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Physical Education, Spiritual FortitudeTo stay free, you must learn to be courageous.In his 1978 Harvard Address, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn observed a dramatic “decline in courage” in the West. “The Western world has lost its civil courage,” a loss “particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.”This decline, especially among the political class charged with leading and securing the interests of ordinary Americans, was on full display throughout the annus horribilis of 2020—from the 1619 Riots to the Great COVID Class War. Solzhenitsyn mused: “Should one point out that from...

The anticipated release of a government report about UFOs (or UAPs) later this month has created a lot of public discussion about what might be included in that report, and perhaps more importantly, what might be excluded. But in the end, the government does not know, nor can it, what the UAPs really are, or are not, because they are a paradox. Briefly stated, a paradox occurs when two statements of supposed facts are perceived to contradict each other. The UAP paradox is that the UAPs behave as if they wished to avoid detection, yet they get detected anyway. Why...

Naked Philadelphia bikers need only bring their masks. Participants in the annual Philly Naked Bike Ride can ditch their clothes to ride as long as they follow the Aug. 28 event’s mask guidance, which was put in place before the city this week lifted most of its coronavirus restrictions. Organizers said they haven’t met since the city updated its guidance, so for now, they’re “going to stick with our initial mask guidance.” The 10-mile ride, which was canceled last year due to the pandemic, has been promoted this year as the “mask edition.”

WHEN 21-year-old Madison Sarah uploaded a new lifestyle vlog to YouTube from her bedroom in Manchester, she was hoping for comments about how pretty she looked. Instead she was branded "a disgusting f**king w***e” and threatened. Her crime? Dating musician boyfriend Paddy, who is black. And she's not the only British woman to face such vile trolling. In fact a Sun Online investigation has found an alarming rise in racist abuse, aimed at relationships between white women and black men. These disgusting trolls have dubbed themselves the coal patrol because they are trying to stamp out "coal burners" - their...

A day after the Justice Department said it would continue to try to defend former President (Donald Trump) in a defamation case filed by writer E. Jean Carroll, Democrats of the House judiciary committee called on Attorney General ( Merrick Garland) to reverse the decision.On Monday, the department filed a brief stating it would continue the department's legal effort that began under the Trump administration to try and defend the former president against allegations of defamation. [snip]In the briefing filed Monday, the Justice Department admitted Trump's comments were "crude and disrespectful" but argued the case does not hinge on whether...

NO ONE EXPECTED the first Covid-19 vaccine to be as good as it was. “We were hoping for around 70 per cent, that’s a success,” says Dr Ann Falsey, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, New York, who ran a 150-person trial site for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in 2020. Even Uğur Şahin, the co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, who had shepherded the drug from its earliest stages, had some doubts. All the preliminary laboratory tests looked good; since he saw them in June, he would routinely tell people that “immunologically, this is a near-perfect vaccine.” But that...

A gunman accused of killing a Queens boy at a family barbecue was arrested and charged Tuesday with the murder of young Justin Wallace on the day he would have celebrated his 11th birthday.

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resident Joe Biden heads to Europe Wednesday to meet with European leaders. He says the goal is to work together to "deliver real results" on critical issues, like climate change and cybersecurity. Biden is ducking the most important issue -- the cause of the pandemic. He should be marshaling allies to act in unison by squeezing China to get answers and demand reparations. The evidence is mounting that China is guilty of manslaughter on a massive scale. Damning evidence published on the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal on Saturday shows that COVID-19's genetic sequence is found nowhere in...

Three key Georgia county election officials have been hit with subpoenas to testify in a bombshell fraud case regarding the 2020 ballot count, according to reports. Fulton County poll workers Wandrea Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman have been called to give depositions to answer questions regarding events during the presidential election count.

WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 8. There are indications this afternoon of a movement of troops. Several camps have moved to the other side. The First Rhode Island Regiment are under marching orders, probably destined to Chambersburgh. They will be replaced by the Second Regiment from Rhode Island, which is about ready to come, and which is sworn in for three years. I differ with your contemporaries about the probabilities of a fight on the Alexandria line, at or near Manassas Junction. This line is strong enough to keep the rebels in check at the Junction, while Gen. PATTERSON, from Pennsylvania, and...

