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WASHINGTON — President Biden’s annual budget plan calls for roughly $5.5 trillion in tax increases over the next decade to offset proposed spending increases — including a massive 5.2% federal worker pay raise. The package, to be announced later Thursday, is headed for certain defeat in the Republican-held House of Representatives and comes as the GOP demands spending cuts without new taxes in a standoff with Biden over raising the federal debt ceiling later this year. “This is the start of a healthy dialogue,” White House budget director Shalanda Young told reporters on a morning conference call.

The New York Times tried turning the screws on Republican members of Congress who are adamant about President Joe Biden agreeing to spending cuts before the debt ceiling is raised … yet again. Times White House correspondent Jim Tankersley wrote in the sub-headline of his anti-GOP propaganda March 7 that “a top economist will warn lawmakers that Republicans’ refusal to raise the nation’s borrowing cap could put millions out of work.” The “economist” was none other than Hillary Clinton donor and “registered Democrat” Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi. Tankersley wielded Zandi to claim that “The U.S. economy could quickly...

Reflecting on Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s 1977 Sermon on Real and Apparent Disobedience “We hold fast, with all our heart and with all our soul, to Catholic Rome, Guardian of the Catholic Faith and of the traditions necessary to preserve this faith, to Eternal Rome, Mistress of wisdom and truth. We refuse, on the other hand, and have always refused to follow the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it.” (1974 Declaration of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre)Almost fifty years after he wrote...

I am waiting for tomorrow’s employment report to see if the Biden Administration plays it straight or give another padded report like first half 2022. But in the meantime, according to Challenger Gray & Christmas, U.S.-based employers announced 77,770 job cuts in February. It is 410% higher than the 15,245 cuts announced in the same month last year. February’s total is the highest for the month since 2009… So far this year, employers announced plans to cut 180,713 jobs, up 427% from the 34,309 cuts announced in the first two months of 2022. It is the highest January-February total since...

After Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired Capitol surveillance footage this week exposing yet more falsehood from the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 and leaving Democrats and their media allies irate, the committee chair on Wednesday said the panel never actually analyzed the crucial footage. On Monday’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News aired the footage of the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, undermining the select committee’s narrative of a “deadly insurrection.” Given access to the video by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Carlson’s team reviewed over 40,000 hours of footage, which offered proof the committee manipulated audio...

Tucker Carlson joined nationally syndicated radio host and co-founder of Blaze Media Glenn Beck on his radio show Wednesday to discuss the uncut and narrative-destabilizing footage of the Jan. 6 protests, which the Fox News host has been playing on his show. (snip) "So I was shocked to learn that they were lying intentionally," continued the Fox News host. "We have a very specific way of knowing that. ... January 6 committee researchers looked at video. They bookmarked it. They left an electronic mark on the video they watched. So we know what they watched. And then we watched it."...

NEWARK, N.J. -- The city of Newark is admitting it got scammed. It was about to become a Sister City with a Hindu nation, but there was one problem -- the nation doesn't exist. As CBS2's Ali Bauman reports, the city only found out about the fraud after it held an official ceremony for it. What started off as a seemingly well-intentioned partnership has turned into a giant embarrassment for the city of Newark. Earlier this year, Mayor Ras Baraka invited what he thought was the Hindu nation of Kailasa to Newark's City Hall for a cultural trade agreement, but...

Four U.S. citizens who were kidnapped in Mexico by the notorious criminal and drug syndicate Gulf Cartel have lengthy criminal rap sheets. Latavia McGee, Eric Williams, Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border town Matamoros on Friday when they were caught in crossfire and abducted. Brown and Woodard didn't survive. DailyMail.com can reveal that Williams was previously busted for 'distributing crack near a school,' while McGee has been slapped with 'unlawful conduct towards a child,' when her daughter tested positive for amphetamines. Woodard was charged with the 'manufacturing and possession' of drugs and pleaded guilty, while Brown...

