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A “Never Trump” Republican lawmaker said Sunday the former president would try to “steal” the 2024 election if he opts to make a run and loses. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio told CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump had only grown emboldened by the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. “I think any objective observer would come to this conclusion, that he has evaluated what went wrong on Jan. 6. Why is it that he wasn’t able to steal the election?” Mr. Gonzalez said. “Who stood in his way?” Mr. Gonzalez accused Mr. Trump of...

After two years of fear mongering from the country’s political, media and medical elite, resident Joe Biden ordered a highly controversial COVID-19 vaccine mandate on September 9, 2021. He authorized the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to prepare these orders for businesses with over one hundred employees. On November 4, 2021, OSHA officially announced the rules; however, enforcement was not set to begin until early in 2022. The orders require employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine or submit to weekly tests proving they are free of the virus. The businesses might have to terminate their best employees if they...

A steel manufacturing company has been ordered to forfeit $6 million — a near-financial death sentence — after admitting it had run a pipeline for “dozens” of illegal immigrants from Mexico to come and work for it, undercutting competitors. All Steel Carports Inc. told the court in a sentencing memo that owner Ignacio Chavez, who came to the U.S illegally himself before winning legal residency in 2009, didn’t consider hiring illegal immigrants to be a big deal. “In his culture laws are there but few respect them,” the company’s lawyers wrote. ...The Biden administration cut him a break, dropping human...

When I first suspected that I was losing my hair, I felt like maybe I was also losing my grip on reality. This was the summer of 2020, and although the previous three months had been difficult for virtually everyone, I had managed to escape relatively unscathe. My loved ones were safe. I still had a job. I wasn’t okay, necessarily, but I was fine. Now my hair was falling out for no appreciable reason. Or at least I thought it was—how much hair in the shower drain is enough to be sure that you’re not imagining things? The second...

A Liverpool taxi driver's "heroic efforts" averted what could have been an "awful disaster" on Remembrance Sunday, the city's mayor has said. His cab pulled up outside Liverpool Women's Hospital and exploded just before 11:00 GMT, as the national two minutes' silence was due to begin. Joanne Anderson praised the cabbie, named locally as David Perry, for "locking the doors" before the blast. The taxi passenger died at the scene and Mr Perry was taken to hospital. Ms Anderson said he was not thought to have suffered life-threatening injuries and was recovering.The dead passenger has not yet been formally identified....

A tremendous part of the enormous frustration felt by an ever-growing segment of the population over the past nigh-on two years is rooted in the fact that little if anything about the actions the powers-that-be have taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has ever made any logical or scientific sense. When even a layperson like myself can time and time again drive a semi-truck through the ‘reasoning’ put forth by our overlords to justify their ridiculous measures, the fact that the insanity still continues virtually unabated is a testament to the magnitude of their evil grip on the psyches...

Can we just end this COVID nonsense now, or do some people have such empty lives that they can’t get beyond this ridiculous societal spasm because they need it to give their existence meaning? Sadly, they do, and you can see them licking their thin lips at the thought of more lockdowns. Except I am sick – pardon the expression – of having my life disrupted by their personal psychodramas. I get that this silly pandemic has been the most exciting, edgy, and interesting thing that will ever happen to many of our fellow citizens. It’s been their chance to...

The Smithsonian Museum, the American Louvre of unusual artifacts, has a collection of toys. One is a transparent plastic figure called "The Visible Woman." She has as her companion "The Visible Man." The see-through educational toys were designed to teach children about human anatomy. Larger transparent models of human beings were designed to teach medical students. One such figure is of a woman. Made in 1980 in Dresden, in what was then East Germany, the medical Eve could well be accompanied by the transparent model of an Adam created in Germany in 1933. Both models were designed by scientists living...

There is a new phenomenon, where people who are scared of the mysterious mRNA vaccine that is in their bodies, and of what it does to them and their loved ones, are searching for any method to get “un-vaccinated”, resorting to outright quackery in desperation. They are taking “borax baths”, which, of course, are not helping. What is happening? The Pfizer controlled media frames them as holdout “anti-vaxxers”, who were forced to take a shot due to threat of starvation of their families (so called “vaccine mandate”), trying to undo the effect right after getting vaccinated. I have doubts that...

