Unvaxxed Allen West Has COVID, Pneumonia, and Low Oxygen (Daily Beast) And they’re happy about that.

Johnson: Hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients ‘doesn’t mean there’s some massive crisis’ (NPR) Overwhelmed!

Brits May Be Forced To Take COVID Tests On Camera To Prove To “Health Advisers” They’re Not Lying

Small Businesses Navigate Ever-Changing COVID-19 Reality

871 Firefighters File Intent To Sue Over LA’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

CDC Head Says She “Can’t Predict” When COVID Will End; Blames Unvaccinated

Sickout? Southwest Airlines Cancels 1,000 More Flights As Disruptions Increase

Military Struggles With Varying Vaccination Rates as Deadlines Loom

COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations Plummet In Southern US, Rise In Northern States

Bill Maher: ’10 Years Ago … the Left Did Not Have a Crazy Section’  Now it’s nothing but.

Watch: Aussie Police Interrogate Citizen On His Doorstep Over 6-Month Old Anti-Lockdown Facebook Posts

Staggering Number Of US Troops Remain Unvaccinated As Deadlines Approach

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“Distrust of government isn’t baseless cynicism. It’s realism.” – Ben Shapiro

We have seen the truth of this aphorism made clear many times over the past year. Lawlessness on the part of the national government is virtually institutionalized. The latest example occurred earlier this week as the Justice Department declared parents protesting the institution of Critical Racism Race Theory being taught to their children as “domestic terrorists.” It is a clear attempt to criminalize political dissent, a process that began with the treatment of the January 6 protestors.

But in the larger sense, it does not matter whether those in government are Republicans or Democrats, your friends or your foes, or whether we are talking about government on the federal, state, or local level. You should never trust your government. Even (or perhaps especially) when you agree with their actions, never blindly accept them. Always check what they are doing and verify that they are doing what they said they would do – and that it is actually what should be done. Certainly that is what I do on the local level, where I am politically active and several local politicians are friends. They may be friends, but because they are politicians, I still don’t trust them.

Biden Exempts Some Crimes by Illegal Immigrants as Basis for Deportation

Anger in U.S. Customs and Border Protection as Biden administration’s vaccine mandate looms

Taliban Say They Won’t Work with US to Contain Islamic State  My, what a surprise.

Iceland stops using Moderna Covid-19 vaccine

Florida State Board Sanctions Eight School Districts For Defying Ban On Mask Mandates

One US State Already Has A De Facto ‘Vaccine Passport’ Requirement Just To Enter

Aussie Freedom Blogger Arrested At Home For Alleged ‘Breach Of Public Health Act’

Real-world data show that filters clean Covid-causing virus from air

“So Deeply, Deeply Wrong” – Lithuanian Without Vaccine Pass Describes Life Under Medical Tyranny

Survey Finds COVID Mandates Hurting Small Businesses

Southwest Pilots Union Sues To Block Airline’s Vaccination Mandate

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Which brings us to the present moment, and the crusade being waged against my old graduate school classmate John Eastman. In giving legal advice to President Trump and Vice President Pence in the aftermath of the election, he can’t be charged with any plausible crime, so the mob is attempting an implausible one: that he was conspiring to overthrow our Constitution—essentially a coup. “A Trump lawyer wrote an instruction manual for a coup,” reads the breathless Washington Post headline, to give just one of the many many hyperbolic headlines. Beyond this, there is a crusade to have Eastman “investigated” by the California State Bar, which is clever lawyering, since the lawyers making the charge know there is no chance the California Bar would move to suspend or disbar Eastman (unless they completely cave to the mob, which I suppose is not impossible), but the general public doesn’t know this, so it is effective innuendo.

White House Fakery Defended by Fact Checkers

LA Times Absurdly Skips Reporting on Hunter Biden’s Hollywood Art Show

Let’s Go, Brandon!

Hunter Biden Sells 5 Art Reproductions for $75K Each  The phrase ‘thinly disguised money laundering’ leaps immediately to mind.

Biden Posts Worst Jobs Report Since 2020  Well, when you fire people because they won’t get vaccinated, this ought to come as no surprise.

Biden’s Taxes Hit Americans at the Top and Bottom

Biden Hits Record Low Approval Rating On Economy, Foreign Policy, Pronouncing Words, Standing Upright, Continence, Inflation, Math, The Alphabet, Remembering All The Animal Sounds, Respecting Personal Space (Ran Out Of Room, See Article For More)  Babylon Bee.

