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The Gateway Pundit’s Kristinn Taylor reported anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) daughter Isra Hirsi was suspended from her inordinately expensive college after being arrested during a pro-Hamas protest at Columbia University last Thursday. Now, she’s homeless and hungry despite having a wealthy Democrat politician for a mother.

The 21-year-old Hirsi is a student at Barnard College, which costs $90,000 per year to attend. She calls herself an “angry black girl” with a communist hammer and sickle symbol in her X/Twitter profile.’

Hirsi revealed during an interview with Teen Vogue that she has no place to sleep or stay after being evicted from Barnard campus housing and barred from using the dining hall.

“I was a little bit frantic, like, where am I going to sleep? Where am I gonna go?” complained Hirsi. “And also, all of my sh*t is thrown in a random lot. It’s pretty horrible.”

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently appointed Zakiya Carr Johnson as the State Department’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.

Her mission, according to Blinken, was to help build a workforce that reflects America.

Given that Blinken has previously promoted a politically correct agenda, for example, suggesting that employees avoid gendered terms such as manpower and mother, this comes as no surprise. Blinken justified this diversity effort in terms of national security, saying, “We will continue to pursue this mission aggressively, because recruiting, nurturing, and promoting the most capable workforce possible is critical to our national security.”

Since Blinken knew of Johnson’s earlier State Department service, he further added, “previous work promoting entrepreneurship and access to opportunity for underrepresented populations, as well as her commitment to inclusive leadership make us stronger, smarter, and more innovative.”

Yet, despite the Secretary’s heartfelt endorsement, critics condemned Johnson’s openly anti-American, anti-white statements.

She called America a “failed historic model” and demanded the destruction of tradition “at every juncture” on the altar of antiracism“ and “we live and work within systems… deeply rooted in patriarchy and colonialism and racism and otherism.” She also considers herself a feminist but with a racial twist who “embraces a ‘feminist’ leadership style, but one that “counter[s] White-centered feminism trends and narratives.”

Predictably, white supremacy was singled out for special ire, “We cannot have equity without dismantling structural racism, patriarchy and heterosexism … It will start with movements … that compel us to ask … uncomfortable questions. What does inclusion mean for example, if White supremacy remains intact?”

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New York, NY; On Friday, the Biden Education Department released a new Title IX regulation to tell schools how to handle sex discrimination claims, including allegations of sexual misconduct. It was delayed multiple times since public comments opposed its gutting of due process and its redefinition of the word “sex.”

“The National Association of Scholars (NAS) denounces Biden’s Title IX rule as a due process disaster and the promotion of fringe sexual politics,” said NAS Policy Director Teresa R. Manning. “Where Title IX was slowly improving, it has now taken two steps back. Due process ought to be a prerequisite of these internal investigations which have outsized consequences on students’ lives.”

Congress designed Title IX to remove impediments to women entering colleges and universities by protecting women from sex-based discrimination in higher education. NAS’s report, Dear Colleague: The Weaponization of Title IX, found that campus Title IX officers often overreached their mandates, supported by informal rules issued by the Obama and Biden administrations. These staff, who are expected to adjudicate claims of sexual misconduct and discrimination, typically represent disciplines hostile to men with no experience being fair and impartial.

The new Biden rule increases the power of campus Title IX administrators and reduces due process by allowing the “Single Investigator Model,” also called “the individual meeting method,” to resolve disputes while removing the requirement for a formal, live hearing at the college level. It also redefines “sex” to include same-sex orientation and gender ideology such that those opposed to gender ideology, transsexualism, and demanded pronouns can now be treated as violating Title IX.

“Campus activists dressed up as judge, jury, and executioner have a proven record of railroading accused students, resulting in hundreds of lawsuits against such campus kangaroo courts,” added Manning. “Incredibly, Biden’s Rule gives these bureaucrats more power and less accountability by replacing a formal hearing with ‘individual meetings.’ This reduces transparency and formality where it is needed most.”

Manning continued: “What’s more, the rule promotes fringe sexual politics by giving preferential treatment to gender ideology and those of same-sex attraction. Congress never intended Title IX to become a weapon of leftwing sexual politics. But that’s what the Biden Administration is making it.”

NAS calls on Congress to reject the Rule with its power under the Congressional Review Act. NAS also encourages state Attorneys General to sue the Education Department for this gross administrative overreach.

“Redefining ‘sex’ and gutting Due Process are matters of fundamental policy to be determined by the United States Congress, not the administrative state run amok,” concluded Manning. “NAS hopes state Attorneys General will step up and take the Biden Title IX Rule to court, stopping it well before it is scheduled to take effect on August 1.”
 

NAS is a network of scholars and citizens united by a commitment to academic freedom, disinterested scholarship, and excellence in American higher education. Membership in NAS is open to all who share a commitment to these broad principles. NAS publishes a journal and has state and regional affiliates. Visit NAS at www.nas.org.

WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND
P.O. BOX 870
SALISBURY, MARYLAND 21803-0870
410-548-4696
FAX: 410-548-7872

WICOMICO COUNTY COUNCIL
John T. Cannon, President/At-Large
Jeff Merritt, Vice-President/District #2 Josh Hastings, District #4
James Winn, At-Large Joe Holloway, District #5
Shanie Shields, District #1 Laura Hurley, Council Administrator
Shane T. Baker, District #3
April 23, 2024
Julie Giordano
County Executive
125 N. Division Street
P.O. Box 870
Salisbury, MD 21801

Dear County Executive Giordano:

We write to you to express our concern over the Safari at the Quarry event scheduled to take place on May 4 and May 5. This matter has repeatedly been brought to the attention of the County Council during public comments, as well as by repeated written communications received over the last several weeks. During Council comments individual members of the Council have expressed concern about the nature of the event as well as the fact that the event was not publicly discussed prior to the County Executive entering into the Memorandum of Understanding (herein “MOU”) with the event organizer.

The Council is now aware that the event organizer is in breach of the MOU in numerous ways and accordingly, the majority of the Council request that you immediately notify Live Wire Media, Inc. that the event is terminated as permitted under the Termination provision contained in the MOU. The breach of the MOU includes, but may not be limited to, failing to obtain all licenses, permits and governmental approvals needed, placing the event course outside the property identified in the MOU, and failing to properly inform neighboring property owners of the scheduled event.

The County Council is now aware that the City of Salisbury has sent a letter to you stating the event violates City zoning. While the Council has been aware that the property is zoned residential under City zoning and under certain circumstances county owned property may be exempt from City zoning, that exemption requires that the intended use be for a public purpose. Under the terms of the MOU, the event organizer had the sole responsibility to obtain necessary City approval to hold this event, and it is clear that the event organizer failed to act in accordance with the MOU and obtain the necessary approval from the City of Salisbury.

Pursuant to the terms of the MOU, the event organizer and the County agreed that the event would beheld on 111.58 acres of the Connelly Mill Road property. Parcels 169 and 167 total exactly 111.58 acres; however, the event organizer has posted a map of the event course which shows that a substantial portion of the event is scheduled to take place on Parcel 167. As such Live Wire Media,
LLC has breached the MOU.

It has been apparent for some weeks that Live Wire Media, LLC did not properly “inform neighboring property owners of the May 4 and 5 event as required by the MOU. This breach has created serious problems for Wicomico County and resulted in the neighboring property owners repeatedly contacting the County Executive and the County Council to determine the plans for the event and to express concerns about the impact on their properties. This breach compounds the problem created by your office when you did not inform the Council about the MOU and intentionally made the
term of the MOU 364 days to avoid the legal requirement for Council approval of any agreement with a term of more than one year.

