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For many of us here in Asia, Japan has set an economic standard that others strive to achieve. Besides, Japan is one of the active funders of developmental projects across the emerging countries in Asia. I myself have worked on a Japanese-funded railway corridor project in India, which will likely support both electric and diesel trains. But all that is about to change. Japan has announced that it will be moving away from fossil fuels and reducing its dependency on coal and oil for energy. Is that a major blunder? Why is it dangerous to Japan’s economy—and others in Asia?...

Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs Mark 12:28–34 Friends, our Gospel for today features the Word of God himself telling us what stands at the heart of the Law. A scribe posed, as a kind of game, the following question: "Which is the first of all the commandments?" There were hundreds of laws in the Jewish system. So it was a favorite exercise of the rabbis to seek out the single rule that somehow clarified the whole of the Law. So Jesus gives his famous answer: "The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is...

Judge Joe Brown made a massive splash in the news this week. During an interview with former NBA player Kwame Brown on a YouTube Livestream, Brown did not hold back or mince his words about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. Brown, a former television personality who hosted an arbitration-based reality court show, went off on Biden for his decades of racism and past remarks denigrating black children. The Judge also took a shot at Kamala Harris for “sleeping her way to the top.” The judge began by claiming Harris isn’t black. “She’s got two Jewish children she adopted. [She] married...

Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler’s divorce has reportedly hit a roadblock. The former NFL quarterback, 38, is said to be seeking half ownership of Cavallari’s lifestyle company, Uncommon James, TMZ reported Saturday, citing sources, as the brand was launched during their marriage. Cavallari, 34, meanwhile, is said to believe that she doesn’t owe any part of Uncommon James to Cutler, alleging that she funded the business, which sells jewelry, clothing, and home goods.

Conservative talk show host Dana Loesch is set to replace the late Rush Limbaugh's show in a multiplatform deal with Audacy and Radio America. Her show will be broadcasted in 11 markets including Kansas City, Las Vegas, Richmond, Wichita, Gainesville, Greenville-Spartanburg, Philadelphia, Austin, Buffalo, St. Louis and Hartford, according to a press release from the companies. "We're thrilled to partner with Radio America and welcome Dana Loesch to our broadcast and digital platform," Jeff Sottolano, executive vice president of programming for Audacy, said. "Dana is a leading conservative voice and influencer and both her daily live show and future original...

This past Tuesday, Judicial Watch released a trove of emails about the settlement agreement between the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and Robert Gordon, who was the department director, that show the lengths to which department officials fumbled with their messaging during the height of the pandemic. The information came to light with the release of 1,221 pages that Judicial Watch received in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. For example, a Dec. 1, 2020, email from Gordon to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's chief of staff and deputy chief of staff included an overview of a project...

Netflix has elected Barack and Michelle Obama to a new position of power at the head of their upcoming animated series. The Obamas announced Wednesday they have produced We the People, a 10-episode television series aimed at educating

She’s cute, white, cheerful and popular — a bad combination in politically fanatical America in 2021 Comedienne Ellie Kemper is in trouble! What for? Well, it’s a bit hard to understand. Let Cockburn go and take a couple of hours to figure it out.OK, Cockburn is back — and more confused than ever. Apparently, Kemper, 41, is in trouble because she won a local St Louis beauty pageant 22 years ago, when she was 19. Why is that bad? The pageant was the Veiled Prophet Ball, put on by the Veiled Prophet Organization of St Louis. OK — and why...

At long last, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are inching closer and closer each day to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic here in America. We are not quite there yet. There are still 500 of our countrymen dying every day from complications of this insidious virus. But all over the nation, there is a different feeling in the air. There are people in the streets and restaurants. They are talking, hugging, smiling and laughing. It's simple, but it was missing for the last year. We are finally seeing a marked lift in...

Move over, Woodrow Wilson. Take a seat, Barack Obama. Let him through, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. Based on last week’s $6 trillion budget proposal, Joe Biden has surpassed all of those liberal icons to take a position at the head of the pack as the most extreme radical ever to inhabit the White House. Were Biden to succeed in turning his budget proposal into reality, he would more radically transform the nation than those previous presidents combined. The Biden budget will not be enacted as is. And, because the document itself reveals that not only will it not fix...