Cartel Violence Spills Into US as Border Patrol Treats Gunshot Victims

White House Fakery Defended By ‘Fact-Checkers’

Biden Refuses to Take Reporters’ Questions After Jobs Briefing  Apparently he has no answers.

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Immigrants who, like me, came here from totalitarian nations are warning us: we must open our eyes and realize we no longer live in a free country.

We slid down this slope so swiftly because what happened to us is unprecedented. Although the Biden administration is adding the state’s fat thumb to the Woke side of the scale, much of the Woke Regime’s crackdown to date was engineered by private entities: elite private universities and private corporations in media and in tech. This is a key point of differentiation between the Woke Regime and all the repressive kingdoms and empires in human history. Those imposed their restrictions from above, using the coercive authority of the state itself. We have gotten to the point, however, where large corporations and the groups whose preferences they channel and amplify intrude into every aspect of our lives to enforce the regime’s wishes—a degree of control the envy of any totalitarian tyrant of centuries past.

John Stossel.

Jim Caruso, CEO of Flying Dog Brewery, calls his business a “First Amendment brewery.” That’s because he keeps going to court to defend beer labels.

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After six more years in court, he won again. The court said, “Banning a label for vulgarity violates the First Amendment.”

You’d think the bureaucrats would have known that, since the federal government already approved Caruso’s beers. In fact, every brewer in America must first submit every label to a federal bureaucracy called the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.

Which makes me wonder: Why does every state need separate regulation?

I suspect the answer is: Bureaucrats want jobs, and politicians are eager to waste our money.

Biden Sows Confusion By Claiming He Spoke To President Xi About The “Taiwan Agreement”

Aides Quickly Drag President Away As He Tries To Join In ‘F*** Joe Biden’ Chant Babylon Bee.

Ex-Biden Border Chief Warned Policies Would Send Border Out of ‘Control’

‘I’m A Little Worried About What My Son Is Learning In School,’ Says Dangerous Domestic Terrorist  Babylon Bee.

Afghan Gun Shops Sell US Weapons Seized by Taliban

NY Times Slimes Mexican Preacher Who Took in Migrants as ‘Good Samaritan’ Gone Bad  No good deed goes unpunished.

Memo: Biden Admin Weighing Plans To Send Migrants to Vermont  Vermont is far too white as it is.

Brilliant: Biden Solves Debt Crisis By Writing ‘One Trillion’ On Dollar Bill With Permanent Marker

Terrorists Released From Guantanamo Bay To Make Room For Parents Who Protested At School Board Meetings  Babylon Bee.

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There must a Robert Ludlum series lurking in the saga of OCC Comptroller nominee Saule Omarova. One installment of the series would be The Omarova Thesis — the thesis she wrote at Moscow State University on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship: “Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital.” It must have been a good one — so good that she has scrubbed it from her current résumé.

Senators alarmed after Afghan refugees walk off military bases by the hundreds

Texas Gearing Up for Possible Surge of 60,000 Haitian Migrants

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A Virginia prosecutor backed by progressive billionaire George Soros tried to use his status as an elected official to avoid a courthouse security checkpoint, leading to a vulgar confrontation between Descano and the security guards stationed on site.

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A service that post offices in Europe and Asia have offered for decades.

USPS: Always on the bleeding edge of yesteryear.

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One-third of inmates freed by Democratic Kentucky governor Andy Beshear during the pandemic were later charged with a felony, according to a state report.

Joe Biden Accused of Tax Policy for ‘Pink-haired Wokers’ With ‘Ziploc Bags of Kale’

NBC Reporter Goes Into Damage Control After NASCAR Fans Chant “F**K Joe Biden”

Delta Tearing Through Some States Despite High Vaccine Rates

Twitter Labels Obituary ‘Misleading’ Because of COVID Claims  The Narrative, the Whole Narrative, and nothing but the Narrative.

CDC Director Says Vaccines ‘Can’t Prevent Transmission’; Fauci Says ‘Too Early To Tell’ On Holiday Gatherings  My, what a effective vaccine. Gotta run right out and get it….

