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An old and mostly true observation about revolutions is that they end up where they started with a new set of rulers doing pretty much the same things as the rulers they deposed in the revolution. Stalin was the Tsar decorated with the ideological trappings of the revolution. Napoleon was a secular version of the Sun King. The people hiding behind razor wire and armed men this weekend in the imperial capital are the authoritarians they claimed to have deposed last election.

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Liberal outlets often try to ignore conservative journalism, refusing to recognize facts and substance that they fear are damaging to the Democrats. The closer the election gets, the more hypersensitive their censoring instincts become. They repeated Democrat claims of “Russian misinformation” and moved on.

This never happens to Bob Woodward, the “legend” of The Washington Post. He is, to liberals, the gold standard of information. He never commits misinformation. Nothing ever needs to be substantiated. No source ever needs to be identified. No “reconstructed conversation” is ever doubted. The Bible is treated less reverently than Woodward’s latest gospel.

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The Upper Midwest Law Center, on whose board I serve, is representing several individuals who have been fired or demoted because they disagreed with Critical Race Theory. One of those plaintiffs is Chuck Vavra. Vavra was an engineer at Honeywell, which imposed mandatory Critical Race Theory-based training on its employees. The “curriculum” called America irredeemably racist and asserted that all whites are the same, and insisted that whites admit their inherent racism and status as evil oppressors, while blacks were characterized as victims, good people but intrinsically unable to lead successful lives due to white racism.

Vavra objected to this bizarre Marxist world-view. The result? Honeywell fired him.

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With talk of D.C. statehood, there’s renewed interest in redrawing state boundaries across the U.S. Upstate New York doesn’t have much in common with New York City, or eastern Washington with Seattle. We’ve long been aware of this, but what’s new is the depth of the divide between, say, Washington’s Lincoln County (73% Trump) and King County (75% Biden). And it’s not just how they vote. In their most fundamental beliefs, they’re almost two different countries.

That doesn’t mean we’ll rejigger the map, however. Before that can happen, we’d need three things. First, it couldn’t happen without a perfect political alignment, with the party engineering the split ensconced in power in both the state and in the federal government. Second, the split would have to advantage that party. And third, the change must be seen to be excused by the extraordinary circumstances of the time.

General Milley: Guilty As Charged

Putting a Spotlight on Biden’s Problematic Nominees for Government Posts

France Accuses Biden Of Being ‘Worse Than Trump’ As UK-Aussie Defense Pact Sinks Sub Deal

WashPost, CNN ‘Fact Checkers’ RAGE at GOP for Noting White House Cut Biden’s Feed in Idaho

Biden’s Border Crisis Rages On; TV News Airtime Down 94%  Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

Press Buries Biden Forgetting Name of Australian PM: ‘That Fella Down Under’

New York Times Skips Biggest ‘Woodward Bombshell: Gen. Milley’s Deep State Sedition?

White House Plans New System for International Travel, Contact Tracing

Polls Suggest Biden May Face Uphill Battle in 2024  Oh, ya think? He spent the first year of his term demonstrating that Jimmy Carter was not, in fact, the worst President in history. What will he do for an encore?

GOP Senators Push To Designate Taliban A Terrorist Organization As White House Mulls Sending Aid

US-Mexico Border Arrests Top 200,000 For Second Straight Month

8 Things You Need to Know About Democrats’ Tax Increase Bill

Fairfax County approves 5-cent tax on plastic bags  How quickly the rot spreads.

Ilhan Omar slams judge for blocking ballot measure to scrap Minneapolis Police Department

Major UK Fertilizer Plants Shuttered Due To Skyrocketing Natural Gas Prices

Illinois Dem Pushes for ‘Clean Energy’ Subsidies That Would Pad His Pocket

WSA Passport Acceptance – Visas on WSA Passports

Joe Scarborough Suppresses Most Serious China-Call Allegation Against General Milley  Servant of the Narrative.

WSJ: Big Tech Platforms Are Addictive, Toxic for Teen Girls and Minors

The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history (The Guardian)

TONE DEAF CNN Allows Ex-Planned Parenthood Prez to Demand: ‘Protect Our Children’

AOC Hit With Second Ethics Complaint Over ‘Tax The Rich’ Theatrics At The Met  Her dress reminds me of a Chick-Fil-A bag.

