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Flu season is in full swing across the U.S... it always happens in winter. ...everywhere on Earth where people have a winter season, they also have a flu season. Part of what makes the timing of each flu season unpredictable is that scientists still don't understand exactly why we have one at all. There have, of course, been lots of theories why flu peaks in winter: people spend more time indoors, with the windows closed, breathing each other's air.darkness (i.e. lack of Vitamin D and melatonin) and cold of winter weaken our immune systems, making us more susceptible to the...

The following is a Public Service Announcement for Democrats:But not soooo far left that you go off the road and into the weeds. If the trajectory is wrong you’ll be unsafe at any speed. “All the Democrats had to do was look normal, and they couldn't even do that.” – Megan FoxPosted from: MOTUS A.D.

A British man once struck down by coronavirus has described how the horror symptoms of the deadly disease almost killed him. Simon Parker, 47, thought he was suffering from a common cold when he fell ill on Boxing Day in 2016. But he became severely ill over the next few days and by New Year's Eve couldn't even breathe - forcing him to desperately call 999. He was taken from his home in Kingswear, Devon, to a hospital where he was put into an induced coma.

... [Sanders] has described himself as a democratic socialist. So what would that mean for business? A lot, as his various plans lay out, touching nearly every facet of business in America — and that’s aside from the tax proposals he has made to foot the bill, which we covered last week. Health Insurance: One signature Sanders policy is Medicare for All — a single-payer national health insurance program with “no networks, no premiums, no deductibles, no copays, no surprise bills.” He would extend medical coverage to include dental, hearing, vision, prescriptions and long-term care, and then some. Prescription Drugs:...

We have seen lots of strange things happen during President Trump’s time in the White House, and Mitt Romney added to that list on Wednesday when he voted to remove Trump from office. It was the first time in American history that a U.S. Senator has voted to convict a president that belongs to the same political party, and this probably marks the beginning of the end of Romney’s political career. Amazingly, Romney voted against Trump even though he knew that it would not affect the outcome of the vote. In fact, Romney knew that he was going to be...

Man set to testify against MS-13 found murdered after New York releases witness list A man who police say was the victim of a beating at the hands of MS-13 members in 2018 was found dead in New Cassel earlier this week. Police identified Wilmer Maldonado Rodriguez, 36, as the man found dead behind an abandoned home on Broadway Sunday. Police say Rodriguez was one of three victims of a gang assault over a year ago. According to the Nassau District Attorney’s Office, Rodriguez was protecting someone who was being bullied in 2018 when he was beaten and stabbed by...

Just as the title states, what is the next hoax that democrats and the media will push before the elections?

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s The Last Word, Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) stated that voters in Alabama want someone who has sincerity and conscience — and while “a lot of people” will not agree with his decision to vote to convict President Trump, “a lot of people” will agree with the vote he cast. Jones began by saying that his electoral prospects weren’t part of his calculus on how to vote.

The U.S. Navy has spent weeks trawling the North Atlantic in the hunt for a deadly Russian submarine that was known to have deployed into the waters off the East Coast of the United States. The Project 885 Yasen class guided missile submarine Severodvinsk is built from the very latest in Russian technology and was thought to be just a few hundred miles away from the North American coastline in the fall of 2019. Such was the worry of the U.S. military, the search involved a large number of Navy submarines, ships, and maritime patrol aircraft, all of which proved...

Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign raked in a whopping $25 million in January alone and will use the haul to bankroll ads and staff across the critical Super Tuesday slate. The Vermont senator raised more in January than in any other month in the 2020 Democratic presidential race, his campaign said in announcing the haul Thursday. It added that it received 1.3 million donations from roughly 650,000 people. The flood of cash came just before the start of 2020 primary nominating contests. Iowa held its first-in-the-nation caucuses Monday, followed by contests this month in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.

So, how did that work out for everybody? With impeachment now waning in the rear-view mirror, it is time to assess what it did for, or to, the cast of characters. President Trump enjoys heightened popularity following a State of the Union address that accrued to his lasting benefit, partly because of what he offered, and partly because of how his enemies reacted. A president pursued by Democrats for years could hardly have hoped for better than an evening of evidence that their grudges run so deep as to blow away decorous traditions spanning generations. If Trump did indeed get...

