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Rampant violent crime across the United States, particularly in cities and states run by radical leftist mayors and governors is of great concern to Americans everywhere and is an outgrowth of the insanity of the defund police movement and “criminal justice reform” which has led to violent criminals being released without bail causing carnage at unprecedented levels. Perhaps in response to this crisis, on January 21, 2022 the Department of Justice issued a press release: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks at the U.S. Conference of Mayors that provided a transcript of his remarks as they were delivered....

Here’s the problem with America, the country is broken ‘Cause they minds stay closed but they mouths stay open

Like our brothers and sisters in the other Blue State Gulags, we New Yorkers have been to hell and back these past couple of years under the reign of King COVID. Unless you have been here, those of you who are fortunate enough to live in a Free State have no idea what we’ve been going through. We have seen our fundamental liberties and civil rights, which we used to take for granted as part of our American heritage, taken from us by a cabal of the most evil scientists, bureaucrats, and politicians ever assembled in America. We have mask...

This Monday, Neil Young told Spotify, "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both." His comments were an attempt to get the online platform to deplatform the Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast with an average audience of 11 million people. Controlling content is nothing new to online platforms. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have all deplatformed people based on the content that they distribute through their platforms. The challenge is in determining who controls what speech is allowed and what speech is not allowed. Subsequently, Young took down his open letter asking Spotify to deplatform Joe Rogan, but the whole incident...

Petulant Neil Young is trending in Memeville so it wasn’t a great leap to recall one of his best-known songs. Then other news I read today drove home the point.Daniel Horowitz, tweeting as @RMConservative, wroteI can share with you from attorney Thomas Renz that the number of cancer diagnoses in the military’s DMED system went from a 5-year average (2016-2020) of 38,700 per year to 114,645 in the first 11 months [later corrected to 10 months] of 2021. This is a predominately young population. Unlike VAERS where the naysayers can suggest that anyone can submit, this is only by military...

Over this past year, we’ve seen a completely false narrative being sold to the American public about “voting rights” — that somehow the Republicans are trying to deny people the right to vote. Democrats can’t point to how any of these bills or laws do that. But that hasn’t stopped the Democrats from pushing the claim without evidence and shouting “racist” about laws such as the one in Georgia under which people have more opportunities to vote than in Joe Biden’s own state of Delaware. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) even went so far as to claim on Stephen Colbert’s show...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Court of Appeals for a second time has upheld a ruling by the state civil rights division that found that an Oregon bakery illegally discriminated against a same-sex couple by refusing to sell them a wedding cake in 2013. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports, however, the court on Wednesday also found the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries did not exhibit religious neutrality in issuing an $135,000 fine to Sweet Cakes by Melissa for illegal discrimination and returned the case to the civil rights division to reassess its fine. The case began nine years ago, when...

Is Joe Biden trying to top the vile, cruel record of blue-state governors such as New York's Andrew Cuomo, who seeded COVID patients into the nursing homes?It sure looks like it, given his strange, sudden, and absolute shutdown of monoclonal antibody treatments on patients who are being successfully being treated with the therapy in Florida. For vulnerable, sick people waiting in line for it, including those right up to the date of scheduled treatment, tough luck, go to the back of the line and see if you can find some other treatment, and hope your COVID does not progress to...

The coal plant is closing, along with the mine that feeds it and has nearly 115 more employees, and all the workers will lose their jobs over the next decade ... The same scenario is playing out in other small towns across the U.S. After decades of relying on coal for their workforce, tax base and way of life, the towns face uncertain futures as new state and national legislation forces the retirement of fossil fuels ... The impact spreads beyond the plants workers and is felt by the rest of the community, too. In Craig, much of the infrastructure...

Most women in England and Wales no longer have a child before they are 30, official figures show for the first time. An Office for National Statistics (ONS) report found 50.1 per cent of women born in 1990 were childless by their 30th birthday. It is the first time there has been more childless women than mothers below the age of 30 since records dating back to 1920 began.

