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Retired Navy Seal Morgan Luttrell snagged the Republican nomination in the Lone Star State’s 8th Congressional District, according to a projection from the Associated Press on Thursday.
Luttrell, who was one of 11 Republicans vying for retiring Rep. Kevin Brady’s (R-TX) seat, received 52.2 percent of the votes in his district (34,019 votes). Political activist Christian Collins — Luttrell’s biggest competition — garnered 22.2 percent of the votes (14,503 votes.) Navy veteran and attorney Jonathan Hullihan received 12.6 percent of the vote, and none of the rest of the GOP candidates surpassed 3 percent. Laura Jones was the lone Democrat in the 8th District primary, easily securing the nomination and drawing attention to the conservative-heavy
Biden and Zelensky discuss Russia's attack
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on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in late-night call replies
President Joe Biden spoke to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodomyr Zelensky on Thursday night to discuss Russia's shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant.The White House was monitoring the situation, officials said, without providing details of the call. 'POTUS spoke with President Zelenskyy this evening to receive an update on the fire at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant,' the White House tweeted.'He joined President Zelenskyy in urging Russia to cease its military activities in the area and allow firefighters and emergency responders to access the site.
President Biden’s surgeon general on Thursday formally requested that the major tech platforms submit information about the scale of Covid-19 misinformation on social networks, search engines, crowdsourced platforms, e-commerce platforms and instant messaging systems. A request for information from the surgeon general’s office demanded that tech platforms send data and analysis on the prevalence of Covid-19 misinformation on their sites, starting with common examples of vaccine misinformation documented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The notice asks the companies to submit “exactly how many users saw or may have been exposed to instances of Covid-19 misinformation,” as well as aggregate data on demographics
American CEOs are rising to the occasion and pledging to send humanitarian support to Ukrainians as they fight against Putin’s invasion into their country. Two CEOs are speaking out about what they are doing to help in response to pleas for aid.
Goya Europa, the European arm of Goya Foods Inc., will distribute hundreds of thousands of pounds of food to Ukrainians. Goya’s European facilities and distributors are positioned to quickly mobilize and provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine and Poland. Poland is taking in thousands of Ukrainian refugees.
“Through our Goya Gives global initiative, Goya has always been at the forefront of disaster and humanitarian relief efforts,
Europe's largest nuclear plant was on fire in the early hours of Friday morning after coming under attack by Russian troops.A live feed from the station showed a line of military vehicles firing at buildings at the nuclear plant, causing flames to break out at the site in the south-east of the country - sparking fears of a radiation disaster in the nation currently under invasion by Russian forces.In response to the attack, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of 'nuclear terror' while British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek an emergency UN Security Council meeting in the coming hours, a Downing Street spokeswoman said. 'The UK would
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dared Russia’s leader to meet with him Thursday, saying that “I don’t bite” — as Vladimir Putin vowed to continue his deadly invasion of Ukraine and claimed his soldiers were acting “like real heroes.”During a news conference in Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv, Zelensky repeatedly taunted Putin, even mocking the Russian president’s penchant for conducting meetings at the opposite ends of extremely long tables.“Sit down with me to negotiate, just not at 30 meters,” Zelensky said.“I don’t bite. What are you afraid of?”
The world is facing its biggest political/military crisis since the end of the Cold War, and for better or worse, the leadership of its largest countries has serious problems. Probably for worse.
Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, seems angry and out of touch. Putin clearly expected the invasion of Ukraine to be a walkover. A translation of the public statement intended for Feb. 26, declaring victory in Ukraine, reveals his thinking to be both grandiose and unrealistic.
Putin used to be a secret policeman, a trade in which accurate information is important. But in his many years at the top,
Someone should tell Joe Biden’s Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, who falsely claimed 78% of American voters approved of President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, that Biden’s address garnered the lowest ratings for a president’s first official State of the Union address in 30 years.
“More than 38 million Americans tuned in to President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the lowest viewing figures for a commander-in-chief’s first SOTU in at least 30 years,” the New York Post reported. “According to Nielsen Media Research, approximately 27.4 million households watched Biden’s hour-long address live on 16 different networks for a 22.4 rating.”
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The Democrats will suffer historic losses in the November midterms.
This disaster for their party will come about not just because of the Afghanistan debacle, an appeased Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the destruction of the southern border, the supply chain mess, or their support for critical race theory demagoguery.
The culprit for the political wipeout will be out-of-control inflation—and for several reasons.
First, the Biden Administration is in such denial of inflation that it sounds to Americans simply callous and indifferent to the misery it has unleashed.
Biden officials have scoffed at price spikes as “transitory.” Or they have preposterously claimed spiraling costs are a .
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was mocked online after comparing herself and progressive Democrats to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his people fighting off a Russian invasion.Abrams made the comparison while speaking with "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah on her second gubernatorial campaign. "We are a stronger nation when we allow people to participate," Abrams said in the clip that has been picking up steam online."And if we ever doubted that: The war that Putin is waging against Ukraine, President Zelenskyy said it, and I’m going to paraphrase him, probably poorly," the Georgia Democrat continued. "He said this isn’t a war on Ukraine, this is
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday sparred with a Fox News reporter over Biden’s decision to continue to buy oil from Russia while putting restrictions on domestic energy production.“As long as we’re buying Russian oil, though, aren’t we financing the war?” Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked Psaki.
