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June 30, 2021
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Is Jill Biden running the country? . . . First Lady Jill Biden, who is being featured on the cover of Vogue, is the subject of a puff piece by the magazine that inadvertently seemed to reveal her true role as the West Wing surrogate for President Biden. Buried in the leftist piece of adoration, is a statement worthy of the Woodrow Wilson administration: “The role she’s fulfilling on these visits is, in many ways, neither first lady nor
professor but a key player in her husband’s administration, a West Wing surrogate and policy advocate.” Mary Jordan at the Washington Post goes on to call Jill Biden “ an underestimated asset.” She contends that “ it’s hard to imagine Joe doing this without her.” The “surrogate” reference confirms the fears of many Americans in regards to President Biden’s mental acuity and competence. Business & Politics Review
Poll: Majority thinks "oppressive" Washington ignores the will of the people . . . The people don’t believe Washington looks out for their interests — and it doesn’t make much difference whether “the people” are Republicans, Democrats or independents. According to a survey released Wednesday, more than three-fifths of all voters, including three-fourths of Republicans and a majority of Democrats, think that “the will of the people is no
longer a consideration to leaders in D.C. when making policy or legislative decisions.” The exact numbers were 62.4% of likely voters in the 2022 midterm elections, including 76.4% of Republicans, 50.4% of Democrats and 59% of “no party / other” voters believed that Washington ignores the popular will. “. . . Americans overwhelmingly believe the current leadership in D.C. is out-of-control and oppressive, doing whatever they want with no regard to what the people want," said Mark
Meckler, president of Convention of States Action. Washington Times
Many of Biden's plans look unwinnable . . . Democrats facing a legislative logjam and divisions over their strategy are confronting a new problem: the worry that they over-promised supporters when they won back the White House and both chambers of Congress.
The victories in the presidential race and in two run-off Senate races in January were met with elation in Democratic circles, as it gave the party full control of the legislative and executive branches for the first time since 2009. The possibility of passing sweeping legislation to tackle inequality and climate change, improve the healthcare system and secure the right to vote in the face of state measures imposing new restrictions seemed to be within the grasp.
But just six months into Joe Biden’s presidency, many of those plans look unwinnable. The Hill
House Passes Bill Seeking to Remove Confederate Statues From Capitol . . . The Democrat-led House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass a bill seeking to remove confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol. The vote was 285-120 in favor of the bill, H.R. 3005, with all votes against it coming from Republicans.
The proposed legislation seeks to remove statues of those who supported the Confederate army in the U.S. Civil War. It also seeks to replace a bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, who authored a key decision in 1857 supporting slavery, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first back Supreme Court justice. Epoch Times
Breyer’s Influence Hits Its Peak As Progressives Push Him To Retire . . . Justice Stephen Breyer’s influence on the Supreme Court is hitting its apex just as many on the left are clamoring for him to step down in favor of a younger, more progressive successor. Breyer, 82, has been a powerful force for consensus this term, delivering the majority opinion in three major cases that commanded lopsided majorities. It remains to be seen whether
his banner run is the first part of a historic final act, or the swan song to a 26-year tenure that could end once the Court adjourns for the summer, when outgoing justices usually announce their retirement. Washington Free Beacon
NYC Elections Board Takes Down Mayoral Race Results After Finding ‘Discrepancy’ . . . New York City’s elections board abruptly removed the unofficial vote count for the mayoral Democratic primary election from its website late Tuesday after the board said it was investigating a “discrepancy” in the count. Preliminary results released earlier in the day showed Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams maintaining a lead over the other
candidates, but suggested the race would be closer than expected when all the votes were counted, The New York Times reported. But the vote count was removed Tuesday evening, replaced by a notice that the results would be available “starting on June 30.” The elections board tweeted hours later that a “discrepancy” had been found in its ranked-choice vote software. Daily Caller
Tucker Carlson blasts ‘dishonest’ NSA after agency denies his spy claim . . .The National Security Agency (NSA) issued a rare public statement Tuesday denying claims by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the department had been monitoring his communications in a bid to get his top-rated show taken off the air.
“This allegation is untrue,” read the unsigned statement posted on the NSA’s Twitter account. “Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air. “NSA has a foreign intelligence mission,” the statement continued. “We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States. With limited exceptions (e.g. an emergency), NSA may not target a US citizen
without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting.” New York Post
NSA didn't spy on Trump either, right? Oh wait, what about Carter Page, a U.S. citizen who served on the Trump campaign? The FISA court approved surveillance on him multiple times, despite numerous falsehoods contained in the FBI's application. Those falsehoods include an outrageous lie that Carter was not a USG source (he was, indeed, a CIA asset who risked his life, providing critical intelligence to USG). What about James Clapper who lied
to Congress about an NSA surveillance program that did target U.S. citizens? Cut the nonsense, apparatchiks. No one believes you any more.
