Posts on Monday, February 8, 2021
Critics laughed at former President Donald Trump when he claimed that terrorists, “some real bad ones,” had crossed the border just as he was selling Congress on paying for a border wall.But it turns out that Trump was correct that in the waves of illegal immigrants pouring over the southern border in the last decade were dozens of terrorists and terror sympathizers.In his new book, America’s Covert Border War, The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, journalist and former counterterrorism intelligence official Todd Bensman tallied up 104 illegal crossings by terrorists between 2014 and 2018.And it could be more, way more.
A hacker gained unauthorized entry to the system controlling the water treatment plant of a Florida city of 15,000 and tried to taint the water supply with a caustic chemical, exposing a danger cybersecurity experts say has grown as systems become both more computerized and accessible via the internet.The hacker who breached the system at the city of Oldsmar’s water treatment plant on Friday using a remote access program shared by plant workers briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide by a factor of one hundred (from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million), Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a news conference Monday.
President Joe Biden is deploying four Air Force B-1 bombers to Norway to express to Russia's Vladimir Putin that the U.S. will defend allies if Russia shows aggression in the Arctic.CNN reported the move Monday, saying that bombers and approximately 200 Americans stationed at Dyess Air Force base in Texas will be deployed to Orland Air Base in Norway. Within three weeks, missions will begin in the Arctic Circle and in international airspace off of Russia's northwest coast, the network said. (Photos) Previously, American military missions over the Arctic originated from the United Kingdom. The move to Norway signals the U.S. is more prepared
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows joined Maria Bartiromo yesterday on Sunday Morning Futures.During their discussion, Mark Meadows dropped this BOMB on the power-drunk Democrats who are out for blood.According to Mark Meadows President Trump offered Capitol Police, national guard and even offered the Department of Defense to help protect Washington DC prior to the January 6th protests.Via The Palmieri Report:
The Southern Poverty Law Center claims it’s dedicated to fighting hate. But some things are more important than fighting hate.
Like “equity”.
In the name of equity, the SPLC announced that it’s shutting down its black nationalist hate groups category like the Nation of Islam. After “doing the internal work of anti-racism”, the SPLC will no longer list black racist hate groups because “the hate is not equal”.
Even racism requires its own equity.
The SPLC’s move dismantles the last remaining shred of credibility of the organization, but it also comes after Democrat politicians and activists, including Senator Cory Booker and Kamala Harris pressured the FBI to stop monitoring black nationalist hate groups...
U.S. immigration authorities will revise their approach to arrests and deportations under President Biden, according to Homeland Security officials. "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently rescinded two 2018 policy memos related to the issuance of Notices to Appear when processing requests for immigration benefits," USCIS spokesman Matthew Bourke said Sunday. "The agency was directed to rescind the relevant policy in a [Department of Homeland Security] memo issued Jan. 20."
That’s the day Biden was inaugurated – and when he signed a slew of executive orders, some of which rolled back parts of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policy.
Former President Donald Trump is "simply not guilty" of inciting an insurrection against the United States government, Sen. Tim Scott R-S.C., told "America Reports" on Monday.
Scott said while he appreciated and understood the severity of the situation, given that he was in the chamber when rioters stormed the Capitol, he felt culpability should be placed on those who broke inside the building, not Trump. "The Democrats should put the blame where it stands, where it should be," Scott said. "And it does not have to do with the president who said go ‘peacefully’ to protest."
Scott also speculated
To quote our 46th president — come on, man. We knew the White House would eventually have to retreat from Joe Biden’s answer on Iran and sanctions in his Super Bowl interview, but not by making it sound as though Biden couldn’t keep up with Norah O’Donnell. Rather than try to spin Biden’s answer as no real change from his previous positions, Jen Psaki instead accused O’Donnell of putting words in Biden’s mouth, and insinuated that Biden couldn’t fend for himself in a national interview. Talk about a real confidence builder…
The most nausea-inducing moment of Sunday night’s Super Bowl came not during the public spanking of The Chiefs by the Bucs. It was during a tone-deaf, two-minute TV commercial starring New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen, in which the mega-wealthy musician and leftist sage revealed that his longtime working-class grift is as phony as his cowboy hat.
