Denver Mayor Warns City Has to Start Kicking Migrants Out

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Denver Mayor Warns City Has to Start Kicking Migrants Out

(Headline USA) Denver Mayor Mike Johnston warned this week that the city is “out of shelter space” for illegal immigrants and will have to start kicking people out.

“We have filled every single hotel room that we have available in the city and county of Denver,” Johnston said at a town-hall meeting last week. “Now, we have the terrible decision that if we don’t start exiting folks, we will have 250 folks that will arrive today or the day after, who don’t have anywhere to go at night.”

Denver suspended immigrant evictions in November due to concerns about cold weather, but that pause ended on Monday, allowing city officials to kick illegals out of shelters if they have stayed in the temporary housing for more than six weeks.

As a result, more than 140 immigrant families were booted from Denver shelters on Monday. Johnston warned another 660 families, totaling 3,000 individuals, will be likewise booted in the coming weeks.

Johnston’s office defended the policy, arguing the city’s resources have been completely overwhelmed by the thousands of illegals who have arrived in Denver over the past several months.

“Our city workers have done heroic work helping newcomers land on their feet and start to build a life in Denver, but we are out of shelter space,” the mayor’s press secretary, Jordan Fuja, said. “We are out of staff and we are facing a budget deficit of up to $180 million to cover sheltering costs.”

Laura Swartz, a spokeswoman for the Denver Department of Finance, said the city is already drawing money out of its contingency reserves to help subsidize immigrant-related costs, but that those funds will only cover costs until April.

If the city doesn’t receive additional funding from the federal government by then, it will have to start cutting essential services, Johnston warned.

“We don’t want to take police officers off the streets,” Johnston told CNN. “We don’t want to take firefighters off the street. We don’t want to not do trash pickup or not have our parks and recreation centers open.”

Biden Mixes Up Another European Leader w/ Long-Dead One

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Biden Mixes Up Another European Leader w/ Long-Dead One

(Headline USA) Days after claiming he’d recently had a conversation with long-dead French President François Mitterrand, President Joe Biden mixed up yet another European official, confusing former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the deceased German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

According to Bloomberg News, the 81-year-old made the gaffe at a fundraiser in New York on Wednesday during a story about his trip to his first G7 meeting after taking office, when he declared that “America’s back.”

It was one of several recent slips for Biden, who also forgot the name of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, and who was cited in a report by special counsel Robert Hur as having severe memory loss during an interview about his mishandling of classified documents.

Hur’s damning 388-page report indicated that Biden could not remember when he was vice president or details about the death of his older son, Beau.

During his New York fundraiser, Biden mentioned Kohl as part of a rambling anecdote, claiming that the long-serving leader who presided over the reunification of Germany after the fall of the Soviet Union had questioned him about the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising at the U.S. Capitol.

“…Then, Helmut Kohl of Germany looked at me and said, ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the London Times tomorrow morning and learned that 1,000 people had broken down the doors, the doors of the British Parliament and killed some [people] on the way in [to] deny the prime minister to take office?’” Biden recounted.

Kohl, however, died in 2017, three and a half years before the mass demonstration by supporters of President Donald Trump to protest the certification of the disputed 2020 election.

Merkel was the German chancellor at the time of Biden’s first G7 meeting, which took place in Cornwall, England.

On Sunday, at a Nevada campaign event, Biden told the same story about his meeting with world leaders at the G7 but mixed up French President Emmanuel Macron with Mitterrand, who served as president of France from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996.

“I sat down, and I said, ‘America’s back,'” Biden told the crowd. “And Mitterrand from Germany—I mean from France—looked at me and said … ‘Well, how long are you back for?’”

Asked about the embarrassing incident on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dismissed the question and insisted that she would not “go down that rabbit hole with you,” Mediaite reported.

Fox News’s Peter Doocy replied, “Why is it a rabbit hole?”

But Jean-Pierre again refused to answer the question, nebulously saying, “You saw the president in Vegas, in California. You’ve seen the president in South Carolina. You saw him in Michigan. I’ll just leave it there.”

Some have speculated that Biden will soon make a pre-planned announcement that he is dropping out of the 2024 re-election campaign, thereby making room for a candidate with stronger prospects of defeating Trump.

If so, his rapid mental deterioration may, in fact, be written into the script, although concerns over Biden’s possible dementia have long fueled questions about his fitness for office.

