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Only coming elections seem to be capable of making the leftist acolytes of these lockdowns snap out of it. As we have been dealing with the COVID-19 virus for more than two years, we are now seeing the beginning of its worldwide decline. One fact remains clear: That in spite of the continued exhortation to “follow the science,” many in positions of leadership have done nothing of the sort. They ignored the science and chose to use politics to govern and justify their actions. From the very beginning, when COVID-19, a disease caused by a virus named SARS-CoV-2, was discovered...

Think about my shock when on Jan. 6, 2017, I came upon that I had obtained one electoral vote to be vice chairman of the USA — an workplace for which I used to be not a candidate — from a “faithless elector” from the state of Washington. 4 years later, on Jan. 6, 2021, when a violent mob overran the Capitol, I noticed that my unearned vote within the Electoral School was not amusing. This seemingly innocuous vote was a sign that our system of counting and certifying votes for president and vice chairman had deep and severe structural...

We don't want antifa and Black Lives Matter activists shutting down cities with riots, and we shouldn't want truckers blockading roads either. In each case, as the rule of law is upheld, it is incumbent on those in power to also look at the root causes driving the unrest. American authorities seemed inclined to look at those root causes when it came to the race protests and riots. For some reason, Canadian and American authorities seem totally uninterested in what is driving the increasing COVID-19 civil disobedience. People cannot stay locked down forever; it causes real harm. Pandemic restrictions have...

Justin Trudeau totalitarian heart grows blacker every day. How will Canada's new beacons of freedom respond? Justin Trudeau has ordered the seizure of all assets, the freezing of bank accounts, and the cancelation of credit cards for all persons identified by the government to be either directly or indirectly participating in, or supporting, the truckers who are protesting his vaccine mandate. In short, those Canadians exercising their right to assemble and speak freely in opposition to their government's policies will no longer be allowed to even buy food, pay rent or otherwise provide for their families. And all this is...

A BLM activist accused of trying to assassinate a Jewish mayoral candidate has been pictured with Barack Obama, as his alleged victim slammed the 'broken criminal justice system' for freeing the suspected shooter on bail. Quintez Brown, 21, was one of 22 people chosen to meet the former President of the United States in 2019 as part of Obama's My Brother's Keeper Alliance, which is aimed at closing achievement gaps facing young boys and men of color. Brown, of Louisville in Kentucky, was pictured smiling behind the president, and even named as a future star by the Obama Foundation website,...

Gail Halvorsen, a former U.S. airman known as the “Candy Bomber” for delivering sweets to children during the Berlin Airlift, died on Wednesday at the age of 101. The Gail S. Halvorsen Aviation Education Foundation confirmed the veteran's death in a statement on Thursday. The foundation said he passed away peacefully and surrounded by family at the Utah Valley Hospital following a brief illness. Halvorsen gained his "Candy Bomber" moniker during the 15-month Berlin Airlift after World War II that saw western allies drop essential supplies into West Berlin after it was blockaded by the Soviet Union. The airman had...

OTTOWA -- The heavy police presence remains in Ottawa but is not enough to evict the freedom convoy from Canada’s capital. Although several warnings have been issued and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Valentine’s Day, the truckers and protesters remain calm with no sign of an emergency – just as they have for the last three weeks. The truckers who remain on the street are adamant that they will not move. Though, they are concerned that the federal government will use force against them. Trudeau claims that the Emergencies Act will not violate the Canadian...

On November 5, 2017, Devin Patrick Kelly shot and killed 26 churchgoers and wounded 20 more in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Kelly was stopped by Stephen Willeford, who disrupted the shooting and wounded Kelly. Kelly purchased the firearms he used through federally licensed dealers. The National Instant Background System (NICS) approved of the sales, even though Kelly was a prohibited possessor. The Air Force had failed to enter the criminal data about Kelly into the NICS system.Survivors of the shooting sued the federal government for negligence, using, in part, the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).In general, the Federal Government is immune...

Newspeak is alive and well in the "diversity and inclusion" offices of academia. Anyone who is familiar with the Dystopian (and alarmingly relevant) novel “1984” by George Orwell is familiar with the concept of ”Newspeak.” In short, “Newspeak” is the language that the citizens of the autocratic future superstate “Oceania” speak, and it basically works by drastically reducing the number of words in an individual’s vocabulary or in the dictionary that the state deems “unnecessary.” Of course, the real purpose of “Newspeak” is to eliminate words that might cause an individual to think about ideas contrary to the state’s agenda...

