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  • Catching Up To Germany, The "Climate Leader"

    06/17/2024 3:46:52 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 3 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 15 Jun, 2024 | Francis Menton
    Here in New York, our leaders fancy us to be the “climate leader.” After all, our legislature has enacted the “Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act” of 2019, setting out the most aggressive mandatory emissions-reduction targets of all the U.S. states. Allegedly, 70% of our electricity will come from “renewables” by 2030. Nobody can top us! But can we really catch up to Germany? Germany was in the “climate leadership” game before almost anybody else had even heard of it. It was all the way back in 1990 that Germany adopted its first emissions-reduction target — 25 to 30 percent...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: "We Have Never Seen Anything Like This Before..." (VIDEO)

    06/17/2024 3:30:23 AM PDT · by SaveFerris · 13 replies
    Point of View YouTube Channel ^ | Jun 13, 2024 | Point of View
    Are America’s cultural institutions in decline? In this insightful interview, Victor Davis Hanson explores how the left's dominance in Hollywood, professional sports, and media has led to significant disengagement from the public. With NBA ratings at record lows and Hollywood relying on Chinese markets, Americans are opting out of what they perceive as a socialist-dominated culture, creating a "monastery of the mind." Hanson discusses the broader implications of this shift, noting that traditional cultural monopolies are crumbling as people reject network news, blockbuster movies, and even major sports events. This disengagement poses a dilemma for the left, which has leveraged...
  • An archaeologist has apparently found Sennacherib’s 2,700-year-old camp outside of Jerusalem: Once again, the Bible proves to be an accurate record of the ancient world

    06/16/2024 9:28:38 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 06/16/2024 | Andrea Widburg
    One of the big lies in today’s world is that the Jews are white supremacist colonizers, while the people in Gaza and the West Bank are the region’s indigenous inhabitants. In fact, the contrary is true. Jews long predated Muslims in the region, as described in the Bible. Now, there’s more evidence that Isaiah, 2 Kings, and 2 Chronicles all accurately describe the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem 2,700 years ago.During the reign of Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem and Sennacherib in Assyria, the mighty Assyrian kingdom attacked Jerusalem (around 701 BC). We know it happened because of a clay prism...
  • Is The American Express Platinum Card Worth The $695 Annual Fee?

    06/16/2024 6:27:46 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 41 replies
    Forbes ^ | 06/16/2024 | David Rae
    Price is only an issue in the absence of value, and the American Express Platinum Card brings value. Keep reading as we share the valuable benefits that may make the $695 annual fee seem cheap compared to other credit cards that don't offer as many benefits. Yes, the American Express Platinum Card is one of the most expensive credit cards on the market. Depending on your spending and amount of travel, you may get huge value from this card. On the other hand, some of you may be better off with another credit card with a lower annual fee.
  • Dangers of taking Ozempic to get ‘beach body ready’ revealed by top doc

    06/16/2024 4:31:12 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 26 replies
    Nypost ^ | 06/16/2024 | Tracy Swartz
    Tis the season for emergency room visits after inappropriately using Ozempic to lose weight for the summer. “Drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy should only be used by people prescribed them for obesity or diabetes,” Stephen Powis — the national medical director of NHS England, the country’s publicly funded healthcare system — urged last week at a conference in Manchester. “I’m worried about reports that people are misusing them — they are not intended as a quick fix for people trying to get ‘beach body ready,'” added Powis, per The Times of London.
  • U. of Illinois Chicago Students at Friday Sermon: America Is a Cancer; People Are Tired of Democracy

    06/16/2024 2:44:18 PM PDT · by grundle · 47 replies
    YouTube ^ | June 11, 2024
    Mohammad Nusairat, who is a student at University of Chicago Illinois said in his May 3, 2024 Friday sermon at the university’s MSA – Muslim Students Association that America, the American government, and democracy are cancers. He said that they have spread their illness all over the world. Nussairat continued to say that non-Muslim are tired of this cancer of the American government and democracy and that they want to see a new way of life. He stressed that Muslims have this way of life and that Islam is a religion that has come to be implemented on society. In...
  • Opus

