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In keeping with his obstinate posture of denial and deflection, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has come up with a new excuse for his woes: cancel culture. Yes, Albany’s tyrant, accused now by seven women of sexual harassment, the target of a federal investigation into underreporting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, asked to resign by the majority of New York house Democrats and the National Organization for Women, abandoned by the New York Times, New York magazine and other house organs of the left-leaning media, subject of a just-opened police investigation in Albany — yes, Andrew Cuomo is simply a victim of...

Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 133,337,525 (3.7 million J&J) People Vaccinated At Least One Dose: 65,965,305 (874,000 J&J) Fully Vaccinated: 35,000,159

Six elements of work cause burnout, Maslach says. The first is pure workload—having way too much to do. One reason people feel burned out right now is that they have been working longer hours during the pandemic. In addition to an overstretching of staff and resources, burnout “could also include a cutthroat, bottom-line, results-oriented culture,” Mandy O’Neill, a management professor at George Mason University, said on Harvard Business Review’s Women at Work podcast. The second factor is how much control or autonomy someone has over their work. As the Stanford organizational-behavior professor Jeffrey Pfeffer writes in his book Dying for...

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There is a renewed push to change the name of the Gov. Mario Cuomo Bridge back to the Tappan Zee Bridge. A bill to change the name back to Tappan Zee was introduced by Assemblyman Mike Lawler, who represents part of Rockland County.A petition on change.org to change the name launched back in 2017 by a Westchester man and now has over 150,000 signatures. He says over the last three weeks, coincidentally as sexual harassment allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo surfaced, there's been renewed interest in changing the bridge's name. The bridge is named after the governor's father.Those in favor...

WASHINGTON, March 7, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), a group of highly published, world-renowned critical care physicians and scholars, is troubled by the recently updated consumer guidance on Ivermectin from the FDA. The guidance from the FDA is misleading and has the potential to raise unwarranted concern over an important drug in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.We support the FDA's direction that humans should never take medication formulations meant for animals. We also agree that self-dosing of medications without the guidance of a physician is potentially dangerous and could cause serious harm.However, the...

New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign on Friday, saying he had lost the confidence of the public amid numerous accusations of sexual harassment — and worse — by former aides and others.''Confronting and overcoming the COVID crisis requires sure and steady leadership,'' the statement says. ''We commend the brave actions of the individuals who have come forward with serious allegations of abuse and misconduct.''Due to the multiple, credible sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, it is clear that Governor Cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners and the...

Edward “Butch” O’Hare was the Navy’s first flying ace, a World War II hero whose name would have been commonly known at the time, but has sadly faded out of view for most Americans. With severely limited ammunition supplies, he was able to shoot down five Japanese bombers, which is how he became the first Naval recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Second World War. But this was not his only brush with world history: His father, known around Chicago as “Easy Eddie,” was Al Capone’s high-powered attorney. Easy Eddie was so prized by Capone that he wasn’t...

Doctors fighting COVID-19 should be supported by their profession and their government, not suppressed. Yet today physicians are smothered under a wave of censorship. With coronavirus variants and vaccine hesitancy threatening a prolonged pandemic, the National Institutes of Health and the broader U.S. medical establishment should free doctors to treat this terrible disease with effective medicines. For centuries, doctors have addressed emerging health threats by prescribing existing drugs for new uses, observing the results, and communicating to their peers and the public what seems to work. In a pandemic, precious time and lives can be lost by an insistence on...

Chinese authorities recently launched a door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination program in Chaoyang District, in the capital city of Beijing. Some residents shared their concerns with The Epoch Times over their distrust of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its propaganda about COVID-19 vaccines and the pandemic. Mainland Chinese media reported on March 10 that Beijing’s Chaoyang District began a new door-to-door vaccination program in residential communities and villages. The program is also carried out in five types of places such as government offices, the Central Business District (CBD), industrial parks, business offices, and school campuses. Chaoyang is where international companies, foreign...

Almost half of former President Trump’s supporters don’t plan to take a CCP virus vaccine according to a poll by NPR, PBS, and Marist. The poll indicates that 47 percent of people who identified themselves as Trump supporters would not want to be vaccinated when the doses became available to them. Upon widening the demographics, the survey found that 41 percent of Republicans would not take the vaccine, compared to only 11 percent of Democrats saying they wouldn’t take it. In total, about two-thirds of Americans polled said that they’ve already taken a vaccine or would take one when they...

