18th December 2022
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17th December 2022
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16th December 2022
Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden administration is ‘prepared’ for end of Title 42 (Fox) Prepared to do nothing.
Hole in US-Mexico border finally to be plugged one year after Post report (N.Y. Post)
City Hall ‘anxious’ over Title 42, Adams says ‘no one’ helping NYC migrant surge (N.Y. Post)
30,000 migrants now in NYC as Mayor Eric Adams phones Biden admin for cash: report (Fox) Let’s see–that’s three days worth of what comes over the border into Texas.
Government Warns That With Elon Owning Twitter They Will Only Control 97% Of The Media (Babylon Bee)
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14th December 2022
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14th December 2022
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The building is one of five warehouses where the NYPD stores vehicles that are confiscated. They also use the warehouse to store evidence that is too large to fit in normal storage areas.
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13th December 2022
Asylum seekers cross en masse at El Paso-Juarez border as Title 42 nears end (El Paso Times)
More Than 1,000 Migrants Crossed Rio Grande Into El Paso
Hundreds of Members of Extremist Group Oath Keepers Worked for U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Leaked Roster Shows (OCCRP)
Hundreds Of Oath Keepers Have Worked for the Federal Government: Report (Rolling Stone)
Hundreds of migrants released in El Paso (KFOX 14)
Migrants search for work after arriving in Denver (CBS Colorado)
El Paso mayor refuses to declare emergency despite thousands of migrants flooding in (N.Y. Post)
Juan Williams: Who’s laughing at Biden now? (The Hill) Well, half of America, for a start. A lot of Europe, for another.
African Journalist Accuses Press Secretary Jean-Pierre of ‘Discrimination’ (Newsweek)
Biden administration approves Washington state request to offer health insurance to undocumented immigrants (The Hill)
As Title 42 Nears End, Border Crossings Surge
Kamala Harris Visits Brittney Griner To Lock Her Up On Marijuana Charges (Babylon Bee)
BREAKING: Department of Energy Says Sam Brinton ‘Is No Longer a DOE Employee’
‘Merchant Of Death’s Victory Tour: Praises Putin, “Volunteers” For War, & Joins Ultra-Nationalist Party
NBC Downplays Border Crisis & Fails to Mention Biden, CBS Ignores
Biden Convenes Anti-Semitism Summit While Funding Murder of Jews
Former Energy Sec Calls for Investigations Into DOE Grant to China-Based Battery Company
Biden Pledged To Support US Miners. Now He’s Looking To Outsource Their Work to Foreign Green Energy Mines.
Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America
Inflation, at 7.1%, Still High
Mass Migrant Crossing Floods Texas Border Facilities (N.Y. Times) The Narrative Media, of course, has no problem with that. Just don’t send them to New York.
Average American Family Has Effectively Lost $7,100 Under Biden, Economist Says
Deep meaning of Hunter Biden Hunter Biden is a poster child for the activities of Children of the Crust and what they can get away with that would put any of the Dirt People in jail.
Report: ‘Largest Caravan in History’ Crosses Border Into Texas ‘Mexican police appear to have helped the immigrants cross the U.S. border, with images showing police “escorting nearly 20 buses filled with migrants into Ciudad Juarez,” directly across the border from El Paso.’
Virginia Pregnancy Center 1 of Many Waiting on FBI for Justice in Jane’s Revenge Attacks
DOJ Arrests Sam Bankman-Fried For Running Out Of Bribery Money (Babylon Bee)
Border Agents Apprehend 11K Migrants in One Week
Biden Signs Gay Marriage Bill at White House Ceremony Cue lawsuits.
Biden Signs Radical Respect for Marriage Act Into Law, Surrounded by LGBTQ Lawmakers and Drag Queens How appropriate.
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13th December 2022
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Two top officials of a Northern Virginia public school district were indicted Monday for their roles in the handling of a bathroom rape by a skirt-wearing boy after The Daily Wire revealed the apparent coverup last year, court documents unsealed Monday showed.
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12th December 2022
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In 12 short years, the U.S. will hit the Biden Administration’s deadline for a fossil fuel-free power grid. In a previous article, I discussed the lack of resources to meet the frankly ludicrous plan to quadruple our renewable power generation and meet the arbitrary deadline of “no more fossil fuel” for a green grid. But what about coal?
