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November 17, 2021
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Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner Rises Twice as Fast as Wages . . . Your Thanksgiving Day meal is going to cost about 8% more, nearly twice the increase in average weekly earnings since a year ago. For a family gathering of 10, expect to spend about $85 during President Joe Biden’s first Thanksgiving year in office, roughly $6 more than last November, when Donald Trump was president. Ironically, the Biden administration boasted just
months ago that a Fourth of July barbecue would run 16 cents less than it did in 2020.
Unfortunately, your Thanksgiving feast will eat through those saved pennies. The cost of turkey this Thanksgiving appears to be closing the gap with the price of filet mignon last year, jumping 21% since last Thanksgiving. Some families may forgo the traditional meal altogether—due to shortages rather than price. Earlier this month, more than 60% of stores didn’t even have turkeys in stock. Daily Signal
US could run out of cash as soon as Dec. 15, Janet Yellen warns . . . The US government could run out of cash and be forced to default on its debt if lawmakers fail to raise the debt ceiling by Dec. 15, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Tuesday. “To ensure the full faith and credit of the United States, it is critical that Congress raise or suspend the debt limit as soon as possible,” she wrote Tuesday in a letter to Congressional
leaders. “While I have a high degree of confidence that Treasury will be able to finance the US government through December 15 and complete the Highway Trust Fund investment, there are scenarios in which Treasury would be left with insufficient remaining resources to continue to finance the operations of the US government beyond this date,” she added. New York Post
Wait till the Leftists bring Socialism to America. Then everything will be free and we will have no need for cash at all! Problem solved.
Biden’s New Deal Ambitions Run Into Political, Economic Constraints . . . President Biden and his aides invoke liberal icons Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson as role models for the historical impression he hopes to leave. His chief of staff, Ron Klain, late last month boasted that Mr. Biden’s spending plan is “twice as big, in real dollars, as the New Deal.” In dollars alone, Mr. Biden’s program is indeed
big. But there are big differences between the political and economic landscape those earlier presidents faced and the present day that have already circumscribed Mr. Biden’s plans and raise questions about their durability. Roosevelt, whose portrait is prominently displayed in Mr. Biden’s Oval Office, confronted unprecedented economic devastation as his party enjoyed massive congressional majorities, unlike today’s nearly evenly divided Washington. Wall Street Journal
House GOP eyes probes of Afghan pullout, Fauci, Hunter Biden if they win back majority . . . House Republicans, who are increasingly confident they will take back the majority next year, say they will launch tough oversight investigations of the Biden administration and hold accountable Democratic lawmakers who abused majority rule against GOP members. Republicans told The Washington Times they will launch a series of committee
investigations including digging into the Justice Department’s coordination with the White House to investigate parents protesting their school boards, the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and issues related to Hunter Biden, President Biden‘s son. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, ran down a list of issues he would like to hit should Republicans get the gavels after next year’s elections. Washington Times
Democrats Slipping With Asian-American Voters . . . Frustrated over left-leaning candidates' rejection of merit-based testing and gifted and talented education programs, Asian-American voters are turning away from the Democratic Party.
