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Click here to read the full articleShut up, line up and take your shot.Mod­er­na announced this week that due to the new strains of the coro­n­avirus they are rec­om­mend­ing a third shot before winter.Mod­er­na said Thurs­day that peo­ple will like­ly need a COVID-19 vac­cine boost­er dose to pro­tect against future muta­tions of the coro­n­avirus, tout­ing the “robust” anti­body response gen­er­at­ed by the addi­tion­al shot.

<p>MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of the Wis­con­sin Assembly’s elec­tions com­mit­tee issued sub­poe­nas Fri­day demand­ing exten­sive elec­tion mate­ri­als, includ­ing all bal­lots and vot­ing machines from two coun­ties in what she called a “top-to-bot­tom” inves­ti­ga­tion of the state’s 2020 pres­i­den­tial results.</p>

There is no known record of John Money's immediate response to the rank effrontery. Some unknown college teacher in Kentucky—some punk kid, still in his twenties—had, so to speak, calmly knelt down...found his smooth stone by the brook...nestled the stone inside his sling...twirled it faster and faster...and then, at just the right moment, let the stone fly. For anyone with eyes to see, the stone had hit the Goliath-like Emperor of All Human Sex Research On Earth square in the forehead and felled him like an oak (lots of mixed metaphors in here, but whatever...). The unknown punk kid was...

Before pillow magnate Mike Lindell burst onto the political scene with his election audit mantra, the idea was popularized by a powerful left-wing think tank. A 2017 policy paper reveals the Center for American Progress stood foursquare behind the idea of “robust election audits,” The National Pulse can today reveal.The 21-page document entitled “9 Solutions to Secure America’s Elections” was written by Danielle Root and Liz Kennedy and published on August 16, 2017.At the time, the political left was attempting to convince Americans that Donald Trump was an illegitimate president, and that Russian election interference had swayed the 2016 election...

Health Canada has updated the label on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to reflect very rare reports of Bell’s Palsy. In very rare scenarios, cases of Bell’s Palsy have been reported in a number of people in Canada and internationally. So far in Canada, “there has been a total of 206 reports of Bell’s Palsy following a Pfizer vaccination,” the health agency told Global News in an email Friday. Symptoms after vaccination may include temporary weakness or paralysis on one side of the face, according to an advisory issued by the department. Other symptoms include, “uncoordinated movement of the muscles that...

They have found a COVID scapegoat. It is you.Persuasion to get the COVID vaccines failed with some Americans, as those who seek to persuade – namely government officials and the media – have no credibility. Onto the next step: a collective effort by the press, corporations, and the government to blame and vilify and target the unvaccinated. This is no coincidence, as such efforts help deflect responsibility from those who caused and created this problem in the first place.In New York City, you will need proof of a COVID vaccine for indoor dining, gyms, and concerts.If you want to participate...

An anti-vaxxer nightclub boss has died of Covid-19 after mocking people for getting the 'experimental' vaccine and warning of a 'big pharma' conspiracy in hundreds of Facebook messages. David Parker, 56, died at a hospital in Darlington on Monday despite having no underlying health conditions He contracted virus just weeks after condemning vaccine and pharmaceutical companies in Facebook posts Family of Mr Parker, who worked as a nightclub manager, are said to now be urging everyone to get the jab It follows John Eyers, a fit and healthy 42-year-old father, dying of Covid last week after refusing the vaccine. Mr...

Retiring Baby Boomers Must Avoid Living In These StatesRetiring Baby Boomers Must Avoid Living In These StatesMillions of Baby Boomers retire each year from the US labor force. They must make the difficult decision if their current home state is worth living out their “golden years” of adulthood. To simplify the process of what states are the best for retirees in 2021. The finance website Bankrate provides new data of the worst states to retire in this year. Bankrate examined five essential factors: affordability, wellness, culture, weather, and crime for each state. Affordability and wellness were weighted the most, 40%...

Top Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli has renewed calls for the public to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, saying the pathogen will continue to mutate and the world must prepare to coexist with it. In a report on Wednesday by Health Times, under state-run People’s Daily, Shi called on the public to not hesitate to get vaccinated. “As the number of infected cases has just become too big, this allowed the novel coronavirus more opportunities to mutate and select. New variants will continue to emerge,” Shi said. Head of the centre for emerging infectious diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,...

Just watched S2 E3 of Ted Lasso. Very disappointed. Another avenue for possible entertainment destroyed by leftist politics. In short, they created a fictional environmental protest over a sponsor destroying the Nigerian environment, as a proxy for marxist racial protests taking place in sports today. They gave it full support, pushing the same preachy leftism that seems impossible to avoid anywhere now. I’m done with the show.

