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President Joe Biden took one question from reporters when he returned to the White House this afternoon after *another* weekend in Delaware but we have no idea WTF he said at the start of the exchange.

CDC Quietly Revokes RT-PCR Emergency Use Authorization Because They Counted Covid-19 and Influenza Together Here’s a punch in the gut for a nation that’s already hurting. As it turns out, the so-called “gold standard” testing referenced by so many “doctors” like Anthony Fauci, as well as government officials across the board, has had its Emergency Use Authorization revoked. The CDC announced, albeit quietly, on Wednesday that the RT-PCR tests used to tell millions of Americans they’re infected with Covid-19 has been unable to accurately differentiate between the various coronaviruses. Of particular note is the inability of these tests to know...

Amid dueling rallies for and against CRT last week, a Fairfax County PTA leader was recorded on video suggesting parents who oppose the race-based philosophy should "die" – and county Democratic chair Bryan Graham appears to have been part of the crowd that applauded the line. Fairfax Democratic Committee chair Bryan Graham (Fairfax County Democratic Committee)Steve Knotts, the chairman of the Fairfax GOP, said left-wing counter-protesters had shown up that day in order to disrupt a conservative rally against critical race theory and prolonged school closures. "The Democrats have been taken over by the radical left for sure," Knotts told...

Detroit residents resoundingly reject the defund the police movement, with around 90% saying they would feel safe with more police, not less, according to a new poll. They are far more worried about public safety than police reform, and three out of four respondents reject the "defund the police" slogan by leftists, the USA Today/Suffolk University/Detroit Free Press Poll found. "It's scary sitting in the house, and when you go outside to the gas station or the store, it's possible someone will be shooting right next to you," lifelong Detroit resident Charlita Bell, 41, who was among those polled, told...

Explanation: Gliding silently through the outer Solar System, the Voyager 2 spacecraft camera captured Neptune and Triton together in crescent phase. The elegant picture of the ice-giant planet and its cloudy moon was taken from behind just after closest approach in 1989. It could not have been taken from Earth because Neptune never shows a crescent phase to sunward Earth. The unusual vantage point also robs Neptune of its familiar blue hue, as sunlight seen from here is scattered forward, and so is reddened like the setting Sun. Neptune is smaller but more massive than Uranus, has several dark rings,...

Illinois employers are hurting from a lack of workers while the state unemployment rate remains high. When a parent can stay home and make $51,627 on unemployment, the prospects of getting more workers back to work this summer appear dim. Illinois’ unemployment rate rose to 7.2% July 15, the 8th worst in the nation, at the same time employers are having trouble filling job vacancies. The average Illinoisan earns $55,770 a year at work. If that person stayed home with their kids and collected unemployment, it would be $51,627. For a parent earning around the state average, that’s $4,000 less...

As bad as the movie Batman v. Superman was, there’s a line in it that I often loosely quote, usually sarcastically. “If we believe there is an even 1% chance that he is our enemy, we have to take it as an absolute certainty.” The line was ridiculous in the movie and even more ridiculous when applied to real life, but considering how ridiculous everything in real life is becoming, we have to consider the possibility that our government will apply this thinking to Covid-19. Unfortunately, they won’t do so sarcastically. The general messaging coming out of DC, mainstream media,...

A German-Tunisian Islamic State widow has been sentenced to just four years in prison after being convicted of enslaving two Yazidi women while living in the former caliphate. Omaima A., 37, had moved to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria in 2014 and married terrorist rapper Denis Cuspert, also known as “Deso Dogg”. The pair enslaved two Yazidi women who had previously been abducted by the terror group.On Thursday, the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court convicted the jihadi bride of aiding and abetting a crime against humanity in the form of enslavement under the International Criminal Code, Bild reports. The Islamic State...

The Republican governor of Arkansas on Sunday said resistance to the coronavirus vaccine "has hardened" in some areas of the state, blaming the hesitancy on "false information" and "myths." "I don't know if I underestimated it, but, certainly, the resistance has hardened in certain elements, and is simply false information," Gov. Asa Hutchinson said in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union." "It is myths. As I go into these town hall meetings, someone said: Don't call it a vaccine. Call it a bioweapon. And they talk about mind control," Hutchinson said. "Well, those are obviously erroneous. Other members...

