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Biden’s Plan to Enable Everyone in the World to Apply for Asylum in the U.S.
I recently explained that the Biden administration — in a break with every previous one — no longer has a policy of deterring illegal entrants. That, coupled with the president’s policy of ignoring statutory mandates directing the detention of illegal migrants, has triggered the biggest border catastrophe in U.S. history. The scope of that catastrophe is overwhelming, but it will become much worse once the administration follows through on its plan to enable everyone in the world to apply for asylum in the United States.
The Deterrence Shift. My analysis of the Biden administration’s shift of U.S. border policy away from a deterrence strategy omitted one key piece of evidence: Statements made by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Fox News Sunday on May 1.
Host Bret Baier asked Mayorkas whether it is “the objective of the Biden administration to reduce, sharply reduce the total number of illegal immigrants coming across the southern border? Is that the objective?”
Mayorkas responded: “It is the objective of the Biden administration to make sure that we have safe, orderly, and legal pathways for individuals to be able to access our legal system.” I will return to that latter point in a moment, but there is no clearer evidence that deterring illegal migrants is off the table as border policy in this administration.
“Orderly, Legal Pathways for People to Obtain Relief”. Seemingly contradicting himself, however, the secretary next contended: “We are against irregular migration. .....
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The Supreme Court and the Migrant Protection Protocols, Part 1
The image at right is a C-Span screen shot of First Lady Barbara Bush accepting a delivery of broccoli from the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association in an attempt to make amends after President George H.W. Bush had declared:
I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
A decade earlier during the Reagan administration, a huge controversy arose following the Department of Agriculture’s issuance of a federal school lunch program regulation defining ketchup as a vegetable. Well, not exactly:
James Johnson, an aide to [Reagan’s Agriculture Secretary John] Block, later defended the regulations: "There was a great misunderstanding in the land as to how these regulations are viewed. I think it would be a mistake to say that ketchup per se was classified as a vegetable. ... Ketchup in combination with other things was classified as a vegetable." What other things? he was asked. "French fries or hamburgers," he replied.
Sounds like an alchemist transmuting lead into gold! Not even Republican Sen. John Heinz, whose family owns the H.J. Heinz Co., was convinced:
Ketchup is a condiment. This is one of the most ridiculous regulations I ever heard of, and I suppose I need not add that I know something about ketchup and relish — or did at one time.
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Central Bank Digital Currencies: Say Goodbye to Financial Privacy
In a new study carried out by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the central bankers’ central bank headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, an overwhelming majority of the world’s central banks indicated interest in developing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). CBCS are now being promoted by governments and banks as an alternative to the burgeoning international market in private digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as the even-newer “stablecoins,” i.e., private digital currencies tied to some commodity or national currency in order to provide additional stability. The enormous popularity of private digital currencies in recent years stems from their ability to completely evade government tracking measures; Bitcoin and other digital currencies have proven extremely helpful in moving money around the world outside the scrutiny of both government and banking authorities.
In response, a number of countries have begun developing digital versions of their own national currencies, with China’s advanced digital yuan project already in the beta testing stage in some parts of China. China’s motivation, of course, is to completely replace traditional currency with digital currency, thereby stripping away from Chinese citizens every last vestige of financial privacy. Under China’s coming digital-currency regime, every single transaction, domestic and international, will be tracked by government authorities, and no one will be able to move money inside or out of China anonymously.
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Prosecutors Pursue Inquiry Into Trump's Handling of Classified Material
Investigators have begun conducting interviews, and a federal grand jury has issued a subpoena, as part of the Justice Department’s probe into how 15 boxes of government documents — some marked classified — made their way to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, people familiar with the matter said.
The subpoena and interviews are signs that the Justice Department investigation, which was first reported by The Washington Post last month, is moving forward, with potential legal or political consequences for Trump or others involved in the handling of the government materials.
One person familiar with the matter, who like the others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said investigators had quizzed some former Trump White House aides about the boxes and how they were prepared; another person said investigators were still making interview requests of those involved. The subpoena was issued to the National Archives and Records Administration, a third person familiar with the matter said.
