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COVID-19 deaths are up. Politicians tell us to wear masks and get vaccinated. Amid the fear, I'm surprised that we haven't heard more about two drugs that could make COVID-19 much less of a threat. In blind tests, Pfizer's Paxlovid was found to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by 89%! It was so effective that Pfizer was advised to stop the tests. "They halted the clinical trials!" exclaims Michael Cannon, director of health policy at the Cato Institute in my new video. "They decided it would be unethical (not to give the drug to people in the control...

Tucker makes a scathing attack on the January 6 committee’s Soviet-style show trial and he reserves special, and deserved, contempt for Liz Cheney. Tucker Carlson was on fire Tuesday night, for he launched a scathing attack on the grotesque show trial taking place in the House of Representatives, ostensibly to expose the “truth” about the “insurrection” on January 6 but, in reality, to destroy political enemies and preempt Trump’s effort to regain the White House in 2024. To frame the attack, Tucker lit into Liz Cheney, and a more deserving target it’s hard to imagine. The monologue opens with Tucker...

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Democratic governors were already barreling straight into a perilous midterm election. But a building winter Covid surge is putting many of them in a greater bind. The party’s defeat last month in Virginia — and closer-than-expected victory in New Jersey — has many Democrats searching for an off-ramp to the pandemic that allows them to sell a brighter future to voters next November. But, at the same time, attendees here at the Democratic Governors Association’s winter meeting were nodding to voters’ frustrations with the enduring pandemic and its accompanying hardships, a potentially more contagious variant is emerging, and some blue...

The anti-American Left constantly lies. This is not surprising. What is troubling, however, is their bid to twist all American history into the narrative of the 1619 Project -- something that many historians have critiqued as containing misleading and factual inaccuracies. Case in point is the man whom Democrats once revered: Thomas Jefferson. To say that Jefferson was a complex and complicated man is an understatement… and virtually everyone knows that Jefferson was a complex and complicated man. New York City’s recent removal of his statue from their city hall indicted his legacy of slavery as the main reason. While...

The January/February issue of The Atlantic warns that Donald Trump, in 2024, may bring about a "democratic collapse." Hillary Clinton, the other day, predicted the end democracy in 2024 with the re-election of Mr. Trump. And David Leonhardt, in the Pravda-aping New York Times, offers a preview of "America's Anti-Democratic Movement" Clearly, the rleft has started to fire opening salvos of propaganda to mislead the American people into believing that the Republicans -- not the Democrats -- present the clear and present threat to what Madison, in Federalist No. 57, called the spirit of American freedom. Writes Leonhardt, quite falsely,...

Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, resident Joe Biden blamed the recent deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky on “climate change.” Biden stated, “The fact is we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here.” Biden’s statement is laughably inept and easily disproved. All one has to do is look past the opinions, pronouncements, and hand waving and concentrate on what science and data actually say about the issues. First, the top five deadliest tornadoes in America all occurred between 1840 and 1936. The Great Natchez Tornado on May 7, 1840,...

According to volunteers of the international intelligence community InformNapalm, in the near future, the Russian Federation plans to covertly transfer modernized anti-aircraft missile-gun complexes (ZRGK) "Shell-S1" to the occupied areas of Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine through uncontrolled sections of the border. The Russian military and political leadership thus pursues several tasks of tactical and strategic levels at once. Since 2014, the occupied territories in eastern Ukraine have actually been a training ground for Russians and a convenient platform for testing various types of weapons and special equipment in combat conditions. As has been repeatedly recorded by international researchers...

"A Chicago-based group called Defund CPD Campaign is advocating for the abolition of the Chicago Police Department's "racist" gang database, stating that a vast majority of individuals listed are Black or "Latinx." "Another racist surveillance tool used to criminalize is CPD's gang database. Of the 500,000 Gang Arrest Cards recorded, 95% of the individuals designated as gang members were Black and Latinx, with 91.3% of all individuals being male," a Twitter post from the Defund CPD Campaign reads. ..."

"He must have missed the COVID safety Clause in his contract… A Father Christmas impersonator’s maskless appearance at a Christmas market in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ended up getting him Saint Nicked by local authorities for flouting strict German guidelines. While this particular Santa might be on the officers’ COVID red list, the real big man may have just got a few more names to add to his naughty one, too!"

