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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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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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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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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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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.

More Evidence That Joe Biden Is Corrupt

Hunter Biden Consulted for Oil Man Connected to Notorious Congolese Warlord, Emails Show

To Improve Public Perception, Kamala Harris Taking Likability Lessons From Hillary Clinton  Babylon Bee.

Poll: Majority of Likely Midterm Voters Say Biden Not in Charge of Agenda  Nor ever was.

India Busts Scam Injecting Thousands With Fake Vaccine

The Great Big ‘Delta’ Scariant

Lambda Strain more transmissible than Delta hits Australia

The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory

When the Next Animal Plague Hits, Can This Lab Stop It?

Covid Protections Kept Other Viruses at Bay. Now They’re Back

Use Fractional Dosing to Speed Vaccination and Save Lives

Immigrant Detention Centers Seeing Major COVID-19 Infection Surges

Israel data reportedly shows efficacy drop of Pfizer-BioNTech for delta variant

Military Members Say They’ll “Quit” If Army Mandates COVID-19 Vaccine: Congressman

Biden: With Rise of Variant, Reconsider Vaccine

Covid and Climate: A Tale of Two Hysterias Part 2

Potential Path Discovered to a Broadly Protective COVID-19 Vaccine Using T Cells

Michigan boy dies 3 days after getting Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, CDC is investigating

Long Covid: How It Keeps Us Sick  And that’s not counting government fear-mongering.

Fauci-Funded EcoHealth Refuses To Give Wuhan Documents To Congress

Dr. Fauci: Unvaccinated Account for 99.2 Percent of June COVID Deaths  What happened with the other .8%? I thought these vaccines were supposed to be effective.

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

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

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?”

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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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.

Republican Governors Excluded From White House Wildfire Meeting

AOC Switches To Republican Party After Jen Psaki Says They’re The Ones Who Want To Defund The Police

Poll: Almost Half of Americans Disapprove of How Biden Handles Crime  If, of course, you can actually say that he’s handling it.

Man Spending $5 A Gallon On Gas Excited To Learn He Will Save $0.16 On Cheese This Year  Babylon Bee.

Biden Looking to Encourage as Many as 9M Immigrants to Become US Citizens  And, presumably, reliable voters for candidates of the Party of Free Stuff.

Report: Dems Concerned Harris Wouldn’t Beat GOP Nominee in 2024  Oh, ya think?

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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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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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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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.

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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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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Nothing enhances confidence in government like an admission that it can’t count.

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’?

MIT and Harvard Engineers Create New Face Mask That Can Detect COVID-19 Infection

UK Government Explicitly Exempts Rich People and Other Elites from Covid Lockdown Rules

“Panic Porn Dressed Up As Science” – Exposing The Truth About The Delta Variant

Delta Variant Found To Be Twice As Virulent And Blah Blah Blah Whatever Who Cares At This Point  Babylon Bee.

Watch: House Subcommittee Hears Chinese Military Ran Wuhan Lab; Experts Warn It’s “Highly Likely” COVID-19 Leaked

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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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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

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

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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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.”

Four Biden proposals would dole out taxpayer money based on critical race theory

8 Disturbing Signs That A President Is Planning To Become An Oppressive Dictator   Babylon Bee.

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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The U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights division, headed by the new, radical assistant attorney general Kristen Clarke, filed a lawsuit on June 25 against Georgia. The Justice Department claimed the state’s recently enacted election reform law, SB 202, violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act because it discriminates against black Georgia voters. The complaint reads like a press release drafted by the Democratic National Committee instead of a serious lawsuit by an apolitical Justice Department.

My, what a surprise.

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The White House held a press conference on June 24 to announce a bipartisan infrastructure deal. It was going to be an easy win for the left, with more money, power, and control for Washington.

Instead, President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., all decided that this wasn’t good enough, and now the deal is on life support.

In separate statements, the three leading Democrats demanded that any bipartisan infrastructure bill be accompanied by a partisan spending package passed with the maneuver known as reconciliation.

The contents being discussed for reconciliation are a socialist wish list: upwards of $6 trillion in spending on the biggest expansion of the welfare state in generations, radical Green New Deal programs, massive amnesty for illegal immigrants, federal micromanagement of the economy, and more.

To make matters worse, it would be coupled with massive tax hikes that would kneecap the economic recovery.

Democrat cunning and Republican pusillanimity are no match for Democrat greed.

Ivermectin: Can a Drug Be “Right-Wing”?

Losing The Plot On COVID

Bill Maher WHACKS Google, Facebook For Banning All Lab-Leak Questioning

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Talk about a First World problem….

