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The Hill seems willing to publish almost anything if it stinks of the eco-nuttiness of the hard left, even if it involves comparing the hyped-up threats of climate change to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The outlet published a bonkers op-ed headlined, “Climate change is a unifying threat — NATO should enact Article 5 to combat it.” The author, Deborah Brosnan & Associates President and Founder Deborah Brosnan, wrongly named the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as the “The North Atlantic Treaty Alliance” before speculating whether the intergovernmental organization should “consider climate change as a full-fledged assault on our communities, nations and...

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What is the Shielding Approach1? The shielding approach aims to reduce the number of severe COVID-19 cases by limiting contact between individuals at higher risk of developing severe disease (“high-risk”) and the general population (“low-risk”). High-risk individuals would be temporarily relocated to safe or “green zones” established at the household, neighborhood, camp/sector or community level depending on the context and setting.1,2 They would have minimal contact with family members and other low-risk residents. Current evidence indicates that older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions are at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19.3 In...

Former Illinois Democrat Governor and convicted felon Rod Blagojevich claimed that a lawsuit he filed Monday would vacate his corruption conviction and open the door to run for office again. Blagojevich was removed from office in 2009 after being prosecuted on corruption charges for attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat that was then being vacated by Barack Obama who resigned after winning the presidency.

Florida prosecutors on Monday filed charges against five Miami Beach police officers for allegedly using excessive force in arrests made in a hotel lobby, officials said. The five law enforcement officers were charged with misdemeanor battery in the incident that was caught in hotel surveillance footage...

Watch this odd moment as Joe Biden reaches out and holds the hand of the Kentucky Governor's son, giving him his used face mask. pic.twitter.com/9PkIkFOTNS — The First (@TheFirstonTV) August 2, 2021 Biden gives Andy Beshear’s son a used mask and holds his hand for no apparent reason.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said Monday on CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight” that Republicans who deny the serious nature of the January 6 Capitol riot were “absolutely a threat to the future of this great country.” Clyburn said, “People need to come to grips with something happened on January 6th that never happened before. Never have we seen this kind of violent insurrection brought on by fellow Americans. We all know what happened. We all know where it happened. We all know that something and somebody is behind all of this. To see four lives lost, that to me,...

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This week I had the special privilege to attend the bar and bat mitzvah celebration of children I didn’t know. It was a group celebration for at-risk youth from central Israel. Normally, this is not something that I would know about much less be involved with or invited to. While I went there to celebrate this important milestone and lifecycle event for the teens, it felt like more people were thanking me than I was congratulating them. Here’s why. As all this was happening, all I kept thinking was how privileged I was able to be there thanks to numerous...

Anta Sports threatened to cut ties with the league over its support for Hong Kong protesters The maker of the NBA’s official game balls is owned by a Chinese company accused of using Uyghur slave labor that has threatened to cut ties with the league for supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. In 2019, the Chinese-owned Anta Sports acquired Amer Sports and its subsidiaries, including the sporting goods maker Wilson. The NBA inked a deal with Wilson to provide game balls for the upcoming season. The league has also sold Anta brand shoes on its website. The NBA has faced...

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The latest onslaught of racist injustice is roadway construction. Yup: There's an all-out attempt to enlighten people to the fact that highway construction is racist. The reasons for said accusations range from the owner of the company building the highway being a racist, to the placement of the highway being racist because of people suffering the inconvenience of having to detour because of construction. The color-coded crayon people have one of the smallest population footprints, yet they're portrayed as being the most disaffected on so many different fronts. They're adversely affected by a flu that has been weaponized to scare...

The average daily number of new coronavirus cases in the US has surged more than 300 percent in the past three weeks — with hotspot states including Florida and Louisiana seeing major spikes in infections and hospitalizations. The country notched a daily seven-day rolling average of 79,951 new cases Sunday, or a 312 percent jump over the 19,400 rolling-average figure three weeks ago, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Most of the new infections appear to be in unvaccinated people, as so-called breakthrough cases in people who are inoculated are not common. Research shows the vast majority of breakthrough...

Thirty years ago this month, the Cold War ended with a failed coup in Moscow. As was remarked by many at the time, Marx’s dictum that history repeats itself as farce proved true for the Soviet Union, the state that had defined itself by his ideology. In August 1991, while the USSR’s reforming General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev holidayed in his Ukrainian dacha, a group of hard-liners seized power. Gorbachev, under house arrest, turned to the BBC to find out what was going on, since in the Soviet Union nothing the media said was true unless the party said so. He...

Over the past months, many states and the federal government have advised or even required individuals to wear masks in order to stop or slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Taking this relatively small step can significantly reduce the potential of virus transmission — serving as an effective way to protect both ourselves and others. Wearing a face covering of some sort seems like an easy choice to make for the greater good (provided, of course, that you do not have a disability that makes you unable to wear a mask). Yet this pandemic has illuminated another way in...

JESUS RAISES LAZARUS FROM DEATH . JOHN 11 New International Version ©1984, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read JOHN 11 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John Harmony of the Gospels 29 A.D. Bible Timeline JOHN 11:1-45 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on...

Social justice movements are fantastic at making issues worse than they were to begin with, which is becoming the unfortunate case in Portland, Oregon. The Portland Police Bureau's Focused Initiative Team has been able to garner the interest of only four law enforcement officials to fill the 14 slots needed to have a fully functioning unit, according to The Wall Street Journal. Homicides are on the rise in the liberal city, with gun violence being the main cause. Fifty-three people have been killed so far this year, the second-highest on record, as 1987 saw 70 homicides, according to the report...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined "Hannity" Monday to hit President Biden's "weak" Chinese policy and the risk that comes with not being able to stand up to America's adversaries. MIKE POMPEO: Yes. Well, we’ve known since I spoke about this—at least in the spring of 2020—that this virology lab almost certainly the place, Sean, that this virus came from and we’ve seen the deep cover-up, right? It continues to this day. They won’t let anybody in to do the investigation in a proper way. The Chinese Communist Party is responsible for allowing people to travel with a known,...