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Sen. Rand Paul rebuked Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra yesterday over vaccine mandates ordered by the Biden administration at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing yesterday. Paul attacked Becerra on two crucial issues. First, he criticized Becerra’s description of those advocating natural immunity as "flat earthers." Second, he emphatically challenged Becerra on the idea of natural immunity from COVID-19 for people who already contracted it. As much as the Biden administration has publicly touted "trust the science," Paul emphasized how the science disagrees with Becerra. And quite frankly, Paul was justified in taking Becerra...

A supervisory worker with a Texas construction company reportedly said that fake "No trespassing" signs were placed on border levee construction sites "at the request of the government." Border Report was the first to report on the signs on Tuesday. The signs reportedly had mislabeled Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and had wrong phone numbers.... Sullivan Land Services Co. (SLS), which was assigned to build the border wall under the Donald Trump administration, has put up those signs ... ...Newsweek contacted SLS for comments including questions about who ordered the company to install the signs, but the SLS referred the...

“How is it mutual combat when my son didn’t have anything to combat with?” asks Manuel Porties of the state’s attorney’s office decision. An Illinois family mourning the death of their 18-year-old son is outraged that no murder charges will be filed in conjunction with his death due to what prosecutors are calling “mutual combat.” Manuel Porties, Jr. was killed Tuesday after being stabbed to death during a recorded, planned fight in Schaumburg, a town located 30 miles east of Chicago. According to WGN 9, video of the fight shows Porties Jr. being punched in the face by a 17-year-old,...

Australia has lost its only decent political leader just 10 days away from the most critical phase of the coronavirus pandemic. She wasn't toppled in a party room coup, charged with a crime, diagnosed with a debilitating health condition or hit by a bus. Gladys Berejiklian was instead effectively knifed by unelected lawyers and bureaucrats from the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Her shock resignation as NSW premier on Friday will throw the state's emergence from three months of lockdown into chaos and is a body blow to Australia as a whole. The country's biggest state is now rudderless with a...

Introduction: Imagine, if you will, an alternate universe in which a confused old man - Joe Buckstop - stumbles into the presidency, and spends his entire term in his basement. Each evening, an aide walks downstairs and serves him his bowl of soup, and engages him in conversation about current events, in a losing effort to keep his mind hale. Tonight's episode is an excerpt from the ongoing series, "Evening Soup with Basement Joe," by John F. Di Leo, a fictional chronicle of the events of 2021, a political satire available in paperback or eBook from Amazon. "Hey, boss! You...

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis took a victory lap today after the city of Gainesville rescinded their COVID vaccine mandate following a court ruling against them. In a tweet, DeSantis said, “Florida workers should not lose their jobs based on COVID shots. The City of Gainesville rescinded its mandate, which threatened to kill many jobs.” Circuit Judge Monica Brasington ruled the city of Gainesville must not enforce its vaccine mandate and cannot discipline, or terminate, employees for failing to get vaccinated. In her order, Judge Brasington wrote that, “The city failed to put on any evidence that the Vaccine Mandate...

So last week I go into the local liquor store to pick up a 6pk of beer and a snack. The clerk rings me up to a charge of $10.36. As I've done many, many times before, I present my BofA Visa debit card into the reader (and yes, I'm 1,000,000 % positive I presented my debit card) and it doesn't prompt me for my pin like its always done. I take the card out to try again and at that point, the clerk tells me I'm good to. I then tell the the clerk I never provided my pin...

In the fantasy land of New York Times apostate conservative columnist David Brooks, the crazy Democrat spending agenda serves “moral and cultural purposes.” Brooks' new op-ed, headlined “This Is Why We Need to Spend $4 Trillion,” let readers know that he’s been in a “controlled fury.” His reasoning for the self-righteous anger was the sense of “indifference” amongst citizens to the “most consequential legislative package in a generation” during his recent travels across five states. Maybe it’s because Americans are not that gung-ho about sinking the country into a whirlpool of economic misery via out-of-control government spending? But Brooks pleaded...

FALL SALE | 1¢/DAY FOR 4 MONTHS ADVERTISEMENT BUSINESS WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times agree to pursue merger as nonprofit news organization By ROBERT CHANNICK CHICAGO TRIBUNE SEP 30, 2021 AT 9:17 AM Chicago Public Media and the Chicago Sun-Times have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to “explore joining” WBEZ-FM 91.5 and the financially struggling daily newspaper under the public radio station’s nonprofit parent company. The letter of intent has been approved by the Chicago Public Media board and Sun-Times ownership, but there is no agreement in place as they pursue a possible merger, according to a news release issued...

The system, announced during the 2021-22 school year, does not include 0-49.9 percentiles for students A YouTube video posted by Sunrise Park Middle School in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, details a new grading scale that lacks the letter "F." The system, announced during the 2021-22 school year, does not include 0-49.9 percentiles for students. "Our whole intent is to ensure that grades focus on the process of learning," Principal Christina Pierre said in the video. "Therefore, grades will not include behaviors, attitude, tardiness to class, whether the assignment was turned in late or on time. There's other ways that we...

