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An outgoing, longtime CNN executive admitted on Sunday that the liberal network’s weekly media program, "Reliable Sources," has failed to offer diversity of thought by not booking conservatives. CNN vice president of standards and practices Rick Davis joined host Brian Stelter’s program on Sunday to discuss his retirement after 40 years in the industry. Stelter praised Davis as a "living legend" and noted that he’s been at CNN since its inception before seeking advice on how to improve the weekly program that aims to cover the media industry. Stelter, who emerged as an outspoken critic of conservative media and regularly...

It's been a long time coming, but for precious metal fans the day of joy has finally arrived: following a coordinated campaign to buy both silver ETFs in the paper realm and precious metals in the physical, which over the weekend which left virtually US precious metals retailer with little to no physical inventory, silver has finally exploded higher following in the footsteps of other "most-shorted" names, and it was last trading just around $30/ounce, soaring by 11.5% - its biggest one-day jump since Sept 16, 2008 - the day Lehman filed for bankruptcy. And, if silver closes here, it...

Criminal justice in America is at a crossroads. The ongoing debate about racial justice in policing, incarceration, and prosecution became a national fixation following the May 2020 death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. Since then, it has remained a flash point in our politics. The election of Democrat Joe Biden, whose party is aligned with Black Lives Matter, who called Antifa “an idea,” and who cites “systemic racism” as the major problem facing black Americans, will make the next four years challenging for proponents of effective policing. This challenge will be felt not only by those on...

Journalists generally assess our politics through the same lens as Democratic operatives, which assumes Democrats are the good guys and Republicans are not. For some in the corporate media, that’s not so much a conscious partisan calculation as it is the consequence of their shared cultural leftism.This is a key driving force behind our national discord. A better lens generally assumes politicians are the bad guys, whether they’re friendly to the press, progressive, Christian, rich, poor, or whatever. That’s not only more accurate, it’s more fair and more constructive for the so-called fourth estate, which exists to hold powerful people...

As Joe Biden takes office, America faces a new chapter in the China challenge, a major part of which involves protecting American higher education.China’s Thousand Talents Plan has ensnared thousands of American scholars and researchers, including former Harvard University professor and Chemistry Chair Charles Lieber, indicted in June by the Justice Department for lying about China’s $50,000 monthly payments to him in exchange for research expertise.Confucius Institutes — campus centers run by the Chinese government — spread propaganda and serve as nodes in China’s soft power campaign. What’s more, China’s People’s Liberation Army has sent some 2,500 military officers undercover...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican soldiers and immigration agents rescued a 2-year-old girl from Chile after she apparently fell into the Rio Grande and the adults who were with her left her and crossed the river into the United States, officials said Sunday. The National Immigration Institute said the incident occurred Saturday as a group of migrants was crossing the river near Ciudad Acuna, across from Del Rio, Texas. The adults made gestures, pointing out the toddler to soldiers and immigration agents, who then waded into the river to rescue her, the agency said. Somehow the girl remained afloat. The adults...

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) will be judged by a “secretive” Senate ethics panel over whether they had a part in inciting the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6.The Senate Ethics Committee probe “will unwind over an interminable timetable with little hint of where it is going,” Politico reports.The committee says nothing about its business until actions are taken. And it has a lot of business before it: Seven Democratic senators filed a complaint against the two GOP senators who led the effort to object to the election results, arguing that they ‘lent legitimacy” to the cause...

In recent days, Democrats have launched a full-court press against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the Republican who filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden on his second day in office. At least 50 House Democrats have called for Greene’s expulsion from Congress. As legacy media outlets highlight Greene’s previous statements on social media, Republicans have hesitated to condemn her, even as some conservative groups have broken their silence.Conservatives and Republicans need to condemn Greene’s previous statements on social media and demand an explanation for them. Until Greene unequivocally rejects the insane and dangerous things she has written and...

California bashing is something of an art form. Famous podcasters like Adam Carolla, Ben Shapiro, and even the more liberal Joe Rogan have bemoaned the state’s many failures, and in the case of the latter two, declared a very public breakup with Cali, heading to greener pastures like Texas and Tennessee. It seems that every unemployment statistic, every zany regulation, every story of Californians fleeing the state elicits untold schadenfreude throughout red America.

A new company to me called last week and were eager to be advertisers on 321gold.com. I was basically familiar with the company but not nearly so much as many other companies I follow. On Friday I figured out why they wanted more exposure. They released a silver intercept of $71,000 rock. That’s USD $71,000. That’s about 9% silver and by far the highest-grade silver intercept I have ever seen. In the press release that came out on Friday the company talks about the intercept and call it 0.3 meters or about one foot. Then they go further into the...