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“Under the proposal, starting in 2023, employers with five or more employees would have to offer a retirement plan and automatically enroll employees, diverting 6% of their pay to a retirement account. An automatic escalation clause would increase the automatic contribution to 10% of pay by year five. The default plan would be a Roth IRA invested in a target-date fund, a mix of investments based on your expected retirement year.

“For employers, it’s a mandate. They would have to offer the plans. Employees would be able to opt out.”

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In the first place, under the new federal mandate, employers would be obliged to select a specific IRA in which to enroll their employees, rather than merely forwarding payroll deductions to the state. It appears that they would choose from a list of approved providers. Second, the various state programs have had extended phase-ins; the federal mandate applies to all employers with 5 or more employees from day one, and there appears to be no analysis of how it would be for these small employers to do so. Third, the program requires employers must choose, not just any IRA, but only those in which there is an option to convert the account balance into an annuity at retirement.

It also continues to be the case that workers are being “nudged” into 10%-of-pay contributions without any useful guidance as to what the right saving level is for their personal circumstances; given the progressive level of Social Security benefits, which replace a far greater percentage of pay for lower-earners than middle- or upper-earners, there is no one-size-fits-all answer here, and, indeed, some lower-earners may be better off with no savings at all.

After a family member died of Covid-19, a man took aim at Florida’s top health official in sarcastic letter (CNN) Wow, a sarcastic letter! That’ll teach ’em!

Fauci pressed if he should ‘step aside’ as an ‘impediment to public health’: ‘People won’t listen to you’

Alabama Lawmakers OK Plan to Build Prisons With COVID Relief Funds

Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets  Helmets don’t Signal Virtue, but masks do.

“We’ve Been Locked Up For Almost 50 Days” – 1000s Rally Against Auckland Lockdown As Public Opposition Grows

Time for Fauci To Go

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Sometimes it is good to be the queen.

Harris’ office does damage control over student’s Israel ‘ethnic genocide’ comment (Politico)

Iran state media promotes video of Kamala Harris not pushing back on Israel ‘ethnic genocide’ claim Way to go, Jambalaya.

Why Rachael Rollins’ Nomination to Be Rogue US Attorney Should Terrify Us All

Thief Assures Victim Robbery Will Cost $0 Since Victim Is Paying For It  Babylon Bee.

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Millions of Americans became alarmed when they saw a viral video that compared a U.S. Army recruiting advertisement to those made for the Russian and Chinese militaries.

The Russian ad featured tough-looking men doing situps, jumping out of airplanes, and cocking rifles on a snow-covered battlefield. The Chinese ad showed infantrymen firing rounds as they ran next to advancing tanks.

The U.S. Army video was a cartoon about a woman with two moms who marched for equality and joined the Army so she could “shatter some stereotypes.”

One stereotype that has certainly been shattered is that the U.S. has the best military force in the world.

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Something unexpected is happening at U.S. military bases hosting Afghan evacuees: Many hundreds of them are simply leaving before receiving U.S. resettlement services, two sources familiar with the data told Reuters.

The number of “independent departures,” which top 700 and could be higher, has not been previously reported. But the phenomenon is raising alarms among immigration advocates concerned about the risks to Afghans who give up on what is now an open-ended, complex, and completely voluntary resettlement process.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Joe Biden has nominated Saule Omarova to be Comptroller of the Currency. It is an important position. According to the Comptroller’s web site:

The OCC charters, regulates, and supervises all national banks and federal savings associations as well as federal branches and agencies of foreign banks. The OCC is an independent bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

So who is Ms. Omarova, whom Joe Biden wants to “charter, regulate and supervise all national banks”? She is not a banker, but a professor at Cornell Law School. Sadly, these days being a law school professor is rarely a positive recommendation. (Sorry, Glenn and Bill.) The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote about the Omarova nomination today:

She graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship.

You can’t make this stuff up. And she still yearns for the USSR, which you can get away with as a law professor–although, to be fair, she also has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, which might be a worse black mark.

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Walking through an airport these days is like digging through sedimentary layers of useless government regulation. The TSA security line is where every hare-braned bureaucratic policy goes to die. Except they don’t die: they sit, fossilized in horrible suspended animation, crust upon crust of outdated protection against misunderstood crises.

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Or maybe not.

