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long time they remain foreign to civic thought. One cannot make a
social philosophy one’s own as easily as a new costume. . . More
menacing than barbarians storming the walls from without are the
seeming citizens within – those who are citizens in gesture,
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Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time Stephen Moore President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to "pay your fair share" of taxes. It turns out he's right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying taxes. But it isn't Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley or the Wall Street financial company "fat cats" or big banks or Walmart. They pay billions in taxes. The culprits here are the very companies that Biden is in bed with: green energy firms.  Election Integrity Returns to the National Conversation James Poplar As we approach another presidential election cycle – one of the most pivotal in our nation’s history – the issue of “election integrity” will rear its ugly head once again, no matter on which side of the aisle you stand. Without rehashing past elections (local, state, or presidential), it is clear that irregularities have occurred and perhaps determined a winning candidate. To deny this is naïve. It is no secret that many of our election laws and practices were manipulated by the Democrat party under the guise of mandated “social distancing” during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Well, the pandemic is by all accounts over, and life appears to have returned to “normal,” yet the loosened requirements for voter registration and voting remain in many jurisdictions. Why have we not returned to the pre-pandemic laws and regulations? |
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| Trump: States Should Decide on Abortion Laws Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Monday abortion laws should be determined by U.S. states, stopping short of proposing a national ban and choosing a more moderate stance heading into November's general election. After starting the video announcement with a discussion of his support for the availability of in-vitro fertilization, Trump shifted to abortion, saying he supported exceptions for rape, incest, and to protect the life of the mother. | |
| Biden’s Easing of Iran Sanctions in Focus After Missile Strike on Israel Joe Biden is taking heat from Republicans for easing sanctions on Iran – including giving the terrorist-sponsoring nation access to BILLIONS of dollars in previously frozen assets – before it launched a massive drone attack on U.S. ally Israel. Iran fired more than 300 drone and other missiles into Israel during the early morning hours Sunday (Israel time) in response to Israel’s strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1. Israel said 99% of the missiles were intercepted and damage from the attack was limited, with no fatalities, but the escalation is drawing wider concern of a potentially heightened conflict in the Middle East. Republican members of Congress in part blamed the Biden administration’s easing of sanctions against Iran for the attack. | |
| Biden’s ‘Acting’ Labor Secretary Laughs at Millions of Americans Who Think They Were Better Off Under Trump Mike LaChance Julie Su is Joe Biden’s ‘acting’ labor secretary because even though the U.S. Senate is almost half Democrat, she cannot get confirmed. The liberal media pretends not to know this, or regularly leaves out this fact, and treats her as completely legitimate. She appeared on MSNBC recently and actually laughed at the idea that millions of Americans thinking they were better off under Trump which, of course, they were. |
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| State Dept Defends New DEI Chief Who Called America a 'failed historic model' The State Department responded to the controversy surrounding its new diversity, equity and inclusion chief Zakiya Carr Johnson, explaining that it has "high confidence" in her ability to lead in a "complex world." Carr Johnson has previously called America a "failed historic model" and demanded the destruction of tradition "at every juncture" on the altar of antiracism. | Really? |
| An Unsustainable Debt Brian Mark Weber  Back in 1981, our national debt reached $1 trillion. At the time, it was hard to even comprehend such a number. Today, the debt has soared to nearly $35 trillion and counting. Take a look at the national debt clock, and you’ll see the debt grow beyond the annual salary of most Americans in just seconds. As the saying goes, “Somebody’s gotta pay for it.” |
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| New ‘Inflation Reduction’ Rule Greatly Increases Cost of Domestic Oil and Gas Production On Friday, the Biden Administration announced a finalized rule dictated by Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” to drastically raise the cost of producing oil and gas in the U.S... U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, warns that the rule imposes higher fees and royalties, dramatically raises bonding requirements, and severely limits the number of parcels offered at lease sales. The rule will devastate domestic energy production, cost U.S. jobs and make American more dependent on foreign energy – and it’s all part of Pres. Joe Biden’s agenda, Barrasso said. | |
| How Relentless Food Inflation Is Becoming Biden's Major Hot Potato Inflation rose to 3.5% in March, an unexpected increase that continued to crush American’s wallets and President Biden’s approval rating. Despite repeated promises that inflation was “transitory,” inflation has remained high throughout the president’s term, and he’s backed off using the term “Bidenomics” as people have bristled at high costs , particularly in restaurants and grocery stores. | |
| Texas Farmers Ask Judge to Block USDA from Doling Out Disaster Aid Based on Race or Gender A group of white farmers in Texas is asking a federal judge to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture from using race, gender or other “socially disadvantaged” traits to determine who gets disaster and pandemic farm aid and how much, arguing the agency’s current administration of eight emergency funding programs is unconstitutionally discriminatory. “When natural disasters strike, they don’t discriminate based on race and sex. Neither should the Department of Agriculture,” the group of farmers wrote in a court filing made public Monday. | |
| Senate Strikes Down Biden Admin Emissions Rule in Blow to Climate Agenda The Senate on Wednesday afternoon voted in favor of passing a bill reversing the Biden administration's actions mandating states to track and set reduction goals for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles on highways. "Few things are more frustrating in government than un-elected bureaucrats asserting authority they don’t have and foisting federal mediocrity on the excellence of states," Cramer said in floor remarks earlier Wednesday. |
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| Biden Admin Warns It's Lights Out on Popular Household Items As Part of Climate Agenda The Biden administration finalized energy efficiency regulations targeting common everyday lightbulbs late Friday as part of its sweeping climate agenda. The Department of Energy announced the new standards for general service lamps, which include the most common types of residential and commercial lightbulbs. The agency said the regulations will slash greenhouse gas pollution, ultimately cutting 70 million metric tons of dangerous carbon dioxide over the next three decades. | Naturally, low income households hardest hit |
| Bad Data from the FBI Mislead About Crime Sean Kennedy The fourth quarter 2023 crime report from the FBI, the federal government’s keeper of crime data, is unreliable at best and deceptive at worst. The FBI’s preliminary 2023 data show murder declined by 13.2% across the country and violent crime dropped 5.7% compared to 2022 levels. Various news headlines have reported the FBI’s numbers unquestioningly, claiming murder is “plummeting” and violent crime “declined significantly” to pre-pandemic levels. But these latest figures warrant skepticism, as we outline in a new report. |
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| ‘A Complete Moron’: Megyn Reacts to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Struggling to Explain the Moon and Solar Eclipse While there were plenty of experts offering insights into the solar system and cosmic activity ahead of Monday’s solar eclipse, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was certainly not one of them. The Houston-area congresswoman raised eyebrows earlier this week when she incorrectly told a group of school kids that the Earth’s moon is a “planet” that is “made up mostly of gasses” and emits “unique light and energy.” On Wednesday’s show, Megyn was joined by Victor Davis Hanson, author of The End of Everything, to discuss Jackson Lee’s factually inaccurate claims and what it says about the competency of our elected officials. |
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| Speaking of morons... Buttigieg Downplays DC Crime Rate Despite Having Security Detail: 'I Can Safely Walk My Dog to the Capitol' Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently downplayed Washington, D.C.'s crime problems, saying there's a lot of "energy" going into making the nation's capital seem far worse than it is. "But the simple facts and the simple reality are right here staring us in the face, including the fact I can safely walk my dog to the Capitol today in a way you couldn't do when we all got here," he said... According to data from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, crime rates in the city exponentially increased last year from 2022. |
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| CA Sheriff Blasts Newsom's 'Failed Leadership' on Crime, Proposes Solution to Fix 'Disaster': 'Had Enough' "Quite frankly, we were lied to and misled by our state, in that the name and the description on the ballot was not something that we were getting," [Sheriff Chad] Bianco explained. "We voted for a proposition [Prop 47] that was named the Safe Schools and the Safe Streets Initiative and it contained absolutely nothing to do with safe streets or safe schools, and it was everything that is bad about public safety right now, directly contributing to the increase in homelessness, mental health and drug addiction. Directly resulted in what we see now in our serial theft cases, in our retail theft cases and issues in crime of residential burglaries and those types of things." |
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| How We Got to 'Death to America' in Dearborn (Hint: There's an Obama Connection) Stephen Green I would say, "That was a real profile in courage there, Barry," but that would just be me being snide. If I were to be more serious, I'd remind you that Obama was steeped in Marx and Engels' grievance theory. I've written about this on more than one occasion, so let me give you the condensed version... You can also draw a straight line from Obama and Wright to the Muslims of Dearborn, Mich., chanting, "Death to America." They've been emboldened by the anti-American hate and division that have been sold to this country for more than two decades as love and unity. |
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| Biden Admin Takes Cues from Hitler to Label Jewish Goods from ‘Occupied Territory' Matt Margolis Is anyone still pretending that Joe Biden supports Israel? I’ve never actually believed Biden was ever really on Israel’s side. From the earliest moments after the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas, Biden’s actions have spoken louder than words. For example, the Biden administration repeatedly claimed that Iran wasn’t involved in the planning or financing of the Hamas terror attack – something we knew to be false because they had just unfrozen $6 billion in Iranian assets a month before the terror attack. |
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| The Obama and Biden Administrations' Betrayal of America's Closest Ally in the Middle East: Israel Majid Rafizadeh The Biden administration persists in granting victories to Hamas and its primary supporters, Qatar and Iran, and in a way that only strengthens their positions in support of terrorism. On March 25, the Biden administration declined to exercise its veto power at the United Nations Security Council, effectively betraying Israel and aligning itself with Hamas. This decision was perceived by Israel's enemies in Iran, Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq as the United States finally having abandoned Israel. The American abstention looked as if the U.S. had adopted Hamas's position at long last – and during the height of the conflict! |
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| ‘Biden is Evil’: Mark Levin Blasts President’s Betrayal of Israel Chris Donaldson President Joe Biden isn’t just a “buffoon” but is actually “evil” for betraying Israel, at least when it comes to the opinion of Fox News host Mark Levin. This week, the octogenarian Democrat finally took the step that his Jew-hating base has been clamoring for by demanding a ceasefire in Gaza before the Hamas terror organization has been fully eradicated during a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Saturday’s edition of “Life, Liberty and Levin,” the author and constitutional law expert unloaded on the administration’s response to an accident in which seven workers for the World Central Kitchen were killed in an airstrike, the sort of collateral damage that often happens in wartime. |
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| Anti-Israeli Protestor Who Threatened to ‘Murder’ Officials Sobs After 18 Felony Charges The anti-Israeli protestor who threatened to “murder” members of a city council in California turned out to be not so tough after being hit with 18 felony charges over the harrowing remarks. On Friday, activist Riddhi Patel was seen sobbing as she pleaded not guilty to the staggering charges, which stemmed from the disturbing threats she hurled at the Bakersfield City Council and Republican Mayor Karen Goh earlier this week. | |
| What’s the Deal with Illegal Aliens on Motorized Bikes Without License Plates in DC? Virginia Allen / Tim Kennedy / Christian Lasval Many drivers of two-wheeled motorized vehicles are breaking the law in the nation’s capital and don’t appear to be facing any consequences for doing so. Individuals, many of whom entered the country illegally, are acquiring and driving motorbikes to do food deliveries in the District of Columbia, but many of the bikes do not have legal license plates, indicating they aren’t properly registered or insured. |
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| Former CBS Reporter Says Network Seized Her Confidential Files Zachary Stieber Former CBS reporter Catherine Herridge said on April 11 that her former employer seized some of her files, including files containing confidential information. Ms. Herridge told a U.S. House of Representatives panel in Washington that she was informed in a Zoom call that she was being terminated. “I was locked out of my emails, and I was locked out of the office,” she said. “CBS News seized hundreds of pages of my reporting files, including confidential source information.” |
