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August 11, 2021
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Murder Capital Cops in Crisis . . . Police officers have been viciously under attack ever since they were unfairly labeled the main cause of murder and violence in minority neighborhoods. This idea isn’t new, but it really gained traction after the death of unworthy martyr George Floyd last year. Black Lives Matter and antifa called for the defunding of police — a battle cry that was echoed among some leftist politicians in the halls of
Congress. Needless to say, being a police officer has become an even more dangerous and thankless job. And yet, these selfless men and women still seek to protect and serve the communities where some have turned their backs on cops. This past weekend, Chicago media reported that, in less than a 24-hour period, nearly four dozen people were shot, seven of whom died. (They are among Chicago’s 105 murders in July, and the 445 so far in 2021.) One of the victims was a police officer attacked by
two brothers while making a traffic stop. Her partner was also seriously injured and remains in the hospital. Officer Ella French is the first police officer to be fatally shot during Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s time in office, and the first female officer to be killed since 1988. Patriot Post
Here Are All The Police Officers Killed In The Line Of Duty Since Calls To ‘Defund The Police’ Began . . . Since the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the emergence of the “Defund the Police” movement, violence against police officers has increased. As of July 31, 44 officers have been feloniously killed in 2021, a 41.9% increase over the same period in 2020 according to data from the FBI. Since Floyd’s killing, 130 police
officers in total have been killed in the line of duty, as of Aug. 10.
Here is the complete list of all officers killed since May 25, 2020, using information from the Officer Down Memorial Page.
Officers Killed In The Line Of Duty
Officer Cody Holte was shot and killed on May 27, 2020, while serving an eviction notice in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Officer Nathan Lyday was shot and killed while responding to a domestic disturbance on May 28, 2020, in Ogden, Utah. See the rest of the list in Daily Caller
This is heart-breaking. Shame on the disgraceful "defund the police" movement.
Cuomo's downfall presaged by behavior media glossed over for years . . . "Every single thing I've seen in past couple of months was foreshadowed," says ex-prosecutor who tangled with disgraced governor years ago. A review of public records shows the misdeeds that brought down one of America's most powerful chief executives — the alleged sexual misconduct, character assassination, political lies and brass-knuckle politics as New York's
attorney general chronicled in last week's bombshell report — were presaged decades before by behaviors that the media and Democrat elite often glossed over as they embraced a star rising from his father Mario's 20th century family dynasty to a 21st century political juggernaut of his own. As early as the late 1990s, Cuomo's alleged propensity to sexually harass or demean women was whispered in the halls of Washington, where as Bill Clinton's Housing and Urban Development Secretary he
famously tangled with the female chief watchdog of his agency. Just the News
Senate Passes Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Budget Blueprint . . . The Senate passed a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint early Wednesday, the first step in an arduous process designed to allow Democrats to push through a sweeping package of education, healthcare, climate and other provisions without GOP support. The party line vote, 50-49, came just before 4 a.m., one day after the Senate passed a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure
package. It is an initial victory for President Biden and congressional Democrats who are seeking to pass as much of their legislative agenda as possible this year, before next year’s midterm elections overtake Capitol Hill. Wall Street Journal
Here Are The 19 Senate Republicans Who Voted For The Dems' Infrastructure Legislation . . . Delivering a big win to President Joe Biden and the White House, here they are:
Roy Blunt of Missouri
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Susan Collins of Maine
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota
Mike Crapo of Idaho
Deb Fischer of Nebraska
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Chuck Grassley of Iowa
John Hoeven of North Dakota
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Rob Portman of Ohio
Jim Risch of Idaho
Mitt Romney of Utah
Dan Sullivan of Alaska
Thom Tillis of North Carolina
Roger Wicker of Mississippi Daily Caller
Biden praises McConnell for helping pass $1T infrastructure bill . . . President Biden on Tuesday touted the bipartisanship forged in the Senate to pass his roughly $1 trillion infrastructure legislation and gave a special shout-out to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for backing his major legislative priority.
