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Appearing on CNN's New Day this morning, a Democrat strategist accused Republicans of wanting "to basically turn Florida into a morgue."But in a mark of just how deep CNN and the Dems have dived into loony-left extremism, the guy, Michael Starr Hopkins, was brought on to represent the centrist wing of the party!Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

SAN DIEGO — Dave Severance, a retired U.S. Marine colonel whose troops were the first to plant an American flag over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 102. Severance died Monday at his home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. On Feb. 23, 1945 about 40 members of Severance’s company were sent up Mount Suribachi with orders to plant the flag. A short time later, another group was sent up with a second flag to replace the first. That iconic image was captured by...

Xi Jinping’s Capitalist Smackdown Sparks a $1 Trillion Reckoning After 40 years of allowing the market to play an expanding role in driving prosperity, China’s leaders have remembered something important — they’re Communists. August 1, 2021, 2:00 PM PDT Xi Jinping smiled and hinted at a policy bombshell that would soon roil stock markets from Shanghai to New York. It was mid-June, and the most powerful Chinese Communist Party leader since Mao Zedong was holding court at an after-school club for elementary students in the remote city of Xining. Acknowledging the growing pressure on students and their parents to spend...

The Democrats seem to have themselves a pedophile problem. In just the past two weeks, a young girl accused President Biden of fondling her when she was 8 years old and Democrat mega-donor George Soro’s right-hand man was accused by multiple women of raping children in a ‘sex dungeon’. Now, according to reports, Democrat Arizona state Senator Tony Navarrete was arrested on Thursday night for raping several minor children. Navarrete was detained for a variety of pedophilia-related offenses, including the rape of a minor in 2019 according to police.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The number of patients hospitalized in Louisiana with COVID-19 continued Friday to climb to new heights, as the state grapples with its worst surge of the coronavirus illness since the start of the pandemic. For the fourth day, the state set new coronavirus hospitalization records. The state Department of Health reported 2,421 people were in hospitals around the state with COVID-19, an increase of 71 people from the day before and more than eight times the number hospitalized at the start of July. Louisiana is confirming thousands of new coronavirus cases each day, driven by...

This is an outdated render; the Leo will use just 16 vertical lift fans of higher diameter, with banks of three in the front and five in the rear. A separate system pushes it forward from the rearUrban eVTOL VIEW 8 IMAGES An electric propulsion specialist and a supercar designer have partnered up on an eye-catching three-seat eVTOL, claiming 250-mph (400 km/h) top speeds and extraordinary 300-mile (483-km) range figures, as well as some extreme flight dynamics and some nifty ideas. Pete Bitar has been working on vertical propulsion systems for decades now. He's got a DARPA contract to develop...

In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. In it, he noted [PDF] that in three years, the optimal cost per component on a chip had dropped by a factor of 10, while the optimal number had increased by the same factor, from 10 to 100. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development – he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley – he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could...

An Arkansas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing its ban on mask mandates, AP reports. Driving the news: Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox issued a preliminary injunction against the law signed in April by Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson that banned governmental entities from implementing mask mandates..

Daily Covid-19 cases in the US moved above 100,000 a day for the first time since February, higher than the levels of last summer when vaccines were not available, and came as health officials sounded alarm over lagging rates of vaccination driving the surge of the infectious Delta variant. The seven-day average of hospital admissions has also increased more than 40% from the week before, with health workers describing frustration and exhaustion as hospitals in Covid hotspots were again overwhelmed with patients, almost 20 months into the pandemic in the US. “As we look at our hospitalizations and as we...

Moderna expects people will need to get a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine before this winter. Going out eight months, the vaccine's protection could wane, Moderna executives said. "We believe a booster dose is likely to be necessary this fall," President Stephen Hoge said.

Since Israel was one of the first nations to initiate a large-scale national vaccination campaign, most of the participants in this study received their second dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine at least six months before the study was conducted. The results described here therefore demonstrate the diminishing protection offered by COVID-19 vaccines over time from when the individual received their second dose. This study also provides information on the protection offered by the BNT162b2 vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 Delta strain that is now dominant worldwide.

