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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) claimed victory Wednesday after the governor of Mexico’s Nuevo Leon province promised to curb illegal migration in exchange for Abbott ending stringent safety checks on the trucks used to export goods from the province’s factories and farms. “Today is a historic day where two governors are showing how to lead on border issues,” Abbot told a press conference where he denounced President Joe Biden’s easy migration rules and his plan to remove the Title 42 legal barrier on May 23. Abbott said: "Governor [Samuel] Garcia [Sepulveda] and I reached an agreement today … Governor Garcia...

Welcome to Your Green Dystopia. The wind turbines at ESI Energy killed 150 eagles in the last ten years and last week the company was fined $8 million dollars “or $53,300 per carcass”. Which sounds someone cares about these birds. But don’t think the The Fisheries and Wildlife Service (FWS) are outraged at the deaths of eagles. The real problem was not the slaughter, but that ESI didn’t fill out the paperwork first. If they had only got their permits to kill, it would have been fine. The new FWS permitted “take” limits of bald eagles has just been increased...

Mortgage interest rates continue their meteoric rise (along with home prices), the result of which is a tanking of consumer confidence in home buying. The University of Michigan survey of consumers about buying conditions for housing remains depressed due to rising mortgage rates and surging home prices. Bankrate’s 30Y mortgage rate is down slightly today to 5.06% as the 2-year Treasury yield declines and the anticipated rate hikes have fallen to 9.19. As I mentioned earlier, mortgage credit availability hasn’t recovered from the “China Covid Correction.”

The tony Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard could soon see an influx of migrants this summer if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gets his way. The conservative firebrand and likely 2024 presidential contender is proposing busing migrants living in Florida illegally out of the state and sending them to the Vineyard, Delaware and possibly other “progressive” states whose governors endorse violations of immigration law. “If Biden is dumping people, which he has dumped people, we now have money where we can reroute them to sanctuary states like Delaware,” DeSantis said. “It is not the responsibility of Floridians to subsidize aliens to...

BELGRADE, Mont. — Game wardens with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks are seeking information on a person of interest in an illegal baiting case three miles south of Belgrade. During the investigation trail cameras took photo of the man investigators believe to be associated with the illegal bait pile located at Cameron Bridge Fishing Access Site. The following was sent out by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks: Game wardens with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks are seeking information on a person of interest in an illegal baiting case at Cameron Bridge Fishing Access Site. On Oct. 16 wardens received a...

The image is one of valor and courage, and deserves to win awards. But it does not suit the propaganda of perennial Muslim victimhood that the biggest names in global media promulgate. It also shatters the fake narrative they have peddled for years. It is an image of an Indian policeman who ran through burning buildings to rescue an infant from Islamic rage. This kind of photo makes liberal media platforms uncomfortable. On April 2, disputes broke out in Karauli, Rajasthan. Hindus were celebrating the Hindu New Year, and had organized a celebratory motorbike rally. While the bikers were passing...

<p>DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado Board of Education heard comments from the public Wednesday surrounding the possibility of excluding LGBTQ references in the social studies curriculum until fourth grade.</p><p>After thousands of people offered feedback, a committee made the recommendation to the board.</p>

President Joe Biden seems to be dedicated to the foreign policies of his former boss, President Barrack Obama. Like Obama, he is clearly bent on reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) also known as the Iran nuclear deal. In its eagerness to sign a deal with the Iranians at all costs, the Biden administration is willing to overlook the human rights abuses being committed by the Ayatollah’s regime and its praetorian guards – the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). It is similarly ready to put aside the issue of Iran’s development of long-range ballistic missiles that would enable...

'Jesse Watters Primetime' host reacts to the FBI having no record of investigation into the Brooklyn subway suspect.

WASHINGTON, Sunday, April 13. SCARCITY OF NEWS. Washington seldom originates much news on a Sunday, Bull Runs being scarce in this country. We have had no occasion for a Cabinet meeting. To-day, Senators and Representatives have regaled themselves by attending church, visiting Manassas, writing letters, franking documents to their friends and constituents, and discussing military men in general and McCLELLAN in particular. THE CHURCHES The recommendation of the President in his recent proclamation was generally observed in the churches to-day. THE DISTRICT EMANCIPATION BILL. It so happens that the District Emancipation bill did not reach the President on Saturday, as...

HOLY THURSDAY: EVENING MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER JOHN 13:1-15 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus washes the disciples’ feet. He is giving them a visual proclamation of his new commandment: “Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.” When we accept this commandment, we walk the path of joy. When we internalize this law, we become happy. And so the paradox: happiness is never a function of filling oneself up; it is a wonderful function of giving oneself away. When the divine grace enters one’s life (and everything we have is the result...

