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Though they might not be the king of street food today, a hundred years ago Tamales dominated street corners, with tamale vendors becoming so popular that turf wars broke out. Though it was briefly impossible to avoid tamaleros, they vanished almost as quickly as they came. The history of the “Tamale Wars” is history that deserves to be remembered. Video Here.This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects...

Ultra-Woke Illinois Mandates Are Top Threat to U.S. Education By STANLEY KURTZ Step aside, California. Minnesota, hang your head. Illinois is the wokest of all, and what it does will spread. Yes, woke K-12 curricula grounded in neo-Marxist Critical Race Theory are on the march through America’s schools. We’ve just learned that a California elementary school is forcing third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities and rank themselves by “power and privilege.” Although California governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a too-woke ethnic-studies high-school graduation requirement last fall, a reworked version, still saturated with Critical Race Theory, has just been released for public...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Feb. 14. The Senate had a prolonged EXecutive session to day, over the nomination of PETIT for United States Judge of Kansas. Contrary to expectation, he would have been confirmed, had a vote been obtained, but it is rumored that this was defeated by repeated calls of the Yeas and Nays. It is a very unfortunate fact that some Republican Senators are generally absent when their votes are most needed. This is an abuse which needs correction or rebuke. The whole number of Senators, since the secession of six States, is 54, of which the Republicans are just...

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“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man!” That was Joe Biden in May 2019. Fast forward to January 2021, Biden was heard to utter: “If we don’t get moving, they’re going to eat our lunch!” Points For Consistency? Biden does not miss a chance to blame the current circumstances on Donald J. Trump—the excuse that never expires. You’re a clown, @ChrisMurphyCT. pic.twitter.com/q8wZ3Nd7Vp — Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) February 15, 2021 In remarks at the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, Biden did some storytelling: “While scientists did their job in discovering vaccines in record time, my predecessor —...

President Joe Biden has pulled 65 pending Trump administration executive orders, many of which deal with key national security and immigration matters. Several of the withdrawals strike down orders that would protect American jobs by tightening immigration restrictions and eliminate proposed oversight regulations on how China-backed Confucius Institutes operate on campus. The Biden administration selectively cut the orders, as some pending Trump administration actions remain under review. Biden withdrew one Department of Homeland Security regulation that would bar foreign nationals with deportation orders from working. Under current law, outgoing aliens released from custody can still seek legal employment. The proposed—and...

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has called for Kamala Harris to be impeached over her support for violent rioters involved in last year's Black Lives Matter riots. Graham said the Democrats' second impeachment trial against President Donald Trump set such a bad precedent that House Republicans will impeach Harris when they retake the majority.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has told Axios that he was "a little bit nervous" about catching the coronavirus during President Donald Trump's administration, since the White House at the time was "sort of a superspreader location."

Media giant Condé Nast has refused to pay $2.4 million in rent for its office space at One World Trade Center as it tries to shrink its square footage in the building, The Wall Street Journal reported. Condé Nast — which owns publications such as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Vogue — withheld its January rent for its space and could hold back on paying even more in the future, WSJ reported. The publisher is withholding the rent in an attempt to further reduce its footprint in the 104-story building, co-owned by the Durst Organization and the Port Authority...

The House Democrats’ campaign arm has hired an ex-gangster-turned-high-profile criminal justice advocate for a top leadership position, The Post has learned. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, headed by Hudson Valley area Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, tapped Dyjuan Tatro as a senior adviser for diversity and inclusion. Tatro is known for appearing in the 2019 PBS documentary series “College Behind Bars,” about a group of inmates trying to earn their degrees through New York state’s Bard Prison Initiative. Through the program, Tatro got a bachelor’s degree while serving a six-year sentence for racketeering conspiracy. At the time of that 2011 conviction,...

As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of cabins with balconies. As I explained in a recent story, there’s nothing quite like being able to step onto a balcony on a ship to breathe in the fresh ocean air. But that doesn’t mean I’m opposed to the idea of staying in a cabin without a balcony. In fact, at times, I’ll even book a cabin that doesn’t have a window — or, as they’re known in the cruise world, an “inside” cabin. If you’ve never been on a cruise before, you might not even know there’s such a thing...

America's top infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci received a prestigious $1 million Israeli prize Monday, along with six other researchers who shared two additional $1 million prizes for their contributions to health and medicine. The Dan David Prize, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, said it honored Fauci for his career in public health and "speaking truth to power" during the politicized COVID-19 crisis. Fauci "is the consummate model of leadership and impact in public health," the awards committee said in a statement.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed to Fox News that they are having a second baby together. "We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child," a spokesperson for the couple told Fox News.

Division by both sides on the directions of the Republican and Democratic parties has helped drive support for a national third party to an all-time high of 62%.In the latest Gallup survey, just 33% are pleased with the two-party system.What’s more, former President Donald Trump’s talk about his own “MAGA” party could be playing a role in a spike in GOP support for something new.“Republicans' record desire for a third party comes at a time when they are deciding whether to remain loyal to Trump or to move on from him,” according to the survey analysis just released.“Currently, 68% of...

After a month of suffering under the purging effects of Apple, Google, and Amazon canceling them, social media app Parler has finally returned on a new server and with a new acting CEO in Mark Meckler. But the CEO of their top conservative competitor, Gab, had some thoughts on their revival. According to Just The News:Parler, the upstart social media platform silenced last month by big-tech censorship, said Monday it is resuming operations under new leadership and with new computer servers.Parler moved to a new computer server farm, and the 20 million users on the platform when Amazon Web Services...

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A group of “anti-Trump” Republicans led by former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin is considering forming their own political party. The Hill reports that over 120 individuals took part in a conference call to discuss the matter. The group consisted of former employees of the Trump administration, along with Reagan and Bush administration officials, and former Republican members of Congress. The group “are in talks to form a political party that would break away from supporters of former President Trump,” the report states.

The Biden administration has broken with historical norms by firing Trump-appointed members of independent agencies serving fixed terms, a move that one appointee claims is illegal in a lawsuit. At least one Democrat supporting the effort says this must be done because some of the appointees are too white. It is unprecedented for a new administration to fire members of independent agencies serving fixed terms. But the Biden administration is trying to do so anyway. One appointee, Roger Severino, is suing the Biden administration over its decision to terminate him. “The Council does not wield any executive power — indeed,...

The carjacking occurred a mile and a half away from the prison he was freed from A man has found himself back behind bars for allegedly carjacking a 16-year-old girl just 20 minutes after he was released from prison. The incident occurred on Saturday, Feb. 13 in Spokane, Washington, when the Spokane Police Department received a call at 10:28 p.m. from the Browne’s Addition neighborhood of the city reporting a carjacking, according to a statement from the Spokane Police Department.