In light of the clear and repeated breaches of the MOU by Live Wire Media, LLC, the County Council believes it is imperative that the County Executive terminate this MOU immediately. We would point out that the termination provision permits the County to terminate the MOU by written ten (10) notice to Live Wire Media, LLC. Accordingly, the written termination must be sent out by close of business today.

Sincerely,
WICOMJCO COUNTY, MARYLAND

cc: Wicomico County Council
Paul Wilber, Esq.
Live Wire Media, LLC

White House calls protests ‘blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable and dangerous’

The White House condemned “in the strongest terms” the ongoing anti-Israel protests at colleges across the U.S., including at Columbia University in New York City, on Sunday, saying they have no place anywhere in the U.S.

“While every American has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable and dangerous – they have absolutely no place on any college campus or anywhere in the United States of America,” White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said. “And echoing the rhetoric of terrorist organizations, especially in the wake of the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, is despicable. We condemn these statements in the strongest terms.”

Anti-Israel agitators occupied the university’s south lawn for hours on Wednesday while the school’s president, Minouche Shafik, testified before congress about the antisemitism on Columbia’s campus.

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As it stands, liberal Arizona voting laws have paved the way for non-citizens, whether they are legal or not, to register for and cast a ballot in the 2024 presidential election.

The Gateway Pundit spoke to retired U.S. Air Force master sergeant Nick Kupper, who is one of several state legislature candidates vying for a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives’ District 25. While the voting laws do not affect his run for office, he is gravely concerned about the upcoming presidential race.

“In Arizona,” Kupper said, “even if the state can’t verify whether you’re a citizen, people can still assert that they are citizens.” While these individuals are not allowed to vote in Arizona elections, they can still vote in the federal election. “They can still vote for the president,” he explained.

In an April 16 post on X, Kupper pointed out that “In 2020 Biden got 73% of the federal only votes & Trump lost AZ by 10K votes. There are now over 32K federal only voters in AZ which would give Biden 15K more votes than Trump in 2024.”

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For the past few weeks, we’ve heard news reports of avian flu being transmitted from birds to cattle. That narrative shifted recently to say it’s actually cattle that are spreading the disease to poultry. Now, USDA scientists are weighing their options which include an avian flu vaccine for cows.

As has been demonstrated time and again in recent decades, most so-called “vaccines” injected into livestock and poultry end up having a detrimental effect. This is why many all-natural food companies, including Prepper All-Naturals, fight against injections and work only with farmers and ranchers who are not required to jab their animals with dangerous experimental vaccines.

“This avian flu is unprecedented but aligns perfectly with the desires of the powers-that-be to control the food supply,” said Jason Nelson, co-founder of Prepper All-Naturals. “The steady grind of attacks against the beef industry is indicative of the authoritarian times in which we live.”

According to the University of Minnesota, avian flu vaccines may be coming to a steak near you in the future:

In updates to its frequently-asked-question backgrounder on the H5N1 avian flu situation in dairy cows yesterday, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) provided several updates on the investigation and response, including that its Agricultural Research Service has started to assess the potential to develop an H5N1 vaccine for cows.

The agency added that it’s difficult to say how long development might take, because there are still questions about transmission to cattle and characteristics of infection in cows. APHIS said manufacturers have expressed interest in producing vaccines for both poultry and cows.

“We will continue to engage with these developers to better understand their vaccine development, the efficacy of potential vaccines, as well as the cost of development and production,” it said.

Food inflation in general and skyrocketing meat costs in particular have prompted many Americans to start stocking up on long-term storage food. Freeze-dried foods for “preppers” are becoming scarce as companies struggle to keep up with the spike in demand.

“We’re producing as much Ribeye, NY Strip, and other cuts as fast as we can,” Nelson said. “Thankfully it has a 25-year shelf life so we have the luxury of being allowed to over-produce, mitigating the risk of having products sitting too long on shelves.”

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  • Several studies published between 2022 and 2024 underscore the health risks posed by 5G technology
  • Research contradicts the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection guidelines, demonstrating various harmful biological effects of radiofrequency radiation (RFR) on humans and the environment, including potential cancer risk
  • Studies reveal 5G’s potential to induce neurological damage and psychiatric problems, highlighting its effects on brain development, including the increased risk of conditions like dementia through mechanisms such as the impairment of neurosin
  • A December 2023 study illustrates the detrimental effects of 5G RFR on rat sperm, showing decreased sperm count and quality, with melatonin offering a protective effect
  • February 2024 research indicates significant changes in the fecal microbiome and metabolome profiles in mice exposed to 5G RFR, hinting at broader implications for health, including mental well-being and immune function

(Mercola)—Over the past decade, I’ve written many articles discussing the evidence of biological harm from nonionizing electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation and radiofrequency radiation (RFR) from wireless technologies.

The video above features an interview I did with Siim Land in February 2020 for his Body Mind Empowerment podcast in which I discuss EMF — what it is, your greatest sources of exposure, how it affects your biology, and how to minimize your exposure. I also review how the telecommunications industry manipulates the truth to keep you unaware of the potential hazards.

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The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society. From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared. If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. And in fact, without being used for any such purpose, but by a sort of automatic process — by producing wealth which it was sometimes impossible not to distribute — the machine did raise the living standards of the average human being very greatly over a period of about fifty years at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.

But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction — indeed, in some sense was the destruction — of a hierarchical society. In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared. If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste.

But in practice such a society could not long remain stable.

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.

In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

To return to the agricultural past, as some thinkers about the beginning of the twentieth century dreamed of doing, was not a practicable solution. It conflicted with the tendency towards mechanization which had become quasi-instinctive throughout almost the whole world, and moreover, any country which remained industrially backward was helpless in a military sense and was bound to be dominated, directly or indirectly, by its more advanced rivals.

Nor was it a satisfactory solution to keep the masses in poverty by restricting the output of goods. This happened to a great extent during the final phase of capitalism, roughly between 1920 and 1940.

The economy of many countries was allowed to stagnate, land went out of cultivation, capital equipment was not added to, great blocks of the population were prevented from working and kept half alive by State charity. But this, too, entailed military weakness, and since the privations it inflicted were obviously unnecessary, it made opposition inevitable.

The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.

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An ex-Mormon-turned-YouTuber is sharing why so many members of her former church look alike.

Alyssa Grenfell, 31, left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah to start a new life in New York City in 2017. Since then, she has been detailing the church’s inner workings on YouTube — including the rules she had to follow, like not having coffee.

In a recent minute-long video, Grenfell said she noticed on social media that many were curious why members of the Mormon Church tend to have a physical resemblance — in other words, “why certain people look Mormon.”

Grenfell pointed out that Ryan Gosling, 43, was born Mormon, noting in her video caption that “he has Mormon face.”

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The weaponization of the rule of law has reached a point beyond repair in New York State, with the ongoing trial being waged by District Attorney Alvin Bragg against President Donald Trump.  Even at this late hour, the State has failed to prove 1) how President Trump falsified business records; 2) how the alleged falsification of the business records scheme was criminal; and 3) why that alleged crime should be prosecuted as a felony, rather than a misdemeanor, which is the typical charge for falsification schemes under New York State Law.

