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Concern for climate change erupted at a recent meeting of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, a 128-year-old group that furthers interfaith dialog. This shows that fear of climate change has now spread throughout the world’s religions from Christianity to Islam, Hinduism, and Jainism. Both adults and children everywhere think that if we don’t do something right now, we will have a climate disaster. Since religious leaders often have great influence, the conference urged them to global efforts to fight climate change. Whoa! Let’s hit the pause button. When you and I rush to “do something,” we usually choose bad...

The price of some of America’s favorite foods, including burgers and hot dogs, are set to soar — as annual inflation hit a 30-year high in October, the feds announced Wednesday. Major US food companies, including Tyson Foods, Conagra and Kraft Heinz, are reportedly preparing to hike prices on some of their meat products to offset higher supplier costs, according to supplier letters to wholesale customers that were obtained by CNN. Ball Park hot dogs and burgers, State Fair corn dogs, Jimmy Dean frozen breakfast items, Hillshire Farm sausage and lunch meat, and Hebrew National and Oscar Mayer hot dogs...

Republican Rep. Fred Upton says he has received over 1,000 calls, including multiple death threats, since he voted Friday to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill – a measure he helped write earlier this year. The calls began when fellow GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, posted Upton's phone number online following the vote. She called him and the other 12 Republicans who voted for the bill "traitors." An Upton spokesperson said 90% of the calls are coming from outside the congressman's district in southwest Michigan. One man from South Carolina purportedly left a message in which he said, "I...

Where is it written that Republicans must ride to the rescue of Democrats as they teeter at a cliff's edge, seconds from tumbling backward into the Grand Canyon? Last Friday night found Biden's presidency and Pelosi's speakership on the verge of metaphysical collapse. Just days after the Democrats took a drubbing in off-year elections, from Virginia to New Jersey to Seattle, neither Biden nor Pelosi seemed capable of getting his $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF) out of the House and onto his desk for signature. As Biden's approval numbers careened downhill, he further embarrassed himself by dozing off at...

A video sharing a German-speaking ad to help feed hungry Americans has gone viral since it was uploaded to social media. TikTok user @teresamorcho uploaded the video onto the social media platform last week with the reply caption: "Germany is actually doing videos to help feed America." "I thought this was a joke. I honestly thought someone was trolling me, but they're not. I had to go and do my own research and I found the video. Brace yourself." The video then cuts to a German-speaking ad that opens with a girl sitting on steps outside a house as a...

CNBC editor Rick Santelli on Wednesday reacted to the October Consumer Price Index, showing consumer prices rose at their fastest rate in decades. Santelli pushed back against the notion that the inflation numbers were “temporary,” saying that “it doesn’t appear that way in the real world.” He warned that the “hot, hot, hot inflationary pressures” would be “very difficult for the fed to wash out of the system.

VIDEOMatthew McConaughey just completely destroyed any chance that the Democrats would nominate him to run for governor of Texas. The reason is that during an interview he broke a sacred TABOO among Democrats. He committed a HERESY so horrible to Democrats that it now looks like Beto has a clear field to become a Three Time LOSER in politics.

Could this supply-chain disruption affect pharmaceuticals? Concretely, I mean is there a chance that pharmacies will not be able to fill some prescriptions for a dangerous length of time (i.e., neither could a drug store fill a prescription nor send the patient to another drug store)? I do NOT wish to start rumors. But I'd appreciate any informed insights. Thanks for any info!

The anti-Chappelle revolt at Netflix shows leftism’s weakness. ‘It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it,” G.K. Chesterton observed more than 100 years ago. The Laughing Prophet, as he was known, pointed out that people who are secure in their beliefs need not fear mockery. It’s those with shaky doctrines who can’t tolerate laughter. Today’s political radicals hold their views with the fervor of a religion, and by Chesterton’s measure they’re rather weak creeds. You can see then why they can abide only comedy that plays by their rules. Once a culture learns to...

Amid concern expressed by members of FDA and CDC advisory panels that safety data for children regarding Pfizer's COVID vaccine is lacking, the pharmaceutical company's CEO charged people are spreading "misinformation" about the vaccines, calling them "criminals" who have cost "millions of lives." The Pfizer chief, Albert Bourla, was reacting Tuesday on The Atlantic Council's "Front Page" podcast to claims of the spread of "fake news" and "conspiracy theories" regarding the vaccines. Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe asked Bourla how he deals with that, what he thinks is the "primary source" and "how damaging" it was. "I'm afraid it was...