"AT&T assets such as CNN and DC Comics could be turned inside out, in a good way, by the incoming merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery into Warner Discovery and Congress is taking action. In a letter obtained by The Hollywood Reporter and sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Justice Department antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter, thirty Democrat Congressmen including Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the merger raises “significant” concerns over “competition in the media and entertainment industry.” “This transaction raises significant antitrust concerns,” the letter said. “In particular, the merger threatens to enhance the market power of the combined...

Here is my list:The vaccines are safe and effective. Ignore the 300,000 deaths in the VAERS system. Ignore the fact that we can show eight different ways that hundreds of thousands have been killed by the vaccine. Ignore the fact that some doctors report a 20,000 times increase in VAERS events this year. Since we’ll take away their license if they speak out, the public will be kept in the dark on this.Masks work. Ignore what the randomized trials say (which prove masks do absolutely nothing). We say it works, so it works. Get it? It’s all about belief, not...

Here we go again. The latest scheduled round of minimum-wage increases, to $15 per hour ($14 for small companies), starts Jan. 1. It hasn’t even gone into effect, yet calls are going out for a $18 wage. Why not $28? Or $58? Or $118?Joe Sanberg, identified by the Sacramento Bee as a “Los Angeles anti-poverty activist and entrepreneur,” is working to put on the November 2022 ballot an initiative that would boost the minimum wage to $18 by 2025. Actually, a real, “anti-poverty activist” is anyone who favors America’s free-market system that has produced all the wealth in this country,...

“I’ve always been anti-gun,” said Debbie Mizrahie of Beverly Hills.“But I am right now in the process of getting myself shooting lessons because I now understand that there may be a need for me to know how to defend myself and my family. We’re living in fear.”During Black Lives Matter protests last year, Mizrahie told The Post, her neighbor’s home was firebombed with Molotov cocktails.“My kids were outside and they saw a huge explosion,” she said.“[The neighbor’s] backyard went up in smoke. Trees burned down … But it’s only gotten worse. Beverly Hills has been targeted.”Mizrahie, a 40-something mother of...

In a bit of irony, a Twitter comment by Jill Hruby Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) pointed to a new nuclear bomb as proof America is committed to nuclear deterrence. This is where it is important to remember that deterrence means, the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences. See her Twitter post below;Last week, #NNSA successfully completed the B61-12 First Production Unit @PantexPlant. This is a huge milestone for stockpile modernization and demonstrates our Nation’s commitment to #nuclear deterrence. pic.twitter.com/90ojHPw6cH — NNSA Administrator (@NNSAHruby) December 2, 2021It could...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Long before the vast majority of Omicron cases were among the vaccinated, and before CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted in early October that the Covid-19 vaccine does not prevent transmission, public officials, MSM pundits, and coffee shop doctors across the land were spouting insidious propaganda designed to shame people into taking the jab.That this is a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated.'The phrase implies that the vaccine was a panacea against Covid-19, and anyone who refused to take it wasn't just part of the problem... but an irresponsible idiot who doesn't follow the science.In a late November note, The Lancet published a...

Prices that suppliers charge businesses and other customers rose at the fastest pace on record, up 9.6%. The Labor Department says the core PPI — which excludes food and energy costs — jumped 7.7% in November, which was also a record.Those price increases won’t show up on store shelves for a couple of months, so it’s entirely possible that by the time springtime comes to the Midwest, we could be seeing double-digit price increases.The Wall Street Journal is reporting that higher prices for energy, wholesale food, transportation, and warehousing contributed to the rise in inflation.Persistently high prices in large part...

I spent the past week in a more urban area and was shocked. I come from a semi-rural, conservative area, and as Rick Moran wrote Tuesday, COVID-19 hype scarcely exists. But in liberal land, masks, panic, and unnecessary mandates abound.This is the majority of America. https://t.co/wqYUs99Tzn— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) December 14, 2021 Speaking of neurotic goons, the New York Times claimed Tuesday that “Omicron is a Dress Rehearsal for the Next Pandemic.”The next pandemic?The Gray Lady neglects to mention that the best and most important news on omicron is that it’s killed almost no one.At the worst, there are...

Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine produced virtually no antibody protection against the omicron coronavirus variant in a laboratory experiment, underlining the new strain’s ability to get around one pillar of the body’s defenses. The vaccine appears to provide some defense against omicron, perhaps via other means such as stimulation of immune cells, according to Penny Moore, a South African virologist. The findings are consistent with other studies that show a partial loss of potency against COVID-19 for a number of vaccines, with J&J’s antibody protection looking particularly weak in the lab test. Moore, a professor at Johannesburg’s University of The Witwatersrand,...