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Follow the Science!  Oops, it just changed….

Biden reverses Trump move to open up more oil drilling in Arctic

Why Our Southern Border Crisis Could Soon Get Even Worse  Well, to begin with, Biden is still President.

Psaki psidesteps

Crazy MSNBC Climate Segment Says Ukraine War ‘A Gift’ To Biden

Illegal Immigrants on Run ‘Harass’ Texas Border Farmers

White House Visitor Logs Reveal Hunter Biden Business Partner Met With Joe Biden

Fox News Exposes Soros-Funded Shadow Org Working Behind Biden Administration

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A group of treasure hunters is suing the Department of Justice over “several tons of buried Civil War-era gold” that they claim the FBI may have found and made off with. The haul was supposedly lost or stolen during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, according to local lore.

The group is called Finders Keepers – and they they wrote in a court filing last week that the FBI has failed to turn over records on its search for the gold. Previously, these records were said to have included 17 videos, but the government is now claiming only 4 such videos exist.

The FBI took place in a March 2018 dig at the supposed site of the gold, but claims they came up with nothing.

Hunter Biden demanded Beau Biden’s widow ‘GET TESTED FOR HIV,’ 2018 email reveals

Deluded NY Times Tells Biden: Embrace Climate Extremism or Lose Youth Vote

Joe Biden’s Problems Pile Up

Hunter’s Law Firm Could Cash Out on Biden’s Controversial Order

Biden’s decline

In “Huge Win For Border Security”, Court Temporarily Blocks Biden Admin From Lifting ‘Title 42’

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Evans on Friday went missing along the Rio Grande after he entered the river to save two illegal immigrants who “appeared to be drowning.” While the migrants survived, Evans presumably drowned. The Texas Military Department told Fox News that the migrants “were involved in illicit transnational narcotics trafficking.”

No good deed goes unpunished.

UPDATE: Nets BURY Story of Heroic National Guardsman Who Drowned Saving Migrants at Border

“A Magnet For Conspiracy Theories”: Wikipedia Kills Entry For Hunter Biden’s Investment Company

Biden’s decline is obvious to everyone but the press

Secret Service claims it has ‘no records’ of who visits Biden in Delaware The Hunter BIden cover-up continues.

Biden administration asks federal judge to deny request to immediately block end of Title 42 (CNN)

West Virginia joins coalition challenging Title 42 decision

Migrant buses continue to arrive in Washington, DC from Texas

“Wrong And Reckless”: More Democrats Split With Biden As White House Hints At No Delay In Scrapping Title 42

Nets Ignore 13th Kamala Staffer Resigning: This Time, It’s Her Chief of Staff

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I really am flummoxed by the ineptitude of President Joe Biden and his chief of staff, Ron Klain. Biden has been a Washington politician for half a century, including eight years as vice president and before that a senior senator. Klain is a consummate Washington insider, having worked for Janet Reno, Al Gore, Biden and others.

How are they this inept?

Last summer, the border got swamped with migrants. They sent Vice President Kamala Harris south of the border and the situation never improved. Activists accused border patrol agents of whipping refugees with horsewhips. The White House condemned the act. But an investigation recently revealed no immigrants were whipped. White House staff have declined to apologize for believing the allegation.

Many border patrol agents are Hispanic. The criticisms of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the border patrol by the left are criticisms of Hispanic voters and their families — a constituency the Democrats are losing. But the White House seems openly hostile to both.

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Most everywhere you look on Wall Street, interest rates are going up. For everyday savers: not so much.

Soaring gas prices test Biden on climate change (NBC News)

GOPers ask if Russian linked to Hunter Biden sanctioned over Ukraine Of course not. Perish the thought.

