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Today’s everything bubble has been inflated by the extraordinarily low-interest rates produced by the massive amount of central bank money printing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. This raises the question as to what happens when the pleasant easy money music stops and interest rates start to rise. Past experience would suggest that when that happens, bubbles will start bursting and the emerging market economies will run into serious trouble as money is repatriated to the United States. A basic problem with the Biden $1.9 trillion budget stimulus package is that it risks creating precisely such a scenario of rising...

Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria need to get ready in case there is an intifada after the Palestinian elections and the IDF is unable to protect them because of the ICC by Ezequiel Doiny On February 7, 2021 AP reported "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ call for elections has thrown his political future into peril, forcing him to negotiate competing demands to engage with a friendlier U.S. administration, mend the rift with his militant Hamas rivals and keep his unruly Fatah movement from breaking apart. The presidential decree issued last month, calling for what would be the first Palestinian elections...

The Many Ways Biden Has Kicked Culture Wars Into OverdriveThe Washington Post on March 7 published a column in which E.J. Dionne Jr. contended that President Joe Biden is “rolling back the politics of culture wars.”If you’ve read even a fraction of Biden’s executive orders, memoranda, and proclamations, Dionne’s assertion will strike you as bizarrely divorced from reality.If you expected Dionne, a Georgetown professor and Brookings Institution fellow, to address Biden’s unilateral actions and explain how they do not, in fact, advance the culture wars, you would be disappointed.Dionne doesn’t mention a single one. So, let’s go through them all...

Throw billions of dollars at school districts in California, and what do you expect?A group called Reopen California Schools got access to online memos from teachers’ unions in California and discovered that in some districts, enriching their members weighs heavier on their priorities than, say, PPE equipment or programs to help children recover from their prolonged absence from the classrooms. Here is what the teachers’ union in Dublin, CA, a well-to-do suburb east of San Francisco is discussing:CA school district (@DublinUSD) is paying its teachers $2,500 bonuses with state and federal aide money, even suggesting staff could use the money...

The California Department of Education has proposed an ethnic studies “model curriculum” that includes, among other things, chanting the names of Aztec gods in an attempt to build unity among schoolchildren.

While our military fights American civilians for exercising their constitutional rights, their effectiveness at their actual job is in question.As Chris Bedford pointed out Friday, it’s no surprise U.S. military brass released a fake outrage squirrel with Tucker’s Carlson’s name on it the day after a war games leak suggesting the United States would lose a fight with China over Taiwan. Noncommissioned officers marshaling military resources to wage an information operation against an American journalist over his opinions doesn’t just happen by accident.The operation also reveals that Carlson was right on the mark to target leftist identity politics as compromising...

Enjoy this brief period of relative stability while you can, because it won’t last. I have been sitting here searching for the right words for this article, and I hope that I can accurately convey the urgency of this hour to all of you. Following the election of Joe Biden, there appears to be a bubble of hope in the United States. Short-term economic conditions have stabilized a bit, the COVID pandemic seems to be subsiding, and many are hoping that life will “return to normal” this summer. But what most people do not understand is that the next chapters...

Cancellation has become so frequent that there’s a tendency to note the latest example perfunctorily and move on, hoping you’re not the next victim. Last week’s termination of Professor Sandra Sellers of Georgetown Law School bears more than a perfunctory mention. In what she thought was a private conversation with a fellow faculty member after a virtual class, Sellers said, after discussing the performance of a black student in her mediation class: You know what? I hate to say this, I end up having this angst every semester, that a lot of my lower ones are blacks. It happens almost...

Back in the early 1980’s professional boxing was an exciting thing to watch, and two of my all-time favorite fighters were Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard. If you liked not only hard-hitting but beautifully fought boxing matches, it didn’t get much better than these two boxers. This weekend, Marvelous Marvin Hagler was knocked down and out for the count, not from another boxer but from the COVID vaccine. If you’re paying attention, the list of adverse reactions from the COVID vaccine are in the hundreds of thousands while loss of hearing, loss of sight and loss of life...

Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced a bill Wednesday that seeks to cancel rent and mortgages nationwide through the duration of the coronavirus pandemic. The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act would allow for full payment forgiveness, with no accumulation of debt for renters or homeowners and no negative impact on their credit rating or rental history. "Right now, we are facing an unprecedented crisis that has led to millions of Americans at risk of housing instabilities and homelessness," Omar said during a press conference. The legislation, which would cancel rent until April 2022, would establish a relief fund for landlords and mortgage...

As first lady, Michelle Obama grew a vegetable garden at the White House to make children more curious about what they eat. These days, what she grows takes a more visible form. Obama produces (with her husband) and appears (with puppets) in the Netflix series “Waffles + Mochi,” part of the former first couple’s Higher Ground Prods. deal with the streamer. This is less lofty....

Senate Democrats cited a provision in the new stimulus bill to again call on Biden to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt through an executive order — despite the president previously stating that he would not do so. "Student loan debt is crushing millions of Americans," Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told reporters on Monday. "President Biden has an opportunity to fix that with the stroke of a pen. This bill helps pave the way to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt."

Researchers recently discovered that a magnetic pole reversal that took place 42,000 years ago coupled with massive solar flares devastated the planet. As the magnetic field begins to shift again, one Torah scholar/scientist suggested that the same phenomenon was predicted by the prophet Malachi as preceding the “Day of Hashem.” 42,000 YEARS AGO: MAGNETIC POLE SHIFT Researchers recently published a study showing that 42,000 years ago, a reversal in the Earth’s magnetic field combined with changes in the Sun’s behavior drastically changed the environment, leading to several centuries of apocalyptic conditions. And this magnetic shift is happening again at an...

Nope, He’s Naked! Our elite swindlers weave the invisible threads of compassion, justice, and moral superiority into our emperor’s administration, hoping people might believe the golden silk is there. In Hans Christian Anderson’s tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” swindlers come to town to make the emperor clothing that only smart and competent people can actually see. They tell his subjects that if they are stupid or ignorant, they will be unable to see the beautiful and expensive clothing the emperor wears. Regular people in the town flood the streets to see the parade with the emperor in his lovely new...

A San Luis Obispo County jury convicted 37-year-old Lucion Lee Edward Banks for human trafficking a 14-year-old girl in San Luis Obispo.

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The recently enacted Covid-19 relief law and other bills wending their way through Congress openly favor members of certain races or ethnic categories. It’s hard to see how any of this legislation—all part of the Biden-Harris administration’s new focus on racial “equity” at the expense of equality—passes constitutional muster. That doesn’t mean that the courts will strike them down. We have today a new, unwritten constitution—a hodgepodge of executive orders, court decisions, legislation, and conventions. Of course, we already have a written Constitution, drafted in 1787 and amended since. The cognitive dissonance of living under these two constitutional regimes is...

The Washington Post anonymously printed fabricated quotes, attributed them to a sitting president, and used those quotes as a basis to speculate the president committed a crime.On Jan. 9, The Washington Post published a bombshell report about what President Trump reportedly said on a phone call to the Georgia elections investigator. The headline was “‘Find the fraud’: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction.”A few days ago, on March 11, the Post quietly changed the headline and added this correction to the top of the story:Correction: Two months after publication...

Capitol Investigation Seeks to Criminalize Political DissentThe government's response to the January 6 melee isn’t about justice. It’s about partisan retribution and revenge. And the consequences will be disastrous.In the early hours of March 12, FBI agents in southwestern Florida barricaded a neighborhood to prepare to raid the home of one resident. Christopher Worrell of Cape Coral was arrested and charged with several counts related to the January 6 Capitol melee. Even though Worrell had been cooperating with the FBI for two months, the agency nonetheless unleashed a massive, and no doubt costly, display of force to take him into...

People on the terrorist watch list have been stopped trying to cross the border as part of the latest surge of migrants, congressional Republicans revealed during a trip to the border Monday, as reported by Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer on The Washington Times. Agents reported having caught migrants from Yemen, Iran, and Sri Lanka amid the much larger numbers of Haitians, Central Americans and others.