02a U.S. Politics – Right

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Excerpt from townhall.com

It’s a maddening New York Times article about the thousands whose lives were irreparably derailed by the COVID vaccine. To their credit, it’s a reasonably down-the-road article. Perhaps that’s because there are so many shortfalls regarding research on the vaccine’s side effects. There are high benchmarks for injury compensation, but there is no information on how to meet the standard. The medical community is not moving to address the innumerable side effects that have afflicted these Americans. No one seems to want to help them or even hear their concerns.

It’s an endless stream of issues, from unreliable databases to government disinterest. The establishment appears set in ignoring the pain and suffering these people have endured. The side effects include the usual rashes, but neurological disorders, specifically debilitating tinnitus, were mentioned numerous times in the piece, along with myocarditis, which wasn’t even first detected by our medical professionals—it was the Israelis. In all, 13,000 injury claims have been filed through the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, and barely 20 percent have been reviewed.

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Excerpt from www.thegatewaypundit.com

Crews set off a chain of carefully placed explosives on Monday to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

The demolition aimed to free the Dali, a container ship that has been stranded in Baltimore harbor for 48 days.

The ship lost power and collided with one of the bridge’s support columns shortly after departing Baltimore on March 26, causing the bridge to collapse.

The accident tragically claimed the lives of six construction workers and halted most maritime traffic through the busy port.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge is a significant commuter route carrying the Baltimore Beltway I-695 over the Patapsco River at the southern end of the Baltimore Harbor, and it’s the state’s number one thoroughfare for hazardous materials, which are not allowed to go through the underwater roadway tunnels in Baltimore.

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Excerpt from dailycaller.com

Border crisis charities are reportedly using large government grants for music therapy, people-plant interactions and high salaries for staff, according to a Monday report published by Free Press.

The NGOs running shelters in Texas, Arizona, and California, funded by the Unaccompanied Children Program, are accused of profiting from these contracts, Free Press reported. The combined revenue of the top three NGOs—Global Refuge, Southwest Key Programs, and Endeavors, Inc.—skyrocketed from $597 million in 2019 to $2 billion by 2022, based on federal disclosure documents.

The Free Press revealed that Endeavors has been reportedly using taxpayer funds for diverse therapeutic activities aimed at migrant children, including pet therapy, horticulture therapy, and music therapy. In 2021, the organization is said to have compensated music therapist Christy Merrell with $533,000. An internal presentation from Endeavors, which was made public by America First Legal, showed that from April 2021 to March 2023, there were 1,656 interactions involving plants and 287 pet therapy sessions.

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Excerpt from www.infowars.com

New data revealing that barely any Ukrainian refugees are actually working in Germany has the left-liberal government struggling to explain the failure, despite promises from the government that this refugee group would help fill in for the country’s declining labor pool.

“More Ukrainian refugees should take up work in Germany,” said Olaf Scholz during a speech in Potsdam over the weekend. The German chancellor was reacting to data showing that fewer than two out of ten Ukrainian asylum seekers are working in the country.

This is a big problem for Germany considering it is the country that has taken in more Ukrainian refugees than any other EU nation, equaling about 1.3 million people, or about a third of all Ukrainian refugees. According to the Polish Economic Institute, which reviewed a number of countries in its study, only 18 percent of Ukrainians were working in Germany as of January 2024, amounting to one of the lowest rates in Europe. In turn, Poland, for example, has 65 percent of its Ukrainian refugee population in the workplace.

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Excerpt from www.americanthinker.com

Sometimes, things need to get really bad before people understand that they must act before a total disaster occurs.

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Excerpt from www.louderwithcrowder.com

 

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Middle school girls’ track in West Virginia has been embroiled in controversy. Now a lawsuit alleges that a trans competitor, one who was born a boy but now claims to be a girl, has been sexually harassing his/her female opponents, making crude and sexual comments. Things that would get her/him run out of school if they had been said by a boy who still claims to be a boy.

Before we go any further, Joe Biden, who critics say took steps to destroy girls’ sports by amending Title IX to include boys who claim they are girls, tells you all to support girls’ sports.

Last month, five middle school athletes took a brave stance when they refused to compete against Becky Pepper-Jackson, the boy who claims to be a girl at the center of this story. They were rewarded for this brave stance by being BANNED from future competitions by an activist coach who, and this conjecture, we are assuming gets liberal with accusing others of “transphobia.”

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Excerpt from www.westernjournal.com

In a stunning display of irony and contradiction that borders on the absurd, an associate dean tasked with upholding gender equality at Columbia University cut off and muted a fellow professor during a faculty senate meeting earlier this month when the latter professor warned her colleagues that the Ivy League school had been infiltrated by outsiders with “known ties to terrorist organizations.”

And yes, these are groups that literally support terrorists and who are known for their oppressive attitudes towards women.

The irony of a gender equality dean silencing warnings about groups with known oppressive attitudes towards women was not lost on anyone who observed the incident, which took place via Zoom on May 3, mere hours after Hamilton Hall was overrun by a mob of Hamas-supporting students.

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Excerpt from www.lifenews.com

Diana Johnson and Stella Creasy have tabled amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill that would make extreme changes to our abortion laws.

How would they change the law?

Both amendments would make it more likely that healthy babies are aborted at home for any reason, up to birth.

Diana Johnson’s amendment (NC1) would remove offences that make it illegal for a woman to perform her own abortion at any point right through to birth.

