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Mr. B.E. HUTCHINSON, of Wisconsin, who left Washington on Thursday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, kindly called upon us yesterday, with details of the latest news. The Seventh Regiment of New-York, arrived in Washington on Thursday noon, having marched twenty miles to the Junction, and that without escort. They were, in fact, the pioneers of the route, and went because they had made up their minds to go any way. The Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, meanwhile, had been at work repairing the railroad and engines, and arrived at Annapolis soon after the Seventh, having laid the rails, repaired the engine, and run...

Containers piled high on giant vessels carrying everything from car tires to smartphones are toppling over at an alarming rate, sending millions of dollars of cargo sinking to the bottom of the ocean as pressure to speed deliveries raises the risk of safety errors. The shipping industry is seeing the biggest spike in lost containers in seven years. More than 3,000 boxes dropped into the sea last year, and more than 1,000 have fallen overboard so far in 2021. The accidents are disrupting supply chains for hundreds of U.S. retailers and manufacturers such as Amazon and Tesla. There are a...

The current 117th Congress is only four months old, but already five Republican senators and six Republican representatives have announced they will not stay in their current jobs.1 Add in a slew of Republican retirements in the 2018 and 2020 election cycles, and a narrative has formed that longtime GOP stalwarts are heading to the exits because they are unhappy with the fanatical turn the party took under former President Donald Trump. “We live in an increasingly polarized country where members of both parties are being pushed further to the right and further to the left, and that means too...

The unintentional bit of hilarity for the day comes from Liz Cheney, who told an interviewer yesterday that, even though she is 24 points down in the latest polls for her re-election in Wyoming, she is not ruling out a potential run for the … wait for it …PRESIDENCY in 2024. I swear I do not make this stuff up.

If you think inflation is already blistering hot - as most companies and survey respondents clearly do - and the worst case been largely priced in, with little inflationary upside left, think again. As Bloomberg notes, last week saw the Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index rise by the most in almost nine years, to extend the stellar rally seen since last August.Due to the lag between ag costs and finished food prices, the latter are about to soar. And since food is a large component of CPI baskets in Asia, Bloomberg warns that "this large inflationary impulse in the region that...

If this surprises you, what planet have you been living on for the last 50 years? – Really and truly, does it surprise anyone that John Kerry, long an outright and unabashed traitor to our country, is also a traitor to our major ally in the Middle East? If so, what possible reason could you have for feeling that way about the news that Kerry, who served as Barack Obama’s second traitor Secretary of State, and thus still maintained a security clearance during the Trump years, leaked classified intelligence to Iran about Israeli attacks on its nuclear infrastructure? That’s the...

Oil and gas supplier Enterprise Products Partners on Monday sued CPS Energy, a Texas gas and power utility, alleging failure to pay nearly $100 million for natural gas delivered during the state’s February winter storm. The lawsuit is the latest to emerge from a severe cold snap that drove prices and demand for natural gas and electricity to hundreds of times their pre-storm levels. Houston gas prices https://bit.ly/3noiRVL hit $400 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) from about $4.50/mmBtu a week earlier. Enterprise is suing San Antonio municipal utility CPS Energy over payment disputes for sales during the freeze. The...

even if every single American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes – if we each planted a dozen trees...guess what? That still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world. If all the industrialized nations went down to zero emissions...it wouldn’t be enough – not when more than 65 percent of the world’s carbon pollution comes from the developing world.”

Fourth Week of Easter John 10:22–30 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus explains why his sheep listen to him and follow him. They do so because he is leading them to eternal life. He says, “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.” The life of heaven, where we “shall never perish,” is that place where death and sickness have no power over us, where we see God face-to-face. Heaven and earth are always connected in the biblical imagination; that’s true. But heaven should never be reduced to earth, as though religion is just about this-worldly ethics, social justice,...

China is busy erecting what may become the most efficient and effective despotism in history, using modern technology as the means toward the end of imposing total obedience and conformity among the Chinese people. Heretofore, the social-credit system has been a prime example of this approach, in which citizens may be punished with job loss or higher rent for engaging in activities the Chinse Communist Party deems unacceptable — such as going to church or conversing with a low-credit-scored neighbor. Now, the government has created a new app with which people can report on each other’s “mistaken” opinions. From the...

