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  • Middle America Is Dying, And D.C. Doesn't Care

    02/17/2024 9:47:40 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 46 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 02/17/2024 | Selena Zito
    WEIRTON, West Virginia - Most people in this town will tell you they’d rather have taken a physical punch to the gut than get the news they received yesterday when Cleveland-Cliffs Steel announced it was idling its tinplate production plant, a move that directly cost 900 people their jobs.It isn’t just those workers who face catastrophic uncertainty; this closure also jeopardizes the jobs of thousands more people whose businesses supported the plant: the barber shops, gas stations, mom-and-pop grocery stores, the machine shops that make the widgets for the steel industry. And there’s also the demise of the tax base,...
  • Nolte: CNN Accidentally Reports Mental Decline Has Forced Biden Into Hiding

    02/07/2024 10:33:01 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 51 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/07/2024 | John Nolte
    A member of the corporate media accidentally reported that His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline is so pronounced he’s probably adopted the strategy of hiding from the media. During a segment on doomed CNN’s doomed CNN This Morning, someone named Salena Mohsin, who identifies as Bloomberg’s senior Washington correspondent, was asked about President Roomba skipping what has become a traditional presidential interview prior to the Super Bowl. “[H]im saying no to something that he’s expected to do, a serious interview, he can really get his message out to an audience, just sitting, waiting for him, waiting for his message,...
  • Nolte: 61% Not Fooled by Media Cover-Up of Biden’s Mental Decline

    02/05/2024 12:16:44 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/05/2024 | John Nolte
    A clear majority see that His Fraudulency Joe Biden is in mental decline and believe (correctly) that the media are trying to cover this frightening fact up. Between January 28-30, Rasmussen Reports surveyed 934 likely voters and asked, “Do you feel like, over time, Joe Biden is getting less and less mentally sharp?” Across every gender, racial, and age line, a majority said yes. Of everyone polled, 59 percent said yes, while only 33 percent disagreed. Looking at the internals, 61 percent of men said yes, as did 57 percent of women, 63 percent of those aged 18-39, 60 percent...
  • Nikki Haley: Trump Is in Mental Decline — ‘That’s a Fact’

    01/30/2024 10:32:44 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 120 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/30/2024 | Pam Key
    Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) said Tuesday on “CBS Mornings” that it was a “fact” former President Donald Trump has mentally declined. Co-host Nate Burleson asked, “Governor, I want to get your thoughts real quick before we have to let you go. He did get you confused with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. You’ve worked with him closely, you’ve known him for quite some time, do you truly believe he is suffering from cognitive decline?” Haley said, “Are we really, in this country, going to have two 80-year-olds running for president? It is a fact that when you...
  • Demographic Decline: France Sees Lowest Number of Births Since WWII

    01/18/2024 7:01:37 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/18/2024 | KURT ZINDULKA
    The number of births in France has fallen to its lowest level since the Second World War in a grim indicator of Western demographic collapse. Figures released this week from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) reported that 678,000 babies were born in France last year, a decline of 48,000 over 2022 and the lowest of any year since 1946. As with other countries in the West, France has long faced a declining birth rate, falling nearly every year since 2010 when 832,799 babies were born in the country, approximately 20 per cent higher than in 2023....
  • Report: Army Staff ‘Baffled’ by Sharp Decline in White Recruits in Last Five Years

    01/11/2024 2:16:28 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 86 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/11/2024 | KRISTINA WONG
    The Army’s recruiting of white soldiers in 2023 had dropped almost by half in the last five years, according to a report. That dramatic decline has coincided with a push by the service to increase recruitment of a more diverse population, according to a report. The decline of white recruits has also coincided with the Army missing its target of 65,000 recruits in 2023 by 10,000. Military.com reported Wednesday that Army internal data showed that a total of 44,042 new Army recruits were categorized by the service as white in 2018, but that number has fallen consistently each year to...
  • The decline of marriage: A glimpse into an unsettling trend

    01/09/2024 10:06:14 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 43 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 01/09/2024 | Virgil Walker
    Richard Baxter (1615–1691), a Puritan minister of the 17th century, penned his thoughts on the covenant of marriage, writing, “It is a mercy to have a faithful friend that loveth you entirely to whom you may open your mind and communicate your affairs. And it is a mercy to have so near a friend to be a helper to your soul and to stir up in you the grace of God.”Unlike Baxter in his time, today, the covenant of marriage is not held in as high regard. Many women remain single longer, seeking independence and pursuing the same career goals...
  • The Washington Post Is in Full-Scale Collapse

