HealthDay – by Dennis Thompson

Part two of a two-part series

TUESDAY, Dec. 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) — A nationwide trial of an experimental vaccine using school children as virtual guinea pigs would be unthinkable in the United States today.

But that’s exactly what happened in 1954 when frantic American parents — looking for anything that could beat back the horror of polio — offered up more than 1.8 million children to serve as test subjects. They included 600,000 kids who would be injected with either a new polio vaccine or a placebo. Continue reading “The Salk Polio Vaccine: ‘Greatest Public Health Experiment in History’”

City Journal – by Joel Kotkin

As the Biden administration settles in and begins to formulate its agenda, progressive pundits, politicians, and activists point to California as a role model for national policy. If the administration listens to them, it would prove a disaster for America’s already-beleaguered middle and working classes.

Biden, suggests an ecstatic account in the Los Angeles Times, seeks to “make America California again,” and he will have plenty of help. Californians will run Health and Human Services, the Treasury, Homeland Security, and Energy. Former California senator Kamala Harris is vice president, and San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi rules the House of Representatives. Progressives like Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca see the shift as embracing “California’s distinctive approach to market capitalism.” The Golden State, they insist, can “show the way forward” toward a more socially just future. Continue reading “Making America California”

Fox News

A second police officer who responded to the U.S. Capitol riot has died by suicide, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Acting Chief Robert J. Contee told Congress Tuesday.

Contee, delivering testimony to the House Appropriations Committee, also described a “tepid response” from the Army, which he claimed was concerned over optics of having boots on the ground and was reluctant to send in D.C. National Guard, even as a violent mob overran the protective measures at the Capitol. Continue reading “DC police name second officer suicide after Capitol riot, rails against Army’s ‘tepid’ response”

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

DETROIT – Almost three months after his arrest, a Michigan man pleaded guilty to his alleged role in the foiled plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and agreed to “fully cooperate” with the FBI in exchange for leniency, including testifying against his cohorts if called upon.

Ty Garbin, an airline mechanic from Wixom, Michigan, pleaded guilty to a kidnapping conspiracy in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids on Wednesday morning, admitting that he was part of a group that sought to kidnap Whitmer from her vacation home and that he was more than a bystander. Continue reading “Michigan man pleads guilty in foiled plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer and will ‘fully cooperate’”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

Twitter troll Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, was arrested on Wednesday and faces ten years in prison for “tweeting” and “retweeting” joke memes on Twitter telling people they can “text” in their votes. Continue reading “Feds Indict Pro-Trump Twitter Troll ‘Ricky Vaughn’ Over Memes Shared During 2016 Election”

Yahoo News – Huffington Post

Bill and Melinda Gates warn there is the potential for “immunity inequality” if only the wealthiest people across the globe have access to the COVID-19 vaccine.

“Already, wealthy nations have spent months prepurchasing doses of vaccine to start immunizing their people the moment those vaccines are approved,” Melinda Gates wrote in the philanthropists’ annual letter published Wednesday. “But as things stand now, low and middle-income countries will only be able to cover about one out of five people who live there over the next year.” Continue reading “Bill And Melinda Gates Warn Of ‘Immunity Inequality’ As COVID-19 Vaccines Roll Out”

LifeSiteNews – by Patrick Delaney

HURON, Ohio, January 27, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A 39-year-old woman with no known comorbidities died unexpectedly in northern Ohio within 48 hours of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, which was reportedly required by her employer.

Janet L. Moore, a nurse aide at Admirals Pointe Nursing Home (APNH) in Huron, was found unresponsive in her car outside her apartment complex on December 31 around 8:00 p.m., her brother Jacob Gregory told LifeSiteNews. Continue reading “39-year-old nurse aide dies ‘within 48 hours’ of receiving mandated COVID-19 shot”

Education News – Infowars

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed a headline from its website claiming that “vaccines do not cause autism” following a legal challenge questioning that assertion.

The change was quietly made last August, with no announcement, following a lengthy legal battle with the group Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) that began in 2017. Continue reading “CDC Quietly Removes Website Headline Claiming “Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism”

Yahoo News

In his brief time in office, Joe Biden has signed two executive orders mandating that people wear masks. While the executive orders aren’t extended to the whole country, they do count as far more action than President Trump did. They cover pretty much everywhere the Joe Biden is allowed to mandate that people wear masks legally and remains a stark contrast to President Trump’s decision to leave such decisions up to other people. Continue reading “Joe Biden Just Issued A Federal Mask Mandate — Here’s What You Need to Know”

Yahoo News

The US Department of Homeland Security declared a nationwide terrorism alert Wednesday, citing the potential threat from domestic anti-government extremists opposed to Joe Biden as president.

“Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence,” the department said. Continue reading “US issues terror alert over anti-government extremists”

Breitbart – by Charlie Spiering

President Joe Biden lectured a Texas Congressman Tuesday for telling the president “kiss my ass” in response to his call for all Americans to wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic.

At a speech at the White House, Biden recalled when Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told him to “kiss my ass” when he announced his promise to implement a federal mask mandate in December. In fact, Roy responded to Biden’s promise to impose a mask mandate with a tweet: Continue reading “Joe Biden: Texas Congressman ‘Not Very American’ for Challenging Mask Mandate”

Campus Reform – by Addison Smith

A professor at the University of California-Riverside called heterosexuality “tragic” and stated that men are often pulled into toxic masculinity because of it.

University of California-Riverside Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Jane Ward was recently featured in an Insider article titled, “Why heterosexual relationships are so bad for us, according to a sex researcher” in which she told the outlet that heterosexuality “tragic.”  Continue reading “California prof: Heterosexuality is ‘tragic’”

WSB-TV 2

ATLANTA — A Georgia House of Representatives member was removed from the chamber at the State Capitol after he refused to take a COVID-19 test.

House Speaker David Ralston interrupted Tuesday morning’s session to call out an unnamed house member for refusing to get the required twice a week COVID-19 test.

Continue reading “Georgia state representative removed for refusing to take COVID-19 test”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While US officials claim that ‘far-right extremism’ is one of the largest threats facing America, the leader of the group most commonly singled out as an example – the Proud Boys – was a ‘prolific’ informant for federal and local law enforcement, according to Reuters, citing a 2014 federal court proceeding.

Enrique Tarrio repeatedly worked undercover for investigators following a 2012 arrest, court documents reveal. Continue reading “Proud Boys Leader Was ‘Prolific’ FBI Snitch: Court Docs”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

Joe Biden signed an executive order today that banned the term “China virus.”
It’s not clear how this will help with the pandemic.
The coronavirus is widely believed today to have been created in a lab in Wuhan China. Continue reading “Joe Biden Signs Executive Order Banning the Term “China Virus””

Mercury News

At least $11 billion in unemployment claims made in California during the pandemic were fraudulent, state officials revealed Monday in a conference call about the reeling jobless benefits system designed to help millions of out-of-work residents.

And the extent of the fraud — already more than twice as large as earlier estimates — could be even more damaging, encompassing perhaps more than a quarter of the $114 billion paid out since government ordered business shutdowns began in March, sparking an avalanche of job losses. Continue reading “EDD: 27% of California unemployment payments could be fraudulent, state says”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Salt Lake City, UT — In September, TFTP reported on Officer Nickolas Pearce, and his subsequent charges after he forced his K-9 to maul a kneeling, unarmed, surrendered man with his hands in the air. Pearce’s case has since shed light on the use of K-9s in the Salt Lake City police department and his attack on a grown man was just the tip of the iceberg. Apparently, the department has no problem siccing their dogs on harmless surrendering children as well.

After charges were announced against Pearce, SLC Police Chief Mike Brown said his office had reviewed 27 times where police dogs bit someone since 2018. They flagged 18 of those cases — 66% — as possibly criminal. Though Pearce has been the only officer charged, the officer in the horrifying incident below, may soon face the same fate. Continue reading “‘Please, I’m 14!’: Cop Slams Harmless Child to the Ground, Forces Dog to Maul Him”

Market Watch

As the Biden administration looks to quickly pass a third major economic stimulus program, some of its allies on Capitol Hill and elsewhere are mulling mixing up the formula for payments to households, looking to make them recurring instead of the lump sums seen in the past.

Getting money to households is, for the government, a relatively easy task. Getting them to spend it, however, can be hard — those not in need of immediate help often squirrel away the extra cash or use it to pay down debt. Continue reading “Your next stimulus check may be the first of several”

NBC 4

  • In rare circumstances, it’s OK for people to receive one shot of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and one shot of Moderna’s vaccine at least 28 days apart, the CDC said in updated guidance.
  • The CDC says the two products are not interchangeable.
  • The agency acknowledged that it hadn’t yet studied whether its new recommendations would change the safety or effectiveness of either vaccine.

Continue reading “CDC Quietly Changes COVID Vaccine Guidance to OK Mixing Pfizer and Moderna Shots in ‘Exceptional Situations’”

Breitbart – by Hannah Bleau

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser for President Biden on the novel coronavirus, failed to rule out double masking — even after getting vaccinated — during an appearance Tuesday on America’s Newsroom.

Co-anchor Dana Perino asked Fauci for his thoughts on double masking, or the practice of wearing two masks at once, asking whether it would be necessary after receiving the vaccination for the Chinese coronavirus. Fauci, who appeared to express support for double masking this week, failed to rule it out. Continue reading “Dr. Anthony Fauci Fails to Rule Out Double Masking for Those Who Are Vaccinated”