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Thought some of you would find this funny. I got a contact from my editors at Sentinel that they had an anonymous group interested in booking me to speak. What were my fees, remote & in person. I sent back a number for remote: for in-person, $3k more + expenses; for in-person in NY, CA, or IL, $8k more + expenses. Turned out it was a group in a blue city, a panel "discussion" and I was warned about civility, blah, blah. So I didn't want to go. He said, "We are going to pay you more than that [my...

Pfizer/BioNTech data released Wednesday suggests a third dose of the vaccine “strongly boosts” protection against the coronavirus delta variant. The data, which the company is expected to discuss in an earnings call on Wednesday, claims a third shot of the Pfizer vaccine can “boost” protection against the virus variant.

The joint statement issued in Washington and Berlin last week signifies that the two countries have struck a compromise deal over the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Both the US and Germany were eager to simmer down the controversy. For President Joe Biden, the controversy stood in the way of reviving the trans-Atlantic partnership with Germany, while for Chancellor Angela Merkel, Nord Stream 2 is a proud legacy of her 16 years in power. However, what is overlooked is that there is also a third party to Wednesday’s compromise deal – Russian President Vladimir Putin, who can be described...

Of Patriots and Tyrants Six Republican lawmakers held a press conference outside of the Department of Justice on Tuesday to demand answers about the treatment of Americans arrested over the January 6 mostly peaceful Capitol protest. Congressmembers Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Louis Gohmert (R-Texas), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Bob Good (R-Va.), and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) spoke at a podium outside the office of the DOJ, which Rep. Greene claimed they were not allowed to enter. “We want to know how the detainees are being treated inside the jails,” Greene declared before introducing Rep. Gohmert. “We have received reports...

The Verge reports that Toyota, the world’s largest carmaker, is working behind the scenes to stall any federal mandates that would ban gas-burning cars.According to The New York Times, a top Toyota executive has met with congressional leaders behind closed doors in recent weeks to advocate against the Biden administration’s plans to spend billions of dollars to incentivize the shift to EVs. The executive, Chris Reynolds, has argued that hybrids, like the Toyota Prius, as well as hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles should also be in the mix.In addition, Toyota is also pushing back against EV-friendly policy through the auto industry’s...

In the name of Black gun owners, a coalition of progressive attorneys has thrown its weight behind an explosive attempt to eviscerate gun regulations. Last week, the gun group got a major assist from criminal defense attorneys. Specifically, the Bronx Defenders, the Brooklyn Defender Services, and the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid. All of these groups represent indigent people accused of criminal conduct, who are often Black or Latinx citizens living in densely populated urban environments. The lawyers joined together to file an amicus brief supporting the position of the mostly upstate and rural interests of the Rifle & Pistol...

Nude models gathered in Union Square Park on Sunday, July 25, 2021, for the 8th annual NYC Bodypainting Day. Andy Golub and 30 other artists painted over 50 people for four hours Pics at link...............

So we have an odd situation developing. The layperson’s understanding of a vaccine is that it protects a person against infection, like measles or smallpox. In other words, you won’t get Covid, exactly as President Biden accidentally and apparently inaccurately said in a press conference last week. That is apparently untrue in this case. That realization seemed to dawn on people only a few weeks ago, as reports from Israel revealed that half the new infections listed were with people who had been fully vaccinated. That was an interesting day for me because many of my anti-lockdown friends celebrated that...

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Wargaming exercises often serve as an important source of information and feedback for the U.S. military as it attempts to gauge its ability to fight and win future battles. One such wargame that took place this past October served as a major wake-up call for the U.S. military. While details of the wargame remain classified, it reportedly involved a number of different scenarios including a battle for Taiwan.

The Border Patrol has released about 50,000 illegal immigrants into the United States without giving them a date to appear in court.Instead, the illegals were given a list of addresses and contacts for ICE offices all across the country and told to report to one of them within 60 days.Not surprisingly, ICE had few takers.Axios:Just 6,700 migrants who crossed between mid-March and mid-July showed up at ICE offices as of Monday, one source briefed on Department of Homeland Security data told Axios.16,000 have not showed up and passed the 60-day reporting window they were given. That’s 2.4 no-shows for every...

