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There's only one way to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:44:52 by Charles_Byrd
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IT WAS a running joke in the early days of NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Chevy Chase, the news anchor for "Weekend Update," would announce the night's top story: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead." Like the late Spanish autocrat, the Equal Rights Amendment is also still dead. Approved by Congress in 1972, it was sent to the states with a seven-year ratification deadline, only to die when the clock ran out in 1979. Just 35 of the required 38 state legislatures had ratified the amendment, so it never became part of the Constitution. Yet some members of Congress now insist that the ERA didn't fail and actually was ratified. Or, to be ...
Tucker: 'Cult of climate' is filling void left by lack of religious faith
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:42:16 by Charles_Byrd
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Friday that environmentalism was becoming a “cult of climate” and filling a void left by a lack of “religious faith” as environmental activists no longer care about data. Click for Full Text!
Canada Likely to Delay Expansion of Assisted Suicide to Mentally Ill
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:39:53 by Charles_Byrd
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After intense public criticism, the Canadian government is seeking to delay for one year its extension of assisted suicide to the mentally ill. “It is clear more time is needed to get this right,” Justice Minister David Lametti said February 2. “The proposed one-year expansion is necessary to ensure that we move forward on this sensitive and complex issue in a prudent and measured way.” Click for Full Text!
More Proof the FBI Is Being Weaponized Against American Citizens
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:38:37 by Charles_Byrd
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On Thursday, former FBI agent Nicole Parker, an 11-year veteran of the agency before she quit four months ago, testified before the House Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government. Click for Full Text!
The Feds Are Buying Their Way Around the 4th Amendment
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:33:16 by Charles_Byrd
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A Republican congressman last week highlighted an oft-overlooked threat to the privacy of all Americans: The federal government's practice of purchasing citizens' private market data (PMD) from data brokers without a warrant. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R–N.D.) raised the issue at the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government's inaugural hearing. "The federal government has realized the value of the massive amounts of commercial consumer data that is freely available on the open market," Armstrong said. "Combine [the amount of data available] with the advance in technology like [artificial intelligence], facial recognition, and more, ...
Happy Trails: Sen. Dianne Feinstein Won't Run for Reelection
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:30:57 by Charles_Byrd
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) released a statement today that she will not be running for reelection at the conclusion of her term in 2024, ending her run as California's longest-serving senator. It was an open secret on Capitol Hill, and then not a secret at all, that Feinstein, also the oldest senator at 89, was not quite up for the job anymore. Click for Full Text!
The walls that can come down when the negative stereotype of pro-lifers meets the reality of a kind and generous people
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:28:56 by Charles_Byrd
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One weakness common to most scribes is that we are prone to over-interpret every “sign.” On that score (as you will see momentarily), I plead guilty. For starters—don’t ask me how I knew– as we boarded the plane I just knew something special was in the air. Click for Full Text!
Police Accountability is a “Non-Starter” Without Discarding the Qualified Immunity Doctrine
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:26:44 by Charles_Byrd
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Some reps in Congress assert that dismantling qualified immunity (“QI”)— a police officer’s so-called good faith defense to a civil rights lawsuit—is a “non-starter” in negotiations to pass the George Floyd Civil Rights Act. In reality, meaningful police accountability is a non- starter without discarding QI. QI is a regressive framework which has turned federal civil rights lawsuits into sheer games of chance with bad odds. Under QI, the Supreme Court instructs judges to apply a two-pronged analysis, in a specific order: first to examine whether the right sought to be vindicated was clearly-established at the time, and second to examine whether the ...
New Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley — the Ron Paul institute has some Background Information
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:22:47 by Charles_Byrd
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Nikki Haley announced on Tuesday that she is running for president of the United States as a Republican. What may a Haley presidency look like? Click for Full Text!
Russia Says NATO Should Hold Emergency Summit Over Nord Stream Sabotage
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:20:35 by Charles_Byrd
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said over the weekend that NATO countries should hold an emergency summit over the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines after a report from journalist Seymour Hersh said US Navy divers planted explosives on the pipelines. “There have been plenty of facts: pipeline explosions, motives and indirect evidence obtained by journalists. So when will an emergency NATO summit gather to analyze the situation?” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, according to the Russian news agency TASS. Click for Full Text!