“Well, Jacqui, again, it’s only about 10% of what we’re importing. I’ve not made any announcement about any decision on that front,” Psaki said.If Psaki can brush off the fact that Russia is only 10%
Russian artillery fire is blasting Ukraine's largest nuclear plant, sparking a fire, hours after international atomic regulators warned combat at the facility could wreak havoc, according to Ukraine authorities.Video posted to Telegram, an encrypted messaging app, early Friday local time appeared to show a projectile landing outside the facility, creating a large fireball. Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs, tweeted that Russian forces were "firing from all sides" on the facility.
"Fire has already broken out," he wrote –
Update 9:02 p.m. 03/03/22: The International Atomic Energy posted on Twitter that Ukraine’s regulator said there is no change in radiation levels at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. A fire has broken out in a facility housing a nuclear power plant in eastern Ukraine amid shelling, according to the mayor of a nearby town. Dmytro Orlov, the mayor of the town of Energodar, accused Russian forces of shelling the facility that houses the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The station is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and supplies about 25 percent of Ukraine’s electricity, according to the Associated Press.
Hawaiians, more than residents of any other state, will likely see higher gasoline and energy costs due to Russia's Ukraine war and the resulting soaring oil prices. “Isolated by the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii is the most petroleum-dependent U.S. state,” notes the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Overall, the U.S. consumes very little Russian oil. In 2021, oil from that country represented just 3% percent of total U.S. crude imports and just 1% of the oil processed by U.S. refineries, according to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) trade association. But Hawaii is an anomaly among U.S. states. It imports several
The U.S. Senate, with a Republican-dominated voice of 49 to 44, passed a resolution to block Joe Biden’s presidentially decreed coronavirus shot mandates for healthcare workers. Republicans are calling it a victory. But it’s not. Not really. Neither the Democrat-led House nor the White House support it, and it won’t pass. But that shouldn’t matter. It shouldn’t matter because Republicans in the Senate, if they wanted, if they so chose, if they truly believed in the constitutionally disgusting idea of government forcing an untested-for-long-term-safety-and-efficacy shot into the arms of 17 million or so health care workers—if they honestly wanted to
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday made an announcement about his wife Casey’s successful breast cancer treatment. DeSantis posted a video thanking people for sending their thoughts and prayers to his family after his wife was diagnosed, noting the surgeries and treatments had made his wife "cancer-free." "Thank you for doing that," DeSantis said of the thoughts and prayers to his family. "It’s lifted her spirits, it’s made a tremendous difference."
New York - RT America will cease productions and lay off most of its staff, according to a memo from T&R Productions, the production company behind the Russian state-funded network, which CNN obtained.
Misha Solodovnikov, the general manager of T&R Productions, told staff in the memo that it will be "ceasing production" at all of its locations "as a result of unforeseen business interruption events."
"Unfortunately, we anticipate this layoff will be permanent, meaning that this will result in the permanent separation from employment of most T&R employees at all locations," Solodovnikov wrote.
At least 10 people were taken to hospitals, and several more are missing, after an explosion and fire obliterated apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland, Thursday morning, officials said.Flames consumed a building at the Friendly Garden Apartments on Lyttonsville Road about 10:30 a.m. after an enormous boom alarmed residents throughout the area.“The first thing was that big boom. I could actually feel it on my back, and it made me come out of my work shed,” said Andre Kinard, who lives across the street from the apartment complex. “That’s when I saw everything to smithereens, and then the first two or three people screaming.”Three people were seriously hurt and seven others
While supporters on social media desperately try to paper over Joe Biden’s disastrous energy policies, which are causing near $7.00-per-gallon gas prices, Democrats in his administration are doing the opposite. And for once, they’re telling the truth. High prices are by design, and they don’t care if it hurts your family, your job, your food supply, or your ability to move freely about the country as long as their windmills and Chinese-made solar panels operate your cars and planes.
Don’t ask questions.
The timing is spectacularly bad. Democrat authoritarians have begun removing mandates and lockdowns because the political science has changed and Leftist politicians are being hurt in public opinion polls. But these autocrats
Ukrainian parliament members sang their country’s national anthem during a Thursday session of the Rada amid Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine.The session voted on “essential defense and security laws,” a lawmaker told Fox News. Around 300 lawmakers in the session, which was held “under secrecy” as attacks on and in the capital continue.Ukraine’s national anthem, “Glory and Freedom of Ukraine has not yet Perished,” or “Shche ne Vmerla Ukrainy i slava, i volia” is as follows in English: “The glory and freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished.
The results of the Texas primary elections might have given the progressive cause to be optimistic about their prospects in November. At least, this is what several left-leaning news outlets have suggested after Tuesday’s elections. However, a closer look at the situation reveals the hard left may not want to start celebrating just yet.
Progressives managed to eke out a couple of critical victories in the primary elections. These are individuals who are backed by the far-left wing of the Democratic Party. Politico reported:
The chance for progressives to set the tone for this year’s primaries led many of the biggest figures on the left
Moscow, Russia — Russian oil giant Lukoil on Thursday called for an immediate halt to fighting in Ukraine, one of the first major domestic firms to speak out against Moscow’s invasion of its pro-Western neighbor.
