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As is traditional.

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Supposedly, thanks mostly to Sinema and Manchin, the multi-gazillion dollar Build Back Bigoted Bill is dead in the water. Unfortunately, it has been my experience that you can’t stop a boondoggle. Especially one where you can call anyone who opposes it a rayciss. Without a stake through its heart, and possibly a cross and a lot of garlic, these corpses always rise again. So let’s look at just one tiny example of the pointless, outrageous giveaway the Democrats had planned to empty the Treasury for eons to come.

Weeks ago, Ann Coulter delved into the wretched thousands-page bill and ferreted out just a few gems. Though my fact-obsessed editor found her reportage less than accurate (picky, picky, picky…), it was all I had to go on, save reading it myself which was out of the question.

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Justice Breyer pulled out a pocket constitution at his White House appearance today. Turns out it was the copy that Justice Breyer received when he entered Harvard Law School in 1964. The copy is pristine — never opened, never thumbed through. None of the cases he heard at the Supreme Court ever required him to consult it. It will make a great exhibit in his museum display someday.

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U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg has boxed herself into a dilemma.

She has kept a report on a theoretical voting machine flaw—authored by a respected computer researcher—secret since last summer, citing concerns that releasing the report would fuel conspiracy theories about voting machines and the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

But her attempts at preventing conspiracy theories has fueled those theories anyway. And now, she has Georgia’s top elections official, Brad Raffensberger, urging her to make the report public.

Sister of Nina Totenberg, famous liar legal correspondent for CNN.

Exclusive: The Babylon Bee Has Obtained Biden’s List Of Possible SCOTUS Nominees

Fact Sheet: A Year Advancing Environmental Justice (The White House)

Fewer Than 300 Asylum Seekers Enrolled in ‘Remain in Mexico’ After Biden Gutted Policy

Morning Joe Makes Excuses for Biden’s Pitiful Polling Numbers

STUDY: PolitiFact Is Almost 6 Times More Likely to Defend Biden Than Check His Facts

Biden Reminds Everyone That Black Justices Can Be Just As Smart As Rich Ones  Babylon Bee.

Biden Commits To Picking A Diversity Hire For SCOTUS Since That Worked So Well With His VP  Babylon Bee.

Chuck Todd Hails Biden’s ‘Iconic’ Unnamed SCOTUS Pick: ‘No Red Flags’

Georgetown Law School Lashes Out at Professor Critical of Biden’s Racial Supreme Court Promise

Mitchell, Dem Senators Plot SCOTUS Strategy, Blame McConnell For Polarization

The politics of replacing Breyer

Biden’s Surgeon General Wants Rogan’s Podcast Removed

Pfizer Board Member Suggests End To Mask, Vaccine Mandates We’ve squeezed all of the juice out of this lemon that we’re going to get.

Which pharmacies will have free N-95 masks and when? (Today) And how much will YOU have to  pay for THEIR ‘free’ masks? Ask Joe Biden.

The omicron variant doesn’t lead to ‘classic three’ COVID-19 symptoms (Deseret News) So you’d better PANIC!

The next Covid variant will be more contagious than omicron, but the question is whether it will be more deadly, WHO says (CNBC) But the WHO will be there to help you PANIC!

There’s a new version of omicron but so far it doesn’t appear to be more dangerous (Washington Post) But you’d still better PANIC!

DeSantis Blasts ‘Sudden and Reckless’ Halt on Antibody Drugs Found to Be Ineffective (Daily Beast) They had to put ‘ineffective’ in the headline so you’d know what the Narrative is.

Rand Paul continues pressing Fauci for answers on NIH gain-of-function funding

Unvaccinated man denied heart transplant by Boston hospital (BBC)

The Corona Gestapo in Harpstedt

Masks Today, Masks Tomorrow, Masks Forever!

Amid COVID-19’s Toll on Schools, Now More Than Ever, Students Need More Education Options

Welsh Businesses Demand Vaccine Passport Exemptions After Government Fails To Prove They Work

PBS Guest Claims Lifting COVID Restrictions Is A Form of ‘Ableism’

Fake vaccine cards are everywhere. It’s a public health nightmare  And so easily predictable that a child could have done it.

