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Former President Obama on Thursday embraced the scaled-down framework for Democrats' social spending package released by the Biden administration, calling it a "giant leap forward" even as some progressives express concern about what was left out. "In a country as large and diverse as ours, progress can often feel frustrating and slow, with small victories accompanied by frequent setbacks. But once in a while, it’s still possible to take a giant leap forward," Obama said in a statement on President Biden's $1.75 trillion proposal. Obama pointed to investments in child care included in the play that would ensure access to...

Democrats are dropping family and medical paid leave from President Joe Biden's Build Back Better spending package, multiple sources confirmed to NBC News, as the party feverishly works to narrow down the bill and secure an agreement. The move comes after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a key centrist, raised objections to including guaranteed paid leave in the social safety net bill. Its removal deals a blow to Democrats who viewed the proposal as a key component of Biden's legislative agenda. Manchin indicated to reporters that he didn't think the spending measure, known as the reconciliation bill, should be used to...

The White House on Thursday announced that Democrats had reached a deal on the broad strokes of their multi-trillion budget reconciliation bill, resolving months of infighting among the Democratic caucus in Congress. To appease Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), the bill’s price tag has been slashed in half from an original top-line price of $3.5 trillion down to a top-line price of $1.75 trillion. “After hearing input from all sides and negotiating in good faith with Senators Manchin and Sinema, Congressional Leadership, and a broad swath of Members of Congress, President Biden is announcing a framework...

Bill O'reilly read the stats from the Biden administration... since the last surge there have been 1.1 million single men aliens allowed into the USA crossing the border. MOST are single men, not families, or children seeking asylum. We aren't even mentioning the same male situation with the unvetted Afghan refugees squatting all over this country. For decades this has been coming and many of us fought to try to warn you that it MATTERS who you vote for! Now you've got the worst of the worst of the Progressive Permissives! In 2007, TTC wrote about figures presented by the...

During Donald Trump’s presidency, a panic began to set in among Democrats who understood that without a virtual lock on the “minority” vote, their chances of winning elections would become increasingly difficult to near-impossible in some cases, especially in battleground parts of the country. The panic was in response to Trump making significant inroads with Hispanic voters during the course of his time in office, which was reflected in the 2020 election results which saw a noticeable shift in places where Hispanics who normally reliably went left instead turned to Trump and Republicans. There was evidence of this shift in...

VIDEOFRAMEWORK. We have probably heard more of that word in the past few days than we have previously in our lives. The big reason is that the mainstream media have latched upon that word that was tossed out by Sleepy Joe and his handlers as a life preserver to save his failing Build Back Broke Bill. And like good loyal parrots, the media keeps repeating that word with such fervor as if it were some sort of magic incantation that can save Joe Biden.

Your celestial upbringing was with the angels that know you well and the outcome of your birth for in that instant a destiny was born and processed into the reality of the Kingdom of God nurtured by your assigned angels living and abiding with you each day of your lives. Now in an instant you have become a nurtured child of God raised in the awareness of life's existance and the fortress of angelic protection used to further your development into your destiny in me for I am your true path of existance and you are the gems of my...

P.B. Gomez is a 23-year-old law student at the UC Berkeley School of Law interested in urban environmental justice policy. He's also the founder of the Latino Rifle Association (LRA), a politically progressive organization for Latino gun owners with left-leaning values who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights. "Gun culture in the United States is largely toxic, and it's not welcoming," said Gomez. And he believes gun rights are for everyone: "I don't believe self defense, which is fundamentally about bodily autonomy, should be exclusive to people on the right politically." The LRA website states membership is open to...

A Florida school board member chaperoned a group of elementary school children on a field trip to a gay bar, according to photos of the trip she posted to social media. "I was SO honored to be invited to chaperone Wilton Manors Elementary’s field trip to the incredible Rosie’s! The students and I had a fun walk over and learned a lot about our community! A huge thank you to Rosie's Bar and Grill for hosting this special field trip every year!" Broward County School Board member Sarah Leonardi posted on her official school board Facebook page Wednesday. The post,...

On Wednesday, a viral Tik-Tok video emerged of a man in New York City punching a woman in the face because she told him to take a “chill pill”.

