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It’s said we live in a post-truth world. If so, the social media companies and their so-called fact-checkers helped put us there. Facts no longer matter. Saying that women are men, the Wuhan lab leak theory is false or even claiming the president and vice president never were skeptical of the vaccine — those are the new approved “truths.” Fact-checking doesn’t rely on facts. It often pushes a liberal narrative on everything from abortion to the coronavirus. PolitiFact and other so-called fact-checkers have a history of fact-checking factually true statements that don't suit liberal narratives. That’s precisely what Facebook’s approved...

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to pass Sen. Tom Cotton’s amendment in the budget reconciliation package that prohibits federal funds to be used to promote critical race theory in schools. Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who has been critical of CRT, posted that the Senate approved the amendment in a 50-49 vote. "The fight against CRT has gone national—and Sen. Cotton is leading the way," he posted.

Pat Hitchcock, the only child of Alfred Hitchcock who appeared in the thrillers Stage Fright, Strangers on a Train and Psycho for the legendary British director, has died. She was 93. Hitchcock’s youngest daughter, Amblin executive Katie Fiala, told The Hollywood Reporter that her mother died Monday at her home in Thousand Oaks. Also the daughter of film editor/screenwriter Alma Reville — Pat Hitchcock’s parents were married for 54 years — the London native showed up on 10 episodes of CBS’ Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1955-60, “whenever they needed a maid with an English accent,” she told The Washington Post...

After a year of start-and-stop public-health measures, more often guided by intuition than by science, studies are confirming what economists long suspected: the Covid-19 lockdowns were an expensive, unnecessary failure, based on models that overestimated the number of cases and deaths because they failed to account for individual responses to the pandemic. Epidemiologists viewed lockdowns as the logical response to a new virus to which humans lacked immunity and that could overwhelm hospitals and cause many deaths. Yet health economists, following seminal work by Tomas Philipson, have long understood that people respond to incentives and alter their behaviors to avoid...

On this date in 979, a Saxon lord won a trial by combat at the cost of his head. You’re not supposed to call this period the “Dark Ages” but it’s fair to say that our sources don’t throw a comprehensive illumination on the story. Our date’s principal is a count named Gero, possibly/presumably the descendant of one Gero the Great who governed a vast eastern march of the Holy Roman Empire. Famous for his campaigns against the Slavs, the Great Gero is the historical personage behind the “Margrave Gere” character in the Nibelungenlied. By our Gero’s generation, that vast...

Vox Day's website has been taken down by Google. For those who don't know who he is, he is a conservative/alt-right author who has started several businesses to create alternatives to liberal products, including: • Arkhaven Comics: a comic book publisher • Castalia House: physical book publishing house • Infogalactic: a Wikipedia alternative • news.infogalactic.com: alternative news aggregator He is also the author of "SJW's Always Lie", "SJW's Always Double Down", "The Irrational Atheist", "Cuckservative: How Conservatives Betrayed America", "Corporate Cancer" (a book about how liberals damage companies from within), and multiple fiction novels. Lately, he has been speaking out...

It was only a month ago when the long-oppressed Cuban people rose up in a historic challenge to the island’s brutal regime. The world saw vivid images of Cubans taking to the streets to call for an end to the dictatorship. And thanks to social media, the world actually witnessed the regime’s savage crackdown and the courage of the Cuban people. Then, a week later, everything went dark and the world moved on. What happened?

On Wednesday, an Ohio judge ordered a man to get the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of his probation. During the sentencing hearing for 21-year-old Brandon Rutherford, Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Wagner ordered Rutherford to provide proof of getting the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of his Community Control following his recent drug conviction. According to Cincinnati-based station WCPO, Rutherford appeared at his hearing wearing a face mask due to the COVID-19 numbers climbing. Wagner then asked him if he was vaccinated and planned on getting vaccinated. Rutherford answered no to both questions. As a result, Wagner...

Achieving herd immunity is "not a possibility" with the Delta variant circulating, Sir Andrew Pollard said.That is because the variant can be transmitted by vaccinated people, he said. "We don't have anything which will stop that transmission," he said.The Delta variant has changed the equation for achieving herd immunity, the developer of the Oxford/AstraZeneca has said.Speaking at a UK parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, Sir Andrew Pollard, a professor of paediatric infection and immunity at the University of Oxford, said that achieving herd immunity is "not a possibility" now that the Delta variant is circulating. "We know very clearly with coronavirus...

