Biden Administration Sued For Halting Oil, Gas Leasing On Federal Lands  Saw that comin’.

New Secretary of State Favors Cooperation With China Despite Genocide of Uighurs  After all, what’s a Uigur or two more or less?

Biden Commerce Secretary Nominee Ran The State Ranked Worst For Commerce  Sounds about right.

Biden Energy Nominee Says Some Jobs ‘Might Be Sacrificed’ By Climate Action  Oh, ya think?

As Biden’s Keystone XL order sparks job losses, climate adviser says, ‘We’re not asking for sacrifice’

Biden signs ‘existential’ executive orders on climate and environment

Biden Chief Of Staff Offers Support For Teachers’ Unions Refusing To Reopen Schools

Biden Signs Executive Order To Ban The Term ‘China Virus’

Nets Dismiss Jobs Destroyed By Biden’s ‘Pause’ on New Oil & Gas Drilling

Biden Appoints Anti-Israel BDS Activist to Head NSC Intel

Court Packing, Here We Come?

Biden’s Wrongheaded Push for Expensive & Obsolete Rail Projects

Biden’s Anti-Unity Agenda

Biden Repeals Ban on Taxpayer Funding for International Abortion Providers  After all, he’s a Devout Catholic.

Ted Cruz DRILLS WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ on Lost Keystone Pipeline Jobs

Joe Biden, high priest of the cult of woke

White House Concerned That Latest GDP And Unemployment Figures Show ‘Significant Slowing Of Our Economic Recovery’  Does that surprise you?

Texas Dems Blast Biden’s ‘Devastating’ Energy Policy

While John Kerry Masquerades As Biden’s Climate Crusader, His Family Tools Around In Private Jet  Does this surprise you?

White House Pushes Back After NYT Editorial Board Urges Biden To ‘Ease Up On The Executive Actions’

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After Greene answered an audience question about her experience with cancel culture, the WRCB reporter tried to follow up.

“I’m talking to my constituents. This isn’t a press conference,” Greene responded.

UPDATE: ‘She’s Not A Republican’: Adam Kinzinger Blasts Marjorie Taylor Greene, Questions Party Future  Sorry, Adam, you RINOs don’t get to say who is and who isn’t a Republican.

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After Joe Biden’s inauguration, he ordered everyone on federal lands to wear a mask. That night, he and his family posed for pictures at the Lincoln Memorial — none of them wearing a mask.

California Governor Gavin Newsom told Californians it’s “essential” to avoid “mixing with people outside of your household.” Then he had dinner with lots of people outside his household, without masks.

Rules are for thee but not for me.

Germany Poised To Cut International Air Travel “To Almost Zero” On Virus Variant Fears

Wuhan lab theory in coronavirus outbreak bolstered by declassified U.S. intelligence

NBC Warns Reopening States Kills, Gawks at Restaurants Shutting Down

US States Ease Lockdowns Despite “Mutant” COVID ‘Boogeymen’

Welcome to the Corona Gulag!

CBS Bashes Florida’s DeSantis for Planning Ahead With Vaccine Doses

Nashville Locals Have A Message For People Moving From California And New York

BODYCAM: Officer Threatens To Tase A Man Over Not Wearing A Mask

Bureaucrats Improperly Raided Millions From Public Health Research Fund In Leadup To COVID-19, Inspector General Finds

Worrisome New Coronavirus Mutations Are Emerging. Why Now?  Gotta keep that panic going!

Biden Administration Considering COVID-19 Testing Mandate For Domestic Flights

Inside the Dutch anti-lockdown riots

DOJ Rescinds ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Rule

Commerce Secretary Nominee Remains Open To Funding Biden’s Climate Agenda With Tax Hikes On The Middle Class

Ashley Biden Says Let’s ‘Make America Great’ With Social Media Post

Biden Plans to Cut Urban Crime by Boosting Suburban Crime

Biden Education Nominee Opposes School Reopening Despite CDC Finding In-Person Learning Safe

