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According to actress Michelle Williams, women need abortion in order to become successful in their careers. Former &#8220;America&#8217;s Next Top Model&#8217; contestant Leah Darrow says otherwise.
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In an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B6_9YozDkCp/?igshid=ssm2x5ckghrf">Instagram video </a>posted on Tuesday, Darrow praised pregnancy and motherhood as she prepared to deliver her fifth baby in the hospital.
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“I’m here getting ready to deliver my fifth baby,” said Darrow. “And I want to let all you women know, all you young ladies who haven’t had babies or are maybe listening to what the culture says about birth, and women, and babies, and choice.”
“Babies don’t keep us from our dreams,” she continued. “I’m getting ready to deliver a baby that will not keep me from my professional growth, but will make me better because of it. And I’m so honored and excited, and I can’t wait to have this baby.”
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In the caption accompanying the video, Darrow, an outspoken Catholic, said the notion that babies somehow keep people from achieving their dreams is a &#8220;lie&#8221; of the Devil that denies God&#8217;s gift for women to become &#8220;brave or strong.&#8221;
&#8220;New life never keeps us from our dreams,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;One of the cruelest lies that the Devil tells women is that we aren’t brave or strong enough to do what God invites us into when we bring life into the world. New life is always a gift. And I’m humbled that I get to receive this new life AND live out the *abundant* life the Lord created me for.&#8221;
&#8220;Please share this message with the ladies in your life because women deserve a better narrative than what the culture gives us,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We deserve to believe that life really *can* be this good, and that receiving new life is always, always, always pure gift.&#8221;
During her acceptance speech at the Golden Globe Awards this past Sunday, actress Michelle Williams sent a horrible message to women when she tacitly credited abortion with her showbiz success while claiming to speak for all women – a position that women like Leah Darrow clearly rebuts.
“I’m grateful for the acknowledgment of the choices I’m made, and I’m also grateful to have lived at a moment in our society where choice exists, because, as women and as girls, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pregnant-michelle-williams-thanks-abortion-for-her-golden-globe-win">Williams said</a>. “I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose, to choose when to have my children and with whom.&#8221;
“Now, I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God, or whomever you pray to, that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours,” she continued. “So, women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest. It’s what men have been doing for years. Don’t forget, we are the largest voting body in this country. Let’s make it look more like us.”
<blockquote>“Now, I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God, or whomever you pray to, that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours,” she continued. “So, women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest. It’s what men have been doing for years. Don’t forget, we are the largest voting body in this country. Let’s make it look more like us.”</blockquote>
“Now, I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God, or whomever you pray to, that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours,” she continued. “So, women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest. It’s what men have been doing for years. Don’t forget, we are the largest voting body in this country. Let’s make it look more like us.”

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Joseph <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-prof-trump-a-fat-klansman-moron-paints-the-walls-of-the-oval-office-with-his-own-s/">Robinette</a> Biden Jr. served as the 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009–2017 and is currently the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democratic_nomination_polls/">polling leader</a> for the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2020 presidential nomination. Prior to that, he served as a U.S. senator from Delaware from 1973–2009. Biden, a Pennsylvania native and member of the Democratic Party, grew up in a Catholic family. He attained his bachelor&#8217;s degree at the University of Delaware and attended law school at Syracuse University. After law school, he worked in Delaware, both as a public defender and in private legal practice.
Biden first married Neilia Biden (née Hunter), who tragically died — along with the couple&#8217;s one-year-old daughter Naomi — in a car accident shortly after Biden&#8217;s first U.S. Senate electoral victory in November 1972. Along with Naomi, Biden and Neilia also had two other children: Sons Beau and Hunter. Beau died at the age of 46, while Biden was serving as vice president, due to brain cancer. Biden eventually married Jill Biden (née Jacobs) in 1977 and the couple has had one child together, Ashley.
In 2008, Biden made history by being the running mate to the first black American to be elected to the office of president of the United States, Barack Obama.
Electoral History: Biden first successfully sought elected office in 1969, when he ran for New Castle County Council in suburban Delaware. Biden then ran for U.S. Senate in 1972, narrowly defeating incumbent Republican J. Caleb Boggs. Biden served in the Senate for seven terms, including a notable stretch as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987–1995. As Senate Judiciary Committee chairman during this period, Biden oversaw the committee&#8217;s vetting of various U.S. Supreme Court nominations from Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Later, in the 2000s, Biden also served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The 2020 election marks the third time that Biden has sought the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. In 1988, Biden ran for president, although his campaign proved short-lived after allegations of perjury surfaced. In 2008, Biden ran a foreign policy-centric campaign that focused largely on his plan to divide Iraq into different religious/ethnic-based political units. He dropped out after the Iowa caucuses and was eventually named as the vice presidential running mate to 2008 Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama.
In 2008, Obama and Biden prevailed over U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by an Electoral College margin of 365–173. In 2012, Obama and Biden successfully sought re-election, defeating former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and running mate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) by an Electoral College margin of 332–206.
Biden has long had a penchant for verbal gaffes. His political campaigning style, which some believe to be highly up-close and personal, has led some to nickname him &#8220;Uncle Joe.&#8221;
On The Issues: Although Biden now presents himself as a moderate, centrist figure, the totality of his political career, overall, suggests that he is a firm leftist. Biden has dabbled at times in moderation, including previous support for tough-on-crime legislation and his longstanding stance that he is &#8220;personally pro-life&#8221; despite his support of legalized abortion. However, he has long been a progressive on legal issues, economic issues, and foreign policy issues, and even preempted President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;evolution&#8221; when, in 2012, he confirmed that he was <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/06/nation/la-na-biden-gay-marriage-20120507">&#8220;absolutely comfortable&#8221; </a>with same-sex marriage.
Constitution: As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987–1995, Biden oversaw two of the most contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations in recent memory: Those of Reagan nominee Robert Bork and Bush nominee Clarence Thomas. Along with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Biden helped orchestrate and lead the personally nasty, full-frontal assault that ultimately resulted in the Bork nomination&#8217;s failure. Biden&#8217;s legislative posture has indicated an expansive view of congressional regulatory power: He helped lead the passing of the Violence Against Women Act, which was partially invalidated on constitutional grounds by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000.
Economy: Biden is best described as a Keynesian who believes in the purported economic benefits of large-scale government investments and deficit spending. Along with then-President Obama, Biden shepherded through a massive fiscal stimulus package in the duo&#8217;s first year in office, oversaw the passing of the regulation-heavy Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, dramatically expanded the national debt, and hiked income taxes on the wealthy. Biden has long been supportive of a greater federal role in infrastructure spending. On the issue of trade, Biden voted for NAFTA in 1993. Biden has opposed the privatization of Social Security.
Health Care: Along with Obama, Biden helped oversee the 2010 passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare. Obamacare radically reshaped the individual market for health insurance, infamously included a tax/mandate to purchase health insurance, and generally dramatically expanded the role of government in the regulation and provision of health care. There is likely no Obama/Biden agenda item that conservatives have more consistently opposed than Obamacare. Biden has never indicated any willingness to structurally reform fiscally ruinous health care-related entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid. As part of his 2020 presidential nomination platform, Biden has claimed opposition to &#8220;Medicare for All.&#8221;
Immigration: Biden voted for the George W. Bush-era Secure Fence Act of 2006, but has also consistently supported amnesty policies throughout his career — including the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 and the failed &#8220;Gang of Eight&#8221; immigration bill in 2013. Biden served as vice president when Obama issued two major unilateral executive amnesties, DACA in 2012 and DAPA in 2014 — each of which has been fiercely opposed by conservatives and has been challenged in high-profile lawsuits.
Foreign Policy: Biden has cultivated a largely dovish foreign policy profile, although he did vote in favor of authorizing the Iraq War in 2003. As vice president, Biden was a leading proponent for and cheerleader of President Obama&#8217;s 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran — a deal which flushed the terror-supporting mullahs&#8217; coffers with cash and did not place any restrictions whatsoever on Iran&#8217;s non-nuclear ballistic missile program. During his 2008 presidential campaign, Biden pushed hard for a solution to the Iraqi quagmire that divided the troubled nation into discrete Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish semi-autonomous sections. Although a self-described friend of Israel, Biden has often been harshly critical of Israel&#8217;s treatment of the Palestinian-Arabs and <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/menachem-begin-to-joe-biden-i-am-not-a-jew-with-trembling-knees/2015/04/03/">allegedly once threatened</a> to cut off U.S. aid to Israel. Along with Obama, Biden as vice president took steps to loosen the U.S.&#8217;s longstanding embargo on Cuba, although the U.S. received no tangible concessions from Cuba&#8217;s communist dictatorship before doing so.
Abortion: Biden described himself as &#8220;personally pro-life&#8221; while nonetheless believing that Roe v. Wade was correctly decided and that women have a constitutional right to abortion. For decades, Biden supported the Hyde Amendment — which prohibits federal funding of abortion — but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48137/watch-biden-flips-using-taxpayer-money-fund-james-barrett">flipped his position</a> in 2019 to appease the hard-left Democratic activists who now comprise the base of the party.
