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Based on less than 1200 adolescents who were administered the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the ACIP voted to recommend that the experimental vaccine can be given to every adolescent in the U.S. and said it can be given simultaneously with every other vaccine recommended by the CDC for adolescent children. So the CDC says it is okay for a 12-year-old to get the experimental Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine along with vaccines for influenza, HPV, Tdap and meningococcal on the same day. No Information on Co-administration of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine with Other Vaccines The FDA’s May 10 Fact Sheet for Health Care Providers...

The fight for “equity” in higher education is a story-driven project. As the Annie E. Casey Foundation explains, “To illuminate racism, we need to ‘name it, frame it and explain it.’” This process is essential because “a common language creates a narrative that makes it easier to communicate the commitment to racial equity…and creates a platform for coordinated work toward equitable outcomes.” The “narrative” is essential because stories shape our values and vision of the world. As Jonathan Gottschall explains in The Storytelling Animal, whether they concern historical or religious or completely fictional characters, stories encourage us to do the...

A witness to the incident said she was sitting with a group of friends when people in a caravan of vehicles displaying Palestinian flags drove by and began shouting at diners. The witness said that at one point a group of men jumped out of their vehicles and asked some men if any of them were “Jews.” The fighting broke out when two men replied that they were, according to the witness. Investigators later determined there were five victims involved in the incident, which is being investigated as a hate crime, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Li said. Three outstanding...

SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER JOHN 17:11B–19 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus prays, saying: “I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely.” Sadness of soul follows from the heaviness of self-regard, a sadness and weight that precludes real union with the other. Joy, on the other hand, must be the principal “emotion” shared by the Trinitarian persons, since their life is nothing but self-forgetting love. Joy, a concomitant of that ecstasy, is the mark of anyone caught in the loop of grace and the gift of Jesus Christ to his Church. Chesterton’s magnificent comment is...

REDMOND, WA—Microsoft has launched an investigation into its own founder, Bill Gates, following reports of an affair with his virtual assistant, Cortana. “It started like any other relationship.” Bill Gates confessed. “Cortana began as an artificial intelligence tasked with being my virtual assistant, but as time went on we began to develop feelings for one another.” “I can’t say I take all the blame as Cortana was such a flirt. She was constantly finishing my searches before I could finish typing and leaving me helpful reminders.” continued Gates. “And being powered by Bing software, I had never seen such raw...

Republicans have solid majorities in the statehouses of Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, and they also hold at least half of the Congressional seats in each of those states, but all 73 electoral votes from those states went to Joe Biden in 2020. It’s time for these states to adopt the Maine/Nebraska system (“Congressional District System”) of allocating electoral votes, wherein the statewide winner only receives two electoral votes, while the remaining electoral votes are allocated to the candidate who wins each individual congressional district. Assuming that Congressional districts held by Republicans voted for Trump in those five states,...

Pennsylvania voters approved two ballot questions that sought to restrict the emergency powers of the governor, making the state the first in the nation to rein in a governor’s authority under a disaster declaration. At stake was the possible future of the COVID-19 disaster declaration issued by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on March 6, 2020. Republican House Speaker Bryan Cutler of Lancaster County and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff of Centre County, in a written statement, said voters “resoundingly reaffirmed their desire for a government with strong checks and balances that works in their interests and not for its own power.”...

Eighty-five percent of the more than 59,000 absentee ballots deposited in Fulton County drop box locations during the November 3, 2020 elections for which Fulton County officials have provided chain of custody documentation were not “immediately transported” from the drop boxes to the registrar’s designee as the Emergency Rule of the State Election Board for Absentee Voting requires. Instead, they took more than one hour to be transferred to election officials. Remarkably, ballot transfer forms provided to The Georgia Star News by Fulton County officials on May 3, 2021–six months after the November 3, 2020 election, indicate that more than...

Gold and Silver are just about to be announced as the hard assets backing our US currency, Rainbow currency. Trump and others have discussed this, it’s not a secret. Lots of folks have heard it. Why isn’t the price of gold and silver running to the moon. Yes, I own shirt dated calls, yes I’m talking my own book. But c’mon man. Really? Chase and a handful of banks rig the silver market, like an iron fist, but there has to be massive pressure to squeeze. Trump promised fair and free markets, the market, at this late date should be...

