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Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that traveling during the holidays presents an increased risk of COVID-19 given the Omicron variant “raging” around the globe. The White House chief medical adviser said people need to be “prudent” if they plan to travel over the season.

A recent Wyoming school board meeting was again packed with opponents of mask mandates when things took an abrupt turn and a parent started reading aloud sexually explicit passages from a book available in school libraries. “Parents like myself had no idea this stuff was here,” the parent, Shannon Ashby, told trustees of Laramie County School District No. 1 in the capital city. The push to remove objectionable books from school libraries is part of a renewed conservative interest in public education as a political issue since the start of the pandemic. Parents who first packed school board meetings to...

The events and politicization of January 6th.The catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal.The inescapable threat of Big Tech’s censorship and mechanisms of social control.The rise of Bidenflation.The introduction, roll out, mandates, and failures of vaccines.The gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New JerseyIn this installment of our weekly Sunday Six conversation, PF Whalen and Parker Beauregard of The Blue State Conservative loom back on six major news stories from 2021.#6: The gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey.PF: When it comes to news stories for this year, it seems to me there was a lot more bad than good; and I’m generally an optimistic...

Vienna's State Police President Gerhard Purstl draws a positive balance after Saturday's demonstrations in Vienna-even though people at a stand rally had broken through police barriers and marched unannounced through the city center "The goal of the corona measures opponents, that demonstrations with several thousand people get into the city center and paralyze business activities, we have thwarted by our tactics," said state police president Gerhard Purstl...

Democrats, media pundits, and Hollywood stars threw tantrums on social media on Sunday after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told Fox News Sunday that he would not vote for President Joe Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar “Build Back Better” bill. Rolling Stone, for instance, published an article titled: “Joe Manchin Just Tore Out the Heart of Biden’s Agenda.” It went on to explain: “Build Back Better was the centerpiece of Biden’s domestic plans.” Now it is unlikely to pass the Senate.

Terryous Baker has been booked into the Orange County Jail on multiple charges.He’s being held without bond and is expected to make his initial court appearance Monday.Winter Garden Police also arrested Elizabeth Chavez, 24, on an outstanding warrant.Police say Chavez was a passenger in the car Baker was driving at the time of the crash. Terryous Baker and Elizabeth Chavez Winter Garden police arrested Baker on multiple charges Sunday evening. Police arrested Chavez, a passenger in Baker's car, on an outstanding warrant.

Here is a video of a Grey squirrel, or as my friend Carlos likes to call them, "A rat with a better pr campaign", breaking into a vending machine to get a candy bar. If you have trouble reaching the video by clicking on the image of the squirrel, then follow this link to see the, Squirrel Breaking Into Candy Machine

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) expressed his frustration with Sen. Joe Manchin after the West Virginia Democrat said Sunday he would not vote for President Biden's social spending package. “I think he's gonna have a lot of explaining to do to the people of West Virginia,” Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” Sanders alleged that Manchin “doesn’t have the guts to stand up to powerful special interests.” The Vermont Democrat said he still wanted the Senate to take a vote on the bill regardless of where Manchin stands. “We've been dealing with Mr. Manchin for month after...

Former Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) died on Sunday at the age of 76, the Isakson Initiative announced. “It is with deep sorrow that The Isakson Initiative shares that former U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson passed away overnight on December 19, 2021, at age 76. Sen. Isakson’s family is grateful for the prayers and support,” it said on the former senator's Twitter page.

The James Webb Space Telescope is confirmed for the target launch date of December 24, at 7:20 a.m. EST.

ROME — Pope Francis urged a group of university students Sunday to fight off the “virus of individualism” by giving their lives in service of others. “In these confused times, made even more complex by the pandemic, I repeat to you: do not allow yourselves to be robbed of hope!” the pontiff exhorted in a video message to students at the University of Milan.

Former President Donald Trump said Sunday that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is a "disaster" and that the Republican Party is desperately in need of new leadership. During an appearance on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures" from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Trump told host Maria Bartiromo that McConnell made a mistake by allowing President Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law to pass in the Senate. "I call it un-frastructure, not infrastructure. It's only 9% infrastructure," the former president said. "There was no way that should have been passed. It should have been 100% for infrastructure," he continued. "So what’s...

A top British health official cautioned that the country may impose restrictive COVID-19 precautions before Christmas, even as the country’s prime minister promised not to enact a lockdown. During an appearance on the BBC Sunday, Health Secretary Sajid Javid cautioned there are “no guarantees” amid “uncertainty” of avoiding imminent precautions when asked if he would rule out a pre-Christmas “circuit breaker.”

@RepThomasMassie Acknowledge natural immunity Allow conventional vaccines in USA Encourage effective treatments Stop EUA vs “approved” shell game Focus on helping those “at risk” Quit acting as if cloth masks work End mandates & passports Return lawmaking to legislatures Resume normal today

Trump: "I didn’t... because if you fire him [Fauci] you're going to have a firestorm on the Left." https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1472596894568402944

Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said on Sunday that a reelection bid by former President Trump would be "bad" for the GOP and the nation. "Fox News Sunday" host Bret Baier asked Hogan if he believed that the Republican Party could win in 2024 with Trump as its nominee. "I think that'd be bad for the party and bad for President Trump and bad for the country. So I don't think he's gonna run and I would — my advice be that he did not," Hogan said.

guessing you know, the Trump county data [NOTE: these are figures David has repeatedly published showing more Covid deaths in counties that voted for Trump, which also tend to have lower vaccination rates] is completely confounded by age - Trump voters are older - and obesity - the Southern states that have the most Trump voters are more obese (and in the Southern counties that went hard for Trump, the DEMOCRATIC voters are more obese too, as they are likely African-Americans, and African-Americans unfortunately have notably higher rates of severe obesity). Meanwhile, in South Africa, which is all of 26%...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) does not have the guts to stand up to special interests after Manchin announced he would not vote for President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better Act. Sanders said, “He will have a lot of explaining to do to the people of with West Virginia to tell him he doesn’t have the guts to take on the drug companies to lower the cost of prescription drugs, why he is not prepared to expand home health care. West Virginia is one of the poorest states...

Daniel Horowitz - Persecution of the Unvaccinated

Anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a jab at media reports that guests at his holiday party had to show proof they were vaccinated. The Kennedy scion claimed he didn’t know his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, had requested in a digital invitation that all guests at the party held at the couple’s California home be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or test negative for the coronavirus before attending. “I guess I’m not always the boss at my own house,” Kennedy told Politico, adding that there was no effort made to actually verify the vaccination status or testing results of any of...