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

CDC, under fire for covid response, announces plans to revamp agency (Washington Post) The automatic bureaucratic response to pressure. Prediction: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb believes omicron BA.2 subvariant unlikely to cause ‘national wave’ in U.S. (CNBC)

NIH required immunocompromised woman to remove her N95, highlighting CDC’s conflicting mask guidance (Politico)

Biden is pressured to end mask mandates on public transportation (NPR)

Title 42 dispute threatens to hold up $10 billion COVID relief package (The Hill)

Numerous Health Problems More Likely Due To COVID-19 Vaccines Than Coincidence: VAERS Data Analysis

President Xi Faces An Impossible Dilemma In Shanghai As COVID Outbreak Worsens Despite Lockdown  Boy, those lockdowns really work, don’t they?

African Union, Covax Refuse To Buy More Vaccines From Moderna As Demand Plummets

Covid: The Aftermath

Deaths in Minnesota by Age Group over Time

Shanghai Residents Rebel As Cases Surge, Lockdown Extended ‘Indefinitely’

CBS Spews Fear Porn Over Axing Vax Mandates, Laments ‘Freedom…to Kill’ People With Virus

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As I watch the work of the Biden Administration unfold, I can’t help but wonder if there is an overarching and hidden lesson that we are supposed to learn. Does anyone remember a time when any administration has made so many disastrous decisions in just over one year? It’s as if we are supposed to learn from all these outcomes that the US has failed, and will continue to fail, at every level.

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Brook Jackson is a whistleblower who has brought her claims to the attention of the British Medical Journal. She was a Regional Director with Ventavia Research Group, a company that Pfizer contracts to perform clinical trials. She has claimed that the company conducted its phase-three vaccine trials with several deficiencies including falsifying data, unblinding patients, and using untrained vaccinators.

She elevated her concerns to her superiors within the company multiple times, including her concern about the quality control department being overwhelmed with problems. Finding her complaints disregarded by her superiors, she emailed a complaint to the FDA. The wheels of government corruption clearly turn quickly; she was fired before the day was out. Fortunately, she has provided receipts, photographs, documents, emails, even audio recordings of management dismissing her concerns.

Hunter Biden grand jury witness was asked about deal with Chinese firm – and ‘the big guy’

It’s ‘hard to believe’ Biden didn’t know about Hunter’s business dealings: Brit Hume

Biden admin agencies refuse to answer, ‘What is a woman?’

Kaboom: Doocy Asks Psaki If the WH Supports Kindergartners Learning Sex Ed

Media ‘Caught In A Cover-Up’ Of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Story: Sen. Johnson

White House Won’t Rule Out Pardon For Hunter, James Biden

New York Jet Fuel Soars To Record High As Inventories Plunge

Biden Admin Desperate For Canadian Oil… But Won’t Resurrect Keystone XL Pipeline

0 for 12: The Networks Have Ignored All 12 Kamala Staffers Resigning

In search of “the big guy”

Watch: Biden Babbles And Lies About Being An 18-Wheeler Truck-Driver… Again

Iran Says Nuclear Negotiations Effectively Over, Blames US for Impasse  Some good news for a change.

Putin’s Inflation? Homegrown Modern Monetary Theory Is To Blame

White House Plans To Extend Student Loan Moratorium (Again) As Midterms Loom  The Party of Free Stuff wants to buy your vote!

Biden’s FEC Nominee Sued Georgia Over Stacey Abrams Election Loss, Blamed ‘Unreliable’ Voting Machines

Biden’s ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Kids Order Shows That the Left Is All In on the Culture War

5 Biden Transportation Potholes Making Motorists’ Lives Miserable

Covid: Nine new symptoms added to official list (BBC) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was an Official List.