The board “expresses its concern over the ongoing tragic events in Ukraine and its deepest sympathy to all those affected by this tragedy,” the company said in a statement. “We stand for the immediate cessation of the armed conflict and fully support its resolution through the negotiation process and through diplomatic means,” its note added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pressed ahead with his assault against Ukraine, which he announced last week despite warnings from the West
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday provided a positive update on his wife’s battle with breast cancer, announcing that Casey DeSantis is now considered to be cancer-free.
“I have a positive update about my wife Casey DeSantis,” the governor said in an announcement posted to social media. “After going through both treatment and surgery for breast cancer, she is now considered cancer-free, and all of you who have had thoughts and prayers that have been given to my family and my wife … it has lifted her spirits,” he said, thanking people for the sympathy and support.
“It has made a tremendous difference,” he said.
What are they doing? The Biden White House is going to ask Kamala Harris to back into the game again? Bench this woman, please. For the sake of our intelligence and human civilization, just put her back into the cardboard box from whence she came. She has failed on the border. She failed in boosting COVID vaccination rates. Harris is a walking failure, who bleeds staff and fosters a toxic work environment. She doesn’t do the work and she doesn’t read the briefings her staff prepare for her, so she doesn’t look like an idiot. She botched the talking points about the sanctions slapped against Russia in the aftermath
The White House is actively discussing sending Vice President Harris to Warsaw, Poland, and Bucharest, Romania, in the coming days to show solidarity with Ukraine as it faces an escalating Russian invasion, sources familiar with the conversations tell The Hill. The discussions involve sending Harris to visit troops stationed in Romania and potentially to the border with Ukraine, where a refugee crisis has seen more than 1 million people flee that country since the Russian attack.The trip could happen in the coming weeks, one source said, adding that there is no active dialogue about sending President Biden to the region.
Pete Buttigieg Says Buying Oil From Iran is “On the Table” – As Biden Imposes Restrictions on Domestic Drilling (VIDEO)
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Small-town-mayor-turned-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared on MSNBC Wednesday evening to discuss soaring gas prices and what the Biden Regime is doing to ease the pain at the pump.
Four Russian war planes violated Swedish airspace on Wednesday, the Scandinavian country's armed forces said, prompting it to deploy its own forces amid heightened tensions between Europe and Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
Sweden's air force dispatched JAS 39 Gripen aircraft in response to two Russian SU 27s and two SU 24s briefly entering its airspace east of Gotland Island in the Baltic SeaThe aircraft documented and photographed the incursion, the Swedish Armed Forces said.
"This demonstrates that our readiness is good," Air Force Commander Carl-Johan Edstrom said in a statement. "We were on site to secure the territorial integrity and Sweden's borders. We have complete control
Justice correspondent for The Nation, Elie Mystal, said Thursday morning the U.S. should throw out the Constitution for something “more inclusive.”While speaking on Pix 11, Mystal explained how he believes the Constitution does not guarantee equal rights for everyone.“Now in your book, ‘Allow Me To Retort,’ you reframe politics and the Constitution by kind of breaking down how it all impacts voting rights, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, the list goes on and on. So, are you arguing that the Constitution needs to be scrapped altogether?” the host asked.(Tweet/Video) “Sure,” a laughing Mystal responded.
A legal brief filed by Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson helps illustrate how leftists have an objectively disordered view of “protests.”It’s a view in which rioters looting local stores, torching cars, and assaulting security guards are seen as “ mostly peaceful protests ,” while nuns and old ladies praying outside abortion clinics are seen as frightening and dangerous . The brief Jackson co-wrote against the latter has proved an early rallying point for conservatives against her nomination.To be clear, Jackson has an admirable history of personally eschewing the more dramatic forms of protest . Yet she has described that reluctance as a judgment of practicality and efficacy, not as
Protesters Crowd Florida’s Capitol Building,
Chant ‘F*** DeSantis’ Over Parental
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On Thursday, protesters of all ages gathered in Florida’s Capitol building with signs, flags, and more as part of a demonstration against a state bill that would require age-appropriate lesson plans and classroom instruction on topics relating to gender and sexuality while increasing parental rights and curriculum transparency.Reporter Jason Delgado captured the scene, tweeting, “Protesters are gathering inside the Capitol Rotunda in opposition to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Senate Minority Leader @LeaderBookFL & Democratic Rep. @AnnaForFlorida are with them, among other lawmakers.”
ENERHODAR, Ukraine — Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has joined Ukraine’s president in calling on the West to close the skies over Ukraine’s nuclear plants as fighting intensified around the city of Enerhodar. Enerhodar is a major energy hub on the left bank of the Dnieper River and the Khakhovka Reservoir. It is home to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, and accounts for about one quarter of the country’s power generation. The mayor of Enerhodar, Dmytro Orlov, said a Russian military column was headed toward the nuclear plant and loud shots were heard in the city late Thursday.Shmyhal said he already had appealed to NATO and
Vernon Jones, a former Democrat, is running in Georgia’s 10th congressional district for US Congress.
Jones is a grassroots favorite.President Trump endorsed Vernon Jones for Congress in a special video announcement in early February.Vernon officially joined the Republican Party in January 2021 after serving in the Georgia House as a conservative Democrat for years.Vernon Jones joined John Fredericks earlier this week to discuss his campaign for Congress.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr recounted the dramatic moment when former President slammed his hand on his desk and ordered him to go home without delay after he disputed Trump's election fraud claims.
