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More than 10,000 people in the United States reported being the victims of hate crimes in 2020, according to the FBI’s “2020 Hate Crime Statistics” report. Over 60 percent of the victims were targeted because of race, ethnicity or ancestry bias and over 13 percent because of religious bias. Out of the 7,426 hate crimes classified as crimes against persons, 53.4 percent were for inti midation, 27.6 percent were for simple assault, and 18.1 percent were for aggravated assault. Over one quarter of the hate crimes classified as property crime were acts of damage and vandalism. In 2020, nearly 30...

I've been listening to the latest Dem candidates and their stump spiel. More than one has been saying to the voting public that they must be elected to stop global warming or we will all be dead in 12 years. I had been wondering what light bulb has been predicting death in 12 years and have yet to hear any "mainstream" science on this subject. I decided to do a hypothetical that one of these bozo's was elected and given any kind of power at all. Think of it this way,....You really believe that the world is ending in 12...

We’re all becoming more aware about the damage single-use plastics and fast fashion has on the environment. Yet there is one product we all throw away every single day that, so far, has not been a major part of conversations about sustainability: toilet paper. But America’s heavy use of toilet paper – particularly the pillowy soft kind – is worsening climate change and taking “a dramatic and irreversible toll” on forests, especially the Canadian boreal forest...

**SNIP** There’s a reason fake climatologists keep making outrageous predictions based on flimsy science: Money. Mr. Gore’s net worth is in excess of $200 million. He jets everywhere to give his doomsday speeches (often $100,000 per), and he lives in a 10,000-square-foot mansion that expends 21 times more energy than the average U.S. household. But do as he says, not as he does. Enter Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old former bartender who’s putting the “socialist” back in the Democratic Party. At a Martin Luther King Day forum in New York City this week, she said this: “I think the part...

Pic Tweet .... New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez yesterday spoke of the urgent need to deal with "climate change" and made a puzzling statement that the world was about to end in another 12 years. At the Martin Luther King Day event, Ocasio-Cortez said "climate change" is a "generational" issue that interests younger people.

At least 1,500 private jets are expected to descend on Davos and nearby airports in Switzerland this week as the international financial and political elite gathers to talk about global climate challenges. That would be up from the more than 1,300 aircraft movements seen at last year’s forum, despite climate change registering as the top risk factor identified for the global economy in a survey of World Economic Forum (WEF) movers and shakers last week. Sir David Attenborough, a lead speaker this year, has already stated that climate is the issue of our time.

Over in Davos, where the globalist elites are meeting, socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposal for a 70% tax rate on the superrich isn't have quite the response one might have expected. She must know them better than most people, because her punitive taxation plan seems to be almost embraced by at least some of the Swiss conference's utterly wealthy minions, who claim their mission is to improve the world. Here is what Bloomberg reported:

NORFOLK The FBI has joined a growing list of law enforcers trying to figure out how a woman who didn't show up for work at a community services organization for 12 years continued to be paid and to what extent others might be involved. City Attorney Bernard Pishko said the employee is no longer on the payroll and that others in the organization are being questioned to see whether they had any involvement in a scheme to funnel money. As of Tuesday, no one else with the Norfolk Community Services Board had been suspended or fired. "These are people that...

LAREDO, TX—Former Border Patrol agent Leonel Morales, 30, of Zapata County, has been sentenced to prison for bribery, acting United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Morales accepted $9,000 in exchange for using his position as a federal officer to ensure the safe passage of a 20-kilogram load of cocaine through Zapata County, Texas, during the summer of 2008. Morales was sentenced by United States District Judge Michaela Alvarez this afternoon to 168 months in federal prison without parole, fined $11,000 and ordered to serve a three-year-term of supervised release. The investigation leading to the charges against Morales included audio...

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped up his attack on the Democrat-controlled state Legislature Wednesday, chiding lawmakers for getting a pay raise despite the state's ongoing fiscal problems. "Isn't that interesting?" Schwarzenegger said in a speech to the California Chamber of Commerce. "Instead of giving the people that really need the money -- like education, health care, healthy families, the poor people, the blind people -- instead of giving them more money, the legislators decided they need the money first. So they're taking the money first." On Monday, an independent state commission granted legislators a 12 percent pay increase,...