Given that President Trump’s alleged wrongdoing is being treated as criminal misconduct, the burden of proof is for the State to prove that Donald Trump is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for every single element of the asserted crime.  The legal burden of proof of “beyond a reasonable doubt” means that the prosecution must convince the jury that “there is no other reasonable explanation that can come from the evidence presented at trial.”  That incredibly high evidentiary threshold must be established for every single element of the crime alleged. What is more, criminal trials require unanimity on part of the jury; a hung jury will result in a mistrial, ultimately pushing the case back until after the November election, which is not what Bragg wants.

Obviously, the goal of Alvin Bragg and Letitia James is to prosecute – and put President Trump behind bars – as soon as possible (before election day ideally) to sabotage his chances of winning re-election.  President Trump’s re-election appears increasingly like a foregone conclusion with the latest polls consistently putting him in a significant lead over Joe Biden.

President Trump is currently being tried under New York Penal Law 175.05.  The law ordinarily makes it a misdemeanornot a felony, to falsify business records with “intent to defraud.”  The law permits, however, the District Attorney to upgrade what ordinarily would be considered a misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the intent to defraud is combined with an intent to commit another crime.

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Former AG Bill Barr told the FOX News audience on Wednesday that he is going to vote for President Trump in the 2024 election.

Bill Barr said there were two bad choices and he will vote Republican – That the continuation of the Biden agenda is “national suicide.”

Bill Barr: ‘The real threat to liberty, the real threat to our system of liberty are the excesses of the progressive left.  They’re perverting the system of justice and that’s where the danger lies.  The corruption and subversion of our institutions by the left…  I said all along, given two bad choices I think it’s my duty to pick the person who I think will do the least harm to the country. In my mind I will vote the Republican ticket. I think the real danger to the country and real danger to democracy is I say the progressive agenda… Continuation of the Biden agenda is national suicide.”

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Joe Biden delivered a stern warning to Israeli leaders on Wednesday, “Don’t move on Haifa!”

Haifa is the third largest city in ISRAEL!

Potato brain has no idea what he’s talking about. The man is lost.

JOE BIDEN: “I made it clear to the Israelis — don’t move on Haifa!”

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Joe Biden’s America.

An illegal alien from Haiti was arrested in New York for allegedly killing his Haitian roommates on April 1st.

Kenol Baptiste was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter, according to Middletown Police Department.

The two victims had been stabbed several times. One victim died at the scene while the second victim died at the hospital during surgery.

FIRST ON FOX: A Haitian migrant now accused of killing two roommates in New York was paroled into the U.S. after booking an appointment on the controversial CBP One app — which has been expanded by the Biden administration to allow tens of thousands of migrants to enter the U.S. each month.

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Senior skip day has been a long-standing tradition in high school for years. It is supposed to be a fun day for students.

This day involved a shooting at Hanover Parkway in Maryland, where hundreds of students were gathered on Friday. Five people were shot, one person was reported to be in critical condition while four others were stable.

The shots were reported around 2:30 PM according to Greenbelt Police Chief Rick Bowers.

Five people were shot in Greenbelt, Maryland, during a high school senior skip day party at a park, police said in a Friday evening press conference.

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Yet another Black Lives Matter activist has been convicted of defrauding donors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In a press release on Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio confirmed that Sir Maejor Page, 35, of Toledo, was convicted wire fraud and three counts of money laundering following a six-day trial.

The release stated:

According to court documents and testimony, in 2016, Page created a Facebook page for “Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta” (“BLMGA”) and registered this organization as a domestic non-profit with the Georgia Secretary of State Corporation’s Division. In 2017, the IRS approved Page’s request granting BLMGA tax-exempt status under Section 503(c)(3) of the tax code, but dissolved this status in 2019.

Page nonetheless accepted donations after falsely portraying BLMGA to the public as a legitimate charity engaged in social justice work, when in fact, it was not. Instead, Page used the money that individual donors gave to BLMGA not for social justice causes, but rather to buy items for his own personal use, such as a house and furniture. Page also committed money-laundering crimes when he bought these items with the donations that he fraudulently obtained.

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Joe Biden’s green energy plans just took another hit as three large New York offshore wind projects were scrapped Friday after the state was unable to reach “final agreements” with General Electric despite the fact that the three proposed developments had received provisional awards in October 2023.

NYSERDA, the state authority in charge of the deals, announced Friday that no final agreements could be reached with the three projects that received provisional awards in October 2023. Those bids were all linked to major supply chain investments by General Electric and a larger turbine it planned to build that was aimed at boosting the region’s renewable energy portfolio.

The news is not good for Joe Biden:

[The cancellation is] a major hit to the industry in the state and the nation.

The decision is another setback to New York’s aspirations to achieve 70 percent renewable energy by 2030 and be a hub for the nascent industry in the United States. It will also be another challenge for President Joe Biden’s already likely out-of-reach 30 gigawatt goal for offshore wind by 2030.

NYSERDA issued a complicated and wordy statement that basically just seemed to say, things got real complicated:

“Subsequent to the provisional award announcement, material modifications to projects bid into New York’s third offshore wind solicitation caused technical and commercial complexities between provisional awardees and their partners, resulting in the provisionally awarded parties’ inability to come to terms,” NYSERDA wrote in an announcement.

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After winning a significant legal battle against her former employer for wrongful termination, a former elementary school teacher in Henry County, Georgia, is setting her sights on a new goal: a seat on the school board. Sheri Mimbs was fired from Cotton Indian Elementary School in 2017 for refusing to give passing grades even if students had not earned them.

Her six-year battle against the school resulted in her winning a six-figure settlement from her former employer. Mimbs is now seeking to affect change by securing a school board seat.

She says back in 2017 an assistant principal wrote a note to her telling her not to give students grades less than 60, even if they didn’t turn in any work.

“I went to the assistant principal and she was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You need to change those grades. Kids can’t have less than a 60,’” Mimbs described.

Mimbs says after she complained, her contract wasn’t renewed. She sued and won.

“I knew I was being retaliated against,” she said.

The jury ordered the district to pay her six figures in monetary damages for retaliation. It has to pay her attorney’s fees and most importantly it had to reverse her non-renewal. She says that non-renewal was keeping her from getting teaching jobs.

Now after the court victory, Mimbs hopes to get a victory at the polls.

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Report comes amid concerns about CCP’s influence, human rights violations…

American universities have entered more than $2.3 billion in contracts with China in the past decade amid on-going concerns about the influence of its communist government on U.S. higher education, a new investigation found.

These contracts included agricultural research regarding orange crops, trainings for airline pilots, and medical trials for a tumor treatment drug developed by a Chinese pharmaceutical company, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The investigation uncovered approximately 2,900 contracts from 2012 and 2024 between Chinese businesses and about 200 U.S. public colleges and universities in all 50 states.

Some involved specialized training, such as $37 million in contracts between Chinese airlines and the University of North Dakota to train and license pilots.

Another $1.8 million in contracts with China’s Institute of Navel Orange at Gannan Normal University and the University of Florida involved researching tree genetics and diseases affecting citrus fruit, according to the investigation.

But others were less specific.

For example, “all three of China’s major government-owned oil companies have funded contracts for $100,000 or more at the University of Texas at Austin, which the school describes only as ‘research activity,’” the investigation found.

The report continued:

Some of the biggest-value China contracts feature franchise-type arrangements for overseas satellite campuses. New York University, which the Education Department database shows has been the largest single recipient of Chinese funding, reported two contracts totaling over $46.5 million for 2021 alone for its Shanghai branch.