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11th December 2022
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11th December 2022
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Everyone knows that covid is dangerous mostly to old people who are already sick. Thus, there has been a particular emphasis on vaccinating and boosting the elderly. Our public health establishment has now abandoned the claim that vaccination will prevent a person from catching covid, but says that it will greatly reduce the risk of hospitalization or death.
Assessing the relative risks of the vaccinated and unvaccinated requires accurate knowledge of the numbers in each category. We have records of the people who have been vaccinated, so the “unvaccinated” in government figures merely represents the difference between the total population cohort and the number known to have been vaccinated or boosted. So the size of the total population cohort is obviously critical.
Kevin Roche, proprietor of Healthy Skeptic, realized that in Minnesota, the Department of Health was basing its vaxed/unvaxed comparisons on different time periods: it looked, for example, at case etc. rates for people who were vaccinated in 2021, but in order to determine the rates for the unvaccinated, it used population numbers averaged between 2015 and 2019. The over-65 population in Minnesota grew significantly between 2015 and 2021. In a cohort where vaccination rates are high, that turns out to make a huge difference.
We’d know, if the public health authorities (bureaucrats with MDs) told us the truth. (… which they aren’t, and haven’t, and probably won’t.)
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11th December 2022
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This sort of thing never works. If people want to do X badly enough, they will find a way to do X. If doing X is made a crime, it merely encourages criminal behavior. Prohibition ought to be sufficient evidence of how bad an idea this is.
The only time banning certain behavior works is if most people accept that such behavior is a bad thing. If a significant portion of the population don’t do that, then all that happens is the creation of a criminal subculture devoted to servicing people who want to indulge in that behavior. Gambling, recreational drugs, sex work–all testify to the eternal truth that such can’t be eliminated, merely driven underground. That just makes it even more profitable for the criminally inclined to service that market. (Markets work even when you don’t want them to.)
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10th December 2022
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9th December 2022
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9th December 2022
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A Biden administration Energy Department official who allegedly stole a woman’s suitcase from a Minneapolis airport in September has been accused of another luggage heist at a Las Vegas airport.
A felony warrant on grand larceny charges was issued for Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, 8 News Now reported Thursday.
Brinton, who made history as one of the federal government’s first gender-fluid officials, allegedly stole luggage from another traveler at Harry Reid International Airport in Vegas on an unknown date, according to the outlet.
Details about the alleged theft are scarce, but 8 News Now stated that Brinton, 35, was charged with grand larceny with a value between $1,200 and $5,000.
Hey, everybody’s got to have a hobby, right?
UPDATE: Biden Admin’s Airport Panty Raider Strikes Again
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9th December 2022
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The state legislators, in what Justice Elena Kagan acknowledged is a “novel challenge,” are contesting the actions of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The lawmakers claim it is unconstitutional for state courts to override the decisions of state legislatures in passing election laws and drafting congressional maps that fully comply with all the requirements of federal law.
State courts shouldn’t be able to change such laws or devise their own legislative maps—often to reach a partisan result—based on novel and unprecedented interpretations of state constitutions, the legislators argue. This, they say, is barred by the Constitution’s elections clause.
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8th December 2022
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8th December 2022
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U.S. officials under the Bush administration captured Bout during a 2008 sting operation in Bangkok, where the arms dealer believed he was meeting with Colombian narco-terrorist group FARC to secure the sale of 100 surface-to-air missiles and rocket launchers. Bout was extradited from Thailand to the United States in 2010 on terrorism charges including conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, and conspiracy to kill U.S. officials. A U.S. jury sentenced Bout to 25 years in prison in Manhattan in 2011.
So we gave the Russians a convicted terrorist and got a drug-using America-hating lesbian BIPOC in return? Sounds as if the Biden people got rolled.
UPDATE: Woke Athlete Released By Russia; Former Marine Whelan Left Behind
UPDATE: Score One for Putin
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7th December 2022
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6th December 2022
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4th December 2022
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3rd December 2022
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3rd December 2022
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) is demanding an investigation into the “repeated, targeted theft” of campaign donation checks while in transit through the United States Postal Service.
