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Do Biden and His Party Have New Hope for November?
By Byron York
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Biden cannot help but become a nasty racist .
These Congressman Did Not Deserve What Joe Biden Said About Them During His Texas Visit
By Mike Vespa
We all know Joe Biden has trotted out his dead son, Beau Biden, to score political points when Afghanistan went balls-up. Joe invoking Beau had mostly been fine until he tried to compare his death from brain cancer to those who are killed in a terrorist bombing outside Kabul airport last August. It’s not the same, Joe. Everyone knows there’s a difference between brain cancer and IEDs. Still, he trotted out his dead son during the State of the Union, claiming that burning fire pits might have caused his son’s cancer. There is no medical evidence to support this claim.
Today, Biden shuffled to Fort Worth, Texas to speak about expanding health care access to veterans who were around these burn pits (via Fox4 KDFW):
President Joe Biden has arrived in North Texas as he plans to talk with veterans and their caregivers and push for more help for members of the military who face health problems after exposure to burn pits.
Biden and Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough will meet with veterans and caregivers at the Fort Worth VA Clinic.
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Biden will call on Congress to send him a bill that protects veterans who face health consequences after burn pit exposure. The House last week passed a bill that would provide VA health care to millions of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who meet that criteria.
Yet, it’s what Biden said about Reps. Colin Allred (D-TX), Marc Veasey (D-TX), and Jake Ellzey (R-TX) is rather…problematic. Biden said that two of the congressmen, Veasey and Allred, look like they can play basketball; both men are black. He added that Congressman Ellzey looks like a dude who would bomb you. Now, Ellzey was a Navy fighter pilot who fought in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. If this was a joke, it missed its target by several hundred miles.
Joe Biden: "The three congressman you have here, two of them look like they really could and did play ball and the other one looks like he can bomb you."
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Poll: Brian Kemp Leads David Perdue By Double Digits in Georgia Republican Primary
By Landon Mion
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Kamala's Crisis
It's been nearly 3 months since President Biden put Kamala in charge of the border crisis.
And yet the Vice President STILL refuses to make a trip there.
Even worse, anytime a reporter asks her about avoiding the border – she snaps back at them!
Americans everywhere are catching on...
And realizing that serious signs of trouble are starting to appear all over the place.
For example, inflation is at its worst in nearly 13 years!
With everyday items like gas up 56%... and lumber soaring 406% – just in the past 12 months!
But according to one Washington insider, this is just the beginning...
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The ‘Hobbes Index’ Is Making A Comeback Under Biden
By IBD
The best thing about Joe Biden’s presidency is his penchant for short speeches. It is unclear if he has the stamina for the marathon orations of his predecessor, but certainly the American people do not. The dismal ratings for this year’s State of the Union Address bear that out as they did for Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress last year.
Who can blame them? The American people have endured much lately. One might not know that from listening to Biden’s remarks on March 1st where he evaluated the state of the union as “strong.” But leading societal indicators suggest a different adjective – “Hobbesian.”
Seventeenth Century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes is among the theorists most associated with the concept of the “social contract,” the process by which members of a society surrender some of their liberty to a higher authority in exchange for that authority’s protection of their rights.
Hobbes’ magnum opus is the treatise “Leviathan” (1651), in which he described the “state of nature” that existed before order was established via the social contract. Hobbes described the state of nature as a “war of all against all” with nothing preventing one neighbor from killing another and taking his property. In Leviathan’s most famous passage, Hobbes characterized life in the state of nature as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Life in America has recently taken a Hobbesian turn.
Solitary. The long-term trend of decreasing human interaction has been greatly exacerbated by pandemic-related social distancing. The Survey Center on American Life says Americans maintain significantly fewer close relationships than a generation ago, with half of the country reporting having less than three close friends and one in eight Americans having no friends at all. And while the coronavirus killed tens of thousands of elderly nursing home residents barred from their loved ones, youngsters were not spared the effects of isolation. According to the CDC, adolescent suicide attempts spiked during the pandemic and continued to climb as lockdowns and social distancing mandates lingered.
