A leftist Temple University student, a senior majoring in political science, turned on Don Lemon, who he says was involved in the planning and logistics of the storming of the church in St. Paul. Lemon wasn’t a passive journalist. Not only that, but a new investigation found that a well-funded organization planned the Minneapolis anti-ICE […] The post A Student Protester: Don Lemon Planned the Raid on Cities Church appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Victoria Monét McCants built her career by pairing performance training with years of professional songwriting before her own records became her main headline. She was born on May 1, 1989, in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to Sacramento, California, as a teenager when her parents relocated for work. As a kid, she was already on stage in Catholic school holiday plays, and she sang in a church youth choir. By junior high school, she had formed a dance group, and that work eventually led to teaching at two dance studios, long before her name was associated with major pop and R&B The post Complete List Of Victoria Monét Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Climate alarmism has lost at the ballot box time and time again, and last year, even Bill Gates significantly dialed down his support for it. However, enterprising lawyers on the Left are still trying to smuggle in an effective carbon tax through the courts—and the Supreme Court should put an end to it. It works like this: local governments or activist groups file a lawsuit against oil and gas companies, claiming that the burning of fossil fuels impacts the climate, and these impacts negatively harmed people. Activist lawyers bring cases in state courts that are more likely to rule in their favor, and—presto!—you’ve got a “carbon tax” imposed on oil and gas companies without needing a vote in Congress. Don’t take my word for it. David Bookbinder, who served as part of the legal team representing the left-leaning city and county of Boulder in suing oil companies, described the climate lawfare as “an indirect carbon tax.” “Tort liability is an indirect carbon tax,” Bookbinder said on a Federalist Society panel in October. “You sue an oil company, an oil company is liable. The oil company then passes that liability on to the people who are buying its products.” Tellingly, he added, “I’d prefer an actual carbon tax, but if we can’t get one of those… this is a rather, somewhat convoluted way, to achieve the goals of a carbon tax.” The thing is, the law isn’t supposed to work that way. 'INDIRECT CARBON TAX'Here's David Bookbinder, who represented Boulder in its lawsuit against Suncor (which the Supreme Court should consider and strike down).He admits climate lawsuits for damages under state law are an "indirect carbon tax," trying to circumvent Congress.? pic.twitter.com/QSeq1CXbky— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) February 6, 2026 Problems With the Argument It’s hard to overstate just how baseless this cockamamie legal argument is. Colorado Supreme Court Justice Carlos Samour Jr., an appointee of Democrat Gov. John Hickenlooper, put it well in a dissent when the Colorado Supreme Court allowed Boulder’s lawsuit against Suncor Energy companies and Exxon-Mobil to go forward. Samour noted that the court essentially “gives Boulder, Colorado, the green light to act as its own republic.” Why? Because applying Colorado state law to award damages for the companies’ burning of fossil fuels “will both effectively regulate interstate air pollution and have more than an incidental effect on foreign affairs.” So, why did the Colorado Supreme Court rule this way? The law has long treated interstate air pollution as an inherently federal concern under federal common law, but when Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, that displaced federal common law. Since the Clean Air Act did not “preempt” Colorado from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, the court ruled that state laws may award damages for greenhouse gas pollution. Yet Samour noted that “state law has historically been incompetent to address claims seeking redress for interstate and international air pollution.” “Unlike the Blue Fairy that brought Pinocchio to life, the [Clean Air Act] did not magically breathe life into state-law tort claims that had been as lifeless as a wooden puppet,” the justice added. Potential Fallout Boulder cannot prove that a specific oil sale from Suncor had a specific impact on the global climate, which in turn caused a specific harm to Boulder. Instead, the case relies on the “consensus” that the burning of fossil fuels harms the climate—prediction models have failed to demonstrate exactly how—and that somehow this vague impact connects to depriving people of “the right to use and enjoy public property, spaces, parks, and ecosystems,” along with “the right to safe and unobstructed travel.” Naturally, Boulder seems unconcerned about what a settlement in this case would do to Americans’ right to “safe and unobstructed travel.” If Boulder wins this case, the fallout could be disastrous. Bookbinder, who represented Boulder, stated that if a lawsuit like this succeeds, that will lead nearly “every jurisdiction in California” to sue the oil companies, and then “every defendant in all these cases immediately declares bankruptcy.” Todd Zywicki, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, noted at a Civitas Institute panel Thursday that “any community in America could sue any of these companies, and why stop at the power companies?” Communities could sue airlines, truck drivers, even Americans who drive. I can imagine few obstructions of travel quite so obnoxious as a court determining that you could be sued just for turning on your combustion engine. The Supreme Court’s Opportunity Suncor Energy has appealed the case to the Supreme Court, presenting a golden opportunity for clarification. Since Suncor asked the court to take the case in August, the Justice Department filed an amicus brief asking for review, as have 26 states and 103 members of Congress led by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La. Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Harris put it well in writing that the United States has “a substantial interest” in whether Boulder can “apply one state’s law to the activities of energy companies around the world to hold those companies liable for injuries allegedly caused by global climate change.” As Harris’ brief notes, the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling conflicts with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which struck down New York’s case against Chevron in 2021. The Supreme Court denied review in two cases where Honolulu, Hawaii, sought to punish Sunoco and Shell for alleged climate impacts. In June 2024, the Biden administration—which had significant ties to climate activist groups—urged the justices to deny review of those cases. Here’s hoping Suncor succeeds where Shell and Sunoco did not. The post CLIMATE LAWFARE: Will the People’s Republic of Boulder Bankrupt the Fossil Fuel Industry? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Meet Politico's Supervillains of the TDS Universe. Artist Natalia Delgado provided us with a rendering of the sheer villainy of a howling mad J.D. Vance, whose angry piercing gaze seems about to burn the hearts out of sensitive Georgetown liberals whose world has been turned upside down in the wake of the 2024 election. Behind Vance, staring ominously out at the world, is the spooky Big Brother hypnotic glare of the unholiest of all unholy supervillains, none other than Orange Man Bad.  Who, oh who, can combat the overwhelming power of the MAGA supervillains? Fortunately, Politico reporter Gregory Svirnovskiy on Thursday has shined a light on a possible path to salvation. Olympic athletes. Yes, according to Svirnovkiy, the MAGA supervillains can be heroically stifled by athletes from other countries defeating Team USA on the snowy (and ICE-y) playing fields of the Winter Olympics as you can see in "Trump’s geopolitical tensions spill into the Winter Olympics." The president’s repeated jabs at longtime partners, his inconsistent tariff policy and repeated plays for Greenland have shown just how much he’s shifted the traditional world order. The resulting international “rupture,” as described by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Davos last month, has turned beating the Americans in Italy from a crowning sporting achievement to an even greater moral imperative for the president’s rivals. “This is life and death,” said Charlie Angus, a former member of Parliament in Canada with the New Democratic Party and prominent Trump critic. “If it’s the semifinals and we’re playing against the United States, it’s no longer a game. And that’s profound.” Life and death?? Yes, Donald Trump keeps winning, but can we hope that Team MAGA can finally be stopped at the Winter Olympics? Svirnovskiy certainly seems to be holding out the possible hope that all liberals can desperately grasp onto:  Trump has also clashed with many of the countries vying to top the leaderboards in Milan. Since returning to the White House in January, he’s antagonized Norway, which took home the most medals in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, over a perceived Nobel Peace Prize snub and clashed repeatedly with Canada, which finished fourth. “We’re looking at the world in a very different light,” Angus said. “And we’re looking at a next-door neighbor who makes increasingly unhinged threats towards us. So to go to international games and pretend that we’re all one happy family, well, that’s gone.” Trump has also sparred with Emmanuel Macron, the president of France (the 13th-place finisher in Beijing), and threatened a military incursion in pushing Denmark (a Scandinavian country which curiously hasn’t medaled in the Winter Olympics since 1998) to cede Greenland. Is Mr. Angus vying for an employment at Politico with his TDS displays? The position of labor reporter has been vacant since the departure of the legendary Mike Elk. Here's how you know he's a hard-core leftist: "In September 2025, Angus started a YouTube channel in partnership with the MeidasTouch Network under the name Meidas Canada." Then came the "legendary" athletes: “With the current American president, no one knows what he will do or say tomorrow,” said legendary goaltender Dominik Hasek, a gold medalist with Czechia in the 1998 Nagano Games and a one-time rumored presidential candidate in his home nation. “If he doesn’t make negative comments about athletes from other countries in the coming weeks, everything will be fine. But that could change very quickly after one of his frequent hateful attacks.” Does Svirnovkiy have an axe to grind? He explains on his LinkedIn page:  My parents left the Soviet Union as religious refugees in 1993, fleeing a country that censored truths that didn’t conform to its ideological narratives. They spent much of their lives in the dark....I know what it's like to come from a place where press freedoms are nonexistent, where the public has no window into the decisions and policies at the top. It's why I believe in political journalism, in attempts at educating the public, at empowering them to decide how to act and lead.

