24th January 2021
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Without leaving the letter M: Moore’s Law, Murphy’s Law, Metcalfe’s Law, Mooers’s Law. I’m not saying an adage should never, ever be named after a person. I’ll admit, Moore’s Law and Murphy’s Law have a certain catchiness to them. But the trend of taking a maxim and calling it Person’s Law has resulted in dozens and dozens of these things being produced, and it makes my head spin. Soon every fact or aphorism will be Somebody’s Law. Not only have such adage laws become a cliché, but, as I have found when researching this article, many of the laws are either not named after the person who came up with the idea (ignorance), or are named by the author after themselves (egotism). They are also called “laws” when they aren’t really laws to lend the ideas more credence than they deserve, or at least more memetic value. It’s hard for me not to take on a negative tone in this article after being exposed to such egotism and ignorance. Apologies in advance.
Preach it, brother.
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24th January 2021
We do indeed.
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24th January 2021
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At least in Arizona, some Republicans remember which side they’re on.
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24th January 2021
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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23rd January 2021
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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.
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23rd January 2021
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23rd January 2021
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23rd January 2021
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
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23rd January 2021
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23rd January 2021
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23rd January 2021
I want one.
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22nd January 2021
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Taking the liberal media’s relief that they know have an ally in the White House to another level, CNN Newsroom host Brianna Keilar dedicated a lengthy segment to fawning over how the design for the Oval Office under his administration represented science, truth, and one of dignity that, unlike Trump’s, would bring honor to America. Keilar began by informing viewers that how the President decorates the Oval can tell us much about the occupant.
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22nd January 2021
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22nd January 2021
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22nd January 2021
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22nd January 2021
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22nd January 2021
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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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22nd January 2021
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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.”
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22nd January 2021
Not so’s you’d notice….
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22nd January 2021
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If there’s any Joe Biden pose more phony than his purported moderation, it’s his purported decency. Biden is not a decent person.
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22nd January 2021
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Greene said Biden’s alleged involvement with Ukraine while serving as vice president constituted enough grounds to levy the charges.
“President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the Presidency. His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama’s Vice President is lengthy and disturbing,” Greene said in a statement. “President Biden has demonstrated that he will do whatever it takes to bail out his son, Hunter, and line his family’s pockets with cash from corrupt foreign energy companies.”
“President Biden is even on tape admitting to a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government threatening to withhold $1,000,000,000 in foreign aid if they did not do his bidding. President Biden residing in the White House is a threat to national security and he must be immediately impeached.”
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22nd January 2021
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21st January 2021
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21st January 2021
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21st January 2021
Default Settings For Inauguration Flag Donations Sends Money To Planned Parenthood
Juan Williams Bursts Into Tears Live On Air As Biden Inaugurated
“Not Even North Korea Would Say This”: CNN Anchor Mocked For Unrestrained Fawning Over Biden.
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: ‘Unspeakably Hard’ To Watch Biden Take Office
Embarrassing ABC: Our ‘Papa-in-Chief’ Biden Is Like Lincoln, Healing the Country by ‘Reclaiming Facts, Truth!’
Get Ready for 4 Years of Media Sycophancy
Biden Institute Refuses To Disclose Donors; Blinken Faces Questions Over $22 Million In Anonymous Chinese Contributions
Describing Jews as ‘Privileged,’ Ethnic Studies Curriculum Sparks Backlash
REPORT: Teachers Told To Locate Themselves On ‘Oppression Matrix’ During A Diversity Training, And One Person Fought Back
Leftists Call For New “Secret Police” Force To Spy On Trump Supporters
MSM Calls For “New Definition Of Free Speech”
“Even Libertarians”: John Brennan Issues ‘List’ Of Ideologies Biden Intel Community Should Go After
WaPo Fact Checkers End Trump ‘False Claims Project,’ No ‘Plans’ To Start One For Biden
Antifa rioters smash windows at Oregon Democratic Party headquarters in Portland Heh.
