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A staff member for Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was stabbed Saturday, and police said a suspect is in custody.

“This past weekend a member of my staff was brutally attacked in broad daylight in Washington, D.C.,” Paul said in a statement, according to the Daily Wire. The name of the staff member was not released.

“I ask you to join Kelley and me in praying for a speedy and complete recovery, and thanking the first responders, hospital staff, and police for their diligent actions,” Paul said, referring to his wife.

“We are relieved to hear the suspect has been arrested. At this time we would ask for privacy so everyone can focus on healing and recovery,” Paul continued.

The incident took place Saturday in the 1300 block of H Street, Northeast, the Metropolitan Police Department posted on its website.

The police statement said the victim suffered “life-threatening injuries.”

Glynn Neal, 42, of Washington, D.C., was arrested and charged with assault with Intent to Kill (Knife), police said. It was not known Monday night if this was the same person detained.

A social media report said an individual with the same name and age had recently been released from federal prison.

In February, Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota suffered bruises in an attack at her apartment building.

The Metropolitan Police Department posted on its website that Kendrick Hamlin, 26, was arrested and charged with simple assault.

According to WUSA-TV, Craig spotted Hamlin in the lobby of the building where she has an apartment. He entered an elevator after she did. At some point, Craig was punched on the chin and grabbed by the neck. Craig threw her hot coffee at her attacker, giving her the opportunity to escape from the elevator.

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]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 02:41:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZWE56lLaAq7aOzdsCmHakzH <![CDATA[Supreme Court Hands Down Big Victory to Trump, Even Joe Biden Agreed]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZWE56lLaAq7aF1cWWor9YPv

In a case that found the Biden administration supporting a position taken by former President Donald Trump, steel tariffs imposed by Trump will remain in effect.

The court on Monday denied to hear the appeal of USP Holdings after lower courts rejected its claim that the Trump administration acted improperly when it enacted the tariffs.

President Joe Biden has left the tariffs largely as Trump imposed it and supported the tariffs in the court case against USP Holdings and other companies that said they import steel and were damaged by the tariffs, according to the Epoch Times.

Politico noted that although the tariffs angered allies, American workers were part of the presidential equation in Biden keeping a piece of Trump’s policy intact.

“The Biden administration understands that simply lifting steel tariffs without any solution in place, particularly beyond the dialogue, could well mean layoffs and plant closures in Pennsylvania and in Ohio and other states where obviously the impact would be felt not only economically but politically,” said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

The tariffs went into effect on March 1, 2018. A 25 percent tariff on imported steel from most countries was imposed, along with a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum.

“When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore — we win big. It’s easy!” Trump tweeted when the tariff was imposed.

The case largely focused on the administrative machinations of the tariff’s approval.

As noted in their petition to the Supreme Court, USP and the other companies suing tried to claim that former Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’ report that recommended the tariff was in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, claiming the report was  “arbitrary and capricious.”

The Trade Court rejected that argument in 2021, saying the report was not a final agency action.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit differed from the trade Court about the report, but still denied that imposing the tariffs violated the Administrative Procedures Act.

USP Holdings then appealed to the Supreme Court, which turned away the appeal without comment.

“The tariffs have had, I would say, very modest impacts on steel-consuming industries and have had the desired results so far for the domestic [steel] industry,” Paul said, according to Politico.

The Supreme Court last year refused to hear a challenge by steel companies to Trump’s 2018 action to double tariffs on steel from Turkey, according to U.S. News & World Report.

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]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 02:07:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZWE56lLaAq7aF1cWWor9YPv <![CDATA[College Football Player Comes Close to Death After Suffering Cardiac Arrest During Practice]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXMi4c9LXhSxKCY3L745TL_

Utah State wide receiver Josh Davis, who suffered a cardiac arrest during practice on Thursday, is no longer on life support.

Davis, who had CPR performed upon him by college staff after collapsing on the field, has had his status upgraded to fair condition, according to KSTU-TV.

The Deseret News noted that his cardiac arrest was labeled “non-traumatic,” meaning it was not brought about by any contact or injury.

“Awake, alert, and breathing on his own,” head coach Blake Anderson told Scott Garrard, who does the college’s play-by-play announcing.

“The training staff absolutely saved his life. No hesitation at all. Miracle,”  Anderson said, according to the comment Garrard posted on Twitter.

Anderson also posted his own thoughts, writing, “it was a brutal night, but Josh never stopped fighting. Through God’s grace, and an amazing group of Trainers & Medical Professionals we are doing better ever minute today. So grateful for all the prayers & support lifted up over the past 24 hrs.”

Davis first went to Logan Regional Hospital and then to McKay-Dee Hospital, according to KSTU.

To preserve the athlete’s brain function, the hospital treated him with what is known as therapeutic hypothermia to keep down his body temperature.

Davis is from Carlsbad, California. His parents flew to Utah to be with him on Thursday.

The college posted several images of Davis with his teammates.

Writing on Outkick, David Hookstead noted that other college athletes have experienced similar incidents.

“It’s an incredibly troubling trend nobody seems to have an answer to. What is causing so many young athletes in the best shape of their lives to collapse and suffer heart issues? That’s a question people need answers to and nobody should be afraid to ask for clarity on the situation,” he wrote.

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]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:51:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXMi4c9LXhSxKCY3L745TL_ <![CDATA[White House Quick to Blame Republicans for Slaughtering of Kids at Nashville Christian School]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXMi4c9LXhSxCejEQ2Mq9rY

In a genuine double-take moment, President Joe Biden and his administration reminded America that there are no depths to which they won’t stoop to score cheap political points.

On Monday, tragedy befell the Covenant School in Nashville when a shooter opened fire and killed at least three children and three adults there. Multiple outlets, including Fox News and CNN, are also reporting that the shooter, a 28-year-old transgender person named Audrey Hale, was killed by police.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took to the press podium after the horrific events and, despite the investigation into the shooting being nowhere near complete at the time, she somehow knew exactly who was to blame:

Those mean, old Republicans.

In a truly remarkable bout of mental gymnastics, Jean-Pierre somehow determined that the ongoing tragedy in Tennessee could somehow be placed at the feet of Republicans.

Making her remarks even more heinous, Jean-Pierre specifically placed murdered children at the feet of Republicans.

