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The White House released a fact sheet of President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill on Wednesday, detailing his multi-billion-dollar spending priorities. Here are some of the top 45 spending proposals: $400 billion toward expanding access to quality, affordable home- or community-based care for aging relatives and people with disabilities. $213 billion to produce, preserve, and retrofit more than two million affordable and sustainable places to live. $174 billion to win the electric vehicle market. $115 billion to modernize the bridges, highways, roads, and main streets that are in most critical need of repair. $111 billion to replace 100...

Cancels entire business competition Loyola University Maryland’s business school removed a video that proposed a project to match black entrepreneurs in Baltimore with black students to provide them with mentoring on business skills and financial literacy. Several students at the Catholic university in Baltimore submitted the video to the “Building a Better Baltimore” competition as part of the Sellinger School’s annual “Building a Better World Through Business” series that involves various events. “How might the Baltimore business community effectively advance racial equity?” the proposal competition asked. The video quotes from slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass and former President Barack Obama to...

“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.” — Brennan ManningOver the past year, we have witnessed key Christian leaders and pastors’ moral failures get exposed. It happens every year, but it feels like the Church has taken a huge hit more recently. Leaders who have personally impacted me through their teachings and writings are no longer in ministry. Every time I learn about what was happening behind the scenes, my heart breaks for the leader, their family, their organization and for the body of Christ. We all suffer when someone falls. I’ll never forget a...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday singled out Amazon.com Inc for not paying federal taxes during his address in Pittsburgh, as he spoke about raising the burden of taxes on multinational companies and hiking the corporate tax rate. ... Biden said Amazon was one of 91 Fortune 500 companies that "use various loopholes where they pay not a single solitary penny in federal income tax," in sharp contrast to middle class families paying over 20% tax rates."I don't want to punish them but that's just wrong," he said.

Politicians betray their campaign promises all the time. So, it's no surprise to see President Joe Biden go back on his word that, in spite of his plan to significantly hike taxes to pay for a portion of a massive increase in spending, nobody earning less than $400,000 annually would suffer a tax increase. But this flip-flop is just the tip of the iceberg. During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Biden declared that if someone makes less than $400,000, they wouldn't face any tax hikes. His campaign website reinforced this promise: "Joe Biden will not raise taxes on anyone making less...

More than 100 people in (Washington state) have tested positive for COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated, authorities said March 30.Epidemiologists have found evidence of 102 so-called breakthrough cases since Feb. 1. That number represents 0.01 percent of people in the state who have been fully vaccinated against the CCP (CCP (Chinese Communist Party virus),which causes COVID-19.The CCP virus is also known as SARS-CoV-2.

Fake or fraudulent coronavirus vaccine cards are growing in popularity as governments and businesses mull the idea of using the documentation as a possible way to begin relaxing pandemic restrictions. The fraudulent proof of COVID-19 prophylaxis could be used as a way for the vaccine-hesitant — or those tired of waiting to qualify for the vaccines — to pass off their verification of immunity. Nearly a third of American adults have said they would not get the coronavirus vaccine if it was available to them, NPR reported. Where are fake vaccine cards being sold? The fake blank cards have been...

If you are a struggling American who has barely gotten by for over a year, Just know that Democrats still do not care. Instead, Democrats are working on creating a fund that would give some illegal aliens and ex-convicts more than $20,000 apiece in direct payments related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Plans were announced today to dig a 245-mile long canal from the northern Gulf of California into southwestern Arizona to flood the region with sea water creating new economic opportunities and beach-front housing across thousands of square miles of mostly uninhabited desert. The City of Phoenix could become one of America’s busiest seaports under the plan.

This video has been posted all over the internet, but no one has included a link to the original. Her statement is as dumb as I've ever heard, and I'm curious to hear more from this person. Does anyone know the link to the original? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66gCWI0xAM

European rabbits dug up Stone and Bronze Age artifacts on Skokholm Island. (Image credit: Fiona McAllister Photography via Getty Images) A fluffle of wild rabbits has dug up priceless archaeological treasures on an island off the coast of Wales, in the United Kingdom. The burrowing bunnies unearthed two artifacts — a 9,000-year-old Stone Age tool and a 3,750-year-old pottery piece, likely from a broken Bronze Age urn, according to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, which manages Skokholm Island, where the objects were found. ________________________________________________________________ Archaeologists have discovered similar artifacts on the U.K.'s mainland, but these new findings...

