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President Biden’s first immigration crisis has already begun as thousands of families have surged toward the southwestern border in recent weeks, propelled by expectations of a friendlier reception and by a change in Mexican policy that makes it harder for the United States to expel some of the migrants.

Constant censorship on Facebook seems to be having a major effect as Facebook is losing Daily Active Users in the US and Canada. Towards the end of January, Facebook released its annual performance update report. The report showed that Facebook’s main platform added 299 million active users in 2020, which is not surprising considering the pandemic forced people to stay home. However, a closer look at the data reveals that the social media giant lost Daily Active Users (DAU) in the US. Overall, Facebook added 5 million DAU on 2019 but it lost daily actives in the US throughout the...

Elected to a second term in November, the Republican had been fighting lung cancer. He becomes the first member of Congress to die from coronavirus. This is a developing story and will be updated throughout the day. Rep Ron Wright of Arlington died Sunday night due to COVID-19. He was 67. His family and spokesperson confirmed Wright’s death due to the coronavirus Monday morning. The Republican congressman, who was reelected in November, also had been battling lung cancer. Wright is the first member of Congress to die of COVID-19. “Congressman Wright will be remembered as a constitutional conservative. He was...

George Orwell published Animal Farm in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most naïve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial about the contours of Moscow’s impending postwar communist aggression. The short, allegorical novel’s human-like farm animals replay the transition of supposedly 1917 revolutionary Bolsheviks into cynical 1930s Stalinists. Thereby, they remind us that leftist totalitarianism inevitably becomes far worse than the supposed parasitical capitalists they once toppled. Orwell saw that the desire for power stamps out all ideological pretenses. It creates an untouchable ruling clique central to all totalitarian...

A Los Angeles Times opinion column is under fire for comparing supporters of former President Donald Trump to Hezbollah and Nazi sympathizers. “This woman compares her Trump-supporting neighbors, who plowed her driveway, to Nazi sympathizers & Hezbollah & wrestles w/whether to show them any kindness since she ‘can’t give them absolution,’” journalist Megyn Kelly wrote of the piece. “Note to Virginia Heffernen’s neighbors: don’t plow again.” The Los Angeles Times published a piece last week titled “What can you do about the Trumpites next door?” which described how author Virginia Heffernan’s driveway was cleared of snow by her Trump-supporting neighbors....

One of former President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council directors shocked the internet by criticizing the enormity of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief proposal. Progressive economist Larry Summers argued in a Feb. 4 op-ed that “much of the policy discussion [on the Biden COVID proposal] has not fully reckoned with the magnitude of what is being debated.” Summers pointed to two major issues: First, “there is a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War II levels than normal recession levels will set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a...

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What people want from politicians is not to put on the same tired show they have been watching for years. They want them to get things done.The extreme disconnect between the political class and the people they ostensibly serve is by now extremely clear. It was the primary factor behind Donald Trump’s ascendance to the presidency, as the left largely abandoned the working class in favor of woke ideologies and their special interests. At a certain point, the lip service politicians pay to the working class’s needs and concerns was not enough, and they lost their votes. Naturally, it was...

VIDEORemember, it wasn't rigged. It was "FORTIFIED." A distinction without a difference. Time magazine revealed what most of us already knew about the 2020 election. And once you read the way they used "fortify," you can never hear the word again in the same way. Therefore whenever you hear the word "fortify" in the future, you will probably think about the 2020 rigged, I mean fortified, election.

In Rome lies the Santi Apostoli church, cared for by Franciscan brothers for more than 500 years. For more than 1500 years, this site has held the believed remains of two of the earliest Christians and Jesu apostles: St. Philip and St. James the Younger - relics of the Holy Catholic Church. In the first few centuries of Christianity, life was difficult for the Christian minority, but gradually towards sixth century Christianity became the dominant religion and after Emperor Constantine on his deathbed declared Christianity the state religion, churches were erected all over the Roman Empire. Shortly after the churches...