Poor. Americans are becoming poorer as the highest inflation rate in 40 years cost the average household $3,500 last year. The erosion of wealth has no end in sight as the annualized inflation rate hit 7.5% in January. Real wages are declining as prices have risen across the board, with food and fuel leading the way. In contrast, annualized inflation stood at 1.4% and oil was $55 dollars/barrel in January 2021, when Biden terminated the Keystone XL pipeline, a mindless infliction of pain reminiscent of Franco’s bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War in its lack of strategic benefit. Coherence not among his strengths, Biden curtailed domestic energy production while simultaneously imploring OPEC to increase production.
Nasty. “Stupid son of a b—-,” is what Biden called a member of the White House press corps. His predecessor applied an analogous appellation to another journalist. Neither president is the cause of America’s coarsened culture, but both are reflections of it. Marx foresaw a classless society. Take a look at the sewer that passes for American political discourse and behold a society without class.
Brutish. The murder rate increased by 30% in 2020, dwarfing any previously recorded increase. The bloodbath continues unabated as city after city reports record homicides. The deadly riots of 2020 sparked a new era of urban lawlessness as mass theft has forced retailers to close stores in inner city locations. But nowhere has lawlessness been more pronounced than on the southern border. Over two million people from scores of countries entered the country illegally last year. This humanitarian crisis is the consequence of Biden’s unforgivable empowerment of drug and human trafficking cartels through his reversal of the prior administration’s immigration and border security policies.
Short. Average life expectancy decreased by almost two years in 2020, as the coronavirus and drug overdoses took their respective tolls on opposite halves of the age spectrum. Despite the availability of vaccines, more Americans died of the coronavirus in 2021 than the year before. Drug overdose deaths topped 100,000 during the pandemic’s first year. Narcotics are not the only contributor to the thinning out of America’s youth. Birth rates are the lowest on record as Americans have given up on the future.
Forty years ago, the “Misery Index” chronicled the combined effect of high inflation and high unemployment. Today the “Hobbes Index” paints a more comprehensive picture of the decline in the quality of American life. In spite of the social contract, the state of the union is a little more like the state of nature than it was just a few short years ago. On the bright side, at least we are not Ukraine.
Paul F. Petrick is an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio.
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We know Biden is slick but perhaps Blumberg is right and he is slicker than even I thought:
Subject: Fwd: From Bloomberg News todayPartial info from an article today:Putin’s invasion provides a perfect pretext for allowing the Biden administration and its congressional allies to go on printing money and shutting down the economy with regulatory impositions while blaming the resulting economic crisis on the situation in Ukraine.That is why Biden doesn’t want to stop Putin. Our intelligence people had all the necessary information on the invasion plans. We knew everything that was going to happen. Had Biden really wanted to deter the invasion, there were multiple options for heading off the war. Instead Biden made it clear that there would be no intervention, just sanctions he knew would not work.Bloomberg News reported that the Biden officials who created the sanctions knew they wouldn't work.Indeed the Biden administration fiercely fought against the efforts of Senator Ted Cruz and other Republicans to impose sanctions before the invasion because they wanted Putin to invade.Only if Putin invaded Ukraine would they have the leverage to maintain a crisis, ransack the economy, consolidate corporate economic responses, and transform our foreign policy.Even as the Biden administration claims to be doing everything possible to sanction Russia, it outsourced the negotiations for a new and even worse nuclear deal with Iran to Russia.Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has suggested that the administration is considering buying oil from Iran.Buying Iranian oil directly finances Islamic terrorism against America, but it, like many other previously unacceptable moves, can be sold as a patriotic response to the invasion of Ukraine.Biden administration officials are also headed to Venezuela for talks with socialist strongman Maduro, the leader of a murderous drug cartel and an ally of Iran and Russia, to restart relations with his regime and bail it out by buying oil from a narcoterrorist state.The Biden administration is willing to buy oil from anyone except Americans. While a Republican administration might have used the Ukraine crisis as leverage for restarting domestic drilling, the Biden administration is using it to cut deals with our enemies.The green energy agenda means that the Biden administration