Guns: Biden was a leading proponent and sponsor of the federal &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; ban, a subset of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Throughout his career, he has generally been supportive of curtailing Second Amendment rights. Biden has also supported mandating five-day waiting periods for gun purchases, as well as closing the alleged &#8220;gun show loophole.&#8221; Biden supports a ban on the undefinable sub-class of firearms referred to as so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; — a line of thought that, if taken to its logical conclusion, could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer">lead to the banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America</a>.

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Marianne Williamson, a longtime American author, lecturer, and self-help guru, is a candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Williamson is one of the more heterodox candidates in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential field, and has a long-time history as something of a <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/marianne-williamson-tweets-takes">Twitter sensation</a>. Williamson has a decades-long history as a social activist: Among other ventures, she founded a food delivery program for AIDS patients (Project Angel Food), co-founded a pro-peace group called Peace Alliance, and has written four New York Times number one bestsellers. She has also dedicated large parts of her professional career to <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-679-42218-1">empowering women</a> in both a personal and professional context.
Williamson, who was born in Houston, is Jewish and (along with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48572/where-does-bernie-sanders-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">Sen. Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT)) would become the first Jewish nominee for a major American political party, if successfully nominated. She studied for two years at Pomona College, although she subsequently dropped out. She published her first book in 1992, and spent much of the 1990s and 2000s as a frequent television guest on &#8220;The Oprah Winfrey Show,&#8221; among other popular programs.
According to <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democratic_nomination_polls/">recent 2020 Democratic presidential polling</a>, Williamson polls at 0-3% support.
Electoral History: In 2014, Williamson ran as an independent in the election for California&#8217;s 33rd congressional district — a heavily Democratic section of Los Angeles. In her race, she ran as a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140226020125/http://www.marianneforcongress.com/issues">full-spectrum progressive</a>, emphasizing civil liberty, humanitarian, environmental, and welfare state issues. Williamson eventually finished fourth out of 16 candidates, thus failing to qualify for a run-off in California&#8217;s &#8220;jungle primary&#8221; system.
Williamson is now seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
On The Issues: Although unusual in her candidate profile and general aura, Williamson <a href="https://iowastartingline.com/2019/02/03/love-reparations-and-fighting-back-a-marianne-williamson-iowa-tour/">describes</a> herself as a &#8220;pretty straight-line progressive Democrat.&#8221; Although her far-left policy proposals closely mirror the proposals of many of her fellow candidates, her signature substantive issue is likely her <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/marianne-williamson-calls-for-reparations-to-be-paid-to-descendants-of-slaves/">call for a whopping $200 billion – $500 billion</a> in slavery reparations. But perhaps above all else, what defines Williamson&#8217;s candidacy is her tone and demeanor — which can best be described as truly emblematic of her motivational, self-help guru professional past.
Constitution: Williamson does not have much of a paper trail on legal and judicial issues. But a sampling of her public statements and a look at her <a href="https://www.marianne2020.com/issues">2020 campaign website</a> indicate that Williamson supports the customary legal positions of a contemporary progressive leftist. Williamson claims to &#8220;vigorously resist any effort to restrict, limit, or diminish the reproductive rights and freedoms granted by Roe v. Wade,&#8221; thus indicating a leftist belief in the textually dubious so-called &#8220;right to privacy&#8221; and &#8220;right to abortion.&#8221; Williamson <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140228062628/http://www.marianneforcongress.com/democracy_at_risk">strongly opposes</a> Citizens United v. F.E.C., the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s landmark 2010 political speech-affirming ruling. She also supports <a href="https://www.marianne2020.com/issues/gun-control">many policies</a> that would infringe upon Americans&#8217; Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Economy: Williamson <a href="https://www.marianne2020.com/issues/social-security">opposes structural reforms</a> to make Social Security financially solvent. More generally, she is a <a href="https://www.marianne2020.com/issues/the-economy">staunch economic leftist</a> who criticizes purported corporate greed and lavishes praise upon greater government investment in eduation and infrastructure. Williamson places a big emphasis upon decreasing income inequality and wealth inequality. Like many of her 2020 Democratic rivals, she supports a $15 federal minimum wage — notwithstanding a recent Congressional Budget Office study that shows such a policy <a href="https://ijr.com/cbo-study-shows-15-minimum-wage-would-kill-millions-of-jobs/">could destroy millions of jobs</a>. Williamson supports socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s (D-NY) statist &#8220;Green New Deal.&#8221; She also supports rigorous enforcement of the nation&#8217;s antitrust laws.
Health Care: Williamson praises &#8220;Medicare for All,&#8221; <a href="https://www.marianne2020.com/issues/healthcare">arguing</a> that it would actually be cheaper than the health care status quo. In practice, &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; would amount to a single-payer health insurance system that would amount to a governmental takeover of health insurance and imposition of socialized medicine in America. Williamson supports offering a public Medicare option on the pre-existing Obamacare health insurance exchanges. She supports decriminalizing various narcotics, which she views as a necessary step toward treating drug addiction as a mental health issue.
Immigration: Williamson supports a full pathway to citizenship for most of America&#8217;s illegal alien populace, including so-called &#8220;DREAM-ers.&#8221; Williamson opposes a border wall with Mexico, <a href="https://www.marianne2020.com/issues/immigration">calling</a> it &#8220;expensive, impractical, and unlikely to address any of the real challenges we face.&#8221; Williamson supports expediting asylum processing for illegal aliens at our southern border, notwithstanding that the overwhelming majority of the present influx of Central Americans seeking asylum at our southern border have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46457/amidst-unprecedented-border-crisis-united-nations-josh-hammer">facially bogus legal claims</a>. She supports offering government-run health insurance to illegal aliens.
Foreign Policy: Williamson has a thin record on foreign policy issues. She has <a href="https://www.axios.com/marianne-williamson-2020-presidential-election-candidate-factsheet-11e39a17-4437-4049-9479-daabdbd46d35.html">asserted</a> that the U.S. should be an &#8220;honest broker&#8221; in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. More generally, Williamson seems to take a staunchly non-interventionist approach to foreign policy. Much like fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49151/where-does-tulsi-gabbard-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">Rep. Tulsi Gabbard</a> (D-HI), Williamson seems to consistently oppose U.S. military engagements in the Middle East, and to consistently support bringing home troops from far-flung locales such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. As her campaign website <a href="https://www.marianne2020.com/issues/national-security">says</a>, &#8220;The only way to make peace with your neighbors is to make peace with your neighbors.&#8221;
Abortion: Williamson is staunchly pro-abortion, an adamant supporter of Roe v. Wade, and <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-candidates-hyde-amendment-abortion_n_5cf964b5e4b06af8b50570bd">supports repealing</a> the Hyde Amendment, which has historically proscribed taxpayer funding of abortion.
Guns: Williamson supports <a href="http://www.marianne2020.com/issues/gun-control">many policies</a> that would infringe upon Americans&#8217; Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. She supports expanded background checks and limitations or bans on certain weapons and magazines that are currently in wide distribution. Williamson <a href="https://www.marianne2020.com/issues/gun-control">supports a ban</a> on the undefinable sub-class of firearms referred to as so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; — a line of thought that, if taken to its logical conclusion, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer">could lead to the banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America</a>.

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Julian Castro served as the U.S. secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 2014 to 2017. He was the youngest member of President Barack Obama&#8217;s Cabinet. A member of the Democratic Party, Castro previously served as mayor of his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, from 2009 to 2014 and as a member of the San Antonio City Council from 2001 to 2005. Castro&#8217;s twin brother Joaquin, a fellow Democrat, has been the U.S. congressman for Texas&#8217; 20th congressional district since 2013. Castro is now seeking the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination, and he has recently <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democratic_nomination_polls/">polled</a> in the low single digits.
Castro, who is of Mexican-American heritage, has a bachelor degree from Stanford University and a law degree from Harvard Law School. As a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Castro presents himself as a full-spectrum leftist/progressive. Perhaps above all else, Castro is particularly aggressive in his leftist advocacy on the issue of immigration.
Electoral History: Castro first successfully sought a seat on the San Antonio City Council in 2001; at the age of 26, he became the youngest city councilman in San Antonio&#8217;s history. Castro then unsuccessfully sought the San Antonio mayorship in 2005, losing a run-off to Phil Hardberger. Castro successfully sought the San Antonio mayorship four years later, winning the May 2009 election with over 56% of the vote. At the time, he became the youngest mayor of one of America&#8217;s 50 largest cities. Castro was easily re-elected to the San Antonio mayorship in 2011 and 2013. In 2012, he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, thus foreshadowing his leap into the national political arena. He subsequently served as President Obama&#8217;s HUD secretary from July 2014 through the end of Obama&#8217;s presidency.
On The Issues: Although Castro has never held federal elected office or any state office, he presents himself as a full-spectrum progressive leftist. His 2020 presidential campaign is focused more heavily on immigration than it is on anything else. Castro also emphasizes criminal justice issues, and his campaign <a href="https://issues.juliancastro.com">website</a> laments &#8220;the frightening rate at which unarmed black and brown folks [are] killed by law enforcement officers across America.&#8221;
Constitution: Although a lawyer by training, Castro does not have an extensive history of comments or espoused policies by which his views on the Constitution and rule of law can be assessed. Nonetheless, based on the sample size that is public, Castro seems to support a more robust federal regulatory role that is consistent with legal leftism&#8217;s preference for more expansive federal power at the expense of state power. He was an aggressive enforcer of the Fair Housing Act, a key piece of federal government-empowering regulatory legislation, during his tenure as HUD secretary. Castro also <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/castro-do-away-with-the-electoral-college/">supports eradicating</a> the Electoral College. Furthermore, Castro supports repealing 8 U.SC. § 1325, which would make illegal entry into the United States a civil, rather than a criminal, offense. Finally, Castro emphatically supports Roe v. Wade.
