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April 28, 2021
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Nearing 100-day milestone, Biden's low-50s job approval far below historical norm . . . As Joe Biden approaches 100 days in office, his job approval ratings hover just above 50%, placing him behind almost all of his recent predecessors at the milestone traditionally marking the end of the beginning of US presidential administrations. "The fact he's only in the low 50s right now is a really bad sign for Joe Biden,"
says pollster John McLaughlin.Three months into the job and preparing to make his first address to a joint session of Congress, Biden is polling lower than any modern US president at the same stage, except Gerald Ford and Donald Trump. Just the News
Biden plans massive expansion of the IRS . . .
President Biden’s “American Families Plan” apparently involves inviting federal agents to visit America’s families and comb through all their finances. President Biden wants to pay for his new $1.8-trillion socialist spending proposal — to be distinguished from his previous $2.2T “infrastructure” plan and the $1.9T Covid relief bill — by spending $80 billion to expand tax enforcement by the IRS. White House officials plan to make a massive increase in enforcement at the Internal
Revenue Service a central component of the tax proposal they will unveil this week alongside a $1.8 trillion spending package, according to four people briefed on the matter. White House Dossier
The Deep State keeps getting Deeper.
Lawmakers brace for battles with colleagues as redistricting kicks off . . . Lawmakers across a number of states are bracing for the possibility of running against colleagues in 2022 as part of the decennial redrawing of district lines. Data from the census released Monday showed California, New York, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan each losing a House seat, while Texas gained two seats and Florida, Montana, Colorado, North
Carolina and Oregon each garnered one seat. Shifting populations within states could cause other lines to be redrawn as well. The full redistricting data will not be available until this fall, but politicians are already eyeing who will be affected by shifting district boundaries and the implications the new map will have on the race for the House majority next year. The Hill
WasPo Endorses Terry McAuliffe Over Two Qualified Black Women . . . The Washington Post, a news blog owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has issued a controversial endorsement in the Virginia governor's race, backing a white man over two qualified black women seeking the Democratic nomination. The Post editorial board on Monday endorsed Terry McAuliffe, who was elected governor in 2014 despite having no political experience beyond raising
money for Democrats. The Post explained its decision by noting that McAuliffe's rivals, including two black women serving in state government, are "relatively untested" and lack political experience. Candidates Jennifer McClellan, a state senator from Richmond, and Jennifer Carroll Foy, a former state lawmaker, are each trying to make history and become the first black woman to serve as governor (of any state) in American history. Washington Free Beacons
GOP embraces Trump in effort to reclaim Senate . . . The top Republican candidates hoping to win back control of the Senate have embraced former President Trump as a kind of running mate in the first weeks of their campaigns, a recognition that the ousted president is still the party’s best fundraiser and most recognizable figure even from exile in Florida. First, Trump remains the singular focus of the Republican primary electorate that
will decide which contenders make it through crowded primary elections. Second, Trump remains the best fundraiser within the Republican Party. Several strategists said the average email solicitation with Trump’s signature raises much more than an email without his name. rump has so far endorsed eight U.S. Senators facing reelection next year, along with Brooks in Alabama and two candidates running for Congress. The Hill
Trump Plans to Move To His Golf Club In New Jersey . . . Former President Donald Trump will soon be moving from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and resettling at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump has been staying at Mar-a-Lago since leaving the White House on Jan. 20. Mar-a-Lago is preparing to shut down for the hot summer months, however. The Florida club typically closes shortly after Memorial
Day, as the club’s residential patrons typically head to the Hamptons or spend the summer in Europe. According to an anonymous source, Trump will also escape the South Florida summer by temporarily moving north to Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. Daily Caller
CA officials, Big Tech, Biden firm coordinated 'misinformation' censorship before election . . . Judicial Watch Judicial Watch, a government transparency watchdog group, announced Tuesday that it has obtained documents allegedly showing California officials colluding with social media giants to censor speech surrounding the 2020 elections – including some of its own posts. The group also said a communications firm linked to the Biden
campaign played a role in determining which posts should be censored by creating "Misinformation Daily Briefings" that the officials shared with Twitter, Facebook and Google. "These new documents suggest a conspiracy against the First Amendment rights of Americans by the California Secretary of State, the Biden campaign operation, and Big Tech," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. Fox Business
George W. Bush: Stranger in his own Party . . . George W. Bush finds himself favored by liberals who blasted him as dumb and evil during his years in office. Apparently, he’s forgotten about that, becoming buddies with the Obamas and others among the Woke.
