The freshman lawmaker introduced her first bill in Congress. In fact, she introduced her first three bills in Congress, and they all target Biden's executive orders.
Katie Couric's opportunity to guest host "Jeopardy!" is reportedly in danger after she advocated last week that supporters of former President Donald Trump should be "deprogrammed." What's the background?
As TheBlaze reported, Couric suggested on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" that America needs to explore how to "deprogram" Trump supporters.
The case for cult status of Mr. Trump and his followers.
"...Would it be fair to label Trump's followers a "cult"?
...While some don't believe that Mr. Trump and his followers comprise a cult, in my view, the group fulfills the criteria typically used in sociological, religious, and psychological circles to identify a cult.
...To further understand how Mr. Trump and his followers may match the definition of a cult, it is helpful to look at how their behaviors compare to the most common behaviors of cults.
Cults are typically characterized by:
One charismatic leader is the group's sole authority on truth; only this leader decides, or has the right to approve, all policies and practices. Ex: Many of Trump’s supporters reportedly believe that the Presidential election was fraudulent, based on Mr. Trump's claims that it was.
Members are zealous, protective, and unquestioningly committed to the leader. Ex: A group of militant fans of Mr. Trump tried to run a Biden/Harris campaign bus off the road in Texas, endangering multiple drivers on the highway.
Members regard the leader's beliefs and practices as truth and law; the leader affirms and enforces this idea. Ex: Many of Trump's supporters reportedly believed his false claims about immigrants being more likely to commit serious crimes.
The group uses public humiliation or punishment to suppress individualism and doubt. Ex: During the Impeachment trial of Mr. Trump, his supporters in the general public and Congress relied on insulting the Democrats presenting the case and their witnesses, instead of arguing facts...Read all.
A pair of top incoming White House environmental aides has blamed “systemic racism” as a driver of climate change in an attempt to justify a government-led economic overhaul.
President-elect Joe Biden named progressive policy adviser Maggie Thomas as Office of Domestic Climate Policy chief of staff and climate advocate Cecilia Martinez as “senior director for environmental justice” on Thursday. Both Thomas and Martinez have cited racial inequality as perpetuating climate change, arguing that the Biden administration’s environmental policy must be centered on “racial and economic justice.”...Read all.
More than two-thirds of poll respondents said they believe democracy in the U.S. is "threatened," and 54% said "other people in America" are the "biggest threat to the American way of life," rather than economic factors, viruses, natural disasters, or foreign actors.
Will it be possible to unite our nation with statistics like that? On "The Glenn Beck Radio Program," Glenn and Stu discussed the poll numbers and what they mean for our future.
"...Owned and operated by the U.S. government, GPS is likely the least recognized, and least appreciated, part of our critical infrastructure.
Indeed, most of our critical infrastructure would cease to function without it.
The problem is that GPS signals are incredibly weak, due to the distance they have to travel from space, making them subject to interference and vulnerable to jamming and what is known as spoofing, in which another signal is passed off as the original.
And the satellites themselves could easily be taken out by hurtling space junk or the sun coughing up a fireball.
As intentional and unintentional GPS disruptions are on the rise, experts warn that our overreliance on the technology is courting disaster...
...If GPS was knocked out, he said, you’d notice.
Think widespread power outages,
financial markets seizing up and the
transportation system grinding to a halt.
Grocers would be unable to stock their shelves, and
Amazon would go dark.
Emergency responders wouldn’t be able to find you, and
Hundreds join Detroit car rally to show solidarity with farmers in India
"Hundreds of drivers made their way around downtown Detroit as snow fell heavily Sunday to show solidarity with farmers in India who are protesting laws they argue could devastate crop prices and reduce their earnings.
Thousands of Indian farmers have been demanding the government repeal the laws for more than two months.
"The Indian government is stubborn," said caravan organizer, Amandeep Jhajj, of Canton.
"With this we want to tell the Indian government, the power is the democracy and in the people so they have to listen to the Indian people and the Indian farmers."
...The situation escalated in November when tens of thousands of protesters marched to New Delhi, where they clashed with police...Read all.
Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh's website on Thursday featured the headline "Hundreds dead so far from COVID-19 today due to President Biden's mishandling of the virus."
"Isn't that the way we report this stuff?" he told his national audience. "I mean, that's how they reported it with President Trump. Except they were a little bit more critical than I was. I mean, they had thousands of people dying every day because of Trump. I reduce my number to 100. Over 100 people have died so far from COVID-19 due to President Biden's mishandling of the virus."
The city of Harrisburg is Ground Zero for America's municipal debt crisis.
Pennsylvania's capital city has liabilities estimated at $610 million, which is nearly ten times its annual budget.
The city is so deep in the red that last year it attempted to file for bankruptcy.
Reckless spending did more than ruin Harrisburg's balance sheet; it crowded out private industry and distracted from the city's core functions.
Today, Harrisburg is a dangerous, poverty-stricken city, with failing schools and a shrinking population.
Harrisburg's fiscal nightmare may be a harbinger of things to come for American cities.
In the mid-90s, local governments embarked on a spending binge, bringing total municipal debt in the United States to more than $2.8 trillion.
Along with Harrisburg, Jefferson County, Alabama, Vallejo, California, and Central Falls, Rhode Island have filed for bankruptcy in the past few years.
Several more cities are on the brink of default, largely thanks to taxpayer-financed stadiums, museums, housing, commercial complexes, other misconceived economic development projects, and runaway public sector salaries, pensions, and benefit packages.
Is your hometown the next Harrisburg?
Shot, edited, written, and produced by Jim Epstein, who also narrates.--Approximately 7 minutes"