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The Guardian: “Several European countries have halted using the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine…” The Guardian has a brand new definition of “several.” Their own article lists the following nations: Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Romania, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, The Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Cyprus, Sweden. The reason for the “pause?” A “small” number of people have developed blood clots. And now, as I write this, the Wall St. Journal is reporting that European Union medical regulators have decided everything is OK—-“the benefits of the shots outweigh the risks.” Standard boilerplate language for: “we don’t have to explain the...

Joe Scarborough should show his NCAA bracket. If his prognostication skills there were anything like those on the prediction he put out Monday morning on a different subject, the bracket will look like a chicken tramped across it. On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough said that: "People [on the right] this past week [were] actually bizarrely cheering for a Putin/Biden debate. And bizarrely saying that Biden would be wiped out by Putin."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

You just can't make this stuff up. Nuff said.

Crime is up dramatically in New York City. The New York Police Department is spread thin because of retirements, leaving the officer's union to say that the anti-cop sentiment among officials in city hall had left the "NPYD broken, almost beyond repair." So naturally, what Mayor Bill de Blasio thinks the NYPD should be doing is knocking on people's doors if they're suspected of saying something hateful. According to Fox News, de Blasio made the comments Thursday, one day after a gunman killed eight individuals in a series of killings at Atlanta-area massage spas. Six of the eight victims were...

Our previous article on the COVID theater you’ve been watching, that one with Krispy Kreme offering you a free glazed donut in exchange for you getting a COVID jab, is about to be outdone in new heights of ridiculity (yes, I just made that word up, you’re welcome), with the breathless announcement just moments ago of a Dr. Fauci children’s book. I can’t even. The blurb for this ‘book’, this shameless piece of propaganda, reads like this: “This engaging narrative, which draws from interviews the author did with Dr. Fauci himself, follows Anthony from his Brooklyn beginnings through medical school...

Canadian Pacific Railway (NYSE:CP) is looking to the south for growth, announcing plans to acquire Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) for $29 billion.

The 21-year-old Arvada man arrested in Monday’s mass shooting at a Boulder King Sooper’s previously attacked a classmate at Arvada West High School, according to court records and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is suspected of killing 10 people at the grocery store Monday when he walked in around 2:30 p.m. and began shooting, according to law enforcement. He was taken into custody about an hour later and was injured during the arrest. Alissa was hospitalized for treatment and is expected to be transported to the Boulder County Jail Tuesday to face 10 counts of first-degree...

An Arizona man has been arrested after he cut off and held at gunpoint a caravan of National Guardsmen transporting COVID-19 vaccines to Matador, Texas around 7 a.m. this morning, according to Idalou Police. Larry Harris, of Willcox, Arizona, is accused of following three National Guardsmen vans from Love’s Travel Station on East Regis Street in Lubbock to about two miles east of Idalou. Police say Harris attempted multiple times to run the vans off of the roadway. He then turned his vehicle into oncoming traffic on Hwy. 62/82 and stopped the vans. He then pointed a gun at an...

Biden regularly speaks and consults with Obama, White House says President Joe Biden regularly consults with former President Barack Obama, speaking with him on a range of issues, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. Psaki, responding to a question from a reporter, said Biden and the former president “keep in regular touch” — but did not specify exactly how often the pair speak to one another, Fox News reported. “They consult and talk about a range of issues and I would expect that continues through the course of President Biden’s presidency,” Psaki said. “That can be done over...

The refusal of prison workers to take the vaccine threatens to undermine efforts to control the pandemic both inside and outside of prisons, according to public health experts A Florida correctional officer polled his colleagues earlier this year in a private Facebook group: “Will you take the COVID-19 vaccine if offered?” The answer from more than half: “Hell no.” Only 40 of the 475 respondents said yes. In Massachusetts, more than half the people employed by the Department of Correction declined to be immunized. A statewide survey in California showed that half of all correction employees will wait to be...