In August 2021 the U.S. Navy finally had USS Lyndon B. Johnson, its third, and last Zumwalt-class destroyer ready for sea trials. These trials will take an unusually long time because the navy does not expect the Johnson to join the fleet until 2023. The main reason for the unusually long trials period is that the navy considers the Zumwalts as valuable testbeds for new technologies, especially ones that made the Zumwalts useful. They lost their gun turrets because the ammunition was too expensive. That was because the ammo purchase was based on 32 Zumwalts being built. With only three ships the cost per shell was prohibitive. Meanwhile the marines found a cheaper and more useful substitute for the 155mmm guided shell, whose main purpose was providing artillery support for marines and other troops on hostile shores.

The alternative weapon for the Zumwalt gun turrets was the new railgun, which was also dropped because of cost and reliability issues. Because of the Zumwalt the navy has already cancelled two expensive new weapons technologies; 155mm guns using GPS guided shells and the electric rail gun, that were planned for future use on many other ships.

Paul Mirengoff at Power Line.

It looks like the Democrats can only pass a reconciliation bill if they are willing to get behind a trimmed-down package. The $3.5 trillion version doesn’t command the support of 50 Senators. A $2 trillion package might.

But to get from $3.5 trillion to around $2 trillion, the Democrats must agree on what to cut. That seems like a tall order because the current package contains big gifts for everyone under the Democratic umbrella. Which constituencies will be deprived of Christmas?

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National Review Online reports (from behind a pay wall, unfortunately) on the problems that 116 U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents and SIV holders, including 59 children, have encountered in escaping from Afghanistan – problems not with the Taliban but with their own government.

Jen Psaki Suffers a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day at the Podium

‘No-Win’ Kamala Still Has Fans in the Press

US Bars Flight From Landing With Americans From Kabul: Activists

Did he lie or did it slip his mind?

YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

United Airlines Set To Terminate 593 Workers For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine

Kamala Harris applauds student, who accused Israel of ‘ethnic genocide,’ for speaking ‘your truth’  My truth is that this student is a potential terrorist and ought to be sentenced to Reading The Classics, like maybe the Bible. Also that Jambalaya Harris has the brain of a carrot.

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Everyone who has ever taken an introductory course in economics learned that “cost” is a short, punchy synonym for “forgone opportunities”. When you spend a dollar – or a minute – you choose one possible use for that money or time, and you give up a vast array of alternative uses. Your choice shows what you then judged to be the most desirable of the available opportunities. Whether your choice was wise depends on the value of what you got, as compared to the value of what you could have had. You may realize later that you misjudged; in that case, you paid “too much”. Or you may be satisfied, so that the price was “just right”. In neither case, though, is the cost “nothing”.

Whether Joe Biden ever took Econ 101, I don’t know. If he did, he has forgotten the meaning of “cost”. To be fair, he was a college freshman about sixty years ago. It’s natural that a few bits of book learning would slip from his mind over the decades. (After all, he apparently doesn’t remember what advice his military advisors gave him a few months ago about Afghanistan.) Forgetfulness explains the President’s defense of his multi-trillion dollar spending proposals: “My Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars”, because “it adds zero dollars to the national debt”.

Let’s make the implausible assumption that the second statement is accurate, that the trillions spent will be matched by trillions in tax revenue gained through shutting down “tax breaks, loopholes, and tax evasion for big corporations and the wealthy”. What that means is that the trillions whose disposal that Biden Administration proposes to take out of the hands of “corporations and the wealthy” – a cohort of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of decision makers with a wide range of values – won’t be available for the goods and services that they would have purchased and the investments that they would have made.

Stop focusing on the negative. Biden and Harris have gotten things done. (Washington Post) Yes, but are they useful things?

IRS would track all bank transactions over $600 under Biden plan; Businesses revolt

Nets Look Away from Border As Nearly 10,000 Migrants Stage in Mexico

Dems Blame Potential Shutdown on GOP

The Five Most CENSORED Hunter Biden Scandals of 2021

Watch: Psaki Says It Doesn’t Matter That Border Patrol Didn’t Really “Whip” Migrants, Actions Are Still Unacceptable  Time to leave.

Psaki: ‘Unfair and Absurd’ To Say Companies Would Raise Prices in Response to Tax Increases  Lets open a book for bets on which planet she’s from.

Florida Sues Biden Administration Over Southern Border Policies

Biden Banking Nominee Proud Recipient of Collegiate ‘Lenin Award’

Will Biden’s Border Crisis Cost Democrats Texas Seats?

