Westminster on Monday morning, Jeremy Hunt — appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer, the UK’s finance minister position, but evidently now leading the government — briskly ran through the few remaining elements of the government programme of Prime Minister Liz Truss, announcing all of them would be scrapped or severely curtailed.
Red State,
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Joe Cunningham
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In recent polls measuring the performance of Republicans on the generic ballot (meaning polls essentially asking voters if they are more likely to elect a Democrat or a Republican), the GOP has been scoring very high against Democrats. In fact, they are currently getting numbers they haven’t seen since July. In fact, over the weekend, their average at RealClearPolitics hit a high they haven’t hit since February.
Republicans officially took the lead in those averages again in late September as the voter high on Democrats’ passing major legislation and falling gas prices wore off. But last week, Democrats tanked while Republicans continued to rise.
PJ Media,
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Ryan Ledendecker
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Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, broke the internet again on Monday morning, with a bombshell announcement that nobody saw coming.
According to its own Twitter page, Parlement Technologies, which runs the right-leaning Parler social media platform that rose to stardom after former President Donald Trump was kicked off of Twitter, has agreed in principle to a buyout deal with the billionaire, award-winning rapper, and fashion designer. Parler CEO George Farmer released a short statement to confirm the groundbreaking deal.
“This deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech. Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have