Back when the experts didn’t know if the new vaccines would even be “effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infections,” the government, media, corporations, and public health intelligentsia still relentlessly pushed the stuff on Americans while proclaiming that they were 90-percent effective, and Dr. Anthony Fauci openly presumed that we’d “really need for 75-to-85-percent of the population to get vaccinated to achieve herd immunity.” All of that information can be found in a single article from December of 2020. Today, we’ve hit Dr. Fauci’s once-supposed sweet spot for vaccination rates (among adults, at least), thanks to a propaganda campaign that neglected...

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Watching the news, one sees constant stories about COVID numbers rising, yet again, now almost two years into this pandemic, with COVID hospitalizations in some states higher than they have ever been except for the spike last December. In my state of Colorado, the test positivity rate is almost 10 percent, with 1 in 48 infected and if the current trend continues, this will be the worst COVID spike the state has seen. On the surface, that doesn’t make sense, since nearly 80 percent of eligible Coloradans have received at least one vaccine dose, suggesting the vaccines are not working...

Joy Reid is a racist sociopath. How else to explain her reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse breaking down in the witness box during his murder trial last week? “White crocodile tears,” said the hate-mongering MSNBC prime-time anchor. This is a woman on a seven-figure salary who went to Harvard and has more elite privilege in her little finger than the 17-year-old son of a single mother who was in Kenosha working as a lifeguard when all hell broke loose in the form of BLM-Antifa riots in August 2020. Yet Reid continually plays the victim and makes her living punching down at...

More than 100 young people in Louisiana will receive $3,500 next year under a financial literacy program from the City of New Orleans. City officials said Thursday that 125 residents between the ages of 16 and 24 will receive 10 payments of $350 starting next spring. The money will be loaded onto an ATM card provided by Black-owned online bank Mobility Capital Finance. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.. The goal, city officials said, is to address the "unbanked" problem plaguing the Big Easy. The "unbanked" is a term the financial services industry has adopted to describe adults who earn...

Former Vice President Joe Biden has been criticized for unwanted physical contact, stemming from his “tactile approach to politics.” Revisit some of his past mock swear-in ceremonies, where Biden’s interaction with others was on full display. Is Biden’s touchiness out of touch? Or is his personality the result of a beloved politician?

Vice President Kamala Harris' increasing frustration and tension with President Joe Biden's inner circle has been laid bare in a new report. Harris and her top aides are frustrated with Biden for defending 'white man' Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, more vigorously than her, and handing her 'no-win' issues like the border crisis, according to a CNN report citing interviews with dozens of current an former Harris aides and White House officials. At the same time, Biden's staff are said to be privately frustrated with Harris over controversies they view as self-inflicted, such as her 'awkward' laughter when asked about...

(CNN)In honor of Veterans Day, congressional Democrats reintroduced legislation Thursday that would provide GI Bill benefits to descendants of Black World War II veterans. The GI Bill Restoration Act was introduced in the House by Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts. Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia is set to introduce the legislation in the Senate, according to a news release on Clyburn's website. ...If passed, the bill would extend to descendants and surviving spouses of Black WWII veterans access to the VA Loan Guaranty Program, which provides assistance for buying and...

A HERO taxi driver thwarted a Remembrance Day bomb tragedy by trapping a suspected terrorist in his cab...

Austria is placing millions of people not fully vaccinated against the coronavirus in lockdown as of Monday to deal with a surge in infections to record levels, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said on Sunday. "The incidence within vaccinated people is declining, but it continues to rise exponentially for the people who are not vaccinated," Schallenberg told reporters. "Currently, the incidence for unvaccinated people in the 18-59 age group is over 1,700, so today we have decided that from tomorrow there will be a lockdown for the unvaccinated in Austria," he added. Europe has become the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic again,...

Congress is facing a legislative pileup as it barrels toward the end of the year with a lengthy to-do list. The House and Senate return Monday and are scheduled to be in session for roughly two weeks before the end of 2021, setting up a legislative squeeze that is threatening to drive lawmaking deeper into the holiday season. Democrats, facing increasingly sharp headwinds... have to juggle their party's political ambitions with must-pass bills that threaten to eat up shrinking floor time.