New York City Firefighters Union Asks Court to Halt City’s Vaccine Mandate

Top Florida Official Suggests ‘In-N-Out’ Move To Sunshine State After Vaccine Mandate Closures

Air Force is first to face troops’ rejection of vaccine mandate as thousands avoid shots

Employees leave as Austal reaches COVID-19 vaccine deadline

Judge Temporarily Stops Biden Administration From Firing Unvaccinated Workers

FDA Adviser Explains Why He Abstained From Vote On Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine For Kids

Latest Lancet Study Exposes Limits Of Vaccines At Preventing COVID Infection

Gallup Poll: More Than One-Third of Workers Say Employer Requires Vaccine

Up to 12K Air Force Personnel Have Refused Vaccine Orders

Defense Companies Brace For Workforce Loss Due To Vaccine Mandate

Study: Fully Vaccinated People Can Spread COVID-19  Fine vaccine ya got there, really fine.

Effect of early treatment with fluvoxamine on risk of hospitalization for Covid

US Intel Doesn’t Expect to Determine Origins of COVID-19

Firefighters Lash Out on Eve of NYC’s Vaccine Deadline

12,000 Air Force Personnel, Including Elite Pilots, Have Rejected Vax Order As Tuesday Deadline Looms

Sen. Tom Cotton Calls for AG Garland to ‘Resign in Disgrace’ Is there a special form for that?

4 Points to Understanding How Many Americans Are Stranded in Afghanistan

Kamala Harris’s Disregard for the Hatch Act to Keep Virginia Blue

‘Let’s Go Brandon’ rapper Bryson Gray boots Adele out of No. 1 spot with banned anti-Biden song

Caravan of 2,000 migrants presses on toward US border through Mexico And Mexico isn’t doing a thing about it.

ANALYSIS: Sleepy Joe’s Disastrous Four Months

White House Orders Daring Mission Into Afghanistan To Mark Stranded Americans’ Passports As ‘Non-Binary’

Biden Mulls $450K to Illegal Immigrants for Family Separation

Move Over Julia—Here Comes Linda!

Biden Wants To Give Separated Illegal Immigrants $450,000 Per Person

Cracking Down on the Unvaxed

A Maverick Among Socialists

FDNY Firefighters Assoc. President: Keep Working, Ignore Vaccine Mandate

Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19  Cue Narrative Media outrage.

California’s In-N-Out sparks latest pandemic culture war

NYC firefighters union leader tells unvaccinated members to defy mandate

Poll: 5% of Unvaccinated Adults Have Quit Job Due to Vaccine Mandates

US to Fine Unmasked Travelers Up to $85K  YOU WILL OBEY!

Danish Health Minister Threatens To “Shut Down Society” If More People Don’t Get Vaccinated  YOU WILL OBEY!

NYC Firefighters Union Tells Members To Defy Vaccine Mandate; NYPD Union Loses Bid To Halt

SD Gov. Noem Signs Order Protecting State Employees From Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

‘Land Of The Free, Home Of The Brave’ To Be Removed From National Anthem To Encourage Compliance With Vaccine Mandates  Babylon Bee.

The new fluvoxamine results have been published

Inexpensive Antidepressant Slashes COVID-19 Hospitalizations By Over 30%: New Study Finds

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President Biden is going on up to Capitol Hill to rally House Democrats this morning. He is promoting a Spendapalooza “Framework” of $1.75 trillion to bring them all to together.

I have been following the intense cheerleading for the Democrats to come together and get it done at Politico. Politico reports this morning that the $1.75 trillion “includes investments in home care, education and immigration.” They are light on the details, but I feel confident in saying these are not the kind of “investments” that pay dividends. On the contrary.

Any spending that winds up in the pockets of a Democrat is an ‘investment’; which from the point of view of a Democrat politician buying votes with taxpayer money is certainly true.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

One thing about news stories that reflect badly on Democrats: they generally disappear from the news quickly, and without leaving a trace. Like our departure from Afghanistan, an epic failure on the part of the Biden administration that resulted in 13 dead Americans (that we know of), hundreds of Americans still marooned in Afghanistan–assuming they are all still alive–and many thousands of Afghans, mostly unknown, in the U.S. or on the way here.

