President Biden has gone 65 days without holding a press conference since taking office on January 20 despite vowing transparency and accessibility to the press.
The 78-year-old commander-in-chief is holding his first press conference Thursday afternoon after 65 days. His silence, from a press conference standpoint, has shattered records, taking longer to hold a press conference than the last two presidents combined.
“During his campaign, Joe Biden said interacting with the press is a ‘really important part of his responsibility as an elected official.’ But here we are at day 65 and Biden is only just giving his FIRST press conference,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said in a statement ahead of the highly anticipated presser while noting that Biden is the “first president in at least 100 years to wait this long to hold a press conference this far into their term.”
“While Joe Biden has been hiding in the basement waiting for direction from his handlers, the American people have been waiting for him to answer a long list of questions,” the NRSC continued, providing a lengthy list of sample inquiries for Biden touching a range of issues, from the migrant crisis to the coronavirus.
(Daily Caller) Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz denied a request from a reporter to wear a mask during a press conference on Wednesday, and informed the reporter that they could “step back,” if they had a problem.
A reporter can be heard in the background asking Cruz if he would “mind putting on a mask,” for them, to which the senator denies the request by pointing out that as he is speaking directly into the camera, he will not wear a mask.
“All of us have been immunized,” Cruz points out to the reporter.
Cruz was speaking at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D.C., where the senator discussed an upcoming Congressional Delegation trip to the southern border on Friday in order to witness firsthand what the ongoing immigration situation is like, according to KHOU 11.
“You’re welcome to step away if you’d like,” Cruz points outs after the reporter tells him that if would make the crowd feel better if he wore his mask around them.
“The whole point of a vaccine — CDC guidance is what we’re following,” Cruz adds.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was aware of accused mass killer Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa’s potentially dangerous background even before he carried out the massacre that took the lives of 10 people in Boulder, Colorado, according to reports.
Tuesday, the New York Times reported that 21-year-old Alissa was “previously known” because he reportedly had connections to another individual who was under investigation by the agency.
According to the report, the suspect was convicted of misdemeanor assault against another student at his high school in 2018. When questioned about his assault, Alissa reportedly told authorities that he carried out the attack in response to “insults and ethnic taunts.”
“Fellow students recall him having a fierce temper that would flare in response to setbacks or slights,” the report noted.
Alissa, the Times noted, purchased a firearm on March 16 — just days before the deadly attack.
Alissa, who was born in Syria in 1999, lived “most of his life in the United States” according to Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty.
On Tuesday, a man purporting to be Alissa’s older brother told the Daily Beast that his brother was “very anti-social, paranoid, mentally ill, and obsessed over someone being ‘behind him’ or ‘looking for him.'”
He told the outlet, “I feel so sorry for the people that were shot by Ahmad. This was something I would have never expected Ahmad to do. What he did … why, I don’t know.”
A woman who reportedly identified herself as Alissa’s sister added, “We’re shocked. He is a nice, quiet brother.”
The Daily Beast also reported that a Facebook page believed to belong to Alissa addressed his Islamic background.
In a 2019, a post on the page read, “Yeah if these racist Islamophobic people would stop hacking my phone and let me have a normal life I probably could.”
The outlet added, “On Facebook, his politics appeared mixed throughout several camps. He shared an article rebuking Donald Trump’s stance on immigration, but also posted about his own opposition to gay marriage and abortion.”
Three Hawaii residents who were fully vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to the Hawaii Department of Health (DOH).
All three patients had received both doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, reported KITV4. They all experienced mild symptoms and did not appear to spread the disease to others, the DOH told the news station.
COVID-19 vaccines don’t prevent infection, however they mitigate severe symptoms and lower the risk of hospitalization, health experts say.
One of the patients, an Oahu-based health care worker, received the second and final dose of the vaccine in January. The worker traveled to several U.S. cities about a month later, and tested positive following routine testing upon returning to Hawaii as per travel protocol.
Contact tracing hasn’t identified any additional infections among close contacts of the health care worker.
It isn’t clear which vaccines each of the three patients received.
Lt. Gov. of Hawaii, Josh Green, urged people not to be discouraged by the news, as the vaccines work “in a huge percentage of people.”
“Remember, 95 percent of people get immunity from the vaccines and five percent don’t from the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine,” Green told news station KHON2.
“Some people are going to dive on to this and say, oh, then the vaccine doesn’t work. No, it does work. It works in a huge percentage of people, but not everyone and that’s an important message,” he added.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people who have previously been infected with COVID-19 should still get a vaccine.
“You should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19. That’s because experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19. Even if you have already recovered from COVID-19, it is possible—although rare—that you could be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 again,” the CDC says on its website.
People who received monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma should wait 90 days before getting a vaccine, the agency added.
