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On Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “Quest Means Business,” Jason Furman, who served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council under President Bill Clinton and is currently a Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School, stated that while some action was needed, President Joe Biden’s economic stimulus plan was too big, badly designed, ultimately “brought us a lot more inflation than it did in terms of economic growth.” And “got the balance wrong.”

The Easter Season is passing quickly. Already it is more than half over, as we progress toward the great Feasts of Ascension and Pentecost. We want the Season to slow down, so that we may savor the joy and consolation of these readings from Acts and John that dominate the Easter Cycle, but tempus fugit. The Readings for this Fifth Sunday of Easter describe the growth of the Kingdom of God, which is manifested on earth as the Church. The first two readings and the psalm are tied together with Kingdom images, and the Gospel reminds us that this Kingdom...

Donald Trump's TMTG+ streaming platform is advertising for producersThe video-on-demand service bills itself as a 'non-woke' alternativeIt is one plank of Trump's post-White House social media empireHowever, his Truth Social app has struggled to gain purchase Former President Donald Trump's media company has begun hiring staff for its video streaming platform as it seeks to build a MAGA challenger to mainstream providers such as Netflix, Hulu and Disney+.In recruitment adverts posted on Wednesday, the Trump Media and Technology Group announced it was seeking a content buyer and a development manager to create programming for its TMTG+ service.The service is part...

An ad from Calvin Klein on Mother's Day featuring a pregnant transgender man and his trans partner has sparked a wave of backlash on social media. “Today, in support of women and mothers all over the world, we’re spotlighting the realities of new families," the company wrote in the caption of a Sunday Instagram post highlighting the campaign, which features three nontraditional families — including Brazilian reality stars Erika Fernandes and Roberto Bete. “Erika Fernandes and Roberto Bete are expecting parents from Brazil. Roberto is due to give birth to his and Erika's son Noah any day now,” the caption...

'I serve in the United States of America’s Congress, and you write for the press of the United States of America. Why don’t you care about our people and the crises we’re going through?' MTG asks reporter.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was well-prepared when she got ambushed by a Washington Post journo asking why she doesn’t vote in favor of Ukraine aid packages.The reporter approached MTG as she was walking to her vehicle in front of the US Congress building and asked why she has been opposed to sending money to Ukraine.The @washingtonpost and the rest of the media are...

Marc Elias and Minyon Moore, two longtime allies of Bill and Hillary Clinton who recently took up key roles with the national Black Lives Matter group, relinquished top spots with the embattled organization, according to new records filed just days before the group reveals what it did with the $90 million it raised in 2020.

With any war movie, the safe audience bet typically favors the immediate, graphic horrors of battle. That way, when you see a title such as “Hacksaw Ridge,” you know a director (in that case Mel Gibson) will be operating with a cinematic license to slaughter. Espionage makes for subtler, trickier storytelling. “Operation Mincemeat,” now purring along, confidently, on Netflix, takes as its subject a singular feat of deception cooked up by British intelligence in 1943. How decisively the operation turned the Allied tide against Nazi Germany is up for historical debate. But the men and women of MI5 assuredly helped...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Being married for 82 years, Cleovis and Arwilda Whiteside were presented with a certificate from the governor. A silver platter with details of their marriage, a Bible, as well as other gifts to symbolize their long-lasting union. "Tried to live a life pleasing unto God and to our church and to our members. To everybody."

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis: Christians wanting to go backward ‘does so much harm to the church.’VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Wanting to go back to the way things were in the past is not Christian, Pope Francis said.There is a difference between wanting to go back in time and drawing inspiration from one’s roots in order to move forward with Christ, he said.Looking back to find inspiration is good because “without roots we cannot progress,” he said. “But to go in reverse is to go back in order to have a form of defense, a safety measure that saves us from...

Below is my column in the Hill on the leaking of the draft opinion on abortion from the Supreme Court. While lionizing the leaker, media and political figures have ratcheted up their rhetoric to “burn down the Court” or to pack it with reliable liberal votes. Because these pundits disagree with the constitutional interpretation, they are now suggesting that the entire institution is illegitimate. Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick wrote “we need to be focusing on the legitimacy of the court itself” while CNN’s chief political analyst Gloria Borger suggested that the Supreme Court Justices were “just a bunch of politicians in...