Frustration and anger are building in California as Governor Gavin Newsom’s problems proliferate and the recall effort nears its goal of 1.5 million signatures. Newsom — already unpopular in many rural areas — has seen his approval numbers tanking as the coronavirus pandemic rages statewide. Even liberals are ganging up on Newsom and criticizing his response to the virus. But it’s not just the pandemic that people are mad about. Incarcerated criminals, and Russian, Chinese, and Nigerian scam artists sole up to an estimated $31 billion from taxpayers by bilking the state’s unemployment office, filing fraudulent claims. The size and...

The Bible is a dynamic book, peopled with characters who have a tremendous immediacy. That immediacy just got a boost over the weekend when Israeli researchers announced that they'd found scraps of purple cloth dating back to the time of Kings David and Solomon.I didn't grow up in a religious family, so I first read the Bible as a college freshman when I took a "Bible as Literature" class. For me, it sparked a lifelong fascination with Old Testament history. I've listed at the bottom of this post the books I've found most fascinating, as well as a video I...

Why Republicans should expel her -- and make it clear that the Dems are the party of the nuts and the bigots. The two to four years ahead are going to be the toughest in American history. The Democrats have taken over the White House and Congress. They’re opening the borders, preparing to impose amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens, then they’re planning to permanently rig the Senate by adding Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico as states. And then they’re going to pack the Supreme Court and federalize elections to rig all future races. Those aren’t conspiracy theories....

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is poised to strike following an order by Mayor Lori Lightfoot that teachers return to in-person learning in their classrooms. CTU and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) failed to meet over the weekend to reach an agreement on how to get students back into in-classroom learning despite the coronavirus crisis. A strike would mean students will also not receive remote instruction.

Vatican Communicators in Utter Confusion. But the Pope Likes It That WayIncredible but true. The bombshell dropped by the pope was that at the last supper Jesus had instituted not one but “two sacraments,” the Eucharist and the washing of the feet, for a total that would therefore no longer make seven but eight. Read above to believe. Because it was written just like that in the Italian version of Francis’s words released by the Vatican press office on January 19, from one of his video messages to the bishops and priests of Venezuela.Fortunately, the pope said something else in...

Move raises ethics concerns, watchdog claims. Ethics watchdogs say the timing of large purchases of Tesla stock by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul raises ethics concerns due to an appearance of insider trading. Paul Pelosi reportedly purchased up to $1 million in stock from electric car giant Tesla last month. President Joe Biden, meanwhile, announced this week that his administration intends to take the entire federal fleet of automobiles electric. The move by Pelosi was "corrupt and unacceptable," TakeBack.org Executive Director John Pudner claimed in an interview with the Washington Times this week. "Even if the actual charges are...

With lightning speed, the White House, presumably under the direction of Joe Biden, sent a bill to Congress claiming to “restore humanity and American values to our immigration system.” Is there any truth to such a statement? Here is a quiz. Which U.S. Republican president said these words verbatim at one of his early State of the Union addresses? Reagan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., or Trump?"All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might...

s can be completely replaced by electric vehicles in a decade-and-a-half, and that this would be a good thing, even if possible. Under threat of government action, however, the world’s major auto manufacturers are falling in line boosting production of plug-in models, and upstart Tesla Motors is now the world’s most valuable auto manufacture, based on the value of its capital stock issued and in the public’s hands. Mary T. Barra, CEO of General Motors, has pledged to sell only zero emission vehicles by 2035. That would meet the deadline imposed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, who signed an executive...

Millions of Americans are still unemployed in the wake of COVID-19 shutdowns. Unfortunately, President Joe Biden’s so-called American Rescue Plan fails to provide targeted relief to those directly impacted by the pandemic. Instead, it borrows nearly $2 trillion more from future generations in order to dispense $1,400 checks to tens of millions of Americans already gainfully employed. It also funnels $440 billion to state and local governments, and bolsters federal unemployment benefits.

Yet more converts to Islam get the idea that their new religion calls for violence. We are being inundated with propaganda these days about how there is a “right-wing extremist” threat that dwarfs the jihad threat in the United States, but back in the real world, the Justice Department announced Monday that in San Antonio, “Jaylyn Christopher Molina, aka Abdur Rahim, admitted to conspiring to provide material support to the designated foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria (ISIS).” Molina “pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS and one count of receiving...