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When Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week, he told Rep. Jim Jordan that FBI agents will not be attending school board meetings. However, an activist mother in Fairfax, Virginia says the feds did show up at a school board meeting last Thursday, the same day Garland made his statement to Jordan.

 

Dallas Mayor Tests Positive for Breakthrough Case of COVID-19 I guess getting vaccinated, getting boosters, wearing a mask, and being a Democrat really works.

‘No Mandate Monday’ takes hold at California HS

Miller: The Slippery Semantics Of Anthony Fauci

Re-Imposing COVID Restrictions Would Cost UK Up To £18 Billion

Louisiana Lifts Mask Mandate, Except in Schools, as New COVID Cases Decline

Clement and Tribe Predicted the FDA Catastrophe

Bongino Off Radio This Week Over Vaccine Mandate  Biting the hand that feeds him.

Mom to Sue After Son Vaccinated at School Without Consent

Houston Texans Chairman Shamed For Calling COVID “China Virus”

Pfizer Claims Vaccine Will Reduce Average Daily Child COVID Deaths From Almost Zero To Almost Zero  Babylon Bee.

California Shuts Down Another In-N-Out Burger For Refusing To Be “Vaccine Police”

YouTube Exec BRAGS Platform Removed Over 1M Videos of So-Called ‘COVID Misinfo’

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Politico is reporting that Congressional Democrats are pondering major cuts to Medicare Advantage, a system of competing private health plans, to help pay for their massive multitrillion dollar spending bill.

This would be a bad policy. Compared to traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage provides better benefits, lower costs, and higher quality care.

Medicare Advantage is a popular alternative to traditional Medicare. From 2011 to 2020 alone, private plan enrollment grew by 103% compared to overall Medicare growth of 28%. This year, private plans are projected to enroll over 27 million senior and disabled Americans or an estimated 43% of the total Medicare population.

The program’s rapid growth is not hard to explain. It works.

And because it works, Democrats hate it.

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Lithium is prized because it is lightweight and can store lots of energy, making it an important component in batteries for electric vehicles and as reservoirs for excess energy generated by wind turbines and solar panels. Demand for lithium-ion batteries is expected to grow between five- and 10-fold by the end of the decade, and the world must ramp up production quickly to move away from fossil fuels.

This find could contribute to that. But under Maine’s recently enacted mining laws, it’s unclear whether it will ever be extracted.

As always, government is the problem, not the solution.

Biden Eyeing GOP Trump Critic to Oversee Election Security at DHS

Biden Pick Becerra’s Indecent, Indefensible Legal Assault on Nuns, Human Life

CNN’s Smerconish Highlights Illegal Immigrant Caravan Other CNNers Ignore

“Tell Biden We Are Coming”: ‘Mother Of All Caravans’ Headed Towards Texas

Biden Administration Blocks This Sheriff From Detaining Illegal Immigrants

Democrats Use Accounting Gimmicks to Conceal Spending in Bloated ‘Build Back Better’ Bill

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Since 1932, Congress has passed dozens of laws aimed at making rental housing and homeownership more affordable. Many of these laws created new programs while few of the older programs were abolished. As a result, more than two dozen programs remain active today, including programs targeted for specific groups such as seniors, people with disabilities, Native Americans, veterans, and people with HIV.

Migrants push past southern Mexican border city en route to US Mexico doesn’t appear to have tried very hard to prevent this.

Why is Biden so unpopular?

Biden Abandoned Critical Mineral Reserves In Afghanistan While Thwarting Mining At Home

GOP Senator Pressing Biden Admin To Disclose Number of Illegal Immigrants Released into US

2,000 Migrants Continue Trek Through Southern Mexico  And Mexico isn’t doing a damned thing to stop it – and Biden isn’t doing a damned thing to Mexico,

Biden Admin Taps School Board Association Honcho For Post In Wake Of Infamous Letter

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These nine items are just a sampling of the “green” insanity in the bill.

