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A Great Reset Is Already Underway in Utah

By G. Murphy Donovan / American Thinker


We hear much these days about paradigm shifts and resets.  Much of the chat comes from crucibles like the World Economic Forum.  The WEF is a kind of “masters of the universe” boys club that meets to greet, eat, and ski at fabulously expensive hotels and restaurants in Davos, Switzerland.  The globalist press covers these champagne and caviar festivals because the Fourth Estate loves to hobnob with power and money.  The holy grail these days seems to be the pursuit of a “great reset,” or stakeholder capitalism — in practice, a Beijing model, more like capital communism.  A Chicom theologian would argue that their “capitalism” is just a phase on the way to totalitarian social stability.  For monopolist mandarins in America and Europe, the COVID-19 crisis is indeed a golden opportunity to remake the world — “capitalism with a Chinese face,” if you will.


For Western oligarchs, the Sino model means better control, hegemony, and wealth concentration.  For the global lumpenproletariat, unfortunately, the great reset means conformity, subordination, wokeness, utopian rhetoric, and new-age social leveling.

The “stake” in stakeholder capitalism goes through the heart of individual liberties.

Some of the necessary

paradigm shifts have already been successful above and below the radar.  Above the horizon, hiding in plain sight, the guy who blew the whistle on Big Brother in America is now an international fugitive.  The Snowden leak is unique to the extent that he seems to have been motivated by morals at the expense of professional ethics.  Conscience, alas, is a character defect in the intelligence business.


After Edward Snowden’s sierra hit the fan, DNI Jim Clapper actually went up to Congress and denied the advent of universal surveillance in Snowden’s Top Secret National Security Agency reveal.  General Clapper claimed that “metadata” collection (née wiretapping) did not represent warrantless surveillance of individual citizens.


The theater of federal arrogance is now compounded by parallel commercial digital fascism.  Mark Zuckerberg, for example, has rebranded his global Facebook data hustle as META Inc.  You can’t make this stuff up.  Data-mining is a polite euphemism for wiretapping, spying, or surveillance.  Big Government and Big Tech are now joined at the hip by visions of meta control.


Congress then kissed that fish on the mouth and sent another big check to Big Brother in Bluffdale, Utah.  


So much for congressional oversight; the real truth about intelligence abuse and domestic spying is that the American Intelligence Community, including the FBI, are above the law — free agents, politicized Deep State civil “servants.”  And thus do elections and maybe democracy itself become less relevant over time.  Without accountability, republican democracy is a mirage.

Big reset there.


The urban Deep State, the real deciders, as Bush Junior might say, consists of a toxic majority in large cities, blue states, and nearly all bloated federal bureaucracies, like the NSA, across America these days.  The American election of 2016 was an inflection point, when the apparatchik left came out of the closet with their azimuths on fire.  An outsider, God forbid, threatened to drain the Beltway swamp.  Alas, elections in America matter now only if the unelected nomenklatura, today well left of center, agree with the electorate. Big reset there, too.


Below the radar since 9/11, a digital hardware paradigm shift is underway also, out in the desert sands.  Bluffdale, Utah is now ground zero for a mega-shift in the metadata trade.  Heretofore, the national intelligence meme was a “needle in a haystack” model — to wit: industrious agents and analysts labored in the bowels of a dozen or more intelligence agencies, like George Smiley, looking for the pins of enemy capabilities and the needles of enemy intentions.


At some point on the Clapper-Obama watch, some genius said, “Needles be damned,” let’s collect and store all the haystacks instead.  When your safety pin pops up on Big Brother’s radar, the NSA can access your present and her past.  At any time, any citizen’s future is also a virtual federal hostage, indefinitely.


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UT & CO LEAD NATION with 11.9% Inflation


Sen. Lee Launches State Inflation Tracker. 


For USN / April 12, 2022

WASHINGTON—Today, Joint Economic Committee Ranking Member Mike Lee (R-UT) announced the launch of a new State Inflation Tracker that provides the first ever estimates of the inflation costs Americans are facing in each state. The State Inflation Tracker will provide state-by-state inflation data every month.

