Daily News Roundup

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NOTABLE QUOTES

Mike Sabo contributor to The American Mind: Christian nationalism, therefore, is simply the latest attempt by a shrinking majority to recover an America that once was: a country that protects and promotes things worthy of honor and praise.

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) contributor to The American Conservative: As it relates to Congress, a poison pill is a detail contained in a bill that makes the entirety of the legislation unpalatable. Sometimes they are obvious, and sometimes they must be rooted out, but if we care about the direction of this country, we must always make the effort to find them.

Laura Ingraham: They’ve  gone from illegal aliens to undocumented immigrants to undocumented citizens to undocumented democrats. Now they are just “newcomers.”

Victor Davis Hanson contributor to Daily Caller: Societies do not always collapse from a lack of wealth, invasion, or natural catastrophes. Most often, they know what is destroying them. But they are so paralyzed by their fear that the road to salvation becomes too painful to even contemplate. So they implode gradually, then suddenly

Carson Halloway contributor to The American Mind: Edmund Burke was right to warn, more than two centuries ago, that “a great empire and little minds go ill together.” Regrettably, however, it is not uncommon in history to find very powerful nations governed by foolish, superficial, and arrogant people. The quality of the Ukraine debate suggests that this is a real problem for our own country, unless and until we can give ourselves better leaders.

Edmund Burke was a British statesman: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Charles Hilu reporter for The Washington Free Beacon: “You were asking me about a cognitive test. As it relates to that, look, the president doesn’t need a cognitive test. That is not my assessment. That is not my assessment. That is the assessment of the president’s doctor. That is also the assessment of the neurologist,” Jean-Pierre told reporters at the White House in a press briefing. ABC News’s senior White House correspondent, Selina Wang, had asked if Biden’s appointment included a test. Jean-Pierre added that Biden “passes a cognitive test every day,” a belief his doctor shares, she said.

Miranda Devine reporter for New York Post: Laken Riley should not be dead. If Joe Biden had not opened the borders with a slew of executive orders on his first day as president, the bubbly University of Georgia nursing student would be alive.

BIDEN CRIME FAMIILY

Road to Hunter Biden’s Burisma riches was paved in Moscow with effort to court Russian oligarchs

The effort to revive Russian collusion claims in Joe Biden’s impeachment probe is running into an inconvenient truth for Democrats: Hunter Biden and his business partners waged a concerted campaign to squeeze oligarchs in Vladimir Putin’s country for investments, an effort that ultimately paved the way for the first son to score a big payday from Burisma Holdings in neighboring Ukraine. Hunter Biden and his partners’ pursuit of Russian riches began as early as 2010 with payments from a Moscow-based machinery firm and its “patriarch,” and they intensified a few years later at a time when Joe Biden’s son was actually still serving as a U.S. Navy officer. That timeline is confirmed by bank records, contemporaneous emails and congressional testimony that chronicle a far larger effort by Biden, Inc. to target Moscow than has previously been acknowledged.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/hdall-roads-lead-moscow-hunters-burisma-gig-was-born-failed-venture

Ingraham Angle: It is ‘clear as day’ Hunter Biden was selling access to his dad: Josh Hawley

Watch the 5:52 minute interview: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6347963456112

Revolver.news: 229-Page Hunter Biden Deposition Transcript Released

Hunter Biden spent 6 hours testifying on Capitol Hill Wednesday and giving obtuse answers to questions from a joint panel from the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committee.

Read more:   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/02/29/229-page-hunter-biden-deposition-transcript-released/

BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PERSECUTE YOUR OPPOSITION, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP & HIS FORMER TRUMP EMPLOYEES, SUPPORTERS & WH STAFF

War Room: Mike Davis: “This Is So Much Bigger Than Donald Trump”

Watch the 8:39 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v4gai1u-mike-davis-this-is-so-much-bigger-than-donald-trump.html

Hutchison: ‘Running out of runway’: Jonathan Turley says Jack Smith is on the clock after Supreme Court takes Trump immunity case

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Wednesday the Supreme Court gave former President Donald Trump a “real victory” by taking up the case of his presidential immunity. The Supreme Court announced Wednesday it would take the case after Trump applied for a stay of an appeals court ruling that rejected his arguments that he had immunity from prosecution. Trump’s attorneys accused special counsel Jack Smith of having “a political motive” to try the case before the 2024 presidential election.