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Lawyer Who Represented Clinton Campaign

Afghanistan and climate change: the West’s twin failures  George Carlin: ‘If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.’

Leaked Zoom Video Exposes Hospital Officials Discussing COVID-19 Scare Tactics

On Kimmel, Maher Skewers ‘Liberal Media’ for ‘Scaring the S**t Out of People’ on Covid

LA County To Enforce Vaccine Mandate for Bars, Nightclubs  Time to leave.

DHS Watchdog: Failure to Screen Migrants for COVID Put Staff, Towns at Risk

CDC Cautions Against Taking The Red Pill  Babylon Bee.

LSU to Unenroll 78 Students for Not Complying With COVID Rules

Alberta’s Health Minister Says Unvaccinated “Will Not Be Permitted To Attend Indoor Private Gatherings”

Gabrielle Union’s soul was ‘shattered’ when she learned Dwyane Wade got another woman pregnant

Amazon Blocks Ad for Book Investigating Black Lives Matter

Florida Sheriff: Traffic Stop Ambush Shows What’s Wrong With Criminal Justice System

Sirens Blaring At Democratic Headquarters As Black Woman Expresses Unapproved Opinion  Babylon Bee.

VENOMOUS Joy: GOPers ‘Love Covid So Much’ They Want to Kill You, ‘Drink It’ Like ‘Kool-Aid’

California’s recall election makes it abundantly clear: Trump is lying about election fraud (Washington Post)

California recall election results show Gavin Newsom winning — and Donald Trump losing (NBC News)

California Republicans Flee to Florida and Texas in Search of Dumber Governors (The New Yorker)

GOP suffers historic embarrassment in California recall (Washington Post)

Peter Thiel Gamed Silicon Valley,Trump, and Democracy to Make Billions, Tax-Free (Bloomberg) ‘Gamed’ means ‘took advantage of existing law, the swine’.

CNN’s Don Lemon Urges Viewers “It’s Time To Start Shaming” Unvaccinated People  How about we start shaming Halfricans like Don Lemon instead?

Terry McAuliffe Employs Debunked Attacks Against GOP Opponent

World’s Biggest Battery In California Overheats, Shuts Down

Still waiting for two thirds of polar bears worldwide to disappear due to lack of summer sea ice

After Two Recalls, GM Finally Just Tells Bolt EV Owners: “Don’t Park Your Car Within 50 Feet Of Another Car”

Renewable Britain Undersea Cable Failure Sends Electricity Prices Soaring

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The United Kingdom is launching a world’s first trial to test whether adding graphene to recycled asphalt can increase the lifespan of a major highway — and decrease costly, annoying road maintenance.

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I guess they got tired of having their property trashed, their buildings vandalized, and their employees and families threatened.

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In plain English, the federal government will pay the employer’s side of the payroll tax for “news journalists,” or, to use equally plain English, “Democrats with bylines.”

Severian never fails to entertain.

Eurotrash art poseur: We are adrift in a sea of decadent luxury and  meaningless sex.

Moe: Uh-huh …so where might this sea be located?

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Bullshit. No ‘computer or data scientist’ ever put his life on the line while sitting at a desk pounding a keyboard. There’s a reason we honor warriors.

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Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan says that Big Tech firms, including Apple, had exploited “loopholes” to make hundreds of acquisition deals without informing antitrust regulators.

The FTC has published a report describing 819 incidents of transactions, over 10 years, which were small enough to not require regulatory approval. The transaction range from changes of voting control, to patent acquisition, and hiring.

So these transactions are perfectly legal, and ‘loophole’ merely means that the bureaucrat in question doesn’t like them. Suck it up, buttercup. As long as they obey the law, it’s outside your playground. If you don’t like the law, get it changed.

What goes around, comes around.

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The safety of Afghan Shia, now that the Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan, has become a major issue in Iran. The new Taliban government, now more openly controlled by Pakistan, is not seen as an improvement by most Iranians or the 20 percent of Afghans that are Shia. Many of those Afghans served as Iranian mercenaries in Syria and some are still there because they are the best, and most expensive, mercs. The new hardline Iranian government regards “defending all Shia” as one of its core functions. Doing that in Afghanistan and Pakistan, two nations that have been notorious for persistent anti-Shia violence, is going to be difficult. So far the Taliban have not gone after Afghan Shia, but Iran knows that could change quickly. The centuries old Sunni animosity towards Shia remains. As in the past, Iran will try to get what it can from the Taliban while remembering that many Taliban factions and individuals see tolerance for Shia as bad for Afghanistan.

