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Vice President Kamala Harris, in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech that appeared targeted at a pair of fellow Democrats, called on senators to pass stalled voting rights bills or be “complicit” in disenfranchising people. Harris’ stern pitch for the seemingly fated bills on Monday follows President Biden’s controversial speech last week that likened Republican senators to racists for blocking the legislation.

NCAA board of governors to review transgender athlete policy this week, spokesperson says A study released last month by the Macdonald–Laurier Institute, a Canadian think tank, argues that "there is neither a medical intervention nor a clever philosophical argument that can make it fair for trans women to compete in women’s sport," and it recommends other means of including trans women in competition. "For trans women who have successfully suppressed testosterone for 12 months, the extent of muscle/strength loss is only an approximately (and modest) -5% after 12 months," the authors said. "Testosterone suppression does not remove the athletic advantage...

Vaccine mandates are one of many stifling measures brought on by the ongoing COVID pandemic, a consequence of those trying to “follow the science” and doing anything but or of government and bureaucrat officials using the opportunity to flex their authoritarian muscles. Whether they serve a useful societal function is an open question.The CDC website cites a book chapter by research scholars Kevin Malone and Alan Hinman that describes vaccine mandates as a means of “drastically reducing infectious diseases in the United States.” Mandates present a challenge “when societal interest conflicts with the individual’s interest.” With vaccine mandates, there is...

VIDEO It's hard to pay attention to what Joe Biden is saying in this video from 2020. Why? Because of that mask ridiculously dangling off his ear. You just can't stop watching it. That ear-dangler just sucks all attention away from whatever words Biden is saying. However, if you manage to put that dangling scene stealer out of your mind, you will find out that what Biden is saying is as absurd as the dangling mask. Namely that George Floyd's death had a greater impact on the world than the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr..Okay, you can go back...

Cracks are appearing in the vaccination frenzy that has gripped medical authorities and politicians here and elsewhere. Despite the admission by the CEO of Pfizer that "two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection, if any," fanatics in and out of medicine, government, and journalism persist in urging draconian measures to eliminate the unvaccinated from society. The propaganda and fear porn blitz has convinced about half of Democrats to want to vitiate the Constitution to persecute vax refusers and even questioners:If you are unvaccinated, 55% of Democrats want to fine you, 59% want you confined to your home, 48%...

The security services were today accused of a serious 'intelligence failure' after a British Islamist was able to travel to the US to lay siege to a synagogue despite his significant criminal convictions and known radical views. As police in the US and UK scramble to discover if he was part of a wider terror cell, it has emerged that Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was branded a 'menace' for raving about the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001. The terror suspect was given a rare Exclusion Order at Blackburn's magistrates' court - the first in...

Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians responded to questions about his decision to hit the helmet of Bucs safety Andrew Adams during Sunday’s game.Buccaneers head coach was looking out for Andrew Adams on Sunday, hitting his helmet and pushing him backwards with an elbow as Adams seemed poised to pull a penalty.

A perfect metaphor for the evolution of American culture over the past 50 years. 29 second video here.

A doctor that had been seeing an 80-year-old woman for most of her life finally retired. At her next checkup, the new doctor told her to bring a list of all the medicines that had been prescribed for her. As the doctor was looking through these his eyes grew wide as he realized Grandma had a prescription for birth control pills. "Mrs. Smith, do you realize these are birth control pills?" "Yes, they help me sleep at night." "Mrs. Smith, I assure you there is absolutely nothing in these that could possibly help you sleep!" She reached out and patted...

Democrats think that innocent taxpayers should be forced to pay off student debt. I think this is a horrible idea. I’m a Libertarian, which means that I am against punishing innocent taxpayers. It also means that I, unlike Democrats, understand the horrible incentives that would be created if innocent taxpayers were forced to pay off student debt. Such a policy would encourage colleges to raise their tuitions even more than they already have, and would also encourage future students to borrow even more money than what had been borrowed by past students. This would make the problem of student debt...

Many are alarmed by China's growing military ambitions, with heated tensions in places like the East China Sea, South China Sea, near Taiwan and the Indian border. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has benefitted greatly from a deluge of cash and copious amounts of cutting-edge equipment being added to its inventory. Last year was full of disconcerting surprises, including the discovery of massive silo fields for intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the testing of a fractional orbital bombardment system. However, more surprises await in 2022. Kurt Campbell, the US National Security Council Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, warned last week of a...

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge Michael Gableman has been investigating the 2020 presidential election results in Wisconsin since he was appointed last year. Gableman was given the task of looking into the 2020 election in Wisconsin. In October he announced he was focusing on five locations where irregularities were noted related to interference from foreign players like Facebook. Special Counsel Michael Gableman has subpoenaed Wisconsin election officials as part of his investigation into the 2020 Election irregularities. In October Gableman served subpoenas to the administrator of the Wisconsin Election Commission, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, and four...

WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Friday it will require operators of Boeing 787s (BA.N) to take additional precautions when landing on wet or snowy runways at airports where new wireless services are deployed from next week. The FAA said 5G interference could prevent engine and braking systems from transitioning to landing mode, which could prevent an aircraft from stopping on the runway. On Jan. 7, the FAA disclosed the 50 U.S. airports that will have 5G buffer zones, including in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Detroit, Dallas, Philadelphia, Seattle...

In a speech last week, President Joe Biden, who has failed to address the Covid-19 pandemic despite it being one of his core campaign promises, has now turned to coercing social media companies in to engaging in even stricter censorship. “I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets — please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that’s on your shows. It has to stop,” said Biden. Just days after the speech, social media companies and cable providers have already answered the call. This week, DirecTV announced that it would not renew its contract with One America...

A majority of Democrats would agree with the U.S. government taking more drastic coronavirus measures, such as confining unvaccinated Americans to their homes “at all times except for emergencies,” a Rasmussen Reports survey revealed. The survey listed a series of potential coronavirus-related actions, gauging support for a series of penalties, including fines, stay at home orders, and designated facilities for the unvaccinated and critics of the vaccines.

Monday, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) warned Russian President Vladimir Putin to consider how many “body bags” he is willing to accept if he were to invade Ukraine. Menendez said on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that the Ukrainian people would “do whatever is necessary to defend” their country. He added an insurgency from Ukraine would “send a lot of Russia’s sons back to Russia in a body bag.”

House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday that he is in agreement with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy that more than 30 of the chamber's Democrats may retire before the year is out, in light of the constraints lawmakers are under. "First of all, the House under Nancy Pelosi is not a very happy place, with all the COVID restrictions, all the voting by absentee, all the different things they are doing, the masking, the police requirements," Gingrich said. "Members get corrected walking on the floor. I walked on the floor recently and I was astonished that to get on the...

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On Sunday, Joe Biden acknowledged the Texas synagogue hostage situation, dubbing the incident an “act of terror,” but refused to “speculate” on Akram’s motives when asked about it by reporters. This insistence on pretending that Akram’s motives are unknown is troubling but not surprising. So much of this incident doesn’t fit the preferred narrative of the political left. But it wasn’t all that long ago that Joe Biden was very willing to speculate the motives of Kyle Rittenhouse—who shot and killed two people in self-defense during the Kenosha riots—and label him a white supremacist without any proof whatsoever. Then Biden...

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