Obama Judge Orders Trump Adviser, 74, to Begin Prison Sentence for Contempt

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Obama Judge Orders Trump Adviser, 74, to Begin Prison Sentence for Contempt

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An Obama-appointed federal judge has directed Peter Navarro, the former director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy under the Trump administration, to begin his sentence for a two-count contempt of Congress conviction, despite his expressed intent to appeal.

U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta declared that Navarro must serve four months in jail after a jury found him guilty of two counts of defying a congressional subpoena. At the time, Navarro had invoked presidential privilege to resist a subpoena from the now-defunct House Jan. 6 Committee.

“Defendant’s request for release pending appeal is denied,” Mehta wrote on a 12-page order on Thursday. “Unless this Order is stayed or vacated by the D.C. Circuit, Defendant shall report to the designated Bureau of Prisons facility on the date ordered by the BOP.”

Navarro decried the order in several tweets: “Rick, I’m shocked…Judge in my case denied my request to remain free pending appeal of my conviction.”

This new order effectively denies Navarro’s plea to remain free while a court of appeals hears his case. Navarro, 77, had previously characterized the imposed punishment as a “death sentence” given his age.

“Four months in prison at my age is effectively a death sentence if you look at the average lifespan in America,” he told Fox News’s Sean Hannity in January. “This to me is why you’ve got to let Donald Trump in 2024 and get him into the oval. … Our economy is in shambles. The border is in shambles. Our enemies are upon us.”

In a separate case, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon received a similar two-count contempt of Congress sentence in July 2022 for defying subpoenas from the anti-Trump Jan. 6 committee. Unlike Navarro, Bannon was permitted to remain free during his appeal.

Navarro asserted that he was the first former White House official to be convicted of such an offense. While the Jan. 6 committee sought Bannon’s testimony during his post-White House period, Navarro, then a senior government official, argued that his conversations with former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election were protected by executive privilege.

“I am the first senior white house advisor ever to be charged in this alleged crime,” Navarro declared last month. “I want folks to know they can come after me and come after Trump and come after you.”

The specific date when Navarro is mandated to appear before a federal prison remains unknown.

SCOTUS Justices Grill Anti-Trump Activists over Colorado’s Attempted Ballot Ban

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SCOTUS Justices Grill Anti-Trump Activists over Colorado’s Attempted Ballot Ban

(Joe Mueller, The Center Square) All nine U.S. Supreme Court justices brutally challenged constitutional arguments for removing former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 presidential primary ballot during arguments before the court on Thursday.

With the exception of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was acknowledged even by leftist Harvard Law professor Lawrence Tribe to be of limited intelligence, all of the justices appeared to offer searing rebukes of the lawfare attack.

During arguments scheduled to last 80 minutes, the justices spent almost 130 minutes listening to and questioning three attorneys: Jonathan Mitchell representing Trump, Jason Murray representing six Colorado activists who filed suit last year to remove the former president from the ballot, and Shannon Stevenson representing the Colorado secretary of state.

Murray argued the Colorado Supreme Court was correct in its ruling allowing removal of Trump for his role in what they described as an “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021.

However, Chief Justice John Roberts laid waste to the central premise among NeverTrumpers that Trump was guilty of insurrection—a crime for which he has never been convicted and which is not among the pending federal charges for which he has been indicted.

“Insurrection is a broad, broad term,” Roberts said.

Stevenson claimed the Colorado secretary of state’s office—overseen by radical leftist Jena Griswold—acted within state law to remove Trump from the state ballot under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

However, the justices homed in on the slippery slope that it would set—potentially resulting in the removal of other candidates based on equally shaky premises.

In an answer to a question on the ramifications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling, Justice Elena Kagan asked Murray why one state should be held up as precedent for the rest of the nation.

“Ultimately, it’s this court that’s going to decide the question of federal constitutional eligibility and settle the issue for the nation,” Murray said.

Roberts also asked Murray if he realized the consequences of his court’s ruling.

“If Colorado’s position is upheld, surely there will be disqualification proceedings on the other side and some of those will succeed,” Roberts said.

“Some of them will have different standards of proof. Some of them will have different rules about evidence,” he continued. “… In very quick order I would expect, although my predictions have never been correct, I would expect that a goodly number of states will say whoever the Democratic candidate is, you’re off the ballot. And others for the Republican candidate, you’re off the ballot.”

The cascade effect would lead to mass disfranchisement, resulting in major instability even as public distrust of elections has multiplied since the 2020 race.