A look at Kamala Harris’ houses and $8 million real estate portfolio
Sen. Ron Johnson Op-Ed Annotated by Editorial Board of Wisconsin’s Largest Newspaper
Democrats Successfully Prevent Military Coup By Occupying D.C. With Military Babylon Bee.
What the School Board Members Who Shape Your Child’s Curriculum Really Believe Moral: Don’t send your kid to a government school.
Biden Abolishes Female Sports Champions
Labor Pick Paid Biden-Linked Firm Tens of Thousands Prior to Nomination
BirthStrike: The Movement to End All Movements I would encourage these morons not to have kids.
Antifa Protests Biden, Vandalizes Buildings in Portland and Seattle
The Left-NIMBY Canon
‘They Hate America’: Sen. Tom Cotton Calls For Force To Stop Antifa Riot
NY Times Contributing Writer Calls For Lynching Mike Pence That’ll unify the country!
After Inaugural Rhetoric on Unity, Biden Signs Divisive Transgender Executive Order As he does.
Priorities: WH Website Has Already Added Woke Pronouns
A Government Of Politicians, By Politicians And For Politicians
Nets Spend Less Than a Minute on Violent Leftists Rioting Over Biden’s Inauguration
Hey, Remember When Executive Orders Were Controversial? Not Anymore!
Catholic Church Grapples With Pro-Abortion, Nomianlly Catholic President Biden They made their bed, now they have to lie in it.
Pelosi Says Members Of Congress Who ‘Aided And Abetted’ Capitol Rioters Will Be Prosecuted And show trials! The proletariat demand show trials!
Democrats Outsource Political Repression to Corporate Monopolies
American Horror Story Actress ‘Regrets’ Not Assaulting Rand Paul At Dinner With His Family
Facebook PURGES Conspiracy Theorists on Right, Still Allows Antifa
CNN Praises Biden For Causing Sun To Rise In East This Morning Babylon Bee
Gavin Newsom Sued By 50 Bay Area Restaurants Over In-Person Dining Ban
Professor Calls For Elimination Of Republican Party; Purging “Nazified” People From Congress, Universities, & “Regular Jobs”
Virginia Values Act Makes Everyone Who Disagrees a Bigot
Dem Govs Flout Own COVID Restrictions to Attend Biden Inauguration
Dem Rep. Asks FBI to Probe Parler for Storming of Capitol
Rioters Vandalize Original Starbucks Storefront In Seattle
Tlaib Calls Sen Cruz A ‘Dumbass’ After He Criticized Biden For Rejoining The Paris Climate Agreement
White House Press Corps Wears New Cheerleading Uniforms To Press Briefing Babylon Bee.
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21st January 2021
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21st January 2021
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21st January 2021
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Aero Precision, one of the nation’s leading firearm parts and accessories manufacturers, warned Tacoma, Wash., city officials their proposed punitive gun and ammunition tax would have consequences. Officials passed the proposed increases and instituted the taxes and fees.
Aero Precision answered back. The company and its 800 employees announced plans to expand and grow their manufacturing base in nearby Lakewood, Wash. Instead of investing in more jobs, more infrastructure, and more taxes paid to the City of Tacoma, Aero is literally sending their business elsewhere.
Head ’em up, move ’em out.
They’d be still better off in Texas. Hint, hint.
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21st January 2021
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Matze and his family have since gone into hiding after reportedly receiving death threats.
Matze accused Amazon Web Services (AWS) of running a “PR campaign” with other tech companies against his company Parler. He said that these companies claimed “falsely, you know — without any evidence really other than a couple of articles that didn’t have any evidence either — that, you know, Parler, somehow, was responsible for inciting violence.” Matze said that such an accusation against his company was “crazy because their statements alone — on the first day that it was released, you know, had over a thousand death threats to our lawyer alone. Our employees are harassed, you know. We’re harassed.”
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21st January 2021
ZMan is not optimistic.
