Month: December 2021

Isabella Weber, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has written an opinion piece suggesting that price controls should be considered as a possible tactic to deal with inflation. Americans have been hit hard by the economic consequences of rapidly rising costs, with the consumer price index recently registering the biggest
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) has dramatically decreased the sentence of a man convicted in connection with a 2019 crash that left four people dead and others injured, reducing the man’s whopping 110-year prison sentence down to just 10 years. Jefferson County District Judge Bruce Jones had previously noted that state law obligated him to
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While guest hosting Inside Politics on CNN on Thursday, Phil Mattingly wondered how President Biden’s approval rating could be so low – after all he has signed major pieces of legislation, and the economy is allegedly “robust.” To alleviate his confusion, Mattingly welcomed CNN historian Tim Naftali to explain that Biden’s numbers will eventually go up because at the
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In a Thursday interview with China’s state-run CCTV and the official press agency Xinhua, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the U.S. would face “an unbearable cost” for allegedly condoning and abetting “Taiwan independence” forces. Wang said the U.S. has “gone back on its commitment made when it established diplomatic relations with China, condoned and abetted ‘Taiwan
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Dr. Anthony Fauci waits for President Joe Biden to arrive for a video call with the White House Covid-19 Response team and the National Governors Association at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., December 27, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Even if so-called experts hadn’t been proven wrong on Covid, it is the job
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Cattle wait to be guided down from their summer mountain pasture during the annual end-of-summer Almabtrieb cattle drive near Bad Hindelang, Germany, September 26, 2020. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters) The war against meat has become, so to speak, something of a staple for climate warriors, and one of the ways that it will be fought is by
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Following a major spike in COVID-19 cases on cruises, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that Americans should “avoid cruise ships, regardless of vaccination status.” The CDC also raised the risk level for cruising to the health agency’s highest warning level, citing “increases in cases onboard cruise ships since identification of the
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A member of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s staff described the nation of Israel as “a racist European ethnostate,” according to Fox News. The outlet reported that Hussain Altamimi, who is a legislative assistant for the Democratic lawmaker, posted the comment on Instagram last week. “Israel is a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from it’s
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President Biden walks toward Marine One from the White House in Washington, D.C., December 27, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) This is the last Morning Jolt of 2021. I’ll see you January 3. Let’s close out the year by looking at what 2021 brought us and what 2022 is likely to bring. I think the one word
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A nurse fills syringes for patients as they receive their coronavirus booster vaccinations in Southfield, Mich., September 29, 2021. (Emily Elconin/Reuters) There the New England Journal of Medicine goes again, publishing articles that promote an autocratic health-care system. This time, two bioethicists from the National Institutes of Health (!) ask the question, “Adolescents, Parents, and
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Lia Thomas – a biologically male swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania – has been obliterating female competitors while competing as a transgender athlete. The conundrum of Thomas benefiting from a biological advantage over female competitors pushed UPenn swimmers to consider boycotting the team’s final home meet. However, the Ivy League swimmers ultimately decided against
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Days after NASCAR driver Brandon Brown told the media he was having difficulties finding a sponsor for his driving team, the man whose name inspired a meme is now sponsored by a cryptocurrency inspired by the “Let’s Go Brandon” meme. It’s a story that’s possible only in 2021. Brown’s first name became ubiquitous after an
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An elitist economist is insulting his readers by doubling down on the much-criticized notion that spiking inflation is only “transitory.”  Princeton University professor Alan Blinder penned an absurd Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined, “When It Comes to Inflation, I’m Still on Team Transitory.” Blinder even conceded in his subheadline that “transitory” apologist Federal Reserve Chairman
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Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter speaks on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Penn., July 28, 2016. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Michael Nutter, a former Philadelphia mayor who is black, recently accused the city’s white, liberal district attorney of dismissing the pain of black residents who suffer from violence after the DA claimed
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Dr. Anthony Fauci described it as “conceivable” that people could potentially need another COVID-19 vaccine shot on top of their booster dose, though he noted that it will depend on the findings regarding the initial booster dose. Even though full vaccination with the mRNA vaccines involves two shots, Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine only
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Flights to the country of Ghana were put on pause recently due to the widespread concern about passengers not being vaccinated. With over 30 million, roughly 5 percent of Ghana’s population remains unvaccinated. Ghana International Airport announced it will fine airlines $3,500 for every passenger flown into the country unvaccinated. In this clip, Pat Gray
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Drug-injection site in East Harlem. (Zachary Evans) The establishment of supervised drug-injection sites in two New York City neighborhoods has predictably rankled area business-owners and residents. The two sites, located in Washington Heights and East Harlem, are the first of their kind in the country. They provide clean syringes and overdose-prevention services to addicts, who
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(Natural News) America’s decline and eventual collapse into the ash heap of history are proceeding apace, as even now our elite medical schools — once focused solely on science-based practice using the latest techniques — are becoming nothing less than propaganda centers for the Marxist far-left, which is using absurd “wokeness” to push racial division that
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