XE Variant: What to Know About the New Hybrid Strain First Identified in UK

XE variant of COVID: What is known so far about the newly discovered strain

Mask-Wearing Has Left A Generation Of Toddlers Struggling With Speech And Social Skills

Beijing Dispatches Military To Shanghai As Expanded Lockdown Triggers More Unrest

Eerie Drone Footage Shows Deserted Shanghai Downtown As Lockdown Extended 

Introducing ‘COVID XE’: New Mutant Strain Found In UK As WHO Warns It’s More Contagious Than Omicron

CNN Journalist Shuns Airline Mask Mandate in First Class  Rules are for thee but not for me.

NIH Working To Keep Taxpayers In The Dark by Stalling On Fauci Docs: Transparency Advocate

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces cognitive deficit and anxiety-like behavior in mouse via non-cell autonomous hippocampal neuronal death

Clinical health outcomes of omicron ‘less severe’ than delta for pediatric patients

New study reveals how we get sick from COVID (Deseret News)

The CDC is beholden to corporations and lost our trust. We need to start our own (The Guardian) We’ll stick “The People’s” in the name to show that it’s sufficiently Woke.

Enough: New Yorkers must demand an end to Adams’ toddler mask mandate

What Do We Do About COVID Now? (The New Yorker) Aside, of course, from continuing to PANIC!

COVID, Hospitals, and Humanity

“I Have No Idea What’s Going On” – Shanghai Officials Separate COVID-Positive Children From Parents As Outbreak Worsens

NIH Admits It “Suppressed” Wuhan Lab Genetic Data, But Disputes Watchdog’s “Deleted” Label

China, Once Praised by Media for COVID Response, Tears Sick Children From Parents  It always astonishes certain people when a Communist government acts like a Communist government.

Fauci’s United Front Is Collapsing

Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Boost Renewables  What do ‘renewables’ have to do with defense? Not a fucking thing. But it’s part of the Narrative.

President says first lady Jill Biden was Obama’s VP in latest gaffe

Mexico suspends gasoline subsidy as Americans cross border for deals

Energy groups target Biden administration over unwillingness to expand domestic oil production

For the Last Two Months, the Nets Buried the Border Crisis (And It’s About to Get Much Worse)

Another One? Kamala Harris Deputy Chief-Of-Staff Quits

Nets Refuse to Cover Secret Service Spending Thousands with Hunter in Malibu

Hunter Biden’s Secret Service Detail Spends $30K Per Month Renting Out Mansion

SHOCK: Wash Post Finally Sees ‘Danger’ to ‘Suppressing’ ‘Accurate’ Hunter Story

3 States Sue Biden Administration Over Ending COVID-19 Restrictions at Border

Biden’s “Absolute” Defense Of Hunter Leaves Media & Justice Department In A Muddle

Pentagon to scrap nuclear gravity bomb as part of Biden review

Biden Continues to Lie About the Oil & Gas Industry

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Chicago, Chicago, that fascistic town….

COVID-19: Here’s what experts say to expect as BA.2 omicron subvariant spreads across Florida (Palm Beach Post)

The top BA.2 COVID-19 symptoms doctors are seeing right now (Deseret News)

10 unusual COVID-19 symptoms to remember (Deseret News)

Covid-19 hospitalizations hit a pandemic low in the US, but strain on hospitals persists (CNN)

WHO unveils plan to end global COVID-19 emergency in 2022 (The Hill) I guess our ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ are up.

Shanghai Lockdown Expanded To Cover Entire City As China’s Worst Outbreak In 2 Years Drags On

Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls

Period problems after Covid vaccine: Tenfold increase in reports

New York City Will Mandate Masks For Children Under 5 Years Old

Manchin: Biden’s repeal of Title 42 order ‘a frightening decision’ (The Hill)

Wilmington computer shop owner speaks out after latest Hunter Biden laptop developments

Washington Post, New York Times finally admit Hunter’s laptop is real — but only to protect Joe Biden some more

U.S. boosts fuel efficiency rules as Biden reverses Trump rollback (Reuters)

Kamala Harris Contradicts Biden’s Putin Remarks: “We Are Not Into Regime Change”  Laying the groundwork for the soon-to-be Harris administration.