Emails from Hunter Biden's laptop show he was instrumental in setting up a consulting deal between a Ukrainian energy company and two Democratic consultants under investigation for violating foreign lobbying laws. Biden and colleagues at the private equity firm Rosemont Seneca helped Burisma Holdings hire Blue Star Strategies, a firm owned by former Clinton administration officials Sally Painter and Karen Tramontano. Biden's emails show he played a bigger role than anyone had known in arranging Blue Star's consulting work for Burisma. Neither Biden nor the Blue Star founders registered their work under the Lobbying Disclosure Act or the Foreign Agents...

A California nun will plead guilty to swindling over $800,000 from the Catholic elementary school she ran to help pay for her gambling trips, federal prosecutors said. Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, 79, was charged Tuesday with wire fraud and money laundering for ripping off St. James Catholic School for a period of 10 years ending in September 2018, according to a press release from the US Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California. Kreuper, who was the principal of the school for 28 years, agreed to plead guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors, the release said.

Globalist left-wing billionaire George Soros pumped billions of dollars into far-left political campaigns while pouring billions more into his own foundation in the years coinciding, paying no federal income tax. Internal Revenue Service documents, which were cited by ProPublica, showed a number of America's richest elite, including Soros, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, paid zero income tax in certain years while claiming to have made net losses that offset gains.

On Tuesday, a judge ordered the Loudoun County, Va., school district to reinstate a physical education teacher who dared to speak out against a policy that would require teachers to endorse transgender identity by using female pronouns to refer to male students and vice versa.

A flight that was scheduled to take members of the White House press corps to Europe ahead of President Joe Biden's first foreign trip was delayed for several hours on Tuesday. The cause? A hoard of cicadas, which caused mechanical problems with an airplane. The plane was scheduled to leave Dulles International Airport at around 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday night. However, CNN and NPR report that airport officials told press members that the flight was delayed because cicadas had swarmed onto the airplane late Tuesday afternoon. President Joe Biden made a joke at the White House press corps expense...

Shortly before Apple CEO Tim Cook took the virtual stage at the iPhone maker’s Apple Park headquarters campus for WWDC 2021 on Monday — at which the company unveiled a ton of new software updates, including some major new privacy enhancements — an email landed in my inbox underscoring how critical those privacy features are going to be once they roll out with iOS 15. Basically, there’s been another huge data leak, this time exposing several billion passwords in what just might be the biggest dump of passwords online ever. This news comes via the team at CyberNews, which reports...

This is 8 minutes from a Immunologist Dr Vyram Bridle that is pro vaccine. What he states here is from peer reviewed in well known scietific publiccations talkinga bout this now. This is probably why they are turning on Fauci, and they do not want to get into trouble?In short they made a big mistake with assumptions of where the mRNA goes after vaccination? Is it safe to assume it stays only stays in the shoulder muscle? The short answer is no. The spike protein gets into the blood and circulates through the blood over several days post vaccination. It...

resident Joe Biden released his budget for the new fiscal year last week, and while many words could be used to describe its far-left policy proposals, perhaps the most important is “reckless.” The price tag for Biden’s budget is a whopping $6 trillion, and it includes absolutely massive increases in domestic spending. Among the laundry list of big-ticket items proposed by the Biden administration are $174 billion for electric vehicles, $100 billion to expand high-speed internet, $200 billion for “free” universal pre-K, and $109 billion for “free” community college. To partially offset the gargantuan costs of these programs, Biden wants...

TODD: [01:21:05] You know, I’m curious, Barack Obama doing an interview with Anderson Cooper, still basically saying anyone who supports statues like Robert E. Lee, you know, you folks are racist, that there’s an anti-Semitism problem within the Republican Party. It’s laughable. I mean, this guy is he’s flat out lying to the American people. He knows good and well that the anti-Semitism is alive and well in his own political party. REP. GREENE: [01:21:33] Oh, you know it. Anti-Semitism is coming directly out of the Democrat Party because they have members of Congress – the Squad – The Jihad...