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Researchers at the University of Washington and Stanford University School of Medicine have reported a significant inverse relationship between current smoking and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality rates across forty countries. However, David Haynor and the team say the difference in mortality rates between countries with the highest and lowest national smoking prevalence seems too large to be mainly accounted for by the effects of smoking. They suspect unidentified confounding factors could still be responsible for any perceived protective effect of smoking. However, the magnitude of the association observed and the wide-ranging implications this could have highlighted the importance of...

In a recent discovery, it was found out that certain face masks listed on Amazon which claimed to be "based in USA" were actually manufactured in Wuhan, China itself! The whole point of people buying face masks is to stop the infection of the Coronavirus or Covid-19 itself and now that it has surfaced that some of these face masks come from the very source of the virus, it is a given that people will now draw away from purchasing these masks.

Just saw an interview with Brian Kemp by Ebony K. Wiliams on FoxNews America’s News HQ. This woman would not let Kemp speak. Kemp is the Georgia Secretary of State, currently responsible for voting in the state, and candidate for Georgia governor against Stacy Abrams. Wiliams accused Kemp of removing 700,000 voters from the GA voting rolls between 2016 and 2017. Wiliams parroted Abrams’ fake line that Kemp was removing hundreds of thousands of these voters without justification. But when Kemp tried to explain that it takes 7 years of voter inactivity for any voter to be removed from the...

Just this week, a poll came out—I won’t mention the polling company—that had U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D) ahead in his Florida senate race against Governor Rick Scott by (hang on) . . . 17 points. Now, even if you think (and I don’t) that Nelson is ahead, this is one of those whoppers that stands up there with Hillary Clinton winning the Michigan Primary in 2016 (when Bernie Sanders drubbed her by double digits) or every single one of the pollsters getting Wisconsin wrong. The average error was six points. Some were off by as many as nine points...

I read the reviews of this movie on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB. Most of them were discouraging. Decided to give it a try, as I have been hungry — for what, 30 years? — for another movie like “The Hunt for Red October”, which I probably watch almost once a year. Overall, I liked it. I got the same proud, patriotic feeling I get when watching “Red October”. My Chinese-American companion said she liked it also and stayed awake during the entire showing — which was amazing, given her track record at other movies. Granted, the acting was a bit...

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Georgia election officials to stop summarily tossing absentee ballots because of mismatched signatures, delivering a crucial win to voting-rights advocates — and to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams — less than two weeks before Election Day.

I just realized that I didn’t celebrate my 20th year anniversary with FreeRepublic! It was back in June. Thank you, FR! You have been my go-to site in all times of trouble! I will donate $50 right now to commemorate this belated anniversary!

Q posted over the weekend that next week (this week) would witness dramatic developments. Q even said some bad actors would prefer suicide rather than face this week. So, it’s put up or shut up time for Q. So far the week has been quiet, and I haven’t heard of any suicides yet. I’ve been spending (wasting?) a lot of time following Q. But if this week does not witness wholesale arrests and perp walks, I’m totally done with Q.

At the intersection where protections against unreasonable search and seizure meet the rights to free speech and association, there is now a web hosting company called DreamHost. The California-based company is resisting a Department of Justice warrant that demands it hand over all files related to DisruptJ20.org, a website created by one of its customers to plan and announce actions intended to interrupt President Trump's inauguration. In D.C., Group Of Protesters Breaks Windows; Police Use Pepper Spray THE TWO-WAY In D.C., Group Of Protesters Breaks Windows; Police Use Pepper Spray Inauguration Day protests in Washington, D.C., turned violent; 230 people...

For the People's Daily finally in the Sino-Korean relations, said the truth of praise 2017-08-07 China is the energy transfer Click on the top】 【blue font free attention! China - DPRK in the precarious situation Today, the DPRK Central News Agency issued an article titled "Do not do recklessly talk about the rudeness of the DPRK-China relations", and criticized China's policy toward the DPRK and issued a tough threat to China. The Chinese version of the text still left a little face, the DPRK version of the Chinese government and Chinese leaders ridicule and abuse is simply unsightly. The next...

This site fricking sucks. If you want me to continue to be a member, you will fix it.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A backup data device containing Hillary Clinton’s emails exists in the FBI’s possession. The FBI is now challenged to produce the long forgotten device. The FBI received a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request “VIA CERTIFIED MAIL” Wednesday from Judicial Watch.

I have loved Ted Cruz since he filibustered. I loved him even more since he.called McConnell a liar. Nothing Ted has done since then has changed my love for him. But then there's the Donald. I love him too! I love how he has torn apart the political correctness and the conventional wisdom. But how can I love both candidates and not be unfaithful to them both? I wish they would stop fighting each other. I wish they would start fighting Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

So who really requested the warrant-less wiretaps on all Verizon customers? It wasn't the NSA. Take another look at the warrant (at link) and see if you can figure it out.

If the exit polls from NV and FL are true, it looks like we may have found a new ally buried deep in the Democrat party. Buried so deep that the polls never detected them! I'm talking about the PUMA's and all the other Democrats who are supporting McCain. Their fierce opposition to The One is only surpassed by our own. As I predicted earlier this month, the Democrat party is deeply divided, and will not give Obama the votes he needs to win, and it is thanks to these PUMA's that Obama will face an ignoble defeat on November...

Here's how this strategy works: Obama knows he's can't win the election with his current support base: racist blacks and some naive guilty whites who are voting for him only becuase of his skin color, loony left wingnuts who are drooling at the chance Obama offers to "re-educate conservatives", and the elite limousine liberal MSM wolfpack, whose inevitable demise can only be averted if Obama wins and they become the official state propoganda organ. Obama and his coterie know he cannot possibly win because he can't close the deal with his party base. They all know that the Democrat party...

Guess who ACORN's lawyer was? None other than Barack Hussein Obama. This is according to John Fund who was just on Fox & Friends.

Did I hear correctly that Sheriff Ed Brown in North Carolina used a divining rod to find the body of Maria Lauterbach (the missing Marine) in the backyard of the suspect? Is this what he said in answer to a question at the latest press conference? Did anyone else hear this?

Georgia 4th District Republicans: This is your chance to vote McKinney out of office! According to what I heard on WGST news radio (Rush station and FoxNews Radio affiliate), you are free to vote against McKinney in the August 8 Runoff election if you did not vote in the Primary on the Republican slate. If you voted in the Primary on the Republican slate, you cannot vote on the Democratic slate in the Runoff. However, if you did not vote at all in the Primary, you are free to vote in either slate in the Runoff! In that case, you...

When the Marines stormed Guadalcanal, they thought they would be facing "Superhuman" Japanese defenders. Seven thousand U.S. Marines were lost in that battle, but thirty thousand Japanese were killed. Who were the "Superhumans"? Why did the Marines think they were up against "Superhumans" at Guadacanal? The media filled their unblooded head with that notion. The same notion filled the heads of the 101st Airborne Division when they landed, in massive disarray, in Normandy in June 1944. Where did they get the idea that their emeny was "Superhuman"? You guessed it -- the media. If it was true that the enemy...