Migrants Increasing At “Concerning Rate” On Southern Border, Says CBP Agent

Biden State Department Sounds Off On Chinese Technology Abuses, But Refuses To Say If It Will Continue Trump’s Fight Against Chinese Telecoms

Why Biden’s Immigration Policy Will Harm Americans and Migrants Alike

Deep meaning of diversity, equity, & inclusion

Navy Faces Rough Waters Under Biden

Biden’s Energy Nominee Divvied Millions In Taxpayer Funds To Alternative Energy Startups That Went Bankrupt

Energy Prices to Rise Under Biden

Religious Liberty Advocates Fear ‘Tumultuous Days’ Under Biden  Oh, ya think?

Biden Administration Issues National Terrorism Advisory With No End Date — Prompted By Interagency ‘Domestic Violent Extremism’ Assessment  And so it starts.

Biden’s Asia Policy Czar Was An Executive Of Group With Chinese Communist Party Ties: Report

Rep. Andy Biggs: Ending Keystone XL Pipeline Will ‘Endanger Our Opportunity To Be Energy Independent’  As if Democrats give a shit about that.

Biden Admin ‘Reviewing’ Uighur Genocide Designation, U.N. Ambassador Nominee Says  ‘Geez, how can we wiggle out of this one?’

Media May Ignore It, but Biden Presidency Is Already Radical  And YOU get a pony! And YOU get a pony!

Biden Assembling Commission To Study Supreme Court Reform  Prelude to packing….

Superfan Roker Thrilled Biden Dictating Radical Climate Policy By Fia

Rep. Biggs: Biden’s Immigration Rules Attracting Crowds to Border  WELCOME FUTURE DEMOCRAT VOTERS!

Biden’s United Nations Nominee Praised China At CCP-Funded Institute, Report Says

Biden Orders Pentagon To Include Climate Change In New Strategy & War Games

“Your Order Is A Direct Attack”: Utah Tribe Seeks Exemption From Biden Drilling Pause

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The sinister role that teachers’ unions play in our society has come clearly into focus, as our children’s lives have been devastated by needless school closures across the country. These closures–still in effect in most places, despite all scientific evidence that they are both unnecessary and harmful–largely reflect the power of the teachers’ unions. They evidently want to get paid, without ever entering a classroom again.

UPDATE: Unions Move The Goalposts On School Reopenings To The Detriment Of Children

Dr. Anthony Fauci Says Two Masks Are Better Than One Hey, he’s always been right before … oh, wait….

Carlsbad, CA Says No More to Lockdowns. May It Be A National Model

Joseph Moure: The ‘Liberation’ of Dr. Fauci

Everyday activities are more dangerous now that new Covid-19 variants are circulating, expert says (CNN) Gotta keep that panic going!

Fauci says he worried Trump’s disinfectant comment would make people ‘start doing dangerous and foolish things’ (CNN) Push that hoax! Push that hoax!

NYC Badly Misses 1 Million COVID Vaccination Target  My, what a surprise.

Tech Workers, Businesses Flee San Fran for Austin, Miami

Americans Are On the Move

Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don’t Work

US Sees Largest Rise In Poverty Rate In 50 Years Amid Pandemic  My, what a surprise.

Hollywood Elites ‘Cutting in Line,’ Offering ‘Bribes’ To Get First Vaccines  What’s the use of power if you can’t abuse it?

‘You Can Reopen Now!’ Governor Newsom Shouts At Row Of Abandoned, Dilapidated Buildings  Babylon Bee.

Variants and variations

Netherlands Headed Toward Civil War Due To Lockdowns, Official Warns

Andrew Cuomo Says ‘Incompetent Government Killed People’ While NY Has Second Highest COVID-19 Death Rate  He was talking about Trump, of course.

Biden’s Eviction of Churchill Bust Signals Weakening Ties With UK  Few can surpass Creepy Joe at re-building the relations with our allies that Trump supposedly trashed.

Biden Far Outpacing Trump on Early Executive Orders, Actions  It’s amazing how they can make his mouth move.

