News Briefing - July 8 2022 

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Mitt Romney: Master troll - American Thinker 


Mitt Romney penned an especially inspirational piece in the Atlantic for the 4th of July, in which he itemized our national problems and then blamed us (the people who don't reside in Washington, D.C.) for them.

Mitt started out his missive with a little criticism of our crop management practices.

Even as we watch the reservoirs and lakes of the West go dry, we keep watering our lawns, soaking our golf courses, and growing water-thirsty crops.

We're told by the Left that we can't have meat because it's mean-spirited.  Little did we understand that we're also supposed to feel guilty about growing water-thirsty crops — which would be all crops.  So meat and plants are out as food.  What does Senator Delecto recommend that we feed the masses with?  Soylent Green?  Will they be serving that in the French Laundry, too?  Is processed human remains best with red or white wine?

Then the good senator moved on to global warming.

As the ice caps melt and record temperatures make the evening news, we figure that buying a Prius and recycling the boxes from our daily Amazon deliveries will suffice.

It turns out the senator owns four homes with an estimated total value of $18 million.  His home in California even has an elevator for his freaking car!  It seems that Mitt's carbon footprint is just slightly shy of that for the Army's 1st Armored Division.  But the problem is really our Amazon habit — sure.  (Mitt also mentions that the ever-flatulent cattle and swine contribute to global warming.)..... click on headline to read more

Red Tape Fuels Wildfires Scorching America’s Forests


Last summer, my family spent days smelling smoke and seeing thick plumes from the wildfires that surrounded our piece of Arizona. At night, flames licked above the rim of Sycamore Canyon from the Rafael fire, which ultimately burned 78,000 acres. The vulnerability of the bone-dry West to lightning strikes and jackasses with matches is a fact of life with which residents learn to live. But while we've made our peace with clearing brush and packing go-bags with necessities in case we need to run, we expect the U.S. Forest Service to care for its properties and do its best to minimize incendiary dangers. Unfortunately, as a recent report reveals, environmental rules and lawsuits slow efforts to mitigate wildfire dangers, dragging them out for years and threatening communities neighboring federal lands.


My area has enjoyed a breather so far in 2022 courtesy of a series of monsoon storms. But Flagstaff, surrounded by highly flammable ponderosa pine forest, suffered before the rains came. The Pipeline fire that threatened the city was reportedly started by a homeless man burning toilet paper......

Ron DeSantis plans Utah fundraiser with GOP megadonors, signaling possible presidential run


Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is planning a private fundraiser in Utah later this month that is expected to draw some of the country’s wealthiest Republican donors as he signals a possible run for president in 2024.

DeSantis is set to head to Utah the week of July 18 for the private gathering, according to people familiar with the matter. Many asked not to be identified because the campaign is trying to keep the private event from getting too much public attention.


Though DeSantis is coming to Utah to raise money for his 2022 gubernatorial reelection campaign, fundraisers held in far-flung states like Utah, which is more than 2,000 miles from his home state, often suggest national aspirations......

Big Event - July 15th: Real Health Solutions Symposium - Defending Utah


Presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul referred to a long past era when he said “It’s easy to forget that for decades the U.S. had a health care system that was the envy of the world. Patients received high-quality, affordable medical care, and thousands of privately funded charities provided health services for the poor.” Now we pay doctors to make us sicker and charity has largely been replaced with government assistance programs that hurt everyone and remove choice. Health Independence Alliance, a grassroots team of medical professionals, will begin the discussion of how we-the-people can build a new medical structure in our communities to restore healing to it’s rightful place, instead of being monopolized by a corrupt system where illness, obscene profits and government control reign supreme.


Amazing Guest Lineup!


