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President Biden said Friday that Americans will have to learn to live with COVID-19 long-term but that things will “be better” — despite CDC Director Rochelle Walensky warning that US coronavirus cases are poised to hit new record highs almost two years into the pandemic. Biden erroneously told reporters his team is in the process of acquiring “500,000” tests to fight the highly contagious Omicron variant, misstating the actual figure of 500 million.

"Mattress Mack," also known as Houston furniture store owner Jim McIngvale, has placed a $1.2 million bet on the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide (+125) to defeat the No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs in the College Football Playoff National Championship (Jan. 10, 8 p.m. ET on ESPN). Should he win the bet, placed through Caesars Sportsbook, McIngvale would win $1.5 million. Mattress Mack said Georgia (-3) being listed as an early favorite got his attention and created a promotion at his stores tied to Alabama.

Abstract Policy makers and mainstream news anchors have promised the public that the COVID-19 vaccine rollout worldwide would reduce symptoms, and thereby cases and deaths associated with COVID-19. While this vaccine rollout is still in progress, there is a large amount of public data available that permits an analysis of the effect of the vaccine rollout on COVID-19 related cases and deaths. Has this public policy treatment produced the desired effect? One manner to respond to this question can begin by implementing a Bayesian causal analysis comparing both pre- and post-treatment periods. This study analyzed publicly available COVID-19 data from...

Citigroup has told its workforce that employees who refuse to get vaccinated and don't have an exemption will be fired.Employees with the New York-based investment bank will be placed on unpaid leave if they don’t comply with the companywide mandate by Jan. 14, with their employment being terminated at the end of the month. Employees are allowed to apply for religious or medical exemptions.

Citigroup Inc. workers who refuse to comply with the company’s vaccine mandate by Jan. 14 will be fired, Bloomberg reports. They will be put on unpaid leave and released from employment at the end of January. Employees will be required to sign an agreement stating that they will not pursue legal action against Citigroup to receive year-end bonus payments. Some workers will still receive certain payments.

NEW YORK - In New York, 130 people died due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, 62 of whom were from New York City, according to the latest data released by the state. The total is the largest number since mass vaccinations began.

Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted again this week that data suggests the omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus is “less severe” than the delta variant, although he said that is not reason enough to pull back from masking. “Multiple sources of now preliminary data indicate a decreased severity with Omicron,” Fauci said during a White House COVID-19 Response Team press briefing this week.

CNN just can’t catch a break in its crusade to spin President Joe Biden’s atrocious economy in a way that benefits his image. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released an awful jobs report showing that the economy only added a “dismal” 199,000 jobs against a 422,000 projection by economists. That’s a miss of 223,000. The labor force participation rate remained stagnant from November at a low 61.9 percent. CNN scrambled to spin the news in it’s write-up headlined, “Jobs disappoint in December, but unemployment falls to 3.9%.” After conceding that the “fewest jobs added in any month of 2021” was...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis in Epiphany homily scolds traditional Catholics attached to ‘dead language’Pope Francis delivered his comments in his Epiphany homily, January 6, in St. Peter’s Basilica.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — In his homily for the feast of the Epiphany on Thursday, Pope Francis once more attacked Catholics attached to the tradition of the Church. He also seemed to contradict the words of St. Paul when describing the Catholic faith.Delivering his homily for the Epiphany in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis used the journey of the three Magi as a basis for promoting his personal concept of Catholicism, and for...

The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Friday appeared ready to reject one of President Joe Biden's most aggressive attempts so far to combat the spread of Covid-19 -- a vaccine or testing requirement aimed at large businesses.

On 7 July 2021 the CDC updated their “Instructions for Use” of RT-PCR Covid tests. This was the exact date the CDC notified clinical laboratories and testing sites performing Covid testing of the withdrawal of Emergency Use Authorisation (“EUA”) from 31 December 2021 and to begin a transition to another FDA-authorised Covid test.Page 40 of the Instructions for Use of the PCR test states (emphasis our own):“Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV were available for CDC use at the time the test was developed and this study conducted, assays designed for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA were tested...

Breyer claimed there were “750 million new cases yesterday,” despite the U.S. population being less than half that number. Justice Sonia Sotomayor... claimed... "omicron is as deadly and causes as much serious disease in the unvaccinated as delta did," despite studies showing that the newest variant appears to affect people way less severely. Sotomayor... "100,000 children in serious condition" Breyer: "Hospitals are full almost to the point of the maximum... Growing by factors of 10 times what it was." National hospital census is actually flat as a pancake.

Founder’s CornerIn the wake of the administration’s failure to pass the immigration provisions added to the Build Back Better Act (BBB), along with attempts in 2020 by the corporatocracy to pass the badly named Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act, one might think those committed to American prosperity should be feeling pretty good. No, not so fast!No sooner has 2022 begun we face another bad bill. The America’s Cultivation of Hope and Inclusion for Long-Term Dependents Raised and Educated Natively Act of 2021 (America’s CHILDREN Act of 2021), seeks to reward those who have for decades displaced U.S. workers.Yes, yes,...

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham blasted former Vice President Dick Cheney Thursday after he visited Capitol Hill for the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. "The dinosaurs of the Pelosi-Schumer age are about to go extinct," Ingraham said. "They know their political con game is coming to an end in November, and they're so petrified that Trump or someone with similar views will win the presidency in 2024 that they're even willing to team up with an old nemesis [Dick Cheney]." [cut] The "dinosaurs" of the Cheney era "really care more about promoting democracy abroad than preserving it...

Many of the organisations that promote vaccine administration around the world are linked with population control agendas says Dr. Sam Bailey, who in a short video highlights the history of anti-fertility vaccines.Over her career and after much research Dr. Sam Bailey, a New Zealand medical author and health educator, has discovered that the vaccine model and Germ Theory itself has many flaws.“Today, we’re going to cover an even shadier application of vaccines. That is the use of them to reduce fertility and even cause permanent sterilisation,” Dr. Bailey said.During her video she gave an overview of the philanthropical and health...

GOP Rep. Liz Cheney confirmed she told fellow Rep. Jim Jordan, "Get away from me. You ******* did this," as members evacuated the House chamber during the January 6, 2021, siege on the Capitol. The New York Times' Michael Barbaro asked Cheney about the incident during an interview on "The Daily" podcast that aired Thursday, the first anniversary of the insurrection.

The day before Christmas Eve, a devastated but headstrong state worker strode into the Department of Developmental Services office in Springfield to collect her belongings and say goodbye to colleagues. ... Late Tuesday afternoon, the state government chose Coughlin’s fate for her, once again denying her plea for a medical exemption under Gov. Charlie Baker’s COVID vaccine mandate. In the penultimate blow from the state, Coughlin is now suspended without pay for 10 days. If Coughlin does not receive a second vaccine dose within that time frame, she’ll be fired, according to a warning letter from the Executive Office of...

Old pals Kanye West and Jared Kushner met up for what appeared to be a power dinner in Miami on Thursday night, but a source told Page Six that business was off the table. “It was a purely private dinner,” the insider exclusively told us. “No business agenda.” The billionaire rapper, 44, and the former White House senior adviser, 40, were photographed together as a masked employee let them out of the exit of the Italian celebrity hotspot Carbone in Miami Beach.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the legality of OSHA's vaccine requirement, the nation collectively gasped at the realization that our fate is now in the hands of 8 dummies and Clarance Thomas. "Wow, I had no idea it was this bad. They're all complete idiots," said local HVAC repairman Joe Bob Smith who was standing outside the Supreme Court. "How could that many people in a high position of authority be that uninformed and dumb? It boggles the mind."