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A South Carolina man has been arrested for alleging giving a child a face tattoo at a McDonald’s restaurant, police said. Brandon Presha, 28, of Laurens, S.C., is charged with illegal tattooing and underage tattooing after police learned that a minor received a tattoo, FOX Carolina reported. Brandon Presha, 28, of Laurens, was arrested Tuesday on charges of illegal tattooing and underage tattooing, Laurens Police Chief Chrissie Latimore said. The chief said a judge has set bond on both charges at $25,000, WYFF-TV reported.

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s name appears on four U.S patents for a key glycoprotein that seems to have been inserted into the SARS virus to create COVID-19. Justia.com, a legal portal, lists patents by inventor Anthony Fauci involving a glycoprotein in HIV-1. This same glycoprotein, identified as Glycoprotein 120, or simply as GP120, has also been found to be a key component of the current COVID-19, a disease that appears to combine a HIV-1 attack on the human immune system, with SARS CoV-1, the pathogen from the original SARS Medical scientists in India reported four intersections in the spike glycoprotein that...

Administration may have little leverage to influence prices: analysts Later, Biden, in a speech, underlined that theme, saying that gasoline prices have remained high as oil prices fell. “I want to make sure that nothing stands in the way of oil-price declines leading to lower prices for consumers,” he said. High oil prices, particularly when translated into rising gasoline prices, are always a politically sensitive issue. Biden is hardly the first president to take aim at OPEC, or to urge regulators to take a close look at gasoline prices. Retail gasoline prices averaged $3.14 a gallon in July, the highest...

WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT Hunter Biden claims Russian drug dealers stole another one of his laptops for blackmail while he was drugged out in a Vegas hotel room in 2018 Video obtained by DailyMail.com shows Hunter with a naked hooker in 2019 after filming a sex tape and explaining how he believed his laptop was stolen Hunter left the camera rolling as he recounted a Las Vegas bender in which he spent '18 days going round from penthouse suite to penthouse suite' The incident would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers, each likely to hold sensitive information on President...

Conservative California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder recently said in an interview that, “I do believe that Joe Biden won the election fairly and squarely.” Elder’s response understandably invited outrage and condemnation from countless conservatives, who maintain that the 2020 election was stolen. Catturd, an unapologetic conservative with an impressive Twitter following of more than 540,000 accounts— myself included — tweeted “Good morning - see ya later Larry Elder. He can't hold up under pressure - and yes I saw the full video, which wasn't much better. His poll numbers are about to plummet.” I understand the response from Catturd, which...

Vietnam recorded 9,653 new local Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the nation's second highest daily number ever. Thursday's infection tally came only after 9,684 cases recorded on August 8. It included 2,226 cases detected in the community. The five localities which recorded the highest numbers of infections were Ho Chi Minh City with 3,841 cases, Binh Duong with 3,028, Dong Nai 1,071, Long An 354 and Tien Giang 212, all in southern Vietnam.

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean predicted Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) would not win the state of Florida if he ran for president right now. Dean said, “He’s totally unfit to govern in any way, and he’s an embarrassment to every governor, I mean every governor, both Republicans and Democrats. A guy like this should never be in public authority. The good news here for the people of Florida is that people are beginning to stand up to this. In the last 24 hours, there are a number of large school districts that...

Video interview of Doctor Lee Merritt by Mike Adam. She is thinking outside the box, boring down on the reality that Covid is a bioweapon, not a conventional 'virus.' As she points out, it would explain why no one can map the genome under established protocols. Dr. Merritt was one of the earliest individuals speaking on the plandemic.

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Aug. 11. Prince NAPOLEON's experience at Manassas was not such as to create in his mind a very favorable opinion of the rebels or their cause. Only himself was accommodated with a bed. His companions were compelled to sleep in their carriages, and the rebel soldiers slept any and everywhere under hedges and trees, they being without tents. The troops are miserably fed, and the Prince said he had but one good meal while he was there. His opinion of the rebel commanders he expressed as follows: "Gen. BEAUREGARD has very much show -- much pomp. A great...