Candidate suing to add ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ to his name on ballot (The Hill)

More than 20 states ask judge to immediately block Biden from ending Title 42 (CNN)

Nets Ignore Report Hunter Biden’s Tax & Paternity Records Subpoenaed

Trump Says Biden Has Done More Damage in Year Than 5 Worst Presidents Combined

‘Al Qaeda Is On Our Side’: How Obama/Biden Team Empowered Terrorist Networks In Syria

Fleeing by the Dozen: Kamala’s Chief of Staff Becomes 12th Aide To Ditch Scandal-Plagued Veep

“They’re Playing Hardball”: Feds Subpoenaed Hunter Biden Paternity Docs, Including Tax Records  The Powers That Be must have decided it’s time to start replacing Biden.

For Earth Day, Mitchell Hits Biden From the Left on Climate Promises

Biden’s Failures Highlight How Federal Government Is Too Big

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By early April, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. had reached $4.23, up more than 78% in the 14 months since President Joe Biden took office. It’s a political albatross around his neck, but it’s one that his policy team has deliberately placed there. If the president wants to blame someone for higher prices, he need only look at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Throughout his presidential campaign, Biden promised to wage war on the U.S. energy industry. “I want you to look at my eyes,” he said. “I guarantee you. I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuel.” That’s pretty unequivocal. And his policies reflect that.

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The impending change in status comes after senior Disney representatives repeatedly criticized the GOP in Florida—currently the ruling party in the state—for legislation that had nothing to do with Disney’s ability to do business in the state. Perhaps not surprisingly, this caused numerous GOP officials to question why Disney was receiving special privileges denied even to Disney’s direct competitors. In the past, Disney would normally be shielded from dangers to its special status, as Disney has famously showered politicians in the state with gifts and campaign cash and other types of special favors that normal people would identify as bribes. Many of the same people who are now voting to repeal Disney’s special status have accepted such “gifts” in the past. But for whatever reason, the political landscape has changed enough in recent years that it appears to many policymakers that it is now more politically rewarding to punish Disney rather than cater to its whims. The effort to strike back at Disney was likely also fueled by national politics and the fact that Disney has long been a platform for leftwing politics through its media outlets like ABC and ESPN.

This special status was granted under a Democrat administration and would to this day not be in question if Disney had simply avoided messing with the bull.

McConnell slams president behind ‘court-packing’ panel for completing Jackson appointment before Breyer leaves  He’s got a point. Until Breyer leaves, there is no vacancy to be filled. You can’t just fill a ‘prospective’ kinda-sorta vacancy.

White House quits asking Saudis for more oil after verbal dust-up with top official: report

You, Too, Can Be the Next Hunter Biden!

Kamala’s Latest Deep Thoughts

Tucker, MRC’s Gainor Tease New MRC Study Showing Just ‘How Far Big Tech Will Go’ to Protect Biden

Protecting the President: Big Tech Censors Biden Criticism 646 Times Over Two Years

26 Governors Create Border Strike Force “In The Absence Of Federal Leadership”

House Republicans Expand Investigation Into Biden Admin Steering Federal Funds to Dem Donors

Biden To Attack Republicans For Not Having A Plan To Bring Down Inflation  Step one would be getting rid of Joe Biden.

A Tidal Wave Is Coming to the Border and the Biden Administration Is Full Steam Ahead

Dems ‘Weaponize’ Student-Loan Forgiveness (But Leave Working Class Behind)

Biden restores climate safeguards in key environmental law, reversing Trump (Washington Post) Everything Trump did must be reversed, so nobody even needs to think about it.

Jen Psaki refuses to apologize for White House’s debunked claim about Border Patrol ‘whipping’ migrants

Biden Having An Increasingly Difficult Time With G-20 Fissures

Louisiana Asks SCOTUS To Block Biden Administration From Calculating ‘Social Cost’ Of Carbon Emissions

The Biden Administration’s Seder Makes a Mockery of Passover and the Jews  My, what a surprise.

STUDY: How Big Tech Tried to Kill the Hunter Biden Story

Watch: Virtually No One Shows Up To Hear Biden Claim He Was The “Poorest Man In Congress”  Not any more….

