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Conservatives Must Resist Push to Normalize LGBTism on the Right: MassResistance
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:30:33 by Charles_Byrd
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Conservatives and traditional Americans must resist the relentless push to normalize homosexuality, homosexual "marriage," and transgenderism even within the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement, warned MassResistance Field Director Arthur Schaper in an interview on Conversations That Matter with The New American magazine's Alex Newman. The organization, which is on the front line of the culture war, has seen a series of enormous victories, including shutting down drag queen shows for children, exposing convicted sexual predators involved in the perverse events, and removing grotesque material from libraries and schools. Schaper said the organization has also ...
Congress Has a New Scapegoat for COVID Fraud: Banking Apps
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:10:39 by Charles_Byrd
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App-based financial service firms like PayPal and Square have revolutionized how American consumers and businesses move money around—and now, they're being blamed for COVID-19 relief fraud. Yes, really. In a congressional report published last week, lawmakers on the Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis say widespread fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was supposed to pay shuttered businesses to keep employees on the payroll during the pandemic, should spur calls for new regulations on so-called "fintech" companies. Click for Full Text!
The Supreme Court Will Hear a Second Challenge Over Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:08:42 by Charles_Byrd
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On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear a second challenge over President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness plan. With Biden's plan having been blocked twice in federal court, the Education Department will now have to victory not once but twice in order to finally begin enacting its plan. With a broadly conservative Court, that possibility seems slim. Click for Full Text!
Wichita Falls Pastor Charged With Sexually Assaulting 11-Year-Old Girl
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:07:21 by Charles_Byrd
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Last week, Wichita Falls Police in Texas arrested a pastor for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl. The girl’s family attends his church. Click for Full Text!
Are Free Traders Guilty of Naïve Globalism?
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:06:05 by Charles_Byrd
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Samuel Gregg’s 2022 book, The Next American Economy, is an important and brilliant achievement. Gregg eloquently champions the free, commercial society against its many detractors. Among these detractors, of course, are today’s so- called “national conservatives” (some, but not all, of whom might fairly be described as Trumpian). But no less hostile to the liberal economy that Gregg ably defends are Progressives. While on many fronts national conservatives and Progressives have significant differences, on the economics of international trade, both groups commit the same slew of factual and theoretical errors. Gregg’s manner of exposing these errors is so scholarly, ...
How Will the Blob React if Ukraine Faces Defeat?
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:04:41 by Charles_Byrd
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Given Ukraine’s surprisingly effective counteroffensive against Russian forces in the autumn of 2022, there has been an increasing focus among Western officials and their media allies about Russia’s probable response to an overall Ukrainian triumph in the war. There has been far less discussion about how the United States and its European partners will respond if military fortunes change and NATO’s proxy faces definitive defeat. However, such a discussion is essential to avoid making a serious policy blunder. Western foreign policy experts are split about the Kremlin’s probable response if its military venture in Ukraine implodes. Realists are concerned that Russian ...
And So It Begins: Digital Currency Becomes Possible in our Future
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:03:03 by Charles_Byrd
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In mid-November, while the whole world was focused on the Ukraine crisis, the US midterms or whatever other “big story” the media decided was more important, a truly momentous shift took place in the global financial system. It might seem like a small step on the surface, but it has the potential to bring about a real and possibly irreversible sea change in the way we use money; or better said, the way it uses us. As Reuters reported on the 15th of November, “Global banking giants are starting a 12-week digital dollar pilot with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Citigroup Inc , HSBC Holdings Pl, Mastercard Inc and Wells Fargo & Co are among the financial companies ...
Advent Rest
Post Date: 2022-12-13 17:01:05 by Charles_Byrd
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“At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus says the Lord: The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest, the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you” (Jer. 31:1-3). What a scene! Those words – dripping with promise – begin a chapter with hardly a parallel in all Scripture. And to hear them in their context! After so much rebuke from the “iron prophet of the LORD” (Jeremiah 1:18), for a people who would lose their homeland, their daily life, and their ...
