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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.”

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Technically no longer human’ – can mRNA COVID-19 vaccines meld with your DNA? I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Covid Vaccine Websites Violate Disability Laws, Create Inequity for the Blind  And nothing is worse than ‘inequity’.

Hundreds of vaccinated Indonesian health workers get Covid-19,dozens in hospital  Boy, that vaccination sure is effective. Guess I’ll rush right out and get one.

The CDC is broken, our regulatory state has been failing us

Papers, please

No, Covid-19 Vaccines Won’t Make You Magnetic. Here’s Why  Well, shucks.

More on Alternative Dosing

Pandemic Progress

Our Feckless State Department Is an Embarrassment

Nepotism abounds in Biden administration

Dark Money Groups Fund Liberal Push To Pass Infrastructure Without Republicans

Ireland doesn’t want to increase 12.5% tax paid by Apple, Google, and others

DOJ Nominee Worked with Hunter Biden at Law Firm Tied To Ukrainian Energy Giant

Biden’s Terror Strategy Defines Republicans as the New Terrorists

Trevor Noah Thrilled ‘Nobody Wants to Talk About’ Biden

Biden Administration Mulling End to Title 42 Health Order For Migrant Families

Hunter Biden’s Relationship With Consulting Firm Part of Federal Probe

China risks isolation by opposing virus origin probe, White House says  And I’m sure they really lose a lot of sleep over it with Biden in the Oval Office.

NYT Worships Pro-Abortion Biden: ‘Lifetime Steeped in Christian Rituals and Practices’  The NYT obviously knows as little about Christianity as they do about guns.

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The demonization of the police in New York City and the criminalization of normal police behavior accelerated under Mayor de Blasio. Social media and cell phones have certainly amplified the tendency. Arresting a resisting subject is never pretty: it can involve multiple officers pulling someone to the ground, manipulation of limbs and joints in directions counter to natural movement, “compliance strikes,” and the use of batons or pepper sprays and even tasers or dogs. Such images can provoke reactions of disgust and rage and a sense that the police are essentially armed bullies, or just another gang of thugs.

Brutality does happen, of course—though the introduction of body cams demonstrates it much less than was anticipated by anti-cop activists and the plaintiffs’ bar—and deserves condemnation when it’s real. But the cause of public safety and trusted law enforcement is not served when elected officials jump on every WorldStarHipHop video and join the chorus of denunciation without getting all the facts or even caring to find out what they really are.

UPDATE: De Blasio’s New York

UPDATE: From Broken Windows to Broken Streets

UPDATE: The Assault on the NYPD

Nina Simone’s Family Blame Kamala Harris For Taking Singer’s Estate Away From Them

Biden to Meet with Afghan President Ghani as Violence Surges

University Of Florida Lab Finds Dangerous Pathogens On Children’s Face Masks

The best mask-wearing study so far?

Why Covid-19 may now feel like a ‘bad cold’ – with headache, runny nose

Judge sides with Florida and says CDC cannot enforce Covid cruise ship rules

Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story

Science journals, Wuhan and a truly bizarre Twitter episode  Matt Ridley.

Sen. Johnson Hits Fauci, Media For Discounting Some COVID Treatments  I.e. the ones Big Pharma can’t make hefty profits from.

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President Joe Biden might have intended to draw red lines on enemies attacking the 16 infrastructure targets in America, but he left space and undersea targets off the list to be attacked and gave enemies our dearest targets, according to former White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow.

Putin will spend his first week in Moscow laughing himself sick.

Biden is more stupid than I ever dreamed that even a Democrat might be.

California Launches Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Pass

Mysterious Origins of COVID-19 Raise Alarming Possibilities

Antiviral effect of high-dose ivermectin in adults with Covid-19  YouTube has an explicit mention in its Terms of Service that you can’t publish anything positive about ivermectin or you will get de-platformed.

Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge  Hey, it’s for your own good.

Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

Why Has “Ivermectin” Become A Dirty Word?  Matt Taibbi.

Biden Environmental Appointee Faces Conflict of Interest Scrutiny on Hill

Family Of Top Biden Officials Find Jobs Across Administration Despite ‘No Nepotism’ Pledge

IRS Denies Tax-Exemption To Texas Religious Group Because Prayer, Bible Reading Boost the Republican Party  Well, we like to think so.

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In late May and early June 2020, looters smashed storefronts in the Bronx and Manhattan boroughs of New York City.

Many were caught on tape, some with their faces visible. Others even posted their own videos of their actions those nights on social media. Hundreds were arrested.