“It’ll come down to just a handful of states that are going to decide the presidential election,” Roberts said. “That’s a pretty daunting consequence.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson challenged Mitchell to clarify Trump’s belief there wasn’t an insurrection.

“For an insurrection, there needs to be an organized, concerted effort,” Mitchell said.

“This was a riot. It was not an insurrection,” he added. “The events were shameful, criminal, violent—all of those things—but did not qualify as an insurrection as that term is used” in the Constitution.

In December, the Colorado Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision ruled Trump could be removed from the March 2024 presidential primary ballot.

It overruled a district court that stated Trump’s speech on Jan. 6 “incited imminent lawless violence” but didn’t meet the standard of “engagement” found in the U.S. Constitution.

In briefs filed before Thursday’s arguments, Trump’s legal team stated the former president, as chief executive at the time, was not an “officer of the United States.”

Trump’s lawyers also argued that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment could only be enforced by the U.S. Congress, not a state.

“A ruling from this court that affirms the decision below would … take away the votes of potentially tens of millions of Americans,” Mitchell said.

Video Exposes FAA’s Plan to Prioritize Airline Diversity over Competence

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Video Exposes FAA’s Plan to Prioritize Airline Diversity over Competence

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh released footage Wednesday of a meeting in which Federal Aviation Administration officials discussed plans to “reduce the number of white males in aviation,” in a thread on Twitter.

The bombshell follows recent criticism that the airline industry’s efforts to push diversity, equity and inclusion had made travel more dangerous by advancing less-qualified pilots and other personnel to fill a quota.

“It’s only a matter of time until this combination of incompetence and anti-white discrimination leads to a major air disaster,” Walsh said. “The aviation industry needs a completely new mandate—one that’s focused solely on safety—before a lot of people die.”

At the April 2022 meeting of high-ranking FAA officials, several participants condemned the “white-male dominated” portions of the industry.

Deputy Chief Operating Officer Angela McCullough advocated for people “getting a little uncomfortable” and asked what the industry could look like if it were “representative of the whole country, of the whole world.”

As she spoke, the other officials nodded in acquiescence.

“That’s great, honestly,” said David Riggins, the FAA’s vice president of flight program operations. “Those are some words that we really need to spend some time digging through and thinking about.”

Walsh also included several anonymous statements from workers in the industry, highlighting the danger in corporate overemphasis on diversity initiatives.

One pilot, who Walsh confirmed was a Delta Air Lines employee, shared a story about a transgender pilot who received special protections despite several red flags.

“We recently had a transgender pilot repeatedly receive negative reviews during his first-year probationary period from Captains he flew with regarding attitude … and judgement, yet the Chief Pilot’s Office (CPO) was unwilling to address the issue,” the source said.

“Had this not been a transgender pilot, the individual would likely not have successfully completed their probationary period,” the source added. “Coincidentally, that CPO has a management pilot on staff who recently transitioned and is able to weigh in on these matters.”

An anonymous engineer who worked on advanced military systems said new hires—many of whom “eat, sleep and breathe DEI/ESG” (in reference to woke, anti-capitalist corporate practices)—pitched him ideas about “gender inclusive seatbelts.”

Walsh also received documentation about the FAA’s contracting program, called “eFast.” The FAA designed the program to earmark Indian tribal-owned and Alaska-native corporations, as well as “Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Businesses” for grant funding and professional contracts.

 

Special Counsel Cited Biden’s ‘Poor Memory’ as Reason for Closing Classified Docs Case

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Special Counsel Cited Biden’s ‘Poor Memory’ as Reason for Closing Classified Docs Case

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) As Headline USA reported Wednesday, Special Counsel Robert Hur has declined to prosecute President Joe Biden for willfully holding classified documents at his Delaware home.

However, the details of Hur’s decision are incredible. In a report released Thursday, Hur cited Biden’s failing cognitive abilities as a reason for why he declined to pursue charges.

“Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation … will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully-that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires,” Hur said.

“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

According to Hur’s report, Biden couldn’t remember basic facts about his career when interviewed by the special counsel.

“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” Hur’s report said.

“And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Eiden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.”

Biden did “willfully” retain and disclose highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, Hur admitted.

Hur’s report says evidence suggests that many of the classified documents recovered by investigators at the Penn Biden Center, in parts of Biden’s Delaware home, and in his Senate papers at the University of Delaware were retained by “mistake.”