Quebec bans unvaccinated from buying groceries at Walmart, Costco

Boston Man Kicked Off Heart Transplant List For Not Being Vaccinated

Biden Puts 8,000 Troops On Alert In Case Peter Doocy Retaliates (Babylon Bee)

Biden Proves Mental Sharpness by Accurately Identifying Peter Doocy (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz keeps trying to be the Left’s Babylon Bee and keeps failing.

Federal prosecutors looking at 2020 fake elector certifications, deputy attorney general tells CNN

Kid Rock releases anti-Biden, anti-Fauci single with a ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ chorus (The Hill)

Nugget Of Truth Emerges On CNN As Guest Rips Biden Apart

Is Ukraine A Distraction From Biden’s Terrible Approval Rating?

Biden’s covid “setbacks”

Biden’s Year 1 Foreign Policy Blunders

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I’m still constantly receiving these little reports from across the US (and Canada!) detailing the petty indignities and absurdities to which people are subjected in the name of this-or-that overheated COVID concern.

Does every last report amount to full-blown authoritarian tyranny? Not really — most probably wouldn’t even register as particularly attention-getting on their own. But the thing I keep coming back to is the cumulative pettiness — how corrosive the sheer quantity of snippets like ones I’ll list in this post, taken in aggregate, must be to the social order.

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Fox News footage shows several federally contracted buses dropping off dozens of mostly male migrants at a parking garage in Brownsville, Texas. Black tarps were set up with a makeshift sign said “Border Patrol drop-off” above it.

Fox witnessed men go into a small, unmarked office, then re-emerge moments later as multiple taxi cabs then showed up to collect the migrants — who were then shuttled off to nearby Harlingen Airport. There were no children or migrant families among the groups.

Several of the migrants told Fox that they had crossed illegally that morning, paying approximately $2,000 per person to cartel smugglers. They also said they were flying to destinations including Miami, Houston and Atlanta.

This is what we mean when we say that Biden has an open borders policy.

NY Times: Biden contributing to ‘own political woes’ by downplaying inflation, economic anxiety  He has no choice – if he admitted the problem, people would expect him to do something, and he won’t.

Biden plans tax-funded legal services program for ‘Remain in Mexico’ immigrants: report

Voters sound off on ‘insane’ state of economy under Biden, say he’s ‘listening to too many liberals’

The Biden Problem

Biden Already Blames Powell For The Democrats’ House And Senate Losses In November  He’s your dog, Charlie Brown.

Mark Levin Helps Expose What the Corrupt Media Is Hiding on Hunter Biden

Biden Frees Alternate 9/11 Hijacker and Military Base Truck Bomb Plotter

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Lawmakers Accuse Biden Administration of Targeting Federal Employees Seeking Religious Exemptions From COVID-19 Vaccine

Biden Under Fire for Failing To Nominate Ukraine Ambassador as Russian Invasion Looms  Hey, wait a couple of weeks and our ambassador to Russia can fill in.

Drop in Public Trust in US Military Officers Portends Danger

Biden Administration Mounts Daring Mission To Evacuate Hunter’s Remaining Cash From Ukraine  Babylon Bee.

The top 7 omicron variant symptoms for children (Deseret News) Be the first on your block to collect all seven and PANIC!

Now that science has defanged Covid, it’s time to get on with our lives (The Guardian) Flip, meet flop.

Fauci: US ‘confident’ Omicron will soon peak even as hospitals struggle (The Guardian)

Yes, you can catch the flu and Covid. No, ‘flurona’ isn’t real. (NBC)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invokes Nazi Germany in offensive anti-vaccine speech (CNN)

Game-changing Covid pills remain out of reach for some patients Your Managerial State at work.

Arizona Governor Sues Biden Administration Over Attempt To Wrest Back Federal Funds

An Adverse Effect of the Vax: Mad Cow Disease

Inside the surreal Dutch lockdown

26 of the Most Interesting Signs at ‘Defeat the Mandates’ Rally

Biden Voter Explains Her Stand Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Bird Flu Is Back in the US. No One Knows What Comes Next (Wired ‘Science’) Except that you need to PANIC!

