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Healthy children and young adults do not need to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Nevertheless, the current administration vaccinates them without informed consent and even using direct coercion (like giving the choice: vaxx or wear a muzzle). About 200,000 kids 12-15 are injected daily. This rate has been sustained since the start around May 12. Additionally, they continue vaccinating older teenagers. Vaccine Technology and DataThe word vaccination is associated with kids in people’s minds, but COVID-19 vaccines were not designed for kids or adolescents. Neither were they designed to prevent a mild illness. They were created and rushed to production for...

Very light on details here but it has been brought to my attention that one of our beloved FReepers(Fatima) has suffered a stroke and is in need of our prayers.

Dr Anthony Fauci has achieved godlike status within the media and administrative state. His words are treated as gospel, to be accepted without question regarding all things COVID. He is a long-established member of the ruling class, first coming to fame in the early days of HIV and AIDS. As head of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he is also the highest paid employee in the entire US federal government. He earned $417,608 in 2019, more than the US president, at the time Donald Trump, who donated his entire presidential salary to charity. Dr Fauci undoubtedly has...

In his controversial new book on the 2020 election, Battle For The Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump. Edward-Isaac Dovere repeats a canard that has become something of a staple of Democratic mythology. According to Dovere, in November 2020, then-president Barack Obama had a hard time making sense out of Hillary Clinton's loss "to a man he thought of as a moronic carnival barker." Dovere traced Obama's grudge against Donald Trump to the birth certificate issue. Obama, writes Dovere, "would never forgive [Trump] for turning a fringe obsession with his birth certificate into an issue he'd had...

Does anyone else find it irritating that the only time Progressives feel the need to “drill down” to get to the “root cause” of a problem is if it will a) implicate Trump – e.g. the January 6th “uprising” or b) demonstrate how white privilege is responsible for all the racism in the world?Case in point, Zeke Emanuel advises us why it’s unimportant who/what/where/when and how the Chinese Murder Virus came to be: Although it might seem fairly elemental to most people that understanding how this one happened might prove useful in trying to prevent it from happening again –...

On 24 May, Monday afternoon, the last significant legislative hurdle for restoring Constitutional Carry to Texas was overcome. After years of toil, time and trouble, of betrayal and loyalty, of primaries and resignations, a significant Constitutional Carry bill has passed the Texas Legislature and is expected to be sent to Governor Abbott.HB1927, in its final form, passed the House 82-62, and reported privately to me, passed the Senate on a straight party line vote.Constitutional carry is a reasonable facsimile of the state of law about the carry of weapons when the Second Amendment was ratified, in 1791. At the time,...

Lawyers suggest that District Attorney Cy Vance might use New York’s “little RICO” statute to prosecute enterprise corruption. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance could be considering a criminal charge that former President Donald Trump’s business empire was a corrupt enterprise under a New York law resembling the federal racketeering statute known as RICO, former prosecutors and defense attorneys said. New York’s enterprise corruption statute — which carries the potential for severe penalties — can be applied to money-making businesses alleged to have repeatedly engaged in criminal activity as a way to boost their bottom line. “I’m sure they’re thinking about...

Pardon the whiplash! It feels like the media suddenly decided the theory saying the deadly coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan is now considered plausible, when, in 2020, they aggressively dismissed it as a "fringe theory." It's not a mystery why this happened. The Democrats thought the coronavirus was going to be that silver bullet that would remove former President Trump from office. Their arrogant belief that Trump was an ignoramus led them to shame anyone or any theory that Trump endorsed the year's biggest story. They were willing to embrace the supposed authority of communist China, the China-enabling...

On May 2, in New York City, a Black woman attacked two Asian women with a hammer. On May 14, three people were slashed with knives within a 12-minute period on a New York subway. On March 17, a young woman was attacked with acid, burned, and blinded in New York. On May 18 in Florida, May 13 in Hawaii, and on March 12 in New York, men were set on fire. On May 21, a Jewish man in New York was attacked with pepper spray. Antifa and BLM rioters have routinely, and as recently as this week, used metal...

It's been a rough year, to say the least, with a global pandemic, the election of the most dangerous, leftist presidential administration ever, and a media and institutional elite in this country who are essentially Marxist functionaries. Summer and beach reading might provide some needed relief. But before you pack your bags and head to the sun and the sand, here's a recommendation for a fun book to take along. It's a western like no other (expect maybe its prequel, "Armstrong," which I read and much enjoyed a couple of years ago). Written by H.W. Crocker III, it's called "Armstrong...

