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So I got this email. I'm not a Cornell alum, but my son and my money did go there for four years.Anyway, it's about COVID, right? Well, not exactly.

At least half the country is bewildered by the incapacity of the Democrat party to get beyond Donald Trump. We fondly remember bygone times when general elections were simply won or lost on Election Day, where the victors trotted off to church to give thanks and light a few candles, and a fair and balanced debate across the aisle settled on the best policies for the nation. Instead, we are treated to a second wasteful impeachment engineered to politically neuter an already cashiered president, a national capital dressed up as an armed camp, and a class system drawn along ideological...

A woman in her early 30s, who gave birth to a son a month ago and has Covid-19, should be allowed to die against her family's wishes, a judge has decided. Mr Justice Hayden ruled that doctors can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment to the woman, who has an underlying health condition and is in an induced coma. A specialist told him that everything had been tried and the woman's chances of recovery were 'zero'. The judge considered the case at an urgent virtual hearing in the Court of Protection, where issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity...

+2,404 DEAD +71,054 NEW CASES ***514,996*** TOTAL DEAD

Throughout the cold blast of last week, much news was made about the fact that three of the key members of the board of the Electric (non) Reliability Council of Texas weren’t even from Texas. In fact, it turned out the chairman lives in Michigan, the vice-chair also lives out of state, along with one other member of the 15-member board. Well, guess what? Those news reports actually understated the out-of-state issue with this board. Turns out that there were no fewer than five non-Texans running Texas’s power grid. Happily, each and every one one of them resigned yesterday, along...

I was blessed to have a half-hour phone chat with my Seattle City Councilman last week and I started by asking him about defunding the police. He responded with a long monologue about police use of excessive force, in particular pepper spray and tear gas, going back to the 1990 WTO riots when he was 13. I interjected at some point that “government is force.” And government officials like him are ultimately backed up by men with guns. He didn’t take it too well. Later on in our chat he emitted the word “hate.” Clearly, he was opposed to it....

The Most Inevitable Story of the Week, from Politico. – Sigh. This story is so predictable that it’s a wonder it took this long for the Democrat toady media to get it out. Texas Republicans are taking a drubbing in the wake of last week’s winter weather disaster, because hey, they’ve been in charge of all aspects of Texas government for 27 years now. So, who else are Texans going to blame for the massive, epic failure of ERCOT and other Texas officials to ensure the heat and lights stay on when it’s 5 degrees outside? Thus, the first thought...

<p>HOUSTON - A federal judge late Tuesday indefinitely banned President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations.</p><p>U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton issued a preliminary injunction sought by Texas, which argued the moratorium violated federal law and risked imposing additional costs on the state.</p>

Uh oh! Word is leaking out of Mar-a-Lago that President Trump may be delivering a major social media platform on which conservatives can chat away. There’s something hidden in the technology disruption shadows behind that rumor, so let’s explore it a bit. Twitter. Facebook. The Washington Post. The New York Times. People, there is no fancy technology at any of those sites; there is simply scale. We are at the end of life for current silicon-based technology. Even the highly regarded Gartner Group in its 2021 technology forecasts said that companies need to understand silicon can no longer scale by...

Note to former president Donald J. Trump: Time to channel a fellow New Yorker, a Roosevelt, no less. That’s the Oyster Bay Roosevelt, Teddy. Trustbusting needs to be a cornerstone of your America First agenda -- the agenda that’s going to return you to the White House in 2024. In term Number One, President Trump was on track to bust up free speech loathing, oligarchy bent Big Tech outfits. This Sunday at CPAC, Trump plans to speak about “a vision where the Big Tech monopoly is dismantled and free speech and free expression and free thought can reign,” says Jason...

Fresh off an election in which former President Donald Trump made false claims of fraud, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to ponder the legality of a restriction on early voting in Arizona that his fellow Republicans argued was needed to combat fraud. The Republican-backed law, spurred in part by a video purportedly showing voter fraud that courts later deemed misleading, made it a crime to provide another person’s completed early ballot to election officials, with the exception of family members or caregivers. Community activists sometimes engage in ballot collection to facilitate voting and increase voter turnout. Ballot collection is...

