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Let’s go back and re-visit Biden’s decision to cancel the cross-border permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline one more time, because it is an un-American decision that has potentially enormous, broad ramifications not just for pipeline operator TC Energy, but for America’s entire economy. It has kind of gotten lost in the whole media discussion about the decision, but we need to understand and accept the fact that Biden took his decision to just cancel this $8 billion project despite the fact that he made no finding that TC Energy was in violation of any regulation, permit or law of...

The start of 2021 is getting more bizarre each day. Facing a stack of executive orders, Joe Biden, near a hot mic, mutters, “I don’t know what I’m signing.” Learning that she and Ted Cruz agree about the Gamestop market manipulation, AOC accuses the senator of attempted murder. On Friday, Black Lives Matter (BLM), an organization that contributes to, if not foments riots in which at least 25 people have died, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. As Sean Hannity is fond of saying, "You can't make this stuff up." BLM came into existence in 2013, in response...

A heavily armed perimeter has now been set up around the entire DC federal center. Armed military and police with riot gear and 8 foot barbed wire fence now protect the Biden and democratically controlled branches of government from the free people of the United States of America. This is clearly not intended to guard against something that might have happened already, but something that may happen soon. What exactly is this administration and congress planning that will require this level of protection from our citizens? (Video)

An open letter published by the McGill Student Society cited my publications in PJ Media and demanded that McGill University cancel me. More specifically, the society demanded that my status as Emeritus Professor of Anthropology be revoked. This letter was signed by the McGill Student society, anthropology undergraduate and graduate societies, four student Middle Eastern and Islamic groups, and a black student group.

Like the mighty Gulliver pinned down by the Lilliputians, the Reddit Raiders have had the giant hedge fund boys tied up in knots. The suits were executing a classic short squeeze where they collectively shorted GameStop shares. It’s a time tested strategy where their shorts alone were virtually guaranteed to drive the stock price down. They consistently made hefty profits while the small shareholders lost big. But a funny thing happened to the wolves on the way to this kill. They ran into an army of small day traders, armed with laptops. A few did the research and shared it...

Source: Courtesy of Myra AdamsThanks for joining this study and a special welcome to “first-timers.” Your presence acknowledges that the Bible has supremely impacted and continues to impact the world through the power of words – the Word of God. In His Word, God speaks to his people collectively, to individual leaders, and those he has chosen as future leaders. Studying the Word of the Lord can be inspiring, comforting, and uplifting every day, but especially during times of personal or national crisis. Conversely, His Word can bring warnings and harbingers of what is to come. Since this is a...

SUGAR LAND, Texas — An attempted home invasion was stopped by an armed mother who opened fire on the intruder early Friday, Sugar Land police said. The woman had her 8-year-old child with her in the home — neither was physically hurt. The suspect, identified as Santana Anthony Hudson, 21, survived and was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital. He was arrested and charged with burglary of a habitation and unlawfully carrying a weapon. The shooting was reported at about 4:30 a.m. in the 200 block of Shadow Wood, in the Sugar Mill subdivision, according to city officials. According to Assistant...

The Talk Shows January 31st, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.); Jared Bernstein, Council of Economic Advisers; Dr. Tom Inglesby, Director of the Center for Health Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Professional rock climber and adventurer Emily Harrington. Panel: Guy Benson, political editor of Townhall.com; Susan Page, USSA Today; Mao Tse Tung worshipper Harold Ford, Jr.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Michael Osterholm, Biden Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board; Brian Deese, National Economic Council; Rep. Adam...

....Glenn, I want to ask you about this bill from Stephanie Murphy, which strikes me as particularly ominous in the context of the moment we are in that would ban people who fall within some category that she is defining, who have certain beliefs from effectively from serving in government. Should your personal beliefs be a criterion for employment in the Federal government? GLENN GREENWALD, JOURNALIST: Well, the through line for everything that just talked about, Tucker, is that the Democratic Party, which now controls the House, the Senate and the White House genuinely believes they have a monopoly on...

I am the author of the bestselling book "TRUMP RULES." My book identifies the top 10 rules that made former President Donald Trump one of the greatest winners in world history in business, branding, real estate, celebrity, television, publishing and politics. Trump is the only person in world history to reach the pinnacle of all of those fields. And the only person to become both a billionaire and president of the United States. It's not a bad resume. Many critics think Trump's winning streak ended with a presidential loss. I disagree. I know the man. I understand the man. I...