Biden Administration Considering Allocating COVID-19 Funds To Climate Change Programs: Report

Making America California

FNC’s Peter Doocy Presses Biden, Psaki on COVID Hypocrisy, Left-Wing Violence

Rep. Ronny Jackson to Newsmax TV: Biden’s Virus Plan is ‘the Trump Plan’

It’s Trump’s world, and Biden only governs in it

200 Republicans Pledge Support For Hyde Amendment As Biden Takes Aim At Pro-Life Legislation

Schumer Asks Biden To Declare Climate Emergency, Says He ‘Can Do Many, Many Things Under The Emergency Powers’

Laid-off Keystone XL worker says decision to cancel pipeline ‘is going to hurt a lot of people’

Portents of the Biden Regency

Biden Taking Executive Action To Address Racial ‘Equity’ — Two Orders Will Reportedly Undo Major Trump Polices

Biden To Halt Oil, Gas Leasing On Federal Land

‘This Political Theater … Is Scary’: Arizona Sheriff Pushes Back On Biden Border Policies

Biden Education Pick Is Leading Opponent of Return to Classrooms

Man Who Called Half The Country Racists All Year Calls For Unity  Babylon Bee.

Google Reports Sudden Spike In Searches For ‘Can You Take Back Your Vote For President’ Among Biden Voters

Journalists Justify Loudly Cheering On Biden As It’s Needed To Keep Him Awake  Babylon Bee.

Here’s How President Biden’s Executive Orders Could Hurt Workers

Judge Blocks Biden Deportation Freeze Nationwide Following Legal Challenge by Texas  The biter bit.

Sen. Blackburn to Newsmax TV: Biden Bypassing Congress With Exec Orders  Does this come as a surprise?

Reflecting the Authoritarian Climate, Washington Will Remain Militarized Until At Least March

In Stunning Reversal Of Previous Administration, New Biden COVID Plan Features Mask Wearing, Vaccinations, And Travel Bans  Babylon Bee.

30 Years of Research Rebut Biden’s Minimum-Wage Agenda

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National School Choice Week has taken on renewed importance this year, as too many families are approaching the one-year mark of crisis online learning provided by their public school district.

Last March, the coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools nationwide, forcing teachers, parents, and students to transition to virtual classrooms and grapple with the various effects of lockdowns. Ten months later, parents report that 53% of K-12 students are still learning in their virtual classrooms.

Public schools have remained largely closed to in-person instruction.

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The Seattle City Council is about to pass “hazard pay” legislation, mandating an additional $4-per-hour for grocery store workers, lasting “for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic.” The main sponsor of said legislation is, of course, the grocery-store workers union.

Prediction 1: Grocery store workers will lose hours, and/or lose their jobs entirely if their employers are forced to pay them an additional $4-per-hour on top of their already-inflated Seattle-mandated wages.

Prediction 2: Small grocery stores will leave Seattle for the suburbs, given that grocery stores already operate on razor-thin margins.

Prediction 3: The “Covid-19 Pandemic” will never end.

Biden’s Energy Executive Orders Will Have ‘Huge Costs’ on American Families, Economist Says

Biden To Reinstate Trump’s COVID-19 Travel Bans, Will Add South Africa

White House Acknowledges ‘Confusion’ On Vaccine Distribution, Blames Trump Administration  Of course they do.

Top Iranian Official Celebrates Biden’s Rumored Iran Envoy

NBC Touts Pro-Abortion Biden as In-Touch With American Catholics

Biden may force American taxpayers to foot bill for San Francisco homeless hotels

In Another Despicable Act Of Insurrection, Republicans Fail To Celebrate Biden’s Executive Orders  Babylon Bee.

New York Times Boldly Proclaims: ‘Liberal Christianity Ascends With Biden’s Faith’

Executive Order Seesaw on Environmental Rules Inflicts Vertigo on Economy

Jen Psaki Says It Isn’t ‘A Fair Articulation’ To Say Then-Candidate Biden Called Trump Admin’s China Travel Ban ‘Xenophobic’

FARRELL: Biden’s First Week — Will America Have Buyer’s Remorse? ‘Buyer’s’ remorse? For a stolen election?

