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The state is investigating 102 potential cases of people becoming ill with COVID-19 more than two weeks after being fully vaccinated, the Washington State Department of Health reported Tuesday. According to the state, the majority of those in Washington with confirmed vaccine breakthrough experienced only mild symptoms or no symptoms. However, eight people were hospitalized with COVID-19, and the state is investigating two "potential" breakthrough cases where patients died. Both of those patients were more than 80 years old and suffered underlying health issues, according to the state. The state said that the breakthrough cases are 0.01% of the 1.2...

Jimmy Fallon may have booked one of the biggest social media stars on his show with Addison Rae, but not everyone is excited about the TikTok celebrity’s late night stint. Rae, who appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last Friday (March 26), joined Fallon on stage to show off some the dances she performs TikTok; but users of the platform were quick to point out that it wasn’t Rae who originated the choreography — it was mostly Black creators who weren’t receiving the same credit or attention. In the bit, titled “Addison Rae Teaches Jimmy 8 TikTok Dances,”...

Cops have charged a man out on parole for killing his mother with the caught-on-video stomping of a 65-year-old Asian woman outside a luxury Manhattan building, a hate crime that shocked the city, officials said Tuesday. Brandon Elliot, 38, was charged with assault as a hate crime at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday after cops received numerous Crime Stoppers tips, authorities said. In 2002 Elliot, then 19, was arrested for fatally stabbing his mother three times in the chest in front of his sister, who was 5, in the Bronx. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years to life...

Two years ago, peaceful, law-abiding gun owners across the country became felons overnight, thanks to the Trump administration's ban on bump stocks. But as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit recognized last week, Congress alone has the authority to define new federal crimes, while the president and his underlings are charged with enforcing those laws. Combining both powers in a single branch is a license for tyranny -- a danger the framers tried to avoid by carefully separating the legislative and executive functions. Regardless of their views on gun control, Americans who care about the rule of...

Today, China Joe Biden going to roll out a $3 trillion monstrosity that he will refer to as an “infrastructure” plan. – In reality, this plan is nothing more than massive new giveaways to the fake green energy lobby that helped to fund his fraudulent campaign for the presidency. Naturally the Democrat toadies in the corrupt news media will refer to those subsidies, mandates and corporate welfare provisions as “investments”, because that’s the preferred narrative of the Democrat Party: VDO.AI From the story by the corrupt Democrat hacks at Axios: President Biden is asking Congress to approve hundreds of billions...

Maybe media fact-checking will only be mostly dead in Joe Biden’s presidency. The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler gives Biden four Pinocchios over his statements about Georgia’s new voting reforms, highlighting two specific lies Biden issued over two days. This might be a lesson for the media in more ways than one

So basically, the Sock Puppet-in-Chief accused Georgia Republicans of being racists based on nothing but lies that his handlers fed to him like they feed him his morning tapioca pudding. And the lies were so egregious that even the WaPo felt it could not just ignore them like it normally does for Democrat liars. That’s some serious lying right there, folks. But hey, it’s Joe Biden, and that’s just how he rolls. In fact, it’s how he has always rolled.

Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, has commented that he was “enjoying the irony of … [Sen. Bernie] Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of socialism and what it really means ... In practice, it corrodes not only the economy but the human spirit itself.” The soul-sapping nature of socialism was my subject last week, so I won’t go through the same stuff again, much though it bears repeating. Nevertheless, Kasparov’s comment led to further discussion of socialism after I reposted it on social media, and one respondent, a highly civilized left-wing friend I’ve...

Ron DeSantis has vowed to take executive action in Florida against 'completely unacceptable' plans for vaccine passports over privacy fears. The governor slapped down President Joe Biden's potential scheme which would allow Americans to return to pre-pandemic activities like travel and shopping by showing proof they've been inoculated against COVID-19. The Biden administration is working with private firms to develop the passes which would likely be available for free through smartphones, The Washington Post reported. But DeSantis said the plans would have 'huge privacy implications' which would violate personal freedoms. The Republican said at a press conference at the Florida...

The loss of public trust in universities that has risen to front page news did not suddenly emerge in 2020. In 2018 the non-partisan Gallup organization found that, for the first time, less than half of Americans have “a lot of confidence” in higher education. Even more pointedly, Gallup reported that “No other institution has shown a larger drop in confidence over the past three years than higher education.” The loss of civic faith in higher education has been building for a while. American liberal arts education has lost its moorings. A 2012 article in Inside Higher Ed crystallizes the...

