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After advisers to FDA and CDC committees expressed concern about the lack of data on long-term risks before approving the Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5-11, a survey finds only 27% of parents are eager to get the shots for their kids. The Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that 33% of parents say they will wait a while and see how the vaccine is working, and 30% say they will definitely not get the vaccine for their child. The rest are split among those who will get the shots if it's require and those who are undecided. Many prominent epidemiologists...

The World Series and Sportsmanship. My family has lived in Atlanta since 1984. As an Australian who grew up playing and following cricket, baseball was not on my radar until 1991 when the Braves soared from worst to first. Since then, I have been a fan. As the Braves clinched the series, becoming world champions for the first time in 26 years, my family and I cheered enthusiastically. But as I watched the post game celebrations and interviews, an uneasy feeling struck me. There were no on-field interactions between the Braves and Astro players. No handshakes. No congratulations. No Commiserations....

The American Civil Liberties Union tore into President Joe Biden on Wednesday night after he denied reports that his White House is planning on paying migrants separated under the Trump administration $450,000 each or $1 million per family. Biden had dismissed the reports as 'garbage' at a White House press conference just hours earlier. The head of the ACLU said the 78-year-old president's statement means he either hasn't been 'full briefed' on the matter or is 'abandoning' his promise to undo Donald Trump's more strict immigration laws.

By Kit Klarenberg, an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Follow him on Twitter @KitKlarenbergIn a cited internal document from August 2020, shortly after the Pfizer trial began, a Ventavia executive identified three site staff members with whom to “go over e-diary issue/falsifying data, etc.” One employee was said to have been subsequently “verbally counseled for changing data” and “not noting late entry.”Jackson reported her concerns to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but was fired later the same day on the basis that she was “not a good fit.”In a recording...

Tesla and Hertz are negotiating how fast the electric car manufacturer will be able to deliver 100,000 vehicles to the rental company amid confusion over a recent announcement by Hertz that they would be receiving them by the end of next year, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that the two companies were negotiating the timeframe for when Tesla would be expected to deliver its 100,000 electric vehicles (EVs) to Hertz. Hertz is reportedly still receiving that quantity at Tesla’s list price, however. One of the people the newspaper spoke to said...

The city of San Francisco currently enforces a strict proof-of-vaccination mandate that requires all individuals 12 and older to show they are vaccinated against COVID-19 for a wide array of indoor activities, including indoor dining and exercise. Now that children ages 5 to 11 can be vaccinated against COVID-19, the city says that the mandate will apply to young children in the near future.

Senate Republicans on Nov. 3 filibustered an election bill put forward by Democrats, continuing a longstanding division between the two parties on voting-related legislation. The mostly party-line vote saw only one defection, as Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined Democrats in support of the bill, and is now the only Republican lawmaker to lend support to any of Democrats’ election bills. Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the vote. “After today’s vote, it’s clear that the modern Republican Party has turned its back on protecting voting rights,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said after the legislation failed to advance. Schumer...

Bay County Commissioners are worried about inflation, so much so, they’re evaluating all of their big projects to see if they can delay any of them. County Manager Bob Majka said inflation is driving up the cost of building materials for all of the infrastructure projects. Local contractors like George Roberts this is the worst he’s seen. “On some PVC products they would only quote us for like 36 hours,” Roberts said. “Normally we get a 30, 60 or 90-day quote and the price was increasing so fast they would only hold it for 36 hours.” Roberts is the vice...

[H/T CheshireTheCat]I don't like this at all.Here, we report, besides generation of neutralizing antibodies, consistent alterations in hemoglobin A1c, serum sodium and potassium levels, coagulation profiles, and renal functions in healthy volunteers after vaccination with an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Similar changes had also been reported in COVID-19 patients, suggesting that vaccination mimicked an infection.That is very bad.In fact its catastrophically bad.Vaccination is supposed to trick your immune system into thinking your body is being attacked without producing the bad outcomes that the actual disease can produce. You get the protection, but not the potential bad outcomes from infection itself.That is...

An analyst considered the primary researcher of the Steele dossier was arrested Thursday by federal authorities, The New York Times reported.Igor Danchenko was arrested as part of special counsel John Durham’s investigation, according to the Times.The phony Steele dossier was created as part of a Democrat effort to discredit former President Donald Trump’s election victory.

