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In 1859, Abraham Lincoln related the tale of an Eastern monarch who charged his wise men with discovering words that would everywhere and always be true. The wise men went away and returned to present the monarch with this six-word sentence: "And this, too, shall pass away." So, the question: How long will Sen. Joe Manchin's hour of power last before it, too, passes away? What will Manchin make of it? And what will his legacy be? For, at present, Manchin is the man in the arena, the indispensable senator as far as Democrats are concerned. He alone can make...

As you may already have learned, on Tuesday a left-leaning website called ProPublica published an article announcing that it had obtained tax returns of “thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years.” The headline of the piece is “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax.” If you were still harboring any doubts that the IRS is a criminal enterprise in service of the progressive cause, this should put an end to them. It is highly doubtful that the IRS has ever really been an organization legitimately engaged in apolitical...

Talk show host retracts apology to Obama for calling him racist Beck: 'I was exactly right, and I even stated it right' Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck had apologized to ex-President Barack Obama for calling him a racist in 2009. Now Beck has retracted that apology.

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Video is roughly 20 minutes. Video summary: Why is force being used to coerce people to take the COVID "vaccine"? The Neremberg code forbids medical experimentation on uninformed people. The "vaccine" is now being pushed on younger and younger people. The youtube doccumentary on Bill Gates by James Corbett: "Meet Bill Gates - A Corbett Report - Full 4 Parts" is extremely important! (I personally agree on this) Bill Gates is involved with the concept of worldwide vaccination programs. The full four-part video is 2 hours and is found at How Bill Gates Monopolized Global HealthBenefical COVID therapudics were withheld...

As the world slowly begins to emerge from the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and American elites develop an interest in the formerly dismissed Wuhan lab leak theory, it is time to focus attention where it belongs: punishing a rogue Chinese Communist Party for what it has inflicted upon an unsuspecting world. To many of us, it was obvious from the outset that COVID-19 was a "Chinese Chernobyl." Regardless of whether the virus has as its provenance a zoonotic transmission at a wet market or an "escape" from the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- to say nothing of the low,...

I don't know if this has been posted before, but I just saw this. So far it only has 126,373, so too many people have not seen this. This interview is with a former police man, who is black, being interviewed by a BBC reporter. While the reporter is obviously trying to lead the conversation that the Floyd murder is a clear-cut example of police violence against blacks due to racism, but the former cop is not buying it.

The accusation that America is deeply, irredeemably stained by systemic racism is not up for debate. No white person can be innocent. Your individual conscience is irrelevant. Each one of us is a white supremacist benefitting from a white supremacist structure. We must confess our "white privilege." So, if we're so overwhelmingly dominant, why can't we disagree? The news media, which imagines itself as the essence of flowering democracy, is in reality a force for suppressing all dissent from the "racial justice" or "Black Lives Matter" narrative. Debating the left is a sign of "white fragility," that one cannot accept...

BOSTON (AP) — The chair of the Boston School Committee resigned Monday amid criticism of racially charged texts she shared with another member of the committee disparaging families of students, city officials announced Tuesday. The texts were sent during a committee meeting last October as the board was considering a proposal to temporarily drop the entrance test requirement to the city’s exam schools. “Best school committee meeting ever. I’m trying not to cry,” school committee Chair Alexandra Oliver-Davila texted to fellow committee member Lorna Rivera, according to the texts obtained by the Boston Globe. “Wait until the white racists start...

When I was a kid, I collected Wacky Packs — a series of stickers inside packages of gum. The images were well illustrated but crude satires of familiar products and brands. For instance, instead of Gillette's Right Guard Deodorant, the Wacky version was Killette's Fright Guard, the can depicting a thug proudly unleashing lethal B.O. This raunchy spoof and others like it thrilled my kindergarten boyish sense of humor. Fast-forward a few decades, and such shenanigans aren't a childish novelty in the candy aisle anymore. Now cheap-shot rip-offs of corporations are supposedly groundbreaking art, and tools for social change. As...

Russia, China, and the balance of the world's bad cyber-actors won't stop attacking American commercial and infrastructure targets like the Colonial Pipeline and JBS, the world's largest meat-processing company, until we make them pay an unacceptable price. Unfortunately, Congress and the federal government accept that grave risk. America is a sitting duck to cyber-criminals and state actors, who easily harvest our intellectual property, degrade our communications, create false information that influences our politics, and erode our national will from keyboards abroad. Yes, cyberspace operations are the new nuclear weapons and can be scaled from pinpricks up to attacks that cripple...