Following today’s release of the Consumer Price Index, the State Inflation Trackershows that inflation is costing Americans the most in Washington, DC, where households faced increased costs of $780 in March to afford the same items they purchased in January 2021. Even if prices stopped increasing tomorrow, the inflation that has already occurred will cost Washington, DC households $9,363 over the next year.


Inflation is costing Americans the least in Mississippi, where households faced increased costs of $413 in March to afford the same items they purchased in January 2021. Even if prices stopped increasing tomorrow, the inflation that has already occurred will cost Mississippi households $4,955 over the next year.

The inflation that has already occurred will cost the average American household $536 in March alone and $6,431 over the next year.


View the State Inflation Tracker to find estimates for each state.


Ranking Member Lee has introduced several measures to counter inflation as families in Utah continue to face some of the highest costs nationwide, $702 in March alone. Last month, Lee introduced the PRICE Act, which requires a 3/5 majority of Senators to approve new spending measures when the nation’s inflation rate is at or above 3%. Lee’s SHIP IT Act would streamline the regulations that are driving up prices to help relieve the supply chain crisis at its source.




Read the full findings here.

The Joint Economic Committee is Congress’s bicameral economic research center and home of the Social Capital Project, led by Ranking Member Mike Lee.

The Definitive Ranking of How States Handled COVID - UTAH LEADS NATION


Some two years since COVID-19's spread reached the United States and our nation's leaders began taking action in response, a new study compares the outcomes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to see which leaders did the best, and which did the worst. 


Unsurprising to conservatives but likely a shock to the mainstream media and liberals, the states with better outcomes were not the ones with draconian never-ending mandates and lockdowns, but the ones that allowed more freedom and encouraged people to make the best choices for themselves. 


According to the Final Report Card on the States’ Response to COVID-19 compiled by Phil Kerpen, Stephen Moore and Casey Mulligan for the Committee to Unleash Prosperity (CUP), the five states with the best outcomes are Utah, Nebraska, Vermont, Montana, and Florida. 

On the failing side, the five worst jurisdictions are New Jersey, Washington, D.C., New York, New Mexico, and California. Notably, those states' leaders used strong-arm tactics to enforce lockdowns, mandates, and other COVID-related protocols — with deadly results and worse outcomes for their citizens. 

Madness, Joe Biden Asks Congress for $33 Billion More for Ukraine to Fund Their Government Salaries, Pensions and Budget Obligations


This is getting seriously out of hand. On top of the $14 billion already appropriated for Ukraine assistance, Joe Biden is now asking for a supplemental budget allocation of an additional $33 billion for Ukraine. Good grief, that’s almost $50 billion in aid, plus the billions in distributed weapons.


Biden is asking for U.S. taxpayers to fund the budget, salaries and pension obligations of the Ukraine government. Biden made his request in a letter [SEE HERE] to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: […] “I am writing to provide you with my request for fiscal year (FY) 2022 emergency supplemental funding for critical security and economic assistance to Ukraine.

 

I appreciate the Congress’ continued bipartisan support for Ukraine, NATO, and other partner countries affected by Russia’s War in Ukraine. My Administration is committed to providing the Ukrainian people the assistance they need. Our assistance to date has made a difference on the battlefield, helping Ukraine win the battle for Kyiv. 


This $33.0 billion request for additional funding and authority builds on the Congress’ supplemental appropriation of $13.6 billion on March 15, 2022, and seeks to address immediate and near-term security and economic needs. Additional security assistance will put urgently needed equipment into the hands of Ukraine’s military and police, including ammunition, armored vehicles, small arms, demining assistance, and unmanned aircraft systems. Economic assistance will provide Direct Budget Support to provide rapid, flexible funds to assist the Government of Ukraine.” (read more)


U.S. joins 55 nations to set new global rules for the internet


Washington - The United States and 55 other nations on Thursday signed a political commitment to push rules for the internet that are underpinned by democratic values, at a time when the U.S. has accused Russia of wielding internet disruptions as a part of its escalating attacks on Ukraine. The commitment, called the "Declaration for the Future of the Internet" - the first such effort of its kind - protects human rights, promotes free flow of information, protects the privacy of users, and sets rules for a growing global digital economy among steps to counter what two Biden administration officials called a "dangerous new model" of internet policy...   

