STORY AT-A-GLANCE It is estimated that the Spanish flu pandemic killed 20 to 50 million people worldwide In the words of the CDC, "CDC researchers and their colleagues successfully reconstructed the influenza virus that caused the 1918-19 flu pandemic, which killed as many as 50 million people worldwide Politicians in some cities were enforcing masks in the name...
I'm old enough to remember a time when a professional, college, or even high school athlete collapsing on the field would be major news. Depending on the name recognition of the athlete, stories would range from local to statewide to national. If it happened in other countries, their media would cover it thoroughly because even though athletes don't...
Fox News host Chris Wallace announced he's leaving the channel this morning. The move was no surprise to political commentator Todd Starnes. "During my years at Fox I was always astonished at the number of on-air hosts who held Fox viewers with such little regard," he said. "Drawing massive paychecks while mocking and belittling the conservatives who afforded...
If the pandemic policy response had taken the form of mere advice, we would not be in the midst of this social, economic, cultural, political disaster. What caused the wreckage was the application of political force that was baked into the pandemic response this time in a way that has no precedent in human history. The response relied...
Reports came out this week of a flight to Los Angeles that was diverted last month because a passenger became "unruly." Here's the story from Associated Press. See if you can spot an extremely important omission: OKLAHOMA CITY—A flight from Washington to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City after an unruly passenger assaulted a flight attendant, police...
The NFL's draconian vaccination program had another victim fall to a "rare" breakthrough case of Covid 19 this week. Miami Dolphins running back Myles Gaskin is out for Sunday after a positive test. These "rare" cases have been popping up multiple times every week. Meanwhile, the unvaccinated seem to be getting by just fine without the experimental drugs,...
Joe Biden has been instructed to stay as far away from Kamala Harris as possible. The divided White House pretends like nothing's wrong, but both wings are in a fierce battle to try to salvage their own reputations. We've seen instances for a couple of weeks when Harris is conspicuously missing from photos of Biden and kept at...
There's an uncomfortable truth about Black Lives Matter that needs to be stated up front. The policies they support and the demands they make invariably promote more crime and increased murders of Black people. That's an indisputable fact. Whenever BLM gets their way politically, it means more Black people will die due to massive increases in violent crime...
The best part about Glenn Beck going on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show is that he's able to reach millions of right-leaning Americans who may not be aware of the various conspiracies surrounding our government, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Covid-19. The bad part is on a show like Tucker's, Beck only had a few minutes to...
"Ignore the science, deny the faith." This isn't an actual quote from anyone at Newsmax, but it has become an unofficial mantra of "woke" businesses across the country. The first part is a new development with Pandemic Panic Theater ruling private company policies. The second is an old, creeping part of the Cultural Marxism that is engulfing this...