In the commercial entitled “The Middle,” Bruce, is seen driving a 1980 Jeep CJ-5 to a chapel in Lebanon, Kansas, which he describes as “standing on the exact center of the lower 48.’’
He rhapsodizes about this geographical oddity — ignoring the fact that Kansas voters
Billy Brown, patriarch of "Alaskan Bush People," has died at the age of 68. Reps for the show confirmed his passing to Fox News on Monday. "We are devastated to hear of Billy Brown’s sudden passing. He has been part of the Discovery family for years - a trailblazer, a lovely man and most definitely one of a kind," the statement read. "Our heart is with his family and those that knew him and loved him as they deal with this devastating loss." Brown appeared in the show's first eight seasons as the father of the self-sufficient live-off-the-land family alongside
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Monday granted a petition sought by the union that represents county prosecutors that will bar Dist. Atty. George Gascón from implementing policies that would end the use of sentencing enhancements in thousands of criminal cases. The union sued Gascón in late December, alleging some of his policies restricting the use of sentencing enhancements violated state law and put line prosecutors in an ethical bind. The enhancements can add several years to a defendant's time in prison if they meet certain criteria, such as using a gun that caused severe injury
Prepare to be less safe. You knew it was coming with Joe Biden and you were right.
As we previously wrote, Biden was trying to stop deportations for 100 days except for national security threats. That is already causing a massive influx at the border that President Donald Trump had greatly cured with his immigration effort. But a judge slapped down Biden’s effort, handing him his first official court loss. Additionally, according to Homeland Security, there’s a policy change coming that indicates ICE agents would cease to pursue deportations against those convicted of virtually all offenses that were not for national security threats or serious aggravated felonies.,
President Biden has 36 executive orders under his belt, so Americans have had a quick glimpse into what’s in store for the next four years. The rate of change in fundamental policies, such as energy policy, has been kind of like drinking from a firehose, and many Americans may not be aware of the costs of re-entering the Paris Accords. However, even without a full understanding of how these policy changes will roll out, American adults’ mood does not seem all that rosy. Biden has yet to break into positive territory on the Daily Presidential Tracking Poll by Rasmussen Reports
Jeff Bezos would owe about $2 billion a year in state income taxes under Washington's proposed wealth tax, according to legislators.
As part of an effort to reduce inequality and offset the state's lack of an income tax, Washington state legislators are proposing a 1% levy on wealth over $1 billion. Lawmakers say the tax would raise about $2.5 billion a year in revenue and would only apply to so-called nontangible financial assets, or financial investments like stocks or options. Yet tax experts say the state's wealth tax would be overreliant on four megabillionaires who call Washington state home: Bezos, Bill Gates, MacKenzie Scott and Steve Ballmer.
Former President Barack Obama's ethics chief, Walter Shaub, ripped President Biden for publicly commenting on son Hunter's forthcoming memoir, likening it to a "book promotion tour."
"It is not acceptable for the President of the United States to be part of the book promotion tour. No," tweeted Shaub, a U.S. Office of Government Ethics former director under Obama. The tweet that was issued Sunday afternoon was deleted but not before the Washington Examiner viewed its contents.
