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A member of the legislature of Canada's province of Ontario was expelled during a session Tuesday morning because she was not vaccinated for COVID-19. Cambridge, Ontario, MPP Belinda Karahalios had recently recovered from COVID-19 and tested negative for the virus. But Speaker Ted Arnott ordered her to leave because the current advice from the public officer of health was that she must be out of the chamber for 90 days following her positive test, Canada's CBC News reported. "I need to address the member for Cambridge – member for Cambridge is obviously in the precinct and in the chamber at...

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THE RECENT OPERATIONS NEAR PORT ROYAL. Capt. DUPONT, in his communication to the Navy Department, dated 4th of December, says the apprehension of losing possession of the Bay of St. Helena, so exceedingly valuable, for a harbor, for its proximity to Charleston, and for the command it secures of large rivers, supplying interior communication with South Carolina, induced him to dispatch a second expedition there under Commander DRAYTON, with orders to hold the island until Gen. SHERMAN is prepared to assume military occupation of it, when he will transfer the fort to his troops. The reconnoissance of Commander ROGERS, of...

In 1972, President Richard Nixon visited mainland China, opening the door for diplomatic relations between the two countries. It was a dramatic visit, as Nixon became the first United States President to visit the communist nation. Nixon met with Chinese dictator Mao Zedong, who is considered the world’s greatest mass murderer. During the “Great Leap Forward,” between 1958 and 1962, over 45 million Chinese were killed of starvation, torture and other barbaric methods. After Nixon opened the door to better relations, President Jimmy Carter formalized diplomatic relations in 1979 and adopted the “One China” policy, ending normalized ties with the...

A new analysis reveals the extraordinary left-wing bias of website ratings firm NewsGuard, which should concern every American given that it is expanding its reach into cable and broadcast TV news. Liberal outlets were rated 27 points higher on average than news organizations on the right. MRC Free Speech America analyzed the NewsGuard ratings of media outlets based on a list compiled by AllSides classified by their “bias” on a left-to-right scale. The average NewsGuard score for the “left” and “lean left” outlets — which included leftist outlets like Jacobin and The Nation — was 93/100. While the average rating...

At least one patient has died in the United Kingdom after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. "Sadly at least one patient has now been confirmed to have died with Omicron," Johnson told reporters. “So I think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus - I think that's something we need to set on one side - and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population."… … Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the Omicron coronavirus variant was spreading at a "phenomenal rate" and...

The combination includes diphenhydramine, an antihistamine used for allergy symptoms. When paired with lactoferrin, a protein found in cow and human milk, the compounds were found to hinder the SARS-CoV-2 virus during tests in monkey cells and human lung cells.

Just imagine, with today’s labor shortage, how difficult it’s going to be to replace this guy: Skating waiter, Grand Hotel St. Moritz – photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1932Table 5 will have another round!Honestly, have you any idea how hard it is to hire a good bartender/waiter these days?Let alone one who can perform double axels, sit spins and death spirals? Good luck with that.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

In our wacky world where almost nothing makes sense any more, there is no shortage of examples of politicians, let alone self-important academics, journalists, and wealthy elites, looking foolish with incoherent and self-contradictory policy demands. My favorite among all of them is the demand for “climate justice” for the poor while simultaneously seeking action that will dramatically increase the price of energy and things derived from it (e.g., transportation, heat) — an increase that obviously will hit hardest on the poor. The contradiction is so stark that I have dubbed the situation a “looking glass world” and, in a piece...

The corrupt and mediocre heroes of the Left are imploding. With fits and starts, we are slowly returning to reality after four years of mass hysteria. Our media-deified, progressive icons are finally being exposed as the deceivers they always were. Jussieopath From the moment details emerged surrounding Jussie Smollett’s hate-crime hoax, any sane, non-woke person could have recognized he was more than just a pathological liar. Smollett was also a conniving, mean-spirited egoist. He was intent on rescuing his fading acting career by libeling the Chicago police, smearing white Trump supporters as violent racists, and self-servingly advancing the lie of...

