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The Patriotic Millionaires organization, whose millionaire members claim they want to pay higher taxes to the federal government, were unwilling to sign a pledge to do just that because it would require them as individuals to voluntarily pay higher taxes. Instead, the Patriotic Millionaires want Congress to pass laws making all millionaires pay more in taxes. “A bunch of millionaires said they want to pay higher taxes and they’re advocating for it, but they won’t sign a pledge saying they’re willing to pay the taxes that they endorse,” said Stepehn Moore, a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. At...

The FBI has opened a probe into an antisemitic assault on a Las Vegas Jewish teen with autism who came home from school with a swastika carved into his back, according to Newsweek. The 17-year-old boy who wears a kippah is non-verbal. He uses a service dog to go to school at Clark High School in Las Vegas, the Jewish Press reported. In the incident, the boy’s service dog’s equipment bag was also vandalized. The teen’s mother told the news outlet that Clark High School refused to take her complaint seriously. The mother questioned how the boy’s assistant could have...

Meri Perkins 3 DAYS AGO This doctor complains of adverse events and has developed a theory of why: copy to search and replace DOT w/ . rccxandillnessDOTcom/rccx-theory-part-i-genes-and-properties-of-the-rccx-module-explain-clusters-of-illness-in-families-and-all-the-symptomssyndromes-found-in-chronic-illnessDOThtml BJ B J 17 DAYS AGO Just wanting to give an update for all of those people who have muscle twitching. I was vaxxed in October 21, the twitching started the night of the vax along with fever fast heart and insomnia. I have now been twitching all Lauren O. MARCH 6, 2023 I haven’t posted on here in a long time. I received one Moderna vaccine on august 2021. I’ve had muscle...

...in the heart of Paris, scientists have uncovered 50 graves in an ancient necropolis which offer a rare glimpse of life in the French capital's precursor Lutetia nearly 2,000 years ago.Somehow the buried necropolis was never stumbled upon during multiple road works over the years, as well as the construction of the Port-Royal station on the historic Left Bank in the 1970s.However, plans for a new exit for the train station prompted an archaeological excavation...The "Saint Jacques" necropolis, the largest burial site in the Gallo–Roman town of Lutetia, was previously partially excavated in the 1800s.However, only objects considered precious were...

ANALYSIS: Paper latest example of how woke U. Minnesota academics pass off political views as scholarly work A paper on “diversity, equity and inclusion” in health services departments has been retracted for misrepresenting the “authenticity of experiences” cited. But the paper is just the latest example of how woke University of Minnesota academics pass off their political views as scholarly work. “Transactional and transformative diversity, equity, and inclusion activities in health services research departments,” first published on Jan. 8 in Wiley Online Library and then in March in Health Services Research, contained problems acknowledged by the authors. One of the...

SECOND WEEK OF EASTER John 3:31-36Friends, today’s Gospel promises eternal life to those who believe in the Son of God.In almost every religion, the life of faith has something to do with a creature’s relationship to the Creator; nearly all religions speak of the creature’s dependency upon God, of his subjection to the divine providence, and of his need for grace and forgiveness. Christianity, too, articulates these basic relationships, but it pushes beyond them because it speaks of the Incarnation and the gifts associated with it.We hear in the third chapter of John’s Gospel that “God so loved the world...

As I publish this, the Indonesian national holiday Hari Kartini is just beginning. Geopolitically, Indonesia is a free market democratising society which is wavering between being non aligned in its region and being troubled by some aspects of modern Chinese expansionism. It behooves The West to try to understand Indonesia better. It is the fourth biggest nation in the world by population. The Kartini Day holiday celebrates the life and spirit of Javanese princess Raden Ajeng Kartini, who established the first high school for girls in Java over a hundred years ago during Dutch Colonial rule. This made Kartini a...

Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) became the eighth Republican lawmaker from Florida to endorse former President Donald Trump for president over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who has not announced a 2024 presidential campaign. "If we want to get our economy back on track, Donald Trump is just the guy to get it done," Buchanan told Florida Politics on Wednesday. “From lowering taxes to protecting our borders to promoting America-first trade deals, President Trump has done it before and will do it again.” TRUMP'S GROWING LIST OF ENDORSEMENTS SHOWS REPUBLICANS ARE RETURNING TO THE FOLD Several Florida congressional Republicans have chosen Trump...

They locked up all the luggage and threw away the key

During each of the last two election cycles the Hunter Biden laptop corruption has been smothered. The case is ripe for prosecution but it has been smothered by David Weiss, the US ADA for Delaware. On top of that, Alvin Bragg, among others, is asserting that Donald Trump attempted to interfere with elections but it's all been one way against Trump. Those 51 "security experts" who signed a the letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation truly interfered with the 2020 election along with Weiss. Members of the House Intelligence Committee appropriately feel that they should face...