Economy: Castro vocally supported NAFTA as the mayor of San Antonio, although he has <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-does-julian-castro-believe-where-the-candidate-stands-on-8-issues">called for</a> increased progressive protections to assuage labor and environmental concerns. As San Antonio mayor, Castro also <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-does-julian-castro-believe-where-the-candidate-stands-on-8-issues">supported</a> a tax hike to create a city-wide pre-kindergarten program. He supports raising taxes on the wealthy to try to finance his socialized medicine/&#8221;universal health care&#8221; proposal.
Health Care: Castro previously supported Obamacare but now supports a single-payer/&#8221;Medicare-for-All&#8221; health insurance system that would amount to a governmental takeover and imposition of socialized health care in America.
Immigration: Castro has taken a hard line in support of amnesty legislative initiatives that would undermine America&#8217;s sovereignty and empower brutal Mexican cartels and human trafficking rings. Castro supports a full pathway to citizenship for most of America&#8217;s illegal alien populace, including so-called &#8220;DREAM-ers.&#8221; He has been a consistently harsh critic of the Trump administration&#8217;s attempts to secure our border amidst a hitherto unprecedented influx of Central American migrants. Castro opposes a border wall with Mexico and supports decriminalizing illegal entry into the United States. He supports increasing refugee admissions and efforts to &#8220;strengthen family reunification&#8221; for illegal aliens. According to his <a href="https://issues.juliancastro.com/people-first-immigration/">campaign website</a>, he supports &#8220;effectively end[ing] the use of detention in conducting immigration enforcement.&#8221;
Foreign Policy: Castro has a thin record of public comments and proposed policies in the realm of foreign affairs, but he <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-does-julian-castro-believe-where-the-candidate-stands-on-8-issues">supports a full withdrawal</a> of U.S. troops from Syria. He has also <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Julian_Castro_Foreign_Policy.htm">voiced support</a> for the strong U.S. relationship with South Korea.
Abortion: Castro is emphatically pro-abortion and has not identified a single abortion restriction he would support. He <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-does-julian-castro-believe-where-the-candidate-stands-on-8-issues">strongly opposed</a> a Texas law to ban abortions after 20 weeks&#8217; gestation. Castro has <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/447115-2020-democrats-distance-themselves-from-biden-on-abortion-hyde-amendment">called for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment</a>, which has historically proscribed taxpayer funding of abortion.
Guns: Castro has frequently espoused support for gun control policies that would infringe upon Americans&#8217; Second American rights. He supports expanded background checks and limitations or bans on certain weapons and magazines that are currently in wide distribution. Castro <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-does-julian-castro-believe-where-the-candidate-stands-on-8-issues">supports a ban</a> on the undefinable sub-class of firearms referred to as so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; — a line of thought that, if taken to its logical conclusion, could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer">lead to the banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America</a>.

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Why are Americans spending so much on the healthcare industry but not getting any healthier? In the latest 5-minute video for PragerU, Johns Hopkins Medical School Professor Dr. Marty Makary breaks down the reasons Americans aren&#8217;t getting any healthier, and how to reverse the trend. 
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Makary, author of “The Price We Pay: What Broke American Healthcare And How To Fix It,” says there are two major reasons why the U.S. simply isn’t getting any healthier — even though we pay exorbitant prices for healthcare. 
First, argues Makary, we fail to pay enough attention to our own health, even though it&#8217;s our greatest asset. Second, doctors don&#8217;t give enough focus to patients&#8217; basic needs. &#8220;The healthcare system rewards us for doing things to people, not for people,&#8221; says Makary. 
Americans have &#8220;a very expensive system to treat the most obese, medicated, comorbid population in the world,&#8221; he says. 
For example, the number of drugs prescribed by doctors has doubled over the last ten years, and the rate of newly diagnosed Type-2 diabetes cases has increased by 4.8% per year. And during the pandemic, more than 78% of people hospitalized in the U.S. were either overweight or obese.
“So, what does the future look like,” asks Makary. “More sickness? More procedures? And more pills at an ever-increasing cost? Well, if we keep doing the same things we&#8217;ve been doing that haven&#8217;t worked for the last twenty-five years, the answer is yes.”
He says &#8220;most people with Type-2 diabetes can come off their insulin simply by changing what they eat,&#8221; adding that, &#8220;when disease can be cured by a lifestyle change, medication should be the last resort.&#8221;
“This requires a partnership between doctor and patient. Both have to make a commitment to get to the underlying cause of disease rather than simply treat symptoms,” says Makary. 
Makary says that he and a &#8220;new wave of healthcare professionals&#8221; have been working on this approach.
Imagine healthcare professionals who treat diabetes with cooking classes, not just with insulin, or who treat back pain with ice, stretching, and physical therapy, rather than just with surgery by itself, says Makary. “We&#8217;re treating high blood pressure with healthy foods, yoga classes, stress management, and better sleep, instead of just putting people on pills,” he says. 
&#8220;America has the finest healthcare system in the world, the most skilled doctors, the most advanced diagnostic and surgical techniques. It&#8217;s there if you need it,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The trick is to reduce the odds that you will need it. That&#8217;s not your doctor&#8217;s responsibility. That&#8217;s not the government&#8217;s responsibility. That&#8217;s yours.&#8221;
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A top historian is warning that so-called &#8220;woke&#8221; culture is a &#8220;fake religion&#8221; that must be reigned in or else it could have deadly consequences.
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson, a Scottish author and historian, appeared on Fox News host Tucker Carlson&#8217;s podcast &#8220;Tucker Carlson Today,&#8221; where he explained why the political Left does not focus on the economy very much anymore compared to the past.
&#8220;The people on the Left didn&#8217;t really want to have a conversation about economics, because they had lost their arguments in the 1980s; they really hadn&#8217;t been able to make the case for socialism successfully,&#8221; Ferguson said. &#8220;And the conclusion was that there was more money to be made, or more power to be gained by exploiting identity politics and emphasizing cultural, racial, gender differences.&#8221;
Later on in the podcast, Ferguson warned that Western society does not yet &#8220;fully realize, although it&#8217;s becoming more and more clear,&#8221; that &#8220;wokeism, is in fact, a religion.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not a secular political ideology &#8230; it&#8217;s not really about economics,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It is about salvation, membership of the elect of the woke. It&#8217;s about persecuting heretics. It&#8217;s about elaborate rituals of speech that can only be pursued by the believers. It&#8217;s rather cult like, Matt Yglesias is not somebody I usually agree with, but he called it the Great Awokening. This was a very astute observation. So we are dealing not just with the decay of traditional religion, but far worse, the rise of new fake religions, political religions, and one thing that&#8217;s very clear from the 20th century is that when people take their religious feelings, and they apply them to political ideologies, terrible things can happen.&#8221;
&#8220;Central to what made communism so deadly, was it&#8217;s ultimately a religion, Marx is ultimately a prophet and Marxism is a kind of religion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The same was true of Nazism. The most ardent Nazis thought of Hitler and explicitly called him a redeemer of the German nation. So we&#8217;ve got to be very careful of political religions. Politics is not something that you should approach with a religious impulse. If you start feeling religiously about politics, take a lie down, you know, have some sleep, take a long walk and try again because politics should not be imbued with religious sentiment.&#8221;
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<blockquote>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS HOST: So for the latest episode of Tucker Carlson Today, we sat down with perhaps the greatest historian of economic trends still alive, Niall Ferguson. And we asked him, why doesn&#8217;t anyone talk about the economy anymore? Here&#8217;s part of our conversation.
NIALL FERGUSON, ECONOMIST:  The people on the Left didn&#8217;t really want to have a conversation about economics, because they had lost their arguments in the 1980s, they really hadn&#8217;t been able to make the case for socialism successfully. And the conclusion was that there was more money to be made, or more power to be gained by exploiting identity politics and emphasizing cultural, racial, gender differences. And that&#8217;s where all the energy moved to. And it was bad luck for the working classes, I mean, hard luck for the economic losers from globalization and financialization, because they really cease to figure in the debates that were going on in the elite universities and then in the educational system, as a whole. 
So I think the answer is that partly, there was just a shift of strategy on the Left away from economics into what seemed like the more fertile ground of culture. But it was also partly because the people who lost out in that period that we could date from maybe 2001, that&#8217;s when China joined the World Trade Organization, the people who&#8217;d lost out, were of no interest to the academic Left, the working class of Middle America, just cease to figure. 