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| Radical Staffers at NPR and New York Times Risk Professional Self-Destruction Quin Hillyer In the past 10 days, one brave column, along with the lack of internal outrage over a separate, truly awful column, together speak volumes about the ethical rot infecting the liberal legacy media... “Only in a world where media credibility has completely imploded,” Berliner accurately laments, “would a 3-in-10 trustworthy score be something to boast about.” Major liberal-legacy media outlets now have two choices: They can continue to be insular, grievance-filled rage emporiums, or they can start practicing real journalism again. If they keep doing the former, the funeral pyre they light will be their own. | |
| Ford Recalls Nearly 43,000 SUVs Due to Gas Leaks That Can Cause Fires, but Remedy Won’t Fix Leaks Ford is recalling nearly 43,000 small SUVs because gasoline can leak from the fuel injectors onto hot engine surfaces, increasing the risk of fires. But the recall remedy does not include repairing the fuel leaks. The recall covers certain Bronco Sport SUVs from the 2022 and 2023 model years, as well as Escape SUVs from 2022. All have 1.5-liter engines. Ford says in documents filed with U.S. safety regulators that fuel injectors can crack, and gasoline or vapor can accumulate near ignition sources, possibly touching off fires. | I guess the CEO won't see the flames from his house |
| House Republicans Demand Investigation Into DOE’s $37M Fine to Largest U.S. Christian University The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the letter, which was sent to Sandra Bruce, the Inspector General of the Education Department. In the letter, the lawmakers say the department is “using its unchecked power to inappropriately target” the Christian university and call for the “evidence” supporting the Education Department’s allegations to be investigated. GCU was fined $37.7 million after the Education Department said that it lied to over than 7,000 students about the price of certain doctoral programs. The lawmakers mention that the allegations were “refuted” in federal court by the Higher Learning Commission and by the Arizona State Approving Agency of the Department of Veterans Affairs. | |
| Vatican Condemns ‘Transgenderism’ Thomas Gallatin Pope Francis has released the Dignitas Infinita, which translates as “Infinite Dignity.” The message was pointedly about human dignity, and it included transgenderism. These days, following the Vatican on social issues can give a guy whiplash. It was just months ago that Pope Francis was effectively advocating for the blessing of same-sex couples, although it was couched with a clarifying statement that the pontiff was not blessing same-sex unions. Thus, when this most recent message from the Vatican was published, it may have come as a surprise just how directly and unequivocally it condemned transgenderism. |
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| College Athletics Organization Bans Trans Athletes from Participating in Women's Sports The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) banned transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports on Monday. The NAIA said it supported "fair and safe competition for all student-athletes" and that "Title IX ensures there are separate and equal opportunities for female athletes." The organization laid out its participation rules with conditions... The NAIA is separated from the NCAA. It governs small schools and universities. There are 241 membership schools in the organization. |
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| U of Texas Dallas Lays Off 20 Staffers, Closes Office to Comply With DEI Ban The University of Texas at Dallas laid off about 20 employees and is closing a campus support office to comply with the state’s DEI ban, university president Richard Benson said in an email to the community Tuesday. This move from UTD comes about a week after the University of Texas at Austin laid off around 60 employees in the wake of SB 17, which prohibits public colleges and universities from having DEI offices and holding diversity, equity and inclusion activities and programs. |
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| 911 Audio Captures Woman at Planet Fitness Reporting 'Completely Naked' Biological Male in Women's Locker Room  A
shocked woman reported a naked biological man in a women's locker room
at a North Carolina Planet Fitness, 911 audio revealed. In the 911 call
audio obtained by Fox News Digital from the Gaston County Police, an
unidentified woman called local police after 38-year-old Christopher
Miller allegedly barged into the woman's locker room at the popular
chain. The woman said that Miller stripped "completely naked" inside
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| Governor Vetoes Bill Protecting Children from Transgender Procedures in State with GOP Supermajority Democratic Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed a bill on Friday that would have protected children from life-altering transgender surgeries, claiming that it trampled on parental rights. The Republican-backed bill would have banned surgical procedures like removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys and other genital-related surgeries. It also would have banned placing children on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which have been linked to poor bone development, future fertility issues, and heart problems. |
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| Idaho Governor Signs Bills Defining ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’ and Barring Pronoun Requirements Sarah Holliday The state of Idaho is on a roll when it comes to pushing against LGBT ideology. In April 2020, Idaho became the first state to sign legislation that prevented transgender-identifying athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports. The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, signed by Idaho Governor Brad Little (R), declared it “a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded education programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls.” |
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| 11 Ways Biden and His
Handlers Are Hell-Bent on Destroying America Victor Davis Hanson Why are those controlling President Biden using him to advance so much of a destructive agenda that it will likely end America as we know it? If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day? What would an existential enemy do that we have not already done to ourselves? |
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| Biden Admin Hails
'Revitalized' Palestinian Authority. But New Ministers Support Murder of Jews. Andrew Tobin The White House on Friday welcomed the formation of a new Palestinian Authority government, suggesting the West Bank-based PA was on track to take over administration of Gaza from Hamas. President Joe Biden's administration "looks forward to working with the new cabinet," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement. "A revitalized PA is essential to delivering results for the Palestinian people in both the West Bank and Gaza and establishing the conditions for stability in the broader region," Miller added. However, at least two of the newly installed PA ministers have advocated Palestinian terrorism against Jews. |
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| Biden Skewered As 'world’s worst
Catholic' Who Cheapens Irish and Catholic Identity As the Irish diaspora around the world prepared to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, a writer at The Telegraph scorched President Biden for being the "worst" public representative of Irish Catholicism’s legacy. "President Joe Biden’s self-delusion seems to be boundless. When he looks in the mirror, he apparently sees an upright Irish Catholic true to the historic values of his deeply rooted religious identity," Ruth Dudley Edwards wrote in the Telegraph. "He is, in fact, an appalling Catholic who publicly flouts the church’s most cherished teachings and is about as authentically Irish as a leprechaun hat in a St Patrick’s Day parade." |
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| High-Ranking Cardinal Calls for Joe
Biden’s Excommunication Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former prefect of the Vatican’s highest doctrine office, vehemently denounced President Joe Biden for his staunch support of abortion, going far as to label the act as “infanticide.” Müller’s strong condemnation comes in the wake of Biden’s commitment to reinstate Roe v. Wade as the definitive law of the land, voiced in his State of the Union Address. “The word ‘abortion’ is too much a soft word. The reality is killing, murder of a living person,” said Gerhard Müller to Life Site News. “There’s no right to kill another person. It’s absolutely against the Fifth Commandment.” |
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| Biden Shields Transgender Day of
Violence Lloyd Billingsley  On
March 29, Good Friday, Joe Biden declared March 31, Easter Sunday, a
“Transgender Day of Visibility.” To appreciate the depravity in
play, the Delaware Democrat’s action should be seen in
context.
Back on March 15, federal judge Aleta Trauger “ordered the Federal
Bureau of Investigation to hand over documents for a private review in
an ongoing Freedom of Information Act case that will decide if the
public will see documents related to the Covenant School shooter’s
motives.” The Tennessee Star named all the
victims and
noted that the shooting “was carried out by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who
identified as transgender.” According to the Trans Resistance Network
(TRN), Audrey Hale had “no other effective way to be seen than
to lash out by taking the lives of others.” |
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| DeSantis Blasts Biden for Denying
Trans Visibility Declaration on Easter: 'Who's Running the Presidency?' When asked about his official White House proclamation, Biden said he "didn't do that," prompting DeSantis to suggest the president's denial raises questions about who is running the White House. "Wait a minute, he said that didn't happen, he said he didn't do that," DeSantis exclaimed during an appearance at the Greater Miami Expressway Agency on Monday. "Which raises the question that he's either not being honest with the public or he really didn't know what was going on." |
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| Rampant Anti-Semitism, and the
Democrats John Hinderaker On Thursday evening, a malevolent crowd at a public forum at Rutgers threatened Jewish students and drove the university’s president from the room. The Free Beacon reports: "A Rutgers University town hall descended into anarchy Thursday evening as anti-Israel students chanted demands to “globalize the intifada”… “Globalize the intifada” means that no Jew should ever be able to live in safety, anywhere in the world. |
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| Hamas Is 'happy,' Celebrating
Biden's Apparent Shift in War, Israeli Official Warns: 'Stand Against Evil' Israeli Economy and Industry Minister Nir Barkat accused President Biden on Thursday of emboldening Hamas after he warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. policy in Gaza could change if the Israeli military doesn’t do more to protect civilians in the region. In an appearance on "Kudlow," Barkat urged Biden to re-establish his commitment to Israel, emphasizing the importance of the United States' unwavering support as they fight to eradicate the "Nazis" behind the Oct. 7 terror attack. |
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| Hamas Defector Tells
Pro-Palestinian Activists to Go to 'mental Asylum' in Brutal Takedown Pro-Palestinian activists were left seemingly dumbfounded after Dr. Phil brought a former Hamas member on his show to dismantle their arguments. "It's very disappointing to see Americans supporting Hamas and thinking that Hamas is a cool thing, while Hamas does not respect any of those followers, while those followers don't know that Hamas would torture them and massacre them with no mercy. They call them useful idiots. They don't know that Hamas is a dark black hole," Yousef said on an April 2 episode of "Dr. Phil Primetime." |
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| Hamas Treats Captive Israeli Women
as Animals – for ‘All Are Ridden’ Raymond Ibrahim The Hamas terrorists behind the Oct. 7, 2023, jihadist raid literally view their female Israeli captives as horses and other animals – to be “ridden.” During a recent press conference, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari stressed that Hamas members could be heard in their own (now captured) recordings referring to their female captives as sabi (or sabiya), an Arabic word that in Islamic jurisprudence refers to non-Muslim female slaves, whom Muslim men could freely copulate with – in a word, concubines (see here for more on sabis). Sex slavery is not only an ironclad aspect of Islam; it is a reflection of “piety,” as well captured by a 2015 report: |
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| ISIS Is at War With the World
Again, Thanks to Biden and Putin Stephen Green It wasn't just the U.S. that warned Russia that a huge ISIS attack might be coming in the days before the Crocus City Hall massacre that left at least 144 dead -- even Moscow's allies in Tehran "tipped off Russia about the possibility of a major terrorist operation," according to a new report in Monday's Daily Mail. An unnamed senior security official claimed, "As Iran has been a victim of terror attacks for years, Iranian authorities fulfilled their obligation to alert Moscow based on information acquired from those arrested terrorists." In January, ISIS killed at least 84 Iranians and injured 284 more in a bombing near the burial site of Iran's top terrorist commander, Qasem Soleimani. |
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| Professors Claim Pointing Out How Hamas Brutalizes LGBTQ People is 'homophobic violence' Describing Hamas’ brutalization of LGBTQ Palestinians needs to be labeled "homophobic violence," university professors suggested at an event last month. Associate Professor Maya Mikdashi took part in a discussion at the school titled "Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-Imperialist Abolition Struggle" with University of Illinois professor Nadine Naber on March 20. During the event, Mikdashi pushed back on the complaint that Palestinians and Hamas mistreat LGBTQ citizens, claiming that the assertion itself is a form of bigotry. |
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| $6,688,935,719,341.77:
