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Ace Hardware is reportedly finding it difficult to keep shelves full due to the supply chain crisis threatening grocers, emergency medical services, and holiday shoppers. Operations manager John Ketels told thechroniclesonline.com his store in St. Helens, Washington, is having difficulty stocking items due to lack of warehouse inventory.

Daniel Andrews is the premier of Victoria and a member of the Socialist Left faction of the Australian Labor Party. Melbourne, the capital of Victoria and previously considered one of the most liveable cities in the world, is now the most locked down city in the world. Police open fire on peaceful protestors and body slam them to the ground, including a seventy year old grandmother. The two vaccinated independent libertarian members of parliament have been barred from parliament for refusing to complete vaccination paperwork. I have lived through Melbourne lockdowns imprisoned in my own home and have heard hundreds...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a new state law Thursday that focuses on students' access to school meals, with provisions around free breakfast and lunch as well as unpaid meal debt. The new law also takes aim at a practice known as "lunch shaming," prohibiting schools from publicly identifying or taking punitive action against students who have unresolved debt for school meals. "The new law is both timely and critical because it boosts federal nutrition dollars to schools across Massachusetts, and keeps children out of what should be an 'adult only' conversation on school meal debt," said Patricia Baker, a...

Dr. Rachel Levine is making more history. Levine, the former Pennsylvania health secretary, was ceremonially sworn in Tuesday as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps. Levine becomes the nation’s first openly transgender four-star officer across any of the uniformed services of the United States. Earlier this year, President Joe Biden chose Levine to be the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health. She also became the top ranking officer of the USPHS Commissioned Corps, which includes 6,000 officers that serve vulnerable and underserved groups. She’s also the first female officer to lead the corps. The USPHS...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – More than 125 state troopers have been cut following Governor Jay Inslee’s mask mandate. Washington State Patrol announced Tuesday morning it “separated” 127 people from employment who were not vaccinated by the Oct. 18 deadline. This included 53 civil servants and 74 officers. The officers include 67 troopers, six sergeants and one captain. WSP said it has more than 2,200 people in eight districts and the firings are spread across the state. “As for the more than 2,000 individuals who elected to stay with our agency, I am forever thankful. We have the responsibilities of the agency...

Blame the American consumer! That’s the approach liberal outlet Axios used to explain away the atrocious labor shortages plaguing the U.S. economy, and not President Joe Biden’s economic policies. Axios published a snobbish piece headlined, “Unruly customers threaten economic recovery.” The outlet’s asinine argument was that “increasingly violent and combative customers,” angry about “long wait times and mask mandates,” were causing workers to quit, hamstringing a recovery that hinges in part on employees “returning to work.” But unlike Axios, The Wall Street Journal editorial board didn’t hesitate to pin the labor shortage blame on the proper culprit: “Bidenomics.”

I’ve generally tried to avoid these kinds of stories the last several weeks because writing about Joe Biden’s obvious senility gets repetitive at some point. But somehow, he just keeps upping the ante in a way that I can’t ignore. That happened today during an event at the White House where Jill Biden hosted the 2021 Teachers of the Year ceremony. That included the presence of Randi Weingarten, the child-less teachers union head who was at the forefront of so much destruction to schools over the last two years. She was honored today because absolutely nothing matters to this administration...

CNN this morning unleashed a double-barreled blast of scare tactics regarding the urgent need to pass the Democrats' $3.5 trillion spending bill. New Day had on Bernie Sanders-backing Nina Turner, and Clintonista CNN contributor Paul Begala. While the pair were there to represent the progressive and "moderate" Dem wings, respectively, both broke out scare tactics on the bill. A very animated Turner asked, "Senator Manchin, what do you want to negotiate away? Is it child care? Is it the implosion of Mother Earth?"That's right, Joe: unless you agree to spend untold billions on "climate change," the world will implode --...

Four and a half years ago I offered the Trump administration an offramp for the continuous loop of failure America faced in Afghanistan. A similar package was previously suggested to Team Obama and finally to Team Biden in January this year. Sadly, the administrations’ set of “credentialed” experts rejected a common-sense rationalization letting US troops depart. This summer’s graphic self-immolation of American credibility was the result. It didn’t have to be this way. A few days after the 9-11 attack, President George W Bush met with his National Security cabinet to plan retribution against al Qaeda. While the Pentagon smoldered,...

For someone trying to elude police, Brian Laundrie seems to be everywhere — at least according to people who claim to have seen the fugitive, who also was allegedly spotted biking along a country road in Florida. TMZ obtained video from a witness who claimed the mystery cyclist — who he says was most likely Laundrie — was seen Oct. 9 near his property in the small town of Dunnellon, some three hours north of the 23-year-old’s home in North Port. The person with a heavy backpack was traveling along a rugged sugar sand path where people rarely venture —...

