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Herd immunity is necessary for the C-19 contagion to burn itself out, but that can't happen by having lockdowns of the public because lockdowns actually PREVENT herd immunity from occurring, and it doesn't matter if a lockdown lasts a month or lasts six months because regardless of the length of the lockdown, any economic reopening will produce an unavoidable new wave of C-19 cases. Public policy makers know all of the above, and their claim has always been that a lockdown was *ONLY* to avoid the unknown possibility of the medical system being overwhelmed by too many severe cases all...

Bernie Sanders gave former presidential-primary foe Joe Biden his biggest endorsement yet Monday by joining him in a livestreamed event. “We must come together to defeat the most dangerous president in modern history,” Sanders tweeted. “Bernie, I’m gonna need you,” Biden told the Vermont US senator.

A man in a polyamorous relationship that consists of three men and one woman and was celebrated by the media has now been charged with abusing an infant. The polyamorous relationship–consisting of four men and one woman–made a splash across several media outlets who attempted to decipher the dynamics of the unorthodox relationship as the woman had become pregnant to one of the men. One of the men in the unconventional relationship, Ethan Baucom, 22, from Jacksonville, has been charged with aggravated child abuse fracturing the 5-week-old baby’s arm, leg, ribs, and skull.

GOP and Democrat politicians can win massive support from millions of young graduates by just opposing the inflow of foreign visa workers into the good jobs that American graduates need to pay their college debts, says Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA. “You’ve got 5 million kids that are scheduled to graduate, with no ceremony, in the next three to four weeks [and] they’re going to be entering the worst job market in American history,” he said in an April 9 tweet: [...] we should pass the RAISE Act by Sen. Tom Cotton which cuts our visas dramatically. Turning...

After the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic, Planned Parenthood has refused to back down. The abortion corporation is partnering with the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Lawyering Project to take the case before the Supreme Court, so they can be allowed to commit abortions in Texas while the pandemic continues. Planned Parenthood is hoping the Supreme Court will reinstate a restraining order allowing both chemical and surgical abortions to be committed. Judge Lee Yeakel had previously ruled that the ban on unnecessary surgical procedures, which Gov. Abbott...

Unable to defeat Schlafly in life, cultural elites in Hollywood are now attacking her posthumously in the brazenly dishonest 'Mrs. America' series.> Liberal cultural elites have had it out for Phyllis Schlafly since she defeated the Equal Rights Amendment in 1979. Now, producers of the FX/Hulu series “Mrs. America” have hypocritically done to Schlafly exactly what the women’s liberation and Me Too movements complain “the patriarchy” does to women it cannot control: rape and defile them. The so-called Equal Rights Amendment, or ERA, was a perfect Hollywood cause. It allowed supporters to appear pro-woman, while Hollywood knew the amendment posed...

The now six-year-old boy who was thrown from a balcony at the Mall of America is celebrating his recovery a year after the incident. In April 2019, Landen was with his mother at the Mall of America when a man "looking for someone to kill" approached Landen and threw him over the balcony, according to court documents. The nearly 40-foot fall left Landen seriously injured with a long road to recovery. Donations poured in with more than $1 million raised online. According to family updates, Landen returned home in August and as of late November, Landen was walking "perfectly." In...

he Trump administration is concerned that China could be trying to squeeze U.S. allies with a recent diplomatic salvo of coronavirus-related medical aid and humanitarian assistance, R. Clarke Cooper, the State Department’s assistant secretary for political-military affairs, said in an interview with Foreign Policy.

Last summer, in the middle of what struck me as an otherwise very full life, I went to my first Weird Al Yankovic concert. Weird Al, for anyone reading this through a golden monocle, is the most renowned comedy musician in the history of the multiverse — a force of irrepressible wackiness who, back in the 1980s, built a preposterous career out of song parodies and then, somehow, never went away. After 40 years, Yankovic is now no longer a novelty, but an institution — a garish bright patch in the middle of America’s pop-cultural wallpaper, a completely ridiculous national...

Famed anthropologist Jane Goodall is blaming humans’ abuse of Mother Nature for the global coronavirus crisis. “It is our disregard for nature and our disrespect of the animals we should share the planet with that has caused this pandemic, that was predicted long ago,” the 86-year-old animal expert told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The British scientist, best known for her lifelong study of chimpanzees, argued that destroying habitats has forced animals into closer proximity, spreading diseases — and ultimately infecting humans. She said the deadly crisis also highlights the dangers of “meat markets for wild animals in Asia, especially China, and...