With so many things in the news today, most of which can be disheartening and demoralizing, and even be a cause of worrisome fear for many, it is most important to have faith and trust in God. Having been somewhat of a news junkie over the years, I have come to a place now where I realize I often had my eyes more on the waves than on Jesus. Even though it increases our faith in the things which the Bible stated would happen when we see the very events unfolding before our eyes, if we become too mindful of...

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Former President Donald Trump's calls to thwart the centerpiece of President Joe Biden's agenda went unheeded by 19 Senate Republicans, who joined all 50 Democratic-voting senators Tuesday to pass a $550 billion infrastructure package. The "yes" votes amounted to one of the more significant rebukes of Trump, who maintains a strong grip on the party's base and sought unsuccessfully to pass an infrastructure deal of his own when he was in office. In recent weeks, Trump criticized Republicans for supporting the effort and threatened them with possible primary challengers. Although he didn't make clear what specifically in the bill he...

JESUS SEES THE WIDOW'S OFFERING. 30 A.D. Bible Timeline Resources to CLICK: To read LUKE 21 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels Mark 12 + Luke 21 New International Version ©1984, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . MARK 12:41-44 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is sending a warning shot to President Biden and congressional leaders, saying he has "serious concerns" about spending $3.5 trillion on a massive package that Democrats want to pass later this year. Manchin said in a statement early Wednesday that he has "serious concerns about the grave consequences ... if Congress decides to spend another $3.5 trillion." “Given the current state of the economic recovery, it is simply irresponsible to continue spending at levels more suited to respond to a Great Depression or Great Recession — not an economy that is on the verge of overheating,"...

Matt has already reported on the Kaiser Poll that countered the left’s narrative that it’s Republicans who are most vaccine hesitant. According to that data, most of them “are people who are detached from the political process and didn’t vote for either major candidate in 2020,” according to CNN. Now, a separate study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University has revealed some other interesting data about the vaccine hesitant. The researchers looked at vaccine hesitancy across race, education, U.S. region and Trump support in the 2020 election. When it comes to education, this survey...

@jamesdoleman Breaking: US government wins appeal to challenge psychiatric evidence in the Julian Assange extradition case. More to follow

Starting a new thread for Day 2 Highlights from Day1 Excellent video by Colonel Phil Waldren Dr Frank's excellent presentation of his separate election fraud data Dr. Frank also explained PCAPs. Bolsonaro's son excellent presentation of his father's story. President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. Whistleblowers from Colorado.

If you look carefully into the night sky, you might see a star that wasn't visible last week. In the equatorial constellation of Ophiuchus, a star named RS Ophiuchi about 4,566 light-years away has just had an epic eruption. This nova was so bright that the star is now visible to the naked eye, at a magnitude of around 4.8 – a whopping seven magnitudes brighter than its usual 12th magnitude dimness. Novae are rare enough to spot at the best of times, but what makes this occasion so special is the rarity of the star. RS Ophiuchi is what...

Holy LGBTQ, Caped Crusader!!! Robin's dropping big personal news in the latest installment of "Batman: Urban Legends" ... he's bisexual. Tim Drake is the DC character who fights crime as Robin, and when the sixth installment of the comic book dropped Tuesday the story ended with Tim saying yes to going on a date with a guy named Bernard Dowd. The story goes ... Robin had a "lightbulb moment" while fighting side-by-side with Bernard. After coming to his rescue as Robin, Tim later hits up Bernard's pad, and you can see the anticipation's building 'cause he hypes himself up, saying...

American Express, which made a $2.3 billion profit last quarter, invited the great-grandson of the Nation of Islam’s founder to tell its employees that capitalism is evil.It was part of the credit card giant’s critical race theory training program, which asks workers to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves on a hierarchy of “privilege.”According to a trove of documents I’ve reviewed, AmEx executives created an internal “Anti-Racism Initiative” after George Floyd’s death last year, subjecting employees to a training program based on the core CRT tenets, including intersectionality, which reduces individuals to a tangle of racial, gender...