Biden said to be assembling cyber dream team to sort out US govt computer security  Good luck with that. (Give it to Elon Musk. Then, when it spontaneously explodes, there’ll be someone to blame)

As Thousands Die From COVID on His Watch, Biden Vows to ‘Speed Up’ Efforts to Redesign $20 Bill

The megarich have already recovered from the pandemic. It may take the poor a decade to do so (CNN) Not just the ‘rich’ but the ‘megarich’ – just like it’s never the ‘right’ but always the ‘ultra-right’. But you never hear about the ‘megapoor’ or the ‘ultra-left’.

Chicago Teachers Vote To ‘Strike’ Against In-Person Instruction Over COVID-19 Fears

Merck First US Pharma Giant To Abandon COVID Vaccine Efforts

Moderna Vaccine Not Effective Against “Mutant” South African COVID Strain, But Works With UK Variant

REPORT: Student Suicides Double In Locked Down Nevada County. Officials Now Surveil Students’ Devices 24/7

Stephanopoulos, Fauci Lament ‘Pressure’ of Working With Trump Vs. ‘Refreshing’ Science-Following Biden

Newsom Lifts California Stay-At-Home Orders, Allows Outdoor Dining  Guess he’s feeling that Recall petition.

‘Telling Us To Kill Ourselves’: Bar Owner Facing Lawsuit For Defying Lockdown Says She’s Received Death Threats

5 graphs that show how bad COVID-19 is in LA County

Triple-Masker Looks Down On People Who Only Double Mask  Unexploited business opportunity: A Basic Virtue Signalling kit, full of masks, BLM signs, eco-Nazi stickers, and whatever else we can think of.

Mayor Calls In Chick-Fil-A Manager To Help Speed Up Drive-Thru Vaccine Site  Could do worse.

How A Legitimate Theory About COVID-19 Emerging From A Lab Got Dismissed By Media Fact Checkers  It’s all about the Narrative.

Billionaires Thriving as Poor Suffer in Widening COVID-19 Divide: Oxfam  And whose fault is that?

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On Jan. 19, a federal court, citing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, upheld conscience protections for physicians and struck down the transgender mandate that ordered doctors to perform transgender interventions when doing so violated the provider’s sincerely held religious beliefs.

The Russians have a proverb ‘Just because a dog is born in a stable doesn’t make it a horse’, and one might equally say ‘Just because a man wears a dress doesn’t make him a woman.’

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At last, Republicans are punching back.

California Refuses To Disclose COVID-19 Data Used To Drive Lockdowns

Charlie Cooke.

Last month, I got a notice in the mail from a debt collector. It was a personal property tax bill for my wife’s car — from a different state, Connecticut, which we had left three years earlier.

In Connecticut, they charge you for the privilege of owning a car, and I apparently owed taxes from 2017 — which, 814 days after they were levied, I was finding out about for the first time.

I don’t like taxes, but I always pay them. Had I known about this one, I’d have paid it, too. (The total fee was $250 — $150 for the tax, $70 for interest, and $30 in debt collection fees.) But I didn’t know about it, because, for three years, I was never told. Despite having my mail forwarded for a year and having family members who still live in the house we left, I didn’t receive a single letter or notice. Now, I had a debt collector’s letter in my hand.

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Here’s a look at Biden’s proposed 401(k) changes:

The 401(k) tax deduction would disappear.
Workers would instead get a tax credit for 401(k) contributions.
The tax advantage of contributing to a 401(k) would be reduced for higher earners and increase for low and middle earners.
The creation of an automatic 401(k) for workers without access to a workplace retirement account.
Allowing caregivers to make catch-up contributions to retirement accounts.

The devil is, of course, in the details.

The problem with most such ‘soak-the-rich’ plans is that ‘the rich’ wind up being anybody who makes more than, say, a waitress or a cab driver — i.e. it winds up being a ‘soak-the-middle-class’ scheme (although that’s not on your copy) — the reason being that in order to get all of the money the Democrats are wanting to spend on their pet schemes the amount they can bleed from the Real Rich is totally inadequate.