Source: Courtesy of Students for LifeWith the Supreme Court’s anticipated ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson appearing to potentially affect Roe v. Wade negatively, the abortion lobby has become a super-spreader of the tall tale that pro-lifers will “leave women in the cold” after Roe is reversed (this claim comes from the same family of fallacies as “not caring about children after they’re born” and “not offering any help to women or children”). They say this despite knowing that as a newly released letter of pro-life powerhouses reported, “We live in a country with about 3,000 pregnancy resource centers and approximately...

Omicron was a bust. It is time for the Governments around the world to stop suppressing the COVID suicide rates.Since World War II, all the governments have been keeping statistics regarding what folks do so that they can base their policies on should they need to. They know the average amount of electricity a single person uses, the number of apples a teenager will eat in a year and they know how likely their current policies are being believed by the elderly over the age of 65.In short, they know the suicide rates in the Nursing homes caused by the...

BEIJING (AP) — The gold medalist said she felt empty. The silver medalist pledged never to skate again. The favorite left in tears without saying a word. After one of the most dramatic nights in their sport's history, Russia's trio of teenage figure skating stars each enter an uncertain future. Her Olympics and life turned upside down by a doping case, world record holder Kamila Valieva faces a possible ban and a coach whose first response to her disastrous skate Thursday was criticism. "Why did you let it go? Why did you stop fighting?" cameras caught Eteri Tutberidze — the...

Itinerant policy journalist Ezra Klein, now with the New York Times, has highlighted something interesting about the Biden Democrats' now-defunct Build Back Better package -- something beyond its huge cost (trillions) and its failure to get majority support in the Democratic Congress, just like the single-payer health care bill that recently failed to pass in California's Democratic supermajority legislature. The Democrats' major problem, Klein argues, is that they're too unambitious, proposing only "a grab-bag of longstanding Democratic proposals" that mostly seek to close the "gaps" between the "social insurance options" of "any Western European nation." He might have added that...

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Ottawa is holding its collective breath as police appear ready to finally end the so called Freedom Convoy protest that has paralyzed a good chunk of the capital city’s downtown core for the past three weeks. With significantly bolstered ranks municipal, provincial and national police officers have established a perimeter with about 100 checkpoints covering Ottawa’s downtown to keep out anyone intent on joining the protest this weekend.

In Canada, first the doxing, then the struggle session. This week, one of the most popular small-donor fundraising sites for the Canadian truckers protesting the COVID vaccine mandates, GiveSendGo, was hacked. The names of donors were shared with the public. We know about this mostly because erstwhile news organizations, such as Reuters, have showered attention on the breach as if they were providing a public service. Indeed, many of the same outlets that refused to report specifics about the Hunter Biden email scoop in 2020 (though the story was obtained in a completely ethical journalistic manner) or share specifics from...

I'm writing from Budapest, the beautiful, Danube-bestriding Hungarian capital. Hungary, though a faraway land and modest in both size and population, has played an outsize role in the American conservative conscience for the past half-decade or so. After just a few days, it is not difficult to understand why. Hungary, under Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his ruling Fidesz party, is a real-life experiment in government under a framework of "national conservatism." Lessons for American conservatives are clear and legion. Western media typically covers Orban in hysterical fashion, accusing him of autocracy, crypto-fascism or outright thuggery. It is difficult to...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced Thursday he will veto a school choice bill that has worked its way through the state Legislature, sparking criticism from conservatives. During a press conference Thursday, Cox, a Republican, said that he would veto a bill that would establish an education scholarship program in the state The governor said "now is not the time" to enact the legislation, even after mentioning teachers have struggled in the past two years amid the pandemic. Conservatives on Twitter were quick to point out Cox had received a $75,000 campaign donation from the National Education Association, the nation's largest...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) - Researchers at Duke want to know if taking more ivermectin for longer will work better as a COVID-19 treatment. A study that is testing three repurposed medications as COVID treatments is expanding to evaluate the polarizing anti-parasitic drug ivermectin at a higher dose for a longer period of time. Dr. Adrian Hernandez, the executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the study’s administrative principal investigator, said modeling studies, published research and community interest “support investigating multiple doses and durations of ivermectin.” “This expansion will provide valuable data on the role of ivermectin and whether...

Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine! Oh my, the political Establishment hasn't been this wound up to rush into war since...wait...that's right, the United States has been at war non-stop for nearly a century now. No worries, though — Joe Biden will see America through the dark days ahead. The wandering lumpkin of witless proportions will stare down Russia and win! — mostly because he can no longer blink on his own without remedial assistance. It's no wonder why our pretend president's handlers allow him to slobber out a few public words only in the middle of the afternoon (before shuffling away without...