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A Norwegian journalist bizarrely claimed she would “love to die from the AstraZeneca vaccine” if it meant other people in Europe were not discouraged from taking it. The statement was made in the headline of Linn Wiik’s article, which literally translates as “I would love to die from the AstraZeneca vaccine.” The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has been temporarily pulled by numerous countries across Europe, including Spain, France, Portugal, Cyprus, Austria, Denmark, Slovenia and Norway, due to reports of blood clotting and several deaths of people who took the jab. In response to the news, Wiik defiantly suggested that she would...

Whatever happened after all the media hype about gun-control activist David Hogg starting a pillow company? We haven't heard a peep in more than a month, since several outlets sounded the trumpets of hope....and ka-ching. Meryl Kornfield of the Washington Post went into a state of high gush on February 10 as she excitedly announced that "Parkland survivor David Hogg launches his own company in a ‘pillow fight’ against Mike Lindell." There is a GoodPillow handle on Twitter but it has been as silent as Hogg himself since the day you gushed over both.

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi likes to talk about the numbers to defend her go-slow approach to launching a formal impeachment process against President Donald Trump. "I think it's like 35 of them out of 238, maybe its 38 out of 238, have said they wanted to be outspoken on impeachment and many of them are reflecting their views as well as those of their constituents," Pelosi said at a Commonwealth Club of California Wednesday. "Yes, there are some, and the press makes more of a fuss about the 38 than the 200." But there are strong signs that the...

Whatever bounce Obama got was in the blue states. In the swing states, it’s still way too close to call. Today’s Rasmussen poll results show that in the eleven swing states, including Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, which total 145 electoral votes, it’s Obama 46% and Romney 45%. In 2008, Obama won these states 53% to 46%. So how does the MSM try to spin the evidence so Obama looks like he’s unbeatable? Let’s look at Ohio, for example. Politico reported (using uncredited sources, of course), that Ohio is lost for...

A kiss between two 12-year-olds is under investigation by authorities in Fort Myers. Deputies said they were called to Orange River Elementary School after a girl kissed one of her classmates during physical education class last week. The school reported the incident as a possible sex crime, and the Department of Children and Families was called in. Investigators said the girl could be charged with battery if the boy didn't consent to the kiss.

Once again, the media has released a "nature is out to kill us all" article. Source: Comcast News. The writer of the article was, to be quite blunt, pretty damned irresponsible in selecting the information with which the reader is presented. Go figure. I will break this down point by point and fill in the blanks after each article snippet. My comments are in boldface: Para.1: More than 10,000 people per year are hospitalized with Clostridium difficile.Response: 10,000 people is about 0.00003% of the population of the United States. Hardly a widespread epidemic. Para. 2: The germ is resistant to...

ACTIVISM REPORT – first Central Oklahoma Ron Paul Meet-Up: Fire Mountain, June 16, 2007Oklahomans for Ron Paul"Bring our troops home, save our economy, restore the constitution, abolish illegal taxation, secure our borders, and save the United States of America. Get involved and give it all you got!" -- Sid Burgess -- Combat Medic in Iraq, Tulsa Meetup Group LeaderThe first Central Oklahoma Meet-Up of Oklahomans for Ron Paul was conducted yesterday at Fire Mountain in Oklahoma City, between 2:00 and 4:00 PM. Attendance was in-line with initial expectations; about 40 Ron Paul supporters from Central Oklahoma and outlying areas were...

After the levees broke in New Orleans, the city appeared to descend into chaos before our eyes. Americans sat in front of their TVs, watching Katrina's flooding and hearing tales of horror. On Sept. 2, ABC's "Good Morning America" described New Orleans "as the city spirals out of control." Charles Gibson continued: "There appears to be anarchy. Reports of rapes, riots, fires, bodies in the street." That was how much of the media depicted New Orleans – a city lost to anarchy. Only it wasn't true. There is no doubt that Katrina was an incredible tragedy, but it was nowhere...

As if the A&E Network hadn't proved conclusively in recent seasons just how far it has fallen -- it has a roster of dreck to which few can compare -- a new biopic on Arnold Schwarzenegger confirms that nobody at the cable channel has much taste or, for that matter, smarts. It's impossible to make a movie about Schwarzenegger without using the man himself. He's an outsize character, a preposterous creation. Trying to mimic him is foolish. Any programmer with the aforementioned combo of taste and smarts would have laughed the idea for "See Arnold Run" right out the door....

Was Darwin wrong? In the November 2004 issue of National Geographic, David Quammen answers this question with a resounding "NO. The evidence for Evolution is overwhelming." In Quammen's view, most people who reject Darwin's theory of evolution do so out of ignorance, so he proceeds to lay out some of the evidence for it. But the evidence he lays out is exaggerated, and the problems with it are ignored. Quammen explains that Darwin's theory has two aspects: the "historical phenomenon" that all species of living things are descended from common ancestors, and "the main mechanism causing that phenomenon," which is...

