Author: Freedom Watch

At least 18 billionaires & hundreds of rich elites ‘got stimulus check’ The US Sun December 31, 2021 AT LEAST 18 billionaires and hundreds of other rich elites collected stimulus checks intended to support struggling households during Covid-19. The 270 wealthy Americans who reportedly wrote off enough deductions to qualify for the extra sums doled out by Uncle Sam actually all earned $5.7billion in income, according to their previous tax returns. Each appears to have whittled down their tax responsibilities to claim to have earned negative net incomes allowing them to receive the $1,200 single and $2,400 married…

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Texas professor claims ‘Madden NFL’ games ‘dehumanized’ Black athletes By Dom Calicchio Fox News December 31, 2021 The “Madden NFL” video game franchise promoted by legendary NFL coach John Madden “dehumanized black athletes” and helped create a digital “plantation,” a college professor claimed this week. Andrew McGregor, who teaches history at Dallas College in Texas, further claimed that Madden “profited off of Black athletic labor and glamorized the violence inherent in the game.” Since posting the comments Tuesday, the same day Madden died at age 85, the professor, who is White, has locked his Twitter account, the Washington…

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Why the new legal attack from Trump allies against the House January 6 committee is a long shot By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz CNN December 31, 2021 (CNN)The flurry of lawsuits filed in recent weeks trying to stop the House January 6 committee’s subpoenas are revealing, in many ways, the opposite: That the House has been largely successful at sweeping up documents for the probe and interviewing dozens of major witnesses. A throughline in many of the cases are allegations that the select committee’s makeup — where House Republican leadership did not choose the panel’s GOP members…

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Biden’s Build Back Better bill is dead: Rep. Nicole Malliotakis By Fox News Staff Fox News December 30, 2021 Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-NY, joined ‘America Reports’ to give her take on the state of President Biden’s Build Back Better bill. REP. NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS: Well, I think the Build Back Better bill, as is, is dead. Republicans unanimously voted against it in the House. We see Senator Manchin coming out. I think there’s other Democrats, quite frankly, in the Senate who are not comfortable voting for this bill. People understand that when taxpayers pay taxes, they expect certain things…

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Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andrew Clyde have amassed more than $100,000 in fines for defying House mask rules, report says By Sonam Sheth, John L. Dorman Business Insider December 30, 2021 Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andrew Clyde have accrued over $100,000 in fines for defying mask rules. Greene has reportedly racked up more than $80,000 in fines, while Clyde has amassed about $30,000. The fines are taken out of their paychecks, but a lawmaker told CNN Clyde found a way around paying. Continue Reading…..

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Biden says if medical team advises it, he’ll issue domestic travel vaccine requirement By Alex Gangitano TheHill December 29, 2021 President Biden said Tuesday he would impose a mandate that Americans be vaccinated against COVID-19 to travel domestically if his medical team recommends it. When asked when he would make a decision on domestic travel vaccine requirements while out for a walk in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Biden told reporters, “when I get a recommendation from the medical team.” The idea of mandating coronavirus vaccines for domestic travel has been bouncing around the administration for months, and the emergence…

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In 2021, it became obvious the US bishops and the pope are singing from different hymnals National Catholic Reporter December 29, 2021 The life of the Catholic Church in this country in 2021 was characterized by an obvious, flailing culture war fit and evidence the pope is more and more determined to press forward with the reception of Vatican II in ways that will likely affect the U.S. church in profound ways. The effort by the leadership of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to pick a fight with the nation’s second Catholic president was the dominant…

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