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srael has issued a stark warning about the COVID-19 vaccine — it can blunt the spread of the delta variant, but it cannot defeat it. Does the COVID-19 vaccine stop the delta variant? Officials in Israel said this week that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine might not be totally effective against the novel coronavirus. Israel has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world with 78% of those 12 years old and up fully vaccinated, per Science Magazine. However, the country has been suffering from one of the world’s highest infection rates — with 650 infections per 1 million people,...

Bloodied and beaten by the Taliban - this was the fate of one man claiming to be an Australian citizen as he tried to reach Kabul airport today as the Islamists defied Joe Biden's demand to let evacuation flights continue unimpeded with just hours left to get civilians out of the country. The man, whose identity is unknown, was attacked after the Taliban vowed to stop people reaching the airport despite Biden demanding that they 'allow access to the airport for those who are transporting out and no disruptions to our operations' in return for US troops withdrawing from the...

Justin Trudeau wants his government upgraded from a minority to a majority. The problem is that, judging from its results, the progressive program he has enacted over the past six years is a firing offence, not grounds for promotion.... So, under Trudeau’s progressive program, economic growth in Canada was worse than the United States before the pandemic, has been worse since the pandemic began, and, all signals indicate, will face new government-imposed obstacles in the future.... The numbers do not lie; over the past six years, Canada has become a worse place to do business.... Such are the results of...

A Taliban fighter walks past a Kabul beauty salon, where images of women are defaced by spray paint. Fear is mounting for women and girls in Afghanistan after the Taliban told working women to stay at home, admitting they were not safe in the hands of the militant group's soldiers. Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said at a news conference on Tuesday that women should not go to work for their own safety, undermining the group's efforts to convince international observers that the group would be more tolerant towards women than when they were last in power. The instruction came the...

In 2012, then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was pilloried by the press for his comment that 47 percent of Americans pay no income taxes. “Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax,” Romney factually stated. That was then. This is now. According to a new report from the Urban Institute & Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, “The COVID-19 pandemic and the policy response to it led to an extraordinary increase in the number of American households that owed no federal individual income tax in 2020.”

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was grilled during Tuesday’s press briefing over the administration’s disaster in Afghanistan. Psaki said that completion of the operation to evacuate U.S. citizens depended “on continued coordination with the Taliban,” adding that Biden has requested contingency plans from the Pentagon. She later added that the evacuations would stop before the August 31 deadline so there was time to get U.S. forces out of the country. Psaki did not know whether the deadline was at midnight on August 30 or 31 and whether it was U.S. time or Afghanistan time. When asked about at least...

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PETER DENIES JESUS THRICE. 30 A.D. Bible Timeline Resources to CLICK: To read MARK 14 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 Mt26+Mk14+Lk22+Jn18 New International Version ©1984, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible .MATT. 26 31 Then Jesus told them, "This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: "'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.' 32 But after I have...

Watchdog group Open the Books says abandoned U.S. weaponry, vehicles, planes will fall in the hands of the Taliban. =========================================================================== The U.S. military is leaving behind 75,000 vehicles, 600,000 weapons and 208 airplanes/helicopters in Afghanistan as the Taliban takes control of the country, according to the watchdog group Open the Books. “We've made the Taliban into a major U.S. arms dealer for the next decade,” said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO & founder of Open the Books. “They now control 75,000 military vehicles. This is about 50,000 tactical vehicles, 20,000 Humvees they control about 1,000 mine-resistant vehicles, and even about 150 armored...

resident Joe Biden has decided to stick with his self-imposed Aug. 31 Afghanistan withdrawal deadline. Except now, it's the Taliban's deadline. Taliban leader Suhail Shaheen called Aug. 31 "a red line. If the U.S. or UK ... seek additional time to continue evacuations -- the answer is no ... " Shaheen called an extension "continuing the occupation," which will "provoke a (Taliban) reaction." Biden not only surrendered to terrorists spouting bombastic threats, but he also capitulated to the revived murderous and culturally misogynistic regime that gave al-Qaida terrorists a base to plot the September 11, 2001, attacks that killed 2,977...