U.S. forgives 40k student loans

Nets Spend MEASLY 52 Seconds on Hunter Laptop, Since NYT Finally Acknowledged Its Existence

COME ON! PolitiFact Claims Biden’s Invisible Handshake Was ‘Gesturing at the Audience’

Border Patrol Union: Abbott Should “Absolutely” Use Constitutional “Invasion” Powers On Border

Florida Health Dept Slams Biden Admin for ‘Injecting Political Ideology Into the Health of Our Children’

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The Supreme Court recently reinstated a Clean Water Act regulation by the Trump administration that helps to prevent states from using reasons other than water quality, such as climate change, to block critical infrastructure and energy projects.

The rule, which specifically addresses states’ abuse of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, will remain in place pending litigation.

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As Florida and its increasingly popular Governor Ron DeSantis (now a front-runner, along with President Trump, to secure the Republican nomination in 2024) seek to respond to (some might say retaliate against) Disney over its opposition to Fla. House Bill 1557 – better known by its leftist nickname the “Don’t Say Gay” bill – the Florida Senate has now passed a bill that would dissolve the Reedy Creek Improvement District, an entity created in the 1960s that essentially gave the Walt Disney World Resort the same powers as a municipality.

Get Woke – Go Broke.

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A musician is suing a government-funded Pennsylvania orchestra after it suspended him for refusing to pay union dues, a punishment he said violates his First Amendment rights.

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I see that President Calvin Coolidge is in the news, along with his sidekick Warren Gamaliel Harding. Warren was a mediocrity’s mediocrity and was long held to be the worst president of modern times. That was until Jimmy Carter became president and then Barack Obama and now Joe Biden. After Joe’s term, I think we shall retire the trophy.

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Politico Playbook reports that the White House is weighing its options in the case holding its mask mandate to be illegal. I thought that they had to go for it and protect their phony baloney jobs protecting public health consistent with the party line over the past two years, but they see the downside and the escape hatch afforded by Judge Mizelle’s ruling yesterday.

Politico has to let us know that they (at Politico) recognize the politics of the situation, of course, but that they have no doubt about the wisdom of the absurd regime we lived under until late yesterday afternoon. If the Biden maskaholics were to seek to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube, “the administration would risk political blowback on a hot political topic heading into the summer travel season. And it would give voters a clear target of who to blame for mask mandates despite prominent Democrats’ efforts to distance themselves from the unpopular (if scientifically sound) policy.”

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Having been coached by Snopes to scope out the different angles that might portray the president in a more flattering light, I have checked out a few views of the intervention of the Easter bunny in Biden’s conversation yesterday on the White House lawn. Each angle confirms that White House staff do not trust the president to wing it and that he does not take their supervision amiss. He dutifully follows the lead of his minders who know him best. What a message.

Kamala Harris keeps traveling to unconventional places. Here’s why. (Politico)  It’s not as of she has a Real Job.

U.S. arrests 210,000 migrants at Mexico border in March, rivaling record highs (Reuters)

20 House Republicans Demand ICE Data on Arrests, Deportations Withheld by Biden

White House “Disappointed” That Federal Judge Declares CDC Mask-Mandate For Planes, Trains Unlawful

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For the vast majority of Americans, the IRS already knows what we owe in taxes. Instead of telling us, though, the IRS tasks us with filling out a slew of complicated forms and doing a bunch of arithmetic, which drives many people to tax-prep services.

Government regulation invariably leads to a complicated and burdensome web of restrictions and requirements. This, in turn, creates a service industry of ‘experts’ devoted to helping people to cope with that burden. This, in turn, motivates that industry to impede any attempt to make that burden any lighter and easier to navigate without the help of the ‘experts’. It also motivates the businesses in that industry to lobby their favorite politicians to preserve, and if possible extend, the scope of the regulatory burden so as to provide further business opportunities for the existing service industry players. The ordinary citizen invariably winds up with more stress and a much lighter wallet.

