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“We’ve been having tunnel vision” dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Ben Carson told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. “Let’s throw the politics out. We could solve this problem pretty quickly,” he stated in an interview that will premiere on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. New York time. “Let’s open this thing up to all the different mechanisms,” said Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian award in the nation—in 2008 for his work. He retired in 2013 and ran for the presidency in 2016, before serving as the secretary of Housing and...

[Catholic Caucus] US bishop slams German gov’t, Church leaders for jab mandates: ‘They’re wrong’(LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Joseph Strickland has once again called out the COVID injections and mandates being pushed across the world, this time in Germany, where Catholic bishops are banning the “unvaccinated” from attending Mass. “Any of these these mandates that ignore the free will and the free conscience rights of people, I just believe they’re wrong,” the bishop of Tyler, Texas said. He made these comments on this week’s episode of The Bishop Strickland Show co-hosted by Virgin Most Powerful Radio’s Terry Barber.His Excellency added that even...

A Central York School District elementary teacher has been fired after threatening to shoot school officials over COVID-19 protocols, according to reports. Chad Gerrick, who taught math and science at Sinking Spring Elementary School, is accused of threatening to “shoot all the em... at the ESC” FOX43 reported. Online court docents show Gerrick was charged with misdemeanor terroristic threats on Oct. 8. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for early December, but the dockets don’t list any results from a hearing. The threat was made after the removal of a plastic barrier that was put up in his classroom as a...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Thursday wrecked President Biden’s hopes of destroying federal election integrity laws, causing Democrats to panic heading into the 2022 midterms. While Biden on Wednesday was forced to shelve his massive tax and spend package until next year because of Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) opposition, Biden immediately pivoted to enact his second priority of altering election integrity laws, such as doing away with popular voter ID constraints. “If we can get the congressional voting rights done, we should do it. … There’s nothing domestically more important than voting rights,” Biden said. But Sinema singlehandedly burst Biden’s...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - “A year later, all we’re begging you to do on the behalf of all of health care, and I really mean begging, is get vaccinated if you’re not vaccinated and get boosted if you’re not boosted yet.” That’s the message from Prevea President and CEO Dr. Ashok Rai as Wisconsin leads the nation in a COVID indicator and fears of omicron’s rapid replication. Dr. Rai joined us on Action 2 News This Morning to talk about the one year anniversary of the first COVID shots in Northeast Wisconsin and why it’s so crucial people get...

A new study out of Columbia University says the Omicron variant is “markedly resistant” to vaccines and boosters might not do much to help, spelling bad news for the country as Omicron spreads and COVID-19 cases rise nationally

Undocumented migrants who attempt to cross the border from Mexico to the US are disproportionately dying in a harsh stretch of desert that is becoming deadlier due to the climate crisis, a new research has found. Migrants and asylum seekers trying to enter the US are often forced to traverse the harsh environment of the Sonoran desert in order to avoid border patrols and fortified crossing points. This hazardous journey is putting many of them under severe physical stress, according to researchers, with many dying in the heat due to dehydration and organ failure. This risk will only intensify as...

Solution: More masks and jabs. BuzzFeed staff who attended a company party in New York tested positive for COVID despite wearing masks, showing vaccine passports and being triple jabbed. Whoops. “Three BuzzFeed employees who tested positive following the party told Insider that they were vaccinated and received their booster shots prior to contracting Covid-19 at the event, and are experiencing mild symptoms,” reports Mediaite. The gathering took place at the Starrett-Lehigh building in Manhattan and was attended by employees from BuzzFeed’s New York and Washington offices, as well as employees from Buzzfeed-owned Huffington Post. Two days before the party, attendees...

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[H/T Cathi]Vaccinated French over-65s who have not yet received a booster vaccine will begin having their Covid passes disabled.France launched the new, tougher rules on Wednesday, which sees vaccinated French people over 65 who have not received a booster vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus beginning to see their Covid passes disabled, despite once being considered fully jabbed.The new measure will affect those who received their last vaccination over seven months ago, with those who have not been subsequently jabbed losing access to cafés, restaurants, and inter-regional travel unless they have a negative Covid-19 test taken within the last 24 hours.According...

