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Seventy-five years ago, in August 1946, George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” was published in the United States. It was a huge success, with over a half-million copies sold in its first year. “Animal Farm” was followed three years later by an even bigger success: Orwell’s dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”In the years since, Orwell’s writing has left an indelible mark on American thought and culture. Sales of “Animal Farm” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four” jumped in 2013 after the whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked confidential National Security Agency documents. And “Nineteen Eighty-Four” rose to the top of Amazon’s best-sellers list after Donald Trump’s Presidential Inauguration...

Almost all governments around the world have so far resisted making Covid vaccination mandatory for their citizens, although many have introduced forms of Covid vaccination certificates, passes or passports that allow the immunized bearer more freedoms and work opportunities than unvaccinated people. Aspects of daily life are increasingly complicated for anyone who is not vaccinated against Covid, and there is a rising sense of anger and injustice among those who reject the vaccine. Despite protests among groups against such moves, the freedom to travel, work, socialize and engage in leisure activities is increasingly determined by our Covid vaccination status. Nationally...

However, the answer for why these people chose not to get the shot surprised Grinstein-Weiss, director of the Social Policy Institute (SPI) at Washington University and a visiting professor at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya: Some one-third of the people who said they did not vaccinate – 54% of haredim and 38% of Arabs – said it was because they already contracted the virus in a previous wave and therefore felt that they were protected. It is important to understand this when messaging about vaccination to these populations,” Grinstein-Weiss said. “This one-third is not really anti-vaccination. So, it just needs...

Conservative commentator Nick Fuentes, who said he was in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 but was nowhere near the Capitol building when things escalated, said that the FBI has raided his bank account, taking $500,000 which he has no legal recourse to recover, a report said. Nick Fuentes Fuentes, the 23-year-old host of the live-streamed America First program, said he had attended President Donald Trump’s rally on Jan. 6, which he called a “civil First Amendment protected demonstration,” and added that the FBI and Department of Justice are investigating him even though he was not at the Capitol when the...

Republican leaders are slamming President Biden for taking a long weekend out of the public eye as major cities fall to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Biden on Thursday sent 3,000 US troops to Kabul to evacuate US Embassy workers as the Taliban overran Herat and Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second- and third-largest cities — but he hasn’t commented publicly on the crisis since Tuesday. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Friday that Biden “must immediately focus all efforts on making sure there is a plan to safely extract all American service members and civilians still remaining in Afghanistan.”

While you were sleeping Senator Ted Cruz saved the nation from Marxist control on Wednesday night from the radical Democrats. Cruz killed the Democrats’ “The People Act” that would put power into the Marxist’s hands. Thank God for Ted Cruz. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blocked an attempt by Senate Democrats to push through a federal election overhaul bill early Wednesday morning. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) brought the For The People Act, a bill critics say amounts to a federal takeover of elections, to the floor around 3:30 a.m. after the Senate had concluded 15 hours of amendment votes...

President Joe Biden is weighing vaccines mandates for interstate travel, according to the Associated Press (AP) on Thursday. “Still, while more severe [coronavirus] measures — such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID-19 — have been discussed,” the AP writes, “the administration worried that they would be too polarizing for the moment.” The Biden Admin is discussing mandating vaccines for interstate travel pic.twitter.com/5utzxproOM — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 13, 2021 For the time being, the White House seems content with shaming those...

Fauci appeared on NBC News’ “Today” show on Thursday morning, where he talked about the COVID-19 vaccine, among other subjects. During his interview, Fauci suggested that pregnant women are often vulnerable to severe disease from COVID-19, and they should look to get vaccinated. “When pregnant women who are not vaccinated get COVID-19, they get into serious difficulty,” Fauci said. “There’s no question that recommendation had to switch from ‘could’ to ‘should’.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday he received a letter from the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services determining that genital mutilation of a (child) through gender transitioning surgery constitutes child abuse.Abbott had directed DFPS to issue a determination on the matter last week and the department’s commissioner (Jaime Masters) replied with his findings.“Genital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery is child abuse,” Masters wrote. “This surgical procedure physically alters a child’s genitalia for non-medical purposes potentially inflicting irreversible harm to children’s bodies,” he wrote.

Fox Business host Charles Payne placed the blame for spiking energy prices right at the feet of President Joe Biden's fossil fuel “war.” Fox News anchor John Roberts called out the “inherent contradiction” of Biden begging the international oil cartel Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to pump more oil while “choking the domestic production of oil.” Roberts, during the Aug. 12 edition of America Reports, alluded to how Biden was passing the buck and suggesting rising prices are due to anti-competitive market behavior. Payne, Roberts’ guest, questioned Biden: “Are you against oil in general — you know, I...

