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The House’s vote to hold Mark Meadows in contempt has presented the Department of Justice (DOJ) with the question of whether to prosecute the former White House chief of staff, forcing it to weigh the major legal and political consequences that could come with breaking from longstanding executive branch policy.

The DOJ’s stance for decades, throughout both Democratic and Republican administrations, has been to support testimonial immunity for the president’s close advisers when faced with congressional subpoenas — the very policy Meadows and his attorneys have pointed to as he refused to show up for a deposition.

Charging Meadows with contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 Select Committee would represent a departure from that historical trend and poses more complicated considerations for the department than its decision to prosecute Stephen Bannon, who was not a White House official when he helped Trump sow distrust in the 2020 election results.

“For several decades, DOJ has taken the view that close advisers to the president are absolutely immune from congressional subpoena — that Congress has no ability to force them to testify,” said Jonathan Shaub, a constitutional law professor at the University of Kentucky. “That’s the doctrine DOJ most has to grapple with in deciding whether to prosecute.”

Biden Administration Sanctions Mail-Order Abortion. Here’s How the Move Endangers Women.

Scarborough: Angry Democrats Pushing Manchin Into Arms of GOP

Biden Racializes Health Care

Highly vaccinated countries thought they were over the worst. Denmark says the pandemic’s toughest month is just beginning. (Washington Post) Really fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Danish government proposes new curbs to combat Omicron (Reuters)

Beware of these 5 early omicron symptoms, study says

NYT’s Editorial Demands Pro Sports Shutdowns, Fan Vaccinations  Everyone must toe the line!

Anthony Fauci, Political Thug

S.Africa says vaccines, prior infection help mildness of Covid cases

Italian Ambulance Driver: The Vaxed End up in ICU

Vax Fatigue Strikes Israel

Watch: Fauci Says Don’t Have Family Over At Christmas Unless They Are Vaxxed

OSHA Vaccine Mandate Heads To The Supreme Court

Fauci Says Mask Should Still Be Worn, Even If Vaccinated/Boosted Against COVID-19

Progressive Family Leaves Milk, Cookies, And Rapid COVID Test For Santa  Babylon Bee.

South African Officials Advise End To Contact-Tracing, Quarantining Because Most Don’t Experience Any Symptoms

Progressive Church Tells Young Unvaccinated Couple Stuck Out In The Cold That There’s No Room

Fauci’s War on Science: The Smoking Gun

Meet The Scientists Hunting For The Next Variant Of Concern

Fudging the Numbers

Omicron forces wave of closures nationwide as Biden warns winter of ‘death’ encroaching

Rockettes cancel rest of season as New York records largest one-day Covid tally (NBC) Guess those mask mandates and lockdowns really work, huh.

Defiance of Gov. Hochul’s mask mandate grows as all of LI refuses to enforce it

OSHA vaccine mandate penalties to start Jan. 10

Finding Strength Along A Post-COVID Fury Road

Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID deaths surpass 2020

Moderna’s COVID Vaccine 4 Times More Likely To Cause Heart Inflammation Than Pfizer’s: Study

Emails Expose Fauci, Collins Collusion To ‘Smear’ Anti-Lockdown Scientists

Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Can Trigger a Winter of Lockdowns

The Great Supply Chain Collapse

Pfizer Pushes Third Vaccine Dose For Kids 5 And Under  KA-CHING!

How severe are Omicron Infections?

Senator Elizabeth Warren Tests Positive For COVID-19

The Omicron variant in Denmark

Why Don’t People “Trust The Science?” Because Scientists Are Often Caught Lying  Especially on the way to the bank.

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The Democrats’ media adjunct of course not only joined in the campaign to pressure Manchin, it also blamed him for the Biden’s failure to achieve passage of the bill (tweet below). This is classic. The Democrat press is not only stupid, it is the cause of stupidity in others. It isn’t clear to me that Kyrsten Sinema has signed off on the shapeshifting Bummer Beyond Belief, but Manchin is one of at least 51 Senators who have found it wanting.

Charlamagne Tha God, Harris get into heated exchange after question about who ‘real president’ is (The Hill)

Texas to Build Permanent Border Wall ‘In a Matter of Days,’ Land Commissioner Says

As Sports Face Potential Shutdowns, Clay Travis Accuses Biden of COVID Lies.

Journos Blame Trump for Biden’s Low Approval, Claim Joe Gets ‘Worse’ Press  All Trump1 All the time!

