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Economy is pretty good. Stick with the boarder. At least in that instance it is clear we could do better. MAGA wont win win on a bad economy. You gotta stick to reality if you want to win.

Commented: Friday, March 29th, 2024 @ 2:36 pm By: Big Bob

There are only a few areas where the federal government can impose health mandates. The military was one. People entering the country was another, where Biden allowed illegal aliens to come in unvaccinated but those entering the country legally to show proof of vaccination. For most of us, we either lived in a free state like Florida or South Dakota or a Covid dictatorship like Michigan or New York. In some cases, counties told their state governments to get stuffed and refused to enforce state mandates. Many sheriffs in eastern NC, for example, did that.

Commented: Friday, March 29th, 2024 @ 1:58 pm By: Rino Hunter

Actually they do. We dont like to think about it but the Federal government has a lot of power. Ask any decentest of Japanese Americans interned in camps during WWII.

Commented: Friday, March 29th, 2024 @ 10:20 am By: Big Bob

This article raises some valid points. American education is no longer geared to producing the sort of competent people that we used to. Our industrial capacity is being hollowed out by globalization. Oh, and as far as Bigot Bob is concerned, he seems to see anything that does not trash white people as "racist".

Commented: Friday, March 29th, 2024 @ 9:28 am By: John Steed

This post is analogous to two absolute truths that people of knowledge well understand: 1) Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is one of the greatest jurist in these modern times of our American History; 2) Joe Biden, while being the most corrupt and dishonest president in America's history is also these United States': second Socialist President; second Non Patriot President; but, is in the pole position as America's First Idiot President.

Commented: Friday, March 29th, 2024 @ 2:49 am By: Stan Deatherage

This loony left woman injects leftwing politics into everything. Maybe you could find a token liberal that is not so grating? Some of them are actually interesting to read their stuff. This one is NOT.

Commented: Thursday, March 28th, 2024 @ 9:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Actually, the real science all along on dealing with a pandemic was based on herd immunity. DUring the time that the WHO was led by an actual doctor, that was their standing plan to deal with a pandemic. That changed when China muscled in Ethiopia's foreign minister Tedros, who had no medical training, to run WHO and his team switched to China's lockdown strategy.

The first western country to take a stand on which strategy to use for Covid was the UK. Initially, Boris Johnson's government was listening to the country's and Europe's leading epidemiologist, Dr. Suneta Gupta of Oxford University, who recommended a herd immunity strategy. Then a second tier epidemiologist, Dr. Neil Ferguson of University College London released a wildly overblown fatality estimate for Covid to the media and declared that it would be much worse unless a strict lockdown were ordered. While Dr. Gupta pointed out lots of false assumptions in Ferguson's estimates, the media damage was done and paniced Johnston's government to take the lockdown approach. Ferguson was nicknamed "Professor Lockdown" by the media, but ultimately had to resign his government advisory role in disgrace when the London media caught him violating his own lockdown to visit his married mistress.

The UK was the first western country to jump, and its position influenced both the US and much of Europe. The western world would have been a lot better off if Boris Johnson had stuck with the experienced epidemiologist, Dr. Suneta Gupta, instead of with the glory hunting second stringer Neil Ferguson.

Sweden by sticking with herd immunity proved that Gupta was right and Ferguson was wrong. They also proved that the original WHO strategy was right and the one implemented by China-backed Tedros at WHO was wrong.

Commented: Thursday, March 28th, 2024 @ 8:16 pm By: Conservative Voter

The recently passed $1.2 trillion budget bill allocates a significant amount of funds for overseas border efforts.
RJ Hauman with the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) said, “The Biden administration wants nothing more than the ability to ‘manage’ an invasion here at home, all while helping nations abroad build walls. Make it make sense.”
americanfaith.com

Commented: Thursday, March 28th, 2024 @ 5:13 pm By: Countrygirl1411

First RIP to the men doing bridge work who died.
Second, this is one of the most racist posts on the BO. The message is, the brown people have made us stupid. That’s the author’s take away.
None of the original post is true.
A ship hit a bridge. It happens. Do the instigation, punish wrong doing, implement policy so it doesn’t happen again.

Commented: Thursday, March 28th, 2024 @ 2:55 pm By: Big Bob

If establishment Republicans like Thom Tillis do not screw it up, illegal immigration will be a top issue in the US election in November, too.

Commented: Thursday, March 28th, 2024 @ 2:29 pm By: borderhawk

The problem is that the left has made public health political. For years, the WHO strategy in a pandemic was designed to follow the principles of herd immunity, NOT lockdowns and masks. Then campaigning by the Red Chinese installed the first non-physican to head WHO, and suddenly they switched to the totalitarian Chinese concept of lockdowns.

Public health authorities in Sweden stuck to their guns on using herd immunity instead of lockdowns, and had a much better result on fighting Covid than the countries that followed the Chinese strategy of the WHO. In the US, Florida junked the lockdown / mask approach early and had much better results than those who followed the Chinese strategy to the bitter end like Michigan.

As the linked article above shows, the German public health authorities also understeed and informed the politicians that lockdowns do more harm than good and that there was no evidence that masks work, but the politicians would not listen to them and proceeded with the Chinese totalitarian approach.

Places like Sweden and Florida did understand true pricinples of public health, unlike the Chinese puppets at WHO and those who followed them.

Commented: Thursday, March 28th, 2024 @ 11:56 am By: Conservative Voter

Btw: when it comes to a water cannon, you sound like a man of experience. Miss the good old days don’t you? Maybe some dogs?

Commented: Thursday, March 28th, 2024 @ 9:18 am By: Big Bob