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The news of the emerging Omicron variant was greeted with a giant shrug by most of America, and it’s no surprise why. The total failure of our establishment to earn our trust over the last two years of this pandemic made it inevitable that a huge number of people, at best, don’t care, and at worst think it’s a calculated lie designed to prolong this nonsense. The COVIDians are positively turgid over the idea of more mandates, more lockdowns, more masks, and more viro-fascism. So when the CEO of Moderna states that the vaccine might not be as effective against...

Major League Baseball team owners have locked out the players in a battle over the game’s future economic structure, initiating the sport’s first work stoppage since the strike that resulted in the cancelation of the 1994 World Series. [snip] A large point of contention is the competitive landscape, particularly the rise of “tanking”–a radical rebuilding strategy in which teams intentionally make their rosters worse to save money and acquire draft picks for the future. This approach, coupled with an increased reliance on data analytics, caused a squeeze on some veteran free agents, inspiring the players’ frustration. [snip] Management argues that...

If you haven’t heard anything about Border Patrol agents on horseback allegedly “whipping” migrants lately, it’s because the anti-borders Left and the corporate media just had another narrative blow up in its face. After a weeks-long moral panic about Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) agents allegedly mistreating migrants, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is no longer pursuing an investigation into those agents. The DHS’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced earlier this month that they will not pursue an investigation of the agents, who were photographed on horseback in front of Haitian migrants earlier this year. At the...

Self-enforcing life rules….. 1. Law of Mechanical Repair - After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you'll have to pee. 2. Law of Gravity - Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible place in the universe. 3. Law of Probability - The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act. 4. Law of Random Numbers - If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal; someone always answers. 5. Variation Law - If you change lines (or traffic lanes),...

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial was one of, if not, the most highly publicized and politicized cases since the trial of O.J. Simpson, with the jury’s Nov. 19 verdict causing a storm of both approbation and disapprobation around the world. Such high profile cases are bound to elicit aggressive responses from all sides. Yet what changed this time was the difference in response from certain sections of the public; namely, the that some viewed the American justice system as defunct and obsolete, based on the fact that Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges, and, therefore, needed to be reconstructed. I...

McAuliffe’s candor during a September 29 debate against Glenn Youngkin set parents on fire, and likely cost him the election. Referring to books with sexually explicit material, he vowed that he would not “let parents come into schools and take books off the shelves.” He doubled down a few seconds later with this indicative statement: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” But his loss was not just a matter of some ill-advised comments. Disturbing as they were to many parents, McAuliffe’s actions while Virginia governor in 2016 revealed that, in his mind, parental consent...

Here’s a telling but disquieting new survey. Harvard University’s Institute of Politics surveyed 2,109 young Americans ages 18-29 on their political views and their perceptions of the U.S. as a nation. The results are not encouraging. “A majority of young Americans believe that our democracy is in trouble or failing,” the poll analysis said, noting, however, that “78% say it’s important that the U.S. is a democracy in the first place.” “Young Americans place the chances that they will see a second civil war in their lifetime at 35%; chances that at least one state secedes at 25%. Nearly half...

A state lawmaker who flouted mask requirements in the Maine State House and fought against pandemic restrictions has resigned from his seat because of his wife’s COVID-19 death. Republican Rep. Chris Johansen, of Monticello, told House Speaker Ryan Fecteau in a letter this month that he needs to tend to his family farm. His wife, he wrote, had been dedicated to the farm, freeing him to serve in the Legislature. He was one of seven lawmakers who was stripped of committee assignments for refusing to wear masks in the State House after leaders required them. Both he and his wife...

As our living ark swings around the Sun, its current loop is fairly circular. But Earth's orbit isn't as stable as you may think. Every 405,000 years, our planet's orbit stretches out and becomes 5 percent elliptical, before returning to a more even path.... ... Beaufort and team suggest the lag seen between orbital eccentricity and changes in climate could hint that "coccolithophores may drive – rather than just respond to – carbon cycle changes." In other words, these minuscule little organisms, along with other phytoplankton, may help change Earth's climate in response to these orbital events....

