Hundreds of Millions in COVID Funds Remain Unspent by Health Agency
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
Of the more than $1 billion in state and federal funding provided to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control to combat the coronavirus outbreak that hit South Carolina two years ago, nearly half of it remained unspent through February, The Nerve found in a review of agency records.
In documents submitted by DHEC at last week’s meeting of the state Joint Bond Review Committee (JBRC) – a 10-member legislative panel chaired by Rep. Murrell Smith, R-Sumter – the agency said that as of Feb. 28, it had spent a total of $636.3 million, including $333.3 million on testing, $134.3 million for personnel costs, $68.3 million on vaccination efforts, and $33.7 million for contact tracing.
As of April 2, confirmed COVID-19 deaths and cases statewide since the start of the pandemic totaled 15,045 and 1.1 million, respectively, according to DHEC records.
Every Election Matters
- By Anne Schlafly Cori - Eagle Forum
The day after an election is the perfect time to prepare for the next election. Lick your wounds, do an analysis, and get ready for the next one.
Several contested races for school board were decided in my community this week. We were very optimistic that we were riding a wave of parent outrage that we had seen expressed in Loudoun County, Virginia, and San Francisco, when entrenched school board members were ousted by the voters. In the greater Saint Louis area, we had some wins and, unfortunately for the students, we had some losses.
Shanghai Now Under Severe Covid Lockdown
- By Charles Scaliger - The New American
While world attention is riveted on Ukraine, another great crisis is building in the People’s Republic of China. For more than a week, the entire city of Shanghai has been on total lockdown in response to an out-of-control Covid/Omicron outbreak that has engulfed China’s (and the world’s) largest city. It all began in early March, when locally transmitted cases of the Omicron variant, apparently traceable to a huge outbreak in Hong Kong, began cropping up all over Shanghai.
Because of the city’s crucial role in the Chinese and world economy, Chinese authorities were reluctant to impose on Shanghai what has been imposed in the past on other, lesser Chinese cities such as Wuhan and Xi’an — namely, a total lockdown. Individual neighborhoods and residential areas across Shanghai were locked down aggressively in response to local cases, but the city remained largely open for business.
FRC Calls for D.C. Autopsy on Five Aborted Babies, Possibly Killed by Partial-Birth Abortion or after Being Born Alive
- By Christian Newswire
WASHINGTON -- Family Research Council today called for the D.C. medical examiner to conduct an autopsy of the five aborted babies whose remains were recovered from Washington Surgi-Clinic. These five aborted babies may have been killed in violation of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act or the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.
Multiple physicians who evaluated the remains of the five aborted babies recovered from Santangelo's clinic have speculated that there may be evidence of the abortionist committing illegal partial-birth abortions or even killing babies that were delivered alive. Cesare Santangelo, the abortionist at Washington Surgi-Clinic, has a history of "bad outcomes related to abortion" that led to his investigation by the D.C. Board of Health. He has been caught on video admitting that if a baby is born alive during an abortion, he simply lets the baby die.
Congress is on the verge of passing two fake "Anti-China" bills that would actually greatly benefit the Chinese Communist Party
- By The John Birch Society
URGENT; ACT NOW: While the Deep State is distracting Americans with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it is pushing a major so-called “anti-China” bill in Congress that, if enacted, would actually benefit Communist China while advancing the Left’s Marxist agenda.
In the House, H.R. 4521, titled the “America COMPETES Act of 2022,” is sponsored by U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) and cosponsored by 101 representatives — 100 Democrats and one Republican. On February 4, 2022, the House passed H.R. 4521 by a vote of 222-210.
Citi Banks on Wokeness until Republicans Intervene
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
CitiGroup may be concerned about equity, but not when it comes to political views. The U.S. banking firm, in a knee-jerk reaction to Texas's heartbeat law, stunned investors last month by announcing that it would start footing the bill for employees who had to leave the state for an abortion. Hotels and plane tickets will be on us, CEO Jane Fraser declared, staking out radical new territory in the financial sector. Now, a handful of weeks later, CitiGroup is finding out that there's a price to joining the woke bandwagon. And losing Congress's business might be one of them.