Front-Line Sheriffs: ‘No Border Left’  


President Joe Biden’s 15-month dismantling of U.S.-Mexico border protections and policies has essentially eliminated efforts to keep illegal immigrants out of the nation, according to the nation’s front-line sheriffs.

“We simply have no border left in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, or Southern California,” said the nation’s sheriffs in a four-paragraph letter to Senate leaders and provided to Secrets.


The letter, signed by Jonathan Thompson, the executive director and CEO of the influential National Sheriffs’ Association, and dozens of top sheriffs, was law enforcement’s latest support for keeping in place Trump-era COVID-19 restrictions known as Title 42, which Biden wants to set aside.

Thursday, April 28: US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and numerous world leaders announced a new agreement on how to regulate the internet globally, ostensibly to broaden access and ensure safety and freedom online for all people.


At Utah Standard News, we believe everyone should see the facts for themselves – without the spin. Without further ado, here’s the unabridged Declaration for the Future of the Internet:


The Declaration for the Future of the Internet –

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Billions in Blue States’ COV Relief Went to CRT – Marxism 


Blue states across the country are using billions of taxpayer dollars from Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package to push core tenets of critical race theory (CRT) in public schools, Fox News reports. (CRT is defined at the end by Christopher Rufo). Just the News reported this information last year. The funds also went to luxuries and open borders (it’s good for getting out the vote for Democrats). 


The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act, which passed without one Republican vote, is touted as a necessity, and a huge success. Allegedly, it was necessary to reopen schools during COV. As it turned out, they didn’t reopen anyway.


The law provided over $122 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). It ended up helping multiple states implement “implicit bias” and “anti-racism” training. This is according to research from One Nation shared with and verified by Fox News Digital.

New Pentagon Report Shows That The United States Left $7 Billion(!!!) Of Equipment In Afghanistan


Reported by CNN:The US gave a total of $18.6 billion of equipment to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) from 2005 to August 2021, according to the report. Of that total, equipment worth $7.12 billion remained in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal was completed on August 30, 2021. It included aircraft, air-to-ground munitions, military vehicles, weapons, communications equipment and other materials, according to the DoD report.


That's more than 1/3 of the equipment we brought to Afghanistan given on a silver platter to the very people we were trying to fight.


The scale of the Afghanistan disaster just seems to get worse and worse as time goes on.


'Easy money': How international scam artists pulled off an epic theft of Covid benefits


In June, the FBI got a warrant to hunt through the Google accounts of Abedemi Rufai, a Nigerian state government official.


What they found, they said in a sworn affidavit, was all the ingredients for a "massive" cyberfraud on U.S. government benefits: stolen bank, credit card and tax information of Americans. Money transfers. And emails showing dozens of false unemployment claims in seven states that paid out $350,000.


Rufai was arrested in May at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York as he prepared to fly first class back to Nigeria, according to court records. He is being held without bail in Washington state, where he has pleaded not guilty to five counts of wire fraud.


Rufai's case offers a small window into what law enforcement officials and private experts say is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated against the U.S., a significant part of it carried out by foreigners.

BEFORE WE PROCEED

A message from the completely normal, fair-minded and mentally balanced Nina Jankowicz, Director of Mayorkas' Disinformation Governance Board:

COVID FILE


Pfizer and Moderna Demand ‘Emergency Use’ Authorization to Inject COVID Vaccine Into Children Younger Than 6


Fauci reverses: By no means is this pandemic over


New Zealand COVID "lottery" found illegal


Fauci: Pandemic's over ... but Nerd Prom is too risky to attend


Shanghai Uses Crowdsourcing to Survive Lockdown as Social Support Breaks Down.


Beijing halts weddings, funerals and closes schools.


