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In the final days of 2021, the New York Department of Health and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced they are using a race-based approach in deciding who is eligible to receive potentially life-saving health care treatments. According to Gov. Kathy Hochul, “In times of limited supplies of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and oral antivirals (OAVs), providers should prioritize patients eligible for treatment based on their level of risk for progressing to severe COVID-19.” Most Americans would agree that prioritizing high-risk patients, namely the elderly and those with co-morbidities and/or underlying conditions, during a time when COVID-19...

The founder and chairman of a major property management software firm told a coterie of associates, including the governor of Utah, that COVID was a deadly Jewish plot. “I believe there is a sadistic effort underway to euthanize the American people,” David Bateman, the founder of Entrata, said in the email, first reported Tuesday by Fox 13, a Salt Lake City TV station. The email, subject-lined “Genocide,” suggested that COVID-19 and its vaccines are the work of Jews, and that both are “attacking the reproductive systems of women” and eroding natural immunity. “I believe the Jews are behind this,” Bateman...

<p>Yet another Kamala Harris aide has joined the exodus of staffers leaving the vice president’s office amid claims of turmoil and dysfunction.</p><p>Vincent Evans, the veep’s deputy director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, has quit to join the Congressional Black Caucus, chaired by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) and advocates for minorities.</p>

The Supreme Court takes up the issue of vaccine mandates on Friday, holding a special hearing that is nearly unprecedented in its rushed timing. At issue are two of Biden’s mandates. One compels the vaccination or testing of everyone who works at a 100+ employee company; the other requires vaccination of every staffer at every hospital, nursing home, or health care facility that receives funding from Medicare or Medicaid. Will we become a country of haves and have nots concerning the Covid vaccine, whereby those who sensibly decline the vaccine are segregated in cities, schools, hospitals, and concerts? The new...

Newly released body-camera footage shows the moments Houston police officer Orlando Hernandez, 25, was speeding, driving with one hand before hitting and killing 62-year-old Michael Wayne Jackson. On Dec. 4, Jackson was walking to his barber when the officer hit and killed him with his police cruiser. The case is yet to be presented to a grand jury by prosecutors, said Dane Schiller, a spokesperson for Harris County district attorney’s office.

BALTIMORE, Saturday, Jan. 4. Important news from the South is contained in rate papers to hand. A destructive fire had occurred at Richmond, burning the theatre and other valuable property. Coffee is held in Richmond at a dollar and a-half a pound. EXPECTED ADVANCE OF THE NATIONAL ARMY. The Richmond Dispatch of Friday says: "A private dispatch was received yesterday from Centreville by a prominent military officer now in Richmond, in which it says that indications point to an attack by the Federal forces at an early day on Evansport, and the probability was, that an attack would also be...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemActs 2The Fellowship of the Believers 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and...

Last week, Anthony Fauci, resident Joe Biden's top infectious disease adviser, said the federal government should consider requiring that domestic air travelers be vaccinated against COVID-19. "When you make vaccinations a requirement," he explained, "that's another incentive to get more people vaccinated." Although requiring vaccination of airline passengers ostensibly would be aimed at making air travel safer, Fauci sees it as a way to boost the U.S. vaccination rate. The Biden administration sees its vaccination rule for private employers, which ostensibly is aimed at addressing a workplace hazard, the same way. The contrast between that broader goal and the legal...

The Proper Approach to Online Trolls Interesting times we are living in, where we are in daily conflict with a progressive narrative that seeks our own destruction. This is a message to those as a caution to make sure we do not become our own worst enemy. While we seek to defeat said enemies, both foreign and domestic, we sometimes overlook the adversary within. In many cases, such an adversary may merely be a troubled soul; but just the same – a distraction. I am referring to what is commonly known on social media as ‘a troll’: a person who...

“Now it’s war.” Brandon Brown is the NASCAR driver that indirectly began the “Let’s Go Brandon” movement. The driver of the No. 68 NASCAR Xfinity Series car drove to victory lane at Talladega Superspeedway. He climbed from his car on the front stretch for a quick post-race interview. In the background

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The seriousness of a stagnant COVID-19 variant identified in France in November was downplayed by global health officials, who said they were still watching it closely on Tuesday. The variant, nicknamed IHU after the research hospital it was discovered in, “probably” originated in Cameroon, scientists said last week. It was identified in 12 patients in the Southern Alps around the same time the highly transmissible Omicron variant was surging in South Africa, officials said. The variant “has been on our radar,” Abdi Mahamud, a WHO incident manager on COVID, said at a press briefing in Geneva on Tuesday, according to...

