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YouGov Poll: Inflation Top Issue for 118th Congress to Address
Post Date: 2023-01-09 00:06:56 by Charles_Byrd
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Addressing inflation is widely the No. 1 issue for Congress, according to U.S. adult residents in the latest YouGov poll. Lowering inflation (76%) was the No. 1 issue for newly seated 118th Congress to address, while "protecting Social Security and Medicare" (71%) was a close second. Reducing crime (63%) and increasing U.S. energy production (54%) were the only other issues to draw a majority of support. Click for Full Text!
President Biden’s Food and Drug Administration Allows Retail Pharmacies to Dispense Abortion Drugs
Post Date: 2023-01-09 00:05:09 by Charles_Byrd
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On Tuesday, January 3rd, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated labeling for mifepristone (generic for Mifeprex) that would allow pharmacies to dispense the drug. Unfortunately, both CVS and Walgreens have stated that they will sell the drug in select pharmacies which would place women at greater risk than ever before. Click for Full Text!
IRS Audits Targeted Poor at Higher Rate Than Millionaires in '22
Post Date: 2023-01-09 00:03:50 by Charles_Byrd
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New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in his acceptance speech repealing the funding for "funding for 87,000 new IRS agents" will be "our first bill" – and that came amid a recent report finding a far-higher audit rate for lower-income taxpayers than millionaires. Still, the report spins that data to suggest more agents are needed to go after millionaires more, rather than reduce the effort to scrape from the poor to fund the Democrats' big-spending agenda. Click for Full Text!
Texas Gov. Abbott: Biden's Border Visit Two Years, $20B Too Late
Post Date: 2023-01-09 00:02:17 by Charles_Byrd
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President Joe Biden's visit to El Paso Sunday is coming "two years too late and about $20 billion short of what needs to be done," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday. "All he's going to do down there is rearrange the chairs on the deck of the Titanic," the Texas Republican told Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo. "He's not going to achieve any solutions that will make the border safer, more secure, and stop illegal immigration." Click for Full Text!
The media are promoting Nitschke and Sarco…..again
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:59:43 by Charles_Byrd
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Philip Nitschke, also known as Dr. Death, is being promoted again for his Sarco suicide machine. Before making comments on the latest media promotion of Nitschke and Sarco, let it be known that Nitschke is in the business of suicide. He sells suicide kits, suicide substances, suicide instruction books, suicide gadgets and he provides online suicide advice. He is a suicide zealot. Click for Full Text!
Bolsonaro Backers Ransack Brazil Presidential Palace, Congress, Supreme Court
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:57:49 by Charles_Byrd
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Supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and defaced the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on Sunday, in a grim echo of the U.S. Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President Donald Trump. There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries from their rampage, but the invaders left a trail of destruction, throwing furniture through the smashed windows of the presidential palace, flooding parts of Congress with a sprinkler system and ransacking ceremonial rooms in the Supreme Court. Click for Full Text!
Idaho Supreme Court rejects Planned Parenthood, upholds near-total abortion ban
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:56:15 by Charles_Byrd
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In a 3-2 decision, the Idaho Supreme Court Thursday upheld three abortion- related laws, including the “trigger” law which took effect immediately after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. The outcome was “foreshadowed” last August when the Court “declined to stay the implementation of these laws in another 3-2 decision,” wrote James Dawson for Boise State Public Radio News. Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon applauded the decision. “The Idaho Supreme Court followed the basic canons of constitutional interpretation and found that our constitution does not include an implied right to abort the unborn.” She added, “Our ...
Conservatives Take Aim at Tenure for University Professors
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:54:48 by Charles_Byrd
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When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asked Texas colleges to disavow critical race theory, the University of Texas faculty approved a resolution defending their freedom to decide for themselves how to teach about race. Patrick said he took it as a message to "go to hell." Click for Full Text!
Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:53:16 by Charles_Byrd
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The ancient Romans were masters of engineering, constructing vast networks of roads, aqueducts, ports, and massive buildings, whose remains have survived for two millennia. Many of these structures were built with concrete: Rome’s famed Pantheon, which has the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome and was dedicated in A.D. 128, is still intact, and some ancient Roman aqueducts still deliver water to Rome today. Meanwhile, many modern concrete structures have crumbled after a few decades. Researchers have spent decades trying to figure out the secret of this ultradurable ancient construction material, particularly in structures that endured especially harsh conditions, such ...
