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Even at a time when death and despair are so rampant in the world, we tend not to call out families that are mourning. But one family chose to use the death of their matriarch as a time to make a public political statement, so we are choosing to respond. An Illinois family is sending a message to the unvaccinated through their loved one’s obituary. It says the 66-year-old woman was vaccinated for COVID-19 but still got infected and died because others refused the shots. Candace “Candy” Ayers, 66, died from COVID-19 at an Illinois hospital Sept. 3, more than...

Utah police have released body camera footage from an encounter with missing 22-year-old Long Island, New York, native Gabrielle Petito about two weeks before she was last heard from.According to police, Petito and her fiancé, 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, were in Moab, Utah, on Aug. 12. That morning, someone called police after the two appeared to argue outside a food cooperative called Moonflower. Moab police pulled the couple over a short time later.In the footage, when the officer approached the vehicle, he immediately separated Petito and Laundrie before interviewing them about the alleged altercation."We've just been fighting this morning, some personal...

Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday evening responded to Joe Biden’s decision to slash monoclonal antibody treatments sent to Florida. As previously reported, the Biden Regime this week gave Florida less than half of the lifesaving treatments it needed for a 7-day period. Red states such as Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana and others are also being singled out by the Biden Regime. According to reports, Florida needs about 72,000 doses of monoclonal antibody treatments per week, however, the Biden Regime only sent Florida 30,950 doses this week. Psaki on Thursday defended this move and said the Biden Regime’s priority is...

President Biden's radical/woke/leftist dream of a "budget" bill contains a lot of liberal nonsense at a cost of more than three trillion dollars. Among the most consequential provisions within it are major changes to the immigration system in the United States. And because of the reconciliation process being used by Democrat leadership in Congress, most of these provisions will receive little, if any, debate by legislators. Including mass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens — what the Biden budget refers to as "human infrastructure" — the package to be passed via reconciliation also does more than simply "reform" America's immigration...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three housing-related bills into law Thursday that are likely to make multi-family housing projects easier to build and could open up many single-family zones to development. Senate Bill 8 extends until 2030 the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, which “accelerates the approval process for housing projects, curtails local governments’ ability to downzone and limits fee increases on housing applications,” Senate Bill 9 “facilitates the process for homeowners to build a duplex or split their current residential lot,” In practice, the bill will “require cities to approve up to four housing units on what was a single-family...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Cases and Hospitalizations continued declining on this report - But 1,942 Daily Deaths is still near the peak of the Delta Wave - Vaccinations at a moderately strong pace on this report (743K/day) - 93% of American seniors have at least one dose, 76% of adults) Administered: 383,038,403 (14,750,931 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 210,700,361 Fully Vaccinated: 180,086,143 Boosters: 1.98 Million

This new piece from Reuters - hardly a outpost of anti-vax fanaticism - should terrify vaccine advocates. And, honestly, scare the rest of us. A reminder: Britain has pursued a mass vaccination strategy as aggressively as any country. It approved Pfizer’s vaccine even before the FDA. More than 80% of Britons over 16 are now fully vaccinated. But Britain is in far worse shape than it was at this time last year, when no one was vaccinated. It is now averaging about 140 deaths a day, roughly 10 times as many as mid-September 2020. And hospitalizations and deaths continue to...

temporary camp in Del Rio has grown with staggering speed in recent days during a massive surge in migration that has overwhelmed the authorities. DEL RIO, Texas — Thousands of migrants were crowded under a bridge outside the border community of Del Rio on Thursday, part of a massive surge in migration across the Rio Grande this week that has overwhelmed the authorities and caused significant delays in processing the arrivals. The U.S. Border Patrol said that more than 9,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti, were being held in a temporary staging area under the Del Rio International Bridge as agents...

Former President Trump endorsed a Republican challenger in Michigan’s election for the state attorney general in 2022. In a statement released through his Save America PAC, Trump endorsed lawyer Matt DePerno in the race to replace Attorney General Dana Nessel (D). DePerno “has defended the Constitution for 20 years, and has been on the front lines pursuing fair and accurate elections, as he relentlessly fights to reveal the truth about the Nov. 3rd Presidential Election Scam,” Trump said in the statement. Trump further said that DePerno will “properly enforce the laws for everyone unlike what the out-of-control Radical Left Prosecutors...

January 6 rioters used video sharing app TikTok to recruit participants and even warned them to bring guns to the Stop the Steal rally that preceded it, the Department of Homeland Security says. DHS's Office of Intelligence and Analysis filed a report this April highlighting concerns that violent content was growing on the Chinese-owned social media platform, from promoting the riot and acts of terrorism to instructing others how to build bombs and sabotage railroad tracks. The five page report, obtained by the Property of the People transparency watchdog group and shared with Politico Thursday, comes as federal authorities examine...

