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Happy Whit Monday to my Commonwealth cousins throughout the Caribbean and the Pacific, and to our readers in much of Continental Europe. And of course to my fellow Canadians a happy if locked down Victoria Day. Enjoy it while you can. Front page news from yesterday's New York Times:World Is Facing First Long Slide in Its PopulationMe in my international bestseller fifteen years ago:The single most important fact about the early 21st century is the rapid aging of almost every developed nation other than the United States: Canada, Europe and Japan are getting old fast, older than any functioning society...

President Joe Biden inherited a nation poised for a tremendous post-COVID resurgence, requiring only mid-level competence to keep things on track. Unfortunately for America, he hasn’t been up to the task.The biggest issue facing the nation for the past year obviously has been the coronavirus, which has killed more than 600,000 Americans, infected nearly 34 million, and forced the economy into a near standstill last year.As he entered office, however, the good news for Biden was that multiple vaccines already had been developed and with doses ramping up, thanks to former President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed. The economy was rebounding,...

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) is reportedly weighing another bid for higher office – this time for Texas governor. That the former Senate candidate and 2020 presidential contender is thinking about launching a challenge to Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was first reported on Monday by The Associated Press. There’s currently no timeline for a decision, and he has only begun to think about it recently, according to the news outlet. If he does end up challenging Abbott, it would mark O’Rourke’s third consecutive election cycle seeking statewide or national elected office

A New York Times business correspondent in Hong Kong, a weekend editor at The Guardian who lives in New York, a British Business Insider reporter with a focus on the Saudis, and the executive editor of The Daily Beast. A 48-year-old blogger who works for Rachel Maddow, a union activist who covers “extremism, far-right politics and media disinformation” for The Huffington Post, and the 29-year editor of the Arkansas Times. A breaking news reporter at The Washington Post who wrapped up her most recent internship in May 2016, a 2016 University of Pennsylvania graduate who covers “young people doing big...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement last week that it was investigating cases of heart-related symptoms observed mainly in young people and adolescents who received the coronavirus vaccine. According to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), there have been a "relatively few" number of cases of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscles. These cases have been observed in mostly younger people and occur more often in males. Symptoms usually develop four days after an individual has been vaccinated and more often occurs after the second dose. "Further information should be collected...

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When I quit my summer job at a pharmaceutical plant sticking labels on jars falling off a conveyer belt and decided to take a job at Amazon as a Prime shopper, I knew little of what to expect. It was better pay and closer to home, and that’s all that mattered.So on a humid day last August, I drove to a Whole Foods grocery store for orientation. Employees stood outside glued to their cell phones, smoking, adjusting face masks in boredom.There was a cardboard box with yellow Amazon vests. I took one and unwrapped the thin cellophane cover, then went...

Newly revealed Secret Service travel records obtained by Judicial Watch expose more dirty dealings from the Biden family. According to the logs, then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, took 411 trips across 29 countries between 2009 and the middle of 2014. That includes 23 flights into or out of Joint Base Andrews, which is where Air Force One and Air Force Two are housed.

I reported over the weekend an unusual video surrounding digital currencies that Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell made last week: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Powell in Unprecedented Video Issues Commentary on Digital Currencies. Now we have Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard following up this morning with a speech on digital currencies via webcast at the Consensus by CoinDesk 2021 Conference, Washington, D.C. that even includes reference to an MIT-Federal Reserve test of a central bank digital currency. This morning she told the group:

Few people will discuss UFOs, dreading the label of a conspiracy theorist. The U.S. government claimed for years that it had not discovered any UFOs or evidence of alien life. But all that may be changing thanks to Republicans. In 2019 under President Donald Trump, the Navy admitted that three leaked videos taken by Navy pilots showed UFOs. One was taken in 2004 and two in 2015. The pilot who saw one of them said it flew in a way he could not understand. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush...

Former Formula One boss and privacy campaigner Max Mosley has died aged 81. Ex F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone made the announcement.

Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth had one piece of advice to give former President Donald Trump for his upcoming rallies: Hammer President Joe Biden’s disastrous handling of the economy. Hegseth advised Trump to “look forward while looking at what Joe Biden has done to his legacy — what he’s done to his policies that have created a Jimmy Carter stagflation-type moment.” Hegseth said that Trump should “rail” on the “stagflation” talking point while mentioning “the potential of the future” during the May 21 edition of Kudlow on Fox Business. Hegseth ripped how Biden’s leftist agenda managed to send...

When it comes to which of the five points of Calvinism that irk non-reformed Christians the most, my money is on limited atonement. The doctrine of limited atonement teaches that Christ's redeeming work on the cross secured an actual salvation for only the elect of God.If this causes you to grind your teeth in irritation, stop. I’m going to show you why you probably already believe in limited atonement and then provide what I believe to be the definitive argument that puts the issue to bed once and for all.Welcome to the clubUnless you’re a universalist, you already believe in...

Nearly five months after being deployed to the U.S. Capitol to help quell the Jan. 6 insurrection, National Guard troops were set to leave and turn over security of the area to Capitol Police. Guard troops, their mission ending Sunday, were expected to be leaving on Monday, a person familiar with the plan told The Associated Press. The person was not authorized to discuss the plan by name and requested anonymity. The Pentagon announced earlier in the week that an extension of the Guard presence — 2,149 troops — had not been requested. The planned departure came as Democrats and...

Morgan Wallen’s fans carried him to a momentous win in his battle with cancel culture. The singer won several major awards, including Top Country Artist, despite being banned from personally attending the awards ceremony. Wallen apologized for his drunken use of a racial slur directed at a friend, but that wasn’t enough. His songs were removed from radio stations, record labels, streaming platforms, and even his own talent agency.

Last year, Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed there was “no scientific evidence the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab.” “If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what’s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated … Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,” Fauci said at the time in an interview with National Geographic. “If you accept the premise, which is very strongly supported by scientific evidence, that it was...

The Left has spent the last five years calling Donald Trump a liar, mostly for things that either turned out to be true or else were merely a matter of opinion. I’ve yet to hear anyone point to one thing Trump said that was both a) provably false and b) a matter of real consequence. Meanwhile, the Left lies constantly about consequential matters. It is their modus operendi. Their raison d’etre. Their joie de vivre. And probably a few other foreign phrases, some of which may be unprintable. Never has the Left’s perfidious propensity been more publicly on display than...

If any tagged great white sharks make it into Cape Cod waters in time for the Memorial Day weekend, scientists will be ready as the complete array of acoustic receivers has now been deployed. “It feels great to get these acoustic receivers out,” shark scientist Greg Skomal with Massachusetts Marine Fisheries said as he recently set the equipment into position with Megan Winton of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. “Shark season!” he added with a grin in the recently posted Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s video. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app will soon start to light up with shark...

"The new variants are a production and result from the vaccination. You see it in each country, it’s the same: the curve of vaccination is followed by the curve of deaths," says Prof. Luc Montagnier. ================================================================================= Prof. Luc Montagnier said that epidemiologists know but are “silent” about the phenomenon, known as “Antibody-Dependent Enhancement” (ADE). While it is understood that viruses mutate, causing variants, French Virologist and Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier contends that “it is the vaccination that is creating the variants.” The 2008 Nobel Laureate made the explosive comments as part of a larger interview with Pierre Barnérias of...

Two and a half months ago, when Texas Governor Greg Abbott axed the state’s mask mandate and other COVID-related restrictions on businesses and people, Joe Biden called the move a “huge mistake” and “Neanderthal thinking.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, who advises Biden, called it “risky” and “potentially dangerous.” Both were proven wrong when weeks later Texas experienced no surge in cases. A dumbfounded Fauci refused to admit he was wrong and claimed that a spike in cases and deaths would show up as a lagging indicator. But, no spike came. And last Sunday, Texas recorded zero COVID deaths for the first...