New York Times covid-beat reporter Apoorva Mandavilli’s overheated lead story on Saturday, “Immunized People Can Spread Virus, the C.D.C. Reports – Cases Among Vaccinated Are Relatively Rare and Tend to Be less Severe,” seized upon rushed guidance from the Centers for Disease Control to push once again for universal masking. The numbers from a comprehensive study
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Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, predicts that the surge of the Delta variant of COVID-19 across the U.S. will last just a few more weeks. Speaking on CNBC, Gottlieb questioned whether new masking guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was the right call, and reminded viewers that
The backward somersaults, repeated leaps of faith followed by the forward triple flip has placed the Centers for Disease Control aka CDC on the Gold Medal stand of the Covid Olympics. But the CDC’s name has been changed based on its award-winning performance over the past six months. It is now officially the Center for
President Joe Biden suggested Friday that Americans should expect new COVID-related restrictions amid rising cases that public health experts attribute to the highly contagious so-called “delta variant.” When asked by a reporter whether new restrictions are coming for Americans, Biden responded, “In all probability.” The president did not elaborate on the details of the potential
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) delivered a scathing castigation on how Americans are losing trust in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies. The Republican lawmaker also went on the offensive against Dr. Anthony Fauci and school unions during an appearance on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.” “The American public
A man from Coppell, Texas, has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for running a fraudulent scheme to receive about $24.8 million in forgivable loans from the Paycheck Protection Program during the pandemic, the Justice Department announced. Dinesh Sah, 55, pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud and money-laundering offenses, the Justice
A small business owner in Prairie Grove, Illinois was cited twice and fined $200 by the village for flying American flags outside his restaurant around the Fourth of July. Terry Trobiani, the owner of Gianelli’s, says he placed two flags along the road in front of his business to celebrate Independence Day.Just two days later,
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is an avid supporter of the “defund the police” movement, yet she is reportedly also a strong proponent of funding her own personal security force, which includes a former Blackwater contractor. Ocasio-Cortez purportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars for her own personal security in the first half of 2021, according
Bill Maher had one request regarding the Tokyo Olympics: “Please don’t make the Olympics into the Oscars.” However, the “Real Time with Bill Maher” host seems completely disheartened that the 2020 Olympics was flush with woke messaging. The liberal cable TV talk show host unleashed a rant about the “woke” Olympics, where he attacked cancel
It is obvious that the media view Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as a 2024 threat; hence every discussion about COVID and the Delta variant must include an implication that Florida is a uniquely dire situation. On his Friday show, CNN’s Chris Cuomo blamed Florida for the CDC’s revised mask guidelines, saying the country was being “held hostage” because
President Joe Biden touts the support of the business community for his COVID-19 vaccine policy, but leaders of organized labor, which the president identifies as his political base, aren’t happy. Requirements that both federal employees and the employees of federal contractors “attest” to their vaccination status and regularly submit to testing if not vaccinated could
It’s an oft-quoted saying: “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” A fact is something done, an action performed or an event or circumstance that actually occurred. Essentially, facts are indisputable truths about people, places and events. The one seminal event that continues to fester like a boil on the
Political commentator Bill O’Reilly joined the Glenn Beck radio program on Friday made an important prediction about President Joe Biden’s chance of reelection in 2024. O’Reilly told Glenn that former President Donald Trump was brought down because of COVID. “if COVID had not appeared, O’Reilly stated, “he [Trump] would have won reelection.” O’Reilly went on
A bipartisan duo of lawmakers is calling for the creation of a position to tackle issues related to the nation’s southern border. “To solve the growing problem, we request a special executive appointment for border issues to ensure sufficient federal resources are allocated to overburdened U.S. border communities, and to recommend changes to our immigration
Joseph Wulfsohn at Fox News pointed out that Conservative Twitter had a lot of fun with PolitiFact on Thursday when Bill McCarthy didn’t see the double meaning in his tweet “PolitiFact is hiring! Come join our misinformation team.” Poor Bill. If he’d only tweeted “misinformation-fighting team.” PolitiFact is hiring! Come join our misinformation team: https://t.co/EmBkRo23KO