But a review of NYPD data by the investigative team at WNBC, the NBC owned station in New York, shows that a large percentage of the cases — particularly in the Bronx — were dismissed, and that many convictions were for counts like trespassing that carry no jail time.

That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

Illegal Tells Fox News They Didn’t Hear Kamala’s Message ‘Don’t Come’

Biden’s ‘death tax’ threatens to hit New Yorkers especially hard

Ex-Trump Doctor Requests Biden Take Cognitive Test

Biden Lies Overseas

Covid-segregated schooling

NFL’s Big Brothers Coerce Vaccinations With Draconian Threats

Beijing Retaliates After EU Excludes China-Made Vaccines From Digital COVID ‘Passport’

“Giant Mistake” – CDC Delays Emergency Meeting On Post-Vax Heart Inflammation Due To Juneteenth  Anti-racism trumps public health, apparently.

Nets Censor Damning Report on Andrew Cuomo’s Death Toll

White House Officials Brush Off Questions On Whether US Will Meet Biden’s Vaccine Goal

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My critique boiled down to four main points: First, I doubted we would improve our overly complex, balkanized health-care system with yet another major program that would make it even more complicated. Second, I feared committing more than $100 billion to new spending every year, at a time when we hadn’t even figured out how to pay for existing entitlement programs. Third, I worried that having the government subsidize even more of our medical bills would lead to price pressure, particularly on pharmaceuticals and medical devices, which in turn would reduce incentives for innovation. And fourth, I simply didn’t believe many of the claims supporters were making — explicitly or implicitly — about Obamacare dramatically reducing health-care costs or bankruptcies or infant mortality, or improving life spans.

Eleven years on, that first worry seems overblown. Our system is still a Rube Goldberg-esque kludge, but not noticeably more so than in 2010. As for the effect on innovation, well, Pfizer and Moderna just brought two new cutting-edge vaccines to market in less than a year. And while I’m certainly worried about a fiscal crisis, Obamacare is the least of our worries, since no politician in either party appears to believe that government spending and government revenue have any relation to each other, or ought to.

On the fourth point, however, I think that my predictions have largely been vindicated. And that this is one major reason the others haven’t been.

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An IRS official denied tax-exempt status to a Texas group that encourages church members to pray for state and national leaders, regardless of their party affiliation, because it benefits “the private interests of the [Republican] Party.”

Buyers of Hunter Biden’s Art to Stay Anonymous An obvious bribery/money laundering scheme.

Trump On Biden-Putin Meeting: “It Was A Very Good Day For Russia”

Two weeks later, Tucker Carlson’s attack on Fauci has quietly collapsed (Washington Post) Collapsed!

Perspex Screens Installed To Stop COVID May Have Actually Increased Its Spread, UK Govt Report Finds

Scientists Admit Lab-Leak Hypothesis Was Valid Last Year – But Kept Quiet Because Of Trump  The galloping corruption of science by politics.

Fauci Denies Scientists ‘Deliberately Suppressed’ COVID Lab Theory  I think that qualifies as “Pants on Fire”.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., planned to introduce a bill Thursday morning that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Daily Caller reported.

Greene’s bill was named after Brian A. Terry, a former Marine and Border Patrol agent killed during a botched operation to track guns smuggled across the southern border.

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“Twelve years ago, under the direction of hate America leftist [former Attorney General] Eric Holder, the ATF smuggled firearms to Mexican drug cartels (Operation Fast & Furious) who then used those firearms to kill American hero Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry,” Greene told Daily Caller. “This can NEVER be allowed to happen again.

“Joe Biden’s nomination of gun-grabber David Chipman, who wants to ban, confiscate and destroy the most popular self-defense and hunting rifle in America owned by millions of American patriots, is a clear indication that the ATF’s war on gun owners is just beginning and is about to crank up.”

If we’re going to Defund the Police, let’s get rid of the Bad Cops rather than the Good Cops.

BREAKING: Kamala Harris Hit With Joker Laugh Gas Attack — UPDATE: False Alarm. She Was Simply Asked A Question About Children Locked Up At The Border Babylon Bee.

Biden Whines to Reporters: ‘You Never Ask a Positive Question’  Well, you never do a positive thing.

Biden Screams at Female Reporter, Laughs as Putin’s Thugs Assault American Journos

Congress Is Empowering FTC’s Lina Khan To Start Breaking Up Big Tech

Biden’s oil & gas leasing ban ruled unlawful by federal judge

Justice Department Inspector General Says U.S. Marshals Can’t Adequately Protect Federal Judges

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Who will be the first to sue to block him? Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen….

