There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
US, Philippine troops sink China-made vessel in war games US and Philippine forces sank a decommissioned China-made Philippine Navy ship on Wednesday during South China Sea war games simulating an attack on an enemy vessel, officials said. The exercises are being held near the city of Laoag, around 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of Taiwan, amid a backdrop of increased confrontations between Philippine and Chinese vessels around South China Sea features claimed by Manila and Beijing.
Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint For Dystopia In Horrific Speech Bill Trudeau was lying when he said C-63 was “very, very specifically focused on correcting kids.” The purview of the Online Harms Act extends far beyond speech, reimagining society as a mandated social engineering project, creating transformational new procedures that would: enlist Canada’s citizens in an ambitious social monitoring system, with rewards of up to $20,000 for anonymous “informants”
Rep. Scott Perry calls KKK ‘militant wing’ of the Democratic Party U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R., Pa., is facing criticism after he reportedly called the Ku Klux Klan the “military wing of the Democratic Party” in a closed-door briefing for lawmakers on antisemitism Tuesday,
Former CDC Director: ‘I Could Make’ Bird Flu ‘Highly Infectious For Humans In Months’ Leaked internal Pfizer email confirms separate vaxx batches for employees. colleagues and contractors at Pfizer’s Pearl River research site that site-essential workers would be offered COVID-19 vaccinations that are ‘separate and distinct’ What was in the free and widely available public shots that you didn’t want your employees exposed to? And why did it take a leaked email to confirm this practice in the United States?
Putin removes defense minister Shoigu Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday moved to replace defense minister Sergei Shoigu in a major shake-up to Russia’s military leadership more than two years into its Ukraine offensive. Putin proposed economist Andrey Belousov as Shoigu’s replacement, according to a list of the ministerial nominations published by the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament.
Hezbollah unveils new heavy rocket in attacks on Israel Terror group launches new rocket at Israel’s Mount Dov named after Jihad Mughniyeh, son of senior Hezbollah figure Imad Mughniyeh, both eliminated in Israeli-linked attacks. While the claim that this is a newly developed rocket has not been independently verified, reports from Lebanon describe it as a heavy rocket that was used for the first time.
Egypt threatens to ax treaty with Israel over Rafah op Egypt has again threatened to suspend its 45-year-old peace treaty with Israel if the latter further expands its offensive against Hamas in Rafah. Cairo has lodged formal protests with Israel, the United States and European governments following the Israel Defense Forces’ invasion of eastern Rafah, which was launched last week,
GOP senators sponsor bill to cut UN funding over PA benefits Current U.S. law prohibits funding to organizations such as the United Nations which give the Palestinians full membership or standing as a member state outside a political settlement with Israel.
Trump vows support for Israel’s ‘right to win its war on terror’ At a rally in New Jersey on Saturday, former President Donald Trump voiced his support for “Israel’s right to win its war on terror,” and claimed Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack would not have occurred under his watch.
Day 219: IDF continues operations in Central Gaza and Rafah despite warnings from Egypt According to Palestinian reports, the IDF again dropped tens of thousands of leaflets in eastern Rafah, warning civilians to evacuate to the expanded humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) estimated that around 300,000 people have already evacuated Rafah since the IDF began to issuing warnings last week.
Israel salutes its fallen on first Memorial Day since Oct. 7 tragedy Israel’s Memorial Day, commemorating the soldiers who fell in the nation’s wars and victims of terrorist attacks, began at 8 p.m. on Sunday with a nationwide siren for a minute of silence. On this year’s particularly mournful Memorial Day, the people of Israel remembered 1,600 soldiers and civilians who perished – either in combat or due to an act of terrorism – over the past year
Thousands of homes destroyed, over 300 dead as flash floods ravage northern Afghanistan Northern Afghanistan is facing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis following severe flash flooding that began on Friday, May 10, 2024. The latest reports confirm 315 deaths and injuries to over 1 600 people, with Baghlan Province bearing the brunt of the devastation. Authorities fear the death toll will continue rising.
Strong M6.4 earthquake hits near the coast of Chiapas, Mexico A strong earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.4 hit near the coast of Chiapas, Mexico at 11:39 UTC (06:39 LT) on May 12, 2024. The agency is reporting a depth of 75 km (46 miles). EMSC is reporting the same magnitude and depth.
Severe dust storm strikes Delhi-NCR, killing three and injuring over 20, India A sudden and severe dust storm swept through Delhi-NCR on the evening (LT) of Friday, May 10, 2024, causing extensive damage. The storm, with wind speeds of up to 90 km/h (56 mph), resulted in three fatalities and 23 injuries, alongside causing widespread disruptions across the capital.
Russia’s New Invasion Is Targeting Ukraine’s Second Largest City, And That Could Bring Us To The Brink Of “Nuclear Armageddon” The war in Ukraine has just moved to an entirely new level, but most Americans do not even realize that we are closer to “nuclear Armageddon” than ever. Very early on the morning of May 10th, Russian forces began to pour across Ukraine’s border north of Kharkiv. In the short-term this will enable the Russians to create a buffer zone around the Belgorod region and force Ukraine to pull desperately needed forces away from the eastern front.
Pope Francis accused of ‘crimes,’ and is the Bible soon to be illegal? Prominent Catholics urge bishops and cardinals to declare Pope Francis has “lost the papal office” if he refuses to resign, presenting a detailed summary of Pope Francis’ scandals that have gravely harmed the Church. Meanwhile, a priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago has officiated at a homosexual blessing that looked very much like a wedding — with no sanction! And both in the USA and Canada, bills are proposed that threaten to make the Bible illegal under the charge of “antisemitism.”
“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” —James Madison (1792)
Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1607, settlers founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America. Over 80% of the colonists died in the first few years, but the rest persevered, and in a few years, it began to grow and thrive. —Mark Alexander
Leftists attack the fact that there is a Mother’s Day at all, but it rightly honors a profound relationship unique to the human experience.
Emmy Griffin
Happy belated Mother’s Day to all our mom readers. We hope you were cherished and loved by your families this weekend.
Sadly, some sour grapes out there (read: leftists) actively attack the fact that there is a Mother’s Day at all. They happily take the opportunity to remind us that not all mothers are wonderful and worth celebrating. Moreover, in the past few years, it has gotten even weirder. Anti-Mother’s Day advocates have decided, in the name of “inclusion,” to start declaring their absurd theory that not all mothers are women while simultaneously stating the obvious that not all women are mothers. It is an evil attempt to diminish and attack motherhood.
It’s true — not all mothers are wonderful. Some are neglectful, selfish, or abusive toward their children. (Here’s looking at you, mothers pushing gender “transition” on your kids.) But do these bad-acting mothers mean that motherhood as a whole is to be dismissed? That, of course, is absurd. By that logic, anyone could happily dismiss anything they don’t like. For example, one could say that some apples are rotten and, therefore, all apples should be cast away. This is a childish and irrational line of reasoning. It also misses the whole meaning of motherhood, which is more than just giving birth to someone.
Another ridiculous line of thinking is the notion that not all mothers are women (i.e., some mothers are men). This laughable, politically correct, harmful notion is demeaning to everyone involved. It takes away men’s natural gifts — protector, provider, and guide — that come with fatherhood. It takes away a unique dominion of women. A woman not only carries a baby inside her own body for nine months, but it is her post-birth gift and job to nourish that same infant from her own body. Most importantly, it takes away from the sweet little babies and children involved. Human babies need their mothers profoundly.
A newborn only knows the woman who carried him. He knows her smell and heartbeat. He doesn’t distinguish himself as a separate person for several months. That’s why many young babies want to be held by their mothers 24/7. It’s also why this newborn being placed on a gender-confused man’s chest is in agony. The baby only wants her mother, and it’s heartbreaking. This in and of itself is why surrogacy is so problematic.
That man wearing womanface is sitting on a hospital bed as if he just went through the physical trauma of carrying and birthing a baby. That’s little different from stolen valor.