Barr resigned his post shortly before Christmas in 2020, just weeks before the end of Trump's term – in an event that has since been revealed to be a sign of inner White House turmoil over Trump's efforts to push his fraud claims even after they were thrown out of a succession of courts.
We listened carefully to President Joe Biden’s Tuesday night State of the Union speech for what he plans to do about our growing inflation disaster. We were not impressed. Apart from paying lip service to inflation’s impact on working families, Biden’s proposals will, if anything, make the problem far worse.
Biden’s senatorial career goes all the way back to 1973 — by coincidence, the very beginning of the 1970s stagflation, marked by soaring energy prices, roaring inflation, falling real wages, rising unemployment and a dramatic decline in productivity.
Sound familiar?
Donald Trump condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a ‘holocaust’ during a Wednesday morning interview. The former president also blamed his successor Joe Biden for giving Moscow the confidence to launch its attack, telling Fox Business that ‘Putin never would have done it with me.’
Meanwhile, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia ecxhoed Trump’s election fraud claims at Wednesday’s Security Council meeting. As Nebenzia accused the West of ganging up on Russia, he said it was done ‘with the support of the United States, where the legitimately elected president of the country was overthrown.’
Multiple people remained unaccounted for Thursday afternoon, hours after a four-story apartment building collapsed outside of Washington D.C.Fire Chief Scott Goldstein, of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, announced in a news conference on Thursday afternoon that 'several' residents were unaccounted for after fire officials conducted a second sweep of the Friendly Garden Apartment complex in Silver Spring, Maryland. The fire was first reported at the apartment complex at around 10.30am, after an explosion tore through one of the buildings, with video posted online showing a fireball and cloud of smoke pushing through the outer wall of the structure. Parts of the building could be seen collapsing
The White House does not support a ban on Russian oil imports, according to press secretary Jen Psaki, despite even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joining in on the calls for the U.S. to cease buying Moscow's fuel.'We don't have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy, and that would raise prices at the gas pump for the American people,' Psaki told reporters Thursday. Asked what would need to happen 'on the ground' in Ukraine for the U.S. to stop buying Russian oil, the press secretary demurred. 'I don't know if we look at it exactly through that prism.
First lady Jill Biden had a close family friend as a guest at the State of the Union address on Tuesday, Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger, whose company is one of the largest tech manufacturers in the world with deep ties to communist China and was a proud sponsor of the Beijing Olympics.Intel has previously cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party, deferring to its diktats rather than American principles. That did not stop President Joe Biden from introducing Gelsinger during his speech and proclaiming that Intel will build a monster manufacturing facility in Ohio that will ironically produce computer chips and other technology to counter China’s stranglehold on the market.
Joy Behar is the latest hot topic: The fiery redhead hit the floor hard on Thursday’s episode of “The View.”The 79-year-old comedian was walking out onstage at the start of the live show when she took a tumble just before reaching her seat. Cameras captured Behar face-planting on the stage, with the dramatic vision beamed out to audiences across the country.Co-hosts Sara Haines, 44, and legal eagle Sunny Hostin, 53, were heard gasping before they tried to help Behar get up.“The View” moderator Whoopi Goldberg, 66, also rushed over to tend to the veteran star, telling her to “just stand.”
President Joe Biden and his administration said Americans should reduce their consumption of oil and gas in order to keep prices down and ultimately punish Russian President Vladimir Putin.White House press secretary Jen Psaki reacted to calls for the United States to stop importing oil from Russia in order to further punish Putin for escalating his invasion of Ukraine.She said President Joe Biden and his administration were not interested in banning imports of oil from Russia, because reducing the supply would only increase prices and enrich the Russians.“What this is all a reminder of in the president’s view is our need to reduce our reliance on oil,” Psaki said
The BRICS alliance is a strategic geopolitical partnership between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The nature of the alliance is based on trade and big picture economics. Readers, familiar our discussions of trade and international finance, will remember the importance we previously discussed with BRICS after the 2016 election and President Trump representing economic nationalism for the first time in several generations. In this outline, we are going to share the bigger picture of why BRICS should now be back on the center stage of focus for Americans. CORRECTION*
Insane: A School District Spied on Parents
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Who the hell are these people? Where do they get the stones to do something like this? You’re a school district. You’re not the Stasi. You’re not special. You’re a bunch of overpaid education bureaucrats that don’t work hard. If you have time to conduct this sort of operation, there are massive gaps in the workday. Apparently, we have a school district that spied on parents, compiled a dossier of their social media activity, and reported such activity to the employers of these problematic parents. And by ‘problematic’, I mean, they were politically conservative. This little spy game was conducted by Rochester Schools, which is located outside Detroit.
Hillary Clinton, the woman whose campaign paid a reputed Russian FSB agent to make up the fake “Russian collusion” scandal to tar President Donald Trump, is now back to accuse the man who defeated her in 2016 of “giving aid and comfort to [Vladimir] Putin.”
Give it a rest, Hill.
