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I am on the Board at a local dog club. We have many club members that are asking in classes or other occasions if other club members present are vaccinated. A few times I've been close by and said out loud "that is private medical information and you can't ask that" at which point the person usually sheepishly says they "were only kidding" (right!). One of the venue organizations that puts on trials locally recently put this out on their site: "Clubs, Judges and or Exhibitors are not permitted to require, determine eligibility, or ask about exhibitors' vaccinations in such...

A high-stakes fight over drug companies’ response to the coronavirus pandemic has split the Biden administration, with activists and progressives urging the White House to back an international petition to waive the companies’ patents — and some senior officials privately signaling they’re open to the idea. The debate has reignited decades-old tensions in global health, pitting such influential figures as Pope Francis, who backs the patent-waiver proposal, against philanthropist Bill Gates, who’s opposed. The proposal was discussed last week by Anthony S. Fauci, a top coronavirus adviser to President Biden, and Katherine Tai, the U.S. trade representative, who spoke about...

Anne Arundel County has filed a lawsuit against more than two dozen fossil fuel companies over the costs of dealing with the fallout of climate change. “Filing this suit is about protecting our taxpayers and businesses from the growing fiscal impacts of climate change,” County Executive Steuart Pittman (D) said in a statement. “The damage inflicted by these companies damages our environment, and creates massive costs that shouldn’t be borne on the backs of our residents.” The lawsuit seeks to help Anne Arundel County recover damages from companies whose “decades of deception” is harming land and infrastructure in the county,...

Despite President Biden’s Central Intelligence Agency Director Bill Burns testifying he cut ties to a Chinese Communist Party-linked influence group, The National Pulse can reveal the controversial relationship between the Carnegie Endowment – formerly led by Burns – and the Chinese Communist influence group continued through 2021. Burns became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in March 2015 and claimed, during Senate confirmation hearings, that he merely “inherited” the think tank’s longstanding relationship with the China-United States-Exchange Foundation (CUSEF). CUSEF is part of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department, which seeks “to co-opt and neutralize sources...

Americans believe that President Biden faced bigger challenges than his predecessor Donald Trump during his first 100 days in office — and performed better than Trump despite those difficulties, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. The survey of 1,558 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April 27 to April 29, found that less than a third say Trump’s challenges were bigger than Biden’s (31 percent) or that Trump performed better (32 percent) during the first 100 days of his presidency. Pluralities say Biden has performed better than Trump (41 percent) in the face of greater obstacles (37 percent). The...

California Officials Pressured Big Tech to Censor Social Media Election Posts Judicial Watch in Court to Stop a Maryland County from Giving Cash to Illegal Aliens Judicial Watch Fights Hard Left ‘Critical Race Theory’ California Officials Pressured Big Tech to Censor Social Media Election Posts We now have chilling details of California state officials and Big Tech executives conspiring to uproot the First Amendment and influence the 2020 election. And, key targets were Judicial Watch and me. The proof is in 540 pages and a supplemental four pages of documents we received from the office of the Secretary of...

The Pentagon on Friday announced it is canceling all border wall construction projects that were paid for by military funding -- part of a broader effort by the Biden administration to cancel the Trump-era barrier. Biden issued an executive order in January halting all construction projects related to the wall so that a review could take place. More than 450 miles had been built during the Trump administration and approximately 350 miles (more) was already funded -- some of that with money diverted from the Defense Department... The Pentagon said that funds would be used instead for previously deferred military...

Let the “Florida education” jokes begin. Photos of a fresh paint job in an Orange County school zone show what was supposed to be the word “SCHOOL” incorrectly spelled “SCOHOL.” The botched paint job was spotted Wednesday on Golfway Boulevard near Woodbury Road in the Eastwood subdivision of East Orange County, just south of Waterford Lakes. A county spokeswoman said it was “an honest mistake” that was corrected Wednesday night.