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Discover Card will no longer process donations to the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), a left-wing advocacy organization that provides funding to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a group that works to free Palestinians from the Israeli prison system. Discover Card froze donations after Israel designated Samidoun as a terror group earlier this year for its alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), according to information provided to the Washington Free Beacon by the Zachor Legal Institute, which has been pressing companies to cut ties with these organizations for several months.

Name a ‘Palestinian’ organization that isn’t ‘linked to terrorism’. Terrorism is what ‘Palestinian’ organizations are all about.

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Like many U.S. states, France has conducted a war on sprawl that has had economically ruinous and socially harmful consequences, yet produced no real benefits, according to a new paper from the Institut de recherches économiques et fiscales (Institute for Fiscal and Economic Research). Written by engineer Vincent Bénard, The War on Sprawl: An Irrational Political Obsession shows that anti-sprawl policies have caused a six-fold increase in land prices and significantly increased housing prices. This represents a transfer of wealth from low-income people who rent and/or have recently purchased homes to high-income people who have long owned their homes and may be landlords of rented homes.

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I am not making this up.

FDA Says Authorized COVID-19 Vaccines Still Effective, Boosters May Not Be Needed

Losing Covid-19 antibody immunity after six months after Pfizer vaccine

Biden’s team tightens grip on state use of Covid antibody treatments

McAuliffe seen on Amtrak without mask, skirting federal mask mandates; passenger calls it a ‘double standard’

Covid hospitalization numbers can be misleading  Not to mention the ones that are outright lies.

California County Sheriff: “I Will Not Enforce Vaccine Mandate”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Demands Amazon Censor COVID ‘Misinformation’

Why The Biden COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Is Unconstitutional

Unvaccinated Covid patients cost the U.S. health system billions of dollars

Massachusetts Activates National Guard To Bus School Children After Vax Mandate Staffing Shortages

NBA Won’t Impose Vaccine Requirement On Players After Union ‘Refused To Budge’

More Than Half Of US States Vow To Fight Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

Big Tech Spreads FALSE ‘Horse Dewormer’ Articles

LA County To Mandate Segregation Of Unvaccinated Or Negative Test At Outdoor Events, Bars, And Clubs

Oklahoma School Ordered to Reinstate Transgender Professor

DOJ tightens grip on local police departments

Kavanaugh protesters violate federal law

Pro-Life Group Says Google Banned Its Ads in ‘Dramatic and Unprecedented Move’

Pedro Martinez Claims He Was Denied MVP Award By ‘Racist Writers’

Nicki Minaj blasphemes against the woke  It won’t last.

End Planners’ Obsession with Ending Driving

Democrats Spend Big, and We Pay, for Their Socialist Dream

ACLU Becomes Top Legal Defender of Anti-Semitic BDS Campaign

Democrats Try to Hide a $3 Trillion Tax Increase

California May Be the First State to Legislate Amazon Warehouse Conditions

Nation Cheers As Democrats Will Remain In California  Babylon Bee.

There’s (Cradle to) Grave Waste in Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan

Election Panel’s Giving Twitter a Pass on Hunter Biden Laptop Cover-up Is a Travesty  Yup. Better get used to it.

Report: Gangs Operate Within LA County Sheriff’s Department  Time to leave.

Gavin Newsom Named U-Haul Salesperson Of The Year  Babylon Bee.

Joy Behar Thanks God Milley Warned China: ‘We Had a Nutcase in the White House!’

Even Some Democrats Sound Alarm on Radical 10,000-Page, $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill  The wish lists I sent to Santa when I was a kid weren’t that long … or that expensive.

Ethics Complaint Filed Over Socialist Hypocrite AOC Attending Met Gala

House Ways, Means Dems Advance Largest Tax Hike in Generations

California recall lesson: Republicans believe in elections only when they win (The Arizona Republic) That’s because Republicans don’t try to steal elections, but Democrats do.

Analysis | All of this to keep Trump from getting upset (Washington Post) Since when has the WaPo ever worried about upsetting Trump?

Jim Risch’s questions to Blinken show how a Republican lie is born (Washington Post) No, the lie is born with Blinken’s answer.

