“Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of President Trump is politically motivated,” Daines said in a written statement. “Indicting a former president on what is normally a misdemeanor charge in New York is an unprecedented abuse of power requiring legal gymnastics and further undermines our country’s trust in our most vital institutions. This action sets a terrible legal precedent and should outrage Americans no matter what their political persuasion.”
President Biden's nominee to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was previously involved in a dark money-fueled effort to file numerous climate nuisance lawsuits across the country.
Ann Carlson, who currently serves as acting NHTSA administrator, was formerly an environmental law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles where she also served as the co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment. During her time at the institute, she coordinated with its chairman Dan Emmett to raise money for lawsuits designed to hobble the fossil fuel industry.
"...Now don’t get me wrong, this country faces a laundry list of important issues.
Communists are trying to disarm the populace.
Perverts are shaking dildos at toddlers in public.
Inflation shows no signs of slowing.
The country is in more debt than it could ever pay off.
There’s an invasion at the southern border.
Yet, the most important changes are taking place on the global stage, and they’re going to have a direct negative impact on your life and this country.
Instead of the loudest clanging 5-alarm bells going off, most people don’t even know what’s happening.
Yesterday, I was greeted with the news that Saudi Arabia — formerly America’s most important satellite state on account of the oil— will make massive energy investments… with China.
The benefits America accrued from successfully getting the massive oil producer of Saudi Arabia on our side for the latter half of the 20th Century cannot be overstated.
Cheap energy is absolutely a requirement not just for national power, but to fuel prosperity for it’s people...
It’s what has allowed Americans our heretofore unrivaled prosperity.
Our chicken in every pot, costing but a pittance.
If the Dollar is toppled as world reserve currency, that prosperity and that world we grew up in is gone in a flash.
Yesterday,peaceful protesters peacefully stormed the Tennessee State Capitol building to protest gun rights and show support for the trans community, which is currently under fire thanks to right-wingers pouncing on the trans man who murdered three nine-year-old children and three adults at Covenant School in Nashville earlier this week.
China's expansion of its nuclear arsenal is the most "disturbing" development that Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has seen in his decadeslong career, he told lawmakers Tuesday.
Kendall made the statement during a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee. Kendall, with a 50-year U.S. military and defense career, says China's development into a top-level nuclear power is a major issue.
Marines Commandant General David Berger testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee that military branch needed more amphibious ships
Berger said the fleet was at 35 percent capacity of what was required for the US to maintain both a military and humanitarian presence in the Pacific region
He said two decades of land-based conflicts had shifted the Marines' focus from sea-based combat, and that the branch should begin returning to those roots...
A prominent independent journalist who has worked doggedly to expose government overreach online received an unexpected visit from the Internal Revenue Service earlier this month. The IRS happened to darken Matt Taibbi's doorstep the same day he testified before Congress about the weaponization of the federal government.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is demanding accountability as it pertains to this apparent statist "attempt to intimidate a witness before Congress."
It has gotten much worse in recent decades; political opponents now compare other candidates to mass-murdering dictators or accuse them (and the party they belong to) of the most malevolent possible motivations.
Former President George W. Bush was often compared to Hitler.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, studiously wonky Paul Ryan, Republican Mitt Romney's running mate, was accused of wanting to "push granny off a cliff" — including an infamous political ad that showed exactly that...
But nothing can compare to the reaction to Donald Trump's election, which can only be described as mass hysteria. On his inauguration day and for weeks thereafter, Washington, D.C., and other cities were roiled by riots and violence. People sat in the streets and screamed. Windows were broken, cars set on fire. Johnny Depp and Madonna made unfunny jokes about actors killing presidents and blowing up the White House...
Former President Barack Obama called Americans who opposed his policies "bitter" people who "cling to their guns and their religion."
Hillary Clinton called Trump's supporters "a basket of deplorables."
President Joe Biden's Justice Department is targeting conservatives, pro-life Christians and irate parents objecting to pornography in schools, warning that they are potential "domestic terrorists."
Academics seeking tenure publish outrageous social "theories" that smear wide swaths of the population, accusing them of every conceivable form of hatred...
Terminology takes on quasi-criminal tones: Misunderstandings or perceived slights are "microaggressions." Due process in campus sexual assault cases is "another form of rape." And then there's the all-purpose rage inflator: "Words are violence."...
Levies will be applied to bills as part of incentive to go green
"Households are to be penalised if they do not switch away from gas under net zero plans to be unveiled on Thursday... The proposals risk forcing household gas bills up by as much as £100 a year, while electricity costs will come down. Speaking on Wednesday, Grant Shapps, secretary of state for energy security and net zero, said: “If we want people to switch to an electricity-based economy, it would be better if [levies] were shifted onto the gas side of things...
· Avoid the term “female” as a noun for women. The pejorative term reduces women to their assumed biological anatomy.
· Avoid the term “nickname,” which implies that a person’s name is a substitute for their legal name.
· “Queer” is originally a pejorative. It is an umbrella term covering people who are not heterosexual or cisgender. Avoid using the term unless people or organizations use the term to identify themselves.
· “Sexual preference.” Use “sexual orientation.”
· “Homosexual.” Use “gay” or “lesbian.”
· “Hermaphrodite.” Use “intersex.”
· “Closeted.” Use “not out.”
· “Normal/norm” to refer to people who are not transgender, gender fluid or nonbinary.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana that he agrees with President Joe Biden's position that assault weapons should be banned in the U.S. — but when pressed to define the term "assault weapon," Mayorkas failed to deliver.