Mishandling classified materials is a federal crime, though substantiating charges in such cases can be difficult. The FBI often investigates to determine who might have seen sensitive government information, and prevent it from spreading further.
A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.
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The 90+ Federal "Equity" Plans Taxpayers Are Now Funding
Under the Biden administration, more than 90 federal agencies have pledged their commitment to equity by adopting action plans that put gender, race and other such factors at the center of their governmental missions.
The Equity Action Plans, which have received little notice since they were posted online last month following a document request from RealClearInvestigations, represent a “whole of government” fight against “entrenched disparities” and the “unbearable human costs of systemic racism.”
The equity blueprints show that:
- The U.S. State Department is keen on exporting American-style gender and race consciousness into foreign diplomacy and across the globe. Citing “identity” and “intersections of marginalization” as focal points, State Department officials acknowledge that promoting these Western concepts in foreign lands may clash with “societal norms” and elicit an “unwillingness to cede power by dominant groups.”
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The Triumphant Trifecta: Tucker, Trump, DeSantis
Tucker, President Trump, and Governor Ron DeSantis are the three — the troika of leadership for the MAGA and America First movement.
You can tell that this is true by the way the enemies of MAGA and America First — the Progressives, the globalists, the Deep State — have already begun to fire on these three warriors. The Patriot movement loves Tucker, Trump, and DeSantis because of the enemies they have made.
Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney — these people will be in no way the future leaders of the Republican Party. The base and grassroots of the party will not accept their leadership or adhere to their motivations. They are done. Over.
MAGA and America First need warriors and leaders who are not afraid and who do not get cowed by the BLM and Antifa mobs. In this battle for the soul of America's future, in these foxholes of our culture wars, most Republicans want to be fighting with a real fighter, a true believer of the cause, who does not flinch. And that is Tucker, Trump, and DeSantis.
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'Win Without Fighting': The Chinese Communist Party's Political and Institutional Warfare Against the Wes
When compared to Western forms of diplomatic conversation and strategic discussion, phrases emanating from Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can appear peculiar, platitudinous, and so ambiguous as to be devoid of practical content. China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping speaks frequently about a ‘community of shared future,’ a ‘common destiny for mankind’ as part of his ‘China dream,’ or of his country’s ‘rejuvenation.’ He promises to pursue and achieve a ‘new type of great-power relations’ with the United States that will ‘expand the converging interests of all and build a big global family of harmony and cooperation.’
Yielding to the temptation to dismiss these phrases as glib and meaningless or as empty promises to the world would be a serious mistake. Emerging as the victorious side after the world was reshaped in the aftermath of the Second World War, and, more recently, the formal end of the Cold War, the United States and its allies have generally enjoyed dominance in all forms of power. The challenge and threat of China is largely understood in the context of its increase in material power, ....
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How Yoga lost its zen
The bar for doing a yoga practice couldn’t be any lower: all you need is a mat and a body, although even the mat is optional. You don’t have to be flexible. You don’t have to be strong. You don’t have to do a single thing — as we yoga teachers are fond of saying at the start of classes — except be present, and breathe.
As fitness goes, then, yoga has always been among the most accessible forms of exercise. Yet the community surrounding the practice is paradoxically plagued by anxiety about access, led by critics who are less interested in doing yoga than in obsessing about everything that yoga does wrong.
The online communities where yoga instructors gather are some of the messiest and most judgmental environments on the internet
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More than $200 billion erased from entire crypto market in a day
Bitcoin fell below $26,000 for the first time in 16 months, amid a broader sell-off in cryptocurrencies that erased more than $200 billion from the entire market in a single day.
The price of bitcoin plunged as low as $25,401.29 on Thursday, according to Coin Metrics. That marks the first time the cryptocurrency has sunk below the $27,000 level since Dec. 26, 2020.
Bitcoin has since pared its losses and was last trading at $28,569.25, down 2.9%.
Ether, the second-biggest digital currency, tanked to as low as $1,704.05 per coin. It’s the first time the token has fallen beneath the $2,000 mark since June 2021. Ether was last down 8.8% at a price of $1,937.88.
