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Supply chain bottlenecks have Americans waiting longer for the dishwashers and washing machines they've ordered. President Joe Biden's regulatory onslaught means that consumers will also spend extra time running whatever home appliances they do manage to get their hands on. Earlier this week, the public comment period ended on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposal to ban "short-cycle" dishwashers and laundry machines, which clean pants and plates much faster but consume more energy and water to get the job done. These products were legalized under the Trump administration as part of its crusade to undo stifling energy efficiency limits...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Friday on ABC’s “The View” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson is a “bigot” for mocking Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s paternity leave. Behar said, “The rather insecure Tucker Carlson couldn’t resist going full bigot about the whole issue last night.”

With a lack of tech workers and foot traffic, downtown San Jose became a ghost town during the pandemic, but five miles away high-end Santana Row flourished. These two destinations linked by San Carlos and Stevens Creek boulevards and Interstate 280 are worlds apart socioeconomically and the COVID-19 pandemic made that schism wider. Downtown was hit incredibly hard by shelter-in-place mandates during the pandemic. Numerous businesses were unable to survive, leaving streets littered with empty restaurants and storefronts. Built more for office workers than retail shoppers, its restaurants and bars suffered as tech employees worked from home. Uphill road for...

Joe Biden’s approval rating hit to a new low on Thursday. Only 36% of likely voters approve of his job performance. And the future does not look any better for this far left regime. Energy prices are soaring and the shipping crisis is expected to affect the Christmas season. Zogby Analytics says Biden’s approval numbers are sinking like the Titanic.

Democrats, from Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton to former AG Eric Holder have spent the last couple of years sounding the alarm about the “danger to democracy” that is Republican gerrymandering: ======================================================================================= This is a real danger to our democracy. Republican gerrymandering means that bills not supported by the people (like the abortion ban in Texas) become law and majority rule becomes impossible. Demand a fair redistricting process. #NDRC https://t.co/eol2lUYVIt — Eric Holder (@EricHolder) October 5, 2021 ======================================================================================= The passage of the Texas Senate’s congressional map is yet another blatantly partisan attempt to ignore demographic facts. GOP-led legislatures are attacking...

The FAA is headed by a pilot, NASA is headed by an astronaut, the US Marine Corps is headed by a Marine but for the fourth time in a row, and during the worst shipping crisis of the century, the US Department of Transportation, has appointed someone to the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) who is not a captain and has no commercial shipping experience. Yesterday afternoon, President Biden announced his intention to nominate Rear Admiral Ann Phillips, US Navy (Retired), as the next US Maritime Administrator, a position that has been vacant since Rear Admiral Mark Buzby stepped down following...

Why would the FBI do this? We honestly don’t get it. Yeah yeah, we’re naive and stuff, but this just seems so underhanded and outright evil. Take a look: You’re gonna want to read this one. In June 2020, a guy named Stephen Robeson held a “National Militia Conference” in Ohio. He pestered ppl tied to “militia” groups around the country to go. But Robeson isn’t a militiaman —he’s a longtime FBI informant:https://t.co/LuDukNXoAz — Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) October 15, 2021 From AM Greatness: According to BuzzFeed’s exceptional July 2021 investigative report on the FBI-led plot to kidnap Michigan Governor...

We promise not to track and trace you! ~ World Economic Forum *Wink wink* *Nod nod* Oh, and it keeps track of your carbon footprint as well. WTF could possibly go wrong?

Kevin Stitt announces that he is going to sue Joe Biden over the vaccine mandate

Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), is refusing to hand over to the Senate Banking Committee her university thesis on Marxism written during her time in the Soviet Union. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, ranking member of the committee, had sent a letter to Omarova on Oct. 6 asking the Cornell Law School professor to hand over her Moscow State University thesis, titled “Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital,” by Oct. 13, citing the committee’s need to “fully assess the fitness of individuals to...

