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The US Treasury 10Y-5Y curve (aka, the belly of the Treasury beast) has inverted. It is more about the 10Y Treasury yield rising more slowly than the 5Y yield. Freddie Mac’s 30Y mortgage commitment rate rose to 4.42%. Today’s initial jobless claims came in at 187k, the lowest in modern history!! Overheated much? More fuel on The Fed Fire to raise rates above 0.50%. Fixed-income trading floors:

If trial courts must call on ‘biologists’ every time the subject of sex comes up, it is hard to see how justice can be done.Judicial confirmation hearings are rarely illuminating. Since the introduction of television cameras, they mostly serve as a way for senators to say what they want their constituents to hear and for judicial nominees to say as little as possible. Nothing is learned, at least not on purpose.But occasionally, we learn something by accident. At Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee asked a seemingly innocuous question: “Can you provide a...

Somebody reading this needs a touch from Jesus. When the Lord ministered here on earth, he went about healing and restoring the afflicted by simply touching them. When Jesus touched Peter’s mother-in-law, her fever left her body (see Luke 4:38-40). He touched the casket of a dead child, and the boy came to life. He touched the eyes of blind people, and they could see. He touched the ear of a deaf man who could then hear. Multitudes brought their sick and infirm, and Jesus took the time to reach out and touch them all, healing them “Then little children...

...snip... something now is rotting in Moscow. The latest sign is that one of President Putin’s oldest allies, Anatoly Chubais, today announced his resignation and decamped his country. ...snip... Mr. Chubais has been a far more important member of Mr. Putin’s inner circle than that title suggests. As the man who initially recruited Mr. Putin to the Kremlin, Mr. Chubais was until today’s defection one of the president’s darlings. Mr. Chubais is, moreover, but the latest in a growing list of top players in Moscow who have either expressed skepticism about the war or were forced out by Mr. Putin,...

In the south, the Russians have been waging total war against Mariupol, savagely shelling anything and anyone that moves. They still haven't technically taken the city – read this horrific story – but they're determined to reduce it to a pile of rubble, then take control of a crucial land route between Crimea (which Russia stole in 2014) and the Donbas region, where the current invasion started. In the north, Belarus' government reportedly may be close to joining the fight alongside Russia's beleaguered troops, among whom morale is low, amid shockingly high casualty figures. That's the "good" news for Moscow....

“‘You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and...

I do not write this article to throw stones. I write it to save lives. That’s why I make this heartfelt (and anguished) plea: If you are a pastor or ministry leader and you believe that, according to the Bible, you have the liberty to drink alcohol (without drunkenness), please don’t turn that liberty into a public boast, as in, “Look at how free I am!” You can enjoy that freedom before God, with moderation and discipline. But please don’t bash those who practice total abstinence. And please don’t use your liberty as a club against legalism. Or as a...

Some on the right were concerned when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated a potential willingness to support the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Republicans indeed have shown more openness to support the nominees of Democrat presidents compared to vice versa, and given that Jackson’s confirmation wouldn’t change the balance of the court, it seemed possible that McConnell might ultimately join with Democrats and support her confirmation.But, Jackson has squandered that goodwill with her evasive answers during her confirmation hearings, and McConnell has since expressed concern that Jackson has been “evasive and unclear.”“She’s declined to...

The U.S. Congress authorized spending $9 billion on funding an initial two-shot vaccine and a booster shot for all Americans. But now, as the pharmaceutical companies are telling Congress that another booster will be needed, the administration is pleading poverty. “We do have sufficient current inventory of vaccines, both at states and pharmacies and other access points around the country and in our central inventory for fourth doses if they’re called for this spring for our most vulnerable, including seniors,” Biden COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said. “Where we do not have sufficient doses is later in the year if...

There are specific issues that are key to the very existence of the Democrat Party and most liberal/progressive advocacy groups.The Democrat Party trades in multicategory victimhood and creating taxpayer-funded Government programs in order to “cure” the problems they’ve identified and hyped for each group of victims. Often, these so-called “problems” don’t actually exist -- they’ve just been fabricated by the Democrats and trumpeted by the eagerly complicit liberal media -- but absent these so-called problems and cures, the Democrat Party would have no rationale for existing.Every special-interest and so-called minority group has its Democratically sponsored taxpayer programs.BlacksHispanics, including illegal immigrantsWomenLGBTQTeachers...

