Supreme Court Rejects Teachers’ Religious Exemption Appeal Over Vax Mandate

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The Supreme Court on Friday shot down an appeal from a group of New York City school teachers who sought to block a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing it violated their religious freedom.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected the emergency appeal on Friday, the same day as the deadline for city employees to comply with the mandate or face losing their jobs.

Sotomayor did not offer an explanation, which is the court’s usual procedure.

The appeal was filed Tuesday by 15 Department of Education workers, who claimed the city was violating their religious freedoms by not accepting their exemption claims.

The city requires that religious exemption requests must be backed up by religious leaders. For example, the teachers said the city would not accept an exemption from Catholics because Pope Francis had urged his flock to get their shots. (Read more from “Supreme Court Rejects Teachers’ Religious Exemption Appeal Over Vax Mandate” HERE)

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Talk Show Host: Trudeau’s Rhetoric Sounds ‘Like Hitler’

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“Real Time” host Bill Maher kicked off his panel discussion Friday night on the ongoing Canadian Freedom Convoy protest that has garnered international attention. . .

The HBO star then took aim at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who he initially thought was a “cool guy,” for his vicious attacks toward the unvaccinated throughout the pandemic and his smearing of the trucker protesters.

“He was talking about people who are not vaccinated. He said, ‘They don’t believe in science. They’re often misogynistic, often racist,'” Maher said, quoting Trudeau.

“No, they’re not,” Maher reacted. “He said, ‘But they take up space. And with that we have to make a choice in terms of a leader as a country. Do we tolerate these people?’

“‘Tolerate these people’? Now you do sound like Hitler,” Maher said. (Read more from “Talk Show Host: Trudeau’s Rhetoric Sounds ‘Like Hitler’” HERE)

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The Bat Lady From Wuhan and the Very Clumsy Lies She Tells

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MIT Technology Review has a new piece by Jane Qiu on Shi Zhengli, the renowned Wuhan virologist at the centre of the lab leak. Qiu is Shi’s personal propagandist, responsible for the notorious 2020 Scientific American piece on How China’s ‘Bat Woman’ Hunted Down Viruses From SARS to the New Coronavirus.

In her latest whitewash, Qiu explains that Shi has granted her “unparalleled” access, because of her “strong science background” which “allows [her] to grasp the nuances and complexity” of what it is that Shi and her den of virologists get up to. Qiu further admits that her purpose is not to investigate anything; instead, she wants “Shi and her team [to] tell their side of the story on the record, and in the most detail to date.” As you might expect, nobody at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has any interest in disclosing new information, which leaves Qiu with little to report that we didn’t know already. Just a lot of the same old dissimulations, with the occasional update.

The most interesting of these surrounds the Mystery of the Mojiang Cave. The story goes that workers were cleaning up bat droppings in this abandoned copper mine in Yunnan province in the spring of 2012, when six of them fell ill with pneumonia. Shi’s lab tested blood samples to see if they’d contracted SARS or a SARS-related virus, and afterwards the Wuhan virologists developed a persistent interest in the Mojiang mine. Among the bat samples collected there, they claim to have found RaTG13, the closest known relative of SARS-2.

Note all of the bizarre coincidences you must live with, if you believe SARS-2 has natural origins: You have to imagine the virus just happened to enter humans via some zoonotic event in Wuhan, the only city on earth with a lab devoted to sampling and culturing SARS-related bat coronaviruses like SARS-2, where its closest known relative also just happened to be sitting in a freezer. And we haven’t even gotten to the furin cleavage site yet.

It is curious, then, that nobody can ever get the story straight, about what happened with those mine workers. In 2020, Shi’s line was that the miners had a fungal infection of some kind, and never tested positive for SARS antibodies. Then The Seeker, an anonymous Twitter investigator, uncovered this pre-pandemic Ph.D. thesis from 2016, which states plainly that the Wuhan Institute of Virology indeed detected SARS antibodies in their blood. Thereafter George Gao, head of the Chinese CDC, conceded to French reporters that the miners had antibodies to a SARS-related virus, but suggested (implausibly) that these might have been caused by some prior infection and they might well have nothing to do with the cave. (Read more from “The Bat Lady From Wuhan and the Very Clumsy Lies She Tells” HERE)

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Now Even CNN Agrees That a Majority of Americans Do Not Believe Elections Reflect the Will of the People

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An increasing majority of Americans lack confidence that elections in America today reflected the will of the people, and about half think it likely that a future election in the United States will be overturned for partisan reasons, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

There’s been a shift in the partisan dynamic driving concerns about the possibility of an overturned future election. While the 50% overall who considered such a prospect at least somewhat likely was similar to the 51% who felt that way in September, Democrats were now more apt to see an overturned election in the future than Republicans. In the new poll, 56% of Democrats saw it as likely vs. 48% of Republicans. In September, 57% of Republicans thought that was likely while just 49% of Democrats agreed.

