Victor Madrigal-Borloz may be the most consequential bureaucrat you’ve never heard of. Madrigal-Borloz is the “SOGI czar” at the United Nations. Or, more precisely, he is the U.N.’s so-called independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, or SOGI. And the Costa Rican lawyer just concluded an official
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In this article WMT A sign hangs outside a Sam’s Club store on January 12, 2018 in Streamwood, Illinois. Scott Olson |Getty Images Walmart-owned Sam’s Club said Wednesday it will raise its annual fees this fall, as the warehouse club’s membership hovers at a record high and inflation-pinched shoppers seek deals on bulk items. Fees
US stocks have registered their weakest August performance since 2015. By Wednesday’s close, according to preliminary data, the Dow Jones industrial average had fallen just over 4%, the tech-rich Nasdaq was down 4.64%, and the S&P 500 had fallen 4.24% over the month. For the day, the Dow was down 0.88%, the Nasdaq was down
An economist from a leading university said on CNBC Monday that inflation will stay high and “one whopper of a recession” is coming in 2023, despite the liberal media’s attempts to downplay impending economic calamity. “[S]tarting with COVID in February of 2020, we had an unprecedented growth in the money supply in the United States,
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Taiwan’s defense ministry threatened Wednesday that it would strike Chinese armed forces if they come within 12 nautical miles of the Taiwanese air and sea territory. Taiwan’s vow of self defense comes as China routinely sends warships and air sorties across the unofficial “median line” dividing the democratically-governed island from the mainland, Reuters reported. China’s “high
On Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered a record-breaking amount of cocaine disguised as a shipment of baby wipes. The seizure was made at the Laredo-Colombia Solidarity International Bridge, a bridge that runs over the Rio Grande river and connects Laredo, Texas, to Colombia, a community in Mexico. In a news release, the
On August 30, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination published its findings concerning a number of nations for which it had sharp criticisms and recommendations. The U.N. racism committee saved some of its fiercest condemnations for the United States, the U.N.’s largest donor. The committee expressed deep concern regarding the Supreme Court’s
Less than a month ago, Fox reported that a California school district was teaching kids about their lady and man bits with a “Genderbread Man.” If by some chance you thought things wouldn’t get worse in CA, you were wrong. According to Fox News, California’s Newport-Mesa school district has ordered textbooks for students that claim that there
Trump election lawyer John Eastman appeared before a Georgia grand jury on Wednesday for the crime of asking state legislatures to appoint Trump electors after Election Day. Earlier this year John Eastman said the state legislatures have the authority to replace electors due to fraudulent results during an interview with Steve Bannon. Eastman told Steve
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s year-end retirement doesn’t mean he will avoid congressional oversight and accountability, said Steve Deace, author of “Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History.” On Aug. 22, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden,
In this article BBBY A Bed Bath & Beyond store is seen on June 29, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images Bed Bath & Beyond said Wednesday that it secured more than $500 million in new financing and that it is closing stores and laying off staff as
A photo showing top secret documents uncovered during an FBI search of Donald Trump’s Florida home has been released. It comes as the US Justice Department claims it has uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified documents at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The image, released in a court filing, showed
Richmond, VA – Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has been in office only seven months and already he is listed at number five in a Washington Post story about possible 2024 GOP presidential candidates. In an interview, I asked him to respond to suggestions in some quarters that he might be well positioned to run for president in
A majority of Americans believe that a civil war is relatively likely to occur in the next ten years, a study shows. A recent poll conducted by YouGovAmerica shows that two in five Americans think a civil war is more likely to happen than not in the next decade. Two-thirds of Americans believe that political
There you are, a college graduate with your newly minted degree in one hand and a new job in the other — or the confidence that you will have one soon. For years you’ve waited for a real job with a real paycheck to get a decent car, apartment and respectable wardrobe. After all, these
As radical leftist gender ideology metastasizes in the U.S., there really are people performing gender surgeries on minors. “The Gender Confirmation Center and Dr. Scott Mosser have some of the strictest criteria in the USA for operating on people below the age of 18. If the criteria are met, then the surgeons of the GCC
Weaponized bureaucrats are nothing new in politics. There is a history of Democrats using the IRS for political gain. Franklin Roosevelt used the IRS against Andrew Mellon, who’d been the treasury secretary under Coolidge and was a public servant. There was nothing on Mellon. Roosevelt tried for 10 years to put Mellon in jail, and
If you never looked at a poll and watched only the network news to stay informed, you might think Joe Biden is a very successful and popular president. That’s not an accident. There’s a lot of well-designed embroidery and energetic omissions. They pretend Biden has never mismanaged anything or caused a single problem in America.
The Biden/Obama gang’s answer to high gas prices is to allow Iran to sell its oil freely around the world. With gas prices at record highs recently in the US due to the Biden/Obama gang’s efforts to shut down drilling in the US, the White House has figured out an answer. They will allow the
From kindergarten classrooms to human resources offices to elite academic institutions, pressure is growing for Americans to ignore what’s in front of them in favor of a new version of reality that is more “inclusive” and “updated.” Public discourse now centers on debates about whether men can become pregnant and how to define a woman.
Grainwave, a Belgian-Style white ale, THC infused, non-alcoholic cannabis beer at the Ceria Brewing Co. at the Keef Cola facility December 13, 2018. Andy Cross | Denver Post | Getty Images You can smoke it, vape it and eat it. Now as more U.S. states legalize recreational marijuana, companies are betting people will also want
Elon Musk has claimed “civilisation would crumble” if the world stops drilling for gas and oil in the short term – but must continue “accelerating” sustainable sources of energy. The Tesla chief was taking part in the Offshore Northern Seas conference in Norway on the future of the energy industry, including the role and development
California is one step closer to passing an internet privacy law that aims to make the internet safer for children. The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act was unanimously passed by the state senate on Monday. The bill now goes to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for final approval. If the bill is signed, it would go
The Biden administration has announced that it plans to forgive student loan debt. President Joe Biden said that his administration has a three part-plan to address tuition costs by offering “debt relief as part of a comprehensive effort to address the burden of growing college costs and make the student loan system more manageable for
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Some small businesses in Europe are posting their skyrocketing electricity bills to social media as the worsening energy crisis threatens to cripple their economies. “My mum owns a small café in Leicester. Her electricity bill has just jumped from £10k ($12k) a year to £55k ($64k) a year,” claimed one Twitter user. u201cMy mum owns
Kurt Bardella, who indicates that he is an advisor to the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has described “MAGA Republicans” as “a domestic terrorist cell.” “MAGA” is an acronym for former President Trump’s well-known campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” “The Republican Party, the MAGA Republicans, are a domestic terrorist cell
With the breaking news that former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev was finally being a good communist on Tuesday, the broadcast networks collectively mourned for the man who violently cracked down on peaceful demonstrations in Lithuania and Latvia. Both CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News took part in dangerous revisionist history as they “credited” Gorbachev
Charlbi Dean (Source: Getty Images) South African model and actress Charlbi Dean, best known for her roles in the Spud films as well as the superhero drama series Black Lightning and the 2022 Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness, died Monday in New York from an unexpected illness. She was 32. “A source reported that
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