is thrilled with high oil prices and an international pretext for keeping them high. At the same time it can build relations with Islamist and leftist enemies under the guise of trying to fix the high oil prices even though it has no intention of doing so except during election years when it can claim credit for lowering prices.What the Ukraine crisis really means is more green energy and more outreach to our enemies.These are the same Obama administration policies being dusted off and treated like a new response to the crisis. Much as they were the default responses to any crisis that came along.The Biden administration has managed to actually have war fever without a war. There are Ukrainian flags flying and vodka being poured down the drain without a single American soldier being on the battlefield. And, despite what some on both sides think, it’s going to stay that way.Whatever happens, Biden is safe because no American soldiers will be killed in the fighting.After running through the farce of looking for oil in Iran and Venezuela, and any other terror state that has any for sale, the Biden administration will double down on green energy. We will be told that the Ukraine crisis is more evidence that we need to invest all our money into windmills and solar panels. Even though the entire crisis only happened because the Europeans decided to invest in wind and solar which made them dependent on Russia and Ukraine.In the name of stopping Russia, America will also become increasingly dependent on Russia.The green energy investors who fund the Democrats win and so do America’s enemies.Biden isn’t trying to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he is trying to stop America’s economy while deftly avoiding the blame for the economic misery resulting from his domestic policies.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Mistakes are part of the election process but purposeful ones have become more commonplace because elections and politics have become more contentious. Zuckerberg and Soros' money will continue to cause elections to be manipulated:
VoterGA Provides Conclusive Evidence ShowingFulton 2020 Election Results Were Electronically ManipulatedATLANTA, March 7, 2022 – VoterGA today announced at a press conference its 15-point analysis that documents clear, irrefutable evidence of how the November 2020 Fulton County election results were electronically manipulated. The analysis was based on a year-long study of ballot images conducted by an expert-laden volunteer research team. The ballot image research was made possible last year when the Georgia legislature passed SB202, which made ballot images public records. The ballot images were collected statewide by a VoterGA Open Records Request team.The 15-point analysis that can be verified through public ballot images at GAballots.com or other sites found the following problems in Fulton County:
- 17,724 final certified Fulton votes have no ballot images
- All 374,128 in-person ballot images for the original count are missing
- 132,284 mail-in ballot images are missing their authentication files
- 4,000+ tabulator images have impossible duplicate time stamps
- 104,994 image files in 1,096 batches have impossible, duplicate time stamps
- All ballot batches were improperly forced to adjudication to facilitate tampering
- 10 ballots were impossibly adjudicated in one minute by one user
- 941 image files were backdated prior to adjudication
- All 16,034 mail-in image authentication files were added days after scanning
- Same 12 tabulators closed 148 early voting polls masking identity of scanning tabulator
- One tabulator serial# impossibly closed two polls in same overlapping times
- One tabulator was never closed and may have added many illegitimate votes
- Images in 288 batches have backfilled time stamps out of scanning chronological order
- 85 closing tapes for 12,024 Election Day ballots are unsigned or missing
- All but two tabulator closing tapes for early voting are unsigned
VoterGA emphasized that while one or two of these may be procedural issues, the electronic tampering found so far is not limited to Fulton. Co-founder Garland Favorito said: “In fairness to Fulton County, they did preserve enough of their ballot images to make some of our research possible. Other counties, like Cobb, destroyed most or all of their original November 2020 images despite federal and state law. This tampering and destruction is proof positive why Georgians cannot trust the 2020 election results. We desperately need an independent multi-county audit immediately to secure our elections before 2022 primaries.”VoterGA is a non-partisan, 501(c)3 registered non-profit organization created by a coalition of citizens working to restore election integrity in Georgia. We advocate for independently verifiable, auditable, recount capable and transparent elections.
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Second, unleash Israel to finish off Iran Both these actions would send a message to China that would be discomforting. Putin might go nuclear. If he does now he will do so later.
But then what do I know. I do know this. Anything bold is beyond Biden's reach and/or perception.