Another pro-President Joe Biden union just told it's rank-and-file members: Sorry, guys, you are all fired. Last week, the United Mine Workers of America union endorsed Biden's energy policies. Yes, you read that right. The coal-mining union bosses have embraced a bill that outlaws coal mining. This is about as dumb as the Pipefitters Union endorsing Biden for president. He repaid them with his first act as president -- killing the Keystone pipeline. So now we have the Pipefitters Union against pipelines and the coal miners union against coal. Did anyone bother to actually ask the rank-and-file members what they...

KINGSTON, VIC – A school in Melbourne has announced the introduction of a new badge system of identification where students who are white, Christian and male are required to wear ‘OPPRESSOR‘ badges on their uniforms at all times. Kingston City School (KCS), in Melbourne’s south-east, said the new ‘WEAR IT’ initiative was an important addition to the Safe Schools and Healthy Relationships program the school was involved in. “A number of concerned parents had indicated that they thought their child might feel unsafe around white, Christian, male students – who historically have been more likely to be oppressors,” KCS principal,...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/26/tech/twitter-covid-india-modi-facebook/index.html Twitter blocks tweets critical of India’s prime minister Modi’s coronavirus response. I erroneously thought that social media would allow for more voices of dissent to be heard. - I think at least 60% of the country is in favor of some form of government-imposed mask mandates, social distancing, vaccine requirements, and lockdown restrictions. This means that, at most, 40% of the country essentially has the right opinion. I have not looked at any surveys to support the 60/40 split, but I assume that it must be that because there are so many Freepers who...

The State of Texas just sent out letters giving waivers to individuals who were having to re-pay overpayment of Covid unemployment payments made some months back. Many of the payments were about half paid when, suddenly, no more money is due. Wonder if the media is going to cover this giveaway of taxpayer money? Wonder if the media is going to cover any truth any more?

America's third largest Christian denomination – the United Methodist Church – is splitting as conservative pastors aim to create a new denomination that will adhere to traditional biblical teachings. Methodist church leaders have formed a new denomination – called the Global Methodist Church (GMC) – and filed for formal separation from the UMC over the latter's growing acceptance of modern teachings on sexuality and gender. "In the United States, particularly, some bishops, clergy, and churches are operating in open defiance to the teachings of the United Methodist Church," said Keith Boyette, president of the conservative Wesleyan Covenant Association and spokesperson...

Scores of millions of Americans sense that something terrible has been happening in our country recently. Democracy has been steadily slipping away for years, but never faster than in the catastrophic year of 2020. Meanwhile, the process continues at an ever-increasing rate under the administration of the cognitively declining man in the White House. Incompetent tyrants at the federal, state, and local level rule the American people. Who knew that anonymous local health officials could violate our property rights by shutting down small businesses and that governors could restrict our rights to freedom of association and of worship? Who knew...

For Amazon, a recusal of Thomas in some court cases would be convenient. “The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is reported to have made this comment in “’in the Wall Street Journal,’ Conversation with Dinesh D'Souza, July 2, 1991.” SNIP Paoletta, “served as a lawyer in the Bush 41 White House Counsel’s Office and worked on the confirmation of Justice...

The district attorney of Manhattan in NYC has announced that his office will no longer prosecute any unlicensed "massage" parlor workers (about 900 cases), nor loitering for the purposes of prostitution (about 5,000 cases). Abigail Swenstein, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society's Exploitation Intervention Project, which works with sex workers, said that while the policy doesn't preclude the New York Police Department making arrests, she hopes officers will choose not to, knowing that prosecutors would not bring charges. Laws against these behaviors are still on the books but will not be prosecuted. The citizenry has not repealed these...

A long history of unintended consequences has conservatives on the ropes even before the first round. Fights for "transgender rights" are ratcheting up across the nation, met with opposition by those who say our sexuality is a biological reality that can't be changed with a scalpel. The problem is this war against transgenderism has already been settled. The definition of human sexual identity was already changed — by our society's acceptance of the homosexual identity as a legitimate sexual identity. The landmark case Obergefell v. Hodges, which declared marriage redefined to include same-sex couples, presupposed the sexual identity of homosexuality...

Ask yourself: suppose you belonged to a social group that led the world in drugged-out losers resisting arrest and teenage knife fighters? How would it make you feel? The answer is obvious. You would feel humiliated. Now you understand what America’s blacks are feeling in the wake of the righteous Chauvin conviction and the tragic death of Knife Girl. But what do people feel when they are humiliated? I went to Churchill’s famous homily: In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will.But whatabout Humiliation? What would the world’s foremost cigar smoker say about that? It...