A Texas (San Antonio) driver ended up dead Wednesday night after crashing her vehicle and then firing shots at three people who tried to come to her aid, according to a report. As for the gun-wielding driver, who was in her 20s or 30s, a nearby neighbor shot her dead after coming to the defense of the three Good Samaritans who were fired upon, FOX 29 reported. Those shot by the suspect were a 50-year-old man who died at a hospital, a woman in her 50s and a male in his late teens, the report said.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani says Gov. Andrew Cuomo will “resurrect himself in some way” because he’s “smarter and more talented” than other disgraced pols. “Andrew will resurrect himself in some way. He’s a very, very tough guy, determined guy. He’s a fighter. “He’ll find some way to resurrect himself.” Giuliani also bashed Attorney General Letitia James’ independent probe of Cuomo’s alleged rampant sexual harassment, claiming James wanted him out of Albany so she could run for governor, in a Wednesday interview with WABC radio. “What she did was so unethical. She should be disbarred for doing that,” President Trump’s former...

The Air Force said Tuesday it will allow airmen to wear morale patches on certain days, put hands in their pockets, and to tattoo their scalps as part of an upcoming revision to dress and appearance standards. The changes, as well as several others, are expected to take effect in early October when the service plans to release an update to Instruction 36-2903, Dress and Appearance of Air Force Personnel. The relaxed dress rules also will increase the length of hair allowed for men from the current 2 inches to 2.5 inches, and will allow women to wear 2-inch hair...

There are two types of coffee drinkers: casual and extremely particular. Regardless which type you are, you might want to know how climate change impacts coffee production. The media tell us coffee plants are dying because of climate change. Time magazine, for example published an article titled, “Your Morning Cup of Coffee Is in Danger. Can the Industry Adapt in Time?” It quoted Howard Schultz, former chairman and CEO of Starbucks, as putting “climate change” high among the company’s “long-term challenges.” Well, the bad news is that some weather events can kill coffee plants. The good news is that it...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPsalm 132 A song of ascents. 1 Lord, remember David and all his self-denial. 2 He swore an oath to the Lord, he made a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob: 3 “I will not enter my house or go to my bed, 4 I will allow no sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, 5 till I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.” 6 We heard it in Ephrathah, we came upon it in the fields of Jaar:[a] 7 “Let us go to...

We are often led to believe that it is the Christian thing to do to keep the southern border open. But is that really the case? This question is all the more acute in our nation’s battle against the spread of COVID-19. President Biden is acting as if there were one standard in dealing with COVID for law-abiding American citizens and another standard for those who break the law – as in the example of the illegal aliens streaming through our porous southern border. Gary Bauer in his End of Day Report (7/29/21) notes: “While the CDC is forcing vaccinated...

"LCPS’ number one priority is to foster the success of all students and ensure they feel safe, secure, accepted, and ready to learn at school," It also allows transgender students access to school facilities that correspond to their "consistently asserted gender identity."

In this study...the team tested a panel of already licensed drugs – including fenofibrate – to identify candidates that disrupt ACE2 and Spike interactions...Importantly, reduction of infection was obtained using concentrations of the drug which are safe and achievable using the standard clinical dose of fenofibrate.

Warnings that state and local governments faced a fiscal calamity were predictably plentiful when it became clear in early 2020 that COVID-19 would cause major social and economic disruptions. Predictable because it has become gospel that the solution to an economic downturn is to have the federal government suck money out of the private sector, redistribute it to state and local governments minus a cut for all three levels of bureaucracy and then spend the remainder -- often wastefully -- according to political desires and special-interest dreams. There were a few of us who argued that federal bailouts for state...

After holding her position for over three decades, the Principal Flute of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO), Emily Skala, was fired following a second instance of spreading misinformation related to COVID-19 on social media. The dismissal follows a string of incidents, some related to Skala's conduct on social media and others to her general conduct in and around the orchestra. The BSO has only specified the social media posts as the reason for the dismissal, as Skala shared a range of posts that questioned the efficacy of vaccines and face masks. Skala had also refused to comply with some of...

“‘Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal’” (Matthew 6:19). Heaven is the only safe place for treasure. In the Orient during biblical times, wealth was basically preserved in three ways. There was no paper, there were no bank books, there was nothing to match the kind of system we have. Wealth was identified in literal commodities: garments, grain, and gold or precious metals. Garments in the Bible were always an expression of wealth. In Judges 14:12 Samson told the Philistines that if they could answer his...