Columbia University has become the first Ivy League school to officially eliminate SAT and ACT scores as a required part of its undergraduate admissions process. This effectively changes their focus from academic excellence to diversity. The university, whose typical accepted student has achieved a near-perfect score on their standardized testing and has an average high school GPA of 4.12, announced this change last week. Columbia’s website stated that this decision was “rooted in the belief that students are dynamic, multi-faceted individuals who cannot be defined by any single factor.” “Our review is purposeful and nuanced – respecting varied backgrounds, voices...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant Thursday afternoon. During their meeting Secretary Austin delivered a message from the Biden Administration on controversy surrounding the issue of judicial reform in Israel... He also noted that US President Joe Biden expects compromises between the coalition on the judicial reform issue....

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The coming artificial intelligence economic revolution will be a major shock to the world. There is a serious possibility that the next decade will bring about a series of social and economic changes akin to the Industrial Revolution and the advent of the internet combined. Many writers, human resource officers, lawyers, writers, artists, and even coders increasingly will be replaced by AI as the “laptop class” of workers is decimated. At the same time, blue-collar workers who work with their hands will enjoy job security; their services cannot be replaced by technology. Unfortunately for waves of young people, the media’s...

San Francisco policymakers said they will not be bullied by federal homeland security officials into weakening their sanctuary city policies. After two suspects accused of murder and rape in San Francisco were found abroad, homeland security officials told the District Attorney's Office in February that they would only extradite the suspects if the city made an exception to its sanctuary city policies. The suspects, located in Mexico, are wanted in two separate cases -- one for a domestic violence murder, and the other for the sexual abuse of minors. City officials said they do not have to comply with this...

A row has erupted online after First Lady Jill Biden gave a transgender woman from Argentina a 'Women of Courage' award during an International Women's Day ceremony. Biden yesterday presented awards to 11 recipients at the White House, one of whom was Alba Rueda, an Argentinian politician who became the first openly transgender lawmaker in Argentina to hold a senior political position in the country. Rueda, the Special Representative on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity of Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has spent her political career fighting to end the discrimination of LGBTQ people in Argentina. But in response to...

Double murderer Alex Murdaugh is reportedly being kept alone in maximum security because prison officials fear the notorious, once-powerful legal scion will be a target for other inmates. Online records show that the newly shaven-headed convict is being held in Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina, where he smirked in his latest mugshot. Sources told TMZ that the lying, pill-popping murderer is being kept away from other inmates over fears they “might wanna take him down a few notches due to his notoriety.” He is also being kept in the most secure area, the sources said of the prison...

A US military veteran who allegedly told an undercover FBI agent he wanted to “wipe out” the American Jewish community was found guilty on Tuesday of obstruction for participating in the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. The trial of Hatchet Speed, a former US Naval reservist who was assigned to a spy satellite agency, was adjudicated as a non-jury trial by US District Judge Trevor McFadden, who will sentence Speed on May 8, the Associated Press reported. Speed was found guilty of all five charges in the case. The felony obstruction charge stemmed from his role...

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is offering buyouts to most of its U.S. salaried workforce and some global executives in an effort to trim costs as it makes the transition to electric vehicles. The Detroit automaker wouldn’t say how many workers it is targeting, but confirmed that the move is aimed at accelerating attrition to meet a previously announced goal of $2 billion in cost cuts by the end of next year. GM has about 58,000 salaried workers in the U.S. The company says the offers also are designed to avoid any possible firings at a later date. Offers will...

Someone must take the microphone away from her forever. The tragedy of Kamala Harris is that she thinks she’s smart and doing her country proud. The reality is that this woman has been a trainwreck ever since she decided to run for president. Her 2020 campaign has next to no shelf life; Pete Buttigieg was in the 2020 hunt longer than her. Allegations of a toxic work environment have marred Harris’ campaign and her office. That stench carried into the office of the vice presidency, and there have been multiple reports of office dysfunction. She doesn’t prepare, refuses to read...

Former President Trump is releasing a new book that will include a star-studded batch of private letters penned to him by “some of the biggest names in history.” “Letters to Trump” will feature “oftentimes private correspondence” between the former New York real estate developer and famous names including Princess Diana, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, former President Nixon and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, its publisher, Winning Team Publishing, announced Thursday. Each letter in the book was “handpicked” by Trump, Winning Team said, and is “accompanied by his original commentary!” The $99 book — or $399 for an...

The capitol insurrection tour. LOL! https://twitter.com/i/status/1633218199981375489