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Fauci brought props... Fauci notes that Paul's attacks on him result in death threats against him and family. Fauci also notes that Paul is fundraising on his unhinged attacks on him.

The first, greatest experiment in human intellectual life was conducted around 500 BC, in ancient Athens, when the cream of a few philosophers for the first time in history, broached the possibility of rising above the common tyranny of empires, for a rational rule of law and government to be conducted on an enlightened basis. Yes, the Athenians excluded the commoners, and their enlightenment reposed on the subjugation of non-Athenian states. So have all other civilizations. Yahweh commanded the same of the Hebrews in Deuteronomy 20:10, that they could offer peace and servitude to remote foreign peoples if they would...

The Likely Cause of the Media Blackout on Imploding Whitmer Kidnapping Plot It is impossible to report on the Whitmer case without connecting it to January 6. So rather than do its job, the national news media is completely ignoring this sensational story.Once upon a time in America, a high-profile federal prosecution imploding amid credible accusations of FBI entrapment would earn wall-to-wall headlines in the national news media. A wife-beating FBI agent who used at least one criminal informant and a dozen more government assets to concoct a plot to abduct a sitting governor—intended to create damaging headlines for an...

Am I imagining it or is tackling worse than it has been in the past?

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins have decried the theory that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a conspiracy theory. Back in March 2020, Collins said claims that COVID-19 was engineered in a lab were “outrageous.” He pointed to a new study that “debunks such claims by providing scientific evidence that this novel coronavirus arose naturally.” Notably, one of the study’s authors, Kristian Anderson, had previously informed Fauci that some features of the virus “look engineered.” Never to be outdone, in May 2020, Fauci told National...

(X-ray: NASA/CXC/Dartmouth Coll./J. Parker & R. Hickox; Optical/IR: Pan-STARRS) ========================================================================== Because they emit nothing we can detect, there are many things about black holes we simply do not know. Amongst the most perplexing are supermassive black holes, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun. Since black holes form from the cores of massive dead individual stars, how do supermassive behemoths grow so danged huge? A new discovery could help us find some much-sought answers. In a tiny dwarf galaxy 110 million light-years away, astronomers have just found one of the smallest supermassive black holes ever seen. The...

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has told employees that 3,000 employees are currently positive for COVID-19. But crediting United’s vaccine mandate, Kirby noted that not one vaccinated employee is currently hospitalized or has recently died due to COVID-19. With 3,000 United Airlines Employees Positive For COVID-19, CEO Credits Vaccine Mandate For Lack Of Hospitalizations and Deaths There are currently about 3,000 United Airlines employees who are positive for COVID-19 according to an internal memo reviewed by Live and Let’s Fly. This has impacted operations, with some stations battling a severe shortage of workers. For example, United recently had nearly 1/3...

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — According to Nevada State Police Highway Patrol Southern Command Twitter, a fatal crash that took 4 lives occurred Monday evening around 6 p.m. The crash location is southbound I-15 at Sloan Lane involving at least six vehicles. A preliminary investigation revealed a Red Cadillac was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes.A Toyota pickup was traveling southbound in the southbound lane. The two vehicles crashed head-on, causing the pick-up to catch fire with all three occupants of the vehicle dying on the scene. According to Nevada State Police, the occupants of the pick-up can not be identified...

I spent more than three hours on the phone this weekend trying to get through to the online security department of one of Canada’s major banks. One of my accounts was shut down (because I had the effrontery to sign in from Alberta — an event too unexpected for the bank’s security systems). I was placed on hold interminably, subjected all the while to the corporate world’s idea of music (to soothe me). I was then offered a call-back, which I duly received, 45 minutes later. Then I was placed on hold again, and again, and again. This all occurred...

Across the country, Americans are fleeing “blue” cities and states led by progressive Democrats and moving to “red” communities governed by Republicans. Americans are voting with their feet in substantial numbers. This trend has been apparent for years, but it is now accelerating. In 2021, the state with the biggest loss of population was New York, which suffered a decline of 319,020 people. After the disgraced former Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign for his inappropriate behavior toward multiple women, his successor, Kathy Hochul, has continued his progressive policies with the same disastrous results in New York. Democrat...

Oil futures rose Tuesday and U.S. prices traded above $80 a barrel, supported by tight supplies and growing expectations that the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus won’t derail global demand. The market theme is “about demand recovery rather than supply concerns, although both are supportive of oil prices,” Manish Raj, chief financial officer at Velandera Energy Partners, told MarketWatch. Despite omicron’s spread, “global oil demand remains robust among all modes of transportation.” West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery CL00, 3.73% CLG22, 3.72% rose $2.56, or 3.3%, at $80.79 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Front-month contract...

