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@RandPaul ICYMI this morning I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The idea that we can eradicate an ideology or pacify a populace full of discontent is foolhardy and naive at best. Video...

This morning I was watching the news about the reports of unidentified flying objects over military bases and it got me thinking. We have a two story home and I have been having chest pains after climbing the stairs, unlike someone we know who fell three times trying to buy a stairway to heaven, we decided to buy a stair lift. We ordered one but it has not arrived yet. When I was about to marry, my mother refused to help me to buy my own wedding dress, so I was married wearing a borrowed dress. Later, my sweet husband...

University of Tennessee-Knoxville administrators are staying silent on the status of a lecturer who took two weeks away from the school in February after writing a phrase used by rapper Tupac Shakur on a whiteboard. In early February, Melissa Hargrove, a lecturer on race and anthropology in the Africana Studies department, wrote the acronym for “Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished,” a quote used by the hip-hop artist, on a whiteboard during class.

During Wednesday’s CNN “New Day,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sounded off on his recent back and forth with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over the “theater” used by both sides of the aisle in reaction to the Boulder, CO shooting. Blumenthal said the GOP is engaging in “theater” by “offering thoughts and prayers and then blocking real action that can save lives” as they push back on stricter gun laws. He emphasized the need for “federal action” to prevent future gun violence.

NOTE: Title of Thread has been truncated. Connor Reed, 25, from Wales, fell ill while working in Wuhan, China, last year Said he got sick in November, weeks before first coronavirus case was logged He also believed that local officials in China initially tried to cover up the disease A British man who is believed to be among the first people in the world to catch coronavirus has revealed he fell sick in November last year - weeks before the first official case was logged. Connor Reed, a 25-year-old teacher from Wales who was living in Wuhan when the outbreak...

Despite a low-risk pandemic situation in the area, the Guangzhou Vocational University of Science and Technology, in southern China’s Guangdong province, prolonged its COVID-19 restrictions on campus. Discontent from locked-up students simmered until it reached a critical point. At noon on Mar. 17, at least 300 Guangzhou university students launched a surprise charge on the guarded school gate and stormed off campus. Student Lin Fang (alias), told the Chinese-language Epoch Times it looked like a prison escape scene from a movie. “It happened during break time. As guards were allowing a vehicle to exit, the crowds saw an opportunity and...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador blamed President Joe Biden’s immigration policies for the crisis at the southern border during a Tuesday press conference. “Expectations were created that with the Government of President Biden there would be better treatment of migrants,” Lopez Obrador said. “And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so.” AMLO: “Expectations were created that with the Government of President Biden there would be a better treatment of migrants. And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country,...

Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed the lack of bipartisanship by the Democrats as they push to increase taxes, end the Senate filibuster, grant statehood to Washington, D.C., and more. McConnell, noting the split majority in the Senate and the “narrow” Democratic House majority, said on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” that Democrats “misread the election.” He said it was “not a mandate to turn America into Bernie Sanders’ view of what America ought to be.”

According to China’s own data, the original hot spot for COVID-19 infections occurred in a residential area in the four miles between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Biological Preparations Institute of the China Biology Technology Group Corporation. Both of those institutions have been associated with China’s biological warfare program and, prior to and since the onset of the pandemic, they have collaborated on vaccine development. For months after the start of the pandemic in December 2019, China flooded the scientific literature with subtle and sometimes not so subtle messages supporting its narrative that COVID-19 is a naturally-occurring disease...

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin should look at facts and data, Fox News contributor Joey Jones said on Wednesday, in response to the immediate push for gun control by left-leaning celebrities, media pundits, and Democrats after a mass shooting a Colorado grocery store.

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Up to 80 individuals are squeezed into each 24- by 30-foot cell, and there aren’t enough mattresses for everyone. Sheets of plastic divide the rooms. “Any diseases that are in there, it’s being kept in there, like a petri dish. The smell is overwhelming,” a Border Patrol agent said, describing the conditions in a facility in south Texas. The agent, Carlos (not his real name), spoke to The Epoch Times on condition of anonymity, for fear of repercussions. Border Patrol agents on the front lines are getting so frustrated that they’re now risking their livelihoods to reveal what’s really going...

Rep. Ilhan Omar is taking heat for tweeting about how “narratives” change based on a suspect’s “race or ethnicity” in wake of the Colorado massacre. “The shooter’s race or ethnicity seems front and center when they aren’t white,” Omar wrote Tuesday. “Otherwise, it’s just a mentally ill young man having a bad day.

New details have emerged of how mysterious drones harassed U.S. warships off California on multiple occasions in 2019. The Navy has yet to determine where the drones came from, who was operating them, or why they buzzed around a group of U.S. destroyers. The incidents were first reported by documentary filmmaker Dave Beaty, with new details obtained by news website The Drive using Freedom of Information Act requests to get the ships' logs of the encounters. The vessels involved were the destroyers USS Kidd, USS Rafael Peralta and USS John Finn. They were engaged in a training exercise in a...

They woke up Joe Biden long enough to shove him on a plane and send him to Ohio on Tuesday for a quick appearance. About two dozen supporters came out to see him — but Joe got 81 million votes! This was Joe’s first trip after he took the previous three days to rest, relax and recoup from his triple-fall on Friday. During his visit to the Ohio Cancer Center Joe Biden told physicians dogs may help cure cancer. This was Joe’s profound statement of the week. It’s about as good as it’s going to get coming from Joe. Thanks,...

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Yesterday, Bitcoin gained 0.48% against the US dollar, hitting the $54,331.0 level at the end of the session and breaking a two-day losing streak. Other cryptocurrencies did not follow suit, such as Ethereum which continued losing ground, falling by 0.85% and closing the session at the $1,668.77 level. Dogecoin followed, which fell by 2.72% against the US dollar and closed at the $0.053423 level. Recently, Elon Musk said that Tesla will accept Bitcoin as payment, making official an announcement he made some time ago that pushed up enthusiasm for crypto in the markets. "You can now buy a Tesla with...

Multiple variants can “escape” vaccines Antibodies induced by the Moderna Inc and Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE vaccines are dramatically less effective at neutralizing some of the most worrying coronavirus variants, a new study suggests. Researchers obtained blood samples from 99 individuals who had received one or two doses of either vaccine and tested their vaccine-induced antibodies against virus replicas engineered to mimic 10 globally circulating variants. Five of the 10 variants were "highly resistant to neutralization," even when volunteers had received both doses of the vaccines, the researchers reported on Friday in Cell. All five highly resistant variants had mutations in...

Don’t believe the media narrative that court challenges to the 2020 election are over and that we need to “move along; there’s nothing to see here.” Yes, most courts dismissed their cases without even looking at evidence, but some rulings have been made and there are still cases to be adjudicated. John Solomon has been keeping up with the activity.In fact, now that Joe Biden is comfortably situated in the White House and Trump has dropped his own legal challenges, courts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Virginia are starting to rule that the way widespread absentee balloting was handled in these...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged that the United Kingdom will leave lockdown “once and for all” and those plans will not change even in the face of a so-called ‘third wave’ of coronavirus coming from Europe. In a statement on Tuesday marking the first anniversary of the lockdown, Prime Minister Johnson said: “It’s because of every person in this country that lives have been saved, our NHS was protected, and we have started on our cautious road to easing restrictions once and for all.”