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Pro-life Sen. Josh Hawley expressed alarm Wednesday about U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “soft” record on child sex offenders amid growing concerns about protecting children from abuse. Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, also has a pro-abortion record that includes working with abortion activists on a case about suppressing pro-life advocates’ free speech. Her record on unborn babies’ rights has pro-life advocates opposing her nomination. Now, Hawley’s findings are raising additional concerns about other vulnerable children. “Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes,...

Earlier today, President Trump released a statement putting Wisconsin House Speaker Robin Vos — a true RINO — on the spot for claiming that the legislature cannot decertify Wisconsin’s stolen 2020 Presidential Election. The Gateway Pundit reported that Vos admitted widespread voter fraud occurred in Wisconsin after attending a closed-door meeting with a group of concerned WI residents advocating for decertification. Vos then wrongly claimed that the legislature does not have the power to decertify the stolen election. President Trump put Robin Vos on notice for the massive election fraud that former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman exposed in...

In the interest of remembering that the average people of Russia and Ukraine are not much different from US, and are not their leaders: There's a great Russian/Ukrainian band called 'Leonid and Friends', which began as a Chicago cover band and I think has branched out. (I believe they've been mentioned here before.) My husband discovered them recently, and they're pretty amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kQ1llzPiB4A documentary was made about them (rather long - 26 minutes - but interesting for the explanation of the founder's concept of what he wanted to do with the band): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVXUlV86bAM&t=54s

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold $408 million in company stock since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, during which the firm’s share price soared more than 600% while it developed and rolled out its vaccine. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech firm developed the second-most popular vaccine used to combat COVID-19 in the United States. The shot jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is the most widely used vaccine in the US. Since January 2020, Bancel cashed out stock options through the 10b5-1 plan which allows executives to sell a predetermined number of shares at regular intervals to avoid the possibility...

Slightly more than half of Ukrainians believe that Putin's regime wants to destroy the entire people of Ukraine in a full-scale war. Source: results of a poll conducted by the sociological group "Rating" on March 12-13 Details: 56% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that the main goal of Russia's invasion is the complete destruction of the Ukrainian people, and this opinion dominates in all regions of Ukraine. Another half believe that the target of the attack is the occupation of Ukraine and joining Russia. Only 15-17% think that Russia is pursuing a goal to change Ukraine's political course or prevent the...

MIAMI – Reports of shots fired led police to a Northwest Miami-Dade Burger King on Thursday afternoon. Now, Miami-Dade police have a female employee of the fast-food restaurant in custody who they believe is responsible for the shooting. Authorities say an employee and a customer were having an argument inside of the restaurant which then spilled out to the parking lot outside and that’s when things escalated. Police say the employee pulled out a gun and started to shoot towards the customer. A witness who identified himself as Kevin said he was purchasing a burger at the time. “Only thing...

Report exposes anti-Semitic, anti-Israel postings from Qatar-Northwestern program The Qatari government and Northwestern University are "training a new generation of journalists who will legitimize anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American positions," according to a report by a watchdog group. "Qatar's Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Influence American Media," a report authored by Canary Mission, a watchdog group that documents anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses, focuses on administrators, professors, lecturers, graduates, and students at Northwestern's satellite campus (NU-Q) in Doha, Qatar's capital, who were found to have made at least 750 "anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American" social media postings. This number includes posts endorsing terrorism, touting...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) is denying that he owns individual stocks even after he disclosed that his family’s investment fund bought millions of dollars worth of shares earlier this year. Blumenthal, one of the richest members of Congress, claimed last month that he does not own stocks. But Blumenthal disclosed to the Senate Ethics Committee earlier this month that an investment fund controlled by his wife’s family bought between $1 million and $2 million in shares of four tech companies on Jan. 31, days before he denied owning any stocks. Asked about the apparent contradiction on Tuesday, Blumenthal’s office...

WASHINGTON — The Senate’s unanimous passage of a bill to make daylight saving time permanent stunned many Americans, not least of which the senators themselves. In a twist the Founding Fathers likely did not anticipate, quirky Senate conventions and a decision by staff in Sen. Tom Cotton’s office may result in an overhaul in the nation’s time zones. Reporters and politicos were caught off guard Tuesday afternoon when the Sunshine Protection Act sailed through the Senate without issue, with no senators speaking up to object to it passing by unanimous consent. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, serving as Senate chair overseeing the...

