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Leana Wen has led several lives in the media over the past couple of years. She was a leading COVID hawk back in 2021 who compared going out in public without being vaccinated to drunk driving. But almost as quickly she angered the left this year for turning on mask mandates and other restrictions with statements like this.For those who don’t agree that the vaccinated can return to pre-pandemic normal, I ask: What should we all do? Perpetual masking? Forever not dining out, avoiding large weddings & indoor gatherings, etc? Virtually everything has risk, and zero covid is not a...

Nunes, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo on Friday that special counsel Robert Hur tried to block the release of a GOP memo in 2018 that alleged the FBI abused its authority to investigate former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. “This special counsel that was appointed to look at Joe Biden is somebody we’re very familiar with,” Nunes said. “He is a Russia hoaxer himself. And I think the Republicans better check in. He has a lot of explaining to do because he was involved in the letter that was from the FBI...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday he is considering releasing security footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot—all 14,000 hours of it. “I think the public should see what happened on that day. I watched what Nancy Pelosi did, where she politicized it. Where, for the first time in the history as a speaker, not allowing the minority to appoint to a committee, to pick and choose,” he told reporters. “We watched the politicization of this. I think the American public should actually see all what happened instead of a report that’s written for a political basis.” He added:...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS)— A local woman is sharing the story of her friend, who died suddenly from cardiac arrest Sunday; one of several who has suffered the same fate in Las Vegas this past week. Michele Morgan told 8 News Now her friend and employee of 30 years, Alicia Groeblinghoff, went into cardiac arrest at the gym and died one day later. “She had a contagious smile,” Morgan said of her friend. “And made everybody so happy around her.” Morgan shared everything she’ll miss just days after Groeblinghoff’s untimely death. “She was an amazing human being,” she added. “A humanitarian.”...

I make it no secret that I despise the IRS. It has been less a tool of funding our country, and more a cudgel to punish political enemies, dependent upon which side is in charge of the governmental branches. So, the moves that the new GOP House of Representatives is making are steps in the right direction: DeFund, and DeFang.Since the 1913 ratification of the 16th Amendment, Congress has had the power to lay and collect taxes on income from whatever sources it was derived from, and with every progressive president (thank you, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt), we...

It’s long overdue, but it looks like our overlords at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are finally following the science and admitting that there may be very serious side effects to the COVID vaccines they pushed on the American people. The vaccine in question is the Bivalent Pfizer-BioNTech shot, and the CDC acknowledges that a “safety signal” has been triggered regarding an increased risk of ischemic stroke in people aged 65 and older.Mayo Clinic defines an ischemic stroke as one that “occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is interrupted or reduced, preventing brain tissue from...

A brewery in Texas has canceled a rally featuring Kyle Rittenhouse, claiming that the event doesn’t reflect its values. Southern Star Brewing Company, a brewery in Conroe, Texas, will no longer host the “Rally Against Censorship” featuring Rittenhouse on Jan. 26, explaining its position Friday in a Twitter post. “Southern star brewery is an apolitical organization. But we feel that this event doesn’t reflect our own values and we could not in good faith continue to rent our space for the event on 1/26. We don’t do rallies, we make beer for people who like beer,” the brewery said. Rittenhouse...

One woman on TikTok said that she hasn’t washed her hair in 17 days — but she’s come to perms with it. In the video, which has reached nearly 4 million views, Los Angeles influencer Emily Alexander explained that she was on Day 17 of not washing her mane. However, she maintained that it doesn’t smell, and it’s something she does all the time. “I need to style it today,” Alexander announced as she removed a gray headband from her dirty hair. “In the last video, you guys were like, ‘Doesn’t it smell bad?’ It doesn’t.” Alexander went on in...

A safety monitoring system flagged that US drugmaker Pfizer and German partner BioNTech's updated COVID-19 shot could be linked to a type of brain stroke in older adults, according to preliminary data analysed by US health authorities. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday (Jan 13) that a CDC vaccine database had uncovered a possible safety issue in which people 65 and older were more likely to have an ischemic stroke 21 days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent shot, compared with days 22-44. SNIP "Although the totality of...