Robert Scott Bell – Radio Host and Natural Healer

Dr. Scott Bradley, Constitutional PhD - “The Fauci Facade”

Jordan Gundersen, Master Herbologist

Cassidy Gundersen, Doctor of Nutrition - “The Miracle of Herbalmectin”

Health Independence Alliance - “Build an alternative, healing-focused, medical system”


For more info: https://www.defendingutah.org/post/2022/07/01/real-health-solutions-event/

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Biden Admin's 1M-Barrel Oil Sale to Hunter-Tied China Co. Free Beacon

Biden Paid Big for Son's Detox (Cue Booze, Drugs) Daily Mail

'Tax the Rich' AOC Fined for Unpaid Taxes Washington Examiner

 Hedgie Ken Griffin's $54M War vs. Taxes Paid Off ProPublica

Labor Dept. Doles Out $77B in 'Improper' Jobless Payments Epoch Times

The Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World Vice

Status of Jan. 6 Cases 18 Months After Riot Politico

Mega-Antiquities Heist From Cambodia to the Met Bloomberg

DoJ Preps Transgender Curriculum for All Federal Prisons Fox

New Orleans Progressivism Mugged by Reality of Crime Marshall

New Tapes Show Nazi Eichmann Was Just Evil Daily Mail

Foreign Equity Hooks New England Fishing New Bedford Light

Elite Colleges Becoming Outsourced Online U. Wall St. Journal

Comey and McCabe Got Rare Audits Under Trump IRS NY Times

Page, Strzok Evade Trump Subpoenas for Months Business Insider

Istanbul: Hair Transplant Capital of the World GQ 

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Biden signs executive order protecting abortion accessThe New Daily

 

DHS report says some Border Patrol agents used unnecessary force on Haitians at  Texas border

 

Funerals begin for victims of Highland Park shooting  


Steak out: Justice Kavanaugh leaves steakhouse through back door to avoid protesters  


White House called out for cover-up of Biden teleprompter gaffe: ‘Paid to lie for a living’


Japan’s ex-leader Shinzo Abe assassinated during a speech


'End of quote': Biden has yet another teleprompter fail


How far does Biden’s executive order on abortion access go?


Two 18-year-olds in truck crash at California creek, cops say. Only one resurfaces


Canada: Outage leaves many without mobile, internet service

Biden Administration Spent $100+ Million On Payroll Since 2021 While 220 Staffers Quit Last Year


During President Joe Biden’s first two-years, he spent $100.7 million on the largest White House payroll in American history, based on headcount.


No White House ever employed 500 staffers. The Biden White House employed 560 (FY2021) and 474 this year (2022). In 2022, the headcount dropped by 86 employees.


The Biden administration released its annual report to Congress on the White House Office Personnel. The payroll data includes employee name, status, salary, and position title for all White House employees as of July 1, 2022. 


The personnel budget is an infinitesimal part of the $6.011 trillion federal budget in FY2022, it is an important forecasting indicator showing Biden’s commitment to expand the size, scope, and power of the federal government......

BREAKING: Biden Signs Executive Order on Abortion - Liberty Nation


President Biden's Executive Order on Abortion - READ IN FULL - Liberty Nation


Biden Will Sign Meaningless Executive Orders – PJ Media


On July 8, Joe Biden set in motion the White House’s response to the recent Supreme Court opinion that struck down Roe v. Wade by signing an executive order aimed at “protecting access to reproductive healthcare services.”


The order compels the Department of Justice to protect “reproductive rights” for women and health care providers across the US – particularly in the as-yet hypothetical case in which a woman is prevented from crossing state lines to seek an abortion. It further allows the Department of Health and Human Services to provide various types of support for women seeking contraceptive medications or other “reproductive healthcare” services.

The lights are about to go out in America, warn grid experts  


For some reason, consumer demand for electricity is expected to skyrocket this summer. And this, we are told, will lead to blackouts all across the country.

Utility companies are already bracing for impact as they all seem to just know that energy usage will reach an all-time high in the coming months, leaving millions without power in the dead of the summer heat.

The powers that be say that it is warmer than usual in some parts of the country, which they are already blaming for future blackouts. (Related: Rolling blackouts are expected to sweep the .....

Why Boris Johnson Resigned and What It Means for Britain’s Future


British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday, saying his party had made it clear he should do so. “It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party, .....

How nuclear war would affect earth today -- ScienceDaily


A new study published today provides stark information on the global impact of nuclear war.