Democrats are going to spin Monday’s mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store into talk of more gun laws, but existing gun laws did not stop those murders, gun-advocate Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., noted on Newsmax TV.
“Gun laws just don’t work – it’s unfortunate,” Boebert told Tuesday’s “Greg Kelly Reports.” “We need good people to neutralize threats and defending themselves, and the people around them to protect them.
“Here in Colorado, we have some of the strictest gun laws, and they of course include universal background checks, they include high-capacity magazine bans, and then we have the extreme-risk protection orders, red-flag laws that are supposed to prevent guys like Ahmad [Al Aliwi] Alissa from doing what he did.
“We even have mutual adjudication that prohibits firearm ownership, and none of this stopped the tragedy that happened [Monday].”
Democrats working to restrict law-abiding gun owners is the wrong answer to the scourge of mental illness and mass murder, particularly when sane, pro-gun Americans can help save lives, Boebert told host Greg Kelly.
“It’s very unfortunate that their first knee jerk reaction is to limit our ability to defend ourselves,” she said. “There are bad people who do bad things, and we need a way to protect ourselves, because we don’t know when they’re going to act on the things that are rolling through their minds and consuming their thoughts, and so we need a way to protect ourselves.
“That’s why I carry.”
Boebert has controversially sought to even carry her gun into the halls of Congress, but she noted she can never know when evil might strike.
“I’ve been asked many times: Why do you carry in a grocery store?” she continued. “Well, unfortunately, you don’t know if there’s going to be something like this that happens in a grocery store. But, at the end of the day, when violence occurs my first reaction will never be to try to disarm and restrict the American people.”
Boebert cited data that showed “96% of mass public shootings occur in gun-free zones.”
“And this King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado, was very much a soft target where open carry was banned, and it’s very discouraged in Boulder of all places, in Colorado, to carry a firearm,” she said.
President Joe Biden may have illegally ordered the government to stop funds for construction on the wall on the southern border, as the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigates the decision
Biden issued an executive order on his first day as president to pause in government spending on the wall, keeping his campaign promise to end the border security project.
Last week, 40 Senate Republicans accused Biden of violating the law and making the migrant crisis on the southern border worse.
“In the weeks that followed, operational control of our southern border was compromised and a humanitarian and national security crisis has ensued,” the senators wrote in a letter to the GAO requesting a ruling on Biden’s questionable action.
If the United States doesn’t implode from mass illegal immigration or media-stoked race wars, the crushing tax burden from President Joe Biden and other Democrats could deliver the death blow.
The Biden administration is preparing to raise taxes on “high-income earners,” which it defines as Americans making $400,000 a year or more.
However, critics warn that the Democrats’ tax hikes would have a catastrophic impact on lower-income people as well.
If Democrats get their way, millions of Americans should “get ready for 70% tax rates,” according to the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, an economic advocacy group.
The organization, whose goal is to promote U.S. prosperity, was founded in 2015 by economists Steve Forbes, Steve Moore, Arthur Laffer and Larry Kudlow.
“The Biden tax plan that Congress will start debating this week or next would raise the top income tax rate to 39.6% from 37% today,” the committee wrote in its newsletter Monday.
“But he also would impose a new payroll tax of 15% on earnings over $400,000, which could be as little as $200,000 each for a married couple. The combined payroll/income tax rate would bring the marginal tax rate on an additional hour of work to roughly 54%.”
However, the overall tax rate would balloon to a staggering 70 percent once you add in state income taxes from high-tax states run by Democrats.
“Hence, if you live in a high-tax state, like New York, New Jersey, or California your marginal tax rate will start to approach 70%,” the committee said. “But it is worse than that. There is a proposal to raise the income tax in California, New Jersey, and New York.
“In the California General Assembly, there is a bill to raise the income tax rate to 16.5%. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a two percentage point tax hike, which would raise the income tax in New York City to 15.5%.”
The committee continued: “If these taxes were enacted, both states would have combined federal-state marginal income taxes on wages and salaries of right at 70%. New York and California would become virtually the highest tax places in the world.”
So the question is: If you’re forced to give away most of your earnings every year, why would you stay in parasitic California or New York state? The answer is, you won’t.
In the wake of recent racial unrest, critical race theory has tightened its grip on America’s institutions. From workplaces to classrooms, so-called anti-racist training has morphed into neo-racism, dividing colleagues and classmates into “oppressor” and “oppressed” classes, eroding our common humanity in the process.
Just last month, Coca Cola made headlines when they reportedly provided their employees with an anti-racist seminar hosted by White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo. The presentation sought to foster a more “inclusive workspace” by instructing employees to “be less white” by being less arrogant and defensive while “[breaking] with white solidarity.”
— Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) (@fairforall_org) March 4, 2021
Critical race theory is rapidly seeping into classrooms, too – from educators demanding families reflect on their whiteness to Megyn Kelly publicly pulling her children out of school after faculty circulated an article insisting there is a future killer cop in every class of white students. As a result, we are failing our children by making them acutely aware of immutable characteristics, prioritizing their differences over their common humanity. Now is the time to fight back.
The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
Earlier this month, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism was founded to push back against the neo-racism infiltrating our institutions. Dubbed the “new ACLU,” FAIR is a non-partisan organization dedicated to “advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity.”
— Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) (@fairforall_org) March 23, 2021
FAIR seeks to uphold civil rights and advance racial equality without judging others based on immutable characteristics. The organization’s board of advisors includes many prominent thought leaders, among them Bari Weiss, Steven Pinker, Glenn Loury, Megyn Kelly, John McWhorter, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Peter Boghossian, and Coleman Hughes.
According to their website, FAIR rejects critical race theory because “it pits us against one another and diminishes what it means to be human.” Their mission statement affirms, “We are pro-human, and promote compassionate anti-racism rooted in dignity and our common humanity.”
Finding solutions
FAIR’s primary goal is to serve as a legal network, connecting individuals whose constitutionally protected civil rights have been violated with attorneys and law firms dedicated to affirming the organization’s mission.
Additionally, local FAIR chapters are being opened in school districts throughout the country, providing guidance for parents and educators on developing a classroom curriculum that values understanding over differences. Thousands of concerned citizens have signed FAIR’s pledge, and those looking to get involved can also explore volunteer opportunities.
As our nation reckons with racial unrest in 2021, we must carefully choose our course of action. While critical race theory seeks to highlight our differences and broaden the divides between us, FAIR offers hope for a more just path forward.
Prominently featured on FAIR’s homepage are the words of Martin Luther King, Jr: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Let us reject neo-racist ideologies that seek to divide us and reclaim this dream for our nation’s future.
Parents, teachers, & students across the country are quietly questioning the new intolerant orthodoxy. @fairforall_org dares to insist on an education & culture that treats every individual with dignity, and celebrates our common humanity. https://t.co/CTITnrmnAR
— Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) (@fairforall_org) March 10, 2021
(ChurchLeaders) Christian author and Skillet‘s frontman John Cooper gave his thoughts to his “Cooper Stuff” listeners regarding Cardi B’s recent Grammy performance.
Our world has become silly and ridiculous, the “Awake and Alive to Truth: Finding Truth in the Chaos of a Relativistic World” author stated. He hinged his ten minute talk around Isaiah 5:20, which says, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
John Cooper said, “We’re living in a world right now were there’s certain Dr. Seuss books that you cannot sell on Ebay…they’re just too much for anybody to even be allowed to buy…it’s just ‘too much’, it’s ‘too evil’, but you can and must applaud the sexual degradation of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion simulating sex together on the Grammys,” during their performance of “WAP.”
The bold rocker who says(and lives out), “If you really speak truth to people, you’re probably going to become more unpopular,” explained how the world is using intersectionality to redefine Biblical truth. Pointing out how they manipulate the truth by saying, “If you don’t celebrate it then you’re actually a bad person…and you kind of like don’t love people…right?…This has been happening in America…especially during the last year.”
He asked, who is going to define evil as good? In a short lesson he said, “Every dictator in history says that what they were doing was good…that’s what they believe.” Cooper used Hitler as an example saying, “If you read some of Hitler’s speeches, he’s like ‘I’m going to set people free…free from the bondage of the Ten Commandments.’ In his mind he’s a liberator.”
Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece, Meena Harrris, declared that “violent white men” are the “greatest terrorist threat” to the United States following the deadly grocery store shooting in Boulder, Colorado, later setting off a firestorm on social media by erroneously assuming the suspect, a Syrian immigrant, was white.
“The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago. Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country,” Harris, a New York Times best-selling author, wrote in a now-deleted tweet Monday.
Earlier Monday, suspected gunman Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa, 21, allegedly opened fire inside a King Soopers store, shooting dead 10 people, including active-duty police officer Eric Talley, 51, before he was taken into custody by responding officers. Al Aliwi Al-Issa, a resident of Denver who reportedly moved to the U.S. from Syria at age three, was shot in the leg during the rampage and has received medical treatment for his wounds at a hospital. He was charged with 10 counts of murder earlier Tuesday.
Harris conceded that she removed her tweeted Tuesday because she falsely identified the suspected killer as white, claiming her assumption was predicated on “being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men.”
I deleted a previous tweet about the suspect in the Boulder shooting. I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men.
Investigators have not established a motive, but authorities believe Al-Issa was the only shooter, Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said.
A law enforcement official briefed on the shooting told The Associated Press that the gunman used an AR-15 rifle, a lightweight semi-automatic rifle. Officials were trying to trace the weapon. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
