Senate Republicans Had a Chance to Force Dems Into Defunding COVID Jab Mandates, and They Blew It

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Senate Republicans declined to protect people’s right to decide what goes into their own kids’ bodies by caving to Democrats’ budget demands this week.

Despite efforts by some conservative legislators to defund Covid-19 jab mandates and shut down the radical, Democrat-controlled government, 19 Senate Republicans voted with leftists to pass a budget extension that was already approved by the House earlier this month.

Sen. Ted Cruz was one of the GOP members who tried to strategically cut off federal funding for schools and child care centers that are forcing the Covid shot on children through an amendment to the budget. Cruz said drastic action was necessary to combat an “absolute abuse of power.”

“Enough is enough. It’s time to stop the petty tyrants imposing Covid-19 vaccine mandates on families across the country,” Cruz said when he introduced the amendment. “No child should be denied an education because of his or her personal medical choice. Schools shouldn’t get federal taxpayer dollars to trample on our constitutional liberties. It’s time for all of us to take a stand. Are you with parents and kids, or power hungry politicians?”

The amendment garnered some support from his fellow GOP senators but not enough. Two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Roy Blunt of Missouri, voted against the amendment while another four Republicans — Sens. Richard Burr, Lindsey Graham, Jim Inhofe, and Mitt Romney — did not vote on it at all, against Cruz’s urgings.

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Pentagon Using Taxpayer Funds to Buy More COVID Tests Made in China

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In the wake of the Biden administration’s decision to offer no-cost COVID tests to Americans, the Pentagon announced on Friday that the Department of Defense, working with the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded contract modifications to two companies to purchase 138 million over-the-counter COVID tests. But there’s a problem.

The contracts announced by the Pentagon are with Roche Diagnostics Corporation and Siemens Healthineers.

In at least the case of the Siemens test, the company’s site directs readers to an Amazon listing for their at-home antigen rapid tests which reveal an obvious conclusion: the country of origin is China. The other company, Roche Diagnostics, doesn’t have as readily available information on its test kits. But a release on an earlier contract mentions the tests are produced with Roche partner SD Biosensor, a South Korean manufacturer. Better than China, but still not great to know that the United States is dependent on other countries for supplies used in a public health emergency. (Read more from “Pentagon Using Taxpayer Funds to Buy More COVID Tests Made in China” HERE)

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White House Spox Can’t Confirm if Biden Worked This Week

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During a gaggle aboard Air Force One on Thursday, White House Principal Deputy Press Security Karine Jean-Pierre offered an awkward answer to a question about President Biden’s search for a Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Breyer.

A reporter asked whether Biden had interviewed any potential SCOTUS nominees, to which Jean-Pierre wouldn’t give an answer. “So, has he just not been working for four days, or what’s going on?” the reporter interjected.

“I just don’t have anything to share or to confirm or not confirm on this,” Jean-Pierre answered. Huh? She can’t confirm whether President Biden worked this week? Listen for yourself:

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Brewery Owner Compares Vaccine Mandate to Nazi Regime, Jim Crow

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A New York City brewery owner sparked outrage online after comparing COVID-19 vaccine mandates to the draconian policies of Nazi Germany and the segregation-era South. However, he thinks the reaction was overblown.

“Everyone should have a basic human right what they decide to put in their own body,” Josh Stylman, 48, CEO of the popular Threes Brewing, told The Post. He was speaking out against the citywide coronavirus jab policies, which include requiring restaurant and bar patrons to present proof that they’ve been fully vaccinated prior to entry.

The controversy began brewing on Feb. 14 after the beer boss tweeted that “vaccine mandates are a crime against humanity” and “if you are not speaking out against them, you are a conspirator.” In a follow-up tweet, Stylman compared the policies to “early sentiments expressed in the Jim Crow South, Nazi Germany, Stalinism, Maoism, and other dark times in human history.” . . .

However, the restaurateur, who says he’s “pro-vaccine” but “anti-mandate,” said he felt that his statements were taken out of context.

“I’m not deluded enough to think it [the vaccine mandate] is like 1943 Germany,” Stylman, who said his grandparents were concentration camp survivors, told The Post. However, the brewer says he does see the parallels with regard “to banishment from public life,” adding, “I’ve heard this from my family.” (Read more from “Brewery Owner Compares Vaccine Mandate to Nazi Regime, Jim Crow” HERE)

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Republican Congressman Dead at 59

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Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-Minn.) has died following a battle with kidney cancer, his family revealed on Friday. He was 59.

