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This will be the final piece published at DBDailyUpdate. Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating whether to continue on with this project, which began on a whim almost five years ago now, during the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign for America’s future. It started with short commentaries on Facebook and on a free blogsite, and then expanded in December 2016 to the creation of this website. As interest in the Trump presidency grew, so did the traffic to this website, and along with that, the length and frequency of the commentary. The Trump...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/covid-19-how-india-s-crisis-inflaming-global-vaccine-inequality-n1265968 Above is a non-interesting article on global Coronavirus “vaccine inequality”. Any source of inequality as it relates to Coronavirus will spawn dozens/hundreds of media articles. This has the side effect of promoting equality as the greatest ideal to strive for...and of course that means that freedom should never be an ideal. - It is a shame that so many people are staying home leading unhealthy lifestyles all because of their irrational fear of Coronavirus. They consume MSM and this feeds their anxiety. Obesity among the Covidiots is climbing, anecdotally speaking. It is rare to...

A friend recently asked me an interesting hypothetical question: if fraud and other means of chicanery were found to have been employed by insurrectionists to unlawfully upend the results of our nation’s 2020 election process, would that unlawful regime of insurrectionists have the moral authority to prosecute patriots for exactly that of which their regime is itself guilty—insurrection?Wouldn’t that confront America with a bit of a conundrum?That is, is it possible we could now have a government that—akin to the empire of King George—would prosecute those who—like our founding fathers—might find themselves impelled some day soon to sign a document...

​Both the Russians and the Chinese expect Biden's economic plans to flop. The Russian papers have latched onto the steep price tag. The Chinese wonder why Biden seeks to undermine American economic development. Rossiya Segodnya's Praim economic news site notes the $2.3 trillion price tag just for Biden's infrastructure bill, and that together with his American Families Plan, Biden's economic plans will actually cost closer to $4 trillion over the next decade. As an observant Russian blogger on Livejournal notes, moreover, only 7% of the bill is actually related to infrastructure. He figures, "As it turns out, much of President...

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media recently announced a heralded addition to their faculty. Nikole Hannah-Jones has agreed to accept a Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism in July. According to a press release issued by the school, Hannah-Jones is a “Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant” recipient who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and was just elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.” And that just begins her list of “achievements.” The press release continues: Among her national honors are the National Association of...

Authorities in Germany managed to take down one of the world's biggest child sex abuse platforms following a large-scale investigation which led to several arrests in mid-April, a police statement confirmed on Monday. The platform "Boystown" was active since at least June 2019 and had a membership of over 400,000. It was only accessible via the so-called darknet. Four German citizens between the ages of 40 and 64 were detained in relation to the case, three on suspicion of working as administrators for the platform — one of whom was arrested in Paraguay. Another man was taken in under suspicion...

For eight years, I attended a once-a-month program led by an excellent host who was well-versed in various aspects of human potential. We would meet for 90 minutes with the first 10 minutes devoted to introductions of those in attendance, followed by a 20 to 25 minute online video presented by some luminary in the field of self-help. The subsequent class discussion in the remaining time often focused on some aspect of standing up for yourself, increasing your awareness, being good to yourself, getting along better with other people, overcoming a bad habit, being more supportive of others, and so...

Like many brides-to-be, Baltimore resident Sarah Studley was ready to say, “I do,” but her plans quickly fell apart when COVID-19 hit. Her wedding plans at Spreckels Pavilion were placed on hold indefinitely and a wedding dress was left unworn. Studley, however, decided to put the gown to work in another way and got vaccinated while wearing it. “This is my event of the year,” Studley said. “I’m getting vaccinated and that was the light-bulb moment: 'OK, I know where I can wear my little polka-dot dress.' ” The University of Maryland Medical System recently tweeted a photo of Studley...

To all appearances everything in the political world is business as usual. As if nothing out of the ordinary happened in the wee hours of November 4, 2020. As if millions of votes weren’t created out of thin air — call it “fiat voting” — by the party that runs the permanent government and operates in symbiosis with the media and Big Tech. As if the same scoundrels aren’t in control of how the votes will be counted next time. As if they aren’t plotting even greater control (see H.R. 1, the “For the People Act”).