Rodgers Torpedoes Biden Claim COVID Is Pandemic Of Unvaccinated

‘How Dare You!’ The View RAGES at Bill Maher’s Anti-Masks Jokes

Court Order Prevents Nurses from Taking New Jobs in ‘At-Will’ State

A Covid origin conspiracy?

Doctors Highlight Problems With Nation’s COVID-19 Response

Bidenflation Comes For DC’s Favorite Restaurants

Another US president, time for another big Intel factory promise by another CEO

Biden Says Russia Can Invade Ukraine So Long As They Avoid Hunter’s Gas Company  Babylon Bee.

Biden Admin Withholds Secret Iran Agreement From Congress

Covid reinfection: how likely are you to catch virus multiple times? (The Guardian)

Potential long-term symptoms of omicron COVID-19 cases

Bill Maher pushes back on Fauci: ‘Don’t sit there in your white coat and tell me “just do what we say”‘ (The Hill)

Bill Maher torches Sotomayor for botching COVID facts: ‘That’s really ignorant for a Supreme Court justice’

Country shows what life is like after massive Omicron wave (CNN)

How a Milder COVID Variant Is Creating a Health-Care Crisis (The New Yorker) Just so long as you PANIC!

Omicron surge is undermining care for other health problems (Associated Press) No, the PANIC is undermining care for other health problems.

Pennsylvania Middle School Teacher Caught In Photo Taping Mask To Student’s Face

COVID Won’t Stop Global Elites From Hobnobbing In Davos As Economic Forum Set For May

Scientists Instrumental To COVID-19 ‘Natural Origins’ Narrative Received Over $50 Million In NIAID Funding In 2020-2021

Ivermectin Could Destroy Justification For Lockdowns And Vaccine Mandates

Jake Tapper Grills Jen Psaki Harder Than Fox News Did (Daily Beast) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another.

S.F. omicron COVID surge has peaked, and infections are declining, Mayor Breed says (S.F. Chronicle)

A passenger refused to wear a mask on a London-bound flight. The pilot turned the plane around. (Washington Post) He probably had no choice.

Insufferable Anti-Masker Forces International Flight to Backtrack Mid-Journey (Daily Beast) Yup, just held a gun to the pilot’s head and FORCED them to turn around.

Study Says People With Mild COVID-19 Symptoms Could Suffer From Long-Term Neurological Damage (NBC) So you still need to PANIC!

Mail carrier sent home for wearing N95 instead of cloth mask: ‘I thought it was a joke’

Florida’s long Omicron recovery (Politico)

Booster longevity: Data reveals how long a third shot protects (NPR) It doesn’t.

California’s COVID gun store shutdowns ruled illegal (AP)

New Emails Expose Fauci’s Role In Shaping Highly Influential Paper That Established COVID “Natural Origin” Narrative

“Bizarro World”: Researcher Calls Out Censorship After Journal Pulls COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events Analysis

Biden Admin Decrees All “Essential” Workers Traveling To US Must Be Fully Vaccinated

Sewage Surveillance Reveals Omicron Arrived In US Even Earlier Than Believed (And Is Disappearing Fast)  I’ll bet you didn’t know that ‘sewage surveillance’ was a thing.

CDC Study Shows Power of Natural Immunity

Totalitarian Paranoia Run Amok: Pandemics, Lockdowns, & Martial Law

Czech Republic Abolishes Plan To Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines

Center for Covid control told workers to lie about results, ex-employees say

Texas Judge Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Federal Employees Nationwide

Nearly 50 More Marines Booted For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccines

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“It seems that, in common with the tobacco industry, the wind industry was well aware that its products were inimical to health. The introduction of larger turbines is also problematic because the larger the turbines, the more noise they produce.” (- Alun Evans, Centre for Public Health, The Queen’s University of Belfast, below)

 

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Forest Service Chief Randy Moore have announced a new strategy to fix the nation’s wildfire crisis. Not surprisingly, the most important part of that strategy is to give them a lot more money.

Amazing how that works.

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The US Geological Survey (USGS) and National Park Service (NPS) have committed massive resources toward promotion of the glacier melt narrative at Glacier National Park (GNP). Various USGS and NPS signs, pamphlets, websites and films have predicted calamitous melting of the Park’s glaciers in the near future. During the winter of 2018-19, while the Park’s facilities were closed to the public, government workers quietly removed signs predicting the Park’s glaciers would all disappear by 2020.