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Goodbye Jen Psaki: no one condescends quite like you
So long Jen Psaki! As White House press secretary, you were indeed very informative: every day you provided an example of how today’s Democratic Party turns normie soccer moms from Greenwich into reality-denying attack machines sputtering insults and cheering on lawbreakers because they can’t face up to the unpopularity of the far-left agenda.
As blathering Joe Biden retreated into the background and suggested to the world that America was in the hands of a man who should be shuffling around Sunset Acres in a bathrobe, Psaki became the face of an administration that is determined to head into the midterms like Thelma and Louise. “We’ll show those bastards! Let’s drive off a cliff!” is the animating principle of the Democratic Party.
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UKRAINE FILE
The Memo: Peace in Ukraine? Not anytime soon, experts say
Whatever comes next, the war in Ukraine will be a net loss for Russia
There’s no oversight of billions in Ukraine aid — we need fiscal watchdogs
Russia Withdrawing Troops From Ukraine After ‘Heavy Losses,’
Access to abortions needed for Ukrainian
refugees in Poland, UNHCR says
Russia’s Wounded Pride and Ingrained Paranoia
Hmmm: Russians connect with Pentagon for first time since Ukraine invasion
Are We Informationally Disadvantaged? The Realities of Information War in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine stands out as the classic David and Goliath story between the larger, more powerful Russia and the smaller, more agile Ukraine. It is a tale of how Ukraine wielding the West’s spigot of truth, a deluge of TikTok videos, a band of Eastern European Elves, and Elon Musk’s satellite constellation, converged information power to challenge Russia’s firehose of falsehoods.
Historians will study this conflict for years to come, and the information lessons are critical, especially to the US Army as it develops its emerging information advantage concept.
Since the first mention of information advantage in the Joint Concept for Operations in the Information Environment in 2018, the Army struggled to understand what achieving information advantage really means.
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This unsettling Army recruitment video is a master class in psychological warfare
Kudos to 4th PSYOP Group. Whenever anyone asks me what is PSYOP I will be showing this video from now on. This is very well done though I know it will generate a lot of controversy. This illustrates irregular war thinking* better than anything else I have seen in recent years. I will be linking this video in every future paper I write on irregular, unconventional, and political warfare.
*What is “Irregular warfare thinking?” It is thinking about the human element in the full spectrum of competition and conflict up to and including conventional and nuclear war. It includes but is not limited to all aspects of lawlessness, subversion, insurgency, terrorism, political resistance, non-violent resistance, political violence, urban operations, stability operations, post-conflict operations, cyber operations, operations in the information environment (e.g., strategic influence through information advantage, information and influence activities, public diplomacy, psychological operations, military information support operations, public affairs), working through, with and by indigenous forces and populations, irregular warfare, political warfare, economic warfare, alliances, diplomacy, and statecraft in all regions of the world.....
All the world's a stage.
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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
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Fauci lied; people died.
Yet, on Saturday, that didn’t stop the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from giving the commencement address at the University of Michigan. During the nearly 15-minute address, Dr. Anthony Fauci had the audacity to warn students against the “normalization of untruths” that spread during the two-plus-year COVID-19 pandemic — despite the fact that he’s been one of the biggest purveyors of lies and misinformation, which have caused irreparable harm for many who relied on his advice throughout the ongoing public health crisis.
Start with reports that, at the outset of the pandemic, Fauci hid the truth from us, former President Donald Trump and the world about the origins of the coronavirus. Early on in 2020, Fauci was informed by top scientists the virus was most likely engineered. “‘I really can’t think of a plausible natural scenario where you get from the bat virus … to nCoV where you insert exactly four amino acids 12 nucleotide that all have to be added at the exact same time to gain this function,’ Dr. Robert Garry from Tulane’s School of Medicine said, according to notes from a February 2020 meeting released by House Republicans,” reported Fox News.
“On Jan. 31, Dr. Kristian Andersen, a noted virologist at the Scripps Lab, privately told Fauci that after discussion with his colleagues some of COVID-19’s features look possibly engineered and the ‘genome is inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory,” according to Fox. Yet instead of telling us the truth about its origins, we were fed lies and propaganda by Team Fauci, who promulgated the narrative it developed naturally in a wet market.
