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Halloween is still a few weeks away, but in New Jersey, the witch trial started early. It began on social media, our latter-day Salem: Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad took to Facebook to inform her followers that evil was afoot in the town of Maplewood. “Yesterday,” wrote Muhammad,... “Tamar Herman, a teacher at Seth Boyden Elementary in Maplewood, NJ, forcibly removed the hijab of a second-grade student. The young student resisted, by trying to hold onto her hijab, but the teacher pulled the hijab off..." Only, that likely isn’t at all what had happened: In a statement, Herman gave a perfectly...

A new study finds that simple, over-the-counter aspirin may be able to protect COVID-19 patients from extreme risk, including the need for mechanical ventilation, the Jerusalem Post reported.New research from George Washington University has determined that treating COVID patients with aspirin reduced the risk of severe illness by nearly half.The report noted that an aspirin regimen in more than 400 COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the United States cut the need for ventilation by 44%, slashed ICU admission by 43%, and reduced overall in-hospital mortality rates by 47%.Dr. Jonathan Chow, one of the study's researchers, said, "As we learned about...

U.S. oil prices hit a seven-year high Monday, marking an increase of more than 120 percent from just under a year ago. On Monday morning, American crude prices increased 2 percent to hit $81.50 a barrel, dropping slightly to $81.15 by midday before closing at $80.49, the first time since October 2014 that U.S. crude closed at more than $80 a barrel. An international natural-gas shortage could soon extend to the oil market, according to The Wall Street Journal. American natural-gas futures reached $6.31 per million British thermal units last Tuesday, the highest in nearly 13 years,

Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, who described himself as "the happiest man on Earth", has died, aged 101. The Sydney Jewish Museum, where Mr Jaku still worked as a volunteer, said his passing "left a huge void in the hearts" of everyone there. "Eddie's impact will be felt for generations to come," said a message posted on social media. He was born in Germany and under the Nazis was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp and later to Auschwitz, where his parents were murdered in the gas chambers. Having narrowly survived, he moved to Australia during the 1950s, where he dedicated...

During an interview with Stew Peters, Dr Jane Ruby provided Breaking information, corroborated by multiple sources, that a Vaxxed Delta Airlines pilot died in flight within the last two weeks, an emergency landing was forced, and the company is covering it up!

More than $4 billion has flowed from City Hall to scandal-tarred shelter operators over the last eight years, accounting for more than a quarter of the money spent by the Big Apple to tackle its homelessness crisis, an examination of city records reveals. The $4.6 billion in contract identified by the Post account for 29 percent of the $15.8 billion in contracts let by the Department of Homeless Services over Mayor Bill de Blasio’s nearly eight years in office. The money has gone out to more than half a dozen shelter operators — including the embattled CORE Services Group —...

An Iraqi man admitted to immigration fraud last week, saying he cheated America’s refugee system by lying about his past as a member of an Iranian-funded Shiite militia in order to win asylum in the U.S. Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi entered the U.S. in 2016, when then-President Obama was pushing to resettle tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East amid accusations that the system wasn’t able to properly vet them. As the U.S. opens its arms to tens of thousands of Afghans, Al Fawadi’s case raises questions anew about the ability of federal authorities to vet applications...

It's good to see she's keeping her health in mind in this day and age of pandemics.

The theory is simple, the censoring of info by "mainstream" media supposedly caused your local heath officials or Corporate / Company CEO / President to not know about other viable alternative treatments for COVID19. To change this we ALL need to put them on direct notice of the irrefutable information and studies that there are other real world, viable alternative treatments for COVID19 so they can't legally keep saying just because biased CNN and MSNBC etc.. isn't talking about it, viable treatments don't exist. Not that they didn't hear about this a year or more before, they are not off...