Since 2015 the USGS and NPS have prominently displayed data tables on their websites indicating that GNP’s glaciers have been steadily decreasing each half decade. The data table is frequently referenced in news stories to describe the plight of the glaciers as steadily receding.

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The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has partnered with a Virginia-based private identification firm which requires a facial recognition selfie among other things, in order to create or access online accounts with the agency.

According to KrebsonSecurity, the IRS announced that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log into irs.gov will be through ID.me. Founded by former Army Rangers in 2010, the McLean-based company has evolved to providing online ID verification services which several states are using to help reduce unemployment and pandemic-assistance fraud. The company claims to have 64 million users.

But God forbid we use this technology for voting, that would Threaten Our Democracy.

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‘Noise concerns’. Uh-huh. Sure, I believe that.

Private jet and helicopter charters into the East Hampton Airport could be a thing of the past as the town’s board is expected to take the public airport under private control by early March, according to Bloomberg.

The move will effectively ban millionaires who rent aircraft and only allow billionaires who own their jets to fly into the airport.

Sometimes it is good to be in the .01%.

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Most people know that HR 1 creates enormous new opportunities for Democratic urban machines to cheat. But even more horrific is that the legislation would also make it almost impossible to challenge even absurdly obvious bogus registrations. In essence, the bill outlaws investigating and reporting cheating if done by private citizens.

A massive dump of late bogus registrations cannot be challenged without “personal knowledge.” Systematic research by a team of non-government parties that conclusively proves a registered voter has moved and registered in another state or is deceased that cannot otherwise be supported by a sworn affidavit of “personal knowledge” cannot be accepted and acted upon by authorities. And the accuser can be fined or jailed if the accusation cannot be verified under the revised rules.

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Two trains that Wisconsin purchased for a failed high-speed rail project were sold to Nigeria on Tuesday.

The governor of the West African country’s Lagos State visited Milwaukee this week to buy the trains, which had sat unused since 2012. Nigeria plans to use the trains for a metro system under construction.

Wisconsin originally purchased the trains in 2009 from Spanish manufacturer Talgo as part of a plan to construct a high-speed rail line connecting Milwaukee and Madison. Months later, the Obama administration granted Wisconsin $810 million to pay for the rail line.

But the project soon fell apart, according to Wisconsin Public Radio, after the state elected Republican governor Scott Walker, who campaigned on scrapping the rail line.

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No one who watches politics has any doubt that Joe Biden is barely, if at all, running the country. That fact has been true from the beginning of his presidency, and probably long before. Many of us are assuming that Ron Klain with several cohorts in the administration are the ones in charge, making the shocking and ill-conceived decisions for Biden; Biden is just a figurehead. Let me explain why we have effectively, if not formally, become an oligarchy, and the implications of that structure.

A more accurate term would be ‘managerial state’.  If you haven’t read Burnham, now would be a good time to do so.

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The question is: why all this now? Russian fears of Nato encirclement are as old at the organisation itself. According to Vladislav Davidzon, Ukrainian-American author of the original and superb From Odessa with Love, the reason is simple. “High oil prices mean Russia is flush with cash,” he tells me. “After having had a very good 2021, the Kremlin sees this as a decisive moment. They see a weak American president in the White House who has continually talked tough but constantly signalled that he wants a quiet reset of policy.”

He continues: “As soon as Biden took office, the Kremlin started testing him with the initial buildup early last year. Everything since then has confirmed their belief. The Russians think they will never have a better opportunity to reorder things in their favour.”

Democrats in Decline: Poll Finds 14 Point Swing in Party ID Since Biden Took Office

The Mysterious Motive

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Tamiflu’s story would become more complicated as a multiyear effort spearheaded by the British Medical Journal would highlight many problems with clinical transparency that still resonate today. Approval of Tamiflu and subsequent billions spent by world governments stockpiling it for a potential swine flu pandemic was all based upon recommendations by the CDC, WHO, and EMA. None of which ever actually vetted the primary data and took it at face value. A Cochrane review would conclude after a four-year legal fight to obtain the primary data that there was no clear evidence to support the claims that Tamiflu improved influenza complications or infections but did raise concerns about side effects like nausea, vomiting, headaches, hallucinations, and depression.