Mayor Bill de Blasio is defending his policies in the face of skyrocketing crime in New York City. It’s a dramatic example of why some New Yorkers say they don’t feel safe on the streets of New York City: one day last week, just before noon, a 28-year-old woman was stopped in her tracks by a man with a box cutter on West 51st Street in Hell’s Kitchen. He threatened to slash her, then reached into her jacket and grabbed her cell phone. It’s no wonder why a neighbor, a mother of two young children, says she’s thinking of moving....

Not Rounding Errors - It's Supposed To Be This Way Because of the way the math was done at the caucuses, many precincts wound up with an extra delegate that got "assigned" to one of the candidates at the end of the caucus. We were able to look at worksheets from 18 precincts that were posted on Twitter. We found a strange process where numbers below .5 were being rounded up in multiple precincts. See the photos above for more examples. Six of the precincts had the unusual "rounding up." One seemed to be a tie - which may have...

Mitt Romney explained his vote to convict President Trump in a note to his Republican colleagues, hand-signed “Mitt” in blue ink and delivered Wednesday to their individual boxes in the Senate cloakroom. Why it matters: The Utah senator and 2012 presidential nominee was the only Republican to go against Trump during impeachment. His notes reflect how much pressure he'll be under to justify himself to a party that's pledged loyalty ahead of Trump's re-election bid.

Has anyone checked on DNC chair Tom Perez..... is he still breathing?....the Iowa caucuses were a tragic embarrassment, w/ the nation confounded at the lack of party organization and competence....... We still didn’t know who won the most delegates......there's a lot of reasons to be nervous about Buttigeig claiming victory: His black voter support is at less than 2 percent....a number that looks good on milk....and really bad for a party that relies heavily on that bloc for victory. Sanders saw his support climb, putting him at the top of the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire. He’s in a...

This is not how epidemics are supposed to spread. For a week in late January, more than half of newly reported Coronavirus infections were outside of Hubei (Wuhan's state). Now, fewer than one in five new cases are from Outside Hubei. China took extremely drastic and apparently amazingly successful efforts to contain Coronavirus. So why do Chinese leaders act in apology and shame, like those dogs in YouTube videos? You can almost hear the scoldy housewife berating, "Did you do this Xi Jinping?" as his tail withers behind his legs, he circles around his doggy bed, and lifts his lip...

Last week movie director Oliver Stone told the television programRussia Today that America is now “the evil empire.” This is in reference to President Reagan’s famous remark in the mid-1980s that the Soviet Union was “the evil empire.” Reagan got a lot of flak from the left for saying that. But Reagan was right. The USSR put to death tens of millions of human beings in order to force the country into communism.Oliver Stone was bemoaning the “economic censorship” he claims to have experienced at the box office by ordinary Americans who don’t care to see some of his movies bashing...

WASHINGTON, Pa. — In the winter of 2018, Cindy Callaghan knocked on doors. Lots and lots of doors. A new soldier in the sprawling ranks of the anti-Trump resistance, she spent her weekends in the small towns of southwestern Pennsylvania, telling strangers about Conor Lamb, the Democrat who was running for Congress in a district that President Trump carried by nearly 20 percentage points. When Mr. Lamb won his special election in a narrow but stunning upset, it seemed that there was an opportunity, if enough people put in enough work, to change minds and thus change the country’s politics....

Antifa and the radical left are trying to destroy our country! They’re doing it to Portland, Berkley, San Francisco, and other liberal cities. They’re ruining our once beautiful cities. Looks like the Democrat party is IMPLODING!! And, I think the swamp may drain itself. First, they can’t even fake the primaries in Iowa, then James O’Keefe from Project Veritas expose the communist background of the supporters of the eventual winner in Iowa primaries Bernie Sanders. It just keeps getting worse and worse for Bernie Sanders and his supporters. It seems like anyone and everyone who works for the Bernie Sanders...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalm 109 Psalm 109 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. 1 My God, whom I praise,     do not remain silent, 2 for people who are wicked and deceitful     have opened their mouths against me;     they have spoken against me with lying tongues. 3 With words of hatred they surround me;     they attack me without cause. 4 In return for my friendship they accuse me,     but I am a man of prayer. 5 They repay me evil for good,     and hatred for my friendship. 6 Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy;     let...