Energy prices‚ particularly the cost of electricity‚ have skyrocketed under Democrat Bidenomics. It outpaced inflation. BIDENOMICS Since January 2021‚ electricity prices have soared 29.4%. That is 50% more than overall inflation‚ which is awful as well. It is rising 13 times faster than the previous seven years‚ according to a Wall Street Journalanalysis of Bureau []The post Skyrocketing Energy Prices: Electric Soars 29.4% appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Ten illegals accused of selling child pornography were arrested in Texas. Child porn includes raping small children and older children who are enslaved. It includes committing heinous acts on children. Selling this monstrous garbage is very serious. This is what Democrats and the enabling Republicans are allowing into the country. A group of 10 suspected []The post Ten Child Sex Perverts Here Illegally Arrested in Texas appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Rep. Mike Garcia‚ R-Calif.‚ blatantly told FBI Director Christopher Wray that he does not trust him while accusing him of not being transparent. He told Wray he has been relatively silent about the southern border. As Rep. Garcia said‚ we cant trust him to protect us. Wray is political. When Wray talks about terrorism‚ he []The post Rep. Garcia to Dir. Wray: Youre Untrustworthy &;amp; Ineffective appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

General Christopher Cavoli‚ the head of U.S. European Command‚ warned this week that Russias military has grown stronger and has recovered faster from its war in Ukraine than the U.S. thought was possible.Cavoli‚ who is also the supreme allied commander of Europe at the Western security alliance NATO‚ made the remarks Wednesday during aHouse Armed Services hearing on National Security Challenges in Europe.With the help of the United States‚ and invaluable help from other allies and partners‚ Ukraine has inflicted significant damage upon the Russian military‚ he said in his opening remarks. However‚ Russia relies on the mass and quantity available to a large country‚ and despite its militarys evident deficiencies and dysfunctions‚ continues to pose an existential threat to Ukraine.Cavoli said that Russia has increased its production of long range precision munitions and has started to buy ballistic missiles‚ cruise missiles‚ and long-range drones from third countries who were previously outside this fight.In fact‚ it is mainly only in the land forces that Russia has suffered‚ losing over 2‚000 tanks and 315‚000 soldiers wounded or dead‚ he said. However‚ Russia is reconstituting that force far faster than our initial estimates suggested. The army is actually now larger by 15 percent than it was when it invaded Ukraine. Over the past year‚ Russia increased its front line troop strength from 360‚000 to 470‚000. Russias army increased the upper age limit for conscription from 27 to 30‚ which increases the pool of available military conscripts by 2 million for years to come.He said that Russia is planning an ambitious ground forces restructure in which they want to drastically increase the size of their military and base many of the new forces in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine‚ as well as Karelia in the High North‚ opposite Finland.CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APPPerhaps most concerning‚ the Russian military in the past year has shown an accelerating ability to learn and adapt to battlefield challenges both tactically and technologically‚ and has become a learning organization that little resembles the chaotic force that invaded Ukraine two years ago‚ he said.In sum‚ Russia is on track to command the largest military on the continent and a defense industrial complex capable of generating substantial amounts of ammunition and materiel in support of large scale combat operations‚ he said. Regardless of the outcome of the war in Ukraine‚ Russia will be larger‚ more lethal‚ and angrier with the West than when it invaded. Diplomatically‚ Russia has used the past two years to attempt to alter the global security architecture by creating relationships that challenge the existing order.He added that Russia shows no signs of stopping and does not intend to stop with Ukraine.WATCH:";Russia shows no signs of stopping. And nor does Russia intend to stop with Ukraine. Russia presents a chronic threat."; pic.twitter.com/PVMV1AfRjX U.S. European Command (@US_EUCOM) April 11‚ 2024

Conan OBrien praised late-comedian Norm Macdonalds past jokes about O.J. Simpsons murder trial that resulted in Macdonald losing his job at Saturday Night Live.During the late-night talk show hosts appearance on Thursday with CNNs Jake Tapper‚ the two talked about the news of the day Simpsons death at 76 following a battle with prostate cancer‚ Fox News reported.It was a huge deal back then‚ OBrien said as he noted the murder trial coverage from comedians. Most notably hes passed on Norm Macdonald‚ one of my best guests of all time and one of the great comedians of all time[He] just told some of the most did the most brilliant‚ I think‚ comedy of anybody during that whole period‚ he added‚ noting the jokes the late-star did following Simpsons acquittal in the 1995 double murder trial of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.Conan OBrien Says Norm Macdonald Did the Most Brilliant Comedy About O.J. Simpson on SNL When the Head of the Network Was Tight With O.J. https://t.co/NvFshFEbpq Variety (@Variety) April 12‚ 2024Tapper replied‚ Lost his job at SNL because he was making fun of O.J. Simpson for being the real killer.Yes‚ OBrien replied‚ and said that the head of the network at the time was tight with O.J.‚ without naming the executive.CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APPDon Ohlmeyer? Tapper asked‚ to which the comedian laughed‚ Who can remember these names.Anyway‚ water under the bridge‚ OBrien added. But that was a huge moment in history‚ I think‚ of this country.It was a‚ you know‚ massive there have been many times in this country where weve needed to stop and reassess where we are in our racial history‚ and where are we‚ what progress have we made‚ and that was one of those moments and it was such a watershed moment‚ OBrien continued.Tapper then asked OBrien if he was going to make a joke about Simpson‚ and he replied‚ I never make a joke about someone the day they pass.The late-night talk show host wasnt the only one remembering Norms jokes on Thursday‚ with clips of Macdonald going viral on social media about his cracks at The Juice and saying that murder was legal in the state of California after Simpsons acquittal‚ Fox News noted.Despite the pro athlete being acquitted during the criminal trial‚ he was found liable for Brown Simpson and Goldmans deaths three years later in a civil trial brought by the victims families and was ordered to pay more than $33 million in damages.Simpson was later arrested in Las Vegas and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping in 2007. He was sentenced to 33 years in prison with a minimum of nine years without parole and was released in 2017 after serving that minimum. The former NFL star was released from parole in 2021.Amanda Harding contributed to this piece.

