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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic. Outbreaks of the new variants — including a highly contagious one first identified in the United Kingdom, as well as others from South Africa and Brazil that scientists worry can evade existing vaccines — have lent urgency to a review of potential travel restrictions within the United States, one federal official said.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, complained in a recent interview with The Hill that she feels like a minority in her own party. Kaptur shared data showing that 19 of the 20 wealthiest congressional districts in the country are now represented by Democrats, and she quoted unnamed Democratic colleagues whose callous comments reflected a complete lack of sympathy for or understanding of blue-collar Americans. And it isn't just working-class whites who feel they are being left behind by Democrats. Blacks and Hispanics voted Republican in much larger numbers in 2020. Republicans see this as something of an opportunity. Immediately after the...

Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu, Katie Robertson and Keith Collins Wed, February 10, 2021, 2:44 PM Two days before a mob of Trump supporters invaded the U.S. Capitol, upending the nation’s peaceful transition of power and leaving at least five people dead, right-wing radio star Glenn Beck delivered a message to his flock of 10.5 million listeners: “It is time to fight.” “It is time to rip and claw and rake,” Beck said on his Jan. 4 broadcast. “It is time to go to war, as the left went to war four years ago.” A former Fox News host, Beck...

What did you do Sunday evening? I watched the gaudiest pageant ever performed on television, interspersed with a football game. The football game was serious, dare I say, dignified, adult entertainment. Yet what came with it was typical American excess. Lights flashing, deafening noise, hundreds of people marching, and I believe there were cartoon figures parading around the field. I worried that it was going to be another siege of the Capitol, but then I got hold of myself. Our Capitol building was hundreds of miles to the north. Yet if the Super Bowl game had been held in Washington,...

The Lord appeared to Abraham one day and gave him an incredible command: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you” (Genesis 12:1). How did Abraham respond to this incredible word from the Lord? “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going” (Hebrews 11:8). What was God up to? Why would he search the nations for one man, and then call him to forsake...

“The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth” (Psalm 145:18). Understanding God’s omnipresence should encourage us in times of distress and keep us from sinning. It is a great comfort as a Christian to know that God is always present in me both essentially and relationally. No matter what the trial, He is there. Sometimes He might seem far away, but He’s really no further away than He’s ever been. His promise to us is, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you” (Heb. 13:5). God is...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Zechariah 10The Lord Will Care for Judah 10 Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime; it is the Lord who sends the thunderstorms. He gives showers of rain to all people, and plants of the field to everyone. 2 The idols speak deceitfully, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd. 3 “My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the Lord Almighty will care for...

With tall tales about climate change and COVID-19, leftists are relentlessly chipping away at our economy and our constitutional rights. Only three weeks into Biden world and the outrages keep piling up. George Orwell’s worst dystopian nightmare might soon pale in comparison. And for Biden, the big levers are climate change and COVID-19. Fifty years ago, it was global cooling that the left was peddling. When it became obvious that it wasn’t cooling, they had to transition to “global warming” and with help from the leftist media, they have managed to warp the views of the average American. When the...

When the bar opened in 1997, its moniker — which riffed on a nickname applied to Cambridge because of its famously liberal politics — was controversial enough to be blocked by the city’s license board, Blair remembered. Although it initially opened with no name, the establishment quickly collected many Soviet-inspired decorations and a loyal following. (The name was eventually approved after the city’s rejection was widely reported, Blair said.)

The dimwits who run Jeep spent $22 million on a Super Bowl ad featuring Bruce Springsteen, one of the most obscene and irrational leftist critics of President Donald Trump, advocating for “national unity” now that the DC Swamp has installed a brain-addled, China-subservient sock puppet in the White House. The ad featured the washed-up 3-note rock star driving a Jeep across beautiful American – or maybe they were Chinese, who knows? – terrains into a serene sunset. Anyway, you will never, never, never, ever see Jeep run that ad again, because yesterday the Hollywood Reporter revealed that Springsteen got himself...

