Category: Opinion

Rand Paul, R-Ky., said in an interview Sunday night that Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Cheif Medical advisor to President Joe Biden, should be fired following last week’s revelation that the NIAID funded gain-of-function research on the coronavirus.

Paul claimed a letter from the NIAID to Ranking Member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky admitted that “limited experiment” had been conducted to test whether “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model,” which critics say contradicts Fauci’s long-held claim.

“He [Fauci] should be fired,” said Paul adding, “just for lack of judgment if nothing else.”

Paul said that it is unlikely that Fauci will admit that he lied.

“He’s going to continue to disassemble and try to work around the truth and massage the truth,” he said.

Paul said that he would be satisfied with an investigation into the gain-of-function research which he had already been calling for.

Meanwhile, Twitter is blowing up with “Fire Fauci” posts following reports of testing on dogs.

Fauci lied, Americans died. #FireFauci

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) October 21, 2021

DEFEND THE PUPPIES #FireFauci

— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) October 24, 2021

If Fauci hadn't lied to Congress about gain-of-function research, maybe he could weasel his way out of #Puppygate. Now that America knows he's a lying sociopath, trust in him among the literate public is *over.* #FireFauci

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 24, 2021

Meghan McCain says she is not ruling out the possibility of running for public office weeks after leaving “The View,” adding that she would rather give it another shot on the campaign trail than anchor a cable news show.

“At some point, maybe,” McCain, the 37-year-old daughter of late Sen. John McCain, told People magazine when asked if she is planning a political campaign. “My tone keeps shifting because, quite frankly, the bench in Arizona is not great, but it’s very Trump-y. The woman running for governor right now, Kari Lake, was endorsed by President Trump and is more than likely going to win.”

Arizona is an “interesting state filled with really interesting people,” she added. “[Sen.] Kyrsten Sinema [D-Ariz.], obviously, is totally independent in so many different ways.”

McCain made a name for herself on “The View” as the show’s fiery conservative, frequently engaging in heated debates with the show’s other presenters.

However, now she feels as though she has maxed out her career in talk show politics.

“What else can I do? I don’t want to be Tucker Carlson,” she said about a potential run for office. “I’m not running for office … but I’m just saying if there was a metric of placing bets: Yes. If someone has a gun to your head [and says,] ‘Pick one or the other …’”

McCain said that she is aware that people “detest politicians’ children,” and hence would very certainly lose a political campaign. However, she has shown a desire to return to politics, and so may be interested in a behind-the-scenes job.

“I have a friend who does political consulting for pretty high-level politicians, and I was thinking maybe doing something like that in the future,” she said. “I feel very at home among political people. I feel very understood. We’re all interested in the same things. And I feel really respected in a way that I don’t necessarily feel in TV media, for whatever that’s worth.”

McCain noted that while she enjoyed “debating politics” on “The View,” which she co-hosted alongside Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, and moderator Whoopi Goldberg, she felt her voice was not welcomed on the show.

“I think they liked not having someone who would fight with them or give an unpopular opinion,” McCain told People. “I was very insecure about not being missed on maternity leave. I felt it. I felt like they didn’t miss me.”

Dr. Fauci’s time may finally have come to an end. Congress has demanded answers from Fauci on why his section of the National Institutes of Health reportedly financed research that involved puppy abuse in the name of science.

According to a devastating report from The Hill, based on documents obtained via FOIA by a nonprofit called the White Coat Waste Project, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases partially funded experiments in Tunisia between late 2018 and early 2019, in which up to nearly 4 dozen young beagles were killed.

According to WCWP, these documents demonstrate that the NIAID, which is part of the NIH, spent anything between $375k and $1.68 million in grant money for drug research… which was supposedly conducted on 44 pups, despite the FDA’s condemnation of such activity.

Among the bizarre experiments reported to have been conducted include the placement of puppies’ heads in mesh containers and allowing sand flies to consume them alive. Additionally, some of the puppies were allegedly left out in the desert overnight for nine days straight, where they were consumed by infected flies.

The lab employees are accused of surgically silencing the dogs’ barking in order to allow them to work in peace. As a result of these heinous allegations, 24 House members have addressed a letter demanding responsibility.