Former President George W. Bush finds himself in unfamiliar territory: yukking it up with liberal late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and being feted on other television shows on which celebrities are feted while casting a quizzical eye at the party he led during two terms in the White House. Bush found himself having to walk back an assessment of the Republican Party he gave early in his latest book tour. “I would describe it as isolationist, protectionist, and, to a certain extent,
nativist,” he told NBC’s Today show. White House Dossier
Sad.
Red State Pro-Life Reforms Could Spark Supreme Court Standoff . . . Republican-controlled state legislatures are pushing back against the Biden administration's attempt to expand abortion access, a standoff that could end up before the Supreme Court.
Montana governor Greg Gianforte (R.) and Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt (R.) each signed three bills into law Monday, making their states the latest in a line of Republican-controlled states to push back as the White House has loosened restrictions on at-home chemical abortions and restored taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood under the Title X program. The most noteworthy piece of legislation signed into law Monday was a fetal heartbeat bill in Oklahoma. The legislation threatens doctors
who perform abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected with jail time, except when the mother's health is in danger. Republican legislators who voted for the Montana bill said the law will prevent babies capable of feeling pain from being aborted. Washington Free Beacon
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MS-13 Gang Member Arrested Crossing Illegally at US Southern Border . . . An active member of the street gang MS-13 was arrested early Monday morning crossing illegally into the United States with a group of illegal immigrants in Arizona, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) said. Harry Williams Payes-Mejia, 46, was arrested by Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents with two others east of the San Luis Port of Entry in Arizona. Agents
determined that Payes-Mejia is part of the dangerous street gang with previous removals from the United States. Epoch Times
US fires warning shots at Iranian fast-attack boats harassing Navy . . . The US Navy fired warning shots Monday at three fast-attack craft of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy, which were harassing the coastal patrol boat Firebolt and U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat Baranoff — the latest in a series of such confrontations. As the US ships were conducting routine maritime security operations in the northern
Arabian Gulf, the Iranian vessels approached the U.S. crews at “an unnecessarily close range with unknown intent”. Despite multiple warnings via bridge-to-bridge radio and loud-hailer devices from the U.S. ships, the dangerous maneuvers persisted. It wasn’t until the Firebolt fired warning shots that the Iranian vessels started to back off, the Navy said. Navy Times
China Commissions Three Advanced Warships . . . The Chinese Navy commissioned three advanced warships in April, part of a larger effort from Beijing to challenge American military dominance in the South China Sea and encroach on Taiwan. People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) officials announced the triple commissioning of a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, a guided-missile cruiser, and a helicopter carrier at a naval base located
near the South China Sea. Chinese president Xi Jinping reportedly attended the ceremony. The Chinese naval buildup comes after a series of escalations from Beijing toward Taiwan, a democratic country and American ally. Washington Free Beacon
Supreme Court will decide whether waterboarded Gitmo detainee gains insight into CIA black sites . . . Abu Zubaydah is seeking access to information about the two men who waterboarded him in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Abu Zubaydah, an alleged al Qaeda member and associate of Osama bin Laden who was captured in Pakistan in March 2002, has been held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba since 2006 after having been interrogated
at a number of secret CIA locations around the world, including one widely believed to have been in Poland. The Saudi-born terrorist, now 50 years old, sought subpoenas against James Mitchell, a former clinical psychologist at the Air Force survival school, and fellow psychologist, Dr. John "Bruce" Jessen, who worked as CIA contractors to design the agency’s “enhanced interrogation program,” considered by some to be torture, and to help implement it, including waterboarding Zubaydah. Washington Free Beacon
Seriously?