As for the physical nurturing of an infant through breastfeeding, thanks to amoral scientists, some “transgender women” (i.e., men) are so jacked up on cross-sex hormones that they can lactate and have been permitted to feed an infant from their secretions. Who knows what sort of harmful chemicals and hormones are in his “milk” that he is carelessly feeding to a vulnerable infant? These gender-confused men’s perversion takes precedence over the needs of the actual child. It is the very opposite of what motherhood is.
For women who are longing to be mothers and struggling with infertility, thank you for your heart that desires to give all your love and nurturing to a child. Your road is difficult and painful, especially on days like Mother’s Day when you are reminded about what you can’t have or don’t have yet. I’ve been there. You are not alone.
Motherhood is more than giving birth to children. It’s an altruistic show of love and care for children in your life.
Another element of infertility needs to be pointed out. Some women have fallen for the lie that “wife” and “mother” are not titles worthy of them. According to this feminist philosophy, men are dogs (or bears), and children are an encumbrance. Tragically, some women realize too late in life how tragically false this thinking is. Money and a career can’t love you back.
Childless women can and are allowed to feel sad on Mother’s Day, but should their sadness mean that we shouldn’t celebrate motherhood? The obvious answer is “No.” Any childless woman who would advocate for the erasure of Mother’s Day because it reminds her of something she can’t have misses the essential part: Motherhood is about celebrating selfless love. To put it bluntly, it’s not about you!
Motherhood is about loving and caring for children openhandedly. As Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Carrie Gress writes: “Bad mothers, absent mothers, women who long to be mothers, a rise in loneliness, depression, and anxiety all bring into stark relief the unconquerable truth that women’s lives are generally made richer and fuller with husbands and children. Whether we have a family or not, our lives are richer when outward-focused and not centered on self.”
As Gress states as a constant refrain in her article, it is the very attempted erasure of motherhood that points to its necessity as an institution, title, and crown of womanhood.
Mother’s Day doesn’t need to be more inclusive. It is the precision and exclusivity that honors a profound relationship unique to the human experience. Mothers and what they represent should be honored with one day in the calendar year to reflect on the amazing gift of self-denying love.
Biden makes Mother’s Day about Trump, court asserts constitutional right to lop off body parts, Target “Pride” successfully targeted, and more.
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Cross-Examination
Joe’s Mother’s Day message: Mother’s Day is supposed to be about mothers, right? And yet yesterday, Joe Biden and his handlers couldn’t resist their biological urge to make Mother’s Day about … Donald Trump. But it wasn’t enough to simply denounce the Orange Man in a Mother’s Day press release: “Daughters Have Fewer Rights than their Mothers or Grandmothers Did Because of Donald Trump,” went the headline, and the brief body copy wasn’t any better: “Happy Mother’s Day. At the Biden campaign, we are asking Americans to do the moms in their lives a favor. Stop Trump.” In a sad way, we can hardly blame Team Biden. Never before has a reelection team had as little to work with as this one, and never before has an incumbent been as desperate as this one. But that message wasn’t the only gift Biden and crew had in store for America’s moms yesterday. In addition, they trotted out a video whose caption read: “Donald Trump wants to separate mothers from their children and allow laws that rip away IVF access and monitor women’s pregnancies. This Mother’s Day, do the moms in your life a favor: Stop Trump.” The video then proceeded to show what appears to be an illegal immigrant family crying out as they’re being separated, but for all we know, it could’ve been Obama-era footage — although to be fair, the video doesn’t show any of those Obama-era cages. In any case, Trump the counterpuncher came back hard: “What a sad, miserable, cowardly existence Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign must have to make such a disgusting ad on such a joyous day,” said the Trump campaign. “Their lives are obviously filled with anger, hate, and resentment because they clearly suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. President Trump continues to live rent-free in their pea-sized brains, even on Mother’s Day.”
Constitutional right to lop off body parts: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that West Virginia’s Medicaid plan must cover gender mutilation surgeries. The state’s law explicitly noted that its health program “covers mastectomies to treat cancer, but not to treat gender dysphoria,” which the court found unconstitutional based upon a rather tortuous application of the 14th Amendment. The court justified its decision by pointing to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock ruling that the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans employers from discriminating based on sex, also includes homosexuality and “transgender” identity. Asserting the false notion that sex is assigned rather than confirmed at birth, the Fourth Circuit found that the law violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment because those expressing a “transgender” identity were being discriminated against. In fact, the actual discrimination that the Court engaged in was against the reality of immutable biological sex distinctions. This case is likely headed to the Supreme Court.
Biden intel hostility and UN revision on Gaza deaths: The Biden administration has withheld from Israel intelligence on the location of senior Hamas officials in an effort to prevent the Israel Defense Forces from invading Rafah, the last holdout of Hamas. Of course, one of the primary driving forces for Israel in this war is the rescue of hostages (including five Americans), and senior Hamas officials would know their location. In fact, those officials are likely using many of those hostages as personal human shields. Joe Biden’s concern is purely political, as he recently stated, “I made it clear that … if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah.” The publicly expressed reason is a concern for protecting civilians, as Hamas apologists falsely accuse Israel of killing thousands of Palestinian civilians indiscriminately. Exposing the bogus nature of this narrative is the UN’s recent revision to the number of deaths of Palestinian women and children. The initially reported number of over 14,500 was halved to 7,797. But what are the reasons to believe that even the revised numbers are accurate? Even if they are, Hamas is notorious for using women and children as human shields.
Gaza protest roundup: Another Ivy League president, this time Cornell University President Martha Pollack, has announced her resignation after months of anti-Semitic protests have riled the campus. Pollack is now the third Ivy League president to resign since last year. Speaking of university anti-Semites, Jerry Seinfeld received an honorary degree and spoke at Duke University’s commencement on Sunday. Not only was the famous comedian booed by students when he took the stage, but several dozen graduates also walked out to protest his presence. Meanwhile, down in Florida, a group calling itself “Queers for Palestine” foolishly sought to block the interstate near Orlando. After stopping their vehicles on the roadway, they held out signs that read, “Free, Free Palestine” and “No business as usual during the genocide.” Their illegal protest didn’t last long; all were arrested within 11 minutes by the Florida Highway Patrol. In New York City, a 16-year-old was arrested over the weekend and charged with vandalism. He was caught on camera defacing a WWI monument honoring the 107th United States Infantry regiment. He spray-painted “Gaza” on the memorial. How about a one-way ticket to Gaza for these goons?
Target’s “Pride” collection was successfully targeted: Hey, we get results. Last year, in addition to selling Satan-friendly gear, Target targeted children with “Pride” clothes and — let’s face it — grotesque swimsuits that were “tuck-friendly.” Justifiable outrage ensued, as did the boycotts, which caused Target’s stock to plunge right along with its reduced earnings. We hated to see it. But it appears that Target has since gotten the message, at least grudgingly so. As National Review reports: “Target is cutting back on its LGBT Pride month collection following the consumer backlash to last summer’s assortment that sent its sales tumbling. The retailer will only be selling its LGBT merchandise in select stores after some locations faced boycotts for selling LGBT Pride items, including transgender-oriented bathing suits and children’s items designed by a brand that also sells Satanist-inspired merchandise.” So the company is strategically “curating” its Rainbow Mafia gear, but, as we said, only grudgingly so. The company will continue holding internal LGBT Pride events and joining Pride events in its home base of Minneapolis, as well as funneling money to left-wing LGBT activist organizations.
Gay male couple sues for IVF benefits: The idea that two men could sue an American city — New York City — for denying in vitro fertilization benefits to thousands of homosexual male city employees and their partners would be downright hilarious if it weren’t such an undeniable symbol of our nation’s decline. On the one hand, we couldn’t wish such a lawsuit on a more deserving city — a city that went 85-15 for Joe Biden in 2020. But on the other hand, don’t we have more important things to worry about? The class-action lawsuit, as The Washington Post reports, is the first of its kind, as it claims that “the city’s denial of IVF benefits constitutes discrimination against gay men.” The Post sympathetically continues: “Brooklyn-based couple Nicholas Maggipinto, 38, and Corey Briskin, 35, claim the city is discriminating against male same-sex couples and violating federal, state and local laws by denying them IVF insurance benefits that other city employees are able to access. ‘We were disheartened to say the least when we were told that we aren’t eligible for the IVF benefit because of the way the policy is phrased. We are entitled to equal treatment under the law,’ said Briskin.” If this suit is successful, the possibilities for “equal treatment” are endless. So let’s hope, for our nation’s sake, that this suit ultimately finds its way before a right-thinking judge.
