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It does not appear that there is any "pay back" planned. U.S. Government Invested $31.9 Billion in mRNA Vaccine Research and Procurement by Stefan Anderson https://healthpolicy-watch.news/u-s-government-invested-31-9-billion-in-mrna-vaccine-research-and-procurement/ What the hell, it's not like the money would get back to the taxpayers anyway. ..

Wholesale inflation rose 0.6% in February, much more than expected * The producer price index, which measures pipeline costs for raw, intermediate and finished goods, jumped 0.6% on the month, double the Dow Jones estimate. * On a year-over-year basis, the headline index increased 1.6%, the biggest move since September 2023. * Two-thirds of the rise in headline PPI came from a 1.2% surge in goods prices, the biggest increase since August 2023, thanks to a 4.4% jump in energy. * Retail sales increased 0.6%, less than expected, while weekly jobless claim filings nudged lower to 209,000. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/producer-price-index-february-2024-wholesale-inflation-rose-0point6percent-in-february.html .

Good God, we are doomed.

JD was at the rally.

What the Press Still Doesn't Understand About Its Latest Trump Hysteria Following Trump's latest rally, we were all transported back to 2016, a time when the press would routinely take the now-former president's words out of context to paint a picture of a coming fascist state. Call it "bloodbath-gate," which sounds kind of hardcore, but the long and short of it is that Trump was talking about how the automotive industry and the economy as a whole would do if Joe Biden were to win in November. As reported, the press went wild, claiming that he was calling for violence. There's nothing especially surprising about that. As I warned several times during the primary, the calm before the storm was always going to dissipate, and this is just a preview. Things are going to get much, much worse so if "bloodbath-gate" has your blood boiling, don't expect any relief in the future. Whether a general turning of attention toward Trump helps or hurts the former president will be debated until the last vote is counted this Fall, which means three weeks after the election for California. I tend to think the more Biden is the centerpiece, the better Trump will do. With that said, I'm fairly confident that one not-so-new attack is already falling flat, and Politico provided a perfect example for discussion. Is that an effective narrative these days, though? I'd suggest not. For one, Americans look at Trump and remember his presidency. They remember that he didn't become a dictator, and as I've said before, the suggestion that he'd want to become one is a fundamental misread of the former president's motivations. Trump wants the spotlight. He wants to be loved, including by his enemies. He wants to win to stick his finger in the eyes of those who doubted him. He doesn't want to lead a military coup and become dictator until death, and those who suggest that are laughably stupid. In other words, no normal person is sitting around fearing Trump the "autocrat." That accusation has been made so many times that it no longer packs any punch. Maybe it was viable in 2020, but at this point, no one cares, and that's the big issue for Democrats. By continuing to push this "threat to democracy" nonsense, they are telegraphing to Americans that their problems don't matter. High prices? High interest rates? Rising crime? Illegal immigration? Democrats are too busy breathlessly shouting yet again about how Trump is Hitler to care about any of that stuff. That leaves them looking completely tone-deaf and out-of-touch. It's a well they've gone to one too many times, and it's all dried up. https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/03/17/what-the-press-still-doesnt-understand-about-its-trump-hysteria-n2171517 .

Keep telling yourself that Joe is in charge.

Forced ?? How ? .

Only four more days. .

SCOTUS Set to Hear Free Speech Case on Biden Admin Colluding With Big Tech to Stifle 'Misinformation' Are you ready? Something big is set to start on Monday. As we wrote in Oct. 2023, the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, along with five plaintiffs, asked the United States Supreme Court to uphold an injunction prohibiting the Biden administration from colluding with Big Tech companies to stifle free speech on social media sites by calling it "misinformation." They also argued that the case should be heard in front of the High Court. https://redstate.com/beccalower/2024/03/17/scotus-set-to-hear-free-speech-case-on-biden-admin-colluding-with-big-tech-to-stifle-misinformation-n2171525

Joe Lieberman Blasts Chuck Schumer's Israel Election Meddling Attempts—'That's Outrageous' By Bob Hoge Remember Joe Lieberman? He was one of the last Democratic centrists. Although I wouldn’t have voted for Al Gore as president in 2000 if you’d hit me with a wet noodle, the fact a then-Democrat Connecticut senator (who later became an Independent before his 2013 retirement) was his running mate speaks volumes. Now that the Dems have veered wildly to the left and gone all in on their “progressive” agenda, realists like Lieberman have been left in the dust. But he’s still speaking out, to his credit. The first Jewish-American to appear on a presidential ticket lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) election-meddling speech from the Senate, where last Thursday he advocated for regime change in another democratic country – Israel. https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/03/18/joe-lieberman-blasts-chuck-schumers-israel-election-meddling-attemptsthats-outrageous-n2171534 .

