Biden’s Plan to Kill the American Dream . . . As part of President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, the Biden administration wants to incentivize local governments to eliminate zoning for single-family home lots to make way for apartment buildings. The administration claims it’s a way to ease a national affordable housing shortage and combat racial injustice in the housing market. Current zoning laws that favor single-family homes, known as exclusionary zoning, have disproportionately hurt low-income people who can’t afford to move to the suburbs, the administration said. Their only choice is living in crowded apartment buildings. Americans for Limited Government led the effort to abolish a similar scheme to destroy the suburbs during the Obama-Biden era. Patriot Post

 

Central American leaders say Biden policies are provoking illegal immigration . . . As Kamala Harris lands in Central America to try to convince those countries to change decades or even centuries of corruption and mismanagement, the leaders of those nations are saying that the Biden administration is incentivizing people to come to the United States. White House Dossier

 

Kamala Hands Out Cookies Of Herself On D-Day, Gets Heckled By Local Guatemalans . . . Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly gave out cookies resembling herself to people aboard Air Force Two on D-Day before arriving at a Guatemalan airport where she was heckled by protestors. Harris reportedly handed out cookies depicting her official White House portrait and Air Force Two to members of the press before protesters with various signs telling her to go home greeted her at an air force base in Guatemala on Sunday. One sign said “Kamala mind your own business” and another read “Kamala go home,” according to the Floridian Press. Others said, “Kamala, Trump won” and “no constitutional reforms, Guatemala is pro-life.” Daily Caller

Palestinian Government Pays $42,000 to Family of Terrorist Who Killed Israelis . . . Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas authorized the payment on Sunday of $42,000 to the family of a terrorist who killed two Israelis through a policy that incentivizes and rewards terrorism against Israel. Laila Ghannam, governor of Ramallah’s Al-Bireh district, personally handed the money to the family of Muhannad Al-Halabi, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group on Sunday. Al-Halabi fatally stabbed two Israeli civilians in 2015 before being shot by police. The $42,000 payment was given to Al-Halabi’s parents "on behalf of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to ‘complete the payment of the cost’ of their home, which was demolished by Israel following the attack". Washington Free Beacon

 

 

 

Fearful Facebook Bans Trump for Two Years . . . On Friday, Facebook dealt another blow to free expression when it announced that Donald Trump would be suspended for two years from its Facebook and Instagram platforms. It was the highest penalty possible under cowardly Facebook’s new content moderation rules, and it was a compliment of sorts for the 74-year-old former Republican president, who continues to live rent-free in the heads of Democrats and Big Tech titans everywhere. It’s a pathetic state of affairs indeed when political palookas can tell a former U.S. president what he’s allow to say and when. Interestingly, Hillary Clinton also questioned the results of a presidential election — the one she lost to Trump. We’re still waiting for her to be banned for having told everyone who cared to listen that the 2016 election was “stolen,” and that Trump was an “illegitimate” president. Patriot Post

 

Supreme Court asked to review men-only draft registration law . . . The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether it's sex discrimination for the government to require only men to register for the draft when they turn 18. The question of whether it's unconstitutional to require men but not women to register could be viewed as one with little practical impact. The last time there was a draft was during the Vietnam War, and the military has been all-volunteer since. But the registration requirement is one of the few remaining places where federal law treats men and women differently, and women's groups are among those arguing that allowing it to stand is harmful. Fox News

 

Poll: Majority of New York City Voters Want More Police on the Streets . . . A large majority of likely voters in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary want more cops on the street, according to a recent NY1/Ipsos poll. Seventy-two percent of likely voters polled in May agreed with the statement "The NYPD should put more officers on the street." And 46 percent said "crime or violence" is the main problem facing the Big Apple. Washington Free Beacon

 

Senators reveal further Capitol riot security failures in bipartisan report . . . A new bipartisan report cataloging failures of the Capitol Police’s intelligence division ahead of the Capitol riots. Now-acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman told congressional investigators that data on the pro-riot social media chatter was sent only to “command staff” and never reached the department's highest level of Capitol Police leadership. The intelligence failures are only one facet of the first official congressional accounting of the Jan. 6 insurrection, a nearly 100-page report released Tuesday morning by a bipartisan duo of Senate committee leaders. The report raps the Capitol Police and federal agencies for security lapses leading up to and during the attack. Politico

 

‘Trojan horse’ app sparks global operation against organised crime . . . At least 250 people have been arrested around the world in an international police operation that used “Trojan horse” technology to target drug dealers, mafias and other organised crime organisations. Australian police said on Tuesday that they had disrupted 21 murder plots and seized 3.7 tonnes of drugs during the operation, which covertly monitored an encrypted communications platform used by criminal gangs. The FBI in the US gained access to the AN0M platform, enabling Australian police to monitor more than 25m messages sent in real time. The communications allegedly detailed murder plots, drug smuggling and other illegal activities, Australian and US investigators said at a joint news conference that detailed the three-year police operation. Financial Times

 

Colonial Pipeline Chief to Testify in Senate Panel on Ransomware Hack . . . The chief executive of the pipeline company hit in a multimillion-dollar ransomware attack last month is expected to testify Tuesday on Capitol Hill about the company’s cybersecurity practices and its decision to pay the hackers. Joseph Blount of Colonial Pipeline Co. is scheduled to appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, roughly one month after his company suffered a ransomware attack on its business computer systems. The attack prompted Colonial Pipeline to shut down the 5,500-mile pipeline pumping gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other refined products from the Gulf Coast to Linden, N.J. On Monday, the Justice Department said authorities had recovered roughly $2.3 million in digital currency paid to the hackers, a suspected Russian gang known as DarkSide. Wall Street Journal

