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In its apparent desperation to fashion an immigration strategy that will impose order on increasingly out-of-control migration, the Biden administration has unleashed a torrent of words and goals untethered to specific policies and timetables. To date, on immigration, officials have effectively reversed and rolled back some of the Trump administration’s most pernicious policies, but without a clear road map to address the immediate crisis — a decades-high surge in illegal border-crossing — or the long-term challenge driving migration: dysfunction, disorder and decay in Central America.

I sense we could all use a break in life’s drama so I’m reporting on movie night. Now here at Casa MOTUS we stopped “going to the movies” as a thing sometime shortly after The Big Chill (1983). Honest. It wasn’t exactly a conscious decision. More like our lives were so over-booked that what downtime we had was too precious to spend it in a dark theatre watching some schlocky film.So gradually movie night became dinner and a movie at home. At first take-out and a video tape from the local video store (where selections were quite limited), later CDs...

HANOI, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Vietnam's health ministry reported 9,690 coronavirus infections on Sunday, a record daily increase and up from 7,334 cases on Saturday. Most of the new infections were detected in the epicentre Ho Chi Minh City and the neighbouring provinces of Binh Duong and Dong Nai, the ministry said. -- Vietnam still has a (big) problem on our hands. We desperately need more vaccines. Less than 10% of the population has received, even one shot. Less than 1%, have been fully vaccinated yet. Please send more vaccines!! America, are you there? :) I am also American here,...

The Government is expected to make a formal request for assistance to the military 'imminently'.

Bikers and motorcycle enthusiasts have descended on South Dakota's Black Hills for the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, again raising concerns that COVID-19 will rapidly spread among the hundreds-of-thousands expected at the event. Last year's rally drew widespread criticism, as maskless attendees gathered en masse, even as most in-person events were canceled around the country. This year, vaccines have made more gatherings possible — but Sturgis still stands out. Some recent large-scale events, including the music festival Lollapalooza, have required attendees to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test and to wear a mask. Because the nation is currently...

Climate activists and their allies in the Biden administration have declared war on natural gas. Although it is clean-burning, affordable, and domestically plentiful, these ideologues are targeting natural gas for extinction because of its greenhouse gas emissions. Biden has already imposed heavy-handed regulations like the suspension of natural gas leasing on federal lands and in federal waters, and procedural hurdles like a tougher approval process for new natural gas pipelines. He also supports measures aimed at discouraging or outright preventing home and business owners from choosing natural gas, thus forcing these end-users to rely entirely on electricity. At the local...

The St. Louis attorney has made a name for herself as a progressive activist. Gardner doggedly pursued Mark and Patricia McCloskey after they confronted left-wing agitators outside their home with firearms. After the McCloskeys successfully argued Gardner’s personal politics had infected the proceedings, she was removed from the case. The local NBC news affiliate reported she had used the case in campaign fundraising emails before and after the charges were issued. Gardner’s office missed multiple hearings related to the Campbell case; Gardner herself failed to respond to an email from the accused murderer’s attorney. “Kim Gardner is a poor excuse...

Bobby Bowden, whose homespun charm and coaching savvy turned the Florida State Seminoles into a football superpower, died on Sunday morning. He was 91. Terry Bowden, son of the legendary coach, confirmed to The Associated Press that his father died at home surrounded by family. “It was truly peaceful,” Terry Bowden said in a text message to AP. Bowden won more major-college games than anyone except Penn State’s Joe Paterno. He retired following the 2009 season with a record of 377-129-4, but the numbers don’t reflect the impact he had on college football in general and FSU in particular. The...

“The fact of the matter is that when he left the White House, Truman was loaded,” says Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado Boulder who has done what no Truman historians seem to have bothered to do — examine the financial records in the Truman archives in Independence, Mo. “He wasn’t just comfortably well off. He was Rich with a capital ‘R,’ and way into the 1%.”

A Missouri taxi company will not provide transportation to people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or are wearing masks. "We don't allow any type of masks in our vehicles," Yo Transportation owner Charlie Bullington told KMOV in an interview. "The second one, we're very against the vaccines, and we do not wish to have people in our vehicle that did the vaccines." Bullington said that, prior to pickup, he verifies that his passengers have not been vaccinated and will be wearing a face covering. The company's website said that it offers rides in Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Montgomery, St. Charles,...

