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Joe Biden is not in charge. As I've asserted before, he is but the titular head of government but he is not making the decisions. Now and then in response he blurts something out in response to a question only later to either have Psaki or Karine Jean-Pierre tell us that Biden didn't say what he meant and then they tell us what he did mean. It seems that each day Biden is pumped up with some adrenergic med, programmed what to say, handed some note cards and then pushed out to the stage. Biden was asked why he was...

Come World AIDS Day, December 1, 2021, the United States is expected to have a new National HIV/AIDS Strategy—and an opportunity to show people living with or affected by HIV that the government understands that ending the HIV epidemic is about more than just testing and pills.

Biden told Inskeep to begin the interview, focused on the newly passed $1 trillion “infrastructure bill” that Democrats and RINOs crammed down the throat of the American people. Biden assured Inskeep that his viewers in Ohio and northern Kentucky would see plenty of federal cash for bridges and roads. "Infrastructure projects “are going to be impacted in some way by these global supply chain issues that all of us are being impacted by" Inskeep noted., Biden noted there is indeed a shortage of everything from “foodstuffs” to “semiconductors” before droning on about how he’s gotten port workers to offload ships...

OK, so our college has finally come out with more detail about what to do with their vax mandate. What are your thoughts on this whole thing? How do you handle this demand? Perhaps we should have a general thread about this kind of thing.

I'm in Alabama. A package that originates also in Alabama...just some 300 miles south of me...keeps showing up as 'delayed' in tracking and its a week overdue. Was wondering if its just a FedEx thing or????

A TV news reporter for a CBS affiliate got schooled by Ron DeSantis on Monday when he pressed the Florida governor about a recent joke in which the Republican referred to the Biden administration as "the Brandon administration." "Do you feel that that is the proper level of exchange between a governor and a president?" Jay O'Brien of WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida, asked DeSantis. "Well, let me ask you how he's treated us. Well, look, I think it's a joke but honestly, one of the reasons why that has taken on is because a lot of your folks...

Forty-six years ago today, on November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank with the loss of its entire crew. We'll remember the ship and the 29 men who perished with Gordon Lightfoot's moving tribute at 10:15am and 8:15pm on 87.7FM.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Wednesday that D.C. “can no longer ignore” inflation as Democrats remain poised to pass the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act. Manchin released a statement after the Department of Labor revealed the Consumer Price Index rose at the fastest pace in decades in October.

About 900,000 kids aged 5-11 will have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in their first week of eligibility, the White House said Wednesday, providing the first glimpse at the pace of the school-aged vaccination campaign.

Chinese authorities have taken the extreme step of halting parcel deliveries in some parts of the country over fears that packages could be spreading COVID-19 following several positive cases linked to children’s clothing manufacturers. A string of recent positive cases has resulted in parcel delivery services being halted in several regions as hundreds of packages — and anyone who came in contact with them — were tested, Bloomberg reports. The saga comes ahead of China’s largest online shopping festival, Singles’ Day, on Thursday. In Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, three workers at an unnamed kids’ clothing manufacturer were found to...

[Catholic Caucus] Open letter by Dominican theologian Fr. Wojciech Gołaski: “I must bear witness to the treasure of the holy rites of the Church” The following open letter to Pope Francis was composed by Fr. Wojciech Gołaski O.P. and has been published already in Polish. Below is the English translation that was provided to Rorate Caeli by the author. Regardless of where one stands on the question of the SSPX, it deserves an attentive reading for its formidable critique of “Traditionis Custodes.” Fr. Wojciech Gołaski O.P.Jamna, August 17, 2021 His Holiness Pope Francis Domus Sanctae Marthae The Holy See...

Before he was elected mayor of New York City last week, Eric Adams raised some eyebrows by saying he would carry a handgun to protect himself and any houses of worship he might visit. While those remarks were controversial, the real scandal is that ordinary New Yorkers cannot legally carry guns for self-defense -- a privilege that Adams takes for granted as a former police officer. That double standard came into focus last week, when the Supreme Court considered a constitutional challenge to New York's carry permit law. Unlike the vast majority of states, which allow residents to carry guns...

Nathan DeBruin testified in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial and claimed that prosecutors asked him to change parts of his statement to match their story. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that DeBruin, a Kenosha photographer, was initially subpoenaed by the prosecution but “was brought as a witness for the defense” after claiming prosecutors asked him to change his statement.

The family is under attack, the bedrock of society. Please PRAY for the family. So goes the family, so goes the country.POWERFUL PRAYER by Mario Marillo for parents and children. Go to 24:40 FLASHPOINT with Gene Bailey

The guide says doctors should not say "Low-income people have the highest level of coronary artery disease in the United States." Instead, it says, doctors should phrase the same idea like this: "People underpaid and forced into poverty as a result of banking policies, real estate developers gentrifying neighborhoods, and corporations weakening the power of labor movements, among others, have the highest level of coronary artery disease."

An old video circulating on social media shows Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warning that even just “close contact” with those already afflicted with AIDS could result in infection. In the context of a conversation about childhood infections, Fauci speculates that “if the close contact of a child is a household contact, perhaps there will be a certain number of cases of individuals who are just living with and in close contact with someone with AIDS, or at risk of AIDS ----SNIP--- The clip was posted in response to Chasten Buttigieg, the...

President Biden on Wednesday said his social spending bill will help lower prices after the Labor Department released a report detailing that annual inflation hit a 30-year high. The president argued that the "human infrastructure" bill would combat inflation because it would bring Americans back to work. “Going forward, it is important that Congress pass my Build Back Better plan, which is fully paid for and does not add to the debt, and will get more Americans working by reducing the cost of child care and elder care, and help directly lower costs for American families by providing more affordable...

As a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, businessman Jim Lamon has claimed that he will put America First and stand up to Communist China. But when it comes to his business practices, he clearly has no intention of putting his money where his mouth is. Fund Real News Lamon has said that he will “defeat the Communist Party,” and that as a Senator, he will see to it “that goods coming into the U.S. are not made with cheap slave labor, unfettered environmental pollution, and unsafe working conditions.” He has even claimed that his own company, Depcom...

Jacob Chansley — the QAnon adherent who infamously stormed the Senate chamber shirtless and wearing horns on Jan. 6 — should go to prison for 51 months, prosecutors said Tuesday in a late-night sentencing memo carrying their stiffest recommendation yet in any case stemming from the insurrection.

The Los Angeles Fire Department has spent $22.5 million on COVID-19 related overtime, according to records obtained by The Los Angeles Times. The outlet found there were 400,000 hours of lost work time from March 2020 to Oct. 9 due to the coronavirus. Firefighters had to work overtime to backfill shifts to cover those who had to quarantine or contracted the virus.