Panama president vows to shut migrant route: While Mexico’s leftist president is using the migrant crisis to leverage his agenda against the U.S. down in Panama, a different story is playing out. Newly elected Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino vows to shut down illegal alien migration through his country. “Panama and our Darien [Gap] are not a transit route. It is our border,” Mulino said. This represents a significant policy change for the Central American nation, which previously helped migrants cross through. “Because when we start to deport people here in an immediate deportation plan, the interest for sneaking through Panama will decrease,” Mulino explained. “I assure you they are going to say that going through Panama is not attractive because they are deporting you.” This is welcome news for the U.S. and Panama.
Acne-mask teens exonerated on “blackface” charge: Leftists see racism wherever they look, even when they’re looking at zit-faced kids. In a story that sounds almost as outrageous as one about the little Native American Kansas City Chiefs fan who donned KC-colored warpaint during a Chiefs game only to be libeled by a mediocre Deadspin sports “writer” named Carron (pronounced Karen) Phillips, this story involves two teens who were accused of wearing blackface and then booted from their elite Catholic school in California. Only trouble is, it was a lie from the pits of hell. As it turns out, these two pimply-faced adolescents were simply wearing green acne masks. So, in addition to being race-obsessed, their accusers were also colorblind. As the New York Post reports: “The then-students at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View were just 14 when they took a photo during a sleepover in 2017 of them wearing the treatment in solidarity with a friend suffering from severe acne, their lawsuit said. The treatment, bought by one of the boys’ mom, was light green when applied and turned dark green once dry.” The happy ending is that the teens have been jointly awarded more than $1 million for their troubles.
Headlines
Michael Cohen stands to make or break Trump hush money case (The Hill)
Senator Bob Menendez corruption trial set to begin in New York (Roll Call)
Israel moves toward a full assault on Rafah despite increased pressure from the U.S. (Washington Times)
Biden administration plans to raise tariffs on electric vehicles from China (NBC News)
Coalition of 22 state AGs calls on Biden to reject treaty drastically expanding WHO authority (American Greatness)
Fentanyl pill seizures are skyrocketing, 115 million pills seized in 2023 (The Hill)
Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on U.S. orders, calls it a “Mexico First” policy (AP) | AMLO claims that criminal groups are “respectful” and “respect the citizenry” (AP) | Mexico’s cartels pick candidates, kill rivals (WaPo)
Putin to replace longtime Russian defense minister (Axios)
Humor: “Why would I get my wife a Mother’s Day gift, she’s not my mom,” says dead man (Babylon Bee)
It took long enough, but The New York Times is now paying at least cursory attention to those who claim to be suffering harm from the COVID vaccines.
Douglas Andrews
But the virus is worse.
That’s the intellectually lazy fallback response folks often get when they raise questions about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines.
But is it? Is the vaccine worse than the virus? Is the cure worse than the disease? For some, the answer is an unequivocal “Yes.” The National Institutes of Health tells us that COVID mRNA vaccine-induced myocarditis is a real thing, especially among men of an average age of 21, right around the peak of their athletic lives. So, a virus that feels like a common cold to otherwise healthy young people, or a heart attack. Is the former really worse than the latter?
The truth is that “the virus is worse” only applies to at-risk groups. COVID was never a mortal threat to healthy young people. And yet, our federal government pushed the vaccine on them. College students, in many cases, were forced to take the vaccine as a precondition for being on campus. And federal employees, including our nation’s warriors, were forced to take the vaccine under threat of being kicked out of the service. Yes, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin officially rescinded the vaccine mandate last January, but only after congressional Republicans forced his hand — too late for thousands of patriotic warriors who’d already been kicked out and forced to find new careers.
This question about the safety of the COVID vaccine is not an academic exercise. The Johnson & Johnson version of the vaccine has already been banned in the U.S., while the much more prevalent (and experimental) mRNA versions of the vaccine are still readily available and, indeed, being pushed to all of us. As The Daily Wire reported last February, the CDC now recommends “that children between six months and 15 months old receive a two-dose or three-dose primary series and booster; from 18 months to adulthood, children should likewise receive the primary series and boosters, according to the agency.” They’re talking about span-of-life coverage for the mRNA vaccine here.
We mention all this because of a recent New York Times article titled: “Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?” Here’s how the Times describes one vaccine victim:
Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Michelle Zimmerman felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips. Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts.
She was 37, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and until then could ride her bicycle 20 miles, teach a dance class and give a lecture on artificial intelligence, all in the same day. Now, more than three years later, she lives with her parents. Eventually diagnosed with brain damage, she cannot work, drive or even stand for long periods of time.
True, Zimmerman got the now-banned Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but what vaccine did Dr. Gregory Poland get? Poland is the editor-in-chief of — we kid you not — the journal Vaccine, and, in the Times’s paraphrase, he says that “a loud whooshing sound in his ears had accompanied every moment since his first shot, but that his entreaties to colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to explore the phenomenon, tinnitus, had led nowhere.”
The Times treads far more lightly on incidences of mRNA vaccine harm. Could there be a political or financial reason for this? It’s hard to say. But in any case, as for the Times’s newfound awareness of vaccine victimhood, after the legacy media had mostly sneered at cases of vaccine reluctance and questions of vaccine safety raised by everyday Americans, we can only say, as John McClane famously said in “Die Hard,” “Welcome to the party, pal.”
If we could take a trip down memory lane, we’d see New York Times headlines such as “Despite Outbreak Among Unvaccinated, Fox News Hosts Smear Shots”; “Inside the White House-Facebook Rift Over Vaccine Misinformation”; “Citing Misinformation, Florida Health Official Call for Halt to Covid Vaccines”; and “No, Athletes Are Not Dying from Covid-19 Vaccines.”
The issue is as urgent as ever, given that a massive global study of nearly 100 million people who’d gotten the COVID vaccine were found to have a higher-than-expected increase in neurological- and heart-related problems after getting the stick. As The Daily Wire reports: “The Global Vaccine Data Network’s COVID Vaccine Safety study, which was the largest safety research conducted on COVID vaccines to date, found a higher risk of myocarditis than was expected from mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna, Bloomberg reported. The study also found an increased risk of a type of blood clot in the brain in people who received viral-vector vaccines, such as the one developed by the University of Oxford and produced by AstraZeneca.”
It’s not just the Times, though. Remember CNN’s disgraced Chris Cuomo? Remember his nightly comedy schtick with his even-more-disgraced older brother, Andrew? And remember the nightly sneer-fests with Don Lemon? It turns out that Chris is now an Ivermectin fan.
“I am taking … a regular dose … of Ivermectin,” Cuomo now says. “Ivermectin was the bogeyman early on in COVID. That was wrong. We were given bad information about Ivermectin. The real question is, why?” He added, “The entire clinical community knew that Ivermectin couldn’t hurt you. They knew it. How do I know? Because now I am doing nothing but talking to these clinicians.”
I guess it’s time to welcome Chris to the party, too.
Nothing like confirming the truth a few years after the fact.
Nate Jackson
Score another way-too-late admission for the “fact-checkers.” First, Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation real and revealed Joe Biden’s corruption. Now, Ashley Biden’s diary was unproven all too real and revealed Joe Biden’s creepy perversion.
A couple of weeks ago, the crack team of sleuths at Snopes — the amateurs who couldn’t tell the difference between The Patriot Post and a now-defunct left-wing parody site with a deliberately misspelled similar name — quietly changed the rating of their December 2022 story about Ashley’s diary from “unproven” to “true.”
The update cites Ashley Biden’s April 2024 letter to a New York judge saying, “I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online.”
About that…
Project Veritas obtained the diary from a private party but, as our Thomas Gallatin said in 2021, “was unable to verify the diary’s authenticity, never published any of its contents, and turned it over to law enforcement.” The diary was leaked to another source that published it online in October 2020.
