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"In an era when everyone is online, everyone is a public figure." — Bill Maher on HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Mar. 26 That's 100 percent correct. Social media gives everyone and anyone a broadcast studio that can potentially reach millions in a viral minute. And that means everyone is a potential target for the woke brigade as it continues to add scalp after scalp to its trophy room. How utterly ridiculous is our country getting thanks to an increasingly woke media that is replacing the isms in going from journalism to activism? Consider Exhibit A: The Washington Post...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — A Florida man is calling for 1 million people to mark "one year of mask tyranny in Broward County" with a march in Fort Lauderdale. The "Million Maskless March" will be held April 10 near Las Olas Beach in Fort Lauderdale. Organizer Chris Nelson wrote that the event will be a "celebration of freedom" and recognize those who have "faithfully endured" the county's mask mandate. The protest, billed as a non-partisan event, will also include a mask burning, according to organizers. Other organizers listed on the protest invite include Nelson's ReOpen South Florida, UnMasking America and...

JUST IN: Key eyewitness will plead the 5th if called to testify. Atty for Morries Lester Hall, who was inside Cup Foods & the SUV w/ #GeorgeFloyd asks for subpoena to be quashed. Otherwise he will "invoke his 5th amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

We are going to end up at the end of March 2021 this evening. Shortly it will be the beginning of April 2021.

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida woman was arrested Tuesday accused of stabbing her roommate multiple times over $60 of her own stimulus money, WFLA reports. Samantha Clark, 46, is facing a charge of attempted murder after allegedly attacking her 77-year-old roommate Dale Neary after an argument relating to $60 of Clark’s federal stimulus money, police said. The elderly man was taken to the hospital where he is in serious condition but expected to recover. Police caught up with Clark blocks away from her home and said the 46-year-old appeared to have taken narcotics, WFLA reports. Clark was arrested...

India’s economy has bounced back amazingly from the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown over the last one year, but it is not out of the woods yet, according to the World Bank, which in its latest report has predicted that the country’s real GDP growth for fiscal year 21/22 could range from 7.5 to 12.5 per cent. The Washington-based global lender, in its latest South Asia Economic Focus report released ahead of the annual Spring meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said that the economy was already slowing when the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded. After reaching...

Parkland parent Andrew Pollock joins me to discuss how mass shootings can be prevented.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Osseo Gun Club & Pro Shop has released an apology and says it has taken corrective action after the shop sent out an email promoting gun magazines for “your trip to the hood.” The gun club says the email, which reportedly said “we have 30 rnd mags for your trip to the hood,” was inadvertently sent out without the shop’s approval. “This email was completely unacceptable and goes against our core principles. Once we became aware of the situation we took immediate corrective action with the employee and revised the email,” Chris Williamson of the Osseo...

Moments after George Floyd was taken away in an ambulance last May, former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was confronted by a witness who took issue with Chauvin’s allegedly kneeling on Floyd’s neck. “That’s one person’s opinion,” Chauvin responded as he got into his squad car. “We had to control this guy because he’s a sizable guy. It looks like he’s probably on something.” Jurors in the murder trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin have heard testimony from 11 witnesses so far who have recounted the death of George Floyd over the last three days. Chauvin is facing...

A video of just deseves, as my biological brother should have.

Just like Judge Sullivan in the Flynn case, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts is now acting as a prosecutor and demanding why there is no Durham report, no Kavanaugh prosecutions, no Hunter Biden investigation, no FBI prosecutions of Hillary, Comey, Peter Strozk and Lisa Page, no inquiry into judges who closed their eyes to FISA regulations. Speculation on the Hill suggest that Donald Trump has something big on Roberts. What could that be? A video of Judge Roberts leading a conga line of young boys into the men's washroom on Epstein’s Island? Who knows? Yes, this is phantasy. But wouldn't...

Plenty of solar system objects emit X-rays — everything from Venus to Saturn to moons of Jupiter, the scientists write in a paper describing their research. In fact, of the solar system's planets, only little-studied Uranus and Neptune were missing from the list. The team of astronomers were particularly drawn to study Uranus in X-rays because the planet's alignments are quite jumbled: the planet lies on its side and the axis of its magnetic field is akimbo from both the orbital plane and the spin axis. The skewed axes may trigger particularly complicated auroras, which can emit X-rays. So the...

The top Republicans on two influential Senate committees on Wednesday demanded the U.S. Justice Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence turn over any intelligence and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act evidence they possess about three Chinese figures reportedly tied to President Biden's family. In the letter addressed to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., asked for "all intelligence records" including "all FISA-derived information" related to Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong and Chi Ping Ho. Grassley is the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, while Johnson...

Explanation: To play on Carl Sagan’s famous words "If you wish to make black hole jets, you must first create magnetic fields." The featured image represents the detected intrinsic spin direction (polarization) of radio waves. The polarizationi is produced by the powerful magnetic field surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of elliptical galaxy M87. The radio waves were detected by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which combines data from radio telescopes distributed worldwide. The polarization structure, mapped using computer generated flow lines, is overlaid on EHT’s famous black hole image, first published in 2019. The full 3-D magnetic...

Only the right can meme. My attempt for another Biden Meme.

Francis Peddles Myth of Climate MigrationScientists contest 'self-perpetuating false claims' of climate displacementVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is hyping the hotly contested hypothesis of "mass climate migration" despite recent scientific studies categorically stating that the claim is "without empirical scientific basis" and the product of a "self-referencing narrative."Cartoon depicting Francis' climate-change alarmism In his preface to the Pastoral Guidelines on Climate Displaced People (PGDCP) published Tuesday, Francis notes that "the huge and increasing numbers displaced by climate crises are fast becoming a great emergency of our age, visible almost nightly on our screens, and demanding global responses."The PGDCP calls...

Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in that age group before they head back to school in the fall. Most COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out worldwide are for adults, who are at higher risk from the coronavirus. Pfizer's vaccine is authorized for ages 16 and older. But vaccinating children of all ages will be critical to stopping the pandemic - and helping schools, at least the upper grades, start to look a little more normal after months of disruption. In a study...

Workers at a Baltimore plant manufacturing two coronavirus vaccines accidentally conflated the vaccines’ ingredients several weeks ago, ruining about 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and forcing regulators to delay authorization of the plant’s production lines. The plant is run by Emergent BioSolutions, a manufacturing partner to both Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca. Federal officials attributed the mistake to human error. The mixup has halted future shipments of Johnson & Johnson doses in the United States while the Food and Drug Administration investigates. Johnson & Johnson has moved to strengthen its control over Emergent BioSolutions’ work to avoid...

Last June, as part of the response to the pandemic, President Trump imposed a ban on new H1-B visas. For those not familiar, that program allows employers to bring skilled, nonimmigrant workers into the country to fill jobs that the employer allegedly can’t fill with citizens. It was a sensible decision, both in terms of preventing additional COVID cases from arriving on our shores and the fact that so many people were unemployed that employers shouldn’t have had any trouble finding workers to fill their ranks here at home. But for some reason, according to one source who spoke to...