Shaub also said it was "wonderful" that Hunter Biden, 51, was sharing his experience with addiction because it could help Hunter and other people fighting personal demons. But Shaub added the president's comments
As coach of the high school football team with the longest active winning streak in the nation, Carl Fruechte has been revered in his southeast Minnesota community of Caledonia. But a letter to the editor that he wrote in the local newspaper recently has some alumni and community members questioning whether Fruechte, who also coaches track, is fostering a welcoming atmosphere for all the students he leads. Fruechte's letter posed a question about a new student group at the high school called "Diversity Club"—a bimonthly gathering for students in the bluff country town of 2,800 to learn about "other cultures, perspectives, and all things
Oakland's Chinatown has been hit with a series of attacks and thefts that have left the community on edge. Video from a surveillance camera captures a Jan. 31 attack on an elderly man. The footage, taken from a camera at the corner of Harrison and 8th streets and time-stamped just after noon, shows a man in a hooded sweatshirt forcibly shoving his target, who is walking on the sidewalk. The older man falls face-first into the pavement, narrowly missing a metal bike rack, as his attacker walks past. (Tweet) Police announced Saturday evening that they had identified a person of
A Louisiana woman who went viral after struggling to remove Gorilla Glue from her hair claims that the hospital nor the company’s advice helped remove the hardened adhesive. Now she’s considering a lawsuit to get out of the sticky situation, according to TMZ. Tessica Brown hired an attorney and is weighing litigation against Gorilla Glue, because while the product’s label warns against using on eyes, skin or clothing–it does not mention hair–the outlet reports.(Snip) Brown posted last week that her hair had been stuck in place for a month after she ran out of her usual hair product and opted to use
Maybe it’s a good thing he was 2,000 miles away.President Biden had an awkward, flirty moment Monday during a video conference event with health care workers in Arizona, during which he stopped to compliment one nurse for her youthful appearance — even gushing that she looks “like a freshman.”Biden got up to some of his “creepy” old antics when he responded to the nursing supervisor’s detailed description of giving COVID-19 shots by asking her about her age.“Are you a freshman at the university?” Biden asked
Democratic 'Squad' member Ayanna Pressley says she felt a 'deep and ancestral' terror while she was barricading herself in her office during last month's Capitol riots as she slammed white supremacist mobs. The Massachusetts congresswoman spoke her fear in an interview on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday—exactly one month after the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. 'As a black woman, to be barricaded in my office using office furniture and water bottles on the ground in the dark, that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me,' Pressley said.
More than a year into this pandemic, roughly 10 million Americans still unable to return to their jobs. Among those continuing to struggle the most with workforce re-entry are women. Experts have pointed to this troubling trend for months, and now, trends show it has hit its possible worst point last month when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released December’s Employment Situation Summary. “What we did not expect at all was that every single job that was lost was going to belong to a woman,” said Jasmine Tucker with the National Women’s Law Clinic. "Men gained 16,000 jobs and women lost 156,000 jobs,
Over the last four years, we have seen an alarming trend of law professors and legal experts discarding constitutional and due process commitments to support theories for the prosecution or impeachment of Donald Trump or his family.
Legal experts who long defended criminal defense rights have suddenly become advocates of the most sweeping interpretations of criminal or constitutional provisions while discarding basic due process and fairness concerns.(Snip)
Yet, the statement of House manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., last week was breathtaking. A former law professor, Raskin declared that the decision of Trump not to testify in the Senate could be cited or used by House managers as an inference
During Monday’s White House press conference, Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked the White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, where are the Biden administration’s so-called “green jobs” for unemployed union and construction workers. On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that revoked a key permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline, which was designed to more efficiently move oil from Canada to the United States. The Biden administration’s proposed green jobs plan has promised to create more than 10 million “well-paying jobs in the United States,” though no immediate legislation or executive order has been proposed to create such jobs.
Breaking: Trump Lawyers Tear Apart Impeachment
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Just one day before another sham impeachment trial, President Trump’s legal team has methodically laid out their case in a blistering new memorandum.The memorandum makes the case for Trump’s innocence in detailed and methodical fashion. At one point in the letter, Trump’s lawyers say that the Democrats are leaving out a “chilling fact” about that fateful day.On page 7 of the memorandum, the Trump legal team confirms that law enforcement received reports of a potential attack on the Capitol well before Trump’s January 6th speech…throwing out the possibility of a sudden “incitement” by the 45th President’s speech.