Sermon for the 9th Sunday after Pentecost: "There is remarkable continuity between the Temple Worship of the Old Testament and the Traditional Mass: We rightly mourn these attacks on our beloved Roman Rite"."IX Sunday After PentecostFather Albert MarcelloProvidence (RI), July 25, 2021There is a remarkable synchronicity between the ancient Jewish and the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar. Almost always, on or about the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, the Jewish observance of Tish B’Av takes place – this year, about 6 days ago. This is the day when the Jewish people recall the twofold destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, and is...

Central Connecticut State University history professor Jay Bergman tried to convince his state's public schools to exclude the 1619 Project from their history curricula, questioning its sweeping claims that "white racism" drove America's independence from Britain. At least one superintendent among more than 200 he contacted objected to Bergman's efforts, as did several of his history colleagues and other CCSU faculty. His department chair scolded Bergman for using his university email address and affiliation, and another professor demanded his formal censure, according to an investigation by NBC Connecticut. While CCSU and the state university higher education system declined to punish...

14 min video on what you need to know about the Eucharist in the Mass... as written by the Apostle John.....Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father. The Mountain Top Mass Understand why we climb the mountain at Mass..

Comedian Jackie Mason on the Iran nuclear deal, Donald Trump and the 2016 presidential race.

On his MSNBC show this morning, host Jonathan Capehart managed—with help from one of the fleeing Texas Democrat state reps—to smear law Texas state troopers, "rural cops," and Republicans at large, as potentially violent vigilantes. Capehart teed up Jarvis D. Johnson—one of the Texas Democrat state representatives who have fled to DC in an attempt to derail adoption of voting laws—to say that he has told his son not to drive because he fears "retaliation" by state troopers, "rural cops" or some "fanatic of the Republican Party" taking the law "into their own hands. This in response to Gov. Greg...

Arizona state senator Kelly Townsend defended Gateway Pundit reporter Jordan Conradson after RINO state senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita had him removed from Trump’s rally and arrested. ..... Snip..... Conradson asked her why she killed Senator Kelly Townsend’s chain of custody and election integrity bills. A few minutes later Conradson was detained by event officials and escorted from the building for “harassing” Ugenti Rita. After walking away, he called AZ State Senator Kelly Townsend, who encouraged him to come back peacefully and fight this. On Sunday, Ugenti-Rita lashed out at Townsend and said she “encouraged” Jordan Conradson to “break the law.” “A...

TOKYO (AP) — Nobody was watching Ahmed Hafnaoui in lane eight of the Olympic pool. All eyes were on the Tunisian teenager at the finish. Hafnaoui was the stunning winner of the 400-meter freestyle at the Tokyo Games on Sunday, beating a field of faster and older swimmers. The 18-year-old finished in 3 minutes, 43.26 seconds, punctuating his victory with loud yelling that echoed in the mostly empty 15,000-seat arena.

India will be keen to buy a newly unveiled Russian stealth fighter to help counter China’s forces along their disputed border, according to military analysts. Earlier this week the Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi unveiled a prototype of its new “Checkmate” jet at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon outside Moscow. The maker highlighted its stealth abilities and relatively low cost, which is expected to be a major selling point internationally. Sukhoi said the fifth-generation fighter had a top speed of Mach 2 and an operational range of 3,000km (1,865 miles) and a payload of 7.4 tonnes. It is expected...

Two Asians in America (one a defector from Communist North Korea) discuss the "attack on merit" and how Asian-Americans are crucial to preserving meritocracy in the U.S. They discuss "critical race ideology" and how Asian-Americans are being discriminated against in favor of Blacks and Hispanics who are being given preferential treatment because of race, not merit. The preference for "equity" over "equality" has spilled over from academia and is now infecting corporations and other areas (even such things as music), where Asians are being made to feel "ashamed of their race" and "merit" in general. Kenny Xu also brings up...

Three guys attempt to steal a catalytic converter. Unfortunately for them, a modern-day Berserker with a baseball bat shows up.

Corporate America sacrificed national interests in service of greed, and so did the U.S. government. As we all know, the source of Corporate America’s unprecedented explosion in profits in the 21st century is the offshoring of manufacturing to China. If you doubt this, please study the chart below of corporate profits. Apologists claim many excuses in an attempt to evade the central role of offshoring production to China, but they all ring hollow: no, it wasn’t increasing productivity or automation or Federal Reserve magic, it was shipping production to China and other low-labor-cost nations. Whether we like to admit it...