Biden Breaks His Own Mask Mandate  What did you expect?

Is It Almost Over: US Sees Record One-Day Drop In COVID Hospitalizations

Major Tour Operator Refuses To Book Holidays For The Unvaccinated

Senior MP: British Public Will “Rise Up And Bring Down” Lockdown If Exit Plan Isn’t Outlined

“It Was All A Lie”: Biden-Linked WHO Adviser Says COVID-19 ‘Likely’ Leaked From Wuhan Lab

REPORT: Fauci Says Second Vaccine Shot Made Him Feel ‘Fatigued,’ ‘Achy’ For 24 Hours  Gee, that’s what seeing him on television makes me feel.

Oops: Media Darling Tony Fauci Debunks Massive CNN Story on COVID Vaccines

UK Reports 6,500 COVID-Related Prosecutions In First Six Months Of Pandemic

Infectious Diseases Expert Says UK Lockdown Is Not Working

Hong Kong Imposes Unprecedented COVID Lockdown As China Scrambles To Protect Beijing

Trump Administration’s Omission Of Facts Regarding COVID-19 ‘Very Likely’ Cost Lives, Fauci Says  Had nothing to do with Fauci’s lies, of course.

REPORT: Couple Married 70 Years Die Of Coronavirus Holding Hands Before Their Vaccination Appointment  Your tax dollars at work.

‘I Was Lied To’: Meghan McCain Lashes Out At Biden, Fauci And Amazon Over COVID Hypocrisy  Wakey, wakey.

Janet Yellen Used To Say Minimum Wage Hikes Killed Jobs — What Changed?  They name on her paycheck.

Texas Governor Orders New Arrivals From California To Quarantine For 30 Years  Babylon Bee.

UK Chief Scientist Says New Coronavirus Variant May Be More Deadly And Transmissible, But Cautions That Extra Research Is Needed  Gotta keep the panic goin’, gotta keep the panic goin’….

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Texas sued the U.S. government for ordering a halt to most deportations of undocumented immigrants, the first major lawsuit challenging President Joe Biden’s policies just two days into his term and a likely sign of what’s to come from other Republican-led states.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims the directive from the Department of Homeland Security violated federal law by failing to seek input from the state. Paxton also accused the administration of failing to enforce immigration laws and granting a “blanket amnesty.”

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“They’re soldiers,” DeSantis told Fox News during an interview. “They’re not Nancy Pelosi’s servants. And this comes on the backend of them trying to investigate the backgrounds of our guardsmen … This is a half-cocked mission at this point.”

 

These coronavirus variants are keeping scientists awake at night (CNN)

The Empirical Case For A Mask Mandate Lacks Scientific Grounding

“It’s Killing Younger People” – New COVID Strain Reportedly Emerging Within Brazilian Amazon  Gotta keep the panic going, gotta keep the panic going….

Rep. Rashida Tlaib Claims Israel Is A ‘Racist State’ For Excluding Palestinians From COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout  Would she say the same if Palestinians denied the vaccine to Jews? The question answers itself.

Biden’s Covid Plan Will Define His Presidency  Wired ‘Science’.

Vaccine Shortage Puts Americans on the Road in Search of Shots

COVID Lockdowns Will Result In 1 Million Excess Deaths Over Next 15 Years, Scientists Find

Every Time The Experts Have Been Wrong — Or Lying — About The Pandemic

13,000 NY Nursing Home Residents And Nearly Half Of Staff Decline COVID-19 Vaccine

Detention Centers For COVID Skeptics

China Reports 100+ Cases For Sixth Day As Lockdowns Expanded To 29MM

French Workers Angrily Reject Social Distancing “Collars”

The vaccine has exposed teachers unions’ true priorities  Yup: Their safety first, their paychecks second, kids last.

Why Hardly Anyone Trusts The Virus ‘Experts’

OnlyFans Star Vanessa Sierra Says She’s Getting Death Threats After Viral Quarantine Complaints  Death threats are apparently the new fan letters.

