(Breitbart) Merck & Co. said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials in the U.S. and around the world to authorize its use.
If cleared, Merck’s drug would be the first pill shown to treat COVID-19, a potentially major advance in efforts to fight the pandemic. All COVID-19 therapies now authorized in the U.S. require an IV or injection. Continue reading
(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) Special Counsel John Durham issued a new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with ties to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. – Perkins Coie.
The grand jury subpoenas for documents were issued earlier this month, according to CNN, after Durham charged Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann for knowingly making a false statement to the FBI. Continue reading
(R. Cort Kirkwood – The New American) When the leftist Twitter mob spread photos of mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents “whipping” Haitian illegal aliens to herd them back across the Rio Grande into Mexico, President Biden reacted quickly.
“It was horrible to see” images of “people being strapped,” he lamented. Continue reading
(Reformation Charlotte) While it has been like pulling teeth trying to get Southern Baptist leaders to break the 11th Commandment–thou shalt not speak out against other SBC leaders–some leaders are sensing the growing frustration among laypeople who are quickly tiring of the repeated failure of the leadership to take action when action is necessary. I’m speaking, of course, in the context of the Southern Baptist president, Ed Litton’s, plagiarism and lying scandal. Continue reading
(Paul Bois – Breitbart) The advent of coronavirus booster shots could rake in billions of dollars in profits for companies like Pfizer and Moderna, according to the Associated Press (AP).
“Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans’ protection against the virus,” reported the AP. “How much the manufacturers stand to gain depends on how big the rollout proves to be.” Continue reading
(Mattathias Schwartz – Business Insider) Two previously unpublished emails sent by business contacts of Hunter Biden indicate that the president’s son requested an annual retainer of $2 million to help recover billions in Libyan assets frozen by the Obama administration.
The emails, obtained by Insider during reporting on an unrelated matter, are not connected to the controversial emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop, which his supporters have claimed were distributed as part of a disinformation campaign…. Continue reading
(Stacey Lennox – PJ Media) A new report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools shows what a great advertisement American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten and her more radical members provided for school choice. After more than a year of school closures, Zoom classes, and battles over critical race theory, parents are increasingly taking their children out of public schools. The study looked at enrollment shifts between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years. Continue reading
“If you examine the actual content of Biden’s speech, you will see that his foreign policy priorities are almost as disturbing as his poor mental state.”
(Grant Atkinson – Western Journal) President Joe Biden delivered an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday amid his many international failures. Whether it was embarrassment for his actions or just his general cognitive decline, he was unable to coherently portray his thoughts. Continue reading
“To comprehend just how much contemporary progressives detest Israel, let’s remember that the Iron Dome is a defensive weapon. It has not only saved thousands of Jewish lives from missiles attacks emanating from Islamic terror groups but countless Palestinian lives.”
(A. J. Kaufman – PJ Media) The left finally found a spending measure they dislike. Continue reading
“Western evangelicals now need to have that same resolve—and prepare ourselves for more pressure from the government and more persecution from the rest of society.”
(Reformation Charlotte) While most of the world, particularly the lost and dying world, is living in extreme fear of a disease that carries with it the possibility of death, John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Church in Los Angeles wants us to know that born again believers have nothing to fear. Continue reading
“The experienced civil service staff within CBP, ICE and DHS have provided multiple options to reduce the illegal entries and reestablish some semblance of border security through proven programs and consequences, yet every recommendation has been summarily rejected.”
(Joel Abbott – Not the Bee) The former chief of U.S. Border Patrol absolutely eviscerated Joe Biden in a new letter that accuses the president of purposely creating a border crisis in order to flood the U.S. with illegal immigrants. Continue reading
(Hanna Bleau – Breitbart) Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), admitted during an interview on Face the Nation that the six foot social distancing rule recommended by public health officials for months on end was actually “arbitrary in and of itself,” and he noted that “nobody knows where it came from.”
Speaking with Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan, Gottlieb discussed the rules and risks early in the pandemic, explaining that the Trump administration shifted its focus to the impact lockdowns and rules would have on the economy and children. Continue reading
(Thomas D. Williams – Breitbart) The Vatican City State announced Monday that effective October 1 no one can enter its territory without presenting a coronavirus Green Pass, by order of Pope Francis.