When President Joe Biden announced in the White House August 5 that he wants half of all cars and trucks sold in the United States to be Electric Vehicles (EV) by 2030, the loudest applause may well have been in Beijing. Biden told an assembly of labor and political leaders as well as top executives from General Motors, Ford and Stellantis N.V. — which owns Chrysler, Dodge and Ram — that he signed “an executive order setting out a target of 50 percent of all passenger vehicles sold by 2030 will be electric and set into motion an all-out effort.”...

The mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, Stephen Benjamin, declared a state of emergency in the state capital on Wednesday, triggered by Prisma Health Children’s Hospital in Columbia reporting that it is reaching a “strained capacity” of children being diagnosed with COVID-19. The Columbia City Council in South Carolina subsequently ratified the state of emergency during an emergency meeting on Thursday, mandating masks for all faculty, staff, visitors, and children in public and private schools, and daycares that instruct children from ages 2 to 14. The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office issued a press release later that day stating that it...

STURGIS, S.D. — The Black Hills of South Dakota roared with motorcycles and crowds Friday as the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally kicked off, with mostly mask-less rallygoers packed shoulder-to-shoulder at bars and rock shows, despite a rise in COVID-19 cases in the state. Organizers expect at least 700,000 people during the 10-day event that is a rendezvous for bikers, who connect over their love for motorcycles. For some, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime goal to make it to Sturgis; others faithfully make the pilgrimage year after year. “It’s just a great big family atmosphere, everybody’s out here for the same purpose —...

Matthew Pottinger, a former national security advisor to President Trump, revealed in Senate testimony this week that the Chinese Communist Party has enough stolen data on American citizens to “build a dossier on every single American adult.” During a Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing, Pottinger detailed the extent to which China has stolen data from the United States to undertake an enormous surveillance operation of foreign citizens, including Americans. “Assembling dossiers on people has always been a feature of Leninist regimes, but Bejing’s penetration of digital networks worldwide, including using 5G networks … has really taken this to a new...

An Arkansas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a ban on mask mandates, including public schools, after lawmakers left the prohibition in place. Pulaski County Judge Tim Fox issued a preliminary injunction against the mandate, saying that it discriminated between public and private schools. The order came several hours after Arkansas’s state Legislature ended a special session and didn’t vote on the ban on mask mandates. Fox, who was elected, wrote his opinion in response to the parents of two school-age children who claimed the ban on masks violates the rights of children in public schools. The...

A Republican lawmaker announced plans Friday to file articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, calling him a “threat” to the country’s security. The move by Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, is unlikely to go anywhere in the Democrat-controlled House, but it underscores a growing sense of worry among some members of Congress over the direction the Department of Homeland Security has taken in the Biden administration. Mr. Biggs pinned that on Mr. Mayorkas. “As a result of his actions and policies, America is more in danger today than when he began serving as secretary,” the congressman said....

Charlotte, NC — “We need to increase public understanding of the need for medical countermeasures such as a pan-coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media and the economics will follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage, to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of the process,” said Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, in 2015. That is the quote I began Part 1 of this saga. It is important to take that quote in as many times as possible. Daszak is one of the so-called...

CANBERRA—Australia will not accept Chinese demands to change policy in order to restart bilateral talks, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said.“We’ve been advised by China that they will only engage in high-level dialogue if we meet certain conditions. Australia places no conditions on dialogue. We can’t meet (their) conditions now,” Payne said in a speech late on Thursday in Canberra.Relations with China, already rocky after Australia banned Huawei from its nascent 5G broadband networking in 2018, cooled further after Canberra called last year for an independent investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, first reported in central China last year.The...

The Chinese communist regime announced on July 30 that it would stop issuing passports to Chinese citizens indefinitely while repeatedly stressing it was an anti-pandemic measure. However, outside of China, many have queried what the real motive might be in restricting people’s mobility.On Wednesday, Liu Haitao, director of Border Inspection Management of the Chinese regime’s Immigration Administration, said at a Chinese State Council press conference, “China will strengthen entry and exit management at ports and borders, strictly prevent the import of epidemics, and strengthen various measures.”One of the measures was to “strictly restrict the cross-border movement of non-emergency and non-essential...

Florida’s Board of Education on Friday approved private school vouchers for families unhappy with public school districts requiring masks or other COVID-19-related measures.Parents in the state now are allowed to access vouchers for private schools if they believe pandemic-related rules are “a health or educational danger to their child,” according to the state agency, local media outlets reported.They could request vouchers under provisions that are generally used to protect children who believe they’re being bullied.“‘COVID-19 harassment’ means any threatening, discriminatory, insulting, or dehumanizing verbal, written or physical conduct an individual student suffers in relation to, or as a result of,...