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14th July 2021
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Facebook lawyers have filed a petition for recusal to the FTC, asking for chair Lina Khan to not be involved in discussions about pursuing an antitrust case against the social media giant.
New Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has already faced a recusal petition following the reported start of an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s buying MGM. Now Facebook’s lawyers have done the same as Amazon’s, arguing that Khan’s previous criticisms of the company mean its case cannot receive fair consideration.
According to the Financial Times, in almost 8,000 words, Facebook cites multiple instances of Khan’s comments or actions which it maintains mean she should not be involved in a case.
The Biden administration has engaged in appointing unprecedented numbers of activists to regulate companies that they have spent years hating on.
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14th July 2021
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Our current ‘intellectual property’ laws, like any monopoly, brings rent-seekers out of the woodwork to leech off of the productive work of others.
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13th July 2021
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13th July 2021
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A publicity stunt could cost Texas Democrats up to $1.75 million after lawmakers went maskless on their privately chartered planes to Washington, D.C., violating Biden administration regulations on air travel.
More than 50 state legislators chartered private flights on Monday in an attempt to prevent the Republican-led legislature from passing a number of election- and gun-related bills. The group posted a photo aboard an airplane showing that at least 18 participants on one flight shunned masks, a violation that carries fines up to $35,000 per offense and potential criminal penalties, should federal officials take action.
Which they won’t. Prediction: Nobody will get fired. Nobody will go to jail. Rules don’t apply to Cloud People; only to Dirt People.
The violation of federal law constitutes the latest legal woes for the Texas Democrats after the state’s governor, Republican Greg Abbott, said he would order the arrest of the legislators when they return home.
Legal woes are legal woes only when the people who are supposed to enforce the law actually enforce the law. Prediction: Nothing will be done. The Crust takes care of its own.
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12th July 2021
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12th July 2021
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12th July 2021
Freeberg nails it.
Yesterday I hung up on our first “schedule your free vaccine appointment” telemarketer. Yay, my tax dollars at work.
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12th July 2021
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The problem with being rural is that government and a major part of the population aren’t rural and in some cases haven’t got a clue what is going on. To put this in perspective somebody mentioned to me four issues those in authority hold against rural dwellers. They feel that these things are standing in the way of us reaching net zero. We are, ‘car dependent, have low density housing and are hooked on oil burning, and then there is intensive agriculture.’ To be fair it isn’t merely government, the entire political class and a lot of quangos and pressure groups are trapped in the same mindset.
We have the same problem in America. The Crust on the Left Coasts consider Flyover Country (when they think about us at all) as an impediment to whatever Grand Scheme they’ve just come up with rather than a constituency that they’re there to serve.
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11th July 2021
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11th July 2021
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10th July 2021
WH Press Secretary Psaki: Hunter Biden’s Art Buyers to Remain Anonymous That way nobody but the Bidens will know who’s paying the bribe.
White House Outlaws Arrest Of Pregnant And Postpartum Illegal Immigrants After all, we can’t interfere with their having anchor babies.
Biden Announces Partnership With Skynet To Create Army Of Door-To-Door Vaccine Enforcement Robots Babylon Bee.
The art of the con
Biden Inc.: Hunter, Joe, & The Mexican Oligarchs
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10th July 2021
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9th July 2021
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I still say he looks like Biff Tannen from Back to the Future.
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9th July 2021
Fauci Defends Vaccines As Research Shows Antibodies Don’t Protect Against Delta
Large UK Study: Very Few Kids Need to Shield From COVID
COVID-19 Death Toll In California County Drops 22% After Revision COVID deaths have repeatedly been over-reported by those attempting to keep the Pandemic Panic perking along.
Ending Lockdown
100 More Cops Dispatched To Sydney To Help Enforce Lockdown As Cases Climb Not a good time to be in Australia.
FDA, CDC Condradict Pfizer, Claim There’s No Need For “Booster” Vaccines… Yet Pfizer’s check to the DNC must have bounced.
Vaccinated Teachers and Students Can Ditch Masks: CDC How generous!