Even CNN Isn’t Buying It: Kamala Claims She Doesn’t Think About Whether Biden Will Run in ’24

Federal appeals court allows Biden vaccine mandate for large companies to resume

Here’s what Dr. Fauci thinks about flying and going to holiday parties as omicron spikes (CNBC)

We Know A Lot More About Omicron Now. It’s Not Good News. (BuzzFeed)

California orders statewide mask requirement starting Wednesday amid rising coronavirus cases (LA Times)

‘This Is a Whole New Animal:’ NY Reports Highest Single-Day Case Total of Pandemic (NBCNewYork)

Anti-Vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s House Party Guests Told to Get Vaccinated Before Coming (Daily Beast)

How a Kennedy built an anti-vaccine juggernaut amid COVID-19 (Boston Globe)

Peter Navarro Is Anthony Fauci’s Worst Nightmare

Growing Number Of Companies And Organizations Are Walking Back Vaccination Requirements

A Long Goodbye to Covid

Partisan Dems claim Trump intentionally undermined pandemic response

Boeing suspends vaccine mandate for U.S. employees

Ex-Pro Demands Probe Into Soccer Players Suffering Heart Problems

South Africa: Only 1.7% Hospitalised From Omicron

CNN Doctor: Wear Masks At Home And Take Tests On Christmas Morning

“The Truth Is, We Have No Idea” – CDC Data Missed Millions Of Unvaccinated Americans

Richard Easton: Shameful Attitude of a Church in Princeton, NJ

White House To Unvaxx’d: “You’re Looking At A Winter Of Severe Illness And Death”

Driving the Wrong Way on the COVID Highway?

A Tale of Two Carolinas

Covid super-immunity: one of the pandemic’s great puzzles

Senate Parliamentarian Nixes Immigration Plans From $2T Biden Bill

Abandoned: Networks Bury Biden’s Border Crisis in November as Coverage Drops to ZERO

Four Months After Withdrawal, Biden Admin Doesn’t Know Identities of Afghan Refugees Resettled in US  Why would they care?

Democrats Dump ‘Build Back Better,’ Pivot to Useless Extremism

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After Black Lives Matter protesters last year demanded that cities “Defund the Police,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed held a press conference to announce that her city would be one of the first to do exactly that. Breed announced $120 million in cuts to the budgets of both San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments. A spokesperson for the police officers’ union warned the cuts “could impact our ability to respond to emergencies,” but the police chief assured the public that the cuts “will not diminish our ability to provide essential services.”

Yesterday, Breed reversed herself in dramatic fashion, announcing that she was making an emergency request to the city’s Board of Supervisors for more money for the police to support a crackdown on crime, including open air drug dealing, car break-ins, and retail theft. The plan contains much of what the California Peace Coalition, which Environmental Progress and I cofounded last spring, has been demanding, including in a series of protests by parents of homeless addicts, parents of children killed by fentanyl, and recovering addicts.

A tantalizing clue to why omicron is spreading so quickly (NPR)

Cruz lambasts United CEO at hearing over employee mandate (CNN)

California allows San Francisco to maintain existing COVID-19 masking rules (NPR)

Omicron evades Moderna vaccine too, study suggests, but boosters help (NPR)

UK reports highest number of daily Covid cases since the pandemic began (CNBC)

Doctor Who Discovered Omicron Covid-19 Variant Says UK ‘Panicking Unnecessarily’

13 New York Counties Refuse to Enforce New Mask Mandate

LA District Postpones Vaccine Mandate As Thousands Of Students Remain Unvaxx’d

You Will Never Be “Fully Vaccinated”

UK Suffers Record Jump In Daily COVID Cases As EU Warns Pandemic Could Last 2-3 More Years  And then two or three more years after that….

Needle-free COVID-19 vaccine is in human trials

CEOs Of Southwest, American Airlines Question Need For Masks On Planes  Yet another reason not to fly.

YouTube Censors Bombshell Joe Rogan Interview With Cardiologist Peter McCullough

SARS-Cov-2 Lab Leak in Taiwan Confirmed

CDC Advisory Panel To Meet On Severe Condition Linked To J&J’s COVID Vaccine

It’s Holiday Season. Time for Another COVID-19 Pandemic Panic?

Trump’s quest for more powerful shower heads is over (Washiogton Post) All Trump! All the time!

