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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden wore a ceremonial feathered headdress today as he welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an official state visit. "Are we ready to pass around the peace pipe?" asked President Biden. "I'm just kidding — I can't smoke peyote before lunch! It gives me the tummy rumbles! Not a joke!" In preparation for Mr. Modi's visit, President Biden reportedly spent several hours mastering a traditional rain dance. "Are you ready to make it rain, chief?" Biden asked Mr. Modi as he began the dance. "Took me two weeks to get all these tomahawk chop moves...

SEATTLE—Today, a Seattle family partnered with the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm, to file a lawsuit challenging the city’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) ordinance—a law that makes it too expensive for them to build housing on their own property. At the center of the case is Anita Adams. She’s a lifelong Seattleite who grew up and raised a family in the city’s Central District. With Seattle’s housing costs remaining stubbornly high, Anita’s two children cannot afford to live near her. That didn’t sit right with her, so she started to dream about building an addition to...

This is an update on the original video. Still spending like it doesn't matter. Raise the Debt Ceiling Rap... Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx5mE9XPcWw

The system of affluence and influence has been created to self-sustain regardless of party affiliation. The Senate is one club with one ideological perspective. Within that club rule #1 dominates: none of the members will ever expose another member. So, when there is corrupt activity within the Senate no-one from within the institution with expose another. This is the code of Omerta within the upper chamber. This is the way of the “my good friend” Senate and how it operates. Current Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has a leadership group who carry out the institutional objectives of the upper chamber as...

It is always interesting to see who supposed “conservatives” in office are supporting with their financial resources. One of the interesting facts from Congressman Randy Feenstra’s “Delivers PAC” is the fact its largest contribution made to a sitting member of Congress went to Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler. Herrera Beutler was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump. Feenstra’s PAC gave Herrera Beutler $5,000 on June 30, 2022.

While Americans aren't lining up to scarf down a bowl of crickets, consuming insects as part of a balanced diet is a critical part to the culture of many other countries around the world. And, the trend could be taking off here in the states, as biologists say edible insects can provide solutions to hunger and climate change. Insects are going from pests to protein packed menu items, with the potential to combat the world's ongoing hunger and climate crises. "They're low in fat. they're high in nutrients, minerals, uh, calcium. uh, so they're good for you." Unlike traditional forms...

Three of the four Republicans running for Congress in Iowa either voted for or publicly said they would have voted for H.R. 8404, a bill that codifies homosexual marriage, repeals the Defense of Marriage Act, would force Iowa to recognize whatever California or New York considers marriage and threatens the tax exempt status for churches and ministries that hold to a biblical understanding of marriage.

Senators and DC officials from both parties participated in the Ukraine influence process. Part of those influence priorities was/is exploiting the financial opportunities within Ukraine while simultaneously protecting the background activity of Joe Biden and his family. This is where Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham were working with Marie Yovanovitch You might also remember Marie Yovanovitch, George Kent and U.S. chargé d’affaires to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, testifying against President Trump in the ridiculous impeachment effort surrounding Ukraine. It was former Ukraine Ambassador Bill Taylor who engaged in carefully planned text messages with EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland to set-up...

No one—no one—wants war, with the resultant terrible destruction, loss of life, and mayhem it inevitably brings. But as I have written in previous essays, if you search for the profound cause for what has happened, it is not the invading Russians, it is not really the regime in Kiev, but rather it is the sponsoring apparatchiks in Foggy Bottom along the Potomac, in Brussels, and in the houses of Congress (the Lindsey Grahams and Roger Wickers who actually urge our potential use of nuclear weapons against Russia), and what Dr. Paul Craig Roberts calls the “pressitutes” in American media,...

The Flint, MI lead water crisis caught the attention of Americans to a degree that is rarely seen these days on local issues. The media picked up on it because it had everything that makes for a compelling story: vulnerable children, racial injustice, corrupt bureaucrats and city officials, lawsuits, and outraged citizens. But few people know that a failure to understand basic chemistry is at the heart of the water crisis that unfolded in Flint.