I have a doctor’s appointment this morning so I’m leaving you to your own devices this fine Chicken Hump Day.But first I ask you: what sort of perv did this? Topless baby chicks in short skirts: that’s just twisted. And right before Easter. Most disturbing to me about this photo found on the internet however is that it looks exactly like my kitchen. I just want to go on record saying it is not.Now get out there and wrangle this hump day into submission.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

The US Army can’t legally mandate COVID vaccines, but restrictive policies like those at Fort Drum and Fort Bragg make it increasingly difficult for service members to refuse.March 31, 2020 (Children’s Health Defense) – “Liberty is always dangerous but it is the safest thing we have.” — Henry Emerson FosdickA March 17 memorandum from the commander at the U.S. Army’s Fort Drum reservation in New York lists privileges withheld from service members who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine — an experimental Emergency Use Authorization product not proven to prevent infection or transmission of the COVID virus.The memo, “Prohibited Activities...

Founded in 1923, the Frankfurt School, a philosophical and sociological movement with the aim of developing Marxist studies in Germany that operated out of Goethe University in Frankfurt. After the Nazi takeover in 1933, the Frankfurt School relocated to Columbia University in New York City. The influence of the Frankfurt School has been far reaching, with Critical Theory their primary focus, which has a preoccupation for critiquing modernity and capitalist society. Unable to attract converts to communism due to capitalism’s abundant material wealth, the cultural Marxism of Critical Theory perpetuates discontent by dividing people by race, sex, and class with...

David Horowitz has been warning for decades that the American left stands in opposition to America, in both its lack of appreciation of the principles of the American founding expressed in both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and of the country’s history and achievements and economic system which have enabled the nation to grow and prosper. America’s history is hardly blemish free, of course, with a long and troubling record with among others, Native Americans and Blacks who were brought to the country as slaves, and who faced mistreatment and discrimination after the Civil War for a century...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.businessinsider.com/who-coronavirus-jumped-to-people-farms-that-breed-wild-animals-2021-3 This pro-China source says that the virus ore likely started 800 miles away from Wuhan at a region with lots of farms. There is no chance, obviously, that it leaked out of the Wuhan Institute for Virology as that would imply that the Chinese are capable of mismanaging something. - Sometimes the Flubro threads attack Coronavirus regulations by using the same fear that was used to create the regulations. Fear of phthalates, vaccines, underdeveloped immune systems, etc. have all been used to undermine the government imposed restrictions on our liberty. These all seem like...

Is it better for a 3-year-old child to spend more time with a government employee or a mother? resident Joe Biden is pushing for a federal program to put preschool children in the hands of the former -- theoretically, as a benefit to the latter. What about summer vacations? Should children have them? Or is it better to keep them in school 12 months a year? Cynthia Marten, superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, took the latter position at a Senate confirmation hearing last week. She is Biden's nominee to be deputy secretary of Education. Democratic Sen. Tim...

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Malarkey! That's how the King County Sheriff's Office described a series of text messages used in an attempted scam targeting a Woodinville resident. On March 18 just before 10:00 p.m., deputies responded to the would-be victim's house in the Cottage Lake area. The female resident revealed multiple text messages that she received from an unknown person pretending to be a hitman hired to kill her. "I am very sorry for you," one of the messages reads, "it's a pit that this is how your life is going to end as soon as you don't comply." The rather poorly written text...

The psychological-warfare attack -- its script straight from the antifa/Black Lives Matter version of the Cold War's Marxist playbook -- began in January when the predictable chorus of hard-left hacks in academia, media and government vilified the American military with toxic allegations calculated to demoralize military personnel, sow destructive institutional suspicion and undermine command authority with the goal of weakening U.S. national security. The propaganda ploy the hard left's commissars, fuhrers and utopian messiahs use in their psychological assault first targets individuals. See, right-wing extremists and white supremacists fill the military ranks, and they represent an armed threat, because the...

Progressives have a visceral hatred for America, its Judeo-Christian values, its free market system, its freedoms, opportunities, and material comforts. They want to change it fundamentally -- or destroy it. Our founding documents guarantee the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” with a functioning, limited government that serves the people. But such a milieu of healthy competition is an anathema to the Left, which thinks it offensive that Americans are free to work hard and pursue their dreams with minimal government intervention. Instead of letting such a meritocracy prevail and deliver the best to the nation, the...