The Juilliard School has disclosed over $133 million in such funding over more than a decade for its Tianjin Juilliard School near Beijing, appointed with some 120 Steinway pianos.

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In an era where video cameras are ubiquitous — on stoplights, doorbells, cars, and seemingly everywhere else — when something weird happens and there’s no video of it, it smells bad.

This holds especially true when it involves law enforcement who are supposed to be equipped with body cams.

Something stinks down in Arkansas. GOP Senators Tom Cotton and John Boozman, both representing Arkansas, are calling for an investigation after learning that some Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents who were executing a search warrant were not wearing their body cameras, according to KARK-TV.

“The senators say this is a violation of ATF and Justice Department policy,” according to the report.

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The Manhattan trial of Donald Trump begins in earnest this week, but the verdict is already in: prosecutors and the judge are guilty of election interference.

I know that’s true because The New York Times said so.

Well, the Gray Lady didn’t put it exactly that way, but a Friday headline hinted at the injustice by declaring: “Trump on Trial vs. Biden on the Trail: An Unusual 2024 Stretch Begins.”

Calling the situation “Unusual” is one way to describe the fact that the incumbent is free to use Air Force One to hit the swing states while the challenger is effectively strapped to a chair during a ginned-up criminal trial.

Among other and better word choices The Times could have used are “outrageous” and “corrupt.”

Those get to the heart of Democrats’ effort to rig the election in Biden’s favor by weaponizing law enforcement and the courts.

The aim is any or all of the following: tie Trump down, dirty him up, bankrupt him and lock him up.

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An 18-year-old woman was killed in a shooting on campus at Delaware State University early Sunday morning, police said.

The woman, who was not a student, was found with a gunshot wound by campus police outside of a dormitory at 1:40 a.m., The Delaware State University Student Government Association said in a statement obtained by Delaware Online.

She was transported to Bayhealth Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.

No information has been released by law enforcement agencies.

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The House of Representatives on Saturday passed what could be landmark legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States unless its parent company agrees to sell the video-sharing app to a U.S.-based company. Some have taken this development as a sign that it is “inevitable” that the bill will become the law of the land.

The proposed legislation, which has its share of proponents and detractors, is aimed at preventing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from covertly accessing the data of Americans using the app. If it becomes law, it could become a pivotal moment related to government involvement in digital communication.

The ban was tied to the vote on a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and has gotten comparatively little attention.

The TikTok bill passed by a vote of 360 to 58…

Roughly 150 million Americans are on TikTok and there have been growing fears among lawmakers about what influence its Chinese Communist owners have on the company.

The app has become quite controversial over recent years. Many of its users promoted Osama Bin Laden and spread pro-Hamas propaganda on the social media platform.

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) told reporters that the legislation “represents a bipartisan breakthrough against the CCP’s most powerful tool of information warfare against the United States” and vowed that Congress would not “stand by idly while the CCP freely weaponizes TikTok to corrupt the minds of young Americans, radicalize Americans against their own country, and amplify antisemitism on a scale and at a pace not seen in human history.”

Critics and supporters both present compelling arguments for and against the measures. RedState’s Ben Kew supports the ban, arguing that “Pulling back from a clamp down on Tiktok would be a major mistake” because the app “is an arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and poses a genuine threat to national security through its ability to spy and collect data on the unsuspecting.”

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IRS workers charged with stealing to buy luxury goods, fancy cars, travel

Often the Joe Biden administration has claimed that COVID-19 attacked families and workers through no fault of their own, and what was needed was its progressive spending agenda, specifically helping “people of color, immigrants, and low-wage workers.”

In reality, however, Biden’s spending, “billions and counting – has gone to unrelated causes and the administration’s COVID relief program continues to fleece American taxpayers,” according to a report from government watchdog Judicial Watch.

So far some 3,500 defendants have been charged and civil settlements involving 400 disputes have resulted in judgments of more than $100 million, the report said.

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You know that Joe Biden is struggling when you see all the steps they have to take to promote him.

I wrote earlier about how he (or the person running his account on X) posted a video of various Kennedy family members endorsing him. That just made it clear how scared and worried Biden has to be about Robert F. Kennedy Jr taking Democratic votes away from him.

But they also put out another ad for Biden that’s getting a lot of mocking and it’s easy to see why.

They have a steelworker try to tell us how he “knows hard work when he sees it,” that when he met Joe Biden he was “as sharp as a knife” Maybe a butter knife. But not anything that can cut through things and get anything done. And as for “hard work,” does the steelworker know how many vacation days Biden has taken and what his schedule generally looks like?  It’s a horrible ad when it ends up making you laugh at their candidate even more.

Our friends over at Twitchy posted about the fun they had at Fox with the ad as well as Biden’s inability to close a box and confusion over ordering a milkshake at a Wawa.

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President Biden and others claim that President Trump incited the Capitol Riot, falsely described as an  “insurrection,” on January 6, 2021.  This belief explains Colorado’s failed attempt to remove Trump’s name from the ballot because he is an “insurrectionist,” as well as a national YouGov poll that found that 54% of Americans approved of the Colorado action.  It is now used as a justification for Biden to refuse to debate Trump.  This claim remains a serious problem — not only for Trump, but for obtaining an accurate history of what happened on January 6.

A rational evaluation of Trump’s words and actions, and other factors, demonstrates that this claim is nonsense.

If Trump wanted a riot, why would he repeatedly request National Guard troops for January 6?  On January 3, 2021, President Trump asked Secretary of Defense Miller and General Milley to assign National Guard troops to counter violence on January 6.  Miller responded, “We’ve got a plan and we’ve got it covered.”

Troops could be legally provided only if requested by law enforcement.  The Capitol Police declined the Defense Department’s offer of troops.

The Secret Service, the Marshals Service, Park Police, and the Department of Homeland Security informed Defense “that they did not anticipate needing DoD assistance on January 6th.”

The District of Columbia requested 340 troops, primarily for crowd control at Metro stations and intersections.

On January 5, Trump asked Secretary Miller for 10000 troops “to do what’s required to protect the American people.”

Thus, by January 5, President Trump had not only twice requested national guard troops, but had been assured that the Department of Defense had “a plan and we’ve got it covered.”

A 1969 executive order authorized Secretary Miller to order the District of Columbia National Guard to aid civil authorities under the president’s direction.  Trump‘s prior communications effectively “green-lighted” National Guard deployment in response to subsequent Capitol Police requests.  No further communication was necessary.

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When Dexter Reed died in a shootout with Chicago police on March 21, the incident was quickly grafted onto a narrative that began in 2014 after a policeman killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. – namely, that the U.S. faces an epidemic of violence by unbridled cops who do not believe black lives matter. “Killing of Dexter Reed raises questions about Chicago police reform. ‘The message is, go in guns blazing,’” blared a headline in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Reed’s death joins a long list of police shootings that have received wide media coverage and political scrutiny – especially those involving African Americans. Over the years, many police departments embraced reforms, including the use of bodycams, to document incidents – an effort bolstered by a public eager to use smartphones to record the behavior of cops. In 2015, the Washington Post created a database logging every person shot dead by police in the U.S.

The belief was that this attention would make all law enforcement officers, especially the bad ones, think twice before pulling the trigger, and significantly reduce the number of shootings – which stood at 994 the year Brown was shot.

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Tucker Carlson said congressmen are “terrified” that intelligence agencies will frame them with “kiddie porn” if they openly oppose “warrantless spying” on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” released Friday.