And I think one of the things that we don&#8217;t fully realize, although it&#8217;s becoming more and more clear, is that what the Left now offers, wokeism, is in fact, a religion. It&#8217;s not a secular political ideology. That&#8217;s why as you were saying earlier, it&#8217;s not really about economics. It is about salvation, membership of the elect of the woke. It&#8217;s about persecuting heretics. It&#8217;s about elaborate rituals of speech that can only be pursued by the believers. It&#8217;s rather cult like, Matt Yglesias is not somebody I usually agree with, but he called it the Great Awokening. This was a very astute observation. So we are dealing not just with the decay of traditional religion, but far worse, the rise of new fake religions, political religions, and one thing that&#8217;s very clear from the 20th century is that when people take their religious feelings, and they apply them to political ideologies, terrible things can happen. 
Central to what made communism so deadly, was it&#8217;s ultimately a religion, Marx is ultimately a prophet and Marxism is a kind of religion. The same was true of Nazism. The most ardent Nazis thought of Hitler and explicitly called him a redeemer of the German nation. So we&#8217;ve got to be very careful of political religions. Politics is not something that you should approach with a religious impulse. If you start feeling religiously about politics, take a lie down, you know, have some sleep, take a long walk and try again because politics should not be imbued with religious sentiment.</blockquote>
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Top Historian: U.S. ‘Dealing Not Just With Decay Of Traditional Religion,’ But Something ‘Far Worse’

Niall Ferguson

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Arizona Republicans are rebuffing Biden-nominated U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who said Friday that the Justice Department would be reviewing any election audits for alleged voter violations. Garland also knocked &#8220;abnormal&#8221; review methods, without specifically citing the Arizona audit.
&#8220;Some jurisdictions, based on disinformation, have utilized abnormal post-election audit methodologies that may put the integrity of the voting process at risk and undermine public confidence in our democracy,&#8221; Garland <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/politics/abnormal-methods-us-attorney-general-says-feds-will-review-arizonas-partisan-election-audit/75-da6c715a-98b9-43eb-adeb-393b0b9feb92">said</a>, as reported by 12 News.
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The news station noted that the AG said he would double the staff of the Civil Rights Division&#8217;s enforcement &#8220;within the next thirty days, in order to deal with challenges to voting rights nationwide.&#8221;
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&#8220;We must rededicate the resources of the Department of Justice to a critical part of its original mission: enforcing federal law to protect the franchise for all voters,&#8221; Garland said.
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Election audits will be reviewed &#8220;to ensure they abide by federal statutory requirements to protect election records and avoid the intimidation of voters,&#8221; he added, and the DOJ will &#8220;publish guidance explaining the civil and criminal statutes that apply to post-election audits.&#8221;
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Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward fired back Friday on Twitter, writing, &#8220;Seems Merrick either wants to ignore or forgot all about the US Constitution…<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DOJHasNoSay?src=hashtag_click">#DOJHasNoSay</a> <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StatesRights?src=hashtag_click">#StatesRights</a>.&#8221;
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Seems Merrick either wants to ignore or forgot all about the US Constitution…<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DOJHasNoSay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DOJHasNoSay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StatesRights?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StatesRights</a> <a href="https://t.co/aTy0DLJh1t">https://t.co/aTy0DLJh1t</a>
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&#8220;You will not touch Arizona ballots or machines unless you want to spend time in an Arizona prison,&#8221; posted State Senator Wendy Rogers. &#8220;Maybe you should focus on stopping terrorism. The Justice Department is one of the most corrupt institutions in the USA.&#8221;
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You will not touch Arizona ballots or machines unless you want to spend time in an Arizona prison. Maybe you should focus on stopping terrorism. The Justice Department is one of the most corrupt institutions in the USA.<a href="https://t.co/Jl2pKNpfJR">https://t.co/Jl2pKNpfJR</a>
&mdash; Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1403456229486247942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The Biden DOJ has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-doj-attempts-to-stop-arizona-election-audit">already intervened</a> in the election auditing efforts by Maricopa County Republicans, sending a letter in May to the president of the Arizona state Senate suggesting the recount is illegal.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-recount-justice-department/2021/05/06/fbe4793c-ae87-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html">reported</a> at the time that the DOJ letter raises “the possibility of a clash between state and federal authorities over the audit.”
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Penned by Pamela S. Karlan, who heads the DOJ’s civil rights division, the letter suggests “that the recount of nearly 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County by a private contractor may not comply with federal law, which requires that ballots be securely maintained for 22 months following a federal election,” the Post noted.
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“We have a concern that Maricopa County election records, which are required by federal law to be retained and preserved, are no longer under the ultimate control of elections officials, are not being adequately safeguarded by contractors, and are at risk of damage or loss,” wrote Karlan.
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Back in February, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Timothy Thomason <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/az-judge-sides-with-senate-gop-over-audit-of-millions-of-ballots-election-equipment">disagreed</a> with Karlan’s current analysis. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/az-judge-sides-with-senate-gop-over-audit-of-millions-of-ballots-election-equipment">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
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“There is no question that the Senators have the power to issue legislative subpoenas,” Judge Thomason <a href="https://ktar.com/story/4102892/judge-rules-arizona-senate-can-get-access-to-2-1-million-ballots/">wrote</a> at the time. “The Subpoenas comply with the statutory requirements for legislative subpoenas. The Senate also has broad constitutional power to oversee elections.”
“The Arizona legislature clearly has the power to investigate and examine election reform matters,” the ruling said. “The Subpoenas also do not violate separation of powers principles. Production of the subpoenaed materials would not violate confidentiality laws.&#8221;
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Senate Judiciary Committee Hears Testimony From Attorney General Nominee Merrick Garland

AG Merrick Garland Says Feds Will Review Election Audits, AZ GOP Fires Back  

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A black Indianapolis police officer is suing the National Football League over videos and tweets he says imply he shot and killed a suspect because of &#8220;systemic racism.&#8221;
&#8220;Indianapolis Metro Police Department Officer De’Joure Mercer filed the lawsuit in the federal Southern District of Indiana Court&#8221; Monday, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nfl-lawsuit-police-officer-alleged-implication-criminally-killed-campaign-honoree">Fox News reported</a>, &#8220;over video and tweets the league published last year&#8221; as part of the &#8220;Say Their Stories&#8221; campaign &#8220;claiming that a Black man he shot and killed died because of &#8216;systemic racism.'&#8221;
The lawsuit centers around the NFL&#8217;s decision to honor Dreasjon Reed &#8212; &#8220;one of the many individuals being honored by players and coaches this season through the NFL’s helmet decal program.&#8221;
According to Indianapolis police officers who spoke with the Indianapolis Star, officers observed Reed driving erratically and initiated a vehicular pursuit. A sergeant for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department eventually called off the chase because of &#8220;how fast Reed was driving,&#8221; but Mercer later &#8220;saw Reed driving eastbound on 62nd Street before parking at a business. Both the officer and Reed left their cars, and a foot pursuit began.&#8221;
&#8220;Police said there was a confrontation between the two &#8230; that involved an exchange of gunfire, and the officer called in the shooting at 6:16 p.m,&#8221; according to the Indianapolis Star. &#8220;Police said the officer used his service weapon after a Taser deployment was &#8216;ineffective.&#8217; Fifteen casings were recovered at the scene. Police said they believe a weapon found at the scene belonged to Reed.&#8221;
Reed&#8217;s death sparked a series of protests in Indianapolis, and the NFL featured Reed as one of 87 &#8220;victims of systemic racism, victims of police misconduct, and social justice heroes.&#8221;
Mercer, however, says that &#8220;materials the league published imply that Mercer &#8216;committed occupational misconduct and even criminal acts during the May 6 (e)ncounter with Reed, similar to that which were inflicted upon George Floyd,'&#8221; per Fox.
&#8220;De’Joure Mercer is a hero. He tracked down a very dangerous criminal wanted by the police, who was a threat to the citizens of Indianapolis,&#8221; Mercer&#8217;s attorney, Guy A. Relford said in a statement to media about the suit. &#8220;He put his life on the line and was nearly killed in that effort. He was completely exonerated after an exhaustive investigation into the death of Mr. Reed. For NFL Enterprises then to suggest he was involved in police or racist misconduct is totally false, defamatory, and unacceptable. What happened here has nothing to do with racism.
&#8220;While we support NFL Enterprises’ efforts to address social justice issues, Officer Mercer is taking a stand for the many, many good cops on duty across America. He is standing up for his friends and colleagues and sending a message that before you accuse a decorated police officer of misconduct in a national campaign, you had better get your facts straight,&#8221; Relford noted.
The NFL launched the &#8220;Say Their Stories&#8221; campaign ahead of the 2020-2021 season as part of its ramped-up social justice endeavors. The goal was, according to the league&#8217;s announcement, &#8220;to continue the theme of social justice, protest, and outreach that has resonated throughout the nation, and enact fundamental change by amplifying the names and stories of victims of police brutality to drive the narrative forward.&#8221;
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Police Officer Suing NFL Over Video, Tweets Allegedly Claiming He Shot Black Suspect Because Of ‘Systemic Racism’

The data manager who claimed Florida’s Department of Health was fudging COVID-19 numbers to make the state look better now says she plans to run for congress to unseat Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz.
NBC News last week, in an article glorifying alleged “whistleblower” Rebekah Jones while pointing out Gaetz’s political vulnerabilities, reported that Jones was planning to run for congress. “Florida Covid whistle-blower Rebekah Jones hopes to unseat scandal-scarred Rep. Matt Gaetz,” read NBC’s headline.
