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Will SommerFri, January 7, 2022, 2:45 PM A leading QAnon promoter who urged both her followers and strangers she passed on the street not to take the COVID vaccine died Thursday of the coronavirus, making her just the latest vaccine opponent killed by the disease. Cirsten Weldon had amassed tens of thousands of followers across […]
MARCH 17, 2021 BY ADAM LEE We got very lucky in our quest for a coronavirus vaccine. The mRNA approach, untried in humans until now, worked spectacularly well. It yielded two vaccines with 95% efficacy on the first try – like hitting a home run in your first at-bat. Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines were soon joined by a […]
NOVEMBER 22, 2020 BY THE CONVERSATION Moral combat: Do you wear a face mask to show you care about others? Or do you refuse because you believe they defy human nature?Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images By Eugene Y. Chan of Purdue University Governments around the world have recommended or mandated various behaviors to slow the spread of COVID-19. These include staying […]
NOVEMBER 19, 2020 BY JONATHAN MS PEARCE Recently, and I hope he won’t mind me saying this, but Jim Jones sent me a link of a news piece about children showing beautiful Halloween empathy and kindness with a comment that these children were showing more empathy than a person in charge of the United States, who at that […]
OCTOBER 28, 2020 BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR by guest writer Andrew Reising Growing up, There was one issue that dominated politics in my house: abortion. Like in so many pro-life households, when one candidate had a platform that said “pro-life” and the other candidate “supported a woman’s right to choose,” nothing else about the candidates mattered. It […]
OCTOBER 9, 2020 BY JONATHAN MS PEARCE Trump’s entire presidency has been transactional. By this, I mean that he does things only with himself in mind and so that he gets some kind of benefit. Sort of quid pro quo. Do you remember that term? With everything that Trump does or says we can always ask […]
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 BY GRAYSON GILBERT I’ve had many varied, yet interrelated thoughts reeling in my mind over the past couple of days while our culture continues to swim down the drain at breakneck speed. As for what connects all the dots, so to speak, is that I believe that much of what we are seeing […]
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 BY LEAH D. SCHADE The story of university professor Paola De Simone collapsing and dying of Covid-19 while in the middle of an online lecture to her students is both disturbing and heartbreaking. A college professor in Buenos Aires, Argentina, De Simone had been battling symptoms of the coronavirus for several weeks. While delivering an online lecture […]
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE When In Doubt, They Blame The Gays: Ukrainian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Filaret contracts coronavirus after blaming gays for the virus. The church leader who recently claimed COVID-19 was “God’s punishment” for same-sex marriage has been hospitalized after testing positive for the virus. ABC News reports: Leading Ukrainian religious figure Patriarch Filaret […]
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 BY THE CONVERSATION A vaccine for COVID-19 may only effectively stop the spread if enough people take it.Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images By Ross D. Silverman of Indiana University The longer COVID-19 rages on, the more the United States appears to be hanging its hopes on the development and rapid, mass distribution of a vaccine. Getting a safe and effective vaccine out to […]
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 BY FR. MATTHEW P. SCHNEIDER, LC Archbishop Viganò was the papal nuncio in the USA years ago but has recently come to fame for various letters he’s written in retirement. He started by revealing a possible cover-up of clerical sexual abuse. However, has slowly gotten further from mainstream Catholicism in what he writes. […]
AUGUST 4, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Because The Bible: Florida Christians are fighting a local face mask mandate, holding rallies and launching lawsuits while claiming that the mandate is “Biblically wrong” and “interferes with the ability to pray.” The Bradenton Herald reports: A Palmetto pastor and a state politician have sued Manatee County government over its mandatory […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 29, 2020 About a week after declaring California’s sensible COVID restrictions “tyrannical,” worship leader and MAGA cultist Sean Feucht held an outdoor Christian concert for (what he claims is) 5,000 people. You can see from the video that very few people are wearing masks. There sure as hell is no social distancing; people are […]
JULY 10, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Sad: An unidentified 30-year-old man expressed regret about attending a COVID-19 party before succumbing to the virus at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. KSAT News reports: A doctor from Methodist Hospital in San Antonio said a young man died after attending a COVID-19 party. Methodist Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jane […]
APRIL 13, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Guess God’s Not So Big After All: Bishop Gerald O. Glenn, a popular Virginia pastor, is dead from COVID-19 only weeks after preaching a sermon proclaiming “God is larger than this dreaded virus.” Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: Bishop Gerald O. Glenn, pastor of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church and a leader in the […]
APRIL 21, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Lock Him Up! Pastor Tony Spell of the COVID-19 defying Life Tabernacle Church in Louisiana has been arrested for aggravated assault after threatening a protester with a church bus. NBC News reports: A Louisiana pastor who has defied state orders against large gatherings was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly backing his church bus […]
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By Ann Colwell, Dianne Gallagher, Pamela Kirkland and Konstantin Toropin, CNN Updated 9:05 PM ET, Wed April 22, 2020 The Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Waterloo, Iowa, has a workforce of nearly 3,000. (CNN)After more than a week of public pressure, Tyson announced Wednesday morning it will “indefinitely suspend operations” at its Waterloo, Iowa, pork processing plant that employs […]
MARCH 28, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Because Jesus is Magic: Televangelist Rodney Howard-Browne says he will continue holding church services because he has 13 magic machines that will “shoot down” and “neutralize” the coronavirus. In an idiotic and dangerous statement the televangelist declared: The Lord has helped us to secure our congregation. We brought in 13 machines […]
BY VAL WILDE MARCH 20, 2020 While the rest of us practice social distancing — even the Vatican has canceled live gatherings for the foreseeable future, despite Easter’s rapid approach — Baton Rouge Pastor Tony Spell (below) continues to hold live gatherings for hundreds of believers, encouraging them to “keep going to church” in defiance of a state order that says […]