“It is with a broken heart, shattered spirit and overwhelming sadness I share my husband Congressman Jim Hagedorn passed away peacefully last night,” Hagedorn’s wife, former Minnesota state GOP chair Jennifer Carnahan, said in a Facebook tribute.

“Jim loved our country and loved representing the people of southern Minnesota,” Carnahan added. “Every moment of every day he lived his dream by serving others. There was no stronger conservative in our state than my husband; and it showed in how he voted, led and fought for our country.”

Hagedorn was elected to represent Minnesota’s First District, which covers the southern portion of the state, in 2018. He was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in February 2019, just six weeks into his first term and two months after marrying Carnahan.

The lawmaker went public with his diagnosis in February 2020 after undergoing surgery and more than a year of immunotherapy treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. (Read more from “Republican Congressman Dead at 59” HERE)

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Dem Politician: If Russia Invades Ukraine, ‘U.S. Troops Will Be There and Americans Will Die’

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Friday on MSNBC’s “Craig Melvin Reports,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) warned of the “high stakes” involved if Russian President Vladimir Putin were to invade Ukraine or another NATO ally.

Moulton, who was in attendance for the annual Munich Security Conference, advised that if Russia were to invade Ukraine, “U.S. troops will be there and Americans will die.” . . .

“And if there is one thing we should learn about Vladimir Putin is that he’s not going to stop,” he continued. “We thought that he might just go to Georgia. We thought maybe he’d just take Crimea. Now he’s looking at taking Kyiv, taking Ukraine; we all have to ask what comes next. And of course, if it’s a NATO ally, that means U.S. troops will be there and Americans will die. So, the stakes are very high right now here in Munich.” (Read more from “Dem Politician: If Russia Invades Ukraine, ‘U.S. Troops Will Be There and Americans Will Die’” HERE)

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Durham Report Proves Hillary Clinton — Not Trump — Was Putin’s Puppet; Media Turns From Ignoring Durham Evidence to Pretending to Rebut It; Hillary Clinton Screamed At, Called Names Ahead of New York Democratic Committee Speech

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By New York Post. Since 2016, Hillary Clinton has been trolling Donald Trump on social media over his alleged ties to Russia, calling him “Putin’s Puppet.” But Special Counsel John Durham’s probe has uncovered the truth about who was Putin’s Puppet. It was Clinton herself.

She and the Obama-Biden administration spy agency chiefs and their corrupt minions were unknowingly, or perhaps even knowingly, Putin’s little helpers in tearing our country apart.

It turns out that Clinton and her top foreign policy advisor, Jake Sullivan, spread a bogus Trump-Russia “collusion” narrative. To enable this Soviet-style disinformation campaign, Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign hired a tech firm to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower in Manhattan and at the White House in order to link Donald Trump to Russia.

Immediately following the 2016 election, the Russia-Trump collusion conspiracy became the intelligence community’s “bright and shiny object.” Serious intelligence briefings about the Russian threat and what Putin was up to were interrupted by national security officials asking irrelevant questions like, “What do the Russians have on Trump?” This was a major distraction that diverted intelligence resources and Washington’s attention from real threats, like China, Iran, and Putin’s hostile actions in Europe and Ukraine. (Read more from “Durham Report Proves Hillary Clinton — Not Trump — Was Putin’s Puppet” HERE)

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Media Turns From Ignoring Durham Evidence to Pretending to Rebut It

By WND. Legacy and social media kingpins learned what power they have when they decided, just before the 2020 presidential election, to suppress accurate – and devastatingly bad – stories about the Biden family’s lucrative overseas revenue strategies.

Few people heard the information, so they still supported Joe Biden, who was elected. It was only afterward that a Media Research Center poll showed that had those stories been reported more widely, Biden would have lost the election.

But the lesson was learned, and when special counsel John Durham recently submitted a court filing essentially describing how Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election hired cyberspies to look into web traffic involving candidate, then President, Donald Trump, to try to create a storyline that he was somehow linked to Russia, many media outlets developed laryngitis.

