Free Republic

A Des Moines pizzeria is offering more of a good thing. Dough Co. Pizza said it will release a new specialty pizza of the month called the “Doughble Decker” pizza. It’s a 26-inch pizza topped with seven 8-inch pepperoni pizzas. “When we think about what we do best, it’s pizza. It’s our best-selling product and people love it,” said Dough Co. Pizza co-owner Alec Davis. “When we were considering a specialty pizza for April, we thought we should double down on pizza so that’s why we’re offering the Dough Co. Doughble Decker Pizza on April 1!” Dough Co. is located...

Workers at a plant in Baltimore manufacturing two coronavirus vaccines accidentally conflated the ingredients several weeks ago, contaminating up to 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, the British-Swedish company whose vaccine has yet to be authorized for use in the United States. Federal officials attributed the mistake to human error. The mix-up has delayed future shipments of Johnson & Johnson doses in the United States while the Food and Drug...

On March 31st, Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, released a one-hour television special entitled, Scientific Proof: Internationally Renowned Physicist Absolutely Proves 2020 Election Was Biggest Cyber-Crime in World History. The special broadcast features Dr. Douglas Frank who holds a Ph.D in Surface Analytical Chemistry for the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Frank is an internationally recognized scientist with over fifty scientific publications. In 1990 Dr. Frank discovered and invented a technique for creating three dimensional images of molecules resting on surfaces. This led to a cover article in Science Magazine, which is the most read science magazine in the world...

A batch of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine failed quality standards and can’t be used, the drug giant said Wednesday. The drugmaker didn’t say how many doses were lost, and it wasn’t clear how the problem would impact future deliveries. A vaccine ingredient made by Emergent BioSolutions — one of about 10 companies that Johnson & Johnson is using to speed up manufacturing of its recently approved vaccine — did not meet quality standards, J&J said. J&J said the Emergent BioSolutions factory involved had not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make part of the...

New details emerged Wednesday about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandemic memoir, including how he enlisted government staffers to help with the book — for which he was offered more than $4 million, according to a new report. Top aides, including Melissa de Rosa, Stephanie Benton and other junior staffers assisted the governor with drafts of “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was published in mid-October, The New York Times reported. The governor’s book deal — which came as he was riding high in popularity due to his nationally televised coronavirus briefings — ended with a $4...

The site – 81m.org – tracks the “likes” and “dislikes” on videos published by the official White House YouTube account, and from the data, extrapolates an “approval rate.” In many cases, the approval rating is in the single digits, even as low as 2.72 percent for the video “President Biden Participates in a Virtual Event with the House Democratic Caucus.” The site also reveals how the YouTube account is manipulating dislikes:

Monopolist billionaires are recruiting -- paying -- nasty internet trolls to harass their critics, while simultaneously demanding that their Tech Monopolist cronies ban and censor their critics. YouTube, for example, just created another new tool so that Disney can silence its critics -- allowing corporations to turn off the "Dislike" counter on their videos. This is all obviously being done by mutual request. And you know that Bezos' cronies at Twitter aren't going to ban his Troll Army or punish Amazon for organizing a harassment campaign. This

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Monday vetoed a bill that would bar trans athletes from participating in women's sports, something that is overwhelmingly popular in the state. Noem previously sent back the bill to the state legislature, under the "Style and Form" revision process. According to the governor, "legal scholars" have warned her about the potential lawsuits associated with the bill, especially when it comes to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and their demands. Instead, she wanted to form a coalition to take on those who file litigation against South Dakota, something that would be a strain...

MOSCOW — The war in eastern Ukraine, which has been on a low simmer for months, drawing little international attention, has escalated sharply in recent days, according to statements on Tuesday from the Ukrainian and Russian governments. In the deadliest engagement so far this year, four Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another seriously wounded in a battle against Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk Region of eastern Ukraine, the country’s military said. The soldiers’ deaths, along with a buildup of Russian forces on the border, has seized the attention of senior American officials in Europe and Washington. In the past week,...

HIPAA protects a patient's personal health information, leaving many concerned that a vaccine passport would violate those protections. HIPAA is used to protect sensitive medical information but only applies to how physicians, hospitals and health insurers share a patient's information with third-party entities, according to a report by The Washington Post. A vaccine card would qualify as protected health information, but an airline is not a healthcare provider. HIPAA also doesn't protect medical information that a patient shares about themselves. An airline still has to follow state privacy and identity theft policies. "Once they get the data, they have to...