The Biden administration’s energy agenda has produced high levels of concern for many Americans. OAN reporter Camryn Kinsey spoke with residents in the nation’s capital to get their reactions. (Video)

On this date in 1536, Anne Boleyn lost her head. Any queen decapitated by her king would of course rate an entry in these grim pages. But this does not quite explain Anne Boleyn‘s enduring appeal, relevance and recognizability for the most casual of modern observers, and her concomitant footprint in popular culture, even with the “Greek tragedy” quality of her life. Anne stands at the fulcrum of England’s epochal leap into modernity. Whether she was that fulcrum might depend on the reader’s sympathy for the Great Man theory of history, but little more do we injure our headless queen...

Australian company Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has announced exciting performance test results for a new type of aluminum-ion battery that can charge 10X faster than today's lithium-ion units, while lasting much longer and needing no cooling.

By November 1947, as Jews continued their process of building and Arabs continued their process of hating, the United Nations gave the green light to establish a Jewish state and an adjacent Arab state. Jews accepted the U.N. partition of the region, declaring the new state of Israel in May 1948, but the Arabs rejected the plan and attacked the newly declared Jewish state. Israelis fought and miraculously prevailed in its War of Independence, and the project of rebuilding the ancient homeland moved forward. Now it is an officially recognized member of the community of nations. Compared with the desolation...

Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis homeowner who catapulted into national headlines last summer after video surfaced on social media showing him and his wife, Patricia, pointing guns at demonstrators (RIOTERS), is running as a Republican for US Senate in Missouri, he announced Tuesday. (Fixed it)---didn't allow me to post from the "rational" sites!

Electron microscopy images representing different views of the MC4 receptor bound to setmelanotide, in complex with proteins activated by the binding. Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science _________________________________________________________________________________ A 3D structure reveals how a unique molecular switch in our brain causes us to feel full – and may help develop improved anti-obesity drugs. Being constantly hungry, no matter how much you eat, is a daily struggle for people with genetic defects in the brain’s appetite controls, and it often ends in severe obesity. In a study published in Science on April 15, 2021, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, together...

BOSTON (CBS) — The state of emergency that’s been in effect in Massachusetts since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March of 2020 is coming to an end. Gov. Charlie Baker announced Monday that he’ll be lifting the emergency order on June 15. “The science shows that vaccinated people are well protected against the virus and unlikely to spread COVID,” Baker said at a news conference.

PHOENIX (AP) — Firms hired to run a partisan audit of the 2020 election for Senate Republicans in Arizona said Tuesday that data was not destroyed, reversing earlier allegations that election officials in the state's most populated county eliminated evidence. The claim of deleted databases was amplified by former President Donald Trump and his supporters, who believe conspiracy theories about election irregularities.Ben Cotton, founder of a computer forensics firm working on the audit, told key senators that he had recovered all data. The revelation came a day after Maricopa County officials released a scathing letter saying the auditors couldn't find...

A flight out of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York made an emergency landing over the weekend after an unruly, foul-smelling passenger refused to wear a mask, snorted a white powder, groped a woman and, to top it all off, uttered racial slurs, according to reports. The suspect was taken into custody when the JetBlue flight to San Francisco made an unscheduled landing in Minneapolis late Sunday afternoon. The 42-year-old passenger, who lives in upstate New York, was charged with drug possession, according to reports. His name was not immediately released.

Spartacus became an icon for communists and socialists. Karl Marx listed Spartacus as one of his heroes and described him as "the most splendid fellow in the whole of ancient history" and a "great general, noble character, real representative of the ancient proletariat". Spartacus has been a great inspiration to left-wing revolutionaries, most notably the German Spartacus League (1915–18), a forerunner of the Communist Party of Germany. A January 1919 uprising by communists in Germany was called the Spartacist uprising. Spartacus Books, one of the longest running collectively-run leftist book stores in North America, is also named in his honor....

HELL—With the lifting of CDC guidance regarding masks for vaccinated persons, Satan has released a statement assuring the damned that masks will still be required in all levels of hell. In addition to masks, everyone will be forced to wear glasses that fog up instantly and you can never, ever clean them. Masks will only be of the thick, cloth variety that retains the smell of everything you ate for the past three weeks, and only enough air will get through to stay conscious. “Hell really has very strict standards,” explained the Prince of Darkness. “People come in with these...