Whether this was ever true does not matter, as it is not true now. That silent majority is now a permanent minority. Further, the political marketplace no longer exists. You are not allowed to speak your mind to your fellow citizens, unless your opinions are approved by the managerial class. They are also making sure that your choices at the ballot box will be limited to their approved options. Even if you find a way around it, the magic of mail-in ballots will guarantee the outcome in advance.
What this means is the new age of managerial authoritarianism will require a new brand of politics that fits the age. All of the avenues of the old system have been closed off or corrupted, so they serve the ends of the regime. Mass censorship monopolizes the public space by the organs of the ruling class. Systematic ballot stuffing closes off the electoral route. Even the courts are a dead end. A court that claims the Founders wanted special rights for men in drag is no friend of the people.
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21st January 2021
Scott Johnson at PowerLine.
The inauguration put several crises vividly on display. Among them I would count a crisis of rhetoric and a crisis of doggerel. I found the rhetoric of Biden’s speech almost unbelievably flat, but the content was worse. Beneath a veneer of calls for unity he carried on a campaign of smashmouth politics. As Heather Mac Donald puts it, “It’s an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists, racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency.”
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21st January 2021
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21st January 2021
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People are always coming up with these schemes and none of them ever make it to reality.
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21st January 2021
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Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard announced a primary challenge to Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday after her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump last week.
“Liz Cheney’s longtime opposition to President Trump and her most recent vote for Impeachment shows just how out-of-touch she is with Wyoming,” Bouchard said in his announcement, calling for leaders who “stand up for America” and “fight for our way of life.”
You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.
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20th January 2021
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20th January 2021
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20th January 2021
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
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20th January 2021
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20th January 2021
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20th January 2021
Read it. And watch the video.
saac has posted a series of videos he calls The Truth. All are accessible here. Below is episode 5 of The Truth, dated today.
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20th January 2021
Severian.
Rule by a clique of smug gangsters is the natural endpoint of universal prosperity, which is lethal to… I was going to write “the human mind,” but it’s more basic than that. It’s lethal to character. It’s lethal to seriousness.
We are a deeply, profoundly, terminally frivolous people. The people entrusted with enough armed power to reduce the entire planet to a cinder tear up their opponent’s speeches on camera. They kneel in the Capitol rotunda in honor of a drug-addicted criminal. Their supporters charge the Supreme Court chambers wearing knitted vagina stocking caps on their heads. All of them insist that working people should be denied their livelihoods if they, the working people, can’t keep up with the bespoke pronoun choices of the obviously mentally ill. They make a crazy man in a dress who insists on calling himself “Rachel” a public health official.
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20th January 2021
As I did with my student loans.
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20th January 2021
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Any predictions about how the establishment media will go soft now that the Democrats are back in the White House might sound like an advertisement featuring the character Captain Obvious. Anyone who remembers the Obama years and the Clinton years can guess the changes in the media that are coming.
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20th January 2021
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Hillary is deep into mental health territory here. Needless to say, there is zero evidence that Putin or any other foreign leader had anything to do with the breakdown in security at the Capitol. Hillary has skulked through the last four years, muttering conspiracy theories about President Trump and refusing to accept the legitimacy of his election. It is particularly rich that she is still trying to play the Russian card, given that it was she herselfwho bought and paid for the fake Russian dossier, and she knows full well that it was a fraud. Her fraud.
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19th January 2021
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Funny how that happens.
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19th January 2021
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19th January 2021
Liberal Tech Journos Declare War on Apps for Free Speech and Privacy
Nets Salivate Over ‘Biden’s Big Plans’ to ‘Shock the Political System’ Hey, it worked for Hitler.
‘No Evidence Of Threats, No Issues Flagged’ As MSM Stokes Fears Of Military Insider Attack At Inauguration
Twitter Decides Lincoln Project’s Targeted Harassment Campaign Does Not Violate Twitter Rules On Targeted Harassment
Trump Lifts Ban On Travel From EU, UK And Brazil… And Biden Immediately Reinstates It
Nets Ignore Violent Migrant Caravan Storming into Guatemala for U.S.