Biden Sets Record for Increasing Federal Debt at This Point in His Presidency Terence Jeffrey The federal debt increased more under President Joe Biden in the first 1,142 days of his presidency than it did under any of his predecessors. When Biden was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2021, the total federal debt was $27,751,896,236,414.77, according to the data published by Treasury Department. As of March 6, 2024 – the last day for which the numbers have been reported – the total federal debt was $34,440,831,955,756.54. That means that in Biden’s first 1,142 days in office, the federal debt increased by $6,688,935,719,341.77. |
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| Biden Faces Fresh Political Peril
With Latest Student Loans Lawsuit A fresh lawsuit revives an old challenge for President Joe Biden – delivering on his 2020 campaign pledge to forgive student loans. Biden announced in 2022 that he’d “cancel” $10,000 of federal student debt per borrower, only to see his plan ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. He has since announced another $144 billion in student debt writeoffs and created a program to lower future payments, but he was slapped with a new lawsuit by a coalition of Republican-led states on Thursday. |
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| Investigation Links Russian Hit
Squad to U.S. Officials' 'Havana Syndrome' A Russian intelligence unit that specializes in assassinations may be behind "Havana syndrome," a mysterious condition that afflicted U.S. diplomats, according to a report. Symptoms of Havana syndrome – which the U.S. government terms "anomalous health incidents," or AHI – include sudden headaches, vertigo, ringing in the ears, nausea, and in some cases blindness or hearing loss. The syndrome was named after U.S. officials in the Cuban capital first reported experiencing these symptoms in late 2016. |
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| Have We Reached Peak Climate
Nuttery? I & I Editorial Board A new report tells us that man-made global warming is driving up prices. Please tell us this is parody. It’s far too risible not to be. Oh, but no. We’ve been assured that it’s a serious paper. “Global warming and heat extremes to enhance inflationary pressures,” was published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Communications: Earth and Environment. Axios tells us the study, “incorporated more than 27,000 observations of monthly price indices across 121 countries in the developed and developing worlds during the 1996 to 2021 period, along with high-resolution weather observations.” Our friends at the Committee To Unleash Prosperity noted that “what’s especially pathetic about this story is first you have a bunch of nitwit academics writing the study.” It’s a fair point. But we also wonder just who were the peers who reviewed it. |
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| Biden’s EV Truck Mandate Thomas Gallatin It would not be much of a stretch to make the assertion that America runs on diesel. Or maybe a better way to put it is that without diesel, American commerce as we know it would not exist. Modern American society thrives thanks to trucking. Indeed, everything from Amazon’s marketplace to your local mom-and-pop shop would effectively be out of business without trucks moving goods across America’s roads. Yet the Biden administration has just threatened America’s economy in a way that few may fully appreciate. In Joe Biden’s drive to rid America of fossil fuels, his Environmental Protection Agency has done much of the bureaucratic dirty work to force the country into doing what Americans don’t want to do or believe in doing. |
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| Greta Thunberg is the Poster Girl
for the Ignorance of Elites Who Are Using the Products They Want to Ban Ronald Stein P.E. Recently, Ms. Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental activist, scolded the world’s leaders by exclaiming, “How dare you?” in reference to their perceived indifference and inaction to the climate crisis. More accurately, Ms. Thunberg’s question should have been, “How dare ME for demanding the products and fuels manufactured from crude oil that make MY life more comfortable?” Politicians and environmentalists never discuss the need to maintain the supply chain of the products and fuels, now based on crude oil, that are essential to human flourishing. Nobody ever uses “raw crude oil;” thus, there would be no need for oil without people demanding PRODUCTS and FUELS made from crude oil! |
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| Real-World Data Confirms Homeowners
Are NOT Facing Higher ‘Climate’ Risks Than Before Linnea Lueken A recent article from The Hill, titled “Homeowners in these U.S. cities face the greatest threat from climate change,” cites a new report from the First Street Foundation claiming homeowners in certain cities face large and increasing climate risk – claiming that more than 44.8 percent of homes face “climate” risk. This story is misleading. What they are actually reporting is weather risk, not risk related to climate change, because none of the weather conditions discussed in the report are getting worse. Each of the cities discussed has been threatened by the types of extreme weather events cited in the story throughout their histories. It is important to note that the First Street Foundation is the source of this report. That organization is a climate alarmist group that has been a wellspring of false reportsClimate Realism has repeatedly refuted previously here, here, and here, for example. |
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| Destroying the Myth of Cheap Wind
and Solar If wind and solar are so cheap, why do they make electricity so expensive? Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling Wind and solar advocates often cite a metric called the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) to claim that these energy sources are cheaper than coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants. However, these claims, which are already tenuous due to rising wind and solar costs, ignore virtually all of the hidden real-world costs associated with building and operating wind turbines and solar panels while also keeping the grid reliable… |
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| Fulton County Election Board Member
Drops Shocking Testimony A member of the Fulton County Registration and Elections Board testified this week that he voted against certifying the county’s 2020 election results due to what he claimed were insufficient attempts by election officials to inform him of steps taken to mitigate voter fraud. “The things that led me to initially have concern about everything was… I started looking at our voter rolls, and I did some fairly simplistic research on the population of Fulton County,” Wingate said during a remote meeting. “What I found out and started pressing with the Election Department [was]… we had more voters on the active voter rolls than we did of the population of the entirety of Fulton County.” “There was nothing done to answer my questions on that,” he added. |
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| Did
One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? Kevin Roose The internet, as anyone who works deep in its trenches will tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine. It’s a messy patchwork that has been assembled over decades, and is held together with the digital equivalent of Scotch tape and bubble gum. Much of it relies on open-source software that is thanklessly maintained by a small army of volunteer programmers who fix the bugs, patch the holes and ensure the whole rickety contraption, which is responsible for trillions of dollars in global G.D.P., keeps chugging along. Last week, one of those programmers may have saved the internet from huge trouble. |
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| ABC Host Shocked at Visual
Demonstration of Grocery Price Hikes Over Last Four Years: 'Wow' "Good Morning America" sounded the alarm on "sticker shock" at the grocery store on Friday, admitting that shoppers were better off four years ago before significant price hikes. The ABC morning network program set up two tables to show the contrast between what Americans could purchase for $100 from March 2019-2020 versus March 2023-2024. Co-host Michael Strahan let out an audible "Wow" when ABC News chief business, technology & economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis showed him the difference. |
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| California Minimum Wage Shocks Fast
Food Workers As Restaurant Closes: 'Only the Beginning,' Ex-Manager Warns Another California small business and its workers have seemingly suffered at the hands of the state’s newly enacted $20 minimum wage. "It's a shock," Monica Navarro, former assistant general manager at Fosters Freeze in Lemoore, said Wednesday on "The Bottom Line." "It would have been nice to have a notice, so we could go get some applications [out], I could prepare them," she continued. "The best I can do is honestly give them some references." |
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| Illegal Immigrant in Illinois
Accused of Nearly Decapitating His Wife in Front of Their Two Children On April 1, 2024, at approximately 11:30 a.m., Baltazar Perez-Estrada entered the Carol Stream Police Department in Illinois and informed authorities that he had stabbed his wife, Maricela Simon Franco, 26. Prosecutors allege Perez-Estrada and his wife got into a verbal fight around 10 p.m. at the apartment where they were staying. Prosecutors said the fight turned physical and Perez-Estrada stabbed Franco dozens of times in her head, neck, body and hands. Prosecutors said the attack was so violent that Franco was nearly decapitated. She was pronounced dead at the scene. |
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| Effort to Restrict Transgender
Players in Women's Sports Denied by Federal Judge Judge Nusrat Choudhury said Thursday that the Constitution’s 11th Amendment prevents a local government from suing a state government in federal courts. Choudhury also ruled that the county has no legal standing. "There are no facts in the record showing that any specific cisgender woman or girl in Nassau County will face imminent injury in an athletic event involving a transgender woman or girl on Nassau County Parks property if the Executive Order is invalidated," Choudhury wrote, per Reuters. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman issued the executive order, which would’ve denied permits to the county-run parks and sports facilities if the girls’ and women’s sports teams couldn’t say all members on the teams were biological females. |
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| Texas 'Frankenstein Lab' Offers
'Barbie-dolling' of Genitals, Other 'Dangerous' Unconventional Gender Surgeries A Texas gender clinic has been exposed as a “Frankenstein’s lab” that performs “dangerous” surgeries such as the “Barbie-dolling” of genitals. Austin’s Crane Center for Transgender Surgery, run by Dr. Curtis Crane, is geared specifically for so-called “non-binary” people who want to mess with their genitals, according to an exclusive report from the Daily Mail. |
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| Another Candidate for
the Greatest Scientific Fraud of All Time? Francis Menton I have written a long series of posts, now 32 in number, titled “The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time.” Go to this link if you want to read some or all of those posts. The fraud in question in those posts is the intentional alteration of pre-existing temperature (or, in one case, sea level) records to create a narrative of dangerous climate change that, without the alterations, lacks support in the raw data. In the most recent post in this series, number 32, I remarked, “No other scientific fraud in world history comes close to this one in scope or significance.” |
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| Israel Must Invade Rafah Eitan Fischberger Following the historic American abstention from the UN Security Council resolution calling for an Israel–Hamas ceasefire in Gaza for the duration of Ramadan, the West is waiting to see how the situation develops on the ground. But with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaling that a full-scale invasion of Rafah to take out Hamas’s final stronghold will indeed commence, it’s worth examining what makes the United States’s abstention so significant and how it will affect Israel’s war effort, if at all. |
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| ‘Speak Out Loudly Against This
Evil’: Internet Erupts Over Biden Declaring Easter ‘Trans Day Of Visibility’ Amanda Prestigiacomo Conservatives over the weekend voiced their outrage following news of President Joe Biden declaring Easter Sunday as “Transgender Day of Visibility.” Biden’s Friday proclamation said that “all Americans” should join in lifting up “the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation” and work toward “eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.” “Biden is banning religious symbols from Easter celebrations at the White House, while flying the trans flag and declaring Easter Sunday to be ‘Trans Visibility Day,” Donald Trump Jr. reacted online. “This is the left’s new religion. They want people worshiping the trans flag instead of God. They must be stopped.” |
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| Fetterman Rejects Harris Suggestion
That Israel Could Face Consequences for Rafah Invasion: 'Hard Disagree' Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., lashed out at Vice President Kamala Harris for suggesting that the U.S. could impose "consequences" on Israel if the country moves forward with an invasion of Rafah. Fetterman made the statement on X in reaction to an interview Harris gave with ABC News on Sunday. She stated that it would be a "huge mistake" for Israel to carry out an offensive without U.S. approval. "Hard disagree," Fetterman wrote in response. "Israel has the right to prosecute Hamas to surrender or to be eliminated." |
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| Poll: 71% of Palestinians Support
October 7 Massacre, Majority Wants Hamas Returned to Power in Gaza More than five months after Hamas-led savage marauders slaughtered more than 1200 Israeli men, women and children, support for the October 7 massacre is at an all-time high among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. “Despite the ensuing war, the humanitarian crisis and the atrocities committed against Israelis, the vast majority of Palestinians in the West Bank (71 percent) and the Gaza Strip (71 percent) still viewed the October 7 “offensive”,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported Thursday citing a poll released by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR). |
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| At Columbia, an Israeli-Designated
Terror Group Teaches 'Palestinian Resistance 101'– and Lauds Plane Hijackings On Sunday, a group of keffiyeh-clad individuals huddled around a computer to discuss the "Palestinian resistance." Charlotte Kates, a member of the Israeli-designated terror group Samidoun, praised Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack for showing "the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism." Khaled Barakat, a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist, lauded airplane hijackings as "one of the most important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in." |
