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I think the COVID-19 lockdown is killing more people than it is saving. Here are my many reasons for thinking such a thing. I think the COVIOD-19 lockdown is killing more people than it is saving.I’m going to start out by posting the CDC’s estimated survival rates, by age, for people who contract COVID-19:Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20200923185857/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html0 to 19: 99.997%20 to 49: 99.98%50 to 69: 99.5%70+: 94.6%For most age groups, the survival rate is quite high. In my opinion, this does not justify a lockdown of the general population.Now let’s take a look at my many reasons for thinking that the lockdown is...

Protesters inflamed by the decision not to charge cops for Breonna Taylor’s death took their anger out on a couple dining in Florida — gatecrashing their table and threatening to knock the man the “f–k out.” A man clutching a skateboard was filmed by a Tampa Bay Times reporter as he strolled up and sat with the couple at their outdoor table as dozens chanted at the edge of the St. Petersburg restaurant. “No! This is my table,” the female diner told him, trying to push him from the chair — only to have three other protesters stroll over and...

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that “good conscience” Republicans should step down after President Trump told reporters he would have to “see what happens” with election results before committing to a peaceful transfer of power. “We're going to have to see what happens," Trump said during the White House news conference when asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election. "You know that I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster." Schiff, D-Calif., joined “The Rachel Maddow Show” later in the evening...

Rioters threw rocks, glass bottles, and explosives at police during another night of riots in Seattle Following Wednesday's decision by a grand jury not to indict police officers on homicide charges in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, cities across the country erupted in protests and violence, including St. Petersburg, Portland, and Louisville, where two police officers were shot. In Seattle, riots erupted that included a vicious baseball bat attack on a police officer. A shocking video from Wednesday night's riots in Seattle shows a man dressed in all black violently smash a police officer in the back...

Cancer patients, treated as an “at-risk” group throughout the pandemic, may actually have a heightened ability to fight the coronavirus, according to Israeli scientists. COVID-19 is believed to hit hardest when it turns the body’s best weapon — the immune system — on itself, triggering a potentially lethal immune overreaction called a cytokine storm. But among cancer patients, drugs often make the immune system weaker than normal, and Haifa researchers think this limits the impact of the virus, because it has less of an arsenal to turn on the patient. “Our hypothesis is that because the immune system is weakened,...

John Durham, the Connecticut U.S. attorney who is spearheading an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, has branched out to look into allegations that the Clinton Foundation broke the law. The New York Times reported that Durham's team has reached out to law enforcement officials about the Clinton probe and how they conducted the investigation that began in 2015. Among other claims, the organization is alleged to have sought donations in exchange for backing the sale of the Canadian company Uranium One, which had links in the U.S., to the Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom. No evidence has...

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Trump has called Ginsburg an "amazing woman," but some spectators were not happy that he came. Moments after he arrived, booing could be heard from spectators who then briefly chanted, "Vote him out" and "Honour her request."

The Black Lives Matter movement trades on Americans’ ignorance about the demographics of criminal offending. As long as that ignorance prevails, BLM’s anti-cop narrative will continue destroying the institutions of law and order. Activists and their media enablers present racial disparities in police activity—be it stops, arrests, or officer use of force—as prima facie evidence of police bias. They generate those racial disparities by comparing policing data to population ratios. In New York City, for example, a little over 50% of all pedestrian stops conducted by the New York Police Department have a black subject. But blacks are slightly less...

They say that a smile is the shortest distance between two people. But a laugh is even shorter! When I started this blog, and pivoted it towards America, in the back of my mind, I decided not to hit at President Trump's political opponents...well, not much. But if they set it up on a tee, well, I just gotta take a swing at it! Frankly, I almost feel sorry for Joe Biden, whom The Washington Post named "The Lamborghini of gaffes" as he's clearly struggling on the campaign trail. I say "almost" because my empathy goes down to zero after...