Seared souls: How we abuse our children
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:58:34 by Charles_Byrd
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Since I’m going to be criticizing a now widely accepted phenomenon, this piece may evoke eyerolls from some supporters. So be it, because certain things need to be said. I must confess that with the way many of my fellow adults behave today, it can make me ashamed to be one. I almost sometimes feel as if I want to apologize to the children for the example the contemporary grown-up world now sets. We often lament, and rightly so, how disrespectful many modern youths are, yet a prerequisite for commanding respect is being respectable. There is little respectable about modern American culture. Click for Full Text!
Hong Kong Tycoon Jimmy Lai Jailed on Fraud Charge
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:53:48 by Charles_Byrd
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was sentenced to a jail sentence of five years and nine months on December 10 after being convicted of fraud in a contractual dispute. Lai, the 75-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, had just finished a 20-month jail term due to various charges, such as his role in demonstrations and gatherings deemed illegal by the pro-Beijing regime. Click for Full Text!
Biden Freak Show Loses Cast Member: Bald Sadist Brinton Fired After Luggage Thefts
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:52:27 by Charles_Byrd
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The nation’s nuclear waste program will no longer be in the hands of a bald, mustachioed weirdo who wears dresses, heels, and lipstick to his job at the Energy Department. The Department has fired Sam Brinton, deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, because he has been charged twice with stealing luggage from airport carousels. Click for Full Text!
Household Wealth Suffers Second-fastest Decline Since 1959
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:51:08 by Charles_Byrd
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A recent U.S. Federal Reserve report found that household wealth in the United States has suffered its second-fastest decline since 1959 during the first three quarters of this year. Only a positive performance in real estate helped ease the decline. The Fed’s Financial Accounts of the United States report shared, “The net worth of households and nonprofit organizations declined $0.4 trillion to $143.3 trillion in the third quarter. The value of stocks on the household balance sheet declined by $1.9 trillion, while the value of real estate increased by $0.7 trillion,” Click for Full Text!
Where Does ChatGPT Fall on the Political Compass?
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:49:36 by Charles_Byrd
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OpenAI recently released ChatGPT, one of the most impressive conversational artificial intelligence systems ever created. In the first five days after its debut on November 30, over 1 million people had already interacted with the system. Since ChatGPT provides responses to almost any query provided to it, I decided to use several political orientation tests to determine whether its answers display a skew toward any particular political ideology. Click for Full Text!
Florida Officer Shoots and Kills Man Mid-Sentence for Refusing To Drop an Axe
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:47:53 by Charles_Byrd
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Newly released body-camera footage appears to show an unidentified Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff's Office law-enforcement officer shooting and killing a man holding an axe after refusing an order to put it down and attempting to talk to the officer. The shooting happened in Jacksonville last April. According to First Coast News, police were called out by a report of a "mentally ill" man cutting power to people's homes and vandalizing them. Body camera footage shows an officer encountering Kevin Mahan, 43, on a property, standing behind some bushes. He was holding an axe, but seemingly alone and not threatening anybody. The officer approaches and orders Mahan several ...
Senate Investigation Finds Federal Prisons Fail to Prevent or Investigate Rapes
Post Date: 2022-12-13 16:47:03 by Charles_Byrd
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The federal Bureau of Prison's deeply flawed, backlogged system for investigating sexual assault fails to protect female inmates from rape while protecting employees who commit sexual assault, according to a bipartisan report issued today by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI). The PSI investigation found that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has failed to implement a federal law to prevent prison rapes, and that long delays in investigating complaints have led to a backlog of more than 8,000 internal affairs cases, leading to failures to hold employees accountable. The report says that these management failures "allowed serious, repeated sexual abuse in at least ...
The War Caucus Always Wins
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:58:17 by Charles_Byrd
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THE DOMINANT POLITICAL STORY emanating from Washington, D.C., these days centers around the battles between the Trumpist movement and the bipartisan “adults in the room” caucus — the Democratic Party and fragments of the Republican Party consisting of lawmakers and politicians who have affirmed the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Often obscured by the media focus on this clash is the enduring influence of a long-standing faction of the U.S. power structure: the bipartisan war caucus. Throughout the Trump and Biden administrations, the U.S. has been on an escalating trajectory toward a new Cold War featuring the prime adversaries from the ...
