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Post-pandemic, the homeschool boom hasn’t let up, as parents realize they can effectively teach their children and guide their education in a way that aligns with their values.

Christian actor and filmmaker Kirk Cameron wants to demonstrate how freedom-loving Americans can best start their own homeschool journeys with his new documentary film “The Homeschool Awakening.”

“No one loves [your kids] more than you do as a mom and dad, and no one’s better positioned to teach them. You’ve been doing it since Day One,” says Cameron. “You taught them how to walk. You taught them how to talk. At the end of the day, whoever controls the textbooks has possession of the future, either for good or for evil.”

Send your kid to a government school
And he will turn out a fool.
That’s the way
Things are today:
Your tax bucks at work and play!

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A suspected Australian ISIS terrorist has had his Australian citizenship returned after the High Court ruled that the government could not revoke a person’s citizenship if they are accused of terrorism-related conduct overseas.

It must be something in the water; they’ve all gone crazy over there.

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A former congressman has pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fraudulently create votes for Democratic candidates in five different election years.

Michael “Ozzie” Myers, 79, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election.

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Hunter Biden is not just a world-class artist, a celebrated author, a firearms and chemistry enthusiast and a brave military vet: he’s also the head of a giant multinational conglomerate.

That’s the only plausible explanation for why the president’s son paid a full-time salary to a woman he claimed he can never recall meeting.

A report from the Washington Examiner’s Andrew Kerr and Jerry Dunleavy details how Hunter’s company paid Lunden Roberts $1,500 for forty hours’ work in November 2018, according to “deleted payroll files recovered from a copy of his abandoned laptop.”

Lunden Roberts, you may recall, is an exotic dancer who formerly worked at MPire, a DC gentleman’s club just a short walk from the White House. She gave birth to Navy Joan Roberts, Hunter’s bastard daughter, in August 2018.

Ms. Roberts was also receiving health, dental and vision insurance from Biden’s company.

A caring employer.

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UPDATE: NHTSA upgrades Tesla Autopilot probe, could lead to recall

UPDATE: NHTSA Upgrades Probe of Autopilot Teslas Colliding With Emergency Vehicles, Increasing Possibility of Recall

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Robots get all the good stuff.

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Threat to democracy: When Republicans win an election.

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The Verona and Milan police are currently evaluating hundreds of videos from social networks and images from surveillance cameras. But with the help of witness statements, the authorities have already been able to reconstruct what happened last Thursday between Peschiera del Garda, Castelnuovo and Desenzano: a mob roamed the narrow streets of the villages, destroyed shop windows, attacked tourists, harassed women and insulted passers-by.

About 1,500 people from North Africa and some black people gathered around the lake shore and shouted “This is Africa” and “We have come to retake Peschiera.” They waved flags of different African countries. Most of them were between 16 and 20 years old; witnesses also reported very young people between 12 and 14 years.

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If someone attempts to murder a Supreme Court justice, but corporate media barely covers it, did it actually happen?

Sure, most outlets covered the news of the arrest of man who, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, arrived at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home, armed with a “tactical knife, a pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crowbar, pistol light, [and] duct tape,” per the Justice Department.

But after reporting the basic facts—that the suspect’s name was John Nicholas Roske, that he had been deterred by the sight of two deputy marshals outside Kavanaugh’s home—America’s journalists didn’t seem to rush into any analysis.

Because, of course, when it comes to political violence in the United States today, here’s a maxim you can always rely on: If the victim or likely victim is on the right, the perpetrator is simply a lone wolf. But if the victim or likely victim is on the left, the perpetrator was fueled by dangerous rhetoric.

Sarah Hoyt.

Our would be overlords believe in magic words. They’ll decree it, and it will be so.

They have a plan, proclaimed by great international thinkers (who have no idea where food comes from, but that’s something else) and by gum, they’re going to herd us all into mega cities, and make us live the way they want, owing nothing, being happy, eating bugs.

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Democrat leaders in the House of Representatives on June 9 blocked a bill to increase security for Supreme Court justices, asserting that more time is needed to alter the legislation and that nobody is in danger.

I wonder whether she’d change her tune if it were some deranged Republican outside her house with a gun?

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You may have heard brief mention of a massacre in a Catholic Church a few days ago in Nigeria that killed more than 50 people at latest count. It’s the latest terror attack in Nigeria that appears to have been committed by adherents of that well-known “religion of peace.”