The Hawkeye PAC has a history of contributing to state legislative candidates. But in 2018, it contributed only to Iowa House Republican candidates and contributed to 57 of them. It hadn’t made contributions to that many House Republican candidates since 2006, which is the year Pat Grassley won election to the Iowa House. And, back in 2006, there were a number of donations considerably smaller than what was given in 2018. In addition, the Hawkeye PAC contributed $70,000 directly to Linda Upmeyer’s campaign in 2018. At the time, Upmeyer was Speaker of the Iowa House. She announced in late September...

he CNBC headline. “A Harvard nutritionist and brain expert says she avoids these five foods that ‘weaken memory and focus.” She is also the author of “This Is Your Brain on Food,” an Amazon #1 bestseller in obsessive-compulsive disorders. I haven’t read the book, but it would be pointless based on her article, which appeared on many other news outlets. I am well aware of the extensive junk science in the field of nutrition, and her article is just another reflection of it. It is the standard attempt: to extrapolating rodent’s studies to humans; to equate correlations as a cause-and-effect...

As Republicans have rushed to rally around “affordable, accessible daycare,” I have asked a lot of those Republicans the same question. What do Republicans believe to be the best — BEST — environment for a child to be raised? Or at a daycare, or at home by their mom or their dad or aunt or grandma, etc? Republicans, I thought, were always supportive of stay-at-home parents because it is most beneficial for a child. Yet here we are, doing what we can and incentivizing moms and dads to spend less time raising their kids. But here we have a President...

The school called every single family that was affected, vowing to be “totally transparent,” according to the Charles City Press. However, parents who have spoken to The Iowa Standard said there was no mention of the fact students were not allowed to leave the room when they asked during the reading. The Charles City Press reports there will be a special board meeting Monday afternoon to discuss the matter. The district told The Charles City Press two teachers are on leave and being investigated. One parent downloaded the story and listened to it. “It’s pretty intense,” the parent said. “The...

In October, the caravan violently pushed through a national guard roadblock in Mexico. Irineo Mujica, a member of a “pro-migrant” organization, is quoted as saying “with or without papers, we’re ready for war.” “It’s true that if they are pushed back into Mexico or halted by the Mexicans, that they will riot. They do get out of hand,” security expert Todd Bensman, with the Center for Immigration Studies, said. “They might try to charge the bridges. They may try to charge over some spot in the river.” Bensman adds that the White House is largely ignoring the threat, making it...

The EWG wrote their own in those cases where the EPA did not have a standard for a contaminant. The EWG wrote their own standards for several contaminants already regulated by the EPA, with most about a 100-fold lower than EPA’s standard. For example, the EPA standard for a group of disinfection by-products (trihalomethanes) is 80 parts per billion (ppb); the EWG’s 0.15 ppb. Total trihalomethanes were detected at 28.3 ppb in my drinking water supply, so it complied with EPA’s regulations but exceeded the EWG’s. Anyone can make a standard look bad by writing a lower one.

A woman called Laura Jordan posted Facebook Live videos where she discussed a “Let’s Go Brandon” sign that had seemingly triggered her. In her first video, she says: “On my way to work, and I have the freedom to go to work just whenever, whenever I feel like it,” she said. “So, it’s Wednesday morning, on my way to work and on the corner of Beaver Avenue, Beaver and Lovington Drive, just over here by the intersection there was a sign that said ‘Let’s Go Brandon.’ And I drove for a few more blocks and I decided I’m not going...

Asset managers like BlackRock are pushing to create ESG 401(k) funds in part because they can charge higher fees. According to Morningstar, the asset-weighted average expense ratio of U.S. "sustainable" funds was 0.61% in 2020 compared to 0.41% for all open-ended mutual and exchange-traded funds and 0.12% for passive funds. This difference can reduce retirement savings by tens of thousands of dollars over a few decades. (snip) All of this amounts to a backdoor rewrite of Erisa, one of the better laws of the last 50 years. Progressives are moving across the Biden administration to steer private capital to implement...

Video on how late night comedy has been taken over by leftists and the Democrat party. Gives the real reason Jay Leno had to leave his show.

Iowa is expecting approximately 700 refugees among the three resettlement agencies. Beth Gibbins with Catholic Charities said she believes the agencies are all preparing in similar ways.