Boy, that sure sounds familiar.

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Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall plans to introduce legislation named after the nation’s top doctor after he made headlines for name-calling on a hot mic.

Marshall’s bill, called the Financial Accountability for Uniquely Compensated Individuals – or FAUCI Act – will require that the Office of Government Ethics provide a list of all confidential filers within the government whose financial disclosures are not public, per Fox News.

White House climate and environment adviser scrutinized for possible ethics violations

Convicted murderer arrested after crossing US-Mexico border illegally

Inflation surges 7% in December, highest rate in 40 years

NBC Calls Out Biden’s Wrong Inflation Predictions, ABC & CBS Ignore

Joe Biden, Civil Rights Warrior?

How This Labor Department Nominee Threatens 59 Million Workers

Bill Gates Flip Flops After Turning Omicron ‘FUD’ Up To ’11’

4 Takeaways From Heated COVID-19 Senate Hearing Featuring Another Fauci-Paul Clash

China Halts Some US Flights As Omicron Wave Spreads

Freedom is Slavery

ABC Suggests Sen. Rand Paul Is Responsible for Threats Against Dr. Fauci

Vaccine Mandates Are A Driver Of Wage Inflation

US Apartment Occupancy Hits Record High After COVID-Fueled Migration

Welcome to the Hive!

Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

Did Fauci Start the Pandemic?

How long can I keep using the same N95 respirator mask? Here’s what Bay Area experts say (S.F. Chronicle) Release your inner Californian!

Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in Britain, US (Associated Press) But you still need to PANIC!

Two Years Is Long Enough

Europe’s FDA Warns Against Vaccine Boosters, Expresses Concerns Over Immune Response

“Doomed To Fail” – Top Immunologist Blasts Global COVID Response Driven By “False Propaganda”

NCAA Recognizes Natural Immunity In Definition Of ‘Fully Vaccinated’

Quebec Government Becomes World’s 1st To Impose Steep “Health Tax” For Unvaxxed Citizens

4-year old w/leukemia evicted from Ronald McDonald House due to vaccine status

Marine researcher: COVID-19 virus made in Chinese lab as bat vaccine

Fact-Checking 6 Claims From Biden’s Voting Rights Speech

Former Border Commissioner: “We Have Lost Control Of The Southwest Border”

Inflation isn’t Biden’s fault. And he can’t solve it, either. (Washington Post)

More than 47,000 migrants released into US by Biden admin in 2021 failed to report to ICE  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Education Secretary Allegedly Solicited Letter From National School Boards Association Comparing Parents to Domestic Terrorists

Biden Job Approval Plummets To 33% As Majority Think US Democracy ‘In Danger Of Collapse’

Biden’s COVID Test Rule Could Cost Insurance Companies Up To $20 Billion A Month

Are You A “Terrorist”? Take This 50 Question Quiz And Find Out!

How Biden’s Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Threatens ‘Renewed US-Canada Partnership’

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An obscure agency within the Biden administration, the Pretrial Services Agency, announced an Orwellian tracking scheme on Tuesday that could serve as a model for the entire US government to collect the names and “personal religious information” of federal employees who make “religious accommodation requests for religious exception from the federally mandated vaccination requirement,” according to the Daily Signal.

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Video shows Ray Epps, among other things, encouraging unlawful entry into the Capitol building, yet he has never been prosecuted. Why?

Under Ted Cruz’s repeated questioning, Ms. Sanborn repeatedly states, “I can’t answer that.” I suppose she hopes you will think that she is saying that she does not know. However, she precedes the litany of “I can’t answer that” responses by saying that she is “can’t go into sources and methods….” What does that tell us? Her “I can’t answer that” is all about sources and methods, not any lack of knowledge.

As I hear her testimony, her “I can’t answer that” is because it would reveal “sources and methods.” Who sources and methods? The FBI’s, of course. In other words, I hear her answers as essentially admitting that the FBI was involved in encouraging the January 6 unlawful entry into the Capitol building.