Their normal human sympathies have atrophied. They live in the desert of their own inhuman politics. They are cold and apparently lack a spiritual life. Desperate to look down on other people, they take fatuity to a new level. David Atkins, recently elected as a California member of the Democratic National Committee, mused on Twitter (Nov. 21, 2020): "How do you deprogram 75 million people who would literally die to stick it to the domestic enemies the teevee and youtube conspiracy vids told them to hate? No, seriously...how DO you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?...

For nearly 50 years, until 2009, the United Sates experienced enormous progress in race relations. Thanks to the efforts of individual citizens in their communities and not the nation’s ruling elites and patronizing liberals, this country was well on its way to racial healing. In 2008 only 18% of all Americans were greatly concerned or worried about the state of race relations in the country. By 2017 that number had skyrocketed to 45%. Further, in 2008 66% of Americans thought race relations were good; by 2016, 63% thought race relation were bad. The common denominator in this freefall and primary...

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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has spent millions trying to win the Kentucky Derby, and in the process plowing money into horse racing worldwide. Now with the overwhelming favorite, Dubai’s ruler faces increased scrutiny for allegations that he has violated human rights and orchestrated the disappearance of his own daughter. The controversy, well-known in the Middle East for a more than a year, has gotten renewed attention as Essential Quality prepares for Saturday’s race. The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission received a complaint on Wednesday from a group of human rights attorneys and students at the University of Louisville seeking...

Opinion polls, particularly in the buildup to a presidential election, are not designed to reflect public opinion, but instead to shape it. For the media, objectivity is only of historic interest, a journalistic tenet from a bygone era. Now most of the media is embedded within the Democrat party, serving as an advocacy arm or political action committee to influence elections and agendas. A CNN staffer, who bragged that he was “one step down” from a director, admitted to an undercover Tinder date, actually a real journalist working for James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, that CNN was “creating a story” that...

Athletics left-hander Jesús Luzardo will be off the mound for a while — and maybe off video games, too. Luzardo is out indefinitely after breaking the pinkie finger on his pitching hand when he thumped a table while playing a video game before his start Saturday. SNIP “Before the game he was playing a video game and accidentally bumped his hand on the desk as he was playing the game,” Melvin said. “He came in, was a little bit sore, training staff checked him out, we threw him in the cage before he went out there, watched him warm up....

I am a white privileged American. Yes, and if you are black, Hispanic, Asian or an American of any race or background, you too are a privileged American. You live in America. People climb fences, often risking their lives and paying thousands to get here. People from around the world go through the long and frustrating legal immigration process to become an American immigrant. No one could blame anyone for doing anything they can to come to this land of freedom and opportunity.Could America be better? Of course. Am I dissatisfied with the politicians in Washington? Of course. Are there...

Australia on Monday defended its decision to penalise its own citizens entering the country within two weeks of being in COVID-ravaged India, saying it had "strong, clear and absolute" belief the move was legal.Health Minister Greg Hunt pointed to the alarming surge of coronavirus cases in India and the pressure on Australia's health system as reasons to pause travel until May 15.Australia's quarantine hotels have seen a 1,500% spike in COVID-19 cases from India since March, raising questions about pre-departure testing in India and leading to this "agonising decision," Hunt said.Australia, which has largely contained the novel coronavirus, closed its...

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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking a small bit of flak from Team Reality for extending the state’s state of emergency order another 60 days on the same day last week that Tennessee’s Bill Lee lifted his and overtly required local mask mandates to end in the few remaining counties where they still existed, but those critics are missing the bigger picture. It’s not that Florida did everything perfectly according to what most of us would have done. They didn’t, not by a long shot. While a handful of states never shut down at all at the onset of...

<p>A county Democratic official from Northeast Texas is facing demands to resign after he used a racist slur to refer to South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott following the GOPers rebuttal to President Biden’s speech Wednesday night.</p><p>That slur trended on social media for several hours Wednesday night. Twitter later banned the term from its trending topics.</p>