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"In a New York court ruling, an 11-year-old girl has been ordered to get the COVID vaccine despite the wishes of her father who is a scientist and college professor. A divorced couple, Jeannie Figer and Donald Figer, went to court over whether their 11-year-old daughter should be vaccinated against COVID. Her father, a director at the Rochester Institute of Technology, has expressed his objections to rushing the jab for his daughter despite a lack of studies regarding the long-term side effects the vaccine may have on kids. Donald is vaccinated, but he worries about the potential impact on his...

“Build Back Better is a spending orgy,” says Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. pic.twitter.com/gj0qrmJOS1— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 10, 2021

Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state and twice-failed presidential candidate, predicted in a recent interview with the TODAY show that her one-time rival, former President Donald Trump, will run for the White House in 2024.

"Following a large picketing protest on December 8, the University Provost stated in an email that 'several injuries' occurred as faculty and students attempted to enter campus. The Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers are demanding that the school increase wages for working students, including a $26 hourly wage."

Shaquille O’Neal brutally slammed celebrities for being “out of their freaking mind.” Shaq is often remembered by fans as a four-time NBA champion and one of the greatest basketball players of all time. However, he would prefer to be remembered for his kindness instead, Fox News reports. In an interview with the New York Post, the 7-foot-1 former Los Angeles Lakers superstar said he’s renounced his celebrity status. As one of the most recognizable athletes, Shaq is apparently done with “the glitz and glamour,” Fox News notes. “These celebrities are going freaking crazy and I don’t want to be one,”...

In a one-page decision issued Friday afternoon, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that an order that has kept the state’s schoolchildren masked for months must be voided. The decision upholds an earlier ruling by Commonwealth Court, which found the masking order issued in August by Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam is unenforceable. Beam lacked authority to require that students wear face masks while in school in an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19, the two state courts concluded. The mask mandate was challenged in court by a bloc that included Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, a Republican who...

A “Let’s go Brandon” sticker and another anti-Biden decal were spotted on the back of a Philadelphia police cruiser — and authorities are investigating how they got there. The coded phrase favored by critics of the commander-in-chief — which actually means “**** Joe Biden” — was noticed by an eagle-eyed Philadelphia woman Thursday. The other sticker on the back of the police cruiser left nothing to the imagination. “So @PhillyPolice cars are allowed to have **** joe biden stickers now?” Arielle Klagsburn tweeted, tagging the city’s police commissioner, mayor and district attorney in the process. The post, which was retweeted...

"Bob Dole’s Farewell Letter is absolutely SAVAGE: “I'm a bit curious…to see, like others who have gone before me, if I will still be able to vote in Chicago.”"

Phonon Assisted Fusion Dana Seccombe Tactyx, USA seccombe@alum.mit.edu This paper continues and expands upon a paper presented at ICCF-22 related to phonon assisted fusion. The overall thesis is that there exist sparsely occupied “nearly free” deuteron states which are modelled similarly to nearly free electrons in traditional solid state physics. These states are occupied in the range of 10-4 , depending on D doping and lattice temperature. The probability amplitude of the states is largest in regions other than where Pd and bound are. The charge of nearly free D’s, whose spatial extent is in the range of .4...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Inside Kai’s Crab Boil on Thursday night, tensions came to a boil. A customer had stopped in for some takeout food and had trouble with a credit card payment. Manager Courtney Hickey says the customer inserted her chip credit card but removed it too early. That meant the transaction pinged her bank account for a pre-authorization. Hickey tried to explain that that transaction would drop off of her account, but she says the customer was still upset. “After I tried to explain all of that, she kinda just hit me,” Hickey said. “Definitely was surprised when it...

USA Today changed the headline after well-deserved mockery. USA Today published a convoluted, garbled mish-mash of “antiracist” Critical Race Training crazy disguised as a serious piece of “journalism” . . . . or maybe it’s an op-ed? Who can tell in these final days of leftwing propaganda disguised as “news”? NOTE: USA Today changed the headline after endless and well-deserved mockery to “Is Math Education Racist?”As is so often the case when leftist propagandists engage in what could be meaningful discourse, the team of four writers on this piece (FOUR!) start out asking the wrong question and, in the process,...

Daughter reads farewell letter from Senate icon known for his wit "And to see, like others who have gone before me, if I will still be able to vote in Chicago."

Jill Biden recently revealed that being first lady of the United States is harder than she thought it would be. In an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning" set to air this weekend, she opened up about the challenges of her role. "I think it’s a little harder than I imagined," the first lady said. "It’s not like a job that you do, it’s a lifestyle that you live."

For the first time, scientists have identified a rare population of potentially toxic senescent cells in human brains that can serve as a target for a new Alzheimer's disease treatment. Senescent cells are old, sick cells that cannot properly repair themselves and don't die off when they should. Instead they function abnormally and release substances that kill surrounding healthy cells and cause inflammation. Over time, they continue to build up in tissues throughout the body contributing to the aging process, neurocognitive decline and cancer. Research conducted by Orr in 2018 found that senescent cells accumulated in mouse models of Alzheimer's...

Charlotte, NC — A study released this week in the American Heart Association’s (AHA) publication Circulation found that young patients who experienced myocarditis were overwhelmingly injected with an experimental mRNA COVID-19 shot within a month of the heart condition starting. The study looked at data on 139 adolescent or young adult patients, all under 21 years old, “with suspected myocarditis within 30 days of COVID-19 vaccination” from 26 healthcare centers in America. The study states: “Understanding the clinical course and short-term outcomes of suspected myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination has important public health implications in the decision to vaccinate youth.” It...

Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “The Evening Edit,” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) equated Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to actor Jussie Smollett, who was convicted of five counts of felony disorderly conduct for faking a hate crime in Chicago. Bishop said because Schiff has been constantly pushing the narrative that Donald Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election, that he was “the Jussie Smollett of Congress.”

A security source confirmed the explosion, which took place at a Hamas weapons depot, but did not provide further details. The explosion took place at a Hamas weapons depot and a judge had ordered security forces to launch an investigation, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Zeldin tells Brian Kilmeade New York leaders need to 'respect individual liberty' Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., on Friday slammed the new indoor mask mandate from the New York governor as "consistently inconsistent." Zeldin announced earlier this year his candidacy for governor on the Republican side. NEW YORK ORDERS MASK MANDATE FOR INDOOR PUBLIC SPACES STATEWIDE LEE ZELDIN: I'm totally opposed to this new statewide mask mandate that [Kathy] Hochul just put out. This is coming right after we saw Bill de Blasio in New York City earlier this week, imposing a vaccine mandate on all private employers inside of New...

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh weighed in on the Jussie Smollett controversy Thursday saying the "Empire" actor was just another example of the left trying to portray America as a country filled with hate. “He’s a typical left-wing Democrat today! By the way, he paid these guys with a check. The guy’s an idiot in addition to everything else,” Limbaugh said on his radio program. “The left is nothing but phony hate crimes, phony alleged hate crimes, phony charges, made-up stories.” [cut] “They know these things probably aren’t true, but they want them to be, and that’s why they report...

Nekuda. Issues 248-258, 2002. p. 10. ... The teacher - (Nazi) German. ... And his disciples - the Arabs. ... In a large mosque in Hebron, the preacher asked: "What does Allah want from us, why did he bring millions of infidel Jews to Palestine, give them a state, give them weapons and power...... When I see the parade of suicide bombers who are ready to explode so that Jewish infidels will also go with them and then I hear in the mourning arbor their parents say they will be happy if their children follow the martyrs, I ask:... And...