Excitement is always the name of the game in NYC, but especially when major league political events are thrown into the mix. In this run-up to the GOP convention at Madison Square Garden (August 30 - September 2), media hype and controversy clearly dominate the news. Sure, the mainstream media, now more accurately dubbed the "partisan media", are not fans of President Bush and the Republicans. But the strong whiff of sensationalism surrounding the GOP convention is more about business than politics - In essence, publishers must sell newspapers and magazines, and news broadcasts must bolster their ratings. Be assured...

(Source: Land Line Magazine) Workers at the Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, VT found 2 "missing" nuclear fuel rods-right where they were supposed to be. A small "media storm" had erupted in April,when nobody could pinpoint the whereabouts of the 2 spent fuel rods: very probably because a tanker truck had vanished in Pennsauken,NJ,and two lots of Rheocrete- a product which can, when combined with the proper chemicals,be converted into an explosive - had been stolen. "Ah-hah !", the Media screamed."All the ingredients for a dirty bomb have been stolen! We're doomed !" Some of the channels showed graphics...

01-30) 10:32 PST MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's nuclear forces reportedly are preparing their largest maneuvers in two decades, an exercise involving the test-firing of missiles and flights by dozens of bombers in a massive simulation of an all-out nuclear war. President Vladimir Putin is expected to personally oversee the maneuvers, which are apparently aimed at demonstrating the revival of the nation's military might and come ahead of Russian elections in March. The business newspaper Kommersant said the exercise was set for mid-February and would closely resemble a 1982 Soviet exercise dubbed the "seven-hour nuclear war" that put the West on...

Billion SARS cases feared By Mary Papadakis 27Apr03 MORE than one billion people worldwide could be infected by the deadly SARS virus within a year, a leading UK scientist has warned. Dr Patrick Dixon, a specialist in predicting global trends based at London's Development Management School, said SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) had the potential to turn into a pandemic and infect more people than AIDS. The grim prediction comes as a Melbourne infection control specialist warned the virus could destroy Third World countries. Glenys Harrington, who flew to Manila yesterday to join the World Health Organisation's assault on SARS,...

HUNDE, China — An hour south of Guangzhou, the Dongyuan animal market presents endless opportunities for an emerging germ. In hundreds of cramped stalls that stink of blood and guts, wholesale food vendors tend to veritable zoos that will grace Guangdong Province's tables: snakes, chickens, cats, turtles, badgers, frogs. And, in summer, sometimes rats, too.They are all stacked in cages one on top of another — which in turn serve as seats, card tables and dining quarters for the poor migrants who work there. On a recent morning, near stall 17, there were beheaded snakes, disemboweled frogs and feathers...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Brown University faculty member and a 2-year-old Minnesota boy are being monitored as possible SARS cases - both recent visitors to Toronto. Toronto is the epicenter of the biggest outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome outside of Asia, where the disease originated. More than 250 probable or suspected cases have been reported in the Toronto area, with 19 deaths so far. The unnamed Brown faculty member in the division of biology and medicine has been asked to stay away from campus. Students who have been in contact with the professor have been informed, according to...

4,000 Quarantined in Beijing as Suspected SARS Cases Climb EIJING, April 25 — At least 4,000 Beijing residents with exposure to a contagious respiratory disease are being kept in isolation, often in their own homes, health authorities said today, and a second major hospital was put under total quarantine, with virtually no one allowed to enter or leave. City education officials also revealed that 300 college students who had contact with infected people suffering the dangerous new disease, known as SARS, have been sequestered in a military training camp for two weeks' observation. As Beijing began a stringent new quarantine...

Printer-friendly format July 26, 2002, 6:11PMA bone to pick: Missing link is evolutionists' weakest By JEFF FARMERIt has been said that if anyone wants to see something badly enough, they can see anything, in anything. Such was the case recently, but unlike some ghostly visage of the Madonna in a coffee stain, this was a vision of our ancestral past in the form of one recently discovered prehistoric skull, dubbed Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Papers across the globe heralded the news with great fanfare. With words like "scientists hailed" and "startling find" sprinkled into the news coverage, who couldn't help but think...

Censoring John Stossel's Media Hype Story ABC's 20/20 special on Friday, July 12, 2002, was hyped to be a rip of the media and how the Media can deceive the public. Overall the presentation was interesting, but more of slick media-magazine piece than a scandalous revelation. At the very opening, John Stossel introduces the night's venue with VH1's original and the re-released-edited-for-consumers versions of Hillary Clinton's very short speech at the WTC firemen's fundraiser. In the original version, Clinton did not receive a warm welcome, but rather, she was welcomed with a few cheers and a roar of boos. She...

<p>A private Christian school in Sacramento has expelled a kindergarten girl with only three weeks left in the school year after discovering that her mother makes her living as a nude dancer.</p> <p>Christina Silvas, a 24-year-old single mom who said she had taken up stripping after her 5-year-old daughter's father stopped paying his share of tuition, was told this week by officials at Capital Christian School that her job violates the school's Christian philosophy of living.</p>