An elderly man collapsed and died in Manhattan on Sunday morning shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination at the Javits Center, a health official said. The man, in his 70s, fell as he was leaving the building about 25 minutes after his vaccination, according to a statement from New York state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker. “Initial indications are that the man did not have any allergic reaction to the vaccine,” Zucker said in his statement. During a required 15-minute observation period following the vaccination, the man exhibited no adverse effects from the jab, Zucker said. First responders rendered aid “within seconds,”
The chances that California Governor Gavin Newsom will have to fight for his political life in a special recall election are nearing 100 percent. With signed recall petitions and donations pouring in faster than ever, proponents have already collected 1.4 million of the 1.8 million signatures they’ll need to turn in by March 17.
This nonpartisan, grassroots movement against a corrupt governor and a corrupt ruling class offers encouragement to the rest of America. If a sitting governor can be forced to defend his record in a recall election in California(Snip)then there is no politician, anywhere, who is safe. And the tactics used offer precedent-setting examples others can follow.
Washington—White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday mocked a reporter who asked when workers on the canceled Keystone XL pipeline would get “green jobs” promised by President Biden. It’s expected that up to 11,000 jobs will be lost following Biden’s day-one decision to immediately shut down construction of the pipeline that was supposed to carry oil from Canada to Texas—leaving South Dakotans reeling and 1,000 people immediately out of work. “Where is it that they can go for their green job?” Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Psaki at her Monday afternoon press briefing, referring to Biden’s promise to create good-paying union
Shelby won't run for reelection
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Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said on Monday that he would not run for reelection in 2022.
“Today I announce that I will not seek a seventh term in the United State Senate in 2022. For everything, there is a season," Shelby said in a statement.
“Although I plan to retire, I am not leaving today. I have two good years remaining to continue my work in Washington. I have the vision and the energy to give it my all," the 86-year-old senator added.
Shelby's announcement follows months of speculation that he was eyeing retirement, including The Associated Press reporting on Friday that he had indicated that he would not run again.
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would kill 1.4 million jobs, the Congressional Budget Office said in a new analysis Monday that severely complicates President Biden’s demand for a wage hike in any new coronavirus relief bill. CBO said job losses would grow each year from implementation, and by 2025 there would be 1.4 million fewer people holding employment than there would be without the federal action. Half of those will have dropped out of the labor force altogether, the analysts said. “Young, less educated people would account for a disproportionate share of those reductions in employment,” CBO said.
Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and now a group of developers have created AI software that can tell whether you are likely to die from Covid-19 using health data.
University of Copenhagen researchers fed a computer program with health data from 3,944 Danish COVID-19 patients, as well as any underlying conditions.
They then trained it to look for patterns in a patients' prior illness to determine the risk factors and potential outcome from Covid-19 and found that BMI, age and being male were the highest risk factors when it came to the likelihood of dying.
Trump aide Peter Navarro charges
AG Barr worked to help Biden
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AG Barr worked to help Biden
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Speaking with Maria Bartiromo yesterday on her weekly Fox News Channel program Sunday Morning Futures, Peter Navarro made a startling charge against his former Trump administration colleague, former attorney general William Barr. Ivan Pentchoukov reports in the Epoch Times: The Department of Justice (DOJ) put up hurdles to executive orders prepared by President Donald Trump while fast-tracking the ones prepared by President-elect Joe Biden during the transition period leading up to Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, according to former Trump senior adviser Peter Navarro.
Crash and burn is one way to describe this Super Bowl 2021 ad. Cure Auto Insurance is being roasted for its “Whip It Out” commercial, with the Twitterverse racing to condemn it as “tone deaf” for using sexual harassment in the workplace as fodder for lame jokes.(Snip) The 30-second spot opens with a visibly upset employee storming into her boss’s office and declaring: “Miss Davis, Tommy just brought me into his office and whipped out his opinion.” “I didn’t just whip it out—she was into it,” Tommy blurts out in his defense. “Plus, I have a pretty big opinion.”
In a generally weak year for Super Bowl commercials, Jeep’s stood out for being particularly obnoxious and tone-deaf. Called “The Middle,” left-wing political activist and world-famous singer Bruce Springsteen narrated and starred in the ad about how the country has been divided, but now it has a bright future as the “ReUnited States of America.”
