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Petition blames network for low military vaccination rates A progressive political action committee on Wednesday launched a petition to ban Fox News from airing on all U.S. military installations, blaming the channel and some of its high-profile hosts for stubbornly low COVID-19 vaccination rates among troops. The group VoteVets, which works to elect liberal veterans to public office, took specific aim at controversial Fox News personality Tucker Carlson. Mr. Carlson has been at odds with Pentagon leaders in recent months after segments in which he seemed to suggest the U.S. military has become more concerned with diversity and political correctness...

Paraphrasing the ~1st five minutes of the show today: USSC to Slo-Jo: Reinstate the Eviction Process for Free-Loaders. Slo-Jo to Pentagon: How Many Divisions Does the USSC Have? Perfumed Princes: ZERO, Sir ! Slo-Joe: Sorry, Landlords You Lose I Outrank the Constitution Kneel Before your New ZOD

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will make Covid vaccination mandatory for all active duty troops. Last month Joe Biden announced he was asking the Defense Department to “look into how and when” it will add the Covid jab to the list of mandatory military vaccinations. Initially the Pentagon said it would likely wait until the Covid vaccine was FDA approved before making the jab mandatory for the troops. However, Lloyd Austin is expected to ask for a presidential waiver as soon as this week.

Twenty-one people developed anterior uveitis and two developed Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome (MEWDS).The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine may be linked to a form of eye inflammation called uveitis, according to a multicenter Israeli study led by Prof. Zohar Habot-Wilner from Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center.The research was conducted at Rambam Health Care Campus, Galilee Medical Center, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Kaplan Medical Center and Sourasky. It was accepted for publication by the peer-reviewed ophthalmology journal Retina.Habot-Wilner, head of the Uveitis Service at the hospital, found that 21 people (23 eyes) who had received two...

The participation of openly gay, lesbian and transgender athletes in the Tokyo Olympics has led to an upsurge in anti-LGBT commentary on Russian state TV. Extremely offensive language, some of which appears in this article, was used by the hosts and guests on talk shows aired by the country's two most popular television channels. Even though the Kremlin has tended to not publicly support anti-LGBT sentiment, it fits in with the state ideology of defending Russia's "traditional values" against the West. ... One of the panellists, Alexei Zhuravlyov, who is a member of the Russian parliament, said he was "disgusted"...

Huckabee noted that calls for Cuomo’s resignation from Democrats and leftists — including from President Joe Biden — over charges of sexual harassment overlook a much larger scandal related to the New York governor. “It appears that to many people, a charge of sexual harassment is even more serious than a charge of killing people — even killing thousands of people — by putting COVID patients in nursing homes,” he remarked on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. He added, “The nursing home scandal … is really bigger than anything else.” He continued, “I’m not...

A far-left member of Congress who took part in some of the Black Lives Matter marches during the infamous 2020 summer of riots and destruction across America has unleashed a rant over a pardon for the McCloskeys, a Missouri couple who armed themselves to protect their property during one of those marches. And U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., included a not-so-veiled threat. "His day will come," Bush said of Mark McCloskey, who with his wife, Patricia, this week was pardoned by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson for minor gun charges that stemmed from their decision to protect their property when one...

August at IU: Back Together Again August—the time when we come together again—is finally here. First, our staff and faculty are coming back soon to be followed by students at all our campuses. We have cause to celebrate at Indiana University as we have already achieved a vaccination rate approaching 85% of all constituents, which provides a strong defense against current and emerging COVID-19 strains. We are coming back in full force with all the normal activities on a college campus. As we navigate this return to full campus activities, we will need to be nimble to adjust so that...

In a sick and twisted Twitter headline the New York Times actually called Osama bin Laden — the evil terrorist mastermind of 9/11 — “a devoted family man.” The former Navy Seal who killed bin Laden, Robert J. O’Neil, called out the Times before somebody on their social media team quickly changed the headline. The original August 3 tweet headline read: “Osama bin Laden, the Fanatical Terrorist and the Devoted Family Man.” O’Neil responded: “Family man. He used his wife as a human shield. Lucky for me he was taller than her.”