Ending CDC Order That Expelled Illegal Border Crossers to Prevent COVID-19 Spread Will Create Massive New Influx

The Fed Cannot Undo The Damage It Has Already Caused

New Mutant “XE” Omicron Variant May Be The Most Transmissible Version Of Covid Yet, According To WHO (Deadline)

How the next coronavirus variant could emerge (CNN)

Fauci Says China Was “Extremely Secretive” But “Didn’t Necessarily” Cover-Up Pandemic

German Apparatchiks Get a Corona Bonus

What Educating Our Kids Looks Like After COVID-19

Shanghai Officials Conceal COVID Deaths At City Nursing Homes Amid Punishing Lockdown

The first thing you should do if you have COVID-19 symptoms (Deseret News) What else but PANIC!

Did Sweden beat the pandemic by refusing to lock down? No, its record is disastrous (L.A. Times)

Defining the risk of SARS-CoV-2 variants on immune protection (Nature)

NIH Deleted Info From Wuhan Lab On Covid-19 Genetic Sequencing, Watchdog FOIA Finds

The English Faucis Are Even Worse Than The American Ones

Fauci: Americans Should Be ‘Prepared for Possibility’ Of More COVID-19 Restrictions

Fauci Flashback: “The Most Potent Vaccination Is Getting Infected Yourself”

WHO Outlines Strategy To End Global COVID-19 Emergency In 2022  Been there, done that.

BREAKING: Homeland Security 20th Agency to Track Religious Vaccine Objectors

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Shortly before the close on Thursday, the closely-watched 2s10s yield curve, better known as the recession harbinger, inverted again for the second time in three days, and this time it will likely fail to bounce as the US slides ever closer to its recession D-Day.

Biden’s plan to ‘tax the rich’ unlikely to stop with billionaires (The Hill)

AGAIN: Univision BURIES Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal Within A Report About Trump

Biden Labor Secretary Grins for Trucker Photo-Op While Pushing Nominee Opposed by Truckers

Late to the Party: WashPost Publishes Bombshells Confirming Hunter Biden Laptop

ABC Defends Hunter, NBC COMPLETELY IGNORES WashPost Confirmations

Biden’s “New World Order”

They Claimed Russia Stole His E-Mails, CBS Now Admits Hunter’s Scandal Is Real

Foolish Vengeance on Woke Billionaires

Rep. Kevin Hern Offers GOP Alternative to Biden’s Tax-and-Spend Budget

Two Hunter Biden Associates Testified Before Grand Jury About PLA-Linked Chinese Company

Biden Administration Will Add ‘X Gender Marker’ to US Passports

How Democrats Made America Dependent on Russian Uranium

Biden Admin Scrapped China Counterspy Program Under Activist Pressure, Republicans Say

Biden Invokes the Defense Production Act to Fix the Lithium Shortage

Jackson Asks Biden Official What WH Is Doing to Combat Anti-Trans GOP

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Opponents of occupational licensing secured a victory this week in their battle against excessive state regulations that erect barriers to competition in various fields.

One of those opponents, who knows full well the burdensome effects of occupational licensing, is Will McLemore. In 2006, he started McLemore Auction Co as one of the first online auction houses in America.

At that time, most auctioneers practiced only in live auctions, but as the internet has done for so many things, auctioneering began to change. The growth of online shopping resulted in tremendous opportunities for auctioneers.

However, in 2019, the Tennessee General Assembly passed legislation requiring all auctioneers to be licensed. To get a license, auctioneers had to meet requirements so onerous that they kept interested and otherwise qualified entrepreneurs out of the business altogether.

That year, McLemore and other members of the Interstate Auction Association filed an initial complaint against the state of Tennessee.

Nothing is more common that the use by existing businesses to exclude entrants by means of crony-fied regulations.