Researchers Find COVID-19 Virus Was “Highly Human Adapted” – Exact Origins Still a Mystery  It’s not a mystery to some of us.

CDC says roughly 4,100 people have been hospitalized or died with Covid breakthrough infections after vaccination

Bank Guard In India Shoots Patron For Entering Without Face Mask

Surgeon Fired From College Of Medicine For Voicing Concerns About COVID Shots For Kids

FDA Adds Heart Inflammation Warning to Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines

GOP Senators Want CDC to End Mask Mandate on Airplanes, Transit

SARS-CoV-2 reactive T-cells likely present due to prior exposure to flu viruses

‘No Substantial Outbreaks’ After Researchers Track Sports, Music And Clubbing

‘You Were Wrong About A Lot Of Sh*t’: Maher Blasts Big Tech, CDC Over Lab-Leak Censorship

Ken Cuccinelli to Newsmax: Biden Border Strategy Aimed at Future Dem Votes

Mika Covers for Biden’s Weird Whispering Act: He Was ‘Practicing ASMR’

Report: Biden Administration May Lift Sanctions Against Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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The only person who actually died at the January 6th protest was an unarmed veteran, shot by a Capitol policeman.

Similarly the name of every officer involved in a shooting that has tickled the antennae of the Black Lives Matter movement and its fellow travelers has been made public, in some cases forcing the officers and their families to flee their homes so as to avoid hostile protesters. Yet the officer who shot Babbitt remains unidentified and, as far as we know, employed by the Capitol Police.

Why is that?

Awkward moment VP Harris reminds Biden about Florida condo collapse

CBS Cheers Biden for Infrastructure Deal, Ignores Him Possibly Sinking It

Biden’s bizarre behavior at press conference causes ‘Creepy Joe’ to trend on Twitter

More Than 500K Illegal Immigrants Crossed Southern Border Since Kamala Harris Named ‘Border Czar’

Border Arrests Top 1 Million in Fiscal Year 2021

Biden Administration Is Skewing Carbon Numbers to Push Regulations

Compromise: In Lieu Of Eucharist, Priest To Offer Biden Non-Blessed But Delicious Vanilla Wafer Babylon Bee.

Glenn Greenwald.

It is, of course, possible that the top brass of the U.S. military has suddenly become supremely enlightened on questions of racial strife and racial identity in the U.S., and thus genuinely embraced theories that, until very recently, were the exclusive province of left-wing scholars at elite academic institutions. Given that all U.S. wars in the post-World War II era have been directed at predominantly non-white countries, which — like all wars — required a sustained demonization campaign of those enemy populations, having top Pentagon officials become leading anti-racism warriors would be quite a remarkable transformation indeed. But stranger things have happened, I suppose.

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The Parent Teacher Association of Virginia sent a letter of intent to abolish the parent group of the nation’s top high school after a slate of candidates opposed to critical race theory won an election earlier this month.

The letter, sent to the Parent Teacher Student Association of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology on Wednesday, claims that the recently elected candidates skirted bylaws and created a “hostile environment” for members. This is the latest fallout between pro- and anti-critical race theory factions at the elite high school, which made headlines last fall after district officials abolished its entrance exam in an attempt to boost black and Hispanic enrollment.

The Virginia Parent Teacher Association would circumvent the results of the referendum on Fairfax County Public Schools if it decided to move forward with eliminating Thomas Jefferson’s parent board. Candidates opposed to Thomas Jefferson’s recent equity measures—such as the updated admissions process—won a majority on the association board.

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Hey, all those apparatchiks don’t work for free, you know.

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It is actually rather entertaining to watch the Democratic Party press pretend that we have a functioning president. The entertainment value will be gone, of course, the first time there is a crisis. And no president has ever gotten through a term in office without a crisis.

Joe Biden Blames Crime Surge on Mythical ‘Rogue’ Gun Dealers

Companies Secure White House Meetings After Hiring Top Biden Aide’s Brother

Initial Jobless Claims Disappoint Again As Pennsylvania Pukes Again

Tabloid ABC BURIES VP Harris Finally Visiting Border, Devotes 12 Minutes to Britney Spears  Frankly, I’d rather read about Britney than Kamala.

Emperor Palpatine Urges Citizens To Give Up Their Blasters Since They’d Need A Death Star To Beat The Empire  Babylon Bee.

Goldman Throws Up Over Biden’s Infra Deal: It’s Too Small, It Probably Won’t Pass And We Have No Idea Who Will Pay For It

Biden Aide Leading Infrastructure Negotiations Helped Push Through Disastrous China Bill

Biden Admin Walks Back U.S. Recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli Territory  Because we can’t let those lousy stinking Jews push our pwecious iddle Muslims around.