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9th July 2021
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8th July 2021
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8th July 2021
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“Big business and big government are not enemies like a lot of people think they are,” says American Enterprise Institute fellow Tim Carney in my new video. “When government gets bigger, whether it’s through spending or taxes or regulation, the big guys, big business benefits.”
Consider the $15 minimum wage. People think of that law as pro-worker. But big companies like Walmart, Costco and Amazon lobby in favor of it. Why?
Because big business can afford robots. Their competitors often cannot.
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8th July 2021
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ucson city officials are planning to ignore Arizona’s new “Second Amendment sanctuary” law, preventing state and local governments from enforcing specific federal gun regulations.
The move made by Democrat Mayor Regina Romero and the Tucson City Council puts the sale of firearms at odds with the Republican-led state.
The southern Arizona city has a long history of enforcing gun laws stricter than the state. The measures have included mandating background checks of guns bought on city property and destroying seized firearms. But over the years, those measures have been challenged after Republican-led efforts enacted laws barring those measures.
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7th July 2021
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7th July 2021
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7th July 2021
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A school board in Oregon will decide whether to fire two educators at a middle school who were placed on leave after producing a video proposing that schools recognize a student’s biological sex, not his or her gender identity.
Science teacher Katie Medart and assistant principal Rachel Damiano of North Middle School in Grants Pass, Oregon, filed a federal lawsuit saying the school’s disciplinary action in April violated their constitutional rights.
Time to leave.
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7th July 2021
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America’s children have been raised in a system dedicated to the proposition that America itself is evil, a repository of discrimination and bigotry, a country founded in sin and steeped in cruelty.
This week, for example, the National Education Association, the single largest teachers union in the country, passed a resolution pledging to “Share and publicize … information already available on critical race theory (CRT)”; “Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society”; and “Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression.”
Stop sending your kids to government schools.
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7th July 2021
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For the last 20 years, I’ve watched the United States government stoke fears of terrorism. Often, terrorists appeared on our screens and in print as context-free boogeymen. Once the security state had snatched up more funding and assaulted our liberties, we’d find out that the terrorists were blowback from some reckless foreign policy decision or were simply creatures of the FBI. Since my middle school days, the threat of terror has served as justification rather than motivation, while masquerading as the latter. So I felt, of all things, a bit nostalgic while watching the announcement of Biden’s domestic terror initiative.
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7th July 2021
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People are fleeing California in general, and San Francisco in particular, in droves. As to San Francisco, the fundamental problem is lawlessness. Which means not just violent crime, which the city has in abundance, but a breakdown in the fundamental norms of civilization that make urban living possible.
The main problem is that San Francisco’s far-left city administration has decided not to prosecute theft. The result, naturally, is an epidemic of theft. Thus Target, for example, is now closing its San Francisco stores at 6 p.m.
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7th July 2021
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Watching the Democratic Party press try to pretend that Joe Biden is a fully-functioning adult has been entertaining. To the extent that anyone sees Biden in action, that effort is futile. Thus, despite the press’s determination to pretend that all is well, people are figuring out that Biden is not all there.
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6th July 2021
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6th July 2021
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5th July 2021
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4th July 2021
Spread of the Delta variant may make it even harder to reach herd immunity, expert says (CNN)
French Government Considers Making COVID Vaccine Mandatory For Everyone Aged 24-59
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4th July 2021
Joe Biden, Jill Biden speak to mostly empty hall at teachers’ union convention
Watters: Kamala’s laugh a ‘defense mechanism’ that often works; ‘failed miserably’ with Lester Holt Hillary employs the same cackle.
As Housing, Gas, & Healthcare Costs Soar; Biden Admin Distracts With Ridiculous Brag About 16c Savings On July 4th BBQ Costs
US Rolls Back More Sanctions On Iranians With Vienna Talks Still Stalled
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4th July 2021
On the Dangers of Big COVID “Given this increasing build-up of institutional momentum, shifting of goalposts, and the possibility of further mission-creep, we should pause for a moment to ask ourselves, where is this all ultimately heading?”
