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Watch waves of Chinese war planes fly over Taiwan territory. Chinese war drums?

The “pro-choice” movement is all about one choice: abortion. And women who go to pro-choice groups looking for help with parenting or making an adoption plan usually are left to fend for themselves. This is happening in Texas right now with the new state heartbeat law. Pro-abortion groups are doing everything they can to “help” women “choose” abortion, including sending a mobile abortion facility to the border. Meanwhile, pro-life advocates are quietly and compassionately offering real help to mothers and their babies across Texas, providing financial aid, material resources and many other forms of support, all for free. It’s difficult...

In a surprise move, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will no longer require 2022 attendees to be fully vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus, the festival’s organizers announced this week. The announcement was posted on the festival’s Instagram story. In the announcement, it stated that attendees could show proof of full vaccination or a negative covid test taken within 72 hours of the event. Previously, Goldenvoice, a partner of AEG Presents, the company behind the festival, had announced that proof of vaccination would be required to enter all of its events. “Goldenvoice will require proof of full vaccination for...

Illinois lawmakers should divert their attention from maps, maps, maps during their veto session next month to address four important gun safety issues. Redrawing the legislative and congressional maps that will shape Illinois elections for the next 10 years will be a time-consuming process in the upcoming session, which will run for just six days over two weeks later this month. We get that. And every lawmaker is naturally extremely concerned about what their district will look like. Other big issues may be on the table, as well, including abortion rights for minors and amending the Health Care Right of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters held a sit-in Thursday at the Interior Department building in downtown Washington and clashed with police as they challenged fossil fuel projects and called for the declaration of a climate emergency. Multiple arrests were reported. An Interior Department spokeswoman said a group of protesters rushed the lobby, injuring at least one security officer who was taken to a nearby hospital. Police and protesters clashed outside the building, and officers used Tasers against several unarmed protesters, a spokeswoman for the protest group said. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was traveling Thursday and was not in the building during...

The Hamas vision of the future is not an idyll of peace and prosperity. Bernie Sanders should read the report if he wants to know what he will be aiding and abetting. Hamas supporters wearing veils and gloves take part in an anti-Israel rally in Jenin. (photo credit: MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS) Bernie Sanders’s knitted mittens were the sensation of Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration at the beginning of the year. For weeks, memes of the poker-face Vermont senator wearing a winter coat with his hands hidden in oversize mitts ruled the viral world. The image came back to me this week when...

Things are happening in regards to January 6. You might not know it because a lot of it hasn’t gotten much press, especially from the likes of media milksops Rachel Madcow and Don Lemon. And for once, it isn’t all bad news. 1) Two Washington D.C. officials have been held in contempt of court for their treatment of January 6 defendant and Proud Boy Chris Worrell. Judge Royce Lamberth found prison warden Wanda Patten and Washington D.C. Department of Corrections Director Quincy Booth in contempt of court. The judge also ordered a civil rights investigation into the treatment of Worrell...

Documents released Thursday were not final report but draft discussion materials ahead of Friday meeting -------- Initial progressive reaction to draft discussion materials released by the White House's presidential commission on the Supreme Court Thursday was not positive, as Democratic activists and commentators derided the commission for its apparent reluctance to endorse court-packing. "This report is an abomination," Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern tweeted.

What in God’s good name?Ozzy Osbourne is thanking Lucifer for protecting him from coronavirus.The Grammy Award-winning heavy metal icon credited Satan for covering him during the pandemic, even as close family members contracted COVID-19.“My wife had the virus; my daughter had the virus and I never got it,” he told Metal Hammer. “Being a devil worshiper does have its good points!”In December, the Black Sabbath frontman’s longtime spouse, Sharon Osbourne, tested positive for the deadly disease, which has claimed the lives of over 700,000 U.S. citizens to date. The 69-year-old Emmy Award winner posted on Instagram that she had a...

Oct. 12, 2021 -- To test the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine in a “real-life scenario,” the pharmaceutical company Pfizer says it will fully vaccinate everybody over 12 in the Brazilian city of Toledo. Pfizer will work with local health officials, a hospital, a university, and the Brazilian vaccination program to monitor the population of 143,000 people for a year to see how long the vaccine is effective and whether it works against new variants, The New York Times reported. “Here we believe in science and we lament the almost 600,000 deaths from Covid-19 in Brazil,” Toledo Mayor Beto Lunitti...