Executive summaryA simple survey of my readers provided some extremely compelling evidence that 1) the US government has killed over 500,000 previously healthy Americans and 2) that the vaccine actually caused the deaths. It took me around 30 minutes to create the survey and 11 hours to wait for highly statistically significant results. I was able to accomplish something in less than 12 hours that the CDC has been unable to accomplish in 18 months: prove causality. We see both dose dependency and enormous changes in ACM deaths pre- vs. post-vaccine. We satisfy all five Bradford-Hill criteria applicable to vaccines.We...

The daughter of one of the country's top doctors who became a voice for nurses struggling during the Covid pandemic has died suddenly in her sleep. Australian Medical Association South Australia president Michelle Atchison revealed on Twitter her 26-year-old daughter Caillin had died on Wednesday. 'The light in our life has gone out. My beautiful and only daughter died yesterday,' Dr Atchison wrote on Thursday. 'She never woke up. 'It was so utterly unexpected and my husband and my hearts are shattered. I really don't know what to do.' Dr Atchison had become a public spokesperson for nurses and hospital...

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Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable. Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power. In desperation, Russia’s impaired and unhinged leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin, now talks trash about the likelihood of nuclear war. A 79-year-old President Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing nuclear adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who should be removed from power. After a year of politicizing the U.S. military and its self-induced catastrophe...

The band is getting back together.A sequel is in the works to the 1984 rock mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap," with director Rob Reiner returning alongside stars Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer.The movie package will launch sales at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. It will be released on March, 19 2024, tied to the 40th anniversary of the original.The sequel will be in the style of Martin Scorsese’s "The Last Waltz," the legendary concert documentary that followed the farewell tour of the Canadian American rock group The Band."Spinal Tap 2" will also feature real-life musicians in the film....

A teacher and coach at Livingstone Academy were arrested for presenting pornographic photographs and sexually touching a student, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. After the grandmother of a juvenile student alleged her granddaughter had been inappropriately handled by a teacher at the school, Livingstone Academy contacted HCSO. Detectives identified the culprit, Matthew Hike, 33, via their investigation. Hike had also shared multiple sexual photographs with the child, according to detectives. Hike faces charges of Lewd or Lascivious Molestation (x5) as well as Selling or Distributing Obscene Material to a Minor (x3). “Those adults placed in positions of trust...

Gregg Phillips, who was a top investigator in the film, told the audience at the “2000 Mules” virtual premiere that FOX’s lawyers are keeping the film off of the channel. And Dinesh D’Souza later added that FOX News would not allow Catherine Engelbrecht to mention the name of her film in her interview with Tucker Carlson. .......... Snip......... Then on Saturday FOX News published a fraudulent list of 5 good things Joe Biden accomplished since coming into office. The list by FOX News contributor Leslie Marshall includes 5 straight lies. 1.) Infrastructure — Marshall includes this in her list. Congress...

The Left sets up an alternative reality and then creates narratives to support it. It usually involves catchy phrases like 'The Big Lie' to describe their election theft. I figure with the brilliant minds that pursue these threads we could come up with some narrative phrases of our own. That involves a few areas ripe for targeting: 1) Joe Biden stole the Presidency. He does not deserve the title of President. What then do we call him? 2) The RATs keep calling their J6 Wrap Up Smear Operation an 'Insurrection'. What should the patriotic side call it? 3) The RATs...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A California coastal panel on Thursday rejected a long-standing proposal to build a $1.4 billion seawater desalination plant to turn Pacific Ocean water into drinking water as the state grapples with persistent drought that is expected to worsen in coming years with climate change. The state’s Coastal Commission voted unanimously to deny a permit for Poseidon Water to build a plant to produce 50 million gallons of water a day in Huntington Beach, southeast of Los Angeles. Poseidon said it was disappointed in the decision. “California continues to face a punishing drought, with no end...

Kharkiv's mayor tells the BBC that Ukrainian forces have pushed Russian troops "far out" from Ukraine's second city. "Now it is calm and people are gradually coming back to the city," Mayor Ihor Terekhov says The comments came after a respected military think tank said Ukraine has "likely won the battle" for Kharkiv