Janet Yellen Falsely Advertises Build Back Better in Memo to Senate

WOW: CNN Forced to Admit Joe Biden’s Crumbling Approval Ratings

Hiding the Body: Nets Ignore Death of Build Back Better Agenda

TSA Is Allowing Illegal Migrants To Board Commercial Flights Without Proper Identification, Texas Rep. Alleges

Biden Administration Offers Bonuses to Doctors Who Implement ‘Anti-Racism Plans’

Biden Agenda Crumbles After Manchin Nukes Child Tax Credit; Will Try Again In 2022

Dana Milbank’s ‘Study’ of Anti-Biden Bias Is Hot Garbage

Covid postponements begin hitting American sports

California Imposes Statewide Mask Mandate On Your Mom Because She Ugly Babylon Bee.

Will I inhale coronavirus at this restaurant? There’s an app for that

Norway Bans Booze To ‘Slow The Spread’ Of Omicron

Senior Cardinal Warns Elites Ushering In “Total Control Surveillance State” Through COVID

Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines

COVID: Suspension of the 15-minute wait after vaccination with mRNA vaccine

Watch: Third Pro Soccer Player In A Week Experiences Severe Chest Pain During Game

UK Lawmakers Told COVID Likely “Engineered” In Wuhan Lab

YouTube CENSORS Joe Rogan Interview with Consultant Cardiologist on COVID-19 Narrative

Fauci Says “No Need” For Omicron-Specific Vaccine

Impeach Fauci

Google to Fire All Unvaccinated Employees  “Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Party Line; Oh I never will desert you, for I love this life of mine.”

Twitter To Punish Users Who Correctly Claim That Vaccinated Individuals Can Still Spread COVID-19  “Truth is what the Party says it is, comrade, no more, no less.”

CDC: Healthy Lifestyle No Substitute For Booster Shot  Well, we shall see.

Apple closing multiple retail stores across U.S. and Canada due to COVID-19 spread

On CNN, David Frum Defends Proposal to Push Unvaccinated To Back of Emergency-Care Line

Top Cardiologist Tells Joe Rogan Of “Intentional Plot” To Suppress Early COVID Treatments

New AUTHORITARIAN Twitter Policy to Ban Users for COVID-19 Wrongthink

“Hero” Judge Holds Hospital In Contempt: Give Ivermectin To Dying Woman Or Pay $10,000-A-Day Fine

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Amid the fear, I’m surprised that we haven’t heard more about two drugs that could make COVID-19 much less of a threat.

In blind tests, Pfizer’s Paxlovid was found to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by 89%! It was so effective that Pfizer was advised to stop the tests.

“They halted the clinical trials!” exclaims Michael Cannon, director of health policy at the Cato Institute in my new video.

“They decided it would be unethical (not to give the drug to people in the control group.) But if it’s unethical to deny them the drug, it’s unethical to deny the American public that drug!”

Excellent point. Yet that’s what the Food and Drug Administration is doing. They force us to wait until they’re sure all drugs “meet the agency’s rigorous standards.”

How long might they delay?

“If the FDA is following its current practice,” says Cannon, “it’ll be a matter of months.”

Months is an improvement over the 10 years it usually takes the FDA. During the pandemic, the FDA loosened regulations to get some medicines to people faster.

“(But) we’re still losing thousands of lives unnecessarily,” complains Cannon.

What’s a life or two lost, compared to Following The Rules?

Your tax dollars at work.

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A group of House Republican leaders raised concerns Tuesday about the new climate office created by the Department of Health and Human Services.

It remains unclear what statutory authority, if any, the Department of Health and Human Services’ climate office has and if its mission is “duplicative” of other government programs, two top GOP members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote in a letter to Health Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday.

Automation: More Doctors Being Replaced By Kiosks That Just Play Pfizer Commercials Babylon Bee.

Supreme Court declines to block New York vaccine mandate

Omicron can hit fully vaccinated, Oxford study says, as UK prepares for tidal wave of cases  Really fine ‘vaccines’ you got there, bubba.

California Orders Statewide Indoor Mask Mandate

South Korea To Use Facial Recognition Cameras To Track COVID Cases, Ensure Mask Compliance

Nets Skip Dem Gov. Declaring Covid ‘Emergency Is Over’, Won’t Enforce Masks

Elites Double Down On COVID Quagmire Despite Obvious Signs Of Failure

Pfizer Jab Prevents 70% Of Hospitalizations In South Africa

Pfizer’s COVID Pill Stops Hospitalizations, But Not Milder Symptoms

The Lancet Scolds Those Claiming “Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated”

They’ll Use The Welfare State To Get Compliance On Vaccine Mandates

Pentagon stops implementing vaccine mandate for defense contractors

Old Bathos: Should David Frum Be Denied Medical Care?

