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Arguably one of the most concerning provisions in the Democrats’budget reconciliation package is enabling the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to look into American's bank accounts if they have deposits greater than $10,000, excluding salaries, each year. Not only does this provision represent a flagrant violation of privacy and a constitutional right to unreasonable search and seizures, but the provision could also leave Americans vulnerable to cybercrime and the threat of identity theft. Under the proposal, banks would have to disclose to the IRS accounts "accounts that have total annual inflows or withdrawals of at least $10,000." The Treasury Department hopes...

India's Supreme Court has called for a lockdown in New Delhi to try and reduce air pollution by banning non-essential travel and closing offices. The proposal, the first of its kind, comes as the city of 20 million battles smog which has forced schools to shut for a week to keep children from breathing in toxic air. The Delhi government on Monday pushed back hard against the call by the country's top court, arguing that without a concerted effort by other states, the lockdown would have little impact on air quality.

Colorado is currently seeing a serious spike in COVID-19 cases, making it one of the most infected states in the nation, and according to Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, the experts do not know why. But there is one thing that he is certain of: He will not be issuing a state mask mandate any time soon, KCNC-TV reported. Why? Well, Polis suggested Friday that critics of his decision look to the Centennial State’s neighbor to the south. New Mexico is currently experiencing a COVID surge similar to Colorado’s. The Land of Enchantment has also had a mask mandate since August....

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) believes that if 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted on the grounds of self-defense, white supremacists will be emboldened to shoot at Black Lives Matter protesters. Repeating the lie that Michael Brown was “murdered” at the hands of a white police officer, Cori Bush falsely claimed on Monday that white supremacists in Ferguson, Missouri, would literally hide up in the hills and callously shoot at protesters.

TTNews) - Tyson Foods Inc. is planning further increases in meat prices citing soaring costs as the biggest U.S. meat company works to recover inflation. The company announced the plans while reporting significant growth in its fourth-quarter earnings and sales, benefited by sharply raised meat prices. On the company's quarterly earnings call, Tyson Foods CFO Stewart Glendinning said, "We expect to take continued pricing actions to ensure that any inflationary cost increases that our business incurs are passed along. Pricing has lagged inflation, but we expect to recover those cost increases during fiscal '22." The meat giant raised prices across...

Dr. Fauci on Sunday told CBS “Sunday Morning” senior contributor Ted Koppel that there’s a “misplaced perception” about people’s rights superseding “societal safety.” “One of the things that to me was most difficult to accept is that we put together a good plan for how we were going to try and dampen down the spread of infection early on thinking that that was accepted by everybody,” Fauci said to Koppel. “And then, the next day you have the president [Trump] saying, ‘Free Michigan. Free Virginia.’ I didn’t quite understand what the purpose of that was, except to put this misplaced...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) was accused in an audit report of using nearly $450,000 in federal funding intended for COVID-19 relief to fund three months of salaries for over 20 staff members. A state audit on government spending published Monday said Reynolds attempted to cover up the spending by passing it through the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management but it is unclear why the salaries had to be paid using the federal money, according to The Associated Press. "What is not clear, is why these salaries were not included in the governor’s budget set prior to...

The closing statements are now done in the Rittenhouse trial, and the jury will now begin deliberations—although not until tomorrow morning. That means, of course, that we’ll be launching or VERDICT WATCH blog post in the morning at Legal Insurrection, so keep your eyes there for breaking news on a verdict. And with that, let’s dive into the unpleasant task of noting the poor closing argument presented by the defense in this case. Defense Delivers Disappointingly Weak Closing Argument This is an unpleasant task because on the legal merits Kyle Rittenhouse ought to be acquitted by a unanimous jury on...

Stacey Abrams on Monday did not directly respond to a question about a potential presidential bid, instead saying that she is focused on getting voting rights legislation passed. During an appearance on CNN, host Erin Burnett asked the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate if she would consider running for the White House if President Biden decides against running for reelection. "Is that something you would consider?" Burnett asked, referencing a Politico article that noted Democratic operatives expect her to consider a run for the White House if she is successful with another possible Democratic campaign for Georgia governor.

"Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy." - Thurgood Marshall Eric Adams, the incoming mayor of New York City, met last week with Hawk Newsome, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) of Greater New York, and about a dozen other members of the organization. According to local Fox5 TV, Newsome threatened "riots, fire and bloodshed" if Adams reinstate the NYPD's controversial anti-crime unit. That unit was disbanded last year due to rioting that followed the murder of George Floyd. The unit was credited with...

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial has been an absolute disaster for the prosecution by every possible sane standard. Yet, lead prosecutor Thomas Binger and his team press on, concocting the absurdest of 'logic' and grasping at outlandish legal straws in a desperate attempt to try to put someone who clearly seems like an innocent teenager in prison for life. So, is this all really about Kyle Rittenhouse, or is it about something else entirely? Fox News host Tucker Carlson had a chilling theory during Monday night's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" opening monologue: "You have no right to resist ... the next time...

Four students who were disciplined after a "joke" petition looking to restart slavery was shared on social media are suing the Kansas City school district for civil rights violations. The lawsuit, filed Friday, stated the students from Park Hill South High School said the posting in September began as a joke between a biracial student and a black student. The biracial student was expelled and three other students who commented on the petition were suspended for 180 days, according to the Associated Press. All of the students are in the ninth grade and members of the school's football team. The...

Jurors are set to begin deliberations at Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial Tuesday — deciding if the teen either walks or potentially gets as much as a mandatory life sentence. The 12-member jury will get to decide on five felony charges with sentences ranging from 12-1/2 years behind bars to life, with two also punishable by up to 60 years in prison. During closing arguments Monday, prosecutors called Rittenhouse — who was only 17 at the time — a “wannabe soldier” who walked off like a “hero in a Western” after killing two men and wounding a third.

The President of the Scottsdale Unified School Board in Arizona was removed from his position as president on Monday night, after it was discovered that Jann-Michael Greenburg had access to an invasive dossier that sought to compile “dirt” on Scottsdale parents who oppose mask mandates and anti-white Critical Race Theory.The dossier in question featured pictures of parents’ homes, their children, and even pictures of their license plates. Greenburg’s trove of information amounts to little more than spying on the part of a public official against his own constituents.

Do you believe that all of us have blind spots of some kind? That all of us are shaped, for better or worse, by our own upbringing and environment? That we sometimes see things through an imperfect lens? And can you point to many blind spots among those whose beliefs and ideologies you reject? If so, perhaps we can explore some of our own blind spots here, and in this case, by “we” I mean we who are white Americans. The truth be told, all of us, of all color and background, are much more inclined to see the blind...

In a sane era, no ethics review board would allow doctors to bribe young children to undergo a treatment with unknown dangers and minuscule benefits. But medical ethics are just one more casualty of the Covid pandemic, as Bill de Blasio cheerfully demonstrated at a recent press conference. New York’s mayor announced that children aged five and older would get $100 for being vaccinated against Covid—and then he made a direct pitch to those too young to appreciate the size of the city’s bribe. “It buys a whole lot of candy,” the mayor explained. Norms of science and medicine have...

WAR IN HEAVEN: MICHAEL AND THE DRAGON. REVELATION 12 New International Version Resources to CLICK: To read REVELATION 12 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To read J-F-B's COMMENTARY on it BIBLE TIMELINE 95 A.D. REVELATIONChapter 12, Verses 7-17 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole...

Growing up in a in a university town, I was exposed to a wide range of cultures. As faculty and graduate students came and went, there was a constant revolving door of people passing through. At the end of elementary school, a new student arrived in my class, her name was Nahla, and she was from Egypt. As a son of an Israeli father, I will never forget the discomfort that I felt being around her. I had nothing against her personally, and in fact recall resisting liking her. I understood from my much earlier years that Israel and Egypt...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemIsaiah 64[a]Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! 2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! 3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you. 4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those...

Tucker: How did Kamala Harris get so high up? Nov. 16, 2021 - 2:09 - 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host dives into the vice president's past relationship with Montel Williams. And Willie Brown