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Prepare for the disappearance of Russia
It’s 1991 again and, now as then, Western policymakers and analysts are terrified of confronting the two big “what if” questions raised by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s calamitous war with Ukraine: What if the Russian Federation is following in the Soviet Union’s footsteps and is on the verge of collapse? What if, once again, the process is driven by internal factors and there’s nothing we can do about it?
The Soviet collapse was both a surprise and an annoyance for much of the West. Few government leaders expected a superpower to disappear overnight and even fewer greeted the prospect with enthusiasm. President George H. W. Bush’s infamous “Chicken Kiev” speech, in which he warned Ukrainians against pursuing “suicidal nationalism” and thereby risking undermining the Soviet state, became emblematic of Western fears of a Soviet collapse. The speech was also testimony to the belief that Western policy could prevent such an outcome.
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Why We Are Who We Are
And all must love the human form,
In heathen, Turk, or Jew;
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell
There God is dwelling too.
Poet William Blake’s “Mercy, Love, and Pity” seem in short supply today. Visit social media, read blogs and online commentaries—including some of my own—and mercy, love, and pity seem as absent as President Biden’s cognitive powers. (There: You see what I mean?)
For well over a millennium, the Christian faith promoted these and other virtues. In point of fact, the institutions founded by Christians which helped form and build Western culture—hospitals, colleges, schools, and charities—embodied these ideals in brick-and-mortar. Eventually, Christianity helped abolish slavery, promoted equality, supported the arts and early scientific endeavors, and despite what so many critics claim, often acted as a protector and advocate for women.
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Idaho school board votes to remove 22 books 'forever' from school libraries
NAMPA — The Nampa School Board voted Monday night to remove 22 books permanently from the district’s libraries.
The 22 challenged books were brought to the attention of the district and board for allegedly containing “pornography,” according to a board meeting document.
Committees composed of staff and parents were in the process of conducting a review of the books in question, but the vote effectively ends that. However, trustees expressed interest in crafting a formal process for reviewing challenged books in the future.
During a January school board meeting, a parent raised concerns during public comment about a book, said Kathleen Tuck, communications director for the district. Books that parents or community members bring to the attention of the board for allegedly questionable content are known as “challenged books.” Subsequently, the board received emails from other parents questioning the sexual content and suitability of additional books available in the district’s libraries, bringing the total to 22 titles. (The list is 24 books long, but one book was removed from library shelves prior to being challenged, while another is in the list twice.)
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Trans Kids’: Planned Parenthood’s New Revenue Stream
The leading abortion mill is aggressively expanding its business by building a “transgender” pipeline from schools to its clinics.
Last year, we noted that America’s number one abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, was actively seeking to expand its business beyond being a mere abortion mill by also including gender transitioning service. Thanks to reporting from Abigail Shrier, it was exposed that Planned Parenthood was handing out cross-sex hormones to teenagers like they were candy.
The obvious implications are that Planned Parenthood is developing a new and potentially bigger revenue stream than it gets from providing abortions. As a Planned Parenthood clinic employee observed, “Trans identifying kids are cash cows, and they are kept on the hook for the foreseeable future in terms of follow-up appointments, bloodwork, meetings, etc., whereas abortions are (hopefully) a one-and-done situation.”
In order for Planned Parenthood’s latest venture to turn into a growing revenue stream, the organization has invested heavily in school programs. It’s an obvious effort to groom or indoctrinate children into not only accepting but embracing gender confusion.
Through the development of so-called “well-being centers,” Planned Parenthood has been aggressively working with schools to create sex-ed programs that affirm “transgender” ideology.
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Amid shortage, US infants identifying as illegal immigrants to get baby formula from Biden
Springfield—American infants from San Diego to Sheboygan are identifying as illegal immigrants in order to get hard-to-come-by baby formula shipped directly to them from the Biden administration.
Recent reports from the Southern Border have revealed that the Biden admin has been sending pallets of baby formula to illegal immigrants at the border amid of a severe shortage in the rest the country.