Despite Almost 100% Vaxx-Rate, Cornell University Shuts Down Campus As Omicron Case Detected

NFL: Get Booster Shot Or You’re Fired  Wouldn’t it be amusing if the NFL had to return to using white players?

Omicron On Track To ‘Massively Disrupt’ Pro Sports

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

You’d think it would hardly need restating that inflation is chiefly caused by monetary profligacy by the government (especially the Federal Reserve and other central banks that think they can “create” money out of thin air), but the Biden Administration began on an ominous note with Slow Joe proclaiming that “Milton Friedman isn’t in charge any more.” Well, the CPI seems to have something to say about that.

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While the United States faces the greatest immigration crisis in its history, the department of Customs and Border Protection is forcing Border Patrol agents and other staff to undergo “unconscious bias” training, according to reports.

How to close the economic perception gap (Washington Post) It’s just a ‘perception gap’.

Misery Index: New Numbers Show Biden’s Economy Continues to Hit Americans in the Wallet

Joe Biden Spins Tornado Misinformation

Biden’s Delusions Put Us in Danger: Negotiating with Iran

Team Biden’s Taiwan map flap

Biden Admin Stonewalls Congress on Security Screening of Illegal Immigrant Minors, GOP Lawmaker Says

Biden’s approval rating keeps falling

The High Price Of Bidenomics

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I’ve been away from politics, so I had no idea that the Biden admin was flying illegal immigrants into the country. This feels like treason to me, but I guess it is just another day amid the ruins of our Republic. Ron DeSantis, however, is fighting back.

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Chesa Boudin ignores global best practices for crime reduction and is undermining his own goals.

Incompetent Kamala Harris is even worse than you think

Joe Biden: Destroying the Planet

On Inflation: Friday’s 7% Increase In Consumer Prices Is 11% When House Prices Are Added

US Formally Ends Combat Mission In Iraq, But No Troops Are Leaving

NPR Is UPSET: Poll Finds Bad Biden Numbers, Dems Not Getting Credit for Massive Spending

Dems Panic Over ‘Build Back Better’ Impasse As Child Tax Credit Set To Expire

Iranian Terror Group Protected by Biden Aided Him in 2020 Election

Titleist Bans “Let’s Go Brandon” Personalization Of Its Golf Balls

Biden health team ruled out free Covid tests for all over cost, logistics

This Amazon program has funneled thousands to anti-vax activists during the pandemic (Washington Post)

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ends School Mask Mandate

Pfizer Jab Is Only 23% Effective Against Omicron, South African Study Finds

“What is wrong with physicians?”

Hardcore vaccine refuseniks could need deradicalising like terrorists…

German Schoolchildren Subjected To ‘Ritual Humiliation’ Over Their Vaccine Status

Four States Calling In National Guard To Alleviate Healthcare Staffing Crisis

Professor: COP26 Seeded UK Omicron Covid Outbreak

China Creates “Humanized Pigs” To Be Used In COVID Research

Paragon of COVID-19 Wisdom? NBA Getting Ravaged By Pandemic

Hospitalizations, Mortality Cut In Half After Brazilian City Offered Ivermectin To Everyone Pre-Vaccine

New York orders mask mandate for indoor public spaces statewide Time to leave.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58913875 (CNBC)

Pennsylvania’s high court strikes down school mask mandate

COVID-19 A Pandemic Of Fear “Manufactured” By Authorities: Yale Epidemiologist

Unvaxxed In Austria Could Be Imprisoned For A Year

EU Sees Signs That 4th COVID Wave Is Already Slowing

WHO/CDC: Zero Omicron Deaths In The World, Only 1 Hospitalized Across 22 States In US  But you still need to wear a mask.

Navy Destroyer #2 Officer Fired Over Refusal To Get Covid-19 Vax Or Tested  Time to leave.

Border agents crushed after Senate Democrats confirm controversial Biden CBP nominee: ‘He’s pretty much hated’

Biden halts US funding for new fossil fuel projects overseas

CNN Tries to Spin Terrible Inflation News as ‘Sign of a Really Strong Economy’

Poll Finds Public Confidence In ‘Woke’ Military Is In Free Fall

CNN Hits Biden From The Left, Says No Plan to Protect Democracy  The term ‘democracy’, as used in the Narrative Media, means ‘vote fraud by Democrats’.

Scared Former NY Times White House Reporter Begs Media Dems: Go Easy on Biden!