Carlson told podcast host Joe Rogan that U.S. lawmakers “told” him that they are “worried” about being punished by intelligence agencies if they oppose reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

“People don’t say that because they’re worried about being punished. They’re worried about someone putting kiddie porn on their computer. Members of Congress are terrified of the intel agencies. I’m not guessing at that. They’ve told me that — including people on the intel committee, including people who run the intel committee,” Carlson said.

“The people whose job it is to oversee and keep in line these enormous, secretive agencies whose budgets we can’t even know — their ‘black budgets,’” Carlson continued, raising his hands into air-quotes. “They’re the parents, the agencies are the children. They’re afraid of the agencies. That’s not compatible with democracy.”

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A judge on Monday smacked down Marxist tyrant Letitia James and ruled in favor of Trump in a fight over a $175 million bond.

On Friday, Letitia James asked a judge to void Trump’s $175 million bond that he posted to appeal the civil fraud case

Letitia James argued that California-based Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC) is not approved to do business in New York.

James also questioned whether KSIC has the funds to back up the $175 million bond Trump previously posted.

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The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released a daunting prediction of the global cancer burden. It estimates more than 35 million new cancer cases in 2050 — a 77% increase from the estimated 20 million cancer cases that occurred in 2022.1

While WHO named an aging population as a key driver behind the increasing cancer burden, along with tobacco, alcohol, obesity and exposure to air pollution, what they’re ignoring is the concerning trend of turbo cancers that occur shortly after COVID-19 shots.

Cancer Cases Set to Increase Significantly by 2050

The IARC cancer burden estimates are based on the “best sources of data available in [185] countries in 2022.”2 That year, there were an estimated 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million deaths, with WHO reporting, “About 1 in 5 people develop cancer in their lifetime, approximately 1 in 9 men and 1 in 12 women die from the disease.”3

About two-thirds of the new cancer cases and deaths were caused by 10 types of cancer. Lung cancer was most common, followed by female breast cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer and stomach cancer. When broken down by sex, breast cancer was the most commonly diagnosed — and the leading cause of cancer death — among women. For men, it was lung cancer.

Lung cancer and colorectal cancer accounted for the second and third most diagnosed types and cause of most deaths among women. However, for men, prostate and colorectal cancers were second and third most common, while liver and colorectal cancer caused the second and third most cancer deaths.4

There were also disparities revealed based on human development index (HDI), a statistical tool that assesses three dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge (schooling) and a decent standard of living. According to WHO:5

“In terms of the absolute burden, high HDI countries are expected to experience the greatest absolute increase in incidence, with an additional 4.8 million new cases predicted in 2050 compared with 2022 estimates. Yet the proportional increase in incidence is most striking in low HDI countries (142% increase) and in medium HDI countries (99%). Likewise, cancer mortality in these countries is projected to almost double in 2050.”

What’s Driving Up Cancer Rates?

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Why the U.S. government regards Christian conservatives as enemies

“There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense. The Washington establishment, and the financial and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.”

That was Donald J. Trump speaking the most forbidden truth of all, just days before the historic November 2016 election that, to the dismay of the “Washington establishment,” made the brash billionaire outsider America’s 45th president.

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Stakeholder Communism

Bridge uplighting, branded beach umbrellas and standardized Boardwalk signage are just some of the ideas being explored within Ocean City’s tourism department.

On Tuesday, Tourism and Business Development Director Tom Perlozzo presented the Ocean City Tourism Commission with a handful of ideas aimed at promoting the town and its offerings. He said the ideas ranged from uplighting on the Route 50 and Route 90 bridges and standardizing the town’s Boardwalk signs to Winterfest improvements and modified events.

“These are all brainstorming ideas,” he said. “They have not been funded, there’s no right or wrong, but we’re just trying to think out of the box.”

Perlozzo told commission members this week one idea being discussed is uplighting on both the north and south bridges. He said a proposal from a lighting company set a cost estimate between $300,000 and $5 million.

“I think it will make a giant impact,” he said.

Another idea, he said, would be to purchase marsh matting, which would be placed in front of the Caroline Street stage. He said the matting would provide an alternative location for events.

“We have talked about how we could get some of these events off the Inlet parking lot and use some space that’s not really used for sunbathing and put it in front of the Caroline Street stage,” he said, “getting 30,000 to 50,000 square feet of marsh matting and having it up from the spring to the fall.”

Perlozzo said the proposed project would also align with planned improvements at the Caroline Street building.

“We approved $650,000 in the CIP this year and it’s really going to go toward the restoration of the building,” he said. “But we do need to look at the stage. We need a larger stage if we want to use it properly. It can be portable, it can fold down. There’s a lot of things we want to look at as we go forward.”

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National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher has been thoroughly exposed as a radical in recent days as one of NPR’s veteran editors—Uri Berliner—actually told the truth and revealed that the taxpayer-sponsored “news organization” is hopelessly biased toward the progressive viewpoint. For this transgression, he was promptly suspended; he said thank you but take a hike, I’m resigning.

The highly publicized back-and-forth led inquiring minds to take a closer look at Maher’s past, and what they found out is that she’s a radical extremist who thinks the leftist narrative is more important than the actual truth and that those who don’t stick to said narrative should be silenced in the name of “progress.” She has her right to these opinions—but she doesn’t have the right to use our taxpayer money to foist them on the American public.

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the famous TV commercials where entrepreneur Victor Kiam would come on the screen and say, “I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company [Remington].” Elon Musk took a similar approach; he values free speech so highly that he shelled out $44 billion in 2022 to buy social media platform Twitter (now X), in part to fight rampant big-tech censorship. He promptly canned 80 percent of the company’s workforce, reinstated accounts that had been banned, and completely overhauled the company’s free speech policies.

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On April 19, 1775, seventy-eight-year-old Captain Samuel Whittemore crouched behind a stone wall next to his home. Whittemore’s old fingers tightly gripped his musket and his pistol. A sword hung from his belt. A phalanx of Redcoats looted homes as they retreated back to Boston. The senior Patriot, who had resisted tyranny and the rule of the Crown for years, planned to fight to the death to defend his home.

When the British troops approached, he blasted away, slaying two Redcoats and wounding or killing a third with his sword. The Redcoats then unleashed their fury on Whittemore, shooting him in the face with a .69 caliber ball, taking off part of his cheekbone, and bayoneting him six times. To finish the job, they bludgeoned him with the butts of their muskets, shouting, “We have killed the old rebel!” Whittemore lay in a pool of his own blood. His hat and clothes “were shot through in many places.”

Miraculously, the old Patriot stubbornly refused to die. Brushing off the flesh wounds, he would live to the ripe old age of ninety-six. This week marks the anniversary of Whittemore’s epic stand and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, farmers, tradesmen, laborers, and mariners–Americans of all stripes–came together to defend themselves against the most professional army in the world. April 19, 1775, marked the beginning of an epic journey for a band of brothers who risked EVERYTHING for a nation yet to be born. Over the course of nearly eight years, many of these Americans marched thousands of miles, often shoeless, unpaid, and starving, to fight for freedom and liberties most Americans today take for granted. Their resolute stand matters in light of multiple current events and relentless threats to American liberty.

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The House Oversight Committee held a hearing on China on Wednesday.

But things went off the rails when Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) tried to use his time to bash former President Donald Trump to deflect from questions being raised about Joe Biden and his family’s dealings with China. Raskin then claimed the impeachment inquiry against Biden had been dropped when Comer interrupted him to say that wasn’t true.

