‘Science Doesn’t Belong To Any One Person’: Lawmakers Grill Fauci On Pandemic Origins

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Lawmakers grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as chief medical advisor to President Biden during the COVID-19 pandemic, for his assertions that he wasn’t responsible for the six-foot social distancing rule and other policies during his Monday testimony to the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

The subcommittee’s chair, Ohio Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, took aim at Fauci’s infamous “I represent science” comments in his opening remarks.

“Science doesn’t belong to any one person,” Wenstrup said.

Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin later offered the first trickle of what would become a torrent effusive praise and penitence from the subcommittee’s minority side.

“The investigation of Dr. Fauci shows he is an honorable public servant who has devoted his entire career to the public health and the public interest and he is not a comic book supervillain,” Raskin claimed. “He did not fund research to create the COVID-19 pandemic. He did not lie to Congress about gain of function research in Wuhan and he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign.” (Read more from “‘Science Doesn’t Belong To Any One Person’: Lawmakers Grill Fauci On Pandemic Origins” HERE)

‘Microwave Mistake’ Leads to Woman’s Death, Police Say

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A 67-year-old woman in South Carolina has died after a “microwave mistake” started a house fire.

Thommie Ruth Jackson died on May 23rd inside the home she shared with her sister in Sumter County, Florida, according to a press release the Sumter Country Sheriff’s Office issued on Facebook.

Authorities received the emergency call reporting the fire late on the night of Thursday the 23rd. Deputies on the scene reported “smoke billowing from the home and heard someone screaming for help,” according to the release.

Deputies quickly learned Jackson was still inside and attempted to force the door open, but thick smoke prevented entry. Jackson’s sister directed them to a window of the room where she believed Jackson was located, while Sumter County Fire Department personnel worked to rescue Jackson and extinguish the fire.

“A witness at the scene reported that a resident had attempted to warm a sandwich in packaging containing foil in the microwave,” deputies said in their official statement. “The sandwich wrapper within the microwave oven burst into flames and attempts to extinguish the fire failed.” (Read more from “‘Microwave Mistake’ Leads to Woman’s Death, Police Say” HERE)

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Congressional Dems Apparently Want to ‘Biden-Proof’ Their Campaigns as President Continues to Tank in Polls

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Some Congressional Democrats are apparently looking to distance their campaigns from President Joe Biden as they head into the 2024 election, according to Axios.

Five months out from the 2024 election, President Joe Biden is struggling in head-to-head matchups, both nationally and across key swing states, against former President Donald Trump. The poor polling coming from Biden have caused several Democratic lawmakers to “Biden-proof” their campaign in an effort to help boost their already close races, the candidates told Axios.

“[There is] more distancing now as his numbers continue to tank,” one House Democrat told the outlet, saying his campaign was “pretty much washing my hands of his campaign.”

The candidates distancing their campaigns from Biden is an alternative to publicly “rejecting” the president, Democratic incumbents, candidates and operatives told the outlet.

“[There is] always an element where you run your own race,” but “it’s even more pronounced,” a House Democrat told Axios. (Read more from “Congressional Dems Apparently Want to ‘Biden-Proof’ Their Campaigns as President Continues to Tank in Polls” HERE)

The US Is Facing an ‘Out of Control’ STI Epidemic, Experts Warn

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The US is dealing with an “out-of-control” epidemic of sexually transmitted infections, according to the National Coalition of STD Directors.

The warning, issued in January, followed the release of an annual data report on STIs by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The exasperation of public health officials can be felt in the very first sentence of the online announcement.

“Yet again,” the CDC website said, “more than 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were reported in the United States.”

The most common STI in the US in 2022 was chlamydia, which has remained in the top spot for years now. Nevertheless, it is the recent rise in syphilis that is concerning health officials most. (Read more from “The US Is Facing an ‘Out of Control’ STI Epidemic, Experts Warn” HERE)

Military Leaders ‘Cowering to Wokeism,’ Charges Trump-Backed Candidate

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With ever-increasing reports that America’s military readiness is degrading at an alarming rate, thanks to leftist ideologues imposing wokeism, radical diversity and sensitivity training up and down the ranks, one decorated Navy veteran and congressional candidate is loudly sounding the alarm.

Jerrod Sessler, candidate for the Republican seat in central Washington’s 4th congressional district – endorsed by President Donald Trump, Gen. Michael Flynn, the House Freedom Caucus and other conservatives – spoke to WND candidly about his concerns. . .

The increasingly troubled state of America’s armed forces, Sessler said, is directly connected to “military leaders’ acceptance of woke ideology and ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ policy.” A recent example he cited was the LGBTQ+ community promoting “sensitivity training”\ within the Air Force. And recently, WND published photographic proof of “gender neutral restrooms” in U.S. military academies. . .

“I can’t imagine the military spending time – or wasting time – on such a topic,” Sessler lamented. For him, “the military is not a place for weakness, whether it be physical or mental.” . . .

“In boot camp, more people fail mentally than physically,” he pointed out. “You have to be mentally tough to be an asset to our military.” He questioned the mental state of some service members, pointing out that “you have open mental illness [in the military] with people parading around in drag clothes.” For Sessler, “that’s absolutely unacceptable and only weakens the state of our military.” (Read more from “Military Leaders ‘Cowering to Wokeism,’ Charges Trump-Backed Candidate” HERE)

Million-Dollar Farm Hides Thousands Of Human Bodies, Authorities Say

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Authorities continue to uncover chilling revelations at the property of Herb Baumeister, an Indiana businessman implicated in the deaths of at least 25 individuals during the late 1980s and early 1990s, Fox News reported Sunday.