The study's lead author LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Assistant Professor Cheryl Harrison and coauthors ran multiple computer simulations to study the impacts of regional and larger scale nuclear warfare on the Earth's systems given today's nuclear warfare capabilities. Nine nations currently control more than 13,000 nuclear weapons in the world, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.....

President Biden's 'Whole of Government' Climate Spending Extravaganza | RealClearInvestigations


Just two years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts made only one grant to an art project that promised to address the issue of climate change, awarding $25,000 to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art to commission work informed by "research on the Earth's dissolving permafrost layer."


During the last two years, the federal agency has provided $1,369,000 to fund some 40 climate-focused projects. The 29 such grants approved for fiscal year 2022 include support for multidisciplinary artist Hajra Waheed's collaboration "with researchers and organizers on issues such as land sovereignty and food and climate justice"; development of a Baltimore Center Stage production titled, "A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction"; and a grant to the Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Maryland, to use "movement and storytelling to explore the ways different landscapes and communities are navigating climate change."


Never mind the prospect of reins on executive climate action in light of the Supreme Court's stinging regulatory rebuke last week: These art projects are one small piece of an explosion of climate spending since President Biden called during his first days in office for a "whole-of-government approach to combating the climate crisis." In response, every department, bureau, and agency has climate-related budget lines, responding to Biden's mandate by claiming a slice of the climate pie.


Where the Trump administration's 150-page budget overview for the fiscal year 2020 mentioned the word climate just once (and that was a reference to "school climate" – that is, educational environment), the current White House 2023 budget overview mentions the word "climate" 187 times and the phrase "climate crisis" 33 times in its 158 pages.The administration's proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 calls for "a total of $44.9 billion to tackle the climate crisis," $16.7 billion more than climate spending in 2021, according to the president's budget.

'Diary of a Psychopath': The last days of Andrew Cuomo – HotAir


Lis Smith is a political consultant who worked on Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign and then, in 2020, took a job working for Gov. Andrew Cuomo. That job gave her a front row seat to Cuomo’s decline and she now has a book coming out which details some of what she heard and saw leading up to Cuomo’s final days. Today, Politico Magazine published an excerpt from the book. While the general outlines of the story will already be familiar, some of the details are new. As Smith tells the story, Gov. Cuomo was his own worst enemy, always eager to attack his accusers and.....

HOLY COW! HISTORY: America's Biggest Political Blunder, 50 Years Later – InsideSources


We all make mistakes. They’re an unpleasant fact of life.


Then there are those bad calls that go far beyond mere missteps, errors in judgment so egregious they become hallmarks of sheer stupidity. One of the biggest such debacles of all time occurred 50 years ago this month.This is the story of the biggest blunder in American political history.

It was decision time for George McGovern in July 1972. The South Dakota senator had just clinched the Democratic presidential nomination after a grueling primary campaign. With his party gathering for its national convention in Miami Beach, Fla., he would soon announce his running-mate.


The problem was, McGovern didn’t have one. He had been so focused on securing the nomination he apparently hadn’t given much thought to whose name would appear alongside his on the ballot......

The ‘Spartacus’: The Weaponization of Biotech Part 6 – The Expose


Technically, a number of things already mentioned above count as crude forms of bionanotechnology. However, when all of these factors are combined together, as one engineering platform (gene editing, nanoparticles, in-vivo bioassembly, protein design, etc.), it becomes possible to engineer living organisms to incorporate novel structures, like nanomaterials, metamaterials, artificial tissue lattices, and so forth, that might behave like biological/electronic hybrids, incorporating features of both living cells and electrical devices in one.


This is an area of ongoing research. They are even looking into ways to make such bionanotechnological devices internet-enabled. The terms used for such things are WBAN (wireless body area networks), Intra-body Nano-networks, IoB (the Internet of Bodies), and IoBNT (the Internet of Bio-Nano Things). Such devices could be made to behave intelligently inside the body, acting on the direction of swarm AI, retrieving information from cells and tissues, or influencing the behavior of said cells and tissues, or even performing functions that no natural, unaugmented organisms ever could.

