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You’ve probably seen the poll about the top concerns of GOP voters and Democratic voters; it’s been all over conservative media. The top three concerns of Republican voters are: Donald Trump’s votersWhite nationalismSystemic racismHey! Can you spell H-A-T-E? Initially, I was as outraged as you about the hatey-hate Democratic voters. But then I realized that it all made sense.Put it this way: if the ordinary middle-class voters ever get to elect a President and a Congress with cojones all round, what is that testosterone-fueled government going to do? It is going to take money away from white gentry liberals and...

When the headline gives away the narrative. – There’s bias, and then there’s BIAS, and CBS puts the full all-caps deal into this piece, which was obviously handed to the fake journalist who wrote it by some activist at the Sierra Club or NRDC. Check out the headline: Here’s an excerpt from this piece of journalistic malpractice: Paris — Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose slightly in December compared with the same month of 2019, indicating the sharp drop seen due to the pandemic was short-lived. Figures released Tuesday by the International Energy Agency show emissions from the production and...

Calls for a boycott of Goya beans, chickpeas and other foodstuffs have grown louder after the company’s CEO, Robert Unanue, made a series of false claims about the presidential election in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida on Sunday. Trump grasps for relevance in first post-presidential speech at CPAC Read more On Monday, the Hispanic Federation, a non-profit organization headquartered in New York, released a statement signed by leaders of a dozen Latino advocacy groups. Unanue was “entitled to support the candidate of his choosing”, it said. “What he most clearly should not be entitled...

While Trump has clearly cemented a dominant position in the GOP, he hasn’t explicitly said whether he plans to take a crack at running for a non-consecutive term. Experts, however, say that waiting to announce a 2024 bid could be the best thing for his candidacy. “He has a lot to gain by waiting. He keeps his potential opponents off guard,” Ken Kollman, a political science professor at the University of Michigan, said. “Cruz, for instance, would not be able to go full force to run for president until he knows what Trump will do. Same with Hawley, Graham, Noem...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Wednesday that his party has assembled a group of 600 lawyers and thousands of other people to prepare for possible “chicanery” ahead of November’s election. “We put together 600 lawyers and a group of people throughout the country who are going into every single state to try to figure out whether chicanery is likely to take place,” Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said on a video conference with donors to his campaign. “We have over 10,000 people signed up to volunteer. We’re in the process of getting into the states in question to...

Leftist Genius Update: Re-funding the de-funding of the police. – How bad an idea is the BLM/Antifa/Democrat mantra to “defund the police?” It’s such a bad idea that even the cretins who infest the city council in Minneapolis are regretting it now. Yes, folks: The nitwits who voted to defund that city’s police department last July are now going to spend millions of dollars to hire a bunch of police officers back after violent crime rates very predictably skyrocketed in the wake of their idiotic policy choice.

It’s just the flu, bro. Experts are concerned about the following things (this is a partial list): https://www.cbsnews.com/video/coronavirus-transmission-humans-animals-covid-pandemic-david-quammen-analysis/ Unchecked spreading of the Coronavirus to animals. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/health-experts-concerned-about-increasingly-drug-resistant-germs-amid-pandemic/ar-BB1d9hMF Emergence of drug resistant germs appearing during the pandemic. https://www.coastreporter.net/coronavirus-covid-19-national-news/this-isnt-a-wave-its-a-forest-fire-experts-predict-rise-of-covid-variant-cases-3467031 Rise of Covid variants - “this isn’t a wave it’s a forest fire”. https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-warns-that-all-recent-covid-19-gains-can-vanish-due-to-new-variants CDC: new variants can erase our gains against Covid-19. I like it when experts spout off with their opinions and what they are very concerned about. I just don’t like it when politicians throw away liberty and the principles of our founding - all based on the whims of self-interested...

Biden's lifting the sanctions on Iran will not lift the Iranian people out of poverty. It's corruption, not sanctions, that keeps them down. Even if all international sanctions and any other economic barriers are lifted and Iran can export the 2.3 million barrels per day outlined in its 2021 budget, it will still have economic challenges. That’s because the mullahs have let all production other than oil waste away. Iran’s economic problems are internal and structural, resulting from institutionalized corruption and bribery that have destroyed the country from within. Iranian officials blame international sanctions for Iran’s economic problems and the...