Clinton tweeted about her recent appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, accusing Trump of helping Putin because he cited an obvious fact. Putin “recognized” the Donbas region of Ukraine as a “breakaway” Russian area and then sent in troops whom he characterized as “peacekeepers.” Everyone with a brain knew what was going on
Moscow - Nineteen-year-old Tasya stood with her friends on a cold morning in the Russian city of St. Petersburg as they joined protesters’ chants against the Russian invasion of Ukraine: “Nyet Voine!” (“No to War!”).
“It’s always safer to stand together with others…to look over your shoulder, in case you need to run,” said Tasya, who asked that her last name not be used for her safety. At some point, Tasya said her friends left the protest to go home or somewhere else to warm up, leaving her standing alone in the street.
“Then a group of cops walked past me…and suddenly one of them looked at me and then they turned around,
Gas prices have been going up since Joe Biden began cutting off energy sources in the name of global warming Leftism on his first day of office. Now, a year later, Bidenflation has taken hold, Russia has attacked Ukraine, and the price of a barrel of oil on Wednesday stood at a gasp-inducing $112/barrel. We’re looking at gas prices close to $7.00/gallon.
Just four months ago, Don Lemon the rest of his CNN buddies waxed rhapsodic over Joe Biden for an eight-cent drop in gas prices. Now, as prices skyrocket, Joe Biden’s getting the blame, too.
The Senate voted Wednesday to get rid of President Biden’s vaccine mandate on health workers at places that receive federal funding in a political messaging move ahead of the midterm elections.
Senators voted 49-44 for the disapproval resolution, which would use the Congressional Review Act to eliminate the mandate.
“I thank my Senate colleagues for joining me in voting to END the CMS vaccine mandate,” Rep. Roger Marshall, Kansas Republican, tweeted, referring to the agency that controls Medicare and Medicaid funding.(Snip)The House is controlled by Democrats, so the resolution faces long odds on that side of the Capitol. Even if it gets through, the White House has
The national Black Lives Matter group may be sitting on a cash hoard significantly larger than previously disclosed, new records reviewed by the Washington Examiner suggest. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation claimed in February 2021, it spent about a third of the $90 million it raised in 2020, leaving the group with $60 million under its control at the end of the year.(Snip)BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in February that the money her group received in 2020 came from "white corporation guilt," implying that a substantial portion of BLM's funding that year did not come from small-dollar donations processed through ActBlue.
Authorities removed a JetBlue pilot from the cockpit on Wednesday who had a blood alcohol level four times over the legal limit.
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority said that a Transportation Security Administration officer noticed that James Clifton, 54, appeared to be intoxicated when passing through security at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, according to a statement obtained by CBS News.
Clifton was later removed from the cockpit by airport police and administered a breathalyzer test which registered as a 0.17 blood alcohol level, over four times the legal limit to fly of 0.04 set by the Federal Aviation Administration.
In an attempt to stop using a name that some deemed derogatory, the ‘gypsy moth’ is no more and officials have determined a new name for the insect. The Entomological Society of America (ESA) announced that the new name has been selected for the moth species Lymantria dispar. It was voted unanimously to approve the addition of ‘spongy moth’ to ESA’s common names of insects and related organisms list. This completes a process that reportedly started back in July 2021. ‘Gypsy moth’ was removed from the list because officials determined that it was a derogatory term for the Romani people.
The Press Quieted Down on Texas Voting
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For a law that was supposed to trample minority voting rights, Texas minority candidates did rather well in the Texas primary.
It is a constant seen in the media cycles. Hysterical claims are made for a lengthy period, and as those get proven out by data or by direct evidence — by reality — the hysterics evaporate and so does the story. There is no flood of follow-up pieces on par with the tsunami of dire consequences in articles and columns. The journos simply move on to the next promised nefarious event. This is now playing out regarding the voting rights said to have been trampled in recent
A former Chicago Park District Attorney is seeking damages from Mayor Lori Lightfoot after an obscene, insulting rant against the attorney and the Chicago Italian-American community came to light. The Park District was responsible for the statue of Christopher Columbus in Arrigo Park that Lightfoot had ordered removed during protests in 2020. They were negotiating with the Joint Civic Committee of Italian-Americans to have the Columbus statue displayed during the annual Columbus Day parade. The statue wasn’t displayed in the Chicago parade but did make an appearance at a suburban event.
Ron Onesti, president of that Italian-American group, was in on the negotiations along with two park district attorneys
As demand for COVID-19 vaccines collapses in many areas of the U.S., states are scrambling to use stockpiles of doses before they expire and have to be added to the millions that have already gone to waste. From some of the least vaccinated states, like Indiana and North Dakota, to some of the most vaccinated states, like New Jersey and Vermont, public health departments are shuffling doses around in the hopes of finding providers that can use them. State health departments told The Associated Press they have tracked millions of doses that went to waste, including ones that expired, were
I was going to write about President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, but it was too tedious to inspire a response and devoid of even one semi-interesting idea. What could I write?
Even the references to the Ukraine war were more confused than enlightening, such as the mind-boggling gaffe, “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he’ll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people.”