Biden Health Pick Forced Nursing Homes to Accept COVID Patients

NY Times: 400,000 Dead From COVID? Blame Red State Governors, Trump  Uh, ‘fraid not….

More Than a Quarter of New Yorkers Don’t Want COVID-19 Vaccine

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It looks as if the government is returning to its old habits of trying to exploit the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to attack conservative nonprofits.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is urging IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig “to review the tax-exempt status of Turning Point USA [TPUSA],” according to CNBC. The reason for this push was asinine: “Whitehouse said [in a letter that] the nonprofit student group should have its tax-exempt status reviewed because he believes they broke Covid regulations when it reportedly hosted two large events in Florida.” Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is president of the group. Kirk is also a member on the board of advisors for the MRC’s Free Speech America project.

Whitehouse’s push for the IRS to zero in on TPUSA sounds eerily similar to that “scandal that erupted in 2013 when the IRS was found to be targeting conservative organizations for harassment.”

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Boy, that TSA is really on top of things, aren’t they?

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The United States could not make enough military equipment fast enough to sustain its military in the event of a major war. While much thought has been given to how a great power conflict might erupt or play out, far less has been written on how the U.S. industrial base could sustain U.S. wartime equipment losses in such a conflict.

Our study at the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that it would take many years to replace current inventories, even at surge production rates. And the situation is not getting better as industry consolidation has squeezed out excess capacity. The Navy would probably face the biggest problem. Each ship lost would be, effectively, irreplaceable during the conflict.

Incoming CDC Director Says US Will Likely Reach 500,000 Deaths by February

Covid Fatalities Tend to be Past Their Primes: the Best Example of This Yet  Think of it as evolution in action.

COVID Fatality Rates: A Different Perspective

Over 50,000 Restaurants In Italy Declare “I Am Open” Defying Lockdown Measures

Incoming White House Climate Team Blames ‘Systemic Racism’ for Climate Change  And now it starts.

Man found ‘living in airport for three months’ over Covid fears

Cremation Limits Suspended For LA County To Keep Up With COVID-19 Related Deaths  Ask yourself why L.A. needs ‘cremation limits’.

1000s Denounce COVID Lockdown In Amsterdam As Chaos Unfolds At “Unauthorized” Gathering

REPORT: Violators Of Quarantine In Germany Will Be Sent To Refugee Camps And Detention Centers Just like the good old days.

US Scientist Who Led Charge Against COVID Lab Leak Theory Admits He Was Trying To Protect Chinese Scientists

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Going forward, I think any president facing a House of Representatives in which his or her party is in the minority stands about a 50-50 chance of being impeached in such a session. If that’s true, then the odds of another president being impeached twice at some point in the next twenty years are pretty good.

It might even happen to Joe Biden, if he lives long enough.

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Do tell. I guess these people are new to how the government works.

Los Angeles Covid Cases Top 1 Million as Outbreak Worsens  Boy, those strict lockdowns really work, don’t they?

Peer-Reviewed Study “Did Not Find Evidence” Lockdowns Were Effective In Stopping COVID Spread

10,000 Protesters In Vienna March Against Coronavirus Restrictions  

Relying on Lockdowns, Social Distancing and Masks Isn’t Working to Curb COVID-19

Teachers’ Union President Compares Push To Reopen Schools To Capitol Riots, White Supremacy

Four Illinois Restaurants Join Together In Reopening Against State Restrictions

US Steps Up Claims COVID-19 May Have Escaped From Chinese Lab

Dystopian COVID Tyranny in Quebec

Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks

UK To Close All Travel Corridors To Curb New COVID Variants

Germany To Put COVID-Rulebreakers In “Detention Camp”

Millions Of Workers Are Still Calling Out Sick Or Taking Leaves Of Absence Due To COVID

US Has Evidence Researchers In Wuhan Lab Fell Ill Before Coronavirus Outbreak, State Department Says

55 Americans Have Died Following COVID Vaccination, Norway Deaths Rise To 29

COVID-19 Found in Chinese Ice Cream Samples

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She can’t, literally can’t, be as much of a moron as she seems.

