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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he will ask Congress for $2.6 billion for foreign aid programs that promote gender equality worldwide, more than double the size of last year’s request. Biden announced his intentions on International Women’s Day, which is set aside to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the world. Biden created the first-ever White House Gender Policy Council on International Women’s Day last year to help promote gender equity throughout the administration. He said everyone deserves to live up to their “God-given” potential, regardless of gender, and that societies...

In Democrat cities across America, the word is out: It’s time for masks to go...except on children. Teachers’ unions are adamant that it’s just better for those kids to keep hiding their faces. ... As you contemplate the unions’ adamant stand about masks on students, consider that children almost invariably experience COVID as a mild cold (“Data collected by the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that just 0.1% to 1.5% of child COVID cases resulted in hospitalization and 0.00% to 0.01% resulted in deaths”) and they’re unlikely to infect others. Consider, too, that children by nature hate having their faces...

GENEVA (AP) — An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said Tuesday it “strongly supports urgent and broad access” to booster doses, in a reversal of the U.N. agency’s previous insistence that boosters weren’t necessary and contributed to vaccine inequity. In a statement, WHO said its expert group concluded that immunization with authorized COVID-19 vaccines provide high levels of protection against severe disease and death amid the global circulation of the hugely contagious omicron variant. It said vaccination, including the use of boosters, was especially important for people at risk of severe disease. WHO noted that the current...

Kuibyshev, Nov. 26. – (JTA) Ten old men in a Ukrainian town – five of them Jews and the other five Ukrainians – were all buried alive by the Nazis when each group refused to inter the other, it was reported by a Red Army sergeant today, who was told of the mass burial by Zuni Greilich, the grandson of one of the Jewish victims. When the Germans invaded the village of Skarlivka, in the Kiev province, the greater part of the population fled and those who remained hid in the gardens and the fields. Young Greilich, who had taken...

Yesterday my wife went to her Pulmonologist and we taken off her O2!!! One more step closer to FULL Recovery!

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Anti-Oligarchs... - propaganda war I just think that the Oligrach targeting, first by Biden, now by UK, is a political propaganda stunt to show something is done. It did not, does not have any affect on Putin who understands only force. No boots! Given all that, I was never 'for' any wars / boots on the ground.. I probably can dig out old emails before Iraq War which I was worried about... Mercy! I pray, prayed for peace and my heart goes out seeing innocent non combatant Ukranians hurt, killed, flee... Nazis? Are Ukrainians neo Nazis like Putin claims? Of...

WASHINGTON, Friday, March 7. The more the President's Message is discussed the more difficult is it to define the position of parties in regard to it. One great point, however, is gained the subject is universally discussed with more calmness than has ever before characterized a question about Slavery. DEPARTURE OF GOV. JOHNSON FOR TENNESEE. Gov. ANDREW JOHNSON, accompanied by his son, Col. ROBERT JOHNSON, WILLIAM A. BROWNING, Secretary, &c., Hon. HORACE MAYNARD, and Hon. EMERSON ETHERIDGE, Clerk of the House, left Washington this afternoon for Nashville, via Harrisburgh, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville. THE MAILS TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC, VIA...

Ok all I have a question, have any of you done the Southwest airline trip from the Midwest to Hawaii and if so what did you think/any advice?

Governor DeSantis’s spokeswoman voiced her opinion and—oh, boy!—did she get a lot of pushback. n response to the uproar over Florida’s new law holding that public school teachers may not instruct the four- to eight-year-old crowd in the finer points of the LGBTQ agenda, Governor Ron DeSantis’s spokesperson said that the bill is essentially an anti-grooming bill. That means that those who oppose it are people who want to groom children themselves or just think it’s an okay thing to do. The outrage at her claim was instant and overwhelming. The language Democrats find so objectionable states as follows: Classroom...

"Here’s my first thought is I’m not going nowhere to fight none of these wars for these politicians. I’m staying at home and when the war comes to Arkansas, I will dig my boots in the ground and I will die for everything I love and I will not retreat."

...and guess what? Maybe Eric Trump, one of President Trump's sons, is just a very lucky guy. Or maybe he was on to something. The younger Trump tweeted this back in October 2020: If Biden gets in, not only will he destroy the Oil & Gas industry (and millions of American jobs and lives), we can all say goodbye to these unbelievably good gas prices. Talk about a prediction. Maybe Eric should buy a lottery ticket every Friday. Just yesterday, I stopped by a neighborhood station charging $3.89 a gallon. The proprietor, a nice man from the Middle East, joked...

WILLIAMS, Calif. (AP) — Former California Gov. Jerry Brown is living off the grid in retirement, but he’s still deeply connected on two issues that captivated him while in office and now are center stage globally: climate change and the threat of nuclear war. The 83-year-old Brown, who left office in 2019, serves as executive chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which sets the Doomsday Clock measuring how close humanity is to self-destruction. He’s also on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. In an interview with The Associated Press, Brown commended President Joe Biden for not raising...

Would you hire a Marxist to help you find your company’s next CEO? It is rare when watching golf on television prompts a discussion of historical materialism and the state of socio-economics in modern society, but, well, here it is: Would you hire a Marxist to help you find your company’s next CEO? From an advertisement run Sunday by executive recruitment (amongst other specialties) Los Angeles-based consulting firm Korn Ferry during the telecast of the PGA’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, it seems the answer they are looking for is “yes.” Korn Ferry, while not nearly as large as their equally-egregious competitors...

Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg on Monday pushed a transition to green energy and electric cars as Americans face record high prices at the pump. As gas costs soar and more workers are returning to the office as covid numbers fall, President Biden's administration announced a $3.7B boost for public transportation, including an investment in new fleets of electric buses. 'We are all in the midst of a turning point. We have the technologies to transition to a zero emission fleet,' Harris said during the announcement. 'We can address the climate crisis and grow our economy at the same time....

And this is a critical time for the West, a crossroads of sorts. We face truly existential dangers. From within and without. Some British soldiers are demanding that their nation’s armed forces introduce vegan uniforms that comport with their beliefs and practices. According to online reports, a newly formed group in the British Army called “The Ministry of Defence Vegan and Vegetarian Network” has launched a campaign to empower vegans and vegetarians in the armed forces. One of the policies proposed by the vegan group is for military personnel to have the option to wear vegetarian-approved footwear not made from...

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On Thursday, 3 March 2022, the Alabama Senate passed House Bill 272, Constitutional Carry, with Amendments. The Amendments were added the previous day. From alreporter.com: The Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would repeal the state’s law requiring a permit to carry a concealed weapon. The bill now heads to the full Senate for consideration of final passage.Looking at Legiscan, HB 272 passed the full Senate, 23 to 5, with 7 abstaining, on March 3rd, 2022. Four Republicans and three Democrats abstained from voting. They may have agreed not to vote, with offsetting votes. It is...

Sometimes I feel sorry for Barack Obama. Though we grew up in the same era—indeed, were born less than two months apart—he had a very different upbringing. The title of his first autobiography says it all: Dreams from My Father. Unlike young Barack, I was blessed with a present father who took an active hand in raising me—a hand that, on rare occasions, wielded an old wooden paddle. I got a lot more than just dreams from my father. I received love, affection, counsel, discipline, and direction. Whatever wisdom I possess, whatever wisdom I have managed to pass on to...