Comer remained calm throughout Raskin’s loss. He asked Raskin if the bank statement was “Russian disinformation” and if you could discount the testimony of witness Tony Bobulinski.

Then Raskin tried to deflect to Trump again. That’s when Comer smoked him, saying they had an obsession about Russia and Trump, “You need therapy. You all need therapy, Mr. Raskin.”

That really set Raskin off. “You need therapy! You’re involved with the deranged politician.” Has he looked at Joe Biden lately while he’s talking about derangement? Your guy is confusing Haifa and Rafah and telling Israel “not to move” on their own cities while telling tall tales about his uncle and cannibals.

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A wild shootout at an Atlanta gas station with one gunman appearing to wield an AK-47 was caught on camera, with three bystanders left injured.

The gunfight broke out on Tuesday just after 8.20pm at a Circle K gas station in Decatur between at least four men, with bullets flying across the forecourt.

Three innocent bystanders were caught in the crossfire. Two of the men, aged 32 and 44, were hospitalized with their injuries, and a third was grazed by a bullet.

One of the victims, Atif Ray, was shot twice while sitting in his car texting, he told WSBTV: ‘I was looking down at my phone. But I know what it sounds like. That’s the world we live in. It’s scary.’

Police arrested Darius Morris, 34, and he was charged with three counts of aggravated assault – they are still searching for the other suspects.

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The 2024 election feels very different than the 2020 election and we see examples of changing attitudes every day.

Addison Smith of Newsmax recently spoke to a black voter in Philadelphia, a famously blue city, who explained why the country needs to reelect Trump in 2024.

Trump is making huge gains with minority voters in this election cycle and this voter does a great job of explaining why this is happening. No one has confidence in Joe Biden’s ability to lead the country.

Smith also spoke with a guy who broke it down in terms that would resonate with everyone on Thursday in Philadelphia. He pointed out how they were having the event there for Biden and that there were a lot of Americans “struggling,” but Biden was helping illegal aliens, “When are you going to help American people?” he asked.

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Sportscaster Stephen Smith has been lighting up the Democrats over how they have been dealing with former President Donald Trump, and he’s blasting the lawfare that has been employed against him.

My colleague Bob Hoge reported on some of it already.

But Smith wasn’t done yet. He appeared on Sean Hannity’s show on Thursday.

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81 million votes.

Joe Biden this week said a child gave him the middle finger: “It happens all the time.”

“You — I’ve never thought I’d see a time when I’m going through a — a neighborhood or a rural town that’s in the west and see big signs that s- — have a Trump sign in the middle that says “F Biden” and having a little kid standing with his middle finger — seven years old, eight years old,” Biden said in Scranton, Pennsylvania this week.

“Well, I promise, it happens all the time,” Biden added.

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Appearing on election lawyer Marc Elias’ podcast “Democracy Docket” in an episode that dropped Friday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton whined about her 2016 election loss and hurled baseless charges against former President Donald Trump, accusing him of wanting to be like Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and murder his enemies.

Even for the divisive former First Lady, this was pretty obnoxious stuff.

A fawning Elias welcomed the “true American hero” who has “been right about everything” to his podcast, and promptly asserted that 2016 was rigged and it was the Russians who handed Trump the presidency. Guess he hasn’t heard of the Mueller Report, which proved no such thing. In fact, the infamous Steele Dossier, which Hillary’s campaign financed, has been thoroughly debunked and is basically hot garbage.

But when Hillary got on the subject of Trump and his potential second term, a screw seemed to come loose:

Putin does what [Trump] would like to do. Kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists into exile, rule without any check or balance.

That’s what Trump really wants.

There, she said it. She flat-out alleged her former opponent and the presumptive ’24 GOP nominee for the presidency is a wannabe murderer. This is truly sick stuff. Ironically, earlier in the podcast, she had been praising Joe Biden for not using inflammatory rhetoric against his opponents, a ridiculous lie given that Biden routinely demonizes half the country, those he sneeringly calls “the MAGA crowd.”

Watch (I’ve cued it about to the 35-minute mark where her Putin remarks begin). [My question: why can’t the multimillionaire former United States Secretary of State afford better lighting? Just have to ask.]

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Joe Biden seems to be getting worse lately. Perhaps it’s because so many things are blowing up because of his failed policies, especially in the Middle East. Perhaps it’s also because they’re making him run around to more events to campaign so they’re upping what he has to do and it’s showing. Perhaps his condition is just getting worse. I tend to think it’s all the above.

Whatever it is, you can see an increase in his incoherence and confusion, particularly over the past couple of weeks.

But they’re still playing this game where they tell him to jog a few steps to prove how vigorous he is.

Here he is speaking at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ Construction and Maintenance Conference in Washington, D.C. on Friday.

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A Viewer Writes…

Hi Joe,
     I listen to 105.9 , and yesterday they reported a leftist  protesting President Trump running in 2024 lit himself on fire.
     This incident was on the Court House steps where the Kangaroo Court is charging President Trump.
       I love this idea; all leftist should light themselves on fire to protest President Trump.
         This incident displays the insanity of the left.
           Thanks,
           Daily reader

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) introduced legislation on Friday that targets former President Donald Trump and would take away his Secret Service protection if he is convicted in his trial.

In a post on X, the House Homeland Security Committee Democrats revealed that Thompson, the top member of the committee and the former chairman of the now-defunct January 6 Select Committee, had introduced legislation that would ensure “convicted felons sentenced to prison” would have no Secret Service protection.

In a statement, Thompson said:

Unfortunately, current law doesn’t anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact the felony prison sentence of a protectee-even a former President. It is regrettable that it has come to this, but this previously unthought-of scenario could become our reality. Therefore, it is necessary for us to be prepared and update the law so the American people can be assured that protective status does not translate into special treatment-and that those who are sentenced to prison will indeed serve the time required of them.

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Earlier this week, a New York Times/Siena poll found that more than half of voters believe Joe Biden’s economy is “poor,” and a mere “4 percent” said that things are “excellent.” (If you are in this 4 percent, please contact us so we can interview you and ask you how you drew that conclusion… and where you procure your hallucinogens.)

Equally important: only 25 percent of respondents said that Joe Biden’s America is on the right track vs. 64 percent who said “wrong direction” when asked by the pollsters.

So, we have a consensus. The country is not moving in the right direction, and the economy is a major a factor. What’s more, as those of you who have kept up with the Breitbart Business Digest this week know, inflation is actually going up.

…But the Democrats Hate “Bad Orange Man” Even More

Yet, the conversation in the media this week – new, legacy, and online – was not focused around Joe Biden and Bidenomics. Instead, we were treated to wall-to-wall coverage of he who is known as “The Bad Orange Man.”

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I recently asked a prominent activist investor — someone who regularly demands from the public companies he targets various forms of boardroom change — what he would demand from a financially troubled radio network that needs to broaden its audience and make more money.

His answer: He would issue an ultimatum that the CEO and management team no longer produce polarizing content because it alienates many of those all-important listeners.

Meanwhile, if you have an employee who is telling management how current programming is turning off those consumers, don’t ever think about shooting the proverbial messenger.

Listen to him; maybe even give him a raise.

I’m withholding the activist investor’s name because he has enough problems on his hands to get in the middle of the unfolding crap show involving National Public Radio.

Suffice to say, the network, once known for its reliably wonkish takes on culture, politics and business, is doing just the opposite.