Republicans have tried to tie all sorts of Democratic leaders to a few Democratic extremists -- say Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez or Rep. Ilhan Omar. But don't confuse the chatter for the facts. Republicans nearly won last November. That was followed by some terrible months, with Trump's refusal to accept the election results, the January 6 Capitol riot, and now, the Trump impeachment trial. The GOP took a serious hit. But the current problems will pass, and the Republican Party can emerge stronger in the future.

Wednesday was a no good, terrible, very bad day for Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks, and the China-hugging creeps at the NBA. – The self-styled social justice warrior, ChiCom-hugging owner of the NBA franchise in Dallas made news late Tuesday when he confirmed to a reporter that the team was no longer playing the Star Spangled Banner at its home games at his personal direction. That news burst into the headlines and across social media, as outraged fans and enemies of the team and owner alike expressed their anger about the decision. From a story at DailyWire: Cuban confirmed to...

After Toyota’s Super Bowl ad captured the touching life story of Paralympic swimmer Jessica Long, the media raced to report on the athlete. But many of them bypassed crucial details about the 28 year old – including her Christian faith and pro-life position.Toyota, a partner of Team USA, highlighted the 13-time Paralympic gold medalist on Sunday. Her story is one worth telling: She was adopted from a Russian orphanage as a baby and lost both of her legs as a toddler only to become the second-most decorated U.S. Paralympian in history. But there’s more to the story. She centers her...

Got this from a friend and thought "piece of cake" I can do this NOT, it's not as easy to put yourself first as your would think. Pick one-a-day and see how far you get. Since it's cold and snowing we all need to be good to ourselves.

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-02-10-21/h_fb531acd5e7a48cb9b57b588a2a7379b Fully vaccinated people can skip quarantines according to CDC. Guess what CDC...I am unvaccinated and I will also skip all quarantines too. - https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/health/double-masking-cdc-study-escape-wellness/index.html Double masking stops more infectious particles according to study. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-double-face-mask-cdc/ And the CDC just recommended double masking. The CDC recommendations have a special way of becoming laws. On 26 January 2021 Flubro thread I gave some mask wearing tips that the CDC does not approve of. I have copy and pasted those below as a community service: “1.always wear below the nose 2.if the mask police tell you to put...

Zbigniew Janowski's latest book, Homo Americanus, states clearly in its preface that "[t]his book revolves around four topics: the state of America and democracy today, liberalism, equality, and totalitarianism." Actually, we see a complex and penetrating analysis showing not that there is a fight between the values of liberalism/equality/democracy and totalitarianism (which fight was the overarching theme of the Cold War), but that we are moving directly into the implementation of Soviet-style totalitarianism. The woke generation, the obsessive anti-white rhetoricians, the "liberated" voices of sexuality (recommending gender fluidity and other twisted theories of sex), and those obsessively committed to "equality"...

Because of offensive tweets posted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., before she won office, House Democrats joined by 11 Republicans voted to strip her of her committee assignments. If this is the new standard, can we apply this to the Rev. Al Sharpton, aka a Democratic "kingmaker," whose support was solicited by every major 2020 Democratic presidential candidate? About Sharpton's power and stature, The Atlantic, in 2019, said: "The 2020 Democrats' courting of Sharpton is well under way. He says he expects his endorsement to make a difference when he makes it. ... Sharpton occupies a distinct space. Other...

When does a free state become a police state? Is it when government declares itself "essential" but religious worship "selfish"? Or when making a living becomes a crime? Or when free speech rights are afforded only to those who say "correct" things? Or maybe when tens of millions of Americans find themselves unexpectedly labeled as "domestic terrorists" by the military-media complex overnight? Perhaps the telltale sign is this: simply asking why becomes subversive. Questions become bigger threats than foreign missiles. Words are regarded as weapons legally possessed only by those in power. For all else, they are rendered contraband. If...

I have a question. When did politicians and federal employees start calling themselves “public servants”? Even more importantly, why are we letting them? It’s almost as if they’re trying to claim the mantle of nobility for making a sacrifice in the public interest. But I don’t understand what that sacrifice is. They’re paid better and have better benefits than most private-sector employees. They’re rarely held accountable for their performance. Why do we treat them as if they’re serving a higher calling than any other profession in the country? Take Joe Biden, for example. He claims to have been in public...