Trump Calls Allies to Demand Gen. Mark Milley Be ‘Arrested’ for ‘Treason’ (Daily Beast) They say that like it was a bad thing.

FBI director faces new scrutiny over investigation of Brett Kavanaugh

Why are there so many Trump staff memoirs? The authors need to whitewash their reputations (The Guardian) Maybe it’s the money?

Anonymous says it will release massive trove of secrets from far-right web host (Daily Dot)

MSNBC contributor calls Larry Elder ‘Trumpism in blackface’ As they do.

Colbert Argues to Breyer: ‘Right-Wing’ SCOTUS Justices Illegitimate

They Are Creating The Biggest Witch Hunt In American History

Dubious climate science about the Texas cold disaster

Nature: Wind Turbine Noise Issues

Congress Is Debating Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. Here’s What’s at Stake

“Insulate Britain” Climate Activists Blamed for Motorway Crash

GM tells Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars

Biden met with protesters upon California arrival over Afghanistan, vaccinations: ‘Biden Go Home’

Biden claims ‘first job offer’ from Idaho lumber company, but it’s news to them

Lawmakers Silent on Biden Solicitor General Nom’s Financial Conflict

Despite Mandates, Biden Commerce Secretary Claims “Nobody Is Being Forced” To Take COVID Vaccine  She missed a great career as a Soviet apparatchik.

VA teacher says encouraging behaviors like ‘following directions’ is White supremacy

KINDRED SPIRITS: Pocahontas Endorses Senate Candidate Who Lied About Academic Credentials

Michigan Dem Snuck Handcuff Key Into Jail, Sheriff Says

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The brief, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, supports the Department of Justice’s request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction of the bill, which went into effect Sept. 1. and bans abortions in Texas after about six weeks of pregnancy.

“Today, virtually no one can obtain an abortion in Texas,” read the brief. “In order to obtain abortion care, patients now have to travel out-of-state, which makes abortion for many people too difficult, too time-intensive, and too costly.”

The officials said they were committed to “ensuring the safety of residents of out States who seek medical care in Texas while present as students, workers, or visitors.”

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Fentanyl seizures in 2021 have nearly doubled 2020 numbers, according to records quietly released by Customs and Border Protection.

The “Drug Seizure Statistics” tool run by the agency disclosed on Monday that agents already seized 9,337 pounds of fentanyl by the end of July, a 94 percent increase from the 4,791 pounds seized in the entirety of 2020. In 2019, the agency seized just 2,804 pounds. CBP did not publicly announce the updated statistics.

According to CBP’s data, the vast majority of fentanyl seizures—1,110—have taken place at the southwest border, highlighting how the migrant crisis creates opportunities for cartels and other criminal organizations as law enforcement finds its resources strained. The influx of fentanyl also comes at a time when overdoses from the drug are set to break all-time records this year.

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Leaders of New York City’s business community were heartened this week when Democratic mayoral nominee and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams came before them to promise that, under his administration, New York would “welcome business.” In keeping with his primary campaign rhetoric, Adams insisted that he would prevent the city from becoming “dysfunctional,” with a renewed focus on public safety.

These are welcome words. But a closer look at Adams’s campaign platform and long public record reveals a worrisome pattern of reversals, empty promises, and unfulfilled expectations that should at least temper voter optimism that New York City is turning a corner into sunshine.

For instance, while Adams vows to make New York City friendly to commerce, last year he co-authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed proposing a radical new corporate tax on information. “Years of chronic underinvestment in education, health care, housing and transit,” he wrote, challenge the city “to find new revenue sources.” The obvious place to impose new taxes, according to Adams, “is the data economy.”

As long as New Yorkers keep electing Democrats, they’re going to keep crapping in their own lunch pail.

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To be chosen as one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people is usually an accolade worth fighting for. Yet this year, it seems to be the celebrity equivalent of the booby prize. Cockburn imagines that it was put together by various subversive elements within the publication who hoped to see the mass ridicule that its various choices, both of subjects and of writers, have led to. They will not be disappointed.

That an airbrushed photograph of Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, takes pride of place in the ‘Icons’ section says all that you need to know. He, poor boy, looks as if he has been captured by a militant group and is being made to put out a hostage video, while she — quite literally — is wearing the pants. But it is the text about them by a celebrity chef named José Andrés beggars belief. ‘They turn compassion into boots on the ground…they give voice to the voiceless through media production.’ Dear God. Chef Andrés would be best advised to remain in the kitchen, sharpening his knives, if this is the level of his insight.

