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This weekend: Answering friendly and not-so-friendly critics from Ben Shapiro to the Washington Post. Debbie and I discuss new parallels between the Biden regime and Nicolas Maduro. More Dante! Watch! ANSWERING BEN SHAPIRO Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep330 https://t.co/cIDqrdwSMA— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) May 13, 2022

A trans advocate in Halifax is calling for doctors and surgeons in Nova Scotia to stop using body mass index as an indicator of someone's health. Felix Vandergrift says the index, known as BMI, is discriminatory and is yet another barrier standing between trans individuals and life-changing gender-affirming surgeries. "The fact that I wasn't even able to book a consult because my BMI was too high is unacceptable. Period," said Vandergrift, who was recently denied a consultation to get a double mastectomy due to his weight. "You don't know anything about me, and you're telling me my BMI is too...

Why do governments exist? One major reason is that they create rules. But what rules are necessary or desirable? That is open to question, and different types of governments have certainly created a wide variety of rules. My note: This is an excellent article. Be sure to page through the document with the "next" button at the bottom of each page.

Members of the House of Representatives can now order alcoholic beverages for delivery directly to their offices from 8 am to 4 pm. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lamented the demise of Democrat legislation to protect abortions and feigned outrage over America’s “unconscionable” baby formula crisis, her administrative office ramped up benefits for lawmakers. House members received notification from the House Chief Administrative Officer announcing two new perks offered this week compliments of the chamber’s Democrat leadership: fully paid gym memberships and “House Drinks storefront” a brand new liquor and drinks outlet in the Rayburn House Office Building. And lawmakers...

The Saturday shooting at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket that left 10 people dead will be investigated as a hate crime, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York Trini Ross said during a press conference. Erie County Sheriff John Garcia called the shooting a “straight-up racially motivated hate crime.” Police said a white man drove from hours away to go into a Tops Friendly Market, which is in a predominantly Black neighborhood, and opened fire.

PERSEVERANCE The idea of perseverance is an important component in athletics, the military, studies, and even in religion. Perseverance is the master key, the secret of success when you are in the middle of the struggle. It is that extra, the second air, the capacity to overcome the discouragement. Our society is making a lot of progress. We have technology and facilities that no one in history ever had before. The new generations can grow up today more healthy, and live longer. But we do have an Achilles' heel: the absence of the spirit of perseverance. A young man...

Democratic lawmakers on Saturday responded to shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Milwaukee, Wis., that together left more than 10 dead and dozens injured, decrying the violent attacks and issuing calls to action. In Buffalo on Saturday, a gunman walked into a Tops Friendly Market wearing body armor, pulled out a rifle and opened fire, The Associated Press reported. Authorities said the shooter livestreamed the attack. The suspect killed at least 10 people before he was taken into custody by the authorities. Authorities said they are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

Explanation: An almost full moon on April 15 brought these luminous apparitions to a northern spring night over Alberta Canada. On that night, bright moonlight refracted and reflected by hexagonal ice crystals in high clouds created a complex of halos and arcs more commonly seen by sunlight in daytime skies. While the colors of the arcs and moondogs or paraselenae were just visible to the unaided eye, a blend of exposures ranging from 30 seconds to 1/20 second was used to render this moonlit wide-angle skyscape. The Big Dipper at the top of the frame sits just above a smiling...

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot is fending off conservative backlash after she tweeted that the Supreme Court’s draft opinion to reverse Roe v. Wade was a “call to arms” for those in the LGBTQ community. Conservative figures, including Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and Fox News' Laura Ingraham, accused Lightfoot of seeking to incite violence when she tweeted Monday: “To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community—the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms.” Boebert told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday, “If anyone in America is an insurrectionist, it’s little Lori.” In...

No country is as much a prisoner of its past as Russia. And no leader has become as much a victim of his own obsessive lies as Vladimir Putin. But where did this tragedy for the Russian people as well as Ukraine begin? And why did we not see this coming after the unspeakable brutality of Putin's conduct of war in Chechnya and Syria, deliberately using barrel bombs and nerve gas against civilian populations? I certainly cannot claim to be one of the very few who had foreseen Putin's reckless gamble of invading Ukraine. I also underestimated the lingering resentment...

