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PODCAST:Bad presidents do not deserve to be honored on Presidents Day. George Washington was the greatest American in history. Joe Biden avoids taking questions to avoid giving stupid answers. Government’s solution to the energy crisis will be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. NATO should have been disbanded with the fall of the Soviet Union. Bitcoin leads risk assets lower, in the opposite direction of gold. Markets are reacting more to inflation fears than concerns over Russia and Ukraine. Buying Bitcoin is better than shorting gold. Hex Coin scam epitomizes the problems with Bitcoin.

Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum. Now, that agreement is front and center again. It is clear that Ukrainians knew they weren't getting the exactly legally binding, really robust security guarantees they sought....

...Republicans are more likely than Democrats to want parents to be the only decision makers when it comes to protecting their kids from both the coronavirus and controversial ideas. In polls, they are more inclined to say that protecting personal liberty is more important than the common good; that masks and vaccines shouldn’t be mandated in schools; and that parents should get a say in what children are taught. “I feel like, as a parent, we know what’s best for our children,” Erica, a Virginia mother...told me. “If you want to wear a mask, please do. But please don’t force...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday urged President Biden to impose the “toughest possible sanctions” on Russia after a top White House national security adviser said Russia's deployment of troops into two breakaway regions of Ukraine constituted an invasion. “Now, the president, roughly at the same time we're meeting here, is addressing the current situation. What I hope he's saying, what I hope he's saying right now, is that from a sanctions point of view, we're gonna impose the toughest possible sanctions,” McConnell said during a Commerce Lexington event in Kentucky on Tuesday.

Democrats and “the experts” are talking, once again, like they’re interested in getting back to “normal” — or some “degree” of it! — because it’s an election year and they don’t want to see their power in Congress and in governors’ mansions completely wiped out come November. But don’t forget that they always have keys in their back pockets to bring back the miserable masks and their beloved social restrictions and mandates.They’re called “new variants” and “waning immunity.”It’s not like we haven’t seen these people pretend to care about getting past the pandemic before. They’ve always done it, usually by...

The Eucharist is Jesus Christ waiting for us to come to him day and night, waiting to share the treasures of his Grace with us and the people we Love. (Fr. Gerald Murray)If someone were to ask me what I think is the biggest single problem facing the Catholic Church today, I would answer that it is the widespread loss of faith in Our Lord’s Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament.When you receive Holy Communion, the priest presents the sacred Host and says, “The Body of Christ,” and you say, “Amen.” That word “amen” is not just a ritualistic...

Forcing 10-year-old girls to sleep quartered with grown men is the kind of behavior you’d expect from a sexual predator.WARNING: This article features explicit material unsuitable for all readers.Coaxing 10-year-old girls away from their parents, promising a fun and safe environment, and then forcing them to sleep in the same room as grown men is the kind of behavior you’d expect from a sexual predator. It’s child endangerment at best and traumatizing abuse at worst. Yet that’s exactly what California’s Los Alamitos Unified School District forced little girls at a school-organized science camp to do for three nights in San...

CommentaryA few months ago, when investors started to discuss the troubles of Evergrande, China’s largest real estate developer, many economists saw the problem as isolated and insignificant. The consensus message was that the real estate crisis was containable and that the Evergrande default would be a single case. However, Chinese defaults on local and overseas bonds rose to a record $43 billion in 2021, according to Bloomberg, led by widespread defaults in the real estate sector.Up until a week ago, the bonds of Zhenro Properties Group were seen as safe, and the company was widely perceived as a rare case...

A trucker arrested as police cracked down on Freedom Convoy protestors in Ottawa has told of the farcical way the Canadian capital’s ‘Keystone Kops’ tried to bring the weeks’ long demonstration to an end. Even the officers themselves were complaining about how disorganized the whole operation was, Guy Meister told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview. ‘You could tell they were overwhelmed. They were as dumb as a bag of hammers,’ Meister, 53, said. ‘They wanted to take my booking photograph, but I had to wait for several minutes because they were having issues with the “mug shot board.” They first...

