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A D.C. Superior Court judge Thursday struck down D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s order that all District employees be vaccinated for COVID-19. Bowser instituted the mandate last August requiring vaccination or weekly COVID-19 testing for D.C. government workers in offices reporting directly to her, and proof of vaccination was later required by Feb. 15, 2022, according to Judge Maurice Ross’ decision. Ross found Bowser was not authorized to unilaterally require vaccination and ordered that all Fraternal Order of Police members be fully reimbursed for pay and benefits lost as a result. “Had the Mayor just engaged the Union in good faith...

legitimate #Rumors #Layout Our source reports that the West is not interested in transferring new types of weapons to Ukraine. Only Soviet samples will continue to be transferred to Ukraine, which will be bought from other countries from warehouses. The source explained that HIMARS were sent to Ukraine for only one reason, for pinpoint strikes and PR, to pump this installation up in the media and force NATO countries and other countries to buy them in bulk. The Americans were inspired by the PR strategy of the Bayraktars, who made a great hype at the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis,...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has built his political brand on a caricature of “sensibility”. The Wall Street Journal called him the "Trump woke", the Economist crowned him a champion of freedom and the Guardian discusses whether Canada is not the "politically correct paradise". "Maternal love will change the future of humanity," a woman told Trudeau at a rally. "We like to say 'peoplekind', not 'mankind', because it is more inclusive", Trudeau beat her, unable to give a definition of "woman”. Trudeau is the most "sensitive" man in the world. He was photographed between "ahlan wa sahlan" (welcome in Arabic)...

A Texas realtor has been charged with making terroristic threats after she was caught on camera hitting four Indian women while calling them “f—ing curry-assed bitches.” Esmeralda Upton, 58, was arrested Thursday in Plano for the prolonged, hate-filled attack caught in a video that starts with her yelling at the women to “go back to f—ing India!”

Let us hope Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida’s legislature continue to expand laws to protect their citizens from compulsory woke indoctrination. In a recent ruling, The Hon. Mark Walker, chief U.S. district judge for the northern district of Florida, Tallahassee division, granted an injunction against the state of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act,” which endeavors to protect employees from left-wing critical race theory (CRT) indoctrination intrinsic to the “diversity, inclusion, and equity” (a.k.a., DIE—acronym is based on the chronological order in which the Left created these concepts) training sessions mandated by employers and (usually conducted by) their DIE consultants. The decision...

This week Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, announced he will be retiring at the end of the year. While Fauci’s federal career is coming to an end, congressional oversight of his efforts to possibly conceal the origins of COVID-19 is just getting started. The American people have many questions for Fauci, and we are determined to get answers. For the past two years, Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee have called for Fauci to testify before the committee and provide documents and information...

Every year since 1970s, the State Department has published a document called "World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers." You probably haven't read it, but it is interesting. It's a detailed accounting of global arms sales, what weapons were sold and where they wound up after they were. The U.S. government published this report in the interest of transparency and then continued to publish it through multiple politically charged scandals and conflicts that would include through Iran Contra, two separate wars in Iraq and all 20 years that we occupied Afghanistan. A report like this would be especially useful to have...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemExodus 11The Plague on the Firstborn 11 Now the Lord had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely. 2 Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.” 3 (The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.) 4 So Moses said, “This...

The rhetoric from establishment Democrats is getting increasingly eliminationist, something that should worry us all. It seems like just yesterday that politicians would try to sway voters to come to their point of view and cast a vote for them. Things have changed. In the past week, Charlie Crist told conservative voters he wants nothing to do with them because they're evil; Kathy Hochul told Republicans to leave her state; and, in the culmination of this abuse, Joe Biden effectively affixed the label "fascist" to Trump's 74,216,154 voters (all of whom are actual human beings). Is it any coincidence that,...

In the middle of the election cycle, the Pennsylvania Department of State has suddenly changed its voter registration application form to include a mail-in ballot application. The applications used to be on separate forms, but this seemingly small clerical change is creating logistical headaches for county election directors and causing voter confusion. Registering to vote and seeking a mail-in ballot are two different actions requiring different responses in the county election offices. “We use the voter registration application for one thing, we use a mail-in ballot application for something different,” Christa Miller, Lancaster County’s election director, told The Epoch Times....

