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Back in October, people began to be aware that there was something very wrong about Saule Omarova, Biden's nominee to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a subdivision of the Treasury Department that oversees about 1,200 banks, with assets totaling around $14 trillion. It's a position one associates with capital and capitalism, but Omarova, a graduate of Moscow State University in the former Soviet Union, is a Marxist to her core. Now a recently unearthed video shows that she dreams of bankrupting the fossil fuel sector in service to the climate change ideology.Omarova has praised the old...

Chili con carne is the original chili. Call it Texas red, traditional red, or bowl of red, but don't even think about adding beans if you want to cook chili like a true Texan. Historians generally consider San Antonio, Texas, chili's birthplace but can only speculate about how exactly the stew-like dish developed. We do know that it spread across the United States soon after it anchored a Texas exhibit at Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. Ohio: Cincinnati Chili This isn't Texas chili: Macedonian immigrants to Cincinnati came up with the recipe in the 1920s, drawing on the Mediterranean and Slavic...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Tuesday declared New York City the “safest place to be” in the United States due to vaccines, despite the fact the state as a whole has one of the highest daily average case rates in the entire country. “We know vaccinations keep us safe vaccinations what’s allowing us to move forward,” he said during Tuesday’s press conference.

Governments and car manufacturers have coalesced at the Glasgow climate talks around new targets to drastically ramp up the use of electric vehicles. But activists at the summit have urged a more fundamental question – what if we just gave up all types of cars? With the new goal of phasing out new sales of gasoline and diesel cars within 20 years, dozens of countries and car companies have used Cop26 to extol the rise of electric vehicles as a way to slash planet-heating emissions. Related: Cop26: carmakers agree to end sale of fossil fuel vehicles by 2040 “This is...

When will the House Republican Conference (minus two members who should no longer be in the conference: turncoats Cheney and Kinzinger) rise up as one to denounce the Pelosi Select the Heretics Committee as unconstitutional — as have Representatives Banks and Taylor Greene — and the panel's subpoenas as invalid as the fruit of an unconstitutional tree? This panel was selected only by Pelosi, contrary to normal House procedures that the minority party selects its members on House committees. The subpoenas issuing forth from this invalid committee are disdainful of the First Amendment, as the drafts suggest that it is...

It's definitely embarrassing for "experts" when the people following their advice do worse than those who flout it. But that's currently the case when it comes to reining in COVID. Leslie Eastman writes at Legal Insurrection:Just ahead of the recall election that he survived, Gov. Gavin Newsom boasted that California "continues to lead the nation" as the only state to reach the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's yellow "moderate" tier of community virus transmission. Meanwhile, Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis was getting a media pounding for his state's case rate.Now California's case rate is twice that of the Sunshine State's.Have...

Days after it was dropped from the House version of the budget bill, a tax credit to help pay the salaries of local journalists is back in. The measure still needs to win inclusion in the Senate’s version and survive any further reduction of the $1.75 trillion target total. Still, the move represents a big improvement in prospects for the subsidy. Steven Waldman, president and co-founder of Report for America, and Dean Ridings, CEO of industry association America’s Newspapers, both credited the turnaround to publishers and owners communicating the severity of the financial crisis in local news to their representatives....

The climate summit was expensive, energy-burning theater. One hundred eighteen private jets flew into the airport, President Joe Biden's motorcade had 24 vehicles, including SUVs and vans, and Greta Thunberg was angry. Demonstrators denounced Israel, which recycles and reuses 90 percent of its wastewater while ignoring the Palestinian pastime of burning tires containing multiple carcinogens.Sustainability, less, new technologies, clean technologies, and more less (yes, more less) were the watchwords. Use less, do with less. The President should have touted America's successes in reducing emissions: From 2005 to 2018, total U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions fell 12% while global energy-related emissions increased...

An internal memo circulated to officers with the Chicago Police Department this week notified its force that "starting with the first watch Friday, regularly scheduled days off for all sworn personnel will be canceled." The memo continued, explaining that all personnel "will be attired in the prescribed regulation field uniform of the day, including helmet, baton and yellow safety vest." While the Chicago Police Department's notice to its rank-and-file made no mention of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial taking place some sixty miles to the north in Wisconsin, it's impossible to ignore the fact that the memo comes as prosecutors' attempts...

President Joe Biden has vowed to make reversing the country's rising inflation a 'top priority,' after the Consumer Price Index revealed inflation is at its highest level in 31 years. The president has blamed the 6.2 percent increase in the cost of living on 'market manipulation' and 'price gouging,' despite the nation's top economists pointing to the country's supply-chain shortages and businesses struggling to meet the demand from widespread coronavirus pandemic-related shutdowns as the reason for the rise in prices. Biden said in a statement on Wednesday his $1.2 trillion Build Back Better plan will help slow the growing inflation...

