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The Power of Protest All in less than one week, Israel has repealed restrictions and is backing off vaccine mandates, even as cases and deaths are hitting new highs, and implausibly so in the most vaccinated and boosted country in the world. The UK has backed off too. Same in Denmark, Ireland, Finland, and Norway. Switzerland has joined in, and Sweden has rolled back its plans for an extended vaccine passport in has decided to get rid of them completely. Saskatchewan is ending all restrictions. We are seeing local governments and universities in the US gradually stepping back. No new...

Dr. Makary says prior Covid natural immunity more persistent t, up to 2 years (so far). Here's the breaking news, natural immunity is 66% effective against Omicron. The vaccine is 60% to start and falls to 30%...kinda like a flu vaccine, effective but in the 40% range at best. So natural immunity is SAFER and BETTER. These results in JAMA really need to be communicated with America. Watch the video interview with John Roberts.

BREAKING: CCP agents pull Dutch reporter away on live TV in Beijing

The American rhetoric surrounding the Iran Deal has gotten progressively less assertive since talks resumed in Vienna. When the incipient Biden administration originally spoke about negotiating with Iran, the key words were “longer and stronger,” implying that Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought a tougher Iran deal that would last past the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s 2030 expiration date. The goal was then quietly downgraded to putting Iran “back in the box,” meaning a return to compliance with the JCPOA. That agreement kept Iran a year from nuclear breakout by limiting Iran’s uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity and...

The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is facing criticism from Oregon parents after instituting a permanent mask mandate in all K-12 schools.

U.S. job growth blew past expectations in January, brushing off a record-breaking surge in COVID-19 cases nationwide that loomed over the economy as it threatened to sideline millions of workers.The Labor Department said in its monthly payroll report released Friday that payrolls in January rose by 467,000, easily topping the 150,000 jobs gain forecast by Refinitiv economists. The unemployment rate, which is calculated based on a separate survey, ticked up slightly to 4%. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing. The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence. Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that...

Well, the COVID hysteria from the Biden Administration and the media preparing us for a horrible jobs report was … incorrect. In fact, the January jobs report was “exceptional”. 467,000 jobs were added and average hourly earnings growth ROSE to 5.7% YoY. The bad news? Thanks to surging inflation, REAL average hourly earnings growth YoY FELL to -2.36%. Unemployment ROSE to 4.0% from 3.9% as more people dropped out of the labor force in January. On the bright side, labor force participation rate rose to 62.2% from 61.9%. The reaction in the bond market? US 10-year yields are up 6.9...

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Yesterday in Ottawa, a police officer stepped into a bar to deliver a message from the Canadian government to the truckers protesting Canada’s vaccine mandates. In the course of his video taped delivery, among other things, he said: "Remove your trucks yourselves now ... or ... you will be forfeiting the trucks to the Crown and those associated with those trucks will be arrested."To which, one trucker responded to the officer, "Just remove the MANDATES, and we'll leave." Apparently, that was an option the police were not yet willing to consider. This morning, Ottawa Police Service Chief Peter Sloly raised...

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Men and the Future of AmericaSenator Josh Hawley has struck a powerful rhetorical blow against woke communism.Senator Josh Hawley recently gave a much commented upon speech on the virtues of masculinity. It was a very fine speech; indeed, it may have been one of the most significant senatorial speeches of his generation.Hawley understands that the traditional traits of masculinity—stoicism, competitiveness, conquest, achievement and aggression—are good and necessary for a self-governing society, as long as they are channeled into behaviors, such as productive work and providing for a family, that serve the common good. He also knows that if these natural...

...So should Spotify ban him and start cracking down on anything deemed to be “misinformation” by critics or company-employed fact-checkers? If you’re a socialist like me, or even if you just have political preferences that are substantially to the left of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I’d argue that advocating for escalated corporate censorship is playing with fire....Does the Joe Rogan Experience at times broadcast “bad” or “wrong” ideas to a massive audience? Undoubtedly it does. But there’s also subjectivity at play, and to ignore how such blurred lines for acceptable discourse could be weaponized against left-wing voices is a dangerous miscalculation....

Goodbye cheese, hello chickpeas. In keeping with Mayor Eric Adams’ focus on fitness, the nation’s largest school system will serve vegan-only meals every Friday starting this week throughout the academic year. [Snip] The DOE will still offer kids milk on Fridays because it must be provided per FDA guidelines. [Snip] Other vegan options will include seasoned broccoli salad, spinach and cranberry salad, and roasted cauliflower.

Biden tried to be FDR and failed at that. Now he’s settling for playing a senile elderly JFK. If you watch 5 minutes of CNN or any cable news network, you might believe that we’re on the verge of war with Russia. That’s what the same people who claimed that President Trump was working for Putin want you to believe. Their new war with Russia is as real as Russiagate. Democrats want to fight Russia to the last Republican. They aren’t about to fight a real war. Their fake wars with Russia are an attack on Republicans. Russiagate came after...

If you want to fathom Russian women you should read Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. However, you may not have time before your first date to check out at the library. That is why we're here to provide you with some advices on how to successfully court a Russian woman. All women in Russia are young women! Never-ever adress a woman with «woman» (zhentshina), «girl» (devotshka) or «baby». Even if your beloved is closer to her 50s than her 40s, she's a «young woman» to you (devoushka). Any other form of adress is not only going to confuse her, but rather even...

OTTAWA – The trucker convoy is alive and well and may be expanding by the weekend. I have been following this massive convoy of trucks from Canada and the United States that have met in the nation’s capitol to show their fierce opposition to mandatory lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccine mandates. It started with a grievance from truckers who refused to bow to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s dictate that they all had to be vaccinated against COVID-19. It grew into a nationwide protest against two years of increasingly authoritarian government action and rhetoric. The Ottawa Police Service has refused...

The Bible In Paintings 2 Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Sculptures•Tapestries•WindowsG E N E S I SCHAPTER 22 VERSES 1-18 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.” Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the...

VP Kamala Harris said Wednesday that it was Congress's fault President Biden could not fulfill his promise on immigration reform. In an interview with Noticias Telemundo, Biden's 'root causes' immigration czar was asked: "Elections are in a couple months' time. I'm sure you are aware the border is going to be an issue, also President Biden promised immigration reform he hasn't been able to deliver. Why would you say Latinos should vote for the Democrats this November?" Harris sidestepped the question, instead saying, "Congress is not acting on immigration. The first piece of legislation that was sent to congress was...

Dozens of New Brunswick residents have been struck with mysterious symptoms that point to a degenerative brain disorder, and authorities still don't have an explanation for the debilitating illness. A report leaked in March 2021 noted a cluster of cases of what looked like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: spasms, memory loss, hallucinations, and severe weight loss as the condition keeps people from being active. At the time, 48 cases had been identified, with symptoms starting between 2013 and 2020. However, a separate whistleblower from one of New Brunswick's health authorities told the Guardian that the mysterious illness had affected close to 150...