The president of Ireland, Michael Higgins, issued a statement deploring the massacre, which he attributed to . . . climate change.

Ireland was subject to one of the most prolonged ‘brain-drain’ processes in history. As a result, those Left Behind have degenerated to a genuine Turd World population.

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As you may have heard, there’s been slightly more than the usual amount of drama at the Washington Post the past few days. In the midst of the ongoing, junior-high quality drama, a young employee and Stanford graduate named Holden Foreman decided to white knight on behalf of the women generating the drama. He did this by tattling on male Washington Post employees who agreed with a different female employee that everybody should give it a rest, put the drama behind them and get back to work.

So, who is this courageous Generation Tide Pod person, Holden Foreman, standing up for the right of women to create and sustain workplace drama? As I said, he is a graduate of Stanford. While at Stanford, he apparently published an article … I am not making this up … complaining that he had to go hungry at college because eating food from a cafeteria was too traumatizing for him and he lacked the ability to determine for himself how much food to eat. The remedy he demanded … still not making this up… was that the university should cut and portion his food for him individually so he would be spared the trauma of eating at a buffet.

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The subject was Pentecost, but the message was bullets that killed more than 40 people in a Catholic congregation in Nigeria’s relatively serene Ondo state.

The priest was just giving the benediction at the end of a mass to celebrate Pentecost Sunday when at least four shooters detonated a bomb and began spraying bullets among trapped worshippers.

The venue of the horrific attack was Saint Francis Catholic Church in Owo, a quiet town in Ondo state, approximately 170 miles west of the capital Lagos. Unidentified gunmen attacked on June 5, killing and wounding close to 50 people.

Eyewitnesses said the attackers detonated explosives inside the chapel that tore plaster off ceilings and left many severely injured.

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu told the media at the scene that the killers were foreign fighters from Mali.

“Most of those that are carrying out these attacks are foreigners who were trained in Libya,” Akeredolu said, according to multiple media reports. The governor did not explain his opinion in detail.

Just a little reminder that there are still Muslim terrorists in the world and they still enjoy killing innocent people.

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The budget proposal from the Republican Study Committee would reduce mandatory spending by $11.86 trillion over 10 years while lowering nondefense discretionary spending by $3.64 trillion.

The U.S. government faces a budget deficit of $3.1 trillion. The accumulated national debt stands at $30 trillion.

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One of the Oxford High School students who survived being shot on November 30 has filed a federal lawsuit against the school district and four top officials for failing to intervene to prevent the tragedy.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 17-year-old Kylie Ossege, a recent Oxford High graduate, who suffered a gunshot wound to the right shoulder during the mass shooting at the high school in November. Four students were killed and seven others, including a teacher, were injured.

The lawsuit, the latest of several state and federal complaints filed against the school, alleges gross negligence and violation of the Michigan Child Protection Law in the incident and details how events leading up to the shooting should have prompted school officials to disarm the student accused in the shooting, Ethan Crumbley, then 15.

Oakland declares racism a public health crisis (S.F. Chronicle)

BYU’s Black Menaces are expanding across the country (Axios)

Joy Reid accuses Republicans of thriving on ‘demographic panic,’ says GOP wants no one to feel ‘safe’  I wonder how much time she spends every day straightening and lightening her hair?

It’s Open Season On Chicago Police: Shootings At Cops Up Fourfold In 2020, 2021

DA Seeking Death Penalty in Georgia Country Club Slayings

Prosecutors Ask for More Than 25 Years in Federal Prison for R. Kelly on New York Racketeering Conviction

LA officials warn DA George Gascon after Chesa Boudin recall: ‘You’re next’

Why aren’t there more Republicans like Liz Cheney? (Washington Post)

After the leak, the Supreme Court seethes with resentment and fear behind the scenes (NPR)

No, California didn’t just send a message on crime — only voter apathy (S.F. Chronicle)

Progressive backlash in California fuels Democratic debate over crime (Seattle Times) Apparently the Seattle Times didn’t get the memo.

Is It Time to Set the First Amendment on FIRE? (Newsweek)

America should worry about lost democracy at home (The Hill)

Conservative Wyoming senator rethinking gun legislation after constituents flood her office with calls urging action (CNN) They hope, they hope, they hope….

