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I was waiting to see of anyone would mention this and as of now no one has. 80 years ago today Germany invaded the Soviet Union in a surprise attack. It started one of the bloodiest and catastrophic episodes of W.W. II. The scope, scale, casualties , and atrocities almost dwarf anything that happened anywhere else in the ETO. Without the sacrifices the Russians made on the Eastern Front the invasion of Europe would not have been successful. Estimated deaths on the Eastern Front are not totally known but an estimated 20 million died

Oakland seems like a wild place. One where you can hear Americans chanting "Death to America" as they refuse selling lattes to law enforcement officers. Then the Raiders abandoned the city for the more moral Las Vegas and things really went to poop. How much so? We have people twerking on ambulances as EMTs respond to a shooting with multiple victims. View this with a healthy dose of "allegedly," because it's based on a viral video. Like most, there's context missing. What we can confirm is a) EMTs rushing somewhere with a stretcher, b) their ambulance, and c) people twerking...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In order to fit all the judges President Biden has hinted at nominating to the Supreme Court, the court will no longer be able to fit inside its current building. Therefore, Biden has proposed moving all SCOTUS proceedings to Nationals Park. All court hearings will occur in the outdoor baseball stadium, which has a capacity of 41,000 -- just enough to fit all the justices Biden wants to sit on the court. "Listen, we're gonna need a bigger court," Biden said at a press conference this morning. "So I was talkin' to the guys and that nice, young, articulate...

The left has taken it upon itself to be the “protectors” of minorities, but what that really means is that it’s they who decide how minority communities function and run, even if it defies the wishes of the minority communities. Case in point, Jane Fonda decided for the Native American community that building a pipeline on their land wasn’t something the Native Americans should do, and in the spirit of speaking for them, destroyed their equipment. As reported by Fox News, the Gordon Construction company is owned by Natives and tasked with the construction of Line 3 from Candian energy...

The economist Thomas Sowell distinguished himself in the early 1970s as a critic of the traditional civil rights leadership, but in earlier decades he had been optimistic about the direction of the civil rights movement. Sowell was born into an extremely poor family in rural Gastonia, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and raised in a New York City ghetto in the 1940s. Like many other blacks of that time and in those places, his family was uneducated. The men mostly worked as laborers or in the service sector, and the women typically were domestics. Racist laws had reduced opportunities...

Sen. Cornyn spearheaded the effort with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), the bill’s sponsor in the U.S. House. Juneteenth, the celebration of freedom that started in Texas, is now being celebrated across the nation. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) was instrumental in pushing the holiday from the Lone Star State all the way to the President’s desk. “It’s a good day,” said Sen. Cornyn on Friday. -snip- Sen. Cornyn spearheaded the effort with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), the bill’s sponsor in the U.S. House. They both stood alongside President Biden as he signed it into law in D.C.

Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dismissed contentions that the Wuhan Lab was the source of the coronavirus pandemic as “a minor issue. Accidents happen. The more important point that is being overlooked is that this lab was successful in its efforts to modify a bat virus into one that could infect and kill humans. The creation of a bioweapon potent enough to accidentally kill millions is a formidable accomplishment. Clearly, a more focused and intentional deployment of such a weapon gives China the upper hand in its struggle against capitalist imperialism.” “A scientific breakthrough of...

Fear has invaded the Mexican border city of Reynosa after gunmen in vehicles killed 14 people, including taxis drivers, workers and a nursing student, and security forces responded with operations that left four suspects dead. While this city across the border from McAllen, Texas is used to cartel violence as a key trafficking point, the 14 victims in Saturday’s attacks appeared to be what Tamaulipas Gov. Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca called “innocent citizens” rather than members of one gang killed by a rival... The attacks took place in several neighborhoods in eastern Reynosa, according to the Tamaulipas state agency...

As soon as a promising Republican presidential contender arises, the liberal media sets to work whacking him down. And so it was on today's Morning Joe, which devoted a long segment to the rise of Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, whom a recent presidential preference poll among conservatives showed edging ahead of Donald Trump. The thrust of the segment was that DeSantis offers many of Trump's advantages, but without his drawbacks. But Scarborough found the most pejorative way of putting it, saying: "We're going from the political heroin to the political methadone."Get the rest of the story and view the...

