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First-time claims for unemployment insurance were expected to total 735,000 for the week ended March 20, according to economists surveyed by Dow Jones. This is breaking news. Please check back here for updates.

How do we effectively fight to restore private property, and our freedom of movement in America? Most think that just getting a president elected is the answer, but what if we lose that race? Or, what if we win the Presidency but lose the House of Representatives and the Senate? What chance do we then have to make any progress in protecting liberty? We have to live in the days after an election. We have to make our way forward in our lives. So, do we simply surrender and accept our fate? Or do we create a new path to...

A senior Customs and Border Protection leader provided Breitbart with developments in the number of migrants escaping apprehension. The source, speaking on a condition of anonymity, expressed frustration at the misplacement of Border Patrol resources in the southwest. According to the source, nearly 900 migrants per day eluded apprehension nationwide over the last two weeks. in March, got-away totals for fiscal year 2021 surpassed 118,000 thousand for Fiscal Year 2021. A source now reports the total exceeds 130,000. The metric is usually not released by DHS. It is achieved by counting illegal immigrants who ultimately escape Border Patrol apprehension after...

Various entities are doing all they can to entice Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine. It's a little weird. Close your eyes and think back to a time in which you, your kids, or any other loved one received a vaccine. Chances are, the event wasn't treated as if it was some grandiose event. No, the vaccine was simply administered, and you moved on to other things. That nonchalant, non-celebratory attitude toward vaccines was an almost universally accepted outlook for decades. However, in 2021, a new precedent seems to have been set. Indeed, with the arrival and widespread distribution of...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://twitter.com/dakotadnl/status/1374729777588760577?s=21 An amusing Coronavirus image above. - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-coronavirus-variants-dont-seem-to-be-highly-variable-so-far/ An “expert” downplays the coronavirus mutations. These kinds of experts exist but they just aren’t represented in the media very often and they probably don’t get as many government grants. As stated in previous threads, the philosophers who influenced our founding/constitution trump scientists. We should not take away freedoms because a scientist says it’s a good idea.

Washington - More than two months after the attack on the Capitol, security fencing around the perimeter of the complex has been taken down, U.S. Capitol Police announced on Wednesday. A layer of inner fencing around the Capitol building itself remains in place. "All of the fencing that surrounded the outer perimeter of the U.S. Capitol Complex has been removed. Affected roads have reopened. The USCP is ready to quickly ramp up security at a moment's notice, if needed," U.S. Capitol Police said on Twitter. "The inner perimeter fence, around the Capitol Building, is still in place, while the Department...

Interesting that Reuters would outline the walk-backs. Even more interesting that the details of the walk-backs seem to prove the DOJ never actually intended to win any of these cases, but rather wanted to advance a political narrative about extremists through their earlier statements.The process of the charges then becomes the punishment by design. The targets are drained financially, sometimes physically detained under false pretense, and then the DOJ walks backwards when the judges finally ask for proof. The process is the punishment for political affiliation. The DOJ is fully weaponized. The majority of Americans can clearly see this taking...

Almost two and half months after the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, police in Washington have finally begun to dismantle the chain-link and metal barricades that had turned the cathedral of democracy around the globe into a standing prison more reminiscent of a dictatorship. My question is this: why has it taken so long? resident Joe Biden was inaugurated two months ago, and the threats that were posed prior to Jan. 20, 2021, are no longer present. The barricades have been a stain on the nation's capital, but they are finally going away, and I, for one, am...

Get ready for Biden's assault on the First Amendment. The Verge reports that Markey is now on a track to introduce new legislation that would re-implement net neutrality that “would engrave the no throttling, block, or paid fast lanes rules into law.” Should Markey’s new bill fail, his plan B is to stack the FCC with enough Democrats to take matters into their own hands. He explained to The Verge that “Once we have three Democrats in place at the Federal Communications Commission, I will strongly urge it to reverse the Trump FCC wrongheaded decision and restore net neutrality and...

Former President Donald Trump revealed what he wrote to President Joe Biden when he left office in January. “Basically I wished him luck and, you know, it was a couple of pages long and it was from the heart because I want to see him do well,” Trump said during a podcast interview on Monday with Lisa Boothe, describing the letter he left for Biden. The former commander-in-chief added: “I want him to do well, but that doesn’t include closing up the Keystone Pipeline, which by the way environmentally is much better than having [crude oil] on trains. But [Biden’s]...