Remarkable arrangement of Michael Jackson's classic. A total re-thinking of the song, but true to the original. Intonation perfect, musicians so good one is tempted to think the whole thing is a CGI simulation, but it's not.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) defended Columbus Day from the woke left on Monday as members of the radical left recognize “Indigenous Peoples Day,” defending the Italian explorer as someone who displayed “courage, determination, and perseverance” and noting that those who wish to erase the day on the calendar “do so as part of a mission to portray the United States and Western history in a negative light as they seek to blame our country and its values for all that is evil in the world.”DeSantis’s official proclamation recognizes that Columbus Day “commemorates the life and legacy of Columbus,” who...

LAUDERHILL (CBSMiami) – A shooting at Metro by T-Mobile has sparked a lot of questions about police response time, but officials say the issue not that cut and dry. Shocking images show what police say are the moments Rachel Boisette pulled out a gun and began shooting her former manager.

“The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious” (Proverbs 12:27).

Acting legend Joan Collins says she is sick and tired of cancel culture, saying the people promoting the destruction of lives are “sick “morons.” The glamorous Dynasty star told the Sunday Times that she eschews social media because she simply doesn’t want to deal with the trolls and “morons “who are always looking for some errant Tweet to attack.” “I don’t want to engage in any way, shape or form with these morons,” Collins said during an interview about her upcoming memoir, “My Unapologetic Diaries.” Collins, 88, noted that it disgusted her the way the cancel culture went after British...

The media has largely ignored the pushback Joe Biden is receiving or his vaccine/testing mandate. Just one call out over a weekend brought Southwest airlines to its knees however, it’s not just Southwest Airlines. Amtrak had to cancel trains because of a “staffing issue,” shipbuilding employees in Newport News are promising to to crush production over the mandate. Workers for the ship building company Huntington Ingalls are furious over the mandate that they must be vaccinated by December 8th. A letter from COOO Chris Kastner informed employees that if they don’t get vaccinated they could lose their jobs which incited...

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich attacked Columbus Day on Friday, slamming his “backward” hometown for marking the day while accusing the famed 15th-century explorer of initiating a “new world genocide” and branding Italian-American support for honoring the day akin to Germans “proud of Hitler.” After the first-ever presidential proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day — which honors Native American peoples — was issued by President Joe Biden on Friday, Popovich praised the move, which has long been pushed by the left, calling it “appropriate, important, needed and all those sorts of things.” “Columbus?” he asked mockingly. “I mean he...

Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – Defense attorneys for the detainee accused of planning the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole have resumed efforts to get more information about the microphones discovered in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility room where they met with their client for more than three years. The government has claimed that the devices, first found by the defense team in mid-2017, were “legacy” microphones no longer in use. This hearing – the first in the case since January 2020 – is dedicated to witness testimony related to the former attorney-client meeting space. Lawyers for Abd al...

“Doomsday” mom Lori Vallow’s brother told detectives he believes that she murdered her third husband, who reportedly died of natural causes, in addition to her fourth husband and two children, new court documents revealed. Vallow’s brother Alex Cox told detectives he believes that Vallow and Alex murdered Vallow’s third husband Joseph Ryan, who had purportedly died of a heart attack in 2018. Alex had killed Vallow’s fourth husband, Charles Vallow, in July 2019 shooting in what he said was self-defense. She faces a charge of conspiracy to commit murder in Arizona in connection with his death.

The Pentagon's first ever chief software officer resigned last month in protest at the slow pace of technological transformation in the U.S. military, claiming the failure to respond to China winning the Artificial Intelligence battle is putting the U.S. at risk. Nicolas Chaillan, 37, told the Financial Times after resigning: 'We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years.' 'Right now, it's already a done deal – it is already over in my opinion,' he added. 'Whether it takes a war or not is kind of anecdotal.' Chaillan worked for three years on a Pentagon project...

Here’s the President I know, we know. Nothing anonymous. https://t.co/zYkSuDK9V0— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) September 5, 2020I have no personal interest with Mr. Trump, nor I am an American, but this gesture really moved me !! Thank you @realDonaldTrump for being kind to her! pic.twitter.com/wFCnG7qIp8— حسن سجواني 🇦🇪 Hassan Sajwani (@HSajwanization) September 4, 2020