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El Mariachi mi Mexico en Houston perform "El Cielito Lindo" in front of Ted Cruz's house.

“If the United States truly respects facts, it should open the biological lab at Fort Detrick, give more transparency to issues like its 200-plus overseas bio-labs, invite WHO experts to conduct origin-tracing in the United States, and respond to the concerns from the international community with real actions.”– Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying at the January 18 daily press briefing This was not the first time the Chinese foreign ministry suggested the COVID-19 pandemic started in America. On March 12, 2020, another ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, stated in a tweet that coronavirus patient zero was in America, making official...

Video I made of President Biden with some elaboration from me on his Presidents Day Message.

Race and gender in hiring are two keys to financial success for top McDonald’s executives, according to the company as it sets its course for the future. A press release on the McDonald’s website says that part of the bonuses awarded to top company executives will be based upon their efforts to hire women and what the company terms “historically underrepresented groups” for top corporate positions. “Beginning in 2021, the Company is incorporating quantitative human capital management-related metrics to annual incentive compensation for its Executive Vice Presidents,” the company said. The company’s diversity website notes that in America, 70 percent...

One week ago, Bank of America hinted at the unthinkable: the tsunami of monetary and fiscal stimulus, coupled with the upcoming surge in monetary velocity as the world’s economy emerges from lockdowns, would lead to unprecedented economic overheating… or rather precedented as BofA’s CIO Michael Hartnett reflected back on the post-WW1 Germany which he said was the “most epic, extreme analog of surging velocity and inflation following end of war psychology, pent-up savings, lost confidence in currency & authorities” and specifically the Reichsbank’s monetization of debt, and extrapolated that this is similar to what is going on now.There is, of...

Even the Muppets are “offensive” these days. Anyone who streams “The Muppet Show” on Disney+ will see a declaimer first — warning of “offensive content.” Disney released five seasons of the iconic show for streaming on Friday, allowing viewers to enjoy watching Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and their celebrity guests as part of its $6.99-a-month service. The disclaimer shown prior to each episode warns viewers that the show features “stereotypes” and “mistreatment of people or cultures.” “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now,” the...

The link on Freep to https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-takes-down-video-of-testimony-given-during-ohio-house-session_3704812.html keeps jumping to: https://www.theepochtimes.com/ag-nominee-merrick-garland-says-he-would-oversee-prosecution-of-jan-6-protesters_3704738.html What gives I wonder

In this video you will see a staff member, for the University of El Paso Medical Center, supposedly getting a vaccine shot to show everyone that it's nothing to worry about. After all, if a member of the University medical staff will get the shot, you should also. Well there's just one problem. He never got the shot. Oh he got stuck with a needle, but he never received any of the vaccine serum. As you can clearly see the plunger of the hypodermic needle is never depressed. Thus, no serum was injected into the staff member. To be sure...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Stately and deliberate, with a distinctive white streak in his black hair, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith started his Valentine’s Day sermon at Shiloh Baptist Church by talking about love and vaccinations. “That’s what love’s all about. When you get a vaccination, you are saying to everyone around you that you love them enough that you don’t want any hurt, harm or danger to befall them,” he said. “In the spirit of love, keep at it until you get your vaccination. That’s the only thing that’s going to erase this terrible scourge.” The church was empty except...

The government refuses to release James Coates from jail unless he promises not to hold any religious services until his trial.EDMONTON, Alberta, February 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian pastor jailed for ministering to his flock remains in prison, awaiting trial, after refusing to agree to bail conditions that he agree not to hold more church services that violate government restrictions justified by COVID-19. This past Sunday, February 14, Pastor James Coates of Grace Life Church (Grace Life) of Spruce Grove, Alberta, held a church service for his congregation, which was in violation of a January 29 order by Alberta...

Internal documents that were leaked to The Epoch Times show that the Chinese communist regime has a large amount of data on influenza and other diseases that have symptoms similar to COVID-19, but did not disclose it to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the outside world. Since wrapping up an investigation into the origins of the global CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, experts on the team assigned by the WHO have complained about the Chinese regime’s refusal to provide the related data. The Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 12, that Dominic Dwyer, a member of the WHO...

South Korea is taking its kimchi war with China to the next level, enlisting a slew of foreign diplomats in Seoul to attest to the fact that the Koreans’ national dish is, in fact, Korean. The feud has its roots in what many South Koreans say has been a concerted campaign of culinary appropriation by their larger and more powerful neighbor concerning the pungent dish of pickled cabbage. (See link for full article)

The AP reported in a biased and one-sided article that Louisiana is looking at buying voting machines for the state. We used to have less corrupt media, but today the media is full far-left and very dishonest.

The president's harsh town hall response on canceling America's $1.7 trillion college debt revealed he doesn't understand the issue. [snip] Joe Biden might not hold an Ivy League sheepskin, but during his brief stint between the vice presidency and the presidency he was paid more than $900,000 by Penn for ill-defined work that helped to pump up the Philadelphia university and its public image. Now, one has to wonder if the Ivy seduction of a future president didn’t also foster a status quo view of higher ed in America that doesn’t comport with the real-world aspirations and struggles of an...

Deep-pocketed investors appear hungry for Coinbase equity ahead of the crypto exchange's long-awaited direct listing. As per data compiled by The Block, the average clearing price for shares on Nasdaq Private Market continues to tick higher since the first secondary sale four weeks ago. The most recent cleared price was $373 a share, which would imply a valuation of about $100 billion. That's an increase from the first average cleared price of $200 in January, according to data shared with The Block. Nasdaq enables secondary offerings for Coinbase stock, a process that allows ex-employees and investors of the crypto exchange...

A new Quinnipiac University poll out Wednesday shows Americans think Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) more exemplifies the Republican Party than Rep. Liz Cheney (WY). The poll is almost certainly meant to convey just how far adrift the Republican party has become in the eyes of the media but in reality, it is more emblematic of how difficult it is going to be for the GOP to separate themselves from supporters of former President Trump. Alienating Trump means alienating your conservative base. And that base wants fighters regardless of their past controversial comments – which Greene has apologized for –...

Former President Donald Trump does not just lead the Republican Party still, he ostensibly owns it, according to the latest Suffolk University-USA Today poll released Sunday. By a near 2-to-1 margin, Republicans would leave the GOP to follow former President Donald Trump to a third party. "We feel like Republicans don't fight enough for us, and we all see Donald Trump fighting for us as hard as he can, every single day," Brandon Keidl, 27, Republican small-business owner from Milwaukee told USA Today after being polled. "But then you have establishment Republicans who just agree with establishment Democrats and everything,...

Dr. Ben Carson's Prescription to Heal America | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 98

Do talk radio streams stop working for anyone on TSL? They usually stop playing, and the show starts from the beginning.

I was just thinking. It would nice to have a good listing of Conservatives who are now on Gab, Rumble, and whatever other Conservative social platforms are out there now. Gab and Rumble are the first two that come to mind but now that I've ditched Farcebook and Twatter, I've been trying to find persons I used to follow, who have lost their accounts on those two platforms, on Gab and Rumble.