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The Biden administration officially failed to achieve getting 70 percent of adults vaccinated by Independence Day. To compensate for this failure, they’re trying to claim a different victory—one that isn’t theirs. “We’ve reduced the percentage of people who are getting COVID, who are dying of COVID, by 90 percent,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Saturday. “That’s a huge, significant achievement.” It sure is. But, it’s Trump’s achievement, not Biden’s. The biggest factor in reducing COVID cases and deaths is no doubt that we got three vaccines in less than a year. That’s a Trump accomplishment, not a...

Look, I understand, I really do, why proud Americans here at American Thinker and elsewhere are hurt and angry that Olympic Games wannabe hammer thrower Gwen Berry turned away from the American flag and our national anthem at a sporting event to qualify for the American team representing America at the Tokyo Olympic Games.However, paradoxically, I can sympathize somewhat with Berry's reasoning as I understand it. While America is a wonderful country it has had some deep flaws, slavery and its aftereffects among the most visible and long lasting. And while I am not privy to Berry's most personal life...

A 13-year-old from Michigan has died in his sleep three days after receiving his second coronavirus vaccine, prompting an investigation by the Centers for Disease Control. Jacob Clynick, a healthy boy with no underlying conditions, received his second shot of the Pfizer vaccine at Walgreens in Zilwaukee on June 13, according to his aunt Tammy Burages. She told The Detroit Free Press that the only side effects Jacob had experienced from the vaccine were fatigue and fever, which are considered normal. He complained of a stomach ache on June 15 and went to bed, where he died in his sleep,...

One of the rafts on the Raging River ride at Adventureland Park in Altoona, Iowa flipped, resulting in the fatal accident, CBS News affiliate KCCI reports. On Friday, the ride reopened to the public for the first time since 2020 and underwent a full inspection first, park officials said, according to KCCI. Six people were on the raft when it flipped. Because the ride is at a remote distance from the park entrances, it was difficult for fire officials to get to the location, KCCI reported.

National Geographic caused a stir by suggesting that Fourth of July fireworks are racist because their smoke disproportionately affects communities of color. The publication marked Independence Day on Sunday by tweeting: 'Scientists found that vulnerable people and communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from firework celebrations.’ The tweet included a link to an article about a study which found that communities of color and vulnerable populations with higher rates of asthma, older residents and children, are exposed to higher levels of smoke from firework displays than other groups. The study by researches at the University of California's...

A group of residents in McKinleyville’s Azalea Heights neighborhood are up in arms over the killing of one of the most polarizing members of their community: a peacock known by most as Mr. P, or Azul, or Peony, depending on who you ask. The multi-monikered animal was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound on Wednesday after one resident, who was irate by the bird’s frequent 5 a.m. wake-up calls, decided to put a hit out for it on Humboldt County’s Craigslist page ...the “Wanted” section on June 13, followed by instructions on where and when to find the bird....

More than 156 million people in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated. But even though the Covid-19 vaccines are very effective against all the known coronavirus variants, including the highly transmissible delta variant that is spreading rapidly, some communities and physicians are urging a return to masking. [cut] Dr. Andy Dunn, a family physician and chief of staff at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, wants vaccinated people to continue with masking. "These variants are going to find a way" to survive, Dunn said. "Do whatever it takes for Covid to go away," he added. "If I had to jump on...

VIDEOAmidst all the media joy, led by MSNBC, over the Allen Weisselberg indictment, a certain matter that should have been all too obvious seems to have conveniently eluded them. In this video, Professor Alan Derhshowitz brings that matter up very succinctly in a manner that even those not familiar with the finer points of the law will immediately understand.I can understand why laughable demagogues such as MSNBC's Elie Mystal would spout off nonsense as you see here but what of the more "serious" legal analysts on the other networks? How could they have missed the obvious detail highlighted by Dershowitz....

