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This episode of CBS’s NCIS LA pushes a common Michael Bloomberg theme on women and guns (Season 12 Episode 10, February 14, 2021). A woman explains to the NCIS LA agents that she has a gun for protection, but the gun was stolen. She says that she never thought that one of the people she knew would steal it, and Marty Deeks (played by Eric Christian Olsen) says in exasperation: “We never do.” His partner (Kensi Blye, played by Daniela Ruah) is making faces to show how stupid she thinks the woman is for having a gun.

I have consistently opposed Executive overreach, whether the abuse came from a Republican or a Democrat. I opposed President Obama’s executive orders illegally changing immigration law. Even though I support a security wall in places along our border, I opposed President Trump’s emergency declaration to take money Congress appropriated for other purposes and by emergency order spend that money on a border wall. In both instances, I did so to protect and preserve the separation of powers. I warned of the dangerous precedent, if we wavered on this fundamental principle of our republic for one political party. President Trump’s emergency...

Britain became the first country in the world on Wednesday (Feb 16) to give the go-ahead for human challenge trials in which volunteers will deliberately be exposed to Covid-19 to advance research into the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The trial, due to start within a month, will see up to 90 healthy volunteers aged between 18 and 30 exposed to the smallest amount of the virus needed to cause infection, scientists behind the plans told reporters at a news briefing. Volunteers will be screened for possible health risks before being allowed to take part, and kept in quarantine...

The vaccine, which was developed with German drugmaker BioNTech, currently needs to be stored in ultra-cold freezers that keep it between minus 112 and minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the FDA. Pfizer said it submitted new data to the U.S. agency that shows the vaccine is stable between minus 13 and 5 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Snip] As the Daily Wire reported Friday: In his new book, “Ticking Clock: Behind The Scenes At 60 Minutes,” former CBS producer Ira Rosen writes of speaking with Maxwell in 2016, saying he asked for footage of Donald Trump that Epstein might have shot, only to have Maxwell respond, “If you get the tapes on Trump you have to do [Bill] Clinton.” Rosen admits that at his meeting with Maxwell in early 2016, acting on a “hunch” that such tapes existed, he said, “I want the tapes. I know he [Epstein] was videotaping everyone and I want the tapes of...

The U.S. military has for several years now been working on the concept of a “loyal wingman” wherein a manned jet controls nearby drones from the cockpit without needing to move data through a ground control station. This technology is now maturing quickly with the United States, particularly with drone programs such as the Valkyrie which has already taken off and flown in tandem with Air Force F-22s and F-35s, according to an Air Force report in December of last year. “The rocket-launched Valkyrie successfully conducted a semi-autonomous flight alongside the F-22 and F-35 for the first time,” the Air...

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A defensive Gov. Andrew Cuomo went on a 15-minute rant Friday in which he vowed to counter what he claimed were “lies” and “misinformation” about his handling of nursing homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic — and accused his critics of “causing pain” to the relatives of residents killed by the disease. During a virtual news conference from Albany, Cuomo said, “I’m not going to let you hurt New Yorkers by lying about what happened. Surrounding the death of a loved one.” “So, I’m going to take on the lies and the unscrupulous actors, especially when they cause pain and damage...

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace praised President Joe Biden Friday on “America’s Newsroom” for “not getting pushed around by the left” on issues like student loan forgiveness. Wallace argued that “puts him more in the center.”

“It’s like someone died,” Highland High athletic director John Barnhill said. Indeed, across the city athletes in APS – especially the ones in a fall sport – were being forced to confront the very real possibility that they won’t get any closure to their prep careers. When the APS board on Wednesday night voted to keep high school students in a remote learning model for the rest of the spring semester, that very likely put an end to the district’s hopes to contest any fall sports. Senior athletes interviewed by the Journal on Thursday expressed a mixture of frustration, anger,...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggests schools may not reopen even after vaccinations, during the House Speaker Weekly Briefing on 2/18/2021. Be sure to like, subscribe, and comment below to share your thoughts on the video.

The price of bitcoin crossed another major milestone Friday, as the cryptocurrency’s market value surpassed $1 trillion, according to Coindesk. The digital currency was trading at just under $54,000 per coin Friday as it hit the new level, and rose to a high of $54,880 later in the session, according to Coin Metrics. The price of bitcoin has now gained about 350% over the past six months. Before the recent surge, the digital asset has never traded above $20,000.

It is day 29 of the Biden regime and he still had not taken a single action that benefits Americans. He has, however, taken action to benefit a lot of other countries. Not only do his actions not benefit Americans, they will cost YOU money, and a lot of it. Under Trump the US was energy independent. Biden fixed that. His actions have smashed oil production by 40%. So far. The price of gasoline is up 18% and will continue to climb. That will translate into increases in heating oil and electricity. Actions such as canceling the Keystone XL pipeline...

AB 1084 will require retailers to maintain one undivided area of its sales floor for children’s clothing, as well as online

I know many hate the source, but my god, how can we spend any more money? **** Even as President Biden and congressional Democrats work to pass their $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, they’re bracing for the next big legislative scramble, over another massive spending bill that’s already drawing intense lobbying and threatening Democratic unity. Biden’s next package could be far pricier than the coronavirus bill. Although plans remain fluid, it’s expected to center on a major infrastructure investment, while also tackling other priorities such as clean energy, domestic manufacturing, and child and elder care. However, as the next must-pass...

WASHINGTON — NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is calling for an investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s mounting nursing home crisis on Friday. “I support our state’s return to co-equal governance and stand with our local officials calling for a full investigation of the Cuomo administration’s handling of nursing homes during COVID-19,” she wrote in a statement.

The United States will reach a level of herd immunity to COVID-19 that will allow for a return to normal by April, according to Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Makary noted that the number of COVID-19 cases is down 77% in the last six weeks. He claimed this is due to natural immunity among people who have been previously infected and the 15% of the population already vaccinated. Depending on the estimate, herd immunity to the coronavirus is thought to be...

"Oh crap!" That's what I wailed when my friend of almost seventeen years, "Gigi" mentioned in an email that she's considering getting the Covid-19 vaccine. "Oh crap!" Gigi is in her early 80s, healthy as a horse, just won her battle over cancer but is sick and tired of eleven months of lockdown! I get it!! I really do. But I also get that the jab isn't a vaccine at all. It's bad rewiring of your RNA and it'll probably kill Gigi, if not immediately, within five years...max. I love Gigi too much to not jump up-and-down screaming, "Don't do...

In an opening scene, Magnum PI has Thomas Magnum dreaming about yet another machine gun attack against him (Season 3, Episode 7, February 5, 2021). Given the number of machine gun attacks against Magnum in the series, this is an entirely reasonable concern on his part. As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people. In real life, despite claims frequently made in the news media, none of the mass public shootings have involved machine guns. Of course, the show was also able...

The US Supreme Court is set to consider President Trump’s voter fraud cases in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan on Friday. These three cases are on the Supreme Court docket for Friday. Here is more on today’s Supreme Court cases.