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A prominent Democrat is sounding the alarm about Joe Biden's handling of the border crisis. Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar is accusing the Biden administration of misleading the public about the purported success of its immigration policies. The Department of Homeland Security released photos of a migrant processing facility in the border town of Donna, Texas, on Tuesday. The photos showed sparsely populated plastic cages where crowds of children had been kept, suggesting that the Biden administration is effectively dealing with the crisis-level flood of illegal immigrant children that have come into the U.S. in recent months.

Map shows the cumulative total COVID death rate. (Courtesy: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation)SEATTLE - The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than twice as many people around the world as the official death counts show, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.The official global death toll as of Thursday stands at about 3.26 million, but the new analysis found that COVID-19 has actually caused about 6.9 million deaths worldwide.“As terrible as the COVID-19 pandemic appears, this analysis shows that the actual toll is significantly worse,” said Dr. Chris...

Yes, it is better that Liz Cheney stands up for the truth about Trump and the election than to oppose it, which puts her at odds with a political party in which truth is the enemy. But her present position does not expunge her past positions. The sword she's falling on is one she has spent her political career brandishing. If Cheney is punished by her own party, I will not applaud, but I also will not sob. I sit silently in acknowledgment, as one does, when karma swings low and performs its function.

Bill Gates has recently been in the news for his high-profile divorce announcement. But what is much more relevant is his use of power money and influence to disintegrate America and its freedoms while purchasing as much of it for himself as he possibly can and becoming a real life Bond villain.One major way in which people like Gates and George Soros enact such changes is through media. Soros and Gates are huge funders of far-left ‘fact-checking’ websites that shame people and media outlets who publish truths outside of the globalist narrative. But globalists like Gates and Soros also seek...

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Beijing has overtaken New York for the first time to become the city with the most billionaires in the world. According to Forbes’ 2021 list of the world’s richest people, released in early April, Beijing has 100 billionaires, more than New York, which has 99. Beijing’s richest are mostly engaged in technology, e-commerce, manufacturing, education, bio-manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and real estate. The richest person in Beijing is Zhang Yiming, founder and CEO of technology company ByteDance Ltd., with a fortune of $35.6 billion. Video sharing social platforms Douyin and TikTok, an overseas version of Douyin, are both products of the company....

From Irish stew to grilled kidneys and boiled fowl, a menu dating back more than 100 years has been found during renovation work at a cafe. Workmen peeling back old walls discovered the delicate piece of culinary history at the eatery in Liverpool. The menu, from Wednesday 15 January 1913, is from the former Yamen Cafe in Bold Street. Staff at the cafe standing at the same site said it had "blown their minds". The menu offers a selection of appetising "refreshments, luncheons and afternoon teas". The cafe which is currently based at the site, called LEAF, now plans to...

FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER JOHN 15:9–11 Friends, the two most important words in our Gospel today are joy and commandments. "I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete." And, "If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love." These are not terms that we readily juxtapose. We usually associate commandments with the carrying out of duty and responsibility, or with moral rectitude, and that normally seems opposed to joy. However, in Thomas Aquinas’ treatment of human behavior, the first question raised is not about law or virtue,...

Democrats are having flashbacks of what happened with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but this time it is with current Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Many Democrat politicians have been tiptoeing around his feelings and not directly asking him to retire because they are frightened that it may look too political. But what they want is a new, young liberal justice on the court in the place of the 82-year-old justice, CNN reported.

Officials in Arizona's Maricopa County are withholding materials subpoenaed by the state legislature as part of its audit of the county's 2020 election, claiming that surrendering them would constitute a security risk for both law enforcement and federal agencies. A Monday letter sent from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office to Ken Bennett, the former Arizona secretary of state and the liaison between the state Senate and the auditors, said the county had elected not to turn over "several routers" requested by the legislature due to an alleged "significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s...

