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The lack of data on the safety of getting the COVID-19 during pregnancy is one of many reasons some Americans are vaccine-hesitant. And it's nobody's business but them and their doctor.Get vaccinated or get terminated. That’s the precedent being set by businesses, corporations, and universities at an increasingly alarming rate. Delta Airlines announced it’s requiring vaccines for all new hires. The University of Pennsylvania Health System is requiring all employees and clinical staff to be vaccinated no later than Sept. 1 of this year. More than 400 colleges and universities are doing the same, requiring students and employees to get...

Apparently, no one in the Kamala Harris camp was thrilled when Joe Biden fobbed off onto her the job of stemming the surge at the border.Back on March 24, Biden said:In addition to that, there’s about five other major things she’s handling, but I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.Now the truth comes out: Harris's...

No matter what you may think, your definition of the word "democracy" is wrong as it pertains to what progressives are saying. In progressivism, "democracy" = "the state". That's their definition of it. It's an unwritten and hidden definition, yet its the most commonly used. In The Promise of American Life, (p. 418) Herbert Croly wrote the following: Any substantial progress towards the attainment of complete individual disinterestedness is far beyond the reach of contemporary collective effort, but such disinterestedness should be clearly recognized as the economic condition both of the highest fulfillment which democracy can bestow upon the individual...

“Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski butted heads Wednesday on the topics of gun and police reform. Former Obama economic adviser Steve Rattner posed the question of why murder rates are “suddenly going up now” across the United States. Scarborough said he could answer the question, but it would make people “really mad.” “You know, people don’t want to know the answer,” Scarborough stated. “They don’t want to know the answer why those crimes are going up.” He added, “I give them the answer — they get really mad. So, we just won’t give it. You know why....

In 2021, if you are a pessimist and a cynic, you will invariably be proven right. I mention this because in April I wrote that California’s new law placing so-called “transgender women” in women’s prisons put women at risk. Abigail Shrier, who has written about transgender pressure on girls, reports that women in California’s prisons who have had to share space with so-called “transgender” women have indeed felt at risk. This matters to everyone because, if the Democrats do away with the filibuster, they will pass the Equality Act which, in turn, will place all women in America at risk,...

Recall, Christians, what Sacred Scripture declareth: "Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall." [Proverbs 16:18]And also: "Pride is the beginning of all sin. He that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end." [Ecclesiasticus, 10:15]Pride is numbered in the Catholic Catechism among the Seven Deadly Sins [CCC 1866]. Writing in the early Seventh Century AD, Pope Saint Gregory the Great reflected on the sin of pride in his epochal Moralia in Job, saying: "Whoever extols himself above his proper condition, is weighed down by the very burden...

Judge Carol Bagley Amon’s opinion exposed the deceit of abortion apologists and the symbiotic relationship between them and the New York attorney general’s office.On Friday, in a rare move, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals pulled a 100-plus page opinion it had issued in March against a group of pro-life protestors. The short three-sentence order in People of the State of New York v. Griepp—in which the court, without elaboration, granted rehearing of the case, vacated its previous opinion, and reinstated the district court’s decision—tells none of the bigger story of this continuing saga: a story of complicity between the...

When my children were under five and underfoot, I would occasionally use the original Blue’s Clues as a babysitter. It was safe, sweet show for little ones, who watched Blue give Steve clues about finding a scarf or apple. The 21st-century reboot, Blue’s Clues & You, is a whole new ballgame. Based on its latest video – The Blue’s Clues Pride Parade sing-along featuring Nina West -- it’s a babysitter if your sitter is a sex fiend.Gay Pride (which celebrates a gazillion non-normative sexual orientations and “identities”) is an inappropriate topic for preschoolers. The only thing that distinguishes LGBTQers from...

Democrats are looking for ways to sue gun manufacturers as shootings in New York City continue to surge. Some Democrats are also seeking to make it more arduous to legally purchase firearms. WSKG reports that state Sen. Zellnor Myrie (D) is sponsoring legislation to allow New York residents to sue gun makers who “don’t take steps to prevent their products from being sold and purchased illegally.” Myrie commented, “I again ask this industry: what are you going to do about your products that are killing our people? You have experienced record profits this past year … and while you make...

A Facebook fact-checker, as part of the social media platform's efforts to weed out misinformation about the origins of the coronavirus, cited as an expert a donor for Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the virus potentially originated. Science Feedback, one of Facebook's chief fact-checking platforms, in a February 2020 "fact check" cited Peter Daszak as an expert source in its ruling that there was "no evidence" to support the theory that the COVID-19 virus leaked from the Daszak has become well known as a major bankroller of coronavirus experiments at the Wuhan lab in the years leading up to the...