Court Rules NYC Can Impose School Staff Vaccine Mandates

Canadian Military Admits To Using Covid Pandemic To Test Propaganda Techniques

Lawyers & Scientists Are Building A Case For Why Natural Immunity Should Be Treated Same As Vaccination

Sunlight exposure guidelines may need to be revised, researchers warn

A pill to treat Covid-19: ‘We’re talking about a return to, maybe, normal life’ (CNN)

Anti-Vax MAGA Cartoonist Says He’s Treating Severe COVID With Beet Juice (Daily Beast)

NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar calls for unvaccinated players to be removed from teams (CNN)

Scandinavian country moves into ‘very high’ risk category for travel (CNN)

Norway listed as ‘very high’ risk for travel after lifting pandemic restrictions (The Hill)

The pandemic didn’t have to be politicized. One party is to blame for it. (Washington Post) And guess which party the Washington Post thinks that is.

The Supply-Chain Mystery  It’s not a mystery. Transportation is disrupted by all of the Panic mandates.

Mass Celebrations Erupt In Norway As COVID Restrictions End

Prosecutors Dismissing Cases Due to COVID Backlog

“Disaster”: NY Gov Triggers State Emergency To Replace Unvaccinated Healthcare Workers A problem entirely caused by government.

Vaccine passport app exposed hundreds of thousands of users’ personal data  If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product.

Salaried Ford Workers Must Disclose Vax Status

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In late August, as students headed back to school, the Biden Department of Education made clear to parents what close observers had predicted: this administration defines “civil rights” as “whatever the left happens to prefer.”

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced that his Office for Civil Rights (OCR) would investigate five states that have prohibited universal mask mandates. He declared that these investigations would explore whether such prohibitions violate Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and interrogate “each state’s compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,” which guarantees people with disabilities “an equal opportunity to receive program benefits and services.”

The Biden administration, it seems, believes that a student has a civil right to have his school board force his peers to wear a mask.

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The minders in the White House daycare operation have promulgated the lie that the multitrillion dollar spending extravaganza President Biden supports is free. They are disseminating the lie in the name of Biden himself.

Watch: Even CNN Calls Out “Patently False” Border Patrol “Whipping”

Biden Admin Loses DACA Appeal In Texas… So They’re Just Making A New Rule

GOP Senators Introduce Bill To Block Biden’s ‘Weaponization’ Of IRS Bank Account Surveillance

Report: Biden Spending Bill Will Lead to Loss of 5.3M Jobs, $3.7T in Debt

Biden Admin Withholds Report on Hezbollah’s Financial Empire  Most frequently heard statement by a government employee: ‘We can’t tell people that!’

10% of Biden’s Afghanistan Humanitarian Aid Will Go To Taliban

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It’s too soon to know what caused the Saturday derailment of Amtrak’s Empire Builder that took the lives of three people. What we do know is that a train that had room for at least 350 paying passengers was carrying fewer than 150 (reports vary between 141 and 147).

Sounds as if the ones that didn’t take the train were the smart ones.  Trains take you from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be, and take twice as long (at least) as other forms of transportation. Who needs that?

White House: Biden didn’t prejudge mounted Border Patrol agents when he said ‘they’ll pay’  Who are you going to believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?

Harris, assigned to tackle volatile issues, quietly builds a network (Washington Post) Rather than doing her job, apparently.

REWIND: CNN Wouldn’t Admit, or Even Check If Hunter’s Laptop Was Real; It Was a Russian Plot!

Thousands of Mostly Haitian Migrants Traverse Panama on Way to United States  Any South American country that allow vagrants to transit their country on the way to crash the U.S. border ought to be subject to economic sanctions.

Biden Flouts Federalism, Undermines Florida Law on Masks for Schoolchildren

Meghan Markle, Prince Harry advocate for vaccine equity during Global Citizen Live appearance  Vaccine! Equity!

First grader wears mask for school picture because his mom told him not to take it off at school (CNN) And he’s a Child of Color! Win-win!

How the CDC Bungled COVID-19

30 Facts You Need To Know: A COVID Cribsheet

Rowdy Celebrations Across Norway With End of COVID Measures

CDC Not Changing Definition Of “Fully Vaccinated”…For Now: Walensky

New York May Tap National Guard to Replace Unvaccinated Healthcare Workers

Pfizer Chief Predicts COVID Variants Will Persist Despite Pandemic End  KA-CHING!