State Department to allow passport applicants to select gender without medical documentation . . . Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to announce Wednesday a major passport policy change: U.S. passport applicants will be able to select their gender without supplying the government any forms of certifying medical documents. Biden promised the passport gender changes on the 2020 campaign trail, and the Washington Examiner reviewed the
advisory alerting congressional offices of the new policy on Tuesday evening. The announcement specifically notes that citizens and qualifying U.S. nationals "will now be able to select the gender they would like printed on their U.S. passports, even if the gender they select does not match the gender on their supporting documentation such as a birth certificate, previous passport, or state ID." Washington Examiner
Energy Sec. Granholm suggests climate change could have caused Fla. building collapse . . . White House Dossier
Lunatics are running the country. Oh, wait, it's Jill!
Biden’s DC church won’t deny him Communion . . . President Joe Biden won’t be denied Communion, a church he frequents in Washington, D.C., announced Tuesday. After controversy surrounding Biden’s support for access to abortion, which some say puts him at odds with the teachings of the Catholic Church, the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood released a statement saying it “will not deny the Eucharist to
persons presenting themselves to receive it.” White House Dossier
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I built the wall; Biden built a humanitarian catastrophe . . . By Donald J. Trump. Opinion/ Analysis. When I was president, I delivered on my promise to build a border wall to protect our country. All Joe Biden had to do was paint it. Instead, Biden has enacted the most radical open borders agenda imaginable. This is perhaps the first time in world history a nation has purposely and systematically dismantled its own
defenses to invite millions of foreign migrants to enter its territory and break its laws. No one knows who they are, presenting a dangerous threat to Americans. In May, illegal border crossings were nearly 700% higher than when I was president during the same period last year. For each of the last three months, more unaccompanied minors have arrived than in any prior month in recorded history. Seizures of ultra-lethal fentanyl are up 265% from last year — more of the drug has already been
intercepted than in the entirety of 2020. Joe Biden has restored catch-and-release, torn up our hard-earned asylum agreements with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Washington Times
White House trying to say GOP is the party of “defund the police” . . . White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki accused Republicans of being the party of defunding the police on Monday — after “Defund the Police” became a rallying cry of progressive activists in 2020 and damaged Democrats’ appeal with moderate voters. The argument is that because some police funding was included in a $2 trillion bill, opposing the spending means you want to
defund the police. White House Dossier
Americans will see through this, no doubt. The left often mistakenly assumes Americans are helpless and stupid.
Rise In Violence: It’s Much Bigger Than Police . . . Violence surged in the U.S. throughout the coronavirus pandemic, but declining police morale and staffing shortages aren’t the only reason why there was an uptick. The growth of violence in the U.S. doesn’t seem to cut between party lines. Murders in Democrat-controlled cities increased 36.2% in 2020, and the homicide rate in Republican-led cities rose to 35.6% in 2020. Experts have
said that there are many more reasons why violence has shot up during the coronavirus pandemic, including a rise in mental health issues, increased gun purchases and more anti-police rhetoric. Daily Caller
Fear of doomsday cyberattack yields truce between feds and private sector . . . The recent surge of cyberattacks has triggered a blame game between private industry and federal agencies over who bears responsibility for ensuring such incidents don’t cripple critical infrastructure for fuel, electricity and water supplies and cause massive damage to the economy.
Most notably, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which halted the flow of gasoline across the Southeast for more than a week last month, put a fresh spotlight on a years-old debate about whether private companies should be required to alert the government if hackers have breached their computer systems.
Private industry has long lobbied against such requirements for several reasons, including desires to limit government intrusiveness into proprietary data and concerns about damage to reputations when hacking incidents draw major attention. Washington Times
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U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Warns of Civil-War Risk Ahead of Final Pullout . . . The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said security across the country is deteriorating just weeks before the last American forces withdraw. Gen. Scott Miller, in a rare briefing on Tuesday, said that recent gains by the Taliban are highly concerning, even if not unexpected. “The security situation is not good right now,” he
told a small group of reporters at the fast-emptying coalition headquarters in Kabul. “Civil war is certainly a path that can be visualized if this continues on the trajectory it’s on right now. That should be a concern to the world.” Wall Street
Journal
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Devin Nunes: World can't lock down again over COVID Delta variant . . . Republican Rep. Devin Nunes on Tuesday urged world leaders to resist another round of COVID-19 lockdowns to stop the growing spread of the virulent Delta strain, saying such a move would be "playing into exactly what the Chinese want." "I would say number one is the world can't ... afford to go into any more lockdown," Nunes said. Just the News
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Biden weighs new executive order restraining big business . . . The Biden administration is developing an executive order directing agencies to strengthen oversight of industries that they perceive to be dominated by a small number of companies, a wide-ranging attempt to rein in big business power across the economy. The executive order, which President Biden could sign as soon as next week, would direct regulators of
industries from airlines to agriculture to rethink their rule-making process to inject more competition. The goal is to broaden the way policy makers approach business concentration in the U.S., going beyond conventional antitrust enforcement focused on blocking big mergers. Fox Business
Stefanik Challenger Was China Daily’s Lawyer . . . A New York Democrat challenging Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) represented the state-run propaganda outlet China Daily in a 2019 lawsuit, filings reveal. Matthew Putorti, who emerged as Stefanik's main competitor after strong fundraising in his campaign's opening days, was the Chinese propaganda outlet's sole representative during litigation over a 2019 copyright complaint filed by an American
photographer, according to legal filings obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Putorti, as an attorney for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, filed several legal motions on behalf of China Daily beginning in February 2019. China Daily is one of Beijing’s primary tools for pushing the Chinese Communist Party's agenda overseas. The State Department designated China Daily a propaganda operative of Beijing in February 2020. The outlet spends millions of dollars annually to publish pro-China
articles in U.S. publications, according to several years of Foreign Agent Registration Act filings reviewed by the Free Beacon.