While advertisements that appeal to virtues in order to increase sales and profits can work — see Toyota’s beautiful ad about the joy in adopting a child with special needs — this one fell flat and faced mockery and opposition from many viewers. Here are the three main reasons the ad didn’t work.
Moments before Super Bowl LV kicked off Sunday night, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden made a pre-recorded appearance to honor the more than 463,000 people who have died from COVID-19 by asking for a moment of silence - instead they were booed by some of the crowd.
'Before kickoff we wanted to thank all the frontline healthcare heroes both at the game and watching across the country. You put yourself at risk to keep the rest of us safe. You and your families carried us through this year with courage, compassion and kindness. We couldn't have made it without you. With all our hearts thank you."
A founding member of Facebook’s oversight board responsible for impartially adjudicating enforcement and government issues has quit the board to join the Biden administration. Pamela Karlan, a Stanford University law professor who testified to Congress in support of the first impeachment charges against former President Trump, is going to work in President Biden’s Department of Justice. “Working with my colleagues on the Oversight Board to build a fairer and more effective approach to content moderation has been an honor,” Ms. Karlan said in a statement on Saturday, the board confirmed on Monday.(Snip) Ms. Karlan’s inclusion on the board last year rankled Mr. Trump’s 2020 campaign
Our Animal Farm
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George Orwell published Animal Farm in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most naïve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial about the contours of Moscow’s impending postwar communist aggression.
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Orwell saw that the desire for power stamps out all ideological pretenses. It creates an untouchable ruling clique central to all totalitarian movements. Beware, he warns, of the powerful who claim to help the helpless.
Something so far less violent, but no less bizarre and disturbing, now characterizes the American New New Left. It is completing its final Animal Farm metamorphosis as it finishes its long march through our cultural, economic,
Tesla invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin in January in a nontraditional move to diversify its investments. The investment, which the electric vehicle maker disclosed Monday in a public filing, comes as CEO Elon Musk has been promoting an alternative cryptocurrency in recent weeks.
Tesla said in its annual report that the company made the move as part of a policy change designed "to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash." It is not typical for major corporations to acquire digital currency due to questions about its dependability and concerns about its volatility.
The new policy authorized by the Tesla board
Ron Johnson: Capitol Still Barricaded
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During this week’s broadcast of “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News Channel, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sounded off on the barriers and continued heavy police presence at the U.S. Capitol a month after a group of former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed and breached the Capitol.Johnson told host Maria Bartiromo that the heavy law enforcement presence is to “send a signal” to Trump supporters that they are “dangerous” and “insurrectionists.”
“Obviously, leaders in Congress think walls and barriers work because they’ve surrounded the Capitol with them,” Johnson joked.
A few hours before the big game began, CBS aired the traditional pre-game presidential interview. This time, it was anchor Norah O’Donnell’s turn to interview the president, and because he’s a Democrat, the journalist didn’t criticize or grill him at all, even though that’s what her CBS colleague Margaret Brennan did to President Trump in 2019. In fact, at one point she even flattered the the 78-year-old by comparing him to NFL athletes!As we previewed this weekend, these near-annual interviews have a predictable pattern: Democrats typically get off easy, while Republicans get skewered. This year was no different.
Worst Cooks in America winner Ariel Robinson, who has been charged with beating her adopted white daughter to death, tweeted about her three white children's privilege after adopting them to 'complete' her black family.
Robinson, 29, and her husband Jerry, 34, are both in jail on suspicion of beating their adopted three-year-old daughter Victoria to death on January 14 at their home in Simpsonville, South Carolina. The black couple have two biological sons.(Snip) Her biological extended family now say that she and the two white boys were being abused by the Robinsons for months and that the system 'failed' them.
Now that we’ve reached the post-inauguration stage of our peaceful transition of power, one person in America needs a full audit of the election more than anyone -- President Asterisk. (snip) If the election was legit, why are the Democrats acting so darned guilty? (snip) The Democrats fought every request for a recount or an audit. Election records were hidden, destroyed, or lost. They’ve even been implying that election challenges are tantamount to insurrection (snip) Why are they impeaching a president who has left office?
