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WASHINGTON — As COVID-19 lockdowns shuttered businesses across the nation in early 2020, West Wing aides began to sidle off into a downstairs bathroom in the next-door Eisenhower Executive Office Building — for appointments with a black-market barber, The Post has learned. With barbers across downtown Washington closed under local orders, the underground operation kept then-President Donald Trump’s staff looking their best as they battled a once-in-a-century pandemic ... The Biden White House’s apparent decision to keep the restored barber shop won praise from Trump White House staff, but also scorn for Democratic reluctance to reopen businesses more broadly. One...

The United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was caught on video Thursday unloading a bike from an SUV just moments before riding the bike a short distance to his destination, to make it look like the 'environmentalist' was saving energy, in an epic virtue signal fail. A person off camera can even be heard questioning why the Biden administration official would be wearing a suit while bike riding. Buttigieg has been at the forefront of advocating for President Joe Biden to implement new taxes on transportation, including taxing individual’s based on the amount of distance they have driven as...

Ohio continues to add resources to a public-private partnership to combat unemployment fraud, which the state says has cost taxpayers more than $200 million, and the newest additions are a pair of big names. Gov. Mike DeWine announced recently a new agreement between the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and Google to conduct data analytics on all outstanding claims. The state will pay the tech company $1.4 million to use Google Analytics to help discover fraud. “This is one of the first things the private sector group told me when they came in is drilling down on this...

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At yesterday’s meeting, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors continued to do all it could to not make it easy for the Senate to perform its audit. The Supervisors have been doing this for months. They even sued the Senate once in an attempt to not allow the Senate to perform an audit which is the Senate’s right. At that time the Board of Supervisors argued that since the ballots were all sealed, they could not unseal the ballots for the audit because during the audit the ballots would have to be unsealed and the law says they have to...

According to the Synoptic Gospels, sundown of Holy Thursday ushered in the Passover. Later on this evening, the Lord will celebrate the Passover meal with His disciples. We ought to be mindful that the unleavened bread Jesus will take in His hands is called “the bread of affliction.” Scripture says, You shall eat [the Passover] with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt (Dt 16:3).Indeed, this is an evening of...

Whether we are talking about Anthropogenic global warming (AGW):The political forces looking to spend the climate trillions and the academia segment supplying the fear want to scrub the climate debate of anything but the scariest scenarios. They want an unwavering allegiance to vigorous spending on climate policy, no matter its effectiveness. - SDAor COVID-19, there is only one acceptable position that “reasonable people” are allowed to hold. And you know what that is because it’s pounded into your brain via the Media, the Academy and Politicians (MAP) on a 24/7 basis. The MAP will happily provide the specifics on the...

A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derailed in a tunnel on Friday, killing at least 48 passengers and injuring 66 in the island's worst rail disaster in almost four decades. Images from the scene showed carriages in the tunnel ripped apart by the impact, with others crumpled, hindering rescuers in their efforts to reach passengers, although by mid-afternoon no one was still trapped. "People just fell all over each other, on top of one another," a woman who survived the crash told domestic television. "It was terrifying. There were whole families there." The crash, north of the eastern...

Source: Townhall Media/Julio Rosas"This is not politics," President Joe Biden said last week. "Reinstate the mandate if you let it down." Give him credit for consistency: When Gov. Greg Abbott ended Texas' mask mandate last month, Biden called it "Neanderthal thinking." But maybe the Neanderthals got it right. COVID-19 deaths in Texas plunged in March, and as National Review's Philip Klein points out, there's no relationship between mask mandates and coronavirus levels. Biden is clearly wrong on another point. This is not "not politics." America's constitutional federal system, and the latitude that both former President Trump's administration and the Biden...

Dr. Patrick Moore's new book "Fake Environmental Catastrophes and Threats of Doom" has risen to #1 Bestseller in both Environmental Science and Environmental Ecology on Amazon.com. This indicates a thirst for an alternative analysis to the narrative of global destruction by "climate change" and the "end of the world" prophesy now permeating the popular press. ----snip--- "It dawned on me one day that most of the scare stories in the media today are based on things that are either invisible, like CO2 and radiation, or very remote, like polar bears and coral reefs. Thus, the average person cannot observe and...

Wyoming is on the cusp of a needed improvement of their Constitutional Carry law. In 2011, Wyoming was only the third state to restore Constitutional Carry. Constitutional Carry is a close approximation of the state of law that existed when the Second Amendment was ratified in the United States, in 1791. At that time, there were no permits required to carry weapons in most public spaces, either openly or concealed.State governments and the Federal government did not impose legal burdens on the carry of weapons, openly or concealed, for two generations after the ratification of the Second Amendment.Gradual infringements on...