 

 

 

Brussels warns it is ready to intensify action against UK over N Ireland . . . Brussels has warned that it is ready to intensify retaliation against the UK if Boris Johnson further postpones applying the two sides’ deal on Northern Ireland, in another sign of strained relations ahead of talks this week.  EU Brexit commissioner Maros Sefcovic, warned that “unilateral action” by the UK to ease the requirements of the post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland would meet a firm response. 
“The EU will not be shy in reacting swiftly, firmly and resolutely to ensure that the UK abides by its international law obligations,” Sefcovic wrote, as he urged joint solutions to irritants that have emerged with the post-Brexit trade rules since they were applied in Northern Ireland at the start of this year. Financial Times

 

Russia Puts the Squeeze on Social Media to Police Its Critics . . . Russia’s government was quick to use social media when it tried to steer the course of U.S. elections, American officials say. It isn’t quite as eager to see its own opponents at home try the same thing. Ahead of a parliamentary vote later this year, the Kremlin has been fine-tuning its strategy to pressure platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and TikTok to remove antigovernment content, classifying a growing number of posts as illegal and issuing a flurry of takedown requests. Kremlin uses Twitter and other platforms to advance its goals overseas, but is now trying to prevent its opponents from using the same tools.  Wall Street Journal

 

 

Opinion: America’s Covid Groupthink Functioned Like China’s Repression . . . What we eventually learn about the origins of Covid-19 may implicate China’s government in failure and falsehood on a grand scale. But this episode has also exposed layers of rottenness in critical institutions of American civil society that are similarly damning. Scientists, bureaucrats, journalists and executives of Big Tech companies suppressed the story not out of fear of imprisonment or death, like many of their Chinese counterparts, but of their own volition, out of ideological or even venal motives. The lab-leak theory was not “debunked,” as news organizations repeatedly told us when anyone tried to raise it a year ago. It wasn’t even permitted to be considered. Discussion of the topic was deliberately extinguished on tech platforms, in the respectable scientific journals and in newsrooms. Some highly influential figures in the “scientific community” were the first to block serious consideration of the thesis that the viral pathogens escaped from a Chinese government laboratory. Wall Street Journal

 

 

Former McDonald's CEO: $15 minimum wage directly related to food industry's automation push . . . Former McDonald's CEO Ed Rensi is warning that the fight for a $15 minimum wage is directly contributing to the restaurant industry's push toward automation. McDonald's current CEO Chris Kempczinski confirmed during Alliance Bernstein's Strategic Decisions Conference last week that the company is testing an automated, voice-recognition based drive-thru ordering system at 10 of its Chicago locations. Kempczinski noted that the artificial intelligence technology has 85% accuracy with filling orders, with workers having to step in for approximately one in five orders. Fox Business

 

Arrogant and not so smart government bureaucrats thought that they could outsmart common-sense business leaders. 

 

 

Special-Needs Trusts: How They Work and What Has Changed . . . First, many people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, thanks to advances in medicine, are living longer lives—and, as such, are outliving their parents and primary caregivers. That makes the need for long-term planning all the more vital.
Second, recent changes in tax laws—and, in particular, the rules governing inherited retirement accounts—mean that families, at the least, should review their financial plans as they apply to children with special needs. A special-needs trust can be set up to protect the assets of a person with a disability or other medical conditions. For instance, parents who have a child with autism could create and fund such a trust. The trust, in turn, could help pay for various goods and services for the child: medical equipment, education, home furnishings, etc. “Generally, the better move,” experts recommend “is to exchange assets like traditional IRAs for more tax-efficient assets like Roth IRAs and life insurance to accomplish the post-death planning objectives that people are looking for.” Wall Street Journal

 

FDA Approves First New Alzheimer’s Drug in Nearly Two Decades . . . U.S. health regulators approved the first new Alzheimer’s drug in nearly two decades, casting aside doubts about the therapy’s effectiveness. The approval Monday of the therapy, which will be sold as Aduhelm, marked a watershed in Alzheimer’s drug research after billions of dollars in investment. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, explaining its decision, said scientific evidence indicated Aduhelm reduces a sticky substance in the brain called amyloid—which is associated with Alzheimer’s—and is likely to produce a benefit to patients. Wall Street Journal

 

 

 

 

Networks Program Children With LGBT Agenda During Pride Month . . . Lots of parents today wouldn’t think twice about sitting their kids down in front of the Disney Channel or Cartoon Network. And that, conservatives warn, is exactly the problem. Like so many other moms and dads, they’re expecting the same kind of harmless storylines they watched in the ‘70s and ‘80s. What their children are seeing is anything but. Say goodbye to the regular plot lines of “Blue’s Clues” and “Scooby-Doo”—and say hello to a 21st-century lesson in transgenderism, sex, homosexuality, nonbinaries, and drag queens. That’s the new reality of radical programming on some of America’s favorite shows—especially, parents are discovering, during June, which is Pride Month. Loveable animals like Arthur and My Little Pony have been commandeered by the far left for lessons that would make most adults’ jaws drop. Daily Signal