Biden said in a statement that he was “pleased” the special counsel had “reached the conclusion I believed all along they would reach — that there would be no charges brought in this case and the matter is now closed.”

The findings will likely blunt his ability to forcefully condemn Donald Trump, Biden’s likely opponent in November’s presidential election, over a criminal indictment charging the former president with illegally hoarding classified records at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

In response to Hur’s report, Biden’s White House attorneys took issue with the characterization of the President’s memory.

“We do not believe that the report’s treatment of President Biden’s memory is accurate or appropriate. The report uses highly prejudicial language to describe a commonplace occurrence among witnesses: a lack of recall of years-old events. Such comments have no place in a Department of Justice report,” said Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber and Biden’s personal counsel, Bob Bauer.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

GOP Sens. See Opportunity to Oust McConnell after Failed Border Deal

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GOP Sens. See Opportunity to Oust McConnell after Failed Border Deal

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Longtime Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., may be facing down the potential end of his time in leadership after bungling a chance to reform the nation’s open-border immigration policy, the Daily Caller reported.

Democrats who pretended to be interested in securing the border burdened the bill with $60 billion in re-distributive aid to Ukraine, leading to numerous Republicans flipping their votes.

Several top Republicans in the Senate, including Rep. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said that the latest debacle may be the last straw for McConnell, who has been the top Republican senator since 2007.

“Mitch McConnell, in effect, gave the largest in-kind campaign contribution to the Democrats’ Senate campaign committee in history,” Cruz noted.

He suggested that the failure of the bill would allow Democrats during their campaigns to say, “we wanted to secure the border. We tried to secure the border, but the Republicans wouldn’t let us.”

Such a campaign tactic would be a “wild-eyed lie” that is “completely false,” Cruz added, but it would nonetheless be effective.

In addition to a growing distrust of McConnell among conservatives due to his high-profile rift with former President Donald Trump, the 81-year-old minority leader has raised concerns following a series of recent health scares, including at least two moments when he appeared to seize up while speaking.

An anonymous Republican senator told the Daily Caller that McConnell’s failure to secure America’s border may be the best chance Republicans have to replace him with more reliable leadership.

The senator said that things were being “worked on behind the scenes” to arrange for McConnell’s successor.

“I think this is our opportunity to take him out, and we’re sort of working to figure out if that’s possible,” the senator noted, adding that centrist Republicans, including those who are typically aligned with McConnell, would likely have to exercise some boldness in order to secure a majority of the caucus.

“I think that there’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem where I think you probably have the votes, but you need somebody to step forward [who is] unwilling to step forward unless you have the votes,” the senator said. “It can’t just be a Mike [Lee] and Ted [Cruz] and a sort of ‘everybody who hates Mitch’ thing.”

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., became an Establishment pariah after an unsuccessful challenge last year, with McConnell punishing him and his supporters by yanking their committee posts.

UPDATE: Judge Revokes Bond for Satanic Pedophile Cultist

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UPDATE: Judge Revokes Bond for Satanic Pedophile Cultist

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Richard “Rabid” Densmore, a member of the Satanic pedophile cult 764, is headed back to jail.

After Michigan Judge Ray Kent released Densmore on a $10,000 unsecured bond on Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Hala Jarbou revoked his bond three days later.

“Defendant is committed to the custody of the attorney general or his designated representative for confinement in a corrections facility separate, to the extent practicable, from persons serving sentences or being held in custody pending appeal,” Judge Jarbou said of Densmore, who was arrested Jan. 31 for running an online forum for users to create, distribute, and stream child pornography featuring self-harm.

Jarbou’s Thursday order was in response to emergency motion from the Justice Department two days earlier.

In that motion, the DOJ argued that Judge Kent’s decision to release Densmore was a grave error.

Judge Kent had apparently released Densmore from pretrial detention on the grounds that there were no allegations that he was a “hands on” offender.

“This, however, ignores the immeasurable harm that he can inflict, and has inflicted, over the internet. Probation cannot assure that Defendant does not use the internet. At best, an officer could seize a device after the fact if Probation discovers the violation,” the motion said.

“It is notable that even after law enforcement searched Defendant’s home in February 2023, and Defendant was therefore aware that he was being investigated, he still got new devices and used them to possess self-harm and “Rabid” imagery, which was discovered in the January 2024 search.”

The DOJ’s motion further disclosed that Densmore is a U.S. military veteran with a history of mental illness. The DOJ hasn’t disclosed Densmore’s age nor when he left the military. The DOJ said he’s had one other job since leaving the military, which he’s held since last August.