The U.S. having territories perpetuates inequality and colonialism (Washington Post)

FLASHBACK: WashPost Once Claimed Conservative ‘Fears’ of Gas Price Spike Under Biden ‘Overblown’

Michigan Voters Sue Democratic Secretary of State Over Use of $17 Million in ‘Zuckbucks’ to Tilt Elections

Former Congressman Pleads Guilty to Election Fraud, Ballot Stuffing, Bribing Election Officials

Disney Isn’t Finished with You and Your Kids

NY Times Brooks No Dissent From MLB ‘Gay Pride’: ‘How Far Movement Still Has To Go’

PBS Runs Short 50 Second Story on Kavanaugh Assassin Attempt, PBS Website Ignores

Colorado Bishops Call for Pro-Abortion Officials Not to Receive Communion

Warned of ‘massive’ climate-led extinction, a US energy firm funded crisis denial ads (The Guardian)

Southern Company Knew About Climate Change for Decades While Funding Climate Denial, Report Finds (Gizmodo) Report by whom?

Working in the Diablo Canyon reactor control room turned this mom into a nuclear advocate (CNBC)

Sinking mid-Atlantic coast will increase impacts of rising sea level, study finds (AccuWeather) Study by whom?

Oil and gas companies underreported methane leaks, new study shows (Washington Post) Study by whom?

America is staring down a summer of disasters (Axios)

World Oceans Day: NorCal scientists show why healthy oceans are vital in fighting the climate crisis

Tempers flare among City Council members during greenhouse gas emissions discussion

Cheney faces pivotal moment with Jan. 6 prime time hearing (The Hill)

West Point expected to be ordered to take down portrait of Robert E. Lee (Politico)

Democrats fret as Garland’s January 6 investigation creeps closer to pre-midterm deadline (CNN)

Audio shows Trump-endorsed Arizona Senate candidate questioned whether January 6 attack was set up by FBI (CNN)

DeSantis spokeswoman belatedly registers as agent of foreign politician (Washington Post)

Gov. Ron DeSantis to WaPo, ‘legacy media’ after ‘smear’ attempt: ‘We don’t care what you think anymore’

Beto O’Rourke’s Chances of Beating Abbott With 5 Months to Election: Polls (Newsweek) Hint: Zero.

CNN Panel: It’s Not the NRA, It’s Republican ‘Gun Absolutists’ To Blame!

Liberal Tries to Assassinate Justice Kavanaugh in Name of Abortion Rights and Gun Control; Story Relegated Way Down NYT Homepage

New poll: Inflation ‘most urgent issue’ over gun violence, Biden’s approval rating ties with lowest ever

‘Great resignation’ reaches White House with staff turnover (Associated Press) Like Democrats leaving a sinking ship.

Hunter Biden makes rare public appearance as laptop controversy continues to swirl

Empty wallets, empty tanks: Surging gas prices leave drivers stranded (Washington Post)

Truck drivers parking their rigs as gas prices continue to climb

Biden’s inept Cabinet shares blame for Biden’s many failures

Despite efforts to fight formula price-gouging, desperate families are paying top dollar (CNN)

Democrats frustrated by flat-footed White House (The Hill)

Round Up: 3 Times Biden Disinfo Board Members, Advisors Spread False Information

Massive Migrant Caravan Targeting Texas Could Be Biggest One Yet

‘Foolish and Naive’: US Lawmakers Decry Biden Admin’s Greenlight of China Military Investment

Moderna Announces Omicron-Containing Bivalent Booster Candidate Mrna-1273.214 Demonstrates Superior Antibody Response Against Omicron

What Would a Novavax Covid-19 Vaccine Mean in the US? (Wired)

Moderna says updated Covid-19 vaccine booster shows stronger antibody response against Omicron (CNN)

More than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to WHO – briefing (Reuters)

Dominant Coronavirus Mutant and New Subvariants Contain Ghost of Pandemic Past (NBC)

Monkeypox vaccination begins — can the global outbreaks be contained? (Nature) Ramping up for the New PANIC!

Convergent Evolution: Why COVID-19 Antibody Treatments Aren’t As Effective for New Variants (SciTechDaily) Making excuses for shitty ‘vaccines’.

Doctors Sue FDA, Allege Crusade Against Ivermectin ‘Unlawfully Interfered’ With Their Ability to Treat Patients

Missouri Law Would Protect Physicians Who Prescribe Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine

Federal Judge Says No to Anonymity for Health Care Workers Suing Over COVID Vaccine

Australian Territory to Close Controversial COVID-19 Quarantine Camp and End Vaccine Mandates

But time and fortune happen to them all….