One of the most perennially annoying forms of reverse racism in the media is criticizing the Winter Olympics because they’re too white. Every four years, we at NewsBusters remember Bryant Gumbel on his HBO program Real Sports speaking out against….allegedly White Sports. Finally tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like ’em and won’t watch ’em….Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. He mocked the sports, and he mocked the athletes. It would sound like he shouldn’t have been hosting a sports show. Can you imagine how long someone would last at HBO or ESPN if they suggested basketball was a ridiculous sport because it doesn't have enough white people? The racial scolds of the Associated Press broke this one out before the games began, with a Europe-based sports reporter named Steve Douglas. It wasn't someone assigned to a "race and culture" beat. Let the bean-counting games begin! The headline: Europe’s rising diversity is not reflected at the Winter Olympics. Culture plays a big role Douglas begins with the story of Maryam Hashi, a Somalian immigrant to Sweden who's now an Olympian in snowboarding. That's an aspirational story of overcoming a dramatic change in the climate you live in to thrive in athletics. But of course, "What she’d love now is to see other migrants experiencing the same joy." That's a fine goal, but for the Left, it feels like an ideological crusade. Immigration from Africa and the Middle East has transformed the demographics of Europe in recent decades. And while the growing diversity is reflected in many sports such as soccer — Sweden’s men’s national team has several Black players including Liverpool striker Alexander Isak — it hasn’t made a dent in winter sports. At the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Sweden is sending a team made up almost exclusively of ethnically Swedish athletes, with NHL player Mika Zibanejad, whose father is from Iran, a rare exception. That hardly reflects the diversity of the Nordic country: About 2 million of its 10 million residents were born abroad, about half of them in Asia or Africa, according to national statistics agency SCB. The lack of athletes of color at the Winter Olympics — and in winter sports in general — has been a recurring theme in the U.S., which is sending one of its most diverse teams to the Games. It hasn’t gotten the same attention in Europe. The Olympic rosters of France, Germany, Switzerland and other European winter sports nations look a lot like Sweden’s: overwhelmingly white and lacking the immigrant representation seen in their soccer or basketball teams. Douglas lamented that immigrant parents aren't familiar with the winter sports and are often in "less-privileged economic positions," the equipment in the winter sports can be expensive. The agenda is made plain:  Improving access for immigrants Academics believe more needs to be done by winter sports to improve accessibility for immigrants and underserved communities. “It’s a fact that the best integrative force in society is team sports and sports clubs, where kids can go to do useful things together with others,” said Stefan Jonsson, a professor in Ethnicity and Migration Studies at Linköping University. “There is so much research saying if we want social and ethnic integration, this would be the primary thing.” Most Americans and Europeans are supportive of Olympic athletes of all kinds, with an emphasis on hard work and excellence. But you have to laugh when you read stories like this and then there's a pop-up message asking for donations on the AP website under the slogan "News without an agenda."