On Wednesday, a new conservative coalition launched a website aimed at combatting “woke” capital and cancel culture. StopCorporateTyranny.org aims to educate Americans on the dangers of far-Left advocacy in corporate America and equip them to fight back against the swelling tide of the “woke” inquisition. The coalition, Back to Neutral, includes organizations and leaders fed up with the Left weaponizing big business to achieve its political goals.“We’ve watched with growing concern the Left’s efforts to infiltrate corporate boardrooms and use that power to force their agenda on Americans everywhere,” Justin Danhof, general counsel at the National Center for Public Policy...

<p>Americans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them.</p><p>There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.</p><p>1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.</p>

The pandemic has driven chilliheads online, where some have built impressive followings for their hot sauce reviews and daring feats of strength Kate Robertson Thu 1 Apr 2021 04.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 1 Apr 2021 08.07 EDT Shares 134 Carolina Reaper Hot Chilli Peppers: ‘You can effectively map your GI tract by feeling how it moves.’ Two Carolina Reaper peppers: ‘You can effectively map your GI tract by feeling how it moves.’ Photograph: mrsixinthemix/Getty Images/iStockphoto Behind his calm, methodical approach to every hot chilli eating and super spicy food challenge, Dustin “Atomik Menace” Johnson is enduring a kind of...

Last week my husband went out to our back woods to cut down some dead trees to get firewood for use next year, and while he was in the woods working I sat in a folding chair at the edge of the woodlot. Suddenly an animal fell out of a tree just in front of me and landed with a thud! It laid there stunned or dead. Cautiously I went over to check on it. I was going to give a full poor baby a funeral. As I approached, I noticed it was a porcupine! It popped up, and started...

After leftists intent on making election fraud permanent threatened Georgia's big companies with a boycott if they didn't condemn Georgia's election integrity law, Delta was one of the first to cave.According to the Washington Post:Some of Georgia’s biggest companies — including Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines — and Atlanta sports teams the Falcons and the Hawks came out strongly against the state’s new voting law Wednesday amid growing backlash against the business world for failing to do enough to stop the measure from becoming law.Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian condemned the legislation as “unacceptable” and contrary to the company’s...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (March 31, 2021) – Today, the Arkansas Senate passed a bill that would take on federal gun control, past, present and future, banning the state from participating in the enforcement of a wide-range of acts dating back to 1934. Sen. Gary Stubblefield (R) and Sen. Brandt Smith (R) introduced Senate Bill 298 (SB298) on Feb. 8. The legislation would ban any person, including any public officer or employee of the state and its political subdivisions, from enforcing any past, present or future “federal statute, executive order, or federal agency directive that conflicts with Arkansas Constitution, Article 2,...

Joe Biden said that he was going to pay, partially, for his $2 trillion ten-year slush fund, supposedly for infrastructure, with $1 trillion in new taxes on corporations which will be collected over fifteen years. According to CNBC: President Joe Biden on Wednesday is unveiling his latest plan to boost the post-coronavirus economy — a $2 trillion infrastructure package called the American Jobs Plan. In it, the president calls for billions of dollars for transportation infrastructure, the care of elderly and disabled Americans, drinking water infrastructure, housing, manufacturing and job development and training. To raise the money to pay for...

German bishop involved in Amazon Synod will not suspend priests who bless homosexual couplesBishop Franz-Josef Overbeck said suspending priests who 'bless' homosexual couples in defiance of clear Church teaching and a recent Vatican directive is 'out of the question.'March 31, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – German Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck, who played an important role in preparing for the controversial 2019 Amazon Synod in Rome, has stated that he will not suspend priests in his diocese who continue to bless homosexual couples, in defiance of the new Vatican document against such “blessings.”As the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost first reported, on March 28...

Day three concluded in the murder trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. On Wednesday, four police body camera videos and various surveillance videos were played for the jurors.