There was a time when an allegation of racism was one of the worst things someone could be accused of. Now, it’s a punchline. Back in the day, the word had meaning – aside from an occasional Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson shakedown, it was not cavalierly tossed around to score political points and it was not reported on without something close to irrefutable proof. Now it’s a debate tactic of the left to avoid serious engagement and cover for a lack of factual back-up. Everything is “racist” now, and as someone who actually used to care, who was disgusted...

WASHINGTON - The Florida law firm that employs President Joe Biden's brother Frank ran a newspaper ad on Inauguration Day touting the brothers' relationship and shared values, a move that is causing an ethics headache for the administration less than two weeks after Biden took office. Biden has promised to lead a highly ethical administration, which he has pitched as a contrast to his predecessor, and has adopted unusually strict rules for those serving in his administration, although they do not necessarily apply to family members. The two-page "advertorial" ran on Jan. 20 in the South Florida-based Daily Business Review...

A new essay collection, 'Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West,' illuminates how the vaunted Russian writer's warnings about secularism and progressivism are as prescient and insightful as ever. If there is one thing that 2020 has taught me, it is that the real political and cultural divide in our country is not between Republicans and Democrats, or even conservatives and liberals, but between traditionalists and progressives. At the core of progressivism is not the optimistic American belief that things are improving and that our children can live better lives than we did, but the belief that...

(AFP) - New Zealand unveiled a blueprint Sunday to phase out petrol-powered cars while its dairy industry, a key pillar of the economy, must slash cow numbers under the ambitious plan to be carbon neutral by 2050. The changes are among a raft of recommendations presented to the government by the Climate Change Commission on steps New Zealand must take to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the document, which will now go out for public consultation, showed the impact of the reforms would not be an economic burden. "The cost of...

Give it one year, and Biden's voters will have serious buyer's remorse. Back in 1976, I voted for President Ford after supporting Governor Reagan in the primaries. It was a close election, but Texas and a few others went blue that year, and Governor Carter was in. Around 10 A.M. the next day, the election went for Mr. Carter, and I felt a bit depressed. How did this happen? After a few days, I said to my friends that the country would regret this decision. Honestly, it was the same feeling I had when Mr. Biden assumed the presidency. A...

This is so delicious Democrats are completely outraged over a fake quote from Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters. A Twitter troll replaced Waters' original tweet that targeted Trump administration staffers with Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Democrats took the bait and called Waters' words "dangerous" and many said it was "inciting violence." POLL: What scares you the most? In June 2018, Waters delivered a fiery speech where she called for members of the "Resistance" to harass staffers of the Trump administration. "History will record while he tried to step on all of us, we kicked him in his rear...

There are many ways to describe this corrupt situation, but comedian George Carlin said it best: "It's a big club, and you ain't in it." You can't make this up. Under the Harris/Biden administration, last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that lifelong bureaucrat Melissa R. Hodgman has been named acting director of the Division of Enforcement. Missing from the SEC's announcement's glowing description of Hodgman is the fact that she's married to Peter Strzok, the disgraced former head of the FBI's counter-espionage section. It is irrelevant that while in his high position in the FBI, Strzok was having...

As former president Donald Trump awaits possible disciplinary action from Hollywood’s actors union, a new report states that an expulsion from the guild would hurt any media projects that the former president hopes to launch. Trump is facing possible expulsion from SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest labor union that represents thousands of screen actors and TV journalists. The guild is reportedly contemplating expelling Trump over the Capitol Hill riots as well as his criticism of the mainstream media, which union leaders claim represents “actual harm” to its broadcast journalist members. The Hollywood Reporter noted that an expulsion would make Trump a pariah...

War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, and Biden is President. In George Orwell’s masterpiece 1984, he said, “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” To guide you along this path, I bring to your attention implausible things you are expected to believe this week. Things that are not graft. Outrageously generous book deals to present and former officials. The Obamas’ $65 million book advances still lead the way to the most lavish, though the notion that even Democrat politicians’ relatives, like Chelsea Clinton, would offer ghostwritten pap...

President Biden’s embrace of utter nonsense pushed by the “woke” continued with last week’s executive orders to “advance racial equity” and “root out systemic racism in housing and criminal justice.” The “equity” approach assumes that any outcome that doesn’t meet inane racial quotas is the result of bias. It is, in fact, systematically racist. The four executive orders Biden signed Tuesday don’t seem that earth-shattering. He directed the Department of Housing and Urban Development “to take steps necessary to redress racially discriminatory federal housing policies,” told the Justice Department to stop using private prisons, recommitted the feds to honoring tribal...