Rescuers used heavy machinery, shovels and dogs in the seaside city of Atami on Monday as they searched desperately for survivors from a landslide that has left at least four people dead and 80 missing. Two people were found unharmed on Monday, public broadcaster NHK reported, two days after a “tsunami” of mud swept away scores of buildings, following torrential downpours. Atami, a city of 36,000 people, lies 60 miles southwest of Tokyo. It is set on a steep slope leading down to a bay and is famous for a hot springs resort. Mayor Sakae Saito said the city has...

The voting will be done completely by mail,which allows ballot harvesting a time when many people are away from home and are not focused on politics. But the ballots will be mailed out mid-August, It would not surprise me if a lot of ballots got thrown away with the junk mail when people return from vacation.

Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has vowed to go to war with Big Tech after a Democrat federal judge blocked his anti-censorship law that seeks to protect free speech online. Last week, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, blocked a Florida law that aims to protect free speech online and prevent “a social media platform from willfully deplatforming a candidate.”

After his spokeswoman defended blatant rules-breaker Gwen Berry, an Olympic athlete who turned her back on the U.S. flag at an awards podium, Joe Biden now says he's all in for the Olympic rules for everyone else. That's the only thing to be concluded with his latest statement here, as reported by the Daily Caller: resident Joe Biden said “rules are rules” when asked about Sha’Carri Richardson’s suspension from the Olympic Team following a positive drug test. “Everybody knows what the rules were going in,” the president told reporters. “Whether those should remain the rules is a different issue.”Richardson, if...

MADISON - Republican lawmakers aren't the only ones examining Wisconsin's presidential election. A New London man has been making copies of ballots in some communities as he conducts his own review of an election Joe Biden narrowly won. "Our intention is to have true and honest elections. You hear all kinds of rumors and we want to dispel some of those if they're not true," Peter Bernegger said when asked about his endeavor. Bernegger declined to say what his plans are but said he would announce them in the coming weeks. Recounts in Dane and Milwaukee counties and more than...

Dozens detained in federal prison awaiting trial following the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol building are being subject to solitary confinement, lack of required medical care, and restricted access to defense counsel, according to two attorneys and the father of a defendant. Of the close to 500 arrests made so far in connection with the Jan. 6 incident, lawyers John Pierce and Steven Metcalf II, who represent several of the defendants, told EpochTV’s “The Nation Speaks” that some detainees who are being held pre-trial face solitary confinement for 23 hours a day in conditions that are “unconstitutional” and...

After the U. S. Supreme Court decided to change the 6,000-year-old definition of marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, I predicted to a liberal friend that the Left’s next big push would be to normalize and ultimately legalize pedophilia. Of course, he scoffed at the notion. In all fairness, he was right -- but just barely. The next item on the Left’s agenda, it turned out, was changing the definition of biological sex and thus normalizing gender dysphoria. But mainstreaming pedophilia was not far behind. Actually, that has long been part of the Left’s plan to “fundamentally change” society by blowing...

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Media sources in Louisiana are reporting Governor Bel Edwards has vetoed SB118, the Constitutional Carry bill, as he previously stated he would. From the advertiser.com:Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has vetoed a bill to allow people to carry concealed handguns in Louisiana without a permit or training, which could fuel a growing movement for a veto-override session from the Republican-controlled Legislature.The bill would restore the right to carry loaded handguns, openly or concealed to Louisiana. Louisiana was one of the first states to deny people the right to carry concealed weapons, in the early 1800s.Slavery was common in Louisiana before...

JESUS IS TRANSFIGURED ON THE MOUNTAIN. 2 9 A. D. Bible Timeline Resources to CLICK: To read MATTHEW 17 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels Matt.17 + Mark9 + Luke9 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible .MATTHEW 17:1-13 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone...

On June 7 of 1776, the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to consider the independence of the American colonies from Great Britain. It took weeks of debate, but on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was formally adopted. On this birthday of the United States of America 245 years ago, our Founding Fathers declared their independence from a tyrannical King and created a new country, unique in world history. As we celebrate Independence Day 2021, it is time to declare our independence once again and break free from oppressive rulers. Instead of a British King, Americans must now declare...