Federal Contractor Acquitted of All Charges in January 6 Trial
- By James Murphy - The New American
On Wednesday, a federal district judge acquitted a Santa Fe, New Mexico, man of charges that he entered the U.S. Capitol illegally on January 6, 2021. Matthew Martin, a federal contractor at the time who held a security clearance, was found not guilty of all charges, including entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
Martin’s main defense was that Capitol police officers waved him into the building during the unrest that occurred that day. He had been working at the National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, for a private contractor. Martin lost that position and his security clearance after being arrested and charged with the crimes in April of 2021.
Want to Further Economic Woes? Put in Price Controls
- By Veronique de Rugy
History has a way of repeating itself. Or maybe it's that people cling to defunct beliefs, stubbornly refusing to learn from experience. Such stubbornness is on display when pundits, legislators and President Joe Biden blame inflation on corporate "greed." The fix, they claim, is price controls. But such controls would only bring further economic calamity.
To explain hikes in the prices of meat, poultry and energy, many politicians and pundits say we must look no further than cold-hearted corporate CEOs padding their bottom lines at the expense of ordinary Americans. Companies today are allegedly so greedy that they use the pandemic as an excuse to charge extortionate prices. For example, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told MSNBC's Chris Hayes that "giant corporations who say, wow, a lot of talk about high prices and inflation. This is a chance to get in there and not only pass along costs, but to inflate prices beyond that and just engage in a little straightforward price gouging."
Who Wins, Who Loses Gen. Milley's Long War?
- By Pat Buchanan
Speaking of the seven-week war in Ukraine ignited by Vladimir Putin, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is warning us to expect a war that lasts for years.
"I do think this is a very protracted conflict ... measured in years," Milley told Congress. "I don't know about a decade, but at least years, for sure."
As our first response, said Milley, we should build more military bases in Eastern Europe and begin to rotate U.S. troops in and out.
Yet this sounds like a prescription for a Cold War II that America ought to avert, not fight. For the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, while a declared goal of U.S. policy, is not a vital U.S. interest to justify risking a calamitous war with Russia.
The Left’s Woke Ideology is Everywhere: But We Will Stop the Insanity
- By Eagle Forum
The LGBTQ agenda has taken over as the nation’s elites and woke lawmakers seek to change biology. We’ve sadly seen the Left’s woke agenda everywhere. What started as a seemingly small effort to indoctrinate at the local level (events like Drag Queen Story Hours), has since moved to blatant propaganda that is infiltrating our own homes.
In late 2021, the White House allowed a social media influencer their platform to encourage COVID-19 vaccination. However, this was not a simple PSA on vaccination, but a blatant effort to normalize effeminate behavior, especially among the nation’s youth and young adults.
Kemp, Duncan Block Key Election Integrity Bill to Unseal Ballots
- By VoterGA
ATLANTA -- A key integrity provision to unseal Georgia election ballots was blocked at the last minute on Sine Die by Gov. Brian Kemp and Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan. Duncan prevented the Senate from confirming House changes to SB89 which included language to unseal Georgia election ballots and improve ballot chain of custody procedures. SB89 language would have allowed counterfeit ballots to be detected and electronic votes to be verified. Those provisions are essential to deter fraud in upcoming elections.
30 Stork Buses -- State of the Art Mobile Medical Clinics -- Scheduled for Delivery in 2022
- By Save the Storks
Save the Storks announces its highest-volume production schedule yet of its mobile medical units to serve pregnant women across the United States
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Save the Storks is for every woman and continues to live up to that promise by reaching more and more expecting mothers. Our 64th and 65th Stork Buses are officially launched! Already in the first quarter, we have built two new Stork Buses for centers in California and North Carolina and relaunched one Stork Bus to another center in California. Each bus is given a name as it is crafted with the same love and hope that we seek to offer to each woman who boards a bus. And all services offered on a Stork Bus are free!
Report: NIH Admits “Suppressing” Wuhan Lab Genetic Data on Covid
- By Veronika Kyrylenko - The New American
Last week, a nonprofit watchdog group posted evidence suggesting the National Institutes of Health (NIH) deleted genetic sequencing data on SARS-CoV-2 at the request of Wuhan University. The NIH representative denied the data was “deleted,” while admitting that it was, in fact, “suppressed.”
According to the March 31 email from NIH Media Branch Chief Amanda Fine to The Epoch Times, “They [genetic sequences of the virus] were not deleted. This is a really important point, and I’ve highlighted what did happen from what we provided to you earlier this week.”