Washington -- As I wrote many years ago, when an entity falls under the control of liberalism, it eventually loses all sense of what its purpose was to begin with. The entity can be as small as a schoolroom or as vast as a great city or even a nation. Hand over a schoolroom or a vast city to the leadership of a cabal of liberals, and you will eventually see the schoolroom devoted to teaching such balderdash as gender studies or critical race theory, and the great cities will be devoted to feeding large numbers of people nuts and...

A rare snake died while attempting to eat a giant centipede at a South Florida park, according to the FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. Researchers said a hiker found the rare snake at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. Pictures showed the snake dead with the rear portion of a centipede protruding from its mouth. “The state-threatened rim rock crowned snake lives in pine rockland and hammock habitats in eastern Miami-Dade County and the Keys,” FWC said in a Facebook post. Researchers said the snake usually grows between seven and nine inches long, but is rarely seen because it...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki didn’t even bother trying to defend her past claim that The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” after the New York Times belatedly verified emails from the cache. Psaki was pressed Thursday at her regular briefing about her own misleading remarks and those of then-candidate Joe Biden.

A 13 year-old boy blamed for a crash that killed himself, his dad, six students and their golf coach set his house ablaze shortly before Christmas, a family friend has claimed. The unidentified youngster, killed alongside eight other people in Andrews, Texas, on Tuesday, burned down his family's home after leaving eggs unattended on a stove, family friend Aganetha Siemens said. 'Just before Christmas, their house burned down,' she said. 'The 13-year-old made some eggs and forgot about it.' She is not related to the boy or his dad, Heinrich Siemens, 38. Heinrich was a father of five, with his...

Japan’s defense ministry reported it had tracked four large Russian ships transporting troops through a strait north of the country and heading west. ... The Defense Ministry published photos that depicted a vessel identified as one typically used to land expeditionary forces for amphibious assaults. One vessel appeared to have military trucks loaded onto its deck, The Mainichi reported. ... The spokesman added that it is unusual for Russian ships to pass through the strait so close to Japanese territory. Japan recently reiterated its claim over the disputed Kuril Islands, which have served as a point of contention between Japan...

EVANSVILLE, IN—8-year-old Sara Yelden has always dreamed of being the best female swimmer in the world and someday winning the gold in the Olympics. However, after watching a man named Lia Thomas break every female swimming record in the book, she has decided to adjust her dream to just winning second place. "I know that if I work very very hard every day, I can win second place someday," said Sara. "My Mommy and Daddy always told me that there was nothing I couldn't do, but then the schools started letting boys swim against girls so now I have to...

The video is difficult to watch, let alone listen to. A man is screaming repeatedly, "I can't breathe" while California Highway Patrol officers out of the Altadena station are forcing a blood draw from him. On the ground is Edward Bronstein, who was arrested on suspicion of DUI back in March 2020. He was brought to the station, where it seems he refused a breathalyzer or blood draw. California allows officers to get a warrant and force the blood draw if they arrest the suspect for DUI, and you can hear the officers telling Bronstein just that. At the beginning...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” MSNBC Economic Analyst Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, warned that there is “a substantial risk” of stagflation because it’s “very hard to reduce inflation without reducing economic growth.” Co-host Joe Scarborough asked, “We are obviously all following what is going on, whether the Fed is threading the needle correctly and some concerns from somebody that you’ve agreed with in the past, Larry Summers, he’s talking about stagflation in the coming months. What are your thoughts about that?”

The assault on Mariupol has revealed the full extent of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s determination to take Ukraine as he claims that his country will undergo a natural and necessary "self-purification" of "traitors." "The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths," Putin said Wednesday. "I am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges." Putin compared the West to Nazi Germany and...

Just over a week ago, the CEO of Disney publicly opposed Florida’s new “anti-grooming” law, designed to prevent teachers from discussing sexuality and gender identity issues with K-3 students which, according to polls, is heavily supported by well over 60% of Americans. And yesterday, and ironically, the good Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County held a news conference to discuss the conclusion of a large sting operation that nabbed 108 arrests, including many employees of Disney. This isn’t the first child sex sting Sheriff Grady Judd has executed that swept up Disney employees. Most recently he arrested several other Disney...

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