The Green Pass can be obtained by showing proof of vaccination against the coronavirus, demonstrating recovery from the coronavirus, or by showing a negative rapid antigen or PCR test, the Vatican ordinance states. Continue reading
“This is not just for unvaccinated people. In South Florida, half the people who are seeking this treatment are fully vaccinated, so why is the Biden administration cutting these supplies?”
(Debra Hein – PJ Media) White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday denied that the Biden Regime was punishing red states by slashing their supplies of Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatments, haughtily telling Newsmax reporter Emerald Robinson that the claim was “inaccurate.” However, in her answer, the press secretary made a few inaccurate assertions herself. Continue reading
“The line-up also includes Jessica’s Big Little World, a spin-off of Cartoon Network’s Craig of the Creek, which featured gender non-binary and other LGBTQ characters.”
(Joel Abbott – Not the Bee) In case anyone out there is still letting their kids watch Cartoon Network (or started letting their kids watch HBO), there’s more woke programming coming down the pipeline to, well, program your kid in the ways of rainbows and “tolerance.” Continue reading
(Breitbart) Officers used pepper spray and made over 200 arrests in Melbourne as several hundred protesters flouted stay-at-home orders and marched through an inner-city suburb.
The illegal gathering comes as the city goes through its sixth lockdown since the pandemic started, with the wider state of Victoria reporting over 500 cases of Covid-19 on Saturday. Continue reading
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(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine booster for people 16 years old and over was overwhelmingly rejected by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Friday.
The vote was 2-16, and the vote will now go before the FDA for a final decision, reports Fox News. The panel’s members included members of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Israel’s Health Ministry, as well as vaccine experts and Pfizer representatives. Continue reading
(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) Border Patrol can’t do a thing about the tens of thousands of anonymous people pouring into the country day and night. Migrants pile up under bridges. They also become the homeless in small towns.
“August apprehensions at the border topped 208,000 – THAT’S ONE MONTH – which for comparison purposes is approximately the population of Birmingham Alabama. IN ONE MONTH,” Melugin told Tucker on his show. Continue reading
(Hannah Bleau – Breitbart) The Biden administration this week slashed the doses of lifesaving coronavirus antibody treatment to Florida, giving the state less than half of what is needed for a routine week, prioritizing “equitable distribution” — a move some suspect is a form of revenge against Republican governors whom the president vowed to get “out of the way.”
The Biden administration this week began to cut the distribution of monoclonal antibodies to red states, such as Florida and Alabama, contending those states, including Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Louisiana, are comprising too big a share of the supply in recent weeks — 70 percent. Continue reading
(John Binder – Breitbart) President Joe Biden is looking to team up with former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, as well as multinational corporations, to bring Afghans to the United States for permanent resettlement.
This week, former officials with the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations launched the organization Welcome.us which will work with multinational corporations like Airbnb, Walmart, Starbucks, Instacart, Facebook, Microsoft, and Chobani to provide financial support to Afghans arriving in the U.S. as part of Biden’s massive resettlement operation. Continue reading
(Steve Ertelt – Life News) Pope Francis on Wednesday said that Communion is reserved for those who are “in the community” of the Catholic Church and indicated that pro-abortion politicians like Joe Biden are “outside of the community.”
The head of the Catholic Church today condemned abortion in no uncertain terms — calling it “murder” and saying that human life begins at conception. Continue reading
In a statement issued along with the data, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel insisted that the data “supports the need for a booster” shot.
(Kyle Morris – Fox News) Moderna Inc. has released a set of data which suggested its COVID-19 vaccine is effective in preventing serious health issues or death from “variants of concern” but admitting that efficacy decreases over time, such that those who received the vaccine last year were twice more likely to contract a breakthrough case of the coronavirus disease. Continue reading
(Nicole Jansezian – AllIsraelNews) The vaccine passport has no epidemiological relevance, according to Israel’s health minister, it is simply a means to restrict the unvaccinated from certain venues in the hopes of persuading them to get the COVID shot.
Nitzan Horowitz was caught on a hot mic telling Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked during a meeting that this was the purpose of imposing Green Passport restrictions. Footage of the conversation has gone viral in Israel after first being broadcast by Channel 12. Continue reading
(A. J. Kaufman – PJ Media) After the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco, some said General Mark Milley should no longer be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, so Tuesday’s Washington Post blockbuster, excerpted from Robert Costa and Bob Woodward’s new book Peril, only adds fuel to that fire.