Yesterday, I sent a letter to Dr. Fauci regarding cruel, taxpayer-funded experiments on puppies; debarking before drugging and killing them. Thankful to my 23 democrat and republican colleagues who signed on. This is disgusting. What say you @NIH pic.twitter.com/c54SXipD9Q

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) October 23, 2021

Rep. Nancy Mace (R) spearheaded the effort, but it garnered backing from numerous Democratic colleagues, including Ted Lieu, Cindy Axne, Steve Cohen, Jimmy Gomez, Josh Gottheimer, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Mike Quigley, and Terri Sewell.

They want to know what the NIAID knew about the services they were paying for and how public monies could have been utilized in this manner.

Alec Baldwin stated that he is cooperating with authorities and communicating with the family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died Thursday in an apparent prop gun accident.

According to investigators, Baldwin shot and killed Hutchins and injured another crew member, director Joel Souza, on the set of the film “Rust,” which Baldwin is both starring in and directing. Baldwin reportedly shot the two crew members accidentally with the prop gun.

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There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours. I'm fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and

— AlecBaldwin(HABF) (@AlecBaldwin) October 22, 2021

“There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours. I’m fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family. My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna,” Baldwin said in a pair of tweets sent out from the account of his nonprofit, the Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation.

2- I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family. My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna.

— AlecBaldwin(HABF) (@AlecBaldwin) October 22, 2021

The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office issued a statement following the shooting on Thursday. The event is being investigated by law police, and no charges have been filed. The statement read as follows:

Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Bonanza Creek Ranch movie set of the western “Rust,” October 21, 2021, when an 911 caller reported a shooting on the set.

The sheriff’s office confirms that two individuals were shot on the set of Rust. Halyna Hutchins, 42, director of photography and Joel Souza, 48, director, were shot when a prop firearm was discharged by Alec Baldwin, 68, producer and actor.

Ms. Hutchins was transported, via helicopter, to University of New Mexico Hospital where she was pronounced dead by medical personnel. Mr. Souza was transported by ambulance to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical center where he is undergoing treatment for his injuries.

This investigation remains open and active. No charges have been filed in regard to this incident. Witnesses continue to be interviewed by detectives.

Baldwin was questioned by local police officers in the aftermath of the event. Additionally, paparazzi spotted the actor in a parking lot, seeming distraught and leaning over.

BREAKING: A distraught Alec Baldwin, after he accidentally shot & killed the cinematographer on the set of his new movie, & wounded the writer-director. How on earth could this have happened?
Pics: Jim Weber ⁦@thenewmexican⁩ pic.twitter.com/xrvcheLaCK

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 22, 2021

“A distraught Alec Baldwin, after he accidentally shot & killed the cinematographer on the set of his new movie, & wounded the writer-director. How on earth could this have happened?” British pundit Piers Morgan said in a tweet with two photos of Baldwin.

This is truly a heartbreaking story.

The State Department’s inspector general is starting a series of investigations into the Biden administration’s last diplomatic moves in Afghanistan.

The focus of the investigations will be on the State Department’s Special Immigrant Visa program, Afghans processed for refugee admission into the U.S., resettlement of refugees and visa recipients, and the emergency evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, according to an Oct. 15 memo to Secretary of State Blinken.

Diana Shaw, the acting inspector general at State, told Congress that her office was launching “several oversight projects” in relation to the end of the U.S. military and diplomatic missions in Afghanistan.

“Given the elevated interest in this work by Congress and the unique circumstances requiring coordination across the Inspector General community, I wanted to notify our committees of jurisdiction of this important work,” Shaw wrote in the letter addressed to the foreign affairs and intelligence committees of both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.

Other inspectors general offices, including those at the Department of Defense and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, are anticipated to launch probes into the withdrawal as well.

Critics have blamed President Biden for not budging on the arbitrary Aug. 31 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, even though it was not a reasonable goal for the military to be able to withdraw all troops and civilians by that time.

Biden had promised Americans that the Taliban would not storm the U.S. Embassy in Kabul like the North Vietnamese stormed the U.S. Embassy in Saigon in 1975, however, his assurances were proved wrong, as footage of Kabul was hauntingly familiar to Saigon.

Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, a former acting national security advisor to President Trump, said that Biden owns the Afghanistan withdrawal disaster, adding that the Afghan power vacuum Biden left behind is “much worse” than the power vacuum in Iraq that led to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

A countless number of Americans and U.S. allies are still stranded in the country that was left under Taliban control. Retired military leaders have called for the mass resignation of Biden’s diplomatic and military leaders in the wake of the disaster.

New York City’s Board of Health passed a resolution Monday declaring racism a “public health crisis.”

“Today the NYC Board of Health passed a resolution declaring racism as a public health crisis. NYC’s resolution is one of the first in the nation to tie specific actions to its declaration,” the department tweeted.

The resolution requires the Health Department to make recommendations to the city’s Racial Justice Commission, a branch of government that maintains “racial inequity and discrimination are baked into our institutions and society.” The NYC Health Department will also provide “Data for Equity working group” and perform an “anti-racism” review of the city’s health code.

The department will report semi-annually on the progress of the “anti-racism” agenda. In a press release, New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi said the coronavirus pandemic “magnified” the racial inequities in public health.

“To build a healthier New York City, we must confront racism as a public health crisis,” Chokshi said. “The COVID-19 pandemic magnified inequities, leading to suffering disproportionately borne by communities of color in our City and across our nation.”

The resolution came in response to the Health Department’s June 2020 declaration on the alleged racial injustice in public health.

The statement reads:

Racism is a public health crisis. The murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers is part of the system of racism that permits police brutality, unjust policing and mass incarceration. In NYC, Black and Brown communities face the disproportionate impact, grief and loss from the COVID-19 pandemic on top of the trauma of state sanctioned violence. The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is committed to addressing structural racism within our own institution and addressing racism as a social determinant of health as part of our mission to protect the health of New Yorkers. To make lasting change, we call on our sister city agencies to address structural racism in their own organizations: Join us in this stand against injustice to do better in service of Black, Brown and all New Yorkers.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) along with about 150 health intities has declared rascism to be a “public health crisis” under the guidance of President Joe Biden’s appointee Dr. Rochelle Wolensky.

Russia’s government declared Wednesday a non-working week starting Oct. 30 amid a record number of COVID-19 infections and deaths.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he supported a Cabinet proposal to introduce the non-working period that will begin on Oct. 30 and continue through the following week. Putin went on to say that the non-working period could begin as early as Saturday in areas where COVID-19 infections are the highest.

“Our task today is to protect life and health of our citizens and minimize the consequences of the dangerous infection,” Putin said in a video conference with top Russian officials. “To achieve that, it’s necessary to first of all slow the pace of contagion and mobilize additional reserves of the health care system, which is currently working under a high strain.”

Russia reported more than 34,000 new cases and 1,028 COVID-19 related Wednesday, the highest one-day death count since the beginning of the pandemic. There have been more than 8 million total cases and 435,000 deaths in Russia since the pandemic began.

Putin further urged Russians to get vaccinated against COVID-19, warning Wednesday that “it’s a matter of your life and health and the health of your dear ones,”

“There are only two ways to get over this period — to get sick or to receive a vaccine,” he said. “It’s better to get the vaccine, why wait for the illness and its grave consequences? Please be responsible and take the necessary measures to protect yourself, your health and your close ones.”

Russia became the first country in the world to authorize a COVID-19 vaccine in August 2020 however vaccine hesitancy continues among the public due to what some say are mixed signals by officials. Just 32% of Russians, or 45 million of the country’s approximately 146 million people, have been fully vaccinated.

Putin received his first dose of the domestic Sputnik V vaccine in late March and his second dose in April. He said in remarks Wednesday that he did not understand the hesitancy about getting the vaccine, even among those in his personal entourage.

“I can’t understand what’s going on,” Putin said, “We have a reliable and efficient vaccine. The vaccine really reduces the risks of illness, grave complications and death.”

The seriousness of former President Bill Clinton’s hospitalization has been confirmed when his doctor stated Clinton has an infection that is spreading into his bloodstream. According to his doctors, he was checked in to UC Irvine Medical Center earlier this week and has been monitored closely ever since. The infection is thought to have first started as a common UTI, but things got serious once it leaked into his bloodstream.

While currently in the intensive care unit Dr. Alpesh Amin, from UC Irvine, and Clinton’s personal doctor, Dr. Lisa Bardack have administered antibiotics and fluids through an IV to the former president.

