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Six US Capitol Police officers have been suspended with pay, and 29 others have been placed under investigation, for their actions in the January 6 riot, a department spokesman said Thursday.

on Foxnews.com. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz admitted Thursday that traveling to Cancun, Mexico as his constituents suffered in freezing homes amid power outages was "obviously a mistake." The Republican spoke outside his Texas home as a sizable group of protesters chanted just yards away. "It was obviously a mistake, and in hindsight, I wouldn't have done it," Cruz acknowledged. He reiterated his previous contention that he had gone in order to take his daughters to Mexico to get them out of the cold. "I was trying to be a dad," he said. "When you've got two girls who have been...

Great Concert...If you do not want to watch the whole thing start at 46.40. great band ....great rock and roll

Uzra Zeya nominated for undersecretary of civilian security, democracy, and human rights President Joe Biden's nominee for a top State Department position played a key role in assembling a book on the nefarious influence of the "Israel lobby" while working for an organization that promoted claims about Jewish media control and dual loyalty to Israel. As a staffer at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Uzra Zeya compiled research for a book that argues that "the Israel lobby has subverted the American political process to take control of U.S. Middle East policy" by establishing a secret network of "dirty...

Polack et al. (Dec. 31)1 report a vaccine efficacy of 94.8% against Covid-19 after two doses of the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer–BioNTech). The authors also report a vaccine efficacy of 52.4% from after the first dose to before the second dose, but in their calculation, they included data that were collected during the first 2 weeks after the first dose, when immunity would have still been mounting.1 We used documents submitted to the Food and Drug Administration2 to derive the vaccine efficacy beginning from 2 weeks after the first dose to before the second dose (Table 1). Even...

78-year-old Joe Biden skipped his planned trip to Michigan and called an early lid at 8 am Thursday. Biden was supposed to travel to Portage, Michigan on Thursday to tour a Pfizer Covid manufacturing facility, but he used bad weather as an excuse to postpone the trip – then he called a “lid” on all in-person events at the White House. The trip to Michigan was cancelled late Wednesday evening, however it wasn’t even snowing. Kamala Harris will be carrying on with all in-person events today as Joe Biden naps or plays Mario Kart.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) already has a cocktail named after his widely criticized trip to Cancun amid the deadly winter weather crisis in his home state. Anxo, a Washington, D.C.-based cidery, unveiled its "Cruz in Cancun" drink on Thursday. The rapid-response coconut rum concoction comes complete with ample mockery of the lawmaker's much-panned trip to Mexico. Cruz was photographed boarding a plane to Cancun on Wednesday as millions of Texas residents battled power outages and dangerous conditions due to record cold temperatures and snow this week. The lawmaker was set to return to Texas Thursday afternoon, saying in a...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dolly Parton is asking Tennessee lawmakers to withdraw a bill that would erect a statue of her on the Capitol grounds in Nashville. “Given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time,” Parton said in a statement issued Thursday.

Despite some GOP lawmakers doing their best to distance themselves from former President Donald Trump, a vast majority of Republican voters want to see him play a big role in the future of the party, including running again in 2024. In fact, 53 percent want to see him run again during the next presidential cycle, far outpacing his second closest challenger in former Vice President Mike Pence at 12 percent. This, according to a Politico/Morning Consult survey, which also shows the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., at 6 percent, tied with former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. Senators Ted Cruz...

Ghislaine Maxwell appeared to admit Jeffrey Epstein was taping his famous friends, including Donald Trump and the Clintons, during a 2016 meeting with former CBS producer Ira Rosen, a new book reveals. The British socialite, who is accused of procuring underage girls for the billionaire pedophile, reportedly told Rosen she didn't 'know where' such recordings were after the Emmy-winning producer asked her to hand over footage of Trump. The conversation took place ahead of the 2016 US presidential election and Maxwell, who supported Hillary at the time, refused to help, saying: 'If you get the tapes on Trump you have...

Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news. In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity. ...Antibody studies almost certainly underestimate natural immunity. Antibody testing doesn’t capture antigen-specific T-cells, which develop “memory”...

If you think life is stressful today, just imagine trying to pull off a successful dinner party with your peers back in the 1940s.The diners in this 15 minute video are just so earnest and eager to please each other while doing the right thing, always. Even though they screw up multiple times. Especially that Bob. Bob has a lot to learn, as you shall see. I just want to marry every girl at that table.

Sen. Ted Cruz is under attack for flying to Mexico while Texas is facing severe winter weather and power outages. Cruz explained why he went there: With school cancelled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon. My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas.If true (and I’m unaware of any reason to believe it isn’t), this is a complete defense to...

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Democrats in the House of Representatives have introduced legislation that would prevent former President Donald Trump from having his name displayed on federal projects, buildings, statues, lands, or other type of commemoration. The bill, dubbed the “No Glory for Hate Act,” was introduced by California Democrat Rep. Linda Sanchez and has 13 cosponsors. “A president who has been impeached twice does not deserve the honours bestowed on a former president,” Sanchez said . The bill specifically prevents federal funds from being used to “create or display any symbol, monument, or statue commemorating any former President that has been twice impeached...

Priests Fighting BackLegal action against false abuse allegationsPriests around the country are standing up for their good names.USA Today reported Saturday on how priests who say they’re wrongly accused are fighting back with defamation suits. The article discusses the case of Fr. Roy Herberger in Buffalo. The diocese removed him from ministry in 2018, after a man claimed Herberger abused him in the 1980s.Herberger: "I couldn't say Mass, I was stuck in my apartment by myself. I couldn't even attend funerals of people in the parish where I had retired from."But the accuser’s story didn’t add up, and after a...

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday, hours after the death of Rush Limbaugh was announced, that he will not try to replace the popular radio host. “There’s a lot of people that are mentioning that and no, it’s not anything I’ve thought about. But he’d be a hard one to replace. You know, we talked to a friend of yours, Sean Hannity, he said, ‘He’s irreplaceable.’ And I view that too. I say he’s irreplaceable,” Trump said during an interview with Newsmax TV. “You wouldn’t want to follow Rush, it’s the old story, you get somebody like that, you don’t...

Coronaviruses are notorious for ADE reactions, where antibody presence potentiates the infection instead of protecting against it. Using that as a bioweapon is stupid because you will score "own goals" on your own people and there is no way to control that. As a result biological weapons generally are dumb; poison gas and such don't have this risk since it does not propagate but any disease does. The poster child for ADE in coronaviruses was an attempted vaccine for a feline coronavirus that often made cats very sick. The vaccine killed every one of them in the test when they...

In 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office reported that individuals or organizations made $226 million in private donations to organizations at Newsom's request. These "behested payments" were a record-setting haul eclipsing all prior donations on record by nearly $100 million. While most donations supported COVID-19 relief efforts, a closer look suggests Newsom's fundraising was supercharged not just by the pandemic, but also by the broad emergency powers the Democratic governor has assumed because of it. Behested payments are a unique feature of California politics. State law defines a behested payment as a donation to a government program or charity made...