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Inflation, empty shelves, energy prices, Chinese hypersonic missiles, Taiwan, Afghanistan and trhe border she's in charge of fixing are of less interest to our intrepid Veep. Kamala Harris took to Twitter to announce the issuance of “the first ever National Gender Strategy,” as if that were more important than her assigned duty of taking charge of the border, not to mention the multiple other crises that are making most Americans poorer and endangering out national security. Oh, and by the way, driving down the polling for the Biden administration. You’ll be relieved to know that it covers both equity and...

Old-school Democrats are screaming at the Hard Left as the storm clouds gather.A rare snippet of truth surfaced on MSNBC Monday morning, and it came from a somewhat shocking source.You’re aware of Donny Deutsch, right? He might win the prize for the most typical ruling-class Democrat in America. Deutsch comes from the advertising field — he inherited a New York ad agency from his father, which he unloaded on a larger company and pocketed $265 million. What did Deutsch like better than crafting advertising messages and placing media? Going on TV, of course. CNBC gave him a show from 2004-08,...

Once you understand how our society is almost hardwired to embrace endlessly failing leftist solutions, you can learn how to avoid those same mistakes. The whole Progressive, Leftist enterprise can be characterized as the astonishing practice of trying to improve things by making them worse. It has always been so. A hundred years ago, half of Moscow, at one time or another, languished in jail, while the other half feared being arrested. The Muscovites who were still at large were forced to wait in long lines for provisions that remained in short supply. Agriculture had been disrupted by cockeyed regulations....

The Administration hopes to sell a bill of goods to reluctant senators: Other countries are raising corporate taxes, and so should we. That’s not likely to work; if the Biden increase goes into effect, only Portugal and Colombia will have higher corporate tax rates than the U.S. Its other argument is more nefarious. Long story short, the Administration now wants to change the way companies calculate their tax liabilities on international profits. Combined with the new global tax regime just negotiated, U.S. companies could be hit hard with higher taxes.

Loudoun County, Virginia is emerging as the American epicenter of official school corruption and deceit, and the facts become more disturbing the closer we look. Girls need protective dads. So do boys. God designed fathers with the instinct to defend and stand in the gap for their children, and those who would mischaracterize or dishonor that motive are not to be trusted. Loudoun County, Virginia is emerging as the American epicenter of official school corruption and deceit, and the facts become more disturbing the closer we look. In a heated Virginia political climate, subterfuge is metastasizing day by day. Instead...

Apparently the in-the-know Bishops have no idea what Synodality even means. We're in good hands, folks. ...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin released a new ad on Monday, featuring a mother who pushed to have the 1987 novel "Beloved" banned from her son's English curriculum in Fairfax County, Va. roughly eight years ago. Laura Murphy is the centerpiece of the 60-second ad, titled "McAuliffe Shut Us Out," which details her push to require schools to tell parents if books in their child's curriculum contained explicit content and allow students to opt-out of reading the material. Murphy said she met with lawmakers, who agreed with her on the issue. "It was bipartisan. It gave parents a say, the...

Thousands of people are challenging the vaccine mandates. For them the “get shot or get fired” ultimatum is a bridge too far. Southwest Airlines recently discovered that such pressure isn’t working when they had to cancel a lot of flights because they didn’t have staff. Locations with Lockdown Lefty Lunatics in charge are losing people. Over a thousand people a day are moving to the Free State of Florida where mandates are strongly discouraged. But federal courts are ruling in favor of mandates right and left. Why? Welcome to the Supreme Court. In 1905 (Jacobsen v. Massachusetts, 197 US 11)...

It’s a YouTube video so it’s difficult to get a transcript: this videos not mine it is a lecture 00:02 video given by Thomas Schumann his real 00:05 name is Yuri basmanov he gave this 00:07 lecture back in 1980s it took me a while 00:10 to find this golden nugget and the 00:12 reason I uploaded this video on my 00:13 channel is because it is a great lecture 00:15 that helps us in understanding the 00:17 current political scenario both around 00:19 the world as well as in our own country 00:20 and I believe it needs to...