    01/05/2024 9:14:39 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 61 replies
    Red State ^ | 01/05/2024 | Bonchie
    Is The Washington Post in full-scale collapse? A recent look at the numbers provides a fairly convincing answer to that question. According to the report, not only is the Post losing $100 million a year, but it lost over half of its online engagement by the end of 2023. The signs were already there by mid-year, and the worst has come to pass. See: The Washington Post Is Facing a Financial Buzzsaw“Of that audience, less than one in five read more than a single article per month, while less than one in 500 actually convert to a paying subscription.”— Josh...
  • The Decline of Art in Western Culture Parallels the Decline of Everything Else

    12/28/2023 7:49:47 AM PST · by Starman417 · 17 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 12-28-23 | Vince
    For most of Western history art was used as a way for patrons to showcase achievements or propagandize citizens or lionize individuals. Maybe the single greatest artist in human history, Michelangelo, created his greatest works for patrons of various sorts. David created for the Florentine Guild of Wool, the Pieta for the French ambassador to the Holy See and the Sistine Chapel, and St Peter's Basilica for popes. Art was, in one way or another an homage to something greater than its creator. Fast-forward about three centuries and the art world begun to change. Art as an indulgence of artists,...
  • The Decline of Art in Western Culture Parallels the Decline of Everything Else

    12/14/2023 9:51:27 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 27 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 12/14/2023 | Vince Coyner
    For most of Western history, art was used as a way for patrons to showcase achievements, propagandize citizens, or lionize individuals. Maybe the single greatest artist in human history, Michelangelo, created his greatest works for patrons of various sorts. He created David for the Florentine Guild of Wool, the Pieta for the French ambassador to the Holy See, and the Sistine Chapel and St Peter’s Basilica for popes. Art was, in one way or another, an homage to something greater than its creator.Fast-forward about three centuries, and the art world begun to change. The idea of art as an indulgence...
  • 'Going to get worse': Ex-WH doctor warns pace of Biden's cognitive decline already putting US 'at great risk'

    11/26/2023 3:38:22 PM PST · by Libloather · 67 replies
    Fox News ^ | 11/26/23 | Taylor Penley
    resident Biden's 81st birthday ushered in even more conversations surrounding his age and declining cognitive acuity, two things Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician, believes are valid causes for concern. "[The decline is] happening quickly," Jackson told "Sunday Morning Futures" guest anchor Sean Duffy. "Like you said, I've taken care of three presidents… so I know firsthand what it takes to be the commander-in-chief and the head of state. It's a grueling job, both mentally and physically. This man can't do the job. He's proven to us every single day that he can't do the job,...
  • Russia Is Running Out of Scientists, Top Putin Ally Admits

    11/03/2023 4:32:52 PM PDT · by canuck_conservative · 41 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Nov. 2, 2023 | Isabel van Brugen
    "A serious obstacle to achieving technological independence is the shortage of qualified scientific, engineering and labor personnel. The total number of personnel engaged in research and development in Russia has decreased by a quarter over the past 20 years," Patrushev said at a retreat in the city of Tomsk, in Siberia, Russia. A large number of scientists and academic staff are believed to have fled the country after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and again after he announced a partial mobilization of the population last fall. Hundreds of thousands of Russians fled...
  • Mark Levin *Long Post* on the slaughter of Jews

    10/12/2023 10:08:47 PM PDT · by RandFan · 6 replies
    Twitter/X ^ | Oct 12 | Mark R. Levin
    @marklevinshow I honestly never imagined that I would be witness to the slaughter and atrocities of Jews, with the history of the Holocaust not that far away and have to spend nearly 24 hours a day defending the right to self-defense (which obviously requires the destruction of the modern-day Nazis) not only against these Nazis, but against growing voices in the Democrat Party, the American media, and college campuses. I honestly never thought I'd see the day when recent Arab immigrants to our country (some illegal who have overstayed their student visas), the usual neo-Nazis in our country, BLM and...
  • New York City’s decline in four mayoral administrations

    10/05/2023 7:07:38 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 3 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/05/2023 | RICHARD J. SHINDER
    Successfully managing a modern polity as large and complex as New York City is no mean feat. Interest groups compete for resources. Existential challenges suddenly emerge that were on no one’s mind when voters went to the polls (the 9/11 attacks, the current migrant crisis), and issues both large and small are relentlessly sensationalized, exacerbated by local tabloid media and the nation’s focus on happenings in its largest city. These all serve to make New York City, as it was once famously characterized, “ungovernable.” The difficulty in attributing outcomes to specific policy initiatives, setting priorities among affordability, public safety, economic...
  • The Coming Collapse of Our Secular Universities?

