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S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster and several members of the state’s congressional delegation spoke out this week against requiring U.S. residents to obtain “vaccine passports,” or documentation proving they had been vaccinated against COVID-19. Thursday afternoon, McMaster tweeted that the documents “will have no place in South Carolina.” “The very idea is un-American to its core,” McMaster tweeted. By early Friday afternoon, five of South Carolina’s six Republican congressmen signed a letter in support of McMaster’s stance. The letter was signed by U.S. Reps. Jeff Duncan, R-Laurens; Nancy Mace, R-Daniel Island; Ralph Norman, R-Rock Hill; William Timmons, R-Greenville; and Joe Wilson,...

Japanese model Kiko seen in the discontinued ad campaign for Valentino’s Japan spring/summer 2021 collection. Photo: Weibo Photos for Valentino showing Japanese model Koki walking in high heels on a traditional obi kimono belt, and wearing shoes inside, have whipped up a storm of social media criticism amid accusations the luxury Italian fashion house was “trampling on” Japanese culture. The images, part of a promotional shoot for the Milan-headquartered company’s Japan spring/summer 2021 collection ‘Valentino Collezione Milano for Women’, show Koki sitting on an obi , which is traditionally made of the same material as a kimono and worn as...

Florida has banned state and local government agencies and businesses from requiring so-called vaccine passports, or documentation proving that someone has been vaccinated against Covid-19. Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, issued an executive order on Friday prohibiting businesses from requiring patrons or customers to show vaccine documentation, or risk losing grants or contracts funded by the state. It was not immediately clear how the order applied to state and local government agencies. Requiring proof of vaccination, the order says, would “reduce individual freedom” and “harm patient privacy,” as well as “create two classes of citizens based on vaccination.” There has...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/6859390/belgium-kvc-westerlo-tuur-dierckx-jail-covid-party/ In Scotland, a soccer player gets a month in jail for having a party with 14 people. Remember, Scotland hates freedom all the time - only exception is in Braveheart movies. - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-coronavirus-americans-should-continue-to-follow-covid-19-precautions-despite-record-vaccinations-experts-say/ar-BB1fedof So much trash in the link above. CDC says fully vaccinated people need to wear masks and social distance when traveling within the USA. And the Pfizer vaccine may only provide protection for 6 months so they say boosters may be needed. This is truly a horrific 3 way marriage - big Corona, leftist politicians, and the media. The offspring of...

Well, that's not something you see every day. A man was spotted lying spreadeagled in the middle of a busy road on Wednesday (March 31) afternoon, with absolutely nothing to preserve his dignity. In a video uploaded to Facebook, the man was observed 'sunbathing' at the junction of Tiong Bahru road and Zion road, unperturbed by the passing vehicles and his proximity to them. A car was seen parked a few feet away from him, shielding the man from the flow of traffic, while the driver stood beside the vehicle. The video, which has gathered over 250 shares across different...

BORIS JOHNSON is expected to approve a Covid vaccination certificate system with a possible time limit of less than a year.The Prime Minister will reportedly give the green light on Monday. Downing Street believes the move is an essential step in reopening venues such as stadiums and theatres which involve large crowds. However, the idea of introducing a vaccine passport has led to a fiery cross-party backlash. This week, 72 MPs signed a pledge to oppose the “divisive and discriminatory” scheme. Government adviser Professor Robert West also warned that a Covid passport would give people a false sense of security....

I once watched a guy run down a tourist beach in Spain throwing money away. He literally sprinted over the sand, cackling dementedly as he chucked large wads of bank notes into the air and shouted at everyone to 'TAKE MY CASH!!' It seemed like the most wondrously generous thing imaginable and gleeful holidaymakers sprang off their sunbeds like they'd been electrocuted in a frantic race to grab the booty.

Two years ago, the world was Capitol knifeman Noah Green's oyster. A star of the college football team, the accused Capitol knife attacker was soon to graduate with a degree in finance from Christopher Newport University in Virginia. Yet over the course of the next two years, his life would take a frightening turn into paranoia and suicidal depression, and ultimately come crashing down.

An alleged orgy with prostitutes. Accusations of sex with an underage girl. A trophy photo of a woman wearing only a hula hoop. And a convoluted extortion plot involving a likely dead American hostage in Iran. Even by Florida standards, the Matt Gaetz saga is downright bizarre — and getting weirder by the day. Before this week, the young Sunshine State congressman and ally of former President Donald Trump was best known, like his mentor, for his ambitious conservatism and promontory coiffure. But this week, the Republican has faced a daily flurry of scandalous ­headlines. Most seriously, he is being...

Noorchashm told Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Today" that patients shouldn't fear asking legitimate questions about the vaccine, immunity status or the vaccine "passport" system already being deployed in places like New York. "When folks in the public health arena, talk about the vaccine efficacy. I think it’s a good bet that our science, this is American science... says to us that neutralizing antibodies and prime T cells can clear this out of your body," he said. "Now the question is, have we done enough to make sure it’s safe in everyone. Are there categories in subset of people in whom...