The 75-year-old is keeping on the bright side while being cared for by his medical team who says he’s expected to be just fine.

His doctors reported, “After two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down and he is responding to antibiotics well. We hope to have him go home soon.”

Before falling ill, Clinton appeared at a fundraiser in California looking particularly pale and somewhat tired. Of course, Clinton has a laundry list of serious medical issues including a quadruple bypass heart surgery in 2004 then two stents inserted to open an artery in 2010.

His doctors wanted to reiterate that Clinton’s hospitalization has nothing to do with COVID or with his heart condition.

California is seeing a crazy surge in gasoline prices along the Big Sur coast with prices reaching $7.59 for a gallon of fuel which is THE highest level nationwide in seven years.

According to KABC 7 Los Angeles, a gas station in Gorda, California, along the Big Sur coast, is charging $7.59 for normal fuel and $8.50 for premium gasoline.

What is the reason? According to WPTV 5, the community, which is located on Highway 1 in Southern California, has only one station, with the nearest being 40 miles north and 12 miles south. Due to its location, it has gouged the price of gas and this isn’t even the first time either.

Even though prices at the Gorda gas station are absurdly expensive — much over the national average, even in California – gas prices continue to climb across the state and country.

Gas in Monterey County, California, where Gorda is situated, is presently priced at $4.60 per gallon, slightly more than the state average of $4.53, according to AAA. The national average price of a gallon of petrol is $3.36, up 5 cents from last week and 16 cents from earlier this month when it reached $3.20. The highest price for a gallon of gasoline since 2014.

While the current price is still well below the record high of $4.11 established in 2008, it is much more than the national average for the same time period last year, when petrol cost just $2.16 per gallon, according to AAA.

“Compared to the price of gas a year ago, it now costs consumers about $17 more to fill up their vehicles,” AAA spokesperson Andrew Gross said in a statement. “That’s the cost of a large pizza with toppings. And unfortunately, it doesn’t look like drivers will be finding relief at the pump any time soon.”

AAA confirmed with GasBuddy. They reported gas prices at $3.30 per gallon last week, claiming a rise in crude oil prices as a result of increasing demand and OPEC nations adhering to their output restrictions.

“The national average closed the week by climbing to yet another fresh seven-year high, as the price of oil continues to drag gas prices along for the wild ride, leaving motorists on empty,” said GasBuddy head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan, in a statement. “With OPEC holding back oil production and strong global oil demand, the situation will no doubt pave the road with even higher gas prices in the weeks ahead. Until several bottlenecks ease, including supply chains and low global inventories of oil, natural gas and coal, we’ll be stuck feeling the pinch of rising oil and gasoline prices. The bad news is that for now, all I see is the upward trend at the pump continuing into the weeks ahead with no sign of relief just yet.”

Biden has made one bad decision after another since he took office earlier this year. His latest one has him responsible for a horrible act against a young woman in Montana. Zabihullah Mohmand, 19, was charged with criminal rape following his placement in Montana by the Biden administration, according to US officials.

The victim, named in court records as “Jane Doe,” claims she met Mohmand and two other males at a pub and they agreed to depart together to attend a home party. After leaving the pub, she discovered there was no house party, but she decided to return to his hotel despite her stated desire for nothing to happen.

The Missoulian reports:

While telling police her story, she then began crying. She and Mohmand did have sex, she said, adding “(she) just couldn’t get him off me.” Mohmand wouldn’t let her leave, she told law enforcement. She also mentioned that another man was in the room during the assault. When she eventually left the room to get an Uber, Mohmand allegedly followed her out and tried to stop her from leaving.

In cellphone correspondence with her friend, the woman reported being raped. Her neck had significant bruising and red marks, charging documents said. She told officers Mohmand had held her down on the bed by placing his hand around her neck with force.

Governor Greg Gianforte of Montana, Senator Steve Daines (R-MT), and Representative Matt Rosendale (R-MT) have all released remarks on the alleged rape.

Gianforte demanded Biden to halt the flow of Afghan refugees into his state until federal law enforcement personnel can be thoroughly vetted in line with federal law due to his “serious concerns about whether the Biden administration is meeting its obligations to fully vet Afghans prior to resettlement.”

But all this is too late for the woman who had to suffer from the Afghan refugee who should not have been able to come into the state at all.