Negotiations in Washington continue on how to pare down the $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend reconciliation bill to a point where it’s acceptable to both hyper progressive and blue dog Democrats. As such, some of the more egregious taxes and spending items are reportedly being stripped out of the new text during talks. Unfortunately, it does not appear that the idea of a wealth tax is on the chopping block. This is a shame considering the proposal would hamper investment and is almost certainly unconstitutional. While the proposal that will make its way into the final text is not the same as...

For a defendant to have a fair trial, there are loaded terms that should never be used in a courtroom. The Wisconsin judge in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is right about that. But the word "victim" is not one of them. And that's where the judge is very wrong. Frankly, "victim" is no more pejorative than the word "defendant.".... But here's the rub. Two of the men are deceased, and the other has never been charged with a crime for any behavior associated with his participation in the protest. At best, Rittenhouse, therefore, would be presenting evidence through...

HISTORY IS MADE: First MALE wins homecoming QUEEN at Rock Bridge High School, Missouri pic.twitter.com/W9o5F7ihwN — Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 28, 2021 COLUMBIA – It’s a tradition as old as time: homecoming queen. But this year, Rock Bridge High School made a change in their traditions. Senior Zachary Willmore won the title of homecoming queen. He’s the first boy to win the title. “It was literally like a dream” Wilmore said. “It was just really special to me.” Zachary Willmore crowned as Rock Bridge High School’s first male homecoming queen Willmore is a cheerleader on the varsity team...

Heinrich Himmler was Adolf Hitler's muscle. He was described this way by one author: He was the quiet, efficient and oh so ruthless architect of the Holocaust; Hitler’s most loyal sycophant. He ruthlessly dispatched those who stood in his way as he rose to a position of power that was second only to the Fuhrer. As President Joe Biden has found a need for muscle. He needs that muscle to squash the single greatest threat to democracy in history- the parents of school age children. Merrick Garland is Biden's Himmler and he has shown himself ready and willing to take...

Residents of Mankato, Minnesota were required to state their home addresses during the public portion of school board meetings this month in order to address officials. Jodi Sapp, the chair of the board for Mankato Area Public Schools, laid out new rules before the open forum on Oct. 18, including prohibiting residents from addressing individual school board members and requiring that every speaker publicly state the address of their home. “Before the open forum, I would like to review a couple of things,” Sapp said. “Each speaker is asked to state his or her name and address for the record....

Who is Ray Epps? And why did he spend two days inciting Trump supporters to go inside the Capitol? This week Trump supporters confronted Ray Epps at his ranch in Arizona. Epps fled when he was confronted. This is an incredible video! Video... (Scroll down)

A Kentucky school district is investigating after a teenage boy gave lap dances to his high school principal and other staff members during a homecoming event. Other provocative photos of spirit events at Hazard High School posted on social media showed teen girls parading around the gym dressed as Hooters waitresses and boys being paddled, The most eyebrow-raising pics show a teen dancing seductively near Donald “Happy” Mobelini, who is both principal of Hazard High School and the city’s mayor. The administrator is standing with a big grin on his face, while the boy — clad in a black dress...

The mysterious Tarim mummies of China's western Xinjiang region are relics of a unique Bronze Age culture descended from Indigenous people, and not a remote branch of early Indo-Europeans, according to new genetic research.The new study upends more than a century of assumptions about the origins of the prehistoric people of the Tarim Basin whose naturally preserved human remains, desiccated by the desert, suggested to many archaeologists that they were descended from Indo-Europeans who had migrated to the region from somewhere farther west before about 2000 B.C.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday faulted Americans’ pandemic-time spending habits for rising prices and widespread supply-chain failures. “What’s your message to Americans who are still so worried about their Christmas gifts on time, [and] Halloween?” a reporter asked Psaki at the daily White House press briefing. “Is this going to be happening at a fast enough pace?” The White House’s message, Psaki replied, was that Americans were spending too much. “Well, I think our message is that, one, what’s happening right now… is that so many people across the country are purchasing more goods online,” Psaki replied....

Just as Anti-Vaxxers are not “Refuseniks,” Palestinians are not experiencing either “apartheid” or “genocide.” Recently, heroic human rights activist Natan Sharansky, who spent over nine years in Soviet prisons as part of his very personal and also very public fight for Jewish freedom in the Soviet Union, commented on how the use of the term “Refusenik” to describe people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 “cheapens” the term. Sharansky (who coined the “3-D” test for determining when criticism of Israel is actually antisemitic”) described how the term “Refusenik” came to be: “Half a century ago, a modest Russian language...