The Real ID Act 2005 - Official Purposes and Your Biometrics
- By Steve Meyer - American Policy Center
The Constitutional Alliance has written over 100 articles about the Real ID Act 2005 since the law was enacted 17 years ago. The Constitutional Alliance provided States/Commonwealths with legislation that prevented the agency or department that oversees the issuance of drivers’ licenses or valid issued identification cards for those that do not drive, from complying with the Real ID Act 2005. Further, the Constitutional Alliance testified in many States/Commonwealths in opposition to the Real ID Act 2005. Finally, the Constitutional Alliance was invited to hearings in Congress that related to the Real ID Act 2005 and met with members of Congress, their staff and committee counsel about the Real ID Act 2005. This article is only going to address two aspects of the Real ID Act 2005: The “Official Purpose” and the collection of your biometrics.
Gas-Tax Suspension Bills Running Nearly on Empty
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
Two S.C. House bills that would temporarily suspend the state gasoline tax are moving about as fast as the rate of fixing South Carolina’s deteriorating roads and bridges.
Meanwhile, the surplus in a special fund created with the 2017 gas-tax-hike law continues to grow, standing at more than $1 billion through February, which represented nearly 45% of all revenues collected since the law took effect.
The law raised the state gasoline tax by 12 cents per gallon over six years – a 75% jump from the base 16 cents – and increased other vehicle taxes and fees. The next 2-cent increase under the law is set to take effect July 1.
Members of Congress Demand that D.C. Mayor Investigates the Killing of Five Unborn Babies by Cesare Santangelo
- By Christian Newswire
WASHINGTON -- 23 members of Congress wrote the mayor, stating "we demand that a thorough investigation is conducted into the death of each child. In order to accomplish such investigation, we request and fully expect the city to conduct autopsies on the children and preserve all collected evidence. Finally, at the conclusion of such examinations, we urge the city to properly and respectfully bury the babies."
Furthermore, they told the mayor to answer the following questions:
Please respond to the following questions by close of business on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
Beware the 'Paper Shortage' Election Ruse
- By Michelle Malkin
In the fall of 2020, I warned repeatedly on social media, TV and in my syndicated column about the Zuckerberg Heist -- Silicon Valley's hijacking of our election system through a private nonprofit called the Center for Tech and Civic Life. CTCL was funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to the tune of $350 million. Election information-rigging Google joined as a top corporate partner, along with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Democracy Fund (founded by Never Trumper billionaire and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar).
'Human Tsunami' Puts Border on the Brink
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
Under Barack Obama, 1,000 people a day "overwhelm[ed] the system." Anything over 4,000 was considered a "crisis." So what does Joe Biden call 7,100 illegal border crossings every 24 hours? Just the beginning, apparently. The White House, determined to take sole ownership of the "worst administration ever" mantle, has decided to turn the catastrophe at the border up to doomsday levels by lifting the COVID restrictions that kept some migrants at bay. Starting May 23rd, agents warn, a million crossings every six months is going to sound like a dream scenario compared to what's coming.
Ask Your Representatives to Oppose New COVID Funding
- By Eagle Forum
Congress seems to be stuck in the movie Groundhog Day. Over the last two years, trillions of dollars have been allocated toward so-called “COVID relief,” and they are about to pass more. Instead of focusing on important issues at hand, they are rehashing ways to waste our taxpayer money and drive up the national debt.
The House and Senate are considering two COVID packages. House Democrat’s $55 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund Replenishment Act (H.R. 3807) would add $42 billion to the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. Additionally, a new small business grant will be created to the tune of $13 billion for businesses that suffered during the pandemic. The $4 trillion in unspent COVID funding would cover this amount, however, Democrats refuse to redistribute those funds.
"Wall-Breaking" Ceremony Celebrating the Commencement of a $400,000 Renovation in the BJU Seminary Rotunda and Classrooms
- By Randy Page - BJU
The BJU Seminary is holding a “wall-breaking” ceremony to commemorate the start of a $400,000 renovation of the BJU Seminary Rotunda and classrooms located in the Bob Jones Jr. Memorial Seminary and Evangelism Center on the Bob Jones University campus.
