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<p>HOUSTON - A federal judge late Tuesday indefinitely banned President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations.</p><p>U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton issued a preliminary injunction sought by Texas, which argued the moratorium violated federal law and risked imposing additional costs on the state.</p>

Uh oh! Word is leaking out of Mar-a-Lago that President Trump may be delivering a major social media platform on which conservatives can chat away. There’s something hidden in the technology disruption shadows behind that rumor, so let’s explore it a bit. Twitter. Facebook. The Washington Post. The New York Times. People, there is no fancy technology at any of those sites; there is simply scale. We are at the end of life for current silicon-based technology. Even the highly regarded Gartner Group in its 2021 technology forecasts said that companies need to understand silicon can no longer scale by...

Note to former president Donald J. Trump: Time to channel a fellow New Yorker, a Roosevelt, no less. That’s the Oyster Bay Roosevelt, Teddy. Trustbusting needs to be a cornerstone of your America First agenda -- the agenda that’s going to return you to the White House in 2024. In term Number One, President Trump was on track to bust up free speech loathing, oligarchy bent Big Tech outfits. This Sunday at CPAC, Trump plans to speak about “a vision where the Big Tech monopoly is dismantled and free speech and free expression and free thought can reign,” says Jason...

Fresh off an election in which former President Donald Trump made false claims of fraud, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to ponder the legality of a restriction on early voting in Arizona that his fellow Republicans argued was needed to combat fraud. The Republican-backed law, spurred in part by a video purportedly showing voter fraud that courts later deemed misleading, made it a crime to provide another person’s completed early ballot to election officials, with the exception of family members or caregivers. Community activists sometimes engage in ballot collection to facilitate voting and increase voter turnout. Ballot collection is...

Last year, we heard a lot about peaceful protests that, in reality, were not peaceful. This year, we are going to hear a lot about the Equality Act that, in reality, creates inequality. If the past is any indication, proponents of the Equality Act will shamefully attempt to usurp the civil rights movement’s history and legacy as they do. In no way are one’s sexual conduct and inclinations or gender dysphoria equivalent to skin color. Suggesting or implying as much diminishes the hard-fought gains of that movement. While the scientific evidence shows that “sexual orientation” is quite fluid and that...

WASHINGTON - The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package now making its way through the U.S. Congress would provide $350 billion to help pandemic-hit state and local governments balance their budgets, more than twice the amount lawmakers approved last year. But not every state comes out ahead: urban, Democratic-led states like Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts that took drastic steps to stop the coronavirus’ spread would get about three times as much money per person as they did in the package passed at the beginning of the health crisis in March. Rural, Republican-led states including Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Micah 7:14Prayer and Praise 14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands.[a] Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) Micah also speaks of the Ingathering of the Sheep.New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

The number of lives ended in abortion by Planned Parenthood is staggering. But even one would be too many.Planned Parenthood quietly released its most recent annual report last week for the fiscal year 2019–2020. The document highlighted the hurdles the nation’s largest abortion provider has faced, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Trump administration. And yet, business is booming. Planned Parenthood counted 354,871 abortions for the year 2019–2020 – the highest number ever recorded, according to data tracked by pro-life groups.The aborted unborn are numbers to Planned Parenthood. They should be names.Combining abortion numbers from years past published by pro-life...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3937254/posts An article discussing the future of bio weapons, as inspired by the Coronavirus. Not really related to my immediate concern, personal liberty, but interesting reading nonetheless. - https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/North-Dakota-House-OKs-bill-to-prohibit-mandatory-15970172.php Two days ago - North Dakota passes a bill banning mask mandates. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-cases-deaths-rise-in-north-dakota/ar-BB1dRxSN Three days ago - the brave warriors in the MSM fought hard to prevent the law from passing. Many articles about how North Dakota cases and deaths are rising. Is this a deadly third wave?

Screenshot from Youtube video of hearing, cropped, scaled and yellow text added by Dean Weingarten. On 11 February 2021, there was a bond hearing for Kyle Rittenhouse, conducted on Zoom, over the Internet, by Judge Bruce E. Schroeder.The hearing was requested by the District Attorney Office, represented by DA Thomas Binger.Those opposing Kyle Rittenhouse had characterized Kyle as dangerous and a white supremacist. There has not been any evidence presented to support this claim, other than claiming the OK hand sign is used by white supremacists. DA Binger appeared to be echoing those claims.The hearing did not go well for...

Weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth at BBC headquarters. It took exactly a month: from January 16 to February 16. On that date in mid-February, the BCC did the unthinkable: it admitted it had been wrong. It was on Shaun Ley’s BBC show on January 16, when he accused the journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti of being wrong in insisting that Israel had no duty – according to the Oslo Accords — to inoculate the Palestinians with the coronavirus vaccine. What should have been checked on right away – it would have taken no more than a few minutes to do a...

Last month, President Biden signed a series of executive orders undermining fossil fuels, on the grounds the “climate crisis” forced his hand. “We can’t wait any longer. We see with our own eyes. We know it in our bones. It is time to act.” Within days, most of the country was seeing “with our own eyes” and feeling “in our bones” a cold wave so severe that five million people lost electricity and, in a special irony, nearly half of the ballyhooed wind turbines in Texas, which had risen to supply 23% of her energy, were left frozen (and inoperable)....

The Democrats had a lousy week. It began with former President Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate.Trump’s acquittal was a major blow to the Democrats. It isn’t that anyone believed Trump would be convicted. Whether Republicans love or hate the former president, the fact is that it is unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a former officeholder. And for that reason alone, there was no chance that more than a smattering of Republicans would support the move. But once the farcical trial ended, public focus moved to the Democrats—who now control both houses of Congress and the White House....

Governor Ron DeSantis has directed flags to be flown at half staff Wednesday to honor Rush Limbaugh at three buildings in Palm Beach, West Palm and Tallahassee. The order says the flags of the United States and the State of Florida will be flown at half-staff at the Palm Beach County Courthouse in West Palm Beach, the City Hall of Palm Beach and the State Capitol in Tallahassee... Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay tweeted on Tuesday that the courthouse flag would not be lowered....

VIDEOWe sent people to Vegas and Detroit to match voter registrations to actual addresses. You’ll be SHOCKED to find out how many were fraudulent. We also recap the Merrick Garland hearings from Monday. And which congresspeople are looking to have conservative media taken off the air?

Video Famed supermodel Chrissy Teigen was given an extra special honour last month after she got a follow back on Twitter by US President Joe Biden. While she may have been excited initially, it looks like the fashion icon soon started regretting her big feat as she became conscious of what she posted following the big achievement. Taking to her official Twitter on Tuesday, Teigen wrote: “I have tweeted a handful of times since my treasured @POTUS following. “In order for me to flourish as me, I must ask you to please lord unfollow me. I love you!!! It’s not...

Some residents of Marin County are misusing access codes intended for people living in Black and Latino communities to book vaccine appointments at the Oakland Coliseum through the state's vaccine scheduling system My Turn, SFGATE has learned. The codes are part of a California program to remedy inequities in vaccine distribution and provided to community organizations to distribute to vulnerable communities for vaccine appointments. Residents of other Bay Area counties could also be misusing these codes, but the instances SFGATE learned of were specifically in Marin. "We have set aside a number of vaccines a day for local community organizations...

The seeds of sound-money destruction were sown at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, which established that US dollars could be held as central bank reserves and were redeemable for gold by the US Treasury at thirty-five dollars an ounce. This was the so-called gold exchange standard, but only foreign central banks and some multinational organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), enjoyed this right of redemption. The system depended upon the solemn promise by the US that it would refrain from issuing unbacked dollars. The watershed event that ushered in a new malignant, pure fiat money era occurred on...

The issue of reparations to Black Americans as payment for damage done as a result of years of legal slavery and subsequent discrimination is back on the table. The House Judiciary Committee just held hearings on H.R. 40, which would establish a commission to look into ways in which African Americans could be compensated, including possible payments of trillions of dollars to individuals. The commission would examine the role of government in supporting the institution of slavery, "discrimination in the public and private sectors against freed African slaves and their descendants" and "lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery...

University of Washington students pushing for the removal of the campus' George Washington statue is one of many instances of college students targeting the United States' founding father, Campus Reform correspondent Justin Brascher said on Tuesday. "This is just another further example of how we as a society cannot seem to separate the good that somebody has done from the evil. This particular petition was brought forth by one of the student unions on campus and has actually been adopted by the school newspaper," Brascher told "Fox & Friends." Brascher said that the school newspaper "is calling for the removal...