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Following a general trend of excitement among extreme leftists in media, The New York Times has recently posted an Op-Ed which argues in favor of the inflationary crisis facing the US and much of the world because it forces the public to go vegan and give up meat “for the greater good.” Just as late night propagandist Steven Colbert cheered for higher gas prices and suggested people buy a Tesla (a vehicle far outside the affordability of the majority of Americans) if they want to avoid paying $15 a gallon for gas, the NYT Op-Ed has a familiar stench of...

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein said former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election was something not even former President Richard Nixon would have imagined. In an op-ed in The Washington Post, the two reporters known for uncovering the Watergate scandal said they thought Nixon defined corruption until they saw Trump's presidency. In 1972, the Nixon administration coordinated a break-in at the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. The administration attempted to cover up its involvement until Nixon was forced to resign in 1974.

For all of its reputation as the “conservative” voice among the major news channels, Fox News has a funny way of showing it. Fox News Sunday host John Roberts asked his guest, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), if his Republican Party is “out of step” with America in opposing gun control. Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, opened the interview by suggesting that Democrats want to “take away guns” in response to recent mass shootings, such as the one in Uvalde, Texas, that caused the deaths of 19 fourth-graders and two teachers. “When you have a shooting,” Scalise told Roberts, “instead...

The Washington Post is in turmoil this weekend over twin newsroom spats involving several star reporters: Taylor Lorenz over false reporting in an article and Dave Weigel and Felicia Sonmez over a joke; a fourth Post reporter, Jose Del Real, self-immolated himself online after tangling with Sonmez over her response to the joke. Lorenz reported this week on social media influencers covering the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial just concluded in Fairfax, Virginia. Lorenz was called out by two subjects for falsely reporting she reached out them for comment before publication. The Post then engaged in several efforts to clean...

Every year, throughout the month of June, the LGBT community celebrates its Gay Pride Month but we only have one day to celebrate Memorial Day to honor the men and women who died fighting for our country. On Thursday, Republican congressional candidate Vernon Jones, from Georgia, says straight, white males deserve to have their own Pride Month. He added that the group might just be the most discriminated group in the country. “Straight, white males deserve a Pride Month,” Jones tweeted. “The Left won’t acknowledge it, but that group might just be the most discriminated group in America today.”

South Side Ald. Roderick Sawyer, whose father was mayor in the 1980s, will run for City Hall’s top job, he said Thursday. Sawyer’s declaration marks an extraordinary break with Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who selected him to be part of her City Council leadership team as chairman of the health and human services committee. In an interview with the Tribune, Sawyer criticized Lightfoot’s combative leadership style and said her contempt for aldermen makes it difficult for the City Council to get things done. “I don’t think I would treat my colleagues as nemesis or an opposing party. We’re all partners in...

We know that Georgia’s corrupt Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, didn’t legitimately win the recent 2022 primary in the state. For one, no one liked him. But now we have proof of his impossible victory for Secretary of State. Governor Kemp’s race was just as bad. After the 2020 Election, we identified the “Drop and Roll”. Across numerous states, on Election night 2020, large ballot dumps of nearly all Biden-only impossible results were reported at nearly the same time, early on the morning of November 4th. After these dumps or drops, we then saw all reporting at similar ratios of...

Explanation: What's happening at the center of active galaxy 3C 75? The two bright sources at the center of this composite x-ray (blue)/ radio (pink) image are co-orbiting supermassive black holes powering the giant radio source 3C 75. Surrounded by multimillion degree x-ray emitting gas, and blasting out jets of relativistic particles the supermassive black holes are separated by 25,000 light-years. At the cores of two merging galaxies in the Abell 400 galaxy cluster they are some 300 million light-years away. Astronomers conclude that these two supermassive black holes are bound together by gravity in a binary system in part...

Since gasoline prices started surging at the end of last year, the U.S. Administration has been saying that it would consider and potentially use every tool at its disposal to lower prices at the pump. The problem for the Biden Administration—and for U.S. drivers—is that there isn’t a short-term solution to skyrocketing gasoline prices that set new record-highs day after day. Every tool at Biden’s disposal has its own drawbacks and political consequences, and every move the Administration is studying is unlikely to dent gasoline prices too much, analysts and White House insiders say. The only “solution” to record-high gasoline...

Chief Pete Arredondo has been faulted for a slow response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary. The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District board took no action Friday evening against its embattled police chief, Pete Arredondo, in a special board meeting called in response to last week’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. As incident commander, Arredondo made the decision to wait more than an hour for backup instead of ordering officers at the scene to immediately confront the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers. The head of the state police later said this was the “wrong decision,...