Google's head of diversity has been slammed for writing that Jews have an 'insatiable appetite for war and killing' and arguing they should have more 'compassion' because of the Holocaust. Kamau Bobb, who is also an 'Equity in Computing' don at Georgia Tech, wrote a 2007 blog post, which remains on his website, titled: 'If I Were A Jew.' Bobb writes: 'If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering...

The phrase American cheese used to mean only one thing: that floppy, pale orange plastic-wrapped slice of processed perfection. But when I use the phrase American cheese now, that’s not what I’m talking about (save for this great grilled cheese recipe and the occasional hamburger). Instead, I’m referring to the incredible range of cheeses handcrafted in America—from young, tangy goat cheeses in Indiana to aged, nutty cow’s-milk cheese in Wisconsin; dessert-like blue cheeses from Oregon and complex, caramel-y clothbound cheddars from Vermont. We’re living in a dairy renaissance, people! The golden age of American cheese! What a time to be...

Today’s topic is hypocrisy in our liberal local elected officials and in the progressive local, state and national Democratic Party. Hypocrisy is the act of pretending to have a character, beliefs or principles that one does not possess, a pretense of virtue or piety, false goodness. Human nature and our culture are full of hypocrisy from George Orwell’s doublespeak to local candidates not being completely honest with voters. Your husband could be hypocritical when he says he can’t watch the kids because he has an important errand to run for the family, and then he goes fishing. A state governor...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In an exclusive interview with The Federalist, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis challenged the right to take a proactive stance on cultural issues, not just a defensive one. “Do you want to be the Harlem Globetrotters or do you want to be the Washington Generals? D.C. Republicans, a lot of them are my friends, but they’re like lovable losers,” he said. “They let the corporate media define the narrative and it’s like trying to fight your way out of a wet paper bag. You have to reject these narratives.”Recognizing Americans who “aren’t captive to the Acela corridor or...

Texas Democratic state legislators opened their press conference Sunday night with an invocation. Representative Carl Sherman (D-Dallas County) ended the prayer with this entreaty: “Remove us from this hypocrisy and give us democracy.” He and his colleagues had just left their chamber to prevent a vote on major legislation that would otherwise have passed and that voters overwhelmingly support. In this context, Sherman’s words sound contrite. They were not. The reason he and other House Democrats consider it “democratic” to extralegally block a popular bill from enactment by Texans’ duly elected lawmakers is that the proposed election law, Senate Bill...

While many doctors, medical experts and even this show have all been warning about the dangers of this mRNA COVID-19 “vaccine,” the mainstream narrative has been that the shot is 100% safe, as Dr Anthony Fauci has stated repeatedly. Unfortunately, our concerns have been proven true, and the CDC and the state of California are now having to come clean about young boys having heart issues in a health advisory that was buried on their website over the weekend. I don’t have to harp on the fact that Big Tech, the Mainstream Media and the Globalist elites have been doing...

Iran’s largest navy ship sank early Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman after catching fire, according to Iranian state media, the latest blow to the country’s vital infrastructure and military assets in recent months. The Kharg had been deployed to international waters to participate in a training exercise when it caught fire near the port of Jask, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency said. The fire had started in the engine room, causing parts of the ship to melt and fall into the sea, state news agency IRNA said. Rescue workers tried for 20 hours to extinguish the fire but couldn’t...

@Nigel_FarageAs Biden stops further oil production and prices continue to rise, China is burning more coal than ever. We are all being taken for a ride and Sleepy Joe is too dumb to see it.

Following the hack, JBS reportedly had to halt operations at its five largest beef plants in the US as well as some other facilities. The five plants together reportedly process 22,500 cattle per day. Some plants in Australia were also reportedly impacted. While the full extent of the damage is unknown, JBS said in a statement that its backup servers were unaffected and customer data secured. The plant closures prompted concerns about possible meat shortages. On Tuesday, the US Department of Agriculture said it was monitoring the situation closely and was prepared to "offer help and assistance to mitigate any...

The highest-paid federal employee, best known for flip-flopping on COVID messaging and fudging the numbers, is now going to pontificate about truth and service in an autobiography where he gets to be the hero? What a joke.We learned on Tuesday that even after America fully returns to normal, we will be left with yet another unpleasant side effect of the pandemic: more of Anthony Fauci’s face on our screens and pages, this time backed by the communist sympathizers at Disney.The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, following in the footsteps of scandal-ridden New York Gov. Andrew...