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Here it comes again: a vain attempt to remake the world to a Western, liberal worldview, under universalist values that are not necessarily shared across every community in the planet. This week saw the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, and the return of the Democrat party to the White House and full control of Congress. Inevitably, most of the coverage by the media has been positive about the new President and the change coming to the White House. Chris Wallace called Biden’s inauguration speech, “the best inaugural address, I ever heard” while throughout...

On Day One of his presidency, President Joe Biden signed an executive order stopping the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, slashing thousands of jobs along with it, because he and his incoming administration deem it an environmental hazard. TC Energy Corp. has already let go 1,000 workers in both the U.S. and Canada. Pete Buttigieg, who ran against Biden in the 2020 Democratic primary, is now the president's Transportation Secretary nominee. He was grilled by the Senate on Thursday about Biden's job-killing signatures. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) shared his concern that President Biden just upended 1,200 good paying union...

"We have met the enemy and he is us," said Walt Kelly's cartoon character Pogo, half a century ago, about what we Americans were doing to our environment. Rereading President Joe Biden's inaugural address, Pogo's remark comes to mind. Biden began on a lofty, hopeful and familiar note: "This is a great nation. We are a good people." He ended in the same vein: "So, with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith. Driven by conviction. And, devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts." Within the address...

Rogelio Linares, a Democratic canvasser during the runoff elections, told Mediaite that he feels "like s---" over the issue and called it "a betrayal of the working class." "I was lying to people that were relying on this. At the time I didn’t know it was a lie," he sid. Ossoff said during the campaign, "If David Perdue really wanted $2000 direct relief checks for the people, he'd be on the floor of the Senate demanding McConnell put up the House bill for a vote." RealClear Policy reported some Democrats not only want the checks bigger, they want to make...

Under a so-called "freedom of religion" ordinance, individuals leaving the Hindu faith in yet another state in India will lead to persecution of Christians. Nine out of 28 states in India have adopted anti-conversion laws, the latest Madhya Pradesh, which is located in the central part of the country and has a population of more than 75 million residents – the fifth largest in India. Approximately 90% of the state's population is Hindu; less than 0.3% are Christian. William Stark of International Christian Concern explains that the recently enacted anti-conversion law in Madhya Pradesh requires people who convert to Christianity,...

President Joe Biden showed disgust at a reporter's question Thursday at the end of a briefing in which he signed 10 executive orders to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Sitting at a desk as he signed the final order, Biden heard AP White House reporter Zeke Miller ask about a previously announced goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans during the administration's first 100 days. "Shouldn't you set the goal higher? That’s basically where the U.S. is right now," Miller said. Biden smirked and replied without raising his voice. "When I announced it, you all said it was not possible. C'mon, gimme...

President Joe Biden’s pro-migration amnesty bill cannot pass Congress unless business leaders actively pressure and police both politicians and media outlets, says Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who is leading the Senate push. “Let me close by saying to my friends in the business community: We need you to give it everything that you’ve got,” Menendez told amnesty advocates Thursday, January 21. He continued:

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Former spy chief Richard Grenell accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and his team of leaking classified intelligence.

All Brooklyn was thrown into a feverish state of excitement last evening, by a current rumor that the Navy-yard and appurtenances were to be seized by the sympathizers in this vicinity with the Secessionists. Last night, according to Madam Rumor, was the time at which the descent was to have been made. Just how much foundation there was for the rumor could not be definitely ascertained; but it appears that Capt. FOOTE, who is in command of the Yard during the temporary absence of Commander BREESE, at Philadelphia, deemed the information he had sufficiently reliable and of sufficient importance to...

Almost any U.S. employment snapshot looks grand compared with last April when COVID shutdowns rocketed joblessness to 14.8 percent. By December, the seasonally adjusted rate fell to 6.7 percent. So, everything zen? As the song goes, I don’t think so. Current unemployment is nearly double what it was in December 2019 and remains higher than at any point since March 2014. Neither the 2001 recession nor the 1990 downturn drove joblessness so high. And this doesn’t express the problem’s full magnitude. The effective unemployment rate, including those who have given up looking for work and those who involuntarily work part-time,...

If I were hurtling down a rabbit-hole and a genie offered me one wish, I would likely request a tour guide. Now tell me that the past ten months haven’t taken us all on a dizzying Ozian spin. Look out the window of your space capsule and you’ll find you’ve entered an insanely adversarial universe, one in which the major preoccupation of far too many people is ”Who’s on my side and who’s against me?” Problem is, the adversarial universe is swiftly heading for cosmic implosion. It’s eating up civilization as we know it before our very eyes. Tell me...

The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion. – Proverbs 28:1Yes Virginia, there is an anti-Trumpest movement. It exists as certainly as hate and fear and malevolence exist and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest sense and purpose. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no anti-Trumpests! It would be as dreary as if there were no godless liberals. There would be no childlike faith in the State, no social justice, no delusional thinking to make tolerable this existence.So as you see, we need...

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In her first White House press briefing, soon after the sun set on Inauguration Day, President Joe Biden's press secretary, Jen Psaki, was mostly pressed by the assembled journalists about ... the enumerated deficiencies of former President Donald Trump. NBC's Peter Alexander put Team Biden on the side of Truth boldly facing off against Lies. "The battle for truth may be as tough a fight right now as is the battle against coronavirus," Alexander proclaimed. "How do you and President Biden plan to combat disinformation that, in many ways, led to that assault we witnessed two weeks ago today on...

The day after inauguration we saw an additional 4 buses arrive in front of the Capitol. One group said they were deployed from Pennsylvania. VIDEO AT LINK.........................

Currently, there are only a few, combat-ready, fifth-generation fighter aircraft models in the world. Two of those are American-built and include Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor, which entered service with the United States Air Force in 2005; and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, which entered service in 2015. While the Russian Sukhoi Su-57 finally entered service in December 2020, China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has operated its own fifth-generation fighter since 2017, the J-20. China’s Stealth Fighter, but with a Flaw It is the Chengdu J-20 – also known as “Mighty Dragon.” The single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather multi-role combat...

Iran had a peaceful nuclear programme for many years, but in the early 2000s concerns were raised that it was developing technology that could create nuclear weapons - despite the country being a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Not long after the firebrand then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a series of bold claims about uranium enrichment, the first of a number of UN resolutions was passed, aimed at forcing Iran to backpedal. It wasn't until the 2015 nuclear deal, which happened after Mr Ahmadinejad was replaced as president by the incumbent Hassan Rouhani, that relations began to improve - albeit temporarily....

National Review has found yet another reason to hate Trump, whom it has attacked relentlessly for over four years. It seems that among his multiple shortcomings, according to Frank Lavin, a supporter of Republican Voters Against Trump in 2020, Donald Trump was not the Gipper. In fact, he caused the Republican Party to deviate grievously from Reagan’s policies; and so it now behooves us to save the GOP by returning to the proven “conservative” teachings of the president whose approval ratings approached 70 percent shortly after leaving office. Lavin offers a study in contrast between the Gipper and Trump. In...

Today, U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-04) introduced the Wall Street Tax Act, legislation to create a new tax on financial transactions that would generate billions in revenue, while reducing speculative trading and volatility in the market. “High-frequency traders front-run the market and drive up prices for individuals, pension funds and other value investors,” said Rep. Peter DeFazio. “Some days high-frequency traders trade billions of shares that they sometimes hold for only seconds or less. They reap enormous financial benefits for themselves and their privileged elite investors but add no value to our economy. Congress needs to rein in excessive speculative...