A wildlife park has welcomed its newest arrival – complete with a rare gene that’s sure to make it one of the park’s biggest attractions.A Victorian wildlife park has been blessed with a rare new attraction after one of the park’s wombats gave birth to a striking golden joey. The golden wombat is the result of a rare gene in southern hairy-nosed wombats. The new golden wombat, named “Honey Bun”, was born at Ballarat Wildlife Park to mum Nulai and dad Willy. The light-coloured wombats aren’t commonly found in the wild and it’s thought their lighter colour could make them...

Leaked internal documents reveal that Amazon “ambassadors,” a social media propaganda force, were trained to defend the company and Jeff Bezos along with targeting Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas.” Amazon admitted in 2018 that the ambassadors were employees paid to “honestly share the facts,” about working at the company’s warehouses. Amazon workers have been forced to urinate in bottles due to the company’s strict working schedules.

Over the past year, we’ve seen pet-friendly staycations, all-you-can-eat staycations, and sexy staycations, but a McDonald’s-themed staycation might be just what we need to get through the rest of phase three (however long that might be). As part of its McDonald’s Night-In campaign, the fast food chain is teaming up with Klook to launch its first-ever McDelivery x Klook ‘Happiest Night-In’ Staycation at Oakwood Premier AMTD Singapore. More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. Where to stay Located in the heart of the Central Business District (CBD), Oakwood Premier AMTD Singapore...

The end is near. A new COVID spike is upon us. We can’t ease restrictions. Keep wearing masks. Keep living in fear. The medical experts are working overtime at the panic factories to keep us afraid. For some, it will continue to work. Coastal elitists, liberals, and the entire viewership of CNN will keep believing it because they’re just stupid people. Yet, it seems the narrative has finally come off the hinges. Well, it already has—but here we have a textbook example of when the boomerang circles back and breaks liberal America’s face. We have panic on one hand, but...

Late the night of March 31-April 1, which was in 1923 the dark between Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, the Catholic priest Konstanty Budkiewicz (Konstantin Budkevich) was shot in the cellars of Lubyanka. Born to a Polish family in present-day Latvia, Budkiewicz (English Wikipedia link | Polish) went to seminary in St. Petersburg. He was in that same city, now a 50-year-old vicar-general, when the Bolshevik Revolution shook Petrograd. Given the Bolsheviks’ anti-clericalism, this was bound to be a trying position: Catholic clergy, especially of relative prominence, faced intermittent harassment. The outlander Latin rite and any Pole’s hypothetical association with...

The saga of Matt Gaetz continues apace. Last night, it was reported that he was under FBI investigation for sleeping with a 17-year-old and paying for her travel. Later, Gaetz would appear on Tucker Carlson’s show to deny the charges and claim that a man named David McGee had tried to extort him and his father in exchange for favorable treatment.Today, Gaetz’s father provided an email proving he was, indeed, working with the FBI. Here’s the text of that.“I can confirm that your client is working with my office as well as the FBI at the government’s request in order...

Facebook on Wednesday removed an interview with former President Donald Trump on his daughter-in-law’s Facebook page, drawing immediate backlash from conservatives renewing their ongoing complaints against Big Tech and Section 230 Lara Trump, who is married to Trump’s son, Eric, promoted an interview on Facebook and Instagram with the former president Wednesday for her show "The Right View.” Soon after, Facebook removed the interview because content posted “in the voice of Donald Trump” is not allowed while he remains banned from the platform, a Facebook employee said in a screenshot of an email posted by Lara Trump. (Facebook did not...

The Pakistani President tested positive for COVID-19 on March 29, 14 days after receiving his first injection with a Chinese vaccine; on March 20, the Pakistani Prime Minister tested positive for COVID-19, 2 days after he received his inoculation.Pakistani President Arif Alvi announced on Twitter that he tested positive for COVID-19. Both he and his wife were inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine made by Sinopharm on March 15.وازا مرضت فھوا یشفیناور جب میں بیمار ہوتا ہوں تو وہی شفا دیتا ہےI have tested positive for Covid-19. May Allah have mercy on all Covid affectees. Had 1st dose of vaccine، but...

March 31, 2021 — The neo-Nazi group The Base was identified as a domestic extremism concern in a non-published version of a recent report by U.S... The non-public version of the report also reported that Americans had traveled to Ukraine to fight with pro-Russian forces against the country's elected central government, two of the sources said.

CommentaryPresident Joe Biden followed his raft of heavy-handed climate executive orders by announcing his loftiest goal yet: slashing U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in half by the end of the decade.Biden’s ambitious climate fantasy is doomed to fail—not only failing to reach his emissions target, but also failing utterly to make the slightest impact on climate change.The best solution for preserving the natural beauty of our nation, contrary to the president’s pontificating, is to fully embrace domestically produced energy. Long-term environmental quality is a product not of big-government mandates, but of freedom and economic prosperity.Biden’s plan is hopeless because modern life...