Month: August 2022

Ontario Drops Five-Day Isolation Guideline for COVID-19

People in Ontario who test positive for COVID–19 no longer have to isolate for five days but should stay home until their fever clears and their symptoms have improved for at least 24 hours, the province’s top doctor said Wednesday. Dr. Kieran Moore said people should also wear a mask “in any setting” for 10…


‘Alex’s War:’ An Alex Lee Moyer Documentary

Commentary “Alex’s War” is the title of a new documentary by Alex Lee Moyer. Its controversial subject matter could qualify Miss Moyer as the Alex waging a war in the title, but it actually refers to Alex Jones. You’ve probably heard of Jones before, but to refresh your memory, he is a non-partisan political activist,…


In Search of Pennsylvania’s Coldest Places in the Dog Days of Summer

By Jason Nark From The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia–In the midst of a brutal heat wave last month, my family went camping in tents and sleeping bags. We gathered around fire too. We do this for fun. There’s no middle ground with camping. Few say “it’s fine.” People, like me, love and obsess over it. It’s…


Beloved Wisconsin News Anchor Found Dead at 27 in Apparent Suicide

Neena Pacholke, a beloved television news anchor at ABC affiliate WAOW, died of an apparent suicide on Aug. 27, according to her family. She was 27. Pacholke, who grew up in Tampa, Florida, and played basketball for the University of South Florida, was found dead at her Wausau, Wisconsin, home early on Aug. 27. Police…


Biden’s Racism

Commentary Unless you’re a person of color or a favored minority, brace yourself to be treated unfairly by the Biden administration. President Joe Biden is pushing racial equity. That’s very different from equal treatment regardless of race. Racial equity means government can treat people unequally, discriminating against white people, to equalize outcomes. For the Biden…


FDA Defends Approval of New Boosters Without Human Trials

The leadership of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is defending its approvals of new booster vaccines for COVID-19 without completed human trials. “This is a type of vaccine that has now been given to billions of people and we have a good understanding of how it works, so it’s not like something just coming…


Fed Determined to Crush Inflation Even If Recession Deepens and Unemployment Rises: Mester

Investors are worried that the Federal Reserve’s aggressive fight against inflation might sink markets deeper and tank the economy further. They also were given little reason to expect relief anytime soon, as Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said on Aug. 31 that the central bank is determined to keep hiking…


China Cutting Cooperation With the US on Illegal Immigration Shows It’s Two-Faced

Commentary The Chinese regime has taken it as a pro forma exercise to yell loudly about how failure to cooperate with it creates “safe havens” for criminals in whatever country refuses to sign an extradition treaty or otherwise fails to cooperate with China in “law enforcement.” Based on how successful Beijing has been in pursuing…


Iran Tried to Capture US Drone Ship, Pentagon Says

The U.S. Navy has foiled an attempt by Iran to capture an unmanned U.S. drone ship in the Persian Gulf, U.S. military officials confirmed on Aug. 30. The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet late on Aug. 29 discovered that an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ship was towing a Navy Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel (USV) to detain it….


Pentagon Announces Iran Tried to Capture US Drone Ship

U.S. military officials on Tuesday confirmed Iran was caught trying to capture an unmanned U.S. drone ship in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet at around 11 p.m. on Monday discovered an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ship towing a Navy Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel to detain it. A coastal ship, the USS Thunderbolt,…