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BALTIMORE — Three years ago, the leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, threw her support behind liberal icon Bernie Sanders for president while questioning Joe Biden’s progressive credentials. This week, at the House Democrats’ annual retreat, Jayapal stood before a bank of TV cameras and declared Biden the “most progressive president that we’ve had in a long time.” “I would like to see him announce sooner,” Jayapal, of Washington, later said of his 2024 re-election bid. But at a three-day gathering of House Democrats at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor this week, Democrats from every corner of the party...

Tennessee becomes first state to ban drag shows on public property, near schools Tennessee bill signed into law also bans gender transition surgeries for minors Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed legislation banning gender reassignment surgeries for minors, saying children should not be allowed to undergo permanent, body-altering surgeries. (WBDB) Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation on Thursday restricting drag shows and banning gender transition treatments for minors. Tennessee is now the first state to limit the performances, and the provision criminalizes performances that take place in public or where they could be seen by children. The bill...

Just the latest anti-white attack against children in the United States of America. Disturbing video footage from an Ohio elementary school shows black students attacking their white peers and holding them hostage on a playground as they put them on their knees and force them to swear allegiance to Black Lives Matter, the far-left militant group responsible for dozens of homicides and the burning of American cities. The racially-motivated attack took place on February 10th at Springfield, Ohio’s Kenwood Elementary School, where a group of black students celebrated “black history month” by attacking their white peers, holding them hostage on...

President Joe Biden’s aides are gathering top Democrats to sit on a “National Advisory Board” to promote unity around the president as he moves towards an expected campaign announcement, according to The Washington Post. The campaign board, through the Democratic National Convention, will be stacked with prominent governors and senators, as well as other well-known Democrats, rumored 2024 contenders of Biden...

Guest Post by Becky Behrends, M.D. and Vice President of Research for Michigan Citizens for Election Integrity (MC4EI.com) Are you better off than you were four years ago? That was the question Ronald Reagan posed to Jimmy Carter in their presidential debate in 1980 and it has become one of the most famous and important campaign questions of all time. Four years ago, the US and the world experienced the start of Covid -19 and all its economic fallout since then. The economy has suffered ups and down subsequently. The question now is, has government policy under Biden since 2021...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A high-speed bullet train from Southern California to Las Vegas is a step closer to reality. Brightline, the company that will build the system, has announced a landmark labor agreement with the High-Speed Rail Labor Coalition, which is "compromised of 13 rail unions representing more than 160,000 freight, regional, commuter, and passenger railroad workers in the United States." The $10 billion investment is expected to create nearly 35,000 jobs during construction and over 1,000 permanent jobs once operational, according to a press release from Brightline. The fully-electric train will be able to travel 200 miles an...

Covid finally got me. I'm in my 60s and never received the jab. I felt lousy the first 24 hours but feel pretty good now. I live on aspirin to keep the fever down, my dry cough is breaking up, and I can breathe OK. Any other suggestions anyone can give me would be appreciated because I still am a little frightened. I knew someone unjabbed who got it, felt great then died! Also, what are your thoughts on Paxlovid?

In my last post I noted that Joe Biden has two masters; Zelenskyy and China. Today we'll have a look at ESG. ESG is short for Environmental, Social and Governance. ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. First coined in 2005, ESG covers a wide range of issues that may have a direct or indirect impact on financial relevance. Some of these issues that come under the purview of ESG reporting include resource management, supply chain management, organizational health, safety policies, and building trust through transparency. It's a kind of Social Credit Report CardMajor financial institutions and global organizations are...

The National Park Service's official Twitter account warned park visitors to not push their slower friends down in a bear encounter. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service March 2 (UPI) -- The National Park Service offered some sage advice for park visitors who encounter bears: "Never push a slower friend down." The NPS said on its official Twitter account that feeding another human to a bear is never the answer. "If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down...even if you feel the friendship has run its course⁣," the NPS tweeted. A reply to the tweet...

It’s apparent when you look at cold, hard facts that we’ve gone a bit…overboard…with our warmongering. It appears the sky’s the limit to our largesse, there have been no (and I mean zero) attempts at peacemaking, and now everyone’s talking about WWIII and nuclear annihilation.When you look at reality, none of it makes sense! Think about this:The continental US spans about 3,536,000 square miles, while Ukraine covers 230,000 square miles. It’s less than half the size of Alaska, which comes in at 586,000 square miles, and smaller than Texas’s 261,000. ###Our US military budget for 2021 was $800.67 Billion. Our...