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Celebrating Founding Fathers Is ‘Structural Racism,’ National Archives Says . . . Venerating and celebrating the Founding Fathers is an example of “structural racism,” apparently. That’s the conclusion of a recently released document created by a National Archives and Records Administration task force on racism. The National Archives and Records Administration is a federal agency charged with taking care of our
country’s governmental and historical records, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The lengthy internal document—completed in April, but not released until earlier this month—never mentions critical race theory by name, but it uses all of critical race theory’s buzzwords, lingo, and style of analysis. Daily Signal
The Founders Of Critical Race Theory Once Marveled About How It Was Taking Over Education . . . Supporters of critical race theory (CRT) often argue that it’s not being promoted in K-12 schools, but two law professors who are considered among the founders of the legal sub-discipline once praised its growing influence in education in a 2010 interview. Richard Delgado and his wife Jean Stefancic, both professors at the University of
Alabama School of Law, have authored numerous texts about CRT. The two spoke about their legal scholarship in an interview featured in the winter 2010 edition of “Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems” — a multi-disciplinary legal journal at the University of Iowa. CRT holds that America is fundamentally racist. Daily Caller
Nickelodeon Promotes Transgender Programming to Kids . . . A disturbing Nickelodeon video of a transgender person promoting the transgender lifestyle was posted on Instagram. The network’s programming is aimed at children as young as 2 years old, yet they’re promoting values that many parents may find unacceptable or may not be prepared to teach their kids. Nickelodeon has removed parents’ ability to trust their network to air
child-friendly and safe content. Children should be off-limits, and networks like Nickelodeon must be held accountable if people of moral standing have any leg to stand on. Children are vulnerable, easily influenced and unaware of what adults know, which is all the more dangerous and concerning. There is a time and place for everything. This outrageous agenda demands that we all boycott Nickelodeon. Opinion. Daily Signal
Virginia says local schools should 'eliminate gender-based practices' under new transgender rules . . . Virginia's Department of Education is urging school districts throughout the state to work to end as many sex-segregated activities and programs as possible as part of a recently promulgated set of rules aimed at accommodating transgender students statewide. The department's Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in
Virginia's Public Schools was developed pursuant to legislation passed last year by the state legislature and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam. The rules were quietly promulgated earlier this year. Even events such as "father-daughter dances" may be discontinued under new guidance. Just the News
Big Tech De-platforms Journalist Andy Ngo, Known for Reporting on Antifa . . . Andy Ngo, a journalist known for his reporting on anarcho-communist group Antifa, said his podcast was permanently suspended by Soundcloud. Ngo, also the editor-at-large for the Post Millennial, wrote on Twitter that the music-sharing and podcast website “has permanently banned me & my podcast @YouShouldNgo.” “In an email, it says I violated its
community guidelines without naming the alleged offending content,” he wrote, adding that guests he’s had on the show include Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, and Douglas K. Murray. Epoch Times
Police Dog Takes Bullet for Fellow Officers, Making Ultimate Sacrifice . . . A Massachusetts police dog was hailed a hero after making the ultimate sacrifice for his fellow officers of the Braintree Police Department during a domestic dispute call. Fallen Belgian Malinois Kitt was transported via motorcade to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro for a private funeral service, where hundreds of the K9 officer’s colleagues bid him farewell on
Tuesday, June 22. On June 4, Kitt, along with his handler officer Cushing, and officers Donoghue and Seibert, responded to a domestic dispute call involving an armed suspect in Braintree Village. Epoch Times
Beautiful pictures of the doggie.
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Supreme Court Says Students Who Identify As Teachers Must Be Allowed To Use Teacher's Lounge . . . In a landmark 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that students who identify as teachers must be granted equal access to the teacher’s lounge. A spokesman for the ACLU lauded the decision, calling it a win for all Americans. The case in question, Thompkins vs. Bismarck Elementary, centered around 4th-grade student
Timmy Thompkins who self-identifies as a teacher. Thompkins had been using the teacher’s lounge for several months without an issue until his homeroom teacher complained to the Principal.
“I went into the teacher’s lounge to get some coffee, and Timmy was there reading the newspaper. He called me Linda and kept talking about how much of a pain the kids were being today,” said Bismarck Elementary teacher Linda Fairfield. “I complained to the principal, and they banned Timmy from the teacher’s lounge.”
Thompkins appealed the decision, saying that since self-identifying as a teacher clearly makes him a teacher, the ban violated his rights under the Equal Employment Opportunity Act. His lawyer agreed, suing the district for age discrimination and unequal treatment. Babylon Bee
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