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| DEI or DIE?: Medical Schools Are
Infected with Wokeism, Putting Patients at Risk Anna Low America’s medical schools are sick with a political disease that’s putting left-wing activism over patient care. A heavy dose of reality is the only way to get them back on track. Recent reports and congressional hearings have shed light on the dark and discriminatory nature of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” regimes on college campuses. The capture of American institutions by DEI and destructive ideologies such as critical race theory is on full display, and the consequences of Marxist groupthink at undergraduate institutions have been extensively exposed. |
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| BlackRock Hit with ‘Cease and
Desist’ Order Over False and Misleading ESG Statements to Investors BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has been hit with a first-of-its-kind “Cease and Desist Order” and threat of massive fines, regarding its alleged false and misleading statements to investors regarding its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. On Wednesday, Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson and the Securities Division of the Secretary of State’s Office issued a Summary Cease and Desist Order and Notice of Intent to Impose Administrative Penalty against BlackRock, Inc.  ESG Bully BlackRock Hypocritically Attacks Texas Over $8.5 Billion Divestment After Texas announced Tuesday that it is pulling $8.5 billion from BlackRock, a giant asset management firm that boycotts traditional energy and uses its financial leverage to bully companies seeking capital into complying with the firm’s ESG ideology, BlackRock issued a blatantly hypocritical response. In accordance with state law, the Texas Board of Education is divesting $8.5 billion of its Texas Permanent School Fund (TPSF) from BlackRock because of the asset manager’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment philosophy. State Street Called to End Deception, Give Shareholders Non-ESG Policy Option Financial officials from 16 states are calling on State Street Global Advisors, one of the largest asset management firms, to stop deceptively pushing on shareholders only proposals that advance the ideological Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) agenda, at the expense of their clients’ best financial interests. In a letter to State Street CEO Ronald O’Hanley, sent Thursday and obtained by The Daily Caller, the officials urge the firm to honor its fiduciary responsibility to its clients: |
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| Goldwater Institute Sues Arizona
State University Over Unlawful Mandatory DEI Training The Goldwater Institute is suing Arizona State University (ASU) on behalf of a professor who is facing disciplinary action after refusing to participate in mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training. CNSNews spoke with Goldwater Institute Staff Attorney Stacy Skankey about the case on Monday. Skankey explained to CNSNews that the case originated from the experiences of Dr. Owen Anderson, a professor of philosophy and religious studies at ASU. Anderson received an email on October 22, 2022 detailing how ASU faculty were mandated to take DEI-related training and pass an assessment within 90 days. Kentucky House Kicks Off Fight Against DEI in Public Colleges and Universities The Kentucky State House has passed a bill withholding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) funding from the state’s public colleges and universities, joining a larger trend of passing anti-DEI legislation at the state level. In a 68-18 vote, the House passed Senate Bill 6, which prohibits the spending of taxpayer money on DEI institutions at Kentucky’s public universities, and requires viewpoint neutrality by universities. The bill further requires that students not be subjected to differential treatment on the basis of religious beliefs, sex, and race, and that schools will not “conduct any mandatory training of students or employees if the training presents one or more discriminatory concepts as fact.” George Mason University Mandates DEI-Infused Courses for Freshmen Virginia's George Mason University (GMU) has mandated that incoming students must take a pair of courses in a new category called Just Societies, which incorporates Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology. The course requirement, which will come into effect for students entering GMU in the fall of 2024, is currently in the process of approving courses that will count toward the requirements of this new section. However, the variety of courses that might be approved going forward can be easily gleaned from those already certified, which include “Scientific Racism and Human Variation,” “Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies,” and “Tackling Wicked Problems in Society & the Environment.” |
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| 18 States Call On Biden IRS to Abandon 'flawed' Billion-Dollar Tax Filing Program A coalition of 18 states is calling on the Biden administration to terminate a taxpayer-funded tax filing preparation program, characterizing it as wasteful, unnecessary and flawed. In a letter Monday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel, 21 top financial officials from 18 states said the costs of the IRS Direct File program "far outweigh any potential benefits" and will create new issues for taxpayers and states, alike. In May 2023, Yellen ordered the IRS to move forward with the first-of-its-kind program, which is funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. |
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| Family of Fallen NYPD Officer Gets
Massive Million-Dollar Gift Allison Anton No amount of money could ever bring someone back from the dead. But in the wake of a senseless tragedy that left a wife without her husband and an infant without his father, generosity toward them would only be commendable. Jonathan Diller was one such victim of the senseless tragedies that have increasingly overtaken our cities. |
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| Questions Swirl About Whether Cargo
Ship Had Electrical Issues Before Bridge Crash John Haughey Conflicting claims say the container vessel Dali was experiencing electrical failures while docked for 48 hours at Seagirt Marine Terminal but was allowed to depart anyway. The vessel then lost power in Baltimore Harbor and knocked down the Francis Scott Key Bridge early on March 26, killing six construction workers and shutting down – potentially for weeks – the ninth-busiest commercial port in the United States. |
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| Safety Investigators Likely to Look
Into Whether 'Dirty Fuel' Contributed to Baltimore Bridge Collapse Safety officials are likely to investigate if contaminated fuel played a role in the Baltimore bridge collapse, causing the ship to lose power before it crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, according to reports. Marine experts say contaminated fuel is a long-standing industry issue and a possible factor in the Baltimore port crash... Ships typically use different fuels for different parts of their voyage, Scoggins told the outlet. When ships are still in port like the Dali was at the time of the crash, boats typically depend on light diesel fuel, which can also be contaminated with water, dirt, and algae, Scoggins said. |
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| "Environmentalists and different
folks are willing to destroy the environment in order to protect the
environment," say fishermen in the Gulf of Maine Ed Ieland A report on Fox Business highlighted the head of the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association, who is sounding the alarm about the potential environmental devastation that looms in the Gulf of Maine as a result of an offshore wind farm recently approved for construction by the Biden Administration and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The Biden Administration plans to lease two million acres of the ocean for a wind farm constructed with floating wind turbines. This experimental technology has not been tried in North America before. |
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| Organized Theft in the Name of
Government – Biden’s Executive Order 14008 Locks Away 30% of U.S. Land by 2030 Tom DeWeese Have you ever wondered why government now focuses so hard on the environment? That’s because the environment does not recognize political boundaries. The environment crosses rivers, fields, and mountains, all of which cross over national borders, state borders, county borders, city borders, and the boundary lines of your yard! That fact has given massive new power to those forces that seek to change our way of life and system of government. Who can stand in the way with a climate crisis at hand? So goes the argument. As a result, the pack of wolves is quickly raiding every foot of this nation. Lawlessness controls our society as incentive, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship give way to fear of a government tyranny that drives for control, regardless of clear constitutional rights and the legal system that was designed to protect them. |
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| Prison Review Board Member Resigns
After Man Allegedly Kills Boy, 11, Day After He's Let Out A member of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board who signed off on the release of a man with a long criminal record for domestic violence who allegedly killed an 11-year-old boy and injured his pregnant ex-girlfriend a day after walking free has resigned. LeAnn Miller conducted the hearing for Crosetti Brand, 37, who was serving a 16-year sentence for a home invasion and aggravated assault when he was paroled early, Gov. JB Pritzker said. |
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| Fox News Host Sued for Defamation
by Former Biden Business Partner Former Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski is suing Fox News host Jessica Tarlov over her claims a super PAC connected to former president Donald Trump paid his legal fees. Bobulinski filed the defamation lawsuit in Manhattan district court Thursday afternoon demanding $30 million in damages from Harlov, the liberal co-host of The Five, for remarks she made on the show last week about a pro-Trump super PAC paying Bobulinski’s legal fees as recently as January. |
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| Donald Trump’s Net Worth Hits $6.5
Billion, Enters 500 Richest People List Former President Donald Trump has entered Bloomberg’s list of top 500 global billionaires after his stake in Truth Social was valued at nearly $4 billion. A Reuters analysis of court filings and federal financial disclosures showed that President Trump reported at least $537 million in revenues in 2022 from hotels and golf courses; $61.1 million from his stake in buildings; $30.4 million in royalties and licensing fees; and $26.5 million in managing fees. His Washington hotel netted him $268.7 million that year, including a profit made through selling a property. |
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| NYC Council Asking State's Highest
Court to Let Non-Citizens Vote in Local Elections After Law Struck Down The New York City Council is asking the state's highest court to reverse rulings that struck down a law that would let non-citizens vote in local elections. An appeals court in February ruled the election law, passed by the council in 2021, unconstitutional. The law would have let upwards of 800,000 green card holders vote in local elections. |
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| Scientists Uncover Mechanism
Viruses Use to Cause Cancer Emma Suttie Viral infections are thought to be a central cause of between 10 to 20 percent of cancers worldwide, representing a significant portion of the global cancer burden. A recent discovery may further our understanding of how viruses cause cancer. Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic uncovered one of the mechanisms that a type of virus called Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) uses to induce cancer. |
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| FDA Concedes on Ivermectin, Yet
Deeper Concerns Exist After years of controversy over using ivermectin to fight COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally gave in and agreed to remove its social media posts that urge people to stop using the drug. Since 1987, ivermectin has been used to treat human diseases. Doctors are also testing it for cancers outside the COVID-19 spectrum. This contradicts the FDA’s claim that ivermectin is an “animal drug.” The ivermectin controversy is just the tip of the iceberg, revealing a much larger problem. |
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| Texas Hailstorm Damages Thousands of Solar Panels at 350-MW Farm A hailstorm earlier this month has damaged thousands of solar panels at the 350-MW Fighting Jays Solar Farm in Fort Bend County, Texas, KTRK (ABC13) reports. “Golf ball”-sized hail fell in the area on March 15, and aerial footage captured from a helicopter offered a glimpse at the extent of the damage. Fighting Jays Solar Farm’s website says insurance policies are in place to cover catastrophic events like hail storms. Nearby residents voiced their concerns about potential leaking chemicals to local outlets. KTRK (ABC13) spoke with Fort Bend County officials, who said HAZMAT teams had inspected the area and did not find any contamination, but the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality is also still investigating. Yes, The Viral Video of Hail-Damaged Solar Panels is Real Solar Farm the Size of 2,500 Football Fields Destroyed in Texas Amid Growing Solar E-Waste Problem A massive solar farm near Houston, Texas, suffered extensive damage from a hail storm. Hail presents a major risk to solar farms, which can add to a growing e-waste problem from the industry. The hailstorm struck the 3,204-acre "Fighting Jays" solar farm – the equivalent of nearly 2,500 football fields – on March 17. Aerial video shows panels shattered with multiple impact points all along the fields of panels. |
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| ‘The River Is Essentially Dead’:
How Enviros' Push to Save Salmon Ended Up Killing 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Them Nick Pope A well-funded environmentalist group played a key role in the push to remove dams in the Pacific Northwest’s Klamath River ahead of premature deaths of thousands of salmon. American Rivers – an organization that has received millions of dollars from left-of-center environmentalist grantmaking organizations in recent years – was “the orchestrator of the Klamath dams removal project,” according to Siskiyou News, a local outlet in Northern California. The drawdowns of several reservoirs pursuant to the scheduled removal of four dams in the river preceded the deaths of “hundreds of thousands” of young salmon in the waterway, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. |