Air Mobility Command has directed its refueling and cargo planes to obscure the majority of identifying information painted on the aircraft, citing national security concerns -- an unusual move that is alarming to government watchdogs. Air Mobility Command did not disclose other details in its statement, such as how many markings would be hidden on its planes and which ones it will apply to.

President Joe Biden’s aides have reportedly begun to assemble a 2024 “national advisory board” to temper the Democrat Party’s division regarding his prospective reelection launch and to dislodge any potential serious primary threat. Biden’s lieutenants are collecting prominent Democrats to serve on the board — intended to serve as a means to extend party alliances to reelection doubters — that will present a united Democrat Party to block any serious opposition, the Washington Post reported Friday. “They hope to tamp down internal divisions during what could be a turbulent election, especially as many in the group are former or future...

Dish Network is working to recover from a cyberattack that disrupted its internal servers and customer-service operations — and said the hack may have resulted in the theft of personal information. On Feb. 23, Dish execs announced on the operator’s earnings call that the company had experienced a network outage. After an investigation by cyber-security experts and outside advisers, Dish determined that the outage was due to “a cyber-security incident and notified appropriate law enforcement authorities,” the company disclosed in an SEC filing Tuesday. On Monday, Feb. 27, Dish said, it “became aware that certain data was extracted from the...

Severely Underwater on Their Car Loans Buyers owe an average amount of $5,500 on vehicle trade-ins, close to the levels they were before the pandemic. The amount people are underwater is concerning everyone, from the drivers of the cars to the dealers who are financing these people. Bloomberg says dealers are reporting more buyers than ever rolling up to lots with $10,000 and more in negative equity looking to trade their vehicle and roll that debt into another loan. Take one owner Bloomberg spoke with. After he realized his family needed a bigger vehicle, they did something unusual: they traded...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans have spent months promising to use their majority to uncover an insidious bias against conservatives on the part of the federal government, vowing to produce a roster of brave whistleblowers who would come forward to provide damning evidence of abuses aimed at the right. But the first three witnesses to testify privately before the new Republican-led House committee investigating the “weaponization” of the federal government have offered little firsthand knowledge of any wrongdoing or violation of the law, according to Democrats on the panel who have listened to their accounts. Instead, the trio appears to be...

Mexico is importing Cuban doctors to fill some local needs. But why is Mexico doing this? The real reason is money or hard currency desperately needed by the Castro regime. In the last month, we have seen critical reports like this in the Mexican media: According to journalist Pablo Hiriart, the underlying issue in this state visit is the negotiation of cash resources for the Cuban regime, recalling that Mexico has imported medical services from that country and that this agreement will be maintained in the future. through the IMSS. President Andres Lopez-Obrador's political opposition in Mexico is angry. They...

Former influential South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh received life prison sentences Friday for murdering his wife and 22-year-old son. Alex Murdaugh was convicted Thursday of killing 55-year-old Maggie and Paul, 22, in a June 2021 incident outside their Islandton, South Carolina family home. He vocally maintained his innocence at the Friday sentencing hearing, claiming he would never hurt his wife and son. “This has been perhaps one of the most troubling cases, not just for me as a judge, for the state, the defense team, but for all of the citizens in this community, all of the citizens in this...

Naturally, dogs are protective of things they consider theirs such as their food, toys, and shelter. Once they get adopted by a human they consider them family and become protective of them and their children. That's where the saying "dogs are family" comes in, and the three videos in this article just prove that.

A Ukrainian commander said the situation in Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine, is "critical" and that there are more Russian troops surrounding the city than there is ammunition to kill them all.Volodymyr Nazarenko, a deputy commander in the National Guard of Ukraine, told Ukrainian NV Radio that the fighting is currently going on "round the clock" as Russians relentlessly push to capture the city, according to a translation from Reuters."They take no account of their losses in trying to take the city by assault," Nazarenko said, adding that Ukrainian troops are trying to "inflict as many losses on the...

"For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them." "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." Mark, Chapter 1 1...