The diary received virtually no attention until the FBI raided the home of independent journalist and Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe in search of it. O’Keefe was ousted from Project Veritas last year. Just last month, in part thanks to Ashley’s letter, the thief was sentenced to a month in prison for stealing it. Her accomplice awaits sentencing.
The bigger story about the diary was that it contributed to the mountain of evidence that Joe Biden is not the decent guy 81 million* voters were deceived into believing in 2020.
In one particular excerpt from the diary, Ashley revealed some serious personal troubles. “I have always been boy crazy,” she wrote. “Hyper-sexualized @ a young age … I remember somewhat being sexualized with [a family member]; I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate).” She also detailed her struggles with drug addiction that resulted from all of this sexualization.
No wonder the FBI conducted that raid.
Snopes and other media outlets were arguably right to be skeptical in 2020 and 2021 until there was proof, though a 2021 FBI raid is pretty darn good proof. So was the 2022 guilty plea of the thief and the 2023 audio recording of Ashley admitting it. (Roughly the same could be said of Hunter’s laptop, which attracted a lot of FBI attention and legal action from the president’s son, who simultaneously denied it was actually his.) Instead, the Leftmedia’s fact-checking censors at Snopes waited a year and a half until Ashley herself admitted in a letter the diary was hers before quietly amending the story they waited more than two years to write in the first place.
Some of us knew Biden deserved every bit of that “Creepy Joe” moniker. The tragedy is that millions of Americans were not informed of these facts before casting their ballots for him, and that is gross dereliction of duty on the part of what should be a free press providing a check on people in power. Even now, when was the last time Biden was asked about his daughter or her diary?
Joe Biden likely at least behaved very inappropriately with his daughter, if not worse, contributing to her drug addiction. He exploited his drug-addled son to enrich his family. For years, he ignored his seventh grandchild because she was the product of Hunter’s infidelity. He was accused of sexual assault himself. And Jill Biden is propping up her husband in a sad episode of elder abuse.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is stuck in a courtroom as Democrat prosecutors and judges go after him for concocted felonies and phantom menaces. His true heinous crime, of course, was beating Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The military’s focus and emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion is having predictable results.
Brent Ramsey
In an earlier article, Patriot Post readers were introduced to DACODAI. In a nutshell, DACODAI is a secretary of defense-appointed committee that exists solely to promote the political ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the Department of Defense (DOD).
Thousands of military veterans from across the nation have testified eloquently that DEI is harmful to our military. DEI is the opposite of what our military’s focus should be. Our military must be based solely on merit-based accessions, assignments, and promotions. However, the DOD continues to promote DEI despite Congress, in the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act, calling for a halt to the advance of this ideology. For example, Congress placed a hiring freeze on DEI-related positions. Ignoring Congress’s intent to carefully study the impact of DEI on the Armed Forces, DACODAI continues to strongly promote DEI throughout the DOD.
This emphasis is harming readiness and recruiting. DEI is driving away the DOD’s number one demographic that has been the backbone of the military for many decades — white, southern conservatives. The services have now missed recruiting goals by more than 40,000. To compensate for the lack of personnel to fill out the ranks, quality standards for entry to the military are being lowered. For example, in the Navy, you no longer have to be a high school graduate to join. At a time when security threats are increasing around the world — in the Middle East, in the Pacific, and in Eastern Europe — it is an inopportune time to be pushing a radical racial ideology that weakens our Armed Forces when we need them the most.
DACODAI met again for a public hearing on May 2-3 in Washington, DC. Federal entities such as DACODAI must follow public law, and its meetings are supposed to be open to the public. Many members from a nationwide coalition of 16 organizations that advocate for returning merit to the military in recruiting, assignments, and promotions planned to attend this public hearing. The Patriot Post is a proud member of that coalition.
Unfortunately, due to “unforeseen circumstances” at the very last minute, the meeting was closed to the public, and all those who planned to attend in person had to cancel their flights and hotels and stay home. A limited number of 100 persons were permitted to watch the meeting via video conference, but no input or interaction from the public was allowed, not even through the chat feature. This limitation of public participation is not how it is supposed to work. Advisory committees established under public law have rules and guidelines that they are supposed to follow, including receiving public input in their deliberations.
At the very end of the second day of the meeting, the federal officer assigned to DACODAI announced that public statements had been received but would not be discussed. There was no public acknowledgment whatsoever regarding what experienced former members of the military, representing thousands of others, wanted to report to the committee. These statements urge DACODAI to take a serious look at the damage being done to morale, recruiting, and readiness from the mindless advocacy of DEI. Diversity, equity, and inclusion emphasizes the superficial, the color of one’s skin, over the critical, the actual skills and abilities of those who serve or want to serve.
Public statements by Stand Together Against Radicalism and Racism in the Services (STARRS) and 25 other organizations or individuals have now been posted to the DACODAI website and can be reviewed here. These statements are primarily from military groups with collectively thousands of members and vast experience in the Armed Services. The chairman announced that public statements were welcome and would be read by the committee, but this was a hollow promise. In effect, there was no public participation in this meeting whatsoever. For the previous meeting, statements were also submitted by many of these veterans groups, but no responses were made by DACODAI. It would be a surprise if this latest set of public input received any better treatment. DACODAI seems intent on promoting DEI to the max, and the facts about the negative impact are not analyzed or discussed and are completely ignored.
A complete summary of the DACODAI meeting and other events related to it, as well as the outrage of those who had planned to participate and express their views on the damage being done to the services, can be found in detail at the STARRS website. Let your voices be heard if you want our military to be merit-based. Lives depend on restoring merit. You can help. Call your congressional representatives and demand an end to DEI in our military.
The Lord knows who you are, where you are, and what you need — and He will move in His perfect timing.
Roger Helle
We flew out of Saigon, Vietnam, to Bangkok, Thailand. Nothing unusual was going on in Saigon, but when we arrived in Bangkok, the airport was full of armed Thai soldiers. That’s when we learned the much-anticipated war on Saddam Hussein and his Revolutionary Guard in Kuwait had begun.
It wasn’t a total shock — the buildup had been going on for months, with half a million U.S. troops deployed. When I got back to Iowa, that’s when it started. Protesters across the country began the “No blood for oil” chanting. Outside the State Capitol building in Des Moines, protesters, mostly students, wrapped themselves in black garbage bags, signifying the body bags everyone expected to be coming back home.
As a Vietnam combat veteran, my heart was heavy. Here we go again. All of the “Yellow Ribbons” and “Support Our Troops” signs were quickly forgotten, and insanity began to overwhelm reason. I prayed, “Lord, not again!” I didn’t want our warriors to endure what Vietnam veterans did.
Several weeks later, I was at a small gun shop in the “booming metropolis” of Huxley, Iowa. Even with a map (remember those?), it was hard to find. The store had not opened yet, and I noticed an event taking place in the town square. I walked over to where a dedication ceremony was taking place, with several veterans groups participating.
I noticed a family standing nearby, so I asked what was going on. A woman turned and said, “We’re dedicating this sign that has all the names of service members from our region who are deployed in Operation Desert Storm.” I said, “That’s great!” She then stated, “My son is there with the 101st Airborne Division.” I responded that they were a great unit and were deployed in Vietnam.
As I started to leave, I felt impressed to ask: “What is your son’s name? I want to pray for him until the Lord brings him safely home.” She gave me his name and introduced me to his wife, who was standing next to her, holding a small baby. I left and prayed for her son, Jarrod Vreeze, every day. The war was over, and I kept checking the news. Fortunately, Jarrod’s name never came up as a casualty.
Some weeks later, I was returning from speaking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Landing at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, I went to my gate and was told it was a very light flight to Des Moines. I boarded, laid my briefcase on my aisle seat, and went to the bathroom. When I came back, a man and a woman with a baby were seated in my row. I buckled in and told the husband I would move after takeoff.
He looked to be in the military, suntanned and very fit. He said he served in the 101st Airborne. I asked if he was returning from the Gulf War, and he said he was. I gave my normal response: “Welcome home! We prayed for all of you every day!” He thanked me, and we were both quiet.