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| ‘I Hope You Die a Slow and Painful
Death’ – Hawaii Student Triggered by Israeli Flags on Campus In response to Israeli flags being planted at the University of Hawaii at Mãnoa’s (UHM) campus this March, Instagram user “jasperr209,” who identifies herself as a member of the school’s class of 2027, posted a story to her Instagram stating: “Who ever did this I hope u die a slow and painful death #freepalestine.” University of Hawaii President David Lassner explained in a school Board of Regents meeting last November that he refused to condemn either the Oct. 7 massacre or Israel’s counterattack, saying: “I have variously faced calls to condemn the actions of Hamas on October 7 or the Israeli response. You see this in testimony to the Board of Regents this morning. I again choose not to do so,” as seen on UH’s website. |
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| Washington State Violated Court
Order by Forcing Foster Parents to 'affirm' Gender ID The Pacific Northwest has a message for foster and adoptive parents: Agree to affirm a child's self-determined "sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression," including using their preferred pronouns and taking them to Pride parades, or leave the program. Washington state adopted new Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression (SOGIE) regulations after accepting a permanent injunction against the "nearly identical" Policy 6900 to settle a First Amendment lawsuit by would-be foster parents in July 2021, non-renewed foster parents claim in a new lawsuit. |
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| ‘Cruel’: Franklin &
Marshall Faculty Denounce ‘transphobic’ Lia Thomas Teammate Speech A speech by former William “Lia” Thomas teammate Paula Scanlan promotes “dehumanizing and cruel,” views according to a letter signed by Franklin & Marshall College affiliates. The letter, signed by more than 125 professors, administrators, and staff, criticizes the speech planned for Wednesday and hosted by the campus Young Americans for Freedom and the national Young America’s Foundation. Scanlan swam at the University of Pennsylvania with Thomas, a male who says he is a woman, and has been critical of gender ideology in sports. |
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| Prominent Ivy League LGBTQ
Activist, 53, is Arrested on Child Porn Charges at His Home Near Princeton University An LGBTQ activist with top degrees from Harvard, Yale and Princeton is facing up to five years in jail on charges of downloading child porn. Roy 'Trey' Farmer, 53, was arrested at his home opposite the gates of Princeton in New Jersey on Friday after a tip-off from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The former 'piano prodigy' sits on the board of the New York Philharmonic and is president of Queer Princeton Alumni, but it has since had his details removed from their website. |
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| Canadian Man Allegedly Attacks
10-Year-Old Girl When Confronted About Being in Changing Room At the Cowichan Aquatic Centre, a woman named Saige Point confronted a bearded man reportedly coming out of the women's changing room. When Point called the man out for being in the changing room, the confrontation turned into a fight, and the guy supposedly attacked a 10-year-old girl. Yes, really. Granted, someone pushed the camera away during the event, but it was clear that someone was assaulting someone else. If you cannot (or don't want to) watch the video, the dude says, "I could identify as a lady with a beard. There is nothing you can do about that." |
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| Athletes Sue NCAA to Stop Men from
Competing in Women’s Sports"‘Naked men’ allowed to ‘disrobe in front of non-consenting college women’" The National Collegiate Athletics Association was hit with a lawsuit Thursday from 16 female athletes who say they were forced to compete against and share locker rooms with men. The federal lawsuit argues the NCAA’s rules about transgender athletes violate women’s rights under Title IX, The Free Press reports. |
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| ‘I Just Really Wanted My Breasts
Gone’: Detransitioner Explains How She Was Duped Into Transitioning Detransitioner Camille Kiefel says that she and other victims of transgender surgeries “have been dismissed” by doctors pushing so-called gender-affirming care. A detransitioner is someone who attempts to transition to the opposite gender, then realized that such an attempt is impossible, and “detransitioned.” Many of these individuals, such as Kiefel, say they were betrayed into irreversible hormonal and surgical procedures by doctors and therapists who ignore biological realities in favor of radical ideology. |
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| 'The Don Lemon Show' in Tailspin
After Being Dumped by Elon Musk: 'Nobody is watching' Don Lemon’s new online show is grappling with a fast-shrinking audience after he was unceremoniously dumped by Elon Musk – and the pittance in revenue may not even cover the costs of his bare-bones production, The Post has learned. The former CNN anchor – who had demanded millions of dollars, a flight on a SpaceX rocket and a Cybertruck before being fired by Musk’s social network X following a testy sit-down interview – suffered a massive decline in viewers for the second episode of “The Don Lemon Show.” |
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| Do Only Suckers Buy EVs? I & I Editorial Board The latest evidence that electric vehicles are nothing more than environmental snake oil can be found in a recent Wall Street Journal article pointing out that these “clean” cars are actually more polluting than their gasoline-powered brethren. By polluting, we mean actual pollution, not carbon dioxide emissions – which is not pollution but plant food. The Journal was highlighting a study from 2022 that, naturally, was ignored by the mainstream press at the time. What the study found was that “brakes and tires on EVs release 1,850 times more particle pollution compared to modern tailpipes.” |
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| Biden’s Border Blowup Victor Davis Hanson Some 8 to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since President Joe Biden took office. A demagogic candidate Biden, remember, in 2019 invited those massing at the southern border to “surge” into the United States without specifying that they first needed legal sanction: “We immediately surge to the border all those seeking asylum.” In contrast, we know legal immigration is America’s great strength, but it has always depended on a few key prerequisites. Immigration must be legal and measured. Why? |
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| NY Court to Snoop on Trump
Organization Finances for 3 Years, Judge Orders Judge Arthur Engoron, who ruled on the civil fraud case that ultimately slapped Trump with his $464 million judgment, made the order to monitor the Trump Organization on Thursday. "Based on the Court's findings in its February 16th Order, the Court ordered the continued monitoring of Defendants' financial and accounting practices and disclosures, including and enhanced role for the Monitor, for a period of no less than three years, as well as the appointment of an Independent Director of Compliance," Engoron wrote in the Thursday order. |
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| Obama-Appointed Judge Declares
Illegal Immigrant Entitled to ‘his Second Amendment right’ Terresa Monroe-Hamilton A judge has made a mockery of the Constitution, ruling that an illegal immigrant should not “be deprived of his Second Amendment right to bear arms in self-defense.” U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, who former President Barack Obama appointed, dismissed gun charges dating back to 2020 for an illegal immigrant named Heriberto Carbajal-Flores. The progressive leftist judge did not even attempt to hide her opinion that illegal immigrants are covered under the Constitution, which is blatantly untrue and is sure to be overturned at some point. It should be pointed out that while the Left wants to ensure gun rights for illegal immigrants, they are doing all they can to strip actual U.S. citizens of those same gun rights. |
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| Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘concerned’
First Amendment is ‘hamstringing’ Government from Censorship In Monday’s oral arguments for Murthy v. Missouri, Jackson appeared to be skeptical that the government could not censor social media posts in “the most important time periods.” ... Jackson was harshly criticized for her comments, with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) referencing her argument and saying it was “literally one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.” “That you could have a Supreme Court Justice say that in the oral argument made no sense to me. That is frightening,” he added. “Because if she really believes that, that is scary where we are heading.” |
Jackson is an embarrassment on the Supreme Court |
| Biden Grants Iran Billions in
Sanctions Relief Amid Secret Talks Over Red Sea Attacks Tyler Durden President Joe Biden late in the day Wednesday reapproved a $10 billion sanctions waiver for Iran, drawing immediate ire from GOP lawmakers who see it as appeasing a 'rogue regime' at a moment a proxy war is still unfolding in Iraq and Syria, and as Israel's war against Hamas and Tehran-backed Hezbollah threatens to spillover in the broader region. The State Department has sought to emphasize that the waiver program to release funds is conditioned on Iran only being able to access humanitarian supplies, including food and medicine, with it. Key exemptions have also focused on being granted access to Iraq electricity supplies. |
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| Biden Regime Considering New Move
to Stab Israel in the Back and Hand Hamas Victory Robert Spencer The Biden regime is in a tough spot. Its far-left base is enraged over its ongoing ostensible support for Israel. Instead of acting with integrity despite the electoral cost and standing by a loyal ally in its time of need, the regime is making a series of moves to betray Israel and give aid and comfort to its enemies. Now it’s mulling over a step that would constitute the biggest betrayal of all and would hand victory to the Hamas jihad terror group. For the unprincipled Biden regime apparatchiks, it’s all about winning in November. |
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| Over 70 Percent of Palestinians Support Hamas’s October 7 Terror Attack: Poll Seventy-one percent of Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank believe Hamas made the right decision in attacking Israel on October 7, according to a new poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, an organization primarily funded by the European Union and the United States-based Ford Foundation. When asked whether “the war on Gaza since October 7 has revived international attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that it could lead to increased recognition of Palestinian statehood,” three-quarters of respondents in the West Bank and Gaza said “yes.” |
Why is there no Palestinian State? |
| Bernie Moreno: ‘Manic Move' to EVs
Will 'Destroy' U.S. Auto Industry and Bring On a 'Bloodbath' Nick Gilbertson Moreno, who established one of the largest auto dealership groups in the United States, joined the program just days after President Joe Biden announced a new rule on Wednesday requiring most cars sold in the U.S. by 2032 to be EVs or hybrids. “This irrational move towards electric vehicles – this manic move to electric vehicles is going to destroy the auto industry in America,” he told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle. |
'Bloodbath' see #3 |
| Dead Boeing Whistleblower Said if Something Happens It Was Not Suicide John Barnett, 62, from Louisiana was found dead in his vehicle outside a Charleston hotel on Saturday morning. Barnett, who worked for Boeing for 32 years, filed a whistleblower complaint alleging safety concerns. The United States Department of Labor was working through the discovery phase of its investigation and is set to begin hearings on that complaint this June. A local ABC news channel reports, A close family friend of John Barnett said he predicted he might wind up dead and that a story could surface that he killed himself. But at the time, he told her not to believe it. |
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| Surprise! The Cause of Climate
Change Is... Mars? This might come as a bit of a disappointment to the devotees of the Climate Goddess. Some astronomists and researchers have been doing what those sorts of eggheads typically do, studying variations in planetary orbits in our solar system. They recently published their results in respected science journals and some of their conclusions are quite remarkable. It turns out that the orbits of the Earth and Mars interact in a predictable cycle as the planets make their way endlessly around the sun. And those interactions produce measurable effects on our planet. |
Real scientists, real science! |
| NYC Buys 180 Electric School Buses,
Needs 4,700 More to Hit All-Battery Goal – Cost $5 Billion Tax Dollars New York City will put 180 new electric school buses on its roads thanks to a $61 million federal grant, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday. “We’re replacing dirty diesel school buses with clean electric ones,” Adams said. “Because, when students step on board New York City’s yellow school buses, they are stepping into the future – and it should be a healthy future.” Adams said the grant would quadruple the number of electric school buses in the city’s fleet, but officials still have a long way to go to meet the city’s climate goal to convert all 5,000 of its school buses to electric power by 2035. |
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| Biden Administration Issues Rule
That Would Phase Out Gas Cars Rick Moran The Biden administration has issued its final rule governing tailpipe emissions that will force automakers to phase out gas cars by requiring up to 60% of new cars sold by 2032 to be EVs or hybrids. The emissions standards are so draconian that only a fleet dominated by EVs will meet the government's standards. The New York Times calls it "the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history." It's also virtually guaranteed to keep millions of Americans out of the new car market and create enormous chaos on the roads. |