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Seattle-area residents have got themselves into a real fix. They voted to impose numerous taxes on themselves to spend tens of billions of dollars building new light-rail lines to downtown Seattle. Now, cost have increased, Seattle transit ridership is down by 54 percent, and Amazon is moving workers out of downtown Seattle.

Now a group called SkyLink has proposed a solution: replace light rail with aerial gondolas. These would supposedly be higher in capacity, less expensive, and would require less displacement of homes and businesses.

Biden’s Gaffes: A Postscript

Biden pitches largest tax hike in history as part of $5.8T budget request

Hunter Biden laptop material entered into Congressional Record

Sens. Grassley, Johnson allege $100,000 payment from Chinese oligarchs to Hunter Biden, provide receipt

US Top Commander In Europe Forced To Rebut Latest Biden Remarks

Biden’s ‘Equity’ Budget Mentions Term Over 100 Times

Austin Airport Warns It May Run Out Of Jet Fuel

Thanks for clearing that up

‘It Sucks’: House Dem Unleashes on Biden’s Budget

Biden Wants Blank Check to Fund Open Borders Immigration Priorities

Biden’s Budget Lies

COVID cases up almost 70% as new variant arrives in Monroe County

State health department now ‘closely monitoring’ Central NY’s surge of Covid-19 cases

‘Cost of Unmasking’ NYC Toddlers Too High for Neurotic New York Times Writer

Mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection can cause myelin loss in the brain

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Joe Biden took questions from the press today, most of which focused on his foreign policy blunders of the last few days. He chose to brazen it out, denying that his comments had been walked back on multiple occasions and denying specifically that he had called for Vladimir Putin to be ousted. Under the circumstances, there is not much else he can do, and he is far past the point where he and his aides have the luxury of caring whether what he says makes any sense.

Biden’s budget to boost military, raise taxes on billionaires (Reuters)

International Condemnation of Joe Biden

It’s Been 259 Days Since the Network Newscasts Said the Words ‘Hunter Biden’

How Low Can Biden Fall?

Biden’s Regulatory Blitz a Massive Tax, Especially Harming Seniors and Low-Income Americans

Biden administration kills Trump-era nuclear cruise missile program

Reporters Hammer Biden Over Russian ‘Regime Change’ Comment At Budget Press Briefing

WOW: Nets Hammer Biden’s ‘Shocking,’ ‘Horrendous Gaffe’ as ‘Backlash’ Grows

Biden DOJ Kills Trump-Era Program To Catch Chinese Spies

COVID symptoms or allergies? 3 major reasons to get a COVID-19 test (Deseret News)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is slammed by fired city workers and unions after he grants vaccination exemptions for rockstars, actors and players for the Yankees, Nets and Mets – but not for regular New Yorkers

Yale epidemiologist: ‘The pandemic is not over’

We’ve found one factor that predicts which countries best survive Covid

CDC updates Covid-19 guidance to allow patients wear N95s

Mask Mandates Forever?

50 years after Watergate, the president of the United States still flies above the law

ABC Ignores Biden Backtracking on Effectiveness of Russian Sanctions

Joe Biden, Liar

Biden Still Doesn’t Get Deterrence

MLB’s Machado Wears ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Shirt To Interviews

Wow: CBS Calls Out Biden Flip Flops on Sanctions (ABC Still Spinning)

Joe’s Little Big Guy

Biden Administration Has a ‘Momflation’ Problem

Biden Bid To Waive Sanctions on Iranian Terrorists Could Derail Nuclear Deal

Doddering on the World Stage

Who Said It: Vice President Kamala Harris Or Elmo?  Babylon Bee.

