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Some of the core tenets of the “woke” ideology spreading around the country mimic ideas used to justify many of the most horrendous atrocities of the past century, according to several experts.

...U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich dismissed protesters' claims for damages against officials such as then-President Donald Trump, then-Attorney General William Barr, then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and others for their part in the day's events, which included law enforcement pushing people out of the park using aggressive tactics.... ...Friedrich said the plaintiffs, whose complaints were filed by groups such as American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. and Black Lives Matter, had not "plausibly alleged the existence of a conspiracy" between those officials who "targeted black people and their supporters" as the plaintiffs claimed....

More than 50 House GOP lawmakers called on President Joe Biden to relieve Vice President Kamala Harris of her duties in handling the U.S.–Mexico border crisis. The Republicans, as they have done for months, noted that Harris hasn’t yet visited the border amid a surge in illegal immigration. Some Democratic lawmakers who represent areas along the border have also called on the vice president to take more action, including a visit to the area. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) and 55 other Republicans in the House demanded Harris’s removal from her border assignment, citing recent Customs and Border Protection data that...

To understand why Iranians abstain from polling places, I am giving you a little background on democracy, freedom, and why voting does not affect which candidate has ultimately announced the winner. • There has never been a just and fair election since 1979 Khomeini’s Arab Islamic coup d’état. • The Candidate must be an Arab Muslim, regardless of which the Arab States. Iranians (Persians) are not allowed to participate in any elections as a candidate. Iranians symbolically line up at the polls. • The candidate is pre-approved months in advance by the Shiite supreme leader. Imam Khomeini only selected a...

President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of Asia’s worst outbreaks, with a cumulative total of more than 1.3 million cases and 23,000 deaths. “You choose, vaccine or I will have you jailed,” Duterte said in a televised address on Monday following reports of low turnouts at several vaccination sites in the capital Manila. Duterte’s remarks contradict those of his health officials, who have said that while people are being urged to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, it was voluntary. “Don’t get me wrong, there is a...

Their “Love in the Time of Covid” cards in each save-the-date envelope spelled it out clearly: This October wedding would be a vaccinated-only event. After all, the groom’s father, who is vaccinated against covid-19 but immunocompromised, needed to be sure he could safely attend... The couple didn’t expect...someone who hadn’t been vaccinated showing up anyway. But then a family member disclosed some shocking intel: Michelle’s father and stepmom were planning to lie about having gotten the vaccine. “That obviously threw everything completely for a loop,” she says. Not only are Michelle and her father very close, but he’s also helping...

India in 1983 was still in its infant stages of economic development; however, like today, it was a popular destination among Westerners with its marketable poverty, a lingering sense of spirituality, mysticism and a rich history. Around 20 years after United States President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, his son, John F. Kennedy Jr., was ready to take on the world as a fresh 23-year-old history graduate from Brown University. After finishing his education, he took a working year off in which he traveled to India to spend some time at Delhi University, where he researched topics of...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi is praising President Joe Biden’s plan to bring four times as many refugees to the United States this year as former President Trump had planned.In a statement this week, Grandi applauded Biden’s decision to increase the refugee resettlement cap for Fiscal Year 2021 to 62,500 — a more than 315 percent jump compared to the previously established cap of 15,000 refugees for the fiscal year.“The whole pace will pick up in a few months,” Grandi told Voice of America in an interview. “In the whole of 2020, we only resettled 34,000...

Former President Donald Trump, former Attorney General Bill Barr and other members of the Trump administration cannot be sued over the forcible clearing of Black Lives Matter protesters from Washington DC’s Lafayette Square last year, a federal judge ruled Monday. In a 51-page decision, US District Judge Dabney Friedrich tossed many of the claims in four overlapping lawsuits, which alleged that government officials used unnecessary force by ordering US Park Police to deploy rubber bullets, flash bang grenades and tear gas to disperse demonstrators on the evening of June 1, 2020. Protesters were pushed from the park across from the...

Dozens of companies have signed a letter urging the Democrat-led Senate to pass the radical left’s measure designed to nationalize U.S. elections, the For the People Act, as it will, they say, override “abusive state laws.” Over 70 companies signed the letter to express support for the radical proposal, asserting they have a responsibility to employees to “ensure they can vote safely and without undue obstacles.” “These bills work in stark contrast to our interests, and make it more difficult for Americans to have a say in key decisions from healthcare to the economy by limiting our ability to register...

The Arizona Republican Party released another Arizona audit update from the wonderful Chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward. Dr. Ward trashed the false narratives portrayed by the media and leftist extremists like far left Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. Dr. Kelli Ward: Hello Arizona, it is time for the daily update from the Republican Party of Arizona. I am your Chairwoman Dr Kelli ward. Arizona Secretary of State, radical leftist Liberal Democrat Katie Hobbs is on Twitter calling for an end to the full forensic audit of the 2020 Maricopa County election, again. This time her reason is a story from...