Lift the lid on an electrified home, a factory or a mine, and you'll find a troop of squirrel cage motors active at all hours. Industrialized nations wouldn't be nearly as industrial without these. Rugged and reliable, this type of three-phase induction motor is often the go-to option in industry. These do not produce sparks and fit very well in hazardous environments like oil refineries, mines and grain elevators, and used for grinding, pumping and blowing operations. At home, the fridge, washing machine, tumble dryer and swimming pool pump are powered by single-phase squirrel cage motors. The motors are especially...

MEMORIAL OF SAINTS JOHN DE BRÉBEUF AND ISAAC JOGUES, PRIESTS, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS LUKE 12:35-38 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus urges us to be ready for his second coming. It reminds me of John the Baptist preparing us: “Make ready the way of the Lord, clear him a straight path.” He is saying that his job is to prepare for the mighty coming of the Lord. A change is coming, a revolution is on the way, a disaster (the destruction of the old) is about to happen. Prepare the way of the Lord. And what is the manner of preparation?...

Speaking during an interview with Fox News Monday afternoon, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield said that more than 40 percent of people who have recently died from Wuhan coronavirus in Maryland were fully vaccinated. "A lot of times people may feel it's a rare event that fully vaccinated people die. I happen to be the senior advisor to Governor Hogan in the state of Maryland. In the last 6-8 weeks, more than 40 percent of people who died in Maryland were fully vaccinated," Redfield said, responding to the death of former Secretary of State Colin...

The State Department’s inspector general will investigate the Biden administration’s diplomatic operations in Afghanistan, a spokesperson confirmed with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The series of investigations will tackle a range of issues, from the State Department’s Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, to the processing of Afghans who applied for refugee admission into the U.S, to the resettlement of those refugees and visa recipients, according to an Oct. 15 action memorandum to Secretary of State Antony Blinken first obtained by Politico.

Now that liberal scolds are back to harping on diligent mask-wearing both indoors and outdoors to prevent the spread of COVID-19, President Joe Biden is in trouble. Yes, Biden is a mask hawk. The moment wearing a piece of cloth over your mouth became a performative signal that you Follow The Science... Be a patriot. Protect your fellow citizens. Wear a mask. — Joe Biden That's not why he's in trouble, then. Biden is a man who's made it clear he'll mask up whenever he remembers to mask up. It's the memory part that's the problem. On Friday, for instance,...

19.10.21 | Violent rioting at Nablus Gate: Arab rioters threw stones at passing buses and at police vehicles. Police dispersed the rioters and arrested 11 people at the scene In the last hour, Arab rioters arrived in the Nablus Gate area of ​​the Old City of Jerusalem and began violent riots, which included throwing stones at police forces and buses passing by. During the violent riot, a police force acted to disperse the rioters using means to disperse the riots.

A Connecticut teacher took hundreds of inappropriate photographs inside a high school — including upskirt shots of an unsuspecting student in class, police said. Christian Stevenson, a former social studies teacher and varsity golf coach at Rockville High School in Vernon, was arrested Monday on child pornography and voyeurism charges, the Hartford Courant reported. Arrest warrant affidavits show cops were tipped off by state police that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had info about images of suspected child porn being uploaded through Yahoo email accounts, WFSB reported.

George W. Bush headlines a Dallas reception Monday to help embattled Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the daughter of his vice president whose outspoken support for Donald Trump’s impeachment cost her a House leadership post and, if Trump gets his way, her political future. The high-profile boost amounts to a clear rebuke of Trump, and a sign of the irreparable chasm between the GOP’s last two presidents.

Wyoming Sen. Anthony Bouchard’s campaign for U.S. House experienced a stark drop in fundraising in the most recent quarter, according to newly released federal campaign finance data. In quarter three — which spans from July to September — the campaign raised $65,500. That’s compared to $213,000 in the second quarter and $334,500 in the first quarter. Bouchard’s campaign has roughly $87,000 left in the bank. The campaign has considerably less cash on hand than Bouchard’s opponents: Rep. Liz Cheney has almost $3,700,000 left in the bank, while Harriet Hageman, who received the coveted endorsement of former President Donald Trump, has...

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday called on Democrats to push forward on immigration reform in 2021. “If my 2010 reelection to the Senate proved anything, it was that Democrats can fight and win on immigration. It makes policy sense and political sense and not just with Latino voters, but also with Americans of all backgrounds," said Reid, who famously shifted from being an immigration hawk in the early 90s to backing liberalization as majority leader in 2010. "However, the operative word is ‘win.’ With Democrats controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House, Americans expect...