The cheap, generic, anti-parasite drug Ivermectin finally is to undergo rigorous clinical trials in a first world nation for use in fighting Covid-19. (snip) The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to conduct clinical trials of the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin at metropolitan and public hospitals to assess its effectiveness against COVID-19 (snip) Ivermectin has been widely used against Covid in Peru, and according to the abstract of this published study:
For the 24 states with early IVM treatment (and Lima), excess deaths dropped 59% (25%) at +30 days and 75% (25%) at +45 days after day of peak deaths
The Biden Administration is willfully and permanently undermining the economy and the future well-being of the citizenry as well as trampling on the Constitution with an unprecedented avalanche of executive orders, proposed legislation and untenable regulations. The current leader of the United States, safe in his plush bunker, is without a clue as he and his confederates in the ruling oligarchy are more interested in consolidating power and enriching themselves than they are in the long-term welfare of the nation and its citizenry. CORRECTION*
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka slammed President Joe Biden during an interview that aired in part on Sunday over his executive order that canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline, which cost a lot of people their jobs. “Organized labor is crucial to the Biden coalition. But there are significant tensions among environmentalists, the president’s team addressing climate change and some parts of the labor movement,” Axios reported. “The Laborers’ International Union of North America said the Keystone decision will cost 1,000 existing union jobs and 10,000 projected construction jobs.”
Democrats are struggling with impeachment managers' desire to call witnesses in the Senate trial this week to help prove their case against Donald Trump and Democratic leadership wanting a speedy process.Speculation stirred over the weekend that Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will announce a deal on how the trial, which kicks off on Tuesday, will move forward – with few expecting any witness testimony, according to Politico. Congressional leadership feels witnesses are not necessary since the actions and fallout Democrats are accusing the former president of inciting happened in plain sight
How is this for obnoxious?
Leftists, one after another, have put a target on country music legend Dolly Parton's back. Her crime against political correctness? Making a Super Bowl ad for Squarespace, an inexpensive website-creating framework for small and start-up businesses. (snip) Parton, whose own history as an enterprising country music singer, who gained control of her own musical work product over the big boys as a scrappy, freelance artist, which is what the NBC News piece described, is somehow 'bad' for advocating small business entrepreneurship, same as what she herself did to get herself rich and famous.
Debasing the Constitution: Why Chief Justice
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As Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial begins today, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that Chief Justice Roberts will not be presiding.
Senate Democrat Richard Blumenthal, a lawyer, former federal prosecutor and member of the Judiciary Committee, believes the Chief Justice should preside.
Elizabeth Warren adopts the far more aggressive position that the Chief Justice must preside as part of “his constitutional duty.” For good measure, she adds, “I can’t imagine why a Supreme Court justice would not do his duty.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer presents yet a third constitutional argument. He claims that the Constitution commits the decision as a matter of choice
President Joe Biden used Friday’s jobs report as another justification for his massive $1.9 trillion stimulus bill. “A once-in-a-century virus has decimated our economy, and it’s still wreaking havoc on our economy today,” he said. Funny, because that’s not what the data show.
Some Democrats are already coming to realize that piling another $1.9 trillion in deficit spending on top of the more than $3 trillion already targeting COVID relief is an enormous mistake. Here’s what Politico reported last week after liberal economist Larry Summers cautioned that the Biden plan was too big.