Is herd immunity for Covid-19 still possible? (CNN)

New, highly transmissible forms of omicron may pose latest covid threat (Washington Post)

NYC Planning to Elevate COVID Risk From ‘Low’ to ‘Medium’ As Cases Rise (Daily Beast)

Even mild Covid-19 can cause your brain to shrink  (National Geographic)

NY Times Turnabout: Covid ‘Receding,’ Everyone Vaxxed, So Throw the Borders Open!

Joe Biden’s numbers are collapsing among a group you really wouldn’t expect (CNN)

Sinema dashes Biden’s hope for major tax overhaul  When Democrats say ‘overhaul’ they mean ‘increases’.

Biden May Open Reunification Process to More Families Separated Under Trump (Newsweek) ‘Reunification Process’ means ‘letting in more illegal immigrants’ and ‘separated under Trump’ means ‘sent back after entering illegally’.

“Not What We Are Seeing” – US Intel Officials Reject Biden’s “Genocide” Claims  It’s always safe to believe the opposite of what Joe Biden says.

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Washington DC has just received its fourth busload of ‘undocumented’ migrants from Texas – a ‘special delivery’ from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that contained roughly 10 passengers, according to Fox News.

The buses are being sent by dint of an order from Abbott imposed earlier this month week tasking the Texas Division of Emergency Management with providing charter buses or flights to transport illegal immigrants released into the US by the Feds over to Washington DC.

Greg Abbot has got my vote.

While some in the media have questioned the legality of Gov. Abbott’s order, it’s worth remembering that transportation of illegal migrants from one state to another part of the country isn’t new or unique. In fact, as has been widely reported, the federal government has been transporting thousands of migrants across the country to different states via bus and plane as part of a plan that was initially kept quiet until the whistle was blown by the media.

What’s more, as even MSNBC acknowledges, the trips to Washington DC are “completely voluntary”.

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The pandemic is not over yet, according to the new Biden administration Covid czar Ashish Jha speaking on FOX News Sunday and elsewhere this morning. Although his manner is not grating, the message is infuriating.

Also infuriating is the lack of follow-up questions. We don’t expect any better of such Democratic enforcers as George Stephanopoulos (below), but on FOX News Sunday Mike Emanuel was equally lame while Jha blathered liberally on the various Coronavirus fronts including this one (video here).

Biden administration to grant temporary protection to Cameroonians (Washington Post)

DHS launches first-ever ‘equity action plan’  Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!

Biden shakes hands with thin air after North Carolina speech

Journos Wonder Where Joe Biden’s Wartime ‘Bounce’ Is, While Cursing GOP’s ‘Hideous’ Agenda

Covid-19 cases trend up again in the US, driven by the growth of BA.2 (CNN) Breathing new life into the PANIC!

We are in a transition phase of COVID-19, Dr. Fauci says (Deseret News) So we still need to PANIC!

Covid cases in D.C. region quietly rise again, fueled by BA.2 (Washington Post)

It’s not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US (Associated Press)

Flight from big cities INCREASES despite end of pandemic (Daily Mail)

Dr. Oz on ‘View’ host Sunny Hostin wanting more mask mandates: ‘Makes no sense medically’  Oh, as if that had anything to do with it!

Pfizer to soon pursue Covid boosters for kids (Politico) Unless they can get it officially recommended for kinds, they don’t qualify for immunity for liability for the side effects.

High hopes but tempered expectations as CDC launches review of agency’s structure and systems (The Guardian) Prediction: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

Economists Starting To Think Shutting Down The Economy For Two Years May Have Had Some Negative Consequences  Babylon Bee.

The silenced deaths of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown

A Mujahid on Vax Guard Duty

UCLA Ordered to Release Records Showing Coordination Between Law Enforcement to Attack ‘Climate Denialism’

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Greg Pulles was the long-time general counsel of TCF Financial Corporation. (I worked for Greg in that capacity for 12 years.) Greg is something of a Renaissance man, however, in dogged pursuit of truth, beauty, and the American way. Most recently, Greg undertook the review of all 2020 and 2021 Minnesota death certificates which bear the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code for COVID-19 (U07.1).

