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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently issued a National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin warning of an increased risk of attacks by violent extremists taking advantage of the easing of pandemic restrictions. Seriously. The alert does not cite any specific threats but warns of potential danger from an “increasingly complex and volatile” mix of groups that includes domestic terrorists inspired by various grievances and racial or ethnic hatred. The bulletin cautioned, “Violent extremists may seek to exploit the easing of COVID-19-related restrictions across the United States to conduct attacks against a broader range of targets after previous public capacity limits...

The Biden administration’s dishonest efforts to force taxpayers to fund abortion via Title X have taken center stage. In order to create a victim narrative, HHS pushes some deeply misleading numbers thanks to the new radically pro-abortion HHS Secretary, Xavier Becerra. His department blames the Trump administration’s multi-faceted and pro-life Protect Life Rule for the supposed harm to the uninsured, low-income families, and “people of color.” HHS claims that due to Title X grantees’ withdrawal from the program (namely Planned Parenthood) the program lost over 1,000 service sites. This led, allegedly, to a deep drop of 844,083 Title X clients...

This video shows Trump supporters stopping & pulling away ANTIFA men from breaking the Capitol windows. Trump supporters can be overheard yelling out “That’s Antifa!!!”

More news emerges about what a deeply unpleasant, self-centered, immoral (or maybe amoral) man this multi-billionaire is. Bill Gates has been prominent during the COVID panic. He has all sorts of ideas about controlling people’s lives and “solving” climate change. However, now that his wife is leaving him, the floodgates are opening. The Bill Gates we’re seeing isn’t the amiable, slightly weird genius. Instead, he’s "sexual predator adjacent" -- a man who befriended Jeffrey Epstein and had a questionable relationship with the Clinton Foundation. For many people, Bill Gates was the genius behind the Microsoft empire. For others, he was...

In a divided America, the FBI focus on one group of politically motivated people, while ignoring others who are more violent, cannot end well. For those of you old enough to remember, one of ABC’s most popular television series of all time was The FBI, starring Efram Zimbalist, Jr., which showed 241 episodes from 1965 to 1974. Then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover served as a consultant to the series until his death in 1972. Hoover’s second-in-command Clyde Tolson vetted every draft episode of the series, and even vetted the actors playing FBI agents and other characters so that “no Communists,...

I never thought I'd live to see the dystopian madness that's currently plaguing our republic. We're living in a nightmarish combination of Kafka's The Trial, Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, all rolled up into one tidy utopian package. It's mind-numbing to see how many new causes and new victims ooze to the surface almost every day, often turning reason and science totally upside down. You'd need a photographic memory to keep track, so it's understandable that many people -- even some who consider themselves "woke" -- get cancelled by the mob, completely unaware that they did or said...

Tennis great John McEnroe was well known for his mercurial personality and unrestrained outbursts when he felt that a close call wrongly hadn't gone his way. His use of the phrase "you cannot be serious" has become sports lore. The current-day Democratic Party has pioneered new ground in eliciting McEnroe-like responses. They cannot be serious. That phrase can be taken two ways, and both interpretations would be correct. It could be taken to mean that Democratic governing policies are not serious, responsible approaches to meet the complex and conflicting demands of our multifaceted economy, the challenges of an ever-shifting international...

The crowd of Wyoming Republicans vying to oust Rep. Liz Cheney is expected to clear out once former President Donald Trump chooses a favorite, a development that could sink the embattled incumbent. More than a half-dozen Republicans have announced campaigns against Cheney in the 2022 GOP primary, threatening to divide the vote and boost the congresswoman to a fourth House term. But Republican insiders in Wyoming predict the field will winnow once Trump delivers an endorsement. Indeed, state legislator Chuck Gray, among the first and most active Republicans to mount a campaign against Cheney, would likely fold his bid if...

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the leader of the federal government’s politically based responses to Covid-19 since day one of the pandemic. The director since 1984 of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he now serves as President Biden’s leading advisor on the issue. Last year, Fauci repeatedly undercut President Trump when he was working for the 45th president. And now he’s all in for Joe Biden. In recent years, people on the left who lie and break the law – from the streets to the suites – have rarely been held accountable. One of them, in the...