Of course, NBC did not mention <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-wanted-to-believe-florida-was-fudging-covid-19-data-but-the-story-is-a-fraud">any of the issues</a> with Jones’ claims or her history of false statements and legal issues. Last month, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/rebekah-jones-the-covid-whistleblower-who-wasnt/">reported</a> that Jones’ claims about being told to alter Florida’s COVID-19 data isn’t even plausible on its face, as she never handled raw data and was given a copy of the data she was supposed to input in the system.
Further, Jones’ story changed dramatically the more she told it, from her initial claims that she was fired for merely questioning the data. The Associated Press initially <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ousted-florida-virus-data-curator-history-violations-70853281">reported</a> that “Jones has not alleged any tampering with data on deaths, hospital symptom surveillance, hospitalizations for COVID-19, numbers of new confirmed cases, or overall testing rates — core elements of any assessment of the outbreak and of federal criteria for reopening.” The outlet also noted that “Jones acknowledges Florida has been relatively transparent — for which she herself claims some credit — and relatively successful in controlling the pandemic.”
Since that initial story, however, Jones began saying that, actually, yeah, her superiors &#8212; particularly Dr. Shamarial Roberson &#8212; had directly instructed her to “delete cases and deaths” to make Florida look better. She now claims Roberson “asked me to go into the raw data and manually alter figures.”
Again, remember that Jones didn’t have access to the raw data. She merely ran the dashboard. To further illustrate this point, National Review pointed out that Jones now runs her own dashboard, using the same data as the state, she simply displays it differently:
<blockquote>Or, to put it more bluntly, she displays them badly. When you get past all of the nonsense, what Jones is ultimately saying is that the State of Florida—and, by extension, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—has not processed its data in the same way that she would if she were in charge. But, frankly, why would it? Again, Jones isn’t an epidemiologist, and her objections, while compelling to the sort of low-information political obsessive she is so good at attracting, betray a considerable ignorance of the material issues. In order to increase the numbers in Florida’s case count, Jones counts positive antibody tests as cases. But that’s unsound, given that (a) those positives include people who have already had COVID-19 or who have had the vaccine, and (b) Jones is unable to avoid double-counting people who have taken both an antibody test and a COVID test that came back positive, because the state correctly refuses to publish the names of the people who have taken those tests. Likewise, Jones claims that Florida is hiding deaths because it does not in­clude nonresidents in its headline numbers. But Florida does report nonresident deaths; it just reports them separately, as every state does, and as the CDC’s guidelines demand. Jones’s most recent claim is that Florida’s “excess death” number is suspicious. But that, too, has been rigorously debunked by pretty much everyone who understands what “excess deaths” means in an epidemiological context—including by the CDC; by Daniel Weinberger, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health; by Lauren Rossen, a statistician at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics; and, most notably, by Jason Salemi, an epidemiologist at the University of South Florida, who, having gone to the trouble of making a video explaining calmly why the talking point was false, was then bullied off Twitter by Jones and her followers.</blockquote>
Cooke followed up his initial reporting with <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/rebekah-jones-admits-she-was-never-asked-to-delete-covid-deaths-in-florida/">another article</a> pointing out that Jones finally admitted she was never asked to delete COVID deaths in Florida, something she had previously claimed. Jones made the admission while claiming she had never suggested she had been asked to do such a thing, but Cooke <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rebekah-jones-florida-whistleblower-claims-she-never-said-she-was-asked-to-delete-covid-deaths-she-claimed-that-specifically">had the receipts</a>.
Gaetz is not without his weaknesses, as he is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice, which claims he paid an underage girl for sex, a charge Gaetz vehemently denies. His spokesperson, Harlan Hill, told NBC that Gaetz “faces no criminal charges,” something Jones cannot say about herself, because she was charged in December with hacking into Florida’s computer system. She denies this.
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Rebekah Jones, Florida ‘Whistleblower’ Whose Story Has Been Seriously Questioned, Plans To Run For Congress

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Because California has been hit with a calamitous drought, the water level in Folsom Lake near Sacramento has dropped precipitously, triggering the discovery of a fully-intact plane at the bottom of the lake, a plane that may have gone mysteriously missing in 1965 after a New Year’s Day crash.
Tyler Atkinson, one of the workers testing underwater sonar technology in Folsom Lake, told <a href="https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/06/12/el-dorado-county-technicians-believe-they-found-plane-wreckage-of-1965-folsom-lake-crash/">KOVR-TV</a>, “I saw something that was not normal.”
John Timplin, the president of Seafloor Systems, the underwater surveying company, stated, &#8220;He sees something on the bottom that looks man-made, and that&#8217;s when we say, &#8216;There&#8217;s definitely something down there,&#8217; and maybe it&#8217;s the plane.”
“The sonar gave us about 100 feet of range. You could see the plane as clear as day. We could see the fuselage here. We could see the right wing. We could see the tail,&#8221; said Timplin, referencing the imaging. “Here, you can see the cowl housing of the engine and the props.”
Jeff Riley, another employee who was with Atkinson, added, “These lights on the ROV (remote-operated underwater vessel) allow me to say, ‘Okay, there is no way that’s a rock.’”
The plane’s tail and propeller looked like those of the Piper Comanche 250 that crashed in 1965.
Atkinson <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/15/folsom-lake-plane-crash-california-drought">told KRON-4</a>, “I think it’s amazing that after all this time there’s been a lot of research and a lot of effort put into finding this for the family and also to retrieve what no one knew was down there.”
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&#8220;The New Year&#8217;s Day crash following a mid-air collision with another plane 56 years ago killed all four people on board,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-drought-airplane-folsom-lake-sacramento-mystery-1965-crash/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=121438306">CBS News</a> reported. &#8220;The body of the pilot was recovered, but the bodies of the three passengers were never found, despite searches as recently as 2014.&#8221;
Katherine Radican, whose late husband, Frank Wilcox, spent most of his life searching for the wreckage of the plane in which his 15-year-old brother was killed (Wilcox was three years old at the time of the crash), said, &#8220;He didn&#8217;t really know his brother, but him and his mom would go out to the lake periodically when the water was low and look around to see if they could see anything.”
Radican added that Wilcox had promised his mother he would keep looking for his brother&#8217;s remains so he could give him a proper burial.
“The plane carrying Wilcox&#8217;s brother on his first flight collided in midair with a small Beechcraft Debonair sightseeing plane at an altitude of about 2,500 feet, the Roseville Press Tribune reported at the time. Despite being damaged, the Beechcraft managed to make a successful emergency landing at a local airport, but the Piper Comanche plummeted into the lake and disappeared, the newspaper reported,” <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/1965-california-plane-crash-solved-underwater-researchers-discover/story?id=78265208">ABC News</a> noted, adding, “Folsom Lake, which has the capacity to hold 975,000 acre-feet of water, is down to about 361,000 acre-feet of water, or about 37% of capacity, according to California Department of Water Resources data released in May.”
The Placer County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said no investigation has been launched.
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California Drought Leaves Lake Low, Missing Plane Appears To Be Found At Bottom

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According to the radical wings of social media, the latest form of discrimination to have its roots in racism is “fatphobia.”
“Here’s your reminder that fatphobia is rooted in racism,” declared TikTok user Hannah Fuhlendorf, who describes herself as a “counselor” and “fat liberationist” in a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahtalksbodies/video/6908766941628861701?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1">video</a> that has garnered almost 400,000 views on the social media platform.
“As always, if you haven’t read this book, go do that,” Fuhlendorf continued, holding up a copy of “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” by Dr. Sabrina Strings. 
“The main thing to understand is that for the last 300-ish years, white folks have been marketing fatness as a black trait,” Fuhlendorf said. “And this is regardless of whether or not black people individually were actually fat. That was irrelevant.”
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“The message they spread was that black women specifically were ravenous and uncontrollable and these barbaric traits made them fat,” Fuhlendorf added. “On the flip side, thinness was marketed as a white trait. Again, regardless of whether or not individual white people were actually thin. That was irrelevant.”
“The idea was that white women specifically were refined and restrained and this led them to having delicate, thin bodies,” Fuhlendorf concluded. “Over the years, these messages have become more subtle, but even today they are still very prevalent in conversations around race, health, capitalism, and poverty.”
According to her <a href="https://www.hannahtalksbodies.com/about-me">website</a>, Hannah Fuhlendorf offers coaching sessions for $180 per hour for individuals and $228 per hour for couples. She also notes that “Income-based reduced fees are not available at this time.”
“My personal and ongoing experiences with fatphobia and sexism have fueled my desire to see people free from the prison of self-hate and internalized oppression. My goal is to support all of my clients in reaching their goals and stepping into their power,” Fuhlendorf explains in “My Story.” “I practice from a HAES and fat liberation lens. I aim for my work to create a space of collaboration and empowerment.”
“Fat liberation,” also known as “fat acceptance,” “fat pride,” or “fat empowerment,” is a social movement that aims to change the so-called “anti-fat bias” regarding the stigma of obesity. Standing, in contrast, is a wide swathe of criticism from the medical community, arguing that the movement can promote a lifestyle with significant health consequences.
“Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” was published in May 2019.
