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Oregon is one of just six states that still have an indoor mask mandate, and now the democrat stronghold is working to make that rule stick around permanently. On Thursday, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) confirmed that its rules advisory committee “met to begin the process of drafting a permanent set of rules for the state’s indoor mask mandate requirement.”

Vice President Kamala Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined forces on Thursday to promote Proterra, a Burlingame, California-based electric bus company that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm previously sat on the board of and held stock in, which garnered her $1.6 million when she finally divested them 157 days after her nomination. This happened during an event at Charlotte Area Transit System in Charlotte, North Carolina that was meant to tout the “marquee legislation” in President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda — the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package — from two of Biden’s highest-profile cabinet members. While at the event,...

It was a meeting of musical titans. It was a summit of some of the coolest cats in the world. I’m talking about the so-called “Million Dollar Quartet” meeting between Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash at Sun Studios in Memphis on December 4, 1956 — 65 years ago this week.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Florida Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried (D) reacted to Gov. Ron DeSantis proposing the creation of the Florida State Guard, which previously existed in Florida and would make Florida the 23rd state in America to have an active state guard by stating that DeSantis is “an authoritarian dictator here in our state,” and that DeSantis is asking for unvaccinated people from New York to come to Florida, “and now he’s going to employ them here in the state of Florida.” Fried said, “This is horrifying…when you were going through all of...

Constitutional lawyer Robert Barnes in studio with Alex Jones. Discusses legal issues and news (vaccine mandates, Maxwell trial etc). Segment... [SKIP TO 50:00]

Pennsylvania’s pro-abortion Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, issued a statement on Thursday slamming the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Court heard oral arguments for the case on Wednesday, which surrounds a Mississippi law that bans abortions at 15 weeks. Dobbs is the first case in decades with the potential to overturn Roe v. Wade. In his statement, Wolf called the pro-life movement “anti-choice” and said that the Supreme Court could negatively affecting women and “birthing people” with their decision. “Today’s arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court demonstrate another attempt to dismantle individual freedoms across the...

The latest symptom of a broken supply chain could take away your breakfast. The looming possibility of a cream cheese shortage is affecting Massachusetts, especially at restaurants. Perry Makarios, the owner of SPoT! Bagel in Norwood, said the restaurant usually goes through 1,500 pounds of the stuff in an average week. He said his suppliers recently began giving him unfilled orders. "Every week we were ordering our cream cheese block, and it was short 200 pounds, short 300 pounds, short 500 pounds, so finally one week I just said, 'we don't have any,'" Makarios said. Consumption of cream cheese across...

The establishment survey of businesses showed a paltry payrolls increase of 210,000 in November, the lowest monthly growth all year and far short of economists’ expectations. The household survey, however, offered a counter narrative. Payrolls, according to that survey, rose 1.1 million in November as some people finally started to re-enter the workforce. What are investors to make of the mixed messages? Let’s start with squaring the survey discrepancy. Aneta Markowska, chief economist at Jefferies, says the big gap in hiring, taken at face value, suggests that over one million individuals shifted from employment to self-employment. The household survey has...

This excerpt is from Claremont board chairman Thomas D. Klingenstein’s speech, “Winning the Cold Civil War.” In a traditional totalitarian regime, the government uses arbitrary violence to control every aspect of public and private life, all the way down to little league. In America, the government does not control everything. But today, through the power of the purse and the courts, the government influences a lot. And where the government leaves off, the cultural business complex takes over. Education, corporate media, entertainment, big business, especially big tech, are to varying degrees aligned with the Democratic Party, which is now controlled...

“They [Democrats] are going to have to print money. They’re destroying the dollar. They’re destroying the economy. It’s just an out of control and quite frankly embarrassing fiasco brought to you by Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and of course, the illegitimate regime that is Joe Biden.” Interview...