You can see the beginning of her remarks below:

“How many more children have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress will step up and act to pass the ‘assault weapons’ ban?” Jean-Pierre asked in earnest seriousness.

There’s just no two ways around it, those remarks are utterly reprehensible.

The sheer audacity of the remarks, coupled with the fact that the investigations weren’t even close to being finished and the fact that the remarks were coming so close to the deaths of the children, might actually make these Jean-Pierre’s worst comments, ever.

And given her past remarks, that’s actually quite an ignominious feat.

The worst of the worst might be how Jean-Pierre even began her comments by admitting that the investigation was still ongoing, which only served to highlight the premature nature of her Republican tirade.

After inexplicably beginning the conference with “Happy Monday” of all things, Jean-Pierre began giving a general update.

Partway through, Jean-Pierre specifically mentions that “we don’t know yet all the details in this latest tragic shooting,” and yet she still felt compelled to pin this at the feet of Republicans?

It’s despicable. It’s twisted. It’s dishonest.

And it’s just about par for the course from Biden’s press secretaries thus far.

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]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:31:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXMi4c9LXhSxCejEQ2Mq9rY <![CDATA[Arizona Authorities Warn Parents After Large, Bold Coyote Attacks Two Toddlers During Daylight Hours]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXH6gbZvay4CuT5HJgy6HUf

Most parents are aware of the general dangers their children might face out in the world, and the home is often a sanctuary where they can let their guard down just a little and be more comfortable in their own space — but that’s not true for some parents in Scottsdale, Arizona, where a large, bold coyote is on the prowl.

On Wednesday, 1.5-year-old Brody McAlister was walking up the driveway to his home as the family returned for the evening when the unwelcome visitor attacked. Surveillance video showed the large coyote stalking and attacking the toddler.

The animal bit Brody on the arm but released him once he started crying. Brody was whisked away immediately, but video showed the coyote stayed around a while, ostensibly waiting to see if it would get another chance.

Brody’s parents were shocked at how quickly it all happened.

“Out of nowhere, a coyote came and basically attacked him,” said Jeff McAlister, Brody’s father, according to LiveNOW from FOX. “Grabbed his arm and took him to the ground, and screams, and we came and, you know, picked him up. And the coyote ran away and actually came back and tried to look for his prey.

“We took him to Phoenix Children’s, and he did OK,” McAlister said. “He got some rabies shots, and he went to school today, so he’s doing awesome.”

The Saturday before that, just half a mile away, another attack had taken place at a nearby playground. Zeke Miaso, just shy of 2 years old, was attacked by what officials believe to be the same large, bold coyote.

“I turned and looked, and about 20 feet to my right under the monkey bars, was, a coyote was face-to-face with Zeke,” father Curt Miaso said, according to KOLD-TV. “As you can imagine, kind of a pretty quick, frightening, kind of few seconds.

“I remember checking Zeke, at first his hands, his face, you know, didn’t see anything,” Miaso said. “And there I ended up undoing his, his onesie that he was wearing and saw he had some, some claw marks on his stomach.”

Zeke was taken to Phoenix Children’s Hospital, where he received rabies vaccinations as a precaution.

“He’s a tough little guy,” Miaso added. “He’s doing OK.”



With two attacks in such a short time, the Arizona Game & Fish Department is asking for help locating the coyote, which they have stressed is healthy but unafraid, likely due to being fed by people.

“If you’re in #Scottsdale, we need your help!” the Arizona Game & Fish Department posted on Thursday. “AZGFD asks that coyote sightings in the area of 94th Street//Thompson Peak Parkway along the Central Arizona Project canal to Cactus Road be reported ASAP to 623-236-7201 24/7.

“AZGFD Mesa is looking for a large, healthy coyote that has injured two toddlers in Scottsdale. An incident on Saturday occurred at Aztec Park near Frank Lloyd Wright and 100th Street, yesterday’s subsequent incident occurred at a residence less than 2 miles south of there. Both victims were treated for minor injuries then released.

“The coyote shows little fear of people and may have been illegally fed in the past. Parents of toddlers in the area should keep their children close when outdoors and be vigilant until AZGFD is able to locate and remove the offending coyote. Meanwhile, AZGFD is patrolling the area with assistance from the Scottsdale Police Department.”



Darren Julian with AZGFD warns that many coyotes in the area are becoming bolder and bolder because they see people as a food source.

“It’s that learned behavior when they approach people,” he said, KOLD reported. “And then now that they’re not getting the food source, then they, they nip at people, saying, hey, where’s my, where’s my — I, I’m here; where’s, where’s my reward? Where’s my food?”

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]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:53:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXH6gbZvay4CuT5HJgy6HUf <![CDATA[Suspect in Christian School Massacre Identified as Apparent Transgender LGBT Advocate]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXH6gbZvay4CpVjH6qdYdAk

Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old alleged mass shooter at the Christian school in Nashville Monday, reportedly identified as transgender.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Department chief named Hale as the alleged assailant who killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School.

Police officers confronted and killed the shooter on the scene.


Drake said that Hale was a former student at the school.

When asked if she identified as transgender, the chief responded, “She does.”

Journalist Andy Ngo tweeted, “The shooting comes amid a surge in far-left death threats in Tennessee over the state banning the medical transitioning of minors. Hale’s art page featured LGBTQ+-themed work.”

Ngo added in another tweet, Hale identified as “he/him and uses the name ‘Aiden.'”

“The killings follow the state banning the medical transitioning of minors & adult cabaret (drag) performances in front of children,” Ngo wrote.

CBS News reported Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill into law on March 2 banning minors from transitioning with medical treatment and a separate law restricting drag shows from taking place in public or in front of children.

The MNPD tweeted Monday afternoon, “The 6 victims fatally shot by the active shooter at Covenant School are identified as: Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9, Cynthia Peak, age 61, Katherine Koonce, age 60, and Mike Hill, age 61.”

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]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:53:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXH6gbZvay4CpVjH6qdYdAk <![CDATA[Trump Gives Media a Look Inside Campaign's Secret Weapon - His Face 'Lights Up' When Talking About It]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXDi8wlf4ckfHn9ye8UNv30

Former President Donald Trump is prepared to travel the national campaign circuit in style.