In this episode Trent examines Matt Walsh’s arguments against transgender ideology on a recent episode of the Dr. Phil show and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of his case.

Natural gas stoves release methane – a potent greenhouse gas – and other pollutants through leaks and incomplete combustion. Stanford researchers estimate that methane leaking from stoves inside U.S. homes has the same climate impact as about 500,000 gasoline-powered cars and the stoves can expose people to respiratory disease-triggering pollutants. Humans have cooked with fire for millennia, but it may be time for a change. Natural gas appliances warm the planet in two ways: generating carbon dioxide by burning natural gas as a fuel and leaking unburned methane into the air. A new Stanford-led study reveals that the methane leaking...

The U.S. State Department is vowing to block the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany from moving forward if Russia invades Ukraine. "I want to be very clear: if Russia invades Ukraine one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward," spokesperson Ned Price said Wednesday. "I'm not going to get into the specifics," he told NPR. "We will work with Germany to ensure it does not move forward."

Gas stoves are contributing more to global warming than previously thought because of constant tiny methane leaks while they’re off, a new study found. The same study that tested emissions around stoves in homes raised new concerns about indoor air quality and health because of levels of nitrogen oxides measured. Even when they are not running, U.S. gas stoves are putting 2.6 million tons (2.4 million metric tons) of methane — in carbon dioxide equivalent units — into the air each year, a team of California researchers found in a study published in Thursday’s journal Environmental Science & Technology. That’s...

Deadspin published an article over the weekend warning NFL teams that they better not hire Mike McDaniel, the San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator, because he’s a white guy. “Please stop and think before you inadvertently dub another young, white guy as the next hot NFL coaching prospect,” Deadspin’s subheading reads. The first step to proper race-baiting is getting the skin colors of the subjects right. Deadspin missed that step. McDaniel is biracial, not a dangerous creature known as a “white man.” Upon learning of this loser writer’s mistake, Deadspin hilariously added an editor’s note to the top of the post,...

Come on down Russia and lets share a few beers before we accidentally start a full blown nuclear (we're all gonna die) war over the Ukraine. Honestly, most people in America can't even find that country on the map but then we could't find Vietnam either and look how swell that turned out. So, lets negotiate. War is so messy. Hey, do you remember those wonderful years we spent together in WWII fighting the evil Nazis? Good times. Look, we both got our asses kicked in Afghanistan-so we have that in common. Our countries have both grown weary of war...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday he had gone into isolation for five days after being exposed to someone with COVID-19, adding a rapid test result had come back negative."I feel fine and will be working from home. Stay safe, everyone – and please get vaccinated," Trudeau tweeted.

The Return of Roman Religion The West is increasingly anti-Christian. Recent opposition is not secularist or rationalist, nor is it merely political. It is deeply religious.How do Christians face this competing religious system? It may help us to realize how similar our own culture is to that of the ancient Roman Empire. A serious academic study, Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac,[1] traces the re-emergence of ancient Roman culture in contemporary Washington, D.C. Like ancient Rome, our culture is full of corrupt politicians, many of whom seek to prolong their stay in...

Home heating bills expected to rise by 37% this winter.. The city of Boulder, a haven of anti-fracking activism, offered tips Monday to residents struggling with rising home-heating prices amid a global natural-gas shortage. The city’s website warned that residential natural gas bills are expected to increase this year by 37% over last winter and offered hints to keep costs down, including lowering the thermostat, washing clothes in cold water and dressing in layers. “It’s not just up to your furnace to keep you warm,” the Boulder website said. “Dressing in layers can keep you warm while relying less on...

Pending home sales in the USA tanked 6.64% YoY. Yes, it was for December, but down 6.64% YoY means that pending home sales are lower than last December. And the stock market was up across the board as Powell refused to take his foot off the monetary gas pedal. Gold is down along with Bitcoin for you ALT investment types.