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Right before Thanksgiving Day, House Democrats passed Build Back Better, one of the most misguided and ill-timed bills in the history of congressional legislation. At a time when an average of 1,300 Americans a day are dying from Covid-19 and tens of millions are battling chronic diseases from cancer to diabetes, the bill would discourage the development of lifesaving drugs. America's seniors will suffer the most as medicine cabinets soon turn distressingly bare. Build Back Better would set drug reimbursements far below the market-based prices that Medicare, the nation's largest insurance program, currently pays. Cheaper drugs sound great, in theory....

Sen. Elizabeth Warren just made the mistake of going after Tesla CEO and eccentric billionaire Elon Musk. He promptly destroyed her in response. The conflict began when the progressive politician and “tax the rich” crusader tweeted out a Boston Globe news article about Musk being named Time Magazine Person of the Year for 2021. “Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else,” the senator wrote. (Warren is likely referencing illegally leaked IRS files that show Musk paid no federal income taxes in 2018 through legal tax...

Thanks to inflation, the average American household is much worse-off financially in 2021 than in recent years. In fact, according to a new report from the Penn-Wharton Budget Model, “inflation in 2021 will require the average U.S. household to spend around $3,500 more in 2021 to achieve the same level of consumption of goods and services as in recent previous years (2019 or 2020).” In other words, due to inflation, Americans’ standard of living is rapidly plummeting. What’s more, the report proves yet again that inflation disproportionately affects lower- and middle-income families compared to high-income households. As the report states,...

Last week the corrupt media’s penchant for spinning all things conservative caused a near-fatal case of whiplash. The left began by chastising conservatives for supposedly building “its own echo chamber,” but by the next day, when news broke that Devin Nunes was resigning from Congress to serve as the CEO of Donald Trump’s new media company, the complained-of conservative ecosystem merely represented grift. Both narratives are false, however, which is precisely why leftists peddled them so hard. Axios launched the “echo chamber” accusation with its article titled, “Right wing builds its own echo chamber.” “Conservatives are aggressively building their own...

Symptoms associated with the Covid omicron variant could be similar to those that normally accompany a cold. Experts are warning that the strain could be easily mistaken for a mild, everyday illness. The Zoe Covid Study analyses thousands of Covid symptoms uploaded to an app by the British public. This initial analysis found similarities between the delta and the omicron variants, suggesting the latter hasn't mutated back into the more flu-like symptoms of previous Covid strains. The team said that the top five symptoms reported in the Zoe app in those two different weeks were: Runny nose Headache Fatigue (either...

December 17, 2021 Friday of the 3rd week of Advent Saint Lazarus Church, Cyprus Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingGenesis 49:2,8-10 ©Until he comes, the sceptre will not pass from JudahJacob called his sons and said:‘Gather round, sons of Jacob, and listen;listen to Israel your father.Judah, your brothers shall praise you:you grip your enemies by the neck,your father’s sons shall do you homage,Judah is a lion cub,you climb back, my son, from your kill;like a lion he crouches and lies down,or a lioness: who dare rouse him?The sceptre shall not pass from Judah,nor the mace from between his feet,until he...

Dr. Fauci has decided that if people will not take the vaxx, the government will be forced to burn the Covid out, to save them. Heading into the third year of the pandemic, which has, for almost a year, ceased to be a pandemic, one might recognize it as something else altogether. Every variant stirs up panic, at least as much as the media and government officials can wring out of it, but I wonder if they know how badly they’re damaging themselves in the process. The longer they demand to shake the skeleton from the dark recesses of the...

TABLE OF DISTANCES FROM SHIP ISLAND. To Mobile.................................. 70 miles. To Mississippi City......................... 10 miles. To New-Orleans........................... 65 miles. To Shieldsboro............................. 20 miles. To S.W. Pass ............................. 95 miles. To Pascagoula............................. 20 miles. To Fort Morgan............................ 50 miles. To Galveston.............................. 380 miles. To Fort Pickens............................ 95 miles. SHIP ISLAND, MISSISSIPPI SOUND, Sunday, Dec. 8, 1861. My last letter announced the arrival of the Constitution at Fortress Monroe, where we called for final orders on Tuesday, Nov. 20. At this place Brig.-Gen. PHELPS was placed in command of the expedition, by orders from the War Department; and after coaling, we weighed...