As Advisory Panel Warned, CDC Director’s Anti-Science Decision Makes Boosters ‘Available To Anyone Who Wants One’

Border Patrol stunned as Biden goes to war with his own agents over false ‘whipping’ allegations

FBI Investigating Assault of Female Fort Bliss Soldier by Afghan Refugees

‘Fact Checkers’ Take the Week Off on ‘Whips’ at Border; PolitiFact Spins Around It

The Biden Administration’s Blame Game and the Sad Fate of #NeverTrump

Taliban Hangs 4 Bodies In Public Square – Says Will Resume “Cutting Off Of Hands”

Huawei CFO Gets Hero’s Welcome In China While Canadians Land Quietly After Biden Acquiesced To ‘Hostage Diplomacy’

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Rather than use off-the-shelf models, San Francisco has engaged in a years-long process to design cans that’ll cost thousands of dollars apiece. And it’s not nearly done.

Democrats; If there’s a way to waste money, they’ll find it.

New Leaked Documents Point to Engineered Lab Origin for SARS?CoV?2

North Carolina Hospital System Suspends Hundreds Of Employees After COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Australian Government Shuts Down Melbourne Construction Sites Amid Protests Over Vaccine Mandates

COVID-19 In Norway Can Now Be Compared To The Flu, Says Health Chief

CDC Director Breaks With Panel, Backs COVID Boosters for High-Risk Workers

Locked Down Under

Gilead Study Shows Remdesivir Reduced Risk Of Hospitalization When Given To COVID-19 Patients Early

NY Times GUSH: ‘Movie Star’ Fauci Is Ready for His Close-Up

Hunter Biden’s new $2 million Libya bombshell more proof ‘media lied to the public’: Glenn Greenwald

Sen. Ted Cruz challenges AOC to visit ‘Biden cages’ amid border crisis

Horse-Mounted Aides With Whips Chase Away Journalists Trying To Ask Biden Questions  Babylon Bee.

NYT Blasts Biden for Using Same ‘Aggressive’ Border Tactics as Trump

Border Patrol Union Head: WH Using Mounted Agents to Deflect Migrant Crisis  Note all of the trash that ‘migrants’ leave behind them.

Biden Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Tied To Alleged 2016 Clinton Scheme To Co-Opt CIA/FBI To Tar Trump

Is Biden Bringing Terrorists From Afghanistan to America?

Democrats Call On Rohan To Ban The Use Of Horses  Babylon Bee.

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When Hunter came up, like during the impeachment in early 2020, “news” anchors like CNN’s John Berman gushed to Jill Biden: “You have called Hunter the heart and soul of the Biden family.” And: “As a mother how has it affected you?” (He should have said “as a stepmother” on the Facts First network.)

But then came that “aha” moment. Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger has a new book coming out simply titled The Bidens. It promises to explain how “Like the Kennedys before them, the Bidens are a tight-knit, idealistic Irish Catholic clan with good looks, dynastic ambitions, and serious personal problems.”

Politico’s “Playbook” newsletter proclaimed the new book by their reporter “finds evidence that some of the purported Hunter Biden laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy.”

Matt Continetti.

Democrats have run smack into political reality, and it isn’t pretty. They spent months convincing themselves that a presidential election decided by 42,000 votes in three states, a tied Senate, and a 220-212 House (with 3 vacancies) is the same as FDR’s and LBJ’s supermajorities. Now they are just figuring out that the coalition that put them into office doesn’t agree on much of anything besides the idea that Donald Trump shouldn’t be in the White House.

Now the autumn of 2021 is turning into a reckoning for a Democratic Party that wanted to leverage a squeaker election into fundamental change. Like their predecessors in 1993 and in 2009, frontline House Democrats have to decide whether supporting a liberal agenda is worse for their careers than denying a president of their own party a legislative win. Either way, they lose.

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Providing context on this tax-and-spend bill’s size and cost helps bring into focus just how radical it is, and why some Democrats are now pushing back against it.