In recent elections, such as New York City's mayoral race and Virginia's gubernatorial race, Democrats have underperformed with Asian-American voters. Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa bested Democrat Eric Adams in majority-Asian districts in Brooklyn and Queens. And while exit polls reveal a majority of Asian Americans still back Democrats, the margin of support for liberal candidates over conservative ones is shrinking. Washington Free Beacon
Welcome packet reveals concierge travel service for Biden illegals, courtesy of nonprofits . . . Like travel agents preparing customers for a cruise, nonprofits working with the Biden administration have created detailed itineraries and information packets to help illegal aliens travel to wherever they want to go in the U.S., according to documents obtained by a Texas congressman. Often courtesy of American taxpayers struggling to pay
their bills during surging inflation, illegals are given free quality hotel rooms, plane tickets and transportation to the airport, travel maps, and instructions to TSA to bypass photo ID requirements. Just the News
Top Biden Aide’s Lobbyist Brother Wins Presidential Visit for Client . . . After paying the lobbyist brother of a top White House aide nearly $200,000 this year, auto giant General Motors has won an official visit from the president to showcase its new electric vehicle factory. Jeff Ricchetti, the brother of Biden’s longtime political consigliere Steve Ricchetti, has disclosed $160,000 in payments from General Motors since President Joe
Biden took office to lobby the White House and Congress on electric vehicle tax incentives, according to his firm’s lobbying disclosure forms. The investment appears to have paid off—on Wednesday, Biden will attend the grand opening of the company’s new electric vehicle factory as part of his push for Congress to "approve big tax incentives for zero-emission vehicles," precisely what Ricchetti was paid to push for. Washington Free Beacon
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FBI created ‘threat tags’ over alleged harassment of educators, whistleblower says . . . The FBI created a “threat tag” over alleged menacing statements made against school administrators and teachers in accordance with a memo issued by the Justice Department, an internal email showed. The email, dated Oct. 20, was released Tuesday by House Judiciary Committee Republicans, who said the missive was proof that federal counterterrorism was
being deployed against parents at school board meetings. The email, which House Republicans said came from a whistleblower, showed the creation of the tag “EDUOFFICIALS” to track related threats. “We ask that your offices apply the threat tag to investigations and assessments of threats specifically directed against school board administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” the email to the Criminal Investigative and Counterterrorism divisions, says. New York Post
Soviet Playbook.
FBI Stonewalling Congress on Kaseya Ransomware Investigation . . . Lawmakers say they have received scant information from the FBI about a recent ransomware investigation, with top bureau officials offering few answers about decisions that cost U.S. businesses millions of dollars and produced questionable results. During a Nov. 16 House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on ransomware, the FBI was questioned about its handling of the
July attack against U.S. IT company Kaseya—in which hackers from the ransomware group REvil exploited a vulnerability in Kaseya software to exfiltrate the data of some 1,500 U.S. businesses, schools, hospitals, and other entities. In September, it was revealed that the FBI had obtained a decryption key in July that would have allowed the hundreds of victim entities to retrieve their data, but agents withheld the key because they didn’t want to tip off REvil about a major law enforcement
operation they were planning. The FBI never had a chance to execute its planned operation against REvil, as the group went offline in late July. Epoch Times
Surge in Fentanyl Seizures Show Cartels Taking Advantage of Lax Border Policies, DHS Officials Say . . . Customs and Border Protection's fentanyl seizures skyrocketed by over 40 percent in the month of October, as drug traffickers and cartels take advantage of the border crisis. Agency data show that CBP agents last month captured nearly 1,050 pounds of the lethal opioid, the fifth-highest amount in three years. For comparison, the amount
of fentanyl seized in October is more than 2.5 times the amount the agency seized in the first three months of 2019 and roughly 40 percent of the amount seized in all of 2019. The high amount of fentanyl busts coincides with skyrocketing opiate overdoses across the country—the Centers for Disease Control recorded a record-high 12-month overdose death toll between March 2020 and March 2021 with no signs of deceleration through the end of this year. Washington Free Beacon.
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Biden, Xi Open to Nuclear-Arms Talks, White House Says . . . President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China have agreed to explore talks on arms control, a top White House official said, a day after the two used a virtual meeting to emphasize the need to avoid conflict on regional security and economic matters. “The two leaders agreed that we would look to begin to carry forward discussions on strategic stability,”
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday. Mr. Sullivan made clear the discussion was tentative. “It is now incumbent on us to think about the most productive way to carry it forward from here,” he said in response to a question about China’s growing military prowess during an event at the Brookings Institution think tank. Nuclear-arms talks, should they materialize, would be one of the few concrete outcomes from Monday night’s meeting, which ran more than three
hours and saw Messrs. Biden and Xi holding firm to their positions on a range of issues, including Taiwan. The overall benefit of the meeting, experts said, was keeping lines of communication open. Wall Street Journal
Note to Biden's "experts": Do your homework. China will not give up its nukes. No need to waste time talking about "strategic stability and all the diplotalk nonsense. Build a deterrent. Former president Trump authorized the development of a low yield nuke capability. Press on with that and operationalize this capability. Fast. Will work for both, for China and Russia.