Fortunately, the drug companies came to the rescue and developed "miracle" vaccines in record time to save the world from the dreaded COVID-19 scourge of death. Unfortunately, the vaccines didn't work as promised, and fully vaccinated individuals started coming down with COVID-19 – and numerous other variants began popping up. Fortunately, a third booster shot was developed to combat the variants, and everyone gave a huge sigh of relief. Unfortunately, the booster shots turned out to be just a third dose of the original vaccines that gave only temporary protection, wore off after a number of months and didn't prevent...

Back on October 1st, Richmond, Virginia public schools superintendent Jason Kamras followed President Joe Biden’s lead and announced a vaccine mandate for all teachers and staff in his district. Those failing to comply would have their pay withheld and could potentially face the loss of their jobs if they didn’t come into line with the policy. But that was then and this is now. The schools were already struggling to fill more than 100 vacancies, almost all of which were driven by the mandate. This week, on Monday night, the School Board was forced to approve 29 more resignations, so...

Former Pfizer employee Karen Kingston told Dr. Bryan Ardis that the Food and Drug Administration‘s (FDA) emergency use authorization of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine was part of a conspiracy to harm children. She made this claim during the Nov. 3 episode of “The Dr. Ardis Show” on Brighteon.TV. Ardis had strong words for the FDA advisers who voted in favor of allowing the vaccine to be injected into children aged five to 11. “Shame on the FDA committee members who voted yes to inject five- to 11-year-old Americans. I actually am so disgusted. I think you’re all complicit in...

This year has seen the largest increase ever in the number of concealed handgun permit holders—more than two million, for a total of 21.52 million. That is a 48 percent increase since 2016. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of NYSRPA v. Bruen, which has a chance to further increase this total and make permitting rules more similar across states. Six states now have more than 1 million permit holders: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Florida is the first state to have more than 2.5 million permits. Alabama has the highest rate of adults with...

Left-wing billionaire George Soros is reportedly backing a new leftist news outlet that openly advocates on behalf of labor unions. The New York Times reported that in “a moment of political turmoil, economic change and a pandemic-driven focus on how we work, labor has become a hot news beat.” Specifically, “[t]he new brand of labor journalism runs the gamut from conventional newspaper reporting to outright advocacy.” The “most ambitious” of the new entrants into this news beat is a video-centric outlet called a More Perfect Union, led in part by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) former presidential campaign manager and...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Russian national who served as a primary source for a dossier of negative research about former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he lied to the FBI about the legitimacy of his own sources. A judge set an April trial date for Igor Danchenko, a former analyst at the Brookings Institution whose lawyer says he’s being maligned in a deliberately false narrative by people with an agenda. Danchenko’s lawyer, Mark Schamel, said in a statement that the 39-page indictment “presents a false narrative designed to humiliate and slander a renowned expert...

If last week’s election was any indication of how the 2022 midterms will go for Democrats, chances are the party will lose control of one or both chambers of Congress. Rather than moderating, as even the New York Times editorial board advised last week, they’ve chosen to accept their fate and use their remaining time to ram as much of their socialist agenda items through as possible. On Wednesday, Politico reported that the Biden administration is considering shutting down the Line 5 pipeline in Michigan that pumps 540,000 barrels of oil and other petroleum products per day through the Straits...

On Wednesday, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg claimed the child care plan included in President Joe Biden’s so-called “Build Back Better Act” would help solve the ongoing labor crisis. Buttigieg told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that “a lot of very respected economists” have predicted solving the child care issue would “ease these labor market pressures” and also inflation.

The director of a new documentary focused on Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 campaign says his film confronts the personal toll running for president takes on White House hopefuls. “What is it like to be a human being and undertake this?” is the central question in “Mayor Pete,” Jesse Moss says. The documentary — filmed over the course of the former South Bend, Ind., mayor’s campaign — premieres on Amazon Prime on Friday.

The White House released a pre-recorded video Tuesday night of Joe Biden making an Oval Office address in which he claims to have saved Christmas and Thanksgiving this year by solving the supply chain crisis “several months ago.” Biden said he spoke with CEO’s of large retailers (and shipping companies) on Tuesday, all of whom he says assured him that everything is much improved. Biden promised Americans that unlike last year they will have what they want for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Despite Biden’s claim to have solved the supply chain problem at the ports several months ago, it was actually...