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As President Joe Biden heads into the end of the year, he’s facing a sour reality: The number of Americans who approve of his performance has hit a new low. Just 41 percent of Americans approve of the job he has been doing as president, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. Support among independents alone dropped eight points in a week. Overall, more than half – 55 percent – of Americans disapprove of Biden’s performance, including 44 percent who strongly disapprove. His disapproval ratings have jumped 20 points since he took office, reaching a record high this month. The...

Burlington, Vt. is a city of 44,000 on the shores of beautiful Lake Champlain. Like most large and medium-sized cities, Burlington was the target of activists looking to defund the police because of racism and white privilege.The city is about 6% black, and racial incidents involving the police have been few and far between. But Burlington is a very woke college town and the city council decided that defunding the police was the only option to achieve “justice.”Three days after a proposal was introduced to cut the police budget in Burlington by 30%, it passed the city council by a...

The lies, chaos, and confusion about COVID continue to come from the Biden-Harris administration. It’s full-steam ahead, man the oars, get ready to cover for every lie, flip flop and every bit of disinformation found out by the public. Here is another recent example of so many countless others. And they wonder why no one trusts this administration. Viruses always mutate. The Los Angeles Times published an interview with VP Kamala Harris on Friday during which she said that the Biden administration saw neither the delta nor the omicron COVID-19 variants coming in advance. “We didn’t see Delta coming. I...

Japan stands a beacon to Americans and most of the industrialized world for its COVID vaccine policies, which are far more humane and realistic than those foisted on us by Fauci & Co.In The Epoch Times, Aaron Kheriaty writes:Japan’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...

KYOTO, Japan — You may soon be able to check if you’ve been exposed to coronavirus from your own home — thanks in part to ostriches. Japanese scientists have developed a new face mask made with ostrich extract that can detect COVID-19 with the help of a fluorescent light and a smartphone. The non-woven mask has an ostrich antibody-bearing mouth filter. It was developed by a research group led by Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, a doctor of veterinary medicine and president of Kyoto Prefectural University. “The ostrich antibody for corona placed on the mouth filter of the mask captures the coronavirus in...

This is one of those threads that need very little commentary EXCEPT if you’re a reader who hasn’t heard of the Great Barrington Declaration. Basically, the declaration says instead of lockdowns and other mitigation (masking, mandates, forced vaccination) during a pandemic we should work to protect the vulnerable while the young and healthy get back to normal.

When California made pot legal, the theory was that pot had become such a normalized part of California culture that it should be treated like alcohol: Adults should be able to buy and use it legally subject to restrictions. However, California also decided to turn pot into a profit center...for California. Therefore, it imposes a cultivation tax on growers as well as a 15% excise tax rate on consumers for any legal pot purchases. California also controls the allowed mark-up rate, which stands at 80%. With the state having imposed these stringent price controls on legal marijuana, is it any...

A new poll conducted by Insider Advantage for the Center for American Greatness, found that 58% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s job performance. The poll was conducted December 17-19 and has a margin of error of 3.6%. Almost a year into the Biden presidency, no one should be surprised that a large majority of Americans are unhappy with him. The past year has seen a string of failures by Biden and his team. Consider, there was America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan – a sound policy advocated by President Trump – that turned into a humiliating debacle that armed the Taliban with...

NEW YORK — A Suffolk County school in the State of New York sent an email to parents announcing the hiring of a new school district doctor who specializes in sudden cardiac arrest. The email, from Eastport-South Manor School District (ESM), does not mention COVID-19 “vaccines.” However, children are not normally thought as those who need cardiac arrest specialists while more and more evidence is coming out that the jabs are more dangerous for the young than the virus is. The American Heart Association has released studies showing increased rates of myocarditis amongst kids who have been jabbed as well...

‘Follow the science” has been the battle cry of lockdown supporters since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Yet before March 2020, the mainstream scientific community, including the World Health Organization, strongly opposed lockdowns and similar measures against infectious disease. That judgment came from historical analysis of pandemics and an awareness that societywide restrictions have severe socioeconomic costs and almost entirely speculative benefits. Our pandemic response, premised on lockdowns and closely related “non-pharmaceutical interventions,” or NPIs, represented an unprecedented and unjustified shift in scientific opinion from where it stood a few months before the discovery of Covid-19. In March 2019 WHO held...

Nearly 50 people aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship tested positive for coronavirus when the ship returned to Miami on Saturday, according to a report. All but one of the 48 infected passengers were fully vaccinated, according to a statement from the cruise line, and all passengers entered quarantine upon receipt of positive results.

