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THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS’ SPIKE PROTEIN PLAYS ADDITIONAL KEY ROLE IN ILLNESS Salk researchers and collaborators show how the protein damages cells, confirming COVID-19 as a primarily vascular disease HOME - SALK NEWS - THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS’ SPIKE PROTEIN PLAYS ADDITIONAL KEY ROLE IN ILLNESS SALK NEWS April 30, 2021 The novel coronavirus’ spike protein plays additional key role in illness Salk researchers and collaborators show how the protein damages cells, confirming COVID-19 as a primarily vascular disease LA JOLLA—Scientists have known for a while that SARS-CoV-2’s distinctive “spike” proteins help the virus infect its host by latching on to healthy...

You Can Hold Your Ground Against Critical TheoryWherever, however, don’t back down.Most “cancel culture” stories are brutal and alarming. It seems no one is safe from the threat of a mob intent on taking a person down: not acclaimed editors, not professors, not poets nor promising politicians nor regular college kids. It’s my hope this story will provide encouragement that it’s possible to withstand the mob. But you might have to learn how to fight fire with fire.My husband and I co-founded a non-profit organization in 2010. At the time, we knew nothing about the woke ideology called Critical Theory...

The United States does not have “the luxury of not dealing with China” as Beijing is “acting more aggressively abroad,” Secretary of State Tony Blinken said. Speaking to CBS’ “60 Minutes” in a wide-ranging interview that aired Sunday night, the nation’s top diplomat made the remarks after being asked what the United States’ red line was with regard to Beijing’s behavior.

When Siniya Longino arrived for her first day of in-person eighth grade in San Francisco last week, there was only one other student in the classroom. Everyone else was remote, as were all of her teachers. Siniya logs into Zoom on her laptop from her desk to see them. “I personally would have preferred to stay at home,” Siniya said. “I just feel like there’s no point.” In San Francisco and Los Angeles, tens of thousands of middle- and high-school students returned to classrooms last week for what some parents are calling “Zoom in a Room.” The unusual model, in...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are now facing fury from Democrats as to his handling, or really their creation, of the current border crisis. This week three Democrat senators, two from the border state of Arizona, criticized the Biden Administration’s handling of the border crisis.

FEAST OF SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES, APOSTLES JOHN 14:6–14 Friends, today we read the wonderful and mysterious passage from the fourteenth chapter of John’s Gospel. The disciples are gathered around Jesus at the Last Supper, abiding in intimacy with him, asking questions and seeking wisdom. Then listen to Jesus’ words: "If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him." Paul refers to Jesus as the "icon of the invisible God." What both Jesus and Paul are saying is that Jesus’ words are the Father’s words and his...

The Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020 will be, from this day forth, known as THE BIG LIE!

A top economist sounded the alarm on the damage President Joe Biden’s Marxist plans will inflict on the economy. Economist and University of Maryland Professor Emeritus Peter Morici penned a fiery op-ed headlined, “Biden's woke economics will lead to disaster.” In the piece, Morici argued that “Mr. Biden doesn’t just want guardrails on markets — limits on bank risk taking, regulations to police discrimination and subsidies to reshape health care.” Morici decried how Biden is trying to arbitrarily “reprogram American capitalism and culture to address alleged sexism, structural racism and climate change.” Morici didn’t hold back: “Economic policy has become...

Their lives don’t matter to LeBron James, noted apologist for and profiteer from Chinese Communist genocide and repression of minorities. because they weren’t killed by a white cop but rather by black thugs or what Joe Biden once called “predators” The NBA star, blessed with a massive physique and the ability to put a ball through a hoop with some regularity, has used the forum and the audience his stardom has bestowed on him only to condemn and target white cops who risk their lives to save black lives by shooting black criminals, while blithely and somewhat hypocritically ignoring the...