Nostalgia has been erased in a revamp of the 1980s classic My Little Pony with the once-whimsical characters now pushing progressive political messaging, and the baddies painted as being 'anti-science'. Netflix's woke My Little Pony: A New Generation introduces its young viewers to themes of tolerance, prejudice and even fascism as it turns the colorful tiny horses into political pawns. The film depicts anti-magic ponies - the 'the baddies' - as ignorant anti-science creatures likely to spread irrational fear and untruths. It also includes a cameo from a character called Deputy Sprout – complete with a tuft of blond mane...

An Illinois State Trooper who was shot Friday afternoon on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago has died, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said the officer was initially taken to an area hospital in critical condition. Further details on what happened weren't immediately available, but multiple police sources said the shooting appeared to have been self-inflicted.

A lecturer removed from the classroom after refusing to grade on a racial curve is now suing UCLA and his dean for costing him at least $500,000 in consulting contracts in just the past year — and an estimated $10 million long term. Gordon Klein also accused the public university, where he's taught accounting since 1981, of retaliation by halting his long string of merit-pay increases after his email response to a student went viral. It has ignored his requests for security escorts in light of "serious physical threats," including anti-Semitic death threats he reported as recently as March, Klein...

The man convicted of killing nine neighbors in separate arsons has dodged the death penalty. Jurors recommended life behind bars on Friday for Stanley Ford, 62, for murdering a couple, and a family of seven by setting house fires at their homes in Summit County, Ohio, according to local media outlets. A jury of Ford’s peers found him guilty on Sept. 21 for killing Lindell Lewis, 65, and Gloria Jean Hart, 66, in an April 18, 2016 arson, and for killing Angela Boggs, 38, and Dennis Huggins, 35, and their children Cameron Huggins, 1, Alivia Huggins, 3, Kyle Huggins, 5,...

Explanation: Dark markings and colorful clouds inhabit this stellar landscape. The deep and expansive view spans more than 30 full moons across crowded star fields toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Cataloged in the early 20th century by astronomer E. E. Barnard, the obscuring interstellar dust clouds seen toward the right include B59, B72, B77 and B78, part of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud complex a mere 450 light-years away. To the eye their combined shape suggests a pipe stem and bowl, and so the dark nebula's popular name is the Pipe Nebula. Three bright nebulae gathered on the...

Kentucky Republican wants to redirect proposed Afghanistan aid to finance Israel's missile defense system In the latest hurdle to Israel receiving $1 billion in funding to replenish its Iron Dome missile defense system after May's Gaza conflict, Republican Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky has blocked swift passage of the bill, Politico reports. The lawmaker is an opponent of US foreign aid and is insisting that the Iron Dome money be offset by redirecting financial assistance for Afghanistan. “He proposed that we pay for the House bill with money that is going to go to the Taliban,” a spokeswoman for the...

Another day, another hate hoax. Douglas County, Atlanta – A 30-year-old woman this week was charged with 8 counts of making terroristic threats in the Brookmont subdivision of Douglasville. For nearly a year, Terresha Lucas left threatening, racially charged notes in black people’s mailboxes on Manning Drive. Lucas, a black woman, pretended to be a white male member of the Ku Klux Klan and described herself as 6 feet tall with a long red beard. “Residents on Manning Drive began receiving the notes last December from a person who claimed to be a white male member of the Ku Klux...

After a multi-day standoff filled with plenty of Democrat-on-Democrat combat, President Joe Biden came to Capitol Hill on Friday with his agenda in doubt and delivered a clear message to a fractious party: Come on, man. A simple half-hour kumbaya session between Biden and House Democrats on Friday afternoon seemed to forestall an imminent collapse of the party’s marquee policy package: a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, as well as a separate, still-undefined, multi-trillion dollar economic and social policy plan. But it also meant that Democrats were set to leave Washington this week without any agreement on the bills and...

BREAKING: #OchsnerHealth in LA is now mandating vaccines for spouses of employees. If your spouse is on your insurance and does not get the jab, they will be imposing a $100 per-pay-period fee. What started as a $100 incentive to get the jab has now turned into a recurring tax. 8:38 AM · Sep 30, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

VIDEO This is a definite stock up deal if you live in an area serviced by Publix in the Southeast. Right now Kentucky Legend Hickory and Applewood bacon 16 oz packs are selling for $8.99 BOGO or two for $8.99. However Publix also has a store coupon in their Family Celebrations booklet for $2 off. Therefore if you buy two Kentucky Legend packs of bacon it will cost $8.99 minus $4 for the two store coupons you use. The result is that you will pay only $4.99 total or $2.50 per 16 oz pack.The good news is if you can...