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One of the most right-wing channels on TV is throwing its weight behind a radically progressive Biden nominee who has called conservative news outlets threats to democracy. One America News Network (OANN) is working behind the scenes to rally conservative support for Gigi Sohn, President Joe Biden’s latest pick to serve on the Federal Communications Commission. Conservative political operative Bradley Blakeman told the Washington Free Beacon that OANN's president personally arranged for him to appear in a pro-Sohn segment on the network and that OANN executives believe Sohn will be an ally in the network’s fight to wrest market share...

It is not often that I read news that leaves even me so dumbfounded that I need to fact-check it. Even after my thorough fact check, I had to send the article to my production team to make sure I was not going crazy. Yes, the story in question was, in fact, true. What was the story? A Wall Street Journal report titled, "U.S. in Talks to Pay Hundreds of Millions to Families Separated at Border." The article details a plan put forth by the Biden administration to pay immigrants who were separated from their families up to $450,000 per...

Iraqis, especially Kurds, make up a significant number of the estimated 4,000 migrants trapped at the Belarus border trying to cross into Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. Some 430 people, mostly Iraqi Kurds, were booked onto a flight due to leave this afternoon from Minsk airport, the Iraqi foreign ministry said. They were due to board the flight at 1.45pm, bound for Erbil in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdistan region, and then on to Baghdad, the ministry added. Iraqis, especially Kurds, make up a significant number of the estimated 4,000 migrants trapped at the Belarus border trying to cross into Lithuania, Latvia...

Conclusions This systematic review and meta-analysis suggests that several personal protective and social measures, including handwashing, mask wearing, and physical distancing are associated with reductions in the incidence covid-19. Public health efforts to implement public health measures should consider community health and sociocultural needs, and future research is needed to better understand the effectiveness of public health measures in the context of covid-19 vaccination.

The Washington Post made headlines last week when it corrected and altered two stories that inaccurately identified a key source of the discredited anti-Trump Steele dossier – but the paper also added editor’s notes to at least 14 other reports. The two stories, published in March 2017 and February 2019, were changed when the newspaper’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, said she could no longer stand by their accuracy. The post added editor’s notes, amended headlines, removed sections identifying Sergei Millian as the source and deleted an accompanying video summarizing the articles. The changes came after Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation...

-SNIPThe Trump 2022 caucus, in which all that matters is whether a) you are willing to say the 2020 election was rigged, b) you voted against impeachment, and c) anything Trump is against (like the infrastructure bill), you are against, too. There is room in your heart only for Donald Trump.Back to the unfolding GOP scenario. The worry, says former Republican National Committee communications director Doug Heye, is that the party is heading to a place in which "we don't have to accept elections and policy doesn't matter, like penalizing people voting for an infrastructure bill." (Not to mention the...

Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch says that former president Donald Trump needs to move on from claims that he actually won the 2020 election so that conservatives can focus on future policy. The media magnate, 90, made the suggestion on Wednesday during an annual shareholders' meeting for News Corp, which oversees the Wall Street Journal, The Sun and the book publisher HarperCollins. Murdoch also owns Fox News, a channel that has supported Trump and his claims, through the Fox Corporation.

During a Thursday interview on ABC News’ “Good Morning America,” Vice President Kamala Harris discussed the rise of inflation heading into the holiday season. Harris argued inflation was a result of the coronavirus pandemic and said bringing down was “one of the highest priorities” for her and President Joe Biden.

In early November 2021, this correspondent was doing some target shooting and chronograph work on public land, in an unused sand and gravel pit with a good backstop, off a dirt track north of the Foothills/I8 interchange. The weather was clear and calm, about 72 degrees. I had just fired my last shot when a Yuma County deputy pulled up behind my vehicle. It was about 0940. I put down the pistol I was shooting. It was suppressed. I waited for the deputy to advance about 50 feet. The pistol was in full view.The deputy asked if I knew how...

One-time notorious abortion doctor and key architect of the abortion movement, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, is speaking from the grave. His message: Embrace life.Over the weekend, author Terry Beatley spoke at a local right-to-life event here in South Florida. Beatley had met with Nathanson in 2009 (about a year before he died), and he gave her a charge to continue spreading the pro-life message. He told her, “teach the strategy of how I deceived America” to accept abortion.Nathanson’s message is most relevant these days, as the U. S. Supreme Court is possibly rethinking its infamous abortion decision from 1973, Roe v....

Career race-baiter and cynical iconoclast Nikole Hannah-Jones was recently back in the news. She is the fabulist inventor of the “1619 Project”—a creative retelling of history effectively reducing this nation, its founders, and its people to little more than unprincipled sponsors of slavery, racism, and other moral failures

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) sparred with one another in television appearances this week, each saying that former President Trump "broke" the other. Cruz appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News show on Tuesday and said the Wyoming representative had "Trump derangement syndrome." "[I] think she falls into the category of people who Donald Trump just broke, just shattered," Cruz said, according to Yahoo News.

We now know the common flu and swine flu were deadlier to children than COVID-19. So why are politicians still pushing mandates? New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio this week announced he is considering requiring children as young as five years old to demonstrate proof of vaccination to enter private establishments, such as restaurants and gymnasiums. Though New York City only began making vaccinations available to children a week ago, the outgoing mayor said he’d like to have a plan in place for incoming mayor Eric Adams. Adams, who recently announced he hopes to soon end mask requirements in...

The era of cheap meat is over. For those that are carnivores, that is really bad news. For decades, Americans have been able to count on the fact that there would always be mountains of very inexpensive meat at the local grocery store, but now those days are gone and they aren’t coming back. As I was writing this introductory paragraph, it struck me that what is happening to meat prices actually parallels what I wrote about yesterday. Just as the left doesn’t want us to use traditional forms of energy because they believe that doing so is “bad” for...

Filling up your car in California is now costing you more than ever before as gas prices in are once again at record-highs. The record-breaking gas prices are coming just as we head into the busy holiday travel season. We have never seen prices so high at a time of year when typically prices start to go down. "It's ridiculous, I'm so over it. My car used to be $20 or $30 max and now it's like $40 or $50," a SoCal resident said.

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The Dumbing Of America Our failing education system is leading us down a dangerous road.America is in the midst of an education crisis, ranging from newborns to college students, and it is ubiquitous. In an under-reported story from August, a study by researchers at five universities found that babies born during the Covid pandemic show reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance. Babies who came into the world before the coronavirus had an IQ score averaging 100, but the test scores of those born during the pandemic fell sharply to around 78.And those who were already out of the oven...

It isn’t often that Anthony Fauci’s policy proposals are denied by the White House. For months, Fauci and a cabal of Democrats on Capitol Hill called for the Biden regime to impose vaccine requirements for domestic travelers ahead of the holidays to turn up pressure on those who have been on the fence. But those requirements never materialized despite assurances by the White House that the option has always been “on the table.” I had assumed fear of political blowback was the reason they chose not to seriously pursue air travel vaccine mandates before the holidays. After all, most Republicans...

Searching for a vaccine exemption form for my wife to attempt to get her cardiologist to sign. She works in health care and her company doesn't have a form available yet, they say. She's had cardiac issues since a few years ago. From what I've been able to find so far the State of Michigan has medical exemption forms for children in schools, but nothing for adults.