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I first saw this on El Gato Malo's Substack a few days ago. This is not the way to notify the American public you were wrong. Especially on something this important.Steve Kirsch6 hr ago What happens when the scientific evidence is so clear about the spike protein from the COVID vaccines remaining in your body that the CDC has to admit they were wrong?They just delete the inaccurate statement and say nothing. Nothing! The mainstream press doesn’t pick it up at all of course. There was no press release or anything to let people know.Instead, the CDC relies on a...

As the phony January 6th Committee lies away and some RINOs begin to hedge their bets, sources say President Trump is poised to make a big announcementDue to the lying January 6th Committee’s continued unfounded (and unpopular) attack on President Trump, coupled with many RINOs such as Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and former Vice President Mike Pence being rumored to run in 2024, many Republican strategists anticipate President Trump announcing his bid for 2024 early–by November of this year.Although he has not declared his intent yet but instead said only that he is “close” to making a decision, those close...

I've been a member here since 2009 and over the years I've made an observation of my own. It's not scientific and it's not anything other than my own personal anecdotal observation. It seems that if we will see someone start to post negative comments about a conservative or conservatives in general these posters tend to have been on FR for more than a year but less than two years. There's the obvious trolls who sign up and get zotted in their first week or so. But these folks are what I would call 'sleepers'. They know how FR culture...

As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. The masks were called muzzles, germ shields and dirt traps. They gave people a “pig-like snout.” Some people snipped holes in their masks to smoke cigars. Others fastened them to dogs in mockery. Bandits used them to rob banks. More than a century ago, as the 1918 influenza pandemic raged in the United States, masks of gauze and cheesecloth became the facial front lines in the battle against the virus. ...the masks stoked political division...medical authorities urged the...

Herman Cain, the former Republican presidential candidate and affable business magnate, died Thursday after being hospitalized for coronavirus, according to reports. Cain, 74, first went to an Atlanta hospital for treatment on July 1, his staff had said. His death was announced on Herman Cain's website and Facebook page. "Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away," the statement on his website said, noting there were "hopeful indicators" in recent days that he'd recover but adding: "And yet we also felt real concern about the fact that he never...

Jersey's real-life Sopranos By Ted Sherman | Posted February 10, 2019 at 11:30 AM | Updated February 10, 2019 at 06:11 PM 0 shares 56 Comments (Dwight J. Johnson | Star-Ledger file photo) This is an updated version of a post that was originally published Aug. 13, 2015. David Chase, who brought to life the fictional tale of a New Jersey crime family in “The Sopranos,” has a new story to tell. Said to be a prequel to his HBO series of mob boss Tony Soprano, “The Many Saints of Newark," is set in the 1960s, during the Newark riots....

On June 10, 2007, less than five minutes remained in the final episode of “The Sopranos.” After eight years with Tony Soprano, his family and the Family, viewers of the landmark series sat keenly alert to the final action as Tony waited for his family at Holsten’s in Bloomfield: The bell that sounds each time someone walks through the door. Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” playing on the jukebox. The onion rings that Tony, Carmela and A.J. pop in their mouths as Meadow attempts her maddening parallel parking job outside. Then, nothing. Cut to black. Those final seconds hit Tony’s native...

In what is by most accounts the Sopranos' most talked about, controversial episode, David Chase,the Sopranos' creator, looks to respond to what is probably the fans' biggest gripe of the series regarding a tantalizing plot issue left unresolved. "Pine Barrens" has Chris and Paulie getting lost in the wintry wilderness of South Jersey in the aftermath of their intention to dispose of a Russian mobster "Goodfellas" style, but the mobster, best friend of Tony's business associate manages to escape the clutches of these seemingly inept henchmen. Fans were quite upset that a very compelling story line whereby the mobster returns...

THE GRUDGE REPORT © WITH APOLOGIES TO MATT DRUDGE by Norman Liebmann In order to be employed on a television series, every writer is obliged to follow one inflexible rule, i.e. nothing should happen for the first time – and if it should, it shouldn’t be now. Either the inestimable David Chase didn’t get the memo – or he chose to ignore it, for which the viewing public owes him a debt of gratitude. At his behest, The Sopranos didn’t end, it just quit, and that was as final as finality ever gets. For those people who are offended by...