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March 29, 2021
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Majority of Americans disapprove of Biden's immigration and gun violence policies: Poll . . . A new poll shows a majority of Americans disapprove of President Biden’s handling of the surge of migrants at the U.S. border. Fifty-seven percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s approach to the border crisis, according to the latest ABC News/Ipos poll. Biden also scored low marks on his early handling of gun violence, with 86% of Republicans,
56% of independents, and 37% of Democrats indicating they disapprove of his handling of the issue. Americans were split on whether Biden was fulfilling his promise to unite the country, with 30% saying he has made the country more divided and 30% saying he has made it more united. Another 40% of respondents view his administration neutrally on the question of national unity. Washington Examiner
Biden tax plan would ignite ‘class warfare’ . . . FOX Business host Larry Kudlow argues President Joe Biden's tax increase will do 'great damage' to the U.S. if passed. Kudlow, who served as the National Economic Council director for former President Donald Trump, said if Democrats get rid of the filibuster’s 60-vote rule, then they will force their “progressive legislative agenda” through the Senate. “Most of these initiatives are
anti-business. A lot of class warfare against wealthy people,” he told John Catsimatidis on his WABC 770 AM radio show. High taxes “are not going to build an economy. You’re not going to be competitive around the world. You’re not going to bring investment home. You’re going to repel investment. Corporations will leave. “If we wage war on businesses and wealthy investors, that’s nuts. And that’s part of this class warfare that will do great harm to our economy and to the stock market,” he
continued. Fox Business
We must stop ignoring one politically incorrect COVID death factor . . . The US has the 13th highest COVID-19 death rate relative to population. One uncomfortable reason that the U.S. likely experienced more COVID-19 deaths has largely been ignored because it’s politically incorrect. Out-of-control obesity rates and the “body positivity” movement predating the pandemic have left the U.S. population disproportionately vulnerable
to COVID-19 compared to other countries. The U.S. ranks No. 12 in obesity worldwide, one of the highest rates among developed countries. One study found that 90% of worldwide COVID-19 deaths occurred in countries with high obesity rates. A new study examining over 150,000 adults across 20 hospitals confirmed that obese people are much more likely to be hospitalized or to die from the virus. Washington Examiner
WHO’s inquiry into COVID-19 outbreak ‘highly chaperoned,’ says ex-NSC official . . . A senior fellow at the Atlantic Council called for a substantial, international investigation into the origins of the coronavirus and said the World Health Organization’s inquiry has been dreadfully inadequate. Jamie Metzl, who served in the National Security Council during the Clinton administration, told CBS’ "60 Minutes" that the WHO’s investigation in
Wuhan should actually be referred to as a "highly chaperoned, highly curated study tour." "Everybody around the world is imagining this is some kind of full investigation," he said. "It’s not. This group of experts only saw what the Chinese government wanted them to see. Fox News
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The border crisis is coming to your backyard . . . A Politico-Morning Consult poll released this week showed a 14-point drop in support for making illegal immigrants citizens. For open-border Democrats, who view illegals not as individuals but political paraphernalia, the poll numbers won’t matter. They are willing to accept some political cost for the current situation provided it ultimately serves their purposes. If current
migration trends continue, the number of illegals crossing the U.S.-Mexico border will be the highest in 20 years. Biden’s “solution” will likely bring the humanitarian border crisis to the average Americans' backyards. After releasing illegals into the U.S., they will disappear into our cities and suburbs, carrying a heavy price tag with them. Washington Times
Sen. Kennedy: Border Crisis Can Be ‘Fixed’ If Biden Goes Back to Trump Policies . . . Sen. John Kennedy said on Sunday that he believes the flow of illegal immigrants to the U.S. southern border can be curbed if the Biden administration reinstates former President Donald Trump’s policies. “All you have to do is talk to the Border Patrol members. They’ll tell you straight up. All we have to do is go back to what we were doing before President Biden,” Kennedy told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “President Biden undid everything that the Republican Congress and the Trump administration
did. “It’ll be fixed in a week,” he said. Epoch Times
Kamala Harris MIA during border crisis . . . The Biden administration is putting out a call for government volunteers to report for duty amid the significant surge at the border, but many are asking, Where is the person deputized to 'fix' the line-in-the-sand crisis? As the immigration mess at the southern border gets more and more out of hand, Vice President Kamala Harris remains inexplicably silent. Even after President Biden
