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Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign from his “almost imperial governorship” — insisting it will help save lives. “He should resign right now because he’s holding up our effort to fight COVID. He’s literally in the way of us saving lives right now,” de Blasio insisted in a fiery interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “Andrew Cuomo can’t lead us into the future. We’ve got the people, the state ready to reopen, but we need to get him out of the way to do it,” the mayor said. The mayor repeatedly took aim...

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is pressing Vanita Gupta, the nominee for the number three position at the Justice Department, over millions of dollars in stock holdings she has in a chemical company that makes a key ingredient that Mexican drug cartels use to make heroin. Gupta holds between $11 million and $55 million in shares of Avantor, a Pennsylvania-based chemical company, according to financial disclosures she has filed with the Office of Government Ethics. Gupta’s father, Raj Gupta, serves as chairman of the board of Avantor. Gupta is the wealthiest political nominee that President Joe Biden has picked while in...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is citing “domestic terrorism” concerns in her latest push to ban AR-15s and other commonly owned semiautomatic rifles. Breitbart News noted Feinstein’s new ban, the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2021,” was put forward Thursday with at least 34 Senate Democrat co-sponsors. The bill is designed to ban 205 different firearms, including different variants of the wildly popular AR-15 rifle. The New York Post reports Feinstein is citing “domestic terrorism” as an impetus for the ban. She said, “We’re now seeing a rise in domestic terrorism, and military-style assault weapons are increasingly becoming the guns of choice...

James K. Polk was one of the most successful presidents in our history, exceeded in his accomplishments only by Washington, Lincoln, and Jackson. He had four goals when he took office in 1845, and he achieved all of them in his one term. He wanted to complete the process of Texas annexation, take California and its ports of San Diego and San Francisco from Mexico, settle the boundary dispute with Britain over the Oregon Territory, and reform the finances of the federal government. If you include Texas, the amount of territory he added to the United States exceeded that of...

The National Basketball Association has climbed into bed with the Chinese Communist Party because the nation it rules is a huge market that seems to be in love with basketball. So eager to please the ruling communists is the NBA that fans with protest signs supporting Hong Kong democracy protestors were kicked out of games.The NBA does, however, love protests against the United States, especially Black Lives Matter protests, even though those have led to death and destruction in this country. The vast majority (almost 3/4) of NBA players are Black, even though such a widely disproportionate racial makeup of...

Why is there always such a push towards "federal programs to solve local problems"? Many of the Federal programs that are touted to solve programs affecting individuals should be on the state level or local level and not the federal level. The money is more "accountable" that way. The big lie about small L "libertarian" is that they're only for anarchy govt, when in actuality they are more for "Distributed Government" Why is this? That is because a lot of localities are no longer vested in local control of their own government as there is a constant human nature to...

First, I have been shocked at the unprecedented exertion of power by the government since last March—issuing unilateral decrees, ordering the closure of businesses, churches, and schools, restricting personal movement, mandating behavior, and suspending indefinitely basic freedoms. Second, I was and remain stunned—almost frightened—at the acquiescence of the American people to such destructive, arbitrary, and wholly unscientific rules, restrictions, and mandates.The pandemic also brought to the forefront things we have known existed and have tolerated for years: media bias, the decline of academic freedom on campuses, the heavy hand of Big Tech, and—now more obviously than ever—the politicization of science....

I have a question for the experts and well-read on the subject of medical privacy. Will providers and insurers be prohibited under HIPAA from disclosing whether or not you have been vaccinated against the Coronavirus? I’m asking because the writing on the wall seems to indicate that one’s “vaccination status” will likely be the next level of Fascism coming after masks. Already, airlines are being queued up to scrutinize the “haves” and “have-nots” for fitness for boarding. I realize that one of the main reasons for HIPAA’s enactment was to provide cover and its resultant increase in power to a...

March 14 20214th Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday)Stiftskirche St. Servatius, Quedlinburg The relics of St. Henry the Fowler and St. Matilda of Ringelheim are resting hereLiturgical Colour: Rose or Violet.First reading2 Chronicles 36:14-16,19-23 ©God's wrath and mercy are revealed in the exile and release of his peopleAll the heads of the priesthood, and the people too, added infidelity to infidelity, copying all the shameful practices of the nations and defiling the Temple that the Lord had consecrated for himself in Jerusalem. The Lord, the God of their ancestors, tirelessly sent them messenger after messenger, since he wished to spare his...

In January, when every major Silicon Valley tech company permanently banned the President of the United States from its platform, there was a backlash around the world. One after another, government and party leaders—many of them ideologically opposed to the policies of President Trump—raised their voices against the power and arrogance of the American tech giants. These included the President of Mexico, the Chancellor of Germany, the government of Poland, ministers in the French and Australian governments, the neoliberal center-right bloc in the European Parliament, the national populist bloc in the European Parliament, the leader of the Russian opposition (who...

