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#10 Latest Wave of Wokeness to Hit West Point Reveals One Simple Solution - Douglas MacKinnon for Fox News
It was recently announced the U.S. Military Academy at West Point would remove the "Duty, Honor, Country" motto from its mission statement. Republicans, conservatives, and people of faith rightfully erupted in dismay over this latest move to the "woke" by the famed institution. Rachel Campos-Duffy, co-host of "Fox & Friends Weekend," observed: "West Point announcing they’ve gone full globalist." To be sure, millions of Americans agree with her, including thousands who graduated from there...
#9 Biden’s War On Gas Cars Will Cost Americans A Fortune, 5-year Cost To Own An Electric Vehicle Exceeds $92,000 - Anthony B. Sanders for Confounded Interest and Robert M Sterling on X
Biden continues to try to force Americans to buy electric cars and support China’s EV and battery industries! And are EVs ever expensive! The Environmental Protection Agency released what it calls the “strongest-ever pollution standards for cars,” which it claims will “expand consumer choice in clean vehicles.” That’s a stretch: These new regulations, which are clearly beyond EPA’s defined powers, will limit overall vehicle choice and force Americans into expensive and unreliable electric vehicles. The EPA expects plug-in electric vehicles to make up between 62% and 70% of the automotive market. But this unrealistic target ignores two key facts... The Biden-Harris Administration announced today the approval of $5.8 billion in additional student loan debt relief for 77,700 borrowers. These approvals are the result of fixes made by the Administration to Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). Today’s announcement brings the total loan forgiveness approved by the Biden-Harris Administration to $143.6 billion for 3.96 million Americans. This action builds on President Biden and his Administration’s efforts to provide debt relief to as many borrowers as possible as quickly as possible. “For too long, our nation’s teachers, nurses, social workers, firefighters, and other public servants faced logistical troubles and trap doors when they tried to access the debt relief they were entitled to under the law. With this announcement, the Biden-Harris Administration is showing how we’re taking further steps not only to fix those trap doors but also to expand opportunity to many more Americans,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. “Today, more than 100 times more borrowers are eligible for PSLF than there were at the beginning of the Administration. The Biden Administration is turning a promise broken under our predecessor into a promise kept.” "It’s getting worse, it’s getting worse, it’s getting worse," one man told Fox News Digital regarding the complete chaos that has unfolded in Haiti. Scenes of young men running through the capital of Port-au-Prince with rifles, cars ablaze, and dead bodies in the streets have plagued media reports for weeks as gang violence continues to escalate. "We’re in a war zone," a Haitian man under the pseudonym Jonathan told Fox News Digital. The security situation in Port-au-Prince has become so dire that Haitians and Americans alike are running out of places to seek safe haven from gang violence... Hermès has been accused of “tying” the purchase of its famed Birkin bags to other Hermès products in a class action lawsuit filed in California. Two shoppers have claimed in the lawsuit filed on 19 March that they were required to purchase “ancillary products” from a Hermès retail store - such as shoes, scarves, belts, or jewelry - before they were given the opportunity to purchase a Birkin handbag. The lawsuit claimed that Hermès sales associates only offer Birkin handbags to customers who have established a sufficient “purchase history” with the French brand. According to the filing, once shoppers “are deemed worthy” of purchasing a Birkin handbag, they will be shown the coveted item - which is allegedly not placed on display or available for purchase on the website - in a private room separate from the retail store... Lawmakers are racing Friday to pass the final spending package needed for the current budget year, a long overdue action that will set funding for federal agencies and push any threats of a government shutdown to the fall. With spending set to expire for several key federal agencies at midnight Friday, the House and Senate are expected to take up to spare a $1.2 trillion measure that combines six annual spending bills into one package. More than 70% of the money would go to defense. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is bringing the bill up under a streamlined process that requires two-thirds support for approval. “It will pass. We’re whipping the bill, and I expect a good number,” Johnson said, referring to how leadership rallies support for a bill. Lee Goldberg takes the "Weather or Not" podcast on the road to Muscoot Farm in the Westchester County community of Katonah. You may think of places much farther north, like Vermont, as hubs of maple sugaring, but local farms like Muscoot tap delicious syrup from their own maple trees. It's a seasonal tradition that's beloved, but like so many things that depend on climate, global warming is complicating its future. You need subfreezing temperatures at night and above-freezing temperatures during the day to get the best syrup flow, and with abnormally warm stretches of weather in recent years during sugaring season, that goldilocks weather has become elusive.