As the plane rose, I asked if he lived in Des Moines. He said he lived north of Des Moines in Huxley. I got this feeling that this was a divine appointment. “What’s your first name?” I asked. “Jarrod,” he replied. “Vreeze,” I shot back. His eyes widened, and he asked, “How did you know?” I said, “Because I’ve been praying for you for several months now.” That’s when his wife said, “I thought you looked familiar!”
The Lord knew my burden for the men and women in the Gulf War. They were our sons and daughters. To show how much He cared, He put me right next to a fellow warrior to let Jarrod know God cared about him. Several days later, Jarrod’s mother called and asked, “God put you next to my son, didn’t He?” I replied, “Yes, ma’am, He did.” Jarrod had drifted away from God before joining the Army but sensed His protection over him during the war. Now, he knew God cared about him.
Maybe you’re looking around our nation right now and asking, “God, do You even care?” He is still on the throne! The Lord knows who you are, where you are, and what you need — and He will move in His perfect timing.
Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 93) — Joe Biden paused a previously authorized weapons shipment to Israel, our democratic ally, in order to appease supporters of the terrorist group Hamas.
Illegal Migrants Send Demands to City Leaders — Migrants in Denver submitted a list of 13 demands that they say the city must meet before they leave their packed encampment and head into shelters.
“On my watch, when we make promises, we keep them. And we leave no one behind.” —Joe Biden
Yellow Journalism
“With Schools in Ruins, Education in Gaza Will Be Hobbled for Years.” —The New York Times (So Hamas terrorist indoctrination has been “hobbled”…)
Who, Other Than Politico, Was Surprised by This?
“Pro-Palestinian protesters are backed by a surprising source: Biden’s biggest donors.” —Politico
A Trip Down Memory Lane
“The idea that we would cut off military aid to an ally [Israel] — our only true, true ally in the entire region — is absolutely preposterous. It’s just beyond my comprehension anyone would do that.” —Joe Biden in 2019
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
“What happened to the Joe Biden who exhibited moral clarity toward Israel? Did he shuffle off the stage in search of ice cream?” —Matthew Continetti
Vote Buying
“Even as President Joe Biden was delivering his perfunctory Holocaust Remembrance speech [last] week … the president was planning to stop the Jewish state from destroying modern-day Nazis. On Wednesday, Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett that if Israel invades the city of Rafah in Gaza … the U.S. would stop supplying Israel with offensive and precision weapons. This is a historic moment, as it is surely the first time a president has sold out a stalwart U.S. ally to save a terrorist organization.” —David Harsanyi
“Israel is on the verge of eliminating a global terrorist threat. That terrorist threat is holding American citizens hostages and is a threat to the United States around the world. But, to secure his reelection, Joe Biden would force Israel to pull its punches, preserve Hamas and allow a terror threat to continue. This is unacceptable.” —Erick Erickson
“The Biden administration stood with Israel until late February of 2024, when too many Michigan primary voters voted ‘uncommitted’ in the Democrat primary. Biden began to shift after that, convinced he could lose in November if he did not have the votes of Jew hating Democrats in swing states like Michigan.” —Erick Erickson
For the Record
“Not even former President Barack Obama, who had been chummy with black supremacists and other antisemites for decades before reaching the White House, cut off aid to Israel. Democrats continue to lurch toward the hard left.” —David Harsanyi
“Like [Chuck] Schumer and many others in power, [Bernie] Sanders is Jewish when it suits his purposes, but first and foremost, he’s loyal to the Marxist wing of the Democrat Party that’s vehemently anti-Israel.” —Brian Mark Weber
“Israel is not waging war in places like Rafah for fun. Israel is fighting Hamas because Israel was attacked on October 7 and because the terrorist organization poses an existential threat.” —Matthew Continetti
“Hamas started this war. Every innocent life, every unnecessary death is on them. Plain and simple.” —Senator Tim Scott (R-SC)
“The Israelis have shown more caution and regard for civilian casualties than the U.S. did in 1941-45 or has done since, or as any other nation has ever done.” —Michael Barone
Village Academics
“Common sense tells us that people who are treated badly often behave badly in return, which is why people are favorably impressed by those who rise above adversity. Common sense teaches also that virtue and vice are intermixed in every human heart, that no category of people — not a political party, not an ethnic group, not a religious sect, not a nation — has or can have a monopoly of behaving badly or admirably. That’s not the lesson being taught, it appears, in many of the nation’s public and private schools.” —Michael Barone
CNN panics over the latest polling numbers showing President Donald Trump leading in all but one battleground states.
Fake News Freakout! CNN is in full panic mode today after the latest release of battleground polling data by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
President Trump is leading in: Arizona by 6 points Georgia by 9 points Nevada by 13 points – “My goodness gracious!” Pennsylvania by 3 points Wisconsin by 1 point
The New York Times poll has Biden up in Michigan by 1 point for some reason.
CNN reporter Harry Enten called the latest swing state polling an “absolute disaster” for Joe Biden and the Democrat Marxists.
Harry Enton: Look, these Sunbelt battlegrounds say, frankly, for the Joe Biden campaign, these numbers are an absolute disaster. The smallest leaders are in Arizona. For Donald Trump, he’s up six. Look at this. Nine in Georgia, 13 in Nevada! My goodness gracious.My God! that is a huge lead! No Democrat has lost that state since John Kerry lost it back in 2004. How about these Great Lake battleground states? This is something that the Joe Biden campaign can work with. Look, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump up three, but that’s well within the margin of error. Wisconsin, Donald Trump up one. Well within the margin of error. And actually a Joe Biden lead, well within the margin of error. Up a point here. This they can work with the Joe Biden campaign. This the Donald Trump campaign absolutely loves. And it looks like a lot of the other polling out of the Sunbelt battle.
CNN then pretends that Trump is losing white voters to Marxist Democrats – complete nonsense!
Harry Enton: So this is among likely voters in all these battleground states we just spoke about. Back in 2020, 84% of the Trump campaigns of the Trump coalition was white. Look where it is. Now it’s 78%. The nonwhite portion of the Trump coalition, it was 13% in 2020. Look at this. Now it’s 19%. So the Trump coalition is becoming more diverse. And of course, those sunbelt battleground states are more diverse than the Great Lake battleground states.
U.S. — As former President Donald Trump continued to build a sizeable lead in a majority of swing states, the latest polls suggest President Joe Biden would need twice as many fake ballots to win the election this year.
The startling poll results presented the Biden campaign with a sobering reminder that the standard number of fake ballots used in previous election years needed to be increased significantly for him to win again in November.
“We’ve got to double our target number of fake votes this year,” said a Biden campaign insider under the condition of anonymity. “In previous years, we could just coast by with the standard quota of shenanigans, but this year, we’ve got to increase our production of hijinx and substantially raise the output of malarky.”
The polls also led White House insiders to express concern that there may not even be enough dead people casting votes to overcome the deficit. “We need more dead voters,” another insider said. “We’ve always done a good job of turning out the dead vote, but this year it will be even more crucial to get as many deceased people to the polls as possible.”
Democrat ballot production centers across the country have reportedly already been notified to ramp up production to have any chance of meeting the demand in November.
At publishing time, the Biden campaign was rumored to be in negotiations with foreign countries for permission to use large quantities of the dead voters they use to rig their elections.
Want proof that Jesus was a woke socialist? Look no further than these classic quotes straight from the Bible.
