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woke Illinois middle school teacher recently admitted that she routinely lies to parents about what she is teaching children in a video that should not only act as a warning to parents, but also as a road map to eliminating this dangerous, anti-American leftism that is so pervasive in our public school systems. The teacher’s name was not made public, but according to the Post Millennial, she is a member of the faculty at Troy Middle School in Plainfield, Illinois, a town about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. In her self-congratulatory video, the smug leftist went on and on about...

Electric vehicle pioneer Elon Musk called for more drilling and exploration of fossil fuel resources in the immediate future on Monday, warning that humanity could be in trouble if the transition to lower-carbon energy sources is rushed. "Realistically, I think we need to use oil and gas in the short term, because otherwise civilization will crumble," the Tesla CEO told reporters at a conference Stavanger, Norway.

In a video eerily reminiscent of both the disastrous, chaotic pullouts in Kabul and Saigon, unconfirmed footage suggests major evacuations are taking place in Iraq’s capitol city after the Green Zone was allegedly breached by gunmen. ZeroHedge was early to the story, reporting: “Days of pro-Muqtada Sadr protests and unrest have reportedly resulted in Baghdad’s high secure Green Zone being breached Monday, placing international diplomatic missions and foreign embassies under threat. AFP is reporting that an exchange of gunfire has been observed as dozens or possibly hundreds of supporters riot, with police using riot control measures like water cannons to...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently confirmed the Ohio Department of Health reported a human infection with a novel influenza A virus. On August 26, 2022, the CDC stated this is the second patient infected with an H1N2v virus reported in the USA in 2022. And is the fifth human infection with variant influenza A viruses this year, including three H3N2v (West Virginia) and two H1N2v (Ohio, Oregon) viruses. According to the CDC, there are different swine influenza virus subtypes and strains, some of which infect other animals but rarely humans. The Ohio patient is a...

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Jean-Pierre: "The extreme MAGA agenda is a threat to the rule of law." https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1564339747962716169

In the first week of the crisis, March 2020, I published an opinion paper titled “The Fear of the Virus Is More Dangerous Than the Virus Itself.” I had analyzed the statistics and mathematical models on which the coronavirus narrative was based and immediately saw that they all dramatically overrated the dangerousness of the virus. A few months later, by the end of May 2020, this impression had been confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt. There were no countries, including those that didn’t go into lockdown, in which the virus claimed the enormous number of casualties the models predicted...

On Wednesday, the federal jury’s unanimous verdicts were announced in favor of Adams on claims of retaliatory firing and racial discrimination. The verdicts came with an award for Adams of $2.75 million in damages, although a federal judge will reduce the award due to a law capping damages in federal discrimination lawsuits.Read more by Terri Jo Neff >>It was the second time Adams, who is a Black female and an attorney, represented herself in front of a jury regarding her 2015 termination which came after Adams provided the Senate Democratic leadership with documentation that she was paid about $30,000 less...

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Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, a Democrat, opposes voter identification laws because poor people and "people of color" are "less likely to have their ID at any one given time."

President Donald Trump argued Monday that he should be declared the winner of the 2020 election, citing fraud and election interference by the FBI.The former president pointed to reports that the FBI worked to bury the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop on social media right before the 2020 election.“This is massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before in our Country,” Trump wrote on social media.Trump said the FBI purposefully tried to stop him from winning the 2020 election.He proposed two solutions.“REMEDY: Declare the rightful winner or, and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020...

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin intends to increase the number of his troops by 137 thousand people. Experts attribute this decision to the numerous losses of the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine. What the Kremlin is guided by and whether it will change something at the front - says OBOZREVATEL. The fiasco of the "special operation" According to Putin's decree, which comes into force from the beginning of next year, the full-time strength of the Russian army increases to 1,150,628 people. "The Government of the Russian Federation should provide for the allocation of budgetary allocations from the federal budget...

North Korea's Mini SubmarinesImage: Creative Commons. North Korea’s Submarine Fleet: Just How Dangerous? After having published a recent article on the status of the submarine fleet of one of the United States’ strong East Asian allies – that being Taiwan’s – it would only be appropriate for 19FortyFive also to analyze the submarine fleet of one of America’s critical adversaries in the USINDOPACOM area of responsibility (AOR). No, not the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but rather the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK); given the headline-grabbing acts of intimidation waged by the PRC against Taiwan, it’s easy to lose...

Donald Trump is taking his case against FBI "election interference" to the American people — and to a new level — by demanding to be declared the "rightful winner" or "have a new election." "So now it comes out, conclusively, that the FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION knowing that, if they didn't, 'Trump would have easily won the 2020 Presidential Election,'" Trump wrote Monday in Truth Social. "This is massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before in our country." Trump added the "remedy" for the 2020 presidential election meddling should be...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said former President Donald Trump simply "broke" Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who "decided she is a Washington, D.C., left-wing Democrat now." Cruz, speaking on his "Verdict" YouTube show, spoke of Cheney's recent loss in the Wyoming Republican primary after she joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Jan. 6 select committee as vice chair. "There are some people who Donald Trump just broke," Cruz, R-Texas, said. "They hate Trump so much that their mind went on fritz. "And I got to say, Liz is unrecognizable. She has become a left-wing Democrat now." Cruz said, while he sometimes takes...

With more than 2 million people in New York State alone becoming eligible for student loan forgiveness under President Biden’s recently announced plan, loan providers nationwide need to staff up to handle the influx of paperwork, says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. He called on the companies to add “thousands” of staff to process loan forgiveness applications and answer questions. “We need our loan processors to get with it and inform students how to do this,” Schumer said at a Midtown press conference, adding that loan providers are currently understaffed.

A 'filter team' of FBI agents poring over 15 boxes of material seized from Mar-a-Lago has already completed its review of material that may involve attorney client privilege, and told a judge they would provide a more fulsome review of the material they removed. That material, however, will remain under seal, following a federal district judge's 'preliminary intent' to grant former President Donald Trump's request for a 'special master' to go through the documents. 'The Privilege Review Team ... identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,' the government wrote US District Judge Eileen Cannon in...

Joe Biden's student loan relief plan could trigger up to $1,100 in state-level taxes in at least 13 states because the $10,000-$20,000 in forgiveness could count toward an individual's income when filing their taxes. Some of the states with the largest poverty levels, including Arkansas, West Virginia and Mississippi are among the states where individuals and couples could see increased tax burdens due to the student loan forgiveness. The Tax Foundation think tank notes that 13 states currently would consider this relief income, but the states that might impose taxes on this student loan relief could shrink if legislative or...

Republicans lead Democrats by two points on the generic congressional ballot, according to a CBS News poll released Sunday. The poll found that of the 2,126 registered voters surveyed, 47 percent said they would vote for the generic Republican candidate. In contrast, only 45 percent of the respondents said they would vote for the generic Democrat.

Does it really have the radar signature of a bumble bee? The U.S. Air Force thinks so. I am talking, of course, about the F-22, a $108 billion program that at the time of its development was the most advanced fighter in the world. The F-22, though, is expensive to fly and maintain. It sets the Air Force back $68,000 per hour of flight – more than the F-15E Strike Eagle and the F-16C Fighting Falcon. Why did the U.S. military insist on buying it despite the cost? The main reasons are its stealthiness; its supercruise, or ability to fly...