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Now that the presidential election is behind us, Democratic governors and mayors will be happy to see the economy rebounding. And, of course, Joe Biden will take credit for all improvement that results from abandoning the lockdowns that have crushed our country for the last ten months.

REPORT: Ethics Board Investigating Denver Mayor For Traveling During Thanksgiving While Telling People To Stay Home

COVID-19 Surge Overwhelms SoCal Hospitals, Morgues and Funeral Homes  Let’s keep the panic alive!

UC San Diego Installs COVID Test Kit Vending Machines 

Stephen Moore: Biden’s Coronavirus Plan Will Kill 4 Million Jobs

Rep. Ayanna Pressley Says GOP Congressmembers Engaged In ‘Chemical Warfare’ By Not Wearing Masks

Report: Nets’ Kyrie Irving Fined $50,000 For Attending Party While Maskless

Biden Tees Up Senate Battle With Massive COVID Spending Bill 

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The states siphoned off 21 percent of gasoline taxes and other highway user fees to pay for mass transit and other non-highway activities in 2019, according to table SDF of the 2019 Highway Statistics, which was posted this week by the Federal Highway Administration. The table shows that $9.8 billion in highway user fees were spent on transit and $15.1 billion were spent on other non-highway activities for a total of nearly $25 billion out of the $120 billion collected by the states from highway users.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Under Minnesota law, the state’s Department of Education promulgates standards for K-12 public schools in a number of categories. The benchmarks for each category are revised by committee every ten years. This year, the Social Studies standard is being revised. The committee undertaking the revision, as you would expect in the Tim Walz administration, is hard left.

Moderna CEO says the world will have to live with Covid ‘forever’

How COVID Paved The Road To Serfdom

Anti-Lockdown Protest in Prague

Bank Warns It Will Close Customers’ Accounts If They Don’t Wear Masks  Help ’em out – leave first.

New variants

Dem Congressman Catches COVID After Receiving 2nd Dose Of Vaccine

What They Said About Lockdowns Before 2020

Takeout Only | How California Elites Crushed LA’s Local Restaurants

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Sauce for the goose….

‘Burdensome’ Website Keeps New Yorkers From Getting Vaccine as Doses Are Wasted

Charlie Gasparino: Cuomo, de Blasio ‘Banking’ on Biden Bailout

The COVID Depression And “Food Insecurity”

Go Home Now. Because COVID.

How Covid paved the Road to Serfdom

COVID-19 & The Emergence Of The Pandemic Industrial Complex

New York Times Pounces on Florida Vaccine Rollout, Not Andrew Cuomo’s in New York

ABC Accuses Maskless GOP in Capitol Of Giving Democrats COVID

Rep. Jayapal Tests Positive For COVID-19, Blames GOP Lawmakers, Capitol Riot

Maskless Pramila Jayapal Complains She Got COVID-19 From Republicans Who ‘Cruelly Refused’ To Wear Masks

REPORT: Dutch Customs Officials Are Seizing Sandwiches From UK Drivers Arriving At Border

L.A. County Tells Residents To Wear Masks Inside Own Homes

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In December, the first month after Donald Trump’s loss, the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index slumped 5.5 points to 95.9, falling below the average Index value since 1973 of 98, and missing expectations of a triple digit print. Nine of the 10 Index components declined and only one improved. Of note, owners expecting better business conditions over the next six months tumbled by a whopping 24 points to a net negative 16%, realizing that a Democrat admin is hardly conducive to small business growth.

Looks as if somebody is paying attention.

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With ridership stuck at around 37 percent of 2019 levels, transit advocates have stopped claiming that transit is energy-efficient and climate-friendly. Even in 2019, transit wasn’t particularly green, but the fall-off in ridership associated with the pandemic has completely destroyed any claim that transit agencies may have that they save energy by providing an alternative to the automobile.