Read more/Watch the 3:13 minute Turley interview: https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/28/jonathan-turley-jack-smith-clock-after-supreme-court-takes-trump-immunity-case/

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET/NEW WORLD ORDER) & TRANS HUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

(Replace truth via reprogramming our brains) War Room: Joe Allen Explains How Google’s AI “Guard Rails” Erase White People and Warp Perception

Gemini refused to condemn pedophiles and equated Elon Musk with Hitler. All Gemini photos are of people of color. White is cancelled. When asked who is Jesus the response is, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.”

Read more: https://rumble.com/v4g84yk-joe-allen-explains-how-googles-ai-guard-rails-erase-white-people-and-warp-p.html

Spencer: Meta’s AI Achieves the Left’s Dream

Everyone knows that Donald Trump was the 45th president of the United States, but if Meta, the sinister and malevolent megacorporation formerly known as Facebook, gets its way, that fact will soon go down to the memory hole. The inconvenient little speed bump of 2017 to 2021, delaying our arrival at the socialist internationalist paradise our moral superiors envision for us, will be entirely forgotten as if it had never existed at all. We see this in a small but glaring fact: Meta’s AI lists Old Joe Biden as the 45th president, omitting mention of Donald Trump as president altogether. Donald Trump? He does not exist and never existed. You are suffering from delusions, comrade! Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok noted the omission on her X account. “My name is Meta AI. Think of me like an assistant who’s here to help you learn, plan, and connect. What can I help you with today?” It is given the prompt: “Can you list all the U.S. presidents?” and cheerfully responds: […] That’s the totalitarian goal: total control over human thought. The Meta AI presidents list is just one small step toward that goal. There will be much more of this.

Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/metas-ai-achieves-the-lefts-dream/

Keenan: Google’s AI Is As Dumb And Racist As The People Who Designed It

Google Gemini is just the latest iteration of the hottest trend in entertainment: white erasure from the culture. […] Google Gemini, therefore, is just the latest iteration of the hottest trend in entertainment: white erasure from the culture. And if you complain about this, you are a bigoted white supremacist who can’t abide seeing black people on camera, and therefore, you deserve to be erased. Imagine saying this to the generation of Americans who made Eddie Murphy the biggest movie star in the world and Michael Jackson the biggest pop star, and put Barack Obama in the White House — twice. None of those petty details matter anymore. White people served their purpose, and now it’s time for them to get erased. The leadership team at Google Gemini is mostly white, of course. They are products of years of corporate diversity training, “white fragility” brainwashing, and accusations of “white privilege.” If you are white and a successful executive at Google, you are required to spend a great deal of your time on your knees atoning for the sins of your ancestors — and for your unearned privilege […] But the image creation issues are just the tip of the dystopian iceberg. Google Gemini also refuses to condemn pedophilia.

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/26/googles-ai-is-as-dumb-and-racist-as-the-people-who-designed-it/

REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATE MINORITY

Walsh: McConnell Will Step Down As Senate GOP Leader In November

“McConnell, who turned 82 last week, was set to announce his decision Wednesday in the well of the Senate, a place where he looked in awe from its back benches in 1985 when he arrived and where he grew increasingly comfortable in the front row seat afforded the party leaders,” the Associated Press reported. “One of life’s most under-appreciated talents is knowing when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” he said in prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press. “So I stand before you today […] to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.”

Read more: https://conservativebrief.com/mcconnell-will-step-down-81469/

Chaitin: Here’s Who Might Run To Replace McConnell As Senate GOP Leader, Including The ‘Three Johns’

Top of the list of potential contenders, according to early chatter, appears to be the so-called “three Johns:” Sens. John Thune (R-SD), John Barrasso (R-WY), and John Cornyn (R-TX). […] “Mitch McConnell stepping down provides a great opportunity for true conservative leadership in the Senate. [Sen. Rick Scott] would make a great Republican leader,” Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said in a post to X. […] Among other names being floated as possible candidates for GOP leader was Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), the current chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee who is now focused on getting Republicans to win back the majority in the upper chamber.

Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-who-might-run-to-replace-mcconnell-as-senate-gop-leader-including-the-three-johns

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOSUE MAJORITY

Hageman: Stop Playing Legislative Games

here are all kinds of phrases and jargon that are particular to Congress and legislative procedure, so much so that sometimes it sounds like the folks on Capitol Hill are speaking a different language. When members of Congress talk in “legislative speak,” normal people tend to tune them out because, unlike D.C. careerists, they are not obsessed with the minutiae of the process. But at least one term is pretty clear on its face: “poison pill.” As it relates to Congress, a poison pill is a detail contained in a bill that makes the entirety of the legislation unpalatable. Sometimes they are obvious, and sometimes they must be rooted out, but if we care about the direction of this country, we must always make the effort to find them.

Read more: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/our-legislation-is-dying-of-poison-pills/

Ballasy: House GOP leaders consider changing some Ukraine war funding to loans: congressional source

Following a White House meeting on Tuesday, President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have stepped up pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to put the Senate bill –  which totals $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and humanitarian efforts in Gaza –  on the floor for a vote. The foreign aid package does not include provisions to cover the cost of the legislation. Johnson and House Republican leaders are considering multiple options for the next step, including providing some Ukraine war funding in cash and lending the rest, according a GOP congressional source close to the process.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-leaders-considering-lending-ukraine-funding-war-against-russia

Ballasy: Johnson reaches spending deal with Schumer, leading to passage of another short-term CR

“We are in agreement that Congress must work in a bipartisan manner to fund our government. Negotiators have come to an agreement on six bills: Agriculture-FDA, Commerce-Justice and Science, Energy and Water Development, Interior, Military Construction-VA, and Transportation-HUD,” read a statement from House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/johnson-reaches-spending-deal-schumer-pass-another-short-term-cr 

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

Bryen: Fire Jens Stoltenberg now before it is too late

Jens Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian Prime Minister and now Secretary General of NATO should be fired now, before it is too late. He announced he is giving Ukraine “permission” to use its soon to be delivered F-16s to launch attacks inside Russia. This is equivalent to a NATO declaration of war. It is an irrational and dangerous move that needs to be quashed as soon as possible.

Read more: https://asiatimes.com/2024/02/fire-jens-stoltenberg-now-before-it-is-too-late/

Goldberg: Biden’s Hezbollah Plan Is a Win-Win—for the Terrorists

The Biden administration is quietly pushing Israel into a phony political agreement with Lebanon that would deliver a strategic victory to Iran and its chief terror proxy, Hezbollah, while creating a false sense of security for the residents of northern Israel. With an American president unwilling to back the Jewish state in a war against a threat 10 times greater than Hamas, Jerusalem may yet agree to a farcical arrangement that puts lipstick on an unsustainable status quo. But no one should be confused by an election year ploy to buy a few months of quiet on Israel’s northern border. A major war is coming—it’s only a question of when.

Read more: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/02/23/bidens-hezbollah-plan-is-a-win-win-for-the-terrorists/

Kredo: ‘Iranian Appeasement’: Biden and Harris Decline White House Meeting With Kurdish Leader

Iraq’s Kurdish region has served as bulwark against Iranian efforts to infiltrate Iraq. The president and vice president both declined face-to-face meetings this week with the prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdish region, Masrour Barzani, a U.S. ally who has served as a bulwark against Iranian efforts to infiltrate Iraq, according to sources familiar with the matter. Barzani is in Washington, D.C., this week for a series of high-level meetings with U.S. officials at a time when Iranian terrorist proxies are running rampant across Iraq and launching attacks on American positions there. Iraq’s Kurdish region, which operates semiautonomously from the central government in Baghdad, has remained a steadfast U.S. ally as the United States works to beat back Iran’s growing foothold in the country.

Read more: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-appeasement-biden-and-harris-decline-white-house-meeting-with-kurdish-leader/

WND: WATCH: Tucker Carlson: Biden helped install pro-Chinese government in Brazil

Watch the 34:26 minute video: https://www.wnd.com/2024/02/watch-tucker-carlson-biden-helped-install-pro-chinese-government-brazil/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

(H/T RK)  VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: American Paralysis And Decline

“We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C –A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless. But the very contemplation of the hard medicine needed for restoration — and the furious reaction that would meet the remedy — made it impossible to save the patient. America is nearing such an impasse.

