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Do I live in an alternate universe? The media tell me my side is winning. Salon claims, "We all live in Kochland, the Koch brothers' libertarian utopia." Tucker Carlson says, "Our leadership class remains resolutely libertarian." What? Who? Not President Biden. Biden already spent $1.9 trillion on COVID-19 "recovery" mostly unrelated to COVID. Now, he wants trillions more for an "infrastructure" bill, even though most of the spending would not go to infrastructure. He's eager to regulate more, too. Maybe the pundits were talking about former President Trump. He tried to deregulate -- a little. But Trump vilified trade and...

On April 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Kremlin officials to draw up a list of “unfriendly countries.” Although the identity of these “unfriendly countries” has yet to be officially confirmed, Russian media reports citing leaked information suggest the list will be dominated by Russia’s neighbors. According to a report published by Izvestia newspaper, the nations set to feature on the list of “unfriendly countries” are the United States, Poland, Czechia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ukraine, and Australia. The most striking thing about this group is the fact that five of the ten featured countries share land...

Investors are trading on margin like never before, despite the risks associated with the practice. According to newly released data from FINRA, margin debt rose 71% year-over-year to hit a record $822...

A candidate for U.S. Senate in Alaska previously wrote articles in support of an organization that espoused gay conversion therapy, questioned the integrity of elections and described the “Twilight” books and movies as evil. Many of the articles, blogs and posts by candidate Kelly Tshibaka have been deleted but some are available through archived internet pages, as first reported Tuesday by CNN. Tshibaka said in an email to The Associated Press that the CNN article “is just proof that our campaign is gaining momentum, which has Lisa Murkowski and her allies scared to death.” “Nothing frightens the DC political insiders...

Investor Bill Hwang set off a storm in the stock market in March when his firm, Archegos Capital Management, and its banks, began liquidating huge positions in blue-chip companies, according to people familiar with the transactions. The sales sent individual stocks swooning and have left at least three banks with major damage. Credit Suisse said on April 6 that it would take a $4.7 billion hit because of the meltdown. What is Archegos Capital? Archegos is the family investment vehicle owned by Mr. Hwang, a former protégé of hedge-fund titan Julian Robertson. Mr. Hwang was a so-called Tiger cub, an...

Shares of a New Jersey-based deli owner that was recently valued at more than $100 million despite the fact it only operates a single store have been delisted from the stock market. Cromwell Coulson, chief executive of the OTC Markets Group, the over-the-counter exchange where deli owner Hometown International’s shares had traded, tweeted late Wednesday that they were delisted “for not complying with the rules.” The move comes six days after the Paulsboro, NJ-based sandwich maker was singled out in a client letter from hedge fund manager David Einhorn, who called the company an example of bizarre and risky investments...

The amalgam of a political party, government, and large corporations should chill liberty-loving Americans to their bones. Millions of Americans know. Daily, others are coming to grips with the reality. But fear pervades the nation, so many people stay quiet. They stay quiet hoping destruction isn’t visited upon them. Time to end the fear. Here’s the ugly fact that must be confronted: The Democratic Party is now an extremist organ waging a fierce cold civil war to seize power and eviscerate America as founded and upend and erase its exceptional culture. The party is saturated with Marxist sensibilities, ideas, and...

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Tracy Beanz, editor-in-chief UncoverDC, explains how the MAGA movement is taking over South Carolina using Dan Schultz’s Precinct Strategy. Beanz told War Room on Tuesday over 600 people showed up for local GOP elections, more than three times as many as just two years ago. The recipe for success? “You stick to your word, you work with integrity, you don’t let anybody takeover…you stand firm you stand your ground, you say what you’re going to do, and you do it.” Beanz also explained what’s next in stopping the establishment GOP from holding a virtual convention. “They’re worse than Democrats in...

Apple today released iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, which include:• Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch – Ability to unlock your ‌iPhone‌ X and later with Apple Watch Series 3 and later when you attempt to use Face ID while wearing a face mask• AirTag and Find My – Support for AirTag to keep track of and find your important items like your keys, wallet, backpack and more, privately and securely in the Find My app – Precision Finding uses visual, audible, and haptic feedback to guide you directly to your nearby AirTag using Ultra Wideband provided by the U1 chip...