Follow the COVID Money - American Thinker


If the COVID-19 vaccines have been a disappointment from a public health standpoint in stopping the continuing spread of new variants of the disease, why is Big Pharma as well as its government allies in the FDA, CDC, and NIH still pushing them?

As Deep Throat whispered to Bob Woodward during the Watergate scandal (“Follow the money”), so, too, the American public should be demanding the same of its political leaders: Follow the COVID money to determine why we continue to spend a fortune on something that seems to have only a relatively limited benefit.


But our elected officials are embarrassingly quiet on answering the basic question of who exactly is benefiting from the constant rounds of shots being foisted on or recommended to the American public? 

Maybe the silence comes from the fact that the pharmaceutical industry spends more on lobbying than any other industry group. In 2020 big pharma spent over $300 million lobbying officeholders and government officials. It clearly pays off. The research to develop the COVID-19 vaccines was nearly all funded by taxpayers. The distribution of the vaccines, once developed, was .....

90 Democrat Prosecutors Refuse to Enforce Pro-Life Laws


With the fall of Roe v. Wade, 90 left-leaning attorneys general and district attorneys across the country have pledged to not enforce criminal charges related to laws protecting the unborn.

In a joint statement, the prosecutors emphasized that although they have varying personal and moral beliefs on abortion, they are united in the “firm belief that prosecutors have a responsibility to refrain from using limited criminal legal system resources to criminalize personal medical decisions.” 

The statement organized by Fair and Just Prosecution, a coalition.....

China’s Stars Dim for Investors


By strangling the Chinese economy and crushing human rights, President Xi Jinping is rapidly turning China into a bad gamble for Western investors and multinational corporations.

China’s dictator has run into increasing, if carefully expressed, criticism from top-profile figures within the Chinese Communist Party.....

How Facebook Crushed Report on Biden Admin Crack Pipe Distribution Scheme  


It took just hours after a Washington Free Beacon report on a Biden administration plan to distribute crack pipes to drug addicts at taxpayer expense for the Facebook fact-checkers to mobilize.

In a "fact check" titled "Biden Administration Is NOT Funding ‘Crack Pipes, Heroin' For Drug Use," Lead Stories—a prominent member of Facebook's third-party fact-checking program—concluded the Free Beacon report was "not true." Lead Stories based its determination on Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra's.... 

Explosion Destroys the Mysterious Georgia Guidestones Monument – PJ Media


Nobody knows how the Georgia Guidestones arrived in their spot in Elbert County in Northeast Georgia. Someone anonymously commissioned the 19-foot-tall granite monument, which crews erected in 1980. People have called the monument “America’s Stonehenge,” and for over 40 years it has drawn tourists to the site seven miles north of the town of Elberton, Georgia’s granite capital.


But the Georgia Guidestones are no more, and as of now, the circumstances behind their destruction are as mysterious as their origin. On....

Is He Running? Trump Plane Gets a Fresh Coat of Paint – PJ Media


In 2016, Donald Trump loved to stunt on his political opponents by landing his massive, branded jet behind them just as they were giving speeches during campaign stops at airports. Now, a new video documents “Trump Force One” getting a fresh coat of paint, leaving the gleaming Boeing 757 resplendent with a waving American flag on the tail.....

 

"When the Herd Moves, It Moves": Boris Johnson Announces Resignation as U.K. Prime Minister - The New American


A year full of scandals and the deterioration of trust within his own party have finally prompted the United Kingdom’s prime minister to announce his resignation. Boris Johnson made the announcement on Thursday in the wake of dozens of resignations from his government in the last few days.


Johnson will remain in a “caretaker” role until a new prime minister is named. The Conservative Party is scheduled to meet in its annual conference in October, but there are numerous calls to .....

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Shinzo Abe’s Taiwan Legacy - by Riley Walters & Eleanor Shiori Hughes


Although this year marks the 50th anniversary of when Japan switched its formal diplomatic relations from the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), recently Japanese officials have been busy building a new relationship with Taiwan. They identify many of Taiwan’s problems as being Japan’s problems. No one has acknowledged this more, and made greater efforts to bring these two Asian democracies closer together than the former prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe.


