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It's easy to see why the histrionics over "climate change" are not only explainable, but inevitable. Are you among the 85% of adults who, according to MasterCard, state that "they're willing to take personal action to combat environmental and sustainability issues in 2021"? MasterCard has partnered with a Swedish company called Docotomy to unveil the new Do Black MasterCard — the world's first credit card with a carbon limit! Do Black "not only helps users track and measure CO2 emissions associated with their purchases but also puts a limit to the climate impact of their spending." So instead of a...

Not long ago, resident Joe Biden made an offhanded comment that "Milton Friedman isn't running the show anymore." This president has seldom spoken more valid words. And that's where the trouble has begun. If you were to rate the three most influential economic minds of all time, you'd be hard-pressed to come up with a better trio than Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes and Friedman. I'm a little too young to have known Keynes or Smith, but I am old enough to have gotten to know Friedman, and I'm proud to have called him a friend. I used to have...

The school doesn’t literally do that but its most recent action is equivalent to telling parents to “eff off.” Distance learning exposed parents to two things: Critical Race Theory, which doggedly turns American schools into racial war zones, with innocent children painted as victims or victimizers, depending on race, and the push to normalize transgenderism. In Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), parents identified sexual grooming in two library books: Lawn Boy and Gender Queer: A Memoir, both of which have explicit homosexual sex and groom children for pedophilia. FCPS temporarily pulled the books, but it’s now reinstated them, which is...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemDaniel 5The Writing on the Wall 5 King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. 2 While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father[a] had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 3 So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his...

A disgraced former West Australian MP has been labelled the "Pinocchio of parliament" by a judge who jailed him for lying about his military service and qualifications. Former Labor MP Barry Urban claimed to have been part of an international police taskforce in 1998 that investigated atrocities in Bosnia. He publicly wore a medal which he said was awarded for that service but turned out to be fake. In fact, he had never served in the Balkans, although he continued to claim otherwise including under questioning from a parliamentary committee. Urban pleaded guilty earlier this year to a number of...

They have it exactly backwards when they blame the unvaccinated for mass murder. We are hearing an increasing drumbeat from COVID alarmists and control freaks that if someone refuses to get the COVID-19 shot, these evil refusers will be responsible for the deaths of all those good people who obeyed and are fully vaccinated. This is pure panic alarmism. It turns out the exact opposite of their statement will prove to be true. That is – it is they and not the unvaccinated who will cause the deaths of millions of our citizens. Why are these alarmist citizens doing this?...

For the first time ever, significant light is being shed on one of the most horrendous human rights atrocities of the second half of the 20th century. In 1988, more than 30,000 political prisoners were senselessly massacred by Iranian officials. More than 30 years later, one of the people who participated in the massacre, Hamid Noury, is on trial in Sweden. The Noury trial should spark more media and public scrutiny about the 1988 massacre, and ultimately trigger a long overdue international investigation. Hamid Noury has been incarcerated in Sweden since November 2019 when he visited the country for personal...

What impact could those who aren't sheep have on businesses if they band together.. Even if you're only barely paying attention, it's obvious that all the hype about the COVID vaccines has been wasted CO2, contributing 100% more to climate change than to the health and well-being of recipients. The simple fact is that these experimental vaccines, whether Pfizer's, Janssen, or Moderna's, do not work. If one, any, or all do work, why are Austria, Australia, Germany, and Ireland, with the majority of their populations already vaccinated incarcerating unvaccinated people or reinstituting draconian lockdowns? If they are effective, why are...

Sitting in a two-room apartment above his uncle’s office, 25-year-old Hussein Shumari said there wasn’t much left for him in Iraq. He had graduated from law school two years before but still had no job. He had lived through war and sectarian violence, b... When he heard in September that Belarus — a potential pathway to Europe — was granting visas to Iraqis, he sold what few belongings he had, borrowed money from a friend of his uncle’s and handed $3,500 to a Baghdad travel agency. By the end of October, he was on a plane to the Belarusian capital,...

(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures slumped on Friday, with travel, bank and commodity-linked stocks bearing the brunt of the selloff, as the discovery of a new and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant spooked investors ahead of a short trading session.

