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Don’t take it from me, I don’t even get to tweet anymore. Take it from a little place I call the British government. Which admitted today, in its newest vaccine surveillance report, that: “N antibody levels appear to be lower in people who acquire infection following two doses of vaccination.” (Page 23)

Let’s begin at the beginning. Save America. Kill the bill. It seemed quixotic a few months ago when I began this mantra. Well, events are moving at the speed of light. Headlines Thursday were breathtaking. I think there is now a high and rising probability that the bill — in all of its fading majesty — will be killed. There’s an old saying by somebody somewhere — I believe it was Napoleon — that says, ‘Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.’ Right now the Democrats are destroying themselves. They’ve moved from a circular...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Thursday urged his constituents to remain vigilant in the fight against COVID-19, saying “let’s not punt on the third down.” Beshear, during a news conference, said that while hospitalizations, intensive care capacities and ventilator use are all down, Kentuckians must not become complacent in the fight against COVID-19. “These are all good things, you know, the graph only tells you so much, but it does help show the speed that things are getting better. At the same time, it gives us comparisons on where we were,” Beshear said.

Dr. Malik Peiris, who previously served on the Lancet medical journal’s COVID-19 origins investigation committee, received China’s “Nobel Prize” for research affirming the Chinese Communist Party’s false narrative that COVID-19 developed naturally. Peiris, a Sri Lankan virologist working in Hong Kong, was one of 12 scientists leading the now-defunct Lancet probe into the origins of COVID-19. While the task force is no longer listed on the medical journal’s website, as it was forced to disband due to extensive conflicts of interests with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, archived web pages reveal Peiris’s participation in the effort. Following Peiris’s stint on...

Digital World Acquisition Corp., the SPAC that is taking former President Trump's planned social media platform public, soared again on Friday following a massive rally in the previous session. The SPAC, which trades under the ticker DWAC on the Nasdaq, jumped more than 100% in premarket trading on Friday. The ticker was among the most popular mentions on Reddit's WallStreetBets, which indicated that DWAC could be having a meme stock moment like GameStop and AMC. The social media app will be developed by Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG).© Provided by CNBC The social media app will be developed by...

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin just cooked the planet. I don’t mean that in a metaphorical sense. I mean that literally. Unless Manchin changes his negotiating position dramatically in the near future, he will be remembered as the man who, when the moment of decision came, chose to condemn virtually every living creature on Earth to a hellish future of suffering, hardship, and death.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) lead over his Republican opponent has fallen to just six points less than one month out from the election, according to the latest poll. Conducted between October 15-18, the Emerson College/PIX 11 poll puts Phil Murphy ahead of Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli by just six points – 50 percent to 44

Even though Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has yet to announce his run for the U.S. Senate, more voters would vote for him in 2022 than Democrat incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan, according to a Granite State Poll released on Thursday. The poll, which was conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, found that 45 percent of likely midterm voters would choose Sununu and 42 percent would vote for Hassan “if the election were held today.” Six percent said they would vote for another candidate and six percent were undecided.

As one might expect from a Democrat, President Biden isn’t afraid to work blue. Politico reported Thursday that Biden — once caught on a hot mic calling the passage of ObamaCare a “big f—ing deal” — regularly uses profanity in meetings with West Wing aides, displaying a particular fondness for “f—.” Variations on the theme, according to the outlet’s West Wing Playbook email newsletter, include the phrases “f— them,” “What the f— are we doing?” and “Why the f— isn’t this happening?”. However, the report adds, Biden never uses the four-letter word as a verb.

Peter Rock wrote the book Leave No Trace that would later be turned into a film. The term is also a Boy Scout motto motivating scouts to leave no evidence of their travels through and camping in our natural environs. Daily we are confronted with the progressive intention of the Biden Administration and its usual media capacitors—to leave no trace, not one, of the many positive things President Trump did during his four years in office. The Biden administration has been full-throttling its attempt to remake America for worse rather than for better and both the deep state and liberal...

An Afghan volleyball player on the girls’ national team was beheaded by the Taliban — with gruesome photos of her severed head posted on social media, according to her coach. Mahjabin Hakimi, one of the best players in the Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club, was slaughtered in the capital city of Kabul as troops searched for female sports players, her coach told the Persian Independent.

