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Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri on Sunday urged the Biden administration to cut its $2 trillion infrastructure plan to roughly $615 billion and focus on rebuilding physical infrastructure like roads and bridges. The top Republican’s remarks follow Biden’s introduction of the infrastructure package last week, which focuses on rebuilding roads, bridges and airports, expanding broadband access and fighting climate change through boosting electric vehicle use and updating the country’s electric grid. The proposal also includes increasing the corporate tax rate to 28% to offset spending. Biden has said that he wants bipartisan support for the plan, but the chances...

CNN’s Jim Acosta said Sunday on “Reliable Sources” that many within the news media were dealing with “post-Trump stress disorder” in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s presidency. Anchor Brian Stelter said, “Do you feel like you are rundown, your lineup is really different than it would have been in the Trump years?” Acosta said, “When you asked me if I was rundown, I was wondering if you were asking me how I felt during the Trump era. I think we’re all dealing with some post-Trump stress disorder.” He continued, “There are questions about why aren’t Republicans getting on board with...

A man in Hernando County, Florida is accused of stealing an ambulance, and getting it stuck in mud. We’re no experts in committing grand theft auto, but we’re pretty sure that could have gone way better. Trey Allen Cornwell, 29, was arrested Sunday, authorities say. According to deputies, the ambulance crew was inside the Oak Hill Hospital to drop off a patient. It was 12:27 p.m. Cornwell allegedly used this time to make off with the vehicle, which is owned by the Hernando County Fire & Emergency Services. Deputies say the defendant drove it to the Kass Circle neighborhood near...

Former President Barack Obama on Saturday celebrated Major League Baseball for its decision to move the All-Star game out of Atlanta after the Georgia legislature passed legislation on election integrity. Obama tweeted, “Congratulations to the MLB for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens. There’s no better way for American’s pastime to honor the great Hank Aaron, who always led by example.” AD Hank Aaron, nicknamed “Hammerin’ Hank,” was a home-run-hitting baseball great who played 23 seasons in the Majors; 21 of them for the Atlanta Braves. He was also known for his outspokenness against racism...

DECATUR, Ala. – A Decatur woman is accused of stabbing her husband in the back of the head during a fight. Decatur police were called to Parkway Medical Center about a stabbing on April 1. Officers spoke with the victim who had a cut to the back of his head. Investigators found that the man had been in a altercation with his wife, Diana Rodgers, 35, of Decatur. During the altercation, Rodgers allegedly cut the victim with a knife. Rodgers is charged with second-degree domestic violence-assault and was booked into the Morgan County Correctional Facility in lieu of a $5,000...

I'm considering buying a new pick-up. Why new? Because it will most likely be the last vehicle I'll ever buy and I want it to last. So, I was looking at Ford F150s last night and my jaw dropped. One of the trucks was priced at $66,000!! For crying out-loud! $66K?? The one I liked the best was priced at $49,000! I'm in real estate and you can buy property cheaper! I thought perhaps some of the more experienced, wiser freepers could answer this question: Just how much does it actually cost to manufacture/produce one of these? (Or any other...

Liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who funds progressive drives and causes worldwide, has committed $500 million to a private liberal arts college in New York that seeks to enrich “democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders.” Bard College announced the donation on Thursday, describing the gift as “transformational,” calling it “among the largest ever made to higher education in the United States.” According to the school, the funding “will facilitate and strengthen Bard’s exemplary educational and social initiatives, establish the College’s most substantial endowment ever, and set the stage for a $1 billion endowment drive.” Bard officials said the school...

Two hundred years ago, it would take months to get from New York City to Los Angeles. Hundreds of miles of rutted roads by horse and carriage and that would be the best part of the journey. The people of 1821 would be amazed if they knew that within 200 years, you could make the journey in just a few hours in the comfort of a jetliner, where you would be drinking coffee or maybe having a Bloody Mary or two. Now imagine that you could make the journey in just 15 minutes. How much would that change our world?...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (75% of Americans 65 or older have now received at least a first dose - 40% of all adults) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 207,891,295 (8,693,900 J&J) Administered: 165,053,746 (4,054,089 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 106,214,924 Fully Vaccinated: 61,416,536

Kentucky Republican says corporate boycott dynamic like 'an extortion racket'Opposition to election reform laws like the one recently enacted in Georgia is rooted in the idea that minorities aren't smart enough to understand basic rules, Sen. Rand Paul R-Ky., claimed on "The Ingraham Angle" Friday. "All of these proposals are to trying to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat," Paul told host Laura Ingraham. "I've been involved with this. I've communicated with people in all 50 state legislatures, I've called them on the phone. I've talked to the conservative ALEC [American Legislative Exchange Council] group about this,...

