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(The Center Square) – If Democrats had a magic wand, they'd put Michelle Obama in the White House. The former first lady has more political star power than incumbent President Joe Biden and other famous and not-so-famous Democrats ahead of the November election, according to The Center Square Voters' Voice Poll, conducted Jan. 2-4.The poll, conducted with Noble Predictive Insights, found that if Democrats and Democrat-leaning likely voters could wave a magic wand, 24% would pick Michelle Obama. The former first lady was followed by Biden (20%), U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (12%), someone else (9%), U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete...

A diversity chief at Johns Hopkins Medicine sent a “monthly diversity digest” email to staff with a letter that declared all white people, Christians, and men as “privileged.” Dr. Sherita Hill Golden, chief diversity officer for the hospital system, also included “heterosexuals” and English speakers in the “privileged” category in her missive to all staff. Under a section titled “Diversity is the word of the Month,” Golden defined privilege as “a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group” that operates on “personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels.” She provided a list of privileged...

Vivek Ramaswamy certainly seems to have a talent in knowing how to deal with media. We've seen this now on multiple occasions where he has taken apart reporters who try to take him out but find the tables being turned on them. The most recent examples of this were when he decimated NBC's Dasha Burns as well as a WaPo reporter on questions about racism and white supremacy. READ MORE:NEW: Vivek Does It Again, Flips Script on NBC Reporter As She Has Meltdown on CameraWATCH: Vivek Lets Loose With Amazing Response to Reporter Who Asks Him If He 'Condemns White...

I've been writing for the past two years about the questions of accountability in terms of the weapons and equipment being sent to Ukraine, and how there was a big problem tracking the weapons that were being sent to the war-torn nation. DoD IG Report Shows Big Problem Tracking Weapons Given to Ukraine, Criminal Gangs Grabbing SomeTroubling Questions About How Many of Our Weapons Are Going to Ukraine and If They're Getting to the FrontlinesI wrote what Sec. of Defense Lloyd Austin -- yes, he of the present controversy -- said about this back in May 2022. You’re going to...

A Christian teaching assistant in the United Kingdom who claimed he was fired for street preaching in his free time won the equivalent of a nearly $9,000 legal settlement in a case against his former employer.Lawyers representing Andy Nix at the Christian Legal Centre announced Thursday that their client secured a £7,000 legal settlement with Temple Moor High School in Leeds. Nix says he was discriminated against for his Christian beliefs and fired for having preached in Leeds City Centre in July 2021.Nix was arrested on July 6, 2021, after being on the scene in Leeds City Centre with Dave...

Ever since PJ's own managing editor, Paula Bolyard, gave ur-blogger Matt Drudge a virtual black eye, I've made it a point to visit the Drudge Report once or twice a week, just to keep an eye on lefty cray-cray over there. Today was one of those Drudge days and — as happens almost without fail — I found a cringeworthy instance of the site's increasingly laughable lefty bias.Before I get to that, here's a quick history of the Drudge Report as a news junky's go-to site. Since the invention of tabbed browsing almost 20 years ago, I must have spent...

According to what Bloomberg News describes as a US intelligence report, Chinese authorities discovered that some of their missiles’ fuel tanks were filled with water – and that this was a marquee example of corruption whose unraveling led to Chinese President Xi’s recent military purge. Bloomberg reported that it got the information from unnamed people who were “familiar with” a US intelligence assessment and that those US sources also said that new Xinjiang missile field silos were fitted with lids that were not installed properly and would not work – taken as another example of corruption. Pentagon officials and “experts”...

The 60,000 patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer over the next three years could be out of luck for a treatment, thanks to Biden and congressional Democrats.Less than 18 months after Democrats rammed through a series of price controls on what Medicare pays for prescription drugs — the better to pay for Tesla subsidies and other green pork — and guess what has happened? Drugmakers are responding to the (bad) incentives Democrats created.Just before the holidays, Bloomberg reported on how many pharmaceutical companies have delayed bringing products to market to maximize the revenue they can generate before Medicare gets to “negotiate”...

The U.S. and U.K. carried out strikes on targets in Yemen to retaliate for Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, President Biden announced in a statement Thursday night. The strikes were conducted with assistance from Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands. "These strikes are in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea—including the use of anti-ship ballistic missiles for the first time in history," Mr. Biden said, adding he will "not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary." Officials declined to say...

The Monroe Doctrine is the blueprint for returning to a realistic grand strategy that can preserve American liberty from threats foreign and domestic.This month marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. If celebration (or even acknowledgment) seems muted, that may be because policymakers and the public know little about the principles and grand strategy underlying the doctrine.Few likely understand the doctrine because its meaning has been distorted throughout American history, especially in the Progressive Era by Theodore Roosevelt’s corollary. Some see it, for better or worse, as the beginning of America’s commitment to maintaining an international order by arms...

