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A 40% increase by Allstate in Georgia, a 32% rise sought by Nationwide Mutual Insurance in California, an 11% bump by State Farm in New York. Insurers are imposing steep increases on auto insurance rates, with state regulators doing little to stop them. Even states with consumer-friendly laws, and the power to veto increases, are allowing rates to rise. California this year agreed to more than a billion dollars of car-insurance premium increases, according to consumer advocates. Insurers are getting big bumps because they have suffered big losses. Car insurance premiums could keep increasing through the end of 2024. “Rates...

FBI Director Christopher Wray sat for nearly four hours of questioning on Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee. Here are the top takeaways from the hearing.1. Wray Indicates Foreign Intel Agencies Worked with Big Tech to Silence SpeechThe FBI director faced fierce questioning from Republican committee members on the FBI’s efforts to induce Big Tech to censor American speech. Several representatives specifically challenged Wray to justify the FBI passing along requests from the Ukrainian intelligence agency, SBU, to social media companies. The FBI’s role as a conduit for SBU was just revealed on Monday in a report from the House...

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A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called into to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.Review continues...

What could it be? The spiraling costs, year after year, with massive overhead and bureaucratic costs soaring? The collapse in competence and civil knowledge? The lunatic, fringe, cultish partisan and ideological indoctrination? Maybe a bit of all the above, and then some. Like so many other institutions across American society, trust in American higher education is crashing. Though there's one notable demographic exception. Gosh, I wonder why: Confidence in American higher education has hit a new low.Democrats are the only group with majority confidence in it.pic.twitter.com/MEhElYzNto— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) July 11, 2023As recently as 2015, a majority of the public...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the oral contraceptive Opill for over-the-counter sales, making it the first hormonal contraceptive pill available in the U.S. without a prescription. The approval is a major win for medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which have been pushing for years for an over-the-counter (OTC) birth control pill. It also comes amid legal battles over women’s reproductive rights. "This is a monumental decision," said Dr. Melissa Simon, a professor of clinical gynecology at Northwestern University. "OTC birth control is available in over 100 countries,...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has pledged to doom his city with reforms that will “re-envision the role of a police officer.” Oh, boy, are the voters of this once great city about to get what they voted for. It’s now obvious that the people of Chicago believed former Mayor Lori Lightfoot was too heavy on criminals, even as violent crime exploded over the last few years. Murder is up 19 percent, robbery is up 23 percent, theft is up 45 percent, and car theft is up 235 percent (not a typo).

RePlatform Vegas September 30th-October 1st, 2023 https://www.replatformvegas.comProduced by the Defeat the Mandates Team, RePlatform: The Parallel Economy Convention at the Flamingo, Las Vegas, Sept 30-Oct 1st is the culmination of years of working around Corporate America. We're gathering the tribes--an army of entrepreneurs, experts, visionaries, and audacious dissidents, igniting an entire ecosystem of startups and institutions who recognize the danger of corporate centralization. RePlatform is NOT a "Complain-a-con", our purpose is to sharpen the parallel economy through our conference program, keynotes, expert panels, & focus on upgrading the capabilities of everyone who joins us.

An FBI whistleblower says FBI Director Christopher Wray lied in testimony before the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning.George Hill, a supervisory intelligence analyst-turned-whistleblower who already gave statements to the Judiciary Committee and its chairman Jim Jordan, says Wray could not have believed he was telling the truth when he spoke about embedded agents in the crowd on January 6, 2021.As PJ Media’s Paula Bolyard reported, Wray’s dissembling during the colloquy with Arizona Republican Andy Biggs about the FBI presence in the crowd on January 6 triggered BS detectors all over America.Biggs basically asked: How many undercover agents did the FBI...

If there is one thing that is certain, whenever the progressive socialist left blames and accuses others, they are only projecting who they truly are. How amazing that now we have the leftists trying to tie Americans of Asian heritage to white supremacy over the SCOTUS decision on affirmative action. Those who know history know that the Democrat party has always been the party of racism, white supremacy, and bigotry. They are just very good at, with the aid of a complicit media, casting that dark specter upon others. And now they are seeking to use this same tactic in...

13 July 2023 Thursday of week 14 in Ordinary TimeSaint Henry Catholic Church, Brigham City, UTReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 44:18-21,23-29,45:1-5 ©Joseph reveals himself to his brothersJudah went up to Joseph and said, ‘May it please my lord, let your servant have a word privately with my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. My lord questioned his servants, “Have you father or brother?” And we said to my lord, “We have an old father, and a younger brother born of his old age. His brother is dead, so he...