officially tapped the VP Wednesday to lead in response to border challenges, there aren’t any plans for her to travel south or even address the issue. According to the Office of the Vice President, Harris had no events this past weekend and no mention of border-related activity. This comes as the Biden administration is now asking for government volunteers to help manage the migrant surge. Fox Business
Dems Face Gun Legislation Dilemma as Support for House Background Check Bill Breaks Down . . . Senate Democrats punted on taking up House gun-control bills on Friday, acknowledging that the restrictions put forward by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were "dead on arrival," according to senior Senate aides. Facing pressure from gun-control activists and Democratic elected officials alike, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told
colleagues on Thursday he would bring background check legislation to the floor shortly after the Senate returns for business on April 12. But with Sens. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.), Jon Tester (D., Mont.), and Susan Collins (R., Maine) publicly stating their opposition to House-passed background check bill H.R. 8, Democrats must find a viable replacement. The political environment makes that a nearly impossible task, according to multiple Senate aides. Washington Free Beacon
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Blockage of the Suez Canal is a trade, national security issue . . . A massive 1,300-foot cargo ship remains stuck in the Suez Canal after running aground nearly a week ago and becoming wedged sideways in the waterway, blocking all traffic through the vital shipping lane and causing major traffic jams in the Mediterranean and Red seas. Given that it is a vital passage for ships leaving through the Mediterranean to the Gulf region
and beyond, the shipping industry will face a serious crunch if delays extend beyond Monday. More than 320 ships are currently on either side of the Suez Canal awaiting the Ever Given's removal. The Pentagon has acknowledged that the stoppage will affect U.S. defense but hasn't specified how. In a statement to The Hill on Sunday, a Navy spokesperson said, "We are not going to talk about specific operational impacts. The Suez Canal is an essential maritime choke point, and
the longer passage is suspended, the more impact it will have to civilian and military transits." The Hill
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Fresh sanctions may barely dent Fortress Russia . . . The clamour is growing to ramp up sanctions against Russia, which stands accused of deploying hackers, assassins and other provocateurs abroad, and of repressing dissent at home. But it is worth considering that in one crucial respect sanctions have made Russia stronger. Russia was accustomed to financial crises, which helped topple its Soviet empire in 1989, wiped out the rouble twice
in the 1990s, and struck again in 2008. But the 2014 shocks seemed to persuade president Vladimir Putin that enough was enough. Though he is often compared with erratic autocrats, Putin has long been relatively careful on macroeconomic policy. After 2014, he turned even more defensive, and focused on turning Russia into a financial fortress invulnerable to external pressure, including sanctions. To a surprising extent, he has succeeded. Once among the most crisis-prone emerging nations, Russia
is now one of the most conservative and stable. Financial Times
Yeah, but it's much easier to place sanctions than study the adversary and his vulnerability points for decades, in order to pre-empt his moves or develop a real counter-strategy. That would require some strategic intelligence rather than tactical checkers' moves. But who wants to bother with that?
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Exxon, Chevron take a slow walk to US shale recovery . . . Exxon Mobil and Chevron Corp have scaled back activity dramatically in the top U.S. shale oil field, where just a year ago the two companies were dominating in the high-desert landscape. The cautious approach of the two largest U.S. oil companies is a major reason domestic oil production has been slow to rebound since prices crashed during pandemic lockdowns in
2020. The share of drilling activity by Exxon and Chevron in the Permian Basin oil field in Texas and New Mexico dropped to less than 5% this month from 28% last spring. Reuters
Conservative Heritage Foundation Turns Down Six-Figure Donations From Google, Facebook . . . Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation has declined donations from Google and Facebook because of the companies’ censoring of persons and groups with conservative points of view. Outgoing foundation president Kay C. James sent letters to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai explaining that the Heritage Foundation
could “not in good conscience accept money” from companies that suppress conservative speech and content.