I know very little about Gianforte. Rino or what is his problem?

The promotion of Biblical interpretations serving secular, liberal political agendas of sex and race is only the latest manifestation of a centuries-old trend.The Bible makes no explicit condemnations of transgenderism. It makes no claims as to the morality of abortion. It encourages racial reparations. Such claims can be found virtually everywhere in corporate media like the Washington Post, New York Times, or CNN, which seek to promote the various political objectives of the Democratic Party. During his campaign for president, Episcopalian Pete Buttigieg argued that Jesus never mentioned abortion and that Bible verses censuring homosexuality were culturally conditioned, not eternal...

Back in 2015, Joe Biden went viral after he was video taped groping Senator Steve Daines’ niece on C-Span while meeting with his family for his swearing-in ceremony. The girl, Maria Piacesi who was only eight years old at the time, was filmed standing in front of then Vice President Biden as he ran his hands up and down her upper body. Six years later, Maria Piacesi is finally speaking out. Citizen journalist Jonathan Pasetti recently shared screenshots of a conversation he had with Maria Piacesi on social media app Tik Tok where she admits that President Joe Biden pinched...

The current spread of the COVID-19 delta variant has caused the New York International Auto Show to cancel its annual event, The Associated Press reported. The show organizers announced Wednesday that the recent wave of infections and current COVID-19 restrictions state officials have enforced led to the cancellation of the event, according to the AP. “Over the past few weeks, especially within the past few days, circumstances have changed, making it more difficult to create an event at the high standard that we and our clients expect,” the show's president Mark Schienberg said.

“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.” - G.K. ChestertonThis surely does not speak well of our country’s current situation: (H/T Glenn Reynolds who asks the logical question “how long before Governor Cuomo commits suicide?”) “We’ve come to a situation where any politically connected suicide is presumed to be a murder. The government has lost the benefit of the doubt.”Well, that happens when your country is...

by Samantha FosterFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis came out swinging against Joe Biden on Wednesday.Joe Biden on Tuesday attacked Republican Governors Ron DeSantis (FL) and Greg Abbott (TX) for pushing back on vaccine passports and mask mandates.“If some governors aren’t willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, then they should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it,” Biden said of Florida and Texas.“If you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way,” he added.Not a word about the tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of...

or almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin adorned with solar panels. He has grown his own food, cut his own firewood, and tended to his cat and chickens. But his off-the-grid existence appears to be at risk. ...“You came with your guns, you arrested me, brought me in here, you’ve got all my possessions. You keep ’em,” he told a judge at a hearing Wednesday. “I’ll sit here with your uniform on until I rot, sir.” “It’s lying, cheating corrupt judges like you that...

At today's Senate Homeland Committee hearing, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) called redactions in Dr. Fauci's communications "not valid."

Fifty-four percent of Americans say they think that President Biden won’t run for reelection in 2024. That’s one of the findings of a new national poll from Quinnipiac University released on Wednesday. A third of those questioned in the survey said that they believed Biden will seek reelection in 2024, with 13% not offering an opinion. There was a partisan divide, with three-quarters of Republicans and a majority of independents saying that the president wouldn’t run again in 2024. Democrats were divided on the question, with 41% saying Biden would seek reelection and 45% disagreeing.

Would-be school teachers at the Oklahoma Aspiring Educators Association’s recent Racial and Social Justice Symposium were told that both public schools and many of the teachers within them are tools of white supremacy. But featured speakers at the online event offered a solution: Purge the teaching profession of many of its current members, who are majority white. “Really, I want to be an agent of discomfort for white folks,” said Terry Jess, a National Education Association Social Justice Activist finalist in 2017. “I want to get folks to either commit to the work or get out of the profession. And...

A recent poll came out from Emerson on the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, showing a statistically tied race among registered voters, 48 no, 46 yes. While this is a terrible sign for Newsom and the Democrats, this does not shock me, as I have seen a gradual but real shift in the community and the numbers make sense. The most shocking internal in this poll was that Hispanics were the only racial group to overwhelmingly support the recall, and they do by a landslide, 54-41. Black and Asian majorities, in contrast, are supportive of keeping Newsom in...