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Why are congressional Democrats breaking welfare again?

In March, they transformed the child tax credit into a monthly child allowance — no work conditions attached. If made permanent, as they are now trying to do, it would be the second-largest expansion of the welfare state in U.S. history.

The credit used to increase as low-income parents worked more. The allowance, however, goes to non-working families. Proponents insist that this giveaway won’t substantially affect low-income parents’ interest in working, but a new study has made it clear: Fewer low-income families will work.

Earlier reports have underestimated the effect of eliminating the Child Tax Credit’s pro-work incentives. But researchers at the University of Chicago have found that 1.5 million workers — 2.6% of all working parents — would exit the labor force if the child allowance is made permanent.

Those who are dependent on government are faithful voters for the Party of Free Stuff.

Child Sacrifice in the US

Rural Canadian pastor spends extra night in jail after refusing condition keeping him from church

Austria Makes Life Difficult for the Unvaccinated

Physicians & The Vaccine Tyranny

EcoHealth Throws NIH Under The Bus Over Wuhan Gain-Of-Function Report; Researcher Claims ‘Massive Cover-Up’

Majority Of Maryland Parents Oppose Vaccine Mandates For Students, Teachers, Survey Says

Nunes, Grenell Call on DOJ to Prosecute Dr. Fauci for Wuhan Testimony  He belongs to the Crust. The motto of the Crust is: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

“Welcome To The Hunger Games”: More Chicago Officers ‘Summoned’ As City Council Mulls Vax Mandate Reversal

Anti-Vax Mandate Demonstrators Attempt to Storm Doors at Brooklyn NBA Arena

Biden widely mocked on social media for bizarre hand gestures

Organized migrant caravan moves toward US, surging past Mexican forces

Biden: Walls for Me But Not for Thee

White House Moving 55K Refugees to US Homes

Trump Slams Response as 2,000 Migrants Continue Walk Through Southern Mexico  There really ought to be some pushback on Mexico for allowing this to go on.

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Oddly enough, despite my captivating, detailed earlier reports, none of you Ricochetti has asked for regular updates on the status of the construction of Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC. So in the true federal government spirit, I will now provide what you apparently don’t want or need and did not request.

Are You Ready For ‘The Mother of All Caravans’?

Our Punchline-in-Chief  Charlie Cooke does the Biden dance.

Biden’s Afghan Debacle: Questions Future Historians Will Ask

Biden Blames Pandemic on Delay of JFK Records

All Records Shattered After 1.7 Million Illegal Immigrants Arrested At Southern Border

State Department Privately Admits ‘Nearly 400’ Americans Still Stuck In Afghanistan

White House details plans to vaccinate 28M children age 5-11 (Associated Press) Who don’t need it, according to The Science.

Arizona AG Seeks Immediate Halt to Federal COVID Vax Mandates

Mutated Strain Of Delta Variant Causing Panic In UK Has Been Found In US

Sweden Suspends Moderna Shot Indefinitely After Vaxxed Patients Develop Crippling Heart Condition

CDC Director Admits “We May Need To Update Our Definition Of ‘Fully Vaccinated'”

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

night should be a source of disquiet and consternation to anyone who cares about the United States. Fielding what must have been screened questions submitted by a friendly invitation-only audience, Biden required a number of clean-ups in aisle 46 back in the White House.

Dominic Green touches on a few particulars in the Spectator column “Biden builds back in the USSR” (my favorite: he couldn’t remember Kyrsten Sinema’s name). Gordon Chang focuses on China in “Joe Biden’s Taiwan Policy Is Now A Total Disaster” (“If there is anything unclear, it is the situation after the clarifications from Biden administration officials: Press Secretary Jen Psaki, State Department spokesperson Ned Price, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. All of them walked back Biden’s statement to CNN”).

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Just days after entering his financial assets into a blind trust to sidestep ethics questions over his failure to disclose stock transactions in a timely manner, New Jersey Democrat Tom Malinowski revealed 86 new financial transactions worth up to $1.97 million that he failed to disclose when he originally made them.

