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Morgan Stanley will bar employees and clients who have not been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 from entering the bank’s New York offices, according to an internal memo.“Starting July 12 all employees, contingent workforce, clients and visitors will be required to attest to being fully vaccinated to access Morgan Stanley buildings in New York City and Westchester,” chief human resources officer Mandell Crawley said in the memo, which was obtained by the Financial Times.After July 12, those who don’t attest to being fully vaccinated will lose building access, the memo said. Those who are not fully vaccinated would continue to work...

Team Obama-Biden's decision to brand its 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the so-called "Iran nuclear deal," as comprehensive was White House disinformation of the vilest sort: a blatant lie told to deceive the American people. President Barack Obama's JCPOA was anything but comprehensive. It had weak nuclear inspection requirements and enforcement mechanisms, which Iran easily skirted. Documents that Israeli intelligence acquired in 2018 confirmed Tehran routinely violated the JCPOA. The plan of action? Inaction in the face of Tehran's calculated violence is more apt. Team Obama-Biden failed to penalize the Iranian regime's covert and overt violent troublemaking, a grievous...

According to court records, Maxwell began to have a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old male student during spring break in March and April. The district became aware of the relationship between Maxwell and the student when a district employee noticed Maxwell’s behavior with the student when she saw him with his girlfriend, according to court records. The employee also reported a second incident where Maxwell is accused of throwing a pair of scissors at the student’s head for sitting next to his girlfriend, according to court records.

More than 150 employees at a Houston hospital resigned or were fired Tuesday after they refused to follow a hospital policy requiring they get vaccinated against Covid-19. A spokesperson for the hospital, Houston Methodist Baytown, said that among 200 employees who were told they needed to be vaccinated by June 7 or face a two-week suspension, 153 either resigned or were terminated. The departures came after a judge dismissed an employee lawsuit over the vaccine requirement.

Meanwhile, back in the Upside Down/Backwards world of Washington:Senator Chuck Schumer, explains why we need to pass the Democrats’ “For The People (ha!) Act” which would allow unscrupulous members of his party to vote 2 or more times and otherwise cheat in federal elections with impunity. He also explains that it’s necessary because the racist Republicans – those dastardly demons of anti-diversity - have passed state laws making it harder for them to do so – and that’s unfair or something. He explained how Republican state level reform will kill democracy: "Republican legislatures are making it harder to vote early,...

VIDEOThe peasants are revolting! And many school boards don't like it. Among such school boards is the school board of Loudoun County Virginia. They were upset about public comments critical of them to the extent that they shut down such commentary by declaring the meeting an unlawful assembly. This abuse of power was enforced by the local sheriff's office to the extent that they made a couple of arrests so that the school board snowflakes could maintain their safe space free from criticism.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 103Psalm 103 Of David. 1 Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. 2 Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— 3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, 5 who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 6 The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed. 7 He made known his ways to Moses, his...

The New York Times acted as the public relations arm for a leftist group funded by far-left billionaire George Soros and its multimillion-dollar efforts to fight voter integrity laws. The Times propagandized how the radical super PAC Priorities USA was spending a whopping $20 million “to counteract Republican-driven voting restrictions through both digital ad campaigns and legal efforts.” The Times painted Democrats as moral crusaders and Republicans as anti-democratic tyrants: “The initial $20 million investment from Priorities comes as Democrats across the country are struggling to fight back against the Republican push to restrict voting.” The newspaper made no mention,...

Americans need to live and let live. Let the LGBTQ activists practice their preferences, and let Christians live the Gospel. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that a Catholic Social Services adoption agency in Philadelphia could continue to place children only with heterosexual couples, consistent with the Gospel's definition of a family. Though The New York Times depicted the ruling as a setback for gay rights and "evidence that religious groups almost always prevail in the current court," it was far from either. Unfortunately, the ruling settled nothing in the culture war between traditional religion and LGBTQ advocates....