KEY POINTS Verizon will sell its media group, which includes brands from AOL and Yahoo, to private equity firm Apollo Global Management. The sale signals that Verizon will focus on its internet-provider businesses as rivals continue to explore media. ============================================================== Verizon will sell its media group to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion, the companies announced Monday. The sale allows Verizon to offload properties from the former internet empires of AOL and Yahoo. Verizon will keep a 10% stake in the company and it will be rebranded to just Yahoo. The sale will see online media brands...

Even though Pennsylvania is historically pro-life, the taxpayer-funded University of Pittsburgh is the hub for some of the most barbaric experiments carried out on late-term aborted babies--and the evidence indicates that sometimes they are delivered ALIVE before being killed for organ harvesting. The government-sponsored fetal experiments at Pitt include scalping 5-month-old aborted fetuses to stitch onto lab rats, exporting fetal kidneys across the country, and killing infants delivered alive for liver harvesting–funded by U.S. taxpayers via the National Institutes of Health, and in particular Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIAID office. Local Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania abortion providers supply the aborted...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said there is a “good chance” that social distancing will end next month, as England is set to come out of restrictions on June 21st. Prime Minister Johnson would not, however, fully commit to the end of the one-metre rule because it would be “dependent on the data” and “we can’t say it categorically yet”.

More than 450 Marines' careers have been affected by a forcewide redesign that launched last year as the Corps reorganizes to take on new threats, sending hundreds into new career fields, early retirement, or even Army tank units. Commandant Gen. David Berger issued his first annual update to the forcewide redesign he announced in March 2020. The changes center around making the Marine Corps lighter and more expeditionary to take on new threats from sea and ashore. Tank battalions, bridging companies and law enforcement units were slashed as part of the plan. Marines in those jobs are being told to...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Monday he has presidential ambitions in the near future amid unpredictable variables. “It’s possible that at some point in the future, down the road, two, four, six, eight, 10 [years], I don’t know when, that I will find myself in a position and want to pursue it, because I’ve done it in the past,” Rubio told Punchbowl News.

Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) announced Friday she won't seek reelection in 2022. “As I have rounded each new decade of my career, I’ve taken time to reflect on how I can best serve. That’s how, 10 years ago, I decided to run for Congress,” Bustos said in a video announcing her decision. “And it’s why today, I’m announcing I will not seek reelection after completing this term. It will be a new decade, and I feel it’s time for a new voice.” Bustos, a former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) chairwoman who led her party’s efforts to recapture the House...

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Monday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” reacted to former President Donald Trump having a microphone set up at Mar-a-Lago with a band to entertain and speak to crowds. “Never Trump” network contributor Charlie Sykes agreed with host Joe Scarborough that there is a “personality cult” problem in the GOP after Trump entered the fray. He argued that “Ronald Reagan couldn’t win a primary in the Republican Party these days” because of how much the party has changed into “blind loyalty” for Trump.

In a recent lecture, Rabbi Isser Z Weisberg declared that era of America as we know it was finished as soon as president Joe Biden was elected. “The American dream is dead and buried. On November 3rd, 2020 the American dream took its last breath. It last was laid to rest on January 6, 2021.” “It sounds depressing but…it is actually a cause for celebration.” Rabbi Weisberg also noted that America’s “demise” took place 3,333 after God gave the nation of Israel the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. He explains that the United States was doomed to self-destruct from the...

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, was loudly booed at the Utah Republican party convention – jeered as a “traitor” and a “communist” as he tried to speak. “Aren’t you embarrassed?” the former 2012 GOP presidential candidate asked the raucous crowd of 2,100 delegates meeting at a convention center in West Valley City, Utah, on Saturday, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported. Romney was the sole Republican to vote twice to impeach former President Donald Trump – for seeking political dirt on opponents from Ukraine and for inciting the deadly attack at the Capitol on Jan. 6. “You can boo all you...

The same Target that was gutted by looting and arson last summer as riots raged in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd now displays art on the side of its building celebrating Black Lives Matter themes including a burning building.