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Independent data from the UK and New Zealand show the same thing: the more you vaccinate, the greater your chance of getting infected. It was supposed to be the other way around, wasn't it?Steve KirschApr 6 128145 It doesn’t get any more insane than this: the more you vaccinate, the greater your chance of getting COVID. Vaccinate 3 times and your risk of getting COVID is 3 times worse than an unvaccinated person.Here are examples of government data showing that the more you vaccinate, the more likely you are to being infected:The Covid-19 Scam & Vaccines (see section entitled “Fully-vaccinated...

Jonathan Swan asked Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during an Axios NewsShapers interview on Thursday why Republicans hate him. “You’re the most powerful elected Republican in Washington, DC,” Swan prefaced the question. “And despite all the BS I hear around, there is no obvious challenge to your leadership.

ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that her family considered suing the Trump administration because her in-laws died from the coronavirus. Behar said, “Imagine you are Dr. Fauci who’s won a multitude of prestigious awards, Ivy League guy, considered one of the top, he does his job to take on HIV, and now President ‘clown car’ is out there in the front, and he’s talking about how bleach and disinfectants are going to cure it, and it’s going to go away, and it’s nothing.”

The risk of vision loss for users of medication like Viagra and Cialis appears to be small, but might prompt added warning labels. Drugs known for helping men with erectile dysfunction may come with a higher risk of vision problems than currently thought. In new research out Thursday, scientists have documented an association between three serious eye disorders and drugs including Viagra and Cialis; the findings might prompt the need for added warning labels on these medications, the authors say, though the individual risk for experiencing these complications does appear to be very small. Commonly used erectile dysfunction drugs such...

Hundreds of two- and four-year colleges saw major student enrollment declines between 2020 and 2022. Enrollment in traditional undergraduate programs has been trending downward since around 2012. Ryan Lufkin, Senior Director for Instracture Canvas, says the pandemic turbocharged those enrollment losses. As result, higher education has been searching for a way to serve non-traditional students

A Biden nominee faced questioning over a past tweet she sent attacking a Republican senator. During a hearing Wednesday, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) brought up a tweet from 2015 that was sent by Beth Prichard Geer, who was nominated to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) board. “As you stated in your written testimony, you believe one reason you should be confirmed to serve in the TVA is because of your ability to ‘build relationships and work together,’ is that correct?” Ernst asked. Geer responded, “Yes, that is correct.” “And you believe civility is a fundamental aspect of your role on...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday said that he's going to do everything in his power to help fellow GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski win reelection this November. "It's important for Lisa to be reelected. She's one of the few, sort of moderates in the middle of the Senate," the top Republican said during an interview with Axios' Jonathan Swan. McConnell praised Murkowski, who's served in the Senate for 20 years, as "a key player in advancing bipartisan legislation." "We're going to do everything we can to make sure she's successful," he said.

"They were using Vice President Biden's position and his name to peddle influence, and rake in, vacuum in millions of dollars from all over the world," said the Wisconsin Republican senator. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) on Wednesday derided the Biden family as "grifters" and "influence peddlers," as more evidence emerges of questionable business deals involving President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, and brother, James. "They knew exactly what they were doing," Johnson told "Just the News — Not Noise." "They were using Vice President Biden's position and his name to peddle influence, and rake in, vacuum in millions of dollars from...

All House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee voted against a proposed amendment to a domestic terrorism bill that would have prevented American intelligence and security agencies from receiving taxpayer funds to “monitor, analyze, investigate or prosecute” Americans unvaccinated against COVID-19.Rep. Thomas Massie broke the news of the party line vote amidst a Judiciary Committee debate over a domestic terrorism bill via Twitter, revealing “Due to a troubling DHS bulletin, @RepAndyBiggsAZ offered an amendment to prevent the targeting of Americans due to their views on COVID vax.”

A Ventura County homeowner beat up a suspected burglar when he was caught inside the victim's home. The homeowner came home April 1 around 6 pm to find a sports utility van parked out front of his residence with a suspect in the driver's seat. The homeowner found a second burglar, Alexis Provoste, 43, inside his home stealing. The homeowner began to beat Provoste before he ran out of the home to the van. Provoste was held by the homeowner until police arrived at the scene and arrested him.