In their drive for world dominance, the Chinese Communists have been pushing their “authoritarian methods” on the world as a substitute for the supposed “failed leadership” of the United States. The ChiComs have invested enormous resources in the numerous foreign language versions of their state-run media (e.g., China Daily, XinhuaNet, and People’s Daily) to spread agit-prop around the world attempting to convince other countries of their beneficence and altruism. They also exploit “trusted agents” in Western media to routinely parrot that same propaganda. However, the ChiComs have been caught out in committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims in Western China/Eastern Turkistan....

TORONTO -- An Ontario driver said she's been left traumatized and fearing for her safety after her Hyundai SUV randomly slammed on the brakes on its own multiple times. Unionville resident Erica Mesa spent $47,000 on a new Hyundai Tucson in July 2019 and had no issues with the vehicle until three months later when she was driving to Blue Mountain in Collingwood. The 25-year-old said she was driving on the highway with four other people when a light came on falsely indicating she was in danger of a front-end collision. Seconds later, the brakes slammed on and the vehicle...

When a Democrat resorts to blaming “cancel culture,” the writing is well and truly on the wall. A struggling Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) held a press conference on Friday after New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jerry Nadler, both Democrats, added their voices to a rising chorus of 117 state legislators demanding the governor resign amid sexual assault allegations and the COVID-19 nursing home scandal. Cuomo again denied the allegations and condemned what he described as a “reckless” rush to conclusions.“Politicians who don’t know a single fact but yet form a conclusion and an opinion are in my opinion reckless...

Unbelievable? Of course not. A biracial high school senior in Las Vegas is being threatened with not being able to graduate for failing a Critical Race Theory class because he refused to confess his “white dominance” as part of the course requirement, according to his mom.Biracial student fails Critical Race Theory class for refusing to confess his ‘white dominance,’ mom claims https://t.co/aal5TfkNNH— TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 12, 2021In a crowdfunded profile posted on the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism website, Gabrielle Clark says that her son, William, was forced to take a mandatory “Sociology of Change” course at his school, Democracy...

Click here to read the full articleInves­tiga­tive reporter Drew Her­nan­dez joined Steve Ban­non and the War Room on Fri­day morn­ing to dis­cuss the cri­sis at the US south­ern bor­der. Over 100,000 ille­gals are cur­rent­ly flood­ing across the US bor­der with Mex­i­co each month dur­ing the cur­rent COVID-19 pandemic. Democ­rats sup­port this.Drew Her­nan­dez report­ed on the immoral human smug­gling oper­a­tion along the border.Drew Her­nan­dez: “The car­tels will lit­er­al­ly tell these peo­ple, ‘If you have a minor with you we’ll give you a low­er price of $3,200. We’ll give you safe pas­sage.’ On top of child smug­gling, “we have all these pedophiles,...

2001 FO32 won't come any closer than 1.25 million miles There is no present threat of a collision with Earth, nor will there be for centuries to come. That said, 2001 FO32's path will present astronomers with a rare opportunity to closely observe the planetoid because 1.25 million miles is still relatively close in astronomical terms. NASA explained that this technicality is the reason why the asteroid has been designated "potentially hazardous" and the agency assured that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) works to "help precisely characterize every NEO’s orbit to improve long-term hazard...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Facing unprecedented political isolation, a defiant New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted on Friday that he would not step down in the wake of sexual harassment allegations and condemned the expansive coalition of Democrats calling for his resignation as “reckless and dangerous." By day's end, the three-term Democratic governor had lost the support of almost his state's entire congressional delegation. None of the defections hurt more than those of New York's two U.S. senators, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. “Due to the multiple, credible sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, it is clear...

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday dined with National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Rick Scott (R-Fla.), a Trump adviser confirmed to The Epoch Times. The meeting took place on the heels of a spat with the NRSC and the Republican National Committee (RNC) over the use of Trump’s name and likeness to raise funds, especially considering the committees’ ongoing support of incumbents who backed Trump’s impeachment. The group includes Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), whom Trump vowed to oppose in the primary. During the dinner with Scott, Trump would not budge on opposing Murkowski, according to the adviser. Politico was...

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A group deciding the fates of dozens of Chicago statues and monuments met for the first time Thursday night. The Chicago Monuments Project advisory panel is weighing opinions and considering arguments for and against statues, like the Columbus statue. After protesters tried to pull down the Columbus statue in Grant Park last summer, the Mayor had it and others removed, at least temporarily. Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa said at the time it had to come down. ""When you have a statue in a place of honor, you are saying that is someone that should be celebrated....Christopher Columbus...