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A plurality of U.S. adults believe the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is “going to get worse” as President Biden’s approval rating continues to slump, an Economist/YouGov survey released this week found. The survey asked respondents to gauge where the U.S. is in the pandemic. A plurality, or 37 percent, expressed said “the pandemic is going to get worse.” About a quarter, 25 percent, said the “worst part of the pandemic is behind us,” and 16 percent said, “we are currently in the worst part of the pandemic.” Another 22 percent said they are not sure.

The child at the center of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that established a woman’s right to abortion, has come forward after decades of secrecy. Shelley Lynn Thornton, 51, has revealed herself as the youngest daughter born to Norma McCorvey, whose lawsuit under the pseudonym “Jane Roe” led to the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling that legalized abortion, according to journalist Joshua Prager’s book, “The Family Roe: An American Story.” “Secrets and lies are, like, the two worst things in the whole world,” Thorton told Prager in an excerpt of the book published in The Atlantic on Thursday.

A while back I asked you to pray with me for my granddaughter Amanda and her husband Eric. She was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. I am very pleased to say that our prayers worked! Amanda just finished her third round chemo feels very good, has noticed her tumors are significantly smaller and she seems to be well on her way to putting the whole terrible thing behind her. Paul is still in a coma and the only good news is that he is breathing on his own. Both need continued prayers but you have the deepest gratitude of Amanda's family...

And Vaccines (August 20, 2021) 1. The virus does not spread asymptomatically. 2. We should never test asymptomatic people. 3. Natural immunity is robust, complete, and durable. 4. COVID-19 is easily treatable at home. 5. The current vaccines are obsolete, unsafe, and unfit for human use.

Pres. Biden finally conceded he can’t get all the Senate Democrats to vote for gun-control activist David Chipman to be the director of ATF. The president will withdraw his nomination for Chipman to be approved by the Senate. This is a win for Second Amendment rights. And It’s a huge victory for the American citizens who have been calling their Senators and saying they don’t want Chipman running the ATF. Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Biden to withdraw the nomination last month after reports that Chipman’s “missing” ATF personnel file had charges of racist actions. Chipman’s nomination never...

McDonald's is one of the most recognizable brands in the world and is often synonymous with fast food in general. The chain has more than 36,000 locations in more than 100 countries, including nearly 14,000 in the US. McDonald's revenue totaled $19.21 billion in 2020, with an income of $4.73 billion. The typical McDonald's customer is a married white woman between the ages of 41 and 56, according to data provided by analytics firm Numerator. She likely lives in a suburban area in the southeastern US, and her household makes more than $80,000 a year. This typical shopper either has...

Peter Doocy: "Fauci told congress the NIH never funded gain-of-function research for coronaviruses in Wuhan but documents published by the intercept suggest that is not true." Jen Psaki: "NIH has never approved any research that would make a coronavirus more dangerous to humans."

An Arizona woman who went to Walmart for an oil change claims she ended up with a blown up car instead. Nikki Smith says she narrowly escaped with her life when her Jeep went up in a ball of flames at the Walmart Auto Center in Phoenix — and it was just by the Grace of God she didn't have her three-year-old daughter strapped in there at the time, either. Smith told TooFab she brought the car to the supercenter on Sunday for a routine oil change.(snip) "After I took my car to Walmart I started noticing that my car...

A Chinese businessman on Wednesday was sentenced to two years in prison for illegally exporting marine technology with uses in anti-submarine warfare from the US for the benefit of a Chinese military university. Qin Shuren (覃樹人), who founded a company that sold oceanographic instruments, was sentenced by US District Judge Denise Casper in Boston after admitting he illegally exported devices called hydrophones that can be used to monitor sound underwater. Prosecutors had sought seven-and-a-half years in prison for Qin, who was also fined US$20,000. His guilty plea was conditional, allowing him to appeal a ruling by Casper not to suppress...

White House counsel has not responded to letter seeking answers about whether Joe Biden had a Hillary Clinton problem. The White House failed to meet a deadline last month to provide information to two key Republican senators concerning Joe Biden's use of a private email account as vice president to send government information to his son Hunter Biden. Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republicans on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the Senate Judiciary Committee respectively, asked White House Counsel Dana Ann Remus in a July 30 letter to answer whether Biden used one or more...

