Date: February 1st, 2023

State News

2023 State of the City of Jackson, TN

Transcript We have a lot to be excited for in Jackson. A lot has happened in 2022, and a lot has changed. I know that all of you, like me, have a forward vision for our city. Over this last year, we have made great strides in reaching for our future. I am so proud…

National News

Colorado River Impasse

Seven states that rely on the Colorado River to support their cities and farms have, for the second time in six months, failed to reach a full agreement on reducing water usage by a federal deadline. See previous write-up here. Six states—Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming—have outlined a plan to the Interior Department that would reduce…

International News

The Great British Walkout

Nearly half a million workers across the United Kingdom are poised to start coordinated nationwide strikes today in protest of the government’s proposed anti-strike legislation and to call for public sector pay raises. See a schedule of the strikes here. The legislation, introduced to Parliament Jan. 9, would require workers in six sectors—health, rail, education, fire, border…

National News

How COVID Patients Died for Profit

by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2023 (Feb. 1, 2023) — By May 2020, it had become apparent that the standard practice of putting COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation with ventilators was a death sentence.1 As early as April 9, 2020, Business Insider reported2 that 80% of COVID-19 patients in New York City who were placed on ventilators died, which caused…

History

The press versus the president, part two

CHAPTER 2: THE ORIGINS OF FAKE NEWS In a windowless conference room at Trump Tower, on January 6, 2017, Comey briefed the president-elect about the dossier about him and Russia. Trump had heard, from aides, media “rumblings” about Russia, but, in an interview, he said he was unaware of the dossier until he met with…

Opinion

THE SILVER BULLET FOR VICTORY

American Policy Center Is tyranny our fate? The question now becomes, what do we do? Obviously, we have one of two choices. We accept our fate, or we fight. Are we finished? Do we quit? Do we surrender? It would be easy to do any of those things. No one would blame us. We gave…

National News

Watchdog Group Finds Billions in Fraud With Covid Relief Programs

by David Kelly The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) released a report on Monday that identified $5.4 billion in potential identity fraud associated with 69,323 questionable and unverified Social Security numbers (SSN) used in disbursing funds for Economic Injury Disaster Loans and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) payments. These programs provided nearly $1.2 trillion in assistance to small businesses…

Religion

Policeman resigns after suspension for post on gay marriage

JIM DENISON, PHD A Georgia police officer named Jacob Kersey made this post to his personal Facebook account earlier this month: “God designed marriage. Marriage refers to Christ and the church. That’s why there is no such thing as homosexual marriage.” The next day, his supervisor informed him that someone had complained about the post and instructed…

National News

FBI searching Biden’s beach home for classified documents: report

The FBI is searching President Biden’s Delaware vacation home for classified documents, CBS reported Wednesday morning. Biden’s legal team said this month it had searched the Rehoboth Beach home and found no mishandled papers. However, similar assurances were given about the president’s Wilmington home before more records were found there by the FBI on Jan….

National News

GM Fights the Fed, Wage Gains Soften Again

Softer labor costs and a better-than-expected outlook from General Motors appear to have convinced markets that the crash test dummies of the U.S. economy might emerge relatively unscathed from what until recently looked to be a pretty serious collision with monetary policy. The employment cost index (ECI), a broad barometer of wages and benefits produced…

State News

Alec Baldwin formally charged with involuntary manslaughter, told cops he fired weapon: docs By Olivia Land and Priscilla DeGregory

Alec Baldwin had not been fully trained with firearms ahead of the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust,” and shortly after admitted to officers he had fired the weapon, New Mexico prosecutors said Tuesday. The Santa Fe County district attorney called his actions during the fatal shooting a “reckless deviation from…

National News

If ‘Independent’ were a party, it could dominate American politics

BY DANIEL DE VISÉ | THE HILL If the nation’s political independents somehow formed a party, polls suggest, they could dominate American politics. Two-fifths of Americans identified as independent in 2022, far more than stood with either party, according to Gallup. As a political identity, “independent” has polled better than Democrat or Republican since 2009. It wasn’t…

State News

Washington Gov. Inslee open to drug, police pursuit law changes; defends vax mandate; Bill pushes hiring, retention bonuses for state troopers, aims to improve traffic safety

BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR Boeing to set up a new 737 MAX assembly line in Everett (The Seattle Times) Noncompete agreements cost Seattle-area man a new job, lawsuit says (The Seattle Times) Movies set, but not filmed, in Washington are common. That might start changing. (KNKX Radio) CORONAVIRUS President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on…

National News

‘Disgraceful’: Biden avoids migrant crisis during Hudson River Tunnel visit in NYC

By Bernadette Hogan, Desheania Andrews and Bruce Golding So close … and yet so far away. President Biden ignored the Big Apple’s spiraling, $2 billion migrant crisis during a Tuesday afternoon visit to tout $292 million in federal spending on a new rail tunnel. Biden toured the Manhattan side of the Hudson River Tunnel project in Chelsea, just a mile…

National News

Dems Are Desperate to Prebunk Durham

Taking their lead from a dubious New York Times story, the Democrats are trying to smear John Durham and thereby discredit his pending report. Patriot Post Was the Democrats’ years-long investigation into Donald Trump for colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election a legitimate endeavor, or was it an illegal and utterly illegitimate…

National News

MSNBC Anchor Hospitalized With Severe Myocarditis, Pericarditis

By Jack Phillips | Epoch Times An MSNBC anchor revealed in a recent segment that she was hospitalized with heart inflammation in December, leading her to miss work for about a month. Yasmin Vossoughian said that the health scare started on Dec. 20 when she started to experience chest pains that “waxed and waned over a period of 10 days.” Those pains…

Religion

Blessing in the Tears

Blessed are those who mourn. Matthew 5:4 I received an email from a young man in England, a son who explained that his father (only sixty-three) was in the hospital in critical condition, hanging on to life. Though we’d never met, his dad’s work and mine shared many intersections. The son, trying to cheer his…

History

February 1st in History

February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining until the end of the year (334 in leap years). Holidays Air Force Day (Nicaragua) Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery (Mauritius) Christian Feast Day: Astina (Syrian Church) Brigid, patron saint of Ireland February 1 (Eastern Orthodox…