Move over, Woodrow Wilson. Take a seat, Barack Obama. Let him through, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. Based on last week’s $6 trillion budget proposal, Joe Biden has surpassed all of those liberal icons to take a position at the head of the pack as the most extreme radical ever to inhabit the White House. Were Biden to succeed in turning his budget proposal into reality, he would more radically transform the nation than those previous presidents combined. The Biden budget will not be enacted as is. And, because the document itself reveals that not only will it not fix...

Voters will go to the polls on June 8 to choose candidates for an array of elected offices in the Democratic and Republican party primaries. The polling locations will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. for in-person voting. Vote-by-mail secure drop boxes, for voters who prefer not to vote in person, are available at the East Windsor Municipal Court Building at 80 One Mile Road and at Hightstown Fire Co. No. 1 at 140 N. Main St. The winners in the political primaries will square off in the Nov. 2 general election.

Some emergencies require an increase in government spending, but that comes with an understanding that the higher levels of spending are unusual and will not be sustained. Unfortunately, this understanding seems to be lost on the Biden administration. Exhibit A is his proposed $6 trillion budget for Fiscal Year 2022 and the accompanying huge budget deficits on the books for the next decade. This is bad news for everybody except politicians and their cronies. It signals once again that contrary to the words spoken by the president during his inaugural address, unity is not in the cards for us Americans....

After impeaching President Donald Trump for the so-called insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, House Democrats want to, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, "establish a bipartisan agreement for a 9/11-style commission to report on the facts and the causes of the attack." Before the Senate vote to establish this commission, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said, "The American people will see where every member stands: on the side of truth or on the side of Donald Trump's big lie." Having already pronounced Jan. 6 an "insurrection" sparked by Trump's "big lie," Democrats like Pelosi and Schumer tell us, with a...

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Nearly every statement from the president, and other Democrat leaders as well, is now being touted as a "defense of democracy." "Democracy," in fact, has become the left's favorite word for defending its violent assault on our democracy. Whenever progressives use the word, rest assured that they're interested in their own power, not in your freedom. Biden's Memorial Day speech is a good example. In what the Washington Post called "a rousing defense of democracy," Biden launched a familiar attack on those who are actually protecting our democracy. In fact, Biden's "Memorial" Day speech said nothing of substance about those...

TIZAMARTE, Guatemala - Alvina Jerónimo Pérez tries to avoid going out. She doesn’t want to see neighbors. She’s even changed the chip in her cellphone since her failed journey to the United States. The 42-year-old woman is fearful her unsuccessful migration could cost her more than she can bear — even the single-story concrete block house her husband built on land passed down from her great grandparents in this mountaintop hamlet in south-central Guatemala. From afar, it seemed a safe bet. Many others in town, even in her own family, had made similar journeys. “Since people were passing (the border),...

The definition of 'social justice' is imprecise. That's where the rub begins. It has precise meaning only for its user, is what the user wants it to be. So, can it be precisely defined? Perhaps, if we focus upon its application. In his 1999 book The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote, "In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that 1) things are not right and that 2) the government should make them right. Where right all too often means cosmic justice, trying to set things right means writing a blank check for a never-ending expansion...

The results of the 2020 census are in, and the Democrats are looking very nervous. It turns out that red states are growing and blue states are shrinking. Red States are gaining three congressional seats while blue states are losing three. In fact, California will lose a seat for the first time ever. Legislative and Electoral College power is shifting in favor of the Republicans. But the propaganda ministry is trying to convince us that this is all good news for the crime family that calls itself the Democrats. The narrative is that liberals are moving from blue states to...

Well, it looks like RINO season is upon us because Republicans in Georgia are taking a stand and turning up the heat on RINO leadership to get to the bottom of what happened. According to reports, Kemp is under fire once more for his handling of the 2020 elections. Here’s more info from the Washington Examiner. ore than 500 Republicans in Georgia are urging Gov. Brian Kemp to pursue a forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election. The letter, obtained by the Washington Examiner on Wednesday, was signed by 531 Republicans ranging from grassroots activists, to precinct leaders, to delegates...