&#8220;Fearing the Black Body participates in a critical discourse that exposes the convergence of anxieties about race and fatness as it manifests in our current fatphobia. The text successfully demonstrates how the Black body has been subject to ongoing surveillance, and more specifically how it has been co-opted as a site where struggles around race and class issues play out,” wrote Fat Studies.
Dr. Strings is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
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‘Fatphobia Is Rooted In Racism’: Fat Liberationist Says ‘Thinness’ Marketed As A ‘White Trait’

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The United States and the European Union are planning to create a joint technology and trade initiative in order to counter the rise of China’s influence on the global stage.
In the face of China’s massive investment in fields such as artificial intelligence, the Technology and Trade Council will “devise new standards for emerging technology, promote democratic values online and help the U.S. and EU collaborate on cutting-edge research.”
According to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/america-and-eu-will-join-forces-to-craft-new-rules-on-trade-and-tech.html">CNBC</a>, the Council will have three “overarching” goals: “establish new global trade standards for emerging technology, promote democratic values online and find ways for the United States and the EU to collaborate on cutting-edge research and development.” Other “specific goals” of the council include coordinating “standards on new technology like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biotechnology,” making “supply chains more resilient and less dependent on China,” the pursuit of “reforms at the World Trade Organization,” and coordinating the “regulation of tech platforms.”
The American side of the Council will be co-chaired by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, and Ambassador Katherine Tai, the U.S. trade representative.
“At the U.S.-EU summit, the President and European Union leaders will focus on aligning our approaches to trade and technology so that democracies and not anyone else — not China or other autocracies — are writing the rules for trade and technology for the 21st century,” said National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan last week during a White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/06/07/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-and-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-june-7-2021/">press briefing</a>.
“When President Biden returns to Washington next week, we believe that we will be in a materially stronger position to manage the major threats and challenges this country faces: COVID, climate, China, cyber, Russia, and shaping the rules of trade and technology for the future,” Sullivan added later.
During a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/06/15/background-press-call-by-a-senior-administration-official-previewing-the-u-s-eu-summit/">press call</a> on June 14, a senior administration official previewed the U.S.-EU summit.
“One of the most significant outcomes of this meeting and a very important initiative that will serve as a platform for U.S.-EU cooperation in the years ahead will be the launch of a Trade and Technology Council,” the official said. “The notion here is that the United States and Europe laid the foundation for the world economy after World War Two and now have to work together to write the rules of the road for the next generation, particularly in the areas of economics and emerging technologies.”
“The Trade and Technology Council will cover a number of significant areas of priority for both the United States and the European Union, from coordinating on standards for new technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology; to coordinating on supply chain resilience; to coordinating on import — or investment screening and export controls; to coordinating on how best to reform the WTO,” the official continued.
“The Trade and Technology Council is fundamentally about setting out an affirmative vision to the world rooted in our shared values and our shared economic interests,” they added later. “Of course, we also have to take account of the fact that China poses a significant challenge in both of these areas. And dealing with China’s nonmarket practices, its economic abuses, and, of course, its efforts to shape the rules of the road on technology for the 21st century will be important — an important part of the work of this council.”
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Thirteen Democratic state attorneys general want to force companies into revealing their efforts to fight climate change.
The letter — which is signed by the attorneys general of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Maryland, and Wisconsin — demands that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) push companies into more transparency over climate-related issues.
CNN Business — which obtained the letter — <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/investing/climate-change-disclosure-sec-california/index.html">reports</a>:
<blockquote>The states urged the SEC to require companies to make annual disclosures of their emissions and any plans to address them; analyze and disclose the potential impacts of both climate change and climate regulation; and disclose policies on corporate governance and risk management related to climate change.</blockquote>
&#8220;Climate change is not a distant problem to be dealt with in the future. It is here, and it threatens the US economy and its financial system,” says the group of lawyers, which was spearheaded by California. &#8220;Given the demand from investors for such disclosures, the significance of climate change risk to companies, and the importance of efficient capital allocation to climate-resilient companies, such disclosures are squarely in the public interest.”
In March, former SEC Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee <a href="https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/lee-climate-change-disclosures">welcomed</a> public comment about “whether current disclosures adequately inform investors, public input is requested from investors, registrants, and other market participants on climate change disclosure.”
The deadline to submit public comment to the SEC is June 15. Among the questions posed by the agency were:
<blockquote>How can the Commission best regulate, monitor, review, and guide climate change disclosures in order to provide more consistent, comparable, and reliable information for investors while also providing greater clarity to registrants as to what is expected of them?
How, if at all, should registrants disclose their internal governance and oversight of climate-related issues?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of developing a single set of global standards applicable to companies around the world, including registrants under the Commission’s rules, versus multiple standard setters and standards?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a “comply or explain” framework for climate change that would permit registrants to either comply with, or if they do not comply, explain why they have not complied with the disclosure rules?
What climate-related information is available with respect to private companies, and how should the Commission’s rules address private companies’ climate disclosures, such as through exempt offerings, or its oversight of certain investment advisers and funds?</blockquote>
The SEC’s consideration of new climate change regulations occurs as China — the world’s leading producer of greenhouse gas emissions — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-biden-pushes-climate-change-efforts-china-walks-back-theirs-to-ramp-up-growth">scraps</a> its climate goals to prioritize economic growth.
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President Joe Biden is planning a huge party at the White House for the Fourth of July, which he wants to declare the national holiday as a day of independence &#8212; not from British rule but from COVID-19.
Biden has set a goal to have 70% of eligible Americans vaccinated with at least one shot against the virus by July 4, but as of last week, &#8220;the national average for vaccinations among Americans 12 and up is 61.4% with at least one dose and 51.1% with both doses, according to the CDC,&#8221; ABC News <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/biden-vaccine-goal-covid-vaccines-us-vaccination-rate-70-of-adults-vaccinated/10749464/">reported</a>. &#8220;Seven other states have over 70% of their population above the age of 12 with at least one dose, according to the CDC.&#8221;
While millions have been vaccinated, the U.S. is approaching 600,000 deaths from the virus, <a href="https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">according</a> to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering. Still, the number of new infections has fallen steeply, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
With businesses and restaurants reopening, and large music venues set to follow soon, Biden has proclaimed a &#8220;summer of freedom” to celebrate Americans returning to normal life.
&#8220;The holiday will see the largest event yet of Biden’s presidency: He plans to host first responders, essential workers, and military service members and their families on the South Lawn for a cookout and to watch the fireworks over the National Mall,&#8221; The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-joe-biden-lifestyle-coronavirus-pandemic-health-f97e0316c51d2d8362a17d149daedb14">reported</a>. &#8220;Well more than 1,000 guests are expected, officials said, with final arrangements still to be sorted out.&#8221;
Biden had begun pushing the idea back in March when the U.S. marked its one-year anniversary for the virus hitting our shores.
“By July the 4th, there’s a good chance you, your families, and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout and a barbeque and celebrate Independence Day,” Biden said March 11. “That doesn’t mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together.”
But progress has ramped up swiftly &#8212; even if not as quickly as hoped. Just before Memorial Day, the CDC relaxed mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, and that was quickly followed by state regulations.
Said the AP:
<blockquote>Now, officials say July Fourth will serve as an unofficial kickoff to a new phase in the U.S. pandemic response. The federal government is looking to turn the page on the domestic public health crisis and focus on an economic and civic revival at home and marshaling support for vaccinations around the globe.
Across the country, the White House is hoping to see the similar Independence Day activities, after last year saw the mass cancellation of July Fourth festivities, according to two White House officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to outline the administration’s thinking.
“We welcome you to join us by hosting your own events to honor our freedom, salute those who have been serving on the frontlines, and celebrate our progress in fighting this pandemic,” the White House wrote in an email to state and local officials Tuesday. It asked them to share their plans to be highlighted later by the administration.</blockquote>
Other festivities in the nation&#8217;s capital will return to normal, too. The National Mall will host the traditional fireworks ceremony, the White House said in a statement. “America is headed into a summer dramatically different from last year. A summer of freedom. A summer of joy. A summer of reunions and celebrations.”
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A shocking video, posted to social media, appears to show a man shoplifting a garbage bag full of items from a San Francisco Walgreens in broad daylight as a security guard and several customers look on &#8212; and commenters are saying the clip shows a commonplace occurrence in the city.
A reporter with San Francisco&#8217;s ABC affiliated posted the video to Twitter, tagging the city&#8217;s progressive district attorney, Chesa Boudin, whose office has shifted focus from petty crime to focus &#8220;only on stopping serious, repeat offenders, especially violent ones,&#8221; according to an interview a deputy district attorney did with <a href="https://www.davisvanguard.org/2021/03/san-francisco-das-office-addresses-rampant-shoplifting-at-walgreens/">the UC Davis student paper</a>.
The video is also tagged, &#8220;No Consequences.&#8221;
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This just happened at the <a href="https://twitter.com/Walgreens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Walgreens</a> on Gough &amp; Fell Streets in San Francisco. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoConsequences?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoConsequences</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chesaboudin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chesaboudin</a> <a href="https://t.co/uSbnTQQk4J">pic.twitter.com/uSbnTQQk4J</a>
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Commenters on the video &#8220;said the apparent theft is an example of the city’s lawlessness,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-walgreens-video-shows-man-fill-garbage-bag-with-items-takes-off">according to Fox News,</a> which pointed out a spike in retail theft, among other crimes.
