"I hate to play the gender card here, but maybe we paid more attention to the nefarious deeds of the Clinton Foundation because Hillary is a cold-hearted bitch.
Joe Biden is the affable grandpa who has been exposed for doing virtually the same thing as the Clinton clan, albeit he’s more than a brain cell shy of the intelligence that Bill and Hillary exhibit. Whether you like them or not, Bill and Hillary are cunning.
Toronto Blue Jays player Anthony Bass apologized after sharing content on social media that advocated for Christians to boycott Target, Bud Light, and other entities pushing pro-LGBT ideology.
It’s being perpetrated by whites through “antiquated systems of oppression.” Whiteness, the creation of white people of European descent, they say, is a lopsided “system of privileges and advantages” that favors whites at the expense of people of color “through government policies, media portrayal, decision-making power with our corporations, schools, judicial systems, etc.”...
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, has signed legislation to ban public colleges from permitting biological males to participate in sports designated for females and vice versa.
"Look, if you are a biological male, you are not going to be competing in women's and girls' sports in Alabama. It's about fairness, plain and simple," Ivey said in a statement.
"Pentagon leaders have stepped in to stop a drag show scheduled for Thursday at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, according to two defense officials and a U.S. official. The show, which was in celebration of Pride Month, was approved by Air Force leaders, but Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told the Air Force it is not Defense Department policy to fund drag shows on bases and the show should be canceled or moved off base...
Johnny Weissmuller 1904 - Olympic swimmer, he was the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies
1537 - Pope Paul III banned the enslavement of Indians.
1774 - The Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted.
1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.
1835 - P.T. Barnum launched his first traveling show. The main attraction was Joice Heth. Heth was reputed to be the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington.
1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.
1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.
1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants. (He was right then. Right today!)
Several of the teens believed responsible for the savage mob beating of three off-duty U.S. Marines ahead of Memorial Day weekend have been arrested and charged.
While the Californian mob that descended upon the servicemen was more than 40 persons deep, five have so far been hit with felony charges, and another four may receive misdemeanor charges.
AOC upset over parody press account cracking up conser "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is asking her followers to be careful about what they read after a meme Twitter account began parodying her press releases, to the delight of conservatives across social media. Armed with a blue check, the Twitter username @AOCpress, identified as an "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody)," describes itself as "Saying the quiet part out loud (parody)." The account gained mass popularity Monday when Elon Musk replied to it.
Musk replied with a fire emoji. Tweets from the account parody everything from Ocasio-Cortez's personal life to her political views.
Ocasio-Cortez does not appear to find the account's humor funny.
Constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley over the weekend silenced Democrats urging President Joe Biden to use the 14th Amendment to end the debt ceiling crisis.
Progressive Democrats, upset that Biden negotiated with Republicans, want Biden to avert default by invoking a questionable legal maneuver: an obscure provision in the 14th Amendment ratified in the context of the post-Civil War America, which almost certainly was not designed to be used to override the statutory borrowing limit.
"...there is something going on that we don't usually expect, and while it's been in process for a century now, it's become blatant only for the past decade or so, and that's the growth of a regulatory state that virtually no candidate ever really campaigns on: the incredibly intrusive growth of the picky, micromanaging regulatory state...
For decades, the federal government has mandated that automotive gasoline include a percentage of corn ethanol
For about ten years, the federal government has waged war on the incandescent lightbulb, gradually forcing a changeover to compact fluorescents, LEDs, and other new technologies that cost more, don't work with dimmer switches, and are infinitely more likely to be manufactured in China...
The federal government has long attempted to curtail water use by regulating the design of shower heads, toilets, and bathroom faucets...
The related issue currently in the news is the world of natural gas appliances...
The damage all this does is incredible, and largely untrackable...
A University of Michigan professor referred to boycotts and threats against big-box retailer Target as a form of literal terrorism in a recent interview on MSNBC, Newsweek reported.
Government goals and set-asides for “disadvantaged” firms breed
corruption and
fraud,
deepen racial divisions, and
cost taxpayers billions.
"For the past few years, Atlanta has been roiled by corruption scandals centering on the city’s decades-old program to favor minority-owned businesses in government contracting.
The troubles started when Elvin “E. R.” Mitchell, Jr., a black contractor, began paying what became more than $1 million in bribes to city official and friend of the mayor Reverend Mitzi Bickers...
"Sisterhood of Strong - Theresa Horne has made it her life’s work to help people get and stay healthy. As a health and fitness coach for her company, Sisterhood of Strong, she powered through during the Stay Home, Stay Safe order thanks to a grant from the Jackson Community Foundation and the Enterprise Group of Jackson.