Read more: https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/29/victor-davis-hanson-livy-trump-prosecutions-national-decline-remedy-disease/

TheLibertyDaily: Compare Traitor Joe’s Talking Points Versus Trump’s Speech at the Border

Watch the 1:08 minute video: https://rumble.com/v4gk9en-compare-traitor-joes-talking-points-versus-trumps-speech-at-the-border.html

Ingraham Angle: Laura: The Democrats’ policy is to keep the border open, period

Watch the 7:26 minute monologue: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6347962493112

2024 ELECTION

Olsen: There’s a Good Reason Haley’s Still Running – And It’s Not Trump’s Legal Problems

The answer might be buried deep in the Republican convention rules. I have a theory: The answer might be buried in the Republican National Committee’s rules and their potential effect on her voice at the July convention. Haley will arrive in Milwaukee in possession of a cache of delegates — how many is unclear; at the moment, she has 20. The rules don’t simply give power to a candidate based on the number of delegates they possess. Candidates cannot have their names placed into nomination, and thereby get television airtime at the convention, unless they have a plurality of delegates in at least five states. That threshold makes a big difference for Haley in terms of her clout — if any — at the convention. Modern political conventions have morphed into four-day long infomercials for a nominee whose identity has long been known. Every winner wants to use that platform to broadcast a structured, convincing message. Do that right and you can give your candidacy a significant, and perhaps decisive, bounce in the polls.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/28/nikki-haley-dropout-republican-convention-00143746

Barone: Some Idiosyncratic Observations of the Elections So Far

Herewith some idiosyncratic, perhaps eccentric, observations on the electoral contests so far in this presidential cycle. 1. Turnout is down. In the first five contests — the Iowa and Nevada caucuses and the New Hampshire, South Carolina and Michigan primaries — Republican turnout was down from 2016, the most recent cycle with serious contests. That’s based on precincts currently reporting and the ace New York Times number crunchers’ estimates of as-yet-uncounted votes. This decline owes something to especially frigid weather on Iowa’s caucus night and the fact that Donald Trump’s only listed opponent in Nevada was Ryan Binkley. But even in South Carolina, whose population rose 10% in the eight intervening years, turnout was up only 2%. Democratic turnout, with no serious challenge to Joe Biden, was down by more than half this year. This is significant because, […]

Read more: https://jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone030124.php3

Tapson: Christians in the Crosshairs

The left hates Christians, even the liberal, nonjudgmental ones in nondenominational megachurches with pastors in skinny jeans. But because this is an election year and their presumed candidate and his vice-presidential backup option are such pathetically weak choices, the panicked left cannot afford to alienate all those Christian deplorables and drive them toward the Republican candidate. So their strategy, as always, is to divide and conquer. Thus, the left is ramping up hysteria about a segment of the Christian population they are painting as a clear and present danger to “democracy” (i.e., Democrat hegemony): Christian nationalists. As I have written elsewhere, The label “Christian nationalism” is the new Progressive dog-whistle for “scary American patriots.” It signals to Progressives that Americans who love God and country – which used to be the norm before our descent into a post-Christian, post-patriotism culture – are a subversive danger to democracy. Christianity, after all, imposes a moral code that chafes Progressive libertines, and nationalism, with its emphasis on state sovereignty and secure borders, frustrates their globalist ambitions.

Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/christians-in-the-crosshairs/

CORRUPT & DANGEROUS DEMOCRAT PARTY MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Ghlionn: Radio Ga Ga

Will George Soros turn the airwaves blue? Unless you happen to live under a rock on a distant planet, you’re probably familiar with George Soros—and his politics. For the uninitiated, Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. Politically speaking, he leans so far Left that he makes Bernie Sanders look conservative. Which makes Soros Fund Management’s recent $400 million investment in Audacy, the nation’s second-largest radio company, so worrisome. Audacy owns more than 220 stations nationwide, including New York’s WFAN and the Los Angeles-based KROQ. On February 20, Audacy was granted court approval to exit bankruptcy proceedings, with Soros’s investment fund poised to become the primary shareholder of the company. Well, who listens to the radio anyway? Tens of millions of Americans, that’s who.

[…] One needn’t be a tin foil hat-wearing nutcase to worry about the intentions of George Soros, a man whose actions and history betray a drive to subvert America and destroy every institution worth salvaging.

Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/radio-ga-ga/

EVIL HAS A NAME

Girardot: A Flawed Medical Procedure x Billions of Times = A Medical Armageddon

Given my work was mentioned in your discussion and that I have dedicated the past 3 years of my life to unraveling the mystery of COVID vaccine injuries, I thought I’d chip in, build on what was already presented and unveil the elephant in the room,.

