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It is going to be a very dry Christmas for many Americans this year. Don’t take my word for it; head on down to your local liquor store and have a peek. All those container ships waiting to unload their goods at major U.S. ports are sitting on much of your holiday cheer. The natives are, shall we say, getting very restless and peace on earth seems in short supply as retailers run dry this holiday.Tempers and Temperance Walking into the state-controlled ABC store in Virginia this week was rather shocking. Not only were many of the shelves bare, but...

Caitlin Foster fell in love with San Francisco’s people and beauty and moved to the city a dozen years ago. But after repeatedly clearing away used needles, other drug paraphernalia and human feces outside the bar she manages, and too many encounters with armed people in crisis, her affection for the city has soured. “It was a goal to live here, but now I’m here and I’m like, ‘Where am I going to move to now?’ I’m over it,’” said Foster, who manages Noir Lounge in the trendy Hayes Valley neighborhood. A series of headline-grabbing crime stories — mobs of...

David DeLuca of Sicklerville, New Jersey will never know if the Ivermectin prescribed by an out-of-state doctor for his wife would have saved her life. Colleen DeLuca, 62, died of COVID-19 on Oct. 10, at Jefferson Washington Township Hospital in Sewell, New Jersey, before he could get a court order to administer the drug. Ivermectin has helped in some cases, but across the United States, many hospitals don’t include it in their COVID protocol for treatment and refuse to use it, even as a last effort on a dying patient.Buffalo, New York attorney Ralph Lorigo has spent the last 11...

In BriefThe Facts:According to government health authorities and pharmaceutical companies like BioNTech, two doses of a COVID vaccine are not enough to stop you catching the Omicron. A third does may provide more protection from severe symptoms.Reflect On:Why mandate COVID vaccines when they do not stop transmission or infection? If they protect people from severe COVID, should that not be an individual choice?The Omicron variant is spreading, and it’s most likely not the last time a variant will emerge. After all, that’s what viruses do. With COVID, it is approaching endemic status where several variants will continue to emerge. Uğur...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed in a podcast released on Thursday that one of his children was in the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. During an episode of "The Fourth Watch Podcast," host Steve Krakauer asked Carlson about his "Patriot Purge" documentary, which attempts to provide an alternative narrative to the events reported around the Jan. 6 riot, including one person mentioning a debunked "false flag operation" conspiracy theory. "What is it about the focus on Jan. 6, but then the focus on very specific areas of Jan. 6, that made you say, 'We need to give a...

Saule Omarova, President Biden’s pick for comptroller of the currency, has withdrawn her nomination after at least five Democratic senators and every Republican senator made it clear that they were unwilling to vote to confirm her to the post. My question is this: Why the hell was she nominated in the first place? Perhaps he hasn’t noticed yet, but he is not in a particularly good place right now. He is wildly unpopular. He is already seen as last year’s news. He has yet to persuade Congress to pass the core of his policy agenda. His claim to be a...

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas border sheriff who had resisted working with the state to refer illegal immigrants on state trespassing charges said rising crime in his community has forced him to take action and partner with Austin.Despite neighboring counties signing agreements to work with the state earlier this year, Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber had held out on partnering with the governor's office to refer noncitizens on state charges."The state's been after me for a few months," said Schmerber. "I hesitated for about two months. What kind of pushed me to really was because there were more things that...

The United States Supreme Court released Friday a pair of decisions in the challenges to a Texas law effectively banning abortions upon detection of a fetal heartbeat, rejecting the Biden administration’s challenge to the law while allowing abortion industry lawsuits to proceed in the lower courts............ Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court’s liberal wing in a partial concurrence and partial dissent that appears to indicate hostility to the law should the “ultimate merits question” reach the justices........

