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"Wikipedia changed the definition of recession to favor the Biden regime, and then locked the page," Mike Cernovich said on Twitter after having noticed the change. Wikipedia changed the definition of recession on their website to fit the Biden administration's redefined language. Wikipedia then locked the page preventing individuals from updating the website, which is a tool that Wikipedia has long provided. The White House changed the definition of "recession" last week ahead of the release of Thursday's economic report, which showed that the US has had two consecutive quarters of declining GDP. This was the standard definition, but the...

When Kansans head to the polls on Aug. 2 to vote in their primary election, they will also decide on a critical ballot measure that could impact the future of abortion legislation in their state. Kansas is the first state in the nation to vote on reproductive freedom after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion. It is one of at least five states voting on reproductive rights this year, alongside California, Kentucky, Montana and Vermont. A measure that would amend the Michigan constitution to guarantee the right to reproductive freedom has also...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) called a last-minute audible and struck a deal with Chuck Schumer on a new spending bill. The legislation's core will raise taxes as the nation braces for an economic recession. It's a compromise bill. It's shaky. Manchin could back out if the energy and climate change provisions are too insane (via Associated Press):In a startling turnabout, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin announced Wednesday they had reached an expansive agreement that had eluded them for months on health care, energy and climate issues, taxes on higher earners and corporations and federal debt reduction.The...

Personal income increased $133.5 billion, or 0.6 percent at a monthly rate, while consumer spending increased $181.1 billion, or 1.1 percent, in June. The increase in personal income primarily reflected increases in compensation and proprietors’ income. The personal saving rate (that is, personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income) was 5.1 percent in June, compared with 5.5 percent in May. Personal income In June, personal income increased, primarily reflecting increases in compensation and proprietors’ income. Within compensation, the increase primarily reflected an increase in private wages and salaries, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...

Speaking to a group of disability advocates, and wanting to be thoughtful of those who were blind or vision impaired, Vice President Kamala Harris began her talk by saying, “I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.”But what, exactly, did she mean by those words? What, after all, is a woman? And what do we learn about Harris from her preferred gender pronouns?In raising these questions, my purpose is not to mock the Vice President. Rather, it is to mock the cultural madness that set the...

Sorry for yet another vanity, but I've not found any publication that has hit on this idea: build a bus station at each gap in the southern border wall.

Denver’s top prosecutor Beth McCann has survived numerous scandals since she was first elected in 2016. McCann is notorious for her refusal to prosecute the 9News security guard who shot and killed Lee Keltner during a 2020 conservative political rally. Then there was the time she blocked efforts by police to pursue prosecution of Denver School Board member Tay Anderson following the school board’s own investigation of harassment complaints. The Denver Police Department brought a sexual assault case against Anderson to the district attorney’s office, but after reviewing the facts, prosecutors decided Thursday they would be unable to prove the...

The old news of the leak of Justice Alito’s draft opinion last May overruling Roe v. Wade has now been swamped by the new news of the Supreme Court’s final opinion a month later. That final opinion, almost identical to Alito’s draft and joined by five of the nine Justices, held that Roe was wrong. As a matter of fact and law, the Constitution never mentions, alludes to, or implies a Constitutional right to abortion.

At least 14 of Hunter Biden’s business associates met with Joe Biden while he was vice president, according to a new report. President Biden has denied speaking to his son about his overseas business dealings. According to Obama White House visitor logs and emails from Hunter Biden reviewed by Fox News, the first son’s foreign business associates from China, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia, and Ukraine met with Biden when he was the vice president of the United States. On Feb. 26, 2014, Miguel Aleman Velasco and Miguel Aleman Magnani reportedly visited the Obama-Biden White House. The Mexican business partners of Hunter...

VIDEOSuddenly there is a big outbreak of Recession Denialists who refuse to accept established economic science.