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I was awake ridiculously early this morning (like 4 am), and was caught short by the news of the FAA ground stop and landing order for air traffic in the western U.S. yesterday in hair trigger response to a North Korean test launch of a hypersonic missile. The FAA’s statement left things pretty vague as to why. I note the mainstream media caught up with this unusual story today, but as usual offer superficial accounts.

The ground stop and landing order (similar to the landing order of 9/11) only lasted a few minutes and was quickly cancelled, but I am wondering about the linkages and protocols between NORAD and the FAA’s air traffic control system. It doesn’t seem there was much time lapse. Maybe this is just part of the post-9/11 world. But I also wonder if there is something we aren’t being told. Why would the government order a total ground stop and landing order for the west coast in response to a single missile launch? I can think of a few plausible reasons, but I can also think of some others that are less reassuring.

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BRAAAAAAAINS!

In pivot to voting rights, Biden risks falling short on a second big goal (Washington Post)

Coalition of Georgia voting rights groups won’t attend Biden’s speech in Atlanta (CNN)

Kamala Harris channels Jimmy Carter, blames American ‘malaise’ for Biden’s woes

VP Harris’ new comms director said George W. Bush ‘stole’ election from Gore, was ‘illegitimate’

#BareShelvesBiden trends on Twitter as shoppers encounter desolate grocery store aisles: ‘Apocalypse Now’

Bipartisanship is out for Biden. It’s about time. (Washington Post)

Report: State and Local Governments Spent $5.6 Million on Lawyers for Illegal Immigrants

‘Urgent Reset Needed’: Democratic Insiders Come Forward To Admit Biden Admin Has ‘Gone Backwards’ On COVID Policy

Biden Boasts About Voting Rights, But Scarborough Mocks Stacey Abrams Fleeing Him!

House Republicans Release Damning Fauci Emails Suggesting Concealed Knowledge Of Lab Leak

DOJ Creates Specialized Unit For Domestic Terrorism Amid Attempts To Dub Jan.6 “Worse Than 9/11”

Djokovic’s positive PCR test was manipulated

Biden Seeking Advice From Russia Hawks On How To Handle Ukraine Talks

Biden Admin To Reduce Oil Leasing in Alaska  Energy crisis? What energy crisis?

Biden’s Education Secretary Allegedly Requested ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Letter From School Boards Group

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A reasonable precaution until the Powers That Be determine where it was headed. If we need to trigger our ballistic missile defense system, minimizing the number of Innocent Bystanders is alway a good idea.

Which agency ordered the ground stop remains a mystery. North American Aerospace Defense Command spokeswoman Pamela Kunze told CNN on Tuesday that the order was not national and that a regional air traffic control facility might have issued the ground stop.

That statement contradicts what airport officials and pilots heard at the time, sources reported.

San Diego International Airport spokeswoman Sabrina LoPiccolo told Newsweek that air traffic controllers informed airport officials of a national ground stop order at about 2:30 p.m.

“We really don’t have any more details,” LoPiccolo said.

CNN reported that an air traffic controller cited “a national ground stop” in ordering a Cessna pilot to land.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The CDC and other government agencies grossly overhyped the covid epidemic. Many suspect that this was done intentionally, in order to drive President Trump from office. The best argument against this hypothesis is that foreign government agencies were nearly as panic-stricken as our own.

The Minnesota Department of Health maintains an extraordinary volume of records relating to every death that occurs within the jurisdiction. These data include not only the entire contents of the death certificate, but information as to who found the body, the address and phone number of the funeral parlor, and much more–a spread sheet with over 250 fields in total. I bought the complete MDH mortality records for 2020 and the first half of 2021, had one of my staff members slim the spread sheet down to the relevant fields, and printed all the records where the death certificate included the words “covid,” “sars-2,” etc. I then spent some time reviewing these thousands of records.

If you follow this simple procedure, you immediately realize two things: 1) most “covid deaths” involve people who have already lived longer than the average life expectancy in our state, and 2) when you look at the various maladies listed on the death certificates, in a large majority of cases covid was the least of the decedent’s problems. In many if not most instances, it seems a marvel that the person was still living so as to catch the coronavirus.