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| Thar She Blows Stephen Heins Up until the late 19th century, whale oil was a prized commodity used for illumination and machine lubrication. Demand for the valuable liquid, obtained by processing whale blubber, had grown so rapidly that the giant mammals were nearly hunted out of existence. At its apex, whaling was estimated to be the fifth-largest industry in the U.S., employing approximately 70,000 people. ....  We close by noting that it was the discovery of oil that ultimately led to the demise of the whaling industry a century and a half ago. With plentiful access to economically superior fuels, the business case for whale hunting collapsed, handing a miraculous reprieve to these majestic creatures. In the ultimate back-to-the-future moment, our rush to reject fossil fuels today is causing us to embrace technologies that may be putting them at risk again. |
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| Biden Administration Sued Over Virginia Offshore Wind Farm Approval A conservative think tank on Monday sued the Biden administration in an effort to reverse approval of what would be the largest offshore wind farm of its kind. The groups’ lawsuit argues the approvals did not properly account for possible dangers to the North Atlantic right whale from construction of the project. “This erroneous biological opinion issued by NMFS is a classic example of abdication of its duty to provide meaningful protection for an endangered species. |
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| After Immense Backlash, TSA Will
Now Require SOME Migrants to Submit to Facial Recognition After immense scrutiny, the TSA appeared to reverse a policy that seemingly gave illegal aliens greater liberty than American citizens. In a statement provided to Fox News Digital, the agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) explained that it now requires illegals without proper identification to submit to a facial recognition scan to verify who they say they are matches official records. |
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| Let’s Stop Calling It
Gender-Affirming Care Keri D. Ingraham Twenty-two states have passed laws restricting in varying degrees the practice of the grossly inaccurately termed “gender-affirming care” for minors. The majority of those states did so in 2023. Additional bills aimed at protecting children from irreversible physical harm are being put forward this legislative cycle in states with Republican majority legislatures. But even in deep blue states, a growing number of concerned parents and citizens want to protect children from these procedures. In California, signatures are currently being collected for a statewide ballot initiative that will prevent the “sterilization of children by prohibiting the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mastectomies and genital surgeries for minors.” |
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| Abortion Is a Winning Issue for
Republicans Star Parker The visit by Vice President Kamala Harris to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in St. Paul, the first ever visit by a president or vice president to an abortion clinic, is getting the considerable attention it deserves. When America’s vice president visits and pays homage to the nation’s largest abortion provider, it’s news. And what she said there is also news. Harris predictably distorted truth and reality, pitching the boilerplate left-wing headline calling the destruction of our unborn health care. |
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| 6 Reasons Hollywood’s in Real
Trouble This Time John Nolte Experts have been predicting the demise of Hollywood for as long as Hollywood’s been around. Not me. People love stories. They love movies and TV, and that will never change. But the entertainment industry is in serious trouble today, primarily because it has painted itself into several corners. There will always be a Hollywood, but what the industry looks like in five or ten years could be very different from what we see today. |
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| Ex-Pentagon Official says J6
Committee Threatened Him to Shut Up About Nat’l Guard Troops A top former Trump administration official said that the now-defunct January 6 committee used intimidation to keep him quiet about a very relevant detail about the infamous day. Chris Miller, who was former President Donald J. Trump’s acting defense secretary, alleged that the committee threatened him if he kept saying that Trump requested National Guard troops to be deployed on the day of the “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol. |
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| Battleship New Jersey
(BB-62) Leaves Port for the First Time In 20 Years for Drydock Refurbishment  The Battleship New Jersey is leaving port for the first time in more than two decades for major repairs. Battleship CEO Marshall Spevak said officials will host a ceremony Thursday morning before taking the ship to Paulsboro on the first leg of its multi-day trip to drydock. Once the work in Paulsboro is completed, the ship will be towed across the river to the Navy Yard, where it was built and launched on December 7, 1942. |
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| Planet Fitness Value Plummets $400M
After Transgender Turmoil Planet Fitness critics are saying "go woke, go broke," calling on the top fitness chain to receive the "Bud Light" treatment after an uproar over its transgender locker room policy created a social media stir. The chain saw a $400 million dive in valuation from $5.3 billion to $4.9 billion just days after revoking an Alaska woman's membership for snapping photos of a transgender woman, who was biologically male, shaving in the women's locker room, according to a Daily Mail report. |
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| Trans Inmate Who Murdered Parents
Allegedly Caught Having Sex in Women's Prison A transgender-identifying male was discovered having sex with a female inmate at a Washington state women's prison earlier this month, according to an incident report of the event. A corrections officer at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) discovered 35-year-old Bryan Kim, who murdered his parents and now goes by Amber FayeFox Kim, having sex with 25-year-old Sincer-A Marie Nerton on March 14 during a routine check at the medium security unit (MSU), National Review reported. The incident resulted in an infraction, but a hearing is expected to follow. |
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| Alabama Governor Signs Bill Banning
DEI Programs at Public Schools and Universities The legislation, known as S.B. 129, prohibits local boards of education, public institutions of higher education, and state agencies from maintaining or funding DEI programs that promote “divisive concepts” such as guilting someone over their race or sex. Additionally, all public schools, universities, and agencies in Alabama have the authority to “discipline or terminate the employment of any employee or contractor who knowingly violates this act,” the legislation reads. |
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| Complaint Alleges U. of Wisconsin
DEI Czar, Husband of Harvard's DEI Chief, Has Decades-Long History of Research Misconduct The chief diversity officer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, LaVar Charleston, who also teaches at the university’s school of education, has a decades-long track record of research misconduct, according to a complaint filed with the university on Wednesday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis. That misconduct includes presenting old studies as new research, which he has done at least five times over the course of his career. |
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| Ireland: Landmark Wind Turbine
Noise Ruling from High Court Referred to Attorney General The attorney general is studying a landmark High Court ruling on noise from wind turbines that could have implications for the operation of existing and future wind farms. Officials from two Government departments, Housing and Environment, have joined the chief law officer in examining the judgment. Wind Energy Ireland, which represents most wind farm owners in the country, also has experts scrutinizing it. The ruling found that turbine noise – even if within planning regulation limits – could be categorized as a nuisance. |
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| Exclusive: Liz Cheney,
January 6 Committee Suppressed Exonerating Evidence of Trump’s Push for National Guard Mollie Hemingway Former Rep. Liz Cheney’s January 6 Committee suppressed evidence that President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation’s capital, a previously hidden transcript obtained by The Federalist shows. Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had “no evidence” to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now. |
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| How Toxic Is DEI? These Companies Are Turning Down Billions in Free Money to Avoid It Stephen Green If you had the opportunity to take a few billion dollars in free money from Presidentish Joe Biden but the catch is that your company would have to embrace the administration's DEI policies, what would you do? If you're a chipmaking giant like Intel, Samsung, or Taiwan Semi, then the answer is increasingly obvious. "Free money? No thanks!" The free money in question is the $50 billion or so in official bribes for companies to build state-of-the-art chip fabrication plants in this country – like companies used to do when this was still a decent place to do business. |
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| Joe Biden’s Top-Secret Plan Douglas Andrews If Joe Biden ever read The Art of War, he didn’t take notes. “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night,” said Sun Tzu, “and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” Now let’s consider Biden’s secret plan – here we specify “secret” because the Democrats’ massive ballot-stuffing initiative in the swing states is no longer a secret – for overtaking Donald Trump between now and November, which he and his surrogates artlessly revealed to the friendlies at Axios: going for “Donald Trump’s jugular” by “rattling him daily.” That’s the “aggressive approach” that Biden is “privately pushing for.” |
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| Senate Democrats Block Bill That Would Ban Illegal Immigrants from Voting With the 2024 presidential election coming up and millions of illegal aliens storming the southern border, Republicans are taking a stand from letting another 2020 election happen. However, Democrats are trying to squash the GOP’s efforts of upholding election integrity. This week, Senate Democrats shot down proposed legislation that would exclude illegal immigrants from being counted on the census for the purposes of apportionment for House seats and the Electoral College. |
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| Trump Vows to Axe Every Open Border
Policy of Biden Administration on Day One Former President Donald Trump has vowed to move ’very fast‘ with his agenda if elected, including ending President Biden’s ’open border' policies on day one. Former President Donald Trump said at a Saturday rally that, if elected in November, he would move quickly to fix a host of problems plaguing the country, including using executive power to free Jan. 6 “hostages” and ending every single “open border policy of the Biden administration” on day one after taking office. |
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| Conservatives Fume That Trump's
'Bloodbath' Comment is Taken Out of Context: ‘Deceptive’ Headlines Conservative commentators, Republican lawmakers, and others slammed outlets like Rolling Stone, NBC News, and CBS News for sharing headlines about Trump claiming there would be a "bloodbath" if he didn’t win re-election that didn’t mention he was referring to the automotive industry. These critics claimed this was a new, anti-Trump "hoax" being manufactured in real time. |
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| Florida Judge Scores Major Win for
Trump – Biden’s Plot is Falling Apart in Real Time Prosecutors in the federal government have thrown nearly everything they could at Donald Trump. DOJ officials, under President Biden, have indicted Trump on dozens of charges. But many Americans believe these cases are a sham, meant to interfere with the upcoming election. One of these cases relates to documents Trump kept at his home in Mar-A-Lago. Americans were shocked when Biden’s FBI raided Trump’s home, despite the fact he had been cooperating with the National Archives. |
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| Firm Building U.S. Facility
Confirms Parent Company’s Chinese Communist Party Ties Following DCNF Investigation The president of a firm building a manufacturing facility near several Midwest military bases confirmed that his firm’s China-based parent company employs Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members and was previously involved in a military program during a state committee hearing on Monday. The Chinese parent company of Cnano USA Inc. (Cnano USA) – which intends to build a facility in Kansas approximately 70 miles from Missouri’s Whiteman Air Force Base – employs dozens of CCP members and sold products to a Chinese university for its use in a Chinese military program, Shawn Montgomery, Cnano USA president, testified during a Kansas House Committee … |
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| Key House Lawmaker Says He May Make
Referrals for Obstruction, Ethics Against Dem J6 Panel The House Republican leading the current review of security and intelligence failures during the 2021 Capitol riot put former lawmakers and staff on the now-defunct Democrat-run Jan. 6 committee on notice Wednesday that he may make referrals for criminal obstruction or House ethics violations. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga,, the chairman of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, told Just the News he is frustrated that videotapes of interviews, transcripts and other evidence that Congress gathered under the prior Jan. 6 inquiry run by Democrats was deleted, destroyed, moved to other federal agencies or locked behind passwords that have not been recovered, and he believes some form of accountability is warranted. |
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| Not a Good Look for Liz Cheney: Now It Looks Like Her Star J6 Witness Was Lying Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on the day of the so-called “insurrection” electrified the media with her lurid tale that then-President Donald J. Trump nearly choked a Secret Service agent while trying to grab the wheel of “The Beast” the armored presidential limo. In her star turn before the Democrat-stacked panel, the ex-staffer claimed that Trump demanded “I’m the F**ing president! Take me up to the Capitol now,” and “reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel” and “used his free hand to lunge” at the driver’s “clavicles.” Now her story is being called into question. |
