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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has ditched the Big Apple for sunny south Florida, prompting supporters of the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, to hope she was “enjoying a taste of freedom.” The far-left “Squad” member was pictured hoisting a cocktail and checking her phone ​with an unknown companion ​at a table outside of ​the ​Doraku Izakaya and Sushi​ restaurant in Miami Beach, according to images obtained by National Review and published late Thursday. Ocasio-Cortez’s winter getaway comes as New York City is experiencing record-high numbers of COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant, with officials reporting more than 40,000 new...

Seventh Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord John 1:1-18 Friends, today we reprise the prologue of St. John’s Gospel, which we read on Christmas. The Word became flesh "and we saw his glory." All the ways that the Old Testament spoke of God’s involvement with the world come together in this description of Jesus Christ. He is the powerful Word that will not return without accomplishing his purpose. Now what is his purpose? Look to the prophet Isaiah. "The Lord has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of...

A Southern California man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for shooting dead his garage bandmate's wife as she held her toddler son in her arms during a heated argument over the 2016 presidential election. John Kevin McVoy Jr, 40, of Corona, received the maximum sentence Monday after being convicted of murder last month. A jury found McVoy not guilty of two counts of attempted murder and a count of child endangerment. McVoy, who ran an online store selling musical instruments, was in a garage band, Below the Faultline, with Victor Garcia and two others. During practice on...

Cruise company stocks had been holding up remarkably well in December despite concerns about Covid outbreaks on ships and the rapidly spreading Omicron variant. But that's no longer the case.The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that even vaccinated people should no longer take a cruise vacation. Shares of Carniva (CCL)l, Royal Caribbean (RCL) and Norwegian (NCLH) were each down about 1% to 2% Friday. Carnival's stock is now down about 7% this year while Royal Caribbean has plunged nearly 19% in 2021. Royal Caribbean shares are up 3%, but that lags the S&P 500's gain of...

Popular podcast host Joe Rogan thinks former first lady Michelle Obama would beat former President Donald Trump in a 2024 presidential election match-up if she decided to run for the White House. During an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience released on Christmas Eve, Rogan said: "I really believe, if Michelle Obama runs, she wins." "She's intelligent, she's articulate, she's the wife of the best president that we have had in our lifetime in terms of like a representative of intelligent, articulate people. She could win," the podcaster said of Obama. Rogan said the only thing that would get in...

Avideo of a woman slapping and punching an elderly man on a Delta Air Lines flight for eating without a mask has gone viral. Incidentally, the woman herself was not wearing her mask properly while the altercation took place. The video shows the woman asking the elderly man, who is eating, to put his mask on. He tried to reason with her, saying he was eating. But the woman follows it up saying, “Who invited you to come sit here?” After that, there was a brief exchange of verbal abuse between the two.(snip) After a few more abusive words were...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A woman seen in video boarding a Manchester school bus and yelling at students has been arrested. Manchester police said they identified the woman as Lillian Gosselin, 33, of Manchester. They said she can be seen on a cellphone video taken by a Parkside Middle School student on Dec. 15 yelling at students on the bus. Advertisement Manchester school officials said the woman stopped the bus after students threw objects out of it, apparently hitting her car. The district said the bus driver opened the door thinking the woman was reporting an issue with the vehicle. That's...

While the Biden administration has once again extended the pause on student loan repayments, some progressives have said that unless more is done, it could cost Democrats in the midterms in 2022. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party is sounding the alarm over potentially losing voters and subsequent races if the campaign promise of canceling student loan debt goes unfulfilled by the Biden-Harris administration. Before the pause was extended, several prominent Democrats voiced their concerns about payments starting again and how it could cost them the midterms. Natalia Abrams, president of the Student Debt Crisis Center, a nonprofit focused...

BOONES MILL — Donald Trump exited the White House on Jan. 20, but the store that bears the ex-president’s name still flies his flags in Franklin County. Once a church, then a Masonic lodge, the Trump Store has made for an eye-grabbing presence along U.S. 220 since opening in September, with a larger than life standee of Trump looming over a yard ringed with signs bearing slogans like “Cops for Trump,” “Trump: No Bull——,” “Prison for Hillary,” “Biden Sucks” and a cartoon of a boy urinating on the name “Pelosi.” On a bright summer day, travelers from Utah passing...

