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A reader objected to my last post in which I questioned “vaccinating” children. I’d cited Steve Kirsch in the article, linking his slide deck of facts, which is rich with documentation and live links to sources. The reader counted with a rebuttal from Jeffrey Morris, a Ph.D. from Penn specializing in biostatistics and cancer. From the expansive Kirsch deck, he picked certain statistics to refute, relying on this statistical information to discredit the whole. Does Morris make cogent points? Who is he? Is he qualified to speak on the subject? His CV shows focused accomplishment within his field. Interestingly, he...

FBI RAIDS New York apartments linked to Project Veritas in investigation into how Ashley Biden's personal diary was stolen and published online The FBI conducted a raid on the apartment of Project Veritas operative Spencer Meads and the conservative outlet's Westchester office after it obtained a stolen diary from President Biden's daughter Ashley in the week before the 2020 election. Project Veritas did not publish the diary, as founder James O'Keefe said in a video released Friday that the group could not confirm the authenticity of the diary, its belonging to Ashley Biden or that the contents of the diary...

PUSHMATAHA COUNTY, Okla. — A homeowner shot and killed an accused intruder over the weekend in southeastern Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Just after 4 p.m. on Oct. 31, Pushmataha County Sheriff’s Office requested assistance from the OSBI after a home invasion turned shooting near the intersection of County Road 4330 and Highway 147. Officials say 25-year-old Shawn Blake Watts arrived at a residence on North 4327 Lane, entered the home and assaulted the homeowner. During the ongoing assault, the homeowner retrieved a pistol and shot Watts, according to authorities. After being transported to Pushmataha Hospital...

A couple of weeks ago, Terry McAuliffe said that parents shouldn’t have the final say in their children’s education. His remarks echo the current stance of the Democratic Party at large. But thanks to the brave moms and dads of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe and allied Democrats are now eating their words. Parental rights were on the ballot in Virginia’s gubernatorial election. Parents turned out in droves to make their message heard loud and clear that they will no longer be an afterthought when it comes to decisions about educating their children. We saw incredible energy pick up for the race...

Trying to bury carbon dioxide deep underground is another fashionable green fantasy. Coal and gas producers will love it as it wastes energy and will increase demand for reliable energy. Trying to bury carbon dioxide deep underground is another fashionable green fantasy. It consumes big dollars for taxpayer subsidies, but coal and gas producers will love it as it wastes energy and will increase demand for reliable energy. Artificial carbon capture is an unnecessary waste - the grasslands, forests, crops and continental shelf of Australia sequester far more carbon dioxide than Australia emits from all energy, transport, agriculture and mining...

Americans are having fewer babies than ever before. What other species are “mistakes”? Or is it only humans that are the error? Americans are having fewer babies than ever before, or at least since records were kept starting in the 1930s. Last year, the number of deaths exceeded that of births in 25 states — up from just five the year before. The marriage rate is at an all-time low, 6.5 marriages per 1,000 people. Millennials are the first generation in which a majority are unmarried. They are also, ironically, more likely to live with their parents as adults, than...

Election Day in Virginia sent shockwaves across the nation, with Republicans winning not only the Gubernatorial race, but every statewide race and a majority in the House of Delegates. Many have rightly attributed much of this Republican success to the critical shift in national attention to education issues, for which Virginia has been ground zero in recent months. As a mother and a former schoolteacher, I’ve been on the frontlines in this fight. But instead of traditional fights for better academics, today’s “mama and papa bears” are fighting multiple radical agendas that have been forced on our schools over the...

A whistleblower from the 2020 election, in a new report, tells what really happened in Detroit. In a soon-to-be released report, called “TCF Timeline - The 2020 General Election in Detroit,” from Michigan Citizens for Election Integrity, author Phillip O’Halloran meticulously details the disturbing events at the absentee voter counting boards at the TCF Center in Detroit during the 2020 election, which can only be characterized as 'fraud.' It's the story of a whistleblower, Jessy Jacob, who worked in ballot-counting and was appalled at what she saw. Her story briefly was told in some of the press but not truly...

By accurately counting deaths, Italy reduced its COVID death count by a staggering degree but the CDC shows no sign of following suit. The Summit caught a fascinating story out of Italy: The Italian Higher Institute of Health decided it had miscounted COVID deaths. Instead of looking at people who died with COVID, as it once did, it looked only at people who died from COVID—leading to a 97% decrease in Italy’s COVID death count. So far, though, the CDC shows no signs of following suit. According to The Summit: The Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the...