Virginia law requires public schools to report specifically named serious crimes. Rape is obviously a serious crime on that list. But the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) has refused to report those. They have a clean record. It is little wonder that they claimed they had "no reports" of sexual assaults in bathrooms. They have no reports of any sexual assaults -- it's their policy. They've been covering up sexual assaults at least as early as 2018. Luke Rosniak dug up a sexual assault that took place in the LCPS system in 2018. A boy was sexually violated by other...

A 26-year-old man entered Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) on Monday evening and threatened the sacristan, spitting on the ground and yelling words in Arabic. The accused, who is staying illegally in France, was arrested by the police shortly afterwards. The tranquility of the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice was disturbed by a man around 6 p.m. Monday evening. He entered the building and began to scream in Arabic, says a source close to the investigation. He spat on the ground and then finally left. The man returned about ten minutes later. This time he was threatening. “The sacristan who had...

George Takei’s decades-long feud with William Shatner is rocketing into space. The “Star Trek” actor threw enough shade at his former on-screen captain to cause an eclipse, as he dismissed Shatner’s flight this week on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin capsule and described him as “not the fittest specimen.” “He’s boldly going where other people have gone before,” snarked Takei, 84, when Page Six asked him what he thought of Captain Kirk’s brief trip Wednesday to the edge of space. “He’s a guinea pig, 90 years old and it’s important to find out what happens,” Takei added, as he spoke at...

“The meat is above and beyond all right?” Fadia Chamoun of Lexington lamented as she packed her trunk full of groceries. “It has gone sky high. Everything has gone sky high and it’s extremely sad.” If it feels like lately everything is more expensive, that’s because it is. “The government [just] released that prices over the past 12 months have increased 5.4% and that marks the fifth month in a row of over 5% price increases,” Boston University Questrom School of Business professor Jay Zagorsky explained. “That means that roughly every 14 or 15 years, all prices double. Everything is...

President Trump released a statement this morning revealing that new information from public record requests in Arizona has been discovered. This “damning and determinative” information will be discussed by President Trump today. Trump: New information found from public records, documents, and votes in Arizona. It is damning and determinative! Will be discussing this today. NEW! "New information found from public records, documents, and votes in Arizona. It is damning and determinative! Will be discussing this today." – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/uW6lqr1EjO — Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) October 15, 2021 The Gateway Pundit will have more on this story as it...

The Food and Drug Administration is asking food manufacturers and restaurants to cut the salt in their products over the coming 2½ years with the goal of reducing Americans’ overall sodium intake by 12 percent. The sweeping recommendation, announced Wednesday, is expected to cover a wide variety of foods — from chain restaurant meals to processed food on grocery store shelves and even baby food. the FDA will watch the industry carefully over the coming years, rewarding companies that comply. It was unclear Wednesday what the rewards would be, and Woodcock did not say whether the FDA would take any...

Police have arrested a 25-year-old Somalian man on suspicion of murdering the Conservative MP Sir David Amess, who was stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery. Sir David, the MP for Southend West in Essex, was attacked on Friday at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. Paramedics tried for two hours to save the 69-year-old father-of-five, but he died of his injuries and figures across the political spectrum have paid tribute to the "irreplaceable" MP. Essex Police said a 25-year-old man had been arrested, and officers were not looking for anybody else in connection with the incident. It is understood the...

The Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA) has withdrawn from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) because of the NSBA’s letter suggesting the recent behavior of individuals in school board meetings could eventually rise to the level of “domestic terrorism or hate crimes.” PSBA wrote bluntly, “The most recent national controversy surrounding a letter to President Biden suggesting that some parents should be considered domestic terrorists was the final straw.” The memo began, “The Governing Board of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association has voted unanimously to cancel PSBA’s longstanding membership in the National School Boards Association. The decision was reached following...

(...) Leaders of the Idaho Medical Association called for an investigation into the controversial pathologist Ryan Cole, MD, over his prescribing of ivermectin to COVID-19 patients, according to a report from KTVB. The officials, Steven Kohtz, MD, president of the association's Board of Trustees, and Susie Keller, CEO of the association, wrote a letter to the state's Board of Medicine on October 7, stating that Cole -- who has spoken out against COVID-19 vaccines -- has said "he has treated patients 'from Florida to California'" with ivermectin. (...)