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Dr. Anthony Fauci has an impressive resume but nothing in it meant that he was qualified to be the ultimate decision-maker for a contagious disease, especially one that his actions helped create. It’s high time his wings are clipped before more Americans die. Dr. Anthony Fauci is brilliant. At least according to his fawning Wikipedia entry, which says he graduated number one in his medical school class at Cornell, and then did two years of internal medicine residency at their prestigious hospital, following which he was invited to train and work at the NIH (unfairly, in my opinion, called a...

A Chicago group made up of residents and environmentalists suing to stop construction of the Obama Presidential Center was dealt a blow Thursday after a federal judge, nominated by Obama, denied their request to halt this month's groundbreaking. Judge John Robert Blakey denied a request by several local residents and the nonprofit group Protect Our Parks, which filed the lawsuit. The suit, among other things, argues that the batch of federal reviews into the former president's $700 million center was faulty. The group claims construction would cause "irreparable harm" to the park by tearing up roads, cutting down trees, and...

Thousands of French protesters will take to the streets on Saturday for a fourth consecutive weekend to demonstrate against the government-imposed Covid-19 health pass. The pass, which is an extended version of the EU’s Covid-19 travel pass, comes into force on Monday, and is mandatory for access to public spaces such as bars and restaurants. Days after France's top constitutional authority approved the pass, calling it a "balanced trade-off" between public health concerns and personal freedom, protests are expected Saturday across the country for a fourth weekend in a row. The health pass limits access to inter-city trains and planes...

“I assured him (Stalinist dictator Raul Castro’s son Alejandro, a KGB-trained secret police colonel) that any Democrat who succeeded Obama would continue our approach.” That’s failed novelist and Obama aide Ben Rhodes, exulting in his memoirs. Rhodes was tasked by President Obama with secretly “negotiating” his famous “opening” with Stalinist Cuba (i.e. with groveling before Raul’s son Alejandro, who pretty much runs Cuba with a few secret police and military henchmen, though you’d never guess any of this from all those intrepid “news” agencies bestowed Havana bureaus by the totalitarian regime.) Just last week pursuant to the tumult in Cuba...

The US says children born abroad using assisted reproductive technology can now qualify for citizenship, in a move seen as a win for same-sex couples. To be eligible before, babies born overseas needed to be genetically related to the American parent. The change follows lawsuits from couples whose children were born using surrogates and other methods. Experts estimate the new policy will affect hundreds of families living outside of the US. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) policy, announced Thursday, means children of married couples where at least one parent is an American and one is related to the...

You read that right. That's the name on the sign in front of the building. It's the advertising when one of its higher level bureaucrats testifies before Congress. And it's the bludgeon used to corral all dissenters into one place where individual choice is extinguished. Beyond all that, it's a lie. The COVID-19 pandemic is a classic example of how futile man's attempts to "control disease" are. By time we even knew that it had arrived in the U.S., it had spread widely. Since most people don't get severe disease, many in contact with Patient Zero had gotten what they...

The shooting happened in La Habra, a city about 22 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles... ...A California police officer was in critical but stable condition in a trauma center on Friday night after being shot outside police headquarters, authorities said. The shooting happened around 7 p.m. in La Habra, a city of about 60,000 residents in Orange County, about 22 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles....

Companies like Bird and Lime allow able-bodied people to unlock a set of wheels with their smartphones. In cities around the country, you’ll see millennials scooting through town at speeds of up to 15 mph on their scooter rental. Riders pay $1 to start, then 15 cents per minute to ride—a small price to pay for convenient short-distance transportation. Because the scooters are dockless, riders abandon them as soon as they reach their destination. These next-gen “Bird droppings” litter America’s sidewalks and frequently block wheelchair users’ independence and freedom of movement.

Gina detailed how she turned to food as a source of comfort during her childhood. “I got really jealous of my sister, and I remember what made me forget that pain of being abandoned was eating — and by the time I was 10, I was already over 150 pounds,” she recalled. The reality star claimed that she also suffered physical and verbal abuse at the hands of her father as a young girl. “My weight started to cause problems for me because I started getting bullied a lot, so that led to me acting out and getting punished a...