The ‘Fox Across America’ host discusses the president’s reaction to the Democrat losses in Virginia and Aaron Rodgers being criticized for claiming he is immunized against COVID-19.

An ID card belonging a Massachusetts teen last seen nearly four decades ago has been recovered from a river, along with unidentified human remains, authorities said. Judith Chartier, of Chelmsford, 17, was last seen on June 5, 1982, after leaving a party in Billerica. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said “significant portions” of the teen’s 1972 Dodge Dart Swinger were located by divers Tuesday in the Concord River in Billerica, marking a crucial development in the decades-old cold case. Investigators recovered human remains and a work ID of Chartier’s in the same river Wednesday near Tuesday’s find — about 50...

VIDEOOne of the entertaining fringe benefits of the big loss by Democrats in Virginia and other places this week was the spectacle of the MSNBC howlers going full Moonbat in reaction. One of the Moonbats, Fernand Amandi, is of particular interest to your humble correspondent since he used to host a local South Florida talk show on WIOD Radio in the months leading up to the 2016 election. During that period he was your typical calm yet incredibly smug liberal who basked in the certainty that Hillary Clinton had the election in the bag. His show mostly consisted of Amandi...

BIOGRAPHYAdam Laxalt is the former Nevada attorney general, a naval officer, and an Iraq War veteran with a proven conservative record. Pro-growth highlights:Opposes debt limit increases, earmarks, new regualtions, and crony capitalism Supports term limits, low taxes, and school choice RACE DETAILSCurrent Democrat Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (CFGF Lifetime Rating 2%) is running for re-election in Nevada in 2022, which is expected to be one of the most competitive Senate races in 2022. In the 2020 election Biden defeated Trump in Nevada 50.06% to 47.67%, which was only 33,596 votes. The Republican Primary is scheduled for June 14, 2022. Nevada...

Russian Analyst Igor Danchenko took part in the creation of the so-called Steele Dossier - a report containing allegations of collusion between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the Russian government. Igor Danchenko, one of the analysts behind the Steele dossier that alleged former US President Donald Trump cooperated with the Russian government during his 2016 election campaign, was arrested on Thursday as part of the Durham investigation, The New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. John H. Durham was appointed by ex-President Trump to examine the Russia investigation for any wrongdoing. Durham himself has not commented on...

On MSNBC’s lection coverage Tuesday, as Republican Glenn Youngkin was on his way to building a strong lead in the Virginia gubernatorial race, the topic turned to critical race theory. Joy Reid said, “He's found a way to launder a pretty racist trope. This idea that we cannot talk about America's history, because it hurts my feelings. He's turned that into a campaign. And I think what Democrats have to worry about is if he succeeds, and he wins, that is going to be the campaign model for every single Republican that's running in 2022.” MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow took...

A key source who provided information to British ex-spy Christopher Steele for his 'dirty dossier' of allegations against Donald Trump has been arrested in the US.

Federal agents arrested Igor Danchenko, the primary researcher of a dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, as part of Special Counsel John Durham’s probe into the origins of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The charges against Danchenko are not yet known, since Durham’s indictment is sealed.

New claims for unemployment insurance fell to a new post-lockdown low during the final week of October, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department. In the week ending Oct. 30, initial claims for unemployment insurance totaled 269,000, a decline of 14,000 from the previous week’s revised level of 283,000. New weekly claims have reached the lowest total since March 14, 2020, when roughly 225,000 Americans filed first-time jobless aid applications shortly before the U.S. locked down to contain the spread of COVID-19.

Socialism, one of history’s worst ideas, has been disproved repeatedly and without exception. Yet it keeps rearing its ugly head – constantly being rebranded as a good idea. Socialism only benefits the ruling class who implement this form of government theft. Amazingly, early America had an experiment in socialism. The Pilgrim settlers tried socialism for two years – and it nearly killed them. In his book, “Socialism: The True History from Plato to the Present,” William J. Federer quotes the socialistic bylaws imposed on the Pilgrims by those London merchants who funded the creation of their colony. Under this agreement...