Tree racism uncovered in Minneapolis. But won't putting more trees in black neighborhoods remind them of lynchings? Well worth watching 2 minutes of launacy

The competition for the greatest demonstration of “antiracist” wokism in our society is intense, what with media outlets, Hollywood, tech monopolies, teachers unions and plenty of others all vying to show the purest forms of virtue. But really, nobody can top the universities. These are the places where the ideas of “systemic racism” and Critical Race Theory were hatched, and from which come the demands that all the rest of us get in line with the official “antiracist” orthodoxy. Which is all you need to know to deduce that these institutions must themselves be the very worst and most overt...

Source: Courtesy of Myra Adams"This decision might as well be written on the dissolving paper sold in magic shops." So wrote Justice Samuel Alito in the concurring opinion he filed last week in a case that pitted the City of Philadelphia against Catholic Social Services (CSS). The court voted 9-0 in favor of CSS. But the arguments presented were far from unanimous. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a weak opinion based on a technicality -- and was joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Justice Alito wrote a forceful counterargument based on...

Sort of a proverb: If you look for something hard enough, you'll eventually find it — even if it's not really there. During our current moment, public discourse is obsessed with racism. In a population in excess of 300 million, there have to be some particularly hateful people. But racism is not the reason for the lower standard of living endured by the descendants of slaves who were freed by the Civil War. One of the smartest of the 300 million is a descendant of those slaves, Thomas Sowell. Dr. Sowell has written several books, one of which is titled...

It’s not clear what drove Belarusian strongman Aleksandr Lukashenko to force down a Ryanair passenger jet transiting through his national airspace last month and to kidnap dissident journalist Roman Protasevich from it. But it’s clear who’s on his side in the resultant outcry: his ambivalent patron Russian President Vladimir Putin. Even as Europe has suspended flights to Belarus, Putin has kept airspace open on the eastern side of the border and threatened retaliatory action against the European Union. The codependent, if unequal, relationship between Minsk and Moscow is now set to deepen, especially after the European Union and United States...

BERLIN - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Germany as the Biden administration presses ahead with a diplomatic charm offensive designed to woo back wary Western European allies after four years of turbulent relations under former President Donald Trump. That’s despite some lingering differences with key allies over energy and defense priorities. Biden is determined to assure Europe that Trump’s transactional approach to transatlantic ties is a thing of the past despite some significant lingering differences with core NATO allies. Those include a major dispute with Germany over the impending completion of a Russian gas pipeline and defense...

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The Supreme Court's recent decision, Fulton v. Philadelphia, is justifiably getting mixed reviews. Catholic Social Services sued the city of Philadelphia, through the Philadelphia Archdiocese, for canceling its 50-year contract with the Catholic social services agency because it refuses to certify same-sex couples as foster families for the purpose of foster care. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of CSS, finding that Philadelphia violated its First Amendment protections. The criticism is that the decision was narrow and technical, skirting the core question of how we understand religious liberty today, when it is under assault almost everywhere. According to existing precedent,...

As we learn more about CRT in public schools, parents are fighting back – but some school districts think they’re the masters, not the servants. This post wanders from the Midwest to a D.C. suburb, but the locations really have no geographic relevance because we’re witnessing the same thing playing out in public schools across America. It’s also got a lot of tweets, because they tell the story in real-time, with important videos. Stick with it, though because the bottom line is important: Parents are beginning to realize that the institutions that they fund and to which they’ve entrusted their...

Paris (AFP) - Climate change threats to life on Earth are systemic, interconnected and on a scale unprecedented in human history, the UN's climate science advisors have warned in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP. Here are some of the report's findings on impacts on nature: The report warns that after previous drastic climate shocks like the one currently facing the planet, the recovery of ecosystems, food webs and biodiversity took millions of years and involved the emergence of entirely new species. The outlook for the world's living creatures is looking perilous, the report makes clear. A dangerous mix...

No other “vaccine” in history has shown such a horrific level of serious side effects. Even though state leaders across the country have been offering massive incentives to drum up business (“Get a shot, win the lottery!”) the CDC has been reporting a continuing drop in injections since March 31st. The nonstop campaign to encourage those with “vaccine hesitancy” to roll up their sleeves is turning out to be a dismal failure. Shots have declined from 4,304,851 on April 1st, to 673,280 on June 19thst, an 84% drop from the peak. There’s even a website that lists hundreds of incentives...