Having reviewed all 10,903 such certificates, Greg’s analysis supports the conclusion that the vast majority of Minnesotans was not at serious risk of death from COVID-19 and that the campaign of fear and intimidation was simply wrong. Greg’s viral Alpha News column setting forth his analysis is “Who died of COVID-19 in Minnesota?” Subhead: “Only 291, or 2.67% of the 10,903 certificates we examined, were ‘COVID only’ with no comorbidity listed.”

Why has Biden’s approval plunged with young people? (Washington Post)

Biden approval rating lowest with Hispanic voters, poll finds

Whitey Bulger’s nephew played key role in Hunter Biden’s Chinese business ventures

How History Will View the Biden Years  Worse than Jimmy Carter.

Chatlee: The Folly of Biden’s Ethanol Mandate

How low can Joe go?

Covid-19 booster raises antibody levels against Omicron for children ages 5 through 11, Pfizer and BioNTech say

OCD isn’t just about being a neat freak. And for those with it, this next stage of the pandemic may be hard (CNN) Time to keep pushing the PANIC!

How to know if you’re at risk for omicron XE (Deseret News)

Dr. Gottlieb: In two weeks, pace of infection in the U.S. may look different (MSNBC) Who?

This major COVID symptom is linked to brain damage (Deseret News) Linked!

Bay Area COVID cases are rising. How worried are public health officials? (S.F. Chronicle)

2 new omicron variants are spreading in N.Y. and elsewhere. Here’s what we know (NPR)

Less than 10 percent of Americans say COVID still a ‘serious crisis:’ poll  And they all work for the government or the Narrative Media.

Name Your Poison

Does Vaccination Make You MORE Likely to Catch Covid?

Biden COVID Czar: Little Kids Should Still Wear Masks Because CDC Says So

CDC extends travel mask requirement to May 3 as COVID rises (Associated Press)

WHO says Covid still a global public health emergency even as deaths fall to lowest level in two years (CNBC)

COVID remains a public health emergency for now, says WHO and Biden administration (NPR)

Pfizer’s Bourla: COVID vaccines for new variants possible for Fall (Reuters)

Primary iPhone factory in China now operating as normal, new COVID-19 precautions in place

Watch: Fauci Admits “You Use Lockdowns To Get People Vaccinated”

Proof that Covid Shutdowns Are Useless

‘Covid Relief’ Funds Spent on Tennis Courts and Smoothie Bars  Well, I’m sure that was a relief.

Why Biden’s pandering trip to the ‘heartland’ is worthwhile (Washington Post) Gotta keep those rubes in Flyover Country quiet.

Psaki slams Gov. Abbott over truck inspections at Texas-Mexico border, blames him for price increases

Biden approval rating tumbles to lowest point of his presidency: poll

Biden’s approval falls to new low amid economic pessimism, inflation woes, CNBC survey finds (CNBC)

‘Now I’m pissed’: Secret Service agents outraged by White House spin over First Dog bites

Biden Extends Mask Mandate For Americans, While Scrapping All Restrictions For Illegal Border Migrants

It’s Biden’s price hike, not Putin’s

Hunter Biden Likely To Be Charged Under FARA… If DoJ Applies The Mueller Standard  Which it won’t. The Crust takes care of its own.

Biden Administration Extends Freeze on Student Loan Payments… Again  They’d love to just cancel student loans and be done with it, but they realize that it would be seen for what it would be, a huge giveaway to the Children of the Crust at Dirt-People-Taxpayer expense.

Pigeon That Pooped On Biden To Speak At CPAC  Babylon Bee.