New York (CNN)Sales of reusable face masks, which had started to cool down earlier in the summer, have reversed course as the Delta variant spreads across the United States. Weekly mask sales in dollars had been declining in June and into July, according to Adobe Analytics' Digital Economy Index, which tracks sales data directly from a majority of the top 100 US web retailers. They've been rising since the week beginning July 21. According to the latest data, mask sales for the week beginning Aug. 4 were up 40% over the prior week.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's Asian population grew by 25% in the past decade, making it the fastest growing ethnic group in the nation's most populous state, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday. California's white population plummeted by 24% between 2010 and 2020, confirming California is one of three states — along with New Mexico and Hawaii — where whites are not the largest ethnic group. Hispanics surpassed whites as California's largest ethnic group in 2014. The Census data show California's Hispanic population grew by 11% to 15.5 million people, making up just shy of...

In regards to deployment of troops in Afghanistan: 1.) What are the rules of engagement? 2.) After giving away our bases, airfields and the Kabul airport, exactly how will 3,000+ troops leave Afghanistan?The two questions are related. Will they have to fight their way out? And if they do, are they constrained by ROE? Obama was a master at getting our toops killed and injured by forcing them to fight with their hands tied behind their backs. I expect no better from Biden or the woke, racist POS who pretends to be Secretary of Defense.

Space Force leaders are still struggling to rebrand an organization that has been lampooned since before its birth. Now, they are conflicted about becoming the military's go-to on what the Pentagon now calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," according to five current and former officials taking part in the discussions. The unclassified summary stated that "we currently lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to specific explanations." It also concluded that the unknown craft "clearly pose a safety of flight issue [Does it really?] and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security.[Based on what?]" ...[Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen] Hicks...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Thursday that he can't rule out people having to have COVID-19 booster shots indefinitely as the virus continues to surge. ... In his interview on Thursday, Fauci also issued a stark long COVID warning for people with breakthrough infections - those that happen even when someone is fully-vaccinated. He told Cooper that breakthrough infection sufferers are still at risk of long COVID, a term for those who suffer from lingering symptoms for months after their body clears the infection. 'Certainly if you get vaccinated and you get a breakthrough infection, you can get long COVID,'...

WASHINGTON — A military base in Washington has been placed on lockdown after a report that an armed person was spotted on the base. Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling posted a note on its Facebook page on Friday that the base was being placed on lockdown. The notice said the person was spotted on the south side of the base and that anyone who encounters the person should run and hide. The Facebook notice said the "description of the individual" being sought "is a black male with a medium build carrying a Gucci Bag."

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe (D) released an ad on Friday taking aim at his Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin (R) over his approach to the coronavirus pandemic. The minute-long ad, titled “Don’t Florida Our Virginia,” begins with Youngkin responding to a question about if he would model his approach to the pandemic after that of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). “I think Governor DeSantis has done a lot of really impressive things to lead,” Youngkin says in response. “And this is where I look to lead as governor."

You can always take an existing article and rewrite it just enough to avoid copyright infringement.. David Mikkelson, the co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes, has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online, a bulwark in the fight against rumors and fake news. But he has been lying to the site's tens of millions of readers: A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that between 2015 and 2019, Mikkelson wrote and published dozens of articles containing material plagiarized from news outlets such as the Guardian and the LA Times. After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review...

The child of militant Marxist terrorists — his father remains in jail for murdering two police officers 40 years ago; his mother was released in 2003 — Chesa Boudin ran for district attorney essentially on a criminals’ first agenda. He promised to end mass incarceration, cash bail, establish a unit to review alleged wrongful convictions, aggressively prosecute police, and never provide assistance to ICE. Declaring the death penalty to be “racist” and “immoral,” the 40-year-old pledged that his office would not seek the death penalty in future cases. Boudin’s decriminalizing policies, especially releasing repeat offenders, have led to tragic outcomes....

As gas prices skyrocket along with rarely seen inflation, Biden has turned to begging OPEC nations to increase oil production. As gas prices skyrocket along with rarely seen inflation, the Biden administration has turned to begging OPEC nations to increase oil production. On Wednesday, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan released a statement saying that current OPEC production is not enough. Sullivan stated, “Higher gasoline costs, if left unchecked, risk harming the ongoing global recovery. The price of crude oil has been higher than it was at the end of 2019, before the onset of the pandemic.” He continued, “While OPEC+...