Breaking: Largest Private Russian Oil Company Calls For End Of War
And:
Breaking Now: Ukraine Warns Of Deadly ‘Radioactive Cloud’
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New Rules for a New World
By .BRET STEPHENS
Sergei Guneyev/TASS, via Getty Images
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is being described as the end of the post-Cold War era. This isn’t quite accurate. Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, we’ve seen three different eras. Each of them lasted about a decade.
There were the End of History years of the 1990s, when Washington thought the main task of foreign policy was to usher the world into a more democratic, free-market, rules-based order. Those priorities faded after 9/11, when no international issue mattered more to policymakers than the fight against militant Islamism. A decade later, after Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011, Barack Obama effectively called an end to the war on terror, saying it was time to “focus on nation building here at home.”
This was a decade whose animating instincts were typified by two telling reactions by two presidents to two crises — both involving Ukraine.
The first was Obama’s tepid response to Russia’s 2014 seizure of Crimea, after which he refused to provide Kyiv with lethal military aid on the theory that Ukraine’s future was a core Russian interest but not an American one. The second was Donald Trump’s attempted shakedown of Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019, in which he tried to hold up security assistance to Ukraine in exchange for dirt on the Biden family.
In other words, Obama looked at Ukraine and asked, “What’s in it for us?” Trump looked at Ukraine and asked, “What’s in it for me?” For neither president was the question of staving off another Russian invasion, much less of encouraging Ukraine’s democratic development, a particular priority.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin looked at Ukraine and concluded: “It’s all for me.”
The Russian president may have had various motives for invading Ukraine. But it would be foolish to suppose that he wasn’t also enticed — by our seeming indifference to Ukraine’s fate; by the willingness of successive American presidents to continue to do business with him even as he invaded neighbors, poisoned dissidents, hacked our networks and meddled in our elections; by Europe’s military weakness and growing reliance on Russian energy; by the coalescing of an Axis of Autocracy bent on overthrowing the American-led liberal order.
All of this made Putin’s Ukraine gambit seem like a good bet — except for his failure to reckon with the courage of the Ukrainian people, their magnificent president, and his own military’s ineptitude. That courage has given the West time to regroup to help save Ukraine. It should also be an opportunity to rethink the way in which we look at foreign affairs for the next decade. We need new rules for a new world.
What should they be? A few ideas:
Free trade for the free world. Economic nationalism never works. De-linking the Russian economy from the rest of the world is already painful. And the only long-term hope for decoupling from China is through deeper economic integration of free and allied nations. That means the revival of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and a free-trade agreement with the European Union and another one with Britain.
Help those who help themselves. If a lesson of the past 20 years is that we cannot fight for the freedom of those who won’t fight for it themselves, the lesson of Ukraine is that we can at least give those who will fight the tools so they can finish the job. One model is the deal for nuclear-powered submarines that the U.S. and Britain signed last year with Australia, which the administration needs to accelerate if it’s going to be a deterrent to China. Another model is Israel, which we arm with American jets so that we never need defend it with American troops.
Parallel global institutions. China has trashed the World Trade Organization by refusing to meet its commitments. Russia trashed Interpol by using the agency to persecute political dissidents. The Biden administration may not want to exit those legacy organizations, but it can downgrade their relevance by investing in new or nascent organizations in which democracy buys membership.
Be honest about energy. The world will need carbon-based fuels for decades to come. And we are better off extracting more of it in North America — including on U.S. federal land — than by asking Saudi Arabia to ramp up production or hoping to get more from Venezuela and Iran with sanctions relief. The alternative to increasing domestic oil and gas production isn’t only clean alternative energy. It’s also filthy petrostate energy.
Get serious about defense. The dumbest debate in foreign-policy circles is whether China or Russia is the graver threat. The real answer is that we don’t have the luxury of choosing. But we do have the luxury of spending more on defense, which, at less than 4 percent of gross domestic product, is about half of what we spent in the prosperous 1980s. A 500-ship Navy — an increase of 200 ships — should be a national priority.
Play to win. “Here’s my strategy on the Cold War,” Ronald Reagan once told his adviser Richard Allen: “We win, they lose.” He said that in 1977, when it seemed like a pipe dream. Twelve years later, it was a fact. Let’s aim for a world unhaunted by the likes of Vladimir Putin.
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