Spy chiefs look to declassify intel after rare plea from 4-star commanders . . . Top military leaders said the US is falling behind China and Russia in the information war. They said that efforts to compete in the battle of ideas are hamstrung by overly stringent secrecy practices. “We request this help to better enable the US, and by extension its allies and partners, to win without fighting, to fight now in so-called gray
zones, and to supply ammunition in the ongoing war of narratives," the commanders who oversee U.S. military forces in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, as well as special operations troops, wrote to then-acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire last January. Politico
FISA court doc shows FBI looked for domestic terrorists without warrants . . . The FBI’s warrant-free queries were related to criminal investigations including those on domestic terrorism. The FBI has without court orders looked through troves of National Security Agency foreign communications for information on American "racially motivated violent extremists," according to a news report based on a recently declassified report. The
agency conducted the reviews despite being warned several years ago by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which approves warrants for such investigations, that such inquiries were constitutionally alarming. Just the News
Well, now that every white male is viewed by the government nomenklatura as a potential extremist, the FISA Court won't be able to keep up with all the warrant requests. So, no need for the FBI to even ask, right?
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Tucker Carlson: why was Joe Biden wearing a mask at a Zoom meeting? . . . On Friday, Joe Biden participated in a kind of summit with more than a dozen other world leaders. They were all there, including Joe Biden. Of the 16 heads of state who were present, only Joe Biden wore a face mask – sat there silently, nose and mouth covered in black cloth like a rustler from an old western, as mask-less Vladimir Putin
held forth on international affairs. But here’s the weirdest part: that meeting took place over Zoom. None of the leaders were in the same room, they were thousands of miles from each other. So, why was Joe Biden, who has been fully vaccinated, the only one wearing a mask? You must even wear a mask on zoom, COVID spreads through the internet? Fox News
Sad man.
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In Ukraine’s East, Fears Grow of New Russian Power Play . . . Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Moscow's seizure of Crimea, cease-fires have been signed and broken and more than 14,000 people killed. Russia has moved its forces in and out of the border region, most recently this month. Europe’s only active armed conflict intensifies, threatening to draw in the U.S. and its
allies. Military analysts estimate there are now 30,000 troops lined up on each side along the front line in Ukraine. Russia has said the drills are now over and it would withdraw some of its troops, but Mr. Zelensky on Tuesday warned Ukrainian forces to stay on guard. “The fact that troops are being withdrawn does not mean that the army shouldn’t be ready for their possible return,” he said while visiting Ukrainian positions near Crimea. Wall Street Journal
Not over. Won't be in the foreseeable future.
John Kerry-Zarif leak reveals who really wields power in Iran nuclear deal . . . Mohammad Javad Zarif may be the public face of Iran’s nuclear deal but a devastating leak this week has made clear that the military wields the most power in Tehran and that the foreign minister sometimes found out about their decisions from the US — his supposed nemesis. A leaked recording of an interview with Zarif, who is also the Islamic republic’s chief
nuclear negotiator, has revealed the extent of the divisions between the political and military elite in Tehran and the depth of the power wielded by the Revolutionary Guard. Financial Times
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Bidenomics is winning without a fight . . . Bidenomics is Keynesianism on steroids. A $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill with vaccines and testing as an afterthought. A $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” proposal that prioritizes climate activism and corporate welfare over roads and bridges. President Joe Biden is confirming the worst fears of those who didn’t vote for him and no few who did: He’s all-in on the economics
of profligacy. The economic theories behind these reckless policies, unvetted by the scientific community, have captured Washington without a fight. . Washington Examiner
FAA proposes $63,000 in fines for travelers who drank their own booze, disrupted flights . . . The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that it is seeking fines totaling $63,000 of up to $31,750 for three more passengers who allegedly disrupted flights by disobeying or interfering with flight attendants.