About 350 concerned residents crowded into a church in Georgetown, Delaware, on Thursday evening to hear from a panel of experts about critical race theory—one of whom likened its spread throughout American culture to Mao Zedong’s communist Cultural Revolution in China. “Today, communism is taking root in America,” speaker Xi Van Fleet said. Critical race
Merrick Garland US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday sued Texas over Governor Abbott’s order outlawing most ground transportation of illegal aliens. On Wednesday, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed an executive order banning ground transportation of illegal immigrants by anyone other than law enforcement officers. The new guidance was issued just one day after he ordered Texas National Guard troops
The Justice Department has targeted the state of Texas and its Republican governor with a law suit challenging a recently issued executive order that pertains to the transportation of migrants. Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Wednesday which declared in part: “No person, other than a federal, state, or local law-enforcement official, shall provide
American gymnast Simone Biles has chosen to withdraw from the vault and uneven bars finals, according to USA Gymnastics. Biles could potentially still compete in the floor exercise and balance beam finals. “Today, after further consultation with medical staff, Simone Biles has decided to withdraw from the event finals for vault and the uneven bars.
After a week that consisted of vehement pushback against the Biden administration’s new mask edict and threats of bringing back crippling Covid restrictions, the liberal media decided on Friday to fall in line during the White House press briefing with only Fox News’s Peter Doocy remaining skeptical about this sudden change. And on the misinformation
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a record 93,331 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2020. Some 75% of them involved opioids, the latest sobering statistic in the United States’ 2 decades old opioid epidemic. Overuse and misuse of prescription opioids, and later heroin, drove the first two waves of the epidemic.
Karine Jean-Pierre White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday said a federal vaccine mandate is not currently under consideration. Joe Biden on Thursday was asked about vaccine mandates in the private sector. Joe Biden said he supports vaccine mandates in the private sector then said he isn’t sure if the government can implement
Vaccination alone will not be able to stop the spread of new coronavirus variants and so people will need to wear masks and use other preventative measures until the fight against COVID-19 is complete, a new study claims. The study, published Friday in Nature’s “Scientific Reports,” follows unpopular new guidance issued by the U.S. Centers
Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill hadn’t been planning on getting a COVID-19 vaccination — until the National Football League “forced my hand,” he told reporters at a Thursday news conference. What did else he say? “I’m currently in the [vaccination] process right now,” Tannehill told reporters after a question about the league’s new vaccine protocols.
Journalists have shown astonishingly little interest in the ethical mine field that is Hunter Biden’s upcoming art sale, paintings that could go for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The art was supposed to be an anonymous sale, but now it turns out the President’s son will meet with potential buyers. So how does Hunter Biden
“The left is weak. It may not feel like that when you’re being censored on Facebook … but those actions actually evince weakness. When you have to censor people, it means they’re afraid,” says Sebastian Gorka, host of “America First” on the Salem Radio Network and author of “The War for America’s Soul.” “We have
Coindesk is reporting that the infrastructure bill pending in the US Senate has language that would redefine cryptocurrency brokers. The language seems to expand the definition from large exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini, to include software and hardware wallet developers, multisig service providers, and possibly even crypto miners. This could impact anyone running a
The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote that truth goes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Guess what’s next for us? ***** Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? — Who watches the watchers? Six months ago, I began my first article on scientific censorship
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Thursday that the nation will offer an additional COVID-19 vaccine shot to individuals over 60 who have previously gotten vaccinated, according to the Associated Press. “I’m announcing this evening the beginning of the campaign to receive the booster vaccine, the third vaccine,” Bennett remarked during a nationally televised address,
One of the most obvious misconceptions about liberals today is that they personify tolerance. The Oxford Dictionary defines tolerance as “the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.” A recent poll by the Survey Center on American Life at the American