Former President Donald Trump weighed in on the contentious GOP primary for Texas Attorney General. Incumbent Ken Paxton (R-TX) received the support of the former president over George P. Bush, who launched a primary challenge to Paxton. Bush courted Trump for support:
The left’s out of control policies are eroding the fabric of our nation. It was great to see Pres. Trump today & discuss how we must come together as a party to restore America First Priorities. I appreciate his friendship & kind words as we work together to Keep America Great. pic.twitter.com/pEMuCUOCBi
The former commander-in-chief ultimately sided with Paxton, commending him for being “on the front line” in the fight “or Texas, and America, against the vicious and very dangerous Radical Left Democrats.”
“Attorney General Ken Paxton has been bravely on the front line in the fight for Texas, and America, against the vicious and very dangerous Radical Left Democrats, and the foolish and unsuspecting RINOs that are destroying our Country. Ken is strong on Crime, Border Security, the Second Amendment, Election Integrity and, above all, our Constitution,” Trump wrote in an endorsement of Paxton. “He loves our Military and our Vets. It is going to take a PATRIOT like Ken Paxton to advance America First policies in order to Make America Great Again. Ken has my Complete and Total Endorsement for another term as Attorney General of Texas. He is a true Texan who will keep Texas safe—and will never let you down!”
A veteran sportswriter has come under fire after suggesting that United States flags on display during the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics were a visual reminder of the alleged surge of white nationalism in the US.
ESPN columnist Ben Rhoden told ‘CBS This Morning’ that the opening ceremony used to be one of his favorite parts of the Olympics, but that this year he felt differently about the event.
I love the opening ceremonies, the march of countries. Then I just realized: You know, man, particularly after these last four years, I had it wrong. Nationalism is not good. We’ve seen the rise of white nationalism.
Extrapolating on his insights, Rhoden said the sports ceremony made him think back to the January 6 Capitol riots, where he “saw a lot of US flags.”
“So now when I see the flag… what America am I living in?” he asked.
According to the ESPN writer, the Tokyo Olympics should be a “time of soul searching” for the United States, adding that winning medals might be “antithetic” to the quiet introspection that the nation so desperately needs.
His provocative commentary failed to score points with many on social media.
Jonathan Gilliam, a popular conservative commentator and former Navy SEAL, described Rhoden’s performance as a “brain dead leftist rant.”
This is the most brain dead leftist rant I’ve heard in a while. @WCRhoden epitomizes the ideological communist left & the tactic of conflating all issues into one racist, antiAmerican rant. Combined with the clueless @CBSThisMorning hosts, the entire video reeks of useful idiots.
Now the ADL will decide whether you get to keep your Paypal account or not.
A simultaneous move by Big Tech companies to work together to counter “right wing terrorism” by coordinating censorship, along with Paypal announcing that it will be partnering with the notorious leftist political group the Anti-Defamation League, prompted critics to warn of a renewed move to crush internet freedom.
Reuters reported Monday that “A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias.”
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Microsoft and others will actively share information under the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), a body previously reserved for targeting Taliban and Al Qaeda content.
As is always the case, there is no definition of what “extremist content” is, or what “white supremacists” or the “far right” are, but you can rest assured that past experiences have proven that these terms will encompass anything to do with being white, Christian, not a Marxist, and having an opinion that doesn’t jive with leftists in Silicon Valley.
Republicans have done nothing to prevent this from coming.They’re bought off by big tech.
In addition, The ADL announced Monday that they are partnering with PayPal “to fight extremism and hate” by coming together to analyze “how extremists leverage financial platforms to fund criminal activity.”
In other words, cutting off the accounts of people they disagree with, like the state does in communist China.
The @ADL is highly politicized group: completely liberal and aligned with the DNC, just a tad more pro-Israel in their focus but otherwise no differences. This is yet another union between establishment liberalism and Big Tech to control and censor the internet. https://t.co/UI5OrBYB1e
The ADL now gets to decide if you're allowed to have a Twitter account or a PayPal, who ever voted for Jonathan Greenblatt to make these decisions? https://t.co/BDFcDgeb7K
Reuters notes that “The initiative will be led through ADL’s Center on Extremism, and will focus on uncovering and disrupting the financial flows supporting white supremacist and anti-government organizations.”
Republicans and Democrats are at odds over ending the stepped-up basis provision.
A Democratic proposal to eliminate the stepped-up basis tax provision could kill nearly 1 million U.S. jobs, a new study shows.