Summers, the former Treasury secretary for Bill
The niece of Vice President Kamala Harris, Meena Harris, led other leftists on Twitter on Sunday night in mask-shaming Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady. When Sports Illustrated tweeted a video of Brady arriving at Raymond James Stadium before the Super Bowl, at which he won his record seventh big game against the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes, the vice president’s niece sounded off in a tweet questioning why Brady was not wearing a mask. “What’s Tom doing without a damn mask?” Meena Harris tweeted. CORRECTION*
A Made-For-TV Impeachment Trial
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The conduct of the Democrats during the first Trump impeachment trial was truly cringe-worthy. Knowing that he would never be removed from office, they produced a piece of embarrassingly bad theater for the benefit of their far-left base. The second Trump impeachment trial, due to begin Tuesday, promises to be even more schmaltzy. Because their claim that Trump is guilty of inciting insurrection is so thoroughly refuted by the video and transcript of his January 6 speech, the Democratic House managers will be forced to rely heavily on a montage of misleading videos edited for the convenience of the broadcast and cable networks. It will be a made-for-television impeachment trial
Retired Sgt. Betsy Smith, who now represents the National Police Association, said the media are currently spending a great deal of time talking about the U.S. Capitol breach but not enough on violent riots perpetrated by Antifa and others.
“Right now, their current obsession is, you know, white supremacy, white supremacists, and the Capitol riot. They don’t want to talk about the other 99 percent of violent riots that American law enforcement has been dealing with for the past almost year,” Smith, a 29-year veteran of a large metropolitan police department in Chicago, told NTD’s The Nation Speaks.
“We’re focusing on one riot on January 6, and it’s very, extremely frustrating
Diplomatic immunity does not extend to terrorism, and that is very bad news for Iran's embassies. On February 4, 2021, a court in Antwerp, Belgium delivered a guilty verdict with 20 years of imprisonment in the case of Assadollah Assadi, a career Iranian diplomat who plotted a bombing attack against a major gathering of Iranian opposition members in France. (Snip) There’s no doubt that this plot was ordered by Khamenei, Rouhani, Zarif, and Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi.”
The vengeful resistance appears to have suffered another setback as efforts to run former President Donald J. Trump out of Mar-a-Lago have come up far short of their objective.Following his departure from the polluted confines of the great D.C. swamp, Trump and his beautiful wife Melania have settled in at the magnificent 17-acre South Florida resort, a historic landmark that he purchased in 1985 for $7 million.But Trump’s enemies weren’t satisfied with merely chasing him out of Washington, they also want to kick him out of the scenic Palm Beach resort as well.
Millions of Americans Projected to Remain
Jobless as Biden Packs U.S. Labor Force
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Jobless as Biden Packs U.S. Labor Force
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Millions of Americans are projected to remain jobless for the next three to four years, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), though President Joe Biden is looking to fill American jobs with foreign workers.In a report released this month, CBO analysts said the number of jobless Americans — all of whom want full-time jobs — will not return to pre-coronavirus levels until around 2024.“As the economy expands, many people rejoin the civilian labor force who had left it during the pandemic, restoring it to its pre-pandemic size in 2022,” the CBO report states. “The unemployment rate gradually declines throughout the period, and the number of people employed
Former President Trump “feels happier” since leaving the White House — partly because he’s off social media, his former campaign aide says.“The president has said he feels happier now than he’s been in some time,” said former Trump campaign strategist Jason Miller in an interview with the UK’s Sunday Times.Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook and other social-media platforms after the siege on the US Capitol last month.“He’s said that not being on social media, and not being subject to the hateful echo chamber that social media too frequently becomes, has actually been good,” Miller told the outlet.
All New York State employees are required to have training in the state’s new “Gender Identity Toolkit,” a resource to ensure the special rights of transgender and other individuals who are not comfortable with their biological sex are acknowledged and put into practice.
According to the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations website, the Gender Identity Toolkit will introduce state employees to “key terms, language, concepts, and laws related to fostering a respectful workplace and appropriate customer service to individuals who are transgender or gender non-conforming (TGNC).
I wrote a piece earlier in response to Bruce Springsteen’s first commercial ad for Jeep for the Super Bowl. I left it with the hope that sanity will prevail because as Americans, we have shown that ability to triumph over all odds. I do believe that sanity and the truth will ultimately triumph. But I also wrote about how Democrats and the media are deliberately demonizing the GOP and encouraging people to hate us. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes is moving into very dangerous territory, not to mention certifiably insane. “The shamelessness of Republicans on the Sunday shows is a sight to