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Jeff Kuhner of the Kuhner Report is recovering from Covid (Delta) Fill in Sandy Shack updated his listeners. He will return on Monday January 10th, 2022Sandy also noted he was treated with Ivermectin and MonoClonal Antibodies.

After a period of stability, San Francisco's COVID-19 hospitalization numbers are starting to increase as the omicron variant continues to spread in the city. The weekslong spike in cases has prompted a tightening of the city's indoor mask mandate and proof-of-vaccination laws as well as the cancellation of the city's New Year's Eve fireworks show. ... "For this number of cases, I would expect to see far higher hospitalizations if this was as virulent as prior variants," he wrote in an email to SFGATE. In mid-December, San Francisco posted new daily case totals that exceeded numbers from the summer delta...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, sponsored by Miranda Devine’s LAPTOP FROM HELL: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide, for Tuesday shows that 40% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Fifty-eight percent (58%) disapprove. The latest figures include 19% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 48% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -29. (see trends)

Several students at Blake High School accuse a teacher of sexually inappropriate behavior — and the Hillsborough School district drags its feet. A teenage boy warns classmates about a student who repeatedly sexually harassed others — and the district expels the boy who raised the red flag. Another student says she was raped on campus — and she gets suspended. Time and again the adults in charge failed to take the students’ complaints seriously, a devastating Times investigation found. Instead, they targeted the whistleblowers, deflected blame and seemingly forgot that they aren’t supposed to turn high school into an even...

In the Supreme Court of Virginia held at the Supreme Court Building in the City of Richmond on Tuesday the 28th day of December, 2021. Present: All the Justices In Re: Decennial Redistricting Pursuant to The Constitution of Virginia, art. II, §§ 6 to 6-A, and Virginia Code § 30-399 FINAL ORDER ESTABLISHING VOTING DISTRICTS FOR THE SENATE OF VIRGINIA, THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES OF VmGINIA, AND VmGINIA'S REPRESENTATIVES TO THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Following the process provided in§ 30-399 of the Code of Virginia, upon the failure of the Virginia Redistricting Commission to submit a redistricting plan...

If there were a 12-step program for media, the New York Times and much of the rest of the legacy media would benefit from admitting that they are addicted to Donald Trump and powerless to overcome it on their own. But instead, the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times is "thrilled" to announce that the paper has hired away a 21-year veteran reporter named David Fahrenthod from the Washington Post. His assignment: Dredge up scandals about Donald Trump, who, you may recall, formerly served as president of the United States.Politico's Playbook announced the staffing coup Monday morning:BIG MOVE...

Reuters photographer Leah Millis was covering a rally for then-President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021 when she received a text from her colleague Tom Brenner at 1:06 p.m.Four chaotic hours later, she captured the exact moment a flash-bang grenade, fired by law enforcement to disperse protesters, illuminated the Capitol steps, throwing tear-gas smoke into sharp relief and casting a shadow of the American flag onto the iconic dome. The image reverberated across the United States and abroad in 2021. Media outlets and Congress have used it to emphasize the gravity of the day and to illustrate a symbol of...

Footprints on the Ciampate del Diavolo. (edmondo gnerre/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0) ============================================================================================= According to legend, the devil once took a walk down the side of a volcano in southern Italy, each step preserved forever in solid rock. The tracks are known as the "Ciampate del Diavolo"' or "Devil's Trail" – but details published in 2020 reveal a less diabolical yet far more interesting story on how they came to be. The mysterious footprints are well known to those living near Roccamonfina, an extinct volcano in southern Italy that hasn't erupted in tens of thousands of years. Since 2001, researchers have...

Residents of quarantined Chinese city Xian have been desperately bartering electronics for food amid worsening fears of shortages and starvation. It comes as Yuzhou, a city of 1.2million in central China, was locked down on Tuesday after just three asymptomatic Covid-19 cases were recorded. Xian's 13 million residents have been confined to their homes since December 23 and are banned from leaving even for food and essential supplies, having to rely on local officials to drop off care packages. But in recent days residents have taken to social media to voice concern over shortages, some said they were yet to...