Shoplifting is particularly endemic, according to The New York Times, which reported last month that the &#8220;crime of shoplifting has spun out of control&#8221; and that Walgreens is a particular target; &#8220;thefts at its stores in San Francisco were four times the chain’s national average,&#8221; the New York Times noted, adding that the chain has &#8220;closed 17 stores, largely because the scale of thefts had made business untenable&#8221; in the city.
Brendan Dugan, director, Organized Retail Crime &amp; Corporate Investigations at CVS Health even told the New York Times that San Francisco is  “one of the epicenters of organized retail crime” and that CVS now instructs its security personnel to refrain from pursuing shoplifters because they&#8217;ve been “assaulted on a pretty regular basis.&#8221;
Although both Fox News and The New York Times point to a number of factors responsible for the increase in petty theft, &#8220;retail executives and police officers&#8221; suggested that &#8220;Proposition 47, the 2014 ballot measure that reclassified nonviolent thefts as misdemeanors if the stolen goods are worth less than $950, had emboldened thieves,&#8221; and that shoplifting in San Francisco has become so lucrative that organized crime is now involved.
&#8220;There appears to be plenty of blame to go around when it comes to organized retail crime run amok in San Francisco, from limited legal consequences for first-time and repeat offenders and the lucrative nature of the illegal trading, primarily done via online platforms, such as eBay,&#8221; <a href="https://www.retailwire.com/discussion/organized-theft-is-turning-san-francisco-into-retails-wild-west/">RetailWire noted in its own repor</a>t on San Francisco&#8217;s shoplifting epidemic.
San Francisco DA Boudin, in turn, placed the blame on the police for &#8220;poor follow up&#8221; in an interview late last month, at one point even suggesting that San Francisco police officers are deliberately ignoring crime because the DA&#8217;s office is pressing reform, and the law enforcement community wants to remain &#8220;racist.&#8221;
“The reality is the POA (police officers union) needs someone to point the finger at and this isn’t a new issue,” he said in an interview <a href="https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/05/24/embattled-da-chesa-boudin-places-blame-for-san-francisco-crime-on-poor-police-follow-up/">with a local CBS affiliate</a>. “Look they were blaming (Vice President) Kamala Harris and attacking her when she was the district attorney. This is an age-old problem in San Francisco because the POA wants to get away without doing their job. They want to get away with allowing their officers to send racist text messages, to use excessive force against the community, and to engage in systematic violations of civil rights of Black and brown drivers on our streets. And I’m pushing back and demanding that they modernize, that they reform, and that they respect all the members of our community.”
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Price levels for businesses just saw their largest-ever surge.
According to <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm">data</a> released Tuesday by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Producer Price Index (PPI) — which tracks changes in input prices for businesses and other domestic producers — experienced a 6.6% year-over-year increase. According to the agency, the increases are the largest “since 12-month data were first calculated in November 2010.”
Producer prices rose by 0.8% from April — a rate that significantly <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/retail-sales-producer-price-index-may-2021.html">exceeded</a> Dow Jones’ forecast of 0.5%. In January, February, March, and April, the year-over-year increases in the PPI were 1.6%, 2.8%, 4.2%, and 6.2%, respectively. 
The report was released as Wall Street looks to the Federal Reserve’s pending decision on interest rates. Although the central bank has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-skyrocketing-inflation-janet-yellen-will-keep-pushing-for-biden-spending-agenda">committed</a> to aggressive quantitative easing through 2023, rising inflation could lead the Board of Governors to scale back their expansion of the money supply in order to maintain price stability.
Indeed, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) — which measures price levels for household goods — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-monthly-inflation-again-passes-economists-expectations-highest-annual-rate-in-more-than-12-years">climbed</a> by 0.6% last month in a 5% year-over-year increase.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics explained that much of the PPI’s surge was attributable to rising lumber, fuel, and food costs:
<blockquote>A major factor in the May advance in prices for processed goods for intermediate demand was the index for lumber, which increased 15.5 percent. Prices for diesel fuel; utility natural gas; structural, architectural, and pre-engineered metal products; ethanol; and beef and veal also moved higher.</blockquote>
Amid inflationary pressures, the rise in the PPI is worrying business leaders.
As The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/producer-prices-inflation-may-2021-11623705627">reports</a>:
<blockquote>For years economists paid minimal attention to the PPI since it tends to be volatile and doesn’t always move in sync with CPI, said Veronica Clark, economist at Citi.
That has changed since January, she said. That month, the PPI surged 1.3% versus the previous month and has stayed elevated since. The pickup at the start of the year presaged the stronger-than-expected rise in consumer prices in April and May.</blockquote>
Bill Adams — senior economist at PNC Financial Services Group — remarked that “PPI matters much more than it usually does because inflation matters much more than it has for years.”
“We haven’t had an inflationary shock like this in a decade,” he explained. “We know we’re in the middle of an inflationary shock but what we still don’t know is how bad it is. That’s a big part of what we’re looking to these inflation data for.”
Other analysts — including a team of top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sitting-on-a-time-bomb-deutsche-bank-sounds-alarm-warns-of-growing-inflation-in-u-s-economy">economists</a> from Deutsche Bank — believe that rising inflation is far more than temporary in nature.
“We worry that inflation will make a comeback,” wrote the Deutsche economists in a recent report. “Few still remember how our societies and economies were threatened by high inflation 50 years ago… It may take a year longer until 2023 but inflation will re-emerge.”
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On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it will be prohibiting dogs from 113 countries from entering the United States over concerns of a potential increase in rabies in the country.
The new measure will take effect on July 14, the CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/importation/bringing-an-animal-into-the-united-states/high-risk-dog-ban-frn.html">noted</a>. In an announcement, the agency said that it will be temporarily suspending bringing dogs into the country from &#8220;<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/importation/bringing-an-animal-into-the-united-states/high-risk.html">countries</a> classified by CDC as high risk for dog rabies,” and “countries that are NOT at high risk if the dogs have been in high-risk countries during the previous 6 months.”
The CDC estimated that “6% of all dogs imported into the Unites States arrive from countries at high risk for dog rabies. Inadequately vaccinated dogs are not protected against rabies and are a public health threat.” The banned countries included India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, China, and Russia.
It added that rabies is a fatal disease in animals and humans, “and the importation of even one rabid dog could result in transmission to humans, pets, and wildlife.” The agency noted that dogs from countries that have been specified as “high-risk” can come into the country with the agency’s advance written approval in the form of a “CDC Dog Import Permit,” but no appeals will be permitted.
&#8220;We&#8217;re doing this to make sure that we protect the health and safety of dogs that are imported into the United States, as well as protect the public&#8217;s health,&#8221; Dr. Emily Pieracci of the CDC told <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/14/1005697173/dog-import-ban-countries-rabies-fake-records?origin=NOTIFY">NPR</a>.
Pieracci said that along with a spike in dog adoptions sparked by the stay-at-home orders and coronavirus pandemic, there were more cases where dogs came into the United States who had fraudulent or falsified rabies documents. “During 2020, the CDC discovered more than 450 dogs arriving in the U.S. with falsified or fraudulent rabies certificates, a 52% increase compared with the previous two years, she says,” per NPR.
&#8220;Early on in the pandemic, the shelters were reporting record-low numbers because everybody was adopting pandemic puppies. And so there is a possibility that there may be a correlation between empty shelters here driving an increased demand to purchase puppies overseas,&#8221; she said.
She noted that the high demand for dogs might have encouraged breeders to go around the system, particularly in areas that were dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and not doing as good of a job at staying on top of their vaccination efforts against rabies.
&#8220;Given the impact that COVID has had on vaccination programs around the world, we&#8217;re not sure what the rabies landscape is going to look like in the future. But we are definitely concerned that there could be an increased risk of importing a rabid dog,&#8221; she said.
According to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/usa/surveillance/human_rabies.html">CDC</a>, 25 cases of human rabies have been reported in the United States between the years 2009-2018. “Seven of these infections were acquired outside of the U.S. and its territories,” the agency noted.
The increase in pet adoptions during the pandemic led to reports that some people were taking their dogs back to the adoption centers once the world began to reopen, but according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/dog-adoptions-pandemic.html">reporting</a> by The New York Times, fewer have been returned than was originally assumed.
The Times noted that in April, there was an increase in pet returns of almost 80% when compared with April 2020, according to <a href="https://www.petpoint.com/Portals/Petpoint/pdfs/reportdata/2021/PetPointReport-April2021.pdf">PetPoint</a>. &#8220;But many shelters curtailed operations in April 2020, meaning fewer pets could be returned that month. And the numbers were still well below the 20,289 dogs that were surrendered in <a href="https://www.petpoint.com/Portals/Petpoint/pdfs/reportdata/2019/PetPoint%20Report%20-%20April%202019.pdf">April 2019</a>, before the coronavirus upended life and commerce,” the outlet reported.
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Hunter Biden, the scandal-plagued son of President Biden, has embraced a new life as a full-time artist and will get his paintings shown this fall in Los Angeles and New York City, where they are expected to fetch upwards of $1 million.
The younger Biden&#8217;s abstract paintings and collages, which sometimes resemble bacteria under a microscope, sometimes depict human body parts, will receive a private showing in Los Angeles this fall and later an exhibition in New York.