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Democrats should be held accountable for last night’s attempt on the life of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Most notably, of course, Chuck Schumer issued a fatwa against Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch, which last night’s would-be assassin apparently attempted to execute.

But that’s not all. The GOP’s communications staff reminds us of the Democrats’ shameful history of encouraging violence against conservative Supreme Court justices.

UPDATE: Liberal Media Encouraged TARGETING Justices at Home Before Assassination Attempt

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According to the following report, the man in Berlin who deliberately drove his car into pedestrians at high speed, killing at least one of them, is an Armenian-German. His ethnicity makes it unlikely that the motive for his crime was jihad, although we’ll need to wait for definitive information on that issue.

COVID Vaccines Linked to New Type of Incurable, Fatal Degenerative Brain Disorder

Here’s What to Do if You Test Positive for COVID, According to CDC Guidelines (NBC) First, you need to PANIC!

CDC’s travel advisory on monkeypox: ‘Practice enhanced precautions’ (CNN) In other words, PANIC!

Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 account for up to 13% of COVID variants in U.S. – CDC (Reuters)

Zero Covid has radicalised Shanghai

FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use

IRS Warns American Taxpayers to Remain Vigilant to Ongoing COVID-19 Fraud

More States Report Monkeypox Cases as CDC Raises Alert

CDC Changes Monkeypox Mask Recommendation Amid Criticism

Probe Reveals Top People With the NIH Getting Big Bucks From Secret Royalty Checks

Mask Rules Relaxed in England’s Health Care Settings

Masking Will No Longer Be Mandatory on Public Transit in Quebec Starting June 18

‘Mountain’ of Long-Lasting Harm From COVID Policies vs. ‘Mole Heap’ of Benefit: Economics Professor

How the defense of Trump foretells a possible new GOP era of extremism (CNN)

Republicans launch counter-programming to Jan. 6 Committee hearings with Stefanik, Scalise, Jordan media event

During Watergate, John Mitchell Left His Wife. She Called Bob Woodward. (Washington Post)

Citing Costs, Memphis Officials Hesitant to Provide Escort for Donald Trump (Newsweek) They wouldn’t hesitate, of course, to do so for Bill or Hillary Clinton.

Jan. 6 committee interviews head of Trump’s Secret Service detail on day of Capitol attack (Politico)

Secret Service considered options to get Trump to Capitol on January 6 (CNN)

Tucker Carlson: Peter Navarro’s arrest is a huge step toward the politics of the third world

Elise Stefanik says Peter Navarro case shows Biden ‘attacking his political opponents’

First on CNN: House Democrats investigating whether foreign gifts to Trump went missing (CNN)

The GOP drive to install thousands of poll workers sets off alarms (CNN) Gee, we might not be able to steal the next election.

You Can Ignore Elon Musk (New York Magazine)

Hear Bob Woodward ‘s advice to Americans ahead of Jan. 6 hearing (CNN) Impeach Nixon!

Bannon subpoenas Pelosi and House January 6 committee members to fight contempt charges (CNN)

Fake Trump electors told to operate in ‘complete secrecy’, email reveals (The Guardian)

Where Trump’s long list of legal challenges stand (The Hill)

Two January 6th Defendants and the Consolidation of Right-Wing Extremism (The New Yorker)

Is the Real Goal of the Jan. 6 Committee to Arrest Donald Trump?

‘Morning Joe’ Hypocritically Ignores All The Times Leftists Used Violence Against GOP

Comedians Can’t Quit Trump

Armed Man Arrested Outside Brett Kavanaugh’s House; Planned To Kill Supreme Court Justice

Protesters Finalizing Plans For Blockade of Supreme Court on June 13

Dems Go All In To Defeat Black Veteran in GOP Gubernatorial Primary

6 Members of Haiti’s Special Olympics Delegation Go Missing in Florida: Police

Race-Obsessed: The Root Wants NYC Mayor to Blame Crime on Cops

The Biden Administration’s Five Stages of Grief (Newsweek)

How Well Is Joe Biden Actually Doing? (Washington Post)

Fuel blend requirements: Wisconsin lawmakers ask EPA to waive them

As migrant caravan marches toward US border, Harris unveils Central American youth program

Think things are bad under Biden? Get ready for the blackouts. (Washington Post)

Why Obama’s Top Economist Thinks Inflation Is Even Worse Than You Think

Damage Control: Obama Comms Director Blames “Right-Wing Media” For Biden’s Failures

