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As it votes to hold President Trump’s top aides in contempt of Congress, the Democrat-controlled House showed its own contempt for the separation-of-powers doctrine that makes a presidency co-equal rather than subservient to it. Contrary to the grandstanding congresswoman Liz Cheney, President Trump had no obligation to remove First Amendment-exercising Americans from the Capitol building on January 6th. Cheney selectively released some private texts and emails involving Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and quickly distorted their meaning. She falsely insists that they show “supreme dereliction of duty” by Trump even though he was not the recipient of the...

Parents like me are fed up with inconsistent Democratic policies aimed at our kidsFor adults, life is closer to pre-pandemic normalcy. But for kids, school disruptions and restrictions continueWhen Glenn Youngkin was elected governor of Virginia a few weeks ago, a liberal friend (and former staffer at a progressive organization) told me, “He was elected by angry parents. I can’t tell you who I voted for because of my job, but I can tell you I’m a really angry mom.”She was angry over the course of the entire pandemic, as she watched her child’s first year of school happen on...

Researchers testing coronavirus samples in Washington state have recorded a rapid rise in cases with a mutation that is characteristic of the omicron variant, mirroring trends that have emerged in countries like South Africa, Britain and Denmark. Researchers at the University of Washington found that 13% of 217 positive coronavirus case specimens collected Wednesday had the mutation. That was up from about 7% of samples they had tested from the day before, and 3% from the day before that — in a region that had its first identified cases only two weeks ago. “It’s clearly looking like it’s rising really...

Today marks the 230th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the foundational document that guarantees basic liberties—like freedom of religion, speech, and association—to all American citizens. Never has it been more important for us to reflect on those rights, for never before have those rights been more threatened than they are right now. Our nation is fixated on the idea of “rights.” But even as we throw the word around constantly, we’re in danger of forgetting what rights actually are: who grants them, who has them, and what they really mean. If we lose sight of the...

More Americans Have Died Of Covid Under Biden Than Under Trump A grim milestone has been passed as the total number of Americans who have died from Covid under President Biden (400,821) has surpassed the total amount that died from Covid under President Trump (400,000). Link: Johns Hopkins University Covid Tracker.Much was made in the national media about the death toll reaching 400,000 on President Trump’s last full day in office on January 19, 2021. The Trump administration was accused of having blood on its hands: 'Blood on his hands': As US surpasses 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, experts blame Trump administration...

My estimate of the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) at 41 was based on anaphylaxis rates reported in the Blumenthal paper published in JAMA. I have argued that the anaphylaxis rate is an appropriate number to use to (under) estimate deaths because I believed that deaths would be less reported than anaphylaxis to VAERS for two reasons: 1) usually lacks the time proximity to vaccination, 2) the person seeing the death may not know the vaccination status of the victim and may not technically be required to report the death. Some people have quibbled with that assumption, including my friend Professor...

Television star Jim Bob Duggar lost his bid for a seat in the Arkansas State Senate in a landslide defeat on Tuesday. Results released by the state show that Duggar only earned 456 votes in the election, amounting to just 15.34 percent of the 2,270 Republican votes cast on Tuesday and 202 votes cast in early voting. The election will now move into a runoff election on January 11 between Colby Fuller, who received 1,387 votes, making up 46.67 percent of the votes cast, and Steve Unger, who won won 941, or 31.6 percent.

Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney raked in almost $55,000 from the same donors who fund the Lincoln Project, according to a Federalist analysis of public finance records. After cementing a perpetual feud with former President Donald Trump and Republican voters as a hallmark of her legacy in the lower chamber, Cheney’s goals now seem indistinguishable from those of the super PAC cloaking Democrat attacks as Republican. The shared donor base makes that clear. According to receipts dated in August by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Silicon Valley investor Ron Conway, a “top donor” to the Lincoln Project, gave Cheney and...

Rep. Liz Cheney accepted an award sponsored by the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a Chinese Communist Party-backed influence group flagged by the U.S. government for its efforts to coerce American leaders to “take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing.” (snip) Rep. Cheney’s decision to accept the CUSEF-funded award follows The National Pulse unearthing her husband’s employment at a law firm deeply in business with the Chinese Communist Party.

