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The Biden administration seemingly can't do anything right, and instead of improving, it's going after those who tell the truth about its mistakes. Rather than using resources to secure the border, deport illegal immigrant criminals, or address runaway inflation, it's apparently relying on massive in-kind donations from partisan censors who claim the mantle of fact-checkers but are indistinguishable from speech police aimed at protecting Biden's flailing administration. Lead Stories is one such outfit that claims to be an arbiter of truth but is little more than a public relations and censorship arm of the Democratic Party, a clown car of...

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.6 percent in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 7.5 percent before seasonal adjustment. Increases in the indexes for food, electricity, and shelter were the largest contributors to the seasonally adjusted all items increase. The food index rose 0.9 percent in January following a 0.5-percent increase in December. The energy index also increased 0.9 percent over the month, with an increase in the electricity index being partially offset by declines in the...

As expected, US inflation surged from 7.0% in December to 7.5% in January. REAL average weekly earnings growth YoY fell to -3.1%. At 7.5% CPI, the Taylor Rule suggests that The Federal Reserve should have their target rate be 18.90%. At least CORE inflation is “only” 6% YoY. Yes, this is Powell’s famous chili recipe if The Fed actually starts to raise rates and pare back the balance sheet stimulus.

London (AFP) – Prince Charles, the eldest son and heir to Queen Elizabeth II, is isolating after testing positive for coronavirus for the second time, his office said on Thursday. The 73-year-old prince also tested positive in March 2020 and spent around a week isolating at the Queen's Balmoral estate in Scotland. His office did not say when he was last in contact with his 95-year-old mother, who herself has had recent health problems that forced her to take a step back from official duties. However, she is once again filling up her diary as a year of celebrations began...

Video captured the moment Canadian police handcuffed a 4'10" 78-year-old great-grandfather during the Freedom Convoy for reportedly daring to honk his horn. What are the details? Video captured the moment an unnamed officer approached the man, who was sitting inside his vehicle on the side of the road. According to a report from the Toronto Sun, 78-year-old Gerry Charlebois was driving near the main Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa when he saw a trucker. Charlebois said he honked his horn and showed the trucker the thumbs-up hand gesture out of respect for the ongoing protests.

On February 5, three conservative writers – Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen and Gladden Pappin – penned a guest essay in The New York Times entitled “Hawks Are Standing in the Way of a New Republican Party.” The authors make a number of reasonable points about the costs of foreign interventionism. Their arguments will likely resonate with an American public fed up with two decades of Middle East entanglements. At a couple of junctures, though, Ahmari, Deneen, and Pappin strike a disturbingly conciliatory tone towards global tyrannies – not just Russia, but China as well. The authors argue that we should...

Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is currently inbound from the Oort Cloud, a distant region of the solar system known for packing billions and possibly trillions of icy objects. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in 2031, when it will come to within 11 au of the Sun (1 billion miles), in which 1 au is the average distance from Earth to the Sun. The comet, coming no closer than Saturn, won’t likely be visible to the unaided eye, but astronomers will be keeping a close watch, as it’s turning out to be a rather extraordinary object. Named after its...

Angelique Contreras dared to exercise her rights as a free American by running for the local school board and protesting peacefully at our nation’s capital. Leftist thugs on Twitter were outraged, so the hate began. Anonymous leftist losers on Twitter started circulating a photo of Contreras at the nation’s capital on Jan. 6. In the photo, Contreras is pretty far away from the capital. Contreras did not break any laws and left as the violence was beginning.

In the next few weeks, we will celebrate both Valentine's Day and Presidents' Day. The two holidays recall two of our many presidents who loved our country and sacrificed for it: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Both presided over our country during times of vast change, and both put their country before themselves. Most importantly, both imparted guidance that is just as important today as it was during their lifetimes. Two of their speeches highlight their perspectives regarding our nation: Washington's Farewell Address and Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address. Both men acknowledged that they were part of a bigger plan...

Some Mazda owners out in Western Washington... are faced with having to listen to nothing but National Public Radio after an errant signal broke their radios. Over the last couple of weeks, a number of owners of 2014 to 2017 Mazdas all tuned their HD Radios to 94.9 KUOW, one of the Puget Sound’s public radio stations. Seattle Times interviewed owners, including Dave Welding, the driver of a 2016 Mazda hatch: Somehow the signal the station sent to the modern HD Radio that’s part of the Mazda infotainment center had, as Welding puts it, “fried” a major component. The component...