Former President Donald Trump ‘has zero desire to be’ House Speaker, top aide Jason Miller said Tuesday. “[Trump] has zero desire to be speaker,” Miller told Punchbowl News. Trump was on Real America’s Voice Monday in which he further elaborated his position: Well, I’ve heard the talk and it’s getting more and more. But it’s not something that I would’ve considered but it is certainly — there’s a lot of talk about it. I have a good relationship with Kevin [McCarthy] and hopefully we will do everything traditionally. But the election was a horrible, horrible thing for our country.

Doctors can now prescribe Ivermectin. Philippine Secretary of Health, Dr. Francisco Duque III, said he had “no problem with doctors who want to use Ivermectin”. Sec. Duque made the statement at a 09 June 2021 public Congressional Hearing on Ivermectin (HR 1711). The hearings also revealed that medical associations that have been opposed to the use of Ivermectin had no objections to doctors prescribing Ivermectin if the latter is used on an individual basis. What these medical societies oppose is the issuance of a public policy allowing the use of Ivermectin on a national basis. But Duque affirmed that doctors...

More than 300 hundred people have been killed in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago thus far in 2021. The Chicago Tribune reported that 294 people were killed January 1, 2021, through June 12, 2021. That death toll represents 20 more people killed during the same time in 2020. Since June 12, 2021, numerous more homicides have occurred in the city. For example, four were fatally shot Tuesday, June 15, five were killed over Father’s Day weekend, and seven were shot and killed on Monday, June 21. In total, including the figures reported by the Tribune, at least 310 people have...

There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines," WHO advises.

Israel Sees Highest COVID Daily Infections in Two Months as Delta Variant Spreads 125 Israelis test positive for coronavirus on Monday, Health Ministry says, as the delta variant continues to make headway in Israel The highest daily coronavirus infection rate in two months was registered in Israel on Monday, with 125 people testing positive after local outbreaks of the delta variant had been reported across the country. The director-general of the Health Ministry, Chezy Levy, told Israeli television that about 70 per cent of the new infections were with the Delta variant. He also noted that half of those infected...

Israel has recommended vaccinating teenagers following several coronavirus outbreaks clustered around schools, with even fully vaccinated people contracting the virus as authorities blame the more infectious delta variant. The latest outbreaks were identified in several schools following random testing and came after Israel removed nearly all of its coronavirus restrictions following a dramatic decrease in cases and a world-leading vaccination campaign that began in December. Infections peaked in January with over 10,000 daily cases, falling to new daily cases in single digits this month. In two schools, nine fully vaccinated teachers contracted the virus, local newspaper Haaretz reported. The town...

Both the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus were silent on Monday after news broke that Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) defended his membership to an elite, all-white beach club. Breitbart News reached out to both the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus for comment regarding Whitehouse’s extra-curricular activities. Neither organization responded. Whitehouse, who decried systemic racism following the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, has frequented Bailey Beach Club for decades . While the 124-year-old club can’t legally mandate its members be “all white,” its lack of diversity was first documented back in 2003 in the...

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HENDERSON, Nev. -- Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay. Nassib, 28, made the announcement in an Instagram post. "What's up people?" Nassib posted. "I'm at my house here in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I just want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. I've been meaning to do this for a while now, but I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest. I really have the best life, I've got the best family, friends and job a guy could ask for....

Yet another overpriced 'starter-home' in the city I grew up in that recently sold at nearly 20% over the asking price... 830k for 1.8k sf. The house last sold for 300k in 2008. What's particularly sad is that Melrose was once a blue-collar middle class city in which the children of residents eagerly wished to remain. Prices have been on a tear since 2012, but they, like those everywhere else, have been accelerating rapidly since the plandemic. I would like to especially thank our clueless, arrogant, obnoxious elites at the Federal Reserve (yes, you JPow), the arrogant, entrenched executives at...

A Democratic mayoral primary that mostly played out in the tiny confines of a square box on Zoom spun into full Technicolor berserk in the race’s final days. Candidates flung accusations of racism, anti-Semitism, and sexism at one another with abandon, even calling into question the integrity of the ranked-choice system some are using to form strategic alliances. But the tumult made it clearer what kind of mayor each of the top-tier candidates would be. There was Eric Adams, who is running as such a law-and-order candidate that he received support over the weekend from both Rudy Giuliani and one...