The House Republican caucus voted Wednesday to kick Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from her GOP conference chairman post. According to Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the caucus held a voice vote, so no final tally numbers will be known. Kinzinger also said that no replacement had yet been voted on.
Friday, May 14, 2021
House Republicans vote to kick Liz Cheney out of leadership - TheBlaze
House Republicans vote to kick Liz Cheney out of leadership - TheBlaze:
NYPD union boss blames Bill de Blasio and police reform laws for New York City's downfall | Daily Mail Online
NYPD union boss blames Bill de Blasio and police reform laws for New York City's downfall� | Daily Mail Online
EXCLUSIVE: 'Let's be real the city is in freefall.' NYPD union boss blames 'feckless' Bill de Blasio and his 'imbecilic' police reform laws for the Times Square shooting and turning NYC into a Wild West frontier town
- In his exclusive essay for DailyMail.com, SBA president Ed Mullins blames Mayor Bill de Blasio and fellow officials for New York City's descent into lawlessness
- The Big Apple, which is still reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, has also been experiencing an uptick in crime and violence
- It faced further turmoil in the summer when protesters took to the streets on a near nightly basis urging officials to defund the police
- In a highly controversial move last July, the city ultimately agreed to cut $1billion from the NYPD budget
- According to Mullins, 'the 2020 "reform" package has done nothing but kneecap the police and increase violent crime to levels not seen since the early 1990s'
- Shootings in the city have risen by 166 per cent from April 2020 to the same month this year
History for May 14
History for May 14 - On-This-Day.com
George Lucas 1944 - Film producer, screenwriter, director ("Star Wars" movie series)
- 1787 - Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
- 1804 - William Clark set off the famous expedition from Camp Dubois. A few days later, in St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis joined the group. The group was known as the "Corps of Discovery."
- 1853 - Gail Borden applied for a patent for condensed milk.
- 1897 - "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled.
- 1942 - The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) was established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
- 1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Liberal network CNN presses Health Sec. Becerra on his call for vaccinated people to keep wearing masks. He has trouble defending it. - TheBlaze
Liberal network CNN presses Health Sec. Becerra on his call for vaccinated people to keep wearing masks. He has trouble defending it. - TheBlaze:
Becerra is the most recent member of the Biden administration to come out and contradict the latest face mask guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Growing inflation is Biden's hidden tax on working Americans | TheHill
Growing inflation is Biden's hidden tax on working Americans | TheHill
"The sharpest tax President Biden is levying upon Americans is one that was never passed by Congress, promised from the White House, or voted on by citizens at the ballot box.
The invisible tax of rising inflation will do far more to harm working and middle-class Americans than Biden’s proposed tax hikes.
The trillions of dollars in congressional spending and money printing from the Federal Reserve is already having a dramatic effect on the price of ordinary goods.
Inflation has reached its highest point in years, and will likely reach the highest in two generations.
Over the past year,
- food prices are up 3.5 percent, with
- eggs and meat up by over 5 percent;
- gas is up 22 percent and is expected to get even higher by this summer;
- lumber is up 250 percent;
- new home prices are up $36,000, with overall housing up 11 percent; and
- new cars are up 9 percent, the highest in 68 years.
...Put it all together, and consumer prices are the highest they’ve been in eight and a half years. Economists now not only see the risk of inflation “higher than in the last two decades,”...
The primary driver of the current inflation comes through money printing by the Federal Reserve....Read all.
Forced work stoppage adds cost, time to build of new Wayne County Jail
Forced work stoppage adds cost, time to build of new Wayne County Jail
"Detroit — ...Work stopped in March at the site due to the spread of the coronavirus in Michigan, which led Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to halt the work of the construction industry.
At that point, the project was about $40 million over its $533 million budget...
...The justice center, off Interstate 75 and East Warren on Detroit's east side, is Wayne County's second attempt to build a new jail that would consolidate its footprint...