“It is unacceptable that USPS has repeatedly allowed these targeted thefts to occur,” Stefanik’s attorneys wrote in a letter Thursday to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. They allege packages were “ripped open” and checks “stolen” totaling nearly $20,000.
The attorneys claim the postal service’s Office of the Inspector General said it would be hard to find guilty employees “unless and until” a donor “becomes the victim” of identity theft or fraud.
“In each case, the evidence indicates that Elise for Congress’s packages were plundered by a USPS employee or contractor while the packages were in transit,” the letter said, adding there were four separate incidents between June and November.
Stefanik’s campaign released pictures Friday showing ripped envelopes with apology letters from the USPS.
Scott Adams says that he had to quit mailing his cartoon art to his syndicate because postal employees would open his packages and steal the artwork before it got to its destination.
I always use UPS now.
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2nd December 2022
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2nd December 2022
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In Analyzing the proposed rule, which was released June 2021, it appears that ATF has intentionally designed its Factoring Criteria for Rifled Barrel Weapons with Accessories Commonly Referred to as “Stabilizing Braces” to effect a complete ban of every pistol-braced firearm currently on the market.
Masquerading as a helpful rulemaking “to assist” gun owners and the firearms industry in complying with the law, in reality the proposed rule is designed with the obvious and specific intent to largely outlaw the use of stabilizing braces on firearms, threatening millions of current owners with imprisonment and putting a large segment of the gun industry out of business entirely.
To accomplish this goal, the proposed rule creates “Worksheet 4999,” which contains three sections of analysis, each more restrictive than the last, designed to ensure that virtually no stabilizing brace is eligible for use on a non-rifle firearm, and thereafter ensuring that most firearms do not qualify to even use an allowed stabilizing brace.
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2nd December 2022
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One hundred motor vehicle thefts a day.
That’s the recent daily count in Chicago in October as motor vehicle thefts spiked dramatically in the last three months. Compare that to the first half of the year when Chicago was averaging “just” 35 thefts a day.
It’s just one part of the Great Unraveling of Chicago’s justice system that stems from emboldened criminals, a demoralized police force and a leadership class obsessed with soft-on-crime legislation like the SAFE-T Act. Late amendments to the Act under consideration today in the final day of the fall veto session could lessen the damage somewhat but key flaws and a lawsuit challenging the Act will remain.
Moral: Avoid Chicago. (Hell, avoid any city run by Democrats.)
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1st December 2022
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30th November 2022
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30th November 2022
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A suicide prevention net on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge that is already years behind schedule will cost about $400 million, more than double its original price, because of problems sparked by the government agency that manages the span, the lead contractors allege.
The allegations filed Monday in state court by Shimmick Construction Co. and Danny’s Construction Co. say that changes to and flaws in the government’s net design and the lack of transparency about the deterioration of the bridge’s maintenance platforms have raised the construction price from $142 million to at least $398 million.
“We were alarmed to discover the District concealed significant information during the proposal phase of the Project, including extensive deterioration in certain areas of the bridge,” Shimmick said in a statement.
Government: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.
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29th November 2022
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29th November 2022
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Exactly why anyone would want Kamala Harris is something of a mystery. She didn’t marry until she was just shy of her fiftieth birthday. It is, of course, barbarically sexist to comment on a successful woman’s romantic life (just ask Gladys), but in Harris’s case it’s relevant. She got her start in politics at the tender age of twenty-nine when her romantic partner at the time, the sixty-year-old speaker of the California state legislature, appointed her to a high-pay, low-work sinecure on the California Medical Assistance Commission. Nothing to see here; move along. Down with the Patriarchy.
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Simply put: no one likes Kamala Harris. No one even feels bad for not liking her. Her boss doesn’t like her; her aides don’t like her; even her Irish terrier doesn’t like her. Harris featured it (no one knows the sex) in a single 2018 Facebook post for National Puppy Day, calling the one-year-old her “office dog”, which implies that she never actually took it home. Now presumably five years old (and hopefully still alive), the dog was never seen or heard from again.