When many Americans come across the term "integration," thoughts of Black students enrolling in predominately white schools likely come to mind. However, one Midwestern school district is turning this narrative on its head by having white students desegregate predominately Black institutions. Minneapolis recently unveiled a citywide plan to rezone school districts to combat rising segregation rates in the city's public education system. The New York Times reported approximately one-third of students throughout the city (about 10,000) were assigned to new schools, emphasizing getting white kids into predominately Black academies....

Katy Grimes on Twitter: "Gov. Newsom Family Vacation: $29K per Night at Cabo San Lucas Villa. Source shares photo of posh getaway while Californians remain under mask and vaccine mandates. @CaliforniaGlobe https://t.co/qxG0bVky8a" / Twitter Katy Grimes @KATYSaccitizen Gov. Newsom Family Vacation: $29K per Night at Cabo San Lucas Villa. Source shares photo of posh getaway while Californians remain under mask and vaccine mandates. @CaliforniaGlobe californiaglobe.comGov. Newsom Family Vacation: $29K per Night at Cabo San Lucas Villa - California GlobeA key question remains: Who paid for this vacation? The Globe has received several photos and a now-removed Tweet from sources who...

Nigel Farage's GB News world exclusive interview with Donald Trump in full Watch in FULL Farage: Trump The Interview Link...

PART 2 OF 3. The Hunter Biden Files Hunter Biden and his business partners were involved in discussions about possible deals in dozens of foreign countries, often corrupt backwaters, at times invoking official channels like ambassadors, emails reviewed by The Daily Wire show. While most attention has focused on Ukraine, where a gas company paid the now-president’s son tens of thousands of dollars a month while he was in deep crack addiction, and China, Hunter and his partners at a consultancy called Rosemont Seneca were eager to do business in a vast array of other places. The map below highlights...

“To Make Ready a People Prepared” (Luke 1:1-25) This past Sunday we began a whole new church year. And in our lectionary system of readings, this is the Year of St. Luke. The vast majority of Gospel readings for this church year will be from the Gospel according to St. Luke. And we’ll be really taking a deep dive into Luke’s gospel this year, most often preaching on those texts. In addition, yesterday we began a new Bible class on Luke, going verse by verse through this book of the Bible. All of this makes for a great opportunity for...

“My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee" (Proverbs 2:1).

In August Gateway Pundit contributor Cassandra Fairbanks broke the story on Dr. Fauci’s use of taxpayer money to torture beagles in barbaric animal testing. Dr. Fauci funded a study in Tunisia where beagle dogs were eaten alive by parasite-infected flies. Dr. Fauci also spent over $16 million in taxpayer funds on disturbing “toxic brain injection” experiments on monkeys in 2018. Dr. Fauci more recently was caught funding gain-of-function research in a Wuhan, China laboratory blamed for the production and leak of the coronavirus. Fauci lied about his funding of the lab under oath numerous times. But Dr. Fauci’s sinister work...

The Women’s Tennis Association suspended all tournaments in China on Wednesday in response to the alarming treatment of Grand Slam doubles champion Peng Shuai, whom the WTA has not been able to get in contact with directly since she accused a top Communist Party official of sexual assault earlier this month. With other sports leagues bending to Chinese interests, on account of the nation’s increasingly important market share, the suspension comes as a major rebuke of the Chinese government’s efforts to erase Peng’s social media posts alleging that she was sexually assaulted by former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli at his home...

Well, my panties are ruined. (Twitter video of doubled barreled machine gun)

Nigeria has detected its first case of the omicron coronavirus variant in a sample it collected in October, weeks before South Africa alerted the world about the variant last week, the country's national public health institute said Wednesday. It is the first West African country that has recorded the omicron variant since scientists in southern Africa detected and reported it and adds to a list of nearly 20 countries where the variant has been recorded, triggering travel bans across the world. Genomic sequencing of positive cases of COVID-19 among incoming international travelers has confirmed an omicron case dating back to...

BEVERLY HILLS (CBSLA) — Jacqueline Avant, the wife of music executive Clarence Avant, was shot to death Wednesday in an apparent home invasion in Beverly Hills... ...Avant was the wife of 90-year-old music executive Clarence Avant and mother-in-law of Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos. Clarence Avant, who was not injured in the shooting, is known as the “Godfather of Black Music” ....