Construction on what would become known as the "fail jail" at Gratiot and St. Antoine began in 2011, under then-County Executive Bob Ficano.
The 2,000-bed project near the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice was later halted in June 2013 after $100 million in overruns and charges of corruption...Read all.
Exclusive - Rep. David Schweikert: People Being Paid to Stay Home, Hence Poor Jobs Numbers
Exclusive - Rep. David Schweikert: People Being Paid to Stay Home, Hence Poor Jobs Numbers:
Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) told Breitbart News on Sunday that April’s jobs report was a function of paying Americans not to work, as opposed to fears among prospective workers of coronavirus infection.
Yes, The Bee...but also our future?-----White House Reminds Nation That Permission Slips To Eat A Hot Dog On The 4th Of July Are Due By Friday | The Babylon Bee
"WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a press conference today, Press Secretary Jen Psaki reminded Americans that they must turn in their permission slips for eating a delicious grilled July 4th hot dog by this Friday.
...Dr. Fauci later clarified that even though permission slips are being issued, eating hotdogs is "probably a bad idea" and you shouldn't do it...Read all.
Whites Aren't Hated for Slavery but for Making America and the West by Dennis Prager
Whites Aren't Hated for Slavery but for Making America and the West by Dennis Prager
"In "Why the Jews?" my book on anti-Semitism, there is a chapter on anti-Americanism.
My co-author, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, and I long ago understood that many of the reasons for Jew-hatred and America-hatred were the same.
Among them are envy of success -- material, of course, but even more importantly, success in terms of influence.
Another is the religious foundation of both peoples...
In other words, another commonality of America-hatred and modern Jew-hatred has been hatred of capitalism.
The Nazis hated America and the Jews, both of whom they identified with capitalism.
And the left (not the liberal, who traditionally loved America, but who has become the primary enabler of the left) hates America, which it regards as the paragon of capitalism...Read all.
Murdered Delaware Cpl. Keith Heacook's cousin issues fiery remarks on how media treats slain officers, gets rousing response - TheBlaze
Murdered Delaware Cpl. Keith Heacook's cousin issues fiery remarks on how media treats slain officers, gets rousing response - TheBlaze:
Pointing to how the media often covers police officers' deaths when compared to suspects' deaths, Schwartz added, "If Cpl. Heacook had to take the [bad] actor's life, what would have happened to his life? It would've been hell. The media would've been here in full force ... 'Unarmed this, unarmed that' every night without fail."
"Keith would have been placed on administrative leave while the investigation was conducted," he continued. "That investigation would have taken weeks, if not months, to complete. During that time, Keith's life would have been put under a microscope, as it's easy for folks who have no idea about police work. His family would be shunned. Even when Keith was cleared, that does not generate enough news."
Laboratories In US Can’t Find Covid-19 In 1500 Positive Tests
Laboratories In US Can’t Find Covid-19 In 1500 Positive Tests
"A clinical scientist and immunologist-virologist at a southern California laboratory says he and colleagues from 7 universities are suing the CDC for massive fraud.
The reason:
- not one of 1500 samples of people tested “positive” could find Covid-19.
- ALL people were simply found to have Influenza A, and to a lesser extent Influenza B. This is consistent with the previous findings of other scientists, which we have reported on several times.
Dr. Derek Knauss: “When my lab team and I subjected the 1500 supposedly positive Covid-19 samples to Koch’s postulates and put them under an SEM (electron microscope), we found NO Covid in all 1500 samples. We found that all 1500 samples were primarily Influenza A, and some Influenza B, but no cases of Covid. We did not use the bulls*** PCR test.’
At 7 Universities Not Once COVID Detected
‘When we sent the rest of the samples to Stanford, Cornell, and a couple of the labs at the University of California, they came up with the same result: NO COVID. They found Influenza A and B. Then we all asked the CDC for viable samples of Covid. The CDC said they can’t give them, because they don’t have those samples.’