“Defendant ‘was formally diagnosed with schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder during his time in the military.’ He also ‘believes he suffers from manic depression but has not been formally diagnosed,’” the motion said, citing a pretrial services report.

The FBI executed a search warrant on Densmore’s home last February, finding child porn and other material related to the 764 cult.

For some reason, Densmore was a free man for another 11 months.

Investigators finally executed a second search warrant at his home last month, allegedly finding two cell phones hidden in an air vent in his bedroom.

“Those phones have not yet been fully extracted or analyzed. However, an initial partial review yielded additional material that is consistent with the 764 group. Additionally, investigators found images on one of the phones that include a girl with ‘Rabid’ written on her forehead, and cutting (pictures of lines cut into a girl’s legs and the letter ‘R,’ bleeding, cut into a woman’s chest),” the DOJ’s Tuesday motion said.

Densmore marks the latest 764 member to be arrested for heinous crimes against children.

In November 2021, the FBI arrested 23-year-old Angel Almeida on gun charges, and purported to discover his 764 connections soon thereafter. The Almeida case wasn’t unsealed until late last year.

More recently, the Justice Department filed charges in December against another 764 member, Kalana Limkin, for allegedly promoting child pornography, sexual extortion, and trafficking, animal cruelty and self-harm of minors.

And as Headline USA reported on Saturday, another 764 member, Kyle Spitze, is suspected by many of committing crimes against children. Spitze’s dark and bizarre story can be read here.

Densmore’s trial is scheduled for April 2.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Inflation Already Ruined Your Super Bowl Party

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Inflation Already Ruined Your Super Bowl Party

(Peter C. Earle, Money Metals News Service) Attending the Super Bowl in person has long been a lavish expense, reserved for those willing to part with a significant sum for the ultimate fan experience. But when the Kansas City Chiefs meet the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas on Sunday for the 58th such championship, it will be the most expensive yet.

StubHub is reporting tickets ranging from $5,300 to $107,000, with the average price paid around $9,500. (Ticketmaster and other estimates vary slightly.) That is a 93% increase in ticket prices from last year’s Super Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona, and 300 percent over the past ten years. Lodging prices are skyrocketing as well.

A week out from kickoff, rooms at five-star hotels like the Bellagio, Aria, and The Venetian started at $1,500 or more per night for Super Bowl weekend, according to Expedia. Travelers seeking an affordable stay on the Las Vegas Strip, such as at Excalibur, can find an average nightly rate of $88 on Priceline for this weekend. That jumps to $486 during Super Bowl weekend, an increase of 426%.

Prices do dip a bit if Super Bowl fans want to stay away from the Strip’s hotels and casinos. Downtown and hotels away from the main drag do offer some cheaper options, with some hotels charging around $200 per night on Fremont Street. Circa, which contains one of the most popular sportsbooks in Las Vegas, is an exception.

Rooms this weekend are going for $179 per night on Priceline. That shoots up to $1,232 per night, with only a few rooms remaining at that price, for Super Bowl weekend.

And then, of course, there are the costs of getting there and subsisting. Intrepid drivers looking to travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles (a trip of between 8 and 9 hours) will do so with gasoline prices at $3.66/gallon. That’s down markedly from the mid-2022 spike, but still vastly above levels before the pandemic.

Like hotel and ticket prices, airfare into and out of Las Vegas around the big game has also vaulted in price, although a number of carriers have increased capacity to meet surging demand.

Celebrating at Home

Of course, the vast majority of Super Bowl LVIII viewers will not be in Allegiant Stadium, which holds 65,000 spectators. The remainder of viewers, averaging north of 100 million people, will be watching at home or in their hometown sports bars and restaurants. But the persistent inflation of the past three years extended the financial burden into that seemingly more affordable alternative: hosting or attending Super Bowl parties at home.

What was once a casual affair of chips, dips, and budget-friendly beverages has transformed into a costly endeavor, as the price of groceries, alcoholic beverages, and even party supplies have surged, affecting the way fans plan to experience one of America’s most iconic sporting events.

The top Super Bowl snacks and dishes include chicken wings, guacamole, potato skins, and deviled eggs, so a look at the recent price trends in chicken, beef, pork, avocados, eggs, beans, potatoes, and condiments is relevant. Pizza, alcoholic beverages, and soft drinks are other popular choices prices have been creeping up.

