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Recently, liberal feminist author Naomi Wolf was banned from Twitter for publishing what the BBC described as “anti-vaccine misinformation.” One would think that, if Wolf’s views on vaccines were mistaken, then the answer would be to explain why she is wrong, to correct bad speech with good speech. Twitter, however, does not believe its users capable of deciding the truth for themselves, and so it promptly banned Wolf. The banning of Wolf’s account is, of course, the latest in a long line of such actions by Twitter. Furthermore, Twitter has been using a number of other, subtler tools to dissuade...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Cases, hospitalizations and Deaths down slightly more - Vermont restrictions end at midnight June 15th, 80% of adults have a first shot there) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 374,398,105 (21,396,900 J&J) Administered: 310,645,827 (11,606,202 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 174,234,573 Fully Vaccinated: 144,919,339

Criminals know how to pick a victim, and COVID-19 provided hackers with the perfect opportunity to ramp up ransomware attacks. As this Government Technology report outlines, hackers began unleashing viruses around the same time Mother Nature (or a lab in Wuhan) began unleashing “her” own virus on the world. With the world knocked off balance, people and businesses left dizzy and disoriented, cybercriminals got to work. Last year, the U.S. saw a 300-percent increase in cybercriminal activity. This year, things have only gotten worse. According to recent research, five ransomware attacks occur with each passing minute. Evolution is a natural...

In a discussion with Senator Ron Johnson on last night's Life, Liberty & Levin, Mark revealed he used hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic to prevent covid. Below is discussion regarding the media and the exchange regarding HCQ: LEVIN: But I think at this point, the American people understand how corrupt and dishonest the media are. We don't have a press. We have Democrats dressed up as journalists. It's that simple. So what we have to do and what you're doing courageously is, let's get the facts, let's get the truth for the American people. If we have to go over, under,...

WASHINGTON – FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this summer. The national test will consist of two portions, testing WEA and EAS capabilities. Both tests will begin at 2:20 p.m. ET on Thursday, Aug. 11. The Wireless Emergency Alert portion of the test will be directed only to consumer cell phones where the subscriber has opted-in to receive test messages. This will be the second nationwide WEA test, but the first nationwide WEA test on a consumer opt-in basis. The test message...

A woman has died after she was shot Monday afternoon during an argument over masks at a supermarket in DeKalb County, officials said. The suspect who authorities say shot the woman and a retired DeKalb deputy who returned fire are both in the hospital after the incident, Sheriff Melody Maddox said during a news conference. The incident happened inside the Big Bear Supermarket near The Gallery at South DeKalb mall on Candler Road, DeKalb sheriff’s office spokeswoman Cynthia Williams confirmed. Several other people were inside the store when gunfire erupted, Maddox said. The supermarket is located next to the mall...

In their haste to appear reasonable and bipartisan, Democrats are now offering an amended version of legislation known as S.1 - ironically named the “For the People Act” - but in reality, this new version of S 1 is nothing more than a Washington, D.C. takeover of states’ election laws. Senate Republicans won’t be fooled. The bill still fails to preserve the good work already being done by states to secure their elections, and it places D.C. bureaucrats in the driver’s seat of elections at every level. But Democrats are hoping to pitch the media into reporting that they made...

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President Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "worthy adversary" at a press conference following a NATO summit in Brussels on Monday — days after Putin praised former president Donald Trump and called Biden a "career man" in an interview. "He's bright, he's tough, and I've found that he is — as they say when I used to play ball — a worthy adversary," Biden said of Putin.

Check out this video of Joe Biden trying to talk during the G7 meeting in Cornwall. I can only agree with Tammy Bruce’s observations. The man’s mental capacity is obviously inadequate to fulfill his job responsibilities. The press can avoid talking about Biden’s rapid decline, but they can’t prevent either our allies or our adversaries from noticing it. Tammy Bruce @HeyTammyBruce This is horrible. At some point his cognitive disfunction has to be considered a natl security threat if only because of the confidence it must give our enemies “President confuses Syria with Libya three times” https://twitter.com/HeyTammyBruce/status/1404169515638870017

Congress wants to reform the U.S. Postal Service, which, to be sure, is desperately in need of reform. Unfortunately, its proposed legislation features little more than accounting changes that would take some retirement and healthcare costs off USPS’s balance sheet and dump them into the General Fund. Taxpayer losses would then be hidden, and Americans would be saddled with even more debt, all while middle-class families are forced to continue subsidizing multi-billion-dollar corporations. In terms of federal taxation and revenues, there is a great disparity between how corporations and families are treated by the government. Corporations pay taxes on their...