‘So we came to the hard conclusion through all our research and lab work that Covid-19 was imaginary and fictitious. The flu was only called ‘Covid,’ and most of the 225,000 deaths were from co-morbidities such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, pulmonary emphysema, etc.. They got the flu which further weakened their immune systems, and they died.’
‘This Virus Is Fictitious’
‘I still need to find one viable sample with Covid-19 to work with. We who conducted the lab test with these 1500 samples at the 7 universities are now suing the CDC for Covid-19 fraud. The CDC still has not sent us a viable, isolated and purified sample of Covid-19. If they can’t or won’t, then I say there is no Covid-19. It’s fictional.’...Read all!
Media spin that Goebbels would admire.-----Job openings soar to highest level on record | WOODTV.com
Job openings soar to highest level on record | WOODTV.com
"U.S. employers posted a record number of available jobs in March, starkly illustrating the desperation of businesses to hire more people as the economy expands.
Yet total job gains increased only modestly that month, according to a Labor Department report issued Tuesday, May 11.
...President Joe Biden, who included the extra money in his $1.9 trillion rescue package approved in March, disputed that the $300 supplemental payment is to blame Monday.
- ...Many people out of work are also reluctant to take jobs in service industries that require contact with the public for fear of contracting COVID-19.
- And many
women aren’t searching for jobs because they haven’t found child care for children that are still at home taking online classes for at least part of the week...Read all.
Colonial Pipeline Hack May Be Just the Beginning | The Pipeline
Colonial Pipeline Hack May Be Just the Beginning | The Pipeline
There are political and technical problems with doing this, even if we make the assumption that government cybersecurity operations are doing their job and private firms are working hard to protect it.
"...Of course, paying the ransom will only make DarkSide’s tools more valuable to both them and to those they sell the programs to, meaning we’ll see more of this and with ever-increasing deleterious economic and energy consequences.
...It’s not as if we are in the dark about the need to safeguard cyberspace in critical infrastructure. We have in the Department of Homeland security and a National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), with this mission:
"...We encourage every organization to take action to strengthen their cybersecurity posture to reduce their exposure to these types of threats.”
...And then there’s the political handicap. Despite sending our warnings and calling together task forces of bureaucrats to discuss the issue, the focus of the Biden Administration is not on shoring up cyber liabilities. To it, “infrastructure” means doing away with fossil fuels and making the grid even more vulnerable. In fact, as the editors of the Wall Street Journal argue:
The U.S. government could help companies harden their information systems, but the risks to infrastructure will grow unless the U.S. makes the energy system more resilient and redundant. That won’t happen with Mr. Biden’s 500,000 new EV charging stations and rooftop solar panels on every home.
Just the opposite. The grid and other infrastructure will become more vulnerable as more systems get electrified and connected. The Government Accountability Office warned in March that home solar panels, EV chargers and “smart” appliances that companies control remotely are creating new entry points for cyber criminals to take over the grid.
Defending the U.S. against cyber attacks is the Biden Administration’s most important infrastructure job, but that’s not what its $2.3 trillion proposal would do.
Buckle up for a bumpy ride."
Fauci Says No Taxpayer Funds Went to China's Bat Coronavirus Research
Fauci Says No Taxpayer Funds Went to China's Bat Coronavirus Research:
Dr. Anthony Fauci insisted that no United States taxpayer funds went to bat coronavirus research at a lab in Wuhan, China, despite evidence that a U.S. government-funded grant went to a contractor that did partner with the lab on that research.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) grilled Fauci over the issue on Tuesday at a Senate hearing. He first noted that it is not yet known whether COVID-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan that was conducting gain of function research, or the modification of naturally occurring animal viruses for research purposes.
What Voters Are Saying About Critical Theories Should Have Woke Educators Shaking in Their Shoes
What Voters Are Saying About Critical Theories Should Have Woke Educators Shaking in Their Shoes
"Americans’ views about school curriculum based on critical theories of race and gender were assessed in a mid-April poll by Competitive Edge Research and Communications (CE). The poll, which surveyed 808 active voters and included parents with children in school and other community members, found that an overwhelming majority of those surveyed object to critical race theories being taught in schools.