Randy Quaid may be joining the race for governor of California. After months of sharp criticism, the state's current governor, Gavin Newsom, will face a recall election, as it was announced on Monday that the signature threshold to trigger such an election has been met. Reality star Caitlyn Jenner has already announced her own candidacy for the position, and now, Quaid has said that he's interested in tossing his hat into the ring. The "Christmas Vacation" star, 70, took to Twitter on Tuesday to share his thoughts on the matter. "I’m seriously considering running for governor," he revealed. "The prosecutorial...

Judicial Watch has done an excellent job discovering direct evidence of collusion between government officials, the Biden campaign and social media companies Facebook, Twitter, Google (YouTube) to censor speech and remove content. California officials were using a list generated by a firm called SKDK (working for Biden campaign) to inform the social media companies of content for removal. […] The Office of Election Cybersecurity in the California Secretary of State’s office monitored and tracked social media posts, decided if they were misinformation, stored the posts in an internal database coded by threat level, and on 31 different occasions requested posts...

An estimation of the number of illegal aliens living in the United States is excluded from early data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau thanks to executive orders from President Joe Biden. Census Bureau officials released population totals this week, revealing that the U.S. population stands at about 331,449,281 residents, adding more than 22,700,000 residents since 2010. Still unknown is how many of those nearly 331.5 million U.S. residents are illegal aliens. In March 2018, former President Trump’s administration announced that it would seek to put the American citizenship question back on the Census to determine how many...

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Americans will have no choice but to reduce meat consumption if President Joe Biden is going to slash greenhouse gas emissions by half in the next 10 years, experts say - even if the president is mum so far on how he'll actually achieve that goal. Biden hasn't laid out a plan beyond the big number: reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent from their 2005 levels by 2030. To do that, experts say meat will have to be a target because of the greenhouse gases emitted in producing and raising beef - especially methane.

Former President Donald Trump mocked the Oscars for receiving the lowest ratings in history, suggesting the failure was intertwined with Hollywood promoting the Democratic Party. In a statement sent out mid-day Tuesday, Trump also said the Oscars should revert to the classier name, the Academy Awards. 'What used to be called The Academy Awards, and now is called the "Oscars" - a far less important and elegant name - had the lowest Television Ratings in recorded history, even much lower than last year, which set another record low,' Trump wrote.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-WY), branding her a “warmongering fool” whose congressional re-election campaign is doomed. “Liz Cheney is polling sooo low in Wyoming, and has sooo little support, even from the Wyoming Republican Party, that she is looking for a way out of her Congressional race. Based on all polling, there is no way she can win,” Trump said in a statement. “She’ll either be yet another lobbyist or maybe embarrass her family by running for President, in order to save face. This warmongering fool wants to stay in the...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” host Joy Reid stated that she wore two masks to jog outside even though she’s fully vaccinated, to which NBC News Medical Analyst Dr. Vin Gupta responded that people shouldn’t be judged for their personal health decisions, but “there’s not been data for many months now that outdoor transmission is a thing,” and “there’s no way you’re going to really get exposed unless maybe you’re at a rave or outdoor concert where you’re really close to people who are not masking.” Reid said that the relaxed CDC guidelines are proof that vaccinations are...

The FISA Court is CompromisedI hate to write this, but there is just no good way to look at this. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, specifically Presiding Judge James Boasberg, has hired former DOJ National Security Division head, Mary McCord, as amici curiae advisor to the court. [LINK] The placement was first noted by an announcement from Georgetown Law ICAP. Presiding Judge James Boasberg, is the decision-maker in the appointment of Amici Curiae to the FISA court. There is no way, NO WAY, Judge Boasberg does not know Mary McCord was at the epicenter of the fraudulent FISA application used...

More than 230 cops have either retired or resigned from the Louisville Metro Police Department in the last 16 months as a spokesperson for its union says that staffing shortages have left the agency in ‘dire straits’ while violent crime rises. The Kentucky city’s police department has been in turmoil since the March 2020 police-involved shooting of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old black EMT who was fatally shot in her home by officers executing a no-knock search warrant. According to statistics provided by the LMPD on Tuesday, the department has seen about 190 officers leave last year and 43 depart so...