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Gov. Mike Parson escalated his war with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday when his political operation published a video doubling down on his attack against a reporter who informed the state that a state website revealed teacher Social Security numbers.

The video is produced by Uniting Missouri, a political action committee created by Parson supporters to back his 2020 election campaign. The PAC continues to raise and spend large sums of money to promote Parson’s political agenda. It operates without direct input from Parson on its activities.

“The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is purely playing politics,” the ad states. “Exploiting personal information is a squalid excuse for journalism.”

The ad comes less than a week after Parson’s widely criticized demand for an investigation and prosecution of the reporter who discovered the security flaw in a state website, along with “all those involved.” Parson read a statement calling the reporter “a hacker” to reporters gathered outside his Missouri Capitol office last Thursday, then left without taking questions.

No good deed goes unpunished.

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Whenever government regulations get burdensome, businesses will arise that will help people navigate the bureaucratic morass — for a fee. This is how most attorneys and accountants make their living.

There exist a large number of companies whose business model is ‘help prople with their taxes’. (In support of this business model, the government tax bureaucracy maximizes its natural inclination to be no help whatsoever.)  Intuit is one such.

In the struggle  between reformers who want to make dealing with government easier and businesses who make their living from helping people deal with government, which do you think will win? (Hint: Which side has money to contribute to legislators’ re-election campaigns?)

San Francisco shuts down In-N-Out for not enforcing jab mandate: ‘We refuse to become the vaccination police’

Covid anger drives recall election targeting 3 San Francisco school leaders (Politico)

Dozens Of Top Nuclear Scientists With “Highest Security Clearances” Being Fired From Los Alamos Lab After Vax Mandate

India’s big four services giants wrestle with staff attrition amid COVID-19 pandemic

More Than 180 San Francisco City Officials, Including Police And Sheriff Employees, Placed On Leave For Not Being Vaccinated

More Covid Vaccine Boosters Are Coming. Who Should Get Them?

White House Details Plans to Vaccinate 28M Children Age 5-11  Who, according to ‘the science’, don’t need it.

Judge Rejects Florida Husband’s Attempt to Force Hospital to Use Ivermectin to Treat COVID

COVID Delta Subvariant Confirmed in US, Israel

New York City to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine for Entire City Workforce

NYPD’s Largest Union Suing NYC Over Vaccine Mandate

Experts Warn That If Children Between The Ages Of 5-11 Aren’t Vaccinated Then Pfizer Executives Won’t Get Their Sales Bonuses  Babylon Bee.

Apple again ramps up COVID-19 testing requirements for unvaccinated employees

Biden’s Energy Secretary Violated Hatch Act, Watchdog Says

Under the Radar: Nets Skip Biden’s Secret Night Flights for Illegals

Psaki yanks our supply chain

Did Anyone Miss the Transportation Secretary?

Border Patrol Arrests Hit Record Levels

Christian Group Sues Biden Administration Over Transgender Surgeries

The Bidens: Corrupt or crazy?

Biden’s Ambassador Nominee Changes Tune on ‘War of Words’ Between US, China

Spencer Kalvan.

Let us now praise Jennifer Rene Psaki—English major, sorority girl, mother of two. Let us praise her seemingly endless supply of monochrome crew-neck blouses and pencil skirts, the way she peels her mask off after striding to the lectern. Jen Psaki has been briefed by her 11 staffers; she has had her coffee (and her bagel, if it’s Wednesday); she is freshly armed with the latest talking points and she is not going to take any of your guff today.

Jen communicates just how on top of things she is by nodding ceaselessly throughout every question, interjecting an “uh-huh” or a “yep” to show she has not been caught off guard since the last clause of the reporter’s sentence. This is a patented bobblehead technique she perfected as a commentator at CNN in between the Obama and Biden Administrations. What she is saying or listening to is less important than what she is communicating with her demeanor at all times: that she is serious, that she is informed, that she is the adult in the room.