This Group Is Poised To Sue the Biden Administration To Stop a New Iran Nuclear Deal

Biden FEC Pick Repped Mayor Who Robbed Children’s Book Profits To Fund Campaign

Biden Fuels Soaring Inflation and Media Does Its Part to Gaslight Us About It

New Rule Would Force Climate Change Reporting Requirements on Most Companies in America

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Yellowstone is celebrating its 150th birthday by offering an annual park pass that won’t be valid for another 150 years. In exchange for a $1,500 donation, park supporters can snag a current annual parks pass and one of these “Inheritance Passes,” handing it down to their descendents to use in 2172.

There’s one born every minute.

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According to TDEM, Abbott’s plan is already working. The agency told Fox News on Monday that many of the communities that originally reached out for support – from the Rio Grande Valley to Terrell County – say the federal government stopped dropping immigrants in their towns since Abbott’s announcement on April 6.

This could prove amusing.

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The Antiplanner has previously written that light rail should be called lie rail because everything its advocates say about it is a lie.

$54M in Chinese gifts donated to UPenn, home of Biden Center

ABC Headline & Tweet Touts Poll Blaming Big Oil and Putin, Not Biden for High Gas Prices

Watch: Former Obama DHS Head Warns Of “Major Influx” Of 18,000 Illegal Immigrants Per Day

8 Varieties of Rancid Pork in Latest Spending Bill

Watchdog Blasts $54M In Chinese Gifts To UPenn After Biden Center Announced

DOJ Election Threat Taskforce Appears To Have ‘Something To Hide’: Watchdog Group President

Biden Infuriates Environmentalists, Oil Refiners By Allowing More Ethanol In Gas To Lower Prices

You Know Things Are Bad When Saudi State TV Mocks Joe Biden

Media Collusion of Hunter Biden/Joe Biden Bombshell Story

As Inflation SKYROCKETS, Nets Finally Voice Skepticism About ‘Putin Price Hike’ Excuse

Joe Biden Holds Annual Performance Reviews Giving Americans An 8.5% Pay Cut  Babylon Bee.

White House adviser: Extending TSA mask mandate ‘absolutely’ still on the table (The Hill)

WHO says it is analysing two new Omicron COVID sub-variants (Reuterrs) Let’s see if we can generate another PANIC!

Covid cases among Washington power brokers put new focus on White House’s protocols for Biden (CNN)

Philly will require masks in indoor public spaces again as COVID-19 cases rise (Philadelphia Inquirer)

China Covid outbreak: Guangzhou closes schools, Shanghai’s new cases soar to a record

Lockdowns Didn’t Work: Blue States Rank Dead Last for COVID Response

Yankee Stadium Employee Fired Over NYC Vaccine Mandate

Here We Go Again: Philadelphia Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate

Sweden’s inconvenient Covid victory

CBS Hypes 4th COVID Shot, Whines Americans Care More About Inflation

Moderna Recalls 764,900 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses After Contamination Found

Skynet Does Dallas: 7-Foot-Tall Robots Are Being Used To Enforce Mask Policy At Love Field Airport

Covid Smell Loss Linked to Damage in Brain, Study Finds

Philly Brings Back Masks as Most Americans Say COVID Crisis Has Passed

76ers Guard Ineligible For Playoff Games In Canada Due To Vax Status

Former Clinton pollster: Biden has lost his ‘likeability’ Clue: Biden never had any.

The Biden family scheme unravels

Where to Put the Illegals

Biden’s Radical Open Borders Policies Prompt Pushback

Florida COVID-19 hospitalizations at pandemic low as cases continue rising due to BA.2 (Palm Beach Post)

Mayo Clinic recommends second COVID booster amid concerns of another surge

Health experts, FDA advisers struggle with COVID booster strategy

Moderna recalls thousands of COVID vaccine doses in Europe

The Anatomy Of Big Pharma’s Political Reach

Pfizer Hired 600 Employees Due To ‘Large Increase Of Adverse Event Reports’: Document

“We Are Starving To Death”: Shanghai Residents Under Lockdown Shout At Visiting Vice Premier  Communist regimes have long history of starving their own people.

