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Dr. Anthony Fauci’s forthcoming book, “Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward,” was pulled from Amazon and Barnes & Noble on Wednesday. The 80-page book had been listed for $18 on pre-sale, but has now been removed. It was scheduled to be released Nov. 2 by National Geographic Books. According to the publisher, Fauci will not receive royalties—a clarification that comes after accusations that the highest paid government employee would be profiting off the pandemic. “The book was prematurely posted for pre-sale, which is why it was taken down,” the publisher told The Daily Mail...

President Joe Biden asserted Tuesday that terrorism from white supremacy was “the most lethal threat” facing the United States. Biden spoke about the threat of white supremacy during a speech in Tulsa marking the 100th anniversary of the 1921 race massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood. “According to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today,” Biden said. “Not ISIS. Not Al Qaeda. White supremacists.” Biden was likely referring to a statement from acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, who told members of Congress that white supremacy was “the most persistent and...

President Joe Biden condemned US Senators who were open members of the Ku Klux Klan during a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Tuesday, but did not mention the role of the Democrat party in the racist organization. Citing a book from historian Jon Meacham, Biden said at least five or seven members of the United States Senate were open members of the KKK in the 1920s. (Meacham’s book, The Soul of America actually cites 16 members of the United States Senate who belonged to the KKK) The vast majority of Klan members at the time were overwhelmingly white Democrat politicians...

The arguments made by conservatives skeptical of critical race theory need to be addressed and met on their actual merits.The Washington Post’s Christine Emba claims conservative opposition to critical race theory has less to do with intellectual concerns and more to do with emotivism and fear. She accuses conservatives of “disguising” their “discomfort with racial reconsideration as an intellectual critique,” asserting conservative skepticism of critical race theory reflects a “psychological defense, not a rational one.” The irony, however, is that Emba’s argument relies on a textbook logical fallacy.That fallacy is the ad hominem, and more specifically “bulverism,” a term coined...

Kamau Bobb, Google’s global head of “diversity strategy and research,” and senior director of the “Equity in Computing” research center at Georgia Tech, claimed that Jews have an “insatiable appetite for war and killing” in a 2007 blog post on his personal website. The post, titled “If I were a Jew,” slams Israel for an alleged “insatiable appetite for vengeful violence” and goes on to say “if I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself.” Noting the various atrocities that have been committed against Jews throughout history, Bobb...

I originally came to Christ in one of the darkest times of my life. I left Islam once I removed my head cover and was told I would spend an eternity in hellfire, hanging from my hair. After more than twenty years, I could no longer worship a God that was that cruel and unpredictable. I resolved to a life without a relationship with God, but it was not long before my personal and professional life was in utter chaos. I turned to prayer for help. I no longer knew or had a personal relationship with the God I was...

Banner photo: Mike Newbert via Facebook. As part of a middle school project, an enterprising young man embarked on a journey to handcraft his own stainless steel shotgun-- and succeeded.After the local paper apparently turned up its nose to the youth's accomplishment, one of his family members took to social media on Wednesday to boast of the young man's homebuilt shotgun, which looks to be a clone of an old-school H&R/NEF break action single shot model. Within hours, the post was shared and liked over 2,000 times, with some 200-- overwhelmingly positive-- comments logged. This is Hunter Newbert and for...

Dr. Anthony Fauci is admitting that the coronavirus could have come from a “lab leak” — as emails released through the FOIA show he was told of “unusual features of the virus” at the beginning of the pandemic — but is blaming criticism of his shifting positions on “people out there” who “resent” him. “There is no doubt that there are people out there who, for one reason or another, resent me for what I did in the last administration, which was not anything that was anti-Trump at all,” Fauci, a top adviser on the coronavirus to President Biden, said...

Fireworks won’t fly at Mount Rushmore July 4 weekend despite a lawsuit against the Biden administration from Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota.Judge Roberto A. Lange called the idea of an Independence Day celebration at the iconic national monument “appealing.”“However this Court is not called upon to determine whether such a fireworks display is a good idea,” he said in his 36-page ruling, posted on yourbasin.com.Lange said the country could “use a good celebration of its foundational principles of democracy, liberty, and equal protection of the law” after the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol...