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| Biden Admin, Like Obama Before It, Has Found An Enemy It’s Willing to Fight: Bibi Netanyahu William A. Jacobson The Obama administration hated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the fire of a thousand Suns, because Bibi would not bow to the Obama “grand bargain” to hand the region to Iran. What infuriated Obama more than anything is that a large percentage of Americans supported Bibi’s position and saw in him something Obama and his VP Joe Biden lacked: A strong leader willing to fight against the enemies of Israel, and America. Team Obama runs the Biden administration’s foreign policy, so the hate remains. Team Biden wants to force a ceasefire on Israel, leaving Hamas in control of Gaza, and Netanyahu will not capitulate. |
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| Netanyahu Approves Rafah Ground
Invasion, Despite Biden Opposition Israel will commence an invasion into the Gaza city of Rafah, despite protests from the United States and other international powers. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced approval of the operation via his office on Friday. The Israeli Defense Force will invade the city in southern Gaza as part of its larger military operations in the region. |
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| Pentagon: Building Gaza Pier Will
Take 1,000 Soldiers 2 Months Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder on Friday told reporters that “in addition to U.S. military humanitarian airdrops and the U.S. government’s efforts to continue sustaining and expanding assistance going in by land, as President Biden announced last evening, the Department of Defense will undertake an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in Gaza, working alongside like-minded countries and partners.” Ryder also mentioned that up to 1,000 U.S. military personnel may be needed to complete the construction of the pier and causeway, over two months. |
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| DHS Calls Haitian Migrant’s Alleged
Rape of Disabled Teen ‘heinous’ The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has called allegations that a Haitian migrant raped a disabled 15-year-old girl "heinous." Cory Alvarez, the 26-year-old Haitian national charged with raping the teen at a Massachusetts hotel that was housing migrants last week, entered the U.S. last summer via President Biden’s controversial CHNV parole program. He was flown into New York City directly from Haiti. "CHNV" stands for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The program allows up to 30,000 people each month from these countries to fly into the U.S. and be granted two years of humanitarian parole, which allows them to apply to work in the U.S. |
Biden's plan to ensure thugs and murders are spread within the U.S. |
| Desantis Says Florida Officers
Intercepted Boat With Haitians Carrying Drugs and Weapons Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday that state law enforcement had intercepted a vessel coming to the Florida coast carrying dozens of Haitian migrants, as well as firearms, drugs and night vision gear. "Our Florida Fish and Wildlife offices interdicted a vessel that had 25 illegal immigrants, potential illegal immigrants from Haiti in their boat. In their vessel they had firearms, they had drugs, they had night vision gear and were boating very recklessly, which would potentially endanger other folks," DeSantis said, adding that the interdiction had occurred "recently" in the last few weeks. |
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| A Lesson for America: Green
Policies Crush German Economy Germany’s gross domestic product has been falling since the third quarter of 2022, causing fears of the first 2-yearlong recession since the early 2000s. German farmers are openly protesting new climate regulations that would raise the price of diesel fuel, vital for tractors and farm machinery. This discontent is mirrored by the general public, which is opposed to higher energy costs that drag down the economy. The recent economic slowdown has resulted in widespread political discontent, and the core of the slowdown has been disastrous energy policy. Instead of the government focusing on making energy affordable, it has continued its commitment to the “Energiewende” – the “Energy Transition” – a government project aimed at radically shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. |
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| Skeptics’ Climate Arguments Are
Inconvenient Facts That Can’t Be Refuted Pierre Gosselin The science of climate change is very complex and there are many different points of view. This post summarizes some of the strongest arguments of climate skeptics. |
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| CNN Forced to Correct Story After
Accusations of 'smear' Campaign Against Katie Britt CNN was forced to issue a correction to its reporting this week aimed at discrediting a portion of Republican Alabama Sen. Katie Britt's State of the Union rebuttal in which she included the tragic story about an unnamed sex trafficking victim to emphasize the effects of the ongoing border crisis. That victim of sex trafficking was later identified as Karla Jacinto, who faced immense brutality from the ages of 12 to 16 at the hands of traffickers in Mexico, which Britt detailed in her rebuttal. |
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| Jill Biden’s ‘untouchable’ Gay
‘work husband’ Accused of Bullying, Sexual Harassment Kevin Haggerty Alleged behavior from the first lady’s “work husband” contended the senior adviser was a “classic Me Too” case amid complaints featuring bullying, bulges and more. With “decency” on the ballot, nearly a dozen current and former colleagues of Jill Biden’s top adviser Anthony Bernal came forward to voice their concerns about inappropriate workplace behavior that has left many feeling “uncomfortable.” Tuesday, the New York Post’s Washington, D.C. reporter Steven Nelson released a report citing inside sources allegations of sexual harassment that were said to have gone overlooked because the openly gay Bernal’s relationship with the first lady made him “untouchable.” |
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| House GOP Exposes 'woke' Items in Biden's $7.3 Trillion Budget House Republicans are furious over "woke" programs President Biden wants to fund in his $7.3 trillion budget request. Biden released his 188-page proposal to fund the federal government on Monday. It lays out roughly $5 trillion in tax increases overall, which the White House said would be split evenly between corporations and the top 2% of earners. A new memo by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, highlighted billions aimed at green energy initiatives and equity programs. |
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| Gangbangers Openly Sell Fake IDs,
Green Cards to Migrants on NYC Streets As Officials Warn of Danger Criminals with ties to MS-13 and other gangs are selling fake green cards and social security cards to migrants on street corners in Queens – a dangerous security threat as rogue newcomers pour into the Big Apple. This week The Post spotted at least 10 men camped out in broad daylight at four different corners along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, hawking the bogus documents for $80 to $250. The forged social security numbers can be used to open up a bank account and potentially obtain a real driver’s license. |
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| Reverend: Black Voters Saying ‘Yes’
to Trump in 2024, Can’t ‘Afford’ to Vote for Biden New polling shows black voters are flocking to support former President Donald Trump and, according to one conservative religious leader, they simply cannot “afford” to vote for President Biden. The voting bloc continues to move away from the president amid his failing policies and a New York Times/Siena poll out this month gives a grim picture for Democrats. Trump saw 23% support from black voters in the survey conducted at the end of February. This number is an obvious leap from the 4% black voter support he had in 2020. |
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| WPATH Violates Medical Golden Rules Emmy Griffin Medical practitioners used to have two golden rules: First, do no harm. Second, adhere to science-based best practices, not ideology-fueled agendas, to direct physicking. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is a perfect example of a violation of both of these principles... The release of these files is an enormous vindication for those of us who have been following the science and the stories of these child victims over the past several years. We were right. There are monsters out there who want to destroy, mutilate, and sterilize children and use the façade of “expertise” to do it. |
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| Kansas Judge Rules Keeping
Biological Sex On IDs Does Not Harm Transgender People A Kansas judge ruled in favor of the state's conservative attorney general on Monday and determined that prohibiting sex changes on state IDs and driver's licenses does not violate the rights of individuals who identify as transgender. In a memorandum, District Judge Teresa Watson kept in place an existing ruling she previously made in July 2023 to prohibit the Department of Revenue from allowing transgender individuals to change their biological sex on ID cards. |
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| What Are They Hiding? School
Librarians Admit They Hid Card Catalog from Parents While Pushing BLM, LGBTQ Issues At least one school library in a South Carolina school district restricted access to its online card catalog in order to hide “critical race theory books” from parents, internal documents obtained by the parental rights group Moms for Liberty show. “Instead of listing these books as available in the library, they are making a conscious decision to include them in curriculum read aloud in class so parents don’t know,” Carly Carter, chair of the Anderson County Moms for Liberty chapter, told The Daily Signal in a written statement Wednesday. Carter’s Freedom of Information Act request turned up the documents. |
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| Smokin’ Joe’s Grate of
the Union: Was That Fire – Or Gaslight? Bob Maistros One thing’s for sure: Smokin’ Joe Biden came out punching Thursday night in his campaign rally – oops, State of the Union address. That is, when Biden finally got to the House chamber after dissing assembled members of Congress and a national audience by leaving the White House right when he was to enter the Capitol. Then rudely breached protocol by tromping all over the speaker’s time-honored, bipartisanship-building privilege of introducing the chief executive. |
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| Policymakers are
Clueless That ALL Electricity Came AFTER the Discovery of Oil! Ronald Stein P.E. The administration is laser-focused on ending the “climate crisis” by switching to “clean” electricity. It has few qualms about importing the critically needed materials from foreign countries, primarily under total control by China – regardless of economic, defense, national security, ecological or human rights implications. The administration just wants all the dirty aspects of “clean” electricity far away and out of sight. |
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| AG Garland Pledges to Fight Voter ID Laws, Election Integrity Measures Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in Selma, Alabama on Sunday where he pledged to fight voter ID laws and other election integrity measures that he deemed "discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary." He lamented that in recent years, certain measures such as voter ID laws and redistricting maps have made it harder "for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect the representatives of their choice." |
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| Was Biden Drugged for the State of
the Union? One Expert Thinks So. Matt Margolis Joe Biden’s fiery but mostly peaceful State of the Union address prompted many to suggest that he had been drugged before the speech to ensure an energetic performance. I don’t doubt that many wags made those comments in jest, but it may actually be the truth. A psychiatrist who specializes in elderly dementia patients told the Washington Times that Biden displayed behaviors indicative of stimulant usage to conceal cognitive decline during his State of the Union address on Thursday. |
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| Federal Judge Strikes Down Bid to
Block Gun Restriction Bill in Washington State U.S. District Court Judge Mary Dimke on March 8 dismissed a lawsuit against Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson brought by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), which sought to prevent Senate Bill 5078 from taking effect. The bill, known as the Firearm Industry Responsibility & Gun Violence Victims’ Access to Justice Act, imposes state-level legal liability on Washington’s firearms industry, allowing lawsuits to be brought on behalf of people who are killed or injured with the industry’s products. |
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| Louisiana Declares War on Crime by
Bringing Back the Electric Chair and Allowing Constitutional Carry Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed eleven bills on Tuesday in the aftermath of a special legislative session on crime. Among the bills Landry signed are a bill restoring electrocution as a method of execution and adding nitrogen hypoxia as an additional method of capital punishment. Louisiana last used the electric chair in 1991, before eliminating it in favor of lethal injection. However, because of challenges to Louisiana’s lethal injection protocol and difficulties acquiring the required drugs, Louisiana has been unable to carry out the executions of the 58 people currently on death row. The additional methods are intended to offer authorities new avenues of fulfilling “contractual obligations” to the families of victims. |
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| Rachel Levine Plays the Race Card
on Climate Change The 2020s are like a South Park episode. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, earlier this month took time away from encouraging pre-adolescent children to explore their gender identities through the wonders of endocrine-disrupting pharmaceuticals to lecture the public about how climate change might be racist. In a video posted on X, Levine said, “Black Americans are more likely than White Americans to live in areas in housing that increase their susceptibility to climate-related health issues,” and added that “65% of Black Americans report feeling anxious about climate change’s impact.” |
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| VA Official Who Tried to Ban Iconic
WWII Kissing Photo Has Controversial History: 'Unequivocally Offensive'  A Veterans Department
official who sent a since-rescinded memo calling for the removal of an
iconic photo of a Navy sailor kissing a woman in Times Square has been
at the center of previous controversies in the past. Assistant Under
Secretary for Health Operations RimaAnn Nelson sparked a firestorm,