New Republic: Beverly Hills High School Has Taken Over US Immigration Policy I had a roommate at Yale who went to Beverly Hills High School. He wasn’t a bad guy.
Hungary Mulls Sanctions Against Social Media Giants
Leftwing Group Targets Federalist Society Donors After Capitol Riot The Great Purge proceeds apace.
Biden to unveil immigration bill with 8-year citizenship path for immigrants Get those future Democrat voters on the rolls! Head ’em up! Move ’em in!
For some, the US is now a case study in how democracy dies (CNN) Truer than they know.
Why do so many professional, middle-class Brits insist they’re working class? (The Guardian) Maybe because that’s what it feels like to be pissed on by the proglodyte Ruling Class?
A fresh start for Republicans can come only if they abandon authoritarian populism (Washington Post) I’ll bet you didn’t know that ‘authoritarian populism’ was a thing – kind of like ‘multiracial whiteness’. Well, the finger-pointers at the WP are here to help.
Some Democrats in Congress are worried their colleagues might kill them (NBC News) Guilty consciences, I expect.
POLITICO Playbook: The real reason most Republicans opposed impeachment Forget your lyin’ eyes, the psychic mind-readers at Politico know what Republicans are up to.
Pressure on Ted Cruz Grows as Third Texas Newspaper Calls for Him to Resign (Newsweek) Wow, three whole newspapers, all from Democrat-ruled cities. However will he stand it.
Biden Picks Transgender ‘Woman’ as Assistant Health Secretary
Creator Says GoFundMe Cancelled Fundraiser from Free Speech Tech Start Up
Jorge Ramos To The Caravan: PUMP THE BRAKES The dogs realize that they actually caught the car, and are not sure what to do with it.
Capitol Police Reportedly Ban Reporters From Having Body Armor, Gas Masks And Helmets
Take A Tour Of The ‘Green Zone’ Set Up For Inauguration Day
Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s And Wayfair Pull MyPillow Products From Shelves, CEO Says And the Great Purge continues apace.
REPORT: Thief Threatens To Call Cops On Mother Who Left Child Unattended — In The Car He Stole
Steve Schmidt Says ‘No Forgiveness’ For Republicans Who Supported Election Challenges: ‘Their Shame Will Last Forever’
Amazon’s Violent Sales: ‘Kill the Rich’ and Columbine School Shooter T-Shirts
Parler Tricks: Google and Apple can simply make software disappear
‘No Book Deals For Traitors’: Open Letter From Over 500 Publishing Professionals Calls For No Books From Trump Administrators And the Great Purge continues apace.
‘If President Trump Did This He Would Be Getting Crushed’: MSNBC Host Questions Biden’s ‘Superspreader’ Inauguration
Clueless Chuck Todd: Just So ‘Lazy’ to Claim Media Is Biased!
Chrissy Teigen Defends Herself After Being Called Out For ‘Privilege’ Over New Horseback Riding Hobby
Incitement Or Free Speech? Comey Calls For The Republican Party To Be “Burned Down”
The Left Used To Care About What World Leaders Said, Until They Said Banning Trump Was Bad
NY Gov. Cuomo Proposes Raising Top Income Tax Rate To Highest In The Nation Yeah, that’ll keep people from moving to Florida, right enough….
Video Exposes Twitter Execs Planning ‘Global Approach’ to Censorship
With Biden Daughter, NBC Bemoans ‘Dark’ Attacks on Hunter’s Corruption
‘High Crimes And Misdemeanors’ — Schumer Makes It Clear That The Senate Will Vote On Impeaching Trump
CNN’s King Asks Harry Reid If Biden Should Snub Republicans: ‘Sorry, We Won, Deal!’
Colleges Lobby Biden to Halt Federal Probe Into Foreign Donations
FACT-CHECK: MSNBC Host Omits Key Detail on Minimum Wage Study to Fawn Over Biden Plan
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19th January 2021
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19th January 2021
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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