In our most recent podcast, Brian and I discuss our favorite debates. My debate picks include:
1. James Crossley vs. William Lane Craig – Was Jesus Raised from the Dead? (2012) – Highlights Craig’s case for the resurrection based on postmortem appearances – Contrasting styles of young Crossley vs distinguished Craig
2. Jeffrey Lowder vs. Frank Turek – What Better Explains Reality: Naturalism or Theism? (2016) – Appreciates Lowder’s formal case for naturalism reminiscent of Craig – Admires the cordiality and clash of Lowder’s logic vs Turek’s rhetoric
3. Christopher Hitchens vs. William Lane Craig – The “prizefight” lead-up and spectacle surrounding this legendary debate – Contrasts Craig’s arguments vs Hitchens’ emotional appeals
4. Braxton Hunter vs. Matt Dillahunty (2019) – Hunter exposes issues in Dillahunty’s epistemology – Effectively argues for Kalam cosmological argument and argument from free will
5. Craig vs Francisco Ayala – Is Intelligent Design Viable? (2013) – Craig debates an award-winning evolutionary scientist – Craig has to think on his feet against unfamiliar arguments from Ayala
6. Chris Date vs. Dale Tuggy – Is Jesus Human and Not Divine? – High-level, rich, respectful debate between able defenders of their positions – Highlights Date’s ancient bird imagery argument for Christ’s deity
7. Paul Draper vs. William Lane Craig – Craig debates a formidable philosophical adversary – Interesting to see Craig on his heels against some unfamiliar arguments
– Dr. Clark engaged in bizarre antics like throwing books, demanding miracles and challenging the audience to drink anti-freeze to demonstrate their faith – One of the most cringeworthy debates they’ve seen
It looks like Joe Biden’s betrayal of Israel is worse than we thought. According to a new report, Joe Biden has been withholding intelligence from Israel regarding the whereabouts of Hamas leaders and their underground command tunnels.
Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in five key battleground states expected to go a long way in determining this year’s race for the White House, according to new polls byThe New York Times
The war in Ukraine has just moved to an entirely new level, but most Americans do not even realize that we are closer to “nuclear Armageddon” than ever. Very early on the morning of May 10th, Russian forces began to pour across Ukraine’s border north of Kharkiv. In the short-term this will enable the Russians to create a buffer zone around the Belgorod region and force Ukraine to pull desperately needed forces away from the eastern front. But eventually I believe that the Russians fully intend to take Kharkiv, and that would be an absolutely devastating blow. Needless to say, losing Ukraine’s second largest city is not an option for Ukraine’s western backers, and they are determined to do whatever it takes to keep that from happening.
It would be hard to overstate the importance of what we just witnessed. Russian forces have come across the border in an area that is far away from any other current conflict zone. UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron says that Russia has basically “invaded [Ukraine] again”…
A Ukrainian regional official insisted Russia’s progress was not yet “significant” but admitted ground fighting in the area was spreading. Meanwhile, speaking on British television, UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron acknowledged it was an “extremely dangerous moment,” adding that Russia had effectively “invaded [Ukraine] again.”
He is right.
This move by Russia really is essentially a fresh “invasion”, and it represents the most dramatic offensive that the Russians have undertaken since the early days of the war.
According to CBS News, the Russians were able to capture five villages on Saturday and four more on Sunday…
Evacuation teams worked non-stop throughout the day to take residents, most of whom were elderly, out of harm’s way.
At least 4,000 civilians have fled the Kharkiv region since Friday, when Moscow’s forces launched the operation, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said in a social media statement. Heavy fighting raged Sunday along the northeast front line, where Russian forces attacked 27 settlements in the past 24 hours, he said.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that its forces had captured four villages, in addition to five villages reported to have been seized the day before.
It is being estimated that the Russians are in control of about 100 square kilometers in the border area, and this advance is going to force Ukrainian leaders to transfer forces from other areas…
Russian Federation forces have penetrated the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from 3 to 5 km in Kharkov region, with a control zone in the border area to 110 square kilometers.
This will have a ripple effect in all the 600-mile-long frontline. As soon as Ukrainian top General Syrsky begins to transfer units to the northern regions of Kharkov and Sumy, the front in Donetsk will fold, and Chasov Yar, Kurakhovo and Krasnoarmeysk are expected to instantly collapse.
Ukrainian Armed Forces in fact have withdrawn some of the units of the 42nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade from the front near Chasov Yar and are hastily transferring troops north.
Of course the Ukrainians don’t have enough soldiers anywhere at this stage.
The Russians have been steadily gaining ground all over the map in recent weeks, and over the weekend significant gains were made near Chasiv Yar and Krasnohorivka…
It is not just in Ukraine’s north that Kyiv’s armed forces are losing ground.
DeepStateMap also shows Russia making further gains in two other key areas, most notably towards the town of Chasiv Yar, which has become an important forward military position, and further south in the industrial town of Krasnohorivka, where Russian troops are now in control of the town’s main facility, a brick factory.
Ukraine is clearly losing the war, and western leaders are getting desperate.
When asked about the new Russian offensive near Kharkiv, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Face the Nation that we “are not going anywhere”…
“We’ve been providing the systems to do that, but it’s a challenging moment. We are not going anywhere, and neither are more than some 50 countries that are supporting Ukraine. That will continue and if [Russian President Vladimir] Putin thinks he can outlast Ukraine, outlast its supporters. He’s wrong.”
The U.S. is going to continue to pour billions of dollars into Ukraine, but everyone can see that isn’t going to be enough to alter the trajectory of the conflict.
The only way that Ukraine will be able to win is for NATO to intervene directly, and that is dangerously close to becoming a reality.
There is a proposal to use NATO air defense systems deployed on the eastern borders of the Alliance to protect the western regions of Ukraine from Russian drones. In particular, Poland and Romania could do this.
This idea is supported by representatives of some German political parties, including the ruling Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Union 90/Greens.
According to the newspaper, the idea of using NATO air defense systems deployed in Romania and Poland and operated by NATO forces to shoot down Russian drones over Western Ukraine was proposed by Nico Lange, an expert at the Munich Security Council (MSC) and former NATO Deputy Secretary General, and was suggested by Lieutenant General Horst Heinrich Braus.
According to Lange, this would create a 70-kilometer safe zone on the Ukrainian border. This could relieve Ukrainian air defense forces in other parts of the front.
It is also being reported that the Germans are now considering conscripting all 18-year-olds…
Germany is considering introducing conscription for all 18-year-olds, as it looks to boost its troop numbers in the face of Russian military aggression.
Military planners in Berlin are in the final stages of discussing three options, two of which involve a form of conscription, according to leaked plans reported in the German media.
I was stunned when I saw that.
I don’t think that young people in Germany will be too thrilled about being forced to go into the military.
But this is where we are at.
NATO really is on the brink of a hot war with Russia.
Speaking of NATO, the largest military exercises that the alliance has organized since the Cold War are being conducted right now…
State-of-the-art attack helicopters today swooped in a show of force against Vladimir Putin for NATO’s biggest military exercise since the Cold War.
British and US troops performed a land assault in Estonia, amid the threat posed by the Kremlin. They were supported by two of our Apache AH-64E attack helicopters, making their debut in an alliance exercise.
Explosions rang out during the exercise, with troops simulating a battlefield scenario of seizing territory. Over two years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the wargame took place under Exercise Swift Response.
During the early stages of 2024, there has been a lot of chatter about the possibility of western troops being sent to Ukraine.
If that happens, that will put us just one step away from nuclear war.
What would you do if you were the president of the United States and you just learned that the Russians have launched their nukes?
Once the president learns from his nuclear command and control team that he must act, he has only six minutes to respond. To “respond” means responding with our own nuclear weapons. President Ronald Reagan lamented in his memoir that six minutes is an irrational amount of time to “decide whether to release Armageddon! …Six minutes to decide how to respond to a blip on a radar scope…How could anyone apply reason at a time like that?”
Yet, the president must respond anyway. In this six-minute window, the president must decide how many nuclear weapons to use and which targets to strike—while also being briefed on estimates of how many tens of thousands, or millions of people, would be instantly incinerated, with an almost equal number dying days, weeks, and months later from radiation poisoning. All this to consider under a literal ticking clock.
If the Russians launch missiles from ultra-quiet submarines parked just off our shores, the nukes will start hitting before they can even get the president out of bed.
It is imperative that we avoid such a scenario, and that is why I have been pushing for a peaceful solution in Ukraine for a long time.
Unfortunately, no peaceful solution is even being considered.
Leaders on both sides are absolutely obsessed with “winning” this war, and that means that “nuclear Armageddon” is getting closer with each passing day.
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Kari Lakes explains how Democrats are going to steal illegal alien votes in the 2024 election.
Popular Arizona Senate Candidate Kari Lake joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning.
During their discussion, Kari described how Joe Biden’s open border crisis is endangering every American. Kari pointed out that border ranchers are seeing 8-9 illegal alien “gotaways” every day on their land. These same ranchers saw 8-9 “gotaways” a year when Trump was in office!