Russia and Belarus formally opened vast joint military drills on Thursday, a week-long exercise across the territory of both countries and in the Baltic Sea that has alarmed some NATO countries. Top military leaders from the two countries attended the opening ceremony of the war games, called "Zapad-2021", in western Russia where flags were raised and speeches given. The active part of the exercise, which comes at a time of heightened tensions between the West and Belarus due to a crackdown on the opposition there, begins on Friday and will run until Sept. 16. The Russian defence ministry said up...

The abject stupidity of the triggered left knows no bounds. According to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), the National Archives in Washington, DC has added a disclaimer to their website saying that some of our historical documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution may contain “harmful content.” Boebert tweeted: “The National Archives have now put a disclaimer on their website that our historical documents may include Harmful Content. They even slapped this warning on the Constitution. We tried to tell you the Left wanted to get rid of it!” Lest you think we are making this up,...

For more than a year and a half we have been helplessly witnessing the succession of incongruent events to which most of us are unable to give a plausible justification. The pandemic emergency has made particularly evident the contradictions and illogicalities of measures nominally intended to limit contagion – lockdowns, curfews, closures of commercial activities, limitations of public services and classes, suspension of citizens’ rights – but which are disavowed daily by conflicting voices, by clear evidence of ineffectiveness, by contradictions on the part of the same health authorities..

MIT breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power. Project achieves major advance toward fusion energy SOURCE — MIT It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth. That successful demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build the world’s first fusion power plant that can produce more power than it...

Mayor Bill de Blasio's Department of Education is planning to get rid of schools' honor rolls. "By extolling excellence we harm the psyches of the other students," the Mayor complained. "Not everyone has the ability to excel or even pass the classes our schools offer. When these less able students see peers praised for outdoing them they can't help but feel somehow diminished. Considering the racial composition of those who make the honor roll compared to those who don't, the whole scheme looks racist." De Blasio complained that "the very practice of acknowledging accomplishment is inherently inequitable. By doing it...

Chinese state-run Global Times media outlet published an op-ed from its editorial board on Wednesday vowing that China’s military will soon confront the U.S. in a hostile exchange. “The US will definitely see the PLA show up at its doorstep in the not-too-distant future,” the op-ed said. “The two sides’ warships and aircraft on the seas will carry huge mutual strategic hostility, and the two countries will not yield to each other.” “Once the situation gets out of control and triggers military clash between China and the US, we must give full play to our home field advantage. China will...

Why does Team Biden insist on telling lies that even it can’t keep up for more than a day? Does it really think its shameless spinning can contain the public fury or that Americans will just forget those left behind in the dishonorable exit from Afghanistan? It’s been insisting that fewer than 100 Americans are stranded in the land the Taliban now controls. But a reported 143 US citizens and green-card holders alone are stuck at Mazar-i-Sharif’s airport, booked on waiting planes the Taliban won’t let leave. More than a week after President Joe Biden declared his evacuation an “extraordinary...

This latest story is absolute insanity. A Rutgers student has been barred from attending classes virtually, from his own home, because he didn’t get vaccinated. Are colleges have been taken over by complete morons. Logan Hollar transferred to Rutgers University in 2020, spending his junior year taking virtual classes from his Sandyston home in Sussex County, more than 70 miles away from the New Brunswick campus.For this school year, as a senior, the psychology major decided to sign up for all virtual classes. He hasn’t taken, and doesn’t want, the COVID vaccine. “I’m not in an at-risk age group. I’m...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), despite losing numerous vulnerable members to retirements and seeking higher office instead of facing tough races, is confident Democrats will keep the House of Representatives in the midterms. “In terms of the elections … I know we will win in the Congress,” Pelosi said while speaking Wednesday in East Hartford, Connecticut, about the Democrats’ chances in the midterms.

One key prong of President Biden's plan to bankroll Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget plan is to monitor every inflow and outflow of an individual's bank account. The proposal would require banks to report to the IRS every deposit and withdrawal from an account, including transactions from Venmo, PayPal, crypto exchanges and the like in an effort to fight tax evasion. The IRS would know how much money is in an individual's bank account in a given year, whether the individual earned income on that account and exactly how much was going in an and out. Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen,...