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Southwest Airlines asked a federal court to reject a lawsuit filed by a Southwest pilots union to temporarily block the company from carrying out its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing the order would put its business, customers, and employees at risk. Earlier this month, the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) filed a lawsuit to prevent the carrier from mandating that all its workers get vaccinated. The union asserts that Southwest, which last week experienced thousands of flight cancelations and delays, illegally changed work rules instead of negotiating with them. “The injunction that SWAPA seeks is extraordinary,” Southwest’s lawyers said in its...

Jesse Watters and Stephen Miller discuss the liberal policies in Biden’s $4.3 trillion spending bill. Rather than the cost of the bill, Repubs should be disclosing to the public the incredible waste that's IN the bill.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week - smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage - but police officers didn't stop them. Portland Police Bureau officials say that's because of legislation passed by Oregon lawmakers this year, which restricts the tools they can use to confront people vandalizing buildings and causing mayhem. “The reason that we did not intervene goes back to what we talked about last month with House Bill 2928 and the restrictions placed on us in a crowd control environment,” KOIN...

White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci suggested the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine should have required two doses after a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recommended booster doses for the vaccine when it becomes available. “This should have been a two-dose vaccine to begin with,” Fauci told ABC News on Sunday morning, adding: “I think it’s very favorable for those who have received the J&J vaccine. I don’t see that as a problem at all.” However, Fauci then acknowledged that some Johnson & Johnson recipients should get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine as their booster. The Johnson & Johnson...

Bill Kristol, editor of the anti-Trump conservative site The Bulwark, said on Sunday that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was entitled to call Fox News host Tucker Carlson a "repulsive bigot" for his remarks about Buttigieg taking paternity leave. Carlson had mocked the secretary for taking paternity leave and sniped that the secretary was "trying to figure out how to breastfeed." "I'm not going to apologize to Tucker Carlson or anyone else for taking care of my premature newborn infant twins," Buttigieg said in responding to Carlson's comments during an appearance Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."

Americans, still reeling from a nationwide vaccine mandate, are now facing more complex decisions regarding COVID-19 shots. This week, a group of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) experts approved and recommended those who got the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna vaccines roll up their sleeves for round two. The Pfizer-BioNTech booster was previously given the go-ahead by the CDC and FDA last month. Hold it Right There!Many Americans have not even submitted to round one of the vaccines and have been seeking relief from various courts regarding a federal mandate that currently does not even exist. The feds have promised...

ZooTampa has begun to vaccinate animals, including threatened and endangered species, that are susceptible to COVID-19. The zoo will administer a vaccine developed just for animals and made by veterinary pharmaceutical company Zoetis. The Michigan-based company is donating the vaccines, which are in use at zoos throughout the country. “The safety and well-being of the more than 1,000 animals entrusted to our care is of paramount priority,” said Dr. Cynthia Stringfield, a senior vice president at ZooTampa. Animals at ZooTampa, 1101 W Sligh Ave., routinely get other vaccinations and many are trained to present themselves to animal care staff for...

The American Civil War (1861-1865) occurred during an age of Industrial Revolution, when some of history’s wackiest inventions were made. It’s no surprise creative geniuses of the day tried to produce outside-the-box methods of killing the enemy. Each of the ten strange weapons on this list were available to US and/or Confederate soldiers.

Citing "unusual voting activity," the film reference site says it's applying "alternate weighting calculation" to friendly portrait of polarizing COVID czar "to preserve the reliability of our rating system." ocumentary film tracking Dr. Anthony Fauci's medical career from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19, is creating controversy away from the big screen. "Fauci," from NatGeo and Magnolia Pictures, hit select theaters Sept. 10 before getting a Disney+ release earlier this month. The documentary lets disparate figures like President George W. Bush, U2's Bono and Bill Gates praise the Infectious disease specialist. The studios failed to make the documentary's box office figures...

The order applies to any sailor that is not fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 by Nov. 28 and has not received a religious or medical exemption or has an application for an exemption pending.Fully vaccinated refers to getting two shots of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and two weeks or more having elapsed since the final shot.COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.The Nov. 28 deadline was already known, as is a Dec. 28 date for reserve personnel, but the new order (pdf) contained fresh...