Joe Biden’s get-along-go-along

Biden’s Food And Fuel Crisis – It’s The Policy, Stupid

Seven NEW Hunter Biden Scandals the Nets Refuse to Report On

Simone Biles, Aly Raisman Suing FBI for $1B over Larry Nassar Investigation

Jimmy Carter Worried All These Biden Comparisons Could Tarnish His Presidential Legacy  (Babylon Bee)

Simone Biles, Other Women Sue FBI Over Botched Probe Into Larry Nassar

‘Insufficient Evidence’ of Excessive Force in Shooting Death of Ashli Babbitt, DOJ Report Says

Biden Silent on Slaughter of Dozens at Church in Nigeria

On Economics, the White House Is Gaslighting

Biden Administration Using Homeland Security to Drive Narrative

More Members of White House Press Team Departing: Officials

DOJ Declines to Pursue FBI Whistleblower Allegations  Your tax dollars at work.

DeSantis Criticizes Biden’s Move To Force Gender Ideology By Cutting Off School Lunch Funding

How the US can stop relying on other countries for energy and fight climate change (CNN)

Climate crisis could make humans shrink in size, says fossil expert (The Guardian) A Robert Reich future?

Why nuclear energy is on the verge of a renaissance (CNBC)

The fate of Old Faithful (Deseret News)

Why is eco-conscious California spending millions to support natural gas? (The Guardian)

Four ways California can keep the power on amid climate change. More natural gas isn’t one of them (S.F. Chronicle)

‘H2Hubs’ will fuel American hydrogen production in $8 billion program (The Verge)

DOE Launches Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s $8 Billion Program for Clean Hydrogen Hubs Across U.S. (Dept. of Energy)

Ship pollution is rising as the U.S. waits for world leaders to act (Washington Post)

Chipotle and Kraft Heinz use this start-up to track and prove how green they are (CNBC)

Current policies will bring ‘catastrophic’ climate breakdown, warn former UN leaders (The Guardian)

Floating solar power could help fight climate change — let’s get it right (Nature)

Model vs Model: Is the North Atlantic Current Collapsing?

The Problematical ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Construct

‘Plastitar’ Is the Unholy Spawn of Oil Spills and Microplastics  (Wired ‘Science’)

UK Regulator Bans Tesco Vegetarian Burger Ad Over ‘Misleading’ Climate Claim

CNN’s Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta singled out as liberal hosts who could be ‘ousted’ by new regime

Scoop: CNN evaluating partisan talent (Axios)

How Harmful Is Social Media? (New Yorker)

California’s Urban Revolt Boosts Rick Caruso, Fires San Francisco DA (Newsweek)

NYC mayor’s sister dials 911 over potential shooting; Adams decries ‘laughingstock’ criminal justice system

More women than ever own guns. Could that change gun laws? (Washington Post)

New York Times’ ‘Ezra Klein Show’ promotes mandatory wealth redistribution with socialist professor

California crime wave: Beverly Hills ‘has turned into Gotham City’ under Gascon, Caitlyn Jenner says

Business owners say weak enforcement is emboldening the violence on Philly’s South Street (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Nets Gush Over McConaughey Gun Control Pleas at The White House

Louisiana Transgender Sports Ban to Become Law

Predictable Commencement Addresses Cap Off College Indoctrination

How San Francisco became a failed city

Watch: EV-Driving Dem Senator Says It “Doesn’t Matter How High Gas Prices Are”

The Washington Post Is a Model for Media Malfeasance

Team Zuckerberg Masks Heavily Pro-Democrat Tilt of 2020 Election ‘Zuckerbucks,’ Study Finds

CNN Denies Attempted Kavanaugh Assassin Was Armed, Cries ‘Both Sides’

Boston’s Brown Says Boycotting NBA Finals An Effective Strategy For Gun Control

Nonsense: British ‘Experts’ Say ‘Morbid Obesity’ is Offensive

Welsh Government Announces Plan to Become an ‘Anti-Racist Nation’

First Your Guns; Then Your Words: NY Law Targets Free Speech

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From the very outset of this pandemic, the topic of natural infection has been a taboo. To suggest that anyone might have been better off risking infection and thereby gaining immunity from a respiratorial virus rather than hiding under the sofa for two years was seen as outrageous and irresponsible.

My theory is that the reason has always been political. And that’s tragic.