Denmark first country to halt vax program.


Michigan Investigated Hundreds of Doctors,

Nurses Over COVID-related Complaints


Dr. Wolf: COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy   

Biodistribution Study of Pfizer Covid-19 Injection suggests use of mRNA Vaccines should be suspended immediately  



HUNTER BIDEN FILE


Hunter Biden brutal emails brand Bill Clinton as ‘a**hole’ who ‘looks like sh*t’


Here’s the 5 laptop reveals the GOP will want Joe and Hunter Biden to explain


House GOP Now Demanding Answers From Hunter's Business Partner About Joe's Connections

UKRAINE FILE


Biden Promises To ‘Accommodate’ Putin’s Allies, Then Starts Laughing


How the Ukraine war must end


Is Russia gearing up to go to war with NATO?


Is the U.S. helping Ukraine target Russian troops?


Here are the 10 Republicans who voted ‘no’ on the Ukraine lend-lease bill


Putin warns of ‘lightning fast’ response if any nation intervenes in Ukraine war 


Putin’s War on Verge of Expanding Outside Ukraine     


Will Putin Submit to US-Imposed 'Weakening'?


Ukraine Accuses Russia of Launching ‘Middle Finger’ Attack during U.N. Chief’s Visit  


Ukraine: WAR BULLETIN April 28, 6.30 pm EST - The sixty-fourth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. 

FBI Conducted Millions of Warrantless Searches of Americans' Data in 2021


The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted as many as 3.4 million searches of data in the U.S. without a warrant over the year 2021, according to a new government report. 


The Annual Statistical Transparency Report, was published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Thursday and focuses on the intelligence community’s use of national security authorities for surveillance under U.S. law.


The information was previously gathered by the National Security Agency, the U.S. military’s signals intelligence agency, but was transferred to the civilian-led FBI per the U.S.A. FREEDOM Act, passed in 2015.


 

Governments worldwide are working in Lockstep to bring in Digital I.D. & Social Credit System as EU agrees to expand online censorship with ‘Digital Services Act’ 


Under pressure applied by both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the European Union is working to expand online censorship to an extreme Orwellian level, as well as strictly regulate speech during what authorities deem to be times of crisis (we always seem to be in the middle of a “crisis”), and remove online anonymity by forcing the public to have a digital identity.


But these plans aren’t unique to the EU. They are also currently being rolled out in the UK and Africa, proving Governments worldwide are working in lockstep to bring in a digital identity and social credit system right under your nose. 

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Intriguing New Report on Joe and Kamala's Working Relationship Hints There Is Big Trouble in Paradise


We’ve talked before about the scattered reports over the last 15 months or so regarding alleged tensions between the Biden and Harris camps, with Biden’s team reportedly annoyed over the veep’s inability to appropriately handle the tasks given to her by Joe Biden, and the Harris camp’s mindset being that Biden’s staff is all too eager to pin his multitude of failures on her.


Those tensions appeared to boil over into the public sphere directly between the two players at the center of it all in November 2021 when Biden, Harris, and their respective spouses visited a D.C. soup kitchen at Thanksgiving to prepare plates for those in need. Videos and photos from the event showed Biden appearing to snub Harris at various points, with him spending most of his time talking to the kitchen’s chef.

More recently, we learned from an upcoming book written by two New York Times reporters that the situation between both sides has gotten worse, with Biden comms director Kate Bedingfield letting some inconvenient truths slip out about Harris:

 

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Republicans Propose Immigration 'Compromise' in Attempt to Fully Surrender at the Border

A bipartisan group of senators will meet Thursday to discuss options for passing immigration legislation this year.

“The idea is to get as many bipartisan bills we can find that have goals that will add up to 60,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said, referring to the Senate’s threshold for passing most legislation.


Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) will meet with Durbin Thursday. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) may also attend. All are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which handles immigration policy……“We’re in a crisis here, we’ve got headwinds, we’ve got the threat of a recession,” he said. “This is the time to maybe set politics aside a little bit and get good policy in place so we can do our part to lessen the burden that people are feeling here in the country.”Tillis said measures that could form the basis of a deal include a pathway to citizenship for so-called Dreamers — young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — border security upgrades, and a guest-worker program to alleviate labor shortages in industries like restaurants.