Three Democratic lawmakers, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, and Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, revealed Sunday that they each tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus despite being vaccinated and boosted. ... I regularly test for COVID & while I tested negative earlier this week, today I tested positive with a breakthrough case,” Warren tweeted. “Thankfully, I am only experiencing mild symptoms ... Booker noted that he began feeling mild symptoms of COVID-19 on Saturday. ... Crow revealed that he tested positive for a breakthrough COVID-19 infection following an official congressional delegation overseas. He said his symptoms are...

On his last day as director of the National Institute of Health (NIH), Francis Collins spoke on how former President Trump pressured him to endorse unproven medical treatments for COVID-19, such as "hydroxychloroquine and blood plasma." Speaking with "CBS Sunday Morning" correspondent Rita Braver, Collins said, "I have done everything I can to stay out of any kind of political, partisan debates, because it really is not a place where medical research belongs." However, Collins said he often had to face off against Trump for his refusal to recommend medical treatments for COVID-19 that had not been shown to improve...

South Africa ministers announced the country is moving to stop contact tracing and quarantining of Omicron contacts. Healthcare experts discovered the Omicron is so weak that they do not need to trace the Omicron variant among the people.

Donald J. Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the New York State attorney general, Letitia James, seeking to halt her long-running civil investigation into his business practices. The suit, filed in federal court in upstate New York by Mr. Trump and his family real estate business, argues that Ms. James’s inquiry, which has lasted more than two years, has violated Mr. Trump’s constitutional rights. Mr. Trump and his lawyers have long argued that the investigation was politically motivated; the lawsuit asks a judge to agree, and to stop the investigation. “Her mission is guided solely by political animus and...

You can’t do anything anymore without some leftist wingnut calling you a racist. In fact, everything is racist now; statues, sports mascots, all Republicans, and even a rock. The term has been abused so much that it’s losing its meaning. So, as a refresher on what is, and is not, racism, let’s play a little game of racist trivia. Who started the Civil War in an attempt to retain slavery – under the moniker of “state’s rights”? The Confederacy started the war when it bombarded Fort Sumpter, under the orders of its President — Jefferson Davis. Prior to secession, Davis...

Last week, Wisconsin's Attorney General Josh Kaul shared during with the Associated Press that he would not enforce the state's abortion ban should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. Whether or not he intended to, Kaul made the argument for Texas lawmakers as to why they felt the need to add in a citizen enforcement provision to the state abortion law that bans most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, at about six weeks. Wisconsin is one of nine states that has an abortion ban from 1849 that became unenforceable once Roe legalized abortion on demand in...

FORTRESS MONROE, Wednesday, Dec. 18, via BALTIMORE, Thursday, Dec. 19. The steamship S.R. Spaulding, Capt. S. HOWES, which left Port Royal last Sunday, arrived here at an early hour this morning. The Spaulding stopped at Hatteras, leaving that place yesterday, and bringing a mail and passengers. Everything is quiet at Hatteras. Nothing happened to disturb the usual monotony there except the usual storms. The schooner Charity, Capt. WHITE, said to be owned by Senator SIMMONS, of Rhode Island, arrived at Hatteras on the 15th inst., with an assorted cargo, including a large proportion of whisky. She also took a Collector...

On December 20, 1786, the Sheriff of New London, Conn., led a distraught 12-year-old girl to the gallows, placed a rope around her neck, and hanged her in front of a crowd of spectators. The girl was Hannah Ocuish, a young member of the Pequot nation. She was charged with the murder of six-year-old Eunice Bolles, a white girl with whom Hannah had quarreled the previous summer. While it is difficult to get a clear picture of Hannah’s life from the available sources, it is clear that hers was not a comfortable existence. An appendix to Rev. Henry Channing’s execution...

The RIGHTEOUS Savior from Almighty God was born (Isa. 9:6-7, Micah 5:2, Jer. 33:15, Matt. 1:21, John 1:14, Rom. 1:1-6, Heb.10:5-12, Rev. 12:3-5, 22:16)! He died, was buried and ETERNALLY rose again according to the Holy Scriptures (Matt. 28:6-7, John 5:39, 1 Cor. 15:2-4) to make RIGHTEOUS full atonement and RIGHTEOUS propitiation for all of Adam's fallen race which place their trust in Him (John 1:12, Acts 4:12, 16:28-30, Rom. 10:2-4, 1 John 2:2, 4:10)! He now sits at the Right Hand of Almighty God's throne (Acts 2:26-33, Psalm 110:1, Col. 3:1-4, Heb. 1:2-3, Rev. 5) and will come again...