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The man from the eastern Germany city of Magdeburg, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, is said to have received up to 90 shots against COVID-19 at vaccination centers in the eastern state of Saxony for months until criminal police caught him this month... He was caught at a vaccination center in Eilenburg in Saxony when he showed up for a COVID-19 shot for the second day in a row. Police confiscated several blank vaccination cards from him and initiated criminal proceedings. It was not immediately clear what impact the approximately 90 shots of COVID-19...

NEW YORK (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is planning trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is considering a rough timeline for a potential presidential announcement. And allies of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., are openly talking up her White House prospects. More than two years before the next presidential election, a shadow primary is already beginning to take shape among at least three fierce Republican critics of former President Donald Trump to determine who is best positioned to occupy the anti-Trump lane in 2024. Their apparent willingness to run — even if Trump does, as is...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday dismissed Democratic worrying about this year’s midterm elections, saying “hand wringing is part of the Democratic DNA.” NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd asked Clinton if she saw any similarities between the state of the Democratic Party now and how it was in early 90’s, noting that the party was grappling with what Democrats stood for ahead of the midterm elections in which they risk losing control over the House and Senate.

A Los Angeles judge ruled Friday that California’s landmark law mandating that corporations diversify their boards with members from certain racial, ethnic or LGBT groups is unconstitutional. From CBS5: The measure requires publicly traded corporate boards to have a member from an “underrepresented community,” including LGBT, Black, Latino, Asian, Native American or Pacific Islander. The ruling comes in response to a permanent injunction against the law, filed by conservative legal group Judicial Watch. The filing argued that the corporate diversity law violates the equal protection clause. To recap – you can’t choose or refuse to hire someone on the basis...

Hillary Clinton has called on Democrats “to do a better job” of selling themselves to America’s voters to avoid humiliation in this year’s midterm elections where Republicans are widely expected to perform strongly and likely grab control of Congress. The former Democratic presidential candidate was speaking frankly on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, saying she thought last summer’s chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan was harmful to Joe Biden. The US president’s approval ratings have slumped in recent weeks to the lowest level since he took office. “I don’t think it helped, that is obviously the case,” Clinton, the former...

Sec. State Candidate Kristina Karamo will absolutely be key in returning the great lakes state to its former GREATNESS! Candidate Kristina Karamo LIGHTS UP The Crowd Of Thousands At MI Trump Rally [video]

Earlier this year, television co-host Whoopi Goldberg was suspended for two weeks from ABC’s “The View” when, during a discussion that covered the banning of Art Spiegelman’s “Maus,” she contended that the Holocaust was simply about “man’s inhumanity to man.” Goldberg inadvertently stepped on a land mine. It went off. Not to downplay her original and retracted argument that Hitler’s Final Solution had nothing to do with his belief in Aryan racial superiority, it seems that Goldberg was honestly reflecting her own perspective as a Black woman in America, where it’s often color that matters most.

U.S. Army veteran Mike Durant, the current frontrunner in Alabama’s U.S. Senate Republican primary race, once suggested applying military philosophy to restore “law and order” in some U.S. cities by disarming the population. In 2011, Durant discussed the violence initiated by United Nations forces going door to door to seize firearms in a speech before the U.S. Army War College. As an aside, he speculated about how doing that in “some of our U.S. cities” could be a means to achieving “law and order.” “[F]rom a military perspective, the first thing that needs to be done is disarm the population,”...

Fifth Week of Lent John 8:1-11 Friends, today’s Gospel presents the story of the woman caught in adultery, which is one of the clearest demonstrations of what René Girard called the scapegoat mechanism. The scribes and Pharisees bring to Jesus a woman they had caught in adultery. Where must they have been standing and how long must they have been waiting in order to catch her? Their eagerness to find a victim is testimony to the insatiable human need for scapegoats. The novelty of the Gospel is revealed in Jesus’ refusal to contribute to the energy of the gathering storm:...