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VIDEOS

WOKE Corporate Puppet Masters EXPOSED

Andrew Kraven

 

Nothing about this regime makes sense: Boebert

 

Joe Concha warns Biden's disinformation board will be 'weaponized' 

Saifedean Ammous Demolishes Green Energy


 Our friend Saif, known to the world as Dr. Saifedean Ammous, joins Jeff and Bob Murphy for a demolition of the pseudo-economics behind Green energy.

Thought & Opinion

“Ed is sustained and motivated by reason, feeling, and intellect. He is also inspired by a Higher Power. History is replete with the notables who stood/stand alone! You are in good company.” – Wayne Wickizer - Retired Seal Team Leader & FBI, etc

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Where the Truth Is Hidden: Debating the Current State of the US Armed Forces


With both Democrats and Republicans predictably falling over each other to increase US defense spending, what serious commentary and debate exists primarily focuses on how best to effectively allocate the additional billions of taxpayer dollars to be dumped into the black hole of the Pentagon. One analyst, at Reason, dared to suggest that Congress wasn’t taking the matter seriously, complaining all they were concerned about was safeguarding the defense jobs in their districts and contributions to their own campaigns.

And while this has long been demonstrably true, the fact is the conversation about US defense spending isn’t serious because we face no serious threats to our real national interests—and haven’t in arguably more than a generation.


As Richard Cummings explained in “Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” and as political scientist John Mearsheimer has noted, US foreign policy in the post–Cold War era has been largely driven by corporate and institutional interests, as well as domestic politics.


As the American public is scaremongered into acquiescing in Cold War II, it is important to counter narratives of US military decline and incapability with the truth. Far from being evidence we need to spend more, the Russian performance in the invasion of Ukraine clearly shows we spend plenty—and should be spending less. With the most marginal of US assistance one of the poorest and weakest states in Europe is effectively bloodying Russia, our supposed penultimate nemesis behind Beijing.

Whether or not he actually believes it, or whether his close ties to the military-industrial complex obligate him to say it, US senator Tom Cotton surely is dreaming when he forecasts a Russian invasion of Ukraine means Russia threatens the US homeland.

Meds: The Seen—and Unseen—of Intellectual Property Laws


Perhaps the greatest lesson to be learned in economics is that public policies have seen and unseen effects. The mastery of such a lesson is what separates the good from the bad economist. “The bad economist,” writes Henry Hazlitt, “sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economist sees only what the effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups.”


The same economic reasoning should be applied to intellectual property laws. By joining together not only the seen, but also the unseen consequences of intellectual property laws, we can achieve a solidly ironclad understanding of its impacts on humanity.


James Madison Would Be Appalled at Fauci’s Contempt for

Checks and Balances


Dr. Fauci last week expressed dismay that a federal judge saw fit to block the Centers for Disease Control’s transport mask mandate.


Speaking to CNN’s Kasie Hunt, Fauci made it clear he didn’t just disagree with the legal reasoning of Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle—who’s opinion he described as “unsound”—but was upset that the judicial branch more broadly had the authority to block CDC public health edicts.


“Those types of things really are the purview of the CDC. This is a public health issue,” Fauci said. “We are concerned about that—about courts getting involved in things that are unequivocally public health decisions. I mean, this is a CDC issue; it should not be a court issue.”


Nina Jankowicz, Biden’s ‘Disinformation Board’ Chief, Must Be Placed in an Ankle Monitor


It’s the least we can do.

 

Linguistically, the name of the Department of Homeland Security has always sounded a little off to me — a little . . . well, Russian. So I suppose that it is only fitting that it should be the DHS, and not, say, the Post Office, that will house America’s newest Ministry of Truth.


Per Secretary Mayorkas, his already-sprawling agency will be adding a “Disinformation Governance Board” to its offerings, the better to fight the “huge threat to our homeland” that is free American citizens saying things that the federal government doesn’t like.

