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CNBC twisted exclusive comments it received from Tesla CEO Elon Musk to make it seem like he’s a gun control activist but buried his overall support for the Second Amendment. Musk reportedly emailed a number of comments about guns to CNBC following the mass murder of children and teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. CNBC’s May 25 headline on its exclusive story read as follows: “Elon Musk backs ‘tight’ background checks for all gun sales in wake of mass shooting in Texas.” However, readers wouldn’t know until the 10th paragraph that Musk actually voiced support for gun rights...

COVID-19 can be treated and prevented with vitamin D, according to the pioneer of mRNA vaccine technology and president of the Global COVID Summit, Dr. Robert Malone.“There are virtually no deaths from this disease in people who have vitamin D levels in their blood above 50 ng/mL [nanograms per milliliter],” Malone said on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. “There’s actually many studies out now, including double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trials.”A 2021 meta-analysis study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nutrients found that there was “strong evidence that low D3 is a predictor rather than just a side effect of the [COVID-19] infection”...

A video that is only a little over 6 minutes — “It's time to admit that many Americans are stupid, even if it's not politically correct to do so, because in Trump's America it is increasingly a reality.”

In recent years, a rash of companies suddenly discovered a new “woke” identity, taking sides with the left in America’s ongoing cultural civil war. Now, after a powerful popular backlash, many of those same companies are retreating from the fight. Smart move. Companies have apparently discovered that Instapundit’s oft-quoted rhyme, “Get woke, go broke,” isn’t a joke. It’s more like an economic truism. Americans, it seems, don’t like having their cherished cultural, personal, religious and moral beliefs belittled, diminished and ridiculed by the very corporations they do business with. The latest company to suffer for its wokeness is State Farm,...

A former Royal Marine and son of an MP has been filmed leading a team of British and US veterans in a mission to destroy a Russian armoured vehicle during a fierce battle in Ukraine. Ben Grant, 30 – the son of Helen Grant, Conservative MP for Maidstone and The Weald, in Kent – is among a platoon of foreign fighters supporting Ukraine’s efforts in the war against Russia. i has verified footage that shows the squad of Western volunteers, made up of former special forces, preparing to mount their attack on a BTR – a Russian armoured vehicle –...

The senseless murder of 19 children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas is leading to calls for more gun control. To some, “red flag” laws, also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders, seem like the obvious solution. These laws allow judges to seize a person’s guns without a trial, based solely on a written complaint that the person might be a danger to themselves or others. All a judge needs is “reasonable suspicion.” “We know that we can show we can be united to protect our children,” said Sen. Joe Manchin, a famously moderate West...

The numbers keep getting worse. The University of Michigan Consumer Survey showed a decline in May to 58.4 (100 is baseline). Soaring inflation is a likely culprit. But the truly horrible survey result is the UMich Buying Conditions for Houses, plunging to 45. The reason? Crazy, expensive house prices courtesy of The Federal Reserve and rising mortgages (also, courtesy of The Federal Reserve). The buying conditions for houses is now the lowest in the history of the University of Michigan consumer survey. In fact, consumer sentiment for housing is far lower than during the awful housing bubble burst of 2008...

People who have COVID-19 but aren’t showing any symptoms are much less likely to transmit the virus that causes the disease, researchers have found.Health officials around the world have warned throughout the pandemic that people who don’t have symptoms could transmit SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 and is also known as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.The warnings prompted the imposition of a slew of measures, such as mass testing of people, regardless of whether they had manifestations of the illness.But the new research, published in PLOS One following peer review, concluded that the secondary attack rate—the primary measure of the...

Russia is tightening the noose on Ukrainian troops in the country's east.Moscow’s forces have advanced in a fierce ground and artillery assault, and they now appear close to encircling the last two holdout cities in Luhansk province. Luhansk and neighboring Donetsk form the Donbas region, which has become the key focus of the Kremlin’s war.As Ukrainian officials voice concern that their troops are now outmanned and outgunned, the Russian push could prove decisive in the conflict.In recent days Russian forces have used heavy artillery, airstrikes and infantry to close in on the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, the Institute for...

On Wednesday, just as a press conference about the tragic school shooting in Uvalde featuring Texas Governor Gregg Abbot was commencing, it was rudely interrupted by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis O'Rourke who attempted to upstage the event. Was this a highly inappropriate political stunt by a losing candidate? Well, according to CBS reporter Janet Shamlian it was "very clearly staged" by the O'Rourke campaign.