"There is no fraud, it's a fraud on me" President Donald Trump speaking... In Los Angeles Hunter Biden entering a not guilty plea to tax charges... Russia calling for a meeting of the UN Security Council tomorrow over the attacks on Yemen...Air strikes on the Yemeni military (Houthi) forces in Yemen... The US Federal Aviation Administration formally launching a probe of major aircraft maker-defense contractor Boeing. This following last Friday's blowout involving the side of a Boeing 737MAX 900... Poland's President Andrzej Duda wants to pardon two politicians from his religious -conservative party arrested at his presidential palace... US politics...

RIP Yipes.If you call yourself an older millennial, then you definitely grew up with Fruit Stripe gum, its wildly erratic zebra mascot, and the brightly colored sticks of gum with bold fruit flavors that lasted almost as long as it took you to read this sentence. Almost. However, according to Fruit Stripe’s manufacturer, Ferrara Candy, the gum is being discontinued. (That’s big news to anyone who didn’t think it was discontinued about the time “Hannah Montana” went off the air.) “We have made the difficult decision to sunset Fruit Stripe Gum, but consumers may still be able to find the...

The silence from so-called women’s groups on the atrocities committed against women in Israel Oct. 7 is deafening. Three months later, few if any have given a full-throated condemnation of what Hamas did despite the clear evidence its shocking crimes were deliberate and widespread. Reporters for the major media also approached the issue with skepticism, though videos and photographs of victims showed bloody genitals and broken legs that were obvious signs of violent murder and rapes done in ghastly ways. They’ve finally confirmed the horrific details. The New York Times said Dec. 28 that its investigation showed “a pattern of...

SNIP It reported Sharon Churcher, a British tabloid journalist, urged Giuffre in 2011 to include me in her book proposal, despite the absence of any evidence I did anything wrong, because I’m famous and represented high-profile clients. Giuffre told Churcher over email she had a ghostwriter to tell her story about being victimized by Epstein, saying, “I wanted to put the names of those a–holes, oops I meant to say, pedo’s, that J.E. sent me to.” “Don’t forget Alan Dershowitz,” Churcher replied. “J.E. buddy and lawyer — good name for your pitch as he repped Claus van Bulow and a...

Disgraced New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s ex-girlfriend allegedly participated in orgies with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and underage girls, newly released court documents claim. Gwendolyn Beck, 65, a longtime associate of Epstein who dated Menendez in 2010, was singled out by his victim Virginia Giuffre in a January 2016 deposition, a transcript of which was finally released to the public on Tuesday. As part of the deposition, Giuffre was provided with a list of names and was asked which ones she was not trafficked to as a teenager. “Number 7, Gwendolyn Beck,” she replies, according to the transcript. “I wasn’t trafficked...

A group of Jewish Harvard students has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the storied Ivy League institution, claiming university officials employ a “double standard” whereby they protect other groups from discrimination and harassment — but fail to do so when Jewish students are targeted. The lawsuit filed Wednesday night alleges that the university has allowed students and faculty accused of engaging in antisemitic acts to remain on campus — and once even plied a mob of pro-Palestinian demonstrators “with burritos and candy.” “Harvard’s antisemitism cancer — as a past Harvard president termed it — manifests itself as a double...

Democracy in the United States is not the power of the people, but the power of the Democratic Party, which allows Joe Biden to step by step withdraw his associates in Ukraine, dependent on him, from prosecution for corruption. Along with this, anyone who speaks out loud about international corruption and influence peddling by the Biden family is in danger of physical elimination. This topic was raised by a well-known Ukrainian politician Andriy Derkach in his first interview with American journalists after a two-year pause. Andriy Derkach became known to the world media after a number of high-profile corruption revelations...

The US and Britain have hit Houthi targets in Yemen, hitting drone and missile launch and storage sites using submarine, sea and air-launched platforms. RAF typhoons launched from Cyprus to hit an airfield with Paveway bombs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-8GyegI4Q&ab_channel=Suchomimus More videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yo9I1EgJ_8&ab_channel=SkyNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXcygnDGXkk&ab_channel=9NewsAustralia

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee passed the Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act, legislation to ensure that pregnancy centers cannot be discriminated against from receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funding. The House is expected to vote on the bill as early as next week. This bill is in response to the Biden administration’s proposed Health and Human Services (HHS) rule that discriminates against life-affirming non-profits. If the rule goes into effect, it could render pregnancy centers ineligible for this funding. In December, SBA Pro-Life America and the Charlotte Lozier Institute submitted...

Pfizer now claims the right of a corporate sovereign, arguing that states have “no legitimate interest in regulating” the company’s commercial speech while demanding the power to censor Americans’ newsfeeds. The call for pharmaceutical supremacy came in Pfizer’s response to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s suit alleging that Pfizer committed fraud and “conspired to censor public discourse.” Pfizer embraces its merger with the state when convenient, arguing that it cannot be held liable for misleading the public on its Covid vaccine because the company “acted pursuant to its contract with the United States Government.” The court documents insist that the...