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Accounting games: Democrats are downplaying the price of their massive spending bill, watchdog says . . . As House Democrats push to finally vote for their massive reconciliation spending bill before Thanksgiving, budget watchdogs are arguing their estimates are systematically undercounting how much the bill will cost taxpayers. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) is the loudest among these voices. It
released a report Monday saying that the real cost of the reconciliation bill could be nearly $5 trillion if programs that are being artificially cut short are made permanent. "They want to spend $2.4 trillion and buy with that almost $5 trillion worth of stuff. So the way they're doing that is by making a number of the policies temporary," CRFB senior vice president Marc Goldwein told Fox News. Fox Business
Biden’s $390B universal preschool plan based on troubled Head Start program . . . President Biden has modeled his universal preschool plan — the biggest expansion of publicly subsidized education in more than 100 years — on Head Start, a preschool program for poor children that even the federal government says has no discernible impact on participants.
The new $390 billion universal preschool plan is one of the most expensive and extensive proposals in Mr. Biden‘s $1.75 trillion social welfare and climate bill. It would offer preschool to every 3- and 4-year-old in the U.S. Supporters of universal preschool, also known as universal pre-kindergarten, say the benefits are multitudinous. It will close the educational gap for low-income families, boost workforce participation among parents and better prepare children for the classroom, they
say. Washington Times
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Budowsky: 10 million should march on DC, for earth and democracy . . . Around Earth Day next April, 10 million Americans should march on Washington to save the earth from the ravages of climate change that could destroy her, and rally for the preservation of democracy that is now under attack across America and around the world. This march should be a protest march against those who threaten the earth and attack
democracy. It should be an aspirational march and call to action for those who dream and work for a better country and better world. It should be an all-out mobilization for the 2022 midterm elections starring the silent majority of Americans who believe in saving the earth and defending democracy, and seek to elect the next Senate and House that would turn these dreams into the policy of the nation and send a powerful message across the globe. The Hill
Hmm. I wonder who are those guys that are threatening the earth.
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New Book Reveals The Organization That Really Controls The Black Lives Matter Movement
What follows is an excerpt from my friend Charles Love’s “Race Crazy: BLM, 1619, And The Progressive Racism Movement."
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If Black Lives Matter is the chaos arm of the movement, the Movement for Black Lives is the operating system. How a group so connected, so influential, and so well-funded can operate with no exposure in the age of social media is both a testament to its power and a sad statement of how far the media has fallen.
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It would be so much simpler to have one or two organizations with chapters throughout the country. It would result in
easier fundraising and better messaging. But the Black Lives Matter movement is a complicated web of connected groups.
It is basically a race-based Ponzi scheme.
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The most interesting thing about Black Lives Matter is not their IRS status; it is the fact that there is no longer a
Black Lives Matter organization. They maintain a page and the means to accept donations, and that is really all that remains of the original organization. Black Lives Matter is largely controlled by the Movement for Black Lives and Black Lives Matter Global Foundation. Daily Caller
Please support Charles Love's work by ordering his book Race Crazy.
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Kenosha Residents Paint Their Doorposts With 'Black Lives Matter' In Preparation For Verdict . . . In order to protect their lives and homes, Kenosha residents are painting "Black Lives Matter" over their doorposts just in case local Antifa communist rioters don't like the Rittenhouse verdict and decide to burn the city down again.
"We hope this small gesture of fealty to the Antifa enforcers will keep us safe," said Dale Cheesehead, local husband and father of 4. "Perhaps they will see the graffiti on my doorposts and spare my firstborn son, as well as my three other kids, my wife, my dog, my cars and my house. Please don't burn down our house Antifa!" Experts are warning that unless Kyle Rittenhouse is found guilty, Antifa will torch the whole place to protest the self-defense killing of 2 white attackers, in order
to demonstrate that black lives matter.
CNN is even warning that protests could be even worse than last year, when they were mostly peaceful. "If Rittenhouse isn't found guilty, we may even see partially non-peaceful protests this year," said one anchor. Babylon Bee
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