Thanksgiving has come and gone. While many Americans suffered high food prices and travel costs due to higher gasoline prices, President “Middle Class Joe” Biden was enjoying his Thanksgiving on Nantucket with billionaire David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group private equity firm, at his compound/mansion. After Biden and The Fed have done a “Nantucket Sleigh-ride” on the American middle class. It is only appropriate that Biden and his clan party on Nantucket. But Americans have a lot to be scared about: inflation (turkey prices were up 24% according to the Farm Bureau and a new COVID outbreak B.1.1.529 —...

The Waukesha incident has once again (and again, and again) raised the specter of societal disintegration in the face of the Defund the Police and Criminal Justice Reform movements. While we may admit that bail is set too high in some cases (January 6 defendants!), the outrageous and unthinking application of “cash bail is bad” is a slow-motion bomb going off. Double and triple digit increases in violent crime in Democrat-run cities that employ such policies are creating outrage among the law-abiding. Why should their grandparents and children suffer when such fools run the asylum? The suspect in the Waukesha...

The new totalitarians running the United States mask their intention for tyrannical uniformity under all the guises we are familiar with. They claim to be “saving democracy.” They claim to support “multiculturalism.” Democracy is a precious thing. When the Persians invaded Greece, a handful of Greek city-states banded together to defeat the imperialist pretensions of the “Great Kings.” Aeschylus says that the Greek soldiers and sailors rowed to war shouting “eleutheria” (freedom) in the decisive battle of Salamis. Ever since, there have been tremendous moments of heroic sacrifice in the name of liberty and democracy. To our national shame, the...

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Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko told migrants stranded at the border with Poland on Friday that his country would help them to return home if they wanted but would not force them. "For those who want to go home, we will help you do this," Lukashenko said on a visit to a makeshift migrant camp. "But we will not force you. This is your right." Lukashenko, accused by the European Union of deliberately provoking a humanitarian crisis on its eastern border, told the migrants he would not play politics with their fate. "If you want to go westwards, we won't detain...

As we learn more about the senseless SUV attack on the crowd attending a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, some liberal media outlets are energetically attempting to spin away from the suspect Darrell Brooks and his left-wing politics on social media. That's funny. With Kyle Rittenhouse, they quickly dug into his social media activity. The Washington Post warned last summer "the 17-year-old shadowed local law enforcement, filling his social media feeds with posts declaring that 'Blue Lives Matter' and photos of himself posing with guns." For Brooks, the Post lamely mentioned Brooks wrote under the name MathBoi Fly and that...

Surely, MSNBC contributor Brittany Packnett Cunningham was pleased by the outcome of the trial of the men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery. But the focus of her comments on MSNBC on Wednesday night leaves you wondering whether she saw the verdicts as complicating her task of painting the United States as irretrievably racist. You can't ever feel better about it. Interviewed by guest host Jonathan Capehart on The 11th Hour, Cunningham never once mentioned that a virtually all-white jury in a Deep South state had convicted all three defendants of murder. Instead, Cunningham downplayed the verdicts as "literally...

A Senator in Ireland has said that the government should consider banning those without a vaccine passport from public transportation and supermarkets, in one of the most extreme Covid proposals to date. “Why not supermarkets? Why not public transport?” Senator Gerry Horkan asked. “I know it is difficult to police some of these things, but really, if you want to participate in society, you need to be vaccinated.” While addressing the senate, Horkan said: “Here we are on 23rd November and the month of December is traditionally the most important for the licensed trade and hospitality business, at between 2.5...

Walnut Creek is a quiet exurban town outside of San Francisco. It uncharacteristically made national news over the last few days, and not for anything good. It was the scene of a large-scale smash and grab in the wake of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. Over a dozen vehicles pulled up to the Broadway Plaza shopping mall. Some eighty vandals, some wielding crowbars, ran inside Nordstrom and stole merchandise. Five Nordstrom employees were physically assaulted. The action was said to be over in less than a minute. With their bounty in hand, estimated at $200,000, the thieves drove off in different...

(CNN)Migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador spend $2.2 billion every year trying to reach the United States, and most of that money goes to smugglers, according to a new report. The estimate of annual costs over the past five years, derived from surveys of thousands of households in those three Central American countries, paints a stark picture of the price of migration -- and who's profiting.... ...On average, those surveyed reported that migrants who paid smugglers spent about $7,500, including the cost of food and travel in addition to smugglers' fees. Migrants who traveled on their own or in...