When midterm elections loom just around the corner, most presidents push populist policies to lure Independent votes as a means of retaining their party’s majority in Congress. President Biden, however, seems to be doing everything to push middle-ground voters away. It’s almost hard to believe that Biden wants his party to retain control of Congress at all, given his performance so far. While the administration celebrates saving families 16 cents on Independence Day barbecues, American families face the harsh realities of misguided government priorities. Countless small businesses have shuttered their doors, millions of American workers have been paid to stay...

I. The Latest DiscoveryNow, in their latest paper, they describe the ability for not just an electronic mesh to be injected into living tissue, but to be fully integrated into a brain for an extended period of time.In this case, the electronic component was implanted into a mouse brain and recorded neurological activity over 8 months, nearly the entire life of the mouse. Extrapolate that into a human’s life and you start to get a sense of the cyborg future we might all be living in.Charles Lieber of Harvard is the leader of this new approach, recognized as the leading...

Garth Brooks is scheduled to take the stage at a sold-out Arrowhead Stadium concert Saturday... ...KANSAS QUARANTINE LIST The Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s travel quarantine list applies to those who attend “any out-of-state mass gatherings of 500 or more where individuals do not socially distance (6 feet) and wear a mask.” As a result of this guidance, people who go to the Garth Brooks concert and are not fully vaccinated will have to quarantine for seven days with a negative test result or 10 days without testing after the event if they go to Kansas. Those who are...

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A couple of California businesses are continuing their fight to prove Gov. Gavin Newsom unlawfully closed their doors amid the COVID-19 pandemic. California’s 5th District Court of Appeals heard remote arguments Thursday morning in Ghost Golf et al. vs. Newsom. Originally filed Oct. 28, 2020, the owners of the Fresno haunted house-themed miniature golf center claimed Newsom, with his “blueprint,” had overstepped the state’s separation of powers when he closed businesses and limited occupancy to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. A lower court sided with Newsom, saying the law allowed Newsom to take the steps he did without the blessing...

Now that the highly-touted vaccines for COVID seem to be losing their effectiveness, the demand for ramping up the effort to coerce more people to get vaccinated is intensifying. Bill Gates, a big investor in the manufacturers of the vaccines is adamant that both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated get more inoculations. Gates is urging that Social Security benefits to retirees be withheld to "encourage" more compliance. "While I think the mandates requiring vaccination to keep your job are a good start, we should not forget to use the leverage we have with those living on pensions. We should make...

Former South Florida talk show host Dick Farrel, known and beloved by fans for his over-the-top right-wing opinions, has died from complications from COVID-19. On Facebook, Farrel advocated against getting the coronavirus vaccine and was skeptical of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and his recommendations concerning the coronavirus. Friends said after contracting the virus he changed his point of view.

"Real Time" host Bill Maher insisted that Andrew Cuomo has overstayed his welcome as New York's governor amid the growing scandals plaguing the prominent Democrat. During his opening monologue Friday night, Maher began by telling his audience that it's "Day Four of the Andrew Cuomo death watch." "The report came back. Yes, sleaze," Maher recapped, sharing the findings by New York Attorney General Letitia James. "Democrats are dropping him like he's made of gluten."

Lies and lies – even about her daughter… who can wear masks all day.

Actor Mike Mitchell, who appeared in "Gladiator" and "Braveheart," has died ... TMZ has learned.Mitchell's rep tells TMZ the actor/bodybuilder died Friday on a boat in Turkey. The family says they believe he suffered a death from natural causes, although they weren't more specific.The rep says, "It was very hard to believe ... The sudden death of an international actor we managed, an honest person, a real actor, a true friend, my dear friend, has saddened us deeply. I've always been honored to be your manager. I wish patience to you wife, dear Denise Mitchell, and your children. Getting to...

The Disney-owned Freeform TV series Grown-ish, the cable-based spin-off of the ABC sitcom Black-ish, went full anti-cop and anti-white in a recent episode claiming that all cops are racists looking to “murder” innocent black people, and for good measure added that “white people are inherently bad.” The series’ August 4 episode, entitled “Boy With a Gun,” opened with Doug (Diggy Simmons) going for a morning jog in California juxtaposed with a young black man being gunned down by police outside a store in Virginia. The man is killed even though he had his hands up and was complying with police...