Trump showed off his renovated Boeing 757 private jet in-flight to the Daily Mail’s Rob Crilly before a Saturday rally in Waco, Texas.

The aircraft became a sign of Trump’s presence during the billionaire’s historic 2016 presidential campaign — often serving as a feature during events in which Trump arrived before speaking at airports and outdoor venues.

Trump is proud of the jet, according to Crilly.

“His face fairly lights up when he has a chance to discuss the new features on his plane,” the journalist said of the topic of conversation during Trump’s flight to Waco.

The aircraft is equipped with a modernized sound system — and leather fixtures approved by Trump personally.

The plane was placed under renovation in the aftermath of Trump’s presidency, with Trump and his son Eric showing up the improvements made to the craft in videos of its overhauling.

Seatbelt buckles and air vents on the 757 are finished with 24-carat gold, and televisions with imagery of the Trump family coat of arms are displayed within the jet.

Trump was hesitant to tell Crilly how much the improvements to the aircraft cost, citing the economic problems facing many average Americans.

However, he acknowledged the plane is vital to his personal brand.

“But I think more importantly it makes a fantastic impression on people because we’re gonna make our country great and you’d like to show equipment that’s great,” he said of the private aircraft.

The plane features an executive bedroom for Trump’s personal use during lengthier trips, as well as a VIP area for the former president to coordinate strategy and messaging with those privy to his counsel.

A tail insignia that once displayed a Trump Organization logo has been replaced with an American flag in the overhaul.

The jet is widely known as “Trump Force One,” a nod to the presidential Air Force One.

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]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:28:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXDi8wlf4ckfHn9ye8UNv30 <![CDATA[3 Loud Explosions Erupt as Police Search Home of Suspect in Christian School Massacre]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXDi8wlf4ckfClmFkX7M1Jw

Three explosions were heard and felt near as police searched the home of the alleged school shooter in Nashville on Monday.

“A home off Belmont [Boulevard] is currently being searched by FBI & MNPD. Nearly a block of Brightwood Ave is taped off,” WKRN-TV’s Stephanie Langston tweeted.

“Neighbors say they heard 3 explosives that shook homes a block away. We know police are at the home of the school shooter, but haven’t confirmed that this is it,” she added.

Langston further noted that SWAT was on the scene along with the agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

NBC News reported that three children and three staff members were killed at The Covenant School, a private Christian school.

Police identified the suspect as 28-year-old Audrey Hale.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters that the suspect was a former student of the school.

“We know the address of that person as well and so we have some ongoing investigations as to that,” Drake added.

The suspect was fatally shot by police officers who arrived on the scene.

The suspect had “at least” two rifles and a handgun.

The MNPD tweeted Monday afternoon, “The 6 victims fatally shot by the active shooter at Covenant School are identified as: Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9, Cynthia Peak, age 61, Katherine Koonce, age 60, and Mike Hill, age 61.”

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]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:19:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXDi8wlf4ckfClmFkX7M1Jw <![CDATA[CBS Anchor Literally Laughs at Biden Spokesman When He Offers Excuse for Joe Appearing in TikTok Video]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXDi8wlf4ckfCejEQ2Mq9rY

Nineteenth-century English essayist William Hazlitt once famously said: “The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.”

CBS, by virtue of being an entrenched arm of the establishment media, will always forgive President Joe Biden for his endless examples of hypocrisy.

But a recent example of Biden’s hypocrisy was so blatantly flagrant that one CBS anchor couldn’t help but laugh out loud while walking that path to forgiveness.

On Sunday’s episode of “Face the Nation,” host Margaret Brennan interviewed National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby, and the conversation eventually shifted to that of TikTok and Biden’s bungling, hypocritical appearance on the polarizing app.

You can watch the first part of the segment below:



“We showed a video in the last segment of the president on TikTok, from the video shot by a celebrity inside the White House,” Brennan told Kirby, pressing the latter on the national security dangers the app purportedly presents. Those dangers necessitated a congressional hearing on Thursday over the murky future of the social media app.

You can see just two such examples of Biden utilizing TikTok literally inside the White House for nothing more than celebrity clout:

@niallhoran Couldn’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day alone. #StPatricksDay ♬ Heaven – Niall Horan

@jonasbrothersEYYYY YOOOO♬ original sound – Jonas Brothers

Brennan pressed on, wondering what Biden’s response was to the fact that the app, understandably, is banned on so many government devices due to security concerns… and yet those security concerns mysteriously vanish if the app’s wielder has a few Billboard music awards?

“So for the 150 million Americans who still use this app, how do you say to them, ‘Sorry, we’re going to take it away?'” Brennan asked.

Just as Kirby was beginning to spin a response, Brennan jumped back in to add that the optics of it all “looks… hypocritical.”

“It’s not on government devices,” Kirby said. “We do have legitimate national security concerns…”

But before Kirby, you could hear an audible laugh from Brennan at the absurdity of the “government devices” retort.

“It was filmed on government property,” Brennan said, stifling her audible chuckle.

Should TikTok be banned in America?

And, to be clear, she’s correct. So how would Kirby get himself out of this one?

“We… have legitimate national security concerns,” a suddenly meek Kirby said. He clarified that they were “security concerns over TikTok.”

Of course, to buttress the fact that this was, in fact, establishment CBS, Brennan did throw Kirby a bone by mentioning that “it’s a useful political platform.”

If Brennan means that TikTok is useful for exposing the gross, blatant hypocrisy on display up and down the Biden administration?

She’s spot on with that.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:37:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXDi8wlf4ckfCejEQ2Mq9rY <![CDATA['Handyman' Reveals How He Was Able to Flip the Script on Squatters Without Help from Cops]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXg7lWWhYJCXuzdsCmHakzH

Leave it to a guy named Flash.

Who is a handyman in more ways than one.

A squatter moved into a vacant home owned by the mother of professional handyman Flash Shelton. Shelton called the cops. It being California, they did nothing.

So Shelton did his own version of squatter justice, handyman style.

When the squatter wasn’t there, Shelton became a squatter and moved into the house. When the squatter returned, Shelton gave her a deadline for leaving or he would personally have her stuff hauled away.

So what are you going to do when you’re cheated out of doing something illegal? Call the police? Not likely.