It’d be the crossover event of the season. New York GOP mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa wants to team up with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-NY), to clean up a stretch of East Tremont Avenue which lies in the Bronx portion of her Congressional district. Sliwa sent AOC a letter last week, pitching the joint cleanup effort in Parkchester. “To bring greater awareness to environmental protectionism and to promote more city-wide public service, I hope you can join me in picking up trash and removing garbage from this polluted location site in the Bronx,” Sliwa wrote in the letter. “While we are...

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked why it is that the Woke won’t seem to have a debate or discussion about their views, and I’ve been meaning to write something about it for ages, probably a year at this point. Surely you’ll have noticed that they don’t tend to engage in debates or conversation? It is not, as many think, a fear of being exposed as fraudulent or illegitimate—or otherwise of losing the debate or looking bad in the challenging conversation—that prevents those who have internalized a significant amount of the Critical Social Justice Theory mindset...

Criminal investigation of Andrew Cuomo underway for new complainant who just came forward on Thursday.

BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world, combined own The New York Times and other legacy media, along with Big Pharma. Big Pharma and mainstream media are largely owned by two asset management firms: BlackRock and Vanguard. Drug companies are driving COVID-19 responses — all of which, so far, have endangered rather than optimized public health — and mainstream media have been willing accomplices in spreading their propaganda, a false official narrative that leads the public astray and fosters fear based on lies. Vanguard and BlackRock are the top two owners of Time...

The Talk Shows August 8th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass. Guest Anchored by Bret Baier: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg; Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.). Time Magazine’s Kid of the Year Gitanjali Rao (keep him away from Joe Biden and Bootygig!). Panel of idiots: Steve Hayes (In 2019, Hayes along with Jonah Goldberg and Toby Stock, formed the conservative media company, The Dispatch.—NEVERTRUMPER); Marie Harf (Party on, Wayne!); Jonathan Swan, Axios. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and...

Legendary Florida State coach Bobby Bowden dies at 91 The Hall of Fame college football coach Bobby Bowden has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer August 8, 2021, 6:04 AM • 2 min read Bobby Bowden, the folksy Hall of Fame coach who won more than 350 games and built Florida State into one of college football’s great dynasties with two national championships has died. He was 91. Bobby's son, Terry, confirmed to The Associated Press that his father died at home surrounded by his family early Sunday morning. Florida State also announced...

If it seems that young people these days believe absurd things, that they utterly lack both the ability and the inclination to reason logically—well, it’s not your imagination. Today’s college graduates can’t think, or at least don’t think, because they’re not being taught to. This sad reality, though long suspected, became clear in 2011, with the publication of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, by scholars Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. After a four-year study of more than 2300 undergraduates at selective universities across the country, they concluded that a sizeable percentage of them improved little if at all...

A writer for the popular teenage girls' magazine Teen Vogue argued this week that young Americans are primed to accept socialist ideology due to capitalism's alleged "lack of regard for human life." Calla Walsh, a 17-year-old delegate to the Democratic Socialists of America's 2021 National Convention, wrote in the magazine that Gen Z — one of the youngest demographics in the U.S.— "faces a unique set of conditions that make us especially open to ideological radicalization." "The expansion of the academic industrial complex and the resulting student debt crisis have crushed our socioeconomic mobility," Walsh writes. "Forty-eight percent of workers...

The government used a little trick to prevent video from being formally entered into the judicial record. Federal judges played along. At least one federal judge handling several Capitol protest criminal cases is paying attention to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s show trial about the events of January 6. Judge Thomas Hogan, 83, who has served on the D.C. District Court for nearly 40 years, referred to public testimony given last week by four law enforcement officers while he scolded a husband and wife over their involvement in the protest. “[H]e begins by talking about the violence, and makes clear he...

Throughout the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden went out of his way to appeal to women, whether by picking Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate or pushing the "Biden agenda for women." These symbols and rhetoric, much like the rest of the Biden presidency, have proven to be empty. From economic policy to education, the administration is advancing policies that restrict opportunities for women. Many women who expected a big boost coming out of the pandemic-induced recession have been unpleasantly surprised. The policies of the Biden administration are limiting America's recovery and are making it difficult for women, who...