Capitalism Has Improved Life in India, but the Spirit of Collectivism Still Dominates
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:19:00 by Charles_Byrd
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India is currently the seventh-largest country in the world with the largest youth population. There are many elements that make this country unique, the foremost being diversity—diversity of culture, race, ethnicity, and linguistics. India faced an era of colonialism under the British, who would take raw material from India at cheaper rates and import the finished products. India and Nigeria are both countries that gained independence from Britain in the same period, but India is now rising much more effectively than Nigeria. Indians saved their culture and their religion but adopted the technologies of the West, whereas Nigeria adopted Western culture and religion but failed to ...
Jefferson Was Right: The SOTU Address Should Be Written, Not Spoken
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:17:04 by Charles_Byrd
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The absurdity of those State of the Union Speeches. Like many political traditions accepted as unchangeable or timeless by Americans, the State of the Union Speech is neither required nor wise. First of all, the constitution merely states that the president "give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." It doesn't say anything about this information being conveyed in a speech. Naturally, Washington gave these addresses as speeches because he liked that sort of thing, and Adams used speeches because he was obsessed with the pomp of government power. Thomas Jefferson, on ...
Deep State End Game: Bio-digital Convergence & Transhumanism
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:12:46 by Charles_Byrd
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The nightmarish Deep State vision for the future is more horrific than most can even imagine as technology advances, warns author and The New American publisher Dennis Behreandt in this episode of Behind The Deep State with host Alex Newman. Behreandt, who wrote the new book End Game: Covid and the Dark State Quest for Bio-digital Convergence in a Transhumanist World, starts off by sounding the alarm about the "elites" and their radical views on overpopulation. He proceeds to discuss the "singularity," where technology reaches unpredictable heights. And he details some of the terrifying technologies already in use or development that promise to bring about changes that ...
Europe Spends Nearly €800 Billion on Energy After Sanctioning Russia
Post Date: 2023-02-14 18:43:58 by Charles_Byrd
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European countries’ bill to supposedly protect households and companies from rising energy costs has risen to nearly €800 billion, researchers said on Monday, asking countries to be more intentional in their spending to combat the energy crunch. European Union (EU) countries have presently allocated €681 billion in energy crisis spending, while Britain earmarked €103 billion and Norway €8.1 billion since September 2021, based on an analysis by think-tank Bruegel. Click for Full Text!
Why Is It So Hard for Congress To End a War?
Post Date: 2023-02-14 18:38:50 by Charles_Byrd
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March will mark 20 years since the United States launched its invasion of Iraq, and with it a wave of catastrophic choices that continue to plague American foreign policy. It took a little over a month for President George W. Bush to declare victory over Saddam Hussein's forces and announce the continuation of a reconstruction mission. But the end of the war wasn't really the end of the war. That's true in the context of Iraq, where the U.S. occupation helped exacerbate violence and instability for nearly nine years post-Saddam. It was true procedurally, too; to this day, Congress has not repealed the authorization it passed to allow the president to invade Iraq in 2003. Click ...
An Alabama Man Was Taken to Jail. Two Weeks Later, He Was Dead From Hypothermia.
Post Date: 2023-02-14 18:36:31 by Charles_Byrd
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An Alabama man was taken into custody last month following a violent altercation with police. Two weeks later, he died from hypothermia, having seemingly been placed into the jail's freezer. A lawsuit filed by the family of Anthony "Tony" Mitchell on Monday alleges that officers at a Walker County, Alabama, jail engaged in horrific abuse against the 33-year-old, eventually leading to his death. Click for Full Text!
The earthquake ought to loosen US policy on Syria
Post Date: 2023-02-13 17:04:22 by Charles_Byrd
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Lifeless bodies pulled from ruins, roads and bridges ripped apart, entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble — these are the classic earthquake images. The latest come from Turkey and Syria, which were devastated by a fierce quake on Monday. Turkey, with a thriving economy, a well-organized state, and rich Western friends, is well equipped to rush relief to victims. In Syria the situation is quite the opposite. Syria has been under crushing economic sanctions for more than a decade. War has destroyed its cities and forced millions from their homes. Foreign forces occupy its most productive land. The economy has collapsed. Cholera is spreading. Hunger looms. Yet any person or group that ...