Below are the prices of a handful of foodstuffs and ingredients which feature prominently in Super Bowl festivities, as well as the price changes from the pre-pandemic period to the most recent data (December 2019 to December 2023).

The prices are provided by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Average Prices by Product series, not seasonally adjusted:

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Grade A Large Eggs $1.54 $2.51 63.30%
White Sugar All Sizes $0.59 $0.96 62.30%
Price Frozen Concentrate OJ $2.34 $3.72 59.10%
Coffee $4.05 $6.09 50.30%
White Bread $1.36 $2.02 48.50%
All Ham Ex Canned and Slices $3.04 $4.40 45.00%
Chocolate Chip Cookies $3.58 $5.12 42.80%
Grapefruits $1.25 $1.78 41.90%
Potato Chips $4.53 $6.41 41.40%
Long Grain White Rice $0.71 $0.99 38.70%
All Uncooked Beef Steaks $7.71 $10.65 38.10%
Sirloin Steak Boneless $8.48 $11.69 37.80%
All Other Uncooked Beef ExVeal $5.05 $6.91 36.70%
Round Roast Choice Boneless $5.07 $6.89 35.80%
Boneless Ham Excluding Canned $4.07 $5.50 35.10%
Ground Beef 100% Beef $3.86 $5.21 34.90%
Fresh Whole Chicken $1.45 $1.96 34.80%
Whole Wheat Bread $1.96 $2.65 34.80%
Round Steak Boneless $5.98 $7.99 33.70%
All Uncooked Beef Roasts $5.54 $7.35 32.70%
All Other Pork Ex Can/Sliced $2.76 $3.64 31.80%
Boneless Chicken Breast $3.11 $4.08 31.10%
Chuck Roast Choice Boneless $5.65 $7.38 30.70%
All Uncooked Ground Beef $4.30 $5.57 29.40%
Ice Cream $4.74 $6.02 26.90%
Processed American Cheese $3.91 $4.96 26.80%
Ground Chuck $4.07 $5.12 25.90%
Fresh Fortified Whole Milk $3.19 $4.01 25.70%
All Pork Chops $3.39 $4.26 25.50%
All Purpose White Flour $0.43 $0.54 25.40%
Sliced Bacon $5.47 $6.77 23.70%
Chicken Legs Bone In $1.51 $1.86 23.30%
Romaine Lettuce $2.18 $2.68 23.30%
White Potatoes $0.78 $0.96 23.20%
Malt Beverages $1.42 $1.75 23.00%
Boneless Beef for Stew $5.75 $7.03 22.20%
Lean Ground Beef $5.52 $6.67 20.90%
Navel Orange $1.33 $1.60 20.60%
Boneless Chops $3.81 $4.56 19.80%
Iceberg Lettuce $1.30 $1.53 17.30%
Spaghetti and Macaroni $1.19 $1.38 15.80%
Dry Pint Fresh Strawberries $3.10 $3.57 15.40%
Center Cut Bone In Chops $3.77 $4.33 14.70%
Dried Beans $1.40 $1.59 13.60%
Red and White Table Wine $12.04 $13.32 10.60%
Bananas $0.57 $0.63 9.10%
Natural Cheddar Cheese $5.30 $5.55 4.60%
Lemon $2.00 $2.07 3.60%
Field Grown Tomatoes $1.95 $2.00 2.10%

And although disinflation has proceeded, by their nature the various indices (Consumer Price Index, Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index) obscure individual price changes.

For example: the US CPI Urban Consumers Food-at-Home index, in December 2023, showed a year-over-year change of 1.31% (from 299.089 to 303.005). Below are the actual December 2022 to December 2023 changes in individual food items which are prominent in Super Bowl celebrations.

Dec-22 to
Dec 2022 Dec 2023 Dec-23
Price Frozen Concentrate OJ $2.72 $3.72 36.80%
Sirloin Steak Boneless $10.17 $11.69 15.00%
White Sugar All Sizes $0.84 $0.96 13.30%
Round Steak Boneless $7.06 $7.99 13.20%
All Uncooked Beef Steaks $9.46 $10.65 12.50%
Round Roast Choice Boneless $6.22 $6.89 10.70%
Whole Wheat Bread $2.42 $2.65 9.40%
All Uncooked Beef Roasts $6.72 $7.35 9.30%
All Ham Ex Canned and Slices $4.05 $4.40 8.70%
Ground Beef 100% Beef $4.80 $5.21 8.50