Tensions between Taiwan and the PRC have been nothing short of endemic in recent years. Beijing has been upping its coercive campaign to diminish Taiwan’s international space since President Tsai Ing-wen’s first election win in 2016 – whether through increased military activity in the Taiwan Strait, objecting to Taiwan’s membership in the World Health Organization, or taking coercive trade measures against Taiwanese pineapples. Just last October, the PRC sent 150 aircraft towards Taiwan to send a message of intimidation before Taiwan’s 110th national anniversary. 


Chilling final pic shows Shinzo Abe’s killer lurking behind him moments before ex-PM is shot in deadly assassination | The US Sun


Shooting of Japan’s Ex-Leader shocks nation where guns are rare


Shinzo Abe shot dead: Tetsuya Yamagami arrested after Japan's former PM is assassinated | Daily Mail Online

What Happens when the Majority of a Nation’s Citizens Decide Not to Comply with Tyrannical Edicts? Tanzania May Provide an Answer  


It is almost one year now since the assassination of the world’s one and only sovereign leader who waged open warfare against the COVID-19 Cabal.

This is a first-hand account of the situation on the ground in Tanzania since the hit squad was sent in to eliminate the only leader who fought the Cabal and their ‘vaccines’ head-on, out in the open, from day one…


Within a few weeks of President Magufuli’s murder, his replacement, Samia Suluhu Hassan, a female World Economic Forum attendee, set about installing the Cabal’s COVID agenda. It was a thoroughly depressing experience. I know. I was there to see it......

The importance of elders: Researchers argue that the long human lifespan is due in part to the contributions of older adults -- ScienceDaily


According to long-standing canon in evolutionary biology, natural selection is cruelly selfish, favoring traits that help promote reproductive success. This usually means that the so-called "force" of selection is well equipped to remove harmful mutations that appear during early life and throughout the reproductive years. However, by the age fertility ceases, the story goes that selection becomes blind to what happens to our bodies. After the age of menopause, our cells are more vulnerable to harmful mutations. In the vast majority of animals, this usually means that death follows shortly after fertility ends. Which puts humans (and some species of whale) in a unique club: animals that continue to.....

Latest Symptoms of a Disintegrating Nation - The New American


In Stephen Vincent Benet’s “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” the tale is told that if you approached Webster’s grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, “Neighbor, how stands the Union?”


“Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or he’s liable to rear right out of the ground.”

Today, it would be untruthful to answer to the soul of Webster that our Union is “rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible.”


For the divisions among us replicate those Webster witnessed in his last years before the War Between the States..... 

A Tribute to the Innermost Layer of Freedom — Naomi Wolf’s ‘The Bodies of Others’ • Children's Health Defense


Wolf‘s book is a travel through time, starting in March 2020, and ending this spring. She switches between discussion and analysis of the situation at each stage and different aspects of it, and a kind of personal diary of how she and those around her were affected.


The book starts with a description of normal pre-pandemic life. The author is at a conference in London.....

IWho's Behind Joe Biden's Leftward Lunge?, by Michael Barone | Creators Syndicate 


What's going on with Joe Biden? Why is a president who ran and was elected as a centrist Democrat supporting one left-wing proposal after another? What has prompted the politician whose sensitivity to public opinion was finely honed for four decades to take one unpopular stand after another?


As a senator from Delaware when it voted like the national average, from 1972 to 1996, he opposed school busing and Medicaid-funded abortion. Starting in 2000, Delaware has been a safe Democratic state, and Biden has veered left, opposing the killing of Osama bin Laden and backing same-sex marriage before former President Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton......

 

No Deal: When the British Offered Amnesty in Exchange for Gun Control | Tenth Amendment Center


Two months after the battles of Lexington and Concord, the British offered amnesty to all who would lay down their arms. Unsurprisingly, the Patriots didn’t respond too kindly to the deal.

