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Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations,Topline: The City of San Antonio will spend $500,000 on planting trees to provide shade for gorillas, according to the city budget approved this month.Key facts: A San Antonio Zoo spokesperson told the San Antonio Report that the money will be used on “trees for animal wellbeing and guest comfort, providing more shade and greenery within the zoo grounds.”The cash will be taken out of the city’s Tree Canopy Preservation and Mitigation Fund, which charges urban developers for cutting down trees during construction. The fees, worth up to $600 per inch of tree trunk diameter, are…
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 28: People rally in support of the Biden administration’s student loan … [+]Getty Images The Biden administration got a surprise victory this week in an ongoing legal challenge over a key student loan forgiveness program, the latest twist in what has been a rollercoaster year for borrowers. But the win may only be temporary as the litigation continues. A group of Republican-led states had filed a preemptive lawsuit against the Biden administration in September to halt implementation of a sweeping new student loan forgiveness plan. That plan, if enacted, could provide relief to millions of borrowers.…
Topline States began sending out ballots in the November election this week—but election administrators are concerned about whether issues with the U.S. Postal Service will keep them from getting submitted on time, even as the agency insists it’s ready to handle the onslaught of election mail. Allegheny County workers scan mail-in and absentee ballots in Pittsburgh on Nov. 3, 2022. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Key Facts Alabama became the first state to start mailing out general election ballots on Wednesday, after North Carolina, the planned first state, delayed its ballot mailings amid a dispute as Robert…
Kari Lake sits for interview in lieu of debate with Arizona PBS’s Ted Simmons Trump-Endorsed Republican US Senate Nominee Kari Lake is set to face off against her Democrat opponent, Ruben Gallego, tonight in the only televised debate between the two candidates. Arizona’s mail-in ballots were sent out today, marking the official start of early voting in the state. Before early voting began, Gallego refused to attend last week’s first debate with biased pro-Democrat Arizona PBS moderator Ted Simmons. This was reminiscent of the 2022 election, where Democrat Katie Hobbs also refused to debate Kari Lake before stealing the election…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you…
By Dave DeCamp Brown University’s Costs of War project released a report on US spending since October 7, 2023. Support for Israel’s onslaught in Gaza and other escalations in the Middle East has cost the US at least $22.76 billion since October 7, 2023, Brown University’s Costs of War project said in a paper published on Monday. Costs of War reached the number, which is a very conservative estimate, by combining the cost of US military aid to Israel and the cost of related US military operations in the region, including the war against the Houthis in Yemen. The report…
Elon Musk told Tucker Carlson that Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman are “terrified of a Trump victory” because the “Epstein client list is going to become public” if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election. “I think part of why Kamala is getting so much is support is that if Trump wins, that Epstein client list is going to become public,” Musk said. “And some of those billionaires behind Kamala are terrified of that outcome.” Watch Below — at time code 21:49: “Yeah. Do you think Reid Hoffman is uncomfortable?” Carlson asked, to which Musk immediately replied, “Yes. And [Bill] Gates.”…
The communist government of Cuba confirmed on Monday that it has formally requested a “partnership” agreement with BRICS, the China-led international coalition dedicated to eradicating American influence abroad. BRICS – named after its initial members Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – expanded for the second time in January and has since publicized the possibility of adding more members. The group was initially referred to as BRIC before its first expansion initiated South Africa. The BRICS coalition is largely a political alliance in which member parties support each other’s agenda at the United Nations and other international venues. BRICS…
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Wednesday that the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization is using an environmental non-governmental organization (NGO), “Green Without Borders,” as a front for its activities. In a statement, the IDF said: The IDF’s 36th Division is conducting limited, localized, targeted raids against key Hezbollah terrorist targets in southern Lebanon that pose a threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel. During the operations so far, the troops have eliminated numerous terrorists, destroyed underground infrastructure, and dismantled over 500 operational enemy infrastructure and combat compounds, including weapons storage facilities. Over many years, the Hezbollah terrorist organization has cynically…
The day before an accused Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist was flown into the United States by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s administration, former President Donald Trump warned that terrorists could be exploiting the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. At the end of August 2021, Biden and Harris withdrew all U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan in a chaotic move that saw Afghan nationals clinging to planes fleeing the country as well as an ISIS terrorist attack that killed 13 American servicemembers and over 100 Afghans. Biden and Harris, as part of their Afghanistan withdrawal, created Operation Allies Welcome, which…