On the other hand, the United States appears to have deliberately and significantly inflated the number of fatalities it has suffered. Why the difference? Some things are so remarkable one is forced to say “wow!” followed be “hmmm.” Things like President Biden uttering a coherent sentence or the Detroit Lions winning a football game. Or the “fact” that the world’s most populous country hasn’t suffered a single fatality from the coronavirus in the past ten and a half months. And only four since April 18th of 2020. Even though it suffered 1,290 deaths in the 48 hours prior to that...

The Department of Defense (DOD) recently sent out a survey on “workplace and gender relations” to active-duty service members that asks about their attitudes towards women, which some service members are criticizing as “inappropriate.”

I don’t know if you have noticed, but many of these arguments have died down a bit because we no longer have any statues or iconography to speak of. The Cancel Culture has seen to it that statues both religious and secular have been unceremoniously toppled — like Lenin after the fall of Communism. All through history, statues that have been sculpted and erected in major cities have had deep meaning to those who appreciate them. In many cases, statues are erected to honor leaders of historical importance. They are erected to remember a famous battle — or they are...

THE MARXISTS ARE INFESTING CHILDREN MINDS. NOT JUST WITH THEIR RACIST CRT NONSENSE, BUT GENDER STUPIDITY TOO. NOW AMERICA RISES AND WE DEFEAT THEM EVERYWHERE.

"If you pull the camera back and think about 1965, and think about last week, there's been massive improvement. The question is why so many people pretend that that's not true." That bracing dose of wisdom comes from John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor and author of several books on other subjects, going back to his 2000 book, "Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America." He's also a critic of what he calls, in the title of his latest book, "Woke Racism." Despite that, he has been hired as a commentator for the New York Times. McWhorter, who was born...

There's a local D.C. station that will suit you just fine. I recently spent a few days in Northern Virginia visiting friends from my two decades working in Washington, D.C. While driving around the Beltway, I happened upon WCRW, 1190 AM, a radio station in Leesburg with 50,000 watts of power, enough to blanket the nation's capital and its environs. What makes this noteworthy is that the station is leased around the clock by China Radio International, a propaganda arm of the communist regime. Programming runs the gamut from how dogs "talk" to their owners to Chinese language lessons to...

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All law enforcement officers, including FBI agents, who are “just following orders” are missing the point of their oath. I had coffee recently with a friend of mine, a retired FBI agent. We were talking about the mess the FBI has become. He’s even more disturbed about the politicization of the bureau than I am. During our talk he said something very interesting: “Current agents are just keeping their heads down and following orders.” A simple statement with profound implications. Jobs in law enforcement are fundamentally different than other jobs. That difference is the oath that all law enforcement officers...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WENY) - Donations are down for one local organization but the problem is the need in the community is greater and continues to grow. The Salvation Army recently held a fundraiser for their annual red kettle campaign to help those in the community who are in need. So far this year's campaign is down about 50% in donations and on top of that, they are struggling to get volunteers. Tonight at the Clemens Center, two local leaders stepped in to help. During this time of year, you'll typically see many red kettle volunteers outside ringing the kettlebells asking...

Unable to pass their welfare-state expansion with a simple majority, Democrats have reportedly shelved Build Back Better for the year. Now prepare for the entire left-wing infrastructure -- politicians as well as the establishment press -- to pivot hard from the fake "social safety net" bill to the fake "voting rights" bill, which will quickly become the most vital piece of legislation in the history of the republic. Just earlier today, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, who not long ago heralded the mere framework of Build Back Better as "by far the most significant piece of legislation ever passed...

On March 5, 2019, Officer Nathan Heidelberg and another officer responded to an alarm call at about 1:16 a.m. The officers checked the backyard of the residence. They did not find a problem. The residence is a large single-family home with outbuildings. Then the officers checked the front door. They found it was unlocked. An alarm went off. The officers backed off. Then Officer Heidelberg announced himself and attempted to enter the residence. The homeowner, David Charles Wilson, now alerted, fired a shot in the direction of the front door. The shot struck Officer Heidelberg. He was pronounced dead about...