ORIGINAL VIDEO AT LINK "I am not sure that Ukraine should preserve its sovereignty after our special operation, like many other small states," Russia wants not just to kill Ukrainians, but to deprive us of the state. This is discussed by ghouls at a meeting in the Federation Council. Andrey Sidorov, dean of the Faculty of world politics at Moscow State University, suggests taking away state sovereignty from Ukraine. In other words, the genocide of Ukrainians is now being prepared at the university level. https://t.me/informnapalm/6072

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Russia was committing “genocide” in Ukraine.

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, called Donald Trump 'f***ing crazy' at the white-tie Gridiron Dinner in Washington D.C. on Saturday. Sununu was the GOP rep for the evening, giving remarks where he railed against the former president – even as some within the party say Trump is the best hope for congressional Republicans winning back a majority in 2022 and back the White House in 2024. 'You know, he's probably going to be the next president,' Sununu said of Trump, before going on to sarcastically comment on the ex-president's 'experience' and 'sense of integrity.' 'Nah, I'm just kidding!'...

It was hell that a girl apparently had to endure on Wednesday afternoon in a stairwell of the former mail distribution centre in Linz. Four young migrants (14 and 15 years old) allegedly attacked the 16-year-old girl and raped her for more than an hour. One of the suspects was still on the run on Thursday evening.

In the wake of Russia’s misadventure in Ukraine and the United States’ and NATO’s likewise disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, it’s worth speculating: is it possible that militaries can destroy things, devastate territory, and kill people but not control them? It may be that a unit of combat power has come to cost too much for them to purchase enough units to do the job. That is, the tendency among military professionals, civilian officials, and lawmakers is to procure the latest shiny bauble in small numbers rather than unglamorous, lower-tech implements in bulk.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that President Joe Biden was “confident” his son Hunter Biden did not break the law. Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “We know the Justice Department is intensifying its investigation into Hunter Biden, the president’s son. I assume the president has had no contact with the Justice Department about that?”

Editor’s Commentary: There was a time not so long ago when I would lambast “Chicken Littles” for claiming we’re on the verge of an economic collapse. I’ve been hearing it for decades and I’ve made a habit of pushing back. Even as recently as 2020, I railed against those who were buying up all the face masks, flour, and hand sanitizer because I thought the unhinged reaction to the pandemic was destructive, not to mention my annoyance of having to go to the grocery store several days in a row to find out they still had no toilet paper. This...

(There's a video at the site)Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said Russia has already experienced a “strategic defeat” in its invasion of Ukraine. “If you step back and look at this, this has already been a dramatic strategic setback for Russia, and I would say a strategic defeat,” Blinken told co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked about additional sanctions the U.S. may impose on Russia. Blinken said Russia has already failed in the three main goals it had at the start of its invasion of Ukraine. “They had three aims going into this....

The more contagious omicron subvariant BA.2 has become the dominant COVID-19 strain in the U.S., but international health experts are putting an increased focus on a new hybrid variant that may even be more infectious. The XE variant is a recombinant, meaning it is comprised of genetic material from two other strains, which in this case are BA.1, the original strain of omicron, and BA.2, known as "stealth omicron." According to an epidemiological update published March 29 by the World Health Organization, estimates show XE is 10% more transmissible than BA.2, however the findings require further confirmation.

A new report claims President Joe Biden has told people he wants former President Donald Trump to be prosecuted.The leak was published in the New York Times on Saturday as Democrats mount increasing pressure on the Justice Department to take action against Trump and people within his orbit in relation to the Capitol riot. At focus are Attorney General Merrick Garland and his "deliberative approach," as the report put it, which is causing frustration.

For about 10 minutes this week, it was like the good old days for state-run media — they thought they had finally gaffed him this time, Donald J. Trump, the great orange whale that the Captain Ahabs of fake news have been pursuing all these years. Gaps in the White House phone logs of Jan. 6! Worse than Watergate! It was a bombshell, the walls were closing in, it was a turning point, a tipping point, breaking news, the beginning of the end, whistleblowers, dark clouds, monumental implications, a watershed. Until, as always, it wasn’t. Instead it was yet another...