Hollywood celebrities from Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Laura Dern hit the streets across America on Saturday to protest for national abortion in response to the Supreme Court decision leak signaling the end of Roe v. Wade. Seinfeld and Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus joined a New York City rally holding a sign that said “If men got pregnant, you could get an abortion at an ATM machine.”

Gov. Brian Kemp has signed into law a bill that modernizes some of Georgia’s rules around HIV-status disclosure. Under the prior law, any person living with HIV who did not disclose positive HIV status prior to a sexual act could face a felony charge punishable by up to 10 years in prison, according to Georgia Equality, an LGBT advocacy group. The revised law is narrower in scope. Now, Georgia law penalizes only those sexual acts performed by a person living with HIV “with the intent to transmit HIV” when the act “has a significant risk of transmission based on current...

Former President Trump on Friday criticized lawmakers for working to pass $40 billion in aid for Ukraine, blaming Democrats for advancing the legislation despite it also having support from a majority of House Republicans. “The Democrats are sending another $40 billion to Ukraine, yet America’s parents are struggling to even feed their children,” Trump said in a statement issued through his Save America PAC. The former president claimed “no one is talking about” the baby formula shortage in the U.S., which he said is “a national disgrace.” “It is unthinkable that in the year 2022 American families are unable to...

On Saturday, May, 14, it was reported that Russian troops stationed in Pidvysoke Ukraine are being relocated to Horokhovatka, Ukraine. “The Russian military began to relocate Russian troops in the Izyum direction. The Russian soldiers who were stationed in Pidvysoke, Ukraine, are being redeployed en masse to Horokhovatka. This is reported by the Borovka village council,” according to Torontovka news. “This is probably due to the displacement of the front line as a result of the AFU counterattack: loud explosions at night and in the morning were heard from the direction of Pidvysoke, Buhaivka, Kunie,” the report says. “It is...

Republicans across Pennsylvania are questioning former President Trump’s last-minute endorsement of State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) in the gubernatorial race. Many have continued lining up behind former Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), who has previously unseated Democrats in local and congressional races

Russia has deployed Pantsir and Tor-M2 air defence missile systems to Zmiiniy (Snake) Island after their Russian logistics ship was hit by Ukrainian forces. Update 4.52.pm (May 13) Russia has deployed Pantsir and Tor-M2 air defence missile systems to Zmiiniy (Snake) Island, after their Russian logistics ship was hit by Ukrainian forces as reported by a spokesperson for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, on the Ukrainian media. On Friday, May, 13, four ships and two Russian submarines with more than 30 cruise missiles reportedly took to the Black Sea following the Russian logistics ship...

UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to join the Davos Forum, an annual meeting run by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The Davos Forum, which is set to be held from May 22 to 26, is the 51st edition of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting and will largely be devoted to the Ukraine war, with president Zelensky scheduled to speak remotely to the international non-governmental and lobbying organisation. Scheduled for Graubünden, a canton in eastern Switzerland, it is the first in-person meeting for three years and will feature the 44-year-old, who is set to address world political, economic and...

Long Island Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin is the latest member of New York’s Congressional delegation to demand the Biden administration invoke emergency measures to address the growing crisis of the shortage in baby formula across the country. “President Biden must invoke the Defense Production Act to reverse the US shortage on baby formula,” Zeldin, who represents eastern Long Island, tweeted Saturday. Zeldin’s tweet came a day after Senator Kirsten Gillibrand told a radio program the infant formula shortage “is a life or death issue” and said she also planned to ask Biden to invoke the 1950 law that authorizes the...

@dougmastriano "My wife Rebbie and I have watched @Kathy4Truth stand for, and champion, conservative values...She's a fighter, she's tough, she's a Veteran and she loves her country. That is why I wholeheartedly endorse Kathy Barnette For U.S. Senate."- Senator Doug Mastriano

Former Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), running in Pennsylvania’s GOP gubernatorial primary, is calling on his fellow Republican candidates to drop out of the race and endorse him against State Sen. Doug Mastriano. In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Saturday, Barletta called on Republicans Dave White and Bill McSwain to drop out of the GOP gubernatorial primary and endorse his candidacy so the party can unite around one candidate against Mastriano, whom former President Trump endorsed on Saturday.