Congress will block F-16 sale if Turkey sinks Sweden’s NATO bid: Van Hollen
Post Date: 2023-02-13 17:01:56 by Charles_Byrd
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Congress will block a major weapons deal and could levy new sanctions on Turkey if the country follows through on threats to block Sweden from joining NATO, according to Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). “There’s no scenario where the F-16 sale goes through without ratification by Turkey [of Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids],” Van Hollen said at an Al- Monitor event in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. Click for Full Text!
The Calamity of America’s ‘Divine Mission’
Post Date: 2023-02-13 17:00:23 by Charles_Byrd
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Prolific author Robert Kagan’s latest elevation of Americans to God’s new chosen people leaps from the 688 pages of his new book, The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941. It is probable that none wish it were longer, as sage Samuel Johnson said of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The lion’s share of Kagan’s handiwork is a workmanlike chronicling of United States politics and foreign policy from the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba, in 1898 through Pearl Harbor in 1941. The chronicle is meticulous but no literary equivalent of the Hope Diamond. Click for Full Text!
Why Ron Paul Is Right
Post Date: 2023-02-13 16:55:50 by Charles_Byrd
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The great Dr. Ron Paul has been right about all the major issues that confront the world today. He is right about the Fed, the Ukraine war, the FBI, and so much else. How he managed to do that? What has given him wisdom unique on the political scene today? The answer is simple. He has consistently applied to teaching of the greatest political thinker of the twentieth century Murray Rothbard. Ron Paul is a consistent Rothbardian. Let’s look at a few cases where Dr. Paul has been right. Here is what he says about the Ukraine war last October: “Last week the New York Times ran a shocking article claiming that the US intelligence community believes the Ukrainian government to be ...
‘Our Parent in Heaven’: Liberals push for a gender-neutral God
Post Date: 2023-02-13 16:54:19 by Charles_Byrd
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At a time when Church membership has hit an all-time low in the Western world, it might seem odd that Christian leaders appear more determined than ever to alienate what’s left of their dwindling flock through woke nonsense. In December, for example, the Dean of Trinity College left an assembly of worshippers in tears after he argued that the body of Jesus Christ appeared to be “trans.” Part of the reasoning was due to the wound on his side, made by a Roman spear as the son of God hung dying on the cross, which had a “decidedly vaginal appearance.” I will let the reader make of that what they will. Click for Full Text!
Sen. Mike Lee ‘Can’t Rule Out’ That the US Blew Up Nord Stream
Post Date: 2023-02-13 16:52:37 by Charles_Byrd
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Wednesday wrote on Twitter that he “can’t immediately rule out” the idea that the US blew up the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia and Germany. Lee’s comments came after veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an explosive report that detailed how the US sabotaged the pipelines with the cooperation of Norway, allegations the White House denies. Click for Full Text!
Bizarre New Study Floats the Idea of Using Lunar Dust to Mitigate Global Warming
Post Date: 2023-02-13 16:49:11 by Charles_Byrd
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Claiming that “climate change is an existential threat,” a study released on February 8 by researchers from the University of Utah is suggesting that lunar dust could be used to filter sunlight in order to cool down the Earth. Climate hysterics believe that mankind’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other trace atmospheric gases is leading to out-of-control warming, which they believe will cause the planet to be essentially uninhabitable in coming decades. The researchers don’t claim that their new technique of blocking sunlight alone can ease the threat of global warming, but insist that it must be used in conjunction with the elimination of fossil-fuel emissions as a ...
The 1619 Project’s Confusion on Capitalism
Post Date: 2023-02-13 16:47:40 by Charles_Byrd
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A pervasive sense of confusion characterizes Hulu’s new 1619 Project episode on “capitalism,” beginning with the basic definition of its titular term. Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones opens the episode by conceding that “I don’t feel like most of us actually know what capitalism means.” This should have provided her an opportunity for self-reflection on how the embattled project has, over the last three years, trudged its way through the economic dimensions of slavery. Click for Full Text!
The new US plan for calming Palestine-Israel tensions is already failing
Post Date: 2023-02-13 16:44:12 by Charles_Byrd
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The US Biden administration has reportedly presented a plan to cool tensions between Palestinians and Israelis, which have dramatically escalated since the formation of Israel’s new right-wing government. As reported by Axios, following up on a request made by US secretary of State Antony Blinken, during his visit to the Middle East late last month, his Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, stayed behind and worked on presenting a roadmap towards preventing a violent escalation in the region. Antony Blinken had urged both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to “pause” provocative steps in order to ...
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