Bill Gates’ daughter Jennifer required all 300 wedding guests to be vaccinated and take COVID tests  So young, and already a statist.

Kentucky’s backroad churches may be key to saving hospitals overwhelmed by COVID (NPR)

Dennis Prager has COVID-19, says he deliberately sought infection to gain natural immunity

Meanwhile, here’s the nonsense Ron Johnson and Maria Bartiromo are saying about the pandemic (Washington Post)

Parents Protest Vaccine Mandate for School-age Kids at California Capitol

Minnesota Hospital Shuts Down ER And Urgent Care Amid Nurse Strike

NBA Commissioner Hopes Irving Changes His Mind Over COVID Vaccine

Washington State Fires Football Coach for Not Being Vaccinated

Doctors Can Prescribe Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine Off-Label For COVID-19: Nebraska AG

DeSantis Critics Quiet as Florida’s COVID-19 Cases Drop

Chicago Begins Placing Police Officers On “No-Pay Leave” Status Amid Vaccine Showdown

Washington State Loses Hundreds of Public Employees Over Vaccine Mandate  I guess every cloud has a silver lining.

1000s Of California Parents Join In Statewide Walkout Against Vaccine Mandate For Students

Akex Tabarrok, a Real Economist, lays it out.

One of the silver linings of the pandemic was the ability to see a doctor and be prescribed medicine online. I used telemedicine multiple times during the pandemic and it was great–telemedicine saved me at least an hour each visit and I think my medical care was as good as if I had been in person. I already knew I had poison ivy! No need for the doctor to get it also.

Telemedicine has been possible for a long time. What allowed it to take off during the pandemic wasn’t new technology but deregulation. HIPAA rules, for example, were waived for good faith use of standard communication technologies such as Zoom and Facetime even though these would ordinarily have been prohibited.

Once again, government is the problem, not the solution.

Fauci: J&J Vaccine Should Have Been 2 Doses

40% Of California State Workers Are Unvaccinated Despite Newsom’s Order

Mad Vax Disease

Vaccine Roulette

Southwest Asks Court to Keep Vaccine Mandate in Place

‘Coffee Cup Gestapo’: The Latest Covid Crackdown Viral Video Out Of Australia

Washington State Trooper Gives ‘Final Sign Off’ After Refusing To Take Vaccine; Tells Governor To Kiss His A**

This Doctor Opposes COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate. Now His State Won’t Let Him Practice Medicine.

Fully Vaccinated Former SecState Colin Powell Dies From COVID Complications  Guess that vaccination really worked out for him, huh.

Fraudci-lent ‘Science’

Several Children Shot In Weekend Violence As Chicago Cancels All Time Off Requests, Bracing For Vax Non-Compliance

RECKLESS: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Shuns Mask Mandate at Surprisingly Crowded WNBA Game  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Public Health System Less Equipped to Handle Pandemic: NY Times

Dr. Gottlieb Warns New “Super Variant” Is Behind Latest COVID Comeback In UK

CDC Warns Unvaccinated 11 Times More Likely to Die of COVID-19  They fail to mention the obvious condition: IF they catch the disease, which many of us have managed to avoid doing. As Albert Einstein once said, “A clever person solves a problem. A wise one avoids it.”

Chicago Mayor Accuses Police Union Of Trying To ‘Induce An Insurrection’ Over Vaccine Mandate

Bidens caught violating DC mask mandate at posh Georgetown restaurant Rules are for thee but not for me.

Jill Biden boosts group that helps illegal immigrants avoid arrest amid border crisis My, what a surprise.