Is Dementia Joe Biden trying to ID every single voter in America and then personally p.o. each and every one of them? It sometimes seems that way, doesn’t it? In Brandon’s America, odds are that at least a few products or services you like, or need, are now either sold out, unavailable or soon will be. Or whatever you need has gotten way too expensive for you to even think about buying anymore. Do you have an infant who needs baby formula? Biden is working on it — maybe July. In the meantime, give the kid a pacifier. Above all,...

The rollout will start Monday at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT) and take the Artemis 1 stack on a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers), 8-to-12-hour trek from KSC's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to Pad 39B. You can watch parts of it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA; the agency will apparently livestream views from the VAB when rollout begins and from Pad 39B when the SLS and Orion get there. This will be the second rollout for Artemis 1. The first occurred in mid-March, when SLS and Orion emerged from the VAB around sunset before an audience of hundreds, backdropped by...

Bridges was cycling and winning competitions in male categories as recently as February. Emily Bridges and Lilly Chant, two biological men who identify as transgender, won the first and second place slots at London's ThunderCrit cycling event on Thursday. Emily Bridges and Lilly Chant take 1st and 2nd place in tonight’s Thundercrit cycle race at Herne Hill Velodrome. Notice anything different about them compared to the cyclist who takes third place? According to Reduxx, ThunderCrit is London's largest fixed gear cycling race. The victory was announced on Twitter by the Women's Rights Network, a UK based organization defending women's sex...

“There can be no peace in Europe without Russia” was once the mantra of European political philosophers. Now, the desperate liberal order is determined to smother out this logic with all or nothing propaganda and a proxy war NATO strategists say will weaken Russia. Unfortunately, their strategy will probably starve half the world to death. The other day, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said “bystander countries” are suffering due to sanctions against Russia. The European Union’s aggressive support of the American sanction regime aimed at severing of economic ties try and force Moscow our of Ukraine is already causing serious...

Following on the heels of comments made by JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who warned investors to ‘prepare for a hurricane’ amid unprecedented challenges, Goldman Sachs President John Waldron has also chimed in, suddenly quite concerned about the future of the global economy. Sadly, Waldron’s warnings on the ‘most complex and dynamic environment’ he has ever seen in his career echo the warnings which the alternative economic media have been repeating for a long time. In other words, the sentiments of international banking execs are too little too late in comparison and don’t do much to help the general public...

“‘Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also’” (Matthew 6:19–21). There is a great potential for your possessions to become idols when you accumulate them for yourself. But possessions that are wisely, willingly, and generously used for kingdom purposes can be a means of accumulating heavenly possessions. When they are hoarded and stored,...

Former Republican Virginia Rep. Denver Riggleman told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that he views the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as an attempted coup by former President Trump. The big picture: Riggleman said people around Trump had an "awareness" of what they were doing when they repeated "propaganda" and "conspiracy theories" that preceded the riot and mainlined "insanity into people's heads." Riggleman, a former adviser to the select panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot, said he no longer considers himself a Republican. "I think the party left me some time ago," he said.

Has the ESG fraud bubble finally burst? More than two years ago, long before Elon Musk joined the growing anti-ESG bandwagon, we were the first to slam ESG as nothing but the latest Wall Street scam meant to fast-track gains for all those hypocrites who pretended to care about the environment but really had found a quick and efficient way of parting fools from their money (see from Feb 2020 “Behold The “Green” Scam” and from April 2020 “The Fraud That Is ESG Strikes Again: Six Of Top 10 ESG Funds Underperform The S&P500“). Well, it appears that after years...

Due to lawsuits in the UK and a global backlash over the Biden administration’s effort to give control of the health care and partial sovereignty of every nation on earth to the World Health Organization (WHO), 12 of the 13 amendments to the International Health Treaty (IHR; also called the International Pandemic Treaty) that Biden wanted were temporarily removed from consideration (one source said the amendments were tabled because the WHO didn’t have enough votes to pass them). Every nation was given permission to submit amendments until Sept. 2022, and all the amendments will be considered in Nov. 2022. The...

Diesel prices have wrapped up four days of trading in which they are finishing far higher than they were at the start of the business week and have moved up faster than crude and gasoline prices.It’s a worrisome trend for consumers because it signals that once again, diesel is moving at a pace more bullish than that of the petroleum market as a whole. That it already has done so in recent months is evident in the gasoline-diesel spread seen on price signs outside of retail outlets, and it has a complex set of causes. Ultra low sulfur diesel for...