The corrupt and mediocre heroes of the Left are imploding. With fits and starts, we are slowly returning to reality after four years of mass hysteria. Our media-deified, progressive icons are finally being exposed as the deceivers they always were. Jussieopath From the moment details emerged surrounding Jussie Smollett’s hate-crime hoax, any sane, non-woke person could have recognized he was more than just a pathological liar. Smollett was also a conniving, mean-spirited egoist. He was intent on rescuing his fading acting career by libeling the Chicago police, smearing white Trump supporters as violent racists, and self-servingly advancing the lie of...

This correspondent has reported extensively on the Kyle Rittenhouse incident and trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for AmmoLand News, with over two dozen articles in the last 14 months.Very early on I explained there was no murder case, no criminal reckless endangerment, and no firearms charge which was consistent with the law.Repeatedly, the prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Binger, informed the court the firearms charge was based on what the prosecution believed the law had to be, rather than on what the law was.It is a microcosm of the left. Decisions are made on what the left believes reality *should be* rather...

The top bureaucrat’s latest plan to steal away the holidays would have made the Grinch green with envy. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is one of Dr. Seuss’s most beloved books. Boris Karloff delightfully narrated it in an animated television special that has become a holiday classic. It’s been produced on the stage. It was made into a live action movie starring Jim Carey. The story has been enthralling generations of children. No matter how old you get, there’s always that warm glow when the Grinch’s heart grows three sizes and he brings Christmas back to Whoville. Alas, in the...

In early October, an 18-year-old Arlington, Texas student named Timothy George Simpkins was given a $75,000 bond and released from jail after allegedly shooting and injuring three students and a teacher at Timberview High School. His lawyer, a civil rights attorney named Kim T. Cole, claims the case isn’t a “standard-issue school shooting.” Why? Mainly because, apparently, bullying drove him to it. Here’s the New York Post’s description of how things went down: The fight [between Simpkins and a 15-year-old fellow student] was broken up and the two students calmed down, but then Simpkins pulled out a firearm from his...

On Sunday’s Meet The Press, four talking heads joined with host Chuck Todd to announce that Trump spelled the end of democracy. They have short memories. On Sunday’s Meet The Press, Chuck Todd gathered around him John Heilemann, a leftist journalist; Marianna Sotomayor, a leftist journalist; Brendan Buck, an ostensible Republican who worked for Ryan and Boehner; and Kimberly Atkins Stohr, a leftist journalist. All five were unanimous: Democracy in America is over because Americans don’t believe that Biden honestly won his seat in the White House. The hyperbole was thick in the air, along with more than a soupçon...

To risk others' death and national division for personal vanity is a sin too serious for punishment in this world alone. Jussie Smollett and Hillary Clinton have a lot in common. They both faked crimes in order to achieve personal glory. They continue to cause unnecessary and bitter division by refusing to take any responsibility for their actions. And neither of them is nearly as talented in their respective professions as each believes. It's a surreal thing to watch people who walk through life with such little regard for truth or virtue that they manage to seem even more haughty...

It would be an understatement to observe how the ruling class response to Covid has wreaked havoc on life and liberty. These God-given rights were supposed to be preserved by the government and its handlers; indeed, this basic function is one of the limited powers we the people initially granted to our overseers. Instead, the ever-more-powerful state has seen to it that both life and liberty are subjugated to the political fancies of elitists that possess neither the moral guidance nor the intellectual acumen to carry out their mission. Among the many frustrating aspects of government overreach since March 2020...

It's time for hysterical Americans to get a grip and figure out how to let us all live our lives. Remember when we were under the impression that we could wait for Americans to acquire natural immunity to COVID-19, and, along with the adoption of vaccines against the novel virus, we could all "return to normal"? Well, that's not going to happen. The question then becomes, when do we accept that this virus will be with us for decades, and just how much power will we cede to our government in suppressing our freedom to fight the problem? We've had...

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At the Army War College a decade ago, they were pretty insistent on having an actual objective that supports actual American interest when you committed American blood and treasure. Of course, no one in DC ever listens. No matter how many stupid wars we get into, no matter how many times we end up burying a bunch of soldiers and looking like fools, there's always someone in DC ready to send your kid off to Whocaresistan to do something for some reason that no one ever bothers to explain to us, the people who either do or whose kids do...