"Today we proved that democracy can still work," Biden said during a White House ceremony to mark the monumental vote. "[There’s] a lot more work to do." "But I want to thank Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for supporting this bill. And I want to give special thanks to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Your leadership, Chuck, in the Senate was masterful," Biden said. Fox Business
Biden Nominee Claims Iran Not Pursuing Nuclear Weapons, Contrary to Evidence . . . Joe Biden’s pick to counter nuclear weapons proliferation claimed Iran does not intend to develop nuclear weapons, countering the plans of the Islamic Republic's radical clerical leaders and the latest intelligence from the government of Israel. Biden last week nominated Corey Hinderstein for assistant secretary for defense nuclear proliferation at the
Department of Energy, a vital position in curbing the spread of nuclear weapons to hostile countries. Hinderstein has asserted that the country is not actively pursuing nuclear weapons, even as evidence mounts to the contrary. Washington Free Beacon
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul Begins Transition Following Gov. Cuomo’s Resignation . . . New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is lining up support among local politicians as she transitions to become New York’s first female governor after Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday he would resign. Ms. Hochul, a Democrat, plans to address the public Wednesday afternoon, her office said.
She accelerated preparations to assume the governorship in recent days after a report by state Attorney General Letitia James found that the Democratic governor broke state and federal sexual-harassment laws. She will take over as governor in approximately two weeks. Wall Street
Journal
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Top House Dem Wants To Cut Nuclear Arsenal . . . The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee is pressuring the Biden administration to limit upgrades to the nuclear arsenal that military brass and experts consider vital. Armed Services chairman Adam Smith (Wash.) on Monday sent a letter to the White House that asks President Biden to reduce the United States' nuclear arsenal as he considers the 2023 defense budget. "When
asked about the requirements for all of these systems, the Department of Defense quickly points to Russian and Chinese investment in nuclear weapons, which I fear leads us down the path to a newly invigorated and very dangerous arms race," Smith wrote. "The last decade has taught us, painfully, that we cannot afford to continue adding new requirements, capabilities, and platforms, and expect that they will be delivered on time and within budget." Washington Free Beacon
Whopping 2.8 Tons of Meth, Fentanyl Seized in California . . . The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday announced the seizure of some 2.8 tons’ worth of methamphetamine and fentanyl powder in California. Border Patrol officers at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility found the massive load on Aug. 5 in what the agency described as “the largest methamphetamine drug smuggling seizure along the southwest border, to
date.” Altogether, the massive haul comprises 5,528 pounds of methamphetamine and 127 pounds of fentanyl powder, and is worth an estimated $12,990,749. “This amount of fentanyl and methamphetamine is enough to ruin countless lives and fund transnational criminal organizations,” CBP Director of Field Operations in San Diego Pete Flores said in a statement. “I’m proud of our officers’ efforts at all Ports of Entry within the San Diego Field Office to intercept this and all smuggling
attempts.” Epoch Times
Mike Lindell’s 2020 election symposium delayed by ‘hacked’ livestream . . . MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said his website, Frank Speech, was hacked Tuesday morning, temporarily interrupting the livestream of his Cyber Symposium on how Chinese hackers defrauded the 2020 presidential election.
Mr. Lindell says he has 37 terabytes of “irrefutable” evidence that hackers, who he said were backed by China, broke into election systems and switched votes to support President Biden, which he plans to present at the event. “We’ve been attacked, they attacked,” Mr. Lindell told the in-person attendees in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. “We have backup. We’re going to be up and running. But I’m going to wait to run that live[stream] to start because everyone’s gonna see everything we
got.” Mr. Lindell did not say who was responsible for the hack. Washington Times
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Taliban take eighth provincial capital in speedy advance across Afghanistan . . . Taliban fighters took control of another city in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, an official said, the eighth provincial capital to fall to the insurgents in six days as U.S.-led foreign forces complete their withdrawal. The Taliban capture of Faizabad, capital of the northeastern province of Badakhshan, came as President Ashraf Ghani flew in to
Mazar-i-Sharif to rally old warlords to the defence of the biggest city in the north as Taliban forces close in. Jawad Mujadidi, a provincial council member from Badakhshan, said the Taliban had laid siege to Faizabad before launching an offensive on Tuesday. "Unfortunately, after hours of heavy fighting the ANDSF retreated," Mujadidi told Reuters, referring to national security forces. "With the fall of Faizabad the whole of the northeast has come under Taliban control. Reuters