The secret of Jodi Huisentruit's disappearance could die with the execution of a notorious Iowa drug kingpin. Dustin Honken is up for execution for the murder of five people in the 1990s -- and supposedly knows who abducted the television news anchor back in June of 1995. Steve Ridge is an investigative journalist who's dedicated the last 19 months looking into Jodi's case. Ridge says an accomplice of Honken's, Angela Johnson -- who is also serving time in prison for her part in the murders-- claims that Honken knows who abducted Jodi. Honken was set to be executed in January,...

President Trump won’t fire White House coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci despite sharing a tweet with the hashtag #FireFauci, a spokesman said on Monday. “This media chatter is ridiculous – President Trump is not firing Dr. Fauci,” said White House principal deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley. “The President’s tweet clearly exposed media attempts to maliciously push a falsehood about his China decision in an attempt to rewrite history,” Gidley said. “It was Democrats and the media who ignored Coronavirus choosing to focus on impeachment instead, and when they finally did comment on the virus it was to attack President...

The far left often likes to claim it’s the ultimate bastion of tolerance. But we all know that that’s hardly the case, especially if those four dreaded letters — MAGA — somehow become involved. You would, however, think that given how much the left likes to accuse conservatives and the right of being homophobic, leftists would be nicer to gay conservatives. Straka’s grass-roots movement is encouraging other liberals to do the same. Straka’s mission to walk away was only emboldened after an incident involving a model, Hanna Blanchette, at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Straka is currently filming a video...

A Florida police chief was placed on paid leave for allegedly suggesting that a sheriff’s deputy died from the coronavirus because he was gay, according to reports. Davie Police Chief Dale Engle, 56, was put on leave as of Saturday “pending further review” of accusations made a day earlier by the state’s Fraternal Order of Police, the town announced in a statement. A Florida police chief was placed on paid leave for allegedly suggesting that a sheriff’s deputy died from the coronavirus because he was gay, according to reports. Davie Police Chief Dale Engle, 56, was put on leave as of...

South Dakota will be the first state to hold a statewide trial for hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment of the coronavirus. Gov. Kristi Noem announced on Monday that the state health department and every major hospital would take part in a clinical trial to treat COVID-19 patients and those who have been exposed to individuals who tested positive for the coronavirus. The trial, which will be led by Sanford Health, was given approval by federal authorities to be the first statewide trial of the drug. "We are going to be the first state in the nation to run a statewide...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than a dozen workers at Planned Parenthood clinics across Austin are now without a job. They say they believe it’s direct retaliation for both voicing complaints to the CEO and their ongoing efforts to unionize within the past year. Planned Parenthood management confirmed it made staff cuts, but it says it’s a business decision it had to make because of COVID-19. For nearly two years, Ella Nonni has worked for Planned Parenthood. She most recently served as the senior medical assistant at the North Austin location. She was distraught to learn that she and around 20...

While it looks like everyone is taking seriously the average worker’s needs, no one at the decision-making level has thought of the small business owner. If you’re a small business owner like I am, you’ve been closely following the stimulus efforts of the federal government, looking for a lifeline out of the mess of delayed payments, lost revenue, and furloughed employees. Unfortunately, while it looks as though everyone is taking seriously the average worker’s needs, no one at the decision-making level has thought of the small business owner. Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act on March 18, providing...

On Easter Sunday, a federal judge ruled that Alabama cannot stop abortion facilities from killing unborn babies in elective abortions during the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled that abortion facilities should be the ones to decide if an abortion is essential, and the state cannot close them – even during a national health crisis, the AP reports. Thompson issued a preliminary injunction, which expands his earlier ruling blocking the state from enforcing health care restrictions on abortion facilities. His initial ruling expired Monday. Similar to most states, Alabama is restricting all non-essential medical care during the pandemic....

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday the state is “controlling the spread” of the coronavirus, and it appears that “the worst is over ... if we continue to be smart going forward.” But he pointed to a flattening of the daily death toll, the flattening in the net number of hospitalizations and a drop in the number of people on ventilators as evidence that radical measures such as the shuttering of nonessential businesses have helped to contain the virus. Cuomo said he will make an announcement later Monday about plans for reopening the state in conjunction with some other...

Editor’s Note: This article is the second in an ongoing series about controversial South Korean religious leader David Jang and a business empire that includes Olivet University and The Christian Post newspaper. To read Part 1 in this series, click here. It examines the money-laundering scheme to which former Christian Post CEO William Anderson pled guilty. Part 2 examined The Christian Post’s influence in the Christian world, and its coverage of the misdeeds of its current and former leaders. This article examines the “hear-no-evil, see-no-evil approach” embraced by many evangelical leaders who bask in the glow of Jang’s influential...