Heritage turned down a $225,000 donation from Google and returned a $150,000 donation from Facebook in October 2020. Epoch Times
Admirable move by Kay James, a brilliant former public servant and the first African American woman to lead a major conservative think tank. But you won't find her, Candace Owens or other conservative women on a cover of a major women's magazine.
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Big Tech Censors Religion, Too . . . There’s no rest for the faithful when it comes to the woke orthodoxy. So far this year, religious groups and figures have been silenced by tech companies at a rate of about one a week, according to a new report from the Napa Legal Institute. LifeSiteNews, a popular religious news website's YouTube channel was permanently banned by Google, which deleted all its videos in
February. The tech giant had flagged LSN for a video of an American Catholic bishop criticizing vaccines developed with fetal cells. Books from specific publishers are often targeted, such as Catholic TAN Books. One of its authors is Paul Kengor, who wrote an anticommunist tract called “The Devil and Karl Marx. ” TAN Books can’t advertise his work on Facebook, or that of Carrie Gress, who wrote a book on “rescuing the culture from toxic femininity.” It seems likely that religious groups and
individuals will face mounting threats from tech companies. Their views on marriage, sexuality, life and other moral issues are unpopular among the Silicon Valley set. Censorship is a symptom of a national collapse in civic culture. Wall Street Journal
The Pentagon's target list for extremist infiltrators — right and left . . . Pentagon is trying to keep radical groups and ideologies out of the ranks as extremists are infiltrating the military, according to internal training materials. “There are members of the [Department of Defense] who belong to extremist groups or actively participate in efforts to further extremist ideologies,” states a 17-page briefing obtained by
POLITICO that was compiled by the DoD Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center, which is part of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. "Be aware of symbols of far right, far left, Islamist or single issue ideologies," it warns, stressing that members of the military and civilian personnel have “a duty and responsibility” to report extremist behavior or activity. The materials were prepared as part of a broader Pentagon effort to crack down on extremists who may be
lurking inside the military. Politico
A former colleague who still serves in the Intelligence Community recently told me that the way this new DOD policy is implemented has resulted in the suppression of conservative views because those who express such views (deemed 'extremist' by the government apparatchiks) are threatened with the loss of security clearance and therefore their livelihood. And there are already very few conservatives serving in the government.
GOP Senators Demand FBI, Secret Service Records On Alleged Hunter Biden Gun Incident . . . Two Republican senators are asking the directors of the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for details of their alleged investigation into a handgun that belonged to Hunter Biden that was reported missing in 2018. In their letters, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson refer to a report from
Politico this week about the gun incident. According to Politico, on Oct. 23, 2018, Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law, Hallie Biden, called police in Delaware to report that she had thrown Biden’s gun in a trash can behind a grocery store. The FBI responded to the scene of the investigation, as did ATF. The U.S. Secret Service also became involved in the investigation and contacted the gun store that sold the firearm to Biden. Daily Caller
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CDC: People With Dirt On Clintons Have 843% Greater Risk Of Suicide . . . According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control, people with inside, compromising knowledge of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s financial and political dealings are 843% more likely to commit suicide. “We’ve never seen a single risk factor cause a spike of this magnitude,” a CDC spokesperson told reporters. “Interestingly, in spite of
their increased suicide risk, people with dirt on the Clintons rarely show any warning signs of suicide, and they never leave a suicide note.” Remarking about how abnormal it is, the spokesman again stressed the significance of the data. “Therefore, we advise any American with detrimental information about Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, or the Clinton Foundation to forget about it as quickly as possible to avoid a greatly increased probability of taking your own life,” he
cautioned. “And—I swear—that’s all we know.” This is satire. Babylon Bee
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