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For the second time in under a month, The New York Times has published an article about people who developed a rare autoimmune disease after receiving COVID vaccines. Monday’s article featured two women, both of whom were described as healthy before they received the Moderna vaccine. The women, ages 72 and 48, are now being treated for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), a condition that develops when the immune system attacks platelets (blood component essential for clotting) or the cells that create them, according to the Times. On Jan. 13, the Times reported on the death of Dr. Gregory Michael, a Florida...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) became emotional during former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial while recounting his experience during the riots at the U.S. Capitol. He recalled hearing “pounding on the door like a battering ram” and remembered it as “the most haunting sound” he has ever heard. Raskin reflected on the moment he apologized to his daughter and told her it would not be the same when she returned to the Capitol. “I told her how sorry I was and I promised her that it would not be like this again the next time she came back to the Capitol...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County prosecutors took the progressive new district attorney to court and won a ruling Monday blocking some criminal justice reforms he instituted to reduce prison sentences.</p><p>Superior Court Judge James Chalfant issued a preliminary injunction blocking some directives District Attorney George Gascon issued to end enhancements that can add years to prison sentences.</p>

A state representative in South Dakota has drafted a bill that, if passed, would essentially allow the state to ignore any executive order from President Joe Biden which is deemed to be unconstitutional. KELO-TV reported South Dakota state Republican House Rep. Aaron Aylward has introduced a bill, H.B 1194, which would give the state’s attorney general and the governor a cooperative review process for any presidential fiats not approved by the U.S. Congress. In an interview with KELO, Aylward explained why he drafted the bill, and he had plenty of blame to assign with regard to why he feels states,...

An extensive correspondence, which WELT AM SONNTAG has, shows: In the first high phase of the pandemic, the house of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer acted on researchers. Thereupon they provided results for a dramatic "secret paper" of the ministry. The Federal Ministry of the Interior engaged scientists from several research institutes and universities for political purposes in the first wave of the corona pandemic in March 2020. It commissioned the researchers from the Robert Koch Institute and other institutions to create a calculation model on the basis of which the Ministry of the Interior, Horst Seehofer (CSU), wanted to justify...

The new congress women from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Green perfectly sums up the Democrats’ Impeachment charade in one Tweet. “This impeachment trial is circus for the Democrat media mob to entertain the masses that they have brainwashed and addicted to hate, so they don’t see the Dem policies being rapidly forced into place that are destroying our lives, stealing our freedoms and putting America last.” She sums it up perfectly. Joe Biden is busy signing executive orders on everything from immigration to climate policy and all the House and Senate are focused is a 2nd Impeachment. On her first day...

Richmond, Va., Feb 6, 2021 / 03:01 pm MT (CNA).- The Virginia House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to remove conscience protections for child-placing agencies, prompting worry that the state’s Catholic adoption and foster care agencies could be forced to shut down because of their views on marriage. HB 1932 would repeal a section of the Code of Virginia which reads, in part: “To the extent allowed by federal law, no private child-placing agency shall be required to perform, assist, counsel, recommend, consent to, refer, or participate in any placement of a child for foster care or adoption...

Interestingly Politico is picking up on a fear amid the GOPe (establishment) that President Trump will likely not only survive the second insufferable impeachment effort, but he is likely to exit stronger than ever…. and that means retaliation against the DeceptiCon class of republicans. This is the blind spot of the UniParty, their inability to see that smart Americans have identified their motives and are prepared to destroy them. This is the aspect CTH warned about the day after the November election. The GOPe is so fraught with elitist perspectives, it continues to assemble as a hopeless echo-chamber, and they...

WARSAW, Poland — Most European Parliament lawmakers on Tuesday lashed out at Poland’s near-total abortion ban Tuesday, with several lawmakers arguing it was a fundamental violation of women’s rights. Even though some praised authorities in Warsaw for what they called a defense of Christian values and human life, many in the major political groups were critical of the measure in the staunchly Roman Catholic nation. EU equality Commissioner Helena Dalli acknowledged that the EU has no legal control over how member states regulate abortion, but she said she viewed the abortion ruling as a sign of the deterioration of sexual...

Conversion therapy—the use of psychological or spiritual interventions to attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity—has proved controversial in the U.S. It is banned in the case of minors in some twenty American states. The District of Columbia bans such therapies completely, regardless of age. Such laws could be viewed as government support for the LGBTQ+ cause, but they do not need to be seen entirely cynically. They could well reflect a desire to protect the vulnerable from paying for treatments that legislators consider to be bogus. The state of Victoria in Australia, however, just passed a...

“Give me liberty or give me death!” – Patrick Henry, Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775 “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm (unused preface) “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, the Busy‑Body, and Early Writings “This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.” – Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child “Disobedience is...

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Top members of Biden’s COVID response team are warning internally that the U.S. may not reach herd immunity until Thanksgiving or even the start of winter—months later than originally calculated—according to two senior administration officials. In an interview with CBS News this week, President Joe Biden hinted at some of these concerns, saying it would be “very difficult” to reach herd immunity—a population-wide resistance to the virus—“much before the end of the summer” with the current daily rate of approximately 1.3 million vaccine doses. Other top officials working on the federal government’s COVID-19 response say the are uneasy about vaccine...

The takeover of the country by an amalgamation of bad characters representing fascist corporatism, collectivism, billionaire oligarchs, social media tyrants, pandemic peddlers, and Deep State snake oil surveillance state salesmen has marked a turning point for the country. Battle lines are being drawn, a propaganda war is already being waged, enemies are preparing for conflict, rage is rising, and the country is headed towards some level of dissolution. Events since the inception of the release of the China virus from the Wuhan bio-weapon lab, have been accelerating towards an epic struggle between those constituting the true power in the country...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez teamed up in New York Monday to introduce $2 billion in special FEMA funds for families who have not been able to afford proper funerals for their loved ones who passed away as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Democrats announced that families can get reimbursed up to $7,000 for funeral expenses, with $260 million of those funds to be directly allocated to New Yorkers. Eligibility for the funds will be retroactive through the beginning of the pandemic, January 20, 2020, to December 31, 2020, and Schumer says...

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked Tuesday to clarify President Joe Biden’s plan to reopen K-8 schools within 100 days of his presidency. At an afternoon press conference, a reporter asked Psaki to "help us understand" the White House’s or the president’s definition of "open school." "Does it mean teachers in classroom teaching students in classrooms or does it just mean kids in classrooms with a remote screen? Help us understand," he asked. Psaki said Biden’s goal was to have a "majority of schools" – meaning more than 50% – open by day 100 of his presidency, which...

On Liberty “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” – Benjamin Franklin “Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.” – John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765 “Is life so dear, or peaceful so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but...