Inflation Surges Near 40-Year High, Wages Aren’t Keeping Up

53 die in horror crash of truck smuggling migrants in Mexico

Biden and Harris acted as ‘accomplices to a race hoax’ by amplifying Jussie Smollett’s claims

Migrant caravan brings highway in central Mexico to stand still

Biden’s Bill Should Be Called ‘Build Beijing Back Better,’ Mike Pence Says

University Shielding Biden’s Records Must Provide More Information Justifying Decision: Court

Inflation Surges to 40-Year High

Meet Rachel Rollins

Biden Megadonor Scores $500 Million Federal Loan for Solar Company

Biden Supported Stripping Atlanta of All Star Game; Beijing Not so Much

Covid-19 patients at this hospital are dying ‘at a rate we’ve never seen die before’ — and it’s taking a toll on health care workers (CNN) TIME TO PANIC!

Omicron in Oakland: How a Wisconsin wedding with ‘super responsible’ vaccinated people led to outbreak

Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Covid-19 Vaccination in US Vaccine Safety Datalink

ALERT: Biden on Track To Surpass Trump in COVID Deaths by Year’s End

Illinois Bill Proposes To Strip Unvaxxed Of Their Health Insurance

Whither Superspreader Events?

NY Judge Sides Against Scientist Father, Rules 11-Year-Old Daughter Must Get Vaxxed

Maine Governor Activates National Guard To Help At Hospitals After Mandate Forced Out Hundreds

EU Members Plan To Bring Back Vaccine Passport, Require Booster Shots

Sweden & Germany: No Deaths In Children Due To COVID

This chewing gum traps the coronavirus

SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an inflammatory response  So don’t be fat.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Senate issues rebuke of Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate’

Senate votes to overturn Biden vaccine mandate for businesses

Jordan Klepper Moves on From MAGA World to Expose the Anti-Vax Left (Daily Beast)

BoJo Unveils “Plan B” Restrictions As Omicron Cases Top 500 While Deaths Linger At Zero

Pfizer Says 3 Doses Of Its Jab Can “Neutralize” Omicron Variant  KA-CHING!

Bill Gates Believes “Acute Phase” Of Pandemic Will Finally End In 2022

Tester To Join Manchin In Striking Down OSHA Vaccine Mandate

Explosion In New Heart Conditions Dismissed As “Post Pandemic Stress Disorder”

Healthcare Chief Says Omicron “May Signal The End Of COVID-19”

“Absolutely Appalling”: Mother Says LA School Vaccinated Son Without Consent, Bribed With Pizza

FDA Says It Now Needs 75 Years To Fully Release Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Data  What are they trying to hide? Hmm?

Chinese Virologist Says Communist Regime Targeted Her for Exposing COVID-19 Origin

New Zealand Prime Minister Admits “There’s Not Going To Be An End Point To This Vaccination Program”

Are You Still Fully Vaccinated?

Maryland Man Charged After Allegedly Distributing Hundreds Of Fake Vaccine Cards

TV Show Mysteriously Deletes Poll After Vast Majority Oppose Mandatory Vaccination

COVID Fact-Check: “ICUs Are Filled With The Unvaccinated”

Professor Says COP26 Climate-Change Summit Could Have Been Omicron Super-Spreader Event

How Many New Yorkers Are At Risk Of Losing Their Job Over De Blasio’s Vaxx Mandate?

Norwegian COVID Experts Says Omicron Could Provide “Best Scenario” Of “Natural Immunity”

Fauci: Definition Of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Will Be Changed

Traveling Nurses Triple Salaries As Hospitals Struggle With National Staffing Crisis

‘Her failing is not an option’ — Harris convenes Black women and charts the path ahead (Politico)

Kamala Harris is on to something: AirPods are bad (The Guardian)

Nate Silver savages media study claiming harsher treatment of Biden compared to Trump: ‘Complete crap’

Watch: Psaki Snaps When Pressed On Hunter Biden’s ‘Laptop From Hell’ 

Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Does What He Intended: Nothing

Comrade Down: Socialist Nominee for Bank Regulator Drops Out

Kamala, On the Job!

Nets Skip Biden’s Court-Packing Pipedream Ending With a Whimper

Kamala Harris ‘elevated above her ability’ as office turmoil ensues  Well, that’s what happen s when someone is picked for her gender and skin color rather than qualifications.

