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Note: It is NOT for the government, the media, me, nor anyone to tell free Americans to take or not to take a vaccine for COVID. That is YOUR decision, and should remain that way. The purpose of this article is to attempt to provide a fuller picture of the potential risks involved in taking a vaccine, if you so choose. This article would be unnecessary if the government and media would just be honest about the risks, and not attempt to hide them or attack those who are informing the People of those risks. I’m asking a simple question...

A new poll released by Rasmussen Reports on Wednesday morning shows that President Joe Biden’s approval rating has dropped to the lowest level of his presidency thus far, at 46%. His disapproval rating is 52%, putting him six points “underwater.” The latest figures include 26% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 42% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16. (see trends) … Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 500 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. To reach those who have abandoned...

President Bill Clinton signed the Communications Decency Act (CDA) into law in 1996. A full decade would pass before Jack Dorsey sent the very first tweet on newly created Twitter at 9:50 p.m. on March 21, 2006. The tweet simply read, “just setting up my twttr.”When the CDA became law of the land, Mark Zuckerberg was a 12 year-old kid — one year before his Star Wars-themed bar mitzvah. It would be seven years later (2003) that he would create FaceMash, a website where Harvard students could vote on which woman was more attractive from random photos. The site was...

YouTube has removed a recent video from investigative reporting outlet Project Veritas that featured leaked clips from an unreleased CNN documentary where Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discusses her experience of the January 6 storming of the US Capitol with CNN anchor Dana Bash. In the clips, Ocasio-Cortez agreed with Bash’s assertion that she thought she was going to be raped and killed during the events of January 6. She also claimed that “misogyny” and “racism” “animated that attack on the Capitol,” that “white supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways” and that “there’s a lot of sexualizing...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claimed the Second Amendment has been included in the Constitution because of rampant “anti-blackness” and that the foundation of the amendment is inherently racist. But two black gun owners – including one who exercised his Second Amendment right to save his life – said the ACLU is guilty of fear-mongering. Founder of Black Guns Matter Maj Toure told the Daily Caller claims the Second Amendment is racist is a tactic to “brainwash black people into believing that having the means to defend themselves is nefarious.” “I think gun control is racist, not the Second...

Despite the falling infection rates, deaths within 28 days of a positive test hit 131 on Tuesday, the highest number since March, while hospitalizations have also continued to rise. England removed its last layer of social restrictions on July 19, allowing nightclubs and other indoor entertainment venues to open and relaxing mandates on masks, mass gathering events and social distancing. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland still have some restrictions in place.

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

It’s time for Weekend at Biden’s, the mid-week edition, because the incoherent babbling is coming at us faster and faster. As Dementia Joe explained recently, “You know, as the first lady, I’m Joe Biden’s husband.” He said that. Since our last check-in, he also mentioned his experience in the food industry – “My deceased wife’s father-in-law was a restauranteur.” Did you catch that? His “deceased wife’s father-in-law” would be… his father. It was just another day at the long-term care facility at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. All dialogue guaranteed verbatim. “And the question is whether or not we should be in...

Two suburban women ordered to remove anti-President Joe Biden signage from their front yard for including expletives in them will be represented by the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), NJ Advance Media reported on Monday. Homeowner Patricia Dilascio was ordered by Roselle Park Municipal Court Judge Gary Bundy to take down anti-Biden signs she had put up with her daughter, Andrea Dick, for violating a borough ordinance prohibiting obscenities, according to NJ Advance Media. The signs included lines like “F**k Biden and f**k you for voting for him” and “F**k Biden, not my president,” Law...

How to Interpret Section 230?The legal debate over tech firms’ right to censor has broader implications.Few federal statutes these days receive as much attention as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. That provision, which has become a stand-in for the broader Big Tech debates roiling our politics, provides “interactive computer services” with legal immunity for their moderation of hosted third-party speech. While politicians ask whether tech firms really deserve such immunity, legal theorists are debating just how extensive it should be under a proper construction of the law—a debate that has broader implications for statutory interpretation.The most...

Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn has done what no law enforcement officer should do. He politicized the law by lying during his testimony about January 6th. He is not an impartial witness because he lied about what happened to his coworker on that day to advance Nancy Pelosi’s agenda.

President Donald Trump defied federal health officials for ordering some Americans to start wearing masks again indoors, even though they have been vaccinated. “We won’t go back. We won’t mask our children,” Trump said in a statement released Tuesday after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed their new mask and vaccination guidance. The former president ridiculed President Joe Biden and his team for failing to learn the lessons of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 by returning to masking orders. “Brave Americans learned how to safely and responsibly live and fight back,” he wrote. “Don’t surrender to COVID. Don’t go...

Democrat Joe Biden's nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has a long history of anti-Second Amendment activism. In 2019, Biden's ATF pick David Chipman appeared on British news network BBC to attack President Donald Trump and law-abiding American gun owners.

At least two people are dead and seven are injured after a chemical leak at a plant at a Houston suburb Tuesday night, company officials said. The incident involved a "very small" acetic acid leak within the LyondellBasell facility in the La Porte Complex east of Houston, said Harris County Fire Marshal Laurie Christensen in a news conference. The incident began at about 7:35 p.m. when "LyondellBasell La Porte requested support from La Porte EMS regarding a mass casualty incident at their facility," La Porte's public information officer Lee Woodward told CNN.

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb predicted early Wednesday that the United States could get through the worst of the delta variant surge of the coronavirus in a few weeks. "The bottom line is, the vaccine does not make you impervious to infection," Gottlieb said during an appearance on CNBC. "There are some people who are developing mild and asymptomatic infections even after vaccination." After acknowledging the delta variant of the coronavirus as "much more transmissible" than the first strain, Gottlieb questioned whether that fact should "translate into general guidance" on mask wearing and vaccine requirements in the...

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A Maryland man was arrested for repeatedly threatening to harm Dr. Anthony Fauci and his family, along with another top doctor. Thomas Patrick Connally Jr., 56, allegedly sent multiple emails that repeatedly threatened acts of gun violence, physical beatings, torture and arson, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday. The profanity-laced missives were sent from an encrypted Swiss-based email account between December and last week, and were filled with conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic and homophobic comments, documents allege.

A third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine can "strongly" boost protection against the Delta variant -- beyond the protection afforded by the standard two doses, suggests new data released by Pfizer on Wednesda>y.The data posted online, which are expected to be discussed in a company earnings call on Wednesday morning, suggest that antibody levels against the Delta variant in people ages 18 to 55 who receive a third dose of vaccine are greater than five-fold than following a second dose. Among people ages 65 to 85, the Pfizer data suggest that antibody levels against the Delta variant after receiving...

PARIS—Five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions—a class of misfolding, infectious proteins that cause fatal brain diseases—after a retired lab worker who handled prions in the past was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most common prion disease in humans. An investigation is underway to find out whether the patient, who worked at a lab run by the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), contracted the disease on the job. 2019, an INRAE lab worker named Émilie Jaumain died at age 33, 10 years after pricking her thumb...

In his closing remarks before the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn compared the mob that stormed the Capitol, fueled by Trump’s false claims of election fraud, to a hit man hired to kill someone. “If a hit man is hired and he kills somebody, the hit man goes to jail. But not only does the hit man go to jail, but the person who hired them does. It was an attack carried out on Jan. 6 and a hit man sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that,” Dunn told...