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Representative Linda Sanchez (D-CA) Thursday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that it was not appropriate for journalists to be inside centers that are housing the surge of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Anchor Poppy Harlow asked, “My last question is so transparency … All of our reporters down there have been asking nonstop to get into these facilities where Alejandro Mayorkas said are not meant for children. Are you concerned over the lack of transparency?”

Church likely to undergo a transformation in the post-pandemic eraWASHINGTON — The churchgoing experience may be different once the threat of COVID-19 is minimized and church experts are forecasting fewer Catholics overall in the pews.Fewer people attending church will require a radical restructuring of parish life in many parts of the U.S. in the post-pandemic era, said Matthew F. Manion, faculty director of the Center for Church Management at Villanova University near Philadelphia."From what I'm seeing, the pandemic speeds along processes that were already happening," said Timothy P. O'Malley, a theology professor at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at...

Joe Scarborough boasted on Thursday he's "always been a champion of the filibuster." But now he wants the Democrats to abolish it! His argument is that because of increased political polarization, there are few moderates left, and thus that "nothing can get done" with the filibuster in place, which in effect requires 60 votes to pass legislation through the Senate. Scarborough was somewhat coy in the way he first phrased things, saying Democrats must "do something significant" about the filibuster. He made his support for abolishing the filibuster more explicit a bit later, saying Democrats must "make sure that 50-plus-one...

The front-page headline in Monday's Wall Street Journal said: "Biden weighs how to pay for Agenda." Who purchases something they know they can't afford, and then worries about paying for it later? Only government. After less than two months in office, President Biden and a majority Democrat Congress have engaged in record spending with insufficient money to pay for it. That may be about to change. Bloomberg.com reports the president wants to raise individual income taxes, as well as taxes on corporations (and expand the estate tax) to pay for another round of spending on infrastructure and programs and policies...

AstraZeneca Plc AZN.L is preparing to file for U.S. emergency use authorization (EUA) for its COVID-19 vaccine later this month or early April after accumulating enough data to judge the inoculation's efficacy, sources with knowledge of the ongoing clinical trial told Reuters on Friday (12 Mar). AstraZeneca said in February it expects its vaccine could receive U.S. emergency use authorization at the beginning of April and could immediately deliver 30 million doses to locations around the United States.

Joe Biden is lying about his 2011 dealings with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, and the Russian president isn’t putting up with it. I know this because I was an eyewitness to the events of that day. Events that Washington, D.C.’s media have failed to press Biden on – and that give an extraordinary insight into how our now-president was humiliated by his Russian counterparts.

A silent war against pandemics is taking place around the clock, every day of our lives. This war occurs not in government labs or hospitals. Rather, it is happening inside of you and me, even at this very moment. Within every human body on the planet, God has installed the best defense system against viruses, bacteria, and plagues of all kinds. This defensive team is called the immune system, and it is brilliantly effective and capable of adapting to meet new threats.The War InsideWarding off disease from our bodies begins at the simple, mechanical level — the physical barriers of...

Last year, we began what was supposed to be a short lockdown to flatten the curve of COVID-19-related hospitalizations. It's a year later and we are still mostly locked down. This past year has been particularly hard on young adults, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal titled "Pandemic Loneliness Is Hitting Young Adults Especially Hard." In fact, "61% of young people ages 18 to 25 reported serious loneliness in the prior month, compared with 24% in adults ages 55 to 65," wrote reporter Anne Marie Chaker. These statistics came from a report from Making Caring Common, part...

It took the IRS just two days to start processing $1,400 stimulus checks after President Joe Biden signed his $1.9 trillion relief package into law. The third direct payments of the pandemic began to show up in bank accounts last weekend.As of Wednesday, millions of Americans had already received more money to take care of bills, pay down debt, save or invest.But if you keep refreshing your online banking and still aren't seeing the cash, what's happened? Here are seven potential reasons you haven't gotten your money yet.Advertisement1. The IRS is sending out the stimulus checks in 'batches'The IRS has...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is holding a public health roundtable discussion with renowned doctors and epidemiologists who are expected to discuss Florida’s overall response to the Chinese coronavirus. The event, taking place at the Florida State Capitol, features experts in the field of public health, including Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford; Dr. Scott W. Atlas, MD, a Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University; Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University; and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, PhD, biostatistician, epidemiologist, and professor of medicine at...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday warned North Korea that U.S. forces are ready to "fight tonight" after the dictatorship condemned military drills taking place in South Korea. The U.S. and South Korean militaries have resumed springtime drills in South Korea after pausing exercises last February due to coronavirus concerns. Austin discussed the U.S. military's commitment to "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" and "the importance of maintaining military readiness" during a press conference Wednesday. "Our force remains ready to 'fight tonight,' and we continue to make progress toward the eventual transition of wartime Operational Control to a [Republic of Korea]-commanded,...

Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed during a Senate hearing on COVID-19. Video...

VIDEOIs Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. doomed to become Mueller II? The answer appears to be a resounding YES. We already have a couple of big tells that the investigation into President Donald Trump's tax returns is going nowhere. One of the tells is that Vance, after receiving the desperately desired tax returns, announced that he would NOT be seeking re-election this year. The other big tell is an Associated Press report just out that the investigation is focused on what they think might be an inflated assessment of one of Trump's properties that was used to reduce his...

Pantene’s new commercial features lesbian parents Ashley and Ellie and their gender dysphoric child Sawyer. Sawyer is a biological boy who now says he is a girl. Full story at Newsbusters: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/elise-ehrhard/2021/03/18/pantene-pushes-lgbt-agenda-commercial-featuring-trans-child

Has anybody stopped watching Jeopardy since they started using guest hosts? Currently Katie (Colonic) Couric is hosting.

Two men have been charged with the murder of a Florida high school student, who was shot dead for three pairs of 'Yeezy'-style Adidas trainers.Adrian Cosby and George Walton, both 19, were arrested on Sunday for killing Andrea Camps Lacayo, 18.Police say Ms Camps and her boyfriend had arranged to meet the suspects last week to sell three pairs of shoes for $935 (£747) when she was shot.The victim, who was in her last year of high school, died later in hospital.

Short Video of Joe Biden describing Vladimir Putin.

A Thailand university said it has trained dogs to sniff out coronavirus with a high success rate, in a pilot that researchers hope would become an alternative method to effectively detect patients and those that are asymptomatic.

Just read crawler on NewsMax, Dan Bonging to take over time slot for Rush. All I know so far

Biden's order gave federal agencies like the Department of Homeland Security 60 days to come up with a plan to redirect border wall funds and to determine how much of the wall under construction should resume or be modified or terminated. That order expires Saturday, March 20. Forty U.S. Republican senators on Wednesday sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office Comptroller Gene L. Dodaro asking him for a legal opinion as to whether President Joe Biden's suspension of U.S.-Mexico border wall construction and a freeze on funding for those projects violates the Impoundment Control Act. The act prevents...