Kamala Harris described as a ‘bully’ and ‘soul-destroying’ boss

Trump Lost the Presidential Battle but Won the Immigration War (Daily Beast)

Dems plot escape from Biden’s poll woes (Politico)

Joe Biden’s War Against Alaska Benefits Russia

Kamala Stopped FBI From Monitoring Black Supremacists Like Waukesha Killer

Biden Bureaucrats Quietly Increase Federal Government’s Control Over Health Care

Deportations Plummet 90 Percent on Biden’s Watch

Biden Judicial Commission Rejects Court Packing, Term Limits

SURPRISE! CNN Scoop Exposes Biden WH Trying to Shape Econ Coverage in Its Favor

‘Just Unacceptable’: Bipartisan Senate Report Criticizes HHS Over Shelters for Migrant Children

Judge Blocks Biden’s Nationwide Vax Mandate For Federal Contractors

Avengers Announce Diplomatic Boycott Of Thanos  Babylon Bee.

Paul Mirengoff at Power Line.

This opinion piece in the Washington Post carries the title, “Sotomayor saw she couldn’t sway her colleagues. So she talked to us instead.” The article is by law professor Melissa Murray who clerked for Sotomayor at the appeals court level.

I don’t know whether either proposition in the title is accurate, but I can vouch for the second and third words of the second sentence. Sotomayor talked.

She talked and talked. She talked when counsel for the state of Mississippi tried to answer her questions. Counsel was lucky if he could get ten words out without Sotomayor interrupting him.

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One of the chief scandals of the 2020 election was the manner in which a group of left-wing former intelligence officials, liberal newspapers and television networks, and social media giants conspired to squash information about Joe Biden’s political corruption–information that, later polls suggested, could have cost him the election if voters had been permitted to learn the facts. The true story has now been told in Miranda Devine’s Laptop From Hell, about the treasure trove of documents, photos and videos that conclusively demonstrate not just Hunter Biden’s depravity, but, far more important, Joe Biden’s efforts to extract bribes from the Communist Chinese. As I have said many times, no one has ever bribed Hunter Biden, a pitiful, drug-addled loser who probably would not be employable were his father not an important government official.

During the 2020 campaign, Jen Psaki tried to sell the ridiculous claim that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” while Hunter himself never denied the authenticity of the laptop or the materials it contained. It helps when you control a once free and diverse press.

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Some of California’s largest school districts are dropping D and F grades. Students who don’t learn the material, pass the final exam, or finish homework by the end of the semester would earn an “incomplete” which, I assume, could be converted to at least a “C” later on. Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Sacramento City Unified, San Diego Unified are among the districts that will make this move.

According this article, which gushes over the decision, the goals are to cause students to “re-engage” in school and to boost their chances of acceptance into the state’s public colleges. It is also designed to “especially” help “Black, Latino and low-income students,” according to the same source. Who would have guessed that?

‘Let’s Go Brandon’ store opens in Massachusetts town

Biden to Uyghurs: Drop Dead

Kamala Harris A ‘Soul-Destroying Bully’ Who Lacks Self-Confidence According To Former Staff

Biden Admin Sues Texas for Second Time in Three Months

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A former DC National Guard official has accused two senior Army officials of lying to Congress about the circumstances surrounding the January 6th Capitol riot in order to protect a top Army official who didn’t want to send the Guard to the Capitol, Politico reports.

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The American educational system has been infected by the tyranny of mediocrity for decades. The emphasis on strange and unattainable forms of equality, self-esteem (as opposed to balanced emotional health), and ideology have nullified the possibility of good education. Of course, this is not true of all schools. But generally speaking, schooling in America is an exercise in destructive ideology rather than learning.

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A diplomatic boycott means that no U.S. government officials are attending the Games, but U.S. athletes will still be present.

So it’s just virtue signaling in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

(Where can I apply to get a Diplomatic Boycott of my neighborhood?)

Oregon Health Authority moves to implement ‘permanent’ indoor mask mandate

Watch: Paris Police Check Proof Of Vaccination While Diners Eat

COVID Outbreak On US Cruise Ship Despite Fully Vaxxed Passengers  Really fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

To Deny the “Lab Leak” COVID Theory, the NYT and WPost Use Dubious and Conflicted Sources  Glenn Greenwald.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The issue of leftist indoctrination in the public schools has been with us for a while, but it has exploded into public consciousness during the past year. The main focus has been Critical Race Theory, a toxic compound of racism and anti-Americanism.

Many people are reluctant to believe that the public schools could possibly be as bad as they are being portrayed. Such skepticism is abetted by school officials who generally deny any knowledge of CRT and call it a right-wing conspiracy theory (although a few are honest enough to admit that Critical Race Theory is central to their schools’ curriculum).

