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Just as Americans get used to life without masks, shutdowns and other restrictions, the White House is warning that the fall season in which the midterm elections will take place could see up to 100 million new COVID infections.In response, according to Biden COVID response coordinator Ashish Jha, the administration is asking Congress to approve another $22.5 billion in emergency aid to pay for a fourth round of shots as well as treatments and tests.However, as Becker News points out, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has acknowledged that 95% of Americans have protection due to vaccination and natural immunity, and the...

A member of my family has Oscars on... That's why I am watching some parts of the show...If I had my way, I would watch something else... Mel Gibson's film won sounds effects award...

Published on Feb 27, 2014 http://townhall.com/tipsheet/

Matching DNA samples, scientists and historians have identified first lady Michelle Obama's family history, which traces back to Northern Georgia. According to the New York Times, her ancestors were both slaves and the slave masters because of interracial couplings through the years. Now, Mrs. Obama's distant white relatives, descendants of the slave masters, are grappling with these facts. The bloodlines of Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Tribble extend back to a 200-acre farm that was not far from here. One of their common ancestors was Henry Wells Shields, Mrs. Tribble's great-great-grandfather. He was a farmer and a family man who grew...

Bradley Whitford, Gabrielle Carteris Rally With Unions in Wisconsinby Jonathan Handel 3:08 PM 2/26/2011 As a pitched battle in Wisconsin continues to escalate, SAG and AFTRA members are on scene at the state capitol building in Madison, helping fight efforts by the state’s Republican governor to limit public employee wages, require employees to pay more for pension and health benefits and, perhaps most controversially, constrict the scope of collective bargaining and force public unions to hold yearly votes on whether they should remain in existence. The acting contingent includes Emmy and SAG Award winner Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), SAG...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee defended First Lady Michelle Obama Wednesday from conservative critics who he said have painted her anti-obesity campaign as nothing more than "a government takeover of our dinner plates." "She's been criticized unfairly by a lot of my fellow conservatives," Huckabee said at an event sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, adding that the criticism is more "a reflex" than "thoughtful expression." Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and conservative talk host Rush Limbaugh are among those who have slammed Michelle Obama's efforts as heavy handed. "It's exactly what Republicans say they believe," Huckabee said of the...

Today’s election will be as full of surprises as the whole campaign season. Meghan McCain gives her surprising predictions—and says Obama and the country gets what it deserves. The whole country is waiting, ironically enough, for the change that will be coming in today’s election. Extreme change, in a drastically different direction that what just two short years ago Obama was voted into office to bring. This change, depending on how big a win Republicans have tomorrow, is a direct result and slap in the face to all Democrats still thinking that the Obama administration could continue on as they...

News reports today point out that President Obama is going a little gray at the temples. Is it the stress of the job, or is he due to go gray about now anyway? We saw it happen to George Bush, and in dramatic fashion with Bill Clinton. Obama saw his own grayer self coming.

Check this out. I'm sure it has been posted elsewhere on numerous threads. I searched various ways and did not see it. Jon Stewart Slaps Hillary

ATLANTA - Nothing says trustworthy like a Boy Scout. So when the FBI began investigating reports the Greater Alabama Boy Scout Council was lying about how many members it had, eyebrows went up. Allegations of membership padding by paid Scout executives have also been made in five other states. One employee, who didn't want to be identified, says in some Scout councils it's almost a joke. "I remembered hearing the registrar and some of the professional staff joking about who's got a gold fish, who's got a cat or a dog," she says. "[In other words,] who's got a name...