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3rd July 2021
New Emails Raise Fresh Allegations Of Influence Peddling By Hunter Biden, Contradict President Biden
Federal judge rules Biden’s move to limit states’ tax cuts is unconstitutional
“I Want to Talk About Happy Things, Man”: Biden Bristles At Simple Afghan Pullout Questions
Attorney General Garland Replaces Federal Executions With Bus Tickets To Chicago Babylon Bee.
Biden’s Bloated White House Payroll Is Most Expensive In American History What does he care? It’s not his money.
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3rd July 2021
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America’s teachers’ unions are the country’s single most malign influence. They do more to promote leftist extremism, and do it more effectively, than anyone else. The teachers’ unions dominate the schools of education, from which most teachers come, and they control school board elections in most districts. In effect, they run the public schools, which is the main reason why the public schools are so bad.
Scott Adams blames the teachers’ unions for whatever systemic racism exists in the U.S.
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2nd July 2021
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2nd July 2021
Ohio Judge Makes COVID Vaccination Condition Of Probation That seems illegitimate to me.
New Study Links “Acute Chest Pain” In Male Soldiers To mRNA Vaccines If I actually were to get vaccinated, it wouldn’t be an mRNA vaccine.
85 teens, staffers get coronavirus at summer camp that didn’t require masks or check vaccine status (Washington Post)
J&J Says Its COVID Vaccine Neutralizes Delta Variant
Coronafascism is Here
Delta Variant Threatens To Spoil Europe’s Summer Tourism Season How tragic.
Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ Covid study
The Delta Variant’s Rise, New Vaccine Tactics, and More News
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2nd July 2021
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If you wanted to find the group getting the rawest deal in 2021 America, you might start with small-business owners. Many are finding themselves working 60- or 80-hour weeks just to scrape by. During the height of COVID-19, these companies were especially beaten down. Between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2020, about 30% of U.S. small businesses closed, while total small-business revenue decreased by 31%, according to Economic Tracker. During the same period, the stock market boomed, and multinational corporations continued to thrive. The effects of this economic destruction are apparent in communities all over the country. Boxed-up storefronts on main streets across America are the norm.
Given this dynamic, it’s almost incomprehensible that Senate Republicans are about to help pass an infrastructure package that unleashes the IRS to collect more revenue through aggressive policing of small businesses.
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2nd July 2021
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President Joe Biden has a problem, and her name is Kamala Harris. The vice president has become a comic figure in today’s Washington—a politician given to missteps and unforced errors who inspires neither loyalty nor trust within her inner circle. She might have been Biden’s safest pick for running mate. But now she’s a liability for both the president and the Democratic Party.
It’s not just that Harris is unpopular. Her unique combination of falsity and incompetence generates negative press and endangers her dreams of succeeding Biden. For Harris, the month of June has been an extended replay of highlights from Veep, the HBO comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a clueless and floundering politician on the make. Only Harris isn’t laughing.
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2nd July 2021
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There is a lot of judicial news today. This one is hot off the press: a judge of the Hennepin County District Court has granted a motion for a writ of mandamus against the City of Minneapolis, ordering the city to “immediately take any and all necessary action” to increase the size of the Minneapolis Police Department. The case was brought by residents of crime-ridden North Minneapolis, represented by the Upper Midwest Law Center, on whose board I serve.
The petition for a writ of mandamus was predicated on a provision of the Minneapolis City Charter that requires the city to maintain a police force of at least 0.0017 employees per resident. The petitioners argued that the City’s force has fallen below that requirement and is projected to continue falling farther behind over the next year.
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1st July 2021
Half Of Australia’s Population Locked Down As Delta Hysteria Worsens
Fauci: “There Are Now Two Americas, The Vaccinated & The Unvaccinated” He could have just cut to the chase and said ‘Slave and Free’.
Biden to Send Response Teams to Fight Spreading Delta Variant
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1st July 2021
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If Kamala Harris didn’t exist, the media would have to invent her. The mainstream media is determined to treat Joe Biden with kid gloves. Gossip about the White House seems largely off-limits and apparently not easy to come by without great effort.
But journalists love gossip and drama, so they seek them one level down from the Oval Office. And what’s more dramatic than a woman on track to becoming the first female president, but facing an uncertain path and sniping from sources who favor potential rivals?