- Q2 Employment Cost Index: +1.3% Q/Q vs. +1.2% consensus and +1.4% prior. - Wages and salaries climbed 1.4% and benefit costs increased 1.2% during the second quarter. - Compensation costs for civilian workers rose 5.1% for the year ended June, up from +3.2% for the year ended June 2021. Among private industry occupational group, compensation cost for the 12-month period ended June ranged from +4.3% for natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations to +8.0% for service occupations.

The dose makes the poison. ... All things are poison and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone is the thing that makes it not a poison. —Paracelsus, 1493–1541, credited with being the father of toxicologyClimate alarmists play the "hide the magnitude" game. If they didn't, they would soon be out of business. Politely ask a few of your friends how much of the air they're breathing is CO2. I've done that, and the typical answer, when I can get one, is 20% or more. (Most people have no idea and would rather not guess.) Climate alarmists rarely talk about...

We’re embarked on the Greater Depression. Here is what needs to happen if the depression is to be as brief and as therapeutic as possible. Why deal in half-measures? 1. Allow collapse of bankrupt entities. 2. Deregulate. 3. Abolish the Fed. 4. Cut taxes 50%… 5. Default on the national debt. 6. Disentangle and disengage.

Hamden FD, Facebook photo of the burning electric bus in CT Connecticut’s governor Ned Lamont and Senator Chris Murphy spent $25.7 million on a project to replace buses with electric buses. Twelve were delivered, and one went ablaze just sitting, parked, engine turned off, and with no one in it. The federal taxpayers fully paid for the project. According to CT Insider, they received a dozen with ten more on the way, but they’re all pulled from service over the bus going ablaze due to a lithium battery fire. It’s “out of an abundance of caution,” said the spokesperson. Nothing...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

State this month began an investigation into Michael Willis.. Colorado this month started investigating allegations made in 2019 against a powerful Democrat-appointed official after the Denver Post started digging into the allegations, the Post reported Monday. Colorado director of emergency management Michael Willis, who has played a significant role in the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was "visibly intoxicated" and "struggled to focus on things" as his department responded to a May 7, 2019, school shooting, a state employee told investigators. A different employee also reported that Willis was "wobbly" that day. While both employees originally made their allegations...

George Washington’s bust is back on a monument at his namesake D.C. university. The College Fix confirmed on July 27 that a bust of the nation’s first president is back on “Townhouse Row” at 23rd and F Street NW. Someone first removed the head of Washington at the end of May or on June 1, 2020. Police found the head sitting next to its base early in the morning of June 1. Law enforcement closed the investigation. The College Fix emailed the media relations team for the university and left a voicemail on July 27 but did not receive a...

The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 6.8% in June, the biggest 12-month move since the 6.9% increase in January 1982. Excluding food and energy, so-called core PCE increased 4.8% from a year ago, up one-tenth of a percentage point from May. The employment cost index, another figure Fed policymakers follow closely, rose 1.3% in the second quarter. The index climbed 5.1% on a 12-month basis, a record for data series that goes back to 2002.

The steamship Marion, from New-Orleans on the 20th inst., arrived at this port yesterday. Her advices are four days later than previously received. The Marion brought mails from the United States steamers Mississippi, Pensacola, Cayuga and Itcaas, at New Orleans, and San Jacinto, (flagship,) Huntsville and Mercedita at Key West. The health of New-Orleans was still very good. Gen. BUTLER has 2,000 men cleaning the streets. The city is quiet, although considerable excitement occurred on the arrival of the news of the exploits of the C.S. ram Arkansas. Col. T.B. THORPE, of the Custom-house at New-Orleans, sends per Marion a...

TOPEKA (KSNT)- Kansans are days away from voting in the primary election on Aug. 2. There are many things on the ballot besides the Value Them Both amendment. One of those is determining who will go to the general election for the now open attorney general seat. This week, 27 News spoke with attorney general candidates Kellie Warren and Tony Mattivi, two of three republican candidates in the race for attorney general. On Thursday, 27 News sat down with Kris Kobach who is looking to secure a spot for the general election in November. The hot topic everyone wants to...