Biden Admin Threatens To Make Unvaxx’d Navy SEALs Repay Their Training Costs

Activists Walk Out On Meeting With Biden Admin Over Remain-In-Mexico Program

Anti-Biden Rap Song Soars to #2 on iTunes

Biden Banking Nominee, a ‘Lenin Scholar,’ Is Fellow at Pro-China Think Tank

Immigration hawks say Biden’s CBP pick has ‘downright dangerous’ record opposing enforcement moves

US Commission on Civil Rights members blast AG Garland for memo on parents protesting school boards

‘Let’s Go Brandon!’ goes from social media meme to the top of the iTunes charts

“We’re done”: Immigration advocates stage walk-out on Biden administration (Politico)

Texas Farmer Says Biden Ignores Worsening Toll of Migrant Surge

Sorry Dr. Fauci! Fears of Super-Spreader College Football Games Are Dashed

Judge Temporarily Blocks Vaccine Mandate Requirement For California Prison Workers

Fauci Warns Unvaccinated Might Bring a Fifth COVID Wave  PUSH THAT PANIC! PUSH THAT PANIC!

Allison Williams Leaving ESPN After Her Vaccine Exemption Denied

Fauci Tees Up Unvaccinated Blame Campaign Over Potential ‘Fifth Wave’

Large Football Crowds Have Not Resulted In COVID-19 Spikes; Doomsayers Proven Wrong

Pentagon Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Vaccine Mandates On Military, Federal Employees And Contractors

#EmptyShelvesJoe Trends On Twitter Amid Supply Chain Snarls 

Here’s The Truth Behind Biden’s 24/7 Port Operations Pledge

Aluminum Shortages Next As “Magnesium Supply Dries Up”

Blame Government, Not COVID-19, for Supply Chain Collapse

Cities, Police Unions Clash as Vaccine Mandates Take Effect

4 In 10 TSA Employees Remain Unvaccinated As Deadline Looms

Baltimore Police Union Head: ‘Don’t Give City Your Vaccine Status’

Huge Dock Worker Protests In Italy, Fears Of Disruption, As Covid ‘Green Pass’ Takes Effect

German State Allows Food Stores To Ban The Unvaccinated

Joel Kotkin.

For a generation, the Long Beach and Los Angeles harbors in California handled more than 40 percent of all container cargo headed into the US and epitomized the power of a globalizing economy. Today, the ships—mostly from Asia—still dock, but they must wait in a seemingly endless conga line of as many as 60 vessels, sometimes for as long as three weeks. These are the worst delays in modern history, and the price per container has risen to as much as 10 times its cost before the pandemic. The shipping crisis is now projected to last through 2023.

A pandemic-driven shortage of parts and labor has combined with a congested transport system to create an inflationary spike, with shipping rates doubling on some routes. Prices for everything from soybeans to natural gas have soared as supplies take longer to produce and arrive, and this high inflation is wiping out wage gains in the US, the UK, and Germany. The chaos on the ground may not disturb the lifestyles of the tech and financial elites, but it is hurting the middle and working classes, the groups most threatened by surging inflation.

Biden continues newfound presidential tradition, turns back on reporters and exits without taking questions

US Rejoins UN Rights Council Days After Council Endorsed Anti-Semitic Hate Fest

As Border Crisis Mounts, First Lady Boosts Group That Helps Illegals Avoid Arrest  After all, she’s a doctor.

Biden Admin Blocks Bipartisan Lawmakers From Accessing Afghan Evacuee Holding Site

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A single exchange may decide the Virginia governor’s race. At one point during a September 28 debate, Republican Glenn Youngkin slammed his opponent, former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe, for vetoing a 2017 bill that would have allowed parents to remove their children from courses studying sexually explicit material. McAuliffe shrugged off the criticism. “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” he said.

Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect (The Guadian) Don’t you just love that term ‘vaccine hesitant’?

TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State

Chaos In Texas As Employees Fired For Refusing To Get Vaxxed Demand Their Jobs Back

For poor countries, lockdowns cost more lives than they save

Paradigm Shift? Aussie Cop Quits, Refuses To Enforce COVID Tyranny, Says “Majority” Of Cops Feel The Same

Dem Lawmakers Demand Moderna Share Vaccine Recipe To “Expand Global Access”

YouTube censors David Davis MP’s speech against vaccine passports

Chicago Police Union Head Urges Members To Defy Vaccine Mandate, Warns Force To Shrink 50% This Weekend

Harnessing the benefits of UVA light treatment in Covid-19 patients

Rep. Hartzler to Newsmax: ‘Tragic’ for Military Members to Quit Over Vaccines

Watch: Fauci Claims No “True Basis” In Concerns Over Long-Term COVID Vax Side Effects

Front Runners in COVID-19 Antibody Drug Race

A Question for Mandated-Vaccination Advocates

Joe Rogan Presses Sanjay Gupta on CNN Lying About Him Taking ‘Horse Dewormer’

911 System In Jeopardy Amid “Crippling Labor Shortages”: Association President  You will have noticed that none of these labor problems occurred before politicians went Full Fascist with vaccine mandates.