What we can also expect is that neither the DOJ nor the New York State attorney general will do anything to stop it. Manhattan’s newly sworn-in District Attorney started by making a very important announcement: He will no longer be enforcing the law. This is, of course, illegal and should subject him to criminal prosecution at either the state or the federal level. Of course, that won’t happen. Instead, Manhattan will become a Mad Max-esque city, so rife with crime that, eventually, all normal life stops. When Alvin Bragg ran to be Manhattan’s DA, his slogan was “Justice for All.”...

As 2022 begins, four strategic challenges to the post-World War II international order generate the psychological ambiguity -- meaning plain old human fear -- that fosters ethnic and sectarian slaughter and seeds the kind of bloody "proxy" wars that escalate into major regional wars. Warning to everyone who cares about Planet Earth: When major regional wars entangle Great Powers (examples: U.S., China) you bet your life and the lives of a billion others that world war is a panicked button push away. Here are the four challenges, and they are not in order: Challenge No. 1: Imperialist powers hellbent on...

The United Nations warns that “a hotter future is certain” and considers climate change the greatest threat modern humans have ever faced. Before he was even elected, President Biden had a plan for curbing climate change that would also encompass environmental justice, whatever that is. Globe-trotter, or should I say globe-sailor, Greta Thunberg continues to scold that world leaders have stolen her dreams and her childhood by not conforming to green standards that have not been met since the Neanderthals. Meanwhile, Mother Nature didn’t get the memo on global warming and dropped a storm on the Fredericksburg area. More than...

The Nevada legislature passed and Governor Sisolak signed into law AB 286 on June 7, 2021. On June 22, Polymer80 filed a lawsuit challenging AB 286 as unconstitutionally vague, under the due process clause of the Nevada Constitution. Both Polymer80 and the State of Nevada filed Motions for Summary Judgement, and opposition to the opponent’s Motion for Summary Judgement, in a timely manner.Summary judgment is granted when the law and the facts of the case are so clear cut no trial is needed for a court to rule on the matter.AB 286 attempted to ban the possession, sale, or transport...

Could some future president, given the environmental threat to our planet that some scientists believe is driven by population growth, order that every American who has had two or more children get these two shots? In November, the Biden White House announced that the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration was unilaterally mandating that all employers with more than 100 employees require that those employees be vaccinated for COVID-19. "Covered employers must develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, with an exception for employers that instead adopt a policy requiring employees to either get vaccinated or...

Unlike their Western counterparts, many Muslims are fond of their heroes of the past. Unlike their Western counterparts, many Muslims are fond of their heroes of the past — particularly the jihadist types who for centuries thrived on terrorizing the West. This was recently underscored by Barbaros: Sword of the Mediterranean, a television series, written and produced in Turkey, that aired late last year and is dedicated to highlighting the clash between Islam and Christendom — in a way, of course, that demonizes the latter and extols the former. The highly fictionalized series revolves around four Muslim brothers and their...

At the risk of venting my (until now, unbeknownst) pent-up sexual energies and yearnings for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and against my own wishes to react to such a flat-out dumb human being, her recent vacation to Florida highlights several glaring hypocrisies of both her specifically and the political left in general. Like it or not, exposing her as a fraud continues to be is the only way to lessen her outsized and undeserved influence. Before driving in, though, I will give credit where credit is due. In the entire theater of her reaction to the reactions, she approximated toward one...

If you're white and middle class, the push for health care "equity" could kill you. Prominent medical organizations and the Biden administration are pushing for rules that will move "disadvantaged" populations to the front of the line for scarce medical resources -- think vaccines, ventilators, monoclonal antibody treatments. That means everyone else waits longer, in some cases too long. If the public doesn't push back soon, getting fair treatment in the hospital will become as hard as getting into college or getting hired on your own merits. Last week, the New York Post reported that the New York City Taskforce...