Chicago Schools Close For 4th Day As Anti-Science Teachers’ Union Refuses To Budge

COVID-19 Omicron Variant Resistant to Monoclonal Antibodies – But Neutralized by Vaccine Booster

Omicron 105% more transmissible than Delta, say French scientists

How to hold unvaccinated Americans accountable (The Hill) Accountable for what? Deciding not to PANIC?

Federal agencies prepare to act against unvaccinated employees (The Hill)

Study Finds Supreme Court Has Now Shared More COVID Misinformation Than Your Crazy Facebook Aunt Babylon Bee.

Povidone Iodine (PVP-I) Oro-Nasal Spray: An Effective Shield for COVID-19 Protection for Health Care Worker (HCW), for all

ABC’s Karl TORCHES Biden Over COVID Testing Failures

AOC Accuses COVID Virus Of Just Wanting To Date Her  Babylon Bee.

Almost Half Of New York COVID-19 Hospitalizations Not Due To COVID-19

California Folds; Says Asymptomatic COVID-Positive Health Workers Can Get Back To Work Amid Shortages

We Have Ways of Making You Vax

Jay Sekulow Explains Vaccine Mandate Cases Before Supreme Court

European Leaders Double Down On Demonizing Unvaxx’d But Jabs Fail To Stop Transmission

The Cure For COVID Is Turning Off The TV

Australian Gov’t Weighs Whether To Bar Djokovic For 3 Years After Judge Orders Immediate Release

Stelter Decries Media ‘Doomsday Doctors’ Spreading COVID ‘Panic Porn’  That’s a change.

Pfizer Promises Omicron Vaccine Will Be Ready In Time For Their Q1 Earnings Report  Babylon Bee

The Six Stages of the “Pandemic”

‘The View’ Spreads COVID Misinformation, Defends Sotomayor’s Falsehoods

The Only Way for Unvaccinated Workers to Work in NYC is to Become Artists

Rachel Bovard Challenges Social Media on Now-Credible COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’

ZMan speaks truth to power.

The little light on the dashboard of your car telling you that you are too close to another car and the warnings about drinking the contents of the shampoo bottle are all part of the custodial state and they come with a cost. The federal government spent over six trillion dollars in fiscal year 2021. That is 30% of the GDP. State and local government spent another three trillion. Roughly half of the U.S. GDP is consumed with the cost of governance. This is true throughout the West.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has tested positive for Covid-19, less than one week after she was spotted partying maskless at a crowded bar in Miami.

Biden Admin Cuts Florida’s Weekly Monoclonal Shipment In Half  God forbid that Ron Desantis should be successful at anything.

The Hunter Connection? Kazakh Security Chief Arrested For Treason Was “Close Friends” With Bidens

Cyprus reportedly discovers a Covid variant that combines omicron and delta (CNBC) So I guess it’s once again TIME TO PANIC!

A rough week for Bay Area schools, as sickouts, closures persist amid omicron surge (S.F. Gate)

Vaccine Scientist Banned From LinkedIn

Funny Business With Vax Numbers in Bavaria

COVID Vaccines Do Disrupt Menstrual Cycles, New Study Reveals

Iowa Nursing Home Operator Forced Into Bankruptcy By “Crippling” Staff Shortages

Flee in Terror — The Next Variant Has Arrived!

Covid Mortality In Europe

UK Scientist Says Omicron Is “Ray Of Light” That Could Help Transform COVID Into Common Cold

CDC Director Sheepishly Admits Justice Sotomayor Issued COVID Misinformation On Hospitalized Kids

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Sen. Joe Manchin has yanked his proposal for a $1.8 trillion compromise on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan off the table, according to reports — potentially the final nail in the coffin of the Democratic Party’s signature social-spending agenda.

The Lesson Of COVID: When People Are Anxious, Isolated, & Hopeless; They’re Less Ready To Think Critically

The first thing to do when you feel omicron variant symptoms (Deseret News) Right after you PANIC!

Omicron forces crippling closures for small businesses (NBC) No, GOVERNMENT forces crippling closures for small business.

CDC director blames ‘fast-moving science’ after being confronted with memes attacking agency’s credibility  GOTTA DANCE….!

