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SEN. TOMMY TUBERVILE (VIA WSJ): The pentagon shouldn’t wage culture war
Is the purpose of our military to promote Joe Biden’s incoherent gender-bending, baby-killing agenda, or protect our country?
“The Biden administration has spent the past two years trying to inject politics into the military. In February this effort reached a new low as the administration put the taxpayer on the hook for travel and paid time off for service members, wives and other dependents to get elective abortions.
For 40 years, there has been a bipartisan consensus that taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the life of the mother. That is the law. The administration flouted it with a memo.”
AP: Group steers Swiss billionaire’s money to liberal causes
Question: what’s more ethically suspect, helping a foreign billionaire illegally influence U.S. elections, or paying off a porn star with your own money?
“The Berger Action Fund is a nondescript name for a group with a rather specific purpose: steering the wealth of Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire, into the world of American politics and policy.
As a foreign national, Wyss is prohibited from donating to candidates or political committees. But his influence is still broadly felt through millions of dollars routed through a network of nonprofit groups that invest heavily in the Democratic ecosystem. Such groups don’t have to disclose the source of their funding — or many details about how they spend it.”
FORBES: Nearly all U.S. hospital websites shared data with third-party trackers
The medical industrial complex has gone bonkers funneling profits around their theoretically non-profit hospitals and into executive pockets. Their latest scam is selling your data to big tech.
“We're not saying that every single one of these things is a HIPAA violation,” says study co-author Matthew McCoy, an assistant professor of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. “But there's just thousands and thousands and thousands of them. And it's reasonable to believe that at least some significant portion of these are including [protected health information].”
SEN. MARCO RUBIO (VIA TWITTER): Biden Admin has sanctioned El Salvador for cracking down on violent MS-13 gang members
Murder rate has been cut in half, but if MS-13 loses it’s grip on power, Biden open-border policy wouldn’t be able to grant nearly as many asylum claims, cartel power would be weakened, so…
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WSJ: Japan breaks with U.S. allies, buys Russian oil at prices above cap
In another “Biden is really good at this foreign and energy policy stuff” moment, Japan makes a mockery of U.S. & European sanctions against Russia. Also, DYK the “cap” applies to oil, but not natural gas? Talk about a clown show…
“An official of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Tokyo wanted to ensure access to Sakhalin-2’s main product, natural gas, which is liquefied and shipped to Japan. “We have done this with an eye toward having a stable supply of energy for Japan,” the official said.”
WASH TIMES: Nashville shooter planned attack for months
Two things: 1) Mainstream media is already running as far and fast from this story as they possibly can. As the article notes, there have been some student anti-gun protests in Tennessee after this. When was the last time a student protest against guns didn’t come top-of-the-hour, live at five? 2) Police still haven’t released the shooter’s manifesto, they need to.
“Police have not established a motive for the shootings at The Covenant School, a small Christian elementary school where the 28-year-old shooter was once a student, according to a Monday news release from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. Both Nashville police and FBI agents continue to review writings left behind by Audrey Hale, both in Hale‘s vehicle and home, police said.
“It is known that Hale considered the actions of other mass murderers,” police said.”
USA TODAY: Man’s best friend meets shopper’s worst enemy: pet food inflation
If it seems like it’s costing more to feed your fur babies, that’s because it is. Pet food prices are up 15% year over year. Relief from soaring prices may be on the horizon, but already inflated costs are here to stay.
“February's producer price index showed wholesale cat and dog food prices were nearly unchanged from January. On an annual basis, prices still rose 12% in February, but that was down from a 14% increase in January.”
NY POST: OPEC move again shows why Biden’s war on US energy means disaster
We used to produce enough oil, gas, and coal to power all our needs and sell more to the rest of the world. You know…way back in 2020…
“Meanwhile, our Green New Dealer in Chief from Day One waged a war on fossil fuels under the guise of a pie-in-the-sky “transition” to green energy. From the Keystone XL pipeline (which he killed) to his indefinite freeze-out of new energy leases on vast tracts of federal land to his veto threat against the House-passed Lower Energy Costs Act, Biden has been a tooth-and-nail foe of US energy.
No matter that it’s abundant and extracted far more cleanly than Saudi (or Venezuelan) oil and gas. No matter that a robust US energy sector is great news for the whole country, bringing new, good jobs and lower prices. And while there may be some bluster over OPEC+ from the White House, there’ll be no broad-scale domestic policy change to mitigate the damage.After all, it’s the little guy getting hurt here to further the dreams of green fanatics.”
FOX 13 NOW: Utah snowpack now 201% of normal and climbing
A wet winter is helping reduce drought conditions across the Mountain West. As the record snow pack melts, runoffs will vastly increase desperately needed reservoir storage. (Editor’s Note: Except in California. Because crazy environmentalists are preventing them from building absolutely everything, including water storage.)
“Conservation will still be important, Haskell said, to ensure an adequate water supply for the state. While flooding from the spring runoff is being anticipated, it will be nowhere near the catastrophic floods of 1983 in Utah. That is because of significant infrastructure changes since then.”
BLOOMBERG: Japan weighs bomb shelter bill with eye on North Korea, China
But are they going to have kids huddling under their desks in case of a nuclear attack?
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