The first outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the Western Hemisphere in four decades began on July 28 in the Dominican Republic and was confirmed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The presence of ASF has led to massive hog culling on the Caribbean island that borders Haiti. Bloomberg notes the island may have to slaughter more than half a million pigs to prevent the deadly swine fever virus from spreading. Pork supplies are dwindling, and Dominican importers are panic buying from U.S. slaughterhouses. The latest USDA data shows U.S. exporters shipped a whopping 3,500 metric tons...

The Biden administration issued an emergency order Thursday evening banning drones from flying over the Del Rio, Texas open air border detention camp after videos from a Fox News drone informed the nation of the massive influx of mostly Haitian migrants whose arrival over the past few days has overwhelmed Border Patrol and the small Texas city. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) said earlier Del Rio was being “completely overrun” with migrants. There are reports a caravan of 20,000 migrants is headed to Del Rio. Over 10,000 are reported in the camp as of Thursday evening. The Fox News drone images...

President Joe Biden’s newly issued mandate that companies with 100 or more employees must require vaccinations or weekly COVID-19 testing among their workforce may be just what the doctor ordered for a number of Chicago-area companies, including WeatherTech, the southwest suburban car floor mat manufacturer. The company, which has 1,700 employees on its sprawling Bolingbrook, Ill., campus making everything from dog bowls to cellphone holders, has no vaccine or testing mandates in place, despite having “several very sick employees” and one death from COVID-19, according to WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil. MacNeil, a strong proponent of COVID-19 vaccinations for...

Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has said that the legalization of same-sex marriage in many countries is “a distortion of conscience” which has also entered some Catholic circles. In an introduction to a new anthology of his writings on Europe, Benedict XVI said that “with the legalization of ‘same-sex marriage’ in 16 European countries, the issue of marriage and family has taken on a new dimension that cannot be ignored.” “We are witnessing a distortion of conscience which has evidently penetrated deeply into sectors of the Catholic people,” the pope emeritus wrote. “This cannot be answered with some small moralism or...

It's one of the nation's great mysteries: The first permanent colony of English settlers in what would become the U.S., founded in North Carolina in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh, disappeared three years later with virtually no trace. Now, archaeologists hope a new search for the Lost Colony will unearth clues about what happened to 117 men, women and children who vanished and were never seen again. The First Colony Foundation, a group of archaeologists, is partnering with the National Park Service for a series of digs beginning this week at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. "This dig includes...

What Is the Truth about the “Pandemic?” An excerpt from The Blaylock Wellness Report, September 2021 by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. Major institutions are purposefully hiding essential data and altering data available within official circles to convince the public that there is only one solution to this so-called pandemic: vaccination. . . . The truth is that the makers of these biological agents added polyethylene glycol (PEG) to protect the nanolipid carrierso so it would last much longer in the body―thus allowing the mRNA to produce far more spike protein for a much longer period. The truth is that we...

U.S. Special Counsel John Durham has released an indictment [pdf here] of Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann for lying to federal investigators in 2016 about the people and motives behind his FBI contact. He failed to tell them his intent was to spread a false Alfa Bank conspiracy theory on behalf of the Clinton campaign. Working for the Perkins Coie law firm, while under contract with Hillary Clinton’s campaign, partner Michael Sussmann contacted FBI Legal Counsel James Baker to pitch evidence that a Russian bank was in digital communications with servers in Trump Tower. The Alfa Bank allegation was one...

Father David Palmer's Tweets concerned bossesA Catholic chaplain has spoken out about a Nottingham university's 'preposterous' decision to cancel him. Father David Palmer was supposed to take over from former chaplain Father Jonathan Rose as a mentor for Catholic students in Nottingham. The University of Nottingham have decided not to recognise the priest as an official chaplain due to Tweets he has posted about his views on abortion and euthanasia. On his Twitter account he commented that assisted dying is "killing the vulnerable." University bosses say they have no issue with his views but rather the manner in which he...

'He has put our country in a very dangerous position' President Donald J. Trump listens as Olympic wrestling champion Dan Gable addresses his remarks prior to receiving the Medal of Freedom to Gable Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House photo by Tia Dufour) President Trump has doubled down on his criticism of Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for behavior that many commentators are describing as traitorous. That would be his insistence about the time of last year's election that military officials promise to clear through him...

The Grand County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that it is "actively looking into any connection" between a double homicide of newlyweds at a campground outside Moab last month and the recent disappearance of Gabby Petito. "The Sheriff’s Office is not ruling anything out at this time and appreciate the concerns of the public and their willingness to contact this office with those concerns and information," the Grand County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The newlyweds, 38-year-old Crystal Turner and 24-year-old Kylen Schulte, were found shot to death at a campground southeast of Moab on Aug. 18, five days after...