This unpopular but well-connected puppy-hater from San Francisco is the candidate whom the Democratic Party has anointed to “make history” as the first female President of the United States. Yes, President. Not only will Harris make history as the first female President; she will make double-history as the first female President of Colour.
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29th November 2022
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A reader recently sent me an email pointing out that many ex-convicts commit new crimes with the intent of being sent back to prison. They actually feel more comfortable in prison than they do in the outside world.
This phenomenon shouldn’t surprise us. In prison, the state takes care of prisoners and, by and large, keeps them safe. It provides their food, healthcare, and clothing. In some prisons, prisoners are even given a paying job. Much of the time, prisoners are free to lie around, relaxing in their cells or watching television. Sometimes prisoners are even provided a formal education. And the best part is that all of this is free.
In other words, with prison the state provides you with security. In the minds of some convicts, that’s a lot better than freedom. When the state casts convicts out of prison, they become responsible for themselves and their well-being. That’s not easy. They need money to buy food, housing, a car, and other things. That means finding and keeping a job. Moreover, outside prison they are faced with an array of choices on a daily basis, which contributes to their anxiety. Better to trade liberty for security.
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28th November 2022
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28th November 2022
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When former President Trump, Gov. DeSantis, and Senator Ted Cruz, among others, endorsed rolling back the power of bureaucrats and their administrative state, Democrats panicked.
Senator Dianne Feinstein and Hillary’s former running mate, Senator Tim Kaine, introduced a countermeasure which they called, “Preventing a Patronage System Act” according to Kaine, to “protect the merit-based hiring system for our federal workforce”.
Media editorialists claimed that making it easier to get rid of federal employees would bring back patronage or the spoils system. The problem is that patronage never left.
We have spent generations living under a permanent patronage system. The spoils system, as bad as it was, kept one party from permanently packing its supporters into the government. Removing it just meant that the Democrats have permanently packed the federal bureaucracy.
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27th November 2022
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27th November 2022
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The New York Times, of course, is not on the side of property rights.
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26th November 2022
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25th November 2022
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25th November 2022
Victor Davis Hanson.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith.
But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid pro quo syndicate nor its incriminating confessionals on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Instead, it will further investigate Donald Trump’s possession of presidential records that were hauled off from Mar-a-Lago, as well as his purported role in the January 6 “insurrection.”
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24th November 2022
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Remember the good old days, when the most obvious difference between conservatives and liberals was that conservatives objected to wasteful government spending? Now we live in a world where wastefulness is one of liberals’ better qualities.
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24th November 2022
Librarians have their own ideas of what you and your neighbors ought to read.
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22nd November 2022
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22nd November 2022
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21st November 2022
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20th November 2022
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19th November 2022
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A Republican lawmaker on the House Financial Services Committee says the panel will look into a committee Democrat’s hiring three years ago of the brother of Samuel Bankman-Fried, whose cryptocurrency empire collapsed last week.
“While there is still much to be learned and investigated, it appears FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and his family had no shortage of influence within the Democrat Party,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., told The Daily Signal on Thursday evening.
In an email, Loudermilk said that influence “could amount to conflicts of interest, especially if individuals within the Democrat Party accepted money with knowledge of potential criminal activity occurring at FTX.”
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19th November 2022
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Naomi Biden, the oldest legitimate daughter of amateur adult film star Hunter Biden, lives at the White House with her fiancé and elderly grandfather, according to the New York Times.
The newsworthy revelation was included as an aside in a fawning piece about Naomi’s plans to marry her fiancé, former Hillary Clinton intern Peter Neal, at a White House ceremony on Saturday, which happens to be President Joe Biden’s last day as a mere septuagenarian. The hard-hitting journalists at CNN report that the wedding will offer a “youthful spin” for the president on his 80th birthday.
The news that one of Hunter’s legitimate daughters is living at the White House comes after House Republicans announced plans to investigate “all avenues” of Hunter’s shady foreign business arrangements, and the extent to which President Biden was aware of and helped facilitate his troubled son’s money-making ventures. It is not entirely clear why Naomi and Peter—both lawyers who could certainly afford their own apartment—are living in a taxpayer-funded mansion, and why it is just now being reported in a mainstream news outlet.
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17th November 2022
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16th November 2022
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