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An official with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection told members of Congress Wednesday that fentanyl seizures at the United States-Mexico border have increased by 308% in the fiscal year 2021. Troy Miller, the senior official performing the duties of commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, appeared before the House Appropriations Committee’s Homeland Security Subcommittee to discuss the continued surge in crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border and the resources that CBP needs to respond to the situation and carry out its duties effectively. Members of the committee asked Miller questions about various topics, including the seizure of illegal drugs...

If you ask Donald Trump Jr., they most certainly did, and he’s got receipts. Don Jr. shared a video featuring a clip from CNN’s “Inside Politics” earlier this week when CNN anchor Abby Phillip discussed the state of the country—and it’s not good. “Domestically here in the United States, you have these really, I think, searing visuals. If you’re of a certain age, it particularly brings you back to — I think Republicans would love to bring people back to the Carter years. But these gas lines it is a psychological problem. Maybe it is temporary, but for the American...

President Joe Biden has endorsed a global effort to seize the intellectual property rights of American manufacturers. The decision to back a petition at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to “waive” intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines will do nothing to speed up efforts to vaccinate the rest of the world. It will set a precedent that government bureaucrats can surrender the intellectual property of American manufacturers and innovators whenever it is deemed politically expedient. Moreover, this decision provides an implicit endorsement of the rampant theft of American intellectual property by China. Upon taking office, Biden promised to hold China...

Home prices across the U.S. are soaring as supply remains low and demand for housing has skyrocketed, squeezing first time buyers. The median existing-home price for all housing types in April was $341,600, up 19.1 percent from April 2020 when the median price was $286,800, the National Association of Realtors said. This is the highest price on record and beats last month’s record-breaking 17.2 percent annual gain. This marks 110 straight months of year-over-year gains.

Why are taxpayers funding broadcasts encouraging young children to question their sexual identities? According to a report from the Daily Caller News Foundation, taxpayer-supported PBS partnered with taxpayer-supported WNET and the taxpayer-supported New York City Department of Education to present to a targeted audience of three-to-eight-year-olds a drag queen reading from her own book. Here is the item from the DCNF, which licenses reproduction:A children’s show on PBS featured drag queen and author “Little Miss Hot Mess” singing, dancing and reading a book about drag queens to an intended audience of three to eight year olds.“Today I’m going to read...

Well, they did it again! YouTube gave me a “strike” and removed my video, Stupid, Dangerous COVID Advice (this link goes to the video on Rumble). Supposed reason: It violated their “Community Guidelines.” I now have a “strike” and can’t upload for a week. On what grounds did YouTube remove my video? Are you ready? “Spam, deceptive practices, and scams”! Just scroll to the bottom of the infographic below to see their reason. What’s really twisted is that YOUTUBE, Dr. Wuhan (Fauci), and their friends are the ones perpetuating “spam, deceptive practices, and scams.” Their willful stupidity, propaganda, and suppression...

Circuit de MonacoFirst Grand Prix1950Number of Laps78Circuit Length3.337kmRace Distance260.286 kmLap Record1:14.260 Max Verstappen (2018)

With investors and residents fleeing, organized crime has found itself some big business opportunities in leftwing San Francisco.According to the San Francisco Chronicle:Retailers attributed a majority of losses to professional thieves instead of opportunistic shoplifters who may be driven by poverty, with one CVS leader calling San Francisco a hub of organized retail crime. Losses have shuttered drugstores providing vital services, even more critical during the pandemic as some stores give out vaccines.“This has been out of control,” said Supervisor Ahsha Safaí, who held a hearing Thursday with retailers, police, the district attorney and probation departments. “People are scared to...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Friday delivered a long-winded rant directed at Republicans for continuing to not accept the 2020 presidential election results. After noting Republicans take exception to people disrespecting the American flag by kneeling for the anthem but not what the flag stands for itself, a screaming Scarborough urged those who still think the election was rigged to “just get the hell out.”

Tornadoes killed 553 Americans in 2011, the deadliest year since 1925. May 22 marks the 10th anniversary of the Joplin, Missouri tornado that killed 161, the first triple-digit toll since 1953. The U.S. had been averaging 60 tornado deaths annually. This death toll shocked the public, weather forecasters, and researchers. Improvements in weather radar, National Weather Service warnings, and the advent of real-time, street-level tracking had seemingly rendered such death tolls a historical relic. Some experts had a ready answer for the devastation: man-made climate change. Bill McKibben took a tongue-in-cheek tack in the Washington Post, with a headline, “A...