In Hesse Germany all retailers including grocery stores can now decide whether they want to allow the unvaccinated in their stores.Hesse includes Frankfurt, the second-largest metropolitan region in Germany.The pressure on the unvaccinated grows and grows!In Hesse, all retailers, including the supermarket, can now decide for themselves whether they want to implement the 3G rule (vaccinated, tested, recovered) or the 2G rule – so far there have been no access restrictions in supermarkets to give everyone the option of basic services grant.The Hessian State Chancellery confirms to BILD that the “2G option model” also applies to the food retail sector…

Nearly a month after the Evergrande crisis went to 10, sending property sector bonds crashing to near record lows and sparking a sharp swoon in China's property sector, the country's central bank finally broke its silence on the crisis at Evergrande , saying risks to the financial system stemming from the developer’s struggles are “controllable” and unlikely to spread.Speaking at a news briefing on Friday, PBOC official Zou Lan - head of the financial market department. - said that authorities and local governments are resolving the situation based on “market-oriented and rule-of-law principles” Bloomberg reported. Additionally, the central bank has...

The Department of Transportation has just revealed that Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been on paternity leave since mid-August amid the massive ongoing supply-chain crisis, according to a report. Besides several recent television hits, Buttigieg has been lying low, Politico reported, citing his office. Buttigieg’s team told the outlet that the secretary has been on paternity leave for nearly two months to spend time with his husband and two newborn babies. The office had not previously announced his time off. “For the first four weeks, he was mostly offline except for major agency decisions and matters that could not be delegated,”...

Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller pleaded to all six charges he faced in a court-martial over his criticism of military leaders and how the Biden administration handled the withdrawal in Afghanistan. “A military judge accepted on Thursday Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller’s plea and found Scheller guilty of all charges at his court-martial today at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune,” The Daily News reported. “Scheller’s lawyer earlier Thursday said he expects Scheller to receive a letter of reprimand. In court it was said Scheller could also forfeit two-thirds of his monthly pay, for up to 12 months. There are limitations...

And Laws of Well-Intended Consequences strikes again. Obama-Pelosi-Schumer-Biden mandated all United States truckers (except government employees! - and farming trucks within 150 miles of their loads) be monitored electronically 24 hours a day in December 2015. The law became mandatory in Dec 2019 - well after Obama left office. Then the Covid 19 recession was enforced, so little shipping was affected in 2020. Well, now, as the economy tries to recover in 2021 but cannot find enough shipping and trucking support to move their cargo, Biden's government has restricted ALL drivers to less than 60 hours per week, to 10+...

The import/export numbers are out this morning. And the numbers reveal that the US is exporting inflation to the rest of the world. Export prices rose by a whopping 16.3% YoY in September. In all fairness, it is slightly lower than it was in August. The cause? The Federal Reserve (now known as “The Pep Boys”) and the Federal government pumping trillions into an economy that was not prepared. Hence, the US got the dreaded “bottlenecks.” What do you get when you repeatedly flush a clogged toilet? Apparently, you get “high class problems”. Yes, Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron “The...

Over-the-counter aspirin could protect the lungs of COVID-19 patients and minimize the need for mechanical ventilation, according to new research at the George Washington University.The team investigated more than 400 COVID patients from hospitals across the United States who take aspirin unrelated to their COVID disease, and found that the treatment reduced the risk of several parameters by almost half: reaching mechanical ventilation by 44%, ICU admissions by 43%, and overall in-hospital mortality by 47%.“As we learned about the connection between blood clots and COVID-19, we knew that aspirin – used to prevent stroke and heart attack – could be...

The January 6 riot was the worst day in American history, according to the Left. It was worse than Pearl Harbor. It was worse than the American Civil War. It was worse than the 9/11 attacks. It was worse than JFK’s assassination—all of which is false. If you think that, you’re either hysterical or historically illiterate. Was it a riot? Sure. Was it an armed insurrection? No. Not even close. No one was armed, which is a fake news narrative. These folks didn’t kill any cops either. Officer Brian Sicknick, whose name has been disgustingly weaponized to smear Trump supporters,...

A federal judge has granted the request of Christian colleges who want to intervene in a lawsuit that seeks to force the U.S. Department of Education to strip federal funding from Christian colleges that abide by traditional beliefs on gender and sexuality. In an opinion released last Friday, Judge Ann Aiken of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon granted the motions to intervene in a case brought forward by dozens of current and former students at 25 Christian colleges who argue that religious exemptions to Title IX discrimination law are unconstitutional. Although the lawsuit was filed against...

The uproar over Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special continues. The woke mob continues to demand that the streaming service “deplatform” the 48-year-old comic due to language they deem to be dangerous. Now usually when we’re into another week of protesting and activism, we see entertainment companies cave to the pitchfork-wielding wokesters. But, not this time. Instead, Netflix’s CEO Ted Sarandos is standing his ground amid calls to cancel Dave Chappelle.