    09/09/2023 9:19:33 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Townhall ^ | 09/09/2023 | Dr. Michael Brown
    Are our secular universities, especially those leaning most radically left, soon to collapse – or at least, soon to lose their current positions of power and influence? A good case can be made that the answer could well be yes.First, there has been a serious dip in enrollment in our colleges and universities across the nation. As noted in a March 9, 2023 headline on the Fortune website, “The labor shortage is pushing American colleges into crisis, with the plunge in enrollment the worst ever recorded.”Yes, “What first looked like a pandemic blip has turned into a crisis. Nationwide, undergraduate...
  • Progressive religion may be dying worldwide, but the Gospel is thriving

    08/18/2023 8:05:01 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 08/18/2023 | Dr. Michael Brown
    The headline was stark and unnerving: “‘Religion Is Dying’: Same-Sex Blessings Allowed but Is It Too Little Too Late for the Church’s Shaky Future?” But was it a true and accurate statement? Is “religion” — meaning the Christian religion — dying worldwide? And is the Church’s only hope the embracing of same-sex “marriage” and other “progressive” theological positions?Actually, true religion — meaning a vibrant, Jesus-centered, biblically-based, compassion-filled, Spirit-empowered, no-compromise expression of the Christian faith — is thriving worldwide. In stark contrast manmade religion — meaning a me-centered, rationally-based, (per)version of the faith that substitutes affirmation for transformation — is dying...
  • Australia Continues to Lead the World in Self-Demolition [And you think things are bad here in the USA]

    07/30/2023 6:09:14 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 23 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 07/30/2023 | Lincoln Brown
    In retrospect, I think that there may have been some subtext behind the idea of setting the post-apocalyptic “Mad Max” series in Australia. The Aussies have been known to be hearty, jovial, and brave. But starting with the draconian police-state tactics during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Land Down Under seems to be going under at a startling rate. The latest thing to indicate that Australia will be in for a rough time of it for some time to come is a children’s book called “Welcome to Sex” by Dr. Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes. The pair, who hosts the podcast...
  • Hollywood may be in its death throes, and deservedly so

    07/18/2023 9:52:07 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 66 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 07/18/2023 | Andrea Widburg
    Hollywood once supported America and family values; it’s now antithetical to them. This means that many Americans are rooting for its collapse during a writers’ and actors’ strike over an industry change as significant and destructive as the advent of the car was to carriage makers. I’m a huge fan of pre-1960s movies, and I know a fair amount about the history of Hollywood. In Hollywood’s early years, the executives behind it were almost entirely Jewish immigrants who found a niche in a brand-new industry and filled it. Throughout the 1920s and into the very early 1930s, movie plots got...
  • Imploding American Cities Will Drag All of Us Down — Even if You Don't Live Anywhere Near One

    07/16/2023 9:13:57 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 83 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 07/16/2023 | Athena Thorne
    There is so much wrong with America’s cities, it’s hard to see why any contributing member of society would live and/or work in one of them. Some of the issues arise from far-Left local governance while others are generated by more widespread Leftist policy. These are coupled with an organic workforce evolution, as the USA transitions from an industry-based to an information-based economy. The result is urban areas caught in a downward spiral — and, as with any sinking vessel, threatening to suck everyone nearby down with them. First, quick refresher on the compounding problems of urban areas. Chief among...
  • Is Germany's legendary industrial base looking for the exits?

    07/14/2023 6:48:20 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Hotair ^ | 07/14/2023 | Beege Welborn
    This was quite an eye-opening article here. Germany’s biggest companies are ditching the fatherland. Chemical giant BASF has been a pillar of German business for more than 150 years, underpinning the country’s industrial rise with a steady stream of innovation that helped make “Made in Germany” the envy of the world. But its latest moonshot — a $10 billion investment in a state-of-the-art complex the company claims will be the gold standard for sustainable production — isn’t going up in Germany. Instead, it’s being erected 9,000 kilometers away in China. I’m not sure that I’d be betting the farm on...