Our president’s destruction of the American energy independence gained by his predecessor that many think opened the door for the current war was, of course, not mentioned. (snip)
But something caught my eye today in the fog of war
Melinda Gates trashed her ex-husband Bill for his questionable friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and revealed that he continued to meet with him despite her having 'nightmares' about him. In her first interview since her divorce from the billionaire last year, Melinda told CBS Mornings that she insisted on meeting Epstein back in 2011 because she wanted to see 'who this man was'. (snip) I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door. 'He was abhorrent, evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards. That's why my heart breaks for these young women. That's how I felt, and I am an older woman. He was awful.' CORRECTION
A 22 year-old star soccer player who was found dead in her dorm room on Tuesday had complained about knee pain just days before after grueling surgery.
In a video explaining a typical Friday in the life of a Stanford soccer goalie, Katie Meyer said she took practice easy that morning 'because my knee is very swollen.'
She had previously posted on February 1 that she was undergoing surgery on her right knee, sharing videos of her scrolling through TikTok beforehand and telling her thousands of followers that when she came out of surgery the nurses were laughing and said she 'was the most fun patient coming off of anesthesia ever.'
Legislation promoting U.S. energy independence from Russia has been blocked by House Democrats.
House Republicans introduced the “American Independence from Russian Energy Act” on Feb. 28, a measure meant to authorize the Keystone XL pipeline, boost domestic oil and gas production, and prevent President Joe Biden’s executive branch agencies from halting energy leasing on federal land and water, among other provisions. Yet on March 1, the legislation was shot down in a 221–202 vote, almost entirely along partisan lines.
“Getting our pipelines expanded is huge,” Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), ranking member of the House Natural Resources
A top Russian general has been killed amid bitter fighting in Ukraine in what represents a major blow to the Russian invasion. Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky, who was the deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of Russia's Central Military District, died yesterday as Ukrainian defence forces repelled the Russian offensive. His death has not yet been officially confirmed by Russia's Ministry of Defence, but was announced on social media by his colleague Sergey Chipilyov and was widely reported by several Russian and Ukrainian news outlets.
The most ominous detail here is that it was Putin who called Macron, not vice versa. If Macron had initiated the call, it would have been a plea for peace.
With Putin initiating the call, the purpose was almost certainly to warn the west of escalation.The tsar’s pride is at stake and so many Ukrainians will have to die:(Snip for tweet)We’re at an odd stage of the war in which the tide seems to be turning towards Russia but Russia also seems to be turning more desperate. The now famous Russian military convoy outside Kiev has curiously stalled out over the past three days,
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A Western intelligence report shows signs that senior officials in China has at least some level of knowledge regarding Russia’s plans to invade Ukraine before it began last week, senior Biden administration officials and a European official told The New York Times.President Vladimir Putin had met with President Xi Jinping on February 4, shortly before the opening ceremony of the games.
"Moscow and Beijing issued a 5,000-word statement at the time declaring that their partnership had 'no limits,' denouncing NATO enlargement and asserting that they would establish a new global order with true 'democracy,'" The New York Times reported.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been accused in a lawsuit of hurling obscenities at a city lawyer who tried to defy her wishes by allowing Italian-Americans to display a removed statue of Christopher Columbus at a parade. Former Chicago Park District deputy general counsel George Smyrniotis filed the lawsuit on Tuesday against the city and Lightfoot, alleging she defamed him with her remarks in a meeting last year. 'You make some kind of secret agreement with Italians,' said Lightfoot, according to the complaint, which was first reported by the Chicago Tribune. 'My d**k is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest d**k in Chicago.'
One would think that even the most radical mask enforcers would have snapped back into reality following the end of mask mandates in deep blue states such as California, Illinois, and New York.
Even Saturday Night Live, last week, mocked the 2 years of masks mandates.A group of friends discusses mask mandates, vaccines, and COVID over dinner.(Video) On Wednesday, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis triggered hyper COVID enforcers who took to Twitter claiming the popular Republican governor had yelled at students, pressuring them to take off their masks.
Hey kids, don’t be a maskhole! With the end of school mask mandates around the corner, the city’s elite private schools are warning students not to question or tease classmates over their face covering choices. Private schools introduced an optional mask policy for staffers and students Wednesday after Gov. Kathy Hochul officially scrapped the requirement. “Everything is so polarized and political these days,” said a parent at Manhattan’s Spence School. “There is more to this than just wearing or not wearing a mask. It’s seen as a reflection of the student and the parents’ views overall.”
