Politics

By Trey Blanton, Church Militant - Investments in aerospace and defense industries are booming, according to last week's Capital Market Outlook. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is cited as the catalyst for the Biden administration's higher-than-expected increases in defense spending... In American politics, powerful lobbyists, not the people, dictate policy. Few industries are as influential as weapons manufacturers, who own chicken hawk politicians.

By Mike Huckabee, The Stream - We won’t link to WAPO here, because they’re a paid subscription-only service and a propaganda rag — a candy mint and a breath mint — but Tristan Justice at The Federalist offers a great report on the story. WAPO’s headline on Friday was “Jan. 6 committee faces a thorny challenge: persuading the public to care"...

By Megan Redshaw, Children's Health Defense - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on March 14 removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19, including nearly a quarter of deaths it had attributed to children, blaming an algorithm for “accidentally counting deaths that were not COVID-19-related.”... “Data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error,” the CDC’s website states. “This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories.”... The agency also acknowledged COVID death data is not complete.

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - Sen. Josh Hawley raised concerns about U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s leniency toward criminals convicted of child pornography during the first day of her confirmation hearing Monday... Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, also has a pro-abortion record that includes working with abortion activists on a case about suppressing pro-life advocates’ free speech.