Biden to Meet with Mexican President, Days After Son of 'El Chapo' Bust
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:51:01 by Charles_Byrd
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The son of Mexican drug cartel leader “El Chapo” has been arrested – only four days before President Biden is due to visit the drug-plagued country. Ovidio Guzman is wanted for contributing to the fentanyl epidemic that led to as many as 70,000 American deaths last year. Signally the chaos in Mexico, in seizing Guzman, 29 people were killed in shootouts with the Sinaloa Cartel. Click for Full Text!
Biden Inspects Busy Port of Entry Along US-Mexico Border
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:48:52 by Charles_Byrd
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President Joe Biden inspected a busy port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday, his first trip to the region after two years in office as Republicans hammer him for being soft on border security while the number of migrants crossing spirals. He did not meet with migrants or see the area where they are camped out during his visit, MSNBC reported. The network spoke with migrants who said they were under the impression Biden would visit and had planned to ask him to speed up the process to allow them entry into the country. Click for Full Text!
Surveillance State: What The #TwitterFiles Mean For America, Ukraine And Libertarianism
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:47:26 by Charles_Byrd
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The #TwitterFiles are fast becoming the greatest glimpse behind the veil of America’s out-of-control surveillance state since 2013, when Edward Snowden heroically sacrificed his career and citizenship to reveal the blatantly unconstitutional and dangerous surveillance of the American people by the NSA. Now — thanks to great reporting by Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, Michael Shellenberger and David Zweig — they have proven beyond any doubt that the “intelligence community” has been manipulating the digital press in the United States for years. Led by the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the CIA, the surveillance state ...
Faithfulness, education, and empowerment; How one center uses these to serve women
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:43:47 by Charles_Byrd
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Faithfulness plays a significant role in the work of pregnancy help ministries, according to a Tennessee pregnancy medical clinic staff member, whose community experienced a dramatic decrease in the number of abortions performed in her community. When Life Choices Pregnancy Medical Clinic in Memphis first began more than 25 years ago, nearly 13,000 abortions were performed in the county, said Rachel Davis, Community Outreach Coordinator. Click for Full Text!
FBI May Have Employees Embedded in Media, DOJ Report Suggests
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:41:34 by Charles_Byrd
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A report released by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General on the FBI’s shoddy oversight of its operations also alluded to the bureau possibly having employees secretly operating in the media. The OIG released this report Dec. 20 to little fanfare. Though heavily redacted, the document outlined the FBI’s failures to conduct proper oversight of its undercover activities. Click for Full Text!
Measuring the Impact of Dobbs in the Coming Years: Part One
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:39:59 by Charles_Byrd
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To any observer, the overturning of Roe was obviously an enormously significant event in our nation’s history and a political watershed. Abortion was no longer, by the Supreme Court’s fiat, legal in all fifty states, throughout pregnancy, for any and every reason or none at all. But for pro-lifers, it represented so much more. It meant, for the first time in nearly half a century that states would have the actual legal authority to protect unborn children, in many cases, from the moment of conception forward. Lives could be saved. Click for Full Text!
New York Times Blames 'Deregulation' for Regulated Electric Costs
Post Date: 2023-01-07 06:18:05 by Charles_Byrd
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As Americans recover from the recent winter storms, many are also bracing for an additional onslaught when they get their monthly electric bill. Retail electric prices are up in recent years, and while this can be attributed to everything from the war in Ukraine to broader inflationary trends, a recent article in The New York Times claims to have identified the real culprit: deregulation! According to the Times, "residents living in a deregulated market pay $40 more per month for electricity than those in the states that let individual utilities control most or all parts of the grid." The Times notes that so-called deregulated states tend to spend more on transmission lines and ...
Is There an Economic Bomb Cyclone Ahead?
Post Date: 2023-01-07 06:15:11 by Charles_Byrd
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First of all, nobody knows what will happen next with the economy. On the one hand our Democratic friends seem to think that their supercalifragilisticexpialidocious omnibus spending bill and glorious Inflation Reduction Act are already steering us to the green and pleasant land of woke Jerusalem. Click for Full Text!