American infants are fighting back by switching their identity to “illegal immigrant”.
Billy Jones, a starving newborn in Poughkeepsie, New York said that he feels offended that Democratic legislators don’t acknowledge his right to eat. “The formula can be horchata flavor, I don’t mind!” lil Billy said.
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Biden to release 100m barrels of baby formula from strategic reserves, send it to Ukraine
WASHINGTON, DC—Americans can rest easy on the baby food shortage according to President Joe Biden, announcing he will issue an executive order to release baby formula from the National Strategic Baby Food Reserves.
Sources say that Biden plans to send the entire amount to Ukraine.
The current baby food shortage is attributed to a TikTok challenge where pregnant women stay in a bath of baby formula, protesting, until the Supreme Court rules on Roe v Wade.
When asked where these reserves are he replied, “Somewhere under a mountain… they’re secure… can’t, what a kind of a dumb ass question is that?”
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Psaki says parents who can’t find baby formula ‘should have just had an abortion’
WASHINGTON, DC—Outgoing White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that parents who are having trouble finding baby formula amid a nation-wide shortage “should have just had an abortion.”
“The administration has been quite clear about that that there wouldn’t be such a shortage if those women would have just had an abortion and you know what, we think it’s never too late,” Psaki said, implying parents should commit infanticide.
The comment followed heightened tension in the country concerning abortion after a Supreme Court decision, which may overturn Roe v Wade was leaked.
Many people are concerned about the shortage.
“We are taking this serious,” Pkasi added. “Deadly serious. And by that we mean we want to kill your babies.
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Report: Democrats Working On ‘Ultimate Gender,’ A Gender That Encompasses All Genders
BERKELEY, CA– Since there aren’t any problems to speak of in America, prominent Democrats have been hard at work creating ‘Ultimate Gender,’ a gender that combines all known genders like at the end of every Power Rangers episode.
“With Ultra MAGA lurking, we felt we needed to build the swiss army knife of genitalia,” Pete Buttigieg said Thursday. “Soon Democrat voters will no longer have to fumble with sixty-two genders. They’ll simply shout ‘ultimate gender!’ and they’ll be set up to conquer all of life’s greatest challenges.”
While a prototype is rumored to be available before the midterms, scientists are warning: It’s not a cure-all.
“If someone who identifies as UG encounters a white male, for example, they’ll be utterly defenseless,” Dr. Fauci warned. “I guess you can throw on a mask, but science has only come so far.”
And that’s not the only hang-up. Transitioning to Ultimate Gender will include the challenge of finding a bathing suit.
“Just cut a hole in a shower curtain and wear that until we figure out what the hell is going on,” Bernie Sanders yelled while flapping his hands like a bird.
Related Op-Ed: We Hear COVID Has Killed Thousands Of Women & Men. But What About The Other 62 Genders? By Libby McTardo
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Nation Shocked To Learn Dana Perino’s House is a Disaster
If you were one of the millions of Americans who assumed Dana Perino’s house was an immaculate palace of organized elegance, you were likely left in disbelief if you caught a glance of the Fox News host’s New York condo.
While working from home, Jasper seemed to knock over the green screen Perino was working in front of. Suddenly, the world went from seeing a generic Manhattan background to a revolting pigsty. The sight of dirty laundry, Slim Jim wrappers and Pat’s Blue Ribbon cans sent her co-hosts into shock.
“HOLY HELL!” Greg Gutfeld abruptly screamed falling backward in his chair.
“Dana! Have you been kidnapped?!” a frightened Jesse Waters asked.
Dana, unaware the green screen had fallen over, became rattled. “What?! Bob Beckel’s back isn’t he? I KNEW it!” she screamed.
“No,” Juan Williams told Perino. “The reason why we’re all feeling ill is because, guess what? Your house is a MESS!” he said with his classic Williams smile.
Seeing the filth Dana lives in has turned the news world has been turned upside down. Many high-profile politicians have switch parties, dogs have refused to be affiliated with her, and even George W. Buch denounced Perino in a scathing statement.
RELATED: Jesse Watters And Dana Perino Split Up
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