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Some friends of mine have been making interesting comparisons of the parallels between the completely unnecessary crises created by President Biden (at the border) and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. I am sure there are others, as well, but these are the ones we have come up with for now.

Many along this stretch of the border near Juarez were looking to turn themselves in to border patrol, while others have hired smugglers to try to evade agents. One smuggler spoke with CBS News on condition of anonymity. Even with the risk of being deported, they still want to try. Family members in the U.S. tell them to keep trying, he said. His operation includes ladders to scale the wall, with peep holes to watch for border patrol — about $1,000 a try. In six months, he said 80 to 100 people have paid him to cross the border. Smugglers...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) 20% of American Adults are now fully vaccinated. Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 180,646,465 (4,946,300 J&J) Administered: 143,462,691 (3,090,712 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 93,631,163 Fully Vaccinated: 50,141,769

CNN has seen ratings plummet since former President Donald Trump left the White House, according to a Fox News report on Nielsen Media Research data. The network averaged 2.5 million primetime viewers between the day after the election— November 4, 2020 — and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021, Fox News reported. Since President Joe Biden was sworn in, however, those numbers have dropped dramatically. An average of 1.6 million viewers tuned in during primetime hours between January 21 and March 15, Fox News said. That's a downturn of 36% since Biden took office. Primetime viewers also ditched CNN in...

MCALLEN, Texas (KFOR) – Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and 18 of his U.S. Senate colleagues traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border Friday to spotlight what they say are border security issues caused by the Biden Administration.The group of Republican senators, with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas acting as the lead, went down to the border as part of their response to a recent surge of migrants at the southern border. Republican senators visit border after Biden defends policy decisions Lankford, who went to the border on a day-trip, and his colleagues toured a Temporary Processing Facility in Donna, Texas, which...

Former President Trump's exit from the White House coincided with a slump in ratings for cable news channels and digital news sites, according to a Washington Post analysis. Data from media tracking firm ComScore as well as the Nielsen company indicated drops in traffic across websites for the Post, which lost roughly one-fourth of its monthly web traffic, as well as The New York Times, which lost roughly 17 percent of its traffic over January and February. In the cable news ratings wars, CNN lost nearly 50 percent of its prime-time audience over the first few months of 2021, according...

This week, Biden-Appointee Rachel (previously Richard) Levine made history after being confirmed by the Senate as the first transgender assistant health secretary. Parental rights have never been at a greater risk, and Biden’s home state of Delaware seems to be the first to test the waters, moving quickly to silence parents who oppose the use of their children as a diversity prop for the LGBTQ agenda. Delaware father, Adam Bailey took a stand. Newly appointed Laurel Little League President and diversity activist Michael Snead of Delaware gave a family member a Tee-Ball Coaching position within Laurel Little League’s organization. This...

Christine Duffy’s message painted the picture quite clearly already, but Carnival Cruise line has now also made amendments to its payment and cancellation policy. In an e-mail sent to guests and travel agents, the cruise line said it had made no change in its plans to cruise in June 2021. The cruise line intends to sail only from US ports and, as the president said before, will not be moving ships to any other homeports to circumvent the CDC and its safe sailing framework. However, Carnival Cruise Line has changed its cancellation and payment policies to give guests more freedom...

Anyone naive enough to think America is about to receive a big gift of newfangled "fixed installations" needed in order to function should look long and hard at what is really being proposed. The "underlying structure" a country and the economy rely upon includes things such as roads, bridges, dams, water and sewer systems, railways and subways, airports, and harbors. None of these things are cheap to construct and when it comes to infrastructure the words, good, fast, and cheap should never be clustered together. While many people see government spending on infrastructure as a job creator and a silver...

The Democrats have repeatedly argued that "universal background checks" are a way of ensuring only law-abiding Americans can purchase firearms. While spewing that (very false) rhetoric out of their mouth, the Biden administration is rolling back requirements for caregivers taking in unaccompanied minors. The Biden administration is utilizing tent camps, convention centers, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Border Patrol facilities, as well as other large facilities to house the record number of unaccompanied minors that are flocking across the border. In order to quickly staff these facilities, the FBI is no longer requiring fingerprint background checks for those being...