Saudi Arabia’s rebuke, big oil’s reluctance to pump puts Biden in a bind on gas prices

Harris team angry over Vogue cover, lack of respect: book

Biden’s policy ‘mistake’ will ‘hit’ every American, economics professor Brian Brenberg warns

Protecting Biden is a Full-Time Job for the Times

As Gas Prices Skyrocket, Nets Let Biden Escape Blame

Kamala Harris, Self-Help Guru

The madness of slow Joe, Iran edition (11)

Biden Approval Rating Plummets in Deep-Blue State He Won by 29 Points

Scarborough Skips Biden’s Afghanistan Fiasco in Explaining Russia’s Ukraine Invasion

Biden Owes Border Patrol Belated Apology Over Phony Charges of ‘Whipping’ Illegal Aliens

Biden LOSES IT When CBS Points Out Sanctions Failed to Deter Putin

Congressman Seeks Facebook, Twitter Records Related to Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story

Omicron BA.2 subvariant will soon dominate in U.S., but Fauci doesn’t expect another surge (CNBC)

Omicron’s ‘stealth’ subvariant BA.2 could go ‘wild’ in Europe before going global, top epidemiologist says (CNBC)

Moderna Covid vaccine for kids under 6 years old was up to 44% effective against omicron infection (CNBC)

Airlines ask Biden to drop mask mandate and testing requirements for travelers

Omicron’s rise, severe COVID and Antarctic ice minimum (Nature)

Seriously, the Pandemic Isn’t Over (New York Magazine)

Leaders Of 10 Major US Airlines Urge Biden To Drop Mask Mandates, Pre-Departure Testing Requirements

Fairfax Public Schools Shells Out Half a Million To Fill COVID Virtual Learning Gaps With More Virtual Learning

Read it.

The New York Times supports the efforts of the government to get James O’Keefe and Project Veritas in the case of Ashley Biden’s diary. Reporters including Michael Schmidt and Adam Goldman are working as the public relations arm of the Biden administration and the national security establishment to nail them.

It turns out that the FBI and SDNY prosecutors have been working the case for a long time. They have had Project Veritas under incredibly intrusive surveillance for over a year. No charges have yet emerged. If Project Veritas crossed over the line between lawful and unlawful activity in its work on the diary, the line must be a little blurry. The Times gleefully supports the national security establishment in its treatment of Project Veritas. I find the treatment chilling.

Omicron variant may be sturdier than previous COVID-19 variants, study says (Deseret News)

White House officials say U.S. has exhausted funds to buy potential fourth vaccine dose for all Americans (Washington Post)

White House press secretary Jen Psaki tests positive (again) for COVID-19 (NPR) Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Early Screening Data Show New COVID Subvariant Gaining Ground In US

Testing for COVID with the sound of a cough? There’s an app for that

‘15 Days’ to 2 Years: How Power Corrupted Our Public Health Bureaucrats

Bill Barr says Joe Biden lied to Americans about Hunter Biden laptop: ‘I was very disturbed’

Kamala Harris’ national security adviser is latest VP staffer to resign

The Republican Plan To Draw Blood Over Biden’s SCOTUS Nomination

Biden Says The Quiet Part Out Loud

The Many Forms of Censorship Converge on Hunter’s Laptop

‘Morning Joe’ Furiously Flip-Flops Over Biden Being Too Weak in Ukraine Response

California could see coronavirus increase this spring due to Omicron subvariant BA.2  (L.A. Times)

Kid Rock to Tucker Carlson: ‘F— Fauci’ (The Hill)

Expert reveals why the new BA.2 variant is a test for return to normal (Deseret News)

CDC email: Let’s do better with ‘our data’  (Politico)

Biden pushes new normal amid worries about next covid surge —and who is left behind (Washington Post)

Alcohol-Related Deaths Skyrocketed During COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Finds  Alcohol is a disinfectant, right?

The Pandemic Changed How We Work. It’s Time for Labor Laws to Change, Too.

Covid and the Heart: It Spares No One – Johns Hopkins

Chicago Public Schools Is Masking Kids Again. Its Teachers’ Union Wants More Restrictions.