Also in the new poll, 56% of respondents said they have little or no confidence that American elections reflect the will of the people, up from 52% who felt that way in September and 40% in January 2021. Almost three-quarters of Republicans were now skeptical that elections are representative (74%), as were 59% of independents, and only a third of Democrats (32%). The results reflected a significant decline in confidence over the past year among both independents (45% lacked confidence in January 2021) and Democrats (9% felt that way a year ago). (Read more from “Now Even CNN Agrees That a Majority of Americans Do Not Believe Elections Reflect the Will of the People” HERE)

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Critical Race Theory ‘Undermines Our Military,’ Warns Retired Marine Lieutenant General

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A former Joint Staff director of operations believes current Pentagon officials are not adequately prepared for a military conflict, in part due to cultural factors such as critical race theory.

Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Greg Newbold, in an op-ed for Task & Purpose this week, accused “our most senior politicians and military leaders” of having “a form of dementia when it comes to warfare” and said the subsequent result “is a dangerous and potentially catastrophic malady.”

Newbold, who retired in October 2002 over his opposition to the United States’s invasion of Iraq , argued that the military’s “two main purposes” are to “deter our enemies,” and “if that fails, to defeat them in combat,” and he also alleged that the military “cannot be a mirror image of the society it serves.”

“Values that are admirable in civilian society — sensitivity, individuality, compassion, and tolerance for the less capable — are often antithetical to the traits that deter a potential enemy and win the wars that must be fought: Conformity, discipline, unity,” he wrote.

The retired Pentagon official also pushed back on critical race theory, a decades-old concept that has gotten significant media attention in recent years, which he claimed was inconsistent with what the military needed to do to be successful. Critical race theory is a theory that claims U.S. institutions were created with the implicit design to keep white people ahead of minorities, thus making the only way to achieve a fully just society is to dismantle the system in place. (Read more from “Critical Race Theory ‘Undermines Our Military,’ Warns Retired Marine Lieutenant General” HERE)

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Biden Breaks Another Inflation Record

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By New York Post. Check another economic record off the list for the Biden administration: Consumer Price Index inflation just hit 7.5% for the year ending in January, the highest jump since 1982.

Fuel oil? Up 46.5% for the year. Gasoline? 40%. Used cars? 40.5%. New cars? 12.2% Meat, fish, poultry and eggs? 12.2%. Breads and cereals? 6.8%.

Eating, driving and keeping your house warm all saw the biggest price spikes in decades.

So much for the prez’s December claim that the 6.8% CPI inflation we saw through November was the “peak” of this plague.

His response to Thursday’s even-worse number was vapid: He says he sees “signs” that “we will make it through this challenge.” (Read more from “Biden Breaks Another Inflation Record” HERE)

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Biden Claims Senate ‘Close’ to Passing Huge Spending Bill as Inflation Soars

By New York Post. President Biden claimed Thursday that Democrats are “close” to passing his sweeping social spending bill — just hours after official data revealed inflation hit a new 40-year high in January, stiffening opposition to the $2 trillion plan.

Biden gave the dubious spin about his agenda’s status in a speech in Culpeper, Va., after annual inflation hit 7.5 percent, which centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said was more reason to resist massive new spending.

“In my Build Back Better legislation that … passed the House of Representatives, we can [lower drug prices]. Now we just have to get it through the United States Senate. And we’re close,” Biden claimed.

The president spoke after getting a rude welcome from protesters. A girl who appeared roughly 7 years old held a sign visible to Biden’s motorcade that said, “Don’t sniff me,” while adults brandished anti-Biden placards that read, “Let’s Go Brandon,” “FJB,” “Biden Sucks” and “Build Crack Better.”

Biden briefly recognized new federal data showing worsening inflation in January, but he tried to turn it into a sales pitch for his stalled spending bill, which would subsidize child care and home health care, among many other initiatives. (Read more from “Biden Claims Senate ‘Close’ to Passing Huge Spending Bill as Inflation Soars” HERE)

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Democrats Are Conveniently ‘Done’ With COVID Just In Time For The 2022 Midterms

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Now that we’re in an election year where Democrats see their political fortunes slipping away in real time, they and their co-conspirators in the media have decided we should all take a quick break from “The Science.”