With his ‘Nigeria’ album, guitarist Grant Green turned in pitch-perfect hard bop performances that risked confusing his growing fanbase.As both a leader and sideman, Grant Green was undoubtedly the most prolific recording artist on Blue Note’s roster between the years 1961 and 1964, having appeared on 50 different sessions for the New York label during a supremely fertile four-year period. In 1962 alone, when he recorded the tracks for what became Nigeria, he led five more studio dates, which would yield the albums Oleo, Born To Be Blue, The Latin Bit, Goin’ West, and Feelin’ The Spirit. The St. Louis-born...

A UK woman’s relaxing fishing trip turned out to be anything but when she was berated by a swim-pinionated passerby — who called her a “vile b****” who should be “drowned” for enjoying the leisure sport. A video of the cod-blocker’s unhinged tirade is making a splash online. “It took me completely in shock,” Elsa Joan, 24, told South West News Service of the wild encounter, which occurred Sunday, Jan. 8, while she was casting lines in Brooklands Lake in her hometown of Dartford, Kent. The Brit had just landed a prize carp and had a tripod set up to...

The Biden classified documents scandal continues to grow. CBS News revealed Friday that there are now 20 known documents with classified material, some of which are top secret material. A leak of top secret information would cause “exceptionally grave danger.” This of course means America’s national security would be in jeopardy if a single top secret document fell into the wrong hands Despite this, the mentally incompetent Biden felt perfectly comfortable storing these top secret materials in a less than secure location. Yet another reason he must be removed from office as soon as possible. Here is the full story...

On Monday CBS launched a story about classified papers found in a former office of president Biden. I am curious why the story came out and why it came out now. "U.S. attorney reviewing documents marked classified from Joe Biden's vice presidency found at Biden think tank Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned the U.S. attorney in Chicago to review documents marked classified that were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, two sources with knowledge of the inquiry told CBS News. The roughly 10 documents are from President Biden's vice-presidential office at the...

Lamb of God, I am not worthy to loosen Your sandal straps. You take away my sins and invite me home to heavenly glory. May my spirit be at peace and rejoice in Your mercy.John the Baptist was the first to recognize Christ (though he didn’t see Him) as he leaped in the womb at His coming (Luke 1:41). In his leap, he pointed his mother to Jesus who, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in homage to the mother of our Lord. In a way, the unborn John was the one who made this introduction. It was a...

Mark 2:1-12 Friends, in our Gospel today, Jesus says matter-of-factly, before healing the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.” Shocked, the Pharisees respond, “He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?”They were quite right, of course, which is the whole point. If you had hurt me, I could with some legitimacy offer you my personal forgiveness of your offense. But if someone else had harmed you, I could scarcely offer that person my forgiveness for his sin. The only way that such a statement could be anything but blasphemous would be if I were the one who is...

How does inclusion look? Evidently, it sometimes looks exclusive. Consider the case of UK music awards show The Brit Awards. Last November, the show made a very progressive announcement — in light of enlightenment, it would no longer give separate trophies for male and female “Best” categories.

The most significant political story of the past half-century is the activist Left’s “long march through the institutions.” Beginning in the 1960s, left-wing activists and intellectuals, inspired by theorists such as Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci and New Left philosopher Herbert Marcuse, made a concerted effort to embed their ideas in education, government, philanthropy, media, and other important sectors. This process came to spectacular fruition following the 2020 death of George Floyd, when it seemed that every prestige institution in the United States got busy advancing the same ideological line on race, gender, and culture—which, whether they knew it or not,...

Patriarch Kirill speaks to the nation on Christmas EveIt has become a tradition on Russian mainstream television for the head of the Russian church, Patriarch Kirill, to give a lengthy interview on Christmas Eve, (Russians celebrate it on December 6th). This year, the Kirill shared his thoughts on Dostoevsky, the effect of the Ukraine war on state and society, priests on the front lines, the return of Christian morality to Russian society and its continuing collapse in Europe, the future of Christianity in the Ukraine as its church comes under violent persecution, the Russian church's lead role in providing humanitarian...

The Bishop of Worcester has written an open letter to his diocese detailing why he thinks same-sex unions should be celebrated by the Church. It comes after a number Church of England bishops declared their support for same-sex marriage last November. Rt Rev Dr John Inge has written an open letter to the Diocese of Worcester, setting out why he believes the "celebration and honouring of monogamous, faithful same-sex relationships" is a good witness and the Church of England's teaching on the issue should change. Last year Bishop John confirmed his support for same-sex marriage in response to a booklet...

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