Pandemic Wiped Out Entire Savings Of 20% Of US Households  No, the panic wiped them out.

Italy’s Mandatory Health Pass Not Boosting Jabs as Hoped, Data Show

FDA Endorses Lower-Dose Moderna COVID Booster

Navy Sets Dates to Discharge Sailors Who Refuse Vaccine

New antibodies may lead to a norovirus vaccine

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Because why not?

1 sentence that sums up Joe Biden’s mounting political problems (CNN) “Let’s go, Brandon!”

Not Going Away: NY Post’s Nelson Irks Psaki by Daring to Ask About Corrupt Hunter Biden

White House Says Biden ‘Proud of His Son’ for Art Sales  I have no doubt.

Watch: $100 Million Border Wall Discarded In Field While Biden Still Pays Contractors To Not Build It  Want to know where your tax money goes? Voila!

Get curious with the Shamala video

The case of Hunter Biden

Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Relationship With Shadowy Chinese Tycoon

Docs Show Biden Admin Opening Border, Handing Out Work Permits

Joe And Hunter Biden Shared Bank Accounts, Paid Each Other’s Bills

Now A US Govt Official Is Telling Us That Supply Chain Nightmares Could Potentially Last For “Years”  Duh – when you shut down the supply chain with lockdown mandates, this is what happens.

Vaccine Mandates Aren’t Biden’s Only Job-Killing Scheme

COVID-Ravaged Mom of Newborn Denied Lung Transplant: ‘How Cruel Is That?’ (Daily Beast)

Australia Building Quarantine Camps For “Ongoing Operations”

Military Archbishop: OK for Catholic Troops to Refuse COVID Vaccines

Federal Judge Blocks United From Putting Vaccine-Exempt Workers on Unpaid Leave

Kyrie Irving Takes A Stand Against Vax Mandates, Gets Suspended Indefinitely

‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists

Judge Orders United Airlines Not To Put Workers Seeking Vaccine Mandate Exception On Leave

FDA Hints J&J Booster Jab May Be Beneficial, But Remains Mum On Approval Odds

Go Fund Me Takes Down Fundraising Campaign For Litigation Over Vaccine Mandate

Federal Judge Rules New York Must Provide Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate

Texas Anti-Vaxxer Charged With Threatening Prominent Doctor

Over Half-Million Healthcare Works Quit Jobs in August  Your tax dollars at work.

“Which Hospital do you Want to Shut?”: Climate Policy Debate Rages in Australia’s Ruling Coalition

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The United States needs to invest more heavily in Central America if it hopes to slow record levels of northbound migration, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Wednesday.

Record numbers of migrants have passed through Mexico this year toward the United States, driven by economic downturns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and drawn by the hope of more welcoming immigration policies under U.S. President Joe Biden.

There ought to be serious economic sanctions on Mexico for facilitating this invasion. They need us more than we need them.

FDA Responds To Nordic Countries Suspending Moderna COVID Vaccine Usage

Allen West Taking Ivermectin for COVID-19 Treatment

The COVID Mask Slips

Media Now Claims That “Double Jabbed” Brits Who Have Bad Colds Are Actually Suffering From COVID

Brooklyn Nets Ban Kyrie Irving From Playing Until He Gets Covid-19 Vaccine

NY Judge Grants Injunction Against COVID Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

911 System In Jeopardy As First Responders Reject Jab

South Carolina Sports Radio Host Fired After Refusing COVID Vaccine

Covid scam arbitrage

FDA Staff: Moderna Did Not Meet All Criteria for COVID-19 Boosters

Florida County Fined $3.5M for Vaccine Mandate  Which will not be paid by the elected officials but rather by the taxpayers.