Famed North Korean defector Yeonmi Park offered a chilling account of her time at Columbia University, saying that not even North Korea went to the level of brainwashing that she witnessed. Speaking with Fox News, Park became increasingly dismayed with the cost of an education that amounted to little more than what she described as indoctrination. “I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy, to learn how to think. But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think,” she said. “I realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was...

Novavax announced Monday morning that its vaccine against Covid-19 proved 90% effective in preventing the disease in a large study group. While Novavax’s (ticker: NVAX) effectiveness level is slightly below those shown for the authorized vaccines from Moderna (MRNA) or the team of Pfizer (PFE) and BioNTech (BNTX), it far exceeds America’s third authorized shot from Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). The Novavax vaccine was also tested at a time when more-infectious variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were on the rise in the U.S.—making its near-equivalent showing to the Moderna and Pfizer shots all the more impressive. Monday’s news sets Novavax...

CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour revealed on Monday she has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Amanpour, 63, shared news of her cancer battle at the top of the latest installment of her CNN International show. 'I've had successful major surgery to remove it, and I am now going through several months of chemotherapy for the very best possible longterm prognosis, and I am confident,' the veteran reporter said matter-of-factly into the camera.

If we didn’t have broken promises, we’d hardly have any promises at all when it comes to the F-35! Broken promises are a hallmark of the F-35 program resulting in a high cost to the taxpayer. The program is projected to cost more than $1 trillion to the taxpayer using tax dollars or the taxpayers' credit card depending on accounting. Either way, the F-35 costs $33,000 per hour to fly, yet the contractor’s promise to get that number down to $25,000 per hour is supposed to make us feel better. The whole F-35 project feels similar to a trip to...

Bystanders captured the moment a black teen was surrounded by five officers, then tased while his hands were up for allegedly vaping on the boardwalk Footage of Saturday's of 19-year-old Brian Anderson, who appears to be cooperative with police but was immobilized anyway, has gone viral Anderson appears to reach for the strap of his backpack but is instantly tasered by an officer and falls to the ground clutching his stomach in pain Eyewitnesses claimed he had been asked to take off his backpack Ocean City Council has banned smoking and vaping on its beaches and boardwalk, and only allows...

Some 42% of patients attending a dedicated diabetes clinic have signs of established chronic kidney disease, the first detailed research of its kind in Ireland has revealed. The study involved more than 4,500 patients in the west of Ireland. The findings suggest that, despite careful medical management, a relatively high proportion of people with diabetes in Ireland are developing chronic kidney disease over time and are at risk of kidney failure and other complications of poor kidney function. Diabetes is now the number one cause of chronic kidney disease and kidney failure worldwide. At least one in 15 people in...

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President Joe Biden criticized supporters of former President Donald Trump as a “significant minority” of Americans during a press conference in Europe on Monday. The president spoke about Trump and his supporters during a press conference after a day of NATO summit meetings with world leaders. He said: I think it’s appropriate to say that the Republican party is vastly diminished in numbers, the leadership of the Republican party is fractured and the Trump wing of the party is the bulk of the party, but it makes up a significant minority of the American people.

Earlier in the day, the assertion that Ukraine will become a member of the NATO alliance was made in a Brussels Summit Communique, as the leaders of the 30 NATO allies said that they would "reiterate" the decision made at the 2008 Bucharest Summit.US President Joe Biden on Monday stated that Ukraine must clean up corruption and meet other criteria before the country could join NATO."The fact is that they still need to clean up corruption, the fact is they need to meet other criteria to get into the action plan", Biden said at a presser after the NATO summit...