Without David Ralston exerting his influence as Georgia House speaker, the likelihood of the Republican caucus installing a hard-right leader is high Georgia House Speaker David Ralston is exploring a run for the U.S. Senate, a prospect that promises to change business at the Capitol. The Georgia Capitol, not the one in Washington, D.C. Ralston's chances against Sen. Raphael Warnock in 2022 aside, he can't challenge for both a federal and a state post at the same time. Without Ralston exerting his influence at the statehouse, the Georgia House Republican caucus could go rogue. Especially with Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a bill barring biological males who identify as females from participating in female sporting events sponsored by public institutions and vowed not to back down to pressure from the NCAA amid threats to pull tournaments from states that enact such legislation. DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1028, also known as the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, in Jacksonville. Among other things, the bill bars trans-identified biological males who identify as female from competing in women’s and girls' sports offered by public institutions. The new law requires that intramural, intercollegiate, interscholastic and club athletic teams...

Houston-area doctor at center of controversial coronavirus cure video doubles down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOABdjrBRfI Look who was right...

The idea that value comes from labor is simply untenable.The Chief Executive Officers of the nation would be justified in singing along with the Coasters’ 1950s rock and roll song “Why’s everyone pickin’ on me?” (Officially known as “Charlie Brown.”)Needless to say, Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading the pack, as per usual, baying for some CEO “blood;” well, money. In his latest initiative he is on the warpath against CEO salaries. The Senator from Vermont (Socialist) wants to limit them to 50 times the amount paid to the median worker in their corporations.Nonsense on a StickWhy 50 times and not...

Why is the House minority leader more concerned about what Democrats think? Kevin McCarthy’s mouth does two things: it kisses Donald Trump’s hand and it emits denouncements of his constituents. After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recently likened what she considers COVID-19-based discrimination to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, the House minority leader swooped down bearing talons of condemnation. ‘Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling,’ he wrote. ‘Let me be clear: the House Republican Conference condemns this language.’ Whatever you might think of Greene’s comments, it’s...

A North Carolina county is banning Coca-Cola vending machines in public office buildings under its purview as a response to corporate left-wing activism. The commissioner leading the effort acknowledged that “Yes, we are trying to cancel Coca-Cola. To use their tactics against them.” Boycotts traditionally have been part of the progressive toolbox, but conservatives are increasingly receptive to adopting a similar technique to send a message to virtue-signaling corporations and their politics-pushing executives.

'When you say, ‘Just wear the mask,’ you clearly have no understanding of early childhood development,' Kate Bossi told CBS Boston after her arrest.Kate Bossi and Jessica Williams aren’t your typical fire-breathing-revolutionaries. Bossi is a Sunday school teacher and a grandmother. Williams is all of 5’2” and has two school-age children. These two New Hampshire women join a growing number of ordinary Americans confronting draconian and confusing COVID diktats still imposed by governments and businesses. Police arrested Bossi at a public meeting of the Timberlane Regional School Board on May 20 because she wasn’t wearing a mask. In a video...

Like most race-baiters, “President” Joe Biden has to go back into the past, in this case to the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, 100 years ago, to shows us how racist America is. The truth is that racism is alive and well in the U.S.A. today, but not in the way Biden and the leftist media want to talk about. Remember in 2016 when an 83-year-old black woman in Georgia, Dorothy Dow, was beaten by a group of rednecks, had both her arms broken, was set on fire and later died of her injuries? No, you don’t remember because Ms....

Well, actually there hasn't been any coverage in the NY Times yet, at least according to this Google Search:site:nytimes.com fauci emailIf the NY Times doesn't cover it, did it really happen? Is Fauci guilty of anything?ML/NJ

A gang member and double murderer convicted in the shooting and killing of two teenagers at a party in Los Angeles more than thirty years ago is set to be released from San Quentin on Monday. Howard Elwin Jones has been imprisoned at San Quentin state prison since 1991 for the December 1988 shooting and killing of 18-year-old Chris Baker and another boy at a party in Rowland Heights. Jones was denied parole in 2015 and 2017 but at his third parole hearing in February, he was found to be suitable for parole by the state at a hearing that...

NEW ORLEANS — Former President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) for his upcoming re-election bid, while also taking aim at the state’s other Republican senator. Trump’s endorsement comes one day after Kennedy announced that he was launching his re-election campaign as U.S. Senator from Louisiana. In his announcement, Kennedy echoed the former president’s campaign slogan. “Five years ago, I made a promise, a promise that I took seriously. I told you that I would work to put our country back on track and make America great again,” Kennedy wrote. Trump’s endorsement said Kennedy was “the real deal”...