Joe Biden has faced nearly no public scrutiny over the fact that the U.S. president's son has raked in millions of dollars from U.S. adversaries who use business deals to push goals against the U.S. interest.On Feb. 7, CBS Anchor Norah O’Donnell asked Joe Biden in an interview that aired prior to Super Bowl LV about his son Hunter’s new memoir, but failed to ask about the scandal implicating him in Hunter’s many business deals with China, Russia, and Ukraine. Worse, President Biden failed to condemn Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, who is responsible for ethnic cleansing and other forms of...

Fox News contributor Trey Gowdy blasted the Chicago Teachers Union for fighting a return to schools saying, “If you don’t want to teach, go do something else.” Gowdy, the former Representative from South Carolina, began with an emotional story about a child walking to school for miles because he had missed the bus. “I didn’t want to miss school, ” the child had said after walking for an hour already and still remaining miles from the school. “That is how bad he wanted to be in school,” Gowdy explained. “That is the power of education. It can change your life.”...

I've been sitting on this post for a long time. Anthony Fauci has some explaining to do. A lot. People on the left tend to get bent when someone properly refers to COVID 19 as the "Wuhan" or "China" virus. The fact is, it is did originate in China. There's really no doubt that it originated in a lab. Dr. Anthony Fauci has said this virus might never disappear because it is so contagious “I do not believe it would disappear because it is such a highly transmissible virus. It’s unlikely it is going to disappear." How did it get...

California's various teachers unions are coming under increased scrutiny over their reluctance to return to in-person learning, especially in the wake of the state legislature's apprehension towards Gov. Gavin Newsom's school reopening plan. The state's most powerful teachers union - the California Teachers Association, which has more than 300,000 members and is affiliated with the even more powerful National Education Association - has taken the firm stance that teachers must be vaccinated before in-person learning resumes. That position conflicts with CDC guidance that teachers do not need to be vaccinated for in-person learning to be made safe. An SFGATE analysis...

Longtime ESPN SportsCenter reporter Pedro Gomez passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, Feb. 7. Gomez, who began with ESPN in 2003, was 58 years old. “Pedro was far more than a media personality. He was a Dad, loving husband, loyal friend, coach and mentor,” the Gomez family said in a statement. “He was our everything and his kids’ biggest believer. He died unexpectedly at home this afternoon.” “We are shocked and saddened to learn that our friend and colleague Pedro Gomez has passed away,” said Chairman, ESPN and Sports Content James Pitaro. “Pedro was an elite journalist at the highest level...

"The foundation of the rise is the fact that the coronavirus situation continues to improve, pushing global oil demand higher as production continues to lag, pushing U.S. gas prices higher," said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. "Until OPEC intercedes and raises oil production in the months ahead, motorists should continue to expect rising gas prices."

MILFORD – Due to the weather, the Milford Town Planning Board meeting was cancelled this evening, delaying the resolution of efforts to have the “Trump 2024” billboard removed on Route 28 outside the north end of the village. The village’s mayor, Brian Pokorny, said this evening that two town Planning Board members approached him two weeks ago, advising him to remove the billboard or face fines; no amount was specified. The billboard is located in the town, but on property owned by the village, he said. According to the town law, political signs – mostly those small ones people put...

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Moments before Super Bowl LV kicked off Sunday night, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden made a pre-recorded appearance to honor the more than 463,000 people who have died from COVID-19 by asking for a moment of silence – instead they were booed by the crowd. ‘Before kickoff we wanted to thank all the frontline healthcare heroes both at the game and watching across the country. You put yourself at risk to keep the rest of us safe. You and your families carried us through this year with courage, compassion and kindness. We couldn’t have made it without...

Bloomberg estimates that the end of the pandemic and the complete return to normal from coronavirus will take seven years. Based on current vaccination rates from all over the world, eradicating the virus completely will take time. However, vaccinations are happening more rapidly in richer Western countries than elsewhere. Consequently, the world will need seven years for a return to normal. At present, the world’s biggest vaccination campaign in history is ongoing. Health ministries of 73 countries started issuing around 131 million doses in total. The latest estimate places the number of daily inoculations at 4.69 million doses a day....