    06/16/2024 3:03:07 PM PDT · by Jim Noble · 73 replies
    Vanity | June 16, 2024 | Jim Noble
    May 17, 1998 – June 16, 2024 310 Threads, 68,946 replies All good things must come to an end. I wish all of you the best. Remember, the national government has not one, but two warrants for its existence. 1) The Constitution 2) The Declaration of Independence The Constitution's purpose is "to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" The Declaration states, "[men]are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty...
  • ‘Make America White Again’: Stephen A. Smith Argues Caitlin Clark Discourse Highlights Racial ‘Divide’ in America

    06/16/2024 1:50:59 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 53 replies
    Mediaite ^ | JUNE 14, 2024 | AHMAD AUSTIN JR.
    Stephen A. Smith claimed the discourse surrounding Caitlin Clark — much like Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement — highlights a racial divide in America. Clark faced backlash on Thursday for her initial response to questions about her named being used in culture war debates nationwide. She said she wasn’t bothered by the discourse because she didn’t pay attention to it; and that response drew the ire of many online, including Connecticut Sun guard Dijonai Carrington. Later that day, Clark was asked more directly how she felt about people using her to push racism and misogyny. She took a...
  • Happy Father's Day -- What did you Dads do?

    06/16/2024 11:46:10 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 50 replies
    Self ^ | June 16, 2024 | ProtectOurFreedom
    What did all you dads do today (or have planned)? Last week our oldest daughter and boyfriend took me to a wonderful South American restaurant called "Oyo" in Pleasanton, CA. It's a fusion of northeast South America (Guyana), Caribbean, and West African. Outstanding. We then took the Niles Canyon Scenic Railway ride which is really gorgeous. Today I got a nice phone call from our middle daughter in Spokane and we chatted a long while catching up. She and her husband are headed to the Oregon Coast for a week (and will meet up with oldest daughter and boyfriend). This...
  • ‘Pay for Slay’: Palestinians still rewarding terror

    06/16/2024 10:17:26 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 6 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 16 Jun, 2024 | David Rubin
    The Palestinian Authority (P.A.)’s “Pay for Slay” program is a deeply disturbing initiative that incentivizes violence against Jewish Israelis. This program, which constitutes 8% of the P.A.’s budget, offers substantial monetary rewards to Palestinians who murder Israelis. The more lethal the attack, the greater the financial reward to the terrorists’ families. This practice, which costs the P.A. over $300 million annually, not only perpetuates violence, but also diminishes any prospects for peace in the region. Recently, a bipartisan group of 50 members of Congress, led by Congressman Josh Gottheimer, wrote to U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken, urging the State...
  • Could I Speak Directly to the American People

    06/16/2024 9:19:20 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 26 replies
    AI @ IMP ^ | Jim Carrey
    Jim Carrey doing parody of Biden
  • Yes, Diversity Is About Getting Rid Of White People (And That’s A Good Thing)

    06/16/2024 8:50:53 AM PDT · by Dalberg-Acton · 141 replies
    Thought Catalog ^ | May 26, 2015 | Emily Goldstein
    One of the more common memes that I’ve seen white supremacists spread around recently has been “diversity is a code word for white genocide”. The concept here is that diversity is only promoted in white nations, and that the end goal is to eliminate white people altogether by flooding all white countries with non-white people until there are no white people left. Well, guess what, white supremacists? That’s exactly right. Diversity IS about getting rid of white people, and that’s a good thing. First off, I am a white person myself, so allow me to get that out of the...
  • Is It Possible That There Is One Thing That Fascists Would Never Do?