Four decades later, the gruesome legacy of Baumeister’s crime at Fox Hollow Farm in Westfield, Indiana, still emerges as new victims are identified. The Hamilton County Coroner’s Office confirmed the identity of Jeffrey A. Jones, a man reported missing in 1993, as one of Baumeister’s victims.

This identification marks the third in the last six months, alongside Allen Livingston and Manuel Resendez, whose disappearances in the 1990s had remained unresolved until now, according to Fox News. Baumeister, who was a married father of three, secretly targeted mostly gay men and lured them to his 18-acre estate, Fox News reported. He bought the property for $1 million in May 1988, and it later revealed thousands of charred bone fragments and decomposed remains, including those his teenage son chillingly found, sparking the exposure of his double life.

Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison has reinvigorated the ongoing investigation, however he confronts significant challenges due to the condition of the remains — many burnt and crushed. Despite these hurdles, the dedicated team, including law enforcement and forensic experts, persists in the meticulous task of identifying the victims. (Read more from “Million-Dollar Farm Hides Thousands Of Human Bodies, Authorities Say” HERE)

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House Dem Wants Gov. Hochul to Pardon Trump ‘For the Good of the Country’

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A Democratic congressman has publicly called on Gov. Hochul to pardon former President Donald Trump after he was found guilty this week of falsifying business records — for the sake of the nation.

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) said a Trump conviction only helps his campaign.

“Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater, and philanderer, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, an instigator of insurrection, and a convicted felon who thrives on portraying himself as a victim. @GovKathyHochul should pardon him for the good of the country,” Phillips declared in a X post Friday.

“You think pardoning is stupid? Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid. (Election charges are entirely different.) It’s energizing his base, generating record sums of campaign cash, and will likely result in an electoral boost,” Phillips warned.

Phillips, a three term gadfly, earned national attention this year after launching a primary challenge against President Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.

A businessman before entering government, Phillips dropped at least $5 million of his own cash on the long-shot effort, which he abandoned in March. (Read more from “House Dem Wants Gov. Hochul to Pardon Trump ‘For the Good of the Country’” HERE)

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Joe Biden’s Looming Presence Over Hunter’s Trial Serves as a Warning to Their Political Enemies

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The president flew into Wilmington, Del., on Sunday night, where his 54-year-old son’s felony gun trial begins Monday, and will spend the whole day there with no official duties.

Joe Biden’s looming presence in the strange small city leaves nobody in any doubt of the message he is sending to Delaware special counsel David Weiss, to the prosecutors, the judge, and the jury pool being chosen Monday. You mess with my son; you mess with me.

It’s all very subtle, in a flagrant way, much like Joe’s impromptu visit to Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau and former lover of Hunter, just nine days before his son’s trial, at which she is the star witness for the prosecution.

It was Hallie who threw Hunter’s new handgun in a trash can in October 2018 out of concern for his drug-addled mental state, creating a ticking legal time bomb that would propel him into court six years later.

It was Hallie who found drugs and drug paraphernalia in his truck. Hallie, 50, even shared his crack addiction for a time, amid multiple drug rehab efforts. (Read more from “Joe Biden’s Looming Presence Over Hunter’s Trial Serves as a Warning to Their Political Enemies” HERE)

Trump’s ‘Revenge’ Strategy That’ll Make Dems Sorry They Ever Politically Persecuted Him

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Former President Donald Trump is laying out a revenge plan to get back at the Democratic Party after they have politically punished him since his first day of office in 2016.

And he needs all of you to attend the polls in November to achieve it.

Trump said that his revenge would be “success” on November 5 and taking back the White House.

“These are bad people. These people are sick, and they do things that are so destructive… if it weren’t me, they’d be going after somebody else, and I know a lot of the competition. They wouldn’t do so well,” Trump told Fox & Friends Weekends.

He called the “rigged” trial a “sham” and a “weaponization” of justice after 12 Manhattan jurors found Trump guilty of falsifying business records during the 2016 election. (Read more from “Trump’s ‘Revenge’ Strategy That’ll Make Dems Sorry They Ever Politically Persecuted Him” HERE)

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Not ‘by Accident’: Ted Cruz Blasts How Entire Trump Trial ‘Is Designed to Interfere With Election’

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When the “guilty” verdict for former and potentially future President Donald Trump came down on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was among several top Republican senators who took to social media to share his true outrage over such a “miscarriage of justice.” He also previewed the special edition of his podcast, “The Verdict,” which he released later that night. A major theme throughout the episode was what a “travesty” the outcome was, and how it amounts to “a political hit job” and “the worst instance of election interference our country’s ever seen,” among other things.

The election interference looks to be all by design, and that it was that way from the start. Co-host Ben Ferguson reminded that sentencing is to take place on July 11, four day before the Republican National Convention takes place in Milwaukee. As Ferguson expressed concerns that Trump could be prevented from attending if he was imprisoned or placed under house arrest, he wondered, “how is that alone not election interference?”

While Cruz feels certain “that’s not gonna happen,” he did point out how “it is illustrative of just how ridiculous what’s transpired is.” From there, the senator continued to let us know how he really feels. “I am on one level furious. This is an outrage. It is it is a disgusting assault on democracy on the rule of law. But I’m also heartbroken. I’m heartbroken, and I believe in our justice system. Our justice system is supposed to provide equal justice under law,” he shared.

He carried that emotion over into what it means for not just Trump, but the sense of justice–or lack thereof in New York– especially considering how DA Alvin Bragg and Acting New York County Supreme Court Justice Juan Manuel Merchan’s handled the matter. Merchan’s way of handling the case was panned and decried, and he has had conflicts of interest from the start, including through his adult daughter’s politics.

(Read more from “Not ‘by Accident’: Ted Cruz Blasts How Entire Trump Trial ‘Is Designed to Interfere With Election'” HERE)

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