Democrats in New Jersey, New York, California, Oregon, Delaware, Connecticut, Illinois, and Rhode Island in recent days have said to heck with the CDC and are beginning to loosen up their beloved restrictions and mask mandates.

Less than a month ago, the U.S. was averaging more than 800,000 new Covid infections each day, the highest number seen during the entire pandemic, and quadruple the rate of infections that occurred during its peak under President Trump. But because case numbers are finally falling, New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney on Wednesday credited “Democrats’ plan to fight COVID,” which he said is “working.” Therefore, he said, “It’s time to give people their lives back.”

Democrats taketh away and Democrats giveth back.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, also of New York, said that the falling case counts aren’t happening “by accident” but because “under President Biden’s leadership, a public health infrastructure was put into place … to ensure that we can do everything possible to crush the virus, and that is what has been happening.” (Read more from “Democrats Are Conveniently ‘Done’ With COVID Just In Time For The 2022 Midterms” HERE)

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CNN Poll SOS: Majority Disapprove of Biden, Consider His Presidency a ‘Failure’

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A majority of Americans disapprove of President Joe Biden’s job performance, as most also deem his first year a “failure,” a CNN poll released Thursday revealed.

“Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of how Joe Biden is handling his presidency, with most of that group saying there’s literally nothing Biden has done since taking office that they approve of,” CNN detailed.

The latest survey, taken January 10-February 6, 2022, shows 58 percent disapproving of Biden’s job performance, compared to 41 percent who approve. That reflects a seven-point increase in the number who disapproved from the last survey, taken in December 2021.

The past surveys, fielded in March, April, August, September, October, November, and December, show Biden’s approval sinking and his disapproval continually rising.

From March 2021 to February 2022, Biden’s approval has tanked ten percentage points. In that same time frame, Biden’s disapproval rose 17 percentage points, as his disapproval stood at 41 percent in March 2021. (Read more from “CNN Poll SOS: Majority Disapprove of Biden, Consider His Presidency a ‘Failure’” HERE)

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New Biden Nuclear Hire Is Drag Queen Who Wears Stilettos to Work, Discusses Sex With Animals, and Calls NIH Chief ‘Daddy Fauci’

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A recent, high-level hire at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy is a drag queen, LGBTQ+ activist who has “lectured” on kink at college campuses and participated in interviews about fetish roleplay. In one interview, Sam Brinton – now a top Biden official – even discusses having sex with animals.

Brinton – who has written in opposition to “gay conversion therapy” – was recently tapped to serve as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy for the Department of Energy. He also goes by “Sister Ray Dee O’Active” – his drag queen alter ego.

In his own website’s bio, Brinton reveals:

Sam has worn his stilettos to Congress to advise legislators about nuclear policy and to the White House where he advised President Obama and Michelle Obama on LGBT issues. He shows young men and women everywhere he goes that they can be who they are and gives them courage. Once, while he was walking around Disney World in 6 inch stilettos with his boyfriend, a young gay boy saw Sam with his boyfriend and started crying. He told his mother, ‘”t’s true, Mom. WE can be our own princess here.”

Brinton is an active member of the Washington, D.C. chapter of a drag queen society known as the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” which lists him as the principal contact on its 2016 and 2018 tax forms. During the group’s “Lavender Mass 2021,” Brinton can be seen referring to Anthony Fauci, who was declared a “saint,” as “Daddy Fauci.” (Read more from “New Biden Nuclear Hire Is Drag Queen Who Wears Stilettos to Work, Discusses Sex With Animals, and Calls NIH Chief ‘Daddy Fauci’” HERE)

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Can the Biden Admin Sink Any Lower? Ex-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tapped for Pentagon Post

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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been nominated to be the next chairman of a key Pentagon advisory panel.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Wednesday he had selected Bloomberg to head the Defense Innovation Board.

The board provides advice to senior defense leaders on how to fast-track innovation to meet national security threats.

The Pentagon announcement noted Bloomberg’s “wealth of experience” as an innovator in business, government and philanthropy.

“With rapid advances in technology happening alongside rapidly evolving threats to our national security and the safety of our service members, our largest government agency must also be our most forward-thinking.” (Read more from “Can the Biden Admin Sink Any Lower? Ex-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tapped for Pentagon Post” HERE)

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