Biden Gaffes Deliver New Embarrassments

An Apparently Confused Biden Goes Silent After Fielding Question About Putin

Biden Admin Prepared to Lift Sanctions on Iran’s Top Terrorism Financers, Senator Says

Biden Refuses To Issue Erdogan Meeting Details: “I’ll Let The Turks Tell You About It”  ‘Who is this Erdogan guy again?”

‘No One Comes Through the Border Illegally Without the Cartels’ Authorization’: How Biden’s Policies Feed a Criminal Monopoly

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You never know what you’ll turn up.

(And these were the fastest turtles on the planet….)

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Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-N.Y.), a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said that he’s exploring the idea of a one-time tax on the wealth of the richest Americans as Democrats seek to increase taxes on the rich in order to pay for spending priorities.

In an interview with The Hill on Friday, Suozzi said he’s in the early stages of looking at what he called a “patriot tax.” This would be a one-time surcharge of 2.5 percent on wealth between $50 million and $100 million and a 5 percent tax on wealth above $100 million. Wealthy people would be able to pay the tax over five years.

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As anticipated, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declared a peacetime emergency yesterday by executive order for the sixteenth month in a row (the fifteenth by renewal of his original order). He let on that the end is in sight — somewhere over the rainbow.

Walz’s current 30-day renewal is not as egregious as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s entry into the sixteenth year of his four-year term, but it as about as willful. By contrast with Abbas’s reign, Walz’s comes with a pretense of legality. We will have to settle for that.

AstraZeneca’s COVID Jab Should Be Halted For People Over 60: EMA

Watch: Fox Host Wallace Attempts To Shift Blame To Trump Over Wuhan Lab-Leak

Dots That Don’t Connect

Workers Push Back Against Hospitals Requiring COVID Vaccines

What About His Gaffes? Joe Biden Bumbles His Way Through G7 Summit

Relieved Nets Cheer Biden Foreign Trip: ‘Era of Donald Trump is Over’  Hurray, we can start losing again!

Texas Based Border Zones See 70 Percent of All Illegal Migrants

In Honor Of Pride Month, Biden Announces He Will Also Sniff Men’s Hair  Babylon Bee.

Ahead Of Putin Meeting, Biden Confuses Syria With Libya 3 Times In Less Than 90 Seconds

Zogby Poll: Most Americans Believe Media Protects Biden

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Until the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Janus case in 2018, citizens of a number of states, including Minnesota, were essentially taxed to support local teachers’ unions. In those states, no one could legally teach in a public school without paying the union out of his or her salary–which, of course, came entirely from taxpayers. That this situation was allowed to persist for decades should have been a scandal.

Teachers’ unions, like all public sector unions, have always been pro-government and therefore liberal. But I suspect most people do not understand how partisan, and how radical, the teachers’ unions are.

Virtually all hospitalized Covid patients have one thing in common: They’re unvaccinated (NBC News) This is news? What’s surprising is the implication that there are some hospitalized Covid patients who have been vaccinated – which suggests that ‘vaccination’ isn’t what we all think it is.

Doctor Who Wants Indefinite UK Lockdown Says “Sadly, It Can’t Be Forever”

Federal Judge Dismisses Hospital Employee Lawsuit Over Vaccination Mandate

Biden-Connected Lobbying Outfit Teams Up with Leading Chinese Law Firm

“No Question” Cartel Activity Is Spilling Across US-Mexico Border: FBI Director

As Biden Swipes At Trump, G-7 Leaders Hail US President As “Part Of The Club” Again  ‘Get out the wheels – POTUS can be rolled again!’

Border Town of Del Rio Blames Biden for Flood of Illegal Immigrants

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The Covid war is over, but Minnesota Governor Tim Walz carries on the fight. Tomorrow he will continue his one-man rule of the state by declaring another “emergency” tomorrow. He will accordingly extend his emergency powers for another 30 days. Doing the arithmetic, Alpha News reports that this makes it the fifteenth month in a row that Governor Walz has ruled with emergency powers.

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“Before our magnificent reservoir projects were built, California never had a steady and reliable supply of water. Now water is being managed as if those reserves don’t exist, by emptying the collected water from storage to the sea, rather than saving it for our routinely dry years,” Diener says. “Our water projects were designed to be managed for the long term providing a minimum five year supply, but California has now put us on track to have a man made drought crisis every time we don’t have a wet season.”

We’re from the government, and we’re here to make good things bad and bad things worse.

Biden to Name Pulse Nightclub a National Memorial