JESSUP, Md. — A COVID-19 outbreak has reached the Howard County Detention Center. As of January 3, 2021, the County Health Department reported 126 of 235 inmates tested positive. Out of 131 staff members and 9 contracted employees, 44 were positive. A majority of them are asymptomatic or displaying only cold-like symptoms. Testing at the detention center is being conducted every Tuesday. Medical staff are taking the temperatures of those who tested positive twice each day, while also monitoring other symptoms. Infected inmates are being isolated and quarantined from others. Thus far, no one has required care at the infirmary...

An Alcoholics Anonymous group In Somerset, England was recently censured for reciting the Lord’s Prayer at the start of its meetings, according to London’s Daily Mail. The group was told by A.A. leaders that it had become too Christian-focused and has therefore been removed from the organization’s online directory. A.A. administrators first raised concerns about the prayer at a meeting in Somerset.The move didn’t sit well with John Palmer, the group’s treasurer, who correctly noted that Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Christians, and that it adopted and popularized the Serenity Prayer. The Serenity Prayer has been recited at the end...

Drivers were stuck on an interstate near Washington, D.C., after a major snowstorm struck the East Coast. Hundreds of drivers were stuck on Interstate 95 in Virginia for hours, with some claiming to have been there for over 19 hours after one of the state's largest snowfalls in years. The jam was so bad that "some people were seen abandoning their vehicles in snow-covered travel lanes, walking down I-95 to parts unknown," according to WTOP traffic reporter Dave Dildine, describing the incident as a "worst-case scenario."

Before Kyle Rittenhouse became a household name, there was Steven Baca. You probably never knew or maybe have forgotten who Steven is. I'd like to remind you of his plight and ask you to help me support his defense of the right to self-defense. Steven's case matters because the woke, George Soros-funded district attorney leading the witch-hunt prosecution against Steven may soon be New Mexico's next attorney general if good people do nothing. Flashback to June 15, 2020: Across America, mayhem and mob anarchy reigned. It had been three weeks since the police-involved death of Minneapolis career criminal and...

Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of a day when people would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. That day has not yet dawned in New York, at least when it comes to Covid testing and treatment. On December 27, the New York State Department of Health issued a memo to health care providers and facilities on the authorization and “severe shortage” of oral antiviral and monoclonal antibody treatments for Covid, directing that non-white people be given priority for such treatments. Meanwhile, white people are also being passed over for...

<p>There’s something morbidly fun about watching “fully vaccinated” celebrities getting upset about catching Covid. It’s usually those on the left who question why the narrative they’ve been told since the first jabs were rolled out doesn’t seem to be matching their reality, but we’ve seen many on the political right do that as well.</p>

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The college student in the age of the coronavirus is used to putting up with quite a bit: regular surveillance testing, vaccine (and now booster) mandates, mask mandates, remote classes, restrictions on social gatherings, the cancellation of university events and traditions. At the beginning of the pandemic, most students, myself included, were willing to accept these burdens, owing to the real risk Covid posed. However, now that we have vaccines, campus restrictions have taken on an increasingly absurd character — ruining the college experience in a (failed) attempt to control a virus that poses minimal risk to students. Indeed, all...

Viruses that cause pandemics often mutate to become less life threatening.The 1918 flu pandemic lasted about 18 months and ended after either people had been exposed to the virus or it became less life threatening.With new variants come new questions about where the pandemic is headed, and whether we will need annual boosters or modified vaccines. Historically, most pandemics last between 2 and a half to 3 and a half years. Over time, pandemic viruses typically mutate and evolve into an endemic disease that circulates at lower, more manageable levels. This was the case with the influenza strain behind the...

prime minister says preliminary data on the fourth vaccine dose shows that it safely brings about a fivefold increase in antibodies that battle the coronavirus. Naftali Bennett speaks during a visit to Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, where the government launched a trial of second boosters early last week. It is now offering fourth doses of the Pfizer vaccine to people over 60 years old alongside those with weakened immune systems. Bennett says initial results show the fourth dose is as safe as the the third dose, which has already been given to almost half of Israel’s population of...

The prime minister says preliminary data on the fourth vaccine dose shows that it safely brings about a fivefold increase in antibodies that battle the coronavirus. Naftali Bennett speaks during a visit to Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, where the government launched a trial of second boosters early last week. It is now offering fourth doses of the Pfizer vaccine to people over 60 years old alongside those with weakened immune systems. Bennett says initial results show the fourth dose is as safe as the the third dose, which has already been given to almost half of Israel’s population...