Stella Creasy’s amendment (NC40) would remove key deterrents against performing an abortion at any point right through to birth.

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, pro-abortion states have begun devising measures to shelter abortionists whose operations were hampered by states that chose to protect unborn life. These so-called “abortion shield laws” — many of which are likely unconstitutional — will defeat any ability for pro-life states and their citizens to hold abortionists accountable for violating their health and safety standards. Diligently enforced, shield laws invite a new war between the states over not just the lives of unborn children, but also our system of government.

The extradition clause of the Constitution requires that “[a] Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.” In short, a state cannot turn down another state’s request to extradite fugitives within its borders.

Shield laws, such as those in New York and Massachusetts, hug the edges of the extradition clause by prohibiting the surrender of non-fugitives. Accordingly, a person who promotes abortions while physically present within a pro-abortion state cannot be handed over to a pro-life state in which the abortion has occurred. After all, he has not actually fled from the pro-life state. As The New York Times points out, such laws de facto protect those who prescribe abortion pills through telemedicine to women out-of-state.

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Excerpt from www.lifenews.com

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is backing an Indiana high school student’s legal challenge of how her school shut down her pro-life club because it was accused of “being too ‘political.’”

“Students don’t forfeit their free speech when they walk into the school building. All students have the constitutional right to express their ideas without fear of being silenced by school officials and having their clubs derecognized,” ADF stated in a May 8 news release.

In April, ADF joined legal firm Charitable Allies’ appeal of a federal court’s decision that had sided with the public school in the case, E.D. v. Noblesville School District.

In 2021, a freshman student at Noblesville High School (NHS) in Indiana started a pro-life club aimed at “[raising] awareness and [generating] discussion about the abortion issue while also doing something about it through volunteering,” according to the news release.

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

During two distinct occasions on Friday, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito raised concerns about the current state of America. They both highlighted the perilous decline of freedom of speech and criticized Washington, D.C., as a hotbed of cancel culture, describing it as “hideous.”

Justice Thomas addressed a gathering of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Point Clear, Alabama, while Justice Alito gave a commencement speech at Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic institution in Ohio. Both conservative judges depicted a grim scenario but also urged for proactive measures and provided words of encouragement.

During the event in Alabama, Justice Thomas was asked to comment by the moderator, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, to share his thoughts on working “in a world that seems meanspirited.”

“I think there’s challenges to that,” Justice Thomas said. “We’re in a world and we—certainly my wife and I the last two or three years it’s been—just the nastiness and the lies, it’s just incredible.”

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Excerpt from www.washingtonexaminer.com

A federal court in California approved a $62 million settlement recently in a class action alleging that Google violated the privacy rights of hundreds of millions of users by tracking their location and storing that information even though users had disabled the relevant account setting. As a Google user, you might be asking how to receive your portion of that fund.

The answer is that you won’t see a cent of it. The settlement instead will pay the entire fund (after the lawyers’ fees and costs are paid) to groups engaged in extreme left-wing advocacy work or work that is not targeted to benefit the class of Google users.

Courts have allowed this practice, known as cy pres, to proliferate despite ever easier and more inexpensive ways of paying small amounts to individual class members. This is one of the many ways that our legal system funds the Left, but it is even more insidious because it takes money that belongs to individual people, without their consent, and directs it to organizations and causes that are contrary to their values and interests.

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Excerpt from lidblog.com

 

Joe Biden is pulling out all the stops to make his failing economy sound just a bit better. His latest move is to dump soaring coffee prices from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) because it is just one more metric that is driving his data to look bad.

By dumping the soaring coffee prices, Biden’s Department of Labor can make his economic data sound better.

But coffee is a major part of what most Americans buy each month — and often daily — in their day-to-day lives. Dumping coffee is removing a key expense that 73 percent of the country spend.

Grocery prices have soared 30 percent. Gas prices are also soaring.

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Excerpt from amgreatness.com

A new study reveals that the current youngest generation, Generation Z, is facing greater financial struggles due to low income and a higher debt-to-income ratio than Millennials did at the same point in their youth.

As reported by Breitbart, the study from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion surveyed 614 members of Gen Z, also known as “Zoomers,” between the ages of 22 and 24, comparing their findings to a similar survey of 623 Millennials who were between the ages of 22 and 24 ten years ago.

In the fourth quarter of 2013, Millennials on average were making an income of roughly $39,394; when adjusted for inflation, the income of the average Millennial around that time was $51,852. By contrast, Zoomers in the fourth quarter of 2023 were making an average income of $45,493, over $7,000 less than what Millennials made ten years ago. In 2013, Millennials had an average debt-to-income (DTI) ratio of 11.76%; Zoomers today have a DTI ratio of 16.05%.

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s paralegal testified on Friday that his office deleted from their evidence three pages of phone records between convicted liar Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Keith Davidson without notifying former President Donald Trump’s legal team, according to reports.

Trump attorney Emil Bove questioned paralegal Jaden Jarmel-Schneider on Friday about three pages of 2018 phone records between Davidson and Cohen that Bragg’s office had deleted, according to CNN. Additional phone records between Daniels manager Gina Rodriguez and then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard regarding Daniels’ claim about her alleged affair were also deleted, according to The Epoch Times.

The altered call records were submitted into evidence, but Bragg’s office did not tell Trump’s team that three pages were missing, The Epoch Times reported.