At the peak of the Critical Race Theory controversy in June of 2021, I was invited to Waukesha, Wisconsin to give a speech in front of a crowd of what was supposed to be a few hundred people about my thoughts on race and CRT in schools. 600 people showed up—double the number the organizers had expected. This wasn't a Trump rally filled with politically active people; on the contrary, it was a crowd of concerned parents who wanted to learn. They were your middle of the road, working-class Americans who had been witnessing their public-school systems actively work against...

Researchers engineer electrically tunable graphene devices to study rare physics. The breakthrough could lead to the development of ‘beyond-5G’ wireless technology for high-speed communication networks. An international team, co-led by researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) in the UK and the Penn State College of Engineering in the US, has developed a tunable graphene-based platform that allows for fine control over the interaction between light and matter in the terahertz (THz) spectrum to reveal rare phenomena known as exceptional points. The team published their results today (April 7, 2022) in Science. The work could advance optoelectronic...

Galaxy HD1 HD1, object in red, appears at the center of a zoom-in image. Credit: Harikane et al. Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to the oldest stars in the universe, or a supermassive black hole. An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical object ever: a galaxy. Named HD1, the galaxy candidate is some 13.5 billion light-years away and is described today (April 7, 2022) in The Astrophysical Journal. In an accompanying paper published in the Monthly Notices...

Former President Barack Obama spoke at length about the war in Ukraine, telling an audience in Chicago that the conflict is a "bracing reminder for democracies that had gotten flabby and confused and feckless around the stakes of things that we tended to take for granted," including the United States. Obama also addressed his recollections of Vladimir Putin and how he isn't sure "that the person I knew is the same as the person who is now leading this charge."

MSNBC’s Al Sharpton on Thursday pushed for an “institutional change” within police departments get rid of “racism.” During a conversation with New York City Mayor Eric Adams on “Morning Joe,” Sharpton argued on that the New York Police Department wasn’t “throwing white kids on the Upper East Side against the wall” as part of the stop-and-frisk policy.

“If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education,” Democratic Wisconsin Representative Lee Snodgrass sneeringly tweeted in February, “they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their own budget.” It turns out there was a third option: Take over the school board. All across the state Tuesday night, conservative parents won decisive victories in school board elections, ousting liberal incumbents and sending a clear message that their communities will no longer stand for mask mandates and radical curricula. Snodgrass’ quickly deleted tweet served as something of a rallying cry for communities fed up with...

Officials at Ichilov Medical Center say two of the wounded in the Tel Aviv attack have died. The hospital is treating eight other wounded: Four are being operated on and are in serious condition, two more people are in moderate-to-serious condition, and two more are mildly hurt. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai have arrived at the scene of the attack. A police spokesman says large police forces are scanning the area for the assailants. “We dove under the tables and people started crying, it was horrible,” says Evelyn Gertz, 34, who was having dinner next...

Medical researchers are closer to understanding the inflammatory responses in pre-term babies that can cause devastating heart and lung conditions including bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and pulmonary hypertension (PH). It is the immune system's job to defend the body from harmful invaders. Because there is a myriad of pathogens, stunningly versatile defense strategies have evolved, including one called type-2-polarized inflammation. Type-2-polarized inflammation's regular job is to fight off parasites and counterbalance type-1 and -3 responses. However, in babies with under-developed lungs, this inflammatory response is out of place and out of control, and can cause permanent damage to lung tissue, its...

April 7th marks the birthday of one of Hollywood’s best – the late, great James Garner – whose multi-decade career spanned everything from early TV westerns like "Maverick," to movies of all genres, from "Grand Prix" to "The Great Escape" to "Hour of the Gun." And, prior to his life on the screen, he served in both the U.S. Merchant Marine and the U.S. Army National Guard – that latter stint in uniform included combat in the Korean War where he was wounded twice in action, and received two Purple Hearts and the Army’s Combat Infantryman Badge for his service....

Barack Obama was at the White House yesterday, making it clear, as did others at the reception held in Obama's honor, that Biden's presidency is over. Watching Obama suck the oxygen out of the room made me wonder if Obama is planning a comeback, something he can easily do. The ostensible reason for Obama's return to the White House was to celebrate Obamacare's twelfth anniversary (if you can celebrate our modern, cowardly, corporate-run "medical care," along with overpriced insurance that does little for people with serious health issues). The reception in Obama's honor, though, hinted that the event's real purpose...