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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the B.1.1.7 variant of COVID-19 which was said to be 50% to 70% more contagious, has now been discovered to also be 30% deadlier. The CDC warns it could become the dominant strain in the US by March.The UK's chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, broke it down this way, according to CNN. “If you took... a man in their 60s, the average risk is that for 1,000 people who got infected, roughly 10 would be expected to unfortunately die with the virus. With the new variant, for 1,000 people infected, roughly 13 or...

How many masks are enough masks? – Ok, well, get ready for the coming Biden plan to mandate that everyone wear more than one mask. It has become manifestly obvious over the past week that the Biden/Harris Harris/Biden administration has no other real plan for dealing with COVID-19 other than letting the natural course of the virus play out and take full credit for it, but the natural impulse of any Democrat politician when faced with an issue is to “do something,” regardless of whether what they do is productive or not. Early this week, the little menace to society...

Michael Lind is emerging as one of the most important voices of our current political and social moment, and Tablet, which has been publishing him, as one of the most important magazines. Here’s a new piece he’s done on the new national American elite — something that has never before existed, in Lind’s telling. In past eras of US history, elites have been regional. No more. Lind’s take on how elitism has worked in US history is interesting, and worth a read in itself. Here is one conclusion he draws about our present elite: Membership in the multiracial, post-ethnic national...

<p>The idea of troops in U.S. streets for an extended period of time -- an extreme measure even when temporary -- has now become close to a sacred consensus.</p><p>Washington, DC has been continuously militarized beginning the week leading up to Joe Biden’s inauguration, when 20,000 National Guard troops were deployed onto the streets of the nation’s capital. The original justification was that this show of massive force was necessary to secure the inauguration in light of the January 6 riot at the Capitol.</p>

There were whispers that the virus had been manufactured in a laboratory in that city and that somehow the little spiky ball that has killed millions and brought the world’s economy to its knees escaped. But nobody much believed it and certainly what’s known as the mainstream press for the most part ignored it. Until now.

Despite the pandemic, almost two thirds of people around the world now view climate change as a global emergency. That's the key finding from the largest opinion poll yet conducted on tackling global warming. More than a million people in 50 countries took part in the survey, with almost half the participants aged between 14 and 18. The poll, called the "People's Climate Vote", has been organised by the United Nations Development Programme in conjunction with Oxford University. The organisers distributed poll questions through adverts in mobile gaming apps across 50 countries, between October and December last year. Around 1.22...

THE UK could soon be broken apart as the majority of voters in Scotland and Northern Ireland demand referendums on their future, a new survey has revealed. The survey for the Times found a LucidTalk poll in Northern Ireland revealed a majority of 51 percent to 44 percent wanted a referendum about the border within the next five years. It showed unionists held a lead over supporters of a united Ireland with the figures suggesting a 47 percent to 42 percent split.But it found another 11 percent remained undecided - a high enough figure to threaten the future of the...

resident Joe Biden focused on the theme of unity in his inaugural address. "Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: bringing America together, uniting our people and uniting our nation," he said. It sounds so nice. But only a career politician can be this disingenuous and speak the words as if he were so, so sincere. If Biden's top priority were really unity, would he really have allowed a trial of former President Donald Trump to move forward in the Senate? Or immediately signed 30 executive orders in his first three days in the Oval Office,...

Armed and ready to go, Taiwan air force jets screamed into the sky on Tuesday in a drill to simulate a war scenario, showing its fleet’s battle readiness after dozens of Chinese warplanes flew into the island’s air defence zone over the weekend. Taiwan, claimed by China as its territory, has been on edge since the large-scale incursion by Chinese fighters and nuclear-capable bombers into the southwestern part of its air defence identification zone on Saturday and Sunday, which coincided with a U.S. carrier group entering the South China Sea. The base in the southern city of Tainan, home to...

I have a fairly new tower computer with a built-in network RJ45 port. The motherboard has a Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller built in that is supposed to get speeds up to 1GB but in the device manager it only says 100MB/100MB up and down. I have a fiber connection that was 600MB Full Duplex but is being upgraded to Gigabit fiber soon. Since my computer is upstairs I use a TP-Link R305 range extender that is supposed to be capable of up to 1.2GB. The signal is strong and I connect directly from that to my PC with a...