While the “shot heard ‘round the world” is well-known for kicking off the War for Independence on April 19, 1775, what followed soon afterward receives far less attention. The incident provides a textbook example of why you shouldn’t trust gun grabbers.


Although “Taxation without representation” is a common phrase to describe the colonists’ most well-known grievance against British rule, an attempted gun confiscation by General Gage and his troops occupying Boston following the Boston Tea Party actually led to direct conflict between the Redcoats and the colonists. 


Indeed, the British had already banned the importation of ammunition and firearms. Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the British Redcoats sent to seize those arms returned to Boston while minutemen harassed them along the way. The city was then besieged by colonial militias that had arrived upon hearing of the confrontation by minutemen and British......



A Healthy Respect for Limits: Recovering the American Founding ~ The Imaginative Conservative


Washington’s generation, and the two or three that immediately followed it, envisioned a country that was very different from what the United States has become. Their hope was not for the United States to be the most powerful nation on earth. They did not, of course, go to the other extreme, seeking to withdraw from international affairs and lapsing into isolation, and they never doubted the wisdom, as Thomas Jefferson said, of showing “a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.” At the same time, declared John Quincy Adams in his Fourth of July oration, delivered in 1821, the United States should not “go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”.....

The Founders Predicted our Economic Crisis | Tenth Amendment Center 


Did Thomas Jefferson call the economic crisis?


“Every thing predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. we are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper as we were formerly by the old Continental paper.”


That’s from a letter to Thomas Cooper in January 1814. And while it sure seems to apply today, Jefferson was actually observing – and predicting – the depression of 1815-21, and the Panic of 1819.


While the 1815 panic was considered the start of several years of just mild depression, a major financial crisis – the Panic of 1819 – followed. It featured widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, a collapse in real estate prices, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing....... 

America the Beautiful - The American Conservative


What to Americans of 2026 will be the Fourth of July? The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is only four years away, but those years seem set to be decisive, when we consider the future of our country. One can imagine there being, after a right-wing win of the White House, grand celebrations nationwide, akin to the bicentennial of 1976—an effort to recreate a common language for America.


Or perhaps, with a compromise victory, a conciliatory small-c conservative president, there would be a cheerful and festive, but most importantly normal,

acknowledgment of the date, an appropriate speech, fireworks, the cookout price a little lower than the year before. But one can also imagine, quite easily, looking to the left, the United States of America turning 250 with little official fanfare, if not outright opprobrium, and only local special celebration.

The Art of Beautification: The Graces of Ordinary Life ~ The Imaginative Conservative


What do decorating a room, wearing tasteful clothes, expressing cheerfulness, offering friendship, enjoying Mayday, taking a vacation, and cultivating the ordinary virtues of patience, friendliness, and kindness all have in common? What do a bare, plain room, an unkempt appearance, a surly demeanor, an environment without flowers, a life of work with no leisure, and a murmuring disposition all share in common? Just as a room can be clean but drab, a person’s appearance proper but unattractive, persons moral but unpleasant, a life useful but joyless, so human life needs to be more than utilitarian, functional, practical, and economic. The art of happiness requires the gift of beautifying daily life with the gracious touches that decorate rooms, select.....

The Last Defense Against Tyranny - Intellectual Takeout


Feminist writer Naomi Wolf, once beloved by progressives, has decided to go a different direction in the last few years. She has written much about totalitarianism and believes the United States is marching swiftly along the road to such a dictatorship. Needless to say, her former comrades are outraged.


Recently, Wolf courageously wrote and published a long article, “Rethinking the Second Amendment: Can We Really Have Peace and Freedom Without Guns?”.....

Civil Society and Counterrevolution against Progressivism | Mises Wire


When Murray Rothbard and Lew Rockwell defined the paleolibertarian doctrine, they simply wanted to break the clock of social democracy and repeal the twentieth century, during which some of the greatest horrors in history were created from the deranged ideas of power-hungry nineteenth-century intellectuals by applying these ideas with the full might of the state, costing millions of human lives and the complete degeneration of the social and economic order.