Generations have gone by that have understood it. A life strategy to flee all pathogens is deeply dangerous. The immune system, in order to be trained to protect against severe disease, needs exposure. Not to all things, of course, but to many pathogens that are not finally debilitating or fatal. We’ve evolved with pathogens in what Sunetra Gupta calls a “dangerous dance.” This dance is unavoidable, especially for fast-mutating viruses like SARS-CoV-2.

And yet from the beginning, this knowledge seemed to be lost. This is gravely embarrassing since it’s been known for 2,500 years. It was worse than just lost. As a person who wrote almost daily during the pandemic, I too was careful not to discuss this topic with too much bluntness. We all felt the political pressure to say silent or at least cloud our prose with euphemisms.

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Fox News host Charles Payne said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stock trade timing was “impeccable” and suggested that “maybe Nancy Pelosi knows something we do not know.”

“Representative Pelosi just bought a total of 50 out of the money calls on Apple, 150 out of the money calls on Microsoft,” Payne said on the June 6 edition of his show, Making Money. “Now, the two transactions totaled anywhere between one and a little bit over two million dollars. One would say it’s the kind of bet that one would make, uh, if they were a greedy capitalist, right? In fact, you would make a capitalist blush and then of course a professional poker player would also blush because the timing always seems to be so impeccable when it comes to Nancy Pelosi trades.”

It’s amazing that politicians who have never manifested any expertise in economics in their lives, in fact have conclusively demonstrated economic illiteracy, suddenly turn in to stock market gunslingers upon election to Congress. Makes me want to run for something….

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

It seems like a timely moment to review the threats of then Democratic Senate Minority Leader — now Democratic Senate Majority Leader — aimed specifically at Justices Kavanaugh et al. in a March 2020 tirade on the steps of the Supreme Court (video below). What a sinister lowlife he is.

Do you suppose anyone in the mainstream media will be asking him to take a look back today? Schumer means to preempt such inquiries. In a statement sent to Newsweek, Schumer’s team asserted that the senator has “been clear that he supports peaceful protests and is thankful law enforcement arrested this person today.”

Quotable quote: “I wanna tell you Gorsuch, I wanna tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

Sounds like incitement to me. Kavanaugh ought to sue.

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Former Rep. Michael Myers (D-Pa.), 79, admitted to bribing an election judge in Philadelphia, Domenick Demuro, to illegally add votes for certain candidates, including candidates for federal and state officers.

Myers and Demuro, both Democrats, supported fellow Democrat candidates. Myers would receive payments from the candidates, by cash or check, and send a portion of the funds to Demuro.

The judge of elections for the 39th Ward, 36th Division in South Philadelphia would then add fraudulent votes for Myers’s clients.

“At Myers’s direction, Demuro would add these fraudulent votes to the totals during Election Day, and then would later falsely certify that the voting machine results were accurate,” the Department of Justice said in a statement.

The fraud took place during elections starting in 2014 and going through 2018, authorities said.

ZMan turns over a rock.

The late Joe Sobran famously said, “In their mating and migratory habits, liberals are indistinguishable from members of the Ku Klux Klan.” Less famous writers have often pointed out that the American Left talks like MLK but lives like the KKK. Without exception, the white people staking out fashionable positions on race do so from as far away from black people as possible. Antifascists love Portland Oregon because it is one of the least diverse cities in the county.

This was always true. Sobran made his observation about the American Left forty years ago when the country was still 85% white. Thirty million South American tourists later and the Left may be even more sensitive this reality. On the one hand, they have become violent in their racial politics, but also extremely sensitive to the reality of race in the daily lives. Forty years ago, white race hustlers actually went to the ghetto once in a while, but now they stay as far away as possible.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

The venerable office of Secretary of the Treasury goes back to Alexander Hamilton. Looking over the roster of former Secretaries, one can observe that it has rarely been held by lightweights or hacks. Janet Yellen makes a mockery of the office. She degrades the office in performing its responsibilities poorly and ranging far afield to parrot the shibboleths and follies of the Biden administration like a Stalinist apparatchik.

Considering that her previous gig was in charge of the Federal Reserve, it is no surprise that inflation is such a problem.

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But despite this, Philadelphia seems to be trying to restrict one important form of defending life and liberty (and protecting property): bulletproof barriers that help shield employees from robbers or other attackers.