US Announces New $275 Million Arms Package for Ukraine
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:56:25 by Charles_Byrd
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The US on Friday announced a new $275 million arms package for Ukraine that includes ammunition for the HIMARS rocket systems, marking the 27th drawdown from US military stockpiles for the Ukrainians. Announcing the new package, the Pentagon said that the US has pledged over $19.3 billion in military equipment for Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24. The funds for the new arms are being pulled from the previous Ukraine aid spending bill that was approved in September. Click for Full Text!
The Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Gets $858 Billion Anyway
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:55:10 by Charles_Byrd
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Can you imagine the audacity to fail a multi-trillion dollar audit of public funds, and then ask for even more of those taxpayer dollars? Pentagon leaders just did exactly that. Click for Full Text!
Pentagon Gives Tacit Support for Ukrainian Drone Attacks Deep Inside Russia
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:53:09 by Charles_Byrd
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The Pentagon has given its tacit endorsement of Ukrainian attacks inside Russian territory and no longer fears such operations could lead to a “dramatic” Russian escalation, The Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed US defense officials. The US position appears to only be based on the fact that up to this point, Russia hasn’t responded to attacks on its territory with nuclear weapons or by attacking NATO countries. Click for Full Text!
New spending bill squanders billions on dysfunctional weapons programs
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:50:24 by Charles_Byrd
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Sometimes more is less. So it is with the House and Senate’s compromise version of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that was made public this week and was passed by the House on Thursday. The bill calls for near record levels of Pentagon spending, but it chooses to devote much of the funding to costly, dysfunctional weapons systems that are ill-suited to addressing current challenges, largely because many of the weapons boosted in the NDAA were chosen based on where they are built, not whether they are the best systems for defending the United States and its allies. Pork barrel politics ruled the day to an extent not seen in recent memory, and we may all ...
Finland Doesn’t Have a Clear Date on When Turkey Will Approve NATO Bid
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:48:03 by Charles_Byrd
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Finland’s foreign minister said Thursday that while there’s been progress alleviating Turkey’s concerns on Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO bids, there is still no “clear date” on when Ankara will ratify their memberships. “What we are still missing is the clear date, a clear plan for the Turkish parliament to deal with this issue,” Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said at a press conference with his Swedish counterpart and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington. Click for Full Text!
California City Pays $300,000 to Marine Veteran Tackled for Filming a Cop From His Porch
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:40:12 by Charles_Byrd
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A Marine veteran who was tackled on his own porch for filming a police officer has settled an excessive force lawsuit against the city of Vallejo, California, for $300,000, the Vallejo Sun reports. The settlement is yet another in a string of costly excessive force lawsuits against the city of Vallejo. Despite its relatively small size, the Vallejo Police Department has generated a large number of civil rights lawsuits and settlement payouts. Click for Full Text!
Brickbat: Flatlining
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:38:12 by Charles_Byrd
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The German government is denying reports that it plans to ban energy price increases next year. Rather, it says it plans to require energy companies to prove that any increases in electricity or natural gas prices are necessary before it will allow them. Click for Full Text!
Jennyfer’s Story: Better Off Dead
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:37:00 by Charles_Byrd
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Every day doctors kill about 40 Canadians. The government euphemism for this is “Medical Assistance in Dying”. Under Canada’s euthanasia legislation MAiD is open to anyone who is experiencing “unbearable physical or mental suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline that cannot be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable”. A Vancouver woman named Jennyfer Hatch died on October 23 at the hands of a MAiD doctor. She was suffering from a rare disease, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, which gave her constant pain. There is no cure for EDS; the best doctors can do is manage the symptoms and check for complications. Click for Full Text!
The Antidote to ‘Toxic’ Masculinity
Post Date: 2022-12-12 16:35:33 by Charles_Byrd
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Marine veteran Terry Bagley, a 70-year-old father of five who does housekeeping at a Veterans Affairs hospital, was walking to buy items for Thanksgiving in the Pigtown area of Baltimore, Maryland, on the Tuesday afternoon before the holiday. On his way to the market, a rowhome on the block exploded—likely from a ruptured gas line. Bagley reportedly wasted no time hurrying to the rescue of anyone who might be trapped inside the burning building. Firefighters later found him in the rubble. Bagley, in critical condition, was placed in a medically induced coma. His injuries—including a broken pelvis, femur, and hand—will require surgery. (A GoFundMe page set up for the Vietnam ...
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