Biden Shortchanges Defense Program Aimed at Stopping China

Biden administration removes Rodney Scott as head of U.S. Border Patrol

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Vice President Kamala Harris is not visiting the “epicenter of the crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border on her first visit trip there since being tabbed to take charge of the immigration surge, according to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

Politico reported Wednesday that Harris will visit El Paso, Texas, on Friday.

“I don’t know why they chose El Paso. It’s not the epicenter of the crisis,” Rubio said Wednesday night on the Fox News.

El Paso is a far distance from the Rio Grande Valley sector where Republicans say the vast majority of border crossings are occurring.

She’s  not about to put herself in any danger just for a photo op.

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Powerline has a post up today about President Biden’s recent remarks, in which he proposed fixing our nation’s recent crime wave with gun control. His statement was not entirely coherent, he wandered about a bit, and concluded with this: “Those who say the blood of Patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we’re gonna have to move against the government … If you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.” Now, I’m not suggesting that Mr. Biden intends to say whatever he just said. He might have intended that as the direct challenge to dissidents that it sounds like, but was slurring his words and was clearly confused. Hard to say, I suppose. But.

Imagine that President Trump had surrounded the Capitol Building with razor wire and armed soldiers. And then imagine that he said something like that… Imagine how CNN would respond to that. And the morning news shows, and the late-night talk shows, and basically everybody else; just imagine. They would be screaming from the rooftops that he was acting like a tyrant. And they would have a point.

Who Is A “Terrorist” In Biden’s America?

‘Extreme Concern’: Oversight Republican Demands IG Investigation Into Biden Administration’s Hiring Practices

Report: Biden Suffers ‘Awkward’ Dementia Scare in Meeting With Democratic Lawmaker

Rasmussen: 41% of Voters Don’t Think Biden Won Election Fairly

Kids In Cages Disguise Selves As BLM Rioters In Hopes Of Kamala Freeing Them  Babylon Bee.

Unitarian Church Invites Joe Biden, Says They’ll Give Communion To Literally Anyone  Babylon Bee.

Peter Doocy Zings Psaki on Kamala’s Belated Discovery of the Border

“Cackling Kamala” Pressured Into Border Visit, Trump Gloats

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A Michigan judge last year turned loose an accused murderer who is now suspected of killing two people in Detroit, and is back in jail.

Detroit police on Tuesday named Orlando Whitfield, 32, as a person of interest in the gruesome slaying of a “31-year-old man and his 27-year-old girlfriend inside a home on the city’s northwest side. . . . The couple’s 9-month-old infant was luckily found unharmed inside.”

Biden Embraces California’s Zombified Rail Boondoggle

Biden Urged To Replace Harris On Border Assignment In Letter Signed by 56 Republicans

U.S. Commerce Department rescinds TikTok, WeChat prohibited transactions list

Progressives Furious With Biden Over Voting Rights Bill’s Demise  The problem with having a dimwit as President is that he’s not reliable.

Biden Weighs Extending Federal Freeze on Evictions  The war against people who own property revs up.

Senators Threaten To Veto Biden Nominees Over Admin’s Refusal To Enforce Sanctions

Vaccines Exhibit “Reduced Efficacy” Against “Delta” Variant, WHO Doctor Warns

New Study Links Ivermectin To “Large Reductions” In COVID-19 Deaths

World Health Organization Says Do Not Give Children Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine Shots

We Just Got Even More Proof That Stay-at-Home Orders Lethally Backfired

Kremlin: People Without Vaccine, Immunity in Russia Will Have Limited Work Options

Fauci Pal Daszak Finally Fired From Commission Investigating COVID Origins

Nursing Home Deaths Up 32 Percent in 2020 Amid Pandemic

Flawed modelling is condemning Britain to lockdown

Kamala Harris Trains Activists To Pressure People Into Getting Vaccinated

New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed The Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed

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Kristen Clarke, now the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, has filed a brief on behalf of the United States arguing that a West Virginia law barring boys from participating on girls’ sports teams violates Title VI and the Equal Protection Clause. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia cast a key vote confirming Clarke. Ed Whelan aptly calls this a case of no naïve deed going unpunished.

Clarke’s brief argues that the 11-year-old biological male who wants to try out for Bridgeport Middle School’s girls’ cross-country and track teams “is a girl.” Therefore, the argument goes, the West Virginia law unlawfully “targets girls who are transgender.”