Thursday, in its first military action, the Biden Pentagon sent two U.S. F-15Es to strike targets of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia just inside the eastern border of Syria. The U.S. strikes were in retaliation for a missile attack on a U.S. base in Irbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, which killed a contractor and wounded a U.S. soldier. "We're confident that the target was being used by the same Shia militia that conducted the strikes," said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. But Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine and Chris Murphy want to know where President Joe Biden got his authority to...

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Imagine if you had a job. A good job, one that required skill and critical thinking and had a broad impact in the community where you lived. A job you didn't just show up to do. It was a job you were good at, and because of it, you were able to provide a roof over your family's head, put your children through college or help pay for their wedding, and once a year, it gave you the ability to carve out a week or two to take the family on vacation. Now imagine that job becomes the center of...

The University of Alabama is planning on playing its football season in the fall with a full 100,000 capacity stadium, the school’s Athletic Director announced Monday. Greg Byrne made the declaration on his personal Twitter account. “With this announcement, we've received a number of questions regarding capacity at Bryant-Denny for @AlabamaFTBL in 2021,” Byrne wrote. “We are moving forward with plans to have a full stadium in the fall and will monitor medical guidelines as we have all along. #RollTide.” Alabama’s 92-year-old Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa – which has been expanded nine times (Coach Saban donated $1 million) including most...

The great tragedy of our time is that liberals vote left. Virtually every value liberals have held for a century is now held by conservatives and scorned by leftists. Therefore, America, in serious jeopardy of being lost, will be saved when people convince the liberals in their life that the left, not the conservative, is their enemy. This process begins by establishing whether a friend or relative is a liberal or a leftist. If it turns out that he or she is a liberal, it is worth engaging in respectful dialogue on the issues of the day. If the friend...

The New York Times (NYT), based on analysis by a private intelligence firm Recorded Future, reported on February 28 that as the China-India tensions in eastern Ladakh continued unabated last year, a Chinese entity penetrated India’s power grid at multiple load dispatch points. It also raises the possibility that an October 13 blackout in India’s financial capital Mumbai, while the city managed to contain COVID-19 outbreak, could be related to this intrusion. The NYT story (and the report it was based on) seems to suggest that the alleged activity against critical Indian infrastructure installations was as much meant to act...

CPAC 2021 is over, and once again it showed how the party is no longer of the Romney-Ryan mold. Guys, it’s not your party anymore. Even Nikki Haley who is flip-flopping all over the place with regards to Trump, the GOP, and the future, admits those days are done. There will always be questions about election integrity during the 2020 election, but the facts are that Trump won the most votes of any incumbent president in history. Not a single House Republican lost his or her re-election. The Senate is split 50-50. And the Trump flavor did not sink the...

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I just put myself through something I don’t recommend to anyone: I watched the Golden Globes. I don’t recommend it, especially if you’re prone to eye rolling or vomiting which have been known to be exacerbated by prolonged exposure to self-righteous Hollywood leftists, but I am a trained professional so, with Visine and a bucket at the ready, I was able to survive it to tell my tale. And the only takeaway from the night is the fact that liberals are awful people who hate themselves, each other, and the country. Right from the start it was clear this was...

They never wanted him to be the nominee. They tolerated him as president. They cheered (some quietly) when he lost. Now they want him to go away. But he won't. Why should he? At CPAC yesterday, Donald Trump reaffirmed what many of us already knew. This is his Republican Party. That’s not to say he has any sway with lawmakers currently on Capitol Hill or the RNC itself. But he still holds the hearts and minds of a majority of Republican voters. Conservatives and populists generally love him. The moderates and neocons who support the Republican Establishment do not. With...

Volvo says it will make only electric vehicles by 2030. But if you want one, you’ll have to buy it online. The Swedish automaker said Tuesday that it is phasing out the production of all cars with internal combustion engines — including hybrids. “There is no long-term future for cars with an internal combustion engine,” said Henrik Green, Volvo’s chief technology officer. Volvo’s announcement follows General Motors’ pledge earlier this year to make only battery-powered vehicles by 2035.

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