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I struggle to find liberal policies that achieve what they claim to aim at.Which of course brings up the question: are they actually aimed at achieving what is claimed?Often, no. Usually no. Occasionally the liberals are merely stupid, not evil. But Occam’s Razor suggests that with a record of being always wrong, the Left isn’t actually trying to achieve what they say. With all those high-powered degrees at hand, at least a few of the policymakers must actually be intelligent.A great example is “affordable housing” programs. Have you noticed housing getting any more affordable? I sure haven’t. And that is...

A newly revealed email is raising serious questions about Hunter Biden’s business dealings and what kind of access he had to classified information.Joe Biden is currently embroiled in a scandal surrounding his illegal possession of classified materials going back to his days in the US Senate. The email in question dates to 2011 and involves the president’s son attempting to sell intelligence on Russian oligarchs.The New York Post has the report.Documents dating back to 2011 on his notorious “laptop from hell” showed Hunter offered to sell intelligence on Russian oligarchs to the US aluminum firm Alcoa Inc. for $55,000, according...

We're talking between 40 to 60 fake 911 calls a day, coming into the Summit County Dispatch Center. Team members expect this only to get worse as the season picks up for skiers. Summit County Director 911, Trina Dummer, was more than happy to sit down with CBS News Colorado to get a message out to the public before a big gift-giving holiday begins. She warns that some versions of Apple Watches and iPhone 14s have a system on them that automatically sends a 911 call if they detect a crash. The issue is, every one of those calls that...

911 dispatchers are buried under an avalanche of false, automated distress calls from skiers and other Apple device owners who are very much alive. “Do you have an emergency?” Mr. Betts asked. No, the man said, he was skiing — safely, happily, unharmed. Slightly annoyed, he added, “For the last three days, my watch has been dialing 911.” Winter has brought a decent amount of snowfall to the region’s ski resorts, and with it an avalanche of false emergency calls. Virtually all of them have been placed by Apple Watches or iPhone 14s under the mistaken impression that their owners...

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla.–A third teenager has been arrested for her role in a brutal fight between students at West Broward High School. The beating was caught on camera. The school’s principal sent a letter to parents stating that those who recorded the fight would also face consequences. Video of this latest incident shows five girls savagely punching a classmate at the Pembroke Pines high school on Jan. 24. Two of the girls were previously arrested, and Wednesday authorities announced the arrest of a third girl who was involved. Two of the three girls are 17 years old and the third...

The U.S. government says that another Chinese spy balloon is traveling over Latin America. Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told Fox News on Friday night that "We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America. We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon." This is a developing story.

Washington has been cautious about which arms it provides Kyiv and from where the weaponry arrives. But speaking in Israel today, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli counterparties they ought to be doing a lot more. Alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Blinken stated as a matter of fact that “Russia’s ongoing atrocities” underscore the importance of “providing support for all of Ukraine’s needs—humanitarian, economic and security.” He implied that this support was an international responsibility. On Tuesday, he appeared to place that burden squarely on Israeli shoulders. “Iran’s deepening ties with Moscow and the sophisticated weaponry...

Melinda Dillon, who received supporting Oscar nominations for her turns in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Absence of Malice and portrayed the doting mom in the holiday perennial A Christmas Story, died Jan. 9, her family announced. She was 83. In Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Dillon portrayed Jillian Guiler, the single mother who heads to Devils Tower with her next-door neighbor (Richard Dreyfuss) in search of her 3-year-old son, who’s been abducted by aliens through the kitchen doggy door. Sydney Pollack’s Absence of Malice (1981) had her back with Slap Shot co-star Paul...

A woman in Oregon was awarded $1 million in damages this week after a jury found that she was discriminated against when a gas station attendant told her he didn’t “serve Black people.” The decision by the jury in Multnomah County, which came after a four-day civil trial, included $550,000 in punitive damages. Greg Kafoury, a lawyer for Rose Wakefield, the plaintiff, said his client felt “vindicated” and was looking forward to putting this case behind her. “This company deserved to be publicly humiliated just as they had publicly humiliated my client by calling her a liar in court for...

Edit: The primary balloon is allegedly over Missouri as of around 5:00pm Eastern time. By the time this gets out it will have moved on, probably to the east coast. Sorry for the delay, I recorded this on the morning of Feb 3 and it has taken 6 hours to upload because I'm currently in the middle of the woods working on unrelated content. Crises clearly don't like fitting into my production schedule as I would like. Edit 2: 1933 Eastern - picking up reports of a possible missile strike on a balloon over Montana. Developing right now, more information...