On “Book Reading”

By Glenn Arbery


Reading books is already a niche activity. Our lives are not so much interrupted by as constituted of distractions. Sitting down to read a book requires elbowing everybody and everything aside.


Last week, Mark Bauerlein of First Things wrote a witty invective against the National Council of Teachers of English for their most recent posturing—a high moral stance against “book reading.” The NCTE says that “as stewards of the communication arts,” its members must “confront and challenge the tacit and implicit ways in which print media is valorized above the full range of literacy competencies students should master.”


Decode the jargon and you see that the awkward phrase “literacy competencies” must mean something besides reading, at least reading anything printed—and especially anything printed in a book.  

 Remembering Russell Kirk’s “Roots of American Order” By Bradley J. Birzer


Written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Russell Kirk’s magisterial The Roots of American Order first appeared in print in late 1974, nearly half-a-century ago. Interestingly enough, 1974 also marked the mid-point of Kirk’s career. He had published his more famous The Conservative Mind in 1953, and he would pass away in April 1994. Thus, 1974 is about as middle of his career as it gets.


In almost every respect, Roots of AmericanOrder is Kirk at his best, in terms of writing style but also especially in terms of explicating moral wisdom. 

Fourth Generation Warfare: An Analysis of Child Recruitment and use as a Salafi-Jihadi Doctrine of War


This article emphasizes not the radical disjuncture of child participation in armed conflict and terrorism from previous generations warfare but its evolution and gargantuan acceleration in the 4th Generation Warfare. In its contemporary dimension, the involvement of children in terrorism has become a matter of public interest and a source of international outrage following its public display in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) propaganda.  

Laws Requiring Businesses To Allow Guns On Premises Violate Property Rights


Iowa is considering becoming the twenty‐​fifth state to enact a law compelling private property owners to allow guns on their premises. The laws take various forms, often prohibiting employers, retailers, or organizations more generally from maintaining a no‐​guns‐​on‐​premises rule.


Some bans apply only in specified narrow circumstances (e.g., in employee parking lots as regards locked firearms in car trunks) and some are broader.

Education

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More states requiring financial

literacy courses in high schools


Many states are taking steps to make financial literacy an increased part of children’s education. Florida became the 11th state to require a financial skills course as a high school graduation requirement last month, joining Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia, according to Fox Business.


More states are beginning to address the issue—37 states and Washington, D.C., have discussed bills about financial literacy in 2022, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Of those, 20 are based on developing programs in high schools. Approval ratings for the new measures are high, as 88% of adults surveyed by the National Endowment   

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Democrat Legislators Want Children Taught Sex, Specifically 'Pleasure-Based Sexual Relations'


Democrats in Rhode Island are hoping for such an educational add-on.


Senate Bill 2285 — introduced on April 21st and “scheduled for hearing and/or consideration” Wednesday — laid out new procreative provisions in schooling kids.

Canceled Math Teacher Shares How Wokeism Is Infiltrating Our Schools [Video]

WATCH: Biden Makes the Most Terrifying Statement About Parental Rights I’ve Ever Heard


They are all our children': Biden sparks fury from parents by telling teachers that kids are 'yours when they're in the classroom' as he takes aim at Republican efforts to stop sexually explicit lessons and books.

Parent Coalition Rejects Gender Redefinition


They oppose Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s new Title IX proposal on the classification of gender identity.


The leftists who are currently at the helm of our country have succeeded in creating a new coalition, and one not in their favor: concerned parents. As talks from the Department of Education are targeted toward amending the Title IX policy — which ensures there is no discrimination on the basis of sex in education, sports, and other federally funded programs — parent groups have gathered together and penned a letter in protest.


Title IX was put in place to protect women as much as men. It keeps separate private spaces such as locker rooms and bathrooms. It also protects women’s sports. The new classification of gender identity would throw all of that out the window, and parents are not okay with this.