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A judge in Delaware has found that Fox News' coverage of election fraud after the 2020 election may have been inaccurate, and is allowing a major defamation case against the right-wing TV network to move forward. Judge Eric Davis of the Delaware Superior Court declined to dismiss Dominion Voting System's lawsuit against Fox News in a significant ruling Thursday. The ruling will now allow Dominion to attempt to unearth extensive communications within Fox News as they gather evidence for the case, and the company may be able to interview the network's top names under oath. At this stage, the court...

On a regional Mensa forum, I posted analysis of problems in education. To my delight, an indignant parent left her assessment of how bad our schools have become. First-person reports from the trenches are the most reliable intelligence you can get about this murky and unintelligent demimonde:: ----"I read your article and couldn't agree more. I have lived it with my twins for the last 13 years. I nearly cried when we moved from a NYC public school to a school district in an affluent part of NJ only to find out they had the same mind-numbing constructivist Math program...

Martin David Robinson was country music’s Renaissance man. He was a successful recording artist, stage performer, actor, author, songwriter, and stock car racer. BIRTH: SEPTEMBER 26, 1925 - DEATH: DECEMBER 8, 1982 BIRTHPLACE: NEAR GLENDALE, ARIZONA His versatile baritone enabled him to handle a wide variety of musical styles, making him one of the more successful crossover artists during the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout his career, he recorded country, western, rockabilly, Hawaiian music, gospel, and pop, with his specialty being pop ballads. Robbins and his twin sister, Mamie, were born into a poverty-stricken family, and his childhood was difficult. He...

SNIPSeveral completely factual claims about the virus are now going to be censored or no longer allowed to be shared on the platform, including the simple fact that vaccinated people CAN “spread” Covid-19.Statements like this will be labeled with “corrective information” if they are allowed to be posted at all.From Twitter’s policy:We may apply labels to Tweets that contain, for example:– “the vaccines will cause you to be sick, spread the virus, or would be more harmful than getting COVID-19”Advertisement - story continues below – “false or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed...

Newly released filings for the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) reveal how the infamous Chicago-based nonprofit funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to local elections offices in an effort to privatize the 2020 election and put Joe Biden in the White House.For over a year, CRC has been on the cutting edge of reporting on this “dark money” behemoth, which used the COVID-19 pandemic to support an unprecedented flood of mail-in ballots with unaccountable drop-boxes in critical Democratic cities.The group’s IRS Form 990 filing for 2020 reveals thousands of grants to elections offices across the country. We’re still...

It’s nice to be able to cover some good news for gun owners on Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co, and the unanimous decision handed down by the Georgia Supreme Court this week is very good news indeed for those of us who recognize that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental and substantive right to both keep and bear arms. On Tuesday, the state’s high court rejected an argument by DeKalb County officials, who’d claimed that when the background checks for concealed carry applicants come back with incomplete information, county probate judges are within their rights to deny an applicant their...

The Department of Justice is no longer negotiating to settle lawsuits from migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under a Trump Administration policy, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday, after the Biden Administration drew criticism for reportedly weighing $450,000 payments. The DOJ has cut off settlement talks with parents and children who say they faced severe trauma after immigration officials separated them at the southern border, and now plans to litigate any family separation suits, ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt told Forbes (the ACLU represents plaintiffs in one family separation lawsuit). The DOJ did not immediately respond to a...

The Senate parliamentarian has said a Democratic effort to let millions of immigrants remain temporarily in the U.S. should be dropped from the party’s expansive social and environment bill, people informed of the decision said Thursday, dealing another blow to a long-time priority of Democrats, migrant advocates and progressives. The opinion by Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate’s nonpartisan arbiter of its rules, all but certainly means Democrats will ultimately have to drop the proposal from their 10-year, roughly $2 trillion package of health care, family services and climate change initiatives championed by President Joe Biden.

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - A Jefferson Middle School teacher was placed on administrative leave after a planned reenactment of the Boston Tea Party was determined to be offensive. According to the Madison Metropolitan School District, the school principal stopped the history lesson from happening after determining it was “not consistent with the district’s vision, commitment to equity, cultural responsiveness, and was outside the scope of the district curriculum.” In a statement, MMSD explained the teacher, whose name was not released, was placed on administrative leave, as per district policy, until officials complete an internal review of the incident. Administrators also...