Some US Colleges Start Requiring Vaccine Boosters For Students, Staff

Vaccine holdouts in Navy, Marines hit 19,000 as deadline passes to comply with mandate

Breakthrough COVID-19 cases have become more common, underscoring need for boosters, Yale study finds

Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant: a new chapter in the COVID-19 pandemic (Lancet)

Man in Italy uses fake silicone arm to try to get vaccine certificate

Watch: Disturbing Confrontation Inside Australia’s ‘Gold Standard’ COVID Internment Camp Do … you … feel like a Jew?

The Case Against “Vaccinating” Children

The Case For Compulsory Vaccinations Is Dead… Omicron Just Killed It

Aussies Gone Mad  ‘Crocodile Dundee is dead; Pajama Boy now rules.’

So far, Omicron doesn’t seem as lethal as its worst predecessors

Spanish Investigation Finds Vaccine Passports Have No Impact On Infection Rates

WHO: Omicron In 38 Countries, No Deaths Reported  But we have to panic nevertheless.

An FDA Official Demanded Google Censor A YouTube Video The Agency Didn’t Like

What the heck is going on with Kamala Harris? (CNN)

Kamala Harris’ staffers leaving White House in part because they fear being labeled ‘Harris person’: report

U.S. and Mexico reach deal to restart Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ program along border (Washington Post) I guess Trump was right after all.

Stagflation 2021

Biden DHS Withholds Afghan Refugee Report  Most common phrase used by a government employee: “We can’t tell people that!”

Toxins found in disposable face masks may harm humans and the environment (ABC)

The inside story of the Pfizer vaccine: ‘a once-in-an-epoch windfall’ (Financial Times)

New Harvard study declares winner between Pfizer and Moderna vaccines (The Hill)

Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services Suspends Vaccine Mandate Enforcement

FDA Expedites Review Process For Omicron Vaccines And Drugs

World Health Organization Says “No Evidence” Booster Jabs Would Offer “Greater Protection” To The Healthy  But you ought to panic anyway, just to be on the safe side.

Scientists Find “Trigger” For Rare Blood Clots Created By AstraZeneca Jab

Trevor Noah Questions Impartiality Of Moderna CEO, Gets Called “Anti-Vaxxer” By His Own Fans  Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Rand Paul: “Throw Fauci In Prison For Five Years”

Twitter Labels American Heart Association Site Link ‘Unsafe’ After Vax-Warning Study: Report

Australian Woman Recounts Harrowing Experience of Being Held in COVID-19 Quarantine Camp  Do … you … feel like a Jew?

Nevada Becomes First State To Impose Surcharge On Unvaccinated Workers

Washington Post mocks DCCC’s tweet on gas prices: ‘might be the worst defense of the Biden administration yet’

Biden claims to have served as a ‘liaison’ during Six-Day War despite still being in law school at the time

How Stupid Do They Think We Are?

Biden Losing His Grip, Chapter 12,186

Biden’s Covid-19 winter plan

More Bad News for Biden: November Jobs Report is Major Bust  Why work when you can get Free Stuff from Democrats?

Nets Skip Cruel Biden Stocking Stunt: WH Scrooges Erase Hunter’s Child From Christmas

Nonprofit Accused of Breaking Rules Gets $178M Contract to House Migrant Children at Border

Apple Alerts Biden Admin Officials Their Phones Hacked By Israeli Spyware

Biden Bunk Brigade at It Again Today

Biden Blames Big Oil for High Cost of His War on Oil

Biden Nominee To Thwart Foreign Hacking Scored Sweetheart Deal for UAE Hacker

Biden Admin Waives Sanctions on Iran as Nuclear Talks Restart

Del Rio, Texas sees illegal immigrants pour in from around the world

Migrant group traveling from Venezuela found in Big Bend National Park, officials say

Biden repeats debunked claim he ‘used to drive a tractor-trailer’

Pentagon chief says Guard who refuse vaccine cannot train

Biden HHS Awards $77M in Contracts to Nonprofit Cited for Mishandling Children at Border

Biden yanks our supply chain

Paging Maddow: Biden Admin Reaches Deal To Restart Trump’s ‘Inhumane’ Remain In Mexico Policy

Inflation Causing Hardship For 45% Of U.S. Households; Lower-Income Americans Most Affected: Gallup

Omicron will likely ‘dominate and overwhelm’ the world in 3-6 months, doctor says (CNBC) TIME TO PANIC!