#8 Apple Accused of Monopolizing Smartphone Markets in US Antitrust Lawsuit - Reuters
The U.S. Department of Justice and 15 states on Thursday sued Apple (AAPL.O) as the government cracks down on Big Tech, alleging the iPhone maker monopolized the smartphone market, hurt smaller rivals, and drove up prices. Apple joins competitors sued by regulators, including Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), and Amazon.com (AMZN.O), across the administrations of both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. "Consumers should not have to pay higher prices because companies violate the antitrust laws," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. "If left unchallenged, Apple will only continue to strengthen its smartphone monopoly."
#7 Biden-Harris Administration Approves Additional $5.8 Billion in Student Debt Relief for 78,000 Public Service Workers -US DOE Press Release and Shark News on X
#6 American Family in Haiti Describes ‘War Zone,’ Believes it Will Fall to Gangs in a Week - Caitlin McFall for Fox News
#5 Hermès Sued Over Claims it Only Sells Birkin Bags to ‘Worthy’ Customers - Meredith Clark for The Independent
#4 The Contradiction: Aborted Fetuses, COVID-19 Jabs, and the Catholic Church - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire
Instantly, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, humanity was told that a new vaccine would be the much-anticipated savior to stop the tyranny. It will prevent the virus, they told us. Pope Francis was so in awe of the powers of the untested mRNA genetic jabs that he insisted “ethically, everyone should receive the vaccine.” The Pontiff went so far as to declare that those refusing to take the jab “when it was known to be safe” were putting the health of others at risk and possessed “a suicidal denialism.” Powerful words that no doubt further stoked the constant fear embedded in the hearts and souls of a locked-down world. On December 21, 2020, Vatican News reported that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with approval from Pope Francis, gave “the green light during the pandemic to the use of vaccines produced with cell lines derived from two fetuses aborted in the 1960s.” Describing the abortion-tainted COVID jabs as “morally licit,” the CDF went on to state...
The chief diversity officer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, LaVar Charleston, who also teaches at the university’s school of education, has a decades-long track record of research misconduct, according to a complaint filed with the university on Wednesday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis. That misconduct includes presenting old studies as new research, which he has done at least five times over the course of his career. The complaint, which was filed anonymously, implicates eight of Charleston’s publications, many of them coauthored and accuses him of plagiarizing other scholars as well as duplicating his own work. It comes as the university is already investigating Charleston over a separate complaint filed in January, alleging that a 2014 study by him and his wife—Harvard University’s chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston—is a facsimile of a study he published in 2012...
#3 Complaint Alleges University of Wisconsin DEI Czar, Husband of Harvard's DEI Chief, Has Decades-Long History of Research Misconduct - Aaron Sibarium for The Free Beacon and Aaron Sibarium on X
Have you ever wondered what becomes of socially awkward politicians with no marketable skills, aside from crying on cue, when they are gerrymandered out of public office? Better yet, do you ever wonder what happens to all the leftover campaign cash they bilked out of pussy-hat wearing cat ladies in the name of saving our Democracy? If the answer is yes, this one's for you! Before finding fame in 2021 from the fallout of January 6, the most remarkable thing about Mr. Kinzinger was just how unremarkable his congressional career had been. Despite representing (arguably) the reddest district in Illinois, Mr. Kinzinger prided himself on being a bipartisan stooge at every turn. He co-authored a few pieces of legislation, notably the 2016 Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, aimed at "stopping Russian interference in our elections," but that's about it. His fundraising efforts were decent but never excessive (using Congress' standards). In his first five terms in office, Mr. Kinzinger never raised more than $2.45 million (2020) across all of his campaign committees and never spent more than $2.53 million (2018)...
#2 Uncovering Adam Kinzinger - Mel Witte for UncoverDC
#1 Congress Rushes to Approve Final Package of Spending Bills Before Shutdown Deadline - Kevin Freking for AP News and Rep Thomas Massie on X
And Now for Something Special
Sweet Road Trip! Lee Goldberg Takes Us Maple Sugaring at Katonah Farm - Lee Goldberg for ABC7 News