“one of the most reliable predictors of state collapse and high political instability is elite overproduction”. ...the Wall Street Journal reported that over the last year, the proportion of female-to-male college students has shifted to 59.5 per cent vs 40.5 per cent respectively. In the next two years, if the trend holds, two women will earn a college degree for every man. Historically, highly qualified would-be-professionals and public sector administrators have been almost exclusively male. But the new American elite will be, as Samuel Goldman argued recently in The Week, female. If this system is not just producing an elite...

America isn’t a racist country. So why doesn’t the Salvation Army just say it? The beloved charity’s leaders have tied themselves into knots for the past several weeks trying to explain why they made their staff attend a Critical Race Theory training that told white members to repent for the country’s racism. Critical Race Theory is a school of thought that views everything in American history and life today through the lens of racism. Proponents of Critical Race Theory have managed to convince universities, corporations, and now charities to force members of their staff to take lessons on issues like...

​Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham blasted Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) Tuesday night for publicizing texts the two sent to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows as the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was unfolding, calling it both a smear attempt and a breach of their privacy. Cheney, the vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the riot, read out the messages from Hannity and Ingraham on Monday night, shortly before the panel voted unanimously to recommend that Meadows be held in contempt of Congress. “Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to...

How Could They Have Done This to the Children?At this point, I think it is clear: many pandemic experts hurt children. School closure was the greatest self inflicted wound of the pandemic. Sensible European nations did not close primary school at all, or only for 6 weeks, but places in the USA remained closed for more than a year. This was a net negative for the health and well-being of children, and will damage this nation for years to come. I am not sure we will recover.This decision was made only in some places in the USA, and not others,...

President Joe Biden's nominee for the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Senate "gender advisers" for combat troops are critical to the United States' success, a position some veterans say is nothing more than a left-wing initiative that distracts from the military's core duties. The revelation came during a Dec. 8 exchange with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.), who asked how Adm. Christopher Grady intends to implement "women, peace, and security" legislation within the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

While on leave to visit his five children, Ray was pulled over by the police and dragged out of his car at gunpoint. As he lay face down on the pavement, they told him he was under arrest — for the murder of a girl he’d never met. Ray had been in the parking lot that night. While studying to be a U.S. Marshal, he was moonlighting as an unarmed security guard. It was his second day on the job. He heard gunshots, took cover, and radioed for help. When police arrived, they didn’t treat Ray as a suspect. If...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is know for a few things. She loves the welfare state, though she’d prefer if the homeless from around the nation would stop coming to collect from her city. She likes partying while telling her constituents they need to mask up and stay home. She really loves clubbing and would never let her city’s crime problems get between her and the dance floor. But one of the things she’s known best for is her quick and decisive decision last summer to defund the police. She hates the police. Unfortunately for the people of San Francisco,...

Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No DiscriminationJapan’s ministry of health is taking a sensible, ethical approach to Covid vaccines. They recently labeled the vaccines with a warning about myocarditis and other risks. They also reaffirmed their commitment to adverse event reporting to document potential side-effects.Japan’s ministry of health states: “Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided.”Furthermore, they state: “Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases...

Dear friends, two thousand years ago, Simeon was "waiting" for His Savior's first advent (Luke 2:25)! This same word "waiting" is used in (Titus 2:13), “Looking" for the blessed hope! Simeon was "waiting" with all eager anticipation and expectancy, "looking" for the Messiah to come, longing for the Messiah to come, eagerly expecting His first coming! Oh dear friends, how many believers in this same Jesus today look with all eager anticipation and expectancy like Simeon did 2000 years ago, not for Messiah's first coming but for His return for His Body in the clouds? Tragically, not too many. Simeon...

President Biden said Wednesday that he believed former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows is “worthy” of being held in contempt by Congress. Speaking to reporters briefly before leaving for a trip to Kentucky, Biden said he hadn’t read all the texts that Meadows turned over to the Jan. 6 committee but added “it seemed to me he is worthy of being held in contempt.” The House voted late Tuesday to hold Meadows, former President Trump’s fourth and final chief of staff, in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on...

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden downplayed concerns that many Americans have about his vaccine mandates going too far and encroaching on their individual freedoms. “Your vaccine mandates have suffered some setbacks in court recently,” WHIOTV 7 reporter John Bedell said. “Federal judges have halted three of those COVID vaccine mandates.” “Are you going to back down or are you going to continue to fight those in court?” Bedell asked. “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Not the vaccinated, the unvaccinated. That’s the problem,” Biden said. “Everybody talks about freedom about not to have a shot or have a test....