Growing Number Of States Changing How They Report COVID-19 Hospitalizations

‘I did that!’: Man arrested after placing Biden decals on gas pump, as fuel anger grows

Border experts predict how bad migrant surge can get after Title 42 is lifted

American Airlines To Offer Bus Service In Place Of Connecting Flights Due To Soaring Gas Prices, Pilot Shortage

Biden Sends Nearly $1 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover

Biden’s Regressive Inflation Tax & The Money Illusion

Biden Signs Bill Downgrading Russia’s Trade Status, Paving Way For Tariffs  I don’t know if there’s a Least Favored Nation status, but if there is, Russia will soon have it.

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When I was in college I took a business law class. (I needed an elective and it was in a time slot I could attend.) One of the things I learned about was the “reasonably prudent person” standard. Oversimplified, it states the law should be based upon how reasonable person would have acted or what that person would have foreseen. Boiled down, it holds that a normal person should be able to understand the law. At least that is how my instructor (who was a lawyer and an engineer) explained it to the class. Mind, this was back in the 1970s. Things seemed to have changed since then.

The law has grown so complex the reasonably prudent person now needs an army of specialists to navigate through the tangle that the law has become today: lawyers, accountants, medical benefits advisors, financial advisors. This is good for specialists (especially lawyers) who add little value to society when the rules are simple enough to allow average people to live their lives without requiring specialists to navigate the laws. It is not good for society as a whole, especially if that society has a representative government. The need for specialists to interpret the rules reduces productivity and encourages rent-seeking. An increasing fraction of the economy goes into overhead, while activities that add wealth shrink.

There was a mxim of the Common Law that ‘ignorance of the law is no excuse’, but that arose in a time when the law was merely what a sensible person knew to do and not do. Nowadays, ignorance of the law certianly ought to be an excuse.

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Watching the “historic” ceremony for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson I could not help recall the woman who should have been the first black woman on the Supreme Court – Judge Janice Rogers Brown.

Unfortunately, Judge Brown’s nomination was scuttled by then-Senator Joe Biden (FJB).

It took a two-year fight to get her approved to the DC Court of Appeals. Then in 2005, when Justice O’Conner retired, Senator Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, he would filibuster and kill her nomination.

White House tells agencies to delay vaccine mandate after court win (Washington Post)

This major long COVID symptom happens 3 to 6 months later (Deseret News)

The good and bad news about the current Covid-19 wave’ (V0x)

In Washington’s Covid-19 outbreak, new variants flout old ‘close contact’ rule (CNN)

Over 5,000 Previously Unknown Viruses Have Been Discovered Lurking in The Oceans (ScienceAlert)

Why hasn’t my daughter caught COVID? 2 factors likely protect her — and maybe you too (NPR)

It Was The Lockdowns, Not The Pandemic That Created The Havoc

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The Texans’ Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and Australians are constantly being blown away with the growing “nameplate” capacity of wind turbines and solar panels to provide electricity, but electricity from renewables have yet to produce anywhere near their projected capacity due to the intermittency and unreliability of breezes and sunshine.

I have always thought that ERCOT was something one got from moldy bread.

US likely to see a surge of Covid-19 in the fall, Fauci says (CNN)

People are developing trauma-like symptoms as the pandemic wears on (NPR)

5 subtle signs you have pandemic burnout and when to seek help, according to a nurse who specializes in PTSD

UK has detected a new Covid variant. Here’s what we know so far about omicron XE (CNBC)

Scientists divided on need for 4th Covid shot after FDA quietly approved another round of boosters (CNBC) “Follow the Science!” “Which one?”

COVID cases rise again in half the states (Axios) Oh, goody! Is it time to renew the PANIC?

The new Omicron subvariant XE is getting attention. How concerned should we be? (L.A. Times) Just to be safe, better go ahead and PANIC!