‘You Held Out For Eight Months’: Lesley Stahl Calls Out Pelosi For COVID Relief Delay

A Medical Doctor Explains What We Know About New Coronavirus Strains

COVID Gone Crazy – An Epidemic Of ‘Positive’ Tests

When it comes to COVID-19 risk, what counts as ‘outdoor’ dining?

COVID-19: why did a second wave occur even in regions hit hard by the first wave?

Chicago Teachers Could Face Discipline, Termination If They Don’t Show Up To In-Person School Monday

After Forcing Thousands Of Business To Shut Down, Cuomo Now Says The ‘Cost’ Of Staying Closed Is ‘Too High’

A Nursing Home Had Zero COVID Deaths. Then, It Vaccinates Residents And The Deaths Begin

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• Joe Biden has hired at least 14 current or former executives from five major tech firms to serve in his administration or advise his transition team. 
• The firms — Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook — have all clamped down this week on President Trump and Parler, a social media site popular with conservatives. 
• Conservatives have long expressed concern over Biden and Democrats’ close ties to the major tech companies. 
• Apple’s top lobbyist is a longtime Biden adviser. Former executives from Twitter and Facebook are also joining the Biden White House.

U-Haul Reveals 2020 Migration Trends As Pandemic And Taxes Take Toll

MRNA Vaccines Could Vanquish Covid Today, Cancer Tomorrow

Azar Blasts Cuomo’s ‘Ignorant Demagoguery” On COVID Variants

“It’s A Ghost Town”: Debt-Laden NYC Taxi Drivers In Dire Straits

Nets Ignored Cuomo Order Caused Hospitals to Toss Out Vaccine Doses

Another “Mutant” COVID Strain Discovered In Japan As Greater Tokyo Outbreak Worsens

NY State Assembly Bill A416: COVID Concentration Camps Coming To America?

Nearly Half Of U.S. Voters Believe Health Officials Have Been Misleading With COVID Data

New Hyper-Infectious “Mutant” COVID Strain May Already Be Spreading In US

London Mayor Declares ‘Major Incident,’ COVID-19 ‘Out of Control’

SARS-CoV-2 induced remission of Hodgkin lymphoma

REPORT: Experts Investigate Death Of Doctor Who Died Two Weeks After Receiving Vaccine

Cuomo’s COVID Vaccination Rollout In NY Is A Total Mess

Over 100 Scientists and Doctors Call for Increased Vitamin D to Combat Covid-19

Don’t Let Covid-19 Patients Die with Vitamin D Deficiency

Vaccines conquered smallpox and polio, but COVID-19 looks like a tougher battle

How Fast Can Scientists Find the New Coronavirus Strains? (Wired ‘Science’) How fast do politicians need them to?

Miami Doctor Dies After Receiving First Dose Of Pfizer Vaccine

New York Hospital Fined For Vaccinating First Responders Without Cuomo’s Consent  Illustrates just how much despotic power a modern state governor has.

Dem Governors ‘Demand’ More Vaccine Doses From Feds, But Can’t Even Use Up What They Have

Covid: Women on exercise trip ‘surrounded by police’

More Frothing Madness From the Coronareich

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Video footage tweeted Friday appears to show a crowd surrounding and harassing Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham at the Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

Video footage Mindy Robertson tweeted appears to show law enforcement escorting Graham through the airport as a crowd seems to be harassing and following the South Carolina senator.

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A review of the events of January 7, 2020, reported by C4ISRNET indicates that the newly created Space Force’s early warning system allowed hundreds of Americans to quickly shelter in bunkers as Iran fired over a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. military installations.

Biden Wants To Racialize The COVID-19 Vaccine. The CDC Beat Him To It — And It’s Bad News

Medical Errors And The Cult Of Expertise In The Age Of COVID

Norwegian Nursing Home Patients Dead After Receiving First Dose Of Pfizer COVID Vaccine

Watch These Police Officers Arrest, Almost Tase A Hockey Player On Ice Over Lockdown Rules

Clifford A. Brown: Deep State Normal: FDA edition

How Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Americans

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Have you ever seen ANY criminal charges filed over BLM/Antifa riots that occupied almost all of last summer, much less ones within days?