Governor Doug Ducey visited Yuma this week after a dramatic surge in migrants flooded into the United States. As he received a briefing on the ground, the Governor witnessed (migrants walking across the border) into the U.S., providing firsthand evidence of President Biden's inability to resolve the border crisis.The president's inaction has forced leaders like Governor Ducey to step up to protect our communities. The Governor announced a surge and repositioning of Arizona’s public safety resources in Yuma to address the Biden Border

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday he wants new state laws protecting Florida from the "Biden border crisis" that he directly tied to the stabbing death of a Jacksonville resident in a case where authorities charged a Honduran man who posed as a 17-year-old under a fake name.DeSantis made the link to that homicide case during a news conference at Jacksonville International Airport while saying President Joe Biden's immigration policies have left Florida exposed to people arriving from other countries without state and local officials knowing who they are.U.S. Rep. John Rutherford, who has criticized federal flights into Jacksonville of unaccompanied...

A limited-edition Patek Philippe watch designed in conjunction with Tiffany’s sold for more than $6 million at auction Saturday. Bidding was fast and furious for the Patek Philippe 5711 1A-018 timepiece at a live Phillips auction on Park Avenue. The watch, which features a Tiffany & Co. signed dial, sold for $5,350,000, with the auction house premium taking the total price tag to $6,503,000. The winning bid was made by an unnamed New Yorker, who was bidding online, according to a report.

Rhode Island has reported its first case of the omicron variant, making it one of the dozens of states to have detected the new COVID-19 strain. Gov. Dan McKee (D) and the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) announced the omicron case in a joint statement on Saturday. The infected individual is in their 20s and recently traveled from New York to Providence, according to the statement.

Let me get this straight: -Fauci's NIAID funded Bat Coronavirus Research in Wuhan (https://t.co/hEhmNdCFPb) -Coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan. -NIAID signed a private & confidential agreement with Moderna to produce a vaccine. -Fauci, NIAID/NIH and WHO need to be questioned — Calvin (@calvinrobinson) December 9, 2021 This is all coming out because Moderna wants to cut the US (NIAID/NIH) out of patent rights They're exposing themselves due to greed Perhaps someone with more knowledge than me can explain why/how the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 VACCINE was patented in 2018/2019?https://t.co/BByH8xVBcZ — Calvin (@calvinrobinson) December 9, 2021 They all were very well...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said a booster shot specifically for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 may not be necessary for vaccinated people. The White House chief medical advisor said that the existing shots could be enough to provide protection against the new variant. “I’m not so sure that we’re going to have to get a variant-specific boost vaccine to get an adequate protection from Omicron,” Fauci told the health website STAT in an interview published Friday. “Because if you look at protection against variants, it appears to relate to the level of immunity and the breadth of the immunity that any...

A man who was vaccinated against COVID-19 up to 10 times in one day on behalf of other people has been called “unbelievably selfish” and sparked an investigation. Astrid Koornneef, group manager operations for the Covid-19 vaccine and immunization program in New Zealand, said the country’s Ministry of Health was aware of the issue and taking the matter very seriously.

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Officials in Europe said this week that the Omicron coronavirus variant could overtake Delta in becoming the dominant strain of the virus in just a matter of days, and warned of a possible "tsunami" of new infections. "We expect it to overtake Delta within days, not weeks," First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon said Friday, according to the Washington Post. The U.K. Health Security Agency issued a similar warning, noting that Omicron has a "high growth rate," over Delta and that it will likely become the dominant version of the virus in Great Britain by mid-December. Meanwhile, in Denmark, researchers...

There’s something creepy about the culture at CNN. We see their hosts and employees oddly defending perversion, including pedophilia and sexual misconduct. We see them embroiled in lawsuits and criminal cases involving sexual harassment and even sexual assault. For CNN to continuously hire the most hideous humans available explains why they defend evil while trying to destroy anything good about America.

NBC’s The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon gushed over President Joe Biden, telling him that he is “bringing class back” to the presidency by attending events at the Kennedy Center and mingling with the elite, unlike former President Donald Trump. “I was at the Kennedy Center, and I saw Republicans and Democrats in the crowd,” Fallon told Biden. “Everyone was laughing at jokes and listening to great music — everyone seemed cordial and nice, and I go, ‘This seems like this should be much easier to get along with everybody.'”

Twitter has quietly updated its “COVID-19 misleading information policy” to impose new sanctions on tweets about vaccines, PCR tests, and health authorities. These sanctions include removing and labeling tweets. Both types of sanctions also result in Twitter users accruing strikes on their account which can lead to a permanent suspension.