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Shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday evening, Royal Examiner received the following response from Valley Health President and CEO (Chief Operating Officer) Mark Nantz regarding comments by Front Royal Town Councilman Scott Lloyd citing their employee COVID vaccination mandate of July 19 as one reason he considers his vaccine-related ordinance proposal now an “Emergency” submission to council. That ordinance, as previously reported, would legislatively block by municipal code any private sector business or organization operating within the town limits from reassigning or terminating employees or members who refuse to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. ...

NANCY Pelosi has been accused of preventing an investigation into the origins of the Covid lab leak theory in a "Soviet-style cover-up" as House Republicans call for the intel to be declassified. GOP members have called for transparency as the Senate Intelligence Committee examines if the virus was released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), the longtime retiring senator from Alabama, plans to oppose former President Donald Trump in the primary to replace him and attack Trump’s pick for the nomination, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Breitbart News has learned. Shelby will, in a yet-to-be-published interview with National Journal, attack Brooks as “irrational.” “A lot of people would think so. Look at his record,” Shelby told National Journal’s Matt Holt when asked if Brooks would be an “irrational senator,” a transcript of their conversation provided to Breitbart News shows. Shelby also told National Journal he will “absolutely” be helping his former chief...

Let me start with the obligatory disclaimer: I’m not against you or anyone else getting a COVID shot. This is not a column to dissuade you, judge you, or impugn you if you have, will, want to, or won’t get the shot. I’m just a guy who watches and comments on the news for a living and I have questions that haven’t been satisfactorily answered to my understanding. Now, may I continue without being turned over to Jen Psaki’s Ministry of Truth in violation of the misinformation codes? How can anyone from your neighbor to officials in the Biden administration...

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republicans won't support a debt limit hike, drawing fierce backlash from Democrats who accused him of plotting to sabotage the economy. The Kentucky Republican suggested that Democrats should act alone to lift the debt ceiling, a move that experts say is necessary later this year to avert a default that could tank the U.S. and global economy. "I can’t imagine there will be a single Republican voting to raise the debt ceiling after what we’ve been experiencing," McConnell told Punchbowl News in an interview published Wednesday morning. "I can’t imagine a single...

Eric Clapton has said he will not perform at any venues that require attendees to show proof of vaccination. In response to the government announcement that vaccination passports will be required to access nightclubs and venues by the end of September, the musician has issued a statement saying he would not play “any stage where there is a discriminated audience present. “Unless there is provision made for all people to attend, I reserve the right to cancel the show.” Clapton shared the statement via the Telegram account of Italian architect and Covid sceptic Robin Monotti. It was accompanied by a...

July 22 , 2021St. Mary Magdalen St. Mary Magdalen, Bread Street, Brighton & Hove, UK Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingSong of Songs 3:1-4 ©I found him whom my heart lovesThe bride says this:On my bed, at night, I sought himwhom my heart loves.I sought but did not find him.So I will rise and go through the City;in the streets and in the squaresI will seek him whom my heart loves.I sought but did not find him.The watchmen came upon meon their rounds in the City:‘Have you seen him whom my heart loves?’Scarcely had I passed themwhen I found...

In the old days, Democrats had predictable agendas, supposedly focused on individual rights, the "little guy" and distrust of the military-industrial complex. The left, often on spec, blasted the wealthy, whether the "lucre" was self-made or inherited. The old-money rich were lampooned as idle drones. If the rich were self-made, they were deemed sellouts. A good example was '70s pop icon Jackson Brown's "The Pretender," with lyrics that railed about a "happy idiot" and his "struggle for the legal tender." Democrats talked nonstop about the "working man." They damned high gas and electricity prices that hurt consumers. Almost every liberal...

In line with China’s endeavour to be seen as a nation which supports the rights of Muslims, its foreign minister – on behalf of the CCP, proposed three ideas to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict. China has proposed that as a prerequisite to finding peace in the region, the authority of the Palestinian National Authority be enhanced, and the PA be authorized to exercise sovereign functions in security, finance and other areas, so as to gain effective control over the autonomous and “occupied territories”. Watch the video for more.