including calls for her to be fired, last week when she sent a memo to
VA employees calling for the historic photo of a Navy sailor kissing a
woman in Times Square on V-J Day in 1945 to be removed from all VA
medical buildings because it does not fit with the department’s
"no-tolerance policy towards sexual harassment and assault. The
incident is not the first time Nelson has faced scrutiny during her
tenure at the VA. |
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| Blood Money:
Times Square Billboard Hits ‘AO-CCP’ for Pro-TikTok Stance A billboard in New York City’s Times Square slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – known as “AOC” – as “AO-CCP” over her support for the Chinese social media app TikTok. “The Chinese military is weaponizing TikTok to target American children. AOC argued against a TikTok ban… on TikTok!” the billboard reads next to a photo of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez that is labeled “AO-CCP,” in reference to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). |
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| Transgender Girls and Sports:
Nassau Exec. Bruce Blakeman, Parents Sue NY State AG Letitia James to
Keep County Restrictions Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and the Floral Park parents of a 16-year-old girls volleyball player have filed a federal lawsuit against New York State Attorney General Letitia James over the implementation of his executive order barring transgender girls from participating in girls sports at county parks and facilities. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Eastern District in Central Islip, contends the county has a constitutional right to protect women and girls from unfair competition and personal injury that could occur from playing against transgender athletes. |
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| UN Envoy: Evidence Hamas Committed Sexual Violence on Oct. 7; May be Ongoing The U.N. envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict said in a new report Monday that there are "reasonable grounds" to believe Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists committed rape, "sexualized torture," and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7. There are also "reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing," said Pramila Patten, who visited Israel and the West Bank from Jan. 29 to Feb. 14 with a nine-member technical team. |
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| ICE: 275 Previously-Convicted
Illegal Alien Sex Offenders Nabbed in One 12-Day Sweep In one 12-day period this month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers apprehended 275 convicted illegal alien sex offenders across the U.S. From February 5-16, ERO arrested about two dozen illegal alien convicted sex offenders a day during a nationwide sweep, ICE reports. The operation follows a similar effort in January, in which ERO officers apprehended 171 illegal aliens with pending charges or convictions for murder, homicide or assault against children, in addition to sexual offenses. ERO apprehensions over the two-month period include a range of sexual offenses, such as: |
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| Illegal Brother of Laken Riley
Murder Suspect Linked to Venezuelan Crime Gang: DOJ A Venezuelan migrant who allegedly handed police a fake green card as they were on the hunt for his brother, the suspected killer of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, has ties to the violent Venezuela-based organized crime gang Tren de Aragua, according to federal prosecutors. Federal authorities have been warning that the gang, also known as TdA and known for its violent turf wars as it expanded into other countries in South and Central America, is trying to establish itself in the U.S., where police are already linking it to organized crime. |
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| Arizona Dem Governor Katie Hobbs
Vetoes Bill Allowing Local Police to Arrest Illegal Aliens Hobbs shot down Sen. Janae Shamp's "Arizona Border Invasion Act", or Senate Bill 1231, which would have made it a state crime to enter Arizona anywhere besides a legal port of entry. "This bill does not secure our border, will be harmful for communities and businesses in our state, and burdensome for law enforcement personnel and the state judicial system," Hobbs wrote in her veto letter. |
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| 8M Illegals to Continue Living
Freely in U.S. Despite Awaiting Deportation As reported by Breitbart, this will result in a tripling of the number of non-detained illegals who otherwise would be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they prepare for deportation. By the end of Fiscal Year 2023, there were at least 6.2 million illegals living in the U.S. who had not been detained by ICE despite facing deportation; 1.3 million of these illegals had already been given final deportation orders by federal judges. |
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| Jamaal Bowman’s Voting Rights
Hypocrisy Howard Husock Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York, best known for pulling a fire alarm in the Capitol, has made voting rights a signature issue. A member of the uber-progressive “Squad” led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman has even engaged in a hunger strike and been arrested while protesting the Senate’s failure to suspend the filibuster rule to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, which effectively would have federalized state voter laws. |
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| There's Shameless – Then There's the New York Times and Mara Gay Beege Welborn I don't know if you all remember the summer of 2020 the way I do, but it's still pretty vivid for many reasons. Most of those reasons have to do with the mind-blowing hypocrisy of it all smack in the middle of the destruction. How American was confined to quarters, 6 foot distancing, and masks while hordes in cities packed streets during multiple state funerals for the petty criminal whose death lit the fuse. Angry "mourners" chanting for "justice" even as they burned whole sections of cities to the ground at night. |
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| Giant Spiders and Their 6-Foot Webs
Are Invading American Cities  There’s something alarming about a spider that can grow 3 inches across, builds orbed webs that can stretch more than 6 feet, and doesn’t seem bothered at all by an urban environment. In fact, they seem to thrive under very human-developed conditions. That’s why the Joro spider, native to east Asia, is grabbing attention as it makes its way west. A new study from the University of Georgia, published in Arthropoda, shows that the spider is expanding its habitat. Originally spotted in the United States in 2013, the spider will likely expand northward, and seems to be able to do so while thriving in an urban landscape that most spiders can’t handle. |
Another 'present' from the Orient |
| U.S. Manufacturing is Among the
Cleanest in the World – Let's PROVE IT American products help lower global pollution when they displace more emissions-intensive imports – but we’ve had no strategy to prove it, until now. The Providing Reliable, Objective, Verifiable Emissions Intensity and Transparency (PROVE IT) Act, introduced by U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), directs the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct a study comparing the emissions intensity of U.S. and foreign production, including that from adversaries like China and Russia. In doing so, it would provide America its own math to defend against foreign trade policies that unfairly disadvantage U.S. exports. |
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| Helium Discovered in Minnesota As
U.S. Supplies Dwindle A potential helium reservoir was discovered in Minnesota last week after drillers bored deep beneath the forest floor of the state’s Iron Range as supplies of the noble gas dwindle in the U.S. Pulsar Helium Inc., a Canadian-based company, announced in a news release on Thursday that its team encountered gases with concentrations of up to 12.4% helium when its drilling rig reached a total depth of 2,200 at the Topaz Project drill site. Helium concentrations above 0.3% are considered economically viable. |
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| Red Sea Cables Damaged, Causing
‘Significant’ Disruption to Global Internet Traffic Undersea cables in the Red Sea have been damaged, causing “significant” disruption to global telecommunications networks, according to reports. Though it wasn’t immediately clear how the cables were marred, Yemeni government officials warned that Houthi rebels may target the submarine cables, according to CNN, which has forced internet providers to divert as much as 25% of internet traffic between Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The Iran-backed terrorist group has already been attacking commercial vessels traveling the Red Sea ever since Israel’s ground assault on the Gaza Strip in November – forcing ships to reroute and spiking shipping costs by more than 600%. |
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| Christian Monk Says Disgraced Biden
Prosecutor Ruined His Life for 'Political Gain' A Christian monk, who was arrested at the behest of a former U.S attorney, is speaking about how the charges, which have since been dropped, ruined his life and reputation. "There does not seem to be time for Christianity in President Biden's administration," Father Brian Andrew Bushell said in an interview with Fox News Digital. Father Andrew and his business partner were charged by former Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins, a Biden political appointee, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and unlawful monetary transactions in Oct. 2022. |
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| Gov. Abbott Announces ‘Breaking
Huge News’ About Texas’ Immigration Law “BREAKING HUGE NEWS,” Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on social media Monday, cheering a federal appeals court ruling on his state’s immigration law that had been blocked by a lower court. “Federal appeals court allows Texas immigration law to take effect,” wrote: “Law enforcement officers in Texas are now authorized to arrest & jail any illegal immigrants crossing the border.” “Obviously this is the case unless the Supreme Court intervenes by March 9,” Gov. Abbott followed up. The ruling stays the enforcement of the Texas law until that date, in order to give the U.S. Supreme Court the opportunity to take up the case. |
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| New California Bill Would Make
Illegal Immigrants Eligible for First Time Homebuyer Loans Joaquin Arambula, a Democratic assemblyman from California, introduced Assembly Bill 1840 earlier this year, which could create an alternative way for illegal immigrants to achieve homeownership. The bill is set to expand eligibility criteria for a state loan program to expand these loans to include undocumented migrants that are first-time buyers. Arambula’s update to the bill states, "an applicant under the program shall not be disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status." |
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| Women's Pro Golf Tour Defends Trans
Athlete Ban, Emphasizes Need for 'Competitive Fairness' in Women's Sports NXXT Golf Tour CEO Stuart McKinnon responded to backlash surrounding his decision to ban transgender athletes from the Women's pro tour, arguing the move ultimately came down to ensuring female athletes a right to "competitive fairness" on the course. The decision to ban biological males from competing in the women's league sparked outrage from transgender golfer Hailey Davidson, who won the NXXT Women's Classic back in January. McKinnon addressed the controversial decision and how it was made during "Fox & Friends Weekend." |
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| BBC Tried to Discipline Journalist
for Saying Men Cannot Scientifically Be Women A former BBC journalist was subjected to a disciplinary process for tweeting that there was no scientific support for the idea that “males can be women”. Cath Walton revealed that she was called before an internal BBC hearing after she also said that the issue of gender identity was “contested”. Reflecting on her treatment by the BBC, she said that in discussing issues around people who change gender, “truth has become an emblem of defiance rather than clarity”. |
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| MSNBC's Psaki, Maddow Laugh at and
Mock Virginia Voters for Caring About Border Crisis An MSNBC panel led by Rachel Maddow laughed at and mocked Virginia Republican voters who listed the border and immigration as a top priority during coverage of Super Tuesday. Far-left anchor Joy Reid assailed White working-class Republican voters as only making their decisions based on race and not thanking President Biden, a "White working-class guy himself," for the "benefits they're getting economically" from him. "They're voting on race," she said. "They're voting on this idea of an invasion of Brown people over the border." |
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| Democrat Senator Thwarts GOP Effort
to Pass Bill Detaining Illegal Immigrants Charged with Violent Crime Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, attempted to force a floor vote Wednesday on a law that would require illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the hope of preventing avoidable attacks and resulting deaths. The Iowa Republican's unanimous consent request was thwarted by Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who objected to the request. |
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Driver of £80k Jaguar I-Pace Reveals Moment
He Realized Electric Vehicle Had Gone Rogue as it Raced Down Motorway
Before Police Rammed it (And This Isn't the First Time it's Happened) A driver who was trapped behind the wheel of an out-of-control Jaguar I-Pace has revealed to MailOnline how he cheated death as his car accelerated up to 100mph on the busy M62 motorway without brakes. Nathan Owen, 31, was on his way back from his first day at a new job when his 2019 electric car started malfunctioning, sparking a huge police operation to bring his car to a stop after 35 minutes of hell. |
Talk about an 'electrifying' ride! |
| France Enshrines 'freedom' to
Abortion in Constitution, in World First France's Parliament approved a bill to enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in the Constitution in a historic vote on Monday, March 4, as lawmakers gathered for a joint session of Parliament at the Palace of Versailles. The bill was approved in an overwhelming 780-72 vote, and nearly the entire joint session stood in a long standing ovation. The constitutional reform amends Article 34 of the French Constitution to specify that "the law determines the conditions by which is exercised the freedom of women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy, which is guaranteed." |
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