“Lockdowns during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic have had devastating effects.”
(Tim Meades – Daily Wire) A new working paper from Johns Hopkins University claims that COVID-19 lockdowns imposed by a variety of governments worldwide had “little to no effect” on COVID-19 mortality. The study, published by the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise conducted and by three professors from around the world, also found that lockdowns “imposed enormous economic and social costs” and are “ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.” Continue reading
(Brian Flood – Fox News) Embattled CNN boss 
(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Special Counsel John Durham is not yet finished with his investigation into the Obamagate scandal, and a new report says his efforts have expanded.
State Department officials told Ukraine prosecutor they were “impressed” with his work shortly before Biden forced his firing.
“We’re done with the mandates. We’re done with the government telling us what to do. We will continue and we will follow, just like the rest of the world, on these trucker protests. And they will be 100 percent legal. They will abide by the law.”
(Richard Fernandez – PJ Media) After months of uninterrupted growth in state power, what we are now witnessing in the disputes rocking the Australian Open, Spotify, Marvel and the trucking world are spontaneous meeting engagements in the culture wars. It’s like a chain reaction of angry people setting off other angry people. The singular thing about this development is that it would have been impossible six months ago. A psychological barrier has been breached and a taboo has fallen. The potential of this to create a cascade is considerable. 
“This wide-ranging grand jury subpoena suggests that Joe’s son and brother received transfers from an account with the Bank of China. The question that remains is why Bill Barr directly intervened to ensure that the U.S. Attorney in Delaware’s investigation into Joe’s family was kept from the public for over 17 months until after the election, as previous reporting has confirmed. David Weiss and Bill Barr—or someone with a conscience inside the Justice Department—should answer that question for the American people,”
(Kelsey Vlamis) Brian Houston, founder of the megachurch Hillsong, which has drawn congregants like Justin Bieber, Kourtney Kardashian, and Selena Gomez, said on Sunday he is stepping down as pastor while he fights accusations he hid sexual abuse committed by his father against a child.
The school’s response? They’re offering mental health services to the athletes. In other words, if a man walking around your locker room exposing himself upsets you, obviously there’s something wrong with you and you need a mental health check.
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“After a three-week delay, Border Patrol just announced that its officers arrested nearly 179,000 illegals in December. Now that’s up 142 percent since last December 2020, which of course is back when we had some sane immigration policies under Trump…” 
(Fox News) Fresh questions are being raised about what American scientists and federal health officials knew about the origins of the 
“The movement against conversion therapy isn’t just pushed by secular leftists; similarly, so-called “conservative” church leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention and other Evangelical denominations have embraced the push to eliminate conversion therapy and instead have embraced the idea–largely advanced by “gay Christian” ministries such as Revoice and Living Out–the idea that one’s sexual orientation cannot be changed even upon conversion to Christianity.” 
“It may be time for parents w/kids to consider leaving CA. The combination of schools pushing sexuality on children and now pushing drugs on them without parental consent, is truly shocking. Same state tells judges that parents have no rights to direct their kids’ education!.”
“The girls alleged that the school refused to let them inside to use the restroom or provide chairs for them to sit on.”
“Katie Shaw, a disability rights advocate who has Down syndrome, told the pro-life crowd how unborn babies with Down syndrome especially are targeted for abortions.”
The NFL is curtailing daily testing of all players, vaccinated or unvaccinated, for COVID-19.
(Veronika Kyrylenko – The New American) 
“The content, which YouTube single-handedly censored from the entire world, was nothing more than than the truth directly preached from the Scriptures.”
(Sara Parshall-Perry & GianCarlo Canaparo) This week, 
Most of the 270 signatories are not medical doctors
While the vaccine protected well against the Alpha and Delta variants, “for Omicron it’s not good enough.” 