The U.S. Air Force is being accused of bending the rules and pushing a female officer through the Special Tactics Officer (STO) program despite allegations she repeatedly quit the training. The Air Force told American Military News the allegations are “factually incorrect or missing context” and say training standards are different now compared to years before. The allegations were raised by an anonymous Air Force combat controller and first shared via Twitter on Wednesday by Brian Kimber, an Air Force Pararescue (PJ) veteran, journalist and podcaster. Kimber’s tweets were reposted the same day by Navy SEAL veteran and Congressman Dan...

MADISON, Wis. — One of the lead deputies who spent weeks “turning the house upside down” spent several hours Monday testifying what he found inside the Halderson home in the fifth day of Chandler Halderson’s homicide trial. Deputy Greg Leatherberry, a crime scene investigator for the Dane County Sheriff’s Office, spent much of the day on the stand as he described in great detail what he found in every room of the family’s multi-level home in Windsor as they investigated the murder and dismemberment of Bart and Krista Halderson. Not every room in the home had something of value to...

Living alone for several years and/or experiencing serial relationship break-ups are strongly linked to raised levels of inflammatory markers in the blood–but only in men–finds a large population study. Although the inflammation was classified as low grade, it was persistent, and most likely indicates a heightened risk of age-related ill health and death, suggest the researchers. Divorce and committed relationship break-ups, which are often followed by a potentially lengthy period of living alone, have been associated with a heightened risk of poor physical and mental health, lowered immunity, and death. But most previously published studies have focused on the impact...

YouTube’s censorship overlords suspended MRCTV for posting a video that dared to highlight government officials’ garbled messaging on COVID-19 guidance. MRCTV Managing Editor Brittany Hughes’ Jan. 3 video, “Enjoy Your Covid Hysteria, Libs - But Leave The Rest Of Us Alone,” dissected the hysteria surrounding the omicron COVID-19 variant. Hughes remarked that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci incoherently “says that even if you’re vaccinated and boosted, you should only go out and about if you’re sure that everyone around you is also vaccinated and boosted because omicron is so contagious that even vaccinated and...

In a speech on voting rights he's giving in Georgia today, Biden boasts: "I will not yield. I will not flinch."Tough guy, that Biden! Let's remember: he's the hero who single-handedly took on "bad dude" Corn Pop! But the White House press-shop moment was washed out by the news that Stacey Abrams, who's again running for governor of Georgia, has announced she won't be attending Biden's speech, citing a "scheduling conflict." That led Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist to facetiously muse that Abrams' appointment for a car tune-up and tire rotation is keeping her away. Get the rest of the...

We live in a red county, but in a ultra blue state. We received a phone call last night from someone not in our database saying their furnace wouldn't stay on longer than several minutes. Apparently hubby had gone out there at some point several years ago and gave them a 2nd opinion which saved them a LOT of money. Well fast forward to now. Hubby called them back, went over there and the first thing out of the late seventies couple was "I need to know your vax status." Hubby said I'm not vaxxed, I have natural immunity and...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has recently told the world that nations which separated themselves from the Soviet Union, specifically those of the Intermarium, the lands between the Black, Baltic, and Adriatic Seas, are not independent but, rather, “masterless” for the moment. He singled out Poland, Ukraine,” and the “Baltic provinces.” It is telling that Lavrov did not call Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — “Baltic States” [strani Baltii] but “Baltic provinces” [Pribaltika]... What Lavrov implied, of course, was that Russia would take care of the master part sooner or later, slowly but surely. But sometimes the Kremlin sees an opportunity...

California smash-and-grabbers use hammers to steal $100K in jewelry Shocking video shows a smash-and-grab gang using hammers to take over a California shopping center — allegedly swiping around $100,000 of jewelry after threatening customers and staff. The footage shows the gang of nine suddenly swarming La Placita Tropicana shopping center in San Jose with the hammers already in their hands. Customers and staff were terrified as the gang screamed at them to “Get on the ground!,” one of the owners told the Mercury News. The footage from Jan. 3 shows the gang spreading out and smashing glass displays while others...

President Trump on Monday verbally scorched a Republican U.S. Senator (Mike Rounds of SD) he had endorsed last election for describing the 2020 presidential election as fair.