Rep. Alexandria Ocsio-Cortez has been such a hypocrite about the border crisis. She called the border facilities ‘concentration camps’ under Trump, but hasn’t said anything like that since Biden took over and the problem got worse. During a recent segment on FOX News, Tucker went off on her. The Daily Wire has details: Who Cares What She Thinks?’: Tucker Carlson Urges Americans To Ignore ‘Low-IQ Race-Baiter’ AOC Fox News host Tucker Carlson wondered aloud Thursday why anyone would care what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) thinks about anything and worried what it means that she has such a prominent voice on...

‘This means we can start to look at aging as a reversible disease,’ says Prof Shai Efrati; top geriatrician says he is skeptical, and raises concernsAn Israeli doctor says he has brought about physical changes in human blood cells that “reverse” aging, using an oxygen therapy. Shai Efrati reported in a peer-reviewed journal article published on November 18 that his research team’s 60-day therapy lengthened telomeres, the structures found at the ends of chromosomes, on average by more than a fifth. He claims this represents a “holy grail” in the battle against aging. However, some other physicians have reservations,...

Major League Baseball pulled the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta, a direct response to Georgia’s controversial new voting law. It will generate tweets of celebration, admiration and self-congratulation. And it’s exactly the wrong move. Pulling the Game out of Georgia won’t even touch the true targets of critics' anger and most importantly, will do nothing to address the crucial matters of voter suppression and education. Some background. In the 2020 presidential election, Georgia voted blue for the first time since 1992, handing Joe Biden many of the final electoral votes needed to unseat Donald Trump. Two months later, Georgia voters...

An Italian police officer beside Lot with His Two Daughters Serving Him Drinks by Nicolas Poussin. A painting by Nicolas Poussin, looted from its Jewish owners in France by the Nazis during occupation, has been discovered in Italy. The work, titled Lot with His Two Daughters Serving Him a Drink, has since been returned to its owners, according to the Carabinieri, Italy’s national police force. The search for the missing work began again last year, when the heirs, a 98-year-old Swiss woman and a 65-year-old American, began combing through a database of property looted in France throughout the second World...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

The 13 and 15-year-old girls who murdered an Uber Eats driver during a carjacking in DC are reportedly getting a plea deal. Instead of fleeing the scene after the car that they were trying to steal crashed and rolled on its side, one of the girls began looking for her cellphone that was in the vehicle — while walking nonchalantly past their victim’s body. Their victim, Mohammad Anwar, 66, of Springfield, Virginia, was driving for Uber Eats when the girls attempted to steal his car and tased him. The horrific scene was caught on camera by a witness. Warning, the...

Earlier on Friday Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. announced the MLB is moving the 2021 All Star Game and Draft from Atlanta in response to the new voting integrity law passed in Georgia last month. The All Star Game was set to be hosted by the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park stadium on July 13. The draft was to be held in Atlanta July 11-13. Joe Biden told ESPN on Wednesday he “would strongly support” MLB moving the game, calling the Georgia law “Jim Crow on steroids.” The new law requires a photo ID to apply for...

“This is not politics,” President Joe Biden said last week. “Reinstate the [mask] mandate.” This follows his dismissal of Gov. Greg Abbott’s decisions in Texas as “Neanderthal thinking.” But maybe the Neanderthals got it right. COVID-19 deaths in Texas plunged in March, and as National Review’s Philip Klein points out, there’s no relationship between mask mandates and coronavirus levels. Biden is clearly wrong on another point. This is not “not politics.” America’s constitutional federal system, and the latitude that both former President Donald Trump’s administration and the Biden administration have given state governments, have produced distinctly different Democratic and Republican...

Capitol Police Officer William Evans, who died Friday following a confrontation with a motorist who rammed a barricade and lunged at authorities with a knife, was an 18-year veteran. Capitol Police had still been recovering from the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, which claimed the life of Officer Brian Sicknick, 42. Another died by suicide after the riot, as did an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department. Details surrounding Evans' death were not immediately known. "There is still much to be determined about this attack and DHS offers its full support to Capitol Police and DC Mayor [Muriel] Bowser,"...

A Tri-Cities resident, while inside the Circle K located at Steptoe St and Gage Blvd in Kennewick found a plastic bag that had $7,000 in it on Thursday night. He turned the money over to the store clerk. The clerk safeguarded the money until police were able to arrive. Officer Sheppard with the Richland Police Department was close by and stopped to assist. Officer Sheppard and Kennewick Police Sergeant Littrell counted the money. Through the review of store video, Sergeant Littrell was able to determine the owner of the money who was extremely happy with the character of the Tri-City...