Work has begun on an animated film depicting the true story of the cigarette smoking, beer drinking bear which 'fought' alongside soldiers in the Second World War. Adopted as an orphaned cub in 1942 by the 22nd Artillery Division of the Polish 2nd Corps, Wojtek, which in Polish means 'smiling warrior' or 'he who enjoys war', quickly became an adored mascot. He went on to be officially given the rank of Private and learnt to march alongside the troops, salute and even carry cases of ammunition.

It's hard to overstate how bonkers the American left has gone. If conservatives weren't in such a state of disarray, they would be dominating American politics like never before. resident Joe Biden and leading Democrats somehow convinced themselves the 2020 election was a call to fundamentally transform America into a socialist country. They decided countries don't need borders. They decided police and other law enforcement don't deserve the backing of elected politicians. They decided the way to overcome racism is by literally dividing people by race. They have implemented policies to deter American energy production and thereby added to an...

October 22, 2021 Friday of week 29 in Ordinary Time John Paul II Centre, Krakow Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingRomans 7:18-25 ©Every time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to handI know of nothing good living in me – living, that is, in my unspiritual self – for though the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out the sinful things I do not want. When I act against my will, then,...

A man fired from a south central Nebraska grain complex Thursday returned to the facility and started shooting at his former colleagues killing two, and injuring on others according to the Nebraska State Patrol. The gunman, identified as Max Hoskinson, 61, was shot and killed by another employee of the Agrex facility in Superior, Nebraska.The Nebraska State Patrol was called to assist the Nuckolls County Sheriff’s Office and Superior Police Department with a response to an active shooter incident at the Agrex Elevator in Superior at 2:00 p.m. Thursday. They found one person dead, Hoskinson and another person gravely wounded...

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-The Moon) made the Democratic position clear Thursday: If you’re not with us, you’re terrorists. During his opening statement for the Attorney General Merrick Garland hearing, Nadler said there was no difference between the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 and parents who are angry about what is being taught in schools. “This growth in extremist ideology is echoed in an epidemic of violence and intimidation directed at our health care professionals, teachers, essential workers, school board members and election workers,” Nadler said. Nadler, a partisan loon who spent the past four years stirring up...

Last week, the State Department learned that twice this summer China had tested a new hypersonic missile weapon with nuclear capabilities. According to the Financial Times, the rocket employed a “fractional orbital bombardment” that also had the guidance ability to “glide” around the earth in orbit. The test reportedly stunned the Biden administration, and comes on the heels of a string of embarrassing global events for the US, including the fall of Afghanistan and Russia opting not to raise natural gas supplies to Europe after the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Secretary of State Tony Blinken reacted with...

WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 21. The following telegram from Gen. STONE's command has been received at headquarters here: EDWARD's FERRY, Monday, Oct. 21. This morning, at 1 o'clock, five companies of the Fifteenth Massachusetts crossed the river at Harrison's Island. At daybreak, they had proceeded to within a mile and a half of Leesburgh without meeting the enemy. They still hold on, supported by the remainder of the regiment and part of the Twentieth. A gallant reconnoissance was made early this morning, by Major MIX, of the Van Allan Cavalry, and Capt. STEWART, Assistant Adjutant-General, from Edward's Ferry towards Leesburgh, with...

President Joe Biden said police officers and emergency workers who refuse COVID-19 vaccination should stay home or be fired, as he answered questions during a CNN town hall on Thursday evening. 'Yes and yes,' he said to a thunderous round of applause. 'By the way, I waited until July, to talk about mandating, because I tried everything else possible. Mandates are working.' He also ridiculed people who said mandates infringed their freedom. But he also defended his stance on vaccine mandates in uncompromising terms. A series of mandates for federal workers and for companies with more than 100 staff triggered...

“This store loses $25,000 a day to shoplifting,” an SFPD officer told the Globe in lengthy, taped interviews conducted this week. “That’s $25,000 that walks out the door on average between 9 and 6 every day.” (The Globe is redacting the officers’ names because of critical remarks made about Mayor London Breed and District Attorney Chesa Boudin that could potentially endanger their jobs.) “This store does between $80,000 to $120,000 in sales every day. And they lose 25 of it [meaning $25,000]. Even if they’re making 25% profit, the stealing takes that down to zero.” Asked if the presence of...