More air in that bag of chips? Fewer flakes in your cereal box? You're not imagining it: "Shrinkflation," a tactic used by industry to hide price increases, is back in vogue. Facing the post-pandemic inflationary surge, partly fueled by bottlenecks in global supply and trouble finding workers, companies are under more pressure to deal with rising costs. Consumer advocate Edgar Dworsky, who has followed the phenomenon he calls downsizing for quarter of a century, says he has identified dozens of products in recent months that have seen sneaky price increases. It's definitely more insidious because shrinkage, at least for me,...

Police think the killing of David Amess may have had an Islamist motivation. We need to talk about this.The discussion about the horrific slaying of Tory MP David Amess is set to change. Possibly radically. The police’s decision to treat his murder as a potential terrorist incident, with an Islamist motivation, is likely to shake up how the media elites in particular talk about it. Out will go any implacable political anger and the insistence that we search for the cultural and intellectual influences behind this barbaric act. In their place we’ll see demands for calm. Don’t feel too much...

Desperation and distraction are masquerading as economic policy. Below we see how and why—and at what cost.COVID: The Great Economic and Political Hall-Pass If every time I stole a cookie from the jar in front of my mom (age 8), or drove dad’s car (sometimes into a tree) without permission (age 16), failed a dorm-room inspection (age 17), broke a lawnmower for driving over a fence post (each year) or forgot a key anniversary (eh-hmm), it would have been so convenient to have a universal “hall pass” to excuse what is/was otherwise just plain stupid behavior. Luckily for the grown...

If voters here back Youngkin, it won't be because they woke up and decided that they love Republicans again. It will be because the Democrats have pissed them off. Most of their answers will begin in 2020, when their children were quarantined at home at the onset of the pandemic and they realized the amount of control and power school boards have over what their children learn. To win, McAuliffe has to change the dynamic. He's got two ways to do it. One requires introducing something that is truly disqualifying for Youngkin. That hasn't worked, and so the other is...

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Employees of the San Antonio Independent School District are not required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment after the Texas Supreme Court intervened on Thursday. No employees can be fired for not receiving the vaccine, and in the event anyone is fired, the Texas Attorney General’s office says they should call the office and let the AG’s staff know. The Texas Supreme Court issued a temporary stay, halting enforcement of San Antonio ISD’s mandate requiring that all employees receive both COVID-19 doses by Friday (Oct. 15). “No local entity is above state law,” Attorney General Ken...

Untold thousands of teachers, health care workers, first responders, airline workers and others have already resigned or been fired as a result vaccine mandates. Others are resisting in a public way. According to the New York Post, Chicago's police union has instructed members not to comply with mandates to fill out information on their vaccine status as part of a mandate or be put on unpaid leave. According to the New York Post: Chicago has the nation’s second-largest police department, consisting of about 13,000 cops, many of whom would not comply with the mandate, Catanzara [police union leader] threatened in...

“PLEASE PRAY FOR US!! WE ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE”. 16 AMERICAN MISSIONARIES AND THEIR CHILDREN, PLUS A CANADIAN CITIZEN, ARE KIDNAPPED BY ARMED GANG MEMBERS IN HAITI AS ABDUCTEE SENDS A SECRET WHATSAPP MESSAGE DURING ABDUCTION. A group of Christian missionaries and their family members were kidnapped on Saturday by gang members in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. The missionaries were abducted from a bus headed to the airport to drop off some members of the group before continuing to another destination in Haiti, a report by the New York Times stated, citing security officials from the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation. The...

A man who was 13 when he killed a four-year-old boy has been granted parole. Eric M Smith was convicted of second-degree murder in 1994, and jailed for nine years to life. A year earlier, he had lured Derrick Robie into the woods and struck him on the head with a rock in the New York village of Savona. Smith first became eligible for parole in 2002, but Derrick's parents Dale and Doreen Robie opposed each of his 11 attempts. On 5 October, he was successful and has been told he will be released as early as 17 November, the...

Justin Trudeau’s Communist crusade to destroy Canada from within. Greg Reese reports. Report...