Some administrators are getting in front of the issue and asking parents to talk
Sergei Lavrov has repeated his warning that World War Three would be nuclear while at the same time accusing the West of fixating on his dire threats of destruction.The foreign minister also compared the US to Nazi Germany in his latest rant after Russian forces seized the Black Sea regional capital of Kherson in Ukraine, its first major city after a week of fighting.Vladimir Putin's lackey said today: 'It is clear that World War Three can only be nuclear. (Video) 'I would like to point out that it's in the heads of Western politicians that the idea of a nuclear war is spinning constantly, and not
President Biden is upping his request for humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine, calling on Congress to approve $10 billion to help bolster the nation in its fight against Russia. Shalanda Young, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, made the request in a letter to the congressional Democratic leadership on Tuesday. The figure is significantly larger than the $6.4 billion that administration officials initially urged lawmakers to approve just last week. “These resources will mean additional defense equipment for Ukraine, lifesaving humanitarian assistance—such as emergency food assistance—for the Ukrainian people, stronger sanctions enforcement, a dedicated task force led by the Department of Justice
Oil prices are spiraling higher on supply concerns as the Russia-Ukraine crisis develops, and this could lead to demand destruction and an economic recession, according to an oil analyst. "I'm concerned that we don't have enough oil at all here, and we need to go to $120 to $150 [per barrel], and then we get into economic destruction," said Paul Sankey of Sankey Research. The firm sees oil trading between $100 and $150 per barrel until the situation in Ukraine is resolved, according to a research note. International benchmark Brent crude futures jumped 3.24% to $116.59 per barrel, after earlier
Seattle—A downtown Seattle tech company won’t bring workers back to the office until they feel it’s safe, not because of COVID-19, but crime. Businesses continue to speak out about the ongoing violence in the downtown core, specifically in the area of Third Avenue and Pike Street. Martin Fagan with Qumulo is a former police officer, now a facilities director for the cloud computing company based at Fourth Avenue and Pike. He told his employees they don't have to return to the office until the situation in downtown "stabilizes."(Snip)On Tuesday, police intercepted a carjacking while they responded to a stabbing. On Wednesday night, police were back
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain gave President Joe Biden grade-A marks for his fitness in a post-State of the Union interview Wednesday. 'He's definitely in better shape than I am, that's for sure. He's very fit, he works out almost every day in the morning before he comes down to the Oval Office,' Klain said in a virtual interview with the Economic Club of Washington. 'I think his fitness, his vigor, is beyond question.'
Speaking to billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, Klain pointed to the 79-year-old Biden's performance at Tuesday night's State ofthe Union as evidence that being the country's oldest president isn't holding the Democrat back.
Katie Meyer, Stanford University women’s soccer team goalkeeper who helped the team win the 2019 national title, has died at the age of 22. Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole and Director of Athletics Bernard Muir sent out a statement by the university on Wednesday: "It is with great sadness that we report that Katie Meyer, a senior majoring in International Relations and minoring in History, a Resident Assistant, and a team captain and goalkeeper on the Stanford Women’s Soccer Team, has passed away. (Snip) “There are no words to express the emptiness that we feel at this moment,” the statement continued.
Philadelphia police are facing questions after releasing mixed messages on an armed 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot in the back by officers on Tuesday, with the police commissioner claiming he was armed and fired at police but her deputy later saying he wasn't sure if he'd done so. Police identified the boy as Thomas Siderio Jr., saying officers took him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he was pronounced dead a few minutes after the shooting. Officers said that Siderio was white.(Snip)In a statement Wednesday, police said the four officers wearing plainclothes were in an unmarked car in south Philadelphia at about 7:20 p.m.
ergei Lavrov has repeated his warning that World War Three would be nuclear while at the same time accusing the West of fixating on his dire threats of destruction. The foreign minister also compared the US to Nazi Germany in his latest rant after Russian forces seized the Black Sea regional capital of Kherson in Ukraine, its first major city after a week of fighting. Vladimir Putin's lackey said today: 'It is clear that World War Three can only be nuclear.
While Russia wages a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Army is putting its soldiers through training on gender pronouns and coaching officers on when to offer soldiers gender transition surgery, according to an official military presentation on the subject obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The mandatory presentation, "Policy on the Military Service of Transgender Persons and Persons with Gender Dysphoria," was given to officers earlier this month along with instructions for them to train their subordinates on the material.
GARDINER, Mont.— On public land north of Yellowstone National Park late last year, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) shot and killed a mountain lion that was being monitored by National Park Service staff, after hunting dogs had chased it up a tree. The mountain lion hunt, which has not been previously reported, occurred on Dec. 28 on a swath of U.S. Forest Service land southwest of Emigrant, Mont., according to residents familiar with the episode who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve relationships in the community.
Sarcastic sympathy for Psaki: Two gaffes,
one day, and getting more and more like
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one day, and getting more and more like
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Joe Biden has relied on Jen Psaki to articulate his gaffes and gibberings for him as White House spokeswoman, but now that she's a year into the clean-up, she, too, is starting to make gaffes as he does.
She made two yesterday, including: [tweet] Psaki says Biden didn't “have the time” last night to mention our 13 service members killed in Afghanistan (snip) let's take a look at what Jen had to say about patterns and old Joe: [tweet] Jen Psaki: Biden "was the vice president the last time Russia invaded Ukraine, this is a pattern"
German officials have ensured that Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov won't be able to relax on his lavish yacht while Russian firepower pummels Ukraine, according to a new report.
Authorities this week seized his treasured $600 million, 512-foot yacht Dilbar, which was being refitted in a German shipyard, sources told Forbes. The seizure came in response to European Union sanctions against Usmanov and other oligarchs Monday over Russia's deadly invasion of Ukraine.
"On 28 February 2022 I became the target of restrictive measures imposed by the European Union I believe that such decision is unfair,
As World War III looms in Europe, we must put narrow partisan differences aside and tap the brain power of the greatest minds among us. It is time for the Biden White House to call upon … Jared! Speaking of the best and the brightest, our foreign policy mandarins must have felt like it was Christmas Day when a senile dementia patient became president. Finally! No meddling politicians to get in the way of our beautifully designed plans worked out at the Council on Foreign Relations. Although Joseph R. Biden is technically, in a strictly legal sense, “president,” it’s progressives running his domestic policy, CORRECTION*
It is difficult to overstate just how out of touch Democrats are with reality right now. When you’re as unpopular as they are it makes sense – you can’t admit reality, it’s too depressing, so you create a new one in your head. That’s a survival mechanism everyone has employed, to one degree or another, and at some point in their lives for short periods, and it’s perfectly normal. What isn’t normal is how Democrats have constructed this fantasy world and appear to live in it all the time.
