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... swagger and surefootedness is what makes Newsom’s missteps in his response to the pandemic so hard to understand. He seems oblivious to an obvious truth about government: The public needs and expects swift, straightforward explanations, especially during an emergency. But he has been erratic in the state’s fight against the coronavirus. The governor’s first-in-the-nation stay-at-home order March 19 seemed shrewd as COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus His questionable decisions began three months later. Despite growing evidence that the virus was mostly transmitted when people spent time indoors with others not from their immediate household, the Newsom administration...

Boogaloo Boi Mike Dunn joins The Alex Jones Show to call him a coward and controlled opposition for working to change the system peacefully from within, and says his generation will have to take up the mantle of a violent revolution to make up for Jones' generation's failure. Video...

A new audit of California's Employment Development Department (EDD) finds the agency was unprepared and had ineffective management to handle the surge in jobless claims during the virus pandemic. In September, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee ordered State Auditor Elaine Howle to conduct an in-depth audit into EDD following a tidal wave of abuse reports. One of the most notable abuses was rapper Fontrell Antonio Baines, 31, who fraudulently collected $1.2 million in EDD claims. He even detailed the EDD scam in a rap video. State lawmakers had criticized the agency for massive backlogs that delayed claims, along with its...

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In the last few days - really since the BIden inauguration - we have seen declarations of victory over covid across the board, from the likes of Dr. Fauci who yesterday said that coronavirus infections may be about to hit a "plateau", to Wall Street, where Bank of America yesterday declared "The Beginning Of The End Of The COVID Crisis." Then, last week, we asked if it was "almost over" when the US saw a record one-day drop in covid hospitalizations.Today, we got further confirmation that the inauguration of Biden was magically just the event that was needed to put...

Under a small blue canopy adorned with yellow balloons and vinyl banners, volunteers for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign welcomed passing shoppers, handing them clipboards and encouraging them to sign their petitions to remove the Democratic governor from office. Some drivers honked in support. Others waved and said they've already signed. Hundreds of volunteers just like them busily collect signatures throughout the state, spending weekends in California parking lots discussing the need for a change in power. Parents put down their names, worried about the mental health of their virtually schooled children. Business owners sign, their livelihoods crushed by the...

In response to the emergency—and to a recall effort around his handling of the pandemic and the economy—Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is lifting stay-at-home restrictions, removing essential workers from the state's vaccine priority list, and championing a complex deal that extends the state's expiring partial eviction moratorium but still allows landlords to pursue evictions. Newsom has long insisted his decisions are "lead by data and science," but his moves come just as new studies show that keeping workers out of the workplace and banning evictions play pivotal roles in reducing the spread of the deadly virus. The first study, from...

University of California, Riverside professor Jane Ward called heterosexuality “tragic,” adding that it encourages men to objectify women, and pulls them into “toxic” masculine culture. “It really looks like straight men and women don’t like each other very much, that women spend so much time complaining about men, and we still have so much evidence of misogyny,” said UC Riverside professor Jane Ward to Insider. “From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic,” added Ward, who is a professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the university. One “queer” woman who was interviewed for the professor’s book said...

Residents in the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus hotspots of Shanghai and Harbin say they know of many more infections than what officials have announced, according to interviews with The Epoch Times.Meanwhile, authorities in Beijing and the provinces of Jilin and Shaanxi mandated more COVID-19 testing, while Hebei Province issued more traffic restrictions, in an attempt to contain local outbreaks.Some people said they were running out of food and important medicines as authorities imposed an indefinite lockdown and forbade them from leaving their homes.ShanghaiThe financial hub of Shanghai announced on Jan. 24 that the famous tourist site City God Temple...

ROME — The Vatican has called for a “responsible, unprecedented collective response” to the “momentous challenge” of climate change. Speaking on behalf of Pope Francis, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in an online address Monday to the Climate Adaptation Summit taking place in the Netherlands that climate change “represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.” “The scientific data at our disposal clearly show the urgent need for swift action,” Cardinal Parolin said. “The transition to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is a problem not only of the domain of technology, but also...

It’s understandable that the McCain family is close to Biden, but perhaps they ought to have looked at the large horse he was riding atop. Upon examination, they would have noticed it was wooden, hollow, and filled with Odysseus and the other Greek soldiers of the new left. Now that the progressive Trojan horse is well within the walls of the nation’s capital, Meghan McCain is stunned — stunned, I tell you! — that leftists didn’t really want unity after all. The wake-up call for her, it seems, came after former “CBS Nightly News” and “Today” host Katie Couric [...]...