Just Like Any Other Third World City, There's a Measles Outbreak in Chicago RICK MORAN Until the mid-20th century, measles was a leading killer of children. It's estimated that between 1 and 2 million Native Americans died of measles when Europeans first came to North America. Measles can still be a deadly disease. But with the advent of effective vaccines the number of cases has declined along with the 20% mortality rate seen in the early 20th century. It's just not a problem in First-World countries. Unless a First-World country is hosting millions of unvaccinated newcomers from Third-World countries In Chicago, there are now 12 confirmed cases of measles. Ten of the 12 originate from the Pilsen migrant shelter. One of the cases involved a three-year-old toddler. His mother says she's mystified how the youngster got the disease since he doesn't go to school. https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/03/17/just-like-any-other-third-world-city-theres-a-measles-outbreak-in-chicago-n4927385 ,

I've Won an Argument about Israel I Wish I Hadn't DAVID BERNSTEIN Over my 20+ years of blogging at Volokh, commenters have often questioned why I focused my attention on what I saw as unfair attacks on Israel, rather than on Israeli policies I disagreed with that might be obstacles to a future peace deal. My response was consistent: debates over specific Israeli policies were a sideshow. Israel's harshest critics simply wanted Israel to cease to exist, and given that this goal could likely be achieved only via genocide, I chose to focus my attention on that. My commenters were also pretty consistent, arguing that I was being paranoid, that the vast majority of critics, even the harshest ones, wanted a two-state solution, not to eliminate Israel. We have had something of a test of this debate since 10/7. Hamas is a terrorist theocracy with explicitly genocidal goals. It carried out a taste of those goals on 10/7, and its leaders promised to repeat those atrocities again and again until the "Zionists" were driven from Israel. So whatever one thinks of Israeli policy, or Israel's eventual response to 10/7, one would think, based on my interlocutors' position, that critics of Israeli policy would nevertheless agree on one thing: Hamas must be deposed, one way or another. There is no plausible two-state solution with Hamas in power; the harsh critics are almost all self-styled progressives, and there is nothing progressive about Hamas's policies toward freedom of religion, LGBTQ rights, women, militarism, antisemitism, and so on, nor its constant theft of humanitarian aid. Hamas's rule in Gaza is essentially every Progressive's worst nightmare. Yet, ever since at least 10/10, when it became clear that Israel's reaction to Hamas's atrocities was not going to be to capitulate, the harsh critics have been all but unanimous in calling for Israel to essentially surrender ("immediate ceasefire") with Hamas still in power, and have almost to a person not called on Hamas to surrender and abdicate. (And self-styled human rights organizations have felt free to make up human rights law, including contradicting their own past public positions in other conflicts.) I have to admit that I underestimated the mendacity of these people. As much as I knew that they hated Israel much more than they were concerned with the well-being of Palestinians, I didn't imagine that they would be willing to run interference for, if not outright support, Hamas, certainly not after Hamas put its brutality and genocidal intentions on display for all the world to see. https://reason.com/volokh/2024/03/17/ive-won-an-argument-about-israel-i-wish-i-hadnt/ .

JOEL KOTKIN: 2024 will be the Latino election: America’s largest racial minority could swing the vote for Trump. “Latinos’ political trajectory is complex and increasingly uncertain. In the past, Democrats imagined that Latinos, being ‘people of colour’, would follow the African-American pattern of near-automatic allegiance to their party. Progressives in publications like Salon scoffed at the notion that Latinos would ever head to the right. But Latinos leaving the Democrats is exactly what has been happening.” https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/17/2024-will-be-the-latino-election/ .

Meanwhile: China Taking Over Africa: ‘China’s Second Continent.’ https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18417/china-taking-over-africa https://instapundit.com/637223/

Look at those poor "refugee children" Illegal Alien from Lebanon Caught at Border Admits He is Hezbollah, Hoped to Make a Bomb. An illegal alien from Lebanon was apprehended illegally crossing the southern border near El Paso, Texas by Border Patrol agents on March 9. Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was asked what he was doing in the United States. He said he was going to New York and hoped to make a bomb. "I'm going to make a bomb." He admitted he is a member of Hezbollah. During a sworn interview, Ebbadi said he trained with Hezbollah for seven years. He said he was an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years. https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/03/18/illegal-alien-from-lebanon-caught-at-border-admits-he-is-hezbollah-hoped-to-make-a-bomb-n3784874 Thanks, Joe Biden. .

TRUE. From Georgia to New York, 2024 could turn on the odor of selective prosecution The Hill, by Jonathan Turley For many citizens, mendacity, or dishonesty, is wafting from various courtrooms around the country. The odor is becoming intolerable for many Americans as selective prosecution is being raised in a wide array of cases. The problem is that courts have made it virtually impossible to use this claim to dismiss counts. Yet there is a disturbing level of merit to some of these underlying objections. For years, conservatives have objected that there is a two-tier system of justice in this country. I have long resisted such claims, but it has become increasingly difficult to deny the obvious as selective prosecution in a variety of recent cases and opinions. https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4535603-from-georgia-to-new-york-2024-could-turn-on-the-odor-of-selective-prosecution/ .

The Most “Non-Pretending” and Brutally Honest Video So Far This Year

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