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Who Will Be The Next MARAD Chief? John Konrad Total Views: 212 June 23, 2021 Share this article by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) Last November, Forbes published a series of articles claiming that the most critical nomination Biden will make for the future of our ocean, climate, and society is that of the US Maritime Administrator. Seven months later, the White House has failed to make that appointment, but several candidates have emerged including a popular and young minority female with high ambition. Could she become the Lina Khan of the maritime industry? Or will she run into trouble for...

White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday the highly contagious delta variant is the “greatest threat” to the nation’s attempt to eliminate Covid-19. Delta, first identified in India, now makes up about 20% of all new cases in the United States, up from 10% about two weeks ago, Fauci said during a White House news conference on the pandemic. He said delta appears to be “following the same pattern” as alpha, the variant first found in the U.K., with infections doubling in the U.S. about every two weeks. “Similar to the situation in the U.K., the delta...

LOS ANGELES - Despite data indicating that the pandemic is improving in the U.S. and other parts of the world, the global death toll this year from the novel coronavirus has already eclipsed 2020’s. As of June 20, more than 3.8 million people around the world have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Globally, approximately 1.8 million people were killed by the virus in 2020. So far this year, more than 1.9 million people have already lost their lives to the deadly disease as of June 20.

Dr. Bailey was making some genuinely preposterous statements about who to prioritize with the vaccine. Video...

TWELFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 7:15–20 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that a tree is known by its fruits. In the fifth chapter of his Letter to the Galatians, Paul makes this very specific. He tells us that the fruits of the Holy Spirit are “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, [and] self-control,” implying that the Spirit’s presence in one’s life can be read from its radiance in these soul-expanding qualities. All of Paul’s “fruits of the Holy Spirit” are marks of an outward-looking, expansive magna anima (great soul), which stands in contradistinction to the...

Graydon Young, a 54-year-old from Florida who was charged in a 16-person conspiracy case related to the Capitol riot, will plead guilty Wednesday. Young, a member of the Oath Keepers, was hit with 6 counts, including conspiracy and aiding and abetting the obstruction of the congressional proceeding, CNN reported. He was also previously charged with document tampering after he deleted his Facebook account two days after January 6 – months before the feds interviewed him! Federal prosecutors claim Young participated in the “stack” military formation of Oath Keepers that “cut through the crowd to move inside the Capitol.”

A report from the GOP-controlled Michigan state Senate released Wednesday found no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. The report from the state Senate Oversight Committee affirmed that there was no evidence of fraud in the election. “The Committee can confidently assert that it has been thorough in examination of numerous allegations of unlawful actions, improper procedures, fraud, vote theft, or any other description which would cause citizens to doubt the integrity of Michigan’s 2020 election results,” the committee wrote. “Our clear finding is that citizens should be confident the results represent the true results of the ballots cast...

An unexpected discovery: Inflammatory proteins may slow cognitive decline in aging adults. Research has previously linked inflammation to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), yet scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Harvard Aging Brain Study (HABS) have made a surprising discovery about that relationship. In a new study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, they report that elevated levels of two chemical mediators of inflammation, known as cytokines, are associated with slower cognitive decline in aging adults. “These are totally unexpected results,” says the study’s co-senior author, Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, vice chair of Neurology and co-director...

Given an obscure, cryptically written poem as a clue and a vague idea of where the chest could be, hundreds of people have already headed to the great outdoors in search of the reward. The activity’s organizers, John Maxim and David Cline, say that their self-funded treasure hunt has already received national attention. Some people are planning on flying in from as far away as Atlanta and Hawaii in search of the prize.

At least six people were hurt when a pedestrian bridge crashed down onto a freeway in northwest Washington, DC, around noon on Wednesday, according to reports. The collapse of the bridge at Kenilworth Avenue and Polk Street trapped several vehicles under the rubble, including a truck that began leaking fuel, WZDC-TV reported. At least four people were taken to area hospitals and two others were treated at the scene, the station reported.

A White House Fact Sheet previewing President Joe Biden’s Wednesday afternoon speech suggests he will announce increased overwatch of Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs) as part of his response to surging crime. According to the White House, Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) “is announcing a new policy to underscore zero tolerance for willful violations of the law by [FFLs] that put public safety at risk.” What the new policy means in real terms: Absent extraordinary circumstances that would need to be justified to the Director, ATF will seek to revoke the licenses of dealers the first time that they violate...