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The English language as written today is often nearly incomprehensible on first reading, and as spoken almost unintelligible and unpleasant to the point where the civilized listener disengages himself in frustration and disgust from the speaker and his speech. The problem in the first instance is the readiness of people who know better to embrace demotic usage in semi-formal literary venues, such as respectable journalism; the second, the bizarre combination of pretension and illiteracy and its results, the jargon and barbarisms ubiquitous in the 21st century.

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Most remarkable, however, is the impression one has from watching the evening news shows that nearly everyone on camera is speaking English as a second language. The majority of anchors and their guests seem particularly ignorant of the most ordinary usage and long-familiar colloquialisms and idioms — always and everywhere the sure sign of persons for whom the language is not their native tongue. In recent weeks, I have heard on FOX News programs alone ‘isolated to’ for ‘limited to’; ‘placating to’ for ‘placating’; ‘from every political stripe’ for ‘of every…[etc.]’; ‘you’ll be discriminated’ for ‘you’ll be discriminated against’; ‘to the president’s point of view’ for ‘in the president’s point of view’; and ‘you’ll be trained into’ for ‘you’ll be trained to’. ‘Take a listen’ is a linguistic abomination unheard of outside a television studio; it does not seem to exist in the vernacular. The use of an adjective bereft of its following noun — e.g. ‘a hypothetical’ — goes unquestioned. So does ‘fraught’ minus a specified prepositional object. But what is the editor of a prominent American newspaper thinking when he allows a contributor to write of ‘a Trump return to the White House’? Often writers and editors seem determined to reduce the number of words they use in a sentence to a minimum while breaking every recognized rule to do so, but here the difference is one of a single letter. And how, and why, has ‘to advocate’ been replaced by ‘to advocate for’? — an obvious barbarism if there ever was one. Does the second really sound that much better to the postmodern ear ‘untrained into’ Latin?

Tru dat.

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Washington, D.C., congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.) wrote to the USPS this month to communicate her constituents’ complaints about mail delivery problems. A postal service administrator responded last week, telling Norton that the American Rescue Plan Act, which Democrats passed in March, is to blame for staff shortages that have contributed to the agency’s ineffectiveness.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased employee absences and reduced employee availability, which continue to impact our delivery operations,” executive postmaster Sherry Harper wrote. “The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provides postal employees with up to 600 hours of Emergency Federal Employee Leave in response to the ongoing pandemic. Congress enacted the law with the understandable consequence that employee availability would be affected, particularly for federal agencies.”

Gee, if you give people ‘free’ money, they may decide not to work. Who could have predicted that?

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I’m somewhat surprised that it isn’t already labelled such.

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Better yet, have a deep pocket and an open hand … and soakable taxpayers.

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Energetic but impoverished citizens of the Republic of Moldova have found it worth their while to become “asylum seekers” and make regular trips to Berlin to receive the cash and free goodies handed out by the Berlin state government to all and sundry.

As Newsom leads California recall polls, Larry Elder pushes baseless fraud claims (NBC News) Baseless!

California recall pits Newsom against Trump and GOP’s election lies (NBC News) Lies!

Tucker Carlson Admits ‘I Lie if I’m Really Cornered or Something’ (Daily Beast) Unlike the Daily Beast, which lies just for the hell of it.

Trump’s White House chief of staff is target of Capitol attack records request  (The Guardian)

George W. Bush just threw a whole lot of shade at Donald Trump (CNN) And CNN is there to celebrate.

Former teacher tells Tucker he ‘was separated’ from school after objecting to CRT, split Zoom sessions by race

Biden: California Gubernatorial Candidate Larry Elder a Trump ‘Clone’  Well, we can hope.

Famous California Ski Resort Renamed to Remove Native American Slur

Senators Condemn Protest Outside Brett Kavanaugh’s Home

UK: E-car chargers will turn off to prevent blackouts

“Personal Carbon Allowances” Pushed To Fight Global Warming

Sorry, World Bank and Mainstream Media, Climate Change Not Driving Immigration

Old People Are Preventing the World from Addressing Climate Change The swine!