What is the Bolus Theory? The Bolus Theory is the outcome of a detailed root-cause analysis I undertook. The theory explains all the adverse events by the fact that a significant dose of vaccine is directly injected intravascularly, bypassing many protections set in place by Evolution and triggering cardio-vascular and capillary damage throughout the body, as well as cancers and genetic disorders. What’s a bolus? Why is a bolus dangerous? A bolus is a concentrated dose of particles directly injected or infused into the bloodstream, typically to deliver a drug or a product in a concentrated fashion to an organ.It’s dangerous because (A) the IV injection avoids the disseminative effect of the vascular system with a 270,000x magnifying-glass effect, which causes considerable concentrated damage to blood vessels’ walls given the vaccines trigger T-cell attacks, and (B) because a bolus can reach deeper and contaminate hidden away high-replication stem cells, triggering a variety of dominos explained below, notably cancer.

Read more: https://covidmythbuster.substack.com/p/a-flawed-medical-procedure-x-billions

Wasburne: The “Boys Will Be Boys” of Science

The history of the Covid-19 pandemic started long before 2019. If I were to put a start date on the series of events leading to Covid-19, I’d start in 2011 when the Dutch scientist Ron Fouchier and his team at Erasmus University acquired a highly pathogenic avian influenza, bred the virus to be more infectious in mammals, and then opted to publish his findings in a scientific journal with global reach. At many points in the series of events, Dr. Fouchier had other options. I’m also a biologist, I’ve also thought of terrifying things one could make by a mix of genetic engineering and breeding, but unlike Dr. Fouchier I did not act on those horrific impulses, let alone share these ideas in the public domain. After breeding a potentially pandemic pathogen with ease, Dr. Fouchier had the option of reporting his findings to the Dutch defense and intelligence community in a non-public venue, raising their awareness of a threat without popularizing his handbook for bioterrorists worldwide, thereby increasing the threat itself. Instead, Dr. Fouchier published what one might call a bioterrorism cookbook, complete with a cartoon showing how you can cause a pandemic: […] Many scientists were outraged at the dangerous exhibitionism of Dr. Fouchier and his team of researchers at Erasmus University. Are citations and grants and fame really worth the risk of causing a pandemic and killing millions of people? Most members of the public were not aware of the rhetorical scientific warzone caused by Fouchier’s actions. […] Who opposed such simple arguments against the enhancement of potentially pandemic pathogens? Why? Who funded their work? What systems in science were able to overcome such simple arithmetic to support the risk-taking side with so few rewards? To understand this pre-history of the Covid-19 pandemic, one must know about “Scientists For Science” and their role as an academic lobby for the enhancement of potentially pandemic pathogens.

Read more: https://brownstone.org/articles/the-boys-will-be-boys-of-science/

WAR IN ISRAEL

Tobin: Why is Biden pushing for an immoral hostage deal?

Pressure on Israel to agree to pay an exorbitant ransom for the hostages that will grant victory to Hamas isn’t just politically motivated. It’s a betrayal of American interests A late-night comedy show isn’t the place you generally go for insights on the prospects for stability in the Middle East. But the appearance this week of President Joe Biden on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” gave us more than just another example of the broadcast network’s daily in-kind contributions to the Democrats and Biden’s re-election campaign. […] For nearly five months, the Jewish world has been calling for the release of hostages taken by Hamas during the Oct. 7 massacres in southern Israel—all of them. Indeed, the freedom of the hostages is one of Israel’s two main war goals alongside the elimination of Hamas. But as ongoing negotiations for the release of the more than 100 Israelis still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza continue with flurries of diplomatic activity involving the United States, as well as Hamas’s ally Qatar, something is missing from the discussion of the proposed terms for such a deal. And that is a moral compass.

Read more: https://www.jns.org/why-is-biden-pushing-for-an-immoral-hostage-deal/

HIGHER EDUCATION INDOCTRINATION

Graham: Meet the man changing the conversation about DEI

With 400 public records requests and counting, John Sailer is putting a spotlight on universities’ controversial hiring procedures. A year ago, Manhattan Institute scholar Christopher Rufo told his followers on social media that they should pay attention to an up-and-coming researcher who was looking into DEI policies at American universities. “This work is going to lead to serious policy impact,” Rufo wrote. The tweet was prescient. And John Sailer, the researcher that Rufo hailed, is becoming well known for his impact on diversity, equity and inclusion mandates across the country. Working from his home and coffee shops in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Sailer (pronounced Sigh-ler) has been doggedly exposing hiring policies that he believes are likely unconstitutional through his job as a senior fellow at the National Association of Scholars. Sailer’s reports, which have been published in various publications, including Deseret, The Free Press and The Wall Street Journal, appear to have been the impetus for policy changes in Missouri, Texas, Ohio and Colorado, and for vigorous debate elsewhere

