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The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows were so caught up in the euphoria of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that they ignored Democrats had snuck tax hikes into the legislation. Politico released an eye-opening story March 10 headlined, “A $60 billion surprise in the Covid relief bill: Tax hikes.” The Politico story was released the same day that Congress passed the $1.9 trillion bill before sending it to Biden’s desk. “[Democrats] tucked a trio of little-noticed tax hikes on the wealthy and big corporations into their coronavirus relief package that together are worth $60 billion,” Politico...

The Seventh Circuit’s decision in Planned Parenthood v. Box II is wrong, but also providential because it provides a perfect vehicle for the Supreme Court to revisit its abortion jurisprudence.On Friday in a split 2-1 decision, a federal appellate court declared unconstitutional Indiana’s parental notification law for minors seeking abortions. The Seventh Circuit’s majority decision in Planned Parenthood v. Box II is wrong, but also providential because it provides a perfect vehicle for the Supreme Court to revisit its abortion jurisprudence. At issue in Box II—named after Kristina Box, the commissioner of Indiana’s Department of Health—was a 2017 amendment to...

Before Covid upended everything, the US president upended relations with Beijing – without interest or ability to build anew Lloyd Green Sun 14 Mar 2021 06.00 GMT 84 Covid-19 has left more than 530,000 Americans dead and China’s standing with the US at a historic low. Only Iran and North Korea fare worse. US opinion is no outlier. China’s reputation has taken a beating in Australia, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany. Images of tanks rolling through Tiananmen Square in summer 1989 have been supplanted by Beijing stonewalling on the origins of the plague. Lucky review: how Biden beat...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk poked fun at woke culture Saturday, tweeting about a "new game" called "Woketopia.""Battle for the Moral High Ground in this new game!" he wrote.It's unclear what prompted the tweet, but Musk has faced criticism over his questioning of the COVID-19 vaccine this weekend and newly released documents showing the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif., saw hundreds of coronavirus cases after he reopened it in defiance of a local shutdown order.

Despite growing use of fossil fuels in many African countries due to development and economic growth, there has been a small but unexpected decrease in air pollution over some parts of the continent in recent years. According to new research, the change is most evident during the dry season in areas where grassland fires traditionally occur. The small seasonal decrease may not be enough to offset increasing human-caused air pollution in the long term, but it does show an interesting shift in the region. Researchers from the U.S., France, and Cote d’Ivoire analyzed satellite observations of air pollution from 2005...

The absurd charge that Donald Trump was racist in naming the cause of the current pandemic the “China virus” is once more being heard as unprovoked attacks on Asians are being blamed on him. Despite the fact that most of those attacks for which surveillance video is available seem to be the product of African Americans, a group whose support for Trump is among the lowest of all demographic slices of the public. But a friend of mine pointed out that the media are perfectly fine with naming the new variants of the virus – about which we are supposed...

God had blessed and prospered Israel, giving them houses they had not built and vineyards they had not planted. He had raised up godly men to speak as prophets and given the people clear words of direction. For years the people had proven God faithful, listening to His counsel and never turning to the flesh. Whenever God spoke to them, they obeyed, and they were miraculously delivered from powerful enemies. But an apostasy had come over Israel and the Lord accused them of being guilty of wickedness. The prophet Hosea describes the terrible harvest reaped by those who reject God’s...

WASHINGTON – White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci warned state leaders on Sunday that the nation’s battle with the coronavirus is still “not in the end zone,” and urged Americans to adhere to public health measures as Europeans experience new infection spikes. “When I hear pulling back completely on public health measures, saying no more masks, no nothing like that, that is risky business,” Fauci said during an interview with “Meet the Press.”

The federal government just used its publicly employed career professionals to target a working journalist for professional destruction.After a cable news host irresponsibly attacked the U.S. military for aiding in the “death of the republic” by taking to the streets of the U.S. capital for use against the American people, the coordinated response from the Department of Defense through its public affairs channels was swift and unforgiving.The headline in the Defense.gov news article said it all: “Press Spokesman Destroys Host for Despicable Suggestion about US Military Use.” This was a response to an MSNBC cable show host using her show...