More than a dozen people were injured when a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Catholic church in the Muslim-majority archipelago of Indonesia on Palm Sunday, the first day of the Holy Week. The bomb exploded in front of the Cathedral Church in the city of Makassar in South Sulawesi province at about 10.30 a.m. on Sunday as the church was preparing for its third service, according to reports. Agence-France Presse quoted local police as saying that at least 14 people were wounded in the bombing. “There were two people riding on a motorbike when the explosion happened...

The Biden-Harris Administration is committing to spend more than $300 per day per family to house illegal immigrants in hotels. At the same time, the 20,000 National Guard troops manning the Capitol barricades are sleeping on the concrete floors of parking garages in DC. Presidential Press Secretary Jen Psaki called this seeming inequity "logical." "Migrants come here in search of a better life," she explained. "The President is determined to fulfill that dream. Putting them up in expensive hotels is a good way to give them a taste of the good life and reward them for undertaking a long and...

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby declared the “war on drug users” is over and her office will no longer prosecute low-level crimes like drug possession and prostitution.The program has been in place for the last year and was designed to reduce the population in city jails during the pandemic. Yesterday, Mosby made the policy permanent.“Today, America’s war on drug users is over in the city of Baltimore. We leave behind the era of tough-on-crime prosecution and zero tolerance policing and no longer default to the status quo to criminalize mostly people of color for addiction, said Mosby in an...

I was once a waif left on the street as a little girl unaware that there were prowling predators that saw me as their next meal to consume in lascivious deprived animal instincts, In filthy rags I fought to make my way out of the city and with a last burst of desperation for survival found a green glow of light. I heard a voice, “little child, little girl; follow the sound of my voice”. I followed the voice, but the predators seeing their meal ticket escaping tried to grab me and take me back but a Hero rose from...

In a case that's drawing a lot of attention based on the insane level of leniency shown, two 14-year-olds who bullied, murdered, danced on the body of, and filmed a helpless 13-year-old, have been let off with the mother-of-all-slaps-on-the-wrist by a Riverside County Superior Court Justice. According to local radio station KTLA:Two 14-year-old Southern California boys who beat a fellow student in 2019, causing his death, won’t go to jail but must undergo anger management therapy, a judge ruled.Riverside County Superior Court Judge Roger A. Luebs imposed the therapy as a probation condition before releasing the teenagers to their parents...

Kamala Harris is bothered, a Saturday report revealed, as she continues to live out of suitcases awaiting completion of renovations on the vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory. Vice President Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff are living temporarily across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House at Blair House, the president's official guest quarters known for its luxury. 'She is getting frustrated,' an administration official told CNN, noting that every day her desire to move into her designated house grows more intense. The vice president, however, could be contributing to the delays despite her complaints. According to two administration...

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The former chief of staff to ex-President Donald Trump on Saturday pushed back against his former boss' recent attempt to whitewash the history of the January 6 Capitol riot. Mick Mulvaney, who stepped down as Trump's special envoy to Northern Ireland after the insurrection, called Trump's comments that his supporters were "hugging and kissing" police officers and posed "zero threat," despite widespread violence, "manifestly false." "I was surprised to hear the President say that. Clearly there were people who were behaving themselves, and then there were people who absolutely were not, but to come out and say that everyone was...

Major League Baseball is scheduled to play its 2021 All-Star Game this summer at Truist Park, located in Atlanta, Georgia. Yet with less than a week to go until Opening Day, the MLB Players Association appears open to discussing whether or not the event should be relocated in response to recent legislative developments in the state. MLB Players Association director Tony Clark told the Boston Globe that the union body is "very much aware" of the bill signed by Georgia governor Brian Kemp on Thursday that overhauled the state's election laws. The bill includes "new restrictions on voting by mail...

Ted Cruz attempts to video footage of Migrant facility and after his video I placed official Biden footage released to the public