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It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-09/florida-vs-california-who-had-better-covid-response An older article but it has a must read quote. The LA Times tries to explain away the similarity in coronavirus death rates between California, who locked down, and Florida, who didn’t lock down. The must read quote: “The shrinking difference in the death rates is likely the product of California’s higher levels of poverty, density, overcrowding and climate that make it particularly susceptible to coronavirus spread, experts say.” They manage to tie it to poverty in California. There is zero evidence that poverty leads to more coronavirus deaths. This is a disease of...

The negative consequences of President Joe Biden’s immigration initiatives have not only captured the attention of Americans but foreign nations as well. Mexico, in particular, has voiced its concerns and taken matters into its own hands. According to Reuters, the Mexican government has expressed unease over President Biden’s immigration policies. Since the 46th president took office, America’s southern neighbor has experienced large numbers of U.S.-bound Central American migrants crossings its borders to take advantage of the Biden administration’s loosened asylum policies. Unsurprisingly, Mexico is feeling the adverse effects of being used as a transit nation. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez...

March 22 is the birthday of the iconic writer Louis L’Amour, a man whose name became synonymous with the American frontier and whose novels promoted old-fashioned patriotism and morality. America sorely misses his kind. L’Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, a farm town, in 1908. He was largely self-educated. As a youth, L’Amour spent many hours at the town library studying history and science and imbibing the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. This inculcated in him a love of reading. He read 100 to 120 books a year and accumulated a personal library...

In a totalitarian effort at hiding the truth, the Biden administration has blocked the press. Veteran photojournalist John Moore raised the alarm on Twitter over the weekend: “I respectfully ask US Customs and Border Protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations,” he wrote. “I have freely photographed Customs and Border Protection under Bush, Obama and Trump....... but now — zero access is granted to media." (Due to Biden's paranoia over letting Americans see the unfolding ofthe gargantuan crisi Biden's misbegotten policies created.) (Under the Democrat-controlled Biden) ..... There’s more press freedom in Mexico than in the United...

Since 1984, Dr. Anthony Fauci has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. During that period, his salary has steadily increased. The latest federal government payroll study indicated that Fauci earned $417,608 in 2019. His salary exceeded that not only of the president of the United States, but also of every other person in our federal government with over 4 million employees. Clearly, he is not only overrated, but also overpaid. It is high time the highest paid federal government employee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, be fired. Fauci is irritating for a number of reasons. He...

During the debate over the Covid relief bill Sen. Durbin (D-IL) stated that "Undocumented immigrants do not have Social Security numbers, and they do not qualify for stimulus relief checks." This is incorrect; we estimate that there are 2.65 million illegal immigrants who have Social Security numbers...illegal immigrants could receive an estimated $4.38 billion in cash payments from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

The size of the Army is expected to be reduced by about 10,000 soldiers as part of a move towards robots, drones, and cyber warfare.

March 22 2021 Feast of St. Nicholas Owen of Oxford Catholic Church of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Oxford, UK Lectionary 251First readingDaniel 13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62 ©Susannah and the eldersIn Babylon there lived a man named Joakim. He had married Susanna daughter of Hilkiah, a woman of great beauty; and she was God-fearing, because her parents were worthy people and had instructed their daughter in the Law of Moses. Joakim was a very rich man, and had a garden attached to his house; the Jews would often visit him since he was held in greater respect than any other man. Two elderly men had...

Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, a Marine Corps veteran, last week called on Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough to withdraw benefits from active-duty service members, veterans, or military retirees who participated in the deadly January 6 Capitol riot. "The behavior of these individuals is not representative of the large population of American veterans, the vast majority of whom served honorably and are appalled by the thought of insurrection in the country they served," he wrote in a letter. "Yet, many of the veterans and service members who attacked their own government actively and enthusiastically enjoy benefits not available to...

This morning on Maria Bartiromo’s television program, congressman Jeff Van Drew shared details of death threats from a New Jersey journalist to himself and his family. The reporter works for the Ocean City Sentinel and writes syndicated articles which are carried in numerous outlets.WATCH: (video at link)

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was very content during a trip to Turkey on Friday. He said it was productive and smiled alongside his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu. He said it was a “wonderful” trip where he spoke with his “brother Cavusoglu.” The trip signals the growing alliance that Turkey and Iran have in the region. Zarif said: “As before, constructive engagement on bilateral and regional issues. Ultimate aim: Apply Iran and Turkey’s experience of 400 years of peace to our region. Together, anything is possible.” Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took Russia’s side in a growing spat with...

The Tel Aviv Labor Court decided on Sunday that the Kochav Yair-Tzur Yigal Local Council could ban an assistant from a school if she did not agree to undergo a coronavirus test or to be vaccinated against the virus. The decision was made after an assistant at a school in the municipality filed a complaint to the court against the council’s policy to ban staff who didn’t undergo coronavirus tests every seven days or receive the COVID vaccine. Judge Meirav Kleiman stated in the decision that the court does not believe that “the applicant’s apparent rights outweigh the respondent’s right...

American media’s misleading framing of a police officer’s description about why a man shot up multiple massage parlors in Atlanta was used by China’s state-run media outlet Sunday. The Xinhua News Agency, the official state-run press agency of the People’s Republic of China, repeated a misleading claim suggesting Cherokee County Sheriff Capt. Jay Baker made excuses for Robert Aaron Long, who stands accused of killing eight people in Atlanta. The misleading claim suggested Baker told reporters – in his view – that it “was a really bad day for” Long. “8 lives taken, 6 of them Asian. And the killer...

On Monday, the Vatican reaffirmed that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions after its own clergy sought clarification on the matter. The decree distinguished between the welcoming and blessing of gay people, which is still the case, but not their unions, as any such recognition could be confused with the sacrament of matrimony. That of marriage between one man and one woman, God’s supposed plan for procreation purposes. The explanation approved by Pope Francis went on to state that while gay people must be treated with dignity and respect, gay sex is “intrinsically disordered.” It is a sin. And...

The husband who survived the Atlanta spa shootings that killed his wife says cops treated him like a suspect instead of a grieving victim — keeping him handcuffed for hours without telling him his spouse was dead. “They had me at the police station for all that time until they investigated who was responsible or what had happened,” Mario Gonzalez said during an interview with the Spanish-language news site Mundo Hispanico. “In the end, they told me my wife had died. “They knew I was her husband,” Gonzalez said. “Then they told me she was dead when I wanted to...

Harry and Meghan's claim that they wed in secret has been blown apart by their own marriage certificate. In their bombshell interview with Oprah, the Duchess of Sussex claimed that the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby married her and Harry three days before their wedding. However, the General Register Office has now revealed the couple's wedding certificate for the first time, proving they did get married on May 19, 2018 in a lavish ceremony at Windsor Castle after all.

The staff and their families of the North Korean embassy have been told to leave after the country severed ties with Malaysia, apparently after Mun Chol-myong was ordered to be extradited to the US. (Bernama pic) PETALING JAYA: After North Korea’s move to sever ties with Malaysia, Wisma Putra has ordered all diplomatic staff and their dependents at the Embassy of North Korea in Kuala Lumpur to leave the country within 48 hours. Wisma Putra said Malaysia was now compelled to close its embassy in Pyongyang, where operations have been suspended since 2017. In a statement, Wisma Putra expressed regret...