Sustained annual job losses from eliminating the provision as outlined in the STEP Act would range from 500,000 to nearly 1 million, according to an analysis conducted by the nonpartisan firm Regional Economic Models Inc. (REMI), which was commissioned by the conservative-leaning Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
The STEP Act would eliminate step-up in basis by taxing unrealized capital gains when heirs inherit assets on which the original owner never paid income taxes.
In addition to job losses, REMI’s analysis projected a $1 trillion loss in GDP over 10 years and a $600 billion loss in private investment over the same time period. Projected losses in personal income over the course of a decade were about $1 trillion, which would translate to $8,000 to $10,000 per household.
Conservative economist Steve Moore, who is a principal at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and served as an economic adviser to former President Trump, said the study shows President Biden’s death tax scheme would “assault” the American tradition of passing on family-owned business over generations.
“Many families will literally have to sell the farm to pay the Biden taxes,” Moore said in a statement. “The damage to jobs and the economy would be multiple times larger than any revenue gained for the government from this unfair tax proposal.”
The analysis was based on a top combined capital gains tax rate of 43.4%, which includes the administration’s proposed 39.6% top capital gains tax rate and the existing 3.8% net investment income tax. It did not take state tax rates into account.
Proponents of the STEP Act maintain that it would target accumulated fortunes among the ultra-wealthy, who have largely been able to avoid paying taxes on their wealth because of the stepped-up basis provision.
The legislation would allow the exclusion of up to $1 million in unrealized capital gains, and some taxpayers would have the option of paying in installments over the course of 15 years if the tax applied to illiquid assets like farms.
The STEP Act is supported by Democratic Sens. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Professor Neil Ferguson, the controversial epidemiologist who predicted there would be as many as 200,000 COVID cases a day in the UK if restrictions were lifted, is facing scrutiny after infections continued to drop for the 6th day in a row.
The day before so-called ‘freedom day’ in England, where most mask mandates and social distancing restrictions were lifted, Ferguson was asked by the BBC’s Andrew Marr where the country was heading as a result.
“It’s very difficult to say for certain, but I think 100,000 cases a day is almost inevitable,” said Ferguson, adding, “The real question is do we get to double that or higher? We could get to 200,000 cases a day.”
The professor went on to warn of “major disruption” to the NHS and the interruption of elective surgeries.
Ferguson is being proven wrong by the statistics once again, which today showed there were 24,950 new coronavirus cases, the sixth consecutive daily fall.
“Lockdown zealots will attribute this decline to the vaccines, but that begs the question of why they weren’t confident the vaccines would prevent cases from surging when they predicted armageddon last Monday?” asks Toby Young.
As Christopher Snowdon highlights, the scientists who claimed England’s unlocking represented “a threat to world” are also being proven spectacularly wrong. SAGE government advisers who claimed that relaxing restrictions was “a dangerous and unethical experiment” also face embarrassment.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó is calling out the “liberal mainstream” for striving to achieve an “absolute hegemony of opinion” and “shunning” those who don’t share their views.
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has said the pressure of a vast international lobbying network is behind the attack against Hungary’s child protection law.
“The European Commission basically has one big problem with the law: that from now on, LGBTQ activists cannot go into schools and kindergartens to fill the heads of Hungarian children to their liking,” Minister Szijjártó told Kossuth Rádió on Sunday.
“They cannot impart to them the kind of propaganda that aims to popularize gender reassignment or homosexuality,” he added. Szijjártó said that the “liberal mainstream” understands Democracy to mean that “they can have everything they want.”
It has become clear in recent years that “they are not democrats because a democrat accepts that if somebody has a different opinion, that has to be respected,” he added.
The minister called out the “liberal mainstream” for striving to achieve an “absolute hegemony of opinion” and “shunning” those who don’t share their views. Minister Szijjártó said European Union institutions “are not reluctant to use EU funding for blackmail, which is why every effort must be made to ensure European financial matters and European political affairs can never be mixed together by anybody”.
Nobody better understands the psychopathic nature of the modern left better than General Michael Flynn. Just days into his tenure as National Security Advisor, Flynn was entrapped by a hostile FBI that wanted him gone for political reasons. Shortly after, the Mueller investigation targeted him, and he spent the next three years battling a relentless effort to send him to prison. Even after DOJ prosecutors attempted to drop Flynn’s case, D.C. Judge Emmet Sullivan frantically tried to keep the case alive, even appointing a “friend of the court” to argue that Flynn was guilty of perjury for trying to withdraw his guilty plea. In the end, a pardon from President Trump was needed to finally end a case that should have never existed in the first place.