(This is the text of an email I just found in my Spam folder) our vote-by-mail program needs you Hi Friend, With the March 1st Democratic primary election quickly approaching, we’re launching our 2022 vote-by-mail program. As you know, the 2020 Election taught us all how important mail-in voting options are to our elections, and just how many people cast their ballot by mail. That means it’s more important than ever that everyone who is eligible has the opportunity to make their voice heard through vote-by-mail in 2022. In January, we're sending nearly half a million vote-by-mail applications to eligible...

Heavy metal, or just metal, is a strange genre in the sense that we don’t know exactly where it came from. Much like punk, the genre derived from a wide variety of influences that over time coalesced and merged together to create something new, with no definitive starting point. Some posit that Link Wray’s 1958 classic ‘Rumble’ was where it started to germinate, and others claim that it started with the psychedelic rock movement of the ’60s with bands like Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, 13th Floor Elevators and Coven and that their loose similarities were tied together under one concise...

No story in 2021 was more important than that of January 6th. It was the culminating event of Trump hatred gone nuclear, and provided the final catalyst to ban him and attempt to ban his supporters from society. Over the course of the year, we have learned what a lie and set up it was. To ask a few rhetorical questions underscores the sheer absurdity of the day. Why was this the one Trump rally to absolutely lose it? Why were police killings at this rally intentionally ignored after a year of burning, looting, and murdering over other police shootings?...

If the hosts were really up for a challenge from a unique personality, they would bring conservative firebrand Ann Coulter back to the table.

NYPD Arrest Patrons In Queens Center Mall Over COVID19 Vaccination Proof Mandate

Inflation is the highest in 40 years. There used to be a lot of discussion about hedging against inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, but discussion subsided as inflation cooled in the US. But now it is roaring back as Fed monetary stimulus continues unabated and The Federal government continues to spends like crazy. So, how do we protect ourselves against inflation caused by Federal government policies (or follicies)? How about cryptocurrencies like Ethereum? Ethereum really started to take off as US inflation took off. Not a perfect fit (or hedge), but on average Ethereum has kept up with inflation....

Republicans across America are pressing local jurisdictions and state lawmakers to make typically sleepy school board races into politicized, partisan elections in an attempt to gain more statewide control and swing them to victory in the 2022 midterms. Tennessee lawmakers in October approved a measure that allows school board candidates to list their party affiliation on the ballot. Arizona and Missouri legislators are weighing similar proposals. And GOP lawmakers in Florida will push a measure in an upcoming legislative session that would pave the way for partisan school board races statewide, potentially creating new primary elections that could further inflame...

Hi. Asking for help where to buy ivermectin. One of our employees is down with covid and these idiots at the hospital gave her remdisvir. She doesn't have much family but she's a great conservative and her mom is in Canada. We became the guardians after we spoke with her family. No one flies in out of that country. The doctors don't believe in ivermectin (suprise). You can't order from indiamart because USPS with the big pharma wing of the FDA confiscated all ivermectin 2 weeks ago (search FR). Highly preferred no prescription get it quick and get her out...

he U.S. State Department on late Thursday warned Americans who are traveling outside the country to “make contingency plans” amid restrictions associated with rising COVID-19 cases worldwide. “U.S. citizens who do choose to travel internationally should make contingency plans, as they may have to remain in a foreign country longer than originally planned, which will be at their own expense,” the State Department said in a statement. The agency added that anyone aged 2 and older coming back into the United States would need to show proof they’ve recovered from COVID-19, the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party)...

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New data released today by the Robert Koch Institute, a research agency run by the German government, found that though 71% of the population is fully vaccinated nearly 96% of Omicron cases are among the fully vaccinated. "Robert Koch Institute report released today states that 95.58% of the #Omicron cases in Germany are fully vaccinated (28% of those had a "booster"), 4.42% are unvaccinated," Disclose TV reported.