Purge and Cleanse, No Loose Ends
Post Date: 2023-01-07 06:12:56 by Charles_Byrd
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It’s a tradition ’round these parts (and by “these parts” I mean my desktop, comfy chair, and rum bottle) to end December by cleaning house of interesting bits and pieces I didn’t get to use during the year. Normally, this housecleaning consists of unused back-and-forths with journalists and academics. But this year’s different: I had no such exchanges. This year, practically everyone I reached out to would only speak off-the-record. I attribute this to the fact that 2022 was the year in which talentless predatory hacks like Taylor Lorenz and Felicia Sonmez scanned their colleagues’ tweets for cancellation material. So journalists got cold feet about ...
Turkey’s Erdogan Flips Syria on Its Head
Post Date: 2023-01-07 06:08:50 by Charles_Byrd
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While we are all, rightfully, worried about what’s going on in Ukraine, those sneaky Russians are shoring up their situation on the south shores of the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean. As reported last week the meeting between Russia, Turkiye, and Syria took place between their Defense Ministers where they all described the talks as ‘constructive’ towards solving multiple outstanding issues like refugees and the backing of radicals. Click for Full Text!
Technology and Transhumanism
Post Date: 2023-01-07 06:06:55 by Charles_Byrd
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Technology wins wars. The technologically advanced civilization generally wins out over the less advanced civilization. The almost cliché example of this is the Spanish Conquistadors rapid conquest of central American civilization. The Conquistadors were greeting like gods as they emerged from the sea. Disease played a tremendous part too, but it was gun powder and steel that won day. The bronze age weaponry and technology gave way to iron age civilizations as iron swords sliced through bronze swords. Alexander’s phalanx steam rolled less organize armies. The military technology and engineering of the Roman legions marched through the Mediterranean world. The advanced ...
Natural Rights, Natural Law, and Liberty
Post Date: 2023-01-07 06:05:00 by Charles_Byrd
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It seems Michael Anton wants to define American conservatism. He accuses the other side of playing this game, but there are not many “conservatives” who have spilled as much ink on the topic as Anton in the last couple of years. I had it out with him in 2021. Now, he has directed his fire at others who are questioning the underpinnings of the West Coast Straussian view of the American founding. Click for Full Text!
FBI boosts reward for capture of Capitol Hill pipe bomber
Post Date: 2023-01-06 01:28:16 by Charles_Byrd
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The FBI Washington Field Office announced that it was increasing its reward for information regarding the Capitol Hill pipe bomber days before the second anniversary of Jan. 6. Two pipe bombs were found at the Republican and Democratic National Committees leading the FBI to conduct an investigation and offer an initial reward of $100,000. The FBI announced the new reward of $500,000 Wednesday on its official Twitter account with pictures of the suspect and the bombs. Click for Full Text!
Fighter jet production grinds to halt after crash
Post Date: 2023-01-06 01:26:47 by Charles_Byrd
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The engine supplier for Lockheed Martin’s highly-sought F-35 fighter jet has suspended deliveries while an investigation into a December accident proceeds, Defense News reported Wednesday, stalling hundreds of planned jet deliveries. The Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), the Defense Contract Management Agency and engine maker Pratt & Whitney came to a “mutual agreement” to block new engine deliveries on Dec. 27, the JPO told Defense News. The JPO grounded a small group of newer jets after an F-35B variety crashed on a Texas runway earlier that month and is conducting an investigation into the cause of the accident. Click for Full Text!
Economic Reality Is Far Too Complex to Be Improved By Trade Restrictions
Post Date: 2023-01-06 01:24:56 by Charles_Byrd
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My recent column on the need to theorize carefully about comparative advantage provoked several people to share with me, by email, their objections to my case for a policy of unilateral free trade. Some of these objections miss their mark because they reflect a failure to distinguish real-world facts that are relevant to the point being made from facts that are irrelevant. To increase the clarity of one of my arguments about trade I used automobiles as a hypothetical example. I explained that, because the word “automobiles” refers to many different kinds of vehicles, producers in one country can have a comparative advantage at producing one kind of automobile (say, small sedans) ...
How the COVID vaccines can kill athletes
Post Date: 2023-01-06 01:23:08 by Charles_Byrd
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When is the press going to start telling people the truth about the vaccines? I’m starting to think the answer is never. Click for Full Text!
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