The more gender dysphoric athletes such as Lia Thomas make headlines, the more obvious the need for these rules. Thomas’s domination over women in college swimming is, to say the least, a farce.


There have been other iterations of this same battle going on throughout the world. Women in a bicycling competition stood up for their rights and threatened to boycott if a gender-confused male was allowed to compete. And a rugby coach from Guam complained to the league because several of his female players were seriously injured by “trans” athletes on the opposing team. Thomas isn’t the only or even most nefarious example.

Trust the Science and Skip the Gender-Neutral Toys and Clothes


Stay-at-home father Jay Deitcher prided himself on “blurring gender lines,” a trait he tried hard to pass along to his own young son. So he hid the kiddie clothing that sported footballs and instead gave his son a baby doll to push in a stroller on their walks, Deitcher explains in Today.


And then his two-year-old discovered tractors, and the gender-neutral charade was over. “I had to make a choice,” Deitcher writes: “buy him clothes with pictures of heavy machinery on them and make the kid happy, or force him to wear shirts emblazoned with fuzzy animals to appease me.” Deitcher fought it at first, trying to interest his son in other directions, but nothing worked, and finally he gave in, letting his son immerse himself in the traditional boy-world of machine-oriented clothing and toys.


Deitcher felt like a failure as he saw his attempt at gender-neutral parenting fall apart. And in the eyes of the pop culture that tries so hard to blur the lines between the sexes—demolishing so-called social constructs of gender roles, clothes, toys, and interests of children before they’re fully aware of their surroundings—he did fail. But he shouldn’t take it personally. Unfortunately for him, his quest was always going to be an uphill battle, for it’s pretty hard to fight against the scientific facts of biology.

Columnists

The Only People More Corrupt Than Joe Biden Are The Journalists Covering Him

Derek Hunter


When Rachel Maddow got her hands on the first page of one of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns it was a “STOP THE PRESSES!!!!” moment for the leftist media. All that showed was Trump had paid a ton in taxes that year, but the left would not be bound by reality and widely speculated about what the rest of the return, the pages they’d never seen, could possibly say. That level of curiosity – obsession, really – has not only waned when it comes to Joe Biden’s finances, it has dried up completely.


The current occupant of the presidency regularly insists, as recently as the past week, he was the “poorest member of Congress” during his Senate career. The intrepid reporters, likely with offices littered with awards, have never expressed any curiosity as to how someone so “poor” could afford multiple mansions in his home state. Joe Biden is blessed with an incurious press who wear the Democrats uniform under their business suits....



Another Government Agency Is Being Weaponized to Go After Conservatives 

Matt Vespa


I don’t mean to be the wet blanket here. We should celebrate liberals freaking out over Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter purchase. We should be celebrating the end of censorship and a new era of free speech on the platform. It’s a huge win for conservatives, but the war is far from being over. As with these victories, we face another, larger battle on the horizon. The enemy is not new; it’s the government again. Yet, this time they’re taking the Twitter ethos regarding “disinformation” national. 


Rebecca touched upon this last night, but the warning flares must be fired again. Load the magazines, clean the guns, and sharpen the bayonets because Goliath is coming. The Department of Homeland Security is creating a “Disinformation Governance Board.” I’m sure this will be a smooth operation, right? Let’s be frank about this because you all know what’s going on here. This Thought Police department is being created to help Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterms. ...

The Campaign Against Misinformation Is Disinformation

Laura Hollis


For years we’ve been hearing nonstop warnings about “misinformation” and “disinformation.” What’s the difference? According to Business Insider, “misinformation” is false or (important distinction) “out-of-context” information, presented as fact but without the intention to deceive others. “Disinformation,” on the other hand, is factually false and disseminated with the intention of misleading or deceiving others.


Our political class and their like-minded allies in the major media and Big Tech love to pretend that they’re protecting us from misinformation and disinformation. What they’ve actually been doing is preventing the public from knowing the truth, while they are the ones spreading lies.


This is a deliberate and calculated strategy to entrench their own political and economic power.


Here’s how it works: They disseminate lies that become the official “narrative.”...