Hope to God the imbecile-in-chief doesn’t blunder us into World War III. Hindsight is 20/20—unless you’re a Democrat. Then you can be a political arsonist, figuratively and literally, and move from target to smoldering target without a twinge of guilt. See the Russian collusion hoax, the Black Lives Matter riots, Ukrainian quid pro quo, etc. All of these were either massive lies or destructive to the tune of billions of dollars. But this kind of recklessness reaches the next level when they play political arson with another country that borders a nuclear power and then act like they had nothing...

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said that the Russian invasion of Ukraine “has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades.”The head of the world’s biggest asset manager sent a letter to shareholders on Thursday warning of dark days ahead for the world economy, signaling that inflation is of particular concern.Fink predicted that the war will force countries to re-evaluate the extent to which their economies are interdependent on others. It could also spur economies to develop greater reliance on local manufacturing, according to Fink.

From brazen smash-and-grabs to armed hold-ups, violent robberies are on the rise across Southern California.

British volunteers have been blamed for a missile strike that killed 35 people at a Ukrainian training facility because their phone signals gave away the base’s location. Whoops. “Between 12 to 14 British phone numbers starting with the +44 national dialling code were visible to surveillance equipment a short time before the Russian missile strike on the Yavoriv training facility in western Ukraine on the 13th of March,” reports Breitbart. “Mercenaries who were contracted by the Wagner Group, a military company linked to Moscow, may have been operating nearby at the time of the strike, according to reports, and specialists...

The Evergreen Health Medical Center in Kirkland may change the name of its Family Maternity Center. Some staff claim “maternity” is not gender-inclusive enough for “birthing people” who do not identify as women. According to a memo obtained by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH, some claim the Family Maternity Center “does not emanate inclusivity.” They argue that “all types of people give birth.” Consequently, the staff at the center are engaged in meetings to come up with a new, more inclusive name. The memo announcing the name change idea was sent by four EvergreenHealth leaders. They explained that staff...

VIDEOLiberals were jubilant a year ago. Legendary prosecutor Mark Pomerantz was brought into the case against President Donald Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney. Yes, all the previous investigations of Trump flopped including the Trump-Russia Collusion investigated by Robert Mueller, the Trump tax returns that were sure to take him down...until it didn't, and how the Trump Organization CFO would "flip" on Trump...until he didn't. However, with Pomerantz all doubt was set aside because he was absolutely sure to convict Trump of something, ANYTHING. Alas, it was not to be. Could it be that, well, Donald Trump is INNOCENT of...

WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Tuesday she had contracted COVID-19 for the second time despite being “fully vaccinated,” forcing her to opt out of accompanying President Joe Biden on his trip to Europe this week for a special NATO summit.Psaki made the announcement in a tweet Tuesday afternoon, just a day before she was slated to join the president on his scheduled trip to Europe, where he will sit down with NATO allies to address the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.“Today, in preparation for travel to Europe, I took a PCR test this morning....

A Chinese father had the shock of his life when a supposedly dead snake inside a jar of snake wine he bought a year ago suddenly bit him. After the year-long marination, the man claims he decided to finally open the jars and administer the traditional Chinese medicine, only to find that all three of the venomous snakes “came back to life" before one of them bit him. After being rushed to the hospital, he was treated immediately and reportedly survived the incident.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Biden’s ambassador to Israel appeared at a pro-BDS group’s webinar co-hosted by its CEO, who had described Israel as an “oppressive regime”, and told its audience that the real problem with the Palestinian Authority funding terrorism is that “it gives the ‘haters’ an excuse not to support the PA based on the argument that it is ‘paying for people who killed Jews.’” He also told the anti-Israel group which had cheered the Ben & Jerry’s boycott...

The UNC School of Medicine just released an “update” to its lengthy Task Force to Integrate Social Justice into the Curriculum Report. According to the school’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion web page, “the UNC School of Medicine appreciates the Task Force’s work, its feedback, and recommendations,” and this status report “includes important context relative to those recommendations.” Ironically, the document is notable for both how little it says and how much it reveals about DEI at the UNC School of Medicine (SOM). Some background. In November, the Martin Center published my article titled UNC School of Medicine’s Quiet “Diversity, Equity,...