Nets Hide Liberal Justice Sotomayor Spreading COVID Misinformation  And Justice Kagan likewise. This is what happens when Democrats put affirmative-action tokens on the bench.

Watch: McDonald’s Kiosk Denies Man Service Over Vaccine Status

British Military Deploys 200 People To London Hospitals As Staffing Shortages Bite

UK Gov’t Admits Evidence For Face Masks Stopping COVID Spread In Schools “Not Conclusive”

Moderna CEO Scrambles To Sell More Boosters As Omicron Wave Shows Signs Of Waning  If you want to know what’s behind the ‘news’, follow the money.

WA State ‘Health Leaders’ Propose a Police State

Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination

Omicron Could End Up Being Less Deadly Than Seasonal Flu; New US Study Finds  But the Crust would still rather you PANIC!

Chicago Parents Sue Teachers Union Over Refusal To Educate In-Person

Nutty NY Times Orders ‘Dangerous’ Athletes: Cease Dissent, Get With Vax Program

VP Harris’ new comms director suggested Biden ‘Dazed and confused,’ slammed Trump for ‘janky science vaccine’  If this is here ‘communications director’, I can see why she’s having problems.

Harris’ new communications director apologizes for tweets on ‘undocumented folks’

Did Biden just declare a civil war on Americans? Sure sounded like it to me.

Congressmen Say Biden Withholding Deportations Report To Cover Up Extent of Border Crisis

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Two of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates came before the Supreme Court for oral argument yesterday, one arising under OSHA and the other arising under the auspices of HHS. I thought the first of these cases raised the question of administrative law regarding the lawful scope of agency authority in an unusually pure form. Listening to the oral argument in NFIB v. OSHA, however, I have been disabused of the notion.

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The case is apparently a vehicle for low-definition yammering of the kind to which we have grown accustomed on cable news. Indeed, three of the justices appear to get their understanding of related facts from cable news. If there is a question of principle in the case, it has been lost somewhere in the allegedly thinning layer of ozone.

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Yet another reason not to fly.

Can you get the omicron variant twice? (Deseret News) Maybe not if you PANIC!

Could microclots help explain the mystery of long Covid? (The Guardian) Anyway, better PANIC!

These Supreme Court arguments are about far more than vaccine mandates (CNN)

Supreme Court is set to review Biden’s vaccine rules for businesses, health-care workers. Here’s what to know. (Washington Post) The WaPo is all about telling you what to know … and think.

Big push for Californians to switch to N95 or KN95 masks as Omicron surge worsens KA-CHING!

COVID live updates: Oakland teachers plan sickout for Friday (S.F. Chronicle) Look for … the Union label….

Navy discharges first sailors for declining COVID-19 vaccine

How vaccine mandates became a political weapon

Judge Rejects FDA’s 75 Year Delay On Vax Data, Cuts To Just 8 Months

Unvaxxed Aussies Told They Won’t Be Allowed To Exercise Or Go To Work

Chicago Cancels School For Third Straight Day Amid Standoff With Teachers Union

Czech Tennis Pro Voracova Joins Djokovic In Australian Immigration Detention, Leaves Country

Mayo Clinic Fires 700 Unvaccinated Employees Weeks After Nurses’ Warning  Apparently virtue-signaling has a higher priority than patient care. Good to know.

Malone Maligned: Big Tech Censors mRNA Pioneer Over Vaccine Safety

South African Researchers Say Omicron Might Mark The End Of COVID Pandemic  Not if Democrats have anything to say about it.

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Harry Reid was one of the most corrupt, hyper-partisan, mendacious, and dishonest people ever to disgrace the United States Senate – a Senate that contained, remember, Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd.

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A federal district court judge granted the Biden administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by more than 20 Republican attorneys general challenging the Keystone XL pipeline’s permit revocation.

Judge Jeffrey Brown, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, ruled that he couldn’t determine the constitutionality of President Joe Biden’s action because TC Energy, the pipeline’s developer, had abandoned the project. On June 9, TC Energy announced its intention to permanently halt construction of the pipeline, saying it would focus on other projects.

This is bullshit. Of course it abandoned the project — THE PIPELINE PERMIT WAS CANCELLED. What were they supposed to do, hang around and hope?