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If you’ve been to the grocery store, or the gas station, or the building supply store, you know we have an inflation problem. Last month’s hotter than expected CPI confirmed what we already intuitively know. But the folks over at the Federal Reserve continue to tell us there’s nothing to worry about. They insist inflation is transitory.Their reassurances notwithstanding, people are worried. Searches for the word “inflation” hit an all-time high on Google trends in May. In this clip from a recent podcast, Peter Schiff talked about the growing public worry about inflation and why the Fed’s response is bogus....

Snopes, the left-leaning “fact-checking” website, sent Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) a note demanding to know if she was responsible for vandalizing her own home, the Republican lawmaker said on the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Mace announced on social media earlier this week that her Charleston home had been vandalized with vile graffiti along with Antifa symbols. “It's a very, very jarring experience,” she told me on my radio program. “And no one should feel like they've got to look over their shoulder every day. It doesn't matter what your political leanings are, Republican or Democrat or indifferent, everyone should feel...

More and more people and countries after countries are now refusing to believe in the theory of natural origin of Covid-19. Officially, the UK demanded an independent investigation to know how Covid-19 originated and turned into a pandemic. ... China did not give full access to the activities going on inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The WHO team that visited Wuhan in January this year was reportedly not allowed to see the files pertaining to the research undertaken by virologist Shi Zhengli... China’s “bat woman”... The researchers have based their theory on two broad counts: the absence of intermediary...

We knew he was a lowlife but as of today, Hunter Biden may be a lock for the scumbag hall of fame. Biden had said publicly and even written in his book that he had no idea who Lunden Roberts - who bore him a child - was. Now we know the truth. Lunden Roberts worked at Hunter Biden’s law firm. Of course he knew her. When she became pregnant in 2017 Biden not only ghosted her but took measures to toss her and her unborn child right out of his life, like so much trash. Lunden pleaded with Hunter...

Record charter rate highlights extreme vessel shortage — a major negative for cargo shippersIn a sign of just how frenzied the container market has become, a freight forwarder is reportedly paying $135,000 per day for a short-term charter of the S Santiago, a 15-year-old container ship with a capacity of 5,060 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). “Charter rates for short employment … have gone out of control,” said Alphaliner in its new weekly report. “Depending on the sources, the ship would have obtained anything between $100,000 and $145,000 per day, an absolute historic high. The name of the charterer has not...

Unlike many Israelis, I am not spiking the ball or dancing in the endzone today (forgive the exclusive American cultural reference for those who don’t follow US football). Prime Minister Netanyahu, Bibi, is not public enemy No. 1. But his time to step down has passed, and that’s why this week Israel announced a new “unity” government, after four elections in two years. It gives me no sense of pride that we’ve come to this point, particularly how this has transpired. As Prime Minister, there’s no question that Bibi deserves enormous credit for many achievements, which many of his detractors...

A good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy. Miami Houstan of Texas shared a video on Instagram that shows him encountering a burglar when he returned home Memorial Day weekend. The brave man wrote this caption: I grew up in the hood …i made bad choices in my life i’m not proud of …i was given a second chance in life by a judge by joining the army where i started my career as a cop to make a difference in my community from the inside out …with everything happening in this world with my own race the...

A few weeks ago, Michelle Watson woke up to a deafening, steadily oscillating screech. “What the heck is that noise?” she wondered. She went outside to her yard and saw hundreds of beady-eyed insects enrobed in a thick shell of gold emerging out of the ground and crawling up the trees. What Watson was seeing was the emergence of thousands of Brood X cicadas, part of a billions-strong insect swarm that has lain dormant for 17 years before arising to “scream,” mate— all over about three thunderous weeks. Watson had spent the past 20 years in Las Vegas, but moved...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) made her support for the Senate filibuster clear while touring the U.S. border facilities in Arizona with colleague Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday. "I've long been a proponent of the filibuster because it is a tool that protects the democracy of our nation,” Sinema told reporters at a press event. "Rather than allowing our country to ricochet wildly every two to four years back and forth between parties." "To those who say that we must make a choice between the filibuster and 'X,' I say, this is a false choice," she said. "The reality is...