The COVID vaccine is not a vaccine at all. A vaccine is a weakened, dead, or partial virus that is injected in order to prompt the body to build antibodies without getting ill. The mRNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna don’t do this. Instead, they contain mRNA that tricks cells into manufacturing spike proteins that resemble the coronavirus and the body creates the antibodies to those proteins. It turns out that these spike proteins are harmful themselves as they travel throughout the body and enter into the bloodstream. The spikes seem to be causing clotting, which is leading to serious...

Four North Carolinians could win a $1 million cash prize and four lucky students ages 12 to 17 can each get a $125,000 college scholarship. But you have to get at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine first. If you’ve already gotten yours, don’t worry, you’re already entered! The drawings will be on June 23, July 7, July 21, and August 4. “North Carolina will launch cash drawings for our residents who have gotten a vaccine,” said Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday. It’s another incentive in hopes to boost vaccination numbers statewide. “I encourage people to do it. Let's...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a towering figure. Few public officials have had stints as CIA Director, U.S. congressman, and business owner. To supporters and detractors alike, he’s more formidable now that he’s out of office. I recently met with Secretary Pompeo at Hudson Institute in downtown Washington, D.C., where he serves as a Distinguished Fellow, to speak with him about current events. During our conversation, he discussed foreign policy, his successor Secretary Blinken’s performance thus far, President Biden’s War on Guns, and much more. Assessing the Biden DoctrineI asked Pompeo to assess his successor Secretary Antony Blinken’s...

No matter how mentally diminished President Joe Biden is, you have to be horrified by who waits in the wings should he leave office before the expiration of his term. Unfortunately, one of the many consequences of Biden's mental decline is an impairment of judgment that manifests itself in such reckless decisions as putting Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of the border. It is like making a colicky infant the goalie of a professional hockey team. If Biden were more alert, I would suspect it was his way of seeking revenge against Harris and those who foisted her on...

Although the cynically objective old-time reporter was always an overplayed stereotype, the identity- and class-driven modern journalist is real. While a number of political and media critiques of late have focused on the close-minded, thin-skinned, woke, ideology-driven current nature of the cultural landscape and those who inhabit it, there may be another factor at play: Identity politics is really easy to do. Life becomes much simpler when one must only deal with groups of people (or thoughts or attitudes or what have you) rather than individual and discrete concepts. There is a very reassuring clarity to the world when one...

Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” called former President Donald Trump a “political kidney stone” that the Republican Party should move past “sooner rather than later.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “Barbara, why are there only two? Why it just Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger who see this the way you see it?” Comstock said, “Like I said, 35 of the House members wanted an investigation. Seven senators supported it, So I do want to give more credit to all those folks. Here’s the thing, the information is going to come out. As I pointed out when I...

Here's the problem with communism (and sometimes socialism). If you study these subjects, you will encounter lots of abstract theories about how best to organize society, money, property, and so on. Some ideas might sound appealing. But they have little to do with communism as this ideology has existed in the real world. Better to think of these theories as maps and guidebooks for people who want to rule others. Communism appeals to dead souls hungry for power. These are not normal, healthy people. When they finally seize power, everyone else becomes a victim, even as never-ending propaganda promises the...

Do tyrants Xi Jinping and Vlad Putin wake up in cold sweats at night dreading Harris’ ascendency to the presidency? It’s faint praise at best to describe someone as not smart or dumb. In fact, I don’t know that Kamala Harris is dumb. She may have brains, but she doesn’t much show them. She comes across as a woman who’s well over her head, and that should disturb anyone who cares about the welfare and safety of the nation. After all, this Californian who spent a chunk of her formative years in Montreal is, as the cliché goes, “a heartbeat...

One topic that came up between the leaders of the US and UK yesterday was the ongoing issues surrounding the death of Harry Dunn. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he and President Biden are "working together" to end the row over whether Anne Sacoolas should face trial over the death of 19-year-old Harry Dunn. Sacoolas, an American citizen, claimed diplomatic immunity after the teenager died in a collision with her car almost two years ago. Speaking at the G7, Johnson said the president was "extremely sympathetic" and "actively engaged" in the case. The confirmation of talks comes after Biden's predecessor...