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Rep. Jared Huffman (D., Calif.) led a resolution, cosigned by fellow Democratic representatives Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Maxine Waters (Calif.), Mark Pocan (Wis.), and Jésus García (Calif.), to “abolish” America’s newest military branch. The measure received support from the Koch-funded National Taxpayers Union and radical anti-war groups such as Peace Action and Demand Progress.

“Since its creation under the former Trump administration, the Space Force has threatened longstanding peace and flagrantly wasted billions of taxpayer dollars,” said Huffman. “It’s time we turn our attention back to where it belongs: addressing urgent domestic and international priorities like battling COVID-19, climate change, and growing economic inequality. Our mission must be to support the American people, not spend billions on the militarization of space.”

Where Are the Tests? “Other countries are awash in Covid tests. The U.S. is not.”

Brazil’s unvaccinated president had to eat pizza on NYC sidewalk

‘Funeral home’ ad spreads message for the unvaccinated (CNN)

Unvaccinated Bride Spent Wedding Day in Hospital on Ventilator Before Dying From COVID (Newsweek) Daily Narrative Media scare store about COVID.

Wuhandromeda Strain?

JPMorgan Makes An Unexpected Discovery: Delta Variant Only “Half As Infectious As Assumed”

Police Bust Gang Members With Car Trunk “Full Of KFC” Takeout Breaching ‘Strict Lockdown’

Covid Pass in Lithuania: How vaccine mandate laws have upended my family’s life

“Taking Advantage of This Unfortunate Situation Called the Covid Pandemic”

Wuhan Scientists Planned To Release ‘Chimeric Covid Spike Proteins’ Into Bat Populations Using ‘Skin-Penetrating Nanoparticles’

Fed Urged To Fire Officials Over “Pandemic Profiteering”

With Cue Health IPO On Tap, Other Startups With COVID Tests Are Also Scaling 

Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable  (Nature)

As Vaccine Mandates Increase, Religious Exemptions Come Under Fire

Sen. Ron Johnson Grills Secretary Mayorkas About ‘Closed’ Borders Claim

Angry Scenes at Haiti Airport Add to Biden Pressure Over Expulsions

GOP Rep. Gibbs Files 3 Articles of Impeachment Against Biden

Officials: Many Haitian Migrants Are Being Released in US

White House Reporters Have Launched ‘Formal Objection’ About Biden Refusing To Answer Questions

New Proof Emerges of the Biden Family Emails: a Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud

Biden’s Aides Won’t Let Him Speak

Politico Reports Biden Laptop ‘Genuine’; NY Post Mocks: ‘Shocked’

FBI Admits It’s Really Hard To Solve Crime They Didn’t Make Up Themselves  Babylon Bee.

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Team Biden is running a con game: “A second U.S. official, also with direct knowledge and speaking on the condition of anonymity, said large numbers of Haitians were being processed under immigration laws and not being placed on expulsion flights to Haiti that started Sunday. The official couldn’t be more specific about how many.”

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Young investors have a new strategy: watching financial disclosures of sitting members of Congress for stock tips.

Among a certain community of individual investors on TikTok, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stock trading disclosures are a treasure trove. “Shouts out to Nancy Pelosi, the stock market’s biggest whale,” said user ‘ceowatchlist.’ Another said, “I’ve come to the conclusion that Nancy Pelosi is a psychic,” while adding that she is the “queen of investing.”

“She knew,” declared Chris Josephs, analyzing a particular trade in Pelosi’s financial disclosures. “And you would have known if you had followed her portfolio.”

Last year, Josephs noticed that the trades, actually made by Pelosi’s investor husband and merely disclosed by the speaker, were performing well.

Seth Meyers Nails Tucker Carlson for COVID Mandate Contradiction (Daily Beast)

Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism (The Guardian) Constant trash-talk from media like The Guardian probably has something to do with it.

Louisiana State University Begins Disenrolling Students Not Compliant With Vaccine Rules

Get the Jab, or Lose Unemployment Benefits

“F**K The Jab, Long Live Australia” – 20,000 Shut Down Melbourne Highway In Massive Lockdown Protest

J&J Says Its Booster Shot Provides Increased Protection from Covid  But they would say that, wouldn’t they?

Health Authorities Claim “Performers” (Rich & Famous) Are Exempt From Mask Rules  Of course they are.

New York Restaurant Adds Voting Booth So They Can Allow People In Without ID  Bablyon Bee.

Medical Schools Update Hippocratic Oath To Exclude The Unvaccinated