Angelle Mosley couldn’t believe the diagnosis when she learned she had contracted COVID-19. "She said 'I know I do not have COVID. I still can smell and taste. And I am vaccinated.' But when she got to the hospital, turns out she had it," her mother Tara Mosley told WDSU-TV. Three days later, the 33-year-old owner of Brave Beautique, a store selling fashions for plus-sized women, had died of the illness. Mosley was initially diagnosed on Thursday and sent home from the hospital but needed to be readmitted over the weekend. "Her neighbor brought her at 2 or 3 in...

As if fake-crying congressmen weeping into strategically prepositioned Kleenex during the 1/6 show trial were not sufficiently over the top, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez added a bizarre note yesterday. Prompted by interviewer Dana Bash, she claimed that when she was in her office, a quarter-mile from the U.S. Capitol, she feared being raped — and then murdered

The Starship vehicle is poised to revolutionize human spaceflight. With SpaceX and NASA working together to develop Starship for the Artemis Program, our ambitions in space have profoundly changed. Aspiring Martian Colonist Dr Ryan MacDonald charts the course towards the first human missions to the Red Planet.

Perhaps it’s because I grew up surrounded by extraordinarily tough people, but I found myself singularly unmoved by the spectacle in the House on Tuesday, which reminded me of a bad mash-up of Dr. Phil, Oprah, and BLM-produced soap opera, rather than a legitimate inquiry into an event that Democrats have seized upon to consolidate their power by destroying their opposition. As sobbing congressmen and Capitol Police officers took turns talking about their psychic injuries, I was alternately embarrassed for them if they were really that weak, and frightened of them if they were that sociopathic as a pathway to...

In video, Biden makes it seem like he knows something about the vaccine, something terrible, and he’s surprised that Don would take it knowing the same things as if they are part of the same shadow organization. Not that any of that is true–pure speculation–but his reaction to Don raises so many questions. Also, watch Lemon’s body language.

On this date in 1794, the curtain — and the blade — fell on the Terror. Maximilien Robespierre, who had breakfasted the previous day as master of France, was guillotined this evening with his chief lieutenants and partisans. His fall came as sudden and inevitable as his rise had been unpredictable. Five years before, Robespierre was an unprosperous Arras attorney of fashionably liberal philosophies, and you wouldn’t have given a sou for the prospects of his being remembered five minutes after he died. Yet it would come that his inseparable lieutenant Saint-Just would remark with understatement, “The words we have...

As the U.S. recovers from a pandemic, with workers in services and manufacturing in short supply across the economy, here’s what no one sensible thinks America urgently needs: a huge new federal Civilian Climate Corps. Yet that’s exactly what Democrats want to create as part of their plan to expand government into every corner of American life. It isn’t enough to lecture Americans about the supposed perils of climate change. Now they also want to tax you and other Americans to pay your children to spend years lecturing you. President Joe Biden has requested $10 billion for the climate shock...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that any infrastructure package must contain large scale environmental policies. “I will not pass an infrastructure package that does not reduce carbon pollution at a scale commensurate with the urgency of the climate crisis we face,” Schumer said about President Joe Biden’s Trojan horse $3.5 trillion initiative.

WASHINGTON, Saturday, July 27. There have been no military movements of importance to-day. Our army is being reorganized, and the morale of the defeated regiments is rapidly improving. A careful estimate of the killed, wounded and missing, reduces the aggregate from the three causes to below eight hundred. The commissioned officers of the Second Regiment Vermont Volunteers have requested their Colonel to resign. He exhibited marked cowardice ice in the battle of Sunday last, skulking in the most shameful manner. P. SINCLAIR, of the Seventy-ninth, who was reported missing, has been in the Alexandria Hospital, slightly wounded. Com. O. DE...