In an interview with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, he said they had "every intention to hold mass outdoors."SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Hundreds of worshipers were gathered inside St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco despite California's COVID-19 health order banning indoor services. The Archbishop said a threat of violence prompted the move. It was a strange sight in the midst of our pandemic as hundreds of worshipers gathered inside the church for a special Saturday mass prior to the West Coast Walk for Life. The state's COVID-19 health order allows small outdoor services but has banned all indoor worship. "Having mass indoors...

Maricopa County officials on Wednesday decided to approve unanimously a plan to hire two preferred firms to audit election equipment used during the 2020 presidential election. GOP State senators vowed to continue their push to perform their own forensic audit. #Arizona folks get on this and demand AZ do what its total, complete, top to bottom and right for ALL VOTERS dial and email like your life depends on it, because it does! pic.twitter.com/Ft5OWqJ5wf — JovanHuttonPulitzer ™ #JovanHuttonPulitzer (@JovanHPulitzer) January 27, 2021 FOX 10 reported: The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Jan. 27 to hire two firms...

Homosexualist Fr. James Martin features in 'Wonderfully Made'NEW YORK (ChurchMilitant.com) - An award-winning Jewish filmmaker is to release a documentary film aimed at offering LGBTQ+ Catholics with homosexual iconography of Jesus. Director Yuval David, a Jew "married" to his Catholic "husband," says he noticed the absence of LGBTQ+ portrayals of Jesus in Catholicism — a faith where icons play a significant part. The lack of visual representation of a "gay Jesus" led David to create a feature-length movie exploring the challenges and aspirations of LGBTQ+ Catholics. The film "Wonderfully Made" will be released in early 2021 and features interviews with...

Former President Donald Trump is expected to meet on Thursday with Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, sources confirm to The Post. McCarthy (R-Calif.) was a close Trump ally during his term, but criticized Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 when a crowd stormed the Capitol to disrupt certification of President Biden’s victory. The meeting in Florida is expected to be a first step toward conservative unity as the Senate takes up Trump’s impeachment trial next month. Only five of 50 Republican senators voted to allow the trial on Tuesday, strongly suggesting Democrats won’t find the 17 Republican votes needed to...

Washington D.C., Jan 25, 2021 / 12:55 pm MT (CNA).- The Supreme Court on Monday ruled favorably toward a Catholic death row inmate requesting the presence of a priest at his execution. In a set of orders released on Monday morning, the court vacated a ruling of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court against Ruben Gutierrez, a Catholic death row inmate in Texas challenging the state’s prohibition of chaplains at executions. In addition to vacating the Fifth Circuit Court ruling, the Supreme Court also sent Gutierrez’s case back to lower courts for reconsideration, in light of findings by a district court...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ SLINGLOAD TRAINING Soldiers conduct slingload training at the Baumholder Military Training Area in Baumholder, Germany, Jan. 26, 2017. The soldiers are assigned to assigned to the 8th Medical Company. Soldiers assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment provided helicopter support. Army photo by Erich Backes Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. PUSHUP POWER Army Reserve Sgt. Wenceslaus Wallace does pushups in the headquarters building of the 335th Signal...

There has been a lot of news dropping today. But there’s one thing that’s incredibly important not to miss. Remember how Joe Biden insisted that he wouldn’t be raising taxes on the middle class? That ultimately his ‘plan’ was only going to hit the people making over $400,000, who needed to “pay their fair share” and you ordinary Americans weren’t going to be hit? You knew that was a lie, right? Anyone with any sense, anyone who has been watching Democrats for years should know that was a lie. It was only just a matter of time before they admit,...

Anyone in the mood for salmon? A new study finds higher omega-3 levels in the bloodstream may reduce one’s risk of dying from a COVID-19 infection. Conducted by the Fatty Acid Research Institute in collaboration with Cedars-Sinai Medical Centers in Los Angeles and Orange County, these findings are the first to uncover direct evidence linking omega-3 fatty acids with improved coronavirus health outcomes. Numerous scientists had theorized that omega-3 fatty acids may be beneficial for COVID-19 patients, but all of that was ultimately conjecture at best. The new study involved blood samples taken from 100 COVID-19 patients taken to a...

Former President Trump's standing among Republicans has slightly improved since leaving office, with about half of GOP respondents indicating in a new poll they'd like to see him play a significant role in the party's future. Fifty percent of Republican voters polled in the new Morning Consult survey said Trump should play a “major role” in the party, an increase of 9 percentage points since his supporters rioted at the U.S. Capitol after he addressed them and repeated unproven claims of election fraud. Women drove the uptick with a 15-point surge among likely GOP female voters who say they wish...