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The following regulatory proposal has been printed in the Maryland Register:

The department is seeking comments on the proposed regulation. Comments provide the department with additional information and perspectives.

Please visit our Changes to Fishing Regulations page for information about what has been proposed and how to submit comments.

All comments must be received by 11:59 p.m. on May 20, 2024.

President Joe Biden will accept endorsements from at least 15 members of the Kennedy political family during a campaign stop in Philadelphia on Thursday as he aims to undermine former President Donald Trump and marginalize the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kerry Kennedy, a daughter of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, niece of former President John F. Kennedy, and sister of the current presidential contender, will deliver the endorsements of Biden, his campaign announced.

The decision to highlight the Kennedy family endorsement more than six months from Election Day is an indication of how seriously Biden’s team is taking the threat of the long-shot bid potentially using his last name’s lingering Democrat magic to siphon off support from the president.

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Port of Baltimore Safety Zone – Key Bridge Response 2024
One-Way ONLY Transit Opportunity for Recreational Vessels Through the Safety Zone

Transit Area for Recreational Vessels

The Captain of the Port (COTP) has established a transit plan to afford recreational vessels the opportunity for transit through the Key Bridge Response Safety Zone. Traffic will be one-way at a time during two periods: on Sunday, April 21, OUTBOUND transits will be permitted in the morning from 6:30 a.m. to 7:15 a.m., and INBOUND transits will be permitted from 7:15 a.m. to 8 a.m.

In the evening, OUTBOUND transits will be permitted from 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. and INBOUND transits will be permitted from 6:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Unified Command or Captain of the Port may cancel these time periods at any time for safety reasons. Mariners must monitor VHF Channel 16 and 81A while transiting the area.

There will be numerous law enforcement and safety vessels on scene to ensure the safe transit of recreational vessels. Once a vessel has entered the safety zone, it needs to continue to make way without stopping. The flow of traffic needs to be continuous. Rules of the road will be strictly enforced.  There will be no exceptions to the listed vessel traffic plan, vessels should not take advantage of this opportunity if they can’t abide by the specific stipulations listed.

A group of black residents tore into Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday over his plans to spend an additional $70 million to feed and house illegal aliens, and to drive their point home, they wore former President Donald Trump’s signature MAGA hats during a meeting at city hall.

Johnson has been continually ramping up spending on migrants, but his attention to Biden’s border crisis has sent many of Chicago’s black residents to despair as their communities lose resources so Johnson can redirect city finances and services to migrants.

The self-professed “progressive” mayor has already thrown $300 million at migrants, but he is demanding far more. And the demand is not sitting well with many of the Windy City’s residents, the Daily Mail reported.

Black activists in the city have been threatening to vote for Republicans and independents since the migrant crisis started, and on Wednesday, several residents came garbed in MAGA hats and “Make Chicago Red” T-shirts:

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Come visit us today at the Route 346 Emporium directly on Old Ocean City Road in Parsonsburg. Thousands of items to view, enjoy and possibly purchase. It’s a walk through memory lane with several thousand square feet to enjoy and reminisce. 

Available to Wicomico middle schoolers and children as young as age 11, Lily and Dunkin is a book about a young teenage boy who begins to transition into a girl with the aid of hormone blockers, while her new neighbor stops taking his mood stabilizers and ends up institutionalized. This book contains alternate sexualities, alternate gender ideologies, profanity, derogatory terms, and commentary on suicide. Watch this 1-minute video below with a testimony of the book.

Excerpts from “Lily and Dunkin” with page references of the suggestive content.

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Putting Kids In Charge?

There was a time when you had to be 21 years old to vote. Then, the age was lowered to 18 with the rational that if 18-year-olds could be drafted, they should be allowed to vote. Now, in Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, 11-year-olds may be given that right; to vote that is. Sounds cute and clever, right? Not so fast.

It all started when counties started putting students on local school boards. The rationale was that the kids could give the adults a great perspective on how the schools were doing. The argument at the time was that these student board members would NOT vote on any school system issues much less sensitive issues with major impact. In many counties it is still that way.

This is changing.

Student members of eight school boards across Maryland have voting rights, as does the student member of the State Board of Education.

Allowing students to vote on county school board issues seems counterintuitive. Many of these student members are minors who will be voting on issues such as the budget for the system, and, in one instance in 2020, whether or not schools should be reopened after Covid. In that case, the student members in Howard County voted to keep schools closed. This caused a deadlock on the board and therefore the schools did not reopen.

This triggered a lawsuit by two parents. The lawsuit alleged that allowing the students

to vote violated the Maryland Constitution which prohibits minors from voting or from serving in public office. The suit was denied because the Maryland Supreme Court determined that school boards are NOT positions created by the State Constitution. They also determined that the fact that student member positions on school boards were created and their roles defined on school boards in the 70’s and 80’s.

In 2007, a student board member was created for the Howard County Board. The requirements were that the student be 16-17 years of age and live in Howard County.

Many point out that kids this age may not have the life experiences to make a valid vote on issues such as reopening schools or teachers’ salaries. They also could be subject to the manipulations of adults on the board. Traci Spiegel and Kimberly Ford, who brought the suit, made this comment:
“We are extremely disappointed with today’s ruling permitting a 16-17 year old minor — elected by 11-17 year old minors — to cast binding votes on the Howard County BOE,” they wrote in a statement. “Our disappointment should be nothing, however, compared to Marylanders’ shock when they learn that the State Constitution does not apply whatsoever when it comes who serves on and who selects Members of local BOEs. And by whatsoever we literally mean anyone and anything including 5-year-olds, non-Marylanders, anyone. We ask community members that are paying taxes — where does this end?”

Their concerns are valid. Where does this end?

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A request for Worcester County staff to meet with board of education staff to start a dialogue on the budget failed this week with the support of just two commissioners.

On April 16, Commissioner Eric Fiori told the Worcester County Commissioners he’d met with Worcester County Board of Education leadership and they wanted the two sides to find a way to work collaboratively. Fiori’s motion to set up a staff meeting, however, failed, with the majority of the commissioners indicating enough staff time has been spent on the education budget.

“We are not here to micromanage their budget,” Commissioner Joe Mitrecic said. “It is their budget. They’re an elected board they’re there to take care of their budget. We either fund it or not. You just gotta put on your big boy pants and vote yes or no on their budget. We’ve wasted enough time with county staff with this going on this long. I think it’s time we move on. We either fund it or we don’t. Let’s get on with the business of running the county.”

Fiori told the commissioners that he’d met with members of the school system’s leadership team and they wanted their budget staff to meet with the county’s budget staff to come up with a way to work collaboratively. He said they wanted more of an open dialogue where staff could come up with some ideas to bring back to elected officials. He said maybe small changes could yield additional dollars for the school system.

“We want all our teachers, support staff and bus drivers to receive their raises,” he said.

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Electric vehicle (EV) sales plunged across Europe in March as demand dried up despite the E.U.’s push to ban petrol and diesel vehicles by the middle of the next decade.

The Daily Telegraph reports sales of battery-powered cars dropped by 11.3 percent as demand in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, plunged by 28.9 percent, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA).

Only 13 percent of new registrations were electric, down from 13.9 percent in March last year and down from 14.6 percent for all of 2023, continuing a long-term trend, as Breitbart News reported.

Overall figures show electric vehicle sales have stalled despite Europe’s plans to ban the sale of new internal combustion engine cars by 2035.

According to the Telegraph report, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and Tesla have all recorded falling electric vehicle sales in the first three months of the year.