So Ms. Squatter left. No police, no courts, no months-long legal battle, no financial liability, no squatter.

And he had fun in the process.

Shelton, the founder of the United Handyman Association, told his story on YouTube earlier this year. Watch and you can join more than 3 million others who learned how he got rid of the squatter.



It all began upon the death of Shelton’s father. His mother was in no condition to remain in the home, so Shelton attempted to rent it.

A corrections officer wanted to rent the house. “Basically, she didn’t have any money, didn’t have any credit and want to just, like, trade repairs or whatever,” he said. “So we didn’t approve her.”

The woman apparently was already in the process of making some kind of move, according to Shelton, as she had a truck filled with her belongings taken to the vacant house and just moved in, furniture and all, claiming “it was delivered by accident.”

Shelton said he was informed by real estate agents listing the house and by neighbors that the home was occupied. “They were, like, describing her and they were saying, ‘Yeah, you know, they’re here. Lights are on at night.'”

He said he complained to the police department and the county sheriff’s office and was told, “There’s a house full of furniture and there’s someone in the house – there’s nothing we can do.”

“‘We can’t enter,’” Shelton quoted authorities as saying. “‘There’s nothing we can do.’ So I went back and forth with the sheriff’s department and they basically said, ‘I’m sorry, but we can’t enter the house and it looks like they’re living there, so you need to go through the courts.'”

Not thwarted, Shelton made moves to regain control of his mother’s house, as he outlined step-by-step in the YouTube video.

First, he needed a legal foundation, since the house was not in his name, so he and his mother made a contract that designated Shelton as the legal tenant.

“So, me being the legal tenant for the house, all I had to do at that point was do the same thing they did and occupy the house,” Shelton said.

“I’ve heard so many stories about people that have gone through, like, major things with the courts,” he said. “And it takes so long and it’s just, you know, squatters’ rights, so I figured out how I could do it without that delay, without all those problems.

“So if they could take a house, then I could take a house.

“So if they’re the squatter and they have rights, well, then if I become the squatter on the squatter, then I should have rights, right?”

Right. You see why this guy’s named Flash.

Driving 12 hours to where the house is located in Northern California, Shelton arrived at 4 a.m., saw cars in the driveway and waited a few hours until they were gone.

With the keys he had to the house, Shelton entered it. His YouTube post includes video of him entering the house and finding furniture, boxes, clothing and a Department of Corrections uniform.

While Shelton was in the house, the squatter and her granddaughter showed up, and Shelton videoed his meeting with them, where he calmly and quietly informed the squatter she had to remove her things.

“It all has to be out before I leave,” he said. “I’ve got guys scheduled to come take the stuff out later today, so either you take it out or I have to take it out and put it out on the driveway until I get it picked up.”

Shelton also said he was installing a security system in the house.

After confronting the squatter, he said, he spotted some young men in the neighborhood and asked them if they needed furniture. When they said yes, he told them that if the furniture was not out of the house by midnight that night, they could take whatever they wanted.

“If you help me get it out,” he recalled telling them, “if you help me drag it out to the driveway, it’s yours. You can have absolutely anything you want for free. And they’re like: ‘Sure, awesome!’”

The squatter managed to secure a truck and crew and vacated the property a few hours after the midnight deadline.

Shelton summarized his efforts: 1) He made sure he was legal, 2) he waited for the house to be empty so he could be the squatter, 3) he installed security cameras that would allow him to call the police if there were trespassers and 4) he showed up.

“I think that I was there was enough,” he said.

But squatters are a problem, Shelton said. A person can hire a lawyer, call the police and attempt to go through the courts, but “the legal process is so slow and at some point — when they’re in [your house] – you’re going to feel like that they have more rights than you do, and that’s how you’re going to be treated.”

Do you approve of the handyman’s creative solution to squatters?

“So even though it’s your house and you’re paying the mortgage, whatever, squatters have – at some point, squatters feel they have more rights than you — so they don’t have incentive to leave until a judge tells them to. … And that could take months,” he said.

In summary, Shelton learned from real estate agents that he could start a successful business using his technique to remove the many squatters in vacation homes in the area.

He said he had no intention of doing that, but he had this to say about his single squatter-removal experience: “It was actually fun to do it.”

As California continues to lead the country into the abyss of barbarism, more people like Flash Shelton will be finding ways to develop creative workarounds.

And maybe have fun in the process.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:29:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXg7lWWhYJCXuzdsCmHakzH <![CDATA[Listen to Biden's First Words After News of Shooting at Christian School Breaks: 'This Is So Insulting']]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXg7lWWhYJCXsb1naedg1wr

President Joe Biden is not known for being an eloquent speaker, but his remarks on Monday after three children were shot to death at a private Christian school in Tennessee were horrifyingly tone-deaf.

Seven people are dead after police say a female entered The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school in Nashville, and opened fire.

The Associated Press reported a 28-year-old woman was carrying two rifles and a pistol.

The 14-minute massacre ended when the woman, who has not yet been named, was shot and killed by local police.

Naturally, Biden commented on the shooting from the White House and politicized the deaths of children in his latest push for more gun control.

“We have to do more to stop gun violence,” he said, according to The Hill. “It’s ripping our communities apart. It’s ripping at the very soul of the nation. We have to do more to protect our schools, so they aren’t turned into prisons.”

Biden added, “It’s about time that we begin to make some more progress.”

But before Biden used the deaths of children to call for disarming a country that is reeling from the crime he and his ilk on the far-left refuse to do anything about, he began his remarks by talking about ice cream.

“My name is Joe Biden,” he said to laughter from those in attendance for the Small Business Administration’s Women’s Business Summit. “I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband.”

“I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream,” he said “By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs. You think I’m kidding? I’m not.”

“It’s a delight to have you all here,” he said to the room.” He then asked someone, ‘Who are those good-looking kids back there?’

When he did get around to acknowledging the actual shooting, he said, “I gotta go … There’s a little thing going on in — around the world.”

Fox News initially cut away from his remarks, which went viral online and elicited some well-deserved condemnation.

Parents in Tennessee were in shock and in a state of mourning Monday after their children died at school.