The get-the-vaccine ads once again demonstrate the left’s absolute belief that the American people are ignorant, easily led, pliable and compliant. It seems pretty obvious that everyone who wants the covid vaccine has already been vaccinated. They’ve waited in lines at Dodger Stadium, college campus sites, all the drug stores like Walgreens of course. Big pharma has become much wealthier; there are nine new billionaires. How’s that for motivation? Get vaxxed to make the rich guys richer. How many taxpayer dollars are being spent to convince people who have no interest in submitting to a an entirely new form of...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to give the graduation address at the U.S. Naval Academy’s commissioning ceremony Friday. The event is being held at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis. Harris will be the first woman to give the graduation speech at the Naval Academy. About 1,000 students will graduate. Most will be commissioned as officers, either as Navy ensigns or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps. The academy is holding its commissioning ceremony in person this year.

Will the Muslims succeed this time where they failed exactly 1,310 years ago? Spain is reliving its ancient history with Islam. Ongoing reports indicate that Muslim migrants from North Africa are illegally entering and flooding Spanish territory. In just 2020, 23,000 migrants invaded Spain's Canary Islands, representing a 234-percent increase. Most recently, in just one day, some 6,000 North Africans invaded Ceuta "by sea, either swimming or with inflatables, all in a bid to eventually get to mainland Europe." Once arriving on Spanish territory, such migrants invariably engage in unsavory and downright criminal behavior, such as gang rape, and create...

GENEVA - Member countries of the World Health Organization have approved an “ambitious increase” in the budget for the U.N. health agency at a meeting, with some noting that WHO’s chronic underfunding cripples its ability to protect global health. Delegates on Thursday approved a 16% increase to WHO’s proposed budget for the next two years, setting it at about $6.1 billion. More than 90% of WHO’s funding is tied to specific health issues, and the agency often struggles to respond to urgent crises. Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO’s emergencies chief, said there is currently a 70% funding gap, which has “left...

t’s useful to examine why these three men have become so important in the last five years. Five years ago, no one would mention Tim Tebow, Donald Trump, and Ron DeSantis in the same paragraph. What did a former NFL, wannabe baseball player, a celebrity billionaire, and a former JAG officer have in common? But today, when Tebow, Trump, and DeSantis are mentioned in the same sentence everyone immediately gets what’s going on. Leftists hate these men because they represent America’s constitutionalist conservatives. And, in part, Patriots love them because of their enemies. One of the strangest things in the...

Indianapolis Motor Speedway will host 135,000 racing fans for the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday and the sold-out crowd will represent a big step forward as North American sports continue to turn the page on the COVID-19 pandemic. "We've hit our capacity for this year's Indianapolis 500 and look forward to hosting 135,000 fans at the world's largest sporting event since the pandemic began," race organizers said on Thursday. "We're thrilled to welcome fans 'Back Home Again' and appreciate our loyal customers and their continued support." The 135,000 represents approximately 40% of the venue capacity, which is being constrained to stem...

Customers at one Northern California cafe were taken aback Monday morning after they got a glimpse of the new store policy that greeted them at the door. “$5 FEE ADDED TO ORDERS PLACED WHILE WEARING A FACE MASK,” read the poster on the glass window at Fiddlehead’s Cafe in Mendocino. A second sign with the same memo was located by the register. Just below the large print were two additional notes on the poster that warned guests if they were "caught bragging" about their vaccines “an additional $5 fee” would be added to their bill. The sign claims the fees...

Republican governors in four states want to give people receiving unemployment benefits a bonus payment if they return to work. Twenty-four states have said they’ll soon cancel the extra $300 per week and other benefits Congress created to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Those include Montana, Arizona, New Hampshire and Oklahoma, where governors are now adding bonuses. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) is adding a bonus without canceling federal benefits. Earlier this month, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) first announced the state would drop federal benefits and offer “return to work bonuses” instead. People who were receiving benefits on May 4...

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., told "The Faulkner Focus" on Thursday that the surge in violent crime is "devastating" and that it’s "expected" when there are growing calls to defund the police. "You cannot make police officers the antagonist in the story. No one wants that," Scott told Fox News host Harris Faulkner. Scott made the comments after Attorney General Merrick Garland unveiled a plan to give federal help to cities around the nation in an effort to reduce violent crime. The announcement comes one year after the murder of George Floyd, which sparked new riots and violent protests. "I think...

Yesterday’s GDP report was great with real GDP growing at a 6.4% annualized pace. To get 6.4% annualized GDP growth, The Federal Reserve had to print a massive amount of money. Even with a great GDP report (preliminary), M1 money velocity is at a historic low. In other words, the US economy got relatively little for all the money it is printing. Things improved if we look at the broader definition of money, M2. Again, despite the excellent real GDP report, M2 velocity for Q1 actually declined since The Fed went ballistic printing money. Again, the bang for the buck,...