Large Canadian Town Bars Unvaccinated Couples From Getting Married  Time to leave.

Judge Overrules NY Governor – Says Employers Must Grant Religious Exemptions To Healthcare Workers

NYC’s Unvaccinated Teachers Must Waive Right To Sue If They Want To Keep Health Benefits

Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS-CoV-2

Oregon Senators Call For Investigation Into Alleged COVID-19 Statistical Manipulation

World Health Organization Forming New COVID Origin Study Group

Hunter Biden Activities Spark Questions About White House Anti-Corruption Push

It’s All Fake: Kamala Harris Used Child Actors Who Had To Audition For Weird NASA Promo

Mayorkas Declares War on Immigration Enforcement

Lawsuit Alleges Cronyism at Biden EPA to ‘Rubber-Stamp’ Green Agenda

Kids, Here Are 10 Signs Your Parents Might Be Domestic Terrorists

NFL Coach Jon Gruden Calls Biden an Expletive in Emails

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The father of a student at Stone Bridge High School in Loudoun County, Virginia, told The Daily Wire the local school system attempted to cover up his daughter’s assault by another student in the school.

She was allegedly assaulted in the girls’ bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt.

Scott Smith told the Daily Wire his daughter was assaulted by another student in the school bathroom last May, by a boy wearing a skirt. But when he was told by the school at the time they would handle the incident in-house, school administrators eventually called the local sheriff’s office after Smith, in his own words, “went nuts” and insulted the principal.

“Six cop cars showed up like a f***ing SWAT team” to respond to the school’s complaint about an assertive parent, he said.

“Thank God that I drew enough attention to it, without getting arrested, that we got an escort to the hospital and they administered a rape kit that night,” Smith said.

The Daily Wire notes the kit results were favorable to the prosecution’s case.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

I took a look at the Biden fakery, most recently, here over the weekend. Vice President Kamala Harris takes fakery to a new level. She is such a synthetic character she might have been created in a laboratory as a joke, perhaps by Dr. Frankenstein high on drugs. You can make this stuff up, but it defies credulity.

It turns out that the entire cast of Harris’s weird space video was made up of actors pretending to be students interested in Harris’s meditations. The Examiner has a good story on the video production, noting that “[t]he actors flew to Washington during the second week of August, filming Wednesday through Friday. At the time, the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan was in collapse, with Washington’s withdrawal from the two-decade conflict…”

UPDATE: Shamala: The real thing

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The news site Axios in July hosted an event with Rep. Kurt Schrader (D., Ore.), a member of a House subcommittee on health and the sponsor of legislation that would provide federal funding that allows companies to sell knockoff drugs virtually identical to those that originated with their competitors.

The event was sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Viatris, which spent $3.6 million lobbying in favor of the drugs, known as biosimilars, and has contributed to Schrader’s campaigns.

The Axios event—”A Conversation on biosimilars and drug development”—featured the organization’s reporters, who touted biosimilars as an innovative approach to “lowering the cost of treatment in the U.S.,” alongside Schrader, who lauded pharmaceutical companies for their willingness to “be part of the solution.” The event was followed by a tweet from Axios‘s account, which boasts nearly 600,000 followers, that broadcast Schrader’s support for biosimilars and noted the Viatris sponsorship.

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A new congressional report on the U.S. Navy “found that a staggering 94% of sailors interviewed believe that the surface Navy suffers from a crisis of leadership and culture.”

Increased administrative burdens (750 annual reports per ship, most of them useless) and training not related to combat have eaten into the time American sailors are able to devote to honing mission-critical skills.

“The noncombat curricula consume Navy resources, clog inboxes, create administrative quagmires, and monopolize precious training time,” the report warns. The report highlights America’s glaring unpreparedness at a time when America’s primary strategic competitor, China, is beefing up its navy, threatening U.S. allies and interests around the world.

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