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What can I say? I enjoy being vindicated. And I would like to thank Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Rachel Walensky for making me feel as if I am. Earlier this week, I wrote about a study that demonstrated that prepositions matter when discussing hospitalizations for COVID-19 among children. There is a difference between getting hospitalized with COVID-19 and getting hospitalized for COVID-19 in the hospitals studied. Reported data does not capture this crucial distinction, which likely applies to hospitalizations of children and adults nationwide, given the testing protocols and reimbursement incentives.I have been railing against the context-less reporting...

If you open a paper this week, you will see ads for Memorial Day sales. Your inbox is probably being inundated with such ads. Along with sales, Memorial Day images include BBQs, parties and pool openings. It's the official beginning of summer. Many people travel to a beach, a lake or a mountain. Some traditions include visiting a memorial park or a cemetery to honor the fallen. Whatever you do this Memorial Day weekend, spend a few moments thinking about the real meaning of the day. It's the day to remember those who gave their lives to keep our country...

Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a $928 billion infrastructure proposal that includes $506 billion for roads, bridges and major projects and $98 billion for public transit systems. The latest offer is substantially more than the $568 billion infrastructure framework the group led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced in April, but it’s still far short of the $1.7 trillion counteroffer that White House officials came back with last week.

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan is set to criticize former President Donald Trump and his hold on the Republican Party during a speech Thursday night, according to excerpts obtained by CNN. Ryan, a critic of the former President in the past, is expected to say at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, that Republicans must move away from the "populist appeal of one personality" because "then we're not going anywhere." "Once again, we conservatives find ourselves at a crossroads. And here's one reality we have to face: If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of...

Although a majority of American adults identify as Christian, only six percent of Americans actually live out a biblical worldview, according to a shocking new study. Partially in response to this finding, the Family Research Council (FRC) is launching the Center for Biblical Worldview, directed by David Closson, in order to encourage Christians to live out their faith authentically. The Center will feature the work of veteran public opinion researcher George Barna and theologian Owen Strachan. “Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper once remarked that there is not one square inch over which Jesus Christ does not cry, ‘Mine!’ Kuyper’s point is...

China on Thursday hit back at President Joe Biden's call to redouble efforts to determine the origins of the coronavirus, and dismissed a theory that the virus may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan as a "conspiracy."Chinese officials accused the U.S. of politicizing the pandemic and said that international experts had "repeatedly praised China's open and transparent attitude" to Covid-19's origins."Some people in the United States completely ignore facts and science," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters on Thursday.He added that a World Health Organization probe had already ruled out the probability of a lab leak.While the...

The New York Times is reporting on two new peer-reviewed studies that show how “immunity to the coronavirus lasts at least a year, possibly a lifetime, improving over time especially after vaccination.”“Together, the studies suggest that most people who have recovered from Covid-19 and who were later immunized will not need boosters,” said the Times. If you haven’t been previously infected and received a vaccine, it’s still possible you will need a booster shot.Researchers looked at cells that retain a memory of the virus that persists in the bone marrow and may churn out antibodies whenever needed, according to one...

Last week Georgia Superior Court Judge Brian Amero ordered a forensic audit by independent experts of 147,000 mail-in ballots counted in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta. Shockingly few mail-in ballots were rejected for invalid signatures, and the overwhelming majority of those ballots were counted in favor of Biden to provide him the margin of his reported victory in Georgia, as in other swing states. Trump’s team sought to monitor the initial post-election sham review of ballots in Fulton County, which is Georgia’s most populous county. But Anti-Trump officials there blocked access by Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to the...

Media reports surfacing Tuesday and Wednesday went after Chip and Joanna Gaines for donating to a campaign run by Chip Gaines’ sister that critiques critical race theory. The “Fixer Upper” stars donated $1,000 to Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District (GCISD) School Board candidate Shannon Braun’s campaign, the Dallas Morning News reported last week. Braun has called Critical Race Theory (CRT) the “single most divisive threat that we have in education.”

