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Blue State Guvs Want “State Of Emergency In Perpetuity”

RealClearInvestigations – While many government leaders sound the all clear message on COVID-19, dropping vaccine restrictions and mask mandates, some states and municipalities are clinging to the emergency powers that allowed them to govern people's behavior in unprecedented ways. Citing the need to direct emergency funding and oversee hospitals, they have held on to their emergency orders even as many restaurants, shopping centers, and sports arenas are once again packed and lingering pandemic concerns have...

Firing Squad Executions Make a Return in SC

(John Ransom, Headline USA) South Carolina has scheduled its first execution of an inmate with the option of choosing the firing squad. Previously, South Carolina used either the electric chair or lethal injections in order to carry out death warrants signed by the courts and approved by the governor. Richard Moore has been scheduled to put be put to death April 29, pending a last-minute stay or pardon according to The Hill. Moore, 57, has been on death row since...

Federal Worker Vaccine Mandate Reinstated By Federal Appeals Court

KAISER HEALTH NEWS – The Biden administration's covid shot requirement had been overturned by a Texas federal judge in January, but a new ruling has reinstated the mandate. In other news, the Health and Human Services Department is looking for input on new environmental health proposals. The Wall Street Journal: Appeals Court Reinstates Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Federal Workers: A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated the Biden administration’s Covid-19 vaccine requirement for federal employees, overturning a...

White House: Joe Biden Kissing Nancy Pelosi Not Considered ‘Close Contact’ for Coronavirus

The White House on Thursday argued that President Joe Biden did not need to quarantine or wear a mask after interacting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on multiple occasions this week after she tested positive for the coronavirus.

Canada Will Begin Doctor-Assisted Death Of The Mentally Ill In March 2023

Canada's Liberal Government Awaits Findings of Death Panel Headline Health – Sarah Palin was ridiculed and subjected to mainstream media "fact-checking" when she predicted that socialized medicine in the U.S. (aka Obamacare) would create rationing and out of necessity lead to "death panels." Now Canada -- which has had socialized medicine since 1968 and has been rationing medicine for years -- has formally instituted an "expert panel" to decide which citizens should be deemed too...

Not A Single Senate Democrat Is Willing To Define What A Woman Is

DAILY CALLER – Those on the left have been seemingly unwilling or incapable of providing a clear definition of what a “woman” is lately. The Daily Caller decided to reach out to all 50 Senate Democrats to see if anyone was willing to offer a definition. Every single request sent to the Senate Democrats to define “woman” was met with silence. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson also dodged the question during her hearing, responding with...

Judge Blocks Military Discipline Against Vaccine-Refusing Service Members

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the military from disciplining a dozen U.S. Air Force officers who are asking for religious exemptions to the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine. The officers, mostly from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, along with a handful of airmen and reservists, filed a lawsuit in February after their exemption requests were denied. U.S. District Court Judge Matthew McFarland in Cincinnati granted a preliminary injunction last Thursday that stops...

Biden Ends Pandemic Border Restrictions, Opens Illegal Immigrant Floodgates

NY POST – As if the border crisis isn’t already damaging enough. With 2.5 million illegal migrants having crossed into the United States since Joe Biden took office, now the administration is going to make it exponentially worse by unwinding the last Trump-era restriction. The Title 42 policy, implemented by the Trump administration during the pandemic to allow border officials quickly to expel migrants on public health grounds, will be terminated next month, the CDC announced...

“Arizona governor won’t say transgender people exist”: AP

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey refused to say Thursday if transgender people actually exist, twice dodging direct questions on the subject just a day after he signed legislation limiting transgender rights. The Republican worked instead to defend his signatures on bills that bar transgender girls and women from playing on girls high school and women's college sports teams and barring gender affirming surgery for anyone under age 18. When specifically asked if he believed...

$14M jury award for protesters could resonate around US

DENVER (AP) — A federal jury's $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as courts weigh more than two dozen similar lawsuits. The jury found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights, and ordered the city of Denver to pay 12 who sued. Nationwide, there are at least 29...

CDC Launches COVID.gov To Help Americans Access Antivirals, Tests, Shots

The new federal website bills itself as a one-stop toolkit to find covid vaccines, treatments and testing and to look up CDC community level data. NPR: A New Federal Website Aims To Solve A Key COVID Problem: Where To Get Antiviral Pills The search for COVID vaccines, tests and treatments could get easier Wednesday with the White House launch of COVID.gov, a website meant to be a one-stop shop for everything from free high quality masks...

Fauci, Hopkins Forced To Admit “Negative Consequences” Of Covid Policies

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the NIAID. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Man Tells Jury: I Never Agreed To Kidnap To Gov. Whitmer

AP – One of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer testified in his own defense Thursday, repeatedly telling jurors "absolutely not" when asked if he agreed to abduct her before the 2020 election. Daniel Harris, 24, said he was a former Marine who wanted to maintain his infantry skills when he joined a militia, the Wolverine Watchmen. He said "America was on fire" in 2020 following the killing of George...

Sweden—Once Mocked for Its COVID Strategy—Now Has One of the Lowest COVID Mortality Rates in Europe

Early in the coronavirus pandemic, I asked a simple question. Could Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the coronavirus actually work? Unlike its European neighbors and virtually all US states, the Swedes had opted to not shut down the economy. The country of 10 million people took what was at first described as “a lighter touch.” While other countries closed schools and businesses, life in Sweden stayed pretty normal. Kids went to public pools and libraries, while adults...

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