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

“Walk . . . with all humility” (Ephesians 4-1-2). Our possessions and positions in life are from God; we can’t take credit for them. Many today take pride in their economic status. They boast about their riches and trust their money, thinking they must be great for acquiring all they have. But remember what Moses said to the Israelites before they entered the Promised Land: “You may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’ But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, March 14. FORT SUMPTER. The Cabinet held a Special Session this morning. It was understood to be relative to Fort Sumpter. Army officers expect the Sumpter garrison here next week. THE COMMISSIONERS FROM THE SOUTH. Mr. FORSYTH, of the Southern Commission, is recovering from his illness. Messrs. CRAWFORD and FORSYTH have communicated with the President through Mr. SEWARD, seeking to obtain an audience. They have been informed that Mr. LINCOLN and his Cabinet were not now prepared to receive them. When he will do so is not known. Mr. CRAWFORD says he is willing to wait until the...

"This gap is right south of my house so all of this stuff is coming right by my house and my family is exposed to it on a daily basis," cattle rancher Russell Johnson said The influx of illegal immigration in the first month of the Biden presidency, coupled with the end of construction on the U.S.-Mexico border wall, is leaving a New Mexico cattle rancher feeling "terrorized," he said Saturday night. During the Trump administration, part of the border wall was built along rancher Russell Johnson’s property, but after President Biden halted the project, a three-quarters-of-a-mile hole was left...

The readings from Sunday Mass speak to us of our desperate condition and how God’s abiding love has not only set us free but has lifted us higher as well. God was not content to restore us to some earthly garden, paradise though it was. No, He so loved the world that He sent His Son, who opened Heaven itself for us and has given us a new, transformed, and eternal life.Let’s look at some of the themes and ponder how God demonstrates His ardent love for us and persistently works to lift us higher. If there are any...

Mark Levin is brilliant at stripping away everything and laying bare the truth. Leave it to Mark Levin to deliver an honest assessment of what’s REALLY happening in DC and in the Biden administration during his latest ‘Life, Liberty & Levin’. He calls out radical Democrats for pushing through everything on their wish list as fast as possible without trying to be bipartisan. For the radical left…the end justifies the means. The end is not good for freedom-loving Americans. According to Levin, Democrats are ramming through “the most aggressive, radical agenda in American history…” and they’re using Kamala Harris to...

65 Year Old Woman Tackled, Arrested For Refusing To Mask A Day After Abbott Lifted Mandate The mask mandate was lifted statewide on March 10, but the very next day a 65-year old woman was tackled to the ground by police after being told by a Galveston Bank of America branch to mask up. She later recounted in an interview with FOX Houston that she was there to close her account, and that she couldn’t enter the drive-thru. “Ma’am you have to leave…,” the bank staff told her upon entering. “I just want to close my account, I’m gonna get...

President Biden is reportedly planning the first major hike in federal taxes in almost 30 years to fund the economic program set to follow the recently approved $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package. Unidentified sources told Bloomberg that the increases will reflect the promises Biden made during his 2020 campaign. The planned increases reportedly include: raising the corporate tax from 21 percent to 28 percent; increasing the income tax rate on people making more than $400,000; expanding the estate tax; paring back tax preferences on pass-through businesses such as limited-liability companies; and setting up a higher capital gains tax rate for...

Democrats want to use stimulus money to make you into the people populating Disney's cartoon 'Wall-E.' Instead, turn it into a weapon for antifragility.Democrats’ fifth round of “coronavirus” “stimulus” will soon hand another $1,400 in government debt, plus interest, to every American man, woman, and child in 90 percent of U.S. households. It’s clear this is yet another round of hush money meant to keep Americans quiet and distracted while Democrats restructure the United States into a larger version of their failed uniparty state, California.While COVID times have been obviously worse than the four years of prosperity and freedom under...

Minnesota’s Muslim African-American Attorney General Keith Ellison did not charge Officer Derek Chauvin with a hate crime or even with intentionally murdering Floyd. So far, the most interesting aspect of the trial of police officer Derek Chauvin are the crimes for which he has not been charged. Chauvin has been vilified for his role in the arrest-related-death of a man resisting arrest. Despite almost a year of riots, ranting and raving by cable news, and even condemnations by supposedly law-and-order radio talk show hosts, Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is not being charged with the intentional murder of George...

Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn joined Pete Santilli this past weekend to discuss the outcome of the 2020 elections. General Flynn spent thirty-three years as an intelligence officer and was just named National Security Adviser by President-elect Donald Trump. General Flynn served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Senior Military Intelligence Officer in the Department of Defense. Pete Santilli: You were one of his greatest weapons. If you had not been messed with and you were with President Trump would November 3rd resulted in something completely different than it did? General Flynn: I believe it would...