Prior to trying to capitalize off the carnage — and as he ignored there is an epidemic of evil in the country — the president joked about ice cream.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:10:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZXg7lWWhYJCXsb1naedg1wr <![CDATA['Like a Stunt from a Movie': Dashcam Shows Moment Loose Tire Launches Car Into a Sky-High Flip]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZVVUJPB3x507ilmFkX7M1Jw

This is unbelievable.

A car crash that looked like something you’d see on a movie set occurred on the 118 Freeway in southern California on Thursday — with another motorist catching the incident on dashcam.

A tire shot loose from a pickup truck in the accident — sending a Kia vehicle flying high in the air, completing a full flip before landing upside down.

The crash occurred near the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles, according to KABC-TV.

“It’s crazy, like a stunt that was set up for a movie,” one journalist with KTTV said of the disturbing accident.

The vehicle eventually flipped to its right side.

In a miraculous twist that seemingly defies belief, no one was seriously injured in the dramatic crash.

The tire that caused the accident skid across the highway in cinematic fashion in the footage — only coming to a halt after it collided with the stationary wreck of the flipped vehicle a second time.

A man who said he recorded the larger-than-life dashcam footage said he had to swerve to avoid the loose tire.

Anoop Khatra indicated that the driver of the vehicle sent flying through the air was able to walk away from the scene of the accident unharmed.

Sheared-off lug nuts on the truck’s wheels appear to have led to the loose tire, according to KABC.

The truck which lost a wheel appeared to peel off to the freeway shoulder in the footage.

A representative of the California Highway Patrol did indicate that the driver of the black Kia vehicle suffered minor injuries, according to KABC.

No arrests were made in connection to the crash, and authorities indicated it was under investigation as of last week.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:50:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZVVUJPB3x507ilmFkX7M1Jw <![CDATA[Catholic Officials Investigating After 'Possible Eucharistic Miracle' at US Church]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZVoABuypTIBAMb1naedg1wr

A report of what’s being called a “possible Eucharistic Miracle” at a Roman Catholic Church in Connecticut is being investigated by the Archdiocese of Hartford.

On March 5, at Saint Thomas Church in Thomaston, Rev. Joseph Crowley said that during communion, the number of hosts — consecrated bread — being handed out increased, according to WFSB.

“What happened is Our Lord multiplied himself,” Crowley said.

“We really do celebrate the life, death, resurrection of Jesus Christ and the altar, that the Eucharist really is the body soul and divinity of Jesus Christ and that all things are possible with God,” Crowley said.

On March 5, Crowley told those at the Mass what had taken place that day.

“We had something happen. It’s hard to say, actually. God provides, and it’s funny how God provides, and sometimes it comes in a weird way, in a mystical way, in a strange way,” he said.



“One of our Eucharistic ministers was running out of hosts, yet they didn’t, and suddenly there were more hosts in the ciborium. God duplicated himself in the ciborium,” he said.

Crowley said the incident was a sign of the power of God.

“God provides. It’s strange how God does that. And it happened, and it was noted by one of our Eucharistic ministers that was giving out communion to you guys today.

“It’s really, really cool when God does these things, and it’s really, really cool when we realize what he’s done, and it just happened today. Very powerful, very awesome, very real, very shocking. But also, it happens, and today it happened,” he said.

“They were running out of hosts, and all of a sudden more hosts were there. So today not only did we have the miracle of the Eucharist, we actually had a bigger miracle. It’s pretty cool,” the priest said.

In his March 12 homily, Crowley noted that “sometimes, you know, we go through our lives, we go through faith, we go through our situations where God seems so removed, so hidden … not part of our everyday moment because we don’t see him. We don’t know Him.”

“It’s sometimes hard to see a God that seems to be so hidden, but yet he knows every moment, every minute of our lives,” he said.

“I think Our Lord gave us one of the best moments of reflection for this Lent about himself, about the Eucharist,” he said.

“This was one of those moments where God showed up in a very powerful, powerful way here. Pretty cool,” Crowley said, according to WFSB.

“It’s just so beautiful,” Shaina Pia of nearby Stratford, Connecticut, who grew up in the church, said.

“God has been working so many miracles in our lives lately,” she said.

“I think this is just a beautiful reminder from God during times that are challenging there’s always good in the world and that God is always present and with us.”

“It doesn’t surprise me at all that God would come like he did in the manger of Bethlehem so long ago, come to a small little mighty humble town like this and make his presence real to all of us. He always does in Eucharist, but in this particular miracle especially,” Pia said,

According to the Catholic News Agency, there have been 152 documented Eucharistic Miracles.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:41:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZVoABuypTIBAMb1naedg1wr <![CDATA[We Now Know What Johnny Depp Has Been Up to Post-Trial - He's Not in Hollywood]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZWDCqI6e_xNZ5s0ohxaO6Yr

Hollywood actor Johnny Depp is living a quiet life in England following his much-publicized divorce and his televised defamation lawsuit against his former wife Amber Heard.

The trial captivated much of the world last year when Depp won big in court after Heard had previously implied — he claimed — that he was a predator.

She wrote in a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post that she was a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”

The publicity brought by the trial has calmed down, and Depp more or less disappeared from the headlines.

That was until this past week when he gave an exclusive interview to Somerset Life magazine.

The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star explained he is enjoying relative quiet from an 850-acre compound in Somerset, England.

“I just love places with character,” he told the publication for its April issue.

He stated that he owns property in areas across the world, and they are each unique to him in their own way.

“I have various houses in various places, and they all mean something special to me,” he said. “I don’t have them just to say I own them, I have them for use and because they are a bit special.”

Depp bought his property in England in 2014.

It comes complete with 12 bedrooms and neighbors he described as being “cool” for respecting his privacy.

“British people are cool and will greet you as if you are a neighbor without going over the top,” he said. “I don’t mind if people want an autograph or a brief chat but not when I am having some private time with my family.”

Depp said of his British neighbors, “I can go into shops without being surrounded by people wanting selfies. I don’t mind that up to a point, but sometimes it gets a little too crowded.”

In spite of a career on-camera that has spanned decades, Depp described himself as “shy.”

“That’s one of the great things about Britain, and especially Somerset. I can just be me — and that’s nice.”

The sprawling estate he calls home is a three-and-a-half hour drive from London and offers privacy through walled gardens, People magazine reported.