I don’t know how you can watch Joe Biden stumble and bumble his way through the State of the Union
Welcome To March: Article Claims “Womxn”
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Is “Transphobic”, Represents “Historical Transmisogyny” replies
It’s hard to keep up with what we’re allowed to think, say, and do. What’s a woman? If we are supposed to believe all women, but sex and gender are merely social constructs, do we have to believe everyone? If women have rights, why do unborn women not? If women are oppressed, why do male athletes keep turning into them? If the patriarchy is real and evil, why do women want to join it? If you’re a willing participant in the patriarchy, as opposed to someone who just happened into it, does that make you worse? If you’re a transgender male, do you hate yourself for being in the patriarchy?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a televised speech Wednesday, March 2nd, referenced a Russian missile attack the previous day aimed at a transmission tower adjacent to the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. The missile, which killed five citizens, damaged the center.Centuries ago, Shakespeare wrote, “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” Since the Russian war on Ukraine began, Zelensky has repeatedly demonstrated greatness in leadership.
I know I’m preaching to the choir a bit here, but just to reiterate a point made by many people on both sides of the aisle in the past, longtime “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak – who is a conservative – is an absolute national treasure. He proved it again Wednesday in a pretty epic Twitter thread where he dunked on Internet shamers for piling on contestants of the show over a wild and frustrating-to-watch series of spins during the Tuesday episode that went viral.The segment in question was about a common phrase that people who may not have known it at the time of the show’s airing
It’s hilarious that Joe Biden is embarking on a “Unity Agenda” tour. After he spent the past year stigmatizing the unvaccinated, demonizing Trump voters as domestic terrorists and siccing the FBI on parents at school board meetings, now he wants unity? Even his own party isn’t unified. No fewer than three party factions, including The Squad, have offered up contradictory rebuttals of his State of the Union address. Not that his own speech wasn’t chock full of contradictions and delusions. Here are 10:
Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee messed with the wrong mom during a Tuesday hearing on discrimination and Critical Race Theory.
Witness Asra Normani was recording Lee during the hearing when Lee demanded Normani cease filming.
“We are problem solvers. We are grateful that the courts have responded to perceived discrimination but in any event what I would clearly say – you need to put down your camera,” Lee, who is clearly distracted by Normani, said. “Please, you need to put down your camera. You need to put down your camera.”
The Left’s war on the National Rifle Association has been ongoing for months. New York Attorney General Letitia James has vowed to dissolve the organization through a series of legal actions aimed at exposing the allegations of fraud and corruption among the upper crust of the group. The NRA is one of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations, though how they’ve spent their donors’ money, among other things, has drawn immense scrutiny. Some items purchased with these funds were not earmarked properly. A wedding does not enhance or promote Second Amendment rights.
In recent years, a number of parents and grandparents have discovered an alarming trend: children no longer know how to write in cursive.
Such a discovery led to a considerable backlash against programs such as Common Core, which many viewed as the culprit squeezing out cursive instruction. Thanks to increased attention on the subject, many states have implemented laws mandating that cursive be taught in school.
But what happens when children begin to learn cursive and can’t hold their pencil properly?
Amazingly, this is the growing reality in a number of countries. The Guardian explains:
The Laws of Economics are as immutable as the Law of Gravity, but few leftists grasp this fact. When it comes to the Democrats’ energy policies, I believe this immutability will finally be the Democrats’ downfall. People are reaching a pain point that the progressives can no longer deflect onto others. (snip) For the right cause, say a short-term need to defend the US against an aggressor to protect us, citizens do make sacrifices, as we saw in World War II with rationing. But sane Americans won’t do it for progressive, leftist, or Marxist authoritarian causes.
Intercepted ballots, forged signatures and questionably high voting rates plagued Wisconsin’s nursing homes and other long-term care facilities during the 2020 presidential election, a state-appointed investigator said. In light of the findings, the investigator said, the ballots from those facilities should be audited. The special counsel’s report was issued Tuesday after an examination of 2020 election integrity. It said Wisconsin officials ditched legal requirements for supervising nursing home ballots during the pandemic, encouraging widespread voter fraud. The 136-page report includes eye-popping data of voter participation at dozens of nursing homes and residential care facilities in five Wisconsin counties.(Snip)The results, Mr. Gableman said, showed “absurd results
Will this really be a long war?
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I have no doubt that both sides are willing to make it a long war. Zelensky and his people have proved they’re willing to die for their freedom. Putin has gambled his legacy on subjugating Ukraine. Neither will blink. Which has the makings of a very long war indeed:
Given the durability of the Ukrainian resistance and its long history of pushing Russia back, the U.S. and Western powers do not believe that this will be a short war. The U.K. foreign secretary estimated it would be a 10-year war. Lawmakers at the Capitol were told Monday it is likely to last 10, 15 or 20 years — and that ultimately,