Poll: 39% of Young Adults May Remain Childless Because of Climate Fears  And they are precisely the ones we ought to encourage not to breed.

Climate Change Is Not a Crisis

Vaccinated Man Just Wishes There Was Something That Could Protect Him From COVID  Babylon Bee.

California couple die of covid, leaving five kids behind. Their newborn is 3 weeks old. (Washington Post) Today’s Covid Vaccine Regret Tear-Jerker story pushing the Narrative.

Restaurants close dining rooms again as delta-driven infections spread

Medical Workers Sue NY Over Vaccine Mandate

CDC Director: Vaccine for Kids May Come by End of Year

Dozens of WA Employees Sue Governor Over Vaccine Mandate

We Have to Lie to Them, Otherwise They’ll Never Take the Vax

LAPD Officers Sue Department, City Over Vaccine Mandate

Science Denied: The Biden Vaccine Mandate

Stay Home, Peons!

Cuomo Argues Real ‘Choice’ for Masks/Vax Is Government’s to Mandate

Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren’t needed now

Common cold combats Covid-19

Narrative Nuked: Nearly Half Of ‘COVID Hospitalizations’ This Year Have Been Mild Or Asymptomatic Cases

The Masking of the Servant Class: Ugly COVID Images From the Met Gala Are Now Commonplace  Glenn Greenwald.

NY Times Wonders ‘What Have Kids Lost?’ From Schools They Helped Keep Shut

YouTube Censors Another County Board Meeting for COVID Misinfo

COVID rules are for serfs, not celebrities

Sinus flush after positive Covid test reduced risks 19 times  Take whatever action you deem appropriate.

New IPhone 13 Will Require Vaccination To Unlock Screen  Babylon Bee. (Yeah, you laugh now, but just wait….)

Federal Judge Blocks New York State Health Care Worker Vaccination Mandate

Newt Gingrich: Angry Biden blames Americans for his failures

Top Immunologist Dr. Hooman Noorchashm Regrets Voting for Joe Biden After Vaccine Mandate

White House Cuts Biden’s Feed During Briefing

Rep. McCaul: Interpreters in Afghanistan Being Executed

UNICEF Director: 1M Afghan Children at Risk of Starvation

Obama CIA Director Says Biden Afghanistan Calamity Has “Absolutely Inspired Jihadists All Over The World” U.S. Constitution: ‘Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.’

Man hit by stray bullet during Uptown Dallas shooting

Syracuse assistant professor ‘disturbed’ by how many ‘white pundits’ still talk about 9/11

Charlottesville’s BLM mayor to step down after city has buyer’s remorse

Democrats: The ‘Free Money’ Party

AI Recognises Race in Medical Images  Pretty good for something that doesn’t exist.

Today’s Big Racism Problem: Not Enough Black Women in Volleyball

Ex-Cops Accused of Violating Floyd’s Rights Plead Not Guilty

Floral shop in ruins, robbed and torched after nearly a century in San Francisco

AOC wears ‘Tax The Rich’ dress at $30K-per-ticket Met Gala

Woman Attending Ultra-Exclusive Gala For The Elite In Expensive Designer Dress Lectures Nation On Inequality  Babylon Bee.

AOC Rubs Elbows With Elitists in ‘Tax the Rich’ Dress

Maskless AOC Attends Elite $50k Per Ticket Met Gala In ‘Tax The Rich’ Dress

177 Stanford Faculty Members Urge DOJ To Stop Looking For Chinese Spies In Academia Because It Causes “Racial Profiling”

Justice Dept. Plans New Rules for Federal Monitors at Police Departments  Federalism? What’s that?

Facebook denies having ‘2 systems of justice’ for users after WSJ report

Activist Group Accuses New York Times Reporter of Pro-Iran Bent  No! Really?

Australian Govt to revoke citizenship based on “confidential information”  Australia has turned into a regular little police state.

James Murdoch’s Foundation Gave Millions to Help Big Tech Influence 2020 Election

Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

CNN ‘Reality Check’? Avlon Finds ‘Real Hope’ That America’s 70-30 Liberal, Not 50-50

American Cultural Imperialists Are Coming to Enlighten the Backward Natives of France and Italy

How to end the American obsession with driving  The proglodytes at Vox know better than you do what you ought to be doing, and by God they’re going to make sure you do it.

