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What happened on January 6, 2021 was part of a well prepared contingency plan to disrupt President Trump’s chances of contesting the election results riddled with accusations of fraud. Please support Millie Weaver and Independent journalism! visit her website and please donate if you can! and watch many of her other outstanding investigative pieces! https://www.millennialmillie.com/

An education student at a university in New York was suspended after his Instagram posts were brought to the attention of the school’s administration. The school says education students have to abide by the rules of their profession, which include “protecting the mental and emotional well-being of all students.” In one of the posts, Owen Stevens, a student at the State University of New York-Geneseo (SUNY-Geneseo), said “A man is a man, a woman is a woman. A man is not a woman and a woman is not a man.” Some of his peers did not agree with his stance...

Warren Buffett’s famed stock portfolio has grown to a market value of $281.17 billion at the end of 2020, with a cumulative actual price for the entire portfolio of $108.62 billion. Last year, Berkshire earned $4.9 billion in realized capital gains and $26.7 billion in net unrealized gains from its stock holdings. In Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) shareholders, the renowned stock picker shared the 15 common stocks that had the largest market value at the end of 2020. Berkshire owns large stakes in companies like AbbVie (ABBV), American Express (AXP), Apple (AAPL), Bank of America (BAC),...

Once again, another incident took place involving Jews on an airplane and mask compliance. The latest incident occurred on Sunday evening, on Frontier Airline flight F9 2878 from Miami International to La Guardia Airport. An eye-witness tells YWN that the flight attendants made an issue over a 15-month old toddler that was not wearing a mask, despite airline regulations that clearly state that “Face coverings are not required for children under the age of 2.” Image below: Fly Frontier’s own website says that children under the age of 2 don’t need masks. But even if this was an incident of...

Evanston, Illinois, is like a lot of American cities. The city just north of Chicago appears picturesque, updated and grand on one side -- but not far away, one can see the signs of economic and racial segregation, despite the city's proud, diverse and liberal reputation. What sets Evanston apart from other cities, however, is its groundbreaking plan to address the impact of that segregation and Black disenfranchisement: reparations. The impetus for the city's reparations resolution, first passed in 2019 and spearheaded by 5th Ward Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, is rooted partially in Rue Simmons' experience growing up Black in...

Former President Barack Obama believes reparations are “justified” and suggests one of the reasons he couldn’t get it through during his tenure was due to “white resentment.” Obama made the racially divisive remarks during a podcast with musician Bruce Springsteen. ... “There’s not much question that the wealth of this country, the power of this country was built in significant part, not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it, but a large portion of it was built on the backs of slaves,” he added.

You cannot look at Rand Paul’s interrogation of Rachel/Richard, whatever, whomever Levine and expect to ever be cojoined in political union with certain others. That is not possible. If on the one hand, you think he/she (Levine) is in his/her right mind then the other side cannot accept you as being in your right mind. Or if there is some “rightness” in the mind of someone who thinks he/she is also right-minded then the only other possibility is that of political mendacity. That of course has only one focus—monetary gain through some measure—political power, votes, etc. One may skirt around...

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough attacked CPAC by trashing what he saw as false populism. He repeatedly ripped President Trump, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Tom Cotton for criticizing elitism while being elitist Ivy League alums themselves. Scarborough also repeatedly mentioning that he hadn't gone to an Ivy school. Boasting of his matriculation at the University of Alabama, he worked in several "Roll Tides." But Scarborough got in some snobbery of his own, twice letting it be known that he's had Ivy Leaguers working for him since he was "23, 24." So who's the elitist now? Get the rest...

At least three times during CPAC, the excellent coverage from Right Side Broadcasting Network was interrupted by disclaimers, breaking away from speeches, and even muting of interviewees. This wasn’t due to them not believing in the message. They self-censored because two topics that are taboo on Big Tech, YouTube in particular, were being discussed.Before we detail what all went down, let’s be clear about something. I do not blame RSBN for doing what they did. This is a growing business that many people depend on. It’s not just the excellent livestreaming coverage of events pertinent to conservatives, but also families...