China Launched Cyberattacks Against Israel, Security Firm Finds . . . China waged an extended cyber war against Israeli private businesses and government entities in 2019 and 2020, an online security company announced Monday. FireEye, an international cybersecurity firm, said hackers traced back to the Chinese Ministry of State Security targeted Israeli shipping, defense, and tech companies, as well as government servers, in a hacking
campaign stretching more than two years. The attacks zeroed in on a vulnerability in SharePoint, a Microsoft collaborative platform popular in the national security industry. The attacks are only China's most recent cyber offensive against another country, but the first of this scale against Israel. Washington Free Beacon
Germany arrests British man suspected of spying for Russia . . . German police have arrested a British man who worked at the British embassy in Berlin on suspicion of passing documents to the Russian intelligence service in exchange for cash, prosecutors said on Wednesday. German prosecutors said that the apartment and workplace of the man, identified only as David S., had been searched and he would be brought before an
investigating judge later on Wednesday. British police said the man was 57. "On at least one occasion, he passed on documents he had obtained in the course of his professional activities to a representative of a Russian intelligence service," Germany's chief federal prosecutor's office said in a statement. "The accused received cash in an as yet unknown amount in return for his transmission of information," it added. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and Foreign
Intelligence Service (SVR) did not immediately reply to requests for comment. The Russian Embassy in Germany declined to comment on reports about the case to the Interfax news agency. Reuters
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Biden launches vaccination effort at schools . . . . The Biden administration said Thursday it will promote COVID-19 vaccination in schools this fall by pushing the shots at sports physicals, educating parents on “Back to School” nights and helping school districts offer pop-up clinics at their schools. It will kick off a “Week of Action” on Saturday to promote the campaign, dispatching second gentleman Douglas Emhoff and Education
Secretary Miguel Cardona to Topeka, Kansas, to visit a back-to-school vaccine clinic. The effort underscores the stakes for President Biden as schools and universities reopen amid the threat of the fast-moving delta variant of the coronavirus, which is ripping through communities with low vaccination rates. Washington Times
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Sen. John Kennedy explains why he opposes the $1 trillion infrastructure bill . . . Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., is plainspoken, fearless, and brilliant. And he is not voting for the $1 trillion infrastructure bill Republican moderates have decided to give President Biden. He notes that it’s twice as long as the Bible. And unlike the Bible, nobody’s read it.
No hearings at all on the bill, which was written in private.
What’s more, “This is not an infrastructure bill,” Kennedy says. “It’s an infrastructure, Green New Deal, and welfare bill.” The Left is very clever. Next up is $3.5 trillion legislation no Republicans will support. Proposing a $3.5 trillion bill we can’t afford somehow makes a $1 trillion bill we can’t afford seem palatable. And the Democrats don’t need Republican backing because they can avoid the filibuster with the second one. White House Dossier
Business groups prepare blitz against Democratic tax hikes . . . Business groups, which celebrated the bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed by the Senate on Tuesday, are preparing to aggressively lobby against Democrats’ broader $3.5 trillion spending package even as House leaders say they will not pass one bill without the other.
The bipartisan plan invests $550 billion in new infrastructure spending without hiking taxes. But the larger, party-line plan to fund a wide range of Democratic priorities from climate to child care is funded primarily by increasing taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations. Business groups and lobbyists representing business interests are prepared to fiercely oppose such tax increases, confident that Democrats’ reconciliation package will inevitably be watered down or
collapse entirely amid divisions within the caucus. The Hill
The C-Suite Kings of Medicare Fraud . . . Is the fraud problem in Medicare driven by thousands of small-time scammers submitting fraudulent claims? Or is it large health systems and health plans engaging in diagnosis chasing? A recent story by Los Angeles Times writer Michael Hitlizik explains how the Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente, accusing the health care giant of systematically
defrauding Medicare. This has major political implications. Democrats hate Medicare Advantage because it moves seniors from government-run insurance to privately run health insurance. This lawsuit and others like it could be the excuse the left needs to establish a government-run healthcare system for everyone. In that case, the biggest losers won’t be the C-Suite executives of these big healthcare plans. It will be the typical American patient who will be stuck with worst care, waiting
lists., and the lower quality of life. Gingrich360
Ted Cruz’s speech on cryptocurrency goes viral, accuses senators of ‘ignorance’ on issue . . . Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, went viral on Monday after giving a speech on the Senate floor critical of his colleagues' attempt to add a provision inside the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that would put in place tougher tax enforcement requirements for cryptocurrency transactions.