New COVID-19 deaths and cases skyrocketed across the country over the past week as the nation continues to battle a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” White House officials said Tuesday. The latest rolling seven-day average of daily COVID-19 deaths was 739 — a 23 percent increase from the week before, said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky during a briefing. While the daily average hospitalization rate of 11,000 remained close to the previous week’s numbers, the seven-day average for new cases jumped nearly 12 percent with about 137,000 new infections reported each day, Walensky said.

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is a “canary in the coalmine” when it comes to the GOP’s relationship with former President Trump, contending that the senator “has a good political nose for his base.” “But I would use him as a canary in the coalmine and the degree to which he has doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on Trump says everything. Whether you like him or not, he has a good political nose for his base,” Sanford wrote in his memoir, “Two Roads Diverged,” set to be released Tuesday. The Guardian reported on...

The fact-finding mission was not approved by Congress and had infuriated members of the Biden administration. ========================================================================== Tow House members and U.S. military veterans – Reps. Seth Moulton, a Democrat, and Peter Meijer, a Republican – took an unauthorized trip this week to Kabul as U.S. military forces scramble in Afghanistan to evacuate as many Americans and Afghan allies as possible before their Aug. 31. withdrawal deadline. The trip was not confirmed until the Massachusetts and Michigan lawmakers, respectively, left Afghan airspace on a return flight, close to 24-hours after initially landing. Both served in Iraq before being elected to...

The commercial aircraft that al-Qaida terrorists flew into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001 -- killing 2,977 people -- did not take off from some foreign land before flying toward targets here in the United States. They were all domestic flights that took off from American cities and were headed toward American cities. American Airlines Flight 11, which struck the north tower of the World Trade Center, took off from Boston and was heading to Los Angeles. United Airlines Flight 175, which struck the south tower of the World Trade Center, also...

For me, it crystallizes the Orwellian irony, dichotomy, disconnect, call-it-what-you-will of Democrat/Leftist/Progressive's complete disregard for individual human suffering. Wrapping themselves in the Shroud of Turin while proclaiming the goal of creating heaven on earth, they bring nothing but death and destruction. Funny how Angel of Death Cuomo gets his Emmy Award revoked for sexual abuse and harassment of about a dozen women yet there is not a peep about the 15-18,000 or more (we'll never get an honest accounting of the real number) frail, elderly nursing home residents he murdered by intentionally exposing them to the Chinese Lung AIDS. Bookend...

Just Say No If America is to enjoy a new birth of freedom, it starts with those Americans who believe there are some things more important than safety, some things dearer even than life. In 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Winston Churchill gave his famous “the lights are going out” speech, in which he said, instructively: “Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word ‘No.’ Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples.” In 2021, the world takes stock of its...

The leader of the militia group convicted in the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque wants to be recognized as a transgender woman and receive a lower sentence because of it, according to court documents. Shannon Elkins, the public defender for Emily Claire Hari, 50, a biological male who identifies as a woman, is asking for a federal judge to grant Hari the minimum sentence because gender dysphoria and online anti-Muslim content allegedly fueled an "inner conflict" in Hari leading up to the attack. Prosecutors said Hari, formerly known as Michael Hari, and two men used a sledgehammer to break...

Hey, Biden Voters! You didn’t have a clue about how power works in the real world. You should have. You were a grown-up. You had no excuse. Damn you all.You’re American citizens, with the right to vote in presidential elections.For four years, we had a president who, over the course of a single term, managed to undo a great deal of the mischief wrought, and a great many of the mistakes made, by his recent predecessors. Trump revived America’s economy, shored up Americans’ individual liberties, forged several remarkable peace agreements, and greatly strengthened our international position—thus firmly checking the ambitions...

Have you noticed that it is a lot harder to get certain things these days? Just recently, someone in my local area was surprised when her appointment to get the windshield on her vehicle fixed was canceled because it wasn’t possible to get a replacement windshield. This was a windshield for a very common vehicle, and normally that wouldn’t be a problem at all. But these are not normal times. Thanks to several factors that I will detail in this article, global supply chains are now under more strain than we have ever seen in the post-World War II era,...

Newly sworn-in New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is wasting no time taking sides in the school mask wars. Even before taking the top job, she told NBC's "Today" that she intends to mandate masks for all public school students in the state. She's got President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party on her side, but the science is against her. There are no studies that demonstrate forcing young kids to wear masks reduces the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Mandating masks also ignores the fundamental fact that not all masks are created equal. That should be the basis for a...