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It's never over. "Long COVID" is coming for you. Nobody expects an inquisition, except maybe in the catacombs of The Science™, where one may hear among the screams: "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess." Career pressures of publish-or-perish coupled with the bonanza of fast-tracked manuscripts associated with COVID-19 produce remarkable (unsettling? hilarious?) examples of a Data Inquisition. Peer-reviewed publications establish with precision that anywhere from 5 to 80 percent will suffer some form of Long COVID — regardless whether they actually caught the virus or not. Meanwhile, the media magnify fears over the mystery of Long...

On Monday, fending off what threatened to be a crippling blow to growth in the rooftop solar energy industry, President Biden announced a set of executive actions intended to protect the industry. That - if it isn’t successfully challenged in court - may be a modest success in Biden’s effort to transition the U.S. economy into one that runs on clean energy. But such successes have been fewer than what environmentalists had hoped for. Despite assuming office with what activists describe as the most ambitious climate change agenda in history, Biden has experienced a series of setbacks that threaten to...

Democratic leaders are encouraging lawless, threatening behavior against Supreme Court Justices and their attorney general refuses to enforce the law against such behavior. More than a decade ago, Michael Walsh dubbed the Democrats, “A criminal organization masquerading as a political party.” I once thought this was overstating the matter, but I no longer do. If you can’t fully accept this characterization, recent events surrounding the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, should unshutter your eyes and let in the light. Democratic leaders are encouraging lawless, threatening behavior against Supreme Court justices, and their attorney general...

The latest economic report is “brutal” and follows a series of missteps from the Biden administration and Democrats who are in total control in Washington, DC, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Friday ahead of signing a bill caring for retired police dogs. “I think it’s sad to see some of the economic numbers with Bidenflation coming out — 8.6 percent. They tried to say — first, they said it wasn’t going to happen, was transitory and it would basically kind of solve itself,” DeSantis said at the start of the press conference in Bunnell, Florida. “They said it...

The mother and grandmother of a 9-year-old girl have been charged with murder after the she died from a severe lice infection. Sandra Kraykovich, 38, and 64-year-old Elizabeth Kraykovich, the mother and grandmother of the unidentified child have been arrested in Arizona and charged with first-degree murder, LawandCrime.com reported. The pair were arrested for child abuse after emergency personnel responded to their Tucson home on March 22 and found the girl unresponsive with 'a large amount of bugs on her face,' court documents said. Emergency personnel told investigators that 'upon closer inspection it was discovered that there was an enormous...

The Monologue Consider this one the powers that be in Big Government-Big Business don't want to create any more electricity generating capacity with fossil fuels. But these same powers want everyone to use electric cars. And they want to manipulate electricity production towards wind and solar. "A Nationalist Is The Same As A Communist"... The Police Unions Are A Powerful Force In Our Country-Ask Chesea Boudin... It Takes A Trudeau To Help Explain Watergate... Newsdump Alert: President Trump Endorses Katie Britt In Republican US Senate Runoff In Alabama Donald Trump getting in bed with Mitch McConnell this weekend not to...

Almost 4 months after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war turned into an "artillery duel". And victories in battles are increasingly being won by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A significant role in this is played by the supply of Western weapons, which are gaining momentum, but are still insufficient. Der Spiegel writes about this in an analytical article. "At the beginning of the offensive, when Russian troops began to advance in large columns from the north to major Ukrainian cities such as Kiev and Kharkiv, the goal was to lure the enemy into ambushes,...

Dozens affiliated with a white nationalist group were arrested on Saturday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, near a Pride event in the city. In a press conference Saturday evening, police shared that they had received a tip concerning a large group wearing matching outfits and masks. “At approximately 1:38 this afternoon we received a telephone call from a concerned citizen who reported that approximately 20 people jumped into a UHAUL wearing masks. They had shields and ‘looked like a little army,’” said Coeur d’Alene Chief Of Police Lee White. The 31 individuals were detained hours after the tip was shared and...

It is an axiomatic fact that the mainstream media functions as the propaganda wing for the Washington Democrat establishment. In fact, the news media should not be seen as a separate entity but instead as a department within the Democrat party. Reading an op-ed in the New York Times or the WaPo or watching a show on MSNBC doesn’t provide insight into what the editors or presenter are thinking, but instead what the Democrat Establishment is thinking or wants their voters to think. The NYT was among those who actively promoted Joe Biden during the Presidential contest in 2020 and...