But through it all, Gen. Flynn was never defeated.
Gen. Flynn generously agreed to meet with Revolver for a few questions.
In the first segment of our interview, we ask General Flynn why the deep state was so intent on destroying him and having him removed from the Trump Administration. What was it about his background, experience, skillset, and belief system that they found so threatening? In his answer, Flynn offered the disturbing revelation that some very high level members of the Republican establishment were part of the group trying to silence him.
A Baptist group is calling for the resignation of the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) new president over alleged plagiarism.
According to Christian News Now, the allegation is relative to Ed Litton’s plagiarization of J.D. Greear’s sermons on the book of Romans, which the latter claimed that he permitted Litton to use.
In a statement released last week, the Conservative Baptist Network (CBN) urged Litton to step down following his failure to acknowledge and repent for the mistake.
Citing the verses Exodus 20:15, Proverbs 28:6 and 1 Timothy 3:2, CBN stated that Litton’s conduct contradicts the expectation.
“This sinful behavior and the lack of forthrightness when exposed is inconsistent with the character and integrity Southern Baptists rightfully expect from their president,” the group said.
“Compounding the concern surrounding President Litton’s irrefutable pattern of plagiarism is the silence of nearly all SBC leaders. Further eroding the testimony of the SBC to a watching world is the way some SBC leaders have excused and even minimized this troubling behavior,” it also stated.
CBN pointed out that plagiarism violates the Ten Commandments, adding that the Bible warns about the stricter judgment on church leaders, as stated in James 3:1.
The group said that it delayed its reaction on the matter, hoping that Litton would admit his fault and repent, but did not do so.
“As further evidence of what appears to be serial plagiarism continues to surface in at least six videos from a variety of named sources, the Conservative Baptist Network calls on the leaders of the SBC to address this matter promptly and biblically. For the sake of the gospel, it is best for President Litton to step down from office and focus on his personal spiritual development with his local church,” the statement added.
“The testimony of Southern Baptists and of the gospel is at stake,” CBN concluded.
A U.S. Senate committee has approved defense legislation that would require young women to register for military Selective Service alongside men, if enacted.
QUICK FACTS:
Women might be drafted into the U.S. military in the event of war.
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s proposed 2022 defense policy bill contains a provision that would require women to register for the draft, officially known as the Selective Service System, according to Military.com.
The Senate’s proposed National Defense Authorization Act amends the Military Selective Service Act and, for the first time, includes a requirement for women.
The bill was authored by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.).
It would remove any reference to “male” in current law.
OPPOSITION:
Committee member Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) tweeting Friday, “American women have heroically served in and alongside our fighting forces since our nation’s founding.” He added, “It’s one thing to allow American women to choose this service, but it’s quite another to force it upon our daughters, sisters, and wives. Missourians feel strongly that compelling women to fight our wars is wrong and so do I.”
“Our military has welcomed women for decades and are stronger for it,” Sen. Cotton posted to Twitter on Friday. “But America’s daughters shouldn’t be drafted against their will. I opposed this amendment in committee, and I’ll work to remove it before the defense bill passes.”
It’s one thing to allow American women to choose this service, but it’s quite another to force it upon our daughters, sisters, and wives. Missourians feel strongly that compelling women to fight our wars is wrong and so do I
Our military has welcomed women for decades and are stronger for it. But America’s daughters shouldn’t be drafted against their will. I opposed this amendment in committee, and I’ll work to remove it before the defense bill passes.
Voted NO to drafting daughters: James Inhofe Wicker, Roger Cotton, Tom Hawley, Josh Rounds, Mike
Either Voted YES (or Not Present) to drafting daughters to war: Fischer, Deb Ernst, Joni Tillis, Thom Sullivan, Dan Cramer, Kevin Scott, Rick Blackburn, Marsha Tuberville, Tommy
Male American citizens ages 18 to 26 are required to register for the draft.
Since restrictions on women serving in combat arms were lifted in 2015, lawmakers have argued that they should need to register, according to Military.com.
Rasmussen survey finds only 42% of Americans rate the media’s coverage of Covid-19 excellent or good.
QUICK FACTS:
Rasmussen Reports used a national telephone and online survey to find that “just 14% of American Adults rate media coverage of the ongoing coronavirus crisis excellent.”
28% rate the media’s COVID coverage as “good.”
The number who say the media is doing a poor job remained the same at 29%.
Rasmussen also found many Americans “have concerns about the accuracy of reporting on vaccine safety.”
“The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence,” according to Rasmussen.