WASHINGTON, Monday, April 1. It is well understood here that there is a combination among those who propose to bid for the eight million loan to-morrow, to run the bids as low as possible. Washington capitalists are advised of the fact, and, if the New-Yorkers attempt to carry out their programme, it is quite probable that local bidders will secure the loan. Secretary CHASE understands this fact, and will probably check their speculation upon the Government. THE LAST REPORT ABOUT SUMPTER. It is reported that the Pawnee has been ordered to Charleston to take off Major ANDERSON and his forces....

If Joe Biden's American Jobs Program, outlined in Pittsburgh, is enacted, then the federal government will take a great leap forward toward irreversible control of the destiny of the Republic. To finance this leap, to subsidize this giant stride toward socialism, U.S. corporations are to be forced to turn over to the government a far larger slice of their earnings. The corporate tax rate is to be raised from 21 to 28 percent. And that is only the first of the new or added taxes to come -- on incomes, capital gains and estates. The bait to lure Republicans into...

Genevieve Hansen, a prosecution witness, who was an off-duty firefighter at the scene, seems contemptuous of the judge and Chauvin’s attorney. It was so bad that the judge had to warn her not to argue with the court or with the defense attorney. Genevieve Hansen, 27, a Minneapolis firefighter of two years, who was off-duty and a witness to the George Floyd arrest, testified for the prosecution. Her testimony was often contradictory and argumentative. Defense attorney Eric Nelson asked her about her background and experience. She said has two years of experience as a firefighter. She also has training as...

Former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he understands why former President Obama might not have been inclined to work on bipartisan deals with Republicans during his eight years in the Oval Office, saying "how do you find common cause with people who think you are a secret Kenyan Muslim traitor."

Michel Foucault was one of the first celebrity intellectuals of the 20th century remembered not only for his controversial analyses of prisons, madness and sexuality but for signing a petition in 1977 to legalise sex with children aged 13 SIPA/REX ==================================================================== The philosopher Michel Foucault, a beacon of today’s “woke” ideology, has become the latest prominent French figure to face a retrospective reckoning for sexually abusing children. A fellow intellectual, Guy Sorman, has unleashed a storm among Parisian “intellos” with his claim that Foucault, who died in 1984 aged 57, was a paedophile rapist who had sex with Arab children...

On Palm Sunday, Christians celebrate the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem to great fanfare and celebration. But for CBS News, Palm Sunday is an occasion to throw wild, tabloidish allegations at the Catholic Church. "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley began the program saying: "Today is Palm Sunday, the start of Christianity's Holy Week. Catholic priests take the leading role in their parishes, of course, even as a long-hidden issue within their ranks is coming out of the shadows." Gay reporter Seth Doane explained: "Earlier this month, the Vatican confirmed priests cannot bless same-sex partnerships. But within this closed-off institution, there...

Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion JOHN 18:1–19:42 Friends, our Gospel today is John’s great account of the Passion of Jesus. The ultimate good—God incarnate—appeared, and we collectively responded not with exultation but with murderous violence. On Calvary, the Author of Life was crucified and killed. The Crucifixion is the fullest expression of the divine anger at sin. We are meant to see on that cross, not simply a violent display, but rather our own ugliness. What brought Jesus to the cross? Stupidity, anger, mistrust, institutional injustice, betrayal of friends, denial, unspeakable cruelty, scapegoating, and fear. But in the brutality...

It’s just the flu, bro. Expert says you should wear a mask if you are swimming in the ocean in order to stop the spread of Coronavirus. https://twitter.com/0_politics2/status/1377606041035272202?s=21 - Expert says it is only a matter of time before further Coronavirus restrictions are needed. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/expert-says-it-is-only-a-matter-of-time-before-sask-needs-further-covid-19-restrictions/ar-BB1faPnb - Expert says vaccine is safe for pregnant women. https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/what-to-expect-covid-19-vaccine-and-pregnancy/ - Above is an array of idiot pronouncements by experts who know nothing.

By The First Thu, Apr 1, 2021 Joe Biden this week continued repeating an outright lie that even The Washington Post has debunked. It all centers on the new voting law in Georgia. During an interview with ESPN, in which Biden said he would support moving the MLB All-Star Game out of Georgia, Biden said that “This is Jim Crow on steroids what they’re doing in Georgia,” he said. “Imagine passing a law saying you cannot provide water or food for someone standing in line to vote. Can’t do that? Come on! Or you’re going to close a polling place...