Read more: https://www.deseret.com/2024/02/28/john-sailer-dei-universities-equity/

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Allen: Trump says ‘Biden’s invasion’ has sparked ‘WAR’ at the border: Praises agents dealing with men ‘from the Congo and jails’ and says Joe will ‘never’ say name of murdered jogger Laken Riley in wild Eagle Pass speech

Donald Trump declared the U.S. is at ‘war’ at the border because of ‘Joe Biden’s invasion’ and claimed military-aged men who look like ‘warriors’ are streaming across the Rio Grande from ‘jails in the Congo’ in a fiery speech in Texas on Thursday. The former president was shown concertina wires along the river by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and spoke to border guards who have been dealing with the surge in crossers – while Biden visited another border site 324 miles away. ‘You’re in a war,’ the 77-year-old Republican frontrunner told frontline agents in Eagle Pass, who have vented their fury at Biden. ‘This is a military operation.’ Trump said Biden had the ‘blood of countless innocent victims’ on his hands, adding: ‘He’s transported columns of fighting men. They look like warriors to me.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13142141/Trump-border-visit-texas-mexico.html

Mish Talk: Will a Money Hungry Government Take Away Your IRA and 401K?

A Bloomberg op-ed proposes the government will kill the 401K, and also that it should. If you are among the 56% of US workers with a retirement plan, I have some bad news for you: Your 401(k) will be gone in 10 years, tops. Not the money, thank goodness, but the plans themselves. There has been a brewing intellectual movement to get rid of the 401(k) for several years, with scholars on both the right and left questioning its value. And as the federal government gets increasingly desperate for new sources of revenue, the tax treatment of 401(k)s is a likely target. There are good policy reasons to end it, but the question remains: Will Americans still save for retirement?

Read more: https://mishtalk.com/economics/will-a-money-hungry-government-take-away-your-ira-and-401k/

INTERNATIONAL

Andersson & Jonung: How Sweden proved the world wrong about lockdown

In 2020, countries across the world followed in the footsteps of China and locked down hard against Covid-19. Liberties were drastically curtailed. As was economic activity, forcing governments to borrow tens if not hundreds of billions of pounds each to keep businesses and furloughed workers afloat. In Europe, one notable exception to this was Sweden. The Swedish government, despite facing heavy criticism, decided against imposing tight restrictions on social activity. The evidence now overwhelmingly suggests that Sweden made the right choice.

Did lockdown restrictions do more harm than good? Did they even work at all?

Read more: https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/29/how-sweden-proved-the-world-wrong-about-lockdown/

Nazar: Israel and Indonesia Were Supposed to Normalize Relations in October of Last Year: Sources

Israel and Indonesia had planned to officially announce the establishment of normalized relations in October of the previous year, according to new reports, however, the announcement was allegedly postponed due to the Hamas terror attack on Israel and the ongoing war.

Three individuals involved in the diplomatic talks informed Jewish Insider that Israel’s former Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and the office of departing Indonesian President Joko Widodo had endorsed a final version of an agreement. The normalization agreement reportedly sought to establish trade offices between Jerusalem and Jakarta, serving as an initial move toward establishing full diplomatic relations.

Read more: https://foreigndesknews.com/top-story/israel-and-indonesia-were-supposed-to-normalize-relations-in-october-of-last-year-sources/

Bazarra & Cotteril: West End play tells white theatre-goers they aren’t welcome as it hosts all-black audience nights at Kit Harington production to ‘protect’ ticketholders from ‘the white gaze’

A ‘controversial’ theatre production about race, identity and sexuality in twenty-first century America will put on two nights for black audiences to watch the play ‘free from the white gaze’. Slave Play, starring Kit Harington who is best known for his role as Jon Snow in the HBO series Game of Thrones, is coming to the Noël Coward theatre in London’s West End from 29 June to 21 September.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/west-end-play-tells-white-theatregoers-they-aren-t-welcome-as-it-hosts-all-black-audience-nights-at-kit-harington-production-to-protect-ticketholders-from-the-white-gaze/ar-BB1j2liU

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