Infectious disease specialist, Dr. Sandra Bliss Nelson, weighs in on finding that show the Pfizer vaccine is performing well; MIKE SIMPSON: It's holding its effectiveness, basically 90-ish percent, 91%, six months later. So I guess there's two ways to look at it. First is, yeah, six months. That's great. But then another crowd maybe goes, oh, well, maybe it's only six months. Well, it doesn't drop off to 10% the Tuesday after the six-month clock rolls around, right? So it's going to be maybe a sliding scale. We just have to see how far it goes. SANDRA BLISS NELSON: I...

Old Proverb – Those With Nothing To Hide Don’t Try To Hide Things GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger seems like he has a secret. The man in charge of ensuring fair elections in the Peach State really doesn’t want anyone looking at the actual ballots from the Nov 3rd U.S. general election. GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger seems like he has a secret. The man in charge of ensuring fair elections in the Peach State really doesn’t want anyone looking at the actual ballots from the Nov 3rd U.S. general election. There is an old proverb — those...

The White House’s top economic adviser on Sunday defended President Biden’s infrastructure plan, saying there is “a long way to go” before the economy returns to a pre-pandemic place and the plan’s investments would help boost growth. Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council, told “Fox News Sunday” that Mr. Biden’s push to raise the corporate tax rate to generate funds for his $2.25 trillion vision is a reasonable way to find money for the investments. “This is a responsible way to pay for a significant capital investment, which itself will return multiples in terms of the...

Yesterday, the CDC updated guidance regarding cruise ships resuming cruises from U.S. ports. However, there is still no timetable on when cruise lines can start back up. Last October, the CDC laid out a four phase approach to their Conditional Sail Order. Five months later, the CDC finally updated Phase 2 and added a new Phase 2B. The new phased approach is as follows: Phase 1: Mass testing and lab capacity building Phase 2A: Voyage preparation Phase 2B: Simulated (trial) passenger voyages Phase 3: Conditional sailing certificate Phase 4: Restricted passenger voyages However, many in the industry think that this...

Mississippi Gov. @TateReeves "Unfortunately during those four years, like the four years before that, they did not in Washington get control of spending. They feel as though the debt doesn't matter...

Donald Trump swiped at “radical left crazies” and stated that the 2020 election was “rigged” against him and his supporters in his Easter message on Sunday. In his message to the nation, President Joe Biden urged Americans to get vaccinated from Covid-19. Jill and I want to send you our warmest Easter greetings to you and your family. As we celebrate this holiest day, we know many are still going without familiar comforts of the season,” Biden said in a video posted on his Twitter account Sunday. “The virus is not gone and so many of us still feel the...

As we learned Friday, it doesn’t seem that the two teenage girls who carjacked Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar will face harsh punishment for their crimes, even though the older girl could probably be charged as an adult and the younger girl is a suspect in a January 2021 carjacking. One would expect equivocation coming from Mayor Muriel Bowser, SJW city council members, or perhaps woke prosecutors — but not from the D.C. Chief of Police, whose officers filed charges of felony murder and armed carjacking with a taser against the girls.Sadly, Acting D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee III had...

Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign used pre-checked boxes and obscure design on fundraising emails to wring millions of dollars out of unwitting supporters, detonating a “money bomb” which allowed the Republican to compete against Joe Biden in the last months of the race. The practice, pursued by the campaign and WinRed, a for-profit company, was detailed in an extensive report by the New York Times on Saturday. It is legal, but Ira Rheingold, executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates, told the paper it was “unfair, unethical and inappropriate”. Another expert quoted by the Times said such “dark...

A 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl are facing robbery and other charges as authorities investigate the death of a man who owned a store on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon Tyner's office says at about 7:45 Thursday evening, Atlantic City cops responded to a business in the 1500 block of the Boardwalk in reference to a man with a knife. Personnel at the ACPD Surveillance Center further advised officers that multiple juveniles were damaging the store and assaulting individuals. Police say while attempting to steal things, a 12-year-old boy brandished a knife and threatened the store...

Laura Gaddy, who grew up as a devout Latter-day Saint in North Carolina, says she felt her surety in church principles begin to unravel in 2015, when leaders pulled Joseph Smith’s “seer stone” from a vault and showed it to the media. For her, according to court documents, the event signaled that the faith’s founding prophet had not translated the Book of Mormon, the church’s signature scripture, directly from gold plates inscribed with reformed Egyptian characters, but instead had dictated the narrative “from a stone with his head in a hat.” Gaddy came to be deeply troubled by what she...