Dying COVID-19 Patient Recovers After Court Orders Hospital To Administer Ivermectin

Aussie Police Arrest Teen ‘Fugitives’ Who Escaped From COVID Internment Camp

A Pandemic of the Vaccinated

Large UK Supermarket Chains Refuse To Police “Divisive” Face-Mask Mandates

Unvaccinated Austrians Face Prison Time, Huge Fines For Non-Compliance  Time to leave.

A Microchip Containing Your Vaccine Passport Information Can Now Be Embedded In Your Hand  If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Germany Imposes Strict Curbs On Unvaccinated, Limits Gatherings, Will Mandate Covid Shots

t Starts … HR Asking for Vaccination Documentation

Second US Omicron Case Is Vaccinated Adult Male Whose “Mild Symptoms” Have Fully Resolved

Paul Warns Of Omicron Overreach: “Unscientific Fauci Will Want You To Wear An Extra Mask, Dictate You Can’t Go To Church”

LeBron Tests Positive For COVID, Despite Being Fully Vaccinated  I’m not going to wish the guy any ill, but if he dies I won’t mind too much.

Pfizer Jab & GSK’s Antibody Drug Are Effective Against Omicron

Twitter Slaps ‘Unsafe’ Label On American Heart Association mRNA Vaccine Warning  No cow is sacred.

Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

Over 42,000 Adverse Reaction Reports Revealed In First Batch Of Pfizer Vax Docs

Why Is Omicron Being Treated Like Ebola?

Futures Slide After Five “Mild” Cases Of Omicron Variant Detected In New York

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The emergence and acceptance of Modern Monetary Theory has turned our economic system upside down. Skeptics of its substance and sustainability have been brushed aside temporarily but expect the MMT experiment to collapse and end in ruin. To us that believe in old school economics, debt matters and is tied directly to interest rates and inflation. Central banks across the world claim the lack of inflation is the key force driving their QE policy and permitting it to continue, however, the moment inflation begins to take root much of their flexibility will be lost. This translates into governments being forced to pay higher interest rates on their debt.

The Antiplanner says what everybody knows.

The infrastructure bill was supposed to repair worn out and crumbling infrastructure, but now that it has passed local officials all over the country are eagerly looking forward to spending that money on new projects they won’t be able to afford to maintain.

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Outgoing NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has been widely criticized for seeming and acting out of touch with New Yorkers. And during his final weeks in Gracie Mansion, the intensely unpopular Democratic candidate may unwittingly handicap the already struggling NYC jail Riker’s Island.

To wit, the AP reports that hundreds of city department of corrections’ workers might soon be fired after missing a Tuesday deadline to either get vaccinated or see their waiver approved. The city’s DoC reported 77% of its staff had gotten at least one vaccine dose as of 1700ET on Monday. That’s the lowest rate of any city agency, meaning about 1,900 employees have yet to comply with the mandate or apply for the waiver.

S.F. Mayor Breed appears maskless in another nightclub video. She says she didn’t violate COVID rules

Super athlete refuses vaccine, dies tragically (The Hill) Of course, the way the ‘vaccines’ don’t work, that might have happened anyway.

FDA Advisory Committee Narrowly Votes To Approve Merck’s COVID ‘Miracle Drug’

Australia Will Not Return To Lockdown In Wake Of Omicron Variant: PM

US May Impose New Omicron-Inspired Travel Restrictions As More Cases Confirmed In Canada

Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron  Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Fauci As Darth Vader Of The COVID Wars

Germany’s New Chancellor Says Mandatory Covid Jabs “Necessary” To Contain Fourth Wave

Health Boss Tells Brits Not To Socialise Over Christmas

Greece To Fine Elderly $114 For Every Month They Remain Unvaccinated

How the Corporate Media Launched a Disinformation Campaign to Protect Fauci

Biden Admin Unleashes Omicron Dragnet: CDC Demands Airlines Hand Over Names Of All Southern African Passengers

The Government is still fighting the wrong war on Covid-19  Matt Ridley.

How Big Pharma’s Profiteering Led to the Omicron Variant

Did Someone Break CNBC’s Jim Cramer? Host Calls for Military-Run Universal Vax Mandate

18 Hours of Omicron Chaos at Schiphol Airport

Chinese Researchers Claim To Have Found Antibody ‘Cure’ For COVID  Only fair, since they invented it.

Judge Blocks Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate For Federal Contractors

5 Fun Facts About Failed National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan

Biden’s pandemic history

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Five percent of active-duty Marines have not gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, the military branch says.