Kari Lake shares the story of an Arizona rancher near the US/Mexico border:
Under Biden, he’s seeing 8-9 gotaway illegal aliens on his property every DAY.
Under Trump, he’d see maybe 8-9 gotaway illegal aliens on his property every YEAR.pic.twitter.com/5tprbKwWWL
Kari Lake then pivoted and described how Democrats are already stealing votes in the 2024 election.
Maria Bartiromo: As we report all the time, hundreds of people were already apprehended who were on the terrorist watchlist. Do you believe one of the motivations here is to get illegals, foreigners, to vote for the Democrats?
Kari Lake: Oh, absolutely. A 1,000%! Otherwise, they would be working hard to get the Save Act through, which will prevent that. Instead, in every state around the country, you’re seeing Democrats fight tooth and nail any piece of legislation which will prevent illegals from voting, which will solidify and codify that already existent law.
What they want, Maria, we’re not going to see all these people pouring across the border showing up at polling places. What they What they want is to have a line in the voters’ rolls so that somebody can vote for that person. That’s why they’re asking them to register to vote when they get set up for Medicare and Medicaid, because they’re giving them all of these services. They’re asking them to sign up to vote. Then they have a line in the voter roll, and somebody will vote under that name.
Kari is exactly right. Democrats are signing up illegals at the border – sharing their registrations with leftist groups – and these groups are ready to make sure someone votes for them in 2024.
This is totally illegal and will likely destroy this country. But it is effective and Democrats lust for power above all else.
The S&P 500 could fall around 500 points in a swift correction,Stifel
strategists warned.
The investment firm said falling inflation was a “pipe dream,” and Fed rate cuts could be delayed.
Markets see just one or two rate cuts by the end of the year, per the CME FedWatch tool.
The S&P 500 could be on the verge of a sharp move down, as inflation isn’t cooling much further from here, according to Stifel analysts.
In a note, the investment firm predicted the S&P 500 would fall to 4,750 in the second or third quarter of this year. That implies around a 10% decline from the benchmark index’s current levels at around 5,222 on Monday.
Inflation will likely remain stubbornly high, the strategists predicted, as the economy is coming out of what they described as a “pseudo-recession” that took place from early 2022 and lasted through the middle of 2023. That accounted for the bulk of the disinflation seen to date, and economic activity has since revved up.
“We have been wary of a broad S&P 500 correction in the middle quarters of 2024. While most strategists were expecting a recession last year or eagerly attempting to call the start of one in the next year, we have been of the view that the ~5 quarters 1Q22 to 2Q23 were a ‘pseudo-recession’ and the Fed has already harvested all the normal post-recession disinflation we would expect,” the firm wrote.
Inflation still remains well above the Fed’s 2% target. Consumer prices grew3.5% year-per-year in March, the third straight month of hotter-than-expected inflation.
Elevated prices could be attributed to a still-hot economy, which is stoking price growth, strategists said.Hiring activity, for instance, remains robust, which can stoke wage growth and therefore raise inflation.
“As a result, the sustained 2% Core PCE inflation the Feed seeks is a pipe dream. With rates normalized and the mid-2024 pop in Core PCE to just over 3% that our models indicate we expect Fed rate cuts to be pushed back further, causing a middle quarters correction for equities,” strategists added.
Markets have already dialed back theiroutlook for Fed rate cutsthis year, which drove a sell-of in stocks in April. Fed officials have said they’re looking for more evidence that inflation is falling back to its 2% price target, and investors are now just expecting one or two rate cuts by the end of the year, according to theCME FedWatch tool, compared to six at the start of 2024.
Traders are waiting for April inflation data to roll out this week, but central bankers are largely expected to keep interest rates at their current levels. Markets have priced in a 96% chance rates will be kept level at the Fed’s next policy meeting, and a 75% chance rates will stay the same all summer.
In an unusual move, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced coffee prices will no longer be factored into the CPI inflation data.
This is another way for the US government to fudge the inflation numbers to help Joe Biden in the middle of a presidential election.
The overwhelming majority of Americans consume coffee every day. According to Drive Research, 73% of Americans drink coffee every day.
This week’s April CPI inflation report will NOT include coffee price inflation.
Coffee prices are exploding which explains why the Biden Regime doesn’t want it factored into the inflation data in the middle of a presidential election.
Inflation is on the rise again this year thanks to Joe Biden’s tax-and-spend policies.
Consumer prices rose 0.4% in February – less energy and food prices. Grocery prices are up 30+%. Gas prices are soaring.
“Since September 2023, coffee prices are up a MASSIVE 78%.” the Kobeissi Letter, a blog on capital markets said.
This is unusual:
The US BLS has announced that coffee prices will no longer be factored into CPI inflation data.
In fact, the April 2024 CPI inflation report this week will be the first to NOT include coffee price inflation.
During his “My Take,” Monday, “Varney & Co.” host Stuart Varney discussed Donald Trump’s big beach rally in historically deep-blue New Jersey, arguing the media “ignored and denigrated” the event because it showed “enthusiastic” support for the 45th president.
STUART VARNEY:New Jersey is a deep blue state. Trust me on this, I live there.
conflict will be decided on the battlefield if that is the wish of the US and its allies, Acting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
The veteran diplomat was speaking to members of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament as part of the process of his reappointment after a government reshuffle. The assessment he offered is that Western nations have no desire for a negotiated end to the hostilities.
“That’s their right. If they want it to be on the battlefield, they will have it on the battlefield,”the senior diplomat said.
Lavrov reiterated that Moscow was prepared to secure its objectives in the conflict through diplomatic means, but can do so through military action, too.
In the first weeks of the hostilities, which started in February 2022, Moscow was prepared to show goodwill“despite multiple previous deceptions by the West”and to sign a peace agreement that was quite beneficial for Kiev, he reminded lawmakers. The Ukrainian government then scrapped the pre-approved document, Lavrov noted.
“They cheated us again, forced us to fight on,”he told lawmakers.
Western nations claim that Ukraine is a victim of“unprovoked”aggression by Russia and have vowed to arm it, as many of its leaders have put it,“for as long as it takes”to defeat its neighbor. Moscow perceives the conflict as a US-initiated proxy war on Russia, in which Ukrainian soldiers serve as“cannon fodder.”Russian officials have argued that NATO’s growing presence in Ukraine and Kiev’s discriminatory policies against ethnic Russians had forced Moscow’s hand.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed Lavrov’s candidacy for foreign minister, after his inauguration last week resulted in a law-mandated resignation of the national government. Under the Russian Constitution, the head of state picks the prime minister for the parliament’s consideration, and after his approval selects ministers responsible for security and foreign policy, while the newly-appointed PM chooses the rest of the cabinet.
The biggest change was Putin’s decision to appoint acting Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu as secretary of the security council. Acting First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov, a civilian official with a record of supervising economic reforms, is set to take the defense-ministry portfolio in the new government.
Ashley Biden, under the leering eye of daddy, Joe Biden, poses for a photo at a much earlier time.
In a letter dated April 8, 2024, addressed to Chief Judge Swain of New York, Ashley Biden, daughter of U.S. President Joe Biden, confirmed the authenticity of her previously ‘stolen’ diary.
The diary, which has sparked considerable public and media attention due to Joe Biden’s perverted acts, became a subject of controversy when excerpts were leaked online.
Ashley Biden’s letter, obtained by the New York Times, was submitted as part of a judicial proceeding against Aimee Harris, one of the individuals convicted of ‘stealing’ and selling her personal journal.
In her correspondence, Ashely Biden expressed profound distress over the theft and subsequent public dissemination of her private thoughts, which she described as “stream-of-consciousness” musings meant for personal healing.
She defended the content of her diary, saying it was “grossly misinterpreted” and “lob false accusations that defame my character and those of the people I love.”
I am deeply saddened that I even have to write this letter because my personal private journal was stolen and sold for profit. The point of the theft, I assume, was to be able to peddle grotesque lies by distorting my stream-of-consciousness thoughts. The reason I have decided to not attend tomorrow’s sentencing in person is because it would only increase my pain. Nonetheless, I write to ask Your Honor to sentence the defendant to time in prison.