“I don’t paint from emotion or feeling, which I think are both very ephemeral,” Biden said in an <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hunter-biden-gallery-show-1979790">interview</a> with artnet.com published Monday. “For me, painting is much more about kind of trying to bring forth what is, I think, the universal truth.”
His works of art sell for $75,000 for works on paper and $500,000 for large paintings, Biden&#8217;s Soho art dealer, Georges Berges <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hunter-biden-gallery-show-1979790">told</a> artnet.com.
Experts praised his pieces and predicted that some would sell for eye-popping amounts.
“I’m not impressed with modern art at all. But I was floored by that guy,’’ Alex Acevedo, 75, who owns the Alexander Gallery in Manhattan, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/hunter-bidens-artwork-is-actually-good-experts-say/">told</a> the New York Post, saying he has been in the art business since 1956.
“Anybody who buys it would be guaranteed instant profit,” Acevedo said. “He’s the president’s son. Everybody would want a piece of that. The provenance is impeccable.’’
Acevedo said he expects some of Biden&#8217;s pieces to sell for $1 million or higher, but he acknowledged that the pieces would probably go for around $25,000 to $100,000 if the Biden name were not attached to them.
One of Biden&#8217;s works, a green and pink abstract painting that resembles bacteria under a microscope, prompted the response from art consultant Martin Galindo that, “Oh, my God, that looks like Covid.&#8221;
“Honestly, I mean, from an aesthetic perspective, I don’t like it. But I’m sure he’s gonna do really well,” Galindo <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/hunter-bidens-artwork-is-actually-good-experts-say/">told</a> the Post.
The president&#8217;s son, 51, has no formal art training but has been reportedly creating art since he was very young.
The lawyer, former lobbyist, and former drug addict has been dogged by high-profile political and personal scandals, some of them <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-homeless-crackhead-bicycle">salacious</a>.
In leaked emails from 2014 reported by the New York Post, Biden <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/hunter-biden-emails-show-leveraging-connections-with-dad-to-boost-burisma-pay/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="slk:appears to try to leverage" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1">appears to try to leverage</a> his influence with his father, who was vice president at the time and heavily involved in U.S. policy on Ukraine. Biden referenced his father in negotiations regarding his lucrative position on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma.
In April, Biden released his new memoir, &#8220;Beautiful Things: A Memoir,&#8221; published by Simon and Schuster. The title is a reference to a phrase Biden&#8217;s late brother Beau used to say to him, which he said was also a testament “to the beautiful things that he thought my art was.”
Asked what his father thinks of his art, Biden responded, “My dad loves everything that I do, and so I’ll leave it at that.”
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A recent poll revealed that nearly four in ten American voters blame President Biden for rising inflation.
According to the Trafalgar Group’s <a href="https://thetrafalgargroup.org/COSA-National-Inflation-Full-Report.pdf">Nationwide Issues Survey</a>, 39% of Americans hold the Commander-in-Chief “most responsible” for rising inflation. In comparison, 17.7% pointed to President Trump, 14.4% pointed to the current Congress, and 10.9% pointed to the previous Congress. Meanwhile, 17.9% of Americans stated that they “don’t know” who is most responsible for rising prices.
Representing 39.3% and 35.6% of participants respectively, Democrats slightly outnumbered Republicans in the survey.
Among Democratic respondents, 27.3% blamed President Trump for inflation; however, 21.5% blamed Biden. While only 6% of Republicans believe that Trump is responsible for inflation, 64.3% pointed to Biden.
Likewise, independents overwhelmingly said that Biden is the driving force behind inflation. For those without a party affiliation, 35.5% hold Biden accountable for higher price levels; only 16.9% hold Trump accountable.
The Trafalgar Group’s poll was published as the United States economy sees its highest inflation rates in over a decade. Year-over-year inflation for consumer goods <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-monthly-inflation-again-passes-economists-expectations-highest-annual-rate-in-more-than-12-years">climbed</a> to 5% in May. For producer goods, year-over-year inflation hit 6.6% — the largest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-businesses-see-largest-producer-price-surge-since-tracking-began">increase</a> since the Department of Labor’s records began.
Top officials within the Biden administration indicated that they are willing to tolerate higher inflation as a consequence of the President’s ambitious spending agenda.
As Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-skyrocketing-inflation-janet-yellen-will-keep-pushing-for-biden-spending-agenda">informed</a> staff upon her appointment, the administration is willing to use federal expenditures as a means to address purported societal ills: “Indeed, the reason I went from academia to government is because I believe economic policy can be a potent tool to improve society. We can — and should — use it to address inequality, racism, and climate change.”
Yellen — who previously served as Chair of the Federal Reserve —  remarked that any inflation from Biden’s spending is likely to be transitory in nature.
“We’ve been fighting inflation that’s too low and interest rates that are too low now for a decade,” Yellen told Bloomberg News, stating that “we want them to go back to” a normal interest rate environment, “and if this helps a little bit to alleviate things then that’s not a bad thing — that’s a good thing.”
Implicating both the Biden administration’s fiscal policy and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, economists from Deutsche Bank recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sitting-on-a-time-bomb-deutsche-bank-sounds-alarm-warns-of-growing-inflation-in-u-s-economy">broke</a> with Wall Street consensus to express concern about rising inflation rates.
“It is no exaggeration to say that we are departing from neoliberalism and that the days of the new-liberal policies that begun in the Reagan era are clearly fading in the rearview mirror,” wrote the analysts, adding that the “most immediate manifestation of the shift in macro policy is that the fear of inflation, and of rising levels of government debt, that shaped a generation of policymakers is receding.”
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The husband of Ashli Babbitt said Monday night on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; that there&#8217;s been a &#8220;deafening silence&#8221; from the Metropolitan Police Department concerning the identity of the officer who fatally shot his wife on Jan. 6.
&#8220;Somebody in D.C. knows,&#8221; <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/ashli-babbitt-husband-goes-fox-142926007.html">said</a> Aaron Babbitt. &#8220;I think a lot of people know, but nobody is telling us. And the silence is deafening.”
Terry Roberts, an attorney representing the Babbitt family in a lawsuit against Capitol Police, told Carlson that he believes the officer who fatally shot Babbitt was the same man who allegedly left his loaded firearm in a public bathroom.
Carlson asked Mr. Roberts about reports online that suggest the officer who shot Babbit &#8220;was the same officer who left his loaded handgun in a public men&#8217;s room on the Capitol.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you believe that is the same officer &#8212; who seems like a very reckless person &#8212; who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6?&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s my belief,&#8221; Roberts responded. &#8220;That&#8217;s my belief.&#8221;
Babbit, 35, was unarmed when she was shot on Jan. 6 by Capitol Police during the breach of the Capitol. She died of a gunshot wound to the left shoulder, according to the D.C. Medical Examiner’s office.
The Department of Justice announced in April that the officer who fatally shot Babbitt will not be charged with her death.
Notably, the identity of the officer has never been revealed &#8212; not to the public and not privately to Babbitt&#8217;s family.
In April, Roberts <a href="https://rumble.com/vg43bn-attorney-for-family-of-ashli-babbit-announces-family-will-file-civil-charge.html">told</a> Newsmax that Babbitt has not received justice due to the politics of the case and her open support for former President Donald Trump. The attorney will be pursuing a civil action on behalf of the family alleging a violation of Babbitt’s constitutional rights, he said.
“I’m handling the civil action that will be filed, that’s my role,” the attorney said. “The family and I were disappointed in the Department of Justice’s decision on this, but my role is, really, to bring a civil action and in that way, vindicate her rights.”
“We think the evidence is ample and supports criminal charges against the officer,” Roberts argued, claiming the officer could see Babbitt was not armed and offered her no warning.
“This is a situation in which the officer could have easily arrested her, if he had grounds to arrest her, without using deadly force,” he said. “So, this was an egregious act of excessive force and he should have been charged.”
What “disturbs most people” about Babbitt’s case, Roberts told Newsmax, “is that there’s a double standard at work.”
“If you were to change the circumstances, change the location a little bit, it’s a certainty that there would be charges,” he argued. “Obviously, the political climate is such that charges are not favored here. It really bothers us that there is a double standard at work.”
Asked if the family believes that “politics” is a factor in the case, noting that Babbitt was a Trump supporter, Roberts responded, “Clearly, that has everything to do with it, unfortunately. It shouldn’t.”
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Asked by Fox host Tucker Carlson, Terrell Roberts, attorney for family of Ashli Babbitt, said it is his belief that the Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Babbitt on Jan. 6 is the same person who left a loaded handgun in a public men&#39;s restroom at the Capitol. <a href="https://t.co/pzw8oFdvRy">pic.twitter.com/pzw8oFdvRy</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/officials-wont-seek-charges-against-capitol-officer-for-ashli-babbitt-shooting">Officials Won’t Seek Charges Against Capitol Officer For Ashli Babbitt Shooting</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ashli-babbitt-was-killed-by-capitol-police-on-january-6-they-still-wont-tell-us-who-did-it-or-why">WALSH: Ashli Babbitt Was Killed By Capitol Police On January 6. They Still Won’t Tell Us Who Did It Or Why.</a>
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