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Mon, 01/30/2023 - 12:57
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How can you get what you want? Years ago, Clarence Carson pointed out that fundamentally, there are four ways, and Paul Cleveland and I explored this in a 2010 article in The Freeman. They are worth revisiting: You can make something yourself, someone can give it to you as a gift, you can steal it, or you can trade for it. Doing it yourself is fun sometimes, but unless you’re…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 12:40
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While speaking at the Australian Lowy Institute on Jan. 23, billionaire philanthropist and climate change activist Bill Gates said the Ukrainian government, pre-war, "is one of the worst in the world, corrupt, controlled by a few rich people."
Gates made his remarks while speaking with Lowy Institute Executive…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 11:56Washington
House Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. (Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) introduced the “PENCIL Resolution” on Jan. 26, which states that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) “should not have access to classified information, should be investigated by the House Ethics Committee, and should have his comments made…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 11:13
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A new Biden Administration rule took effect Monday, allowing retirement plan administrators (fiduciaries) to base investments on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals, rather than only on the maximum financial benefit of their clients.
The U.S. Department of Labor released the final rule under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 11:13
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sent a letter Thursday to U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on behalf of himself and 15 other state attorneys general.
Marshall’s letter, which pertains to Biden administration policy on COVID-19, is important on its own merits, insofar as what it urges the new Congress to do. The letter also is more broadly…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 10:27National
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(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told "Sunday Morning Futures" he wants "simple and accurate" answers from Pfizer regarding a claim that the drug-maker allegedly conducted some kind of protein manipulation or gain-of-function research on the COVID virus as a way of developing new vaccines and treatments.
A recent Project Veritas exposé shows a man,…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 10:26
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Inflation appears to be on the decline. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which is the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, grew at a continuously compounding annual rate of 4.9 percent from December 2021 to December 2022, down for the third consecutive month. Year-on-year inflation was a whopping 6.1 percent from September 2021 to September…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 10:12
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Thanks to the latest release of the “Twitter Files,” we now know without a doubt that the entire “Russia disinformation” racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine US elections and perhaps even push “regime change” inside the United States after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.
Here is some background. In November, 2016, just after the election, the…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 09:43Washington
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) (Photo by ANNA MONEYMAKER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Sunday that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) perceives him “as an effective political opponent,” and the speaker weaponized “his ability to commit this political abuse” by removing Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee.
“You were also removed by…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 09:41
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A crucial aspect of allowing pharmacies to sell abortion pills that has not been talked about very much is the wholesale elimination in the process of possible life-affirming intervention by pregnancy help organizations prior to a woman procuring a chemical abortion.
For the profit-motivated abortion industry, bypassing the very people prepared to help women choose life is a big…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 09:15
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)—which regulates the mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae—will explore ways it could "limit egregious rent increases" at properties with a Fannie- or Freddie-backed mortgage. That was announced last week by the White House, in releasing a Blueprint for a Renters Bill of Rights.
The announcement "doesn't commit the Biden…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 07:57National
Demonstrators gather in New York City to protest the death of Tyre Nichols on January 28, 2023. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - "I don't know if that there's any law that can stop that evil that we saw" in the video of five Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
Nichols died three days after the…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 07:00Washington
Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) at a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on August 4, 2021. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - The Senate intelligence committee has a "long, bipartisan history of doing its job," Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
"And our job here is intelligence…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 05:58National
Employees unload a plane carrying new US equipment and munitions to Ukraine, at Kyiv's airport on January 25, 2022. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Two U.S. congressmen, one Republican and one Democrat, agreed on Sunday that U.S. ability to manufacture weapons falls short of what may be needed, as the U.S. helps Ukraine repel a Russian invasion and as China eyes…
House Intelligence Chair: Ability of Congress to Compel Classified Document Production 'Is Absolute'
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) heads the House intelligence committee. (Photo by JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), the new chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, says the Department of Justice may not bar members of Congress from reviewing classified material found at the home and office of Joe Biden and at the homes of…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 04:30International
Pakistani Muslims protest in Karachi against the release in 2018 of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for “blasphemy.” (Photo by Asif Hassan / AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Pakistan will on Monday undergo a mandatory U.N. Human Rights Council review of its human rights record, two weeks after lawmakers passed legislation to toughen what are already arguably…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 04:20International
An Israeli military multi-rotor drone photographed near the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Said Khatib / AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The Iranian regime on Sunday played down the scale of an unclaimed drone attack on a military installation in Isfahan, a central city that houses key missile, drone, nuclear, and other military-related facilities.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian…
Mon, 01/30/2023 - 04:13International
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, on Capitol Hill in February 2019. (Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Defending herself against allegations of a pattern of anti-Semitic statements, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Sunday that since a controversy blew up over comments she made in early 2019, she had been on a learning journey.
“I might have used words at the time that I didn’t…
Fri, 01/27/2023 - 18:52Washington
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds the daily press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 27, 2023. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - President Biden has chosen White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients to replace Ron Klain as White House chief of staff, ending speculation on whether the…
Fri, 01/27/2023 - 17:19Washington
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R.-Ga. (Screen Capture)
(CNSNews.com) - A resolution introduced in the House and Senate by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R.-Ga.) and Sen. Mike Braun (R.-Indiana) would make January 22—the day that the Supreme Court issued its Roe v. Wade decision—the “Day of Tears.”
“Since Roe v. Wade, the evils of abortion have unlawfully terminated more than 60 million innocent lives—all precious,…