...The questions then reviewed concepts that are fundamental to critical theories, and respondents thoroughly reject them, with many indicating feeling strongly that they should not be taught. The percentages noted are for those with strong feelings rejecting the idea and those who somewhat object, combined:
- Teach that White people are inherently privileged, while Black and other people of color are inherently oppressed and victimized — 73.7%
- Assign White students the status of “privileged” and assign non-white students the status of “oppressed.” — 88.3%
- Teach students that America was founded on racism and remains structurally racist today and that racism is the cause of all differences in outcomes and achievement between racial groups — 68.7%
- Teach students with lighter skin color or who are boys or who are taller or slimmer that they are natural oppressors and teach students with darker skin color or who are girls or who are shorter or heavier that they are naturally oppressed — 88.6%
- Teach students that achieving racial justice and equality between racial groups requires discriminating against people based on their Whiteness — 84.0%
- Teach students that the United States was stolen from other people and inform them the school they attend and the houses they live in are built on stolen land — 57.0%
- Teach students that there is no such thing as biological sex, only gender preference and that concepts like male and female are outdated and people should choose whatever gender they prefer for themselves — 75.4%
- Create student clubs based on race or ethnicity and encourage students to join them to explore their racial or ethnic identity and discuss racial issues among members of their own race — 63.4%
- Promote social justice political activism in the classroom by making protest signs and banners, conducting walkouts, and awarding course credit to students who engage in political protests and activism — 79.6%
- Change US history classes so that they focus on race and power and promote social justice political issues — 59.1%
- Hire diversity, equity, and inclusion consultants or administrators to train teachers, school officials, and students in Critical Race Theory and social justice causes — 51.6%...Read all.
History for May 13
Joe Louis (Barrow) 1914 - Boxer, "The Brown Bomber"
- 1607 - An expedition led by Captain Christopher Newport arrived at Jamestown, Virginia. The passengers went ashore the next day and this site became the first permanent settlement English colony in America.
- 1821 - The first practical printing press was patented in the U.S. by Samuel Rust.
- 1846 - The U.S. declared that war existed with Mexico.
- 1865 - The last land engagement of the American Civil War was fought at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA.
- 1888 - Slavery was abolished in Brazil.
- 1897 - Guglielmo Marconi sent the world's first wireless communication over open sea.
- 1985 - A confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters. Eleven people died in the fire that resulted.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Cost Of School Pension Underfunding In 2021: 42% Of Teacher Payroll Expense
Cost Of School Pension Underfunding In 2021: 42% Of Teacher Payroll Expense
But in 2021, it said, the actual rate is up to 42.7%.
- Politicians overpromised, managers filled gap with rosy scenarios, taxpayers on the hook
"...the state’s Office of Retirement Services forecast in 2012 that school districts would have to contribute about 31% of their payroll costs to fund retirement for most of the next decade.
The primary reason for the gap, according to James Hohman, the Mackinac Center’s director of fiscal policy, is that forecasters made overly optimistic estimates pension fund growth.
...All this means that school districts, and their taxpayers, now bear a heavy burden in having to bolster the Michigan Public School Employees’ Retirement System (MPSERS).
That is because decades of underfunding have left the pension fund more than $40 billion short of the amount needed to pay promised retirement benefits...Read all.
Susan Collins Says The Golden Era Of Respect She Once Had For The CDC Is Over | The Daily Caller
Susan Collins Says The Golden Era Of Respect She Once Had For The CDC Is Over | The Daily Caller:
“I used to have the utmost respect for the guidance from the CDC. I always considered the CDC to be the gold standard. I don’t anymore and I want to give you three examples where I think that conflicting, confusing guidance from your agency has undermined public confidence and contradicts the scientific guidance of many experts.”
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