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Jane Timken is taking aim at President Biden over border security as part of her statewide ad blitz in her bid for the Republican Senate nomination in Ohio’s crowded and competitive GOP primary. "Under Joe Biden, illegal immigrants and drug cartels are flooding Ohio with heroin and fentanyl. Now opioid deaths are surging again," the former Ohio GOP chair charges in the ad, which was shared first with Fox News on Tuesday. "I’m Jane Timken, and I know border security is national security."

Here’s the single most important function of this blog: Saying the things that are patently obvious but that just can’t be said these days in polite society. Yes, it’s The Emperor’s New Clothes every day here at Manhattan Contrarian. With war raging in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, there is a renewed concern in many quarters for “energy independence.” Until recently, the sophisticated countries of Europe had thought the whole idea to be passé. They built large numbers of wind turbines and solar arrays, while simultaneously banning fracking for natural gas and shuttering electricity plants that used coal and even those...

Who is Don Berlin? was Don Berlin working for and who backed his efforts to set up President Trump for sedition in early January 2021? We reported in late December that information from the Deep State dossier created by Don Berlin presented to President Trump right before Jan 6 was leaked to the media as soon as Mark Meadows provided it to the Jan 6 Committee in December 2021 per the committee’s subpoena. Deep State operative Don Berlin created a bogus dossier and presented it to President Trump related to the 2020 Election a few days before his rally on...

Predators prey on the weak, and the US is now weak and clearly perceived as weak. It’s not just Biden or Harris themselves. They are merely the current manifestation of a long decline. We’ve reached a state in which people can rightly say we seem unserious, focusing instead on woke infighting and minutiae, and flagellating ourselves for ancient (and often distorted by a leftist looking-back) history.Biden and Harris are, however, the current visible cannot-be-denied manifestation of that weakness for all the world to see. In vain do the left and their handmaiden the press attempt to spin this as competence...

Support for the modish “environmental, social, and governance” movement is mainly empty sloganeering—as multinational corporations have shown with their response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given rise to an exodus of Western-based multinational firms from the Russian market. Emblematic of this was BP (formerly British Petroleum), the British energy firm, deciding in the days after Vladimir Putin’s forces entered Ukraine to sell its 20 percent stake in Rosneft, Russia’s state-controlled energy company. Since then, a number of other large companies have elected to suspend or exit their operations in Russia, and the Wall Street Journal...

Note that this is a video which reviews the history of grievances that Russia has against NATO. Cause and effect, it is good to understand the Russian position and their alleged justification for the invasion of Ukraine and the image the Russians have of NATO. The Russians see themselves as surrounded by NATO and they fear NATO. When there is fear, there is consequence. The Main Stream Media offers little of no coverage of this history and have successfully branded Russia as an invading horde without understanding what it is that Russia fears and rejects. Note I do not attempt...

Today it was revealed that Amazon is closing its downtown Seattle office, with 1,800 employees, because of out-of-control crime. Among other recent victims of downtown crime was an Amazon engineer who was assaulted with a baseball bat near the office in late January.To learn this story you had to go to the Daily Mail in London. As of this writing, the Seattle Times has nothing on the story at their home page or business page. Here’s some of the Daily Mail report:Amazon will relocate all 1,800 workers from its downtown Seattle office as the area continues to be plagued by...

The date of March 16, 2020 isn’t just a day that will live in infamy—it marked the beginning of the largest crime against humanity since the last world war. n Saturday morning, my daughter in college texted me: “I got sent home two years ago today. Feels like a dream.” After I responded, she sent an uncharacteristically brief reply: “Sad.” To say the least. In March 2020, once-free citizens around the world surrendered their liberty and livelihoods in a futile attempt to “stop” a virus. The most technologically advanced civilization in the history of mankind quickly adopted medieval fixes that...

They are idealists who abandoned their jobs for the battlefields of Ukraine, looking for a cause or simply to fight. The Ukrainian president’s call for foreign volunteers to join an international brigade to help bolster his country’s defense with a new layer of resistance to Russia’s invasion is for now a ragtag army. Recruits say they are often waiting for weapons and training, leaving them feeling exposed. “Pure hell: fire, shouting, panic. And a lot more bombs and missiles.”