They mark the latest in a series of civil penalties sought by the FAA since the agency announced a “zero-tolerance” policy against disruptive air travelers. Each of the latest incidents involved alcohol. USA Today
However, it's fine to get plastered on the overpriced booze 'supplied' by the airline.
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Critical Race Theory Is About to Face Its Day(s) in Court . . . Critical race theory is about to face a major real-world test: a spate of lawsuits alleging that it encourages discrimination and other illegal policies targeting whites, males and Christians. The lawsuits name specific policies and practices that allegedly discriminate, harass, blame and humiliate people based on their race. The common thread of these legal
challenges is the inescapable logic that making accommodations for critical race theory will erode the nation’s anti-discrimination law as it has developed since the 1960s. This would mean replacing the colorblind ideal of treating all people equally, which has been widely viewed as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement, with a contrary strategy: implementing race-based policies, which can range from affirmative action to reparations for compensating African Americans for the
injustices of the past and for producing equitable outcomes in the future. Epoch Times
Real ID pushed back till 2023 . . . On Tuesday the Department of Homeland Security once again delayed the full implementation of the law requiring people to have a Real ID in order to board domestic flights and enter some federal buildings.
The department postponed the Real ID deadline from Oct. 1, 2021, to May 3, 2023. Congress passed the Real ID Act in 2005 in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It aimed to standardize the criteria used to issue driver's licenses and other state IDs across the country USA
Today
Reporter resigns from NY Post over Harris book story . . . A reporter for the New York Post whose byline appeared on a story suggesting that copies of a book by Vice President Harris was given to children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border has resigned. Laura Italiano announced on Twitter that she turned in her resignation on Tuesday, claiming that she unsuccessfully tried to push back against the story.” “The Kamala Harris
story — an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against — was my breaking point” Italiano tweeted. The Hill
Since we ran NY Post story here, I wanted to let you know that there were issues with it.
About That OTHER Knife Fight in Ohio . . . You heard ad nauseam about a white police officer who made a split-second decision to use deadly force against a knife-wielding 16-year-old black girl who was about to stab another black girl she pinned against a car. Joe Biden and his band of race-baiters immediately threw that officer to the wolves, implying the officer shot the assailant because of racist predispositions, although the officer
saved a young black victim from life-threatening injury. On the same day as the Columbus incident, there was another knife fight in Ohio. In that Cincinnati attack, no police officer was present in time to intervene and save the life of a black child. Consequently, a 13-year-old died in her father’s arms after being stabbed by another 13-year-old girl near the family’s home. Her father, Maurice Jackson, was at her side moments after the assault. He responded with heartbreak and anguish: “I
held her. I watched her as she died. The victim in Cincinnati does not fit the Dems’ hate narrative, and thus no Biden or Harris mention of that child, no BLM outcry for justice. This child was just another casualty of their urban poverty plantation policies that have kept poor people enslaved on government welfare plantations for generations. Patriot Post
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Biden Wears Mask On Zoom Call In Case COVID Mutates Into Computer Virus . . . Joe Biden was seen wearing a mask in a climate summit with world leaders, despite his being vaccinated and despite the conference being virtual and held over Zoom. This has made some wonder if Biden even understands how a virus works, but Biden says he’s just being cautious. “We can’t let our guard down just because we’re vaccinated and
alone in a room,” Biden told reporters with a megaphone while standing twenty feet away. “See, there is this little thing called a ‘computer virus.’ Ha, I bet you thought I was some out-of-touch boomer who doesn’t know about computers.
Well, for one thing, I’m too old to be a boomer -- I’m the generation before that -- and I’ve used typewriters since I was a kid -- which is a lot like a computer before you attach the TV. So I know all about computers, and they get viruses. Maybe COVID. Who knows? Better to wear a mask around them.”Doctor Fauci agreed with Biden’s assessment. “We haven’t done any studies about coronaviruses becoming computer viruses and computer viruses transferring to humans,” Fauci said, “so we can’t
rule that out. Satire. Babylon Bee
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