Hypersonic weapons could well transform the strategic balance. The United States’ adversaries recognize this fact — Russia and China have both tested hypersonics and appear to have prioritized integrating them into their combat forces. The U.S. must do the same — or accept a strategic balance in our adversaries’ favor. The Washington news cycle typically overlooks subtle yet consequential policy choices. Biden’s FY2022 defense budget request of $715 billion constitutes a functional decrease from the previous budget — its $11 billion “increase” does not keep pace with inflation. Although the Obama administration’s most robust technologists, former Undersecretary of Defense Robert...

A healthy person with a natural immunity might be a happy person—but to a 2021 biotech entrepreneur, who views the human body as a market to dominate, he is a sheer insult. From the standpoint of that entrepreneur, replacing the default natural immunity of the past millions years with a fully artificial tool that requires a “subscription” throughout one’s entire lifetime (see “variants” and “boosters”) is desirable. Replacing the default natural immunity with an artificial tool is a very successful case of creating a brand new market (“artificial immunity market”) out of air. A life-long subscription to artificial immunity, with...

President Joe Biden falsely claimed at the White House on Friday that 350 million Americans have been vaccinated, twice bungling his statistics after looking at his notes. “You know, we have roughly 350 million people vaccinated in the United States and billions around the world,” Biden said after looking at his note card provided by White House staff.

A Pennsylvania woman who was watching her roommate's dogs was mauled to death while trying to beak up a fight between the animals. On July 28, Rhoda Wagner was found dead in her front yard with three dogs running loose around her, PennLive reports. Responding authorities took the dogs, all pit bulls, into custody and through an investigation determined Wagner had been mauled to death. All three dogs were since euthanized with the consent of the owner, authorities said.

[H/T Travis McGee]Fox Anchor: Ivory HeckerFox News Whistleblower: My Boss Told Me 'Do Not Report Deaths After Vaccination' (banned.video)Fox said not to report the thousands of deaths following vaccination, but they collaboarte to figure out how to convince more people to get themselves or their children vaccinated. (e.g., 'maybe if we did more stories about losing your employment if you don't get vaccinated?')She has established a website in order to publish the reporting Fox News will not allow her to publish. Restrictions on reporting are not distributed in print, but are delivered verbally.At 7:51 time mark in the video: She...

Franklin County, Ohio, is taking a stand against President Biden’s recent directive for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a 60-day eviction moratorium extension. In a statement released on Thursday, Franklin County Municipal Court Administrative and Presiding Judge Ted Barrows said the county will not comply, citing an appeals court ruling last month. On July 23, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati found the CDC didn’t have the authority to impose the nationwide moratorium. Based on that ruling, the Franklin County court release said, courts in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan are no longer bound...

Moderna says a third booster shot will "likely be necessary" according to the New York Times.During an earnings call, Moderna seemed to admit that their COVID-19 vaccine only lasts for 6 months, adding that a third “booster” shot will “likely be necessary” due to the Delta variant, which experts have compared to hay fever or the common cold.Moderna released a statement on Thursday claiming that their COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness “does not wane in the first 6 months after the second dose,” reported the New York Times. However, Moderna appeared to change their tune during an earnings call shortly after, claiming...

Governor Abbott has NOT placed SB 65 file by Sen. Bob Hall on the docket for the Special Session. Please contact Governor Abbott

@julie_kelly2Listening to plea hearing for Scott Fairlamb. He was arrested in January, faces several counts including assault of police officer and carrying a "dangerous or deadly weapon." (A baton.) Judge Lamberth presiding. LinkFairlamb has been behind bars since his arrest. He's now held in DC Deplorable jail. He's pleading guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers. Obstruction is a felony punishable up to 20 years in jail. Roughly 200 defendants face that charge. Assault is 8 years in prison. Other counts will be dismissed. DOJ looking for range of 41-51 months in...