As inflation soars, a growing number of progressives are blaming ‘gouging’, first by ‘Big Oil’ and now by ‘Big Shippers’, pressuring the Biden administration to impose price controls. The problem is – they never work! And as Christopher Neely, the vice president of The St.Louis Fed, warns, price controls distort signals that are used to allocate scarce resources, leading to the inefficient allocation of goods and services, adding that such controls have significant costs that increase with their duration and breadth. Neely suggests appropriate fiscal and monetary policies can reduce inflation without the costs imposed by price controls. Simply out,...

Disruptions to US food supply chains could worsen if the Teamsters Warehouse Division and several Teamster locals walk off the job at foodservice distribution centers throughout the East Coast because of unresolved labor contracts. Teamsters released a statement revealing contract negotiations with US Foods are souring, and they “put the foodservice giant on notice that work stoppages are imminent.” This means that unresolved work contract negotiations between the labor union and the foodservice distributor could result in a strike that may disrupt the flow of food products to tens of thousands of restaurants. Teamsters point out US Foods is under...

Kyle Rittenhouse and his lawyer Todd McMurtry join 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' to discuss the action they are taking against the tech companies that 'enabled defamation' against the teenager.

Former British Army Intelligence Officer and Chief Executive of McKenzie Intelligence, Forbes McKenzie takes us through what's happening in the east of Ukraine and Russia's tactics.

“Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish” (Proverbs 12:1).

President Joe Biden falsely claimed the US has the 'fastest-growing economy in the world' during a spot on Jimmy Kimmel Live! - as the country continues to face inflation not seen in decades and a potential economic crisis. The assertion came during the president's in-person appearance on the late-night talk show Wednesday - his first ever - where he touched on a number of hot-button issues like abortion, climate change and inflation. However, Biden bizarrely began the interview by touting supposed success the US economy has seen under his administration - making the glaringly false claim in the process.

It all started when Howard Deering Johnson, who grew up in the town of Quincy, Mass., purchased a drugstore and began peddling homemade ice cream. His dessert became so popular, he then opened an ice cream stand on Wollaston Beach, where, legend has it, he sold as many as 14,000 cones in a single day. In 1929, the first Howard Johnson's restaurant opened in Quincy Square. Fast forward to 2022, and what was the largest restaurant chain in the United States throughout the 1960s and 1970s—with more than 1,000 locations—is now closing the doors to its last remaining location. According...

In an email exchange with The Arizona Sun Times this week, a Maricopa County Recorder’s office spokesperson may have unwittingly admitted that the county mishandled thousands of ballots from the 2020 general election that one watchdog groups says were accepted after the legal deadline. Megan Gilbertson, the communications director for the Maricopa County Elections Department (MCED) – a department of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office – said that the department processed ballots by scanning them into the tabulating machines at MCED before transferring their custody the next day to Runbeck Election Services, which verifies their legitimacy with signature verification. She...

Jim Robinson wants to hear Old Time Gospel songs, so post links to your favorite Gospel Songs and Gospel Groups in this thread. >Chris Robinson posted Jim's request in post 1395 of the following thread. "He wants to hear old-time gospel songs, such as “Amazing Grace” and “I’ll Fly Away”. Dad and Amy sang “He Walks with Me” - very beautiful!" Prayers requested for Jim Robinson

Nuclear fusion is a widely studied process through which atomic nuclei of a low atomic number fuse together to form a heavier nucleus, while releasing a large amount of energy. Nuclear fusion reactions can be produced using a method known as inertial confinement fusion, which entails the use of powerful lasers to implode a fuel capsule and produce plasma. Researchers...recently showed what happens to this implosion when one applies a strong magnetic field to the fuel capsule used for inertial confinement fusion. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, demonstrates that strong magnetic fields flatten the shape of inertial fusion...

A San Antonio man has been charged with the sexual assault of 68-year-old neighbor after his mother gave him up to authorities. Prior to the attack, the suspect allegedly asked her to urinate in the toilet because he enjoyed the sound. Gino Anthony Bononcini, 29, was arrested Friday by Bexar County Sheriff's deputies in Texas. The assault occurred on April 25, according to authorities. According to a report, it was the suspect's mother who gave a statement to investigators implicating her son. The suspect's mother, Roxanne Bononcini, said that her son told her that he had 'violated' their neighbor after...