@SkyNewsBreak German media are reporting that a knife attack on a high-speed train in the country has left several people injured

Days before the twenty-sixth Conference of Parties in Glasgow, Scotland.Pope Francis and resident Biden met in Rome to discuss “efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity,” including “tackling the climate crisis and caring for the poor.” They should have read Climate Change: The Facts 2017before they met, especially my chapter critiquing His Holiness’s energy and climate “ethics.” Their horse-blindered focus on “manmade climate change” ignores skyrocketing energy prices; the sporadic, unpredictable nature of wind and solar power; the wildly exaggerated human influences on climate and weather; and the fact that many times more people die in cold weather than...

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When Granholm started giggling in response to a question about soaring gas prices, she revealed something chilling about the Biden administration. A short video is circulating showing Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s response to being asked about rising gas prices. Granholm starts giggling and says “That is hilarious.” Most thought she was laughing at people’s suffering but, in a way, her response was worse than that because she was really laughing about the fact that she and Biden do not plan to improve the situation for ordinary Americans. Rising gas prices are a huge problem. Not only do they make...

It is way past time to call out those who use false allegations of racism to obtain power and exert political leverage as perpetuating the worst kind of evil. For many years, it was common for pundits to remark, "The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans think Democrats are wrong and misguided, while Democrats believe that Republicans are evil." This didn't particularly bother Republicans because they saw the Democrats' charge as an absurd point of view, not to be taken too seriously. After all, most Republicans believe in limiting the powers of government, a colorblind society that rewards...

Internal Democratic tensions over cultural change, equity and “wokeness” are boiling over after the party’s dismal showing in this week’s elections. Progressives and centrists are in a pitched battle over how best to grapple with huge debates that have been roiling the nation in recent years. Those debates touch on some of the rawest topics in American life: race, gender and sexuality, as well as policing, criminal justice and education. To the centrists, progressives are pushing and prodding the party out of the mainstream of American opinion, risking further electoral calamity. The left, they argue, is too glib, and too...

"Love is love." "Science is science." Homes and offices in Washington, D.C. must display every politically correct lawn sign there is. Could it be these signs give a sense of belonging, the kind that used to be provided by organized religion? And what does "Love is love" and "Science is science" really mean? This was the gist of remarks made by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez at a recent conference in Madrid. He was asked to speak about some of the movements that seem to be playing a role that religion might otherwise do -- "social justice," "wokeness," "identity politics,"...

As a teacher, union membership has always been more of an expectation than a suggestion—and I’ve been a dues-paying, card-carrying member of my union since I started teaching 25 years ago. Despite years of disagreeing with the union’s overt politics, I maintained my membership. Until last month, when I finally said “enough is enough” and terminated my relationship with my union. The glaring weaknesses in our education system have been on full display over the past two years, and while some of these problems are only just becoming apparent to the general public, unfortunately, we teachers have been cognizant of...

It was a Friday in the late spring of 2016, and I was scrambling to figure out what I was going to teach my students during first period. I was in the heart of coaching through a rugby season, and exams were fast approaching — needless to say I was a busy teacher/coach. My first period class was a geography class, and I could tell that my students were visibly sluggish, and the advent of warm and sunny weather — something that always seems miraculous in Canada — beckoned their attention toward the window. As an experienced teacher, I decided...

"Just to be clear with what Osha is doing: they're clearly not doing science, because they reject immunity through prior infection. They reject the Israel study, and all the very strong studies that have come out that show people who have recovered from Covid have strong protection. They totally cast that aside and they make no accommodation or acknowledgement of that in any way, shape or form." "Those individuals who have gone through a normal vaccination series for COVID—you will be determined to be unvaccinated very soon…They’re gonna to tell you: ‘You have to get a booster, otherwise you could...

resident Joe Biden took to the phones for last-minute calls to key House members as Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through two critical votes late Friday on the Democratic agenda: the president's $1.75 trillion "Build Back Better" social spending and climate policy package and the separate $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan. The final vote on the infrastructure plan, already passed by the Senate, passed 228-206, with 13 Republicans joining Democrats and six Democrats voting against. The bill will now be sent to Biden's desk for signature. In the end, it took 87 days following the passage of the bill in the...