It was only days later they recovered, just in time to launch messaging that said the filing really didn’t say anything that bad about Clinton.

In fact, it wasn’t anything worth looking at, they contended. (Read more from “Media Turns From Ignoring Durham Evidence to Pretending to Rebut It” HERE)

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Hillary Clinton Screamed At, Called ‘B—H’, ‘W—E’ Ahead of New York Democratic Committee Speech

By Radar Online. Hillary Clinton was booed, heckled, and called a number of obscene names by protestors before giving a recent speech on behalf of her fellow Democrats. The incident took place just hours after she addressed the bombshell accusations that she allegedly spied on former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

In photos and videos obtained by Daily Mail, Clinton was met by the angry protestors on Thursday upon her arrival to the Times Square Sheraton Hotel, the place in which she was staying ahead of her headline address at the New York Democratic Committee’s nominating convention the same day.

While the 74-year-old former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate was walking from her ride into the hotel, she was met by a contentious crowd that called her names such as “b—h,” “w—e,” and “criminal.”

The protestors were there not only to protest the former first lady but also to protest in opposition to the current NY vaccine mandates currently in place in both the city and state as a whole. (Read more from “Hillary Clinton Screamed At, Called ‘B—H’ and ‘W—E’ Ahead of New York Democratic Committee Speech” HERE)

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State Department’s Virtual Iran Embassy Uses Kamala Harris Quote to Slam US

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The Biden administration’s Virtual Embassy for Iran used a quote by Vice President Kamala Harris translated into Farsi to castigate the US this week for xenophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia and other forms of discrimination.

“The truth is: there is racial discrimination in America,” read the translated social media post from Wednesday. “There is xenophobia in America. Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, all exist. Tackling injustice wherever it is, activity is ahead.”

The State Department posted an English-language version of the tweet on Jan. 17 to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“.@VP on injustice,” the post began before quoting Harris. “‘Here’s the truth: Racism exists in America. Xenophobia exists in America. Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, it all exists. The work to address injustice wherever it exists remains the work ahead.’”

A White House official confirmed to The Post that the quote is taken from remarks Harris made this past May at a ceremony for President Biden signing the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. (Read more from “State Department’s Virtual Iran Embassy Uses Kamala Harris Quote to Slam US” HERE)

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Trudeau Totalitarian: Banks Begin Freezing Accounts of Freedom Convoy Protesters

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Canadian banks will receive the names of people involved in “Freedom Convoy” protests that have descended on the nation’s capital, a first step in a promised financial crackdown on demonstrators being instituted by the far-left government of Justin Trudeau.

Bloomberg reports the Canadian Bankers Association confirmed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has alerted banks to a list of names and made it available.

The institutions are reportedly still seeking clarity from law enforcement on how to handle the alleged protesters’ accounts, according to people familiar with the matter. But Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said some accounts have already been frozen, the news outlet reported.

Under the Emergencies Act invoked by this week by Trudeau, law enforcement officials have the ability to arrest people for obstruction of roadways and disruptive behaviour within a no-go exclusion zone. They also have the power to seize vehicles and freeze the same bank accounts.

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Navy Grants First Religious Vaccine Exemption; 640 Marines Discharged Over Vaccine Refusal

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The Navy has become the third U.S. military service branch to grant a religious exemption for the coronavirus vaccine, though the approval rate for such requests remains a fraction of 1%.

One sailor in the Individual Ready Reserve had a religious exemption conditionally approved, though this person will need to get fully vaccinated if they’re called up to active-duty or reserve status, according to a Navy release. Additionally, the Marines have now granted six religious exemptions after having received 3,595 requests, which marks a 0.16% approval rate, according to a Thursday press release, though the number of approvals was three in the branch’s last update.

Those seven service members, combined with nine airmen, make up everyone in the military who has been approved for a religious exemption so far, even though there have been more than 16,800 requests.

Each of the three branches has also begun discharging those who have refused the vaccine. 247 active-duty sailors and one reserve, 640 Marines, and 160 airmen have been discharged for not getting the vaccine, while the Army, which has not granted any religious exemptions, has said it will start separations “immediately” but has yet to release data indicating they’ve begun. (Read more from “Navy Grants First Religious Vaccine Exemption; 640 Marines Discharged Over Vaccine Refusal” HERE)

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