There is a theory kicking around dissident politics that says journalism is best seen as an activity, rather than a profession. It is a form of activism that uses information, real and manufactured, to promote various agendas and ideologies. Contrary to what the media companies used to say, they are not neutral observers speaking truth to power, but power centers promoting agendas that serve their interests. One key point in this argument is that journalists themselves no longer bother pretending they are neutral. The Washington Post still has that silly line “Democracy Dies in Darkness” on its masthead, but it...

Lt. Col. (ret) Allen West has gotten behind many great causes in his career after the military. The Texas gubernatorial candidate is now putting his clout behind the American versions of the Freedom Convoy in Canada, and he’s not alone. Rocker Ted Nugent is going to participate as well. Here’s the release from LTC West’s site: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Allen West and Ted Nugent will be joining the American Truckers Freedom Convoy/Frontline Truckers as they travel across the state of Texas. This will occur sometime next week in south Texas. Lt. Col. West stated: “I am proud to join the...

It comes after the legendary singer was forced to cancel two shows in Dallas, Texas after testing positive for Covid last month. 'It is with great regret that the Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour dates in Dallas set for Tuesday, January 25 and Wednesday, January 26 must be postponed due to Elton recently testing positive for COVID-19,' a statement confirmed at the time. 'Fortunately, Elton is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is experiencing only mild symptoms. Fans should hold on to their tickets as they will be honoured at the rescheduled dates to be announced soon.' 'Elton and the Farewell...

Wisconsin man Anthony Rodriguez, 26, was shot in the face last month after a pair of customers grew angry over a $3 hamburger missing from their order 'I do remember just laying on the ground and just bleeding out,' Rodriguez, wearing a brace to support his fractured spine, said of the January 30 attack Rodriguez, a father of one, was the only server on shift at Wisconsin chain George Webb location in Wauwatosa the night of the attack, after 12 am 'I was in so much shock. I don’t really remember being in much pain, but I remember... just telling...

Transcript of Riccardo Bosi's warning ["No consent. No consent. No consent"]Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and...

The GOP Senate campaign chair has released his own agenda for the Republican Party, which is drawing a lot of chatter on a busy news day. “I’ll warn you; this plan is not for the faint of heart. It will be ridiculed by the ‘woke’ left, mocked by Washington insiders, and strike fear in the heart of some Republicans. At least I hope so.” That was U.S. senator and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott in an open letter that introduces his 31-page GOP agenda that he’s dubbed “My Plan to Rescue America.” The 11-point blueprint apparently serves as...

Who bears responsibility for the current tensions between America and Russia? There are many answers to that question but blame is overdue to President Bill Clinton who in 1994 sealed the fate of any potential U.S.-Russia partnership when he made the decision to expand the NATO alliance into Moscow’s former sphere of influence. That set the stage for a renewed great power struggle in Europe against a revanchist Russia, just as legendary diplomat George F. Kennan repeatedly warned the Clinton administration that it would

Folks, Due to a number of painfully obvious factors, I've decided to add an EDC firearm to my repertoire. Firearms wise, a Sig Sauer P365 or a S&W Airweight 38 are in the lead. Yes, I know these are designed for a woman to carry in her lady-bits. However, in my situation, simply being able to return fire will be plenty 99% of the time, if not, I have other man sized weapons I can bring. I need something to carry without fail, comfort and concealability are far and away the most important. Gun safe wise, from time to time,...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger said that a tweet by House Republicans criticizing President Joe Biden as weak on the world stage fed into Putin’s narrative and said that Republicans will say “Biden is incompetent and can’t do anything, and whatever he does will be wrong, even if it is against Vladimir Putin” even if they’re saying he isn’t being strong enough against Putin. Earlier in the day, the House Republican Conference tweeted a picture of Biden walking away from the podium with the text, “This is what weakness on the world stage...

Washington D.C. issued an alert Tuesday about potential protests in the weeks ahead, possibly referring to planned trucker convoys slated to arrive in the region in an effort to voice dissent about COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

VIDEO President Biden, not one for answering questions from the press, decides to ignore an important one: “Do you think you may have underestimated Putin?” one reporter asks. Biden responds by picking his teeth while his babysitters usher everyone out.