In a repeat of a Valentine’s Day protest, a group of anti-maskers with picket signs congregated outside of a Trader Joe’s in Santa Cruz to protest the city’s mask mandate. Unlike the organization’s earlier February demonstration, in which they stormed into the grocery store and took food from the shelves — while leaving cash at registers for cashiers who refused to serve them — this protest took place almost exclusively outside. This go-around, a line of Trader Joe’s employees guarded the entrances — prohibiting entry for the group of protesters while letting masked customers enter. Sunday, in fact, was allegedly...

Sen. Ron Johnson was one of the first senators to suspect the riot had been planned. In a Federalist article, I identified four groups that appeared to have planned for violence in advance.“Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams famously said as the lawyer defending the British soldiers involved in the 1770 Boston Massacre, “and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”More than 250 years later, The Federalist provided an eyewitness account of events outside the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol. From the Washington Post...

Judging by media and public displays, one might assume the KKK recently washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area. A tragedy occurred last month when Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old immigrant from Thailand, was fatally assaulted in San Francisco. A rally among wokesters followed, with calls to “unite against white nationalism.” While it’s great to call out violence and racism, “my truth” does not count; facts still matter. Antoine Watson, the 19-year-old charged with murdering Ratanapakdee, is black. Watson therefore probably is not a white supremacist. And most suspects in recent troubling attacks against Asian Americans are from other minority...

Sarah was beautiful with a disarming smile that frightened her enemies. She took on the 'good ol boy's'. She had to quit as the establishment was not ready for her. 5 kids are a handful. Noem is just as beautiful but more serious. She's careful not to copy Sarah's smile. She doesn't have as much to take on in SD and we're in danger of falling head over heels about her. Her enemies will be waiting with their carving knives. Don't be naive.

You cannot make this up. Actually, nothing is shocking anymore. What if I were to tell you that a teachers’ union president quarterbacked an effort to keep schools closed, but then was caught dropping his daughter off at an in-person preschool? You’re probably not shocked. We have a class of people who think the rules don’t apply to them. It has infested the political class. It reeks of it on the Hill. And public-sector unions are no different. It should make parents’ blood boil (via KQED):Parent groups are crying "hypocrisy" after a video surfaced showing the president of the Berkeley...

Hysterical - watch as confused Slow Joe Biden makes a long passionate speech about how important it is to wear a mask - then leaves without a mask and mingles with people without a mask!

A federal appeals court delivered a victory for voter ID supporters in North Carolina Wednesday, reversing a lower court’s decision that blocked the state’s 2018 voter ID law because of racial bias. The appeals court said a federal judge was wrong to block the ID requirement last year, arguing the judge improperly used past examples of discrimination by the state legislature to conclude the ID law was unfair. “A legislature’s past acts do not condemn the acts of a later legislature, which we must presume acts in good faith,” the unanimous ruling stated. This decision doesn’t ensure North Carolinians will...

VIDEOPresident Donald Trump's speech to CPAC was in reality this year's State Of The Union Address since Joe Biden appears to be both too incoherent and incompetent to deliver one. As expected, the mainstream media unleashed its full fury upon President Trump. I look upon all these media attacks on President Trump as a good thing because it only highlights how much of an insignificant potted plant that Biden aka Mr. Cellophane is becoming.

I write this with a heavy heart, as heavy as yours may already be from the revelations of Ravi Zacharias’ hidden life. If you hadn’t heard of him, Zacharias was considered one of this era’s greatest Christian apologists. If you haven’t heard the news, an independent investigation found he had systematically groomed vulnerable women over many years, plying them with attention and gifts, obligating them to return sexual favors, threatening them should they ever tell. I interviewed Zacharias once. He was brilliant, charming, winsome. And yet he was living a lie. The Victims of Ravi ZachariasWe’re starting to lose count...

OSLO - Some 329 nominations have been received for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, likely reflecting the profusion of pressing human rights issues around the world, the secretary of the committee which awards the prize said on Monday. Russia’s Alexei Navalny, the World Health Organization and Sweden’s Greta Thunberg are among those nominated for this year’s award. The COVAX programme to secure fair access to COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries is also named, as is U.S. rights activist Stacey Abrams and Belarusian dissidents Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Maria Kolesnikova and Veronika Tsepkalo. Reporters without Borders, the International Fact-Checking Network and the Committee...