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I hate to say I told you so. But I told you so. I'm one of the few brave souls in the American media who warned and advised from day one (back in early March 2020) not to lock down the American people or the economy. I argued the following: That lockdowns wouldn't stop COVID-19, because you can't stop a virus. That there was never a reason to lock down everyone. Anyone relatively young or healthy never had a reason to fear death from COVID. The survival rate has been reported at 99%, especially for anyone relatively healthy under the...

In coverage of the March 22 Boulder, CO. supermarket massacre, The New York Times was true to form (All the News That’s Fit to Spin), reporting that “investigators were trying to determine what motivated a 21-year-old man” charged with 10 murders. Whenever the establishment media tell you that the authorities are diligently searching for a motive in a mass shooting, it means there’s no shortage of clues that they don’t want to follow, to keep you from jumping to any logical conclusions. In typical New York Times fashion, the newspaper devoted two paragraphs to the murder weapon (a “Ruger AR-556...

Despite their pressure on Georgia and other states, woke business, big tech, corporate media, and sports leagues do not hold veto power over legislation any more.Shortly after Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed Georgia’s new voter-integrity law on Thursday, the squeeze play against the southern state began, with a representative of the Major League Baseball Players Association suggesting players would support moving the summer’s all-star game from Atlanta. That followed demands by the National Black Justice Coalition that the PGA Tour and Masters Tournament pull upcoming events from Augusta National Golf Course. Other activists are calling for boycotts against Georgia-based corporations...

“The perception of you that got you elected as a moral, decent man is the reason a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and are trusting you with unaccompanied minors.” That was PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor at Joe Biden’s March 25 press conference. The event was really a worship service, conducted by house hagiographers and lacking only mandatory timed applause. Still, the proceedings did prove informative in a different way. Biden needed a cheat sheet and marked photos of approved reporters. The Delaware Democrat is utterly captive to his handlers, a condition previously showcased by America’s...

President Joe Biden’s March 25th press conference was his first since taking office. He lied so often during the hour or so he spoke and fielded questions that even the New York Times had to take notice. “We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming,” Biden claimed, referring to families of migrants illegally crossing or seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. “False,” declared the New York Times. “Federal officials recorded about 19,000 encounters with families at the southwestern border in February. Of those, about 7,900 families, or 42 percent, were expelled, far short of a majority.”...

Kevin B. Blackistone, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland and former ESPN analyst, is calling for the MLB to pull its All-Star Game from Georgia over the state’s new election integrity law. Blackistone praised Atlanta for having one of the first liberal activist mayors in the south and noted that the NBA gave the city a team a few years after Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., testified before Congress in favor of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But, like most leftists, Blackistone is furious that Georgia is attempting to prevent future election debacles by making changes in its election...

Like a spider eating her mate, we are now watching His Royal Redback get gobbled up alive... Tell us about Megxit!’ It’s the question I am most asked when I open the floor for questions after giving a speech about Brexit and the state of Britain. And my answer is a straight one: Meghan Markle has been an absolute disaster for the British monarchy. Like some gangster, she has committed a smash-and-grab on the Palace, snatching what can be easily sold, trashing anything of sentimental value. Her latest stunt – pocketing an alleged $500K for ratting out her husband’s mental...

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n-American.” “Sick.” “Despicable.” What got President Joe Biden in such a lather? Was it the children packed liked sardines at border detention facilities? The recent mass shootings? China’s human rights abuses? Nope. Biden flew off the handle over the fact that several states are taking steps to reform their election laws in ways he doesn’t like. “What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick,” he said. “It’s sick … deciding in some states that you can’t bring water to people standing in line waiting to vote. Deciding you’re going to end voting at five o’clock...

“‘Whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave’” (Matthew 20:26-27). In God’s sight, greatness is marked by a humble, servant’s heart. Bible commentator R.C.H. Lenski once wrote that God’s “great men are not sitting on top of lesser men, but bearing lesser men on their backs.” Jesus would have agreed with Lenski’s observation, but He did not see it as wrong to desire greater usefulness to God. Those standards of usefulness, however, are much more demanding than any worldly ideals for self-serving, domineering leadership. For...

BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed her country’s difficulties during the coronavirus pandemic — from the slow vaccine rollout to the back-and-forth over lockdown rules — on “a tendency toward perfectionism” and called for greater flexibility to tackle the latest surge in cases. In a lengthy television interview with public broadcaster ARD late Sunday, Merkel acknowledged that mistakes were made by her government, including on plans for an Easter lockdown.

In AD 65, unrest spread throughout the Roman Empire, in response to the increasingly despotic rule of Nero. It started with the Pisonian conspiracy, which was an attempt to restore the Republic. Nero’s suppression of it reduced his support in the Senate, which led to further instability. In AD 68, Gaius Julius Vindex rebelled against Nero’s tax policy in Gaul. His plan was to replace Nero with a provincial governor named Galba. ... The relevance to this age is that what followed was a long period in which the real power in the Roman Empire had no official role. The...

The legislation leaves out critical election security provisions that had been in two omnibus bills that moved through the Georgia House and Senate in March. Last Thursday, Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the “Election Integrity Act of 2021,” Senate Bill 202, into law. The 95-page bill adds ID requirements for mail-in ballots, halts the acceptance of absentee ballots within 11 days of an election, and prohibits third-parties from providing gifts to voters waiting in line at a polling place.“Significant reforms to our state elections were needed,” Kemp said upon signing the bill. “There’s no doubt there were many alarming...

A cat in Turkey melted hearts after walking into a hospital carrying her new-born kitten in her mouth seeking medical help. Video footage recorded in a hospital in the Karabaglar district in Izmir, Turkey, showed the cat walking into the hospital with its kitten clutched in its mouth. People in the video can be seen stepping aside to allow the mother cat through the building, with some telling other people to move out of the way.

The Biden administration is asking for 'volunteers' from other federal agencies to assist border officials struggling to cope with a massive surge in illegal border crossing, as a Democrat in Congress released new photos of overcrowded holding facilities. A memo from the federal Office of Personnel Management is asking various government agencies to send staff on 'volunteer deployments' at the border of up to 120 days, according to Fox News. Border officials have been overwhelmed by the surge, and thousands of minors are stuck in substandard holding facilities as the government struggles through a backlog to process them.

I know most of you have seen the clip of Alena Lee, (Asian) weatherbabe, (sexist) apologizing for running the clip featuring Kitler the Kat (white supremacist). She honestly should have known better: the left is currently demanding reparations for something that occurred 150 years ago; it should have been obvious that it’s too soon to make jokes about something that happened a mere 80 years ago. I would say “show me the person who feels this portrayal of a cat born with a Hitler moustache in any way glorifies Nazis rather than ridiculing them” but apparently they are legion. Taking...

Tired of covering up your maskne on a typical Blursday afternoon before fighting crowds of covidiots when you’d really rather be home fixing yourself a quarantini and procrasturbating your worries away? You’re not alone. In addition to taking a wrecking ball to almost every aspect of daily life, the pandemic has infected the very language we use to describe the exhausting experience simply existing has become. A year ago, terms like social distancing and flattening the curve were just entering our shared vernacular. Now, COVID-speak has become a language unto itself, forcing dictionaries to adapt to our ridiculous reality while...

Crowds of revelers descended on Miami Beach on Sunday but dispersed without the chaos seen in previous weekends. Several hundred Spring Breakers gathered to dance and drink along Ocean Drive but the majority scattered when police arrived minutes after an 8pm curfew went into effect, and ordered them to leave the area. The Miami Herald reported a small confrontation as the crowd moved from Ocean Drive toward Washington Avenue.

This is the moment a Trump supporter pulled a gun on rock-throwing Antifa protesters after they vandalized his truck and maced him during a rally near the Oregon Capitol. Footage captured the demonstrators spraying paint across the windscreen of the man's truck and smashing the tail lights in Salem on Sunday. The driver, who was wearing an American flag sweater, stepped out of his vehicle as he engaged with the protesters.

Burton Brown was serving as the vice chair of the state party. She got her start in politics as an anti-abortion advocate.. Kristi Burton Brown was selected Saturday as the next chair of the Colorado GOP, vowing to bring a “new generation of leadership” to an embattled state Republican Party. “Republicans are facing the battle of our lives,” she said in a speech before her win. Burton Brown, 33, is the first woman to lead the Colorado GOP since the 1970s. Burton Brown takes over a Colorado GOP that has less power in the state than it has had in...