Depp brought the property during his engagement to Heard.

Throughout the lengthy civil trial in 2022, each accused the other of engaging in abuse. In Depp’s case, his former wife alleged he physically abused her and also used drugs.

Depp alleged Heard was prone to bouts of rage and once severed his finger with a bottle of liquor while the couple was in Australia.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:19:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZWDCqI6e_xNZ5s0ohxaO6Yr <![CDATA[GOP Found a Creative Way to Block Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness, Here Are Dems That Could Join]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZWDCqI6e_xNZylmFkX7M1Jw

Republicans in the U.S. Senate are trying a new tactic to shut down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plans by introducing a resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that would overturn Biden’s gift that will end up costing the U.S. Treasury at least $430 billion.

The resolution is being sponsored by Republicans Bill Cassidy (LA), John Cornyn (TX), and Joni Ernst (IA) and is in response to the determination by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that Biden’s plan to forgive $20,000 in debt per borrower qualifies as a rule subject to the Administrative Procedures Act. This type of rule is subject to being overturned by a CRA resolution, according to the Washington Examiner.

The CRA allows a simple majority of both houses to overturn regulations enacted by the administration. A major drawback is that the CRA still needs a presidential signature to go into effect. So, Biden would shoot down his own campaign pledge and sign the resolution that would cancel his pandering to the left wing on loan forgiveness.

Opponents of Biden’s campaign promise to “forgive” debt say that the claim is deceptive because the debt isn’t just magically erased, but is instead simply transferred to the federal government, meaning we all pay for it with our tax dollars.

“President Biden’s student loan scheme does not ‘forgive’ debt. It just transfers the burden from those who willingly took out loans to those who never went to college or sacrificed to pay their loans off,” Cassidy said. “This resolution prevents these Americans, whose debts look different from the favored group the Biden administration has selected, from picking up the bill for this irresponsible and unfair policy.”

The CRA possibility was raised after the Government Accountability Office rejected the administration’s claim that its loan forgiveness plan was not a regulation or any sort of “rulemaking” because it was only a “one-time, fact-bound application of existing and statutorily prescribed waiver and modification authority.”

Even as the GAO disagreed, Biden’s lawyers argued that since it was just a one-time event, the forgiveness plan did not serve as a regulation that could be overturned by a CRA. But without commenting on whether the plan was legal in the first place, the GAO did rule that it was subject to CRA.

“We hold only that a valid exercise of authority under the HEROES Act is subject to CRA,” the GAO report said. “We need not reach the more specific conclusion about the substantive validity of ED’s Waivers and Modifications at issue in the Supreme Court’s decision in Biden v. Nebraska in order to reach a conclusion under CRA.”

Even if it is unlikely that Biden would sign a CRA that overturns his own loan forgiveness scheme, the Republican CRA plan does put Democrats in the uncomfortable position of having to openly vote on Biden’s plan and take a public stance on the issue only a year before the 2024 election cycle.

With that in mind, at least two Democrats have spoken out against Biden’s plans.

Two swing state Democrats in particular, Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), could well sign onto a CRA. Both Democrats have signaled that they don’t support Biden’s loan forgiveness ideas.

For her part, for instance, Masto did not reject a CRA out of hand.

“I’ll review the full text of the CRA when it is released, but like I said before, I disagree with President Biden’s executive action on student loans because it doesn’t address the root problems that make college unaffordable,” Masto said, according to the Washington Examiner.

Biden’s citation of the HEROS Act to justify his scheme is also problematic. As Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers pointed out in February, the HEROS Act was meant to aid our soldiers, not the general population.

Hilgers explained in his Wall Street Journal article that then-President George W. Bush signed the HEROES Act “after the start of the Iraq war to ensure that active-duty military members could pause student-loan payments while serving the country. Every congressional finding in support of the law focused on providing relief to people serving in the military for ‘our nation’s defense.'”

The HEROS Act was meant to offer loan relief “in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency.” Biden is now trying to use it for political purposes.

Trump temporarily paused loan repayments due to the coronavirus pandemic, and Biden is attempting to use the pandemic to justify his loan plan. But as Hilgers noted, “In September [Biden] went on television and declared the pandemic over. More recently his administration committed to ending the state of emergency on May 11.” He added, “The president can’t have it both ways. He can’t tell the country the pandemic is over while claiming that it justifies this unilateral action.”

The GOP may eventually have the support of the U.S. Supreme Court. According to EdSource, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts seemed skeptical about Biden’s invoking of the HEROS Act and said it appears the act is far more limited in scope than Biden thinks. “We’re talking about half a trillion dollars and 43 million Americans. How does that fit under the normal understanding of ‘modifying?'” he said. The court is set to rule on the legality of Biden’s plan in June.

Even though he continues to ignore the rulings, Biden has also lost other court battles in his effort to get his loan cancellation plan put into effect. So, the deck seems stacked against him in a number of ways.

The upshot is, even if the CRA does pass and win Biden’s signature, it could help the GOP in 2024 by giving them some political capital against the Democrats running.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:08:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZWDCqI6e_xNZylmFkX7M1Jw <![CDATA[American's Values Have Changed Dramatically from 25 Years Ago - These Results Should Concern You]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZW6Gg3BUCRHpZs0ohxaO6Yr

A concerning new poll shows Americans are abandoning their faith, their sense of community, their patriotism and a desire to start families at an alarming rate.

The survey — conducted March 1-13 by The Wall Street Journal and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago — found those things are being abandoned while a desire for money has grown.

The expansive survey covered topics from the economy to tolerance of others. It also asked people about their own happiness.

“Taken all together, how would you say things are these days — would you say that you are very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?” one question said.

Only 12 percent of the poll’s respondents answered they were “very happy,” while another 56 percent described themselves as “pretty happy.”

Thirty percent said they were “not too happy,” while an additional 1 percent declined to answer the question.

The fact that roughly one-third of the country is not feeling optimistic or celebratory is a sign of the times. But several truly jarring responses also stuck out from the survey.

When compared with how people felt at the end of the last century and how they felt during the third year of former President Donald Trump’s term in the White House, Americans believe things have gone off the rails in some key categories.