When Malik Sanchez was sentenced on Wednesday for claiming he had a bomb and telling two women outside a New York City restaurant that he was going to kill them, he apologized to the women and said that his actions were those of an “immature and reckless child.” Manhattan federal court Judge Colleen McMahon stopped him right there and corrected him, saying his action was “that of a sicko.” Nevertheless, she gave him no jail time at all while praising his post-arrest behavior and calling him a “pretrial success story.” Scaring people half to death is no big deal in...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations has released more than 500 pages of previously classified documents about the investigation of a Horizon Airlines plane stolen from Sea-Tac Airport and crashed on Ketron Island in 2018 by a ground services worker. One new piece of information that was released surrounded what was in a spiral notebook of 29-year-old Richard “Beeboo” Russell, who stole and flew an empty Horizon Air Bombardier Q400. The FBI noted that Russell wrote about then-President Donald Trump and the effects his immigration policies were having. He wrote he had the desire to do something that would benefit all...

Michigan police have released footage of a black man being shot in the back of the head by a white cop during a struggle over the officer's Taser following a traffic stop, prompting calls for justice as the family's high-profile attorney claimed 'unnecessary, excessive used of force was used.' Amid public outcry for transparency, police released the footage on Wednesday showing Patrick Lyoya, 26, facedown on the ground as he is fatally shot by the officer in Grand Rapids on April 4. The newly released footage also shows the moments leading up to the shooting, including the traffic stop over...

Russian and Ukraine agree that the Russian missile cruiser Moskva, its Black Sea flagship, was taken out of commission on Wednesday, but there's no agreement on how that happened. Russian state-run media, citing the Defense Ministry, said "ammunition detonated as a result of a fire on the Moskva missile cruiser," the ship "was seriously damaged," and "the entire crew" of 510 was evacuated. Hours earlier, the governor of Odessa said Ukraine had hit the ship with Neptune anti-ship missiles and inflicted "very serious damage." Either way, "one of the Russian Navy's most important warships is either floating abandoned or at...

Averting Our Eyes The New York subway massacre has roots in mental illness, but the shooter’s delusions were likely fed by the relentless cultivation of racial resentment.Had a white male entered a New York subway car in a construction vest and gas mask, carrying a hatchet, a nine-millimeter handgun, extended ammo magazines, gasoline, fireworks, and two smoke grenades; had he then shot off at least 33 rounds, hitting ten people, the Biden administration and the media would have immediately raised an alarm about white nationalist violence. The shooter’s race would have led every story about such an attempted massacre;...

MOSCOW, April 14. /TASS/. Russia will beef up security along its Western borders if Sweden and Finland join NATO and there would be no more talk of a nuclear-free Baltic, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Thursday. "Very soon, that is precisely, by this summer, the world will become even ‘safer’," he noted. "If Sweden and Finland join NATO, the length of the alliance's land border with Russia will more than double. Naturally, it will be necessary to strengthen these borders," he maintained. Medvedev explained that it would be necessary...

A so-called ghost gun is nothing more than a gun someone built themselves. That's all a ghost gun is. They love calling it a ghost gun because homemade guns don't scare suburban housewives with helicopter mom syndrome like, "GHOST GUN." Joe Biden was having trouble getting his so-called "Ghost Guns" passed in Congress because building your own gun for personal use has always been legal. Hell, it says it right on the ATF website; "No, a license is not required to make a firearm solely for personal use. However, a license is required to manufacture firearms for sale or distribution....

In the Ohio Senate primary, there’s a clash of self-proclaimed MAGA candidates all clamoring for the Trump, America First mantle. However, it only takes a closer look to see who are pretenders, and who's the real deal. Jane Timken is the only true MAGA conservative in Ohio who has been there for President Trump and the America First movement since 2016 and all the way through, to the present day.

Americans’ credit cards are taking a beating – as was evident in the plunge in the savings rate and the surge in revolving consumer credit – to enable them to keep the dream alive and spend beyond their means and that over-reach enabled them to increase retail sales spending by 0.5% MoM – as expected in March. Notably, the rise in retail sales year-over-year is decelerating dramatically (up only 6.9% YoY – the lowest since Feb 2021)…Source: BloombergThe relative weakness was driven by a huge drop in non-store retailer sales (online) MoM leaving sales up just 1.8% YoY.However, before everyone...