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Dr. Anthony Fauci has repeatedly warned this week that Americans should not get too comfortable in living in a restriction-less world, asserting yet again that people must be aware that they “may have to reverse” their move to pre-pandemic normality.

That’s the case of the New York Times’ Thursday piece on Hunter Biden. What the discerning reader learns about the Times is far more important than anything disclosed about the president’s scheming son. The one bit of actual news is that Hunter Biden took out a loan to pay the federal government as much as $1 million in back taxes as part of a continuing criminal probe about his business ventures with foreign corporations and individuals. SNIP It’s not until the 24th paragraph that the story mentions emails involving Hunter Biden and his associates in those deals, followed by these...

North Korea as a Beneficiary of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine BY: RUEDIGER FRANK MARCH 16, 2022 COMMENTARY, FOREIGN AFFAIRS On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. The world is only starting to understand the resulting geoeconomic and geopolitical consequences, but it is safe to say that they are and will be substantial and that North Korea is likely to benefit in economic, political and military ways. The most significant and tangible gains for North Korea will be economic. It is worth remembering that the severe economic crisis of the mid-1990s resulted from a sudden drop...

Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed a bill Friday evening temporarily suspending Georgia’s excise tax on motor fuel, which is currently at 29 cents per gallon. The bill, H.B. 304, passed the Senate in a 55–0 vote on Thursday after the national average gas price reached its highest point ever recorded this month and currently sits at $4.27 per gallon as of Friday, according to AAA data.

Adrian Kellgren’s family-owned gun company in Florida was left holding a $200,000 shipment of semi-automatic rifles after a longtime customer in Ukraine suddenly went silent during Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the country. Fearing the worst, Kellgren and his company KelTec decided to put those stranded 400 guns to use, sending them to Ukraine's nascent resistance movement to help civilians fight back against a Russian military that has been repeatedly shelling their apartment buildings, schools, hospitals and hiding places. “The American people want to do something,” said Kellgren, a former U.S. Navy pilot. “We enjoy our freedoms, we cherish those things....

Former Attorney General Bill Barr proclaimed that the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story by legacy media and big tech corporations “definitely” had an effect on the 2020 presidential election. Barr recalled when a letter signed by more than 50 former senior U.S. intelligence officials – including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — claimed the allegations regarding a laptop purportedly owned by President Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was released in October 2020. “As soon as this letter came out from the so-called intelligence specialists, the DNI, John Radcliffe...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — ​​South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions, a method codified into state law l ast year after a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences because of the state’s inability to procure lethal injection drugs. The state Corrections Department said Friday that renovations have been completed on the death chamber in Columbia and that the agency had notified Attorney General Alan Wilson that it was able to carry out a firing-squad execution. Lawmakers set about tweaking state law to get around the lethal injection drug situation. Legislation that went into effect in May made...

A Black Lives Matter activist in Boston and her husband have been charged with fraud and conspiracy by federal officials after allegedly taking money meant for a nonprofit they founded to pay for hotel rooms, car rentals, and dining out.Monica Cannon-Grant, 41, and her husband Clark Grant, 38, were charged in an 18-count indictment this week by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. The couple used tens of thousands of dollars meant for charitable efforts such as feeding needy children to pay for a vacation to Columbia, Maryland; groceries; Uber rides; car rentals; meals at restaurants; gas;...

First Grand Prix2004Number of Laps57Circuit Length5.412kmRace Distance308.238 kmLap Record1:31.447 Pedro de la Rosa (2005)

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No, it’s not Lemon Heads.. it’s the burning hole in my pocket thanks to a Joe Biden presidency (click link for 10 second video clip)

Francis Effect: 13 (!) Polish Priests switched to St Pius XFrancis Effect: 13 (!) Polish Priests switched to PiusX13 religious or diocesan priests have joined the Polish District of the Society of St. Pius X since 2019, Father Karl Stehlin, the local district superior, told Catholic Family News. German-born Stehlin was ordained a priest in 1988 and served in Gabon, Africa until 1994. He then began the Polish apostolate together with a second priest. After three decades, four priories with 32 Mass sites were established. After 20 years, Stehlin was sent to the Asian missions as superior for four years...

Transgender male intrusion into women’s swimming is all OK because people should recognize that sports are about personal liberation, not fair rules competition, according to Sally Jenkins, a writer at Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post. “One of the things that makes NCAA sport so captivating is the vast assortment of characters emerging from their chrysalis [like a transformed butterfly] into the broader world,” Jenkins wrote March 17. “Hate to tell you, but in a way, everyone is trans,” Jenkins wrote. All of the women in the race were demoted one place by Thomas’s victory. “All of us in life’s competitive arena...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a new interview that he is considering stepping away from the position he’d held since 1984. Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was asked during a podcast released March 18 whether he was mulling retirement or transitioning to a less-demanding job. “I certainly am because I’ve got to do it sometime,” Fauci, 81, said. “I can’t stay at this job forever, unless my staff is going to find me slumped over my desk one day. I’d rather not do that,” he added. Fauci was appointed to his...

It’s unlikely the “Free Brittney” campaign being pushed by Hillary Clinton will go viral in Russia, but a former presidential candidate can dream. The 2016 Democratic nominee tweeted for the release of basketball star Brittney Griner, who is incarcerated in Russia, by drumming up a slight variation of the “Free Britney” tagline made popular when pop star Britney Spears was fighting to end her conservatorship in 2021. (snip) Clinton, who got nearly 66 million votes in the 2016 presidential election, has more than 31 million followers on Twitter. NBA stars Grant Hill and LeBron James campaigned with Clinton during her...

In the last few hours, a photo of a Ukrainian girl sitting on a window with a lollipop in her mouth and a rifle in her hand has gone viral. In her hair she wears a blue and yellow ribbon, colors of the Ukrainian flag. She looks outside, as if she is watching. She was even shared on Twitter by the former president of the European Council, Donald Tusk. The picture was taken by the girl’s own father, the Kiev photographer Oleksii Kyrychenko and published on their Facebook and Instagram accounts with the title “Young girl with candy”, “girl with...

National Public Radio issued a correction after running a false statement about the laptop of Hunter Biden in a story about Biden’s recent memoir, “Beautiful Things.” The article by NPR senior editor and correspondent Ron Elving stated categorically that the laptop story was discredited by news organizations. It was later compelled to correct that false statement but still has language casting doubt on the story and evades glaring contradictions in Biden’s book and his interview. Moreover, NPR continues to run false claims from prior controversies. The NPR story originally stated that “The laptop story was discredited by U.S. intelligence and...

Having moved the world to tears singing her favourite song whilst hiding from Russian air raids in a Kyiv bunker, little Amelia Anisovych was transported from Ukraine to safety in Poland. The seven-year-old girl’s rendition of the “Let It Go” hit song from Disney’s “Frozen” went viral on the Internet, striking a tender chord in hearts worldwide, instantaneously becoming both an anti-war symbol and an expression of Kyiv’s resistance to the atrocities brought by the Russian invader. Having been transported from Ukraine to Poland, the starlet was interviewed by Poland’s public broadcaster TVP. Apart from drawing ponies, Amelia loves singing....

Extra safety features not really a factor as freight demand meets inadequate supply  Trucks await near-record prices at a Ritchie Bros. auction in Houston,. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)Rising interest rates and the potential for a slowing economy so far are having no effect on runaway prices for used trucks. “February data is the last we’ll have that does not reflect any effect of the Russia-Ukraine war,” Chris Visser, J.D. Power Valuation Services senior analyst, wrote in the company’s March Guidelines report. “Pricing in February continued to break records and, as of this writing in mid-March, there does not appear to...