Please permit some musings on the obsession that many of us have with achieving the perfect body ourselves. Let me start by saying (with all the good humor I can summon) that I do not have a perfect body. In fact, I have become increasingly dissatisfied with my appearance over the years as I gain weight, lose hair, and watch the gray eclipse the dark brown of what hair I do have left. Fatigue and sore joints are also increasingly my lot.Yes, I am well aware that my body is far from perfect and is steadily “heading south.” Like many...

The basic John Kennedy story says his speech on religious tolerance was a great step for Catholics in America. It's a very nice story; too bad it isn't true.“The Catholic Church benefited enormously from the JFK presidency,” pollster Larry Sabato wrote Monday morning. “Prejudice against Catholics declined and millions were exposed to church rituals. Church leaders welcomed the ‘JFK effect.'”“Now at last there is a second Catholic [president],” he continued, “and what do some in the hierarchy do? They ruin it.”“A little more than 60 years [after President John F. Kennedy’s speech on accepting Catholics in American politics], a second...

A stunning new poll from Rasmussen reveals 55 percent of Americans support the election audit process taking place in key states around the country on the back of a number of statistical errors and corrupt interventions as first outlined by The National Pulse in 2020. Additionally, the poll reveals that 10 percent of Democrats do not believe Joe Biden was elected fairly. Asked, “Do you support or oppose audits of election results?” a majority of 55 percent said they support them. Only 29 percent said they stood in opposition. Asked “Does expressing doubt about the outcome of elections undermine democracy...

Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) said Wednesday President Joe Biden “just sort of stared at me,” when Jones told Biden to be more involved in federalizing elections, where Democrats seek to cancel state voter ID laws and publicly fund political campaigns. Jones “told President Joe Biden their party needed him more involved in passing voting legislation on the Hill,” the Associated Press reported about an event last week in which the two met. “In response? Biden ‘just sort of stared at me,’ Jones said, describing an ‘awkward silence’ that passed between the two.”

The undoing of the 2020 Presidential Election would appear to be gathering momentum with more and more states commencing audits of the ballots and counting methods. With these audits progressing a number of commentators on the left are starting to be concerned that President Trump may well end up sworn into office sometime before the next election. For argument's sake let's consider that President Trump is inaugurated after January 20, 2023. According to the 22nd Amendment if there are less than two years left in President Trump's term of office then he could run for re-election in 2024 and end...

The parents of two young children, Perez and Arzuaga were gunned down Saturday night amid Puerto Rican Day festivities in Humboldt Park. Arzuaga, 24, died that night and Perez, 25, Tuesday morning. Shortly after learning of her death, the couple’s friend Jae Pacheco reflected on their love story. “I thought it was so cute,” Pacheco told the Sun-Times. “They first met each other at a party, and it was over with from there. They fell in love with each other, and they spent years together. They made a family together.” “It was love at first sight,” she added.

U.S. Air Force Base: Drag Queen Show 'Essential For Morale’ — A U.S. Air Force base responded to controversy about a drag queen show hosted by the base by saying the performance was “essential to the morale, cohesion, and readiness of the military.” - Ancient Rome Syndrom - Global Monetary System: Israel Begins Testing Of Centralized Digital Currency — We are down to the wire. The digital dollar is here and is now being tested in a pilot program in Israel. - New BabylonExposé: The Complicity and Cover-up of CCP Organ Harvesting and Death Camps — Investigative journalist Mitchell Gerber...

This video is 5 years old, but it highlights the lunacy that is third-wave feminism. Once again, young American boys have legitimate reason to hesitate marriage.

The Washington Post bumbled through a Saturday article attacking Christopher Rufo, an investigative journalist and prominent opponent of “critical race theory” in our schools. Rufo took to Twitter to accuse the Post of five lies in the article by reporters Laura Meckler and Josh Dawsey. At least three versions of the story exist at online archive sites like this. Even the Post altered the story from its original errors. But you'd never know how wrong it was by looking at the current version, which only carries this note in small text at the bottom: