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April 27, 2021
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Biden bets 'big government' is back . . . When President Biden delivers a joint address to Congress on Wednesday evening, he won’t just be advocating specific policies. He’ll be making the case that Americans want bigger government. The Biden bet is that the public has warmed to the idea of a more interventionist government. There is some polling that backs up Biden’s case. The president is himself riding high in the polls,
especially in relation to his handling of the pandemic. But Americans have historically been much more resistant to activist government. The concepts of rugged individualism and personal responsibility are deeply embedded in America. The Hill
AOC: Biden is even better than the left expected! . . . Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez says Biden is turning out to be even more of a socialist than she expected. A lot of people are attributing this to his left-wing advisers, pulling him away from his centrist tendencies. What centrist tendencies? Biden has always been liberal, never considered among the moderates in the Senate. White House Dossier
Kamala Harris to Lead White House Task Force Encouraging Union Membership . . . The White House on Monday announced a new labor union task force, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris, to encourage and promote union membership in the US
The White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment will be comprised of several other top administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who will be the committee’s vice chairman, the administration announced. President Joe Biden was to sign an executive order formally creating the task force later in the day. Daily Signal
Uninvited Trump is specter at GOP retreat . . . He’s no longer in the White House, and was not invited to speak, but former President Trump remains an outsize presence at the House Republicans' policy retreat in central Florida this week. The specter of Trump is looming over every move at the annual gathering in Orlando — a retreat designed to unify a fractured Republican Party that’s simultaneously confronting a new Democratic president,
racing to win back majorities in the House and Senate in 2022, and fighting to find its footing in a post-Trump Washington. The Hill
‘Dangerous Uptick’ in Illegal Immigration Attempts by Train: CBP . . . Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in El Paso, Texas, have noted a significant increase in attempts to illegally enter the United States by train in the past year. The border control agency has warned hopeful aliens not to do so because the practice is highly dangerous. “It is happening almost every time CBP officers in El Paso process an arriving freight
train from Mexico,” a CBP release states. “Migrants are discovered attempting to use the railroad system to enter the country undetected.” The illegal aliens come mainly from Mexico and Central America. Epoch Times
Border Patrol union chief says Biden is enriching organized crime . . . National Border Patrol Council Brandon Judd Monday said President Biden is the top president we have had — when it comes to ruinous polices on the border. This includes not just illegal immigration and suffering for those forced into internment camps, but an influx of drugs. “Nobody has done worse on board security than president Biden. Nobody has done more to
enrich organized crime than president Biden. Nobody has put women and children under more danger tham President Biden has,” said Judd. White House Dossier
Feds Won’t Say How Kamala’s Book Ended Up In Welcome Bags For Migrant Children . . . A federal agency has not explained who provided copies of Vice President Kamala Harris’ children’s book to migrant children at a facility in Long Beach, California. Harris’s book “Superheroes Are Everywhere” was included with clothing and hygiene items in welcome packs given to unaccompanied migrant minors at the Long Beach Convention &
Entertainment Center. The department did not respond to multiple requests for comment about who provided the welcome packs for the unaccompanied children or how Harris’s children’s book was reportedly included in the pack. Daily Caller
Supreme Court To Decide Whether Americans Can Carry Guns in Public . . . The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will hear a major gun rights case later this year asking whether Americans have a constitutional right to carry firearms outside the home. The justices will hear a challenge to a New York law that requires anyone seeking a license to carry a gun in public prove they have a good reason to do so. The National Rifle Association
and 23 states back the challenge. "Perhaps the single most important unresolved Second Amendment question … is whether the Second Amendment secures the individual right to bear arms for self-defense where confrontations often occur: outside the home," the pro-gun challengers' petition reads. Washington Free
Beacon
GOP calls for Kerry to resign for telling Iran about Israeli covert actions . . . John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy for climate change, is facing calls for his resignation from Republican lawmakers and pundits for reportedly discussing Israeli military operations with Iran’s foreign minister when he served as then-President Obama’s secretary of State. Republican blowback is running the gamut from calling for Kerry to leave his position
as the top official addressing climate change to calling for an investigation and his prosecution. Biden administration officials are dismissing the allegations, saying the information Kerry allegedly shared was widely known at the time. White House Dossier
Resign, or maybe go to jail. Let’s see the uproar in the press.
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Iranian Ships Swarmed US Coast Guard Ships in Persian Gulf, Navy Says . . . A group of boats from Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps harassed two U.S. Coast Guard vessels earlier this month in the Persian Gulf, Navy officials said, the first such incident in a year. The incident occurred April 2, just as the U.S. and Iran announced they would conduct negotiations toward renewing the 2015
multilateral nuclear accord. Those talks began earlier this month in Vienna. The episode hasn’t been previously disclosed. U.S. Navy officials confirmed that three fast-attack crafts and one ship known as Harth 55, a 180-foot, twin-hulled support vessel, swarmed the two Coast Guard ships while they were patrolling international waters in the southern portion of the Persian Gulf. Wall Street Journal
Pentagon's 'extremism' blunder – this move could make US military even more political . . . The Pentagon created a policy mess nine years ago by trying to tackle "extremism" in the military, and it’s about to get a lot messier. In 2012, it amended DOD Instruction 1325.06, which outlines activities from which military personnel are prohibited. The rule was reasonably clear before – it said active-duty personnel cannot "actively advocate
supremacist doctrine, ideology or causes, including those that advance, encourage or advocate illegal discrimination based on race, creed, color, sex, religion, ethnicity or national origin…" It also said military personnel can’t actively participate in any groups that advocate this discrimination. Fox News
A covert operation, to root out conservatives from the ranks, under the guise of neutralizing a 'security' threat. This is how it is perceived some of my by 'non-woke' former DOD colleagues and friends.
Escalating Tensions Between Russia and US Imperil Wrongfully Imprisoned Americans . . . The family members of two former Marines wrongfully imprisoned in Russia fear that escalating tensions between the Biden administration and the Putin regime may endanger the lives of detainees. Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed, two former Marines, have been imprisoned by Russia since 2018 and 2019, respectively, on what embassy authorities say are
charges with scant evidence. Reed's family says the former Marine, who served as a presidential guard in the Obama administration, has been subjected to brutal conditions with little to no medical attention. Though the Biden Administration officials brought the issue of Reed's and Whelan's detentions to the fore early on, they no longer make much mention of Reed and Whelan. Trevor Reed's family are disheartened to see the Biden administration shift its focus to freeing imprisoned
Russian dissident leader Alexei Navalny even as his son remained behind bars. The Hill
Putin wants to exchange some imprisoned Americans for Viktor Bout, a Russian illegal arms dealer, who is serving a 25-year prison term in the US, and for some other unsavory Russian characters - "computer programmers" and "entrepreneurs" - serving jail time in America. Hopefully, this will restrain the "siloviki" from roughing up Whelan and Reed too much. On a side note: if you plan to travel to Russia, may wanna leave your four passports,
reflecting four different citizenships, at home, wherever that may be.
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The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know COVID Cases Are Plummeting Nationally . . . Exactly four weeks ago, CDC director Rochelle Walensky and President Joe Biden said they felt a sense of “impending doom” about a forthcoming wave of COVID-19 cases. When Walensky made that statement on March 29, the national 7-day average in new COVID-19 cases was 62,515 and modestly rising. Today, it’s 54,405 and falling. Biden and his
CDC director feared the worst and appear to be incorrect about a second wave. Case numbers trended upward in late March and early April, but the 7-day average has now declined for 12 of the last 13 days and is back to mid-March levels. Deaths have mostly flattened, rather than increased, when cases saw a brief bump, and Sunday the CDC reported 294 new deaths. That’s the lowest single-day number since Sept. 7. Daily Caller
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On Biden's Watch, Putin draws a 'red line' on Ukraine . . . The Kremlin’s perception of a weak U.S. presidency under Joe Biden — preoccupied with China, partisan politics and domestic social upheaval — motivates Putin to act now on his goal to peel Ukraine away from Washington’s orbit. Last week, Putin warned the U.S. and NATO not to “cross the ‘red line’” by intervening on Ukraine’s behalf. He threatened a “swift,
asymmetric and harsh response.” President Biden’s recent “retaliation” measures against Russia’s aggressive actions will not change Putin’s behavior. Strongly worded phone calls, expulsions of Russian “diplomat” spies, and indictments of hackers, who will never stand trial in the U.S., are all meaningless gestures. “Reset buttons” — even if translated accurately into Russian — and other diplomatic pleasantries are equally ineffective. Analysis/ Opinion. The Hill
Including my Op-Ed in The Hill, in case someone missed it yesterday. Pentagon's cancelation of the deployment of two US Navy destroyers into the Black Sea, after Putin's "stay away" injunction, was painful to watch. Do you think 'Putin's softie agent' The Donald would blink like Biden?
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Prescription-Drug Price Cuts to Be Left Out of White House Proposal . . . The White House isn’t expected to include a measure aimed at lowering the price of prescription drugs in its coming antipoverty package, according to people familiar with the matter, in an omission likely to disappoint top Democrats on Capitol Hill. President Biden will detail the roughly $1.8 trillion proposal during a speech to Congress later this week, rolling
out another major spending plan weeks after he released a $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. Top White House officials held individual discussions with top Democrats on Capitol Hill Monday to discuss the plan. During one of the briefings, a White House official said that the administration’s plan wouldn’t include a prescription-drug-pricing measure, according to a Democratic aide. Wall Street Journal
Restaurants struggle to rehire workers . . . As states begin to ease indoor dining restrictions, the food service industry is having a hard time hiring employees, a difficulty owners blame in part on the disincentivizing effects of supercharged federal unemployment benefits, which are paid to individuals on top of their state benefits. The federal benefit that Congress created in response to the coronavirus pandemic was $600 per week,
which amounted to $15 per hour before state benefits were added in. The number of workers eligible for jobless benefits expanded during the pandemic. For the first time, self-employed workers are also able to collect unemployment benefits. Just the News
The Great Education Wealth Transfer . . . It may come as a surprise, but leftists’ push for “free” education is just an elaborate plan to line their own pockets. Whether it’s a giveaway or a debt forgiven, something that’s free releases the one holding an obligation from responsibility in contrast to ownership. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the appeal of socialism as repackaged and sold to today’s generation — the release from
responsibility.
The University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute of Economics has just published a study that reveals the beneficiaries of this massive entitlement initiative are not the poor. The authors observe that “high earners took larger loans,” meaning that Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar loan “forgiveness would benefit the top decile as much as the bottom three deciles combined.” As for race? “Blacks and Hispanics would also benefit substantially less than balances suggest.” Opinion. Patriot Post
BLM Co-Founder’s Jail Reform Group Dropped $26,000 At Luxury Malibu Beach Resort . . . A Los Angeles-based jail reform group led by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors spent nearly $26,000 for “meetings” at a luxury Malibu beach resort in 2019, according to campaign finance records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Reform LA Jails dropped $10,179 for “meetings and appearances” at the Calamigos Guest Ranch and Beach Club in Malibu,
California, and another $15,593 at the Malibu Conference Center, a corporate conference facility owned by the resort, according to the records, which covered the time period between July and September 2019. Guests at the 200-acre resort, where rooms start at $600 a night, have exclusive access to a private five-acre strip of the Malibu coast. Daily Caller
Meantime, in my "woke" Washington DC suburban neighborhood, the heart-shaped BLM yard signs keep growing, so the BLM nomenklatura can have more "meetings" in luxury resorts.
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Simon & Schuster Employees Submit Petition Demanding No Deals With Trump Admin Authors . . . An employee petition at Simon & Schuster demanding that the company stop publishing authors associated with the Trump administration collected 216 internal signatures and several thousand outside supporters, including well-known Black writers. The employees submitted the petition Monday to senior executives at the
publishing house. The petition demands that the company refrain from publishing a memoir by former Vice President Mike Pence. It collected 216 internal signatures and more than 3,500 outside supporters.The letter asks Simon & Schuster not to treat “the Trump administration as a ‘normal’ chapter in American history.” Wall Street Journal
While we still have capitalism in America, conservative publishers will pick up authors that are "blacklisted" by the leftists. Once the current USG nomenklatura complete America's march towards totalitarian socialism, setting up an underground U.S. version of 'Samizdat', that we had in the USSR, will be the only choice for Americans
who seek the truth to get and publish the RIGHT literature.
How Conservatives Are Being Excluded by ‘Inclusive’ Platforms Run by Left . . . As has been made patently clear by its past actions, Twitter is run by leftists who have no love for traditional and conservative values, and it will censor content it disagrees with. Twitter will ban conservatives on the flimsiest of excuses and often ignores similar offenses committed by its own political allies. For example, Project Veritas posted a clip of
its journalists approaching a Facebook executive outside of his home. Twitter promptly removed the video over anti-doxing concerns. Compare that with a tweet published by CNN. A reporter approaches a Trump-supporting woman he believed was duped by the Russians. In addition to revealing her name and general location, CNN shot video footage of her home, revealing her house number. The tweet is still up, and CNN faced no repercussions for it. Daily Signal
Aw, those 'inclusive' well wishers, who want to liberate us from the evil ideology of the Trumpies.
Why Are Many Elites Leftists? . . . “Why are all successful people leftists?” Powerful people like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Bill Gates, and others are trying to change the world according to their imagination. Is it is true that a lot of ultra-wealthy are leftists. Why? Many young people look up to them and believe that their beliefs are the truth. Why do these elites support communist radicals, while the
radicals smash their stores and even put up a guillotine outside of Bezos’s house? What is happening now is nothing new. Since the late 19th century, Western elites have been fascinated with communism and have supported its cause. In the pursuit of utopian ideals, traditional values have been trashed, America has been brought to the brink of socialism, and hundreds of millions of people around the world have been thrown to the bloodthirsty communist beast. Even now, this pursuit is
ongoing. Epoch Times
Female Athletes Appeal Ruling Dismissing Complaints Against Biological Males In Women’s Sports . . . Four female athletes are appealing a ruling that dismissed their challenge to a policy that allows biological males to compete in female sports.
Selina Soule, Chelsea Mitchell, Alanna Smith, and Ashley Nicoletti will continue to challenge the Connecticut policy, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom. The four high school female athletes have all suffered in their athletic endeavors due to the presence of biological males in their sporting events. “Mitchell, for example, would have won the 2019 state championship in the women’s 55-meter indoor track competition, but because two males took first and second place, she was
denied the gold medal,” the law firm's press release said. “Soule, Smith, and Nicoletti likewise have been denied medals and/or advancement opportunities.” Daily Caller
Where are all the feminists? Are we just going to sit and watch the girls sports destroyed?
Apple releases iPhone anti-tracking feature . . . Apple released its long awaited anti-tracking tool for iPhones on Monday as part of its new operating system update. The iOS 14.5 update includes Apple's app-tracking Transparency Feature, which will require apps to ask users for permission before tracking them across the web.
With the update, users will see a prompt asking them if they will allow each app to track their activity across other apps and websites. Users will be able to click “ask app not to track” or “allow.” Apple's release of the new feature was delayed amid backlash over the tool. Facebook has fiercely pushed back on the feature. The social media platform, which thrives off the sale of targeted ads, has branded the move as being harmful for small business. It's further
fueled an ongoing feud between Facebook and Apple. The Hill
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Melania’s Five Stylish Looks . . . Melania Trump celebrated her birthday yesterday. During Trump’s four years in office, Melania made headlines over and over again for her incredible style at events across the world and at home. Here are the ones that really stood out. Daily Caller
I must admit, I am partial to fashion. Melania has an incredibly elegant style. She reminds me of Jackie Kennedy.
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