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Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reportedly told a meeting of the Republican Party of Florida that his team would be looking for ways to hold the COVID-19 vaccine makers accountable for side effects and health problems tied to their products. Specifically, DeSantis cited a study by the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) under Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo that showed an increased risk for cardiac arrest in men 18-39. Now it appears Ladapo’s agency is conducting another study. On an episode of the We the Patriots podcast with Teryn Gregson, Ladapo was specifically asked about the information shared by...

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Young voters who are “critical to Democratic successes” are showing less enthusiasm for the party, according to a breathless Associated Press report. Well, so? I’m not discounting the power of young voters. Whatever their enthusiasm problem might or might not be, they showed up for the midterms in unexpectedly strong numbers. And as the AP story notes, “voters under 30 went 53% for Democratic House candidates compared with only 41% for Republican candidates nationwide.” Nevertheless, those young voters’ numbers are down significantly from the two previous elections: But that level of support for Democrats was down compared with 2020, when...

Joe Scarborough's split political personality was on glaring display on today's Morning Joe. On the one hand, there was Scarborough's seething hatred of Donald Trump. The clip begins with Scarborough shouting: "he's guilty! He's guilty!" Scarborough also offered a relatively objective take that Ron DeSantis' brand of politics could be the winning formula for Republicans in 2024. But heaven forbid that Scarborough should say too many positive things about a potential 2024 Republican presidential contender. And thus Joe was obliged to balance his praise for the DeSantis brand by taking some serious shots at the Florida governor. Scarborough alleged that...

As David DePape was getting ready for his preliminary hearing for the attack on Paul Pelosi, his son was giving an interview. 19-year-old Nebosvod ‘Sky’ Gonzalez, DePape’s biological son, spoke with The Daily Mail. Gonzales’s view of his father differs from the image of an ultra-MAGA right-wing maniac who is accused of attacking Pelosi after demanding to know the whereabouts of then-Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Instead, Gonzalez painted a picture of a sad and possibly unstable man, who, if anything, was not loyal to any party. Not that this excuses attacking someone with a hammer, but as Gonzalez...

Leaked documents from Facebook and Twitter reveal the federal government is conspiring with big tech to interfere in America’s elections.Video Presentation

The White House on Monday announced $55 billion in economic aid, health care, and security support for Africa. President Joe Biden hosted a meeting for African leaders that began on Tuesday, during which the White House promised more details of the massive benefits package would be divulged. “Working closely with Congress, the U.S. will commit $55 billion to Africa over the course of the next three years across a wide range of sectors to tackle the core challenges of our time,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Monday.

Scene: With a patient in my medical exam room Me: How old are your kids? Patient: Forty-four and 39 from my wife who passed away, and from my second wife, 15 and 13. Me: That’s quite the age difference! Patient: Well, the older ones didn’t give me any grandkids, so I made my own. —Mria Murillo I tried having my mother’s phone disconnected, but the customer-service rep told me that since the account was in my dad’s name, he’d have to be the one to put in the request. The fact that he’d been dead for 40 years didn’t sway...

[Catholic Caucus] Has Francis Found a New Smurf for the CDF?Francis is looking for a new Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and his candidate is Hildesheim Bishop Heiner Wilmer, 61, Germany, writes MessaInLatino.it (December 13).Wilmer is a Sacred Heart Father and former Superior General of his order who was appointed a bishop in April 2018.In December 2018 he called the German “theologian” Eugen Drewermann, 82, who left the priesthood and the Church “a prophet of our time misrecognised by the Church" and said that "abuse of power is in the DNA of the [Vatican...

The City of Monroe, N.C., said hams and other assorted meats were spilled onto Highway 74 by an overturned tractor-trailer. Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A collision on a North Carolina highway caused a tractor-trailer to overturn and spill its load of hams and other various meats into the roadway. The City of Monroe said in a statement that the truck, carrying a load of meats, was traveling on Highway 74 when it ran a red light at the intersection with John Moore Road just before 7 a.m. Monday. The truck collided with another vehicle and overturned in a parking lot...

The revelations from Twitter might be shocking, but it’s not much different from what the media has been doing for decades — picking and choosing what information to share in an effort to create a desired (leftist) narrative.Just last week, The Washington Post used one warm day as evidence that mankind’s use of natural resources are causing Alaska to rapidly warm:At the northern tip of Alaska, the city of Utqiagvik on Monday reached its warmest temperature ever observed between November and March, when the mercury shot up to 40 degrees — 36 degrees above the norm.Since people pretending to be...