Large Israeli Study Finds That Protection Against COVID From 4th Shot Drops Quickly   That’s a fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

FDA Floats Moving COVID-19 Vaccines To Flu-Like Model  Big Pharma needs a consistent, dependable revenue stream.

Hospital Refuses Father-To-Son Kidney Transplant Over COVID Jab  This is iniquitous.

State Department Memo In Early 2020 Assessed That Lab leak Was Most Likely Origin Of COVID-19

Worldwide Vax Report

ANALYSIS: Nancy Pelosi’s High-Risk COVID Infection Could Wreak Havoc on Democratic Leadership  That would be amusing.

Dem Offices Across Country Remain Closed Due to Pandemic  A step in the right direction.

The Vax and the Klepto-State

ouncilmembers want Mayor Jim Kenney to be more aggressive in spending Philly’s federal pandemic relief (Philadelphia Inquirer) You can’t buy votes without spending money.

Anti-Vaxxers Charge Followers to Join Fake Fauci ‘Grand Jury’ (Daily Beast)

Two Biden Cabinet members among string of positive Covid-19 cases after elite Gridiron dinner

Fauci tells Chris Wallace of ‘painful’ messaging under Trump (The Hill)  He was so oppressed.

CDC director clears up confusion on 2nd Covid boosters

Vaccine Effectiveness Is Fading  To the extent that it was effective at all.

“Pushed To The Brink Of Collapse”: Leaked Recording Of Shanghai CDC Expert Describes Chaos Behind Lockdown Measures

Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne

Bill Introducing ‘Mandatory Vaccination’ For All Germans Over 60 Expected To Pass  Time to leave.

Congressional Republicans Move To Abolish All COVID Restrictions

HHS Secretary Dodges Lawmaker’s Questions on Requiring Toddlers to Wear Masks

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“[N]ow we’re in a serious tech competition with China and they’re not waiting for our democratic timeframes,” DIU Director Mike Brown said. “[…] There’s a reason the US innovation ecosystem is the envy of the world and we need to make this the envy of the military.”

Biden’s new tax plan would push top individual income rate to highest in developed world “Hi! I’m from the Democrats, and I’m here to tax you!”

Democrats’ dilemma: Back Biden’s Pentagon budget or supersize it (Politico)

Ron Klain solicited money from Hunter Biden for VP residence in 2012, emails show: ‘Keep this low low key’

Defense secretary fires back at Matt Gaetz’s accusation during hearing (CNN)

Your Rising Wages May Make You Feel Better… Until You Try To Buy Stuff

Joe Biden’s gender agenda

Biden Wants $2.6 Billion For Gender Equity Worldwide  Because ‘gender equity worldwide’ is something that American taxpayers ought to pay for.

Wimped Out! AP Concedes Biden ‘Overpromised’ on US Green Energy Savings

Biden Admin Quietly Pushing Anti-Charter Policies, School Choice Advocates Warn

Migrant Surge May Push DHS To Lower Security Standards at Border

Doocy Presses Psaki on Whether DOJ Needs Special Counsel to Probe Hunter’s Corruption

Biden Admin Official Accused of Targeting Whistleblower

When Will Big Tech, Big Media Apologize for Lying About, Censoring Hunter Biden Story?  Hint: Never.

Biden Reportedly Nominating Another Gun-Grabber To Head ATF 

Biden’s Big Immigration Decision Is the Least Popular Move of His Presidency

“Let’s See How We Can Be Helpful”: Joe Biden Wrote Letter To Help One Of Hunter’s Foreign Contacts

Immigration Experts Back Lawmaker in Decrying Biden’s ‘Reckless’ Plan for Border

Kamala Builds Border Wall Around White House To Stop Staffers From Escaping Babylon Bee.

SERIOUSLY? WashPost Columnist: ‘Biden’s Economy Is Extraordinary. But Inflation …’

450GB Of ‘Deleted’ Hunter Biden Laptop Material To Be Released Within Weeks