WASHINGTON - The Associated Press’ top editor is calling for an independent investigation into the Israeli airstrike that targeted and destroyed a Gaza City building housing the AP, broadcaster Al-Jazeera and other media, saying the public deserves to know the facts. Separately, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel’s bombing of a building housing the media organizations as a possible war crime. Sally Buzbee, AP’s executive editor, said Sunday that the Israeli government has yet to provide clear evidence supporting its attack, which leveled the 12-story al-Jalaa tower. Buzbee said the AP has had...

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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wane regardless of the presence of useless non-pharmaceutical interventions like lockdowns, business closures, or forced masking, President Joe Biden recently called continued mask-wearing a “patriotic duty” just a few days before finally ‘giving’ vaccinated people ‘permission’ to unmask in indoor settings. And while his addled brain may have been aiming for a pleading, albeit sick, dystopian version of Kennedy’s “ask not what your country can do for you,” the president’s words only served to prove just how unhinged Democrats and leftists have strayed from reality over the last several decades. If patriotism is defined...

Fully vaccinated DOD personnel are no longer required to wear a mask at Defense Department facilities Defense Department personnel who are at least two weeks out from a final vaccine dose are no longer required to wear masks indoor or outdoors at DOD facilities, the Pentagon announced Friday. The official announcement, signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, comes just a day after the CDC updated its guidelines to say fully vaccinated people “can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing,” except when required by law or regulations. It also comes shortly after reports that individual installations were...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge on Friday denied a request for a preliminary injunction from the city that would have barred four people previously arrested for selling drugs from entering the city's Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods. City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed civil lawsuits against each of the defendants, seeking to bar them from entering a 50-square-block area in an effort to break the supply chain for addicts who congregate in the Tenderloin. Herrera had argued that the defendants are not neighborhood residents and instead travel from other Bay Area cities to sell drugs in downtown San...

I guess we’ll be told we’re unseemly if we giggle at the cancellation of useless stooge Don Lemon’s low-rated airport lounge video muzak, or at how the Israelis leveled the Gaza high-rise housing the AP and Al-Jazeera. Well, color us unseemly, because when the media suffers, we celebrate. And we’re not going to apologize for it. Half of America, at least, now cares about the media precisely as much as the media cares about us – that is, not at all. In fact, we actively wish it ill. We cheer when some trash website or paper folds. The frequent layoff...

Skip the video if you want to avoid the language but it reminds me of the 1976 "NETWORK" movie where the anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) advocates viewers to open their windows and scream; "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" NOTE: This may be a put-up job as I can find no specific source for this. However, shorn of the bad language, I AGREE with the sentiment! Transcript in the comment section.

Matthew McConaughey may not be acting when he says he’s interested in a run for Texas governor. The Oscar-winning star of “Dallas Buyers Club” has been making calls to a club of elite politically-connected Texans to talk about getting into the 2022 gubernatorial race, Politico reported Sunday, citing sources. McConaughey has been talking to “deep-pocketed” moderate Republicans and business leaders in the Lone Star State to gauge their support, Politico said. The 51-year-old actor would have to get through Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is planning to seek re-election next year and is already facing a likely primary challenge from...

Geneva (AFP) - Working more than 55 hours a week increases the risk of death from heart disease and stroke, according to a United Nations study out Monday. The report by the UN's World Health Organization and International Labor Organization agencies comes as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates workplace changes that could reinforce the tendency to work longer hours. "Working 55 hours or more per week is a serious health hazard," said Maria Neira, director of the WHO's environment, climate change and health department. "It's time that we all -- governments, employers, and employees -- wake up to the fact that...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) – SC for Ed has canceled a protest scheduled for Monday after the group says they’ve received “harassing and threatening messages.” SC for Ed originally planned the protest after Gov. McMaster’s executive order was filed May 11. The order allows parents to opt their child out of wearing masks in South Carolina public schools. State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman said the order caused confusion at schools across the state. During a briefing with the state health department, DHEC, Spearman said, “I have rescinded our order to try to establish some type of order so school districts...

Pet adoptions skyrocketed at the beginning of the pandemic, but now that things are starting to return to normal, some pets are being returned to shelters. A humane society in Wood County has seen an increase in dogs given up because of behavior issues. Experts say during the pandemic, many people weren't able to be around others, and neither were their pets. "There are some behavior things starting to pop up, where animals are not socialized enough, so they're very uncomfortable with a lot of the people coming into their home environment. So just due to that, a lot of...