Portland ran a pricy full-page Sunday ad in the New York Times promoting tourism after the Portland police riot squad quit Thursday. “Some of what you’ve heard about Portland is true. Some is not. What matters is that we’re true to ourselves,” Travel Portland wrote in the ad that could have cost up to $250,000. “You’ve heard a lot about us lately. It’s been a while since you heard from us,” it continues. “After a year of encouraging visitors and locals to support small businesses here and from a distance, it’s time to issue an invitation to come back to...

Cohn then told Trump that he might have to leave his position, but no one in the room spoke up to support him, including then-Vice President Mike Pence, according to the book. After the meeting was over, Cohn went back to his office, and Pence appeared several minutes later, without Trump in the vicinity. "I'm proud of you," Pence told Cohn at the threshold of his office door, according to the book.

After several Fulton County, Ga., poll monitors testified last year that boxes of mail-in ballots for Joe Biden looked liked they’d been run through a photocopy machine, state investigators quietly broke the seal on one suspicious box and inspected the hundreds of votes it contained for signs of fraud, RealClearInvestigations has learned exclusively.At the same time, a key whistleblower told RCI that state investigators pressured her to recant her story about what she and other poll monitors had observed — what they called unusually “pristine” mail-in ballots while sorting through them during last November’s hand recount.“I felt I was under...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (150 Million Americans now Fully Vaccinated, 177 Million have at least one shot - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths seem to have levelled off around a new, low and slightly declining plateau, over the last 2-3 weeks) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 379,003,410 (21,434,300 J&J) Administered: 318,576,441 (12,015,721 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 177,342,954 Fully Vaccinated: 150,046,006

Under the leadership of Dr. Francis Collins – who recently admitted the U.S. had "no control" over the Wuhan lab despite funding it – the U.S. National Institutes of Health signed a memorandum of understanding to boost collaboration with a Chinese Communist Party-run scientific organization funding the People’s Liberation Army, The National Pulse can reveal.The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has also funded several studies conducted by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including research focused on bat coronaviruses alongside U.S.-based research groups such as the Anthony Fauci-funded EcoHealth Alliance.Revealed through a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request,...

Former President Obama said Monday that Congress needs to pass voting rights legislation before the 2022 midterm elections, or American democracy could be at risk. "We can't wait until the next election because if we have the same kinds of shenanigans that brought about Jan. 6, if we have that for a couple more election cycles, we're going to have real problems in terms of our democracy long-term," said Obama. Speaking on a call with grassroots supporters alongside former Attorney General Eric Holder, Obama said debate over the voting rights bill, known as the For the People Act, was worth...

New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was selected to be part of the Olympic team this year.Hubbard participated as a man in the sport before her transition in 2013.Laurel won her first international women’s weightlifting title in Australia in 2017 breaking four national records in the process.Transgender weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard wins Gold at Australasian Championships.https://t.co/FeitrqVh8C pic.twitter.com/6Tm9bRHKfw— FloElite (@FloElite) March 20, 2017The Daily Mail reported:New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has been selected to be part of the country’s team for the Tokyo Olympic Games, becoming the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the event after qualifying requirements were modified.Hubbard will compete...

Pro-Abort Priest Loses Job After Media StinkCardinal spins Fr. Philip Dyer-Perry's firing as withdrawing for 'reflection'WESTMINSTER, London (ChurchMilitant.com) - A pro-abortion priest who denounced Poland's pro-life law banning eugenic abortion has withdrawn from a plum posting following a media exposé revealing the cleric's anti-Catholic position on the sanctity of life and homosexuality. Father Philip Dyer-Perry's appointment as pastoral director of Allen Hall Seminary was scrapped after archbishop of Westminster Cdl. Vincent Nichols received "an unprecedented number of complaints," multiple diocesan sources told Church Militant. Dyer-Perry's Facebook post encouraging Catholics to be 'woke' Outraged Catholics blasted Nichols for offering Dyer-Perry the...

The San Francisco Walgreens shoplifter defended by one CBS anchor last week as probably just stealing something he needed has reportedly been arrested and linked to at least seven different shoplifting incidents. [cut] Lugo-Romero was arrested around 8:30 a.m. Saturday after officers spotted him entering a store on Haight Street, San Francisco Police Department said in a recent press release. At the time, police officers who recognized him followed Lugo-Romero, 40, into the drug store "to find him clearing shelves of cosmetics and placing the merchandise into a duffel bag," SFPD said. After arresting him, officers determined the stolen goods...