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“Follow the science,” it said about handling COVID. But for Team Biden, it was follow the teachers unions when it came to reopening schools. Emails between the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — provided to the watchdog group Americans for Public Trust via a Freedom of Information Act request — reveal that the Biden administration not only consulted national teachers unions before releasing school reopening guidance to the public, it put a heavy thumb on the scales in favor of the unions’ agenda.

An embattled shelter and services provider that has been repeatedly lit up for failing to address the homeless situation at Penn Station blew city money on a booze cruise, fast food, and movie tickets for its staff, according to an audit. Bowery Residents’ Committee charged the city at least $2,653 for the $36,510 catered boat ride, along with $1.4 million in other expenses that were either unsupported or not allowed, the audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office found. “It’s a cause for concern when the non-profit hired to address the growing homeless crisis has so many red flags on...

It's resolution time again, and if you’re like most people, eating “better” may be one of your goals for the new year. According to a survey on 2021 resolutions, the most common commitments people made were to exercise more (46 percent), improve their diet (45 percent), or lose weight (44 percent).In fact, as many as 45 million Americans begin a diet each year. But research shows that weight-loss diets just don't work. They’re unsustainable and you're likely to regain the weight.What if, instead of plotting how you'll restrict your calories in the new year, you resolved to feel good about...

Peter Schweizer said former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid enriched himself and his family by leveraging his political power. Susan McCue, Harry Reid’s former chief of staff, said Reid was always assessing a person’s vulnerabilities in order to “disarm, to endear, to threaten, but most of all to instill fear.” “The question is … if you’re really in private practice much at all over the course of 40 years and you’re serving in various government posts, how do you get this wealthy?” Schweizer asked. Schweizer recalled Reid pushing an infrastructure project that increased the value of some property he owned....

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January 1, 404 is the date of the last known gladiatorial combat in Rome, and therefore also the traditional martyrdom date of St. Telemachus — who gave his life to end the games. Rome’s infamous bloodsport dated to the foggy natal days of the Republic, perhaps beginning as funerary rituals borrowed from the Etruscans or Campanians. Its efflorescence into ubiquitous public entertainment diversified for special occasions by stupefyingly wasteful grotesques like naval battles in a flooded stadium or exotic animal fights marks — moralistically if not materially — the empire’s decadence and decline. Fitting indeed that Rome’s most impressive lower-class...

Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God Luke 2:16-21 Friends, today we celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Mother of God. St. Irenaeus says that, throughout the history of salvation, God was trying on humanity, gradually suiting divinity and humanity to one another—preparing for the Incarnation. All of that preparation was a prelude to the Israelite girl who would say yes to the invitation to be the Mother of God. To say that Mary is the Mother of God is to insist on the density of the claim that God truly became human. As Fulton J. Sheen commented,...

France faces “difficult” weeks as country reported over 230,000 COVID cases as Macron calls for ‘sure shot’ solution of mass vaccinations. FROM REUTERS: New infections over the last 24 hours were above 200,000 for the third day running, making France one of the epicentres as a wave of infections linked to the Omicron variant sweeps across Europe. Infections in France, one of the countries carrying out widespread testing, stood well above the tally recorded in Italy and Britain, which also reported new records on Friday, with 144,243 and 106,122 cases respectively. “THE WEEKS TO COME WILL BE DIFFICULT, WE ALL...

Great point made by Computing Forever in this Millenniyule podcast: The digital identity “vaccine passports” are essentially a new form of citizenship that is required to participate in society — or the new society that is being built around us, at least. However, unlike an apartheid system, where the un-“vaccinated” would be granted access to segregated areas of society and kept separate from the “vaccinated,” we are instead treated as non-citizens and totally removed from society all together. So, the official social credit system (whenever it arrives) will function as an endless citizenship exam for the New World Order, with...

White people infected with COVID in New York State - the hardest hit state in the country - are in jeopardy of being turned away from potential lifesaving treatments in favor of other more at-risk races because of a national shortage of two promising types of medical treatments.

Happy New Year! Even if it feels like all we’re doing is rearranging the deck chairs.Let’s face it, the “roaring twenties” seem to be roaring in all the wrong directions.So welcome, 2022, the year of the tiger. While the road may be a bit bumpy,it’s the only road we’ve got, so travel it we shall. We don’t have to like it though, so feel free to protest by not making any resolutions. If it’s true that we are obliged to welcome the new year with optimism and enthusiasm this is one of those “fake it until you can make it”...

From the website: The Power of Three-Tenths of One Percent of Seventy-Four Million In a nutshell, this is what every conservative — including you, dear reader — needs to do ASAP — if our goal is to have our state legislators pass election reform laws requiring all counties to stop using any kind of imaging machines for counting votes and, instead, return us to the “gold standard” of counting votes: hand-counting at the polling locations before the paper ballots are allowed to leave the premises and making voting by mail the exception and not the rule. The first step in...

US Public Officials: Funded dangerous Gain of Function research with our adversary, China, using US taxpayer money, in order to create vaccines and other medicine Denied such funding had occurred Claimed the lab theory was debunked when it hadn’t been investigated Allowed China not to cooperate with the pandemic investigation; never imposed serious sanctions or repercussions for the non-cooperation Failed to disclose their own role in Gain of Function research while publicly “debunking” U.S. involvement in it Conspired to have public officials make statements and publish papers claiming the lab theory had been debunked, when it hadn’t been Encouraged the...

@CliffMaloneyJr Rumor has it @RepThomasMassie is introducing a bill in Congress to declare all restaurants in America *potential* polling locations. Dems will now drop all vaccine passport or ID laws! This man is a hero 🚀

I mainly just want to ask the question, see what kinds of responses I may get or what other discussions flow from it. What could we do to automate conservatism? This can be both in the form of reaching new people as well as helping educate others around us of new things they may not have known. So far the most prominent answer I have found for myself is the audiobooks. I will be creating those for many years to come as the opportunities for education are immense. Over the years I have tried to get out of my comfort...

Democratic state lawmakers are proposing laws to curb “misinformation” on social media sites and other online platforms, mirroring efforts by Democrats in Congress. “Social media algorithms are specially programmed to spread disinformation and hate speech at the expense of the public good,” said New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman, who announced a bill Monday aimed at preventing social media companies from promoting “false” or “fraudulent” content that could endanger the public. “The prioritization of this type of content has real life costs to public health and safety.” California Assemblyman Ed Chau introduced a bill, AB 35, in December 2020 that...

On this the first day of 2022, if you have a couple of hours and you want to hear from a WW II Veteran who came ashore on the Easy Red Sector of Omaha Beach and fought all the way thru to the Battle of the Bulge, check out this podcast from Jocko Willink and hear from Jake Larson, who is 99 years old and still sharp as a tack describe all the events in his life that led to the title of his book, The Luckiest Man In The World. It's listening to living history, fascinating.

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On March 23, 2020 the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence issued an Alert with a startling coronavirus claim: “Survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault are facing extreme danger and risk.” The Task Force also asserted, without providing any evidence, that “shelters and victim service organizations are now grappling with the unprecedented challenge of communally housing and providing services for survivors.” The United Nations issued even more alarming claims, predicting a “shadow pandemic of violence,” “alarming upsurge,” “one of the greatest human rights violations,” a “horrifying global surge” against women, and more. The UN Department of...