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By Nick Arama It’s a tough time to be a little kid, during the Joe Biden era. We’ve seen all kinds of supply shortages and crises, but somehow it’s worse when it hits our kids. First, there  was a diaper shortage,  then there was the baby formula shortage which is still lingering. Now stores are running out and shelves are empty when it comes to children’s pain medication. Parents are getting panicky over the national shortage and having a tough time finding anything. CBS reports parents across the country are "panicking" over a drastic shortage of children's pain medicine — something the Biden administration spent months insisting wasn't an issue. pic.twitter.com/Fq71Es9tZF — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 29, 2022 That of course is leading to a further run on the medications because parents fear that they wouldn’t find anything when they need it, so stores are limiting the amount that anyone can buy. That in turn tends to feed the panic. It’s also more t...

By Nick Arama I  wrote previously  that there was one big thing reportedly missing from the final report of the Jan. 6 Committee — any mention of Ray Epps. Epps is the man who has come under such scrutiny by the public because of video of him urging people to go in to the Capitol on Jan. 5–and video from him outside the Capitol–on January 6, 2021. That raised questions about his role, and why he was not pursued by law enforcement when law enforcement seemed to go after anyone else who breathed in the direction of the Capitol on Jan. 6. But now, the testimony of Ray Epps has been released–and it’s raising more questions. The Committee asked him about texts he sent to his nephew on Jan. 6 saying, “I was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it.” Yikes. You would think that would have raised the eyebrows of the Committee and made them go after him. How is it that we were not told about this before, while the Committee was trying to spin all kinds of other things...

By LINCOLN BROWN Any bets on how far into 2023 we get before someone renames the news cycle the Trump Cycle? Or how long until CNN creates CNNTRUMP+ — All Trump, All the Time? I give it until February. As the refugees who migrated to the MSM from the island in Lord of the Flies don loincloths, hoot, holler, and jump up and down around the latest bonfire, in this case, Donald Trump’s taxes, a far more intriguing question has emerged for serious politics watchers: will Trump run as a third-party candidate? Trump posted a link on his Truth Social account to an article in American Greatness: What should we do when a majority of Republicans want Trump, but the Republican Party says we can’t have him? Do we knuckle under and vote for Ron DeSantis because he would be vastly better than any Democrat? Gelernter argues no, accusing the GOP of giving Republican voters a “non-choice” between candidates who have already been selected for the nomination. He likens it to how the De...

By David Hawkins Bill Maher trashed the woke left in a recent episode of his podcast Club Random. The host of ‘Real Time’ was speaking with billionaire Mark Cuban. The Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank star agreed with Maher about the woke left disaster. “I’d rather start a business in Dallas all day, every day. I will not in San Francisco,” Cuban said. Maher agreed, predicting the woke left will call him a Republican for calling them out: “The woke will cast this to some sort of two conservatives. No, we’re not conservatives. We’re not conservative. You guys don’t get it. Woke and liberal are two different things.” Maher continued: “They’re very often the f*cking opposite of each other. Freedom should be a liberal thing. “All my friends, at least the ones like on the coasts who are like our age, they all b*tchh endlessly about their f*cking woke kids.” “Again, these are liberal people.  “These are not people who are voting for Trump. “I’m a basic liberal, b...

By Frank Bergman China’s world-dominating manufacturing industry is rapidly collapsing as multiple factors weigh heavily on the Chinese economy. China’s emergence as a global superpower has been one of the most noteworthy geopolitical and economic developments in modern history. However, the miraculous rise of the once-ascendent communist nation could lose tremendous momentum. The strength of the Chinese manufacturing sector is rapidly dissipating. According to  data from the World Bank, China’s gross domestic product has expanded at an average of 9% since the country opened and reformed its economy more than four decades ago. The growth has enabled more than 800 million of China’s residents to escape poverty. Over the past two years, however, the ruling Chinese Communist Party has been among the most zealous enforcers of COVID-19 lockdown policies on the planet. Quarantines mandated under the nation’s zero-COVID policy have fostered unpredictable supply c...

By David Hawkins Hollywood star Kirk Cameron’s Christian book reading drew record numbers of parents and kids after the Indianapolis Public Library refused to host him but caved after a massive backlash. “This was the largest event held at the library in its 137 years of existence,” Zac Bell with BRAVE Books, the book’s publisher, said. “The turnout was phenomenal! We were blown away.” Kirk said: “No more will the family of faith be shut out from the public square! Join me and @bravebooks.us to champion a new movement to take back libraries for goodness, kindness, faithfulness and self-control.  “I’m happy that the two libraries changed their decision and will allow my voice to be heard and my book to be read. “I hope they realized that their position of denying me a story hour reading was not only unfair and illegal, but that we would all be better off if we listened to each other’s perspectives,” he added. “I hope that this victory acts as a source of courage for...

By Lee Brown Last Christmas? Oops — we meant  merry  Christmas! A UK doctor’s office texted thousands of patients startling news that they were dying of “aggressive lung cancer” — when they’d just meant to wish them “a very merry Christmas.” Askern Medical Practice in Doncaster sent the automated text on Friday, two days before Christmas, warning of “diagnosis — Aggressive lung cancer with metastases,”  the BBC said . It asked patients to fill out a form that allows people with terminal illnesses to claim benefits, leaving many who got it in tears. But within the hour, the surgery sent a follow-up offering “sincere apologies for the previous text message sent.” “Our message to you should have read, ‘We wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year,'” it read, according to a screenshot. Askern Medical Practice in Doncaster sent the texts on Friday, leaving many of its patients in tears. Facebook The BBC said the horrifying mixup was sent to everyone re...

By NEWSMAX President Joe Biden pardoned six people who served out sentences after convictions on a murder charge and drug- and alcohol-related crimes, including an 80-year-old woman convicted of killing her abusive husband about a half-century ago and a man who pleaded guilty to using a telephone for a cocaine transaction in the 1970s. The pardons, announced Friday, mean the criminal records are purged. They come a few months after Biden, a Democrat, pardoned thousands of people convicted of "simple possession" of marijuana under federal law. He also pardoned three people earlier this year and has commuted the sentences of 75 others. Biden's stance on low-level crimes, particularly low-level drug possession, and how those crimes can impact families and communities for decades to come has evolved over his 50 years in public service. In the 1990s, he supported crime legislation that increased arrest and incarceration rates for drug crimes, particularly for B...