In 1998, 70 percent of those surveyed expressed a profound sense of patriotism, the Journal said Monday in its report on the poll. That dipped down to 61 percent in 2019.

In this month’s poll, a mere 38 percent of respondents said patriotism was “very important” to them.

A similar drop occurred when people were asked how important religion is to them, as only 39 percent answered “very important.”

That was down from 48 percent four years ago and 62 percent in 1998.

Likewise, in 1998, 59 percent of the country called having children “very important,” while only 30 percent in the latest poll viewed it as a key priority.

The question of “community involvement,” which increased from 47 percent in 1998 to 62 percent in 2019, was down this month as a major priority to 27 percent.

The only metric that really rose in the latest survey was the importance of money – a fact that many lamented on Twitter.

In 1998, 31 percent of Americans called money “very” important to them. That number rose 10 percent to 41 percent in 2019. In the new survey, 43 percent of respondents put a premium on money.

The Journal/NORC poll surveyed 1,019 American adults and reported a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.

Naturally, the country’s misery index has been significantly high under the failed leadership of President Joe Biden.

Money is more important to a lot of Americans as they are keeping less of what they earn – thanks to the tax that is inflation. That could explain some of that question, as a mere 6 percent of respondents were not at all concerned about the cost of living.

Only 4 percent were not worried at all about inflation.

But the rest of the poll is concerning in that it tells the story of a country that has lost its way after having abandoned its values.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:32:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZW6Gg3BUCRHpZs0ohxaO6Yr <![CDATA[Jen Psaki Flamed for What She Was Doing with Hands on Her New MSNBC Show: 'This Is Painful']]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZW6Gg3BUCRHpcb1naedg1wr

A White House press secretary, quite literally, is a professional orator and communicator.

So then why are President Joe Biden’s press secretaries so bad at speaking and communicating?

Current press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and her unique brand of awfulness can’t be understated — but its her predecessor who’s being excoriated today.

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki was graciously gifted, er, earned, a show on MSNBC (“Inside with Jen Psaki“) following her tenure at the White House press podium, and the early returns have been a bit of a mixed bag.

The ratings for the show have started off surprisingly strong (The Wrap noted that the show has doubled the ratings of CNN’s counter-programming on Sunday), drawing over a million viewers for its debut on March 19.

The latest episode of “Inside with Jen Psaki” also appears to be drawing a number of eyeballs, albeit for reasons Psaki and her staff probably don’t want.

First, here’s the clip with no additional context:

Notice anything bizarre about that clip? Here’s a hint: You can notice it while watching the clip with its sound off.

Yes, while discussing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s stance on the war in Ukraine, some otherworldly force appears to commandeer Psaki’s arms and flail wildly about.

Now, yes, there are obviously certain people who speak with their hands. Psaki might be one of them.

But there’s a difference between speaking with your hands and borderline interpretive dance.

Twitter users, unsurprisingly, blasted Psaki for her bizarre mannerism on the sophomore episode of her show.

Some choice cuts:

“I’m sorry, is she trying to make a point or guiding an airplane to its gate?” one Twitter user hilariously asked.

“This is painful,” another Twitter user bluntly put it.

“Do MSNBC not coach their new talent anymore?” asked yet another Twitter user. “It’s pretty basic stuff that hand gestures that might work at a podium don’t work on camera.”

There were numerous other jabs at Psaki riddled throughout those Twitter comments, ranging from those who complained about feeling “dizzy” watching her hands to those who thought Psaki was “horrifying” with her histrionics.

One thing’s for certain: Psaki may very well continue to drive relatively strong viewership for MSNBC through her Sunday show — but if it’s for reasons like her bizarre mannerisms, it certainly won’t last.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:22:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZW6Gg3BUCRHpcb1naedg1wr <![CDATA[Biden's Attempt to Pin Border Chaos on Republicans Blows Up When Kari Lake Steps In: 'Blood Is on Your Hands, Joe']]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZW6Gg3BUCRHpeT5HJgy6HUf

President Joe Biden has finally woken up to the crisis on the southern border — and realized it’s all the Republicans’ fault.

That at least is the takeaway from a Twitter post published to Biden’s account over the weekend that called out a plan by “MAGA Republicans” he said would “slash funding for border security” — the same border security he’s gutted from the time he took office.

And Arizona Republican Kari Lake, among many, many others, weren’t going to let him forget it.

“MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security – a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country,” wrote Biden (or whatever 22-year-old non-binary millennial who runs his Twitter account). “We need more resources to secure the border. Not less.”

Of course, that’s nonsense to anyone who remembers that it’s Biden and his Democratic Party that are responsible for the current invasion of illegal immigration the country has been dealing with virtually since Biden became president.

And unfortunately for Biden, that’s many, many people. An honest look at the responses to Biden’s post comes up with few — if any — supporters. Even the Democratic true believers apparently took a pass.

Kari Lake, the Arizona Republican who has not given up the fight for the state’s governor’s seat, was one of the first to respond, posting just over an hour after Biden’s tweet was published.

Lake’s words were practically dripping with the contempt a conservative resident of the border state has to feel for the president who’d rather vacation in his Delaware home than pay attention to a crisis he literally caused.

“We are losing a generation of Americans to the poison of fentanyl because this buffoon purposefully opened our border to allow our country to be invaded,” she wrote.

“That blood is on your hands, Joe.

“Close the Border.

“Shut Your Mouth

“Save Lives.”

That nails it pretty well. A president who’s cynically turned the death of his older son into a political talking point — while scrambling to cover up the corruption of his younger son — is responsible for the border policies that have fed the shocking death toll in the United States from drug overdoses, primarily the powerful narcotic fentanyl.

According to WHYY-FM, an NPR station in Philadelphia, overdose deaths in 2022 topped 110,000. (WHYY played with the kind of sunny optimism liberal media outlets use with the Biden administration, headlining the story “2022 was a deadly (but hopeful) year in America’s opioid crisis.”)

That’s up from 107,622 in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

And that, in turn, was up from 93,615 in 2020, according to the CDC.

To be fair, the percentage increased between 2019 and 2020 by 30 percent under then-president Donald Trump, according to the CDC, but it’s under the Biden administration alone that the number of overdose deaths has been above 100,000 and has kept rising (NPR’s partisan cheerleading notwithstanding).