BJU Seminary is pursuing a 500 x 5 x 5 Strategic Vision to put 500 pastors on the path to the pulpit in the next five years, and every five years after that, and address a nationwide pastor shortage. The goal of the rotunda renovation is to improve the student experience and increase the Seminary’s attractiveness as a destination for potential enrollees.
Technology and Growth Are the Cures to Climate Doomsday
- By Stephen Moore
I guess you could mark me down as a "climate change skeptic." I'm not a climate scientist, so I have no expertise on what is happening with the planet's temperature or severe weather events that can wreak havoc on life and property.
I am skeptical that "collective action" through governmental policies will make planet Earth a more hospitable place. Is this the same government that can't balance its budget, control its borders, stop the crime spree across America and has allowed a 10% inflation tax, among other foibles?
Now, these same politicians will, like Moses, stop the oceans from rising? Fat chance. And they accuse the United States of being religious zealots.
Is Elon Musk Buying Twitter to Turn It Into a Free-speech Platform?
- By C. Mitchell Shaw - The New American
A week after teasing that he may start his own social-media platform to compete with Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was reported Monday to have purchased a 9.2-percent stake in Twitter. This makes Musk the largest shareholder — with four times as many shares as Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.
Musk and Twitter have a bit of history — much of it contentious. As Bloomberg reported:
Gibson's Bakery Scores a Victory for Truth
- By Star Parker
Periodically, in what seems like a never-ending assault on our basic values and the rule of law, good news emerges.
The good news now is the unanimous decision of a panel of three judges on an Ohio Court of Appeals, supporting a jury decision in favor of Gibson's Bakery in its case against Oberlin College.
Gibson's Bakery sued Oberlin College for libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress and intentional interference with a business relationship, because of the school's involvement and support of student demonstrations accusing the bakery of racial profiling and discrimination.
Bob Jones University to Present Living Gallery 2022: Through the Darkest Day
- By Randy Page - BJU
Bob Jones University will present its annual Living Gallery April 14-16 in Rodeheaver Auditorium. An Upstate Easter tradition, performances will occur April 14 at 7:30 p.m., April 15 at 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and April 16 at 2, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Living Gallery illustrates the Gospel narrative through a unique program that combines original drama, special choral and orchestral arrangements and breathtaking live portrayals of classic works of art to celebrate the story of Christ’s birth or resurrection.
For this 25th anniversary production, Jeffrey Stegall and David Burke, the director and playwright respectively for the inaugural Living Gallery in 1998, have collaborated to reimagine the original play. This fresh adaptation incorporates new scenes and characters intended to encourage a pandemic-weary 21st-century audience and focuses on Jesus’ admonition, “Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Funding Nemo? Florida GOP Takes Aim at Disney Perks
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
If Disney sounds like an island of woke delusion, that's because -- legally -- it is. Thanks to a special legislative carve-out, the Magic Kingdom has been operating as its own self-governing district for more than half a century. They can approve their own construction projects, bypass local zoning laws, even install their own nuclear power plant without asking permission. It's been a sweetheart of a deal for Disney, until now. Turns out, there's a price to pay for declaring war on Florida parents -- and the company's local autonomy might be one of them.
"If I was Disney, I would certainly take this threat seriously," warned Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor who's studied the rules of the company's special entity. She, like most people, was shocked to see the power Disney has to act as "a law unto itself." But now, with CEO Bob Chapek and Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) at public loggerheads, every weapon is on the table for Florida Republicans, including stripping Disney of its unique, unsupervised status.
Is Global 'Democracy' America's Mission?
- By Pat Buchanan
"In the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security," said President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address.
"This is a real test. It's going to take time."
Thus did Biden frame the struggle of our time as the U.S. leading the world's democracies, the camp of the saints, against the world's autocrats, the forces of darkness.
But is "democracy" really America's cause? Is "autocracy" really America's great adversary in the battle for the future?
Nite Line Guest Line-up for April 11-15, 2022
- By Nite Line Press Release
Nite Line broadcasts live Monday through Friday on WGGS-TV from 8 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. The program features local and/or nationally known guests who share their testimonies and talent. Our goal is to be an inspiration to our viewers as well as inform them of Christian and community events in the upstate.
Monday, April 11, 2022: Benny Littlejohn welcomes Michael Basmajian and Scott Daniels to share stories of leading people to The Lord. This program features the music of Michael Basmajian.
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