The new White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, came to the briefing room on Tuesday with domestic policy adviser Susan Rice. This came two days after CNN's Brian Stelter celebrated the "refreshing" arrival of "transparency and truth" at the briefings. Rice is best remembered in conservative circles for spewing falsehoods on five Sunday talk shows on Sept. 16, 2012, when she was White House national security adviser: She claimed the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans was a "spontaneous reaction" to an Islamophobic YouTube video, not a terrorist attack. "Protesters" showed up with rocket-propelled...

Republicans are questioning the timing of Democratic governors and mayors easing their coronavirus restrictions. While these state and local officials point to data and pre-set benchmarks to justify their reopening decisions, critics of the lockdowns that have hurt businesses over the past year suspect former President Donald Trump leaving office has something to do with it. Rep. Jim Hagedorn told the Washington Examiner the timeline is suspect given President Biden's inauguration was last week, saying, "It is no coincidence" that Democratic leaders are lifting restrictions now. .... because Democrat politicians put their party’s political interests ahead of ... their constituents,"...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ Cases are dropping. I don’t know what this means. I don’t see the rhetoric from lefties changing. But it might embolden a brave GOP Governor from following the lead of Desantis’ in Florida and end a lockdown. Democrats are in a tough situation. They really want to control our lives and they also want to be seen as rescuing people from the Coronavirus. The only thing I can think of so they get the best of both worlds is for them to say they saved us from the Coronavirus, but mandates and lockdowns must...

Before shelling out more money for coronavirus vaccinations, the federal government should urge states to claim their share of $200 million doled out by the Trump administration four months ago, on top of $140 million for regular flu vaccines provided in early summer, according to former Trump aides. Sharply disputing, with proof, claims by the Biden administration that there was no vaccine plan in place on Inauguration Day, the officials said the money is there for states to kick-start their vaccination programs if they’d only take it. And one official noted that the $340 million came on top of $3...

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It was just over four years ago during the lead up to President Donald Trump’s inauguration when a FedEx driver from rural Illinois who had volunteered for the campaign borrowed a suit and trekked to Washington for the event of a lifetime. Trump was so impressed with the story he ended up meeting Shane Bouvet the night before Inauguration Day. Speaking alone, Bouvet told the incoming president about his father, a military vet, suffering back home from bladder cancer....Trump’s response? He provided a $10,000 check and a signed Inaugural ticket — No. 13. Alexander President Bill Panagopulos told Secrets that...

National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol famously have had to nap on the building’s marble floors, but that’s not the worst thing about their working conditions. The food is. The reason: The National Guard Bureau hired a food contractor to feed the troops, but the contractor simply messed up. Here’s a picture of today’s “breakfast” as passed along to me. Some of the troops didn’t get this filling breakfast of an apple (at least it looks like a good apple!) and a gross chocolate chocolate-chip muffin in a brown bag until after 10 a.m. Here’s another meal, supposed to...

After Joe Biden's inauguration, he ordered everyone on federal lands to wear a mask. That night, he and his family posed for pictures at the Lincoln Memorial -- none of them wearing a mask. California Governor Gavin Newsom told Californians it's "essential" to avoid "mixing with people outside of your household." Then he had dinner with lots of people outside his household, without masks. You can see the mask-less governor and the Biden family in my new video. Newsom did apologize for attending "a friend's birthday party." Maybe you heard about that. But you might not know that the restaurant...

This list is based on the availability of the Sacraments in the traditional rites, homeschooling laws, and coronavirus regulations. As the Biden regime teases another national lockdown and Americans worry about their civil liberties and the basic right to peaceably assemble, the divide between blue and red states is becoming increasingly obvious. The following is a list of what I think are some of the best and worst states for pro-life Catholics and freedom-loving Americans, based on the availability of the Sacraments in the traditional rites, homeschooling laws, and coronavirus regulations. These rankings are based on publicly available data and...

It turns out that Americans felt more satisfied under the Republican than the Democrat. Deep in a new survey about dissatisfaction most Americans feel today, Gallup revealed that they were more satisfied during Trump’s four years than both of Obama’s terms and former President George W. Bush's second term. That is 16 years. , “Average satisfaction during Trump's overall term turns out to be at least marginally higher than the averages for each of Obama's two terms (23% and 26%, respectively) and George W. Bush's second term (28%).” Despite the election of President Biden, satisfaction in the United States is...