In 1995‚ there were two very different versions of the O.J. Simpson trial playing out. For most of the country‚ the trial was a spectacle. A lot of crazy stuff happened so much that most people dont remember all of it.Overnight‚ for example‚ the National Enquirer tabloid morphed into a crack legal publication that broke several exclusive stories about the proceedings. They had 20 reporters working on the case‚ coming up with transcripts and scoops that everyone else missed. And of course‚ Norm Macdonald made so many jokes about the case that he was fired from SNL because of it. In the decades since‚ there hasnt been any trial remotely like it covered wall-to-wall‚ for months‚ by pretty much every channel in America. It was entertainment.At the same time‚ in black areas of Los Angeles‚ and in major cities all over the country‚ the O.J. Simpson trial wasnt just a spectacle. It was also about revenge for the Rodney King acquittals and police corruption more generally. Thats been discussed quite a bit over the last 30 years.Whats gotten less attention is that‚ with the O.J. trial‚ for the first time‚ it became widely acceptable to think about the deaths of white people as necessary collateral damage to exact this kind of political revenge.There was no social media at the time‚ and cable news was pretty sanitized. So no one with a major television platform came right out and directly said this. But they didnt need to. It was obvious‚ especially if you looked at how little concern there was among O.J. supporters for Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman and their families.WATCH: The Matt Walsh ShowNicole Brown‚ as you might remember‚ was repeatedly beaten by O.J. before she divorced him. And then he hunted her down and nearly cut her head off. Everyone knew this‚ but not everyone cared. It was apparent from the reactions when O.J. was acquitted. It was euphoria‚ and it broke down along racial lines. Watch:Its pretty disturbing footage‚ especially since at the time it didnt cause a lot of outrage. Thousands of people all over the country‚ most of them black‚ celebrated the acquittal of someone who obviously just murdered two people. At the time‚ serious people understood that this was jury nullification. But no one really explored the implications. What does a country look like‚ over the long term‚ when murdering white people is seen as acceptable‚ for any reason? What happens when the media and major political figures endorse this barbarism?No one seemed to care‚ even after a juror from the O.J. trial came right out and admitted‚ many years after the fact‚ that 90% of the jurors knew that O.J. was guilty. But the jurors acquitted him anyway‚ because they were driven by a desire for payback. Watch:She knows its wrong to let a killer go free‚ but she did it anyway. So did the rest of the jury.This has all been known for a while now. Whats less widely known is that the Los Angeles DA at the time‚ a Democrat named Gil Garcetti‚ engineered this acquittal. An attorney named Dilan Esper has cataloged all the ways that Garcetti rigged the trial in favor of O.J. The big one is that he didnt try the case in Brentwood‚ which is in West Los Angeles. That would have been the logical place to hold the trial because Simpson had lived in Brentwood for two decades. But Brentwood is almost exclusively white. And Garcetti recognized that‚ for O.J. to have the best chance of acquittal‚ given the racial politics of the case‚ he needed to pick a new venue. So he chose downtown Los Angeles where he was able to secure an overwhelmingly black jury with just a couple of white people on it.Garcetti made several other decisions to swing the case for O.J. For example‚ he declined to pursue the death penalty after publicly meeting with Johnnie Cochran who was just about to join O.J.s defense team. That was a significant decision because a death penalty jury has to answer yes to the question of whether theyd be OK with sentencing someone to death. That weeds out a lot of Left-wing jurors immediately. So Garcetti chose not to do it.Additionally‚ Garcetti chose to present the prosecutions entire case during pretrial hearings‚ giving the defense a chance to scope out all of the witnesses well in advance of trial. As Esper points out‚ this ultimately worked to the defenses advantage in a major way. O.J.s lawyers picked up on one inconsistency in the pretrial testimony relating to the amount of blood collected by police investigators and made it a major part of their defense.These were not errors‚ or sloppy work by the prosecutors. These were intentional efforts by Garcetti to avoid convicting O.J. Simpson‚ which would have ended his political career. Pretty much every black voter in Los Angeles would have voted to remove Garcetti if O.J. was found guilty. Indeed‚ even after O.J. Simpson was found not guilty‚ Garcetti refused to prosecute him for perjury in the civil trial‚ even though it was clear O.J. Simpson lied several times. Thats how committed Garcetti was to keeping O.J. Simpson out of jail.Again‚ anyone paying attention during this whole saga understood everything that was going on at the time. This is not new information. What is new is that‚ now that O.J. Simpson is dead he died