The defendant’s actions constitute one of the most heinous forms of bullying, not to mention a complete violation of my privacy and personal dignity. After being the victim of a crime in my early twenties, I developed PTSD. The journal that was stolen was part of my efforts to heal. I am a private citizen, targeted only because my father happened to be running to be President. In other words, the extensive work I have done to move past my trauma was undone by Ms. Harris’s actions. The defendant’s actions have created a constant environment of anxiety, fear, and intimidation in which my innermost thoughts are constantly distorted and manipulated.
Although this criminal act happened more than three years ago, because of the publicity it drew-exactly as Ms. Harris intended—I am constantly re-traumatized by it. I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online. Repeatedly, I hear others grossly misinterpret my once-private writings and lob false accusations that defame my character and those of the people I love. Her actions were not only re-traumatizing to me, but constituted a horrific trauma in and of themselves. This ongoing harm is a direct result of Ms. Harris’s intentional actions.
I ask Your Honor to sentence Ms. Harris to time in prison followed by lengthy probation. She should be held accountable for what she has done. Not only did she demonstrate a complete lack of morality, but she lacks any respect for the rule of law as well. Among other things, she has failed to appear in court 12 times.
My goal in asking Your Honor to impose a term of incarceration is to ensure that another woman isn’t bullied and shamed like this ever again. The despair I have often felt will never truly go away.
But I ask Your Honor to hold Ms. Harris accountable so that she thinks twice before doing it to someone else. I have spent much of my life trying to speak up for those who cannot find their voices. I am fortunate enough to have found mine, and I use it today—and every day—to make sure that bullies are held accountable.
Finally, I worry that a non-incarceratory sentence will send a message to her and to others like her-that it is okay to violate and exploit others for your own personal gain, regardless of the humiliation and pain it causes. Please send a message that these types of damaging criminal actions will not be tolerated. I thank Your Honor for your consideration.
It can be recalled that Aimee Harris, 41, was sentenced by Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to prison last month, followed by a period of home confinement for her role in the alleged theft and distribution of a diary belonging to Ashley Biden.
Aimee Harris, 39, found Ashley Biden’s diary at a halfway house in Palm Beach in 2020 and sold it to Project Veritas for $40,000. According to the Daily Mail, Ashely Biden, Joe Biden’s youngest daughter, left her diary under a mattress at the Palm Beach rehab home.
As previously reported by The Gateway Pundit, Ashley Biden, Joe Biden’s youngest daughter, left her diary under a mattress at the Palm Beach rehab home following a stay at a treatment facility. Two individuals who found Ashley Biden’s diary at a halfway house later sold the diary to James O’Keefe and Project Veritas.
In a January 2019 entry, Ashley Biden recalled how she used to shower with her father, Joe Biden, and suggested it may have contributed to a sex addiction.
The diary describes Ashley and her father, Joe Biden, taking showers together at an inappropriate age.
“I have always been boy crazy,’ Ashley wrote. ‘Hyper-sexualized @ a young age … I remember somewhat being sexualized with [a family member]; I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate),’ she wrote in a January 2019 entry, according to the Daily Mail.
James O’Keefe was later the victim of a late-night FBI raid and was arrested by the Biden regime.
US District Judge Analisa Torres, an Obama appointee, said Project Veritas’s First Amendment claims were “inconsistent with Supreme Court precedent.”
The judge also said of Project Veritas 1A claim: ‘O’Keefe, Veritas couldn’t claim it was protecting identity of confidential source from disclosure after two individuals publicly pleaded guilty.’
In 2022, Aimee Harris and co-defendant Robert Kurlanderwho, who found Ashley Biden’s diary at a halfway house, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property.
Despite Harris’s personal plea and her defense attorney’s appeal for leniency based on her traumatic past and responsibilities as a mother, the prosecution highlighted Harris’s pattern of disrespect for the law.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Sobelman claimed that Harris’s actions were not only unlawful but were intended to harm the Biden family and influence the political landscape.
Chief US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain described the act of selling the diary as “despicable,” highlighting the privacy invasion and the potential political motivations behind the sale.
Harris was ordered to serve a one-month prison sentence, pay a $20,000 fine, and undergo three years of probation.
Harris is set to begin serving her prison term in July, while Kurlander’s sentencing is pending.
Iranian lawmaker Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani claimed on Friday that Iran possesses nuclear weapons, despite the country’s formal policy under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). This statement came shortly after the UN’s atomic watchdog highlighted Iran’s capacity to produce multiple nuclear bombs, Fox News reported.
Speaking to Rouydad 24, a local media outlet, Ardestani contradicted the official line that Iran adheres to the JCPOA, which aims to prevent the nation from developing nuclear arms in exchange for economic sanctions relief.
“In my opinion, we have achieved nuclear weapons, but we do not announce it. It means our policy is to possess nuclear bombs, but our declared policy is currently within the framework of the JCPOA,” Ardestani said.
This controversial declaration follows a warning by Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who recently stated that Iran has enriched enough uranium for several nuclear bombs.
The international community, particularly the United States and Israel, has expressed grave concerns over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, with the U.S. withdrawing from the JCPOA in 2018 under President Donald Trump’s administration.
Conservative media exploded after it was revealed Barack Obama’s former Secretary of State, John Kerry, has been secretly meeting with Iranian officials to salvage Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Ardestani, who was re-elected to Iran’s quasi-parliament in March, added, “The reason is that when countries want to confront others, their capabilities must be compatible, and Iran’s compatibility with America and Israel means that Iran must have nuclear weapons,”
The Iranian parliament member noted, “In a climate where Russia has attacked Ukraine and Israel has attacked Gaza, and Iran is a staunch supporter of the Resistance Front, it is natural for the containment system to require that Iran possess nuclear bombs. However, whether Iran declares it is another matter.” Fox News Digital sent press queries to Iran’s Foreign Ministry in Tehran and its U.N. mission in New York.
Experts on Iran’s illegal nuclear weapons program warned about the seemingly speculative comments made by Ardestani. Jason Brodsky, the policy director of the U.S.-brd United Against a Nuclear Iran, told Fox News Digital that “Ardestani is only a member of parliament, and he’s not in the inner core of the regime’s nuclear decision-making circle, so while his comments are interesting, I think they have to be weighed properly given his access and standing.”
Just two days before Ardestani’s announcement, the president of the Iranian Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, Kamal Kharrazi, told Al-Jazeera Network Qatar, “I announced two years ago, in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV, that Iran had the absorptive capacity and the capability to produce a nuclear bomb. Iran still has that capability, but we have not made the decision to produce a nuclear bomb. However, if the Iranian interests are threatened in this manner, we may change this doctrine. The military officials in Iran have announced that if our nuclear facilities would be attacked, we may change our military doctrine, with regard to the nuclear facilities.” The U.S.-brd Middle East Media Institute (MEMRI) translated and published Kharrazi’s May 8 interview.
Brodsky said,“Kharrazi’s comments are part of an increasingly loud chorus of threats from Iranian officials that they will change Iran’s nuclear doctrine if Israel attacks them. The current advanced state of Iran’s nuclear program provides it with the luxury to make these threats as it hopes to deter Western policymakers from launching pressure campaigns on Tehran.”
Critics of the Biden administration’s Iran policy argue the White House strategy of de-escalation and containment targeting Iran’s atomic program has backfired. Iran’s regime – the world’s worst state-sponsor of international terrorism – is moving at an astonishingly fast pace to secure an operational nuclear weapon.
Today’s 20-min top headline news brief from NEWSMAX includes:
(Guest-hosted this week by Kay Smythe)
[1:29] -Biden ‘lies-per-minute’ calculated by Eric Bolling’s ‘Joe-nocchio’ counter. [Eric Bolling The Balance]
[7:33] -Donald Trump: “Biden is a fool, he’s not a smart man and never was.” [Newsmax Breaking]
[11:19] -Former acting AG Matthew Whitaker: Evidence is not proving the case vs. Trump. [Saturday Report]
[16:53] -Newsmax’s Lidia Curanaj: This week, our nation sunk to a new low. [Sunday Agenda]
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