A fire swept through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Monday, killing at least five people, destroying homes and endangering the lives of tens of thousands of refugees, camp officials said. The fire destroyed at least 3,000 shelters as it tore through the camp, Rashedul Islam, an official in charge of Kutupalong refugee camp, said Tuesday. Fire services, Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, and rescue and response teams remained at the scene on Monday evening, where they continued to try to control the fire and prevent its further spread, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said late...

The alleged gunman charged with slaughtering 10 people at a Colorado supermarket bought an assault rifle a week prior to the shooting — and was caught “playing” with it by a family member, according to new court documents. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa purchased a Ruger AR-556 pistol on March 16 — six days before going on a deadly rampage at the King Soopers in Boulder, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday. His sister-in-law, whose name is redacted, told investigators that she saw Alissa, 21, “playing with a gun she thought looked like a ‘machine gun'” in the days prior to...

Another recent incident of anti-Asian American harassment seems to have flown under the national media's radar, so let's cover it here. The Miami New Times reported Friday on a woman of Chinese descent riding a public bus in Miami-Dade County. She saw a fellow commuter talking without a mask and asked him to put one on. It set him off on a racist rant. He became aggressive, and the woman began to record him with her phone. In the video, the man states, "Mind your goddamn business, Chinese lady. Ugly ass c----," using a slur for Asian people. He later...

Biden administration remains intent on restarting aid to Palestinians The Biden administration privately confirmed to Congress last week that the Palestinian Authority has continued to use international aid money to reward terrorists but said the finding won't impact its plans to restart funding. In a non-public State Department report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the administration said the Palestinians spent at least $151 million in 2019 on its "pay-to-slay" program, in which international aid dollars are spent to support imprisoned terrorists and their families. Financial statements further indicate that at least $191 million was spent on "deceased Palestinians referred...

This isn’t an overreaction to Gates’ latest foray into the news cycle. It’s an observation based on a long pattern of statements and behavior by the founder of Microsoft and one of the richest men who has ever lived which, were any of us normal people guilty of them, would result in our being institutionalized. Bill Gates is crazy. And he’s dangerous, because he’s willing to put untold sums of money toward making the insane things he believes a reality – and all of those insane things hurt people. The most recent idiocy? Impossible Burgers for all the white people....

A Staten Island woman accused of trafficking guns, including a pistol used in the murder of a pregnant woman, broke down and cried when her lawyer told her she was being released on bond. Gina Santoro, 54, was arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court Monday for allegedly working as an arms dealer for her ex-con boyfriend, Phillip Moreno. The 46-year-old Moreno is accused of fatally shooting Alafia Rodriguez, 46, and his pregnant partner Ana DeSousa, 33, in the couple’s Mariners Harbor home last May. Another woman in the house at the time, Erica Johnson, 43, was shot multiple times but survived....

According to a leaked email from a federal government agency, language is seemingly being used to elevate Kamala Harris in all official correspondence. The leaked email from Outspoken came from a high-ranking White House communications team member.

A Maryland lawmaker has unveiled legislation that seeks to ban employers from terminating workers who refuse to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. The bill, sponsored by Democratic Delegate Nick Charles, would prevent businesses from putting forth a vaccine mandate. It also aims to protect companies from being sued by employees who become infected by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, and previously refused to be vaccinated. “Prohibiting an employer from terminating an employee solely on the basis of the employee’s refusal to receive a vaccination against COVID-19,” a summary of the bill states. If signed into law, the bill would be effective...

An unidentified 24-year-old woman died in South Beach after a pair of spring breakers raped her drugged body, left her for dead, then partied on with her credit cards, cops believe. North Carolinians Evoire Collier, 21, and Dorian Taylor, 24, are suspected of providing a “green pill” that led to the death of a Pennsylvania woman in her Miami Beach hotel room on Thursday, according to the Miami Herald. They were arrested Sunday.

Every statewide partisan officeholder in South Dakota is a Republican. The GOP controls the state House 62-8 and the Senate 32-3 — the largest majorities ever. Yet they can't seem to ban castration of minors or prevent men in female sports as part of the loony transgender agenda. What gives? They are plagued by the same business lobby preventing every other GOP supermajority state from protecting its historic cultural conservatism.