Charges have been dropped against a British woman who was arrested in December for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in England, but she has nevertheless decided to pursue a verdict in court to clear her name, her attorneys announced Friday. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, who police took into custody for violating a Public Space Protection Order in a viral video, has decided to pursue a verdict so that she can clear her own name and protect other pro-life activists who might run into similar issues in the future.(snip) Vaughan-Spruce was approached by three police officers in early December while standing...

While former and potentially future President Donald Trump is the highest profile 2024 contender who has declared, it's only a matter of time before he'll be joined by other big names. Former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), who was also Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, is expected to formally announce later this month, as Matt covered. There's another contender who may be getting closer to announcing though, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). There had been some chatter for the past few weeks, but as Fox News' Paul Steinhauser reported on Wednesday, Scott is officially embarking on "Faith in America," a sort...

First lady Jill Biden will attend the Super Bowl in Arizona later this month, the president announced during a fundraiser in Philadelphia on Friday. Jill Biden, a Philadelphia native, is a devout Eagles fan and has been donning Eagles shirts recently while the team made its way to the Super Bowl. “Jill is out in California campaigning and she told me last week, ‘hope you don’t mind but I’m going to the Eagles game,’” President Biden said, referring to the Super Bowl. The president, an Eagles fan by marriage, joked to the fundraiser that he’s not as obnoxious of a...

Residents in Billings, Montana, reported an 'explosion in the sky' after US officials warned of a Chinese spy balloon flying over the region. Bizarre video of the aftermath shows a trail of smoke in the sky where the balloon was last spotted. Dolly Moore, who took video of the scene, said she 'saw a jet go by so fast and then explosion in the sky. '

Count Vlad is against America's involvement in the war in Ukraine. So he decided to do an anti-war song/video based on Vietnam. The Count's biggest concerns are the treasure spent and the fear of escalation to nuclear war. If you like the music please subscribe.

The UK Government has opened a consultation “to support” digital identification and the sharing of personal data. They are not consulting whether the public agrees with their sinister plan. Neither does the Government’s “consultation” encourage public debate on the matter. They are surveying the public in such a way as to garner support. The list of government departments that would share your data under this proposed plan is extensive and, be warned, not exhaustive – the organisations that will have access to your data, and ultimately control over your life, will grow. Alarmingly your data will also be shared with...

How Stew Peters parlayed conspiracy theories into viral documentaries and a massive following.On January 5, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tweeted about the unexpected passing of Quentin Williams, a Democratic member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. “Terrible news today of Q Williams sudden death,” he wrote. “I’m sending every good thought I have to his family and friends today.” Most of the replies to Murphy’s tweet echoed the senator’s sentiments; many commented that it was especially sad to lose someone so young—Williams was just 39 when he died. But some of the commenters seemed determined to take the conversation in...

The year 2021 was one of hope and promise for New Zealand, as the world began to recover from the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. But according to official figures quietly released by the Government of New Zealand, the opposite happened. The island suffered 2,169 excess deaths in 2021 and then a shocking 5,286 excess deaths by week 49 of 2022. These are terrifying figures for a small island with an estimated population of just 5 million. Especially when compared to 2020, when no excess deaths were suffered and 160 fewer deaths were actually recorded than expected at the...

President Biden on Friday evening slammed Republicans at a Democratic National Committee event in Philadelphia that appeared very much like a presidential campaign event, but the president has not officially announced his re-election bid. “I know the Republicans ran on inflation last year, I didn’t know they were trying to make it worse,” the president said in remarks at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting. In a speech that looked a lot like a stump speech in front of a “Biden-Harris” backdrop, Biden rallied the room alongside Vice President Harris to chants of “four more years.” He criticized recent proposals...

In 1979, the WHO and the CDC redesigned the International Classification of Diseases coding list and erased any possibility for the world’s coroners to label a cause of death related to vaccination. A coroner has no code to input if he/she believes someone died of a vaccine. For over fifty years, WHO and CDC have been forcing coroners to mislabel vaccination deaths. Beyond the fact it is likely a crime, this suppression means that “informed consent” has been totally corrupt for decades. Contrary to what we have been made to believe, vaccination is neither safe for our children, nor for...