Stephanopoulos Badgers Breyer, SCOTUS IS Political, When Decisions Don’t Go My Way!

Al Franken: ‘Keeping My Options Open’ on Running Again

Pramila Jayapal Axed Staffers Without Severance as She Decried Employers’ ‘Greed’

Book Reveals Gen Milley Secretly Sabotaged Trump, Called China, Sparking Talk Of Treason

After Learning She’s the ‘1 Percent,’ Whoopi Rants Against AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Message  NOT the Babylon Bee.

New York Governor Asks Facebook to Censor Pro-Life ‘Misinformation’ About Abortion

U.K. Parliament Bans Chinese Ambassador

Rich Co-hosts at CBS: AOC Wasn’t Talking About Us Because ‘We Ain’t Rich’  Compared to whom? Compared to me they certainly are.

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An Iranian national convicted by a federal jury was sentenced Tuesday for sending the Islamic republic advanced military components used in nuclear weapons and missile guidance systems.

Mehrdad Ansari, a resident of the United Arab Emirates who is originally from Iran, was sentenced to 63 months in prison for circumventing U.S. sanctions on Iran through his distribution of sensitive military matériel. Ansari, who worked alongside Taiwanese citizen Susan Yip and Iranian citizen Mehrdad Foomanie to evade the American sanctions, over a four-year period obtained or tried to obtain more than 105,000 parts valued at more than $2.6 million.

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Fadel Alkilani, the vice president of finance for the school’s student union, removed nearly all of the 2,977 flags that the school’s College Republicans had placed on campus. Each flag represented an American killed by Islamic extremists on Sept. 11, 2001. Alkilani was caught stuffing flags in trash bags twice on Saturday morning. In a statement criticizing the U.S. military posted to Instagram, he claimed including American flags in the memorial was “insidious.”

Guess we don’t have to wonder which side he’s on.

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How do you fund a $3.5 trillion budget? The honest answer is, you don’t. Joe Biden knows this, but he thinks he can find some additional revenue by snooping through your bank statements.

I’d be astonished if they don’t already have them.

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After more than two and a half years of watching and listening to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) cosplay as a professional celeb and fashion icon moonlighting as a serious politician, we have decided we won’t report on her antics as part of the Washington Free Beacon‘s political coverage.

Instead, we will continue to cover AOC’s parking habits and other aspects of her social life as part of our Entertainment, Fashion, Fantasy, and Young Adult sections. Our reason is simple: AOC’s seat in Congress is a sideshow. We won’t take the bait by pretending otherwise in an effort to appear “objective.”

Like many of her Democratic colleagues elected during the Trump era, AOC is less interested in representing her constituents as a legislator than she is in relishing the trappings of power and celebrity. She just wants to be photographed wearing a “Tax the Rich” dress at the Met Gala, whereas Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) just wants to sleep with consultants and break up other people’s marriages, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.) just wants to abuse her subordinates.

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More than a dozen former staffers to Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., have accused the progressive congresswoman of overseeing “a dysfunctional and volatile workplace,” and mistreating staffers, according to a report from BuzzFeed News.

Staffers, who were not named, claim that Jayapal’s office was “harsh,” and described her treatment as contrary to her public persona. The former staffers said that the congresswoman would berate members of staff in front of others, would demand that they work long hours, and said that the office culture involved frequently changing expectations and almost no allowance for failure.

“I’ve worked in bad environments before, and I have worked in some awful environments before for some awful people. I’ve been colleagues with some awful people,” said one former Jayapal staffer. “I have never worked in a place that has made me so miserable and so not excited for public service as Pramila Jayapal’s office.”

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It’s been nearly a week since a former field organizer for the Washington State Democrats was found guilty of terrorist attacks and violence against a railroad carrier; and so far, the liberal TV networks have not given the story a solitary second of airtime.

In December of 2020, antifa “activists” Samantha Frances Brooks and Ellen Brennan Reiche were indicted on terror charges after placing disrupting cables (or shunts) on train tracks near Bellingham, Washington. This caused a train carrying hazardous materials to decouple from some of its cars, which, according to authorities, could have led to a dangerous derailment in a residential area.

Yet despite the media’s professed interest in domestic terrorism stories, they refuse to give this one any coverage whatsoever. None of the liberal cable (CNN, MSNBC) or broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have breathed so much as a word about this story as of September 14.