POTUS, Trump & his wife, First Lady, Melania, were heckled with Boo's this morning, when they went to the Supreme Court Building to show their respect for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. The Democrat tainted crowd yelled out and repeated over & over...."Vote Him Out" & "Honor Her Wish"!!! Twas, simply a low class, no respect antic!!! It will hurt the Democrats more then help and aide them!!! "SAD" days for our great Nation, Republic!!!

The family says they got the Trump flags just a week ago after Dennis, a contractor, had a dispute at a work site over his support for the president. Since they have had the flags up, they say people have been driving by their house very slowly, some taking pictures. “We’re just very happy to be alive, and praise God that we’re alive,” Deana said.

Rick Leventhal was on FOX News Tuesday night and he discussed COVID related deaths and the percent of those with serious co-morbidies. This was first reported by The Gateway Pundit in late August. We dropped a direct hit on the Democrat Party, their mainstream media and their coronavirus narrative and all hell broke loose. We’ve never seen anything quite like this. Democrats, their fake news media and their ‘fact checker’ allies were completely outraged over our post reporting that only 9,210 Americans died from the coronavirus alone. The rest of the coronavirus victims in the US according to the...

Mexico said Wednesday it will send 101 firefighters to the United States to help battle wildfires in California. The country’s Environment Department said five teams of 20 trained, equipped firefighters from Mexico’s national forestry commission will work with the U.S. Forest Service. They will be sent first to work in California’s Sequoia National Park. The park is threatened by the SQF Complex of fires ignited by lightning in the Sequoia National Forest. The department said Mexico can spare the crews because in 31 of Mexico’s 32 states there are no active wildfires. The summer and early fall are rainy season...

Oh, my dear friends, in light of lawless leftist and godless oppression by the lawless and godless oppressors; who are anti-authority to the bone (Jude 1:10); our ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS LOVING Creator; who so loved the WORLD, truly ETERNALLY cares and desires none to die in their trespasses and sins! He cries out today to an EXPONENTIALLY lawless and fallen socially oppressed people and world; look to Me and be delivered; whatever your color, whatever your race; be ye delivered (Matt. 18:11, Luke 19:10, John 3:16-17, 1 Tim. 2:2-3, 1 John 4:10)! Our ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS LOVING Creator; who so loved the...

On Wednesday Alecia Kitts was arrested at her son’s high school football game for not wearing a mask. Kitts was tased, cuffed and arrested by the police officer during the game. She was sitting with who appear to be her young children when she was approached by the police officer. After she put up a fight the officer tased her, cuffed her and had her arrested. This was in Logan, Ohio.

Australia’s obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar has left it with a power pricing and supply calamity. It’s a disaster that was as predictable, as it was avoidable. To date, the Federal Liberal/National Coalition’s feeble attempts to resolve it provide a study in practised inertia, mixed with a series of pointless Band-Aid ‘solutions’. Last week, the PM, Scott Morrison announced a raft of policy initiatives aimed at purportedly unlocking Australia’s gas reserves (locked up by recalcitrant State Premiers) and using that gas to fuel new power plants.

---SNIP--- “Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti. These are not the actions of a democratic republic. [Department of Homeland Security’s] actions in Portland undermine its mission,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted in mid-July. Later that month, The Washington Post reported that the DHS’s intelligence division, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) had generated intelligence reports on several prominent journalists covering the Portland protests. Members of both the House and Senate intelligence committees promptly demanded to know what kinds of intelligence they had collected on both journalists and protesters

Iowa: Registered Voters - Trump +6, Likely Voters - Trump +3

A 77-year-old military veteran in California is recovering from his wounds after he said he was beaten by two people because of his “Make America Great Again” hat. Red Bluff police have charged Daniel Gomez-Martinez, 26, with battery and elder abuse after a man said he was attacked for his political views outside the post office in Red Bluff on Friday. The man, who asked not to be identified during an interview with KRCR-TV, said he was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat in support of President Trump and a Thin Blue Line mask in support of law enforcement...