An advisory committee for the FDA voted in June to recommend that children as young as 6 months old receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Pharmaceutical company Moderna informed the Food and Drug Administration that a "statistically significant" number of rats whose mothers received the company's mRNA COVID-19 vaccine were born with skeletal deformities, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services that a watchdog group obtained. Judicial Watch announced on Tuesday that HHS had handed over 699 pages of records pertaining to data Moderna sent the FDA. Said handover followed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit the...

Joe Biden isn't too sensitive about the wreckage and ruin he's wrought on the U.S. through his open borders, Afghanistan pullout, or inflationary government spending, but bring up the topic of his advanced age and his re-election prospects, and he becomes a different creature: According to the New York Post:The oldest-ever commander-in-chief, who turned 80 last month, has “vented to allies” about how much the topic is discussed in the media as he sizes up a bid for a second term in 2024, Politico reported Tuesday.“You think I don’t know how f—ing old I am?” an exasperated Biden — who...

Dec. 14 (UPI) -- People with Type 2 diabetes who fast intermittently may no longer need medication, a small study suggests. After an intermittent fasting diet intervention, most patients in the study achieved complete diabetes remission -- defined as having a stable HbA1c, or average blood sugar, level of less than 6.5% for at least three months -- after discontinuing all anti-diabetic medications. This is according to findings published Wednesday in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. "Type 2 diabetes is not necessarily a permanent, lifelong disease. Diabetes remission is possible if patients lose weight by changing...

This week, Students for Life Action (SFLAction) reported finding a death threat attributed to Jane's Revenge posted to the door of the St. John Paul II Newman Center near the University of Nebraska-Omaha's Scott Campus. Jane's Revenge has previously claimed responsibility for several violent attacks against pregnancy centers and pro-life organizations. A spokesman for the FBI said "we aware of the incident," but declined to commit to an investigation or any other type of action. "Right now this is not a top priority. There are tens of millions of MAGA terrorists still at large. We have to conserve our resources...

Eight social media influencers and self-proclaimed day traders were charged with fraud for promoting a $100 million "pump and dump" scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Wednesday that it was charging the investors with securities fraud due to the eight men using their large followings on Twitter and Discord to encourage investors to buy certain stocks. As the prices rose, the influencers then sold the shares without disclosing their plans to do so. "As our complaint states, the defendants used social media to amass a large following of novice investors and then took advantage of their followers by...

America’s most prominent medical journal advocates accepting transgenderism, but Neil Kurtzman, MD, Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech, in "Science Deniers at the New England Journal of Medicine," blows a hole in their bloviations—a solid center mass hole exposing their arrogant, politically motivated nonsense. It helps that Dr. Kurtzman has had a remarkable career in clinical medicine, education, basic research, and administration for more than 40 years. The article and Dr. Kurtzman’s rebuttal help reveal how the woke mob that controls The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) -- which was once the epicenter of good medical research...

Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace has called out threatening rhetoric by a transgender activist, who tweeted that Supreme Court justices should be 'accosted' and 'never know peace again.' Mace, a conservative who has supported LGBTQ+ rights in the past - including voting for the recently signed Respect For Marriage Act - confronted Alejandra Caraballo at a session on extremist threats at a hearing of the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Caraballo, a trans woman and clinical instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, was speaking at the meeting, titled 'Confronting White Supremacy: The Evolution of Anti-Democratic Extremist Groups and the Ongoing...

Falastin (Arabic: فلسطين‎) newspaper in its April 1939 issue publishes Hitler's speech and calls him 'the leader' and talks about Israel's grand plan and Italy's preparations to attack the British in Egypt.___It was banned in 1914 for its anti-Jewish racism, hatred by the Ottoman authorities.* Then reinstared by the Brits in 1921.It was a mouthpiece for the Islamic leader Mufti al-Husseini. Especially 1920s-1930s.* * And even controlled by him. At least in 1929.*

Twitter CEO Elon Musk put Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on notice over possible censorship today. Musk has been extraordinarily transparent and accessible since taking over Twitter and has faced enormous amounts of blowback. But a Twitter whistleblower recently came forward and detailed how bad it was before Elon took over (this is a separate report and not the Twitter Suppression Files Musk released last week), so all his critics should be thanking him for securing such a vital platform. ..... Andrew Lawton Tweet, Elon Musk Tweet “In 2020, Twitter had security incidents serious enough they had to be reported...