We may never be able to uncover evidence to convict Chinese President Xi Jinping for crimes against humanity for 2020 world pandemic that resulted in 3.5 million deaths. However, there is sufficient evidence to hold China financially responsible for unleashing the coronavirus on the world. The Republic of China has shown a disregard for human life, starting with Chairman Mao's "Great Leap Forward" which resulted in the death of up to 45 million people between 1959 and 1960. The policy of one child per family enacted in 1980 resulted in up to 35 million babies being aborted simply because they...

A shooting Wednesday morning at a light-rail yard near downtown San Jose left nine people dead, including the gunman. Here’s what is known so far:• The shooting was first reported at 6:34 a.m. at a Valley Transportation Authority control center at 101 W. Younger Ave., with multiple 911 calls.• Nine VTA employees, including the alleged shooter, Samuel J. Cassidy, 57, are dead. Multiple people are injured.• The facility was evacuated. It is described as a hub that stores multiple VTA trains, and is also a maintenance yard.~~~SNIP~~~ Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said Thursday morning that Samuel James Cassidy,...

Something is deeply wrong with the mind of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Toni Williams, writing at Victory Girls, has her number:AOC has proven to be emotionally fragile and uses that fragility as a politically manipulative tactic. Who could ever forget her fake crying in an empty parking lot when she was trying to drag President Donald Trump for putting kids in cages at the border? Sandy Ocasio-Cortez sobbed during the Congressional testimony of a migrant mother whose 19 month old daughter died of a lung infection weeks after the child's release from the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.). The video...

Time to Cancel Cancel-CultureRestoring the Voice of the Silenced MajorityFor the beleaguered soul who has been social-media silenced on account of twitterstorms from the cancel mob for daring to tweet obvious biological realities (such as men don’t have periods and can’t give birth), or having generated Facebook ragefests from a post questioning the efficacy of fabric masks, hope emerges. Take heart silenced sensible majority: return to your keyboard posts and man (or, “person”) your battle-stations. Movements are afoot to defend your voice and in effect cancel the poisonous cancel culture mob.If being de-platformed or demonetized were not bad enough, cancel...

“As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place” (Proverbs 27:8).

With collapsing ratings, dwindling credibility and looming questions over its very future, the last twelve months at CNN have provided a case study in unintended consequences. Which fire should the beleaguered news network put out first? Is it even trying to save itself? Newly added to the long list of CNN President Jeff Zucker’s nightmares is a shocking ethics breach involving primetime anchor Chris Cuomo, brother of embattled Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY). After disturbing revelations that the former participated in emergency strategy sessions designed to save the latter’s sinking political career, Zucker declined to punish his line-crossing on-air talent. In...

Why settle for helping Iran nuke America, when you can also help Al Qaeda nuke America? With inflation rising almost as fast as gas prices and the cost of a home, Joe Biden ain’t doing much for most Americans. But if you’re an Al Qaeda terrorist, he’s got your back. Just ask three of Gitmo’s finest who are benefiting from Biden’s generosity. Saifullah Paracha (pictured above) was a Pakistani businessman and New York travel agent with some big plans. The Gitmo inmate now being set loose by Biden wanted to “do something big against the US.” 9/11 was in Al...

MILTON, Fla. (WEAR) — Trappers captured a 12.9-foot gator Tuesday evening in the Wright Basin in Milton, Florida. A woman who lives on Lakeside Drive in Milton called nuisance gator trappers, who arrived and captured the gator. It was then taken to a gator farm. The men who captured the gator are Colby Cannon and Scott Bradley. The woman says she’s also seen a six-foot gator and babies. Officer Robert Ramos with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation says alligators rarely attack people intentionally. However, he does say it doesn't hurt to call out their team. “If you can look at...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and his wife Kelley discuss the suspicious package, filled with white powder and bearing an image threatening violence, which arrived to their Kentucky home. Video...

Critical Race Theory or Crazy Radical Tantrums? Whatever you call it, there’s a culture war being waged, and the citizenry is fighting back.Just four weeks ago, I wrote about the rising resistance to the woke craze and critical race theory, and much has transpired since then.Here in California, even Disneyland has not been spared the wrath of the crazies. On May 7, the incomparable Christopher Rufo reported that “The Wokest Place on Earth” now includes employee trainings on systemic racism, white privilege, white fragility, and white saviors, and also launched racially segregated “affinity groups” at the company’s headquarters.But just five...

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