Out of Thick Air: Transforming CO2 Into Light-Emitting Carbon This image shows light emission, a process known as photoluminescence, from solid carbon which has formed on a silver nanostructure, illuminated by green light. Credit: University of Ottawa, OSA Optica ================================================================== A team of researchers at the University of Ottawa has found a way to use visible light to transform carbon dioxide gas, or CO2, into solid carbon forms that emit light. This development creates a new, low-energy CO2 reduction pathway to solid carbon that will have implications across many fields. We talked to lead author Dr. Jaspreet Walia, Post-Doctoral Fellow...

Our country is undergoing a radical transformation of trust. The people we relied on to lead us in difficult and challenging times are no longer credible. The COVID-19 pandemic is a prime example. Our politicians, doctors, and scientists say one thing on Monday with great conviction and sincerity, and by Wednesday they are saying the exact opposite with equal fervor. Trump, Biden, Fauci, Birx -- whom should you believe? Should you wear a mask? Should your children be in school? Should you get the vaccine shot? Should your five-year-old get the injection? Are these people taking their positions on these...

On this date in 1559, an auto de fe in Valladolid marked the onset of an Inquisition purge of nascent Lutheranism in Spain. Now you’d expect to find the Spanish Inquisition policing spiritual disloyalties of the realm’s backsliding Jewish and Muslim conversos.. … but of course the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition had a broad remit to defend orthodoxy and considering that Spain is still a predominantly Catholic country they’d be entitled to point at the scoreboard. In 1558, it caught wind of an actual Lutheran movements, heretofore rarely seen on the peninsula — and as Joseph...

The founder of the CRT-based “1619 Project” has come under fire for her controversial views and now it has affected her future job prospects.Nikole Hannah-Jones has had an important tenure offer revoked in response to growing concerns about the nature of her work and her racially insensitive comments. The offer came from her alma mater, The University of North Carolina.NC Policy Watch originally reported the story, saying the UNC board of trustees instead chose to consider a five-year contract for Hannah-Jones.As Policy Watch reported last week, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media pursued Hannah-Jones for its Knight Chair...

Confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci has decreased 42.2 percent among Americans in the past year, according to a Trafalgar Group survey. Respondents were asked, “Has your confidence in Dr. Fauci gone up or down in the past year?” While 42.2 percent said confidence has gone down, 22.1 percent said it has increased, and 26.1 percent said it is unchanged. When only Republicans were asked the same question, 50.8 percent said their confidence in Fauci decreased, whereas respondents with no party affiliation decreased 41.7 percent. Twenty percent of Democrats’ confidence in Fauci decreased...

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Democrats have been flogging the image of Kamala Harris for more than six months, trying to show Americans why she should be popular, and the public isn’t buying it. The efforts and the expectations of success by Democrats say a lot about the party and their myopic view of the voters, which has cost them dearly during the last three national elections. A party that tells most voters they’re “racist” and says those same ordinary people must be cleansed of their “systemic racism” and delusions of “white supremacy” shouldn’t have to wonder why people don’t like them very much. But...

Some British scientists have admitted that their committee exploited fear in totalitarian and “unethical” ways to control people’s behavior throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical,” said Gavin Morgan, a psychologist and member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behavior (SPI-B). “Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.” SPI-B, according to The Telegraph, is a subcommittee that advises the British government’s Scientific Advisory Group for...

When it comes to living former New Jersey governors, a new poll shows Tom Kean remains residents’ favorite, while Chris Christie is still their least favorite — though his numbers have improved. A majority of Jerseyans don’t support another Christie making another run at the White House, either. The Monmouth University Poll, released Tuesday morning, asked Garden State adults what they think about the state’s nine living ex-governors.

George Santayana (1863–1952), in The Life of Reason: Five Volume in One, wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it." It appears as if Joe Biden can't (or won't) remember and is going to repeat what FDR (and others) did. Politicians (primarily Democrats such as Schumer, Pelosi, Newsom, Cuomo, and Whitmer) wrecked the U.S. economy through a completely unnecessary and wildly inconsistent power-grab. Now Biden plans to finish it off. Ian Haworth, on 17 May, wrote "Joe Biden Thinks the Failures of Big Government Can Be Fixed By...More Big Government." Biden actually suggested that the disastrous...