Chicago woman charged with felony for allegedly vandalizing memorial for slain cop Illinois police have arrested a 26-year-old woman accused of defacing a memorial for Chicago Police Officer Ella French – who died in a shootout with suspects last year. Anna Kochakian allegedly tore down a photo of French placed at the memorial just days after her murder, crumpled it up and threw it in a trash can on a Chicago “L” platform, state police said Wednesday. It wasn’t until this week that police obtained a warrant for her arrest on a felony charge of defacement of a police memorial....

There are reasons aplenty to think the current nominee to head the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Robert Califf, is the wrong man for the job. His coziness with Big Pharma which has lavished him with consulting fees, his official approvals on chemical abortion, and his apparent willingness to indulge any enthusiasm from the public health intelligentsia are sparking broad antipathy. Outside the Beltway, there’s another major complaint – Califf’s obstinate, boneheaded opposition to nicotine vaping. More than ten million Americans are vapers, by all estimates, most of them in a laudable effort to quit cigarettes. And they...

Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Joe Biden’s latest Federal Reserve nominee, is a revolving-door lobbyist who used her access to get special treatment from the Fed for a company on whose board she sat. She thus made more than a million dollars for herself. The company involved is called Reserve Trust. Reserve Trust is explicitly not a bank but a “fintech trust company” that serves as an intermediary between businesses, allowing one company to pay another company directly without having to work through a bank. Unlike competing payment systems, Reserve Trust has direct access to the Federal Reserve “Master Account,” a...

From a driveway in the Snoqualmie Valley, buddies Jeff Kissick and Gavin Pendleton – former U.S. Marines, now married with five school-age kids between them – were out to prove a point. Part chemically-burned tongue-in-cheek and part serious, the men say their experiment was designed to show the relative efficacies of a military gas mask, a KN95 mask and the more common paper or cloth masks most students in Washington state use in school. That’s why they staged their own scientific experiment complete with a military-grade gas mask, canopied tent and one can of honest-to-goodness bear spray. Before videotaping their...

Source: Townhall MediaOnce in TV journalism there were people called assignment editors and news directors. Among their responsibilities was to instruct reporters and camera crews which stories they were to cover that day. Their choices were based on several factors that included what they regarded as news, viewer interest (i.e., ratings) and much more subtly, their own biases. When I began my journalism career as a reporter, there were only three broadcast networks and local TV and radio stations. The radio stations played music and reported local news. The news was what these gatekeepers said it was. When the broadcast...

With the midterm elections in sight, President Biden and fellow Democrats in Congress and governors' mansions nationwide are completing a 180 on their COVID-19 response, abandoning the president's promise to "shut down" the virus as Americans say they want to "get on with their lives." In the process, Democrats have begun to lift key COVID-19 restrictions and return to normal life — the same approach, long embraced by red states, that they once rebuked as cruel and dangerous. Yet Biden and his Democratic allies are now taking credit for ending the pandemic while adopting these same policies. On Wednesday, New...

In 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote a paper titled “A Theory of Human Motivation,” in which he outlined what is now known as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. According to Maslow, there are five basic levels of human need. First and foremost, Maslow identified “physiological needs,” which forms the first stage of Maslow’s hierarchy. In this foundational level, Maslow describes the most fundamental needs for human survival, such as food, water, sleep, shelter, etc. The second stage, after one’s most basic necessities are met, is typically referred to as “safety needs.” By this, Maslow is referring to basic security and...

An estimated 25 million Soviet citizens perished in the titanic conflict with Nazi Germany between June 1941 and May 1945. Overcoming massive defeats and colossal losses over the first 18 months of the war, the Red Army was able to reorganize and rebuild to form a juggernaut that marched all the way to Berlin. But the Soviet Union was never alone: Months before the United States formally entered the war, it had already begun providing massive military and economic assistance to its Soviet ally through the Lend-Lease program.

Canadian girl crosses border with NO Vax, NO test, NO app, and is free to enter. #irnieracingnews I Feb 9, 2022 #freedomconvoy #usaboarder 4:49 total "Adventures in border crossing with Jazzy"

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEphesians 6The Armor of God 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your...