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1st July 2021
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Nothing enhances confidence in government like an admission that it can’t count.
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30th June 2021
Biden wants to pay farmers to grow carbon-capturing crops. It’s complicated. (Politico) ‘It’s complicated’ is what people say when they’re trying to pull a fast one.
DHS Mayorkas Invites Deported Migrants Back to US
Inflation’s The Nail In the Coffin Of Biden’s Spending Plans Reality is what sticks around even after you quite believing in it.
State Department Says Passports Can Include Any Gender Including ‘alien abductee’?
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30th June 2021
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30th June 2021
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This notion that someone could not show up to their job and work for a separate, self-interested entity while collecting a paycheck for the work they did not do is an anathema to most Americans. For public-sector employees, it’s simply “official time.”
Originally created within the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act, “official time” is a process in which public-sector employees are “released” from their official duties—the equivalent of receiving paid leave—so that they can work for their unions. The activities they do include negotiating collective bargaining agreements; filing and litigating superfluous grievance complaints; participating in labor-management discussions; and lobbying Congress.
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30th June 2021
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A New York City Democrat is calling out “voter irregularities” in the controversial mayoral primary run through ranked-choice voting.
“The vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000-plus more than the total announced on election night, raising serious questions,” NYC mayoral Democrat primary leader Eric Adams’s campaign wrote in a statement Tuesday. “We have asked the Board of Elections to explain such a massive increase and other irregularities before we comment on the Ranked Choice Voting projection.
UPDATE: NYC Board of Elections Pulls Back Preliminary Mayor’s Race Results
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29th June 2021
Biden Assures Israeli President He Won’t Tolerate A Nuclear-Armed Iran And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.
As Biden bumbles, the question is: Who’s really running the country?
WH Press Secretary Blames Republicans For Defunding Police Lies, damned lies, and Democrat politicians.
Panama Warns US: Terrorists Blending With Migrants
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29th June 2021
The Delta variant will cause ‘very dense outbreaks’ in these five states, expert says
Israel Sees Explosion Of Cases In Vaccinated Patients Caused By “Delta” Variant Good to know that the vaccine is so very effective.
New Study Finds COVID-19 ‘Very Well Adapted’ To Specifically Infect Humans
The Pandemic Is Over According To 57% Of Republicans… And 4% Of Democrats
The Latest Pandemic: Coronophobia
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29th June 2021
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I have taken up the issue of Joe Biden’s declining mental faculties by reference to the tale of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Everyone can see that the guy is naked. In his New York Post column this morning, Kyle Smith takes up the issue in a way that recalls the old Buddy Miles number “Them Changes” (“My mind is going through them changes…”).
Referring to Biden’s bizarre performance at last week, Smith observes that Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin must be giggling uncontrollably at their good fortune: “Suddenly the world’s greatest power is in the hands of a slightly dazed-looking fellow who seems like he is always just waking up from heavy anesthesia.”
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28th June 2021
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28th June 2021
The Last – And Only – Foreign Scientist in The Wuhan Lab Speaks Out
FDA Adds Warning About Heart Inflammation To COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines
Scientist recovers coronavirus gene sequences secretly deleted last year in Wuhan
Deleted gene sequences confirm coronavirus circulated before Wuhan seafood market
Why most people who now die with Covid in England have been vaccinated I’ll be sure to rush right out and get one of those vaccinations.
BLACKOUT: As Cuomo’s Many Scandals Live On, TV News Goes Silent
Daily Beast Journalist Says Normal Life Feels Like A “Horror Movie”
Make-A-Wish Foundation Says It Won’t Help Terminally-Ill Kids Unless Their Entire Family Is Vaccinated
‘Fact Checking’ Virologist Who Worked At Wuhan Lab Is Suddenly Open To Lab-Leak Hypothesis
Sydney Enters 2-Week Lockdown As Closed Border Fails To Keep “Delta” Out Of Australia
‘And Which Version Of Dr. Fauci Am I Speaking To Right Now?’ Asks Nervous Therapist Babylon Bee.
Scientists Obfuscated Source Of COVID-19-Like Virus Stored At Wuhan Lab
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