    06/16/2024 4:32:17 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 40 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 15 Jun, 2024 | Albin Sadar
    The alarm has gone off four years later and this time we'd better be fully awake. The country will end up with more than just a few stitches if the fascist Democrats have their way again. I suppose many of us have heard the expression “snitches get stitches,” referring to the one and only serious code-breaker known within criminal circles. You could be a murderer, a rapist or a terrorist (hey, that’s your “chosen field” prerogative as a bad guy), but if you ever snitch on a fellow ne’er-do-well—well, you could wind up hospitalized. It seems that many people observing...
  • Be Prepared for Chaos

    06/16/2024 4:09:57 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 68 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 16 Jun, 2024 | Clarice Feldman
    I suggest you start preparing for a great deal of left-wing civic violence, supply disruptions (including food shortages) and widespread urban chaos. I say this because it is my sense that the Democrats, deep state, and their media enablers are all in rough shape and have no other way out but to fall back on their usual criminal methods of retaining power. I find it impossible to believe that President Biden will be the Democratic nominee, and if he is, that he can win. What do the Democrats do? They certainly can’t substitute Kamala Harris for Biden; she’s tanked in...
  • Roe v. Wade attorney: Use the abortion pill to ‘eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy, and poor’

    06/15/2024 8:34:36 PM PDT · by Morgana · 17 replies
    Live Action News ^ | July 17, 2020 | Carole Novielli
    Disturbing correspondence from a co-counsel of Roe v. Wade, the decision which legalized abortion nationwide, reveals that a eugenics and population control ideology has long been behind the push for the abortion pill’s availability. The abortion pill, which has ties to the manufacturer of the deadly gas Zyklon-B used by the Nazis during the Holocaust, was introduced under the name RU-486 (“RU” for Roussel-Uclaf, the French manufacturer of the pill, and “486” for the drug’s serial number). The abortion pill was eventually brought to the United States by groups with ties to eugenics, and today, eugenics-connected groups are funding the...
  • This quirky city six hours from NYC has been ranked the most affordable in the country — but would you live there?

    06/15/2024 7:02:22 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 23 replies
    Nypost ^ | 06/15/2024 | David Landsel
    Life in the Inflated Apple got you down? According to a new study, the most affordable city in the country is barely a half day’s drive away — hours closer to home comforts than the current hotspots popular with fleeing New Yorkers. Say hello — and maybe move to — Pittsburgh. Currently boasting a median house price of $274,900, the mostly-former steel town remains comfortable with its blue collar roots, while also leaning into a uniquely quirky, artsy heritage — this is the birthplace of Andy Warhol and a training ground for a young Keith Haring, home of Fred “Mister”...
  • Newfound ‘friends’ rob man at knifepoint in Wrigleyville

    06/15/2024 1:57:22 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    Cwb Chicago ^ | 06/15/2024 | Cwb Chicago
    CHICAGO — A group of strangers who quickly befriended a man in Wrigleyville ended up robbing him early Saturday morning. The victim stepped out of his Uber on Clark Street, just south of Wrigley Field, when a group of two men and two women started chatting him up around 1:30 a.m., according to initial information. As the man walked home, his new friends tagged along, seeming quite friendly at first.
  • Shelling out: Hamptons deli charging $120 for pound of lobster salad

    06/15/2024 9:03:06 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 83 replies
    Nypost ^ | 06/15/2024 | Chris Harris
    Jonesing for lobster salad while out in the Hamptons? It’s a bisque-y proposition. Of course, lobster salad is a summertime staple in the land of money-is-no-object. But at beloved East Hampton delicatessen the Red Horse Market, they’re charging $120 per pound for the delicacy. Store manager Christian Pineda told The Post he’s only gotten complaints “from some of our customers” about the lobster salad. Most patrons, though, are willing to shell out big bucks.
  • Saturday War Room/The People's Convention, 10AM -??? Eastern Time

    06/15/2024 6:50:04 AM PDT · by 4Liberty · 4 replies
    America’s Voice News ^ | 06/15/2024 | Steven K. Bannon
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  • How I stopped hating guns — and embraced self-reliance

    06/15/2024 5:31:16 AM PDT · by Twotone · 50 replies
    The Blaze ^ | June 12, 2024 | Josh Slocum
    This winter I turned on the light on the nightstand and stared at the 45-70 rifle propped up in the corner of my bedroom. After thinking for a moment, I got up and put it in the living room. This was the first time I had a gun under my own roof, and I couldn’t get to sleep knowing it was there. I’ve been prone to depression all my life, and it just seemed to be tempting fate. Mind, I’m not suicidal, but I gave myself one night to be a big baby about it. The gun is on loan...