Biden’s Twitter post on Saturday was part of the White House’s response to a plan by conservative Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus to commit the government to spending cuts as part of negotiations over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.

According to The Hill, the proposal would limit next year’s federal budget to the 2022 level and cap discretionary spending increases at 1 percent a year for 10 years after that.

Even the idea of limiting spending is anathema to Biden and his Democrats, though. In his Saturday tweet, Biden tried to dramatize what that would mean — but he picked his party’s weakest, most transparently catastrophic policy position to do it.

And the Twitter responses let him know it:

And so it went on for tweet after savaging tweet — like an army attacking relentlessly against a fortress with a weakness so fatal that a breach in the wall is inevitable.

Do you think border security is a political weakness for Biden?

Of course, Biden was lying, and everyone knew he was lying, but Team Biden evidently doesn’t care. Shoes don’t respect doormats, after all. And Democratic voters have been treated like a doormat by the party’s leaders doormats going back to the Bill Clinton days, when Time reporter Nina Burleigh was the poster girl for Democratic self-debasement.

They didn’t even care that even Newsweek — one of the pillars of the progressive establishment media — actually published a “fact check” on Tuesday that found the claim that the Freedom Caucus proposal would cut 2,000 Border Patrol agents was unambiguously false.

What’s happening here isn’t so much that Biden has woken up to the crisis, but that he’s woken up to the political danger the immigration crisis poses for him — not the actual danger it poses for his fellow Americans, whether through crime or drug ODs.

And like a man in a nightmare, he’s flailing at any potential target he can hit.

Unfortunately for Biden and his Democrats, Americans have their eyes wide open on the border and they’re not going to forget it.

Kari Lake, and the countless others who responded and are still responding to Biden’s Twitter post, aren’t going to let them.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:15:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZW6Gg3BUCRHpeT5HJgy6HUf <![CDATA[Breaking Update: 7 Dead in Christian School Attack, Shooter Was a Young Female]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZW6Gg3BUCRHpZVjH6qdYdAk

Three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at a private Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday, and the female shooter also died after being shot by police, authorities said.

The violence occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school for about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade.

Police said the shooter appeared to be in her teens and was armed with two rifles and a pistol.

The killings come as communities around the nation are reeling from a spate of school violence, including the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year; a first grader who shot his teacher in Virginia; and a shooting last week in Denver that wounded two administrators.

The Nashville victims were pronounced dead upon arrival at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, according to Craig Boerner, a spokesman for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which is affiliated with the children’s hospital.

Other students walked to safety Monday, holding hands and surrounded by police cars, to a nearby church to be reunited with their parents.

Police officers with rifles, heavy vests and helmets could be seen walking through the school parking lot and around the grassy perimeter of the building Monday morning. Helicopter footage from WTVF also showed the officers looking around a wooded area between the campus and a nearby road.

Jozen Reodica heard the police sirens and fire trucks blaring from outside her office building nearby. As her building was placed under lockdown, she took out her phone and recorded the chaos.

“I thought I would just see this on TV,” she said. “And right now, it’s real.”

On WTVF TV, reporter Hannah McDonald said that her mother-in-law works at the front desk at The Covenant School. The woman had stepped outside for a break Monday morning and was coming back when she heard gunshots, McDonald said during a live broadcast. The reporter said she has not been able to speak with her mother-in-law but said her husband had.

The Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001, according to the school’s website. The school is located in the affluent Green Hill neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville, situated close to the cities top universities and home to the famed Bluebird Café – a beloved spot for musicians and song writers.

The grade school has 33 teachers, the website said. The school’s website features the motto “Shepherding Hearts, Empowering Minds, Celebrating Childhood.”

Democratic state Rep. Bob Freeman, whose district includes The Covenant School, called Monday’s shooting an “unimaginable tragedy.”

“I live around the corner from Covenant and pass by it often. I have friends who attend both church and school there,” Freeman said in a statement. “I have also visited the church in the past. It tears my heart apart to see this.”

The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.

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]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:16:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZW6Gg3BUCRHpZVjH6qdYdAk <![CDATA[People Can't Believe Photo of Trump Is Real, Accuse Supporters of Editing It to Make Him Look 'Heroic']]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/JZiJYjP8TZUiq6uHJvopuCejEQ2Mq9rY

Former President Donald Trump looked very healthy in a photo that circulated on Twitter over the weekend, which sent some triggered liberals into a total tailspin.

One of these people actually went as far as to argue the image was altered in order to make the country’s 45th president appear as though he was “heroic.” The person also inadvertently offered Trump a very generous comment.

The online circus that is Twitter turned a standard Associated Press image of Trump into an argument about whether supporters had been manipulating him to look like a mega-tough guy.

It all began when a Twitter user named Brick Suit shared the image and accompanied it with a number of screenshots.

Trump was wearing a blue suit, he skipped picking out a tie and he was exiting a black SUV in the image. He looked like he meant business, too.

“This photo of President Trump is breaking liberal’s brains because they think it’s ‘edited’ or fake,” Brick Suit tweeted. “It’s not. It’s 100% real.”

One person who responded to the photo commented, “Y’all so weird with these ‘heroic’ edits of him. Imagine if people did this for Hillary, Joe or Bernie.”

The commenter added, “Giving them amazing bodies [plus] whatever. You creepy cult [m*********s].”

For good measure, Brick Suit shared a video of the moment Trump exited the SUV in Florida as he made his way to Texas to prove the image was real.

Unbeknownst to the half-witted liberal in the thread above, the image was completely legitimate.

It took me all of 30 seconds to find the original photo and others like it among the AP’s images. The photo was taken by AP photographer Evan Vucci.

A description for the exact image shared by the wire service reads, “Former President Donald Trump arrives to board his airplane for a trip to a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, at West Palm Beach International Airport, Saturday, March 25, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Fla.”

The stock photo was used by the AP in its coverage of his Saturday night rally in Waco, Texas. It was not altered in any way.

Trump was simply on a mission to kick off his campaign and just he looked pretty good doing it.

The former president is 76 years old and he looked so sharp on Saturday that a triggered liberal tweeted he had an “amazing” body.

The entire saga is laugh-out-loud funny and gifted social media one of the best examples of “self-owning” in a long time.

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