Last year, we heard a lot about peaceful protests that, in reality, were not peaceful. This year, we are going to hear a lot about the Equality Act that, in reality, creates inequality. If the past is any indication, proponents of the Equality Act will shamefully attempt to usurp the civil rights movement’s history and legacy as they do. In no way are one’s sexual conduct and inclinations or gender dysphoria equivalent to skin color. Suggesting or implying as much diminishes the hard-fought gains of that movement. While the scientific evidence shows that “sexual orientation” is quite fluid and that...

WASHINGTON - The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package now making its way through the U.S. Congress would provide $350 billion to help pandemic-hit state and local governments balance their budgets, more than twice the amount lawmakers approved last year. But not every state comes out ahead: urban, Democratic-led states like Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts that took drastic steps to stop the coronavirus’ spread would get about three times as much money per person as they did in the package passed at the beginning of the health crisis in March. Rural, Republican-led states including Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Micah 7:14Prayer and Praise 14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands.[a] Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) Micah also speaks of the Ingathering of the Sheep.New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

The number of lives ended in abortion by Planned Parenthood is staggering. But even one would be too many.Planned Parenthood quietly released its most recent annual report last week for the fiscal year 2019–2020. The document highlighted the hurdles the nation’s largest abortion provider has faced, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Trump administration. And yet, business is booming. Planned Parenthood counted 354,871 abortions for the year 2019–2020 – the highest number ever recorded, according to data tracked by pro-life groups.The aborted unborn are numbers to Planned Parenthood. They should be names.Combining abortion numbers from years past published by pro-life...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3937254/posts An article discussing the future of bio weapons, as inspired by the Coronavirus. Not really related to my immediate concern, personal liberty, but interesting reading nonetheless. - https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/North-Dakota-House-OKs-bill-to-prohibit-mandatory-15970172.php Two days ago - North Dakota passes a bill banning mask mandates. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-cases-deaths-rise-in-north-dakota/ar-BB1dRxSN Three days ago - the brave warriors in the MSM fought hard to prevent the law from passing. Many articles about how North Dakota cases and deaths are rising. Is this a deadly third wave?

Screenshot from Youtube video of hearing, cropped, scaled and yellow text added by Dean Weingarten. On 11 February 2021, there was a bond hearing for Kyle Rittenhouse, conducted on Zoom, over the Internet, by Judge Bruce E. Schroeder.The hearing was requested by the District Attorney Office, represented by DA Thomas Binger.Those opposing Kyle Rittenhouse had characterized Kyle as dangerous and a white supremacist. There has not been any evidence presented to support this claim, other than claiming the OK hand sign is used by white supremacists. DA Binger appeared to be echoing those claims.The hearing did not go well for...

Weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth at BBC headquarters. It took exactly a month: from January 16 to February 16. On that date in mid-February, the BCC did the unthinkable: it admitted it had been wrong. It was on Shaun Ley’s BBC show on January 16, when he accused the journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti of being wrong in insisting that Israel had no duty – according to the Oslo Accords — to inoculate the Palestinians with the coronavirus vaccine. What should have been checked on right away – it would have taken no more than a few minutes to do a...

Last month, President Biden signed a series of executive orders undermining fossil fuels, on the grounds the “climate crisis” forced his hand. “We can’t wait any longer. We see with our own eyes. We know it in our bones. It is time to act.” Within days, most of the country was seeing “with our own eyes” and feeling “in our bones” a cold wave so severe that five million people lost electricity and, in a special irony, nearly half of the ballyhooed wind turbines in Texas, which had risen to supply 23% of her energy, were left frozen (and inoperable)....

The Democrats had a lousy week. It began with former President Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate.Trump’s acquittal was a major blow to the Democrats. It isn’t that anyone believed Trump would be convicted. Whether Republicans love or hate the former president, the fact is that it is unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a former officeholder. And for that reason alone, there was no chance that more than a smattering of Republicans would support the move. But once the farcical trial ended, public focus moved to the Democrats—who now control both houses of Congress and the White House....