The just-enacted Bill 170963 would have originally banned them outright in eating and drinking establishments that seat at least 30 customers. (These restaurants are also the ones that, under Pennsylvania law, can get licenses to serve beer, though not all such large restaurants do sell beer; the law seems aimed at “beer & delis,” but apparently some local KFCs and Popeyes also have bulletproof barriers.) The bill was ultimately amended to call on the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections to “promulgate regulations to provide for the use or removal” of such barriers — but that Department seems to support broadly restricting them them; it thus seems likely that the regulations will provide for more removal than use.

The Other McCain is on the case.

Look, we don’t expect expert marksmanship from gang-bangers gunning it out on the streets of Philly, but oh, what any opportunity they missed!

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Authorities in the northwestern Italian port city of Genoa on Tuesday were executing arrest warrants on 14 Pakistani citizens linked to the man who stabbed two people in September 2020 outside the former offices in Paris of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine. The suspects are accused of criminal association with an international terror group, and are suspected of belonging to a terror cell called “Gabar Group” with direct links to the attacker, Pakistani-born Zaher Hassan Mahmood, anti-terrorism investigators said in a statement.

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Amid the recent orgy of violence across America, it was the carjackings that finally got me.

Lost amid all the mass shootings and gang slayings of late has been another wave of crime: vehicle thefts. In Washington, DC, carjackings in 2021 were up by a third over 2019, while in nearby Alexandria a motorist made national news after he shot two boys at a gas sstationwho were trying to lift his car. In Chicago, 1,900 vehicles were jacked just last year, which is eye-wateringly high even by that city’s grim standards.

These thefts are almost all committed by teens, often at gunpoint. And whereas the point of a carjacking a decade ago might have been to sell off the parts for cash, the purpose now is better defined as “for the lulz.” Thieves have taken to posting videos of their ill-begotten prizes on social media. Sometimes the cars are even found later, abandoned and unharmed, taken for only a joyride. One community organizer told the New York Times that carjacking has become like “a sport.”

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Yes, steel is sturdy … steel is modern … and in post-World-War II America, steel was arguably the hottest choice for materials for the home. During the war, America had ramped up tremendous capacity in steel production so that we could produce weaponry. Afterward, all the production had to find a new outlet. Where did it go? To big ‘ole American cars, but also into the American home — for appliances, home construction, and, yes, kitchen cabinets.

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During Tuesday evening’s CNN Tonight, facts inadvertently slipped through during a panel discussion on Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey’s pleas for gun control at the White House earlier in the day, when liberal panelists and The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg correctly noted children statistically have a much higher chance of dying in a car accident on the way to school than at school.

“If we’re going to start telling people that they should be scared about what is going to happen to them, we should at least put this in perspective. There are about 54 million kids in American schools who go to K through 12 in America. In the last 29 years, 170 kids have been killed in school shootings,” Goldberg accurately noted before getting shouted down by his fellow panelists.

Well, no homeschooled kid has ever been the victim of a mass shooting. Just sayin’.

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It seems that Pakistani culture-enrichers in the Italian city of Genoa have become a little too frisky, prompting the anti-terrorism police to intervene and suppress their youthful enthusiasm.

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An American mother from Kansas pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal district court on Tuesday to organizing and leading an all-female military battalion for the ISIS terrorist group in Syria. Allison Fluke-Ekren, a mother of five and former school teacher, admitted to training around 100 women and girls to support ISIS activities. She also plotted to carry out a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced, citing court documents.

Just another little reminder that Muslim terrorists are still out there and still looking to kill people.

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3D printing has revolutionized gun-making and has come a long way since the single-shot “The Liberator” pistol was available for download in 2013. Now entire semiautomatic pistol carbines can be entirely printed at home, and weapon-making appears to have graduated to rocket launchers.

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All we know thus far is that the 59-year-old Middleton – who admitted Jeffrey Epstein to the White House seven out of at least 17 times – was discovered on May 7 hanging from a tree at the Heifer Ranch in Perryville by an electrical cord, with a shotgun blast to his chest. The ranch, located 30 miles from Middleton’s home, is owned by an anti-poverty nonprofit called Heifer International.

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On Saturday around 10:10 p.m. in the area of the Karlsruhe Palace Park, a rainbow flag was snatched away and burned by a group of people. This apparently developed into a brawl in which there were several minor injuries. Several had their hair pulled and were forced to the ground, where they continued to be beaten and kicked. A 27-year-old was taken to hospital by ambulance as a precaution; others were examined on-site by rescue teams.