The Post-Partisan Emporium

... And this is NOT ACCEPTABLE . With Plenty Of GOP Help, Senate Shoots Down Rand Paul's Balanced-Budget Resolution Every few years, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul puts forth a quixotic proposal to balance the federal budget.  It's not the financial math that makes it a daunting task, but rather Washington's bipartisan addiction to spending.  It predictably fails each time, but accomplishes two things in the process. First, it puts senators who've espoused fiscal discipline on the record as opposing it when the rubber meets the road. Second,  over time,   Paul's proposals illustrate the insidious effect of kicking the can down the road—as each new proposal requires bigger cuts to push Uncle Sam to breakeven. Paul's first such budget resolution, in 2011, didn't even cut spending. By merely  freezing  it for five years, the budget was projected to reach balance this year.  In 2018, Paul put forth his " Penny Plan ," which would balance the budget in fiv...

The WHO is changing the name “monkeypox”…is it really because of racism? Kit Knightly Yesterday Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), announced the WHO was officially changing the name of the monkeypox virus. This decision was allegedly taken due to “stigmatization” and “discrimination” of the current “inaccurate” name. I’m not sure how “monkeypox virus” can be an inaccurate name for a virus allegedly found in monkeys that allegedly causes pox, but that is the contention of the “experts” who called for an “urgent name change” in  this report from last week . In the context of the current global outbreak, continued reference to, and nomenclature of this virus being African is not only inaccurate but is also discriminatory and stigmatising,” Of course, the problem here, as always with mainstream news, is their own mutually contradictory stories/agendas. Because, according to the official narrative the virus  does  come from ...

Corporate-Sponsored, Transhumanist ‘Feminism’: The X-Factor in the Baby Formula Shortage Ben Bartee From the 10,000-foot view, corporate-sponsored Third Wave feminism is a much under-appreciated — but by no means the only — causal reason that American mothers can’t find the Chinese factory-produced GMO “baby formula”* feed that so many families rely on. (*Clarification on the definition of “baby formula”: The commercially-produced stuff is mostly GMO corn and soy protein with a few industrial poorly-bioavailable “nutrients” sprinkled in. In the before-times, “baby formula” was called “breast milk.” In a better world, actually nutritious “baby formula” would also be possible to synthesize artificially.) Yes, some women have legitimate medical reasons (not sociocultural ones, which are far more likely and which we’ll discuss here) that prevent them from breastfeeding. They need food desperately, and now can’t get it. No one should minimize that, or victim-blame. And, yes, supply-chain di...