(Last Updated On: July 5, 2023) NATIONAL BEANS ‘N’ FRANKS DAY National Beans ‘N’ Franks Day on July 13th encourages us to make our favorite recipes during National Hot Dog Month. This simple recipe cooks up a delicious dish in no time and goes well with summertime barbecues, too! #BeansNFranksDay Also known as “beanie weenies,” both dishes are similar to pork ‘n’ beans, but substitute hot dogs or frankfurters for the pork. Baked beans became popular during the Civil War in the United States. They would later become one of the first canned convenience foods on the market in the...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he has “no doubt” that Ukraine will join NATO after the war with Russia ends. Austin’s comments come after a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in which NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced that Ukraine’s application to join the alliance will have an easier path with one procedural hurdle being removed from the process. But Stoltenberg also did not lay out a timetable for Ukraine to join, frustrating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Austin told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview on Thursday that Ukraine still needs to take several steps before it can join NATO, including...

On 12 June 2023, I emailed the president of the American Medical Association, Dr Jack Resneck, regarding recent California legislation:“I notice that the AMA has been unusually quiet about 2 California bills that have important ramifications for patients, parents, and physicians:CA Bill AB957- gender affirming careCA Bill AB2098 - informed consentAB2098 is still being contested in the courts, I believe. With AMA's multiple public statements regarding government overreach in health care regarding reproductive rights, it appears unusual that the AMA hasn't weighed in one way or the other on either bill. They have substantial impact on US healthcare.”To his credit,...

George Soros — one of the world’s most powerful and influential leftist billionaires — finally found an heir to his massive empire. Alex Soros was named the new leader of his father’s $25-billion Open Society Foundations. That gives him the resources to be, in his own words, even “more political.” Alex has shown himself to be even more radically leftist than his father, on issues ranging from supporting abortion and climate change activism to outright anti-American propaganda. He considers the overturning of Roe v. Wade as one of the “worst” days in U.S. history and even sees the Republican Party...

The motorist who allegedly mowed down a pick-up truck driver who slashed his tires during a road rage clash on the Upper East Side has been charged with manslaughter, police said Thursday. Andre Mosby, 26, was driving a 2014 Volkswagen Jetta on East 60th Street near Park Avenue when he and Roberto Velez Alvarez, 54 – driving a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado pick-up truck – got into a smash-up around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, police said. The two men started arguing, and the feud quickly escalated, police said.

For all the blathering the Democrats do about being the “champions” of special classes or causes, it seems the only glass ceiling they’re really smashing is for the unemployable. If sticky-fingers Sam Brinton, or “public health expert” Demetre Daskalakis (who recently wore fetish gear to a professional conference) sought employment in the private sector, who in their right mind would hire them?Open the Books founder Adam Andrzejewski recently published the findings of a dive into the annual report released to Congress by the White House on payroll data, and revealed the perfectly predictable (albeit still outrageous) price tag:During President Joe...

You might not be familiar with “Battle-ax” Barb McQuade. She’s a former federal prosecutor and fixture in the establishment uniparty swamp and frequently appears on NBC News. She’s now posing as a “disinformation expert” and has even written a book on the subject, titled “Attack From Within.” Barb’s tweet promoting her new book didn’t quite receive the reaction she was hoping for. Instead, she was relentlessly trolled online, largely because many people view Barb as an unabashed mouthpiece for the regime who isn’t afraid to stretch the truth. Barb seemed taken aback by the backlash. This serves as another testament...

It's nice to see that there's still some justice left in America, at least when skin color isn't a factor and the media doesn't need to advance the Narrative™. From WSPA: The Buncombe County District Attorney ruled that a North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) trooper's deadly force was justified in a July 3 shooting along Interstate 26 in Buncombe County. Investigators said Trooper Jeffrey Dunlap was assisting a stranded motorist around 7:35 p.m. on I-26 near Long Shoals Road when that motorist pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest. Nobody's releasing video yet, but the snapshot...

ANTIETAM RIVER, Sunday, July 12 -- 8 A.M., Via FREDERICK, Sunday, July 12.} Our whole line is ordered to advance to-day, and unless the enemy retire, there will be more or less fighting before night. There was only slight skirmishing yesterday. The enemy held his picket's line very tenaciously, as though concealing some strong position behind it. These are well grounded fears that the river may become fordable in a day or two. It had fallen considerable at Shepperdstown yesterday, and was still rapidly seceeding. A scout from Winchester, yesterday, reports the enemy moving another pontoon train, and a train...