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) became the latest Florida lawmaker to announce his support for Donald Trump for president over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), adding to a growing number of Trump endorsements from the Sunshine State’s congressional delegation. Trump, who has already announced his bid for the nomination for a third time, and DeSantis, who is expected to announce a presidential run sometime this summer, are ramping up efforts to gain support from members of Congress. But, so far, Trump is winning. VERN BUCHANAN BECOMES EIGHTH FLORIDA LAWMAKER TO BACK TRUMP OVER DESANTISJust a couple of months ago, Waltz refused to...

Michigan State Senators Lana Theis, Ed McBroom, Joe Bellino, Dan Lauwers, and Kevin Daley announced on Tuesday that they are investigating Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s deal with Gotion after it was revealed that the battery manufacturing company has close ties with the Taliban and the Chinese Communist Party. Whitmer’s deal with the company says the State of Michigan will provide Gotion with state taxpayer dollars in exchange for Gotion to build a plant in Michigan. In a statement released on Tuesday, Michigan State Senators Lana Theis, Ed McBroom, Joe Bellino, Dan Lauwers, and Kevin Daley asked federal lawmakers for help...

Twitter appears to have removed its ban on using the former names of transgender people. Called “deadnaming” by transgender activists, it was banned in the pre-Musk era, when Twitter’s woke censorship regime was at its height. The former policy, which has now been removed, banned “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” It came amid a wider rollback of Twitter’s censorship policies, including the greater use of labeling vs. outright removal of “hateful” tweets. But it was the removal of the “deadnaming” policy that led to howls of outrage from the woke left. The president of the leftist LGBT advocacy...

Childhood is in crisis. History is not repeating itself. This has never happened before. In Japan and worldwide – but in Japan especially – the strongest terminology applies. Children in Japan are an endangered species. Fewer and fewer children are being born. The 799,278 births recorded in 2022 represent a 5.1-percent decline from 2021. It’s the seventh consecutive record low – down from a 1973 peak of 2.09 million. Elderly Japanese 65 or over constituted as of 2020 28.6 percent of the population – the highest in the world; children 15 or under: 11.8 percent – the world’s lowest. In...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Buzzfeed News brand is to shut down, according to a new memo to staff from the company's CEO and founder, in order to concentrate more efforts on HuffPost. 'We are reducing our workforce by approximately 15 percent today across our Business, Content, Tech and Admin teams, and beginning the process of closing BuzzFeed News,' CEO Jonah Peretti said in the message. The company is only closing its news division. The announcement came shortly after rival Business Insider reported that it is planning to lay off around ten percent of its news division. 'While layoffs are occurring across...

Alyssa Farah Griffin told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that Republican lawmakers are “out of touch” with Republican voters who support the LGBTQ community. Wednesday on WCIV, DeSantis said, “We’re just nixing this whole idea of teachers saying choose your pronouns. We never used to do that. We’re not going to do it in Florida schools. We’re going to do normal school like everyone did for the whole history of our country until, like, two hours ago.” Co-host Sara Haines said, “Referencing what he just said about normal because there was a time when black and white people...

Rep. Matt Gaetz Rep. Matt Gaetz slammed the Biden admin and Democrats on Thursday over a rule requiring gun owners with ‘stabilizing braces’ to register, dispose of, or alter the brace. On January 13, 2023, the Attorney General signed ATF final rule 2021R-08F, “Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached ‘Stabilizing Braces,’” amending ATF’s regulations to clarify when a rifle is designed, made, and intended to be fired from the shoulder. The final rule was published in the Federal Register on January 31, 2023.

Bed Bath & Beyond didn't pay severance to thousands of workers. The company laid off more than 1,000 workers in New Jersey days before a new severance law took effect. In early February, Diane Zaccagna learned that the Bed Bath & Beyond store in New Jersey where she had been working for 18 and a half years was closing and she would be laid off. "We knew Bed Bath was in trouble, but we thought we would have at least a couple more years," said Zaccagna, 50, who started out as a part-time employee and climbed her way to a...

Devon Dontray Dunham has been found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of unarmed former volunteer fire chief Ernest Martin Stevens, 77, despite his confession and 19 witnesses taking the stand against him. The shooting took place near Stevens' home in Hardeeville, South Carolina on Aug 10, 2017. According to Dunham's lawyer, an armed Dunham "wanted a ride" from Stevens and approached him while he was sitting in his Ford F-150 in a parking lot "but felt threatened" by him and saw him "reach for something" so he decided to unload all 8 rounds of his 9 mm...

The Soros-funded prosecutor of Albemarle County, Virginia has had multiple men indicted nearly 6 years after the mostly peaceful “Unite the Right” rally for the newly-invented crime of “carrying a tiki torch with the intent to intimidate.” James Hingeley, the Soros-funded prosecutor of Albemarle County, Virginia has unsealed the indictments of at least 3 men who have been charged with “carrying a tiki torch with the intent to intimidate,” a whopping 6 years after they marched in Charlottesville in support of Civil and Revolutionary War monuments.