(WCIV) — Former United Nations Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was honored Thursday evening by The Citadel Republican Society, but spent much of her speech making predictions for the GOP's political future. “Just like Carter, we’re going to make sure Joe (Biden) is a one term president. You mark my words," said Haley during the speech. Despite making that prediction the two-term South Carolina governor did not make a commitment to running for president in 2024. Despite not taking the plunge, many in the crowd were egging her on the do so, one even shouting out a prediction...

“Unforgivable.” That’s the message a pro-gun rights organization is relaying to former Gov. Eric Greitens as he criticizes Missouri’s newest gun law while running for U.S. Senate. At the heart of the issue is Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act — dubbed SAPA — which took effect in August. It declares federal laws that could restrict gun ownership among law-abiding Missourians as “invalid” and restricts law enforcement officers from enforcing federal firearm regulations that could be deemed invalid under the law. SAPA has garnered national media attention, and some prosecutors and law enforcement officers have expressed concern that the law could...

America’s secret service agency CIA has had credible information about the sexual exploitation of children by at least 10 of its employees and contractors in the past 14 years, reported Buzzfeed News. However, only one of them was charged with a crime while the others were subject to an internal investigation that allowed the sexual offenders to go scot-free. The information was accessed through 3 lawsuits filed under the Freedom of Information Act and 13 public records requests. Buzzfeed found that the Central Intelligence Agency sought to handle the sensitive cases ‘internally’, thereby ensuring that the child sexual offenders got...

Illinois-The driver fails to see stopped traffic and crashes into multiple cars at full speed.

“[Christ] did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped” (Philippians 2:6). Christ is equal with God but willingly yielded His divine privileges for our sake. At the time Christ lived, even His worst enemies, the apostate religious leaders, knew what Jesus claimed about Himself. John 5:18 says, “The Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but was also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.” In Philippians 2:6 Paul affirms Christ’s claim of equality with God. The Greek word translated “equality” (isos) describes things...

Kari Lake, a former journalist now running for the Republican Party’s nomination to be the next Governor of Arizona, has promised to complete unfinished portions of border wall in her state, even if it means building on federal lands in defiance of Joe Biden. Lake made the remarks during an appearance on Tim Pool’s podcast, and later uploaded an excerpt to her Twitter account. “Is Joe Biden going to send officials in to arrest a sitting Governor,” wrote Lake. “Try me.” “Now we’re seeing a crisis,” Lake said in the interview. “First of all, we need to sue the federal...

The decision on who to honor as this week’s top knucklehead was a relatively easy one, for a change, with the only real competition being provided by our two honorable mentions. Fredo Cuomo’s suspension from CNN is so improbable, the choice was an easy one. But before we examine the justification for Fredo’s selection, let’s pause for a moment to consider how far the House of Cuomo has fallen in such a short period of time. A year ago today, now-disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Fredo’s brother, was still trying to figure out where to display the Emmy...

If anything, political pressures may prevent the White House from going far enough, Binghamton University political science professor Olga Shvetsova argued. In order to halt the virus, she said vaccines must not only be mandated but that fully vaccinated people need to be tested regularly to stop the emergence of new variants. “We cannot allow people to be sick but not too sick,” Shvetsova said. “That’s what created delta, and that’s what created omicron. It’s not only about preventing people from being terribly sick. It’s about preventing them from being sick in invisible ways.” — As reported in the Washington...

In September, The Gateway Pundit broke segments of undercover audio recordings featuring former Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Chucri revealing his true feelings about the 2020 Presidential Election, Dominion, and a full forensic audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election. Chucri was busted on record, saying exactly what we have been reporting for a year now and he revealed the real reason that his colleagues were opposed to an audit: They were scared! Just one day after TGP began to break this news, Steve Chucri resigned from office in shame and embarrassment, and he completely flopped on his prior statements. On Friday...

Smoke signals from health and political officials point to closings and lockdowns in the coming weeks and months over fear of the new Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that was (unsurprisingly) detected in Los Angeles County on Thursday. Our local Health and Fear Czar, Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health, stated in a press release yesterday that "we have always known there would be more mutations, resulting in the possibility of a more dangerous variant than the Delta variant."