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Only Biden is to be blamed for U.S. fuel shortages and price hikes. It has been a tough time for the U.S. energy sector with production impacted by Joe Biden's hostility to Big Oil, and gas prices and heating bills soaring as a result. President Biden has blamed OPEC for not producing oil at a faster pace and appears to be pleading with other countries to release more oil. However, the real reason for the U.S. crisis has been Biden’s anti-fossil fuel agenda that has inhibited the production of more oil and natural gas. The country has gone from being...

(CNN)A man who told police he wanted to steal a jet so he could fly to Area 51 to look at aliens was arrested Wednesday after he drove through fences at the McCarran International Airport in a limo, parked on an aircraft ramp and made a bomb threat, according to a police report by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The suspect was arrested for trespassing, dispersing a hoax substance and threatening terroristic acts, the police report said. CNN has reached out to the law firm the man claimed was representing him, and the firm said it is not representing him...

What are the characteristics of a good teacher? Many would cite qualities such as mastery of the relevant subjects and high academic standards. Others might stress a positive attitude and engaging classroom manner. For most people, political opinions are likely to rank low among these priorities. According to a report in EdWeek, though, that's what an increasing number of public schools are emphasizing. Adopting a practice that's already widespread in higher education, many districts are now considering applicants' "cultural competency." In other words, they're making progressive political views a requirement of the job. To be fair, advocates of such efforts...

And what are all Biden's horses and all Biden's men going to do about the economy now? I used to run a fairly large I.T. department. Every few years, we were required to power down the entire computer room while the factory underwent electrical maintenance. It was always a dicey operation to shut down systems that had been running for years. Such systems don’t like having their power cycled off and on. In spite of our best preparations, we never knew if the hundreds of computers, switches, and routers would simply turn back on. They rarely did, and we generally...

One of the things that I have heard many Americans wonder about when they watch Joe Biden and his issues play out before the world — how could his family have agreed to go along with this and put him in that situation? Polls have shown that many Americans are concerned about Biden’s mental capacity. In a Politico/Morning Consult poll from earlier this month, more voters disagreed that he was mentally fit than fit: 48 percent not mentally fit, 46 percent saying he was fit. Jill Biden gave an interview to CBS’s Rita Braver at Camp David which is supposed...

Take a look at the thrilling story of Oleg Gordievsky, the former KGB agent turned anti-Soviet spy. Enes Kantor, NBA player, Turkish Muslim, recently sworn in as a citizen of the United States, added "Freedom" to his name after he was sworn in as a citizen. He has been all smiles. He wears the new name of Freedom on his NBA jersey. When he came to the U.S. from Turkey eleven years ago, Freedom was shocked at the amount of freedom we have. Most recently after becoming a citizen, he has appeared on many media outlets and said that in...

A tornado and deadly storm system ripped through Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois on Friday night — destroying buildings, leaving dozens of others trapped inside buildings, and potentially killing dozens. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said the death toll is expected to rise between 50 and 70 deaths in the wake of the tornadoes and storms that ripped through the Midwest. “We have deaths in multiple counties,” he said during a live press conference Saturday morning.

On December 7, 2021, resident Biden had a two-hour telephone conference with Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, to discuss the tense situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border. Mr. Biden's objective was to dissuade Mr. Putin from his apparent, imminent plan to invade Ukraine. However, given that Putin is a former KGB officer, cold, calculating, and a sharp thinker and President Biden is not exactly known for his intellect, it is unlikely that Biden convinced Putin to order Russia's troops on the Ukrainian border to stand down. A war between the United States and Russia over Ukraine is doubtful, and Putin knows it....

For the vast majority of the population, policy reactions to COVID have been extreme and caused more harm than they have prevented. The median age in my state of Alabama is 38.6. Among the half of our population that would be considered “young” -- under the median age in our state -- COVID has posed no significant health risk. Per extrapolations from CDC statistics, 421 Alabamians under the age of 38.6 died from or with COVID over the past 22 months. This means the “youngest” 50 percent of Alabama’s population has accounted for just 2.6 percent of all COVID deaths...

The build back better bullies may discover that they set the stage for a new "New World Order" — one that leaves them out of the picture. So-called "democracies" around the world have proven during these last two years of COVID-1984 just how authoritarian their leaders really are. They censor, compel, threaten, intimidate, and dole out physical and emotional punishments in as arbitrary and terrifying a manner as any mad king. Then the thuggish little tyrants playing Mussolini while raging against fascism run to the video cameras and boast of the joys of "democracy" and the threats of authoritarianism emanating...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared today that the Golden State is determined to become the epicenter for the intentional killing of unborn children in the United States. Of course, he didn’t phrase it quite that way, but it is the intended outcome. At some point, people are going to have to start believing that abortion-choice advocates mean what they say. What other conclusion can concerned citizens reach when the California Future of Abortion Council files a report – conveniently located on the PlannedParenthoodAction.org website – detailing how California plans to: - Help to cover the transportation and abortion costs for...

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The state of California has declared that it wants to be a "sanctuary" for abortion. The Golden State powers-that-be have assembled the California Future of Abortion Council (FAB) to make that wish a reality. Someone should have checked the acronym. What's fab about it? It's fabulously devoid of the moral sense that Bill Clinton's "safe, legal and rare" language at least acknowledged. Not that long ago, Democratic advocates of abortion did not celebrate the life-ending procedure, at least in public. Not so much anymore. One of FAB's priorities is to "meaningfully address misinformation and disinformation and ensure that access to...

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” unless you are an employee of United Airlines who chooses your faith over CEO Scott Kirby’s illegally implemented vaccine mandate. Not since 2017, when the airline violently removed Dr. David Dao from an oversold flight, has a company acted so improperly. This time, it’s not the passengers in the crosshairs. Rather, United is taking aim at its loyal employees. After rolling out a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in August, CEO Kirby threatened employees who sought religious and medical accommodations: “There will be very few people who get through the medical and religious exemptions...

Peter Schiff's appearance on the Tucker Carlson show (Dec 10th, 2021). Segment...

Ridiculous, seemingly arbitrary price markups are a defining characteristic of the $4-trillion U.S. healthcare system — and a key reason Americans pay more for treatment than anyone else in the world. But to see price hikes of as much as 675% being imposed in real time, automatically, by a hospital's computer system still takes your breath away....

My daughter has a nice little house in a safe neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley. Until recently she never really had to worry about crime or her personal safety. But now suburban places like hers in Northern California and Southern California are being hit by a crime wave that has never hit them before. As you’ve seen on national TV, “smash-and-grab” gangs are hitting shopping malls like the one near her – the same one I often take my granddaughters to. And now there are even young thugs who’ll follow you home from the mall and break into your...

Longtime NBC News broadcaster Brian Williams issued a strange warning Thursday as he retired from his 11 p.m. MSNBC show. "The reality is though, I will wake up tomorrow in the America of the year 2021, a nation unrecognizable to those who came before us and fought to protect it, which is what you must do now," Williams said. "They’ve decided to burn it all down with us inside. That should scare you to no end as much as it scares an aging volunteer fireman." Transcript and video at link.

“The overpopulation of deer in New Jersey is a well-known hazard that contributes to crop damage and car accidents, particularly during mating season,” reports the New York Times. “In 2019, between October and December, there were 4,753 collisions between cars and animals, primarily deer, in New Jersey, according to an analysis by AAA Northeast, the most recent data of such collisions available….In New York, where deer have also proliferated, the number of animal crashes in 2020 — 33,956 — included six fatalities.” For some reason we never seem to have these “deer overpopulation” problems in Red States. Dixie states in...

Opening his Summit for Democracy this week, Joe Biden urged his guests to “stand up for the values that unite us”, including a free press. The US president boasted of his new initiative for democratic renewal, including measures to support an unfettered and independent media: “It’s the bedrock of democracy. It’s how the public stay informed and how governments are held accountable. And around the world, press freedom is under threat.” Yet the US government itself is endangering the ability of the media to bring to light uncomfortable truths and expose official crimes and cover-ups. On Friday, the high court...