Well, you can't say we didn't warn you, Alaska. As of this writing, voters already know the outcomes of all the special elections and primary elections in New York and Florida that took place Aug. 23. But nobody has any idea who won Alaska's special House election held a week prior. In fact, the outcome won't be known until next month. Why? Because Alaska went and adopted the idiotic, needlessly complicated ranked choice voting system in a 2020 referendum that just barely passed. Voters might want to consider a do-over and rank "no" first on their ballots this time, except...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. will invest $7.5 billion to construct a new factory in the city of Tianjin, the Chinese chipmaker announced Friday, as China and the U.S. race to bolster their domestic chip supplies. SMIC, China's largest contract chipmaker, has reached an agreement to set up a new subsidiary based in an economic development zone in Tianjin. It will have the production capacity for 100,000 12-inch wafers a month, though SMIC did not say when operations are expected to begin. The facility will specialize in production processes of 28 nanometers or larger. U.S. authorities appear to be restricting companies...

The intensity of the leftist thought tyranny project has exploded in recent years, and continues to startle us. It has been explained quite well by a computer whiz named David Rozado, now a professor of computer science in New Zealand, on the pages of the Journal Academic Questions, published by a conservative association of Academics, the National Association of Scholars. Dr. Rozado is, in effect, studying the structure of a PsyOps project on a wide scale. Rozado writes an incredibly important research paper on memes and themes in academic and popular literature -- how our Orwellian world is being created...

After President Biden announced his student loan handout plan on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, many parents immediately wondered about the status of the college loans they took out in their own names on behalf of their children. Many moms and dads took out Parent PLUS loans, the federal loans available to parents of undergraduate students to handle college expenses not covered by financial aid. Currently, at least 3.4 million Parent PLUS borrowers owe at least $87 billion, according to the Brookings Institute.

Pope Francis will on Saturday create 20 new cardinals picked from the four corners of the world, most of whom could one day end up choosing the pontiff's successor. Francis has raised the possibility of retiring due to his declining health, a path taken by his predecessor Benedict XVI. If he were to do so, a conclave involving all cardinals aged under 80 would be called to pick a successor. Sixteen of the 20 cardinals created Saturday would be eligible for that conclave based on their ages. The ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica is the 85-year-old pope's eighth since being...

6:13 video of a Fox News interview with Mike Davis former Law Clerk to Justice Gorsuch which destroys the MARA LARGO raid from a legal perspective. Ends with him clubbing a Fox Host like a bay seal.

A Racine Correctional Institution supervisor was arrested for allegedly having sex with an inmate dozens of times in her office. The Racine County Sheriff’s Office received an allegation on Wednesday of an inappropriate relationship between a supervisor at the Racine Correctional Institution, 2019 Wisconsin St., Sturtevant, and the inmate.

Carlos Delcid allegedly killed rookie California police officer Gardiel Solorio and had convictions for other crimes that Los Angeles County prosecutors were not aware of ... A man accused of killing an off-duty Los Angeles-area police officer this month would have been locked up if authorities had prosecuted him for prior strikes in a February felony domestic violence case, meaning he would have faced prison time. Carlos Delcid, 20, allegedly shot Monterey Park police officer Gardiel Solorio, 26, multiple times on Aug. 8 while he was sitting in his car outside a gym in a busy shopping center. Delcid reportedly...

Where is the great Paul Dooley when we need him? “Refund! Ree-fund!” As I have bleated out elsewhere over the last 48 hours, the incoherent student debt forgiveness gambit becomes coherent when you recognize that it is just Step One in free college for everyone, because higher education is essential to the left’s indoctrination apparatus, since more and more Americans simply ignore the media these days. But it wasn’t all bad news this week: Fauci is finally going away, and McDonald’s announced they will soon test market a chicken Big Mac, which is about 40 years overdue.

Oh, happy days are here again! According to the left-wing media, Democrats may be able to defy the odds and keep control of both the Senate and the House in November. You can read about it here, here, and here. There is a hair of truth mixed into Democrat optimism. Joe Manchin's sell-out on the Inflation Reduction Act, AKA the Green New Deal, was a multi-billion-dollar boon for green energy liberals like Bill Gates. Likewise, the Supreme Court overturning Roe is a fundraising boon for leftist politicians who want to campaign on abortion. Even Joe Biden benefited — although it...