yesterday of cancer mainstream news outlets are just coming right out and admitting it. Theyre acknowledging that O.J. Simpson was guilty‚ but that he simply couldnt be convicted because of race politics. Here for example is a CNN journalist explaining on-camera yesterday that in 1995‚ a lot of black people loved to see a black man get away with murdering two white people. She catches herself mid-way through‚ but its clear what shes saying. Watch:Wed have a much better understanding of todays race politics‚ and how to put an end to it‚ if we could have admitted this back in 1995. A lot of people wanted to see a black man get away with murder. The two white people were simply collateral damage.A professor named Marc Lamont Hill spelled this out very clearly yesterday:O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who abandoned his community long before he killed two people in cold blood. His acquittal for murder was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system. But hes still a monster‚ not a martyr.In other words‚ you can kill white people without penalty. As long as the criminal legal system is racist and people like Marc Lamont Hill believe its irredeemably‚ irreparably racist forever then its fine to basically decapitate white people. Thats according to someone who collects a paycheck paid by the government of New York to teach the next generation.Yesterday‚ Hill elaborated on his reasoning‚ essentially saying that O.J. had every right to kill his victims because a police officer involved in the case used a racial slur at some point in the past. Watch:Youll notice theres no regard whatsoever in Marc Lamont Hills mind for the two victims. Their families arent entitled to justice‚ all because a detective on their murder case used a racial slur. If you use the n-word‚ then any white person whos tangentially related to you deserves to die. Thats basically what hes saying. A lot of people thought this in 1995‚ but they didnt say it in public. Thats changing.The reason several mainstream outlets spent yesterday eulogizing O.J. Simpson as some kind of victim is that they approve of what he did. Theres no other way to spin it.The New York Times‚ for example‚ wrote that quote‚ A jury in the murder trial . cleared Mr. Simpson‚ but the case ruined his world. They quickly edited that out of the piece when people pointed out that he stabbed two people to death and therefore ruined their worlds‚ too.For its part‚ NPR wrote the following headline on something called Threads: BREAKING NEWS: The football great Orenthal James Simpson‚ known as O.J.‚ has died.The Associated Press‚ meanwhile‚ tweeted: Legendary athlete‚ actor and millionaire: O.J. Simpsons murder trial lost him the American dream.Those are all real headlines. Everyone knows exactly whats going on here. The only way to get glowing headlines like this from the corporate media is if you kill people they dont like. Its the same reason The Washington Post described that ISIS leader as an austere religious scholar. O.J. Simpson killed members of a disfavored demographic‚ so theyre mourning him as a victim‚ not the people he killed.This kind of attitude was everywhere yesterday. There was no focus on the victims whatsoever. CBS News interviewed one of O.J.s lawyers from the 1995 trial‚ named Carl Douglas. In the interview‚ he comes out and declares what he saw as a main benefit of the trial. Again‚ it had nothing to do with justice or finding the truth or the real killers.Instead‚ it was about showing to the world that black lawyers can get defendants off‚ too. Watch:And whatever you think of this verdict‚ for Black Americans‚ it was not speaking about O.J. Simpson per se.That about sums it up‚ straight from one of O.J.s lawyers. The O.J. trial was not about O.J. Simpson. The trial was arguably the beginning‚ or at least a landmark moment on the way towards‚ our current era of racial insanity. The race hustlers of the time rallied around O.J. not because they thought he was innocent but because they saw him as an agent of revenge. And Democratic Party elites in Los Angeles like Gil Garcetti did everything they could to ensure O.J.s acquittal so that he could serve that function.But nobody was more explicit than CNN contributor Ashely Allison‚ a former senior advisor in the Obama White House. Listen to what she chose to say out loud on national television yesterday:He represented something for black Americans because it was two white people whod been killed. Thats what black Americans connected with‚ according to this woman. They felt affinity with O.J. because he brutally slaughtered white people. Talk about saying the quiet part out loud. Although‚ as weve seen‚ its hardly the quiet part anymore.This mentality has metastasized over time‚ helped along by Barack Obama‚ leading to the rise of BLM‚ and culminating in Floyd and the 2020 riots‚ and then the post-Floyd era of DEI. Now‚ 30 years later‚ so-called race relations have deteriorated to the point that the race hustlers finally feel comfortable coming out and telling us what their motives were all along.Yes‚ O.J. Simpson is dead. But the legacy of that trial‚ particularly the racial violence and distrust that it normalized‚ is still very much alive.