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To save black lives, Biden orders menthol factories to start providing abortions instead of cigarettes


WASHINGTON, DC—In an effort to help the black community and save black lives, the Biden administration announced its intention today to ban menthol cigarettes and order manufacturers to provide abortions instead.

“We believe black lives matter,” Biden said at a press conference announcing the decision. “And that’s why we are outlawing the deadly flavored cigarettes that blacks love so much and we’re going to promote more abortion.”

In solidarity with the social justice movement Black Lives Matter, the new abortion mills will only abort black babies.

“Tobacco kills and—to be honest—it’s taking away Planned Parenthood’s market share. This ban will set rebalance the death rates of blacks to where they should be,” Biden added.                         


Congress Passes $33 Billion Bill To Send War-Torn Ukraine Free Community College


WASHINGTON—In response to continued Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, Congress unanimously passed a $33 billion bill to send war-torn Ukraine free community college. “As Putin’s forces encircle the Donbas region, this free community college tuition will be vital to preparing the Ukrainians for the economy of tomorrow,” said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, explaining that the program would mobilize tens of thousands of university administrators, professors, and tutors across the former Soviet state in a unified, well-compensated central agency. “Time is of the essence if Ukrainian fighters want any chance of attaining the skills necessary to compete in a globalized job market. Without a pathway to eventually securing a four-year degree, the future of Ukraine will be lost. .

BREAKING: Biden to transfer all student loans to people who never went to college      


WASHINGTON, DC—In a bold move, President* Biden promised to make people who never went to college and everyone who has paid off their student debt in a responsible manner to pay for everyone who hasn’t.


“All these people who never went to college have these great-paying jobs and it’s not fair to people who spent $100,000 plus on three Gender Studies degrees,” Biden said at a press conference announcing the plan. “Therefore, I am going to make all the people who didn’t go to college pay for the people who did go to college. That’s the American way!” .

People Who Say They Aren't Censoring Anyone Really Mad They Won't Be Able To Censor Anyone


SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Reports are flooding in that the same exact people who said that they are not censoring anybody are absolutely furious that they won't be able to censor anyone.


Now that Elon Musk—who is a strong proponent of free speech—has purchased Twitter, many employees worry that their days of inappropriately censoring opposing views are numbered. 


"So we're just going to let people freely say whatever they want now? What if they say something we don't like?" said Eliza Stephens, a Twitter content moderator who claims to have never ever censored anyone before. "How else will we prove we are right if we can't silence the opposition entirely. If conservatives aren't handicapped at every turn their ideas may catch on or be better than ours. AHHHHH!"


Other employees adamantly agreed that censoring people was not something they ever did. They explained that they simply limited their audience drastically and throttled their views all without that person's knowledge. "They were still able to have freedom of speech, just not to as many people as they wanted, even if those people would have wanted to hear what they were saying," said Kelly Burbank. "Clearly not censorship."



Underground Christians In China Pray For All The American Christians Being Persecuted By Disney


SHENZHEN—This week, Christians in China gathered in their underground churches to pray for American Christians suffering persecution at the hands of the Walt Disney Company.

“Father God, lift up our American brothers and sisters enduring this unrelenting persecution,” prayed Sarah Mai, a mother of two whose husband has been jailed since a 2019 raid on their house church forced them underground. “Grant them courage as they are mocked on social media, as they sometimes have to be discerning about which Disney shows their kids watch, and as they must now enjoy Disneyland without posting about it for fear of being shamed by their elders.”


Sources say the group joined hands and sang the hymn “They Need Thee Every Hour”, a hymn written by Sarah’s husband and the jailed pastor of their house church, Mr. Troy Mai.

Members of their church spoke with our journalists and explained that they knew the risk of incarceration and being forced into “re-education camps” if the church continued to meet, but stated that the urgency of the situation in America sparked a desire to lift up Western believers in their darkest hour.


“Sarah, I am strengthened and inspired by your reports of believers in America,  undergoing unimaginable hardship,” Troy Mai wrote to his wife from his 5x5 cell. 

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