He essentially told his colleagues that most of them could not tell the difference between a Bitcoin and an old New York City subway token. "Let’s recognize that if we gathered all 100 senators in this chamber and asked them to stand up and articulate two sentences defining what in the hell a cryptocurrency is, that you would not get greater than five who could answer that question," he said. Fox Business
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NSA watchdog to examine Tucker Carlson ‘unmasking’ claims . . . The National Security Agency’s (NSA) inspector general said Tuesday that his office will look into claims by Fox News prime-time host Tucker Carlson that his identity was “unmasked” and illegally leaked to the media in retaliation for trying to arrange an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The statement from watchdog Robert Storch said his office was reviewing
“recent allegations that the NSA improperly targeted the communications of a member of the U.S. news media.” Carlson initially accused the NSA June 28 of monitoring his emails in an effort to find material that would force Fox to take his top-rated show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” off the air. That claim prompted a rare public denial from the agency, which stated that Carlson “has never been an intelligence target”. New York Post
Anti-gun lobbyist David Chipman unsuited to run the ATF . . . OPINION. Imagine the uproar if Donald Trump or George W. Bush had appointed an NRA lobbyist to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). Liberals, Democrats, and the media would have gone nuts. He would never have been confirmed. During the uproar, presidential advisors and friendly members of Congress would claim the Bureau
entrusted with regulating the firearms industry and private gun-owners cannot be a sworn enemy or a loyal friend, but only an honest enforcer of existing laws and regulations regardless of the swirling and never-ending debates over whether those laws and regulations are too lax or too strict. Second Amendment advocates would not have presumed to advise a friendly President to turn the ATF over to one of their own. The anti-gun forces have no such qualms. No one apparently offered any
such advice to President Joe Biden, who threw prudence and good judgment to the winds. Mr. Biden appointed David Chipman, a paid lobbyist for a leading anti-Second Amendment group and a public advocate of firearms restrictions that would never pass Congress or stand up to Constitutional scrutiny. Washington Times
Rand Paul Suspended From Youtube For Seven Days After Allegedly Violating COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’ Rules . . . Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul was suspended from YouTube for seven days after posting a video arguing that “cloth masks” are not effective against the coronavirus. Paul’s suspension began Monday, almost a week after he posted a video in which he claimed that “cloth masks don’t work” and most store-bought masks “don’t
prevent infection,” according to Forbes. The video has since been taken down. YouTube stated that it violated the site’s COVID-19 misinformation rules, which prohibit users from arguing that masks don’t work. “I think this kind of censorship is very dangerous, incredibly anti-free speech, and truly anti-progress of science, which involves skepticism and argumentation to arrive at the truth,” Paul said Tuesday in a press release, according to Forbes. Daily Caller
Will the Tappan Zee Bridge get its name back after Cuomo’s resignation? . . . Renaming the Tappan Zee Bridge for his late father, Mario, was one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proudest achievements. Now, in the wake of his resignation amid sexual harassment allegations Tuesday, many are asking if the famous span should have the Cuomo name scrubbed off. As recently as this week, lawmakers and residents were calling for the $4 billion bridge —
officially named the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge after the former governor — to have its original name reinstated. They argued the bridge should not be tainted with the Cuomo name after the scathing state attorney general report that accused the governor of sexual harassment. The bridge was officially renamed after former Gov. Mario Cuomo via a state law passed back in 2017, when an insistent Andrew Cuomo cut a deal with lawmakers. New York Post
Are These 7 LGBT ‘Kids’ Books in Your Child’s Classroom or School Library? . . . Warning: Some content may be inappropriate for children. Children are learning about gay marriage, preferred pronouns, and gender identity, thanks to woke children’s books. “I have a girl brain, but a boy body,” the book “I Am Jazz” says. “This is called transgender. I was born this way. “I Am Jazz” was published in 2014 and authored by Jessica
Herthel, a transgender rights advocate, and Jazz Jennings, the honorary co-founder of the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation and star of the TLC reality-TV show “I Am Jazz.” The book is based on the true story of Jazz Jennings, a male who from a very young age identified as a female. It was one of the first woke kids’ books to crash onto the children’s literature scene. Now on Amazon you will find an array of children’s stories promoting the LGBTQ agenda. “Children are
being increasingly targeted with sexual content in schools under the guise of ‘comprehensive sexuality education’ or ‘inclusivity,’ Jared Eckert, a research assistant in the DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal. Daily Signal
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Cuomo Resigns To Spend More Time Sexually Harassing Family . . . In a stunning press conference, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced he will be resigning from his term as Governor to spend more time sexually harassing family and loved ones. "It has been an honor to serve as Governor," said Cuomo, "But all the groping of beautiful young women and killing of senior citizens has taken my focus away from where it
needs to be: on my family.
Starting next month, I will retire to focus on only harassing my dear family, and killing the elderly in my own community-- something I have neglected for far too long."
The speech was universally praised as "powerful" and "maybe even presidential" by the media, with some suggesting the disgraced governor deserves an Emmy for his powerful performance. To help make ends meet, Cuomo will secure a side gig running for president, now that he has harassed enough women to qualify for the position. Babylon
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