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Police in Seattle went undercover to break open what they said was a trafficking ring involving the sale of expensive stolen goods: Lego, taken from an Amazon store. Saying they had seized 171 sets, police released a picture showing the boxes stacked together. Biden urges action on infrastructure and spending in New Jersey speech: ‘Let’s get this done’ – as it happened Read more The accused store owner denied knowingly selling stolen goods, protested against the picture and said he would fight the resultant charges. According to one expert, Lego theft and trafficking has become a major concern....

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was back in public last week, taking part in a University of Virginia live stream event hosted by Larry Sabato. “Before we leave,” Nelson interjected near the end of the live stream, “I haven’t even talked about the search for extraterrestrial life.” … “Now I know what you’ve seen is what those Navy pilots saw in 2004,” Nelson said during the live stream chat. “And there have been some three hundred sightings since then.” “I’ve talked to those pilots,” Nelson added, saying that “they know they saw something, and their radars locked on to it. And...

The Treasury Department has hired a former JPMorgan Chase executive to head a new government program aimed at addressing racial inequality issues in banking and other financial services industries. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced Monday that Janis Bowdler will be the department’s first counselor for racial equity. Bowdler’s hiring is a part of a multipronged strategy...

Mark Zuckerberg emerged from his walk-in T-shirt closet last week to make a stunning announcement: Facebook will be changing its name. And while we don’t yet know what the new name will be, I think I may be able to help here. How about this: Boomerware? Or in keeping with Silicon Valley’s penchant for trendy misspellings: LyfeSuck? Or instead of a name, there’s just the sound of Rome burning? The reason that “Facebook” is getting retired, per Zuck, is that he wants to “transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”...

Racist San Francisco arrests black women at 13 times the rate of women of other racesSplinter News reported the following: (The bolding is mine)Black women in San Francisco arrested way more often than white women, report showsBlack women in San Francisco are disproportionately arrested compared with their white counterparts, according to a new analysis of state arrest data from the Center on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.Black women represent 5.8% of the city’s female population, but accounted for 45.5% of all female arrests in 2013, according to the report from the nonprofit, which works to reduce incarceration. For arrests related to...

The fraud began in 2020 as stacks of envelopes started showing up in mailboxes across California and across the U.S. The addresses were correct but the names were for people who never lived there. Initially, the EDD (Employment Development Department) gave no estimate. In fact, during a previous legislative hearing, former director Sharon Hilliard told legislators they did not track that data. By January, in the wake of two state audits into dysfunction inside the department, the EDD gave a first, very broad estimate. That was for $11.9 billion paid out, with a possibility it could rise as high as...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A grand jury has indicted the leader of an armed, self-proclaimed militia that protested in Louisville during the 2020 riots on new state charges, accused of pointing an assault rifle at officers and a federal agent on the roof of a downtown Louisville building last September. Johnson claimed he didn’t realize it was officers until he turned on the light on top of his rifle. The Not F******* Around Coalition, or NFAC, is led by John Fitzgerald Johnson, better known as Grandmaster Jay. A grand jury indicted him on Wednesday on five counts of wanton endangerment...

Perhaps today you are experiencing betrayal, persecution, torment in your mind, trouble with your children, the loss of someone close to your heart or some other experience that has left you with almost unspeakable pain. It has driven you to prayer where you ask, “Lord, is this really necessary? Can’t you just take it away in a moment? Why the struggle? Why the fury?” Our answer lies in the Psalmist’s poem, “He sent a man before them—Joseph—who was sold as a slave. They hurt his feet with fetters. He was laid in irons. Until the time that his word came...

Taylor said she was kept in a room and denied access to her child - who she thought was in class the entire time - while N.B was being questioned by police and staff about the drawing. An officer told Taylor that her daughter was "treating the situation as a joke," according to the ACLU's letter. "N.B. made comments to someone in school that she wondered what jail was like. I think the school administrators and the police took that as some sort of sign that she wasn't taking them seriously," Caballero said. "So they decided to arrest her based...

ransomnote: The hospitals in America are largely slave to the CDC, which pays them richly for following all of it's 'guidance' in a 350 Page CDC Protocol that is harming patients. The CDC assures hospitals that they are free from all patient liability as long as they adhere to the CDC's toxic Covid Protocol. In reality, the CDC will gladly throw hospitals under the bus, and the hospitals will respond in kind. GPs are currently less popular than traffic wardens, and they only have themselves to blame for this.According to The Guardian, which is a self-styled British newspaper with financial...