15 March 2022Tuesday of the 2nd week of Lent St. Clement Mary Hofbauer Church, Baltimore, Maryland Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingIsaiah 1:10,16-20 ©Cease to do evil; learn to do goodHear the word of the Lord,you rulers of Sodom;listen to the command of our God,you people of Gomorrah.‘Wash, make yourselves clean.Take your wrong-doing out of my sight.Cease to do evil.Learn to do good,search for justice,help the oppressed,be just to the orphan,plead for the widow.‘Come now, let us talk this over,says the Lord.Though your sins are like scarlet,they shall be as white as snow;though they are red as crimson,they shall be...

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Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin has thwarted efforts by the US authorities to deport her from the country today by refusing to board a flight in New York. The fraudster, 31, who conned New York socialites out of $200,00 by pretending to be German a heiress by the name of Anna Delvey, was supposed to arrive at Frankfurt airport this morning after being deported by US authorities. But instead of getting on the flight from Newark to Frankfurt, the Russian-born scammer is reported to have made such a scene and behaved in such an aggressive manner that she was denied...

The official Army Register for 1862, published by order of the Secretary of War, has been issued from the Adjutant-General's Office. Compared with previous Registers, it is quite a large book. The new Registers are always anxiously looked for by army officers, who, besides having a personal interest in the changes which are constantly occurring, are also desirous of seeing how their classmates and brother officers are affected. Many of the young officers who have not been in the service twelve months, will be gratified to find their names well up in the list of First Lieutenants, with a very...

A couple of things have become pretty evident in recent months. One is that overzealous talk of the GOP’s dire political straits after the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection has given way to a largely predictable surge for the party out of power. And the second is that this is happening largely despite Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal’s Michael C. Bender on Friday spotlighted a pretty fascinating finding from his employer’s latest poll, which drives this home. Back in 2016, there was a lot of talk about the group of voters we like to call “double...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJames 3Two Kinds of Wisdom 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. 17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of...

...You don’t need a lesson in civics to identify the real heroes here, and attempts to paint the #FluTruxKlan as anything beyond a misguided, moronic, malice-driven display of redneck hubris and hillbilly insurrection flies in the face of facts—reinforcements for which emerge daily. Simply put, the convoy—or at least its organizers—are “people contemptibly lacking in the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things” (as the Oxford definition goes). Like pulling together to deal with a two-year pandemic… or acting on climate change… or mounting a transparently funded legal protest with an actual point (vax mandates were only an...

The group called it an “unprecedented abuse of power” by city leadership.. A group of Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers and a Catholic businessman have dropped their lawsuit against the city’s vaccine passport program after the restrictions were lifted last week. The group of five Orthodox Jews, which include a rabbi, along with one Catholic, filed a federal lawsuit against New York Democratic Mayor Eric Adams and his health commissioner last month over the city’s COVID-19 “vaccine passport” program, dubbed “Key to NYC.” The group called the vaccine passports “discriminatory and unconstitutional” and said it was an “unprecedented abuse of power”...

So who has confidence in Joe Biden's ability to navigate the coming grain shortages as a result of Russia's Ukraine attack? Anybody want to take bets that Joe Biden will know what to do when the next crisis hits? His presidency is one crisis after another, and his record, well... The next crisis is bound to be a doozy. Based on Russia's horrible war against Ukraine, grain and fertilizer prices are skyrocketing, and shortages are on the way. Ukraine's and Russia's customers already are hoarding supplies. Based on the little-discussed stories out there, this crisis is bound to be felt...

In a roundtable discussion in Doral, Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis warned that COVID rules will suddenly return after the midterm elections if Democrats are allowed to remain in power. “The minute those elections are over,” he said, “they will impose mandates if they feel the need to do that. They will impose restrictions.” Criticizing the recent lifting of restrictions in blue states as mere political moves aimed at bolstering failing election campaigns, the Florida governor said, “So when you start to see them kind of re-evaluate or say all this, just understand this. The science didn’t change. The medical science...

Memo to anyone who believes Russia is a bigger threat to the U.S. and the West in general than China is: Russia is reportedly now asking China for help with weapons and materials for its war against Ukraine. Think about that. Second memo to anyone who believes Russia is a bigger threat to the U.S. and the West in general than China: China’s economy is many times the size of Russia’s. It also manufactures much of the world’s modern consumer goods. And it currently dictates much of what the rest of the world can manufacture because it manufactures many of...