Rising lumber prices have been a major source of inflation concerns. It’s one thing when the price of lumber doubles… and a whole other thing when it goes up 5-fold! Yep, that’s right. Lumber prices have rocketed higher over the past 18 months, surging 5 times the COVID crash price low. Something’s Gotta Give! Today’s long-term “monthly” lumber chart highlights why there is a potential for a reversal / pullback in lumber prices over the coming weeks/months. As you can see, the surge in lumber has price testing the 261% Fibonacci extension level, as well as the underside of the...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — An extremely rare wildflower that grows only in Nevada’s high desert where an Australian mining company wants to dig for lithium should be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday. The conclusion announced on Thursday that federal protection is warranted could jeopardize Ioneer Ltd.’s plans to build the mine halfway between Reno and Las Vegas. It’s an early test of the Biden administration’s ability to make good on promises to protect public lands and their native species while at the same time pursuing an ambitious clean energy agenda that...

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Shut up Gorka Day after Memorial Day Sebastian Gorka went on a rant about how Joe Biden is president and is completely legitimate and anyone who thinks differently better shut up. I could not believe how a guy who claims to be about "America First" and calls his radio show "America First" would come out as 100% for Biden. More irrational is that Gorka stated Biden is 100% legitimate as president of the United States immediately after reviewing the middle of the night election fraud that took place in four states to steal the election. Gorka, you are now nothing...

President Biden and first lady Jill will meet with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, the White House confirmed Thursday morning. The commander-in-chief and his wife will be welcomed by the monarch on Sunday, June 13, the final day of his visit to the United Kingdom for the G7 summit, marking the first leg of his three-country trip to Europe. The Group of Seven summit — scheduled to run from June 11 to 13 in Cornwall, about 300 miles west of London — will mark the US president’s first overseas trip since taking office in January.

EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans say it is "imperative" for Dr. Anthony Fauci to testify before congressional committees and provide information related to the origins of COVID-19. House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., who serves as the top Republican on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, and House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer penned a letter to top Democrats on the committees, Chairman James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., saying it is "imperative" that Fauci appear before the committees. Scalise and Comer wrote that Fauci’s emails, which were released through a Freedom of Information Act filing this week,...

Google has reassigned a global diversity lead Kamau Bobb over a 2007 blog post that it deemed anti-Semitic.

Was Donald Trump right all along about covid-19? Did the world's worst pandemic for 100 years emanate from a laboratory in Wuhan, China? If so, where does all this leave Dr Anthony Fauci, America's top infectious disease expert, and the face of the nation's response to Covid, who vehemently dismissed the engineered theory but has close and potentially conflicting ties to China's top scientists and the very lab under suspicion? These are some of the very uncomfortable questions now gathering ferocious momentum following President Biden's decision to order a new 90-day investigation by US intelligence agencies to 'redouble their efforts'...

<p>REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden helped his wife celebrate her 70th birthday on Thursday with a leisurely bike ride.</p><p>The president and Jill Biden — with a few Secret Service agents in tow — cycled the paved Cape Henlopen State Park trail near their Delaware beach home.</p>

Earlier this week, at the age of 67, he became a homicide victim, gunned down behind his St. Clair County home. It appears two men tried to steal his beloved Chevy Camaro, affectionately named “Babe.” “Brian was a pacifist. He didn’t believe in violence, so this is hard to comprehend,’' said his sister, Carole Tatum. “He was my baby brother. It’s hard.” The shooting happened at Shaw’s Ladonna Drive home in Odenville. According to friends and family, Shaw was in the three-bay, industrial-style garage behind his home working on one of his cars. He loved to buy and sell cars,...

President Biden's son Hunter Biden says he was hoping former President Trump would attack him over his previous drug and alcohol abuse when Trump debated his father last year in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. "The one thing that I was hoping for was that attack from Donald Trump, because I knew my dad would answer from his heart," Biden said during a recent appearance on Donny Deutsch's podcast. "And I knew that my dad would answer in a way that would speak to the millions and millions of people that have somebody that they love, or they...