Jul. 21, 2021 - 3:57 - Eli Crane, a retired Navy SEAL and founder of Bottle Breacher, explains why he is running for office in Arizona. (Click link for interview)

When I was a kid, probably 12 or so, I convinced my parents to get me a subscription to Sports Illustrated. I loved collecting baseball cards, playing the game with friends, and the Detroit Tigers weren’t too terrible (at the time), so getting my hands on as much information about baseball in an era before the Internet meant SI was about the only game in town. That it came with the annual swimsuit issue was just a bonus. What has happened to that “bonus” in recent years is yet another piece of proof that leftists will, if left unchecked, eventually...

A Japanese composer working on the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony resigned on Monday over allegations of bullying his classmates in the past. Keigo Oyamada posted an apology on his Twitter and Facebook accounts after reports of his past abuse surfaced on social media. "I sincerely accept the opinions and advice I have received, express my gratitude, and will keep them in mind for my future actions and thoughts," Oyamada wrote. "I apologize from the bottom of my heart." Oyamada was accused of bullying classmates, including those with disabilities, and faced backlash and calls for his resignation on social media. He...

What if the sexes are just different? I recently watched two online video presentations about gender inequity (here and here). There are many others, but I stopped there. Both of them are informative and, I think, well meaning, but they have two glaring defects. They approach the issue, first, as if it were a problem and, second, as if the so-called problem can be solved. These criticisms may sound narrow-minded, but until we dare to venture into forbidden territory, matters will get only worse. Let me emphasize that the subject here is not sexual harassment, the boorish practice that unjustly...

resident Joe Biden and his administration are attacking us. And they're not even being secretive about it. Rather than trying to subvert our truth-seeking journalism surreptitiously, the Biden White House is announcing their attacks as if it's a point of pride. In fact, the White House is so proud of its anti-conservative offensive that Joe Biden's communications director Kate Bedingfield went on MSNBC this week to directly identify their target. "There are conservative news outlets who are creating irresponsible content that's sharing misinformation about the virus," she said. Bedingfield didn't say that conservative news outlets were lying or publishing falsehoods...

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With the U.S. gone, if you thought what ISIS did in Iraq was bad, just wait until you see the revenge the Taliban has planned for Afghanistan’s women. On Tuesday, Phyllis Chesler wrote here that “Afghan feminists should be on the first plane out,” explaining that those women who dared to speak out for women’s rights during the long war in Afghanistan, and who got educations and jobs, will be killed while the ones who survive will be banished again to burqas and domestic imprisonment. Even Chesler’s grim prediction, however, couldn’t cover how terrible it will be for women under...

Almost everything today on TV and at the movies is terrible, just like everything our institutions produce. Moreover, most of the people in Hollywood hate us, again just like institutions. Are you sensing a theme? They are awful and they despise us, so we need to respond in kind. Let’s destroy Hollywood. In fact, let’s destroy all the institutions. And then let’s build something that doesn’t suck on the ashes. In the case of Hollywood, we need to begin from the basic and indisputable fact that there has never been more content, and simultaneously, the quality of the content has...

Every one of these things is something that we have seen leftists do in America although, currently and thankfully, on a much smaller, less violent scale. It’s becoming increasingly clear that powerful forces are determined to undermine American from the inside. The effort is apparently either to destroy America entirely or hollow it out and transform it into something fundamentally different from what it ever was or was intended to be. But what’s really going on, and why? For many of us, the experience is baffling. One book, however, offers a refreshing – but unsettling – jolt of clarity: the...

Evidence is mounting that the FBI and Antifa are working together as tools of the Deep State. Over two dozen people were killed during the Antifa and BLM protests in 2020. It is routinely reported that "five people died as a result" of the Jan. 6 disturbance. This is a totally accurate statement, however, it is still misleading. Only one of the deceased died as a result of violence. She was actually murdered by a government official. Relating these deaths allows the media to routinely describe Jan. 6 as a "deadly insurrection" as opposed to the "mostly peaceful" protests by...

Last April quietly marked the second anniversary of Attorney General William Barr’s appointment of Connecticut U.S. attorney John Durham to look into the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation by the FBI, the nom de guerre for a Trump witch hunt using a Russian pretext in search of a crime. After the apocryphal 2020 election, Barr stiffened the reins of the investigation against Democrat hijinks by designating Durham as an independent special counsel. Conservative talk shows have long suffered their audiences to believe that a Durham bombshell was imminent, replete with handcuffs and perp walks. Each anxious expectation ended up...