However, we wouldn’t be at this point in history without a process that has been slowly destroying our social protections as individuals, first against the state and now against big business, which is nothing but the result of four centuries of political and even theological formulas of the Enlightenment......

Science Confirms Human Life Begins at Conception, Unborn Children are Human Beings - LifeNews.com


At each stage of development, human beings and their cells conceived by natural processes are compared to those conceived by artificial means involving bioengineering, modification, and/or experimental manipulation. Living organisms and their cells that are produced by any type of “artificial” means does not necessarily connote that they are unnatural. Their origin and scientific inspiration are still from human organisms and/or biological functions occurring naturally in nature. Scientists have discovered diverse methods for producing both nascent human beings and cells derived from nascent human beings with the aim of scientific experimentation. Any nascent human being produced using artificial means, and the cells derived from them, have the essential nature and properties of human beings and their cells conceived by natural processes. .....


Here are Pro-Life Alternatives to Pro-Abortion Companies - LifeNews.com


The Fight to End Abortion Is Facing Massive Resistance From Pro-Abort Organizations and Activist Judges – RedState


What President Biden’s executive order on abortion does not address – The Hill


It’s Time to Lock Down Red State Elections - American Thinker


America is experiencing a seismic population shift, and progressive states are leaking people, companies, and revenue faster than our porous borders can replenish them. The recent 2020 Census showed population gains in predominantly conservative constituencies and losses in progressive blue constituencies, but that doesn’t begin to tell the whole story. A follow-up study by the Census Bureau showed population undercounts in five conservative states and overcounts in six progressive states. The shift is likely greater than official numbers and the miscalculation has cost conservative states representation in government.


Have you read conservative headlines boasting of an inbound red tsunami that is barreling toward the Atlantic Coast? It’s scheduled to land sometime in early November, they say. Look at our registration numbers, they say. If the primaries are any indicator of what we can expect in the Fall, it will probably look a lot like what we historically see in mid-term elections. The minority party will become the majority party, but results will fall short of projections and the press will sing the lamentations of unmet expectations or the praises of moral victories......

The Mass Psychosis of Liberals - American Thinker


It’s been my lifelong observation that liberals are a mostly conflicted, tormented group suffering from mass psychosis. They wrap themselves up in do-good, virtue-signaling knots and then attempt to rationalize positions even they know are indefensible by putting forth the most tortured, illogical explanations imaginable. Merely calling those positions “lies” doesn’t go anywhere near far enough. Liberals have mastered the art of wanting to believe in a false reality, constructing a Bizarro Universe, while at the same time, excusing themselves for committing the very same transgressions against society and nature that they accuse others of doing.

Let’s look at a few examples......

How the FBI Wiretapped the World


For years criminal organizations around the world were buying a special phone called Anom. The pitch was that it was completely anonymous and secure, a way for criminals to do business without authorities watching over their shoulder. 

It turned out that the whole thing was an elaborate honeypot and that the FBI and law enforcement agencies around the world were listening in. They’d help develop the phones themselves.

The fallout from that revelation is ongoing and.....


YPortals will be as important as the car’: the architects exploring gateways to new dimensions | Art and design | The Guardian 


ith its hidden doors, folding walls and clever optical tricks with mirrors and light-wells, Sir John Soane’s Museum feels like just the kind of place you might stumble across a portal to another dimension. Moving from one room to the next in this wildly reimagined London townhouse is never as straightforward as stepping through a simple doorway. The eponymous neoclassical architect and collector saw to it that the thresholds between the different parts of his house-museum were elaborate spaces in themselves, topped with lanterns and lined with mirrors and windows, offering views up, down and through his multi-levelled maze of antique treasures...... 

Education

Why Government Is the Biggest Obstacle to Educational Freedom - Intellectual Takeout


In Massachusetts where I live, average private school tuition hovers around $23,000. For secular private schools, the cost is typically much higher, with Boston-area private school tuition often exceeding $40,000. This price tag is way too high for most families to afford, but emerging microschools are typically a fraction of the cost of other private education options.