A massive Chinese rocket is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry to Earth this week — and experts have no clue yet where its remnants will land. The roughly 100-foot-tall core of the Long March 5B rocket launched the 22.5-ton “Heavenly Harmony” unmanned Tianhe space station module from Wenchang in Hainan province on Thursday, the Guardian reported. Tianhe soon separated from the launcher and entered its planned initial orbit — but the core stage is likely to make an uncontrolled re-entry amid the thickening atmosphere, SpaceNews reported. “It’s potentially not good,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at...

President Biden says the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is wrong about condemning the use of aborted babies for research. The statement from the bishops noted it is possible to do research without using harvested tissue from aborted babies and added that "It is also deeply offensive to millions of Americans for our tax dollars to be used for research that collaborates with an industry built on the taking of innocent lives." "From the very beginning, Christianity was founded on the sacrifice of the innocent for the benefit of humanity," Biden contended. "Jesus, the perfectly blameless innocent, was nailed...

Comedy: An Endangered Art Form in the Age of Rage? A deeper issue underlies the current posturing against the Babylon Bee and the cartoon skunk PePe LePewThe Babylon Bee, an evangelical Christian satire site, has become unFunny to much of the elite commentariat of our day. The comedy gold the commentariat has attacked says a good deal about the role of Big Social Media in funneling and shaping our culture. Many commentators were not used to hearing their icons mocked, even gently. By 2019, fact-checking site Snopes started “fact-checking” obvious satire and the Bee responded (of course) with ridicule....

-snip- Elise Stefanik, a former aide to George W. Bush and adviser to Paul Ryan's vice presidential campaign, is only 29 but scored a landslide victory over Matt Doheny, 43, in Tuesday's GOP congressional primary in upstate New York. With help from Karl Rove's American Crossroads super PAC, a Paul Ryan campaign appearance and an endorsement from Mitt Romney, Stefanik nabbed 61% of the vote above Doheny's 39%.

Close to 50 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) have tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus while being housed in a newly opened California shelter by President Joe Biden’s administration. The Long Beach Convention Center opened as a shelter for about 1,000 UACs — including migrant girls younger than 18 years old and migrant boys younger than 12 years old — less than two weeks ago and is already facing a coronavirus outbreak. Biden administration officials with the United States Health and Human Services (HHS) agency confirmed on Wednesday that 47 UACs at the shelter have tested positive for coronavirus thus far....

May 1, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Hundreds of cases of blindness are among the 19,916 reports of “eye disorders” to the World Health Organization’s European drug monitoring agency following injection of experimental COVID-19 vaccinesThe nearly 20,000 eye disorders reported to VigiBase, a database for the WHO maintained by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre(UMC) in Uppsalla, Sweden, include:Eye pain (4616) Blurred vision (3839) Photophobia or light intolerance (1808) Visual impairment (1625) Eye swelling (1162) Ocular hyperaemia or red eyes (788) Eye irritation (768) Itchy eyes or eye pruritus (731) Watery eyes or increased lacrimation (653) Double vision or diplopia (559) Eye strain or...

What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system? Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives? Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition. (List below)

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) took a private jet to Florida in March, violating the spirit of her orders for everyone else not to travel. Deadline Detroit reported Whitmer “asked a group of wealthy Detroit businessmen to provide a private plane they share” so she could travel to Florida. She later said it was so she could visit her “ailing” father.

This woman is a danger. Last year St. Louis City saw its highest homicide rate in 50 years. But after little to no action by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, state officials passed legislation to allow the state attorney general to take over homicide cases in St. Louis after 90 days if Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner hasn’t filed charges or upon request from the “chief law enforcement officer.” Gardner, a Soros-funded prosecutor, has been a complete disaster for the City of St. Louis. The Soros-funded Circuit attorney rejected several open-and-shut cases due to the fact that she believed local police officers...

It would likely be impossible to run an election without these. The Maricopa County Election team claims they do not have ‘Admin’ access to their voting machines. If this is the case, then the County did not own the election process they ceded it to their external vendor. A system administrator has the following duties: System administrators are critical to the reliable and successful operation of an organization and its network operations center and data center. A sysadmin must have expertise with the system’s underlying platform (i.e., Windows, Linux) as well as be familiar with multiple areas including networking, backup,...