Concern for climate change erupted at a recent meeting of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, a 128-year-old group that furthers interfaith dialog. This shows that fear of climate change has now spread throughout the world’s religions from Christianity to Islam, Hinduism, and Jainism. Both adults and children everywhere think that if we don’t do something right now, we will have a climate disaster. Since religious leaders often have great influence, the conference urged them to global efforts to fight climate change. Whoa! Let’s hit the pause button. When you and I rush to “do something,” we usually choose bad...

The price of some of America’s favorite foods, including burgers and hot dogs, are set to soar — as annual inflation hit a 30-year high in October, the feds announced Wednesday. Major US food companies, including Tyson Foods, Conagra and Kraft Heinz, are reportedly preparing to hike prices on some of their meat products to offset higher supplier costs, according to supplier letters to wholesale customers that were obtained by CNN. Ball Park hot dogs and burgers, State Fair corn dogs, Jimmy Dean frozen breakfast items, Hillshire Farm sausage and lunch meat, and Hebrew National and Oscar Mayer hot dogs...

Republican Rep. Fred Upton says he has received over 1,000 calls, including multiple death threats, since he voted Friday to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill – a measure he helped write earlier this year. The calls began when fellow GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, posted Upton's phone number online following the vote. She called him and the other 12 Republicans who voted for the bill "traitors." An Upton spokesperson said 90% of the calls are coming from outside the congressman's district in southwest Michigan. One man from South Carolina purportedly left a message in which he said, "I...

Where is it written that Republicans must ride to the rescue of Democrats as they teeter at a cliff's edge, seconds from tumbling backward into the Grand Canyon? Last Friday night found Biden's presidency and Pelosi's speakership on the verge of metaphysical collapse. Just days after the Democrats took a drubbing in off-year elections, from Virginia to New Jersey to Seattle, neither Biden nor Pelosi seemed capable of getting his $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF) out of the House and onto his desk for signature. As Biden's approval numbers careened downhill, he further embarrassed himself by dozing off at...

A video sharing a German-speaking ad to help feed hungry Americans has gone viral since it was uploaded to social media. TikTok user @teresamorcho uploaded the video onto the social media platform last week with the reply caption: "Germany is actually doing videos to help feed America." "I thought this was a joke. I honestly thought someone was trolling me, but they're not. I had to go and do my own research and I found the video. Brace yourself." The video then cuts to a German-speaking ad that opens with a girl sitting on steps outside a house as a...

CNBC editor Rick Santelli on Wednesday reacted to the October Consumer Price Index, showing consumer prices rose at their fastest rate in decades. Santelli pushed back against the notion that the inflation numbers were “temporary,” saying that “it doesn’t appear that way in the real world.” He warned that the “hot, hot, hot inflationary pressures” would be “very difficult for the fed to wash out of the system.

VIDEOMatthew McConaughey just completely destroyed any chance that the Democrats would nominate him to run for governor of Texas. The reason is that during an interview he broke a sacred TABOO among Democrats. He committed a HERESY so horrible to Democrats that it now looks like Beto has a clear field to become a Three Time LOSER in politics.

Could this supply-chain disruption affect pharmaceuticals? Concretely, I mean is there a chance that pharmacies will not be able to fill some prescriptions for a dangerous length of time (i.e., neither could a drug store fill a prescription nor send the patient to another drug store)? I do NOT wish to start rumors. But I'd appreciate any informed insights. Thanks for any info!

The anti-Chappelle revolt at Netflix shows leftism’s weakness. ‘It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it,” G.K. Chesterton observed more than 100 years ago. The Laughing Prophet, as he was known, pointed out that people who are secure in their beliefs need not fear mockery. It’s those with shaky doctrines who can’t tolerate laughter. Today’s political radicals hold their views with the fervor of a religion, and by Chesterton’s measure they’re rather weak creeds. You can see then why they can abide only comedy that plays by their rules. Once a culture learns to...

Amid concern expressed by members of FDA and CDC advisory panels that safety data for children regarding Pfizer's COVID vaccine is lacking, the pharmaceutical company's CEO charged people are spreading "misinformation" about the vaccines, calling them "criminals" who have cost "millions of lives." The Pfizer chief, Albert Bourla, was reacting Tuesday on The Atlantic Council's "Front Page" podcast to claims of the spread of "fake news" and "conspiracy theories" regarding the vaccines. Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe asked Bourla how he deals with that, what he thinks is the "primary source" and "how damaging" it was. "I'm afraid it was...