The evidence prosecutors elicited from witnesses over the last two weeks provides overwhelming proof of Sussmann’s guilt.Closing arguments will begin later this morning in Special Counsel John Durham’s false statement case against former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, after Sussmann made a last-minute decision on Thursday not to testify in his own defense. The evidence prosecutors elicited from witnesses over the last two weeks provides overwhelming proof of Sussmann’s guilt and destroys the many defense theories Sussmann’s legal team floated throughout the trial. Yet a conviction of a fellow D.C.-swamp dweller may be unattainable.Last fall, the special counsel indicted...

The Biden administration’s proposal would generate a public health emergency industry that China will be well-positioned to exploit.It’s astounding that anyone would look at the past two years of illiberal and ineffective lockdowns, forced masking, mandatory vaccinations, and their extraordinary social and economic toll, and conclude that what we really need is for nations to yield more control to a bunch of unelected technocrats in the World Health Organization (WHO). After the virus may have been juiced up in a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lab, the unprecedented and pernicious “public health” measures adopted by Beijing in response were promptly and...

Mass Public Shooting averted: Woman fatally shoots a man armed with an AR-15 type gun who began shooting at a crowd of people in Charleston, West Virginia

BBC edited clip, removed Arab in cheering crowd: "I'm sacrificing my wife my child for Jerusalem" ___ May 21, 2021 'Clashes in Jerusalem hours after Israel-Palestinian cesaefire - BBC News [Jeremy Bowen reporting]. https://youtu.be/hnC8kaHJ0Jc https://youtu.be/hnC8kaHJ0Jc&t=52s In the original broadcast, the Arab interviewed by Jeremy Bowen screams in front of cheering crowd: "We sacrifice everything for Jerusalem. I'm sacrificing my wife my child for a Jerusalem." And this is how he reported it on BBC live TV. Yet, when it came to saving it on YouTube, they edited it, omitted those words and just quoted the part when he says 'we...

Not one inch. The GOP better not give up one single inch on gun freedom. The Democrats are giddy. They were hoping that SCOTUS putting the kibosh on kid killing was going to save them from annihilation in November. That did not work – Americans were less interested in preserving a non-existent right to snuff out a life two minutes from crowning than in $6 gas. But this scumbag’s murder rampage in Texas has given them new hope, they think. All the GOP has to do is be spineless and stupid. So, they’re feeling pretty confident. We could discuss the...

A Texas Department of Public Safety official said responding officers were cautious as they entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas because “they could’ve been shot.” Nineteen children and two teachers were murdered after authorities say an 18-year-old male entered with a rifle 12 minutes after he crashed a car near campus. The New York Times reported the shooter was inside the school for about an hour before officers finally breached the classroom he was in and shot and killed him. Reporters demanded answers during a contentious press conference Thursday afternoon. State law enforcement officials addressed the public a day...

Our betters in the World Economic Forum (WEF) gathered in Davos this week to decide what’s best for the planet and everyone on it (especially themselves). But Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, was sad. He was disappointed that the plebs don’t want his company’s revered COVID-19 vaccines. “It’s sad to say, I’m in the process of throwing 30 million doses into the garbage, because nobody wants them,” lamented Bancel as he participated in a panel discussion. “We have a big demand problem.” Actually, that sounds like a big over-supply problem to me, but what do I know? Bancel elaborated on...

[Catholic Caucus] Synodality means communion, not ‘populism,’ pope saysROME — Synodality is not a reorganization of church structures but rather a path of ecclesial communion that seeks to open minds and hearts to the will of the Holy Spirit, Pope Francis said.In a video message to members of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America May 26, the pope said synodality does not imply “a more or less democratic, much less a ‘populist’ way, of being a church. These are deviations.”“Synodality is the dynamic dimension, the historical dimension of ecclesial communion founded on the Trinitarian communion, which, appreciating simultaneously the ‘sensus...

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers has disqualified five Republican candidates for governor because of invalid signatures, including presumed front-runners former Detroit police chief James Craig and wealthy businessman Perry Johnson. The vote to disqualify was tied 2-2 along party lines but because there was no affirmative majority vote, the candidate’s names will not be on the ballot. Investigators for the board found 36 petition circulators for 10 different candidates in several races committed intentional forgery, signing random names on the petition sheets. The 36 circulators submitted 68,000 fraudulent signatures. The matter is going to court but time is growing...

A woman with a concealed handgun stopped a mass shooting this week after a man attacked a graduation party in Charleston, West Virginia. "Police said a woman who was lawfully carrying a pistol shot and killed a man who began shooting at a crowd of people Wednesday night in Charleston," location Fox 11 reported about the incident. "Dennis Butler was killed after allegedly shooting at dozens of people attending a graduation party Wednesday near the Vista View Apartment complex. No injuries were reported from those at the party. Investigators said Butler was warned about speeding in the area with children...