In my more cynical moments, I’ve suspected that Valentine’s Day owes its longevity less to romance than to a choreographed alliance between the greeting card, chocolate, and lingerie industries. The day has been thoroughly commercialized, and many men, myself included over the years, have approached it with well-intended but often ham-fisted earnestness.Still beneath the marketing and the eye rolls, Valentine’s Day has come to serve as a pause for many couples. A moment, however imperfectly executed, to tend the fire of intimacy. Over time, lasting loves tend to look at it less as a performance and more as a reminder, a deliberate effort to say, “You matter to me,” even when the words come out crooked.Common things are seldom viewed as precious. Only a deep bond leaves one person willing to shoulder what the other no longer can.For family caregivers, however, Valentine’s Day carries a different weight altogether.In my writing, I often focus on the broader applications of the lessons caregiving teaches. Sometimes though, it’s important to speak directly to a particular group. This is one of those times. I’m talking about couples where one person is carrying more than their share of the relationship. Not because of indifference or neglect, but because the other, though still alive, is unable to do so. Dementia, disability, illness, injury, or unrelenting pain has shifted the balance. The love remains, but the weight cannot be borne evenly. Holidays already do this to families. Christmas and Thanksgiving often force a reckoning with decline and loss. Valentine’s Day pierces a little deeper. It is intimate by design. And when one person must carry the relationship alone, the sadness can feel sharper, more personal, and harder to explain.Caregiving requires reframing. Not denial or pretending. Not putting on a happy face. Reframing means stepping back far enough to see the relationship writ large, not merely through the narrow lens of present limitations. It means recognizing that the ache itself testifies to something rare.Common things are seldom viewed as precious. Only an uncommon love produces this kind of sorrow. Only a deep bond leaves one person willing to shoulder what the other no longer can.Over the years, I’ve offered a suggestion that sometimes catches people off guard. “It is OK for caregivers to buy their own Valentine’s Day card.”Choose the one your husband or wife would have picked for you if they could. At this point in your life together, you already know the words. You’ve learned them through years of shared history, private humor, ordinary sacrifice, and quiet fidelity. Find the card that says what your spouse would have said, and mail it to yourself. Not as an exercise in self-pity, but as a tribute to the love you share.I remember the first time I mentioned this on the air many years ago. When I finished, I glanced through the studio glass and saw tears filling my producer’s eyes. He was caught in a hard place, married to someone struggling with alcoholism. It is a chronic impairment, one that quietly turns a spouse into a caregiver, though few people think to call it that. He understood immediately what I meant. Not the card itself, but the recognition of love still present when reciprocity has gone missing.Fix your spouse's favorite meal, even if you have to help them eat it. Set the table, even if there is only one place setting that feels fully present. Play the song you once danced to or hummed together through the years.Pining over what is no longer possible can undo a caregiver. But choosing instead to rest in the magnitude of a love that inspires such devotion can steady you. That choice does not eliminate the tears. Nothing in this life will, and that is not a bad thing.Some things are heartbreaking because they are too beautiful for our hearts to contain this side of heaven. “Sadness” is too small a word for that kind of ache.Near the end of “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” C.S. Lewis gives Lucy a moment of language-defying clarity when she catches a glimpse of Aslan’s country. Struggling to explain what she feels, all she can say is, “It would break your heart.” When someone asks whether she means that it is sad, Lucy answers, “No,” because what she has seen is not tragic at all. It is simply too glorious for her heart to hold.PULL: The people carrying addiction’s weight rarely get seen Photo by Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThis is where scripture speaks with quiet authority. The Christian promise is not that God will make all new things, discarding what was. The promise is that He will make all things new. The love you lived, the faithfulness you showed, the care you gave, none of it is wasted. So this coming Valentine’s Day, if you find yourself in a hospital room, an assisted-living facility, a nursing home, or at your own kitchen table with only one place setting that feels fully occupied, allow the tears to come. Read the card your spouse would have sent. Eat the meal you would have shared. Listen to the music that once marked your life together.And set another card on the table, the one you would choose for the person who changed your life so profoundly that you now carry the love entrusted to you when he or she no longer can.Remember this as well. There is one who loves you both more fiercely than our hearts can understand. He sees every tear. He keeps account of every sacrifice. And He will indeed make all things new.As scripture reminds us, “A cord of three strands is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes 4:12).

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