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Michael Ryan, the World Health Organization’s Executive Director of Health Emergencies, did not mince words when the organization was asked on Monday about the concept of herd immunity. "This idea that, 'well, maybe countries who had lax measures and haven't done anything will all of a sudden magically reach some herd immunity, and so what if we lose a few old people along the way?' This is a really dangerous, dangerous calculation," Ryan said..

Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt defended reopening his state Sunday saying the state has passed its peak of hospitalizations and built up its health care capacity to adequately deal with the case load.“You have to go back and think about why we closed down in the first place,” Stitt told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” I’ve issued 15 executive orders since March 15 when I first declared a state of emergency, but it was to build capacity in our hospitals to make sure we didn’t overrun our health care system. It was to build supply for [Personal Protective...

Senator Chuck Schumer’s threats against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanagh are not only outrageous and dangerous. They could well be a precursor of what we can expect should the Supreme Court advance the pro-life cause. There will be rage. There will be intimidation. There will be threats. And there will be violence. The same people who were scratching and pounding the Supreme Court doors during the Kavanaugh hearings will not sit quietly should Roe v. Wade be overturned.The same people who violently attack peaceful pro-life protesters will turn all the more violent should pro-life legislation be passed.In terms of physical attacks...

As 2019 wound down, well-known press figures sounded alarms about the “erosion of truth.” MSNBC’s Chuck Todd spoke to our own Peter Wade about the “epidemic” of “disinformation.” Washington Post editor Marty Baron and New York Times editor Dean Baquet joined Todd on Meet The Press to talk about how the Internet and Donald Trump and Russia are all combining to create an era in which “crazy conspiracy theories” and “absolute falsehoods and lies” can proliferate. This isn’t a new idea. Since 2016 especially, a wide array of American politicians and think-tanks have been hammering the idea that the free...

If you've been a victim of one of Joe Biden's creepy kisses, massages, nuzzles, or hard grabs, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has a thought: Just get over it. ...

The two prison guards who failed to check on Jeffrey Epstein every 30 minutes were both 'working long overtime shifts at the understaffed jail' on the night he killed himself, sources claim Jeffrey Epstein was found hanged in his prison cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center on Saturday morning An autopsy conducted by the New York City Medical Examiner was taking place Sunday following his death Source has claimed guards at the jail did not follow procedure and check inmates every 30 minutes overnight One guard was working his fifth day of overtime, the second had been forced to work overtime,...

Having had his sentence for betraying the nation commuted by President Barack Obama, former soldier Chelsea Manning is making the rounds of various public speaking appearances. One of these took place in the Big Apple at the New Yorker Festival yesterday. When the question came up of the hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents he dumped out into the public sphere, Manning claimed that he had not, in fact, done anything wrong. The reason? They weren’t “intelligence documents” but rather “historical data.” And no… I’m not even kidding. (Fox News) Chelsea Manning on Sunday told a crowd at the annual...

January 23, 2019 The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: When I extended an invitation on January 3rd for you to deliver the State of the Union address, it was on the mutually agreed upon date, January 29th. At that time, there was no thought that the government would still be shut down. In my further correspondence of January 16th, I said we should work together to find a mutually agreeable date when government has re-opened and I hope that we can still do that. I am writing to inform you that...

So we are in our second year of my husband's HVAC biz. He is busy like crazy (one man band) And I have a "regular" 40+ hour job with benefits that keeps the lights on and the mortgage paid.

Funny, isn't it, that within 24 hours of the sex offense accusations upon Judge Roy Moore, running for the USA Senate seat of Jeff Sessions....The Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, John MCain, gang of GOP Establishment low life were declaring Moore guilty as sin and were screaming for his removal from the ballot, worse then any Democrat was doing the same thing. Methinks this hints heavily of a setup by the GOP Establishment. Now....I am not sure whether Moore is guilty or not. That remains to be determined as time goes by. But...for this gang of rabid dogs, led by McCain,...

HOME SCORES SCHEDULE STANDINGS FANTASY LOG IN Too many bad teams, awful quarterback play making NFL games hard to watch Kaepernick and protests aren't the problem, bad football is the reason ratings, attendance are down Jason La Canfora mugshot by Jason La Canfora @JasonLaCanfora 11h ago • 9 min read People are staying away from the NFL. Viewership is down and empty seats are up compared to the record ratings of a few years ago. It's hard to argue that fact. Any camera angle that panned across the upper deck in any number of stadiums Sundays confirmed that fact. The...

Briana Draguca of Us magazine reported that Hillary spent 600 hours in 2016 having her beautician apply her makeup. (Discipline, Don. Don't write it. We all know what you want to say, but if you say it, you will regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.) I think Golda Meir may have put on lipstick once or twice. Golda Meir is the standard. Not Eleanor "I Married a President" Roosevelt. Not Angela Merkel. Not even Margaret Thatcher. From Us magazine: “I’ve never gotten used to how much effort it takes...

After pouring hot sauce into his eyes to keep himself awake no longer worked, Army Pfc. Alex Blum began snorting chewing tobacco. When that failed, he cut his earlobe with a knife. Still, after being pushed to strenuous physical activity for over 30 hours, he could barely keep his eyes open. The months he spent training to be an Army Ranger tormented him physically and psychologically, and left him changed as a person. They may even have turned him into a bank robber.

During his Sunday night interview with Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon finally said out loud what many of us already knew: that Hillary Clinton is “not very bright.” This was actually my favorite part of the interview because nothing is healthier for our culture than the truth, most especially a truth no one dares to speak out loud. For 25 years, Madam Clinton has been in the public eye, and for 25 years we have been told time and again and again and again two whoppers: 1) Hillary is brilliant. 2) When you...

Join Hillary Clinton in a conversation about What Happened, and what’s next for all of us. This is her most personal memoir yet. She has a lot to say in the book, and even more to discuss in her conversation with you and what’s on your mind. What you’ll see may not be what you'd expect from a public figure. Her story is raw, detailed, and surprisingly funny. It’s a story about resilience, how to get back up after a loss, and how we can all look ahead. It’s about Hillary's experience as a woman in politics -- she lets...

Sorry I have to say this. But FR has become nearly unusable these days. You used to have a feeling that within 30 seconds to a minute, your page would be resolved and loaded. But no more. I don't know how many times lately, I have hit refresh or picked a new thread only to wait and wait and wait and then I give up and go to another site. The powers that be recommend limiting your window options to twenty. My reply is, if that's the problem, the just taking the option away and making it twenty should be...

Hillary Clinton may be the most tone-deaf politician in modern history. Repeatedly over the course of a 41-year career as a political wife, candidate and appointee, she's said and done things that alienated voters. Who can forget her acerbic comments during the 1992 presidential race? "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas," she told one reporter on the campaign trail in describing her decision to continue her legal career while first lady of Arkansas. And then there was her response in defending her husband from allegations of extramarital affairs: "You know, I'm not sitting...

Obviously, Hillary Clinton prefers fantasy to the harsh political reality of her disastrous campaign It has been six months since the political world was rocked to its core with the upset election of Donald Trump as President. One person who has not gotten over Trump’s victory is his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Of course, in the days before the election, almost every pollster and commentator predicted a Clinton victory. She was overconfident and believed the media spin. Incredibly, she was outperformed by a political novice, who won 306 electoral votes in 31 states, an unexpected landslide.