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‘A scandal of this magnitude must not be tolerated’

Joe Biden already is trailing President Donald Trump in many of the polls addressing the coming election in swing states – those vote totals that most likely will decide the presidency.

He attacks Trump constantly, threatening Americans that the probable GOP candidate would destroy “democracy,” as running on his own accomplishments likely isn’t going to happen.

Those would be inflation of some 19% since he took office, a world in turmoil, a southern border crisis that is threatening the wellbeing of even “sanctuary” cities, trillions in spending on “green” ideologies, and much more.

Of course, his age and mental capacities loom large and ominous in the campaign.

But now there’s a new headwind: A call for him to be “compelled to resign” if, in fact, a report that he knew in advance of Iran’s plans to launch a war against Israel, and did nothing, is correct.

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As President Joe Biden becomes more and more bizarre, and the Democrats keep telling Americans that everything is fine, it’s just their imagination, more traditional Democrat voting blocs are saying enough and taking a second look at Donald Trump and the Republicans.

One of the biggest of those groups of reliably Democratic voters is Hispanics. Joe Biden and his Party are beginning to realize this could be a serious problem, so much so that at a Phoenix Mexican restaurant in March, Biden seemed to be begging Hispanic voters not to abandon Democrats.

“I need you badly. You’re the reason why, in large part, I beat Donald Trump,” Biden told the crowd.

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A comprehensive review by an international consortium of scientists has raised serious concerns about the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines’ safety profile.

Review articles are summaries of current research on a particular topic. They are also sometimes called literature reviews or secondary sources.

The review, “N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ): Friend or foe of cancer?” published on Science Direct, delves into the potential implications of a vaccine ingredient—N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ)—that may play a role in immune suppression and cancer proliferation.

m1Ψ was incorporated into Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine to enhance its efficacy.

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A Maryland man will serve at least a year in prison after reportedly driving a motorcycle under the influence and severely injured his passenger in September 2022.

Michael Edward Ebert, 53, of Sykesville, was recently sentenced to serve three years in the Division of Corrections after he was convicted of causing life-threatening injury while operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol. Worcester County Circuit Court Judge Brian Shockley imposed the sentence, suspending all but one year of active incarceration and placing Ebert on five years of supervised probation upon release.

The charges stem from a single motorcycle crash on Sept. 14, 2022 on west Route 50 in Whaleyville. Maryland State Police troopers arrived on scene and found two individuals with significant head trauma and bodily injury lying on the pavement in front of a motorcycle. One of the individuals was Ebert, determined to be the owner and operator of the motorcycle, and the other was identified as Ebert’s female passenger. First responders from Berlin EMS noted the strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from Ebert before both individuals were transported by helicopter to Johns Hopkins for medical treatment.

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A Berlin man will serve at least one year in jail for distributing child pornography.

On April 4, Pasco L. Allen, Jr., 75, was convicted of distribution of child pornography and sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Brian D. Shockley to five years of incarceration with all but one year suspended. The court placed Allen on three years of supervised probation upon his release and ordered him to register as Tier II sex offender for a period of 25 years. Allen must also submit a DNA sample.

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A request for Worcester County staff to meet with board of education staff to start a dialogue on the budget failed this week with the support of just two commissioners.

On April 16, Commissioner Eric Fiori told the Worcester County Commissioners he’d met with Worcester County Board of Education leadership and they wanted the two sides to find a way to work collaboratively. Fiori’s motion to set up a staff meeting, however, failed, with the majority of the commissioners indicating enough staff time has been spent on the education budget.

“We are not here to micromanage their budget,” Commissioner Joe Mitrecic said. “It is their budget. They’re an elected board they’re there to take care of their budget. We either fund it or not. You just gotta put on your big boy pants and vote yes or no on their budget. We’ve wasted enough time with county staff with this going on this long. I think it’s time we move on. We either fund it or we don’t. Let’s get on with the business of running the county.”

Fiori told the commissioners that he’d met with members of the school system’s leadership team and they wanted their budget staff to meet with the county’s budget staff to come up with a way to work collaboratively. He said they wanted more of an open dialogue where staff could come up with some ideas to bring back to elected officials. He said maybe small changes could yield additional dollars for the school system.

“We want all our teachers, support staff and bus drivers to receive their raises,” he said.

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Diakonia, OCDC, humane society, more receive funds

Ocean City leaders have agreed to allocate $374,750 for area nonprofits in the coming year’s budget.

The funding allocation, which the Mayor and Council approved April 10, will provide $250,000 to the Ocean City Development Corporation, $60,000 to Diakonia, $25,000 to the Cricket Center, $20,000 to the Worcester County Humane Society, $10,000 to Wor-Wic Community College, $9,000 to Worcester Youth and Family Counseling, and $750 to Stephen Decatur High School’s after prom.

“These are the dedicated funds we provide to some area nonprofits,” City Manager Terry McGean said.

McGean said the coming year’s budget funds Wor-Wic, Worcester Youth and Family and Decatur’s after prom at the requested amounts. He noted, that the Cricket Center had increased its request from $25,000 to $35,000 and that Diakonia had increased its request from $40,000 to $60,000.

“As part of the budget wrap up, the question was asked how much is the county charging [Diakonia] for the sewer EDUs …,” he told the council. “It is approximately $41,000 so this would more than cover that.”

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The Mayor and Council will send a letter to the Worcester County Commissioners seeking reconsideration of allowing public comments at meetings.

At the end of the regular April 15 council meetin, during which an Ocean City resident sought the council’s help in contacting the Worcester County Commissioners regarding his tax bill, the elected body agreed to send a letter asking the commissioners to reconsider instituting a public comment period during their meetings. While the commissioners earlier this year voted down a motion to incorporate public comment into their meetings, Mayor 
Rick Meehan said it should be revisited.

“I think we all agree – and I think most people do – that the county commissioners should allow public comment at their meeting,” he said. “They’re the only body that I can think of, really, that doesn’t have any public comment allowed.”

Earlier this month, Ocean City resident John Adkins came before the council during a public comment period to share his concerns regarding his tax bill. At that time, the mayor suggested he reach out to the county commissioners.

Back before the council this week, Adkins said he had called the county and had heard no response. He said he also took issue with the fact that the commissioners did not offer a public comment period during meetings.

“The reason I’m here tonight is I want this council or city manager to write the county and I want to be put on their list of things to talk about because I feel I have the right to tell the county about my tax bill,” he said.

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Maryland Fishing Report

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Largemouth bass are aggressively feeding in a variety of locations. Ideal water temperatures have fish moving freely through different water depths throughout the day.

White perch are steadily moving down the region’s tidal rivers and should be arriving at their summer habitat locations in the next few weeks.

Any angler looking for some fun fishing action and plenty of good eating are focusing on blue catfish. The largest blue catfish have moved down to the lower parts of the tidal rivers due to low salinity values.

When sea conditions permit, anglers are heading out to the offshore wreck and reef sites to catch tautog.

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President Joe Biden’s least-popular Cabinet secretary will skate free from a formal Senate impeachment trial.

The Senate dismissed two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday.

The move guarantees that Mayorkas won’t stand trial in the upper chamber.

The secretary faced charges of willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and breach of public trust, according to The Washington Post.

“Throughout his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas has repeatedly violated laws enacted by Congress regarding immigration and border security,” the first article said. “In large part because of his unlawful conduct, millions of aliens have illegally entered the United States on an annual basis with many unlawfully remaining in the United States.

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