Month: January 2021

Burmese Military Denies Coup Threats Over Vote Fraud Claims

NAYPYITAW, Burma—Burma’s military on Saturday denied its chief was threatening to stage a coup over complaints of election fraud, saying the media had misinterpreted his words. Political tension in the Southeast Asian nation soared this past week after a spokesman for the military, which had ruled Burma (also known as Myanmar) for half a century,…


Matt Schlapp: Wife and 2 Young Daughters Were ‘Accosted’ by Angry Neighbor

Republican lobbyist and Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) organizer Matt Schlapp said his young daughters and wife were “accosted by one of our neighbors” over their politics. “My wonderful wife and my two youngest girls, 9 and 10, were accosted by one of our neighbors, a few doors away,” Schlapp wrote on Twitter early on…


How the Hydroxychloroquine Scandal Wrecked America and the World Along With It

You don’t have to be Emile Zola to say “J’accuse!” I accuse—in no particular order—Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ nominee and frequent Wuhan, China visitor/collaborator Dr. Anthony Fauci; the Democrat Party (aka the “party of science”) and their nauseating, self-congratulatory leadership; the mainstream media and all their pompous, even more self-congratulatory “ships at sea” from…


Updates on CCP Virus: WHO Team in Wuhan Visits Provincial Disease Control Center

A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic on Monday visited a provincial disease control center that had an early hand in managing the outbreak. The team’s visit to the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control comes amid tight Chinese controls on access to information about the virus. The…


Updates on CCP Virus: California Cases Starting to Slip, Deaths Remain High

California on Sunday reported another 481 CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus deaths, a day after the statewide death toll topped 40,000 even as the rates of new infections and hospitalizations continue to fall. The state said that the number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 slipped below 14,850—a drop of more than 25 percent…


Next Epidemic Could Be a Potentially Deadly Fungus

The next pandemic could be a sometimes deadly fungal infection called Candida auris, according to experts with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The yeast-like fungus can be fatal if it enters the bloodstream, experts said, namely if it enters the body via healthcare and hospital settings. According to reports, the deadly…


GameStop Is Not the Revenge on Wall Street

Commentary The short squeeze forced on GameStop and other stocks through Reddit’s WallStreetBets has generated a massive media frenzy against hedge funds and comments all over social media hailing the decision of a group of small investors to trigger a huge repurchase of a beaten-down stock. The first thing we need to understand is that…


EU Chief Says AstraZeneca Will Deliver 9 Million More Vaccine Doses

AstraZeneca will deliver 9 million more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the European Union in the first quarter of this year, making a total of 40 million for the period, and will start deliveries one week earlier than expected, the president of the European Commission said on Sunday. The Anglo-Swedish company unexpectedly announced earlier…


 Orange and Los Angeles Counties Continue Downward COVID Trend

SANTA ANA—Orange County reported 1,355 new cases of COVID-19 and 44 additional deaths Jan. 31, bringing the county’s totals to 232,391 cases and 3,062 fatalities. The number of coronavirus patients in county hospitals continued its downward trend, declining from 1,442 Jan. 31 to 1,412, with the number of patients in intensive care dropping from 394…


Manchin Rejects Harris’s TV Interview in West Virginia: ‘We Need to Work Together’

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a key swing vote in the Senate, said he was frustrated by Vice President Kamala Harris giving an interview in his home state of West Virginia, saying he was not notified by the Biden administration beforehand. “I saw [the interview], I couldn’t believe it. No one called me [about it],” Manchin,…