There was a testy Twitter exchange last week between Bernie Sanders, the socialist Democratic U.S. senator from Vermont, and eccentric billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Sanders started by tweeting that Musk and Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos have more wealth than "the bottom 40% of people in this country," a fact Sanders chalked up to "greed" and characterized as "immoral." Musk replied and referenced his efforts to push the frontiers of space travel (with his company SpaceX), tweeting, "I am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary & extend the light of consciousness to the stars." Sanders' response was both...

It’s officially Throwback Thursday so let’s review: a year ago this week the world officially went into lockdown mode to “flatten the curve,” aka the longest two weeks in history. It didn’t matter, it never really mattered, the virus was going to do what viruses do regardless of governments’ orders. The charts and graphs bear this regrettable truth out over and over.Sweden (no lockdown) v United Kingdom (draconian lockdown)Florida (lifted lockdown/masks) v California (draconian lockdown/masks)And as for masks themselves, well, the “science” does not bear out their efficacy.So while the governments of the world enjoyed newly contrived powers and you...

The incomprehensible murders in Boulder, Colo., should be an inflection point. It should be a moment for communities to come together and support law enforcement as the investigation unfolds. The victims and their families deserve answers. Boulder deserves answers. America deserves answers.Instead, America is getting a rush to judgment. They’re getting vitriol over understanding. The worst part of it is nothing that is being lobbed at the American public is doing anything to improve public safety. America is being told that it is the fault of law-abiding citizens that a deranged individual would visit horrific violence in Boulder.resident Joe Biden...

This is a video presentation of commentator Grant Stinchfield of Newsmax. Grant covers the Boulder mass murder and Leftist commentators dissimulation and misdirection. It is worth watching, simply for the explanation that the left is not interested in facts. I have not found a transcript.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., was quick to dismiss a reporter's request that he wear a mask during a Senate presser on Wednesday. Cruz stepped up to the microphones, but was stopped before he could speak by the unidentified reporter asking, "Would you mind putting on a mask for us?" "Yeah, when I’m talking to the TV camera, I’m not going to wear a mask," Cruz responded. "All of us have been immunized, so..." "It’d make us feel better," the reporter is heard replying. "You’re welcome to step away if you’d like," Cruz said before chuckling. "The whole point of the...

Hagerty demands details on efforts to provide Tehran with sanctions relief A Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is demanding the Biden administration inform Congress about its efforts to negotiate a revamped nuclear deal with Iran, including details about any plans to provide Tehran with potentially billions of dollars in sanctions relief. Sen. Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.) wants the Biden administration to provide guarantees that it will consult with Congress before reentering the 2015 nuclear accord, which former president Donald Trump abandoned in 2018. The State Department has yet to provide lawmakers with an in-depth briefing about its...

And it's going to use that weapon not on foreign enemies, but rather on us. Since the creation of the United States income tax, government and taxpayers have wrangled over definitions of what constitutes "income," how it is to be calculated, and when it is to be "recognized" — that is, subjected to tax. A recent New York initiative (predictably backed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) would tax appreciated assets held by wealthy taxpayers before they were sold. This hideous tax policy hints at the temptation for government to shift its tax base to rapidly-appreciating assets when magnifying inflation through reckless debt...

March 25 2021 THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD Grotto of the Basilica of the Annunciation, Jerusalem, IsraelBy Berthold Werner - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5512531 Lectionary 254First readingIsaiah 7:10-14,8:10 ©The maiden is with childThe Lord spoke to Ahaz and said, ‘Ask the Lord your God for a sign for yourself coming either from the depths of Sheol or from the heights above.’ ‘No,’ Ahaz answered ‘I will not put the Lord to the test.’ Then Isaiah said:‘Listen now, House of David:are you not satisfied with trying the patience of menwithout trying the patience of my God, too?The Lord himself, therefore,will...

The tenth anniversary of the conflict in Syria that began on March 5, 2011 was greeted with deafening silence in Washington, D.C. Though the Biden administration would favor a political settlement of the conflict and is conscious of humanitarian problems of displaced civilians in the area of Idlib, it has not settled on any policy on Syria, which appears to rank relatively low on its list of global and regional priorities. At present, it has no intention of drawing another "red line" as the Obama administration did. In contrast, it comes as no surprise that the Russian Wagner Group, a...

HARRISBURG — The Wolf administration is refusing to disclose details of wasted coronavirus vaccine doses, including how many have been discarded by each provider, citing a decades-old law that it has frequently used to shield the public from scrutinizing its pandemic response. The state Department of Health recently denied a public records request by Spotlight PA seeking documentation of vaccine doses that providers did not administer because of expiration, damage, or other factors. The request did not seek any patient information. Providers are required to self-report to state health officials whenever a dose of vaccine is “compromised,” and explain why....