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Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't like the idea of vaccine passports, and she tweeted about it:Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi's forced Jewish people to wear a gold star. Vaccine passports & mask mandates create discrimination against unvaxxed people who trust their immune systems to a virus that is 99% survivable.Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star. Vaccine passports & mask mandates create discrimination against unvaxxed people who trust their immune systems to a virus that is 99% survivable.https://t.co/6X6VNolcA7— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee)...

Last year, advocates of racial preferences in California, where they’d been banned since 1996, attempted to change the law so that state colleges and universities could again give admission advantages to certain groups. Despite outspending opponents by about 15-1 and with backing from big business, labor, and other organizations, the effort at repealing racial neutrality failed by 57-43 percent. That result underscores a point that opinion polls have shown for decades—that Americans on the whole oppose racial favoritism. The California result suggests that the case for preferences is on thin ice. A new book is going to help further melt...

House Democrat leaders reportedly discussed the idea of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez getting a "restraining order" against Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene has confronted AOC on the House floor and has been practically begging Ocasio-Cortez to debate over her socialist Green New Deal. According to Politico, Democrats floated potential legal action but said the New York Democrat would likely have to file the order herself.

I am pretty certain that California taxpayers will have to cough up the money to pay for Gavin Newsom's misbehavior, even as cop-haters press to make police officers personally liable for judgments against their actions on the job. Nonetheless, it is a satisfying development in the disposal of Newsom's unconstitutional shutdown of religious services in the name of COVID.Landon Mion reports on Townhall:California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $1.35 million for the lockdown of 3,000 churches amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has been deemed discriminatory.Newsom is required to pay the costs and attorney...

It's spring graduations these days, and out come the illegals, proudly waving the flags of the nations they don't want to be sent back to.That was the case again in San Diego, where one illegal immigrant, Javier Diego Jacinto, wildly waved the Mexican flag at his graduation from San Diego State University, touting his status as a DACA recipient, and gave interviews for the television cameras. He's not the first. Remember her?Here's my camera screen grab from what I saw on television last night on the NBC7 San Diego report:Here's the NBC7 write-up.A San Diego County resident and DACA recipient...

Dr. Rand Paul talks with Bill Hemmer on Gain-of-Function Research Funding Video...

In a recent piece at The Bulwark, Sonny Bunch puts into words a sentiment sensed by many for years, namely, that what once made social media so great has now made it unbearable. According to Bunch, social media’s original design as platforms for “debate culture” has descended into a toxic landscape of information silos where arguments are “dismissed in favor of agreement.” Rather than a boundless world of information and opinions, social media now serves to blind users from reality. This sorry situation, however, is precisely what Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein predicted in his 2008 book, The Dumbest Generation,...

In February of last year I put up a postIs Corona an escaped lab virus?Being the cynic I am, I cannot shake the feeling that this is an escaped virus from the Wuhan lab. A lab rat (lab worker) may have gotten sloppy with HAZMAT technique and carried it outside. Nothing I've seen since then has changed my mind. This is a lab engineered virus. It is part of the "Gain of Function" efforts in the Wuhan lab. This virus does not exist in any animal. Fauci has denied funding "Gain of Function" research but at this point I believe...

Militant protesters marked the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder with yet another riot in Portland, Oregon — smashing up local businesses and trying to burn down the city’s Justice Center, according to police. More than 200 rioters — most fully clad in black and many wearing gas masks — trashed the troubled City of Roses soon after a peaceful march ended late Tuesday, according to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB).

This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019 with "symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness." That report followed hard on a series of investigative pieces from journalists such as Nicholas Wade and Donald McNeil, formerly of The New York Times, who revived the media-dismissed theory that the institute had generated COVID-19 in a laboratory and then accidentally allowed it to leak. "The argument that it (SET ITAL) could (END ITAL) have leaked out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology or a sister lab...

Anthony Fauci has defended the United States' 'modest' and 'very respectable' funding of the Wuhan laboratory - which is now at the center of speculation as a possible source of the COVID-19 virus. Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), appeared before a Congressional budget committee on Tuesday. He defended allocating $600,000 to a group called EcoHealth Alliance, which then paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study the risk hat bat coronaviruses could infect humans. 'You don't want to study bats in Fairfax County, Virginia, to find out what the animal-human interface is...

IN THE SPRING of 2008, the NFL was in crisis. A hard-charging United States senator from Pennsylvania named Arlen Specter had launched an investigation into the Spygate scandal. He tried to determine how many games the New England Patriots' illegal videotaping operation of opposing coaches' signals had helped the team win and learn why the NFL, under the orders of commissioner Roger Goodell, had destroyed all evidence of the cheating. -snip- One day in early 2008, Specter had dinner with the man in Palm Beach at his palatial club, not far from Kraft's Florida home. A phone call followed. The...

An Oregon school board updated a policy to mandate that each classroom in the school district display a Black Lives Matter and “progressive pride” flag or poster.Towers also demanded that any tribal government also be allowed to put a flag in each classroom upon request.

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Alaska's Great Sitkin volcano is erupting, sparking a red warning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said early on Thursday.

Prompted by a worldwide chip shortage already impacting automobile production, President Biden in February signed an executive order directing a 100-day broad review of supply chains for critical materials for semiconductors and large-capacity batteries, including rare-earth elements. It builds on analyses, reports and executive orders initiated several years ago by the Trump Administration. The stark truth that this review should highlight is that the U.S. and its Western allies have been left behind at the starting gate in a race only China seems to have realized was taking place. The Chinese began building their now-dominant supply chain decades ago. The...

As more people get their COVID-19 shots, many are finding themselves in a position of having to ask others about their vaccination status. Some are wondering if this violates the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. Ellen Cihak has not been asked if she is vaccinated against the coronavirus. She also hasn't been asked to show proof in Appleton stores. "I would like to see that happen. I don't know if it's legal to do that," said Cihak. Like many others, Cihak doesn't know if the question violates HIPAA. John Fisher is a health care attorney who specializes...

The University of Central Florida (UCF) recently announced the creation of undergraduate and graduate level programs that focuses on social justice. The graduate program's website states that its goal is to "develop leaders who can influence policy to create social justice." They go on to say that those who join the program will " ... obtain a theoretical background in social justice, exploring topics such as human rights, income distribution and the role of markets." In addition, students will " ... understand factors that contribute to inequity among various groups," and " ... understand principles of social justice as they...

A 10-month-old baby has been killed after being attacked by the family’s two Rottweilers while the child’s father left them unattended for just a few moments to do a quick chore.After a brief investigation, Johnson said the father, who is a law enforcement officer, had briefly left the baby unattended in the home to go outside and move a sprinkler in the yard. “He just stepped outside to move a sprinkler and the neighbour pulled up talking to him, and not even a couple of minutes passed and he heard the commotion inside the house,” said Johnson.

The Senate Approves Rand Paul's Amendment To a Bill That Bans All Gain Of Function Research In China WATCH...