Whether it's Pi Day, Thanksgiving, or just a Monday, I love finding any excuse to enjoy a big slice of pie. There's just something about digging into that buttery, flaky piecrust with a warm (or chilled) filling. I have yet to meet a pie flavor I don't like, but if given the option, I'll likely go with whatever fruit pie is available. It's even more enjoyable to me if it's some sort of berry pie—especially now that spring is here! Gurney's Seed & Nursery Co. recently revealed the most popular fruit pies by state, and I had to see where...

Target Corporation, the eighth largest retailer in the United States, announced in an email to employees on Thursday that it will be leaving the City Center, its primary downtown Minneapolis location.Article by Jon Miltimore from FEE.Company officials cited improved remote work opportunities and less need for space as the drivers for the decision.“In just one year we’ve proven that we can drive incredible results, together, from our kitchens and basements and living rooms,” said Melissa Kremer, executive vice president and leader of Target’s human resources operations.Target, the largest employer in Minneapolis with some 8,500 corporate workers, says the 3,500 employees...

Boys are four times as likely to commit suicide than girls between the ages of 15 and 19. They’re also significantly more likely to drop out of school, become homeless, and end up in prison, says Dr. Warren Farrell. Yet, President Biden’s newly established Gender Policy Council focuses only on the problems faced by females and completely ignores the problems faced by men and boys, like absent fatherhood—the single biggest predictor of suicide, says Dr. Farrell.

On Friday December 4, 2020, a 20-year-old campaign worker for Senator Kelly Loeffler named Harrison Deal was killed in a fiery three car crash on Interstate 16. On Thursday night March 11th, during an explosive interview carried on BEK TV with Doug Billings, Attorney Sidney Powell alleges the crash was not an accident.When responding to questions about why Bill Barr let us down and did not pursue legal cases/investigations about election fraud Ms. Powell responded: “frankly I think it is something much darker than that”, and then comes the bombshell:“I do have knowledge of other people being threatened and horribly...

The Biden administration has staunchly denied categorizing the rush of unaccompanied migrant children at the border a crisis, but it is now deploying the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the border to address it.[snip]Nearly 4,000 unaccompanied migrant children are being held in border detention facilities while they are found a home with a vetted guardian in the U.S.; that is on top of about 8,500 children in longer-term shelters run by Heath and Human Services, according to the report."In just days, about 700 unaccompanied children have been added......

So far, at least 8 cases involving multiple instances of alleged voter fraud in 2020 and other recent elections have been brought in Georgia, New Jersey, Texas, Pennsylvania, Northern California and Mississippi.Five people in Wheaton, Illinois were recently charged with multiple crimes involving election fraud during the 2020 general election.The DuPage State Attorney's Office and the County Clerk's Office coordinated investigations into 32 cases of alleged election fraud. Several of the cases allege that the suspect illegally cast ballots on behalf of other people. Other counts allege that voters claimed they lived in the county for more than six months,...

A recent case-controlled study by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has underlined the benefit of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as prophylaxis, showing that the sustained use of the anti-malaria drug along with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) was associated with a significant decline in risk of Covid-19 infection rate by upto 80% among the health care workers. A recent case-controlled study by ICMR has underlined the benefit of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as prophylaxis, showing that the sustained use of the anti-malaria drug along with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) was associated with a significant decline in risk of...

Incoming NYC Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter became a rising star in the city Department of Education despite spending just 1-1/2 years as a teacher, causing some educators to debate her qualifications to run the nation’s largest school system.Porter, a community organizer before joining the DOE, helped create the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice in 1997, the first in the Urban Assembly non-profit network of more than 20 city schools.

For months, Democrats and establishment Republicans have told Trump supporters and independents that they were traitors for questioning election irregularities and daring the challenge election results in the 2020 election. Yet, Democrats and the media have had no problem challenging elections and voting machines results when it suited their purposes. In the latest case of such hypocrisy, Democrats are looking to unseat Iowa Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks after she won her election in a close 400,000-vote race by 6 votes after a recount was completed.

During this last election cycle, Lauren Witzke ran for Senate against Chris Coons in Delaware and saw the political machine up close and personal. After seeing President Donald Trump overcome by voter fraud during the 2020 Election, which led the the crowning of the Alleged President Joe Biden, Lauren decided to launch the Hold the Line PAC. As she explains in this episode of Freedom One-On-One with Jeff Dornik, now is not the time for true conservatives to disengage from the battle.In the aftermath of the 2020 Election, many Republicans have begun to lose heart and give up, feeling as...