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Track owner Bill Bader is opening Summit Raceway Park soon regardless of what state of Ohio mandates. Bader says Dr. Acton and Gov. Mike DeWine do not know him or his business and they do not care if he goes out of business. Bader is opening the track soon.

Massachusetts Coronavirus: 140,000 File For Unemployment With this week's jobless claims, the new coronavirus pandemic has erased all U.S. jobs created since the end of the Great Recession. By Dave Copeland, Patch Staff Apr 16, 2020 8:33 am ET | Updated Apr 16, 2020 10:56 am ET BOSTON — The number of Massachusetts residents applying for first-time unemployment benefits during the week that ended April 11 was 139,647, according to Thursday's U.S. Department of Labor report. While that figure was down from last week, more people are staying on unemployment rolls in Massachusetts. As of April 11, 310,211 Massachusetts residents...

Cities, counties fear losing out on US virus rescue funding By RICHARD LARDNER and BRIAN SLODYSKO, Apr 14, 2020 WASHINGTON — The $2.2 trillion federal rescue package could fail to deliver badly needed financial aid to thousands of smaller cities and counties where a majority of Americans live, according to documents and interviews with local officials. The coronavirus outbreak has blown holes in the budgets of communities as the costs of battling it skyrocket and critical sources of revenue like sales and income taxes plummet. The Coronavirus Relief Fund uses a formula based on population to parcel out tens of...

Britain’s relationship with Beijing will no longer be “business as usual” after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, UK foreign secretary and acting Prime Minister Dominic Raab said, in a sign of a toughening stance toward the communist regime over its handling of the outbreak. “There absolutely needs to be a very, very deep dive after the event and review of the lessons, including of the outbreak of the virus,” Raab said at a press conference in London on April 16. “I don’t think we can flinch from that at all.” Asked if there would be a “reckoning” with Beijing after...

TELL CONGRESS: FUND THE FRONT LINES NOW AFSCME is a financial supporter of The American Prospect. One of the lessons of the Trump administration’s late response to the coronavirus pandemic is, those who don’t believe in the mission of government aren’t very good at fulfilling it. There has long been a philosophical debate in this country about how much government is too much, or too little. But it is difficult to recall a time when government leaders so brazenly abandoned their roles—in no small part because they did not believe in them. The Trump White House has stumbled and fumbled...

Ewwww! MUSLIM cannibal arrested in Brooklyn, NY, after killing and allegedly eating body parts of his own father APRIL 16, 2020 BY BARENAKEDISLAM “It’s one of the worst crime scenes I’ve ever seen,” said an NYPD cop after finding the mutilated body inside a Brooklyn house after the 26-year-old Muslim, Khaled Ahmad, told two officers that he had killed and eaten his own father. Daily Mail (h/t Victor S) A Brooklyn MUSLIM man allegedly killed his father before dismembering and eating pieces of his body in a shocking murder that took place in New York City in 24 hours. Cops...

Christina Segundo is angry. She’s a U.S. citizen, raising four children in Fort Worth with her husband. Friends around her are receiving $1,200 or more under the government’s colossal stimulus effort. But Segundo gets nothing. She and her immigrant husband file taxes jointly and he uses a federal ITIN, an individual taxpayer identification number. Such couples have been surgically excluded from help. Potentially millions of U.S.citizens will get no federal stimulus assistance under the $2 trillion pandemic aid package because there are also unauthorized immigrants in their families: The CARES Act excludes unauthorized immigrants and most U.S. citizens or legal...

Senators send letter to FBI Director Wray after declassified footnotes exposed new missteps in probe of Trump campaign. Two Republican Senate committee chairman demanded Thursday that FBI Director Christopher Wray turn over new materials from the bureau’s bungled Russia collusion probe after newly declassified evidence raised new questions about agents’ failure to vet a key informant. In a letter to Wray, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs chairman, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the Senate Committee on Finance chairman, expressed concerns the investigation was tainted by "Russian disinformation." The FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation filed...