Twitter published an editorialized trending topic under its “News” section Thursday on the Arizona audit of the November election in Maricopa County, where the state Senate has ordered an independent review of the 2.1 million ballots cast.The audit now underway caught the ire of Democrats and legacy media outlets who are sowing doubt on its necessity or legitimacy as state lawmakers demand the independent audit be conducted by an outside firm.“Why some officials have raised concerns over the ongoing Republican-commissioned audit of election results in Arizona,” reads the Twitter headline above its trending topic. Users are led down a storyline...

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) is hosting dinners to express appreciation for the brave men and women in law enforcement. Yet after the BGEA’s president, Franklin Graham, invited police in Seattle, Wash., to attend one of the free dinners at a four-star hotel, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) issued a condemnation of Graham and his organization due to their support for biblical Christianity. Leftists and antifa in Seattle have demonized police, but it seems evangelical Christians are the lowest of the low — even the police want nothing to do with them. Earlier this month, SPD Chief Adrian Diaz...

LOVELAND, Colo. — Three Loveland police officers involved in the arrest of Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia, are no longer employed by the police department, police officials announced on Friday. Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali, and Tyler Blackett, a community service officer, are out of the police department. Police Chief Robert Ticer did not say whether the officers were fired or if they resigned, though Ticer did say, "I was involved in that process" regarding the officers' departure. Police Sgt. Phillip Metzler, a supervisor involved in the inciden

Joe Biden Serenades Dr. Fauci!

Former President Donald Trump said that he would “certainly consider” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a potential running mate in 2024. Speaking to Maria Bartiromo on FOX Business, Trump also said that he is one hundred percent thinking about running — and that it will be “very successful.”

youtube link herePete holds nearly every ncaa career scoring record. He scored 3,667 points (in 3 years because Freshmen weren't eligible back then). That is over 44 points/game for 3 years. Neither the career total or average will ever be even approached. Ever. Dale Brown dug out the old game charts and proved that he would have averaged 57 w/ a 3 point line. I would surmise that average would be well over 60 simply because he would have taken (and made) so many more 3 pointers if there was a line there. He averaged 24+ in the nba for...

...Every case is different,” DJ Envy said. “And in this case, if I pull up to a scene and see a girl chasing another girl about to stab a girl, my job as a police officer is to make sure that girl doesn’t get killed. And the law allows me to stop that killing or that stabbing by any means necessary. That’s what the law allows me to do, on both sides.” Bryant was shot by Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon when he responded to a 911 call about a fight between the 16-year-old Bryant and an adult woman. Bryant...

So, after the terror Israel's worst peacetime disaster, I noticed that in both religions, the majority of deaths are male.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said Thursday morning that he's no longer sure "what we're spending the money on," regarding the long-awaited report and potential prosecutions from Justice Department special counsel John Durham. "It's now been two-plus years, and we've had virtually zero activity from Durham as best as anyone can see," Fitton during an appearance on "Just the News AM." Late last month, Trump issued a brief statement inquiring after Durham's whereabouts. "Is he a living, breathing human being? Will there ever be a Durham report?" Trump asked in the statement. Fitton said Thursday he's not so concerned about...

David Flynn, the father of two Dedham, Massachusetts public school students, was fired last year after questioning an abrupt change in curriculum in his daughter's "World Geography and Ancient History" class, according to Judicial Watch. The lawsuit states that Flynn and his wife noticed their daughter was receiving instruction on issues outside the class description on the school website. It alleges that their child was instead being instructed on issues of race, gender, stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination, and politics, among others. In one assignment, Flynn’s daughter was asked to consider various “risk factors” and “mitigating factors” that two people – one...

Police in Houston say more than 90 people were found inside a home while officers were responding to a reported kidnapping Friday. Police say they found the dozens of people in the 12000 block of Chessington Drive in the southwestern area of the city. Investigators are looking into the incident as a possible human smuggling case. There were no children among the dozens of people crowded in the home, with the youngest being a person in their early 20s.

9 sec video of Biden grabbing, stroking, and kissing a boy. If this has been out before this is the first I've seen it. Preemie513 Twitter