For example, the Wilder School is a new Acton Academy-affiliated microschool that costs about $12,000 a year, while Life Rediscovered, a new homeschool resource center offering up to five days a week of full-day, drop-off learning, costs about $10,000. Even established local microschools, such as Bay State Learning Center that was founded in 2014 and that I wrote about in Unschooled, have similar tuition costs and frequently offer financial aid or sliding scale tuition.


These tuition costs are still too high for many families to afford, but they are more accessible than many other existing private options. Supporting the creation and growth of more microschool programs through deregulation and by removing entrepreneurial barriers would reduce costs even further.

Let’s Give Our Kids a Healthy Dose of Summertime - Intellectual Takeout


During the first half of June, I spent a good bit of time hip-deep in grandchildren. Two 14-year-olds who attended this gathering are now nearly as tall as Grandpa, but I’m reflecting here on the age 10 and under gang.


Watching them flitting around the yard in the evenings, even after a day of soccer and basketball camps, running up and down the stairs from the den to the bedrooms, building houses and towns with Lincoln Logs and Play Mobile figures, absorbed in a movie or a book: all these activities brought back memories of my own childhood, that time when I, too, could dart around the yard, fight battles with imaginary enemies using a stick as my sword, construct forts in the woods, or escape the afternoon heat by lounging around on a sofa reading the Hardy Boys.


While the kids played, we adults sometimes sat on the porch or at the dining room table, nursing coffee or a glass of wine and discussing the fallen fortunes of our country. My son and his wife, who own numerous rental houses in the area, expect to see their property taxes shoot up because of the high cost of housing these days. My Pennsylvania daughter, who drives a 15-passenger van, reports that it now costs over $125 to fill the gas tank. A retired in-law has returned to work, in part because of inflation and his shrinking investments.

Arizona becomes first universal school choice state | Just The News


Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill expanding access to school choice to all students Thursday.


In signing House Bill 2853 into law, all Arizona's school-age children will be eligible for the Empowerment Scholarship Account. It's a state-funded account that allows parents to spend money on tuition and other education expenses. Previously, the program was limited to disabled students, those in failing schools, and other specific circumstances.


"This is a monumental moment for all of Arizona's students. Our kids will no longer be locked in under-performing schools. Today, we're unlocking a whole new world of opportunity for them and their parents," Ducey said, according to a press release. "With this legislation, Arizona cements itself as the top state for school choice and as the first state in the nation to offer all families the option to choose the school setting that works best for them. Every family in Arizona should have access to a high-quality education with dedicated teachers. This is truly a win for all K-12 students."

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First 12 Things Trump Will Do When He Inevitably Returns To Power | Babylon Bee


The prophets have long whispered of the return of ULTRA-MAGA King Trump. In faith, we know that his return is inevitable and that he will soon reclaim the presidency and set right what has gone awry.


Here are the first 12 things Trump will do when he returns to power:


  1. Spray Febreze on the Oval Office curtains to get the old man smell out: Step one to draining the swamp is giving it a flowery scent.
  2. Make Pelosi wear a sweater on the beach: I mean, really.
  3. Welcome back Mike Pence, just to tell him he's fired: It'll be the highest ratings for a single episode of The Apprentice. Maybe ever......

Biden Disappointed To Learn That Pink Hair Doesn't Smell Like Strawberry | Babylon Bee


 I gave one of those medal things to that nice young man Merv Raptart today and his hair was pink! You ever seen such a thing? I didn't know they made that kind of hair. Looks like strawberries," said Biden to one of his travel catheters he mistook for a CNN correspondent. "But then I leaned in, and it smelled all sweaty and oily. Like hippie shampoo. No strawberry smell. Not even Jolly Rancher strawberry. Come on, man! Ripoff!"


"I'll tell you what, that boy's a national hero!" said Biden. "Takes real courage for a boy to run around with pink hair like that, especially if it doesn't smell like strawberries! Ripoff, man!"


At publishing time, Biden reported that Cindy McCain had also received a medal and her hair smelled much better.

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  • The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Russian forces are conducting an operational pause to rest and reconstitute.
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