The Epoch Times recently published a documentary to Facebook, “Tracking Down the Origin of Wuhan Coronavirus.” The documentary went viral across different channels, including Facebook, generating a lot of healthy discussion and more than 70 million views collectively, at last count. However, an “independent fact checker” erroneously marked the video as false. Click here to read the justification provided by the fact checker. The “fact checker” appears to take issue with some of the expert opinions the documentary presents. With the Chinese Communist Party having destroyed evidence and prevented research into the origin of the virus, it’s very difficult to...

This week, we’re seeing more in the media reveal their contempt for anyone concerned about government overreach, as journalists attacked people protesting their state’s strict stay-at-home orders. Joy Behar added to the hate, offering her own scathing suggestion to the thousands in Michigan who showed up yesterday to protest their Democrat governor. On Thursday’s The View, the co-host claimed anyone who dared to defy their local guidelines should have to sign away their rights to be treated at a hospital if they did get sick. Whoopi Goldberg opened the show asking her co-hosts what they thought about protesters in Michigan...

New York doctors are seeing marked improvements in COVID-19 patients by utilizing one simple technique: flipping them on their stomachs. Doctors treating coronavirus patients have begun laying them on their stomachs to help them breathe, a technique known as prone positioning, according to CNN. The practice is particularly effective on patients with COVID-19, caused by a virus that attacks the respiratory system, by increasing the amount of oxygen in their blood by more than 10%.

Wisconsin is one of perhaps the two or three likeliest states to vote for the winning presidential candidate this fall, so it is no surprise that anything that happens politically in the Badger State attracts widespread attention. A wider-than-expected victory by a Democratic-backed candidate in a state Supreme Court race decided earlier this week is therefore getting a lot of attention, but the specific factors in that race should caution us from projecting the results ahead to the fall. Wisconsin remains very winnable for both sides in the presidential race. For the past several years, following Wisconsin's Supreme Court elections...

During its recent press conference, the agency said that this particularly applied to Somalis, but also immigrants from Iraq, Syria, Finland, Turkey, Iran, the former Yugoslavia, and Eritrea.

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April 16, 2020 (LiveAction) – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a known financier of pro-abortion organizations, is also funding an international “family planning” organization that distributes the abortion pill worldwide. DKT International operates “offices in 24 countries” and boasts that it is “one of the world’s largest providers of family planning.” But while DKT portrays itself as “a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO)” that “operates like a social enterprise,” DKT International also openly sells the abortion pill (mifepristone) as well as manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) kits. In addition, DKT may also be the marketing company behind pills that are being...

Over the last week, I have been emailing with an Ivy League professor who is deeply concerned about the damage being done to our country by governments’ reaction to the COVID-19 virus. Today she sent me this eloquent email, which I am posting with her permission. I just thought I’d send a few more thoughts your way, for whatever value they might be. I’m just so anguished by what is happening in the country. The policy response is so far disproportionate to the threat and is wreaking such unthinkable damage on our society and our economy. I don’t have the...

A legislative bill would require the military to dedicate $6 billion a year to counter China, work with allies -- WASHINGTON—A push to shift U.S. military resources to Asia to counter Chinese influence is drawing new support in Congress, where a leading lawmaker wants to compel the Pentagon to invest at least $6 billion per year in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. The legislative effort seeks to mirror the dedicated funding stream provided for years to the U.S. European Command to counter Russia. That funding, known as the European Deterrence Initiative, has been the envy of China hawks who believe the...

HBCU School President & Staff Arrested For Selling Female Students & Staff For Pleasure! Schools have gone down hill

Lawmakers call for pro-life protections amid coronavirus research | EWTN News Nightly, You Tube video

Published, peer-reviewed clinical trials have shown stem cells have reversed stroke damage years after the injury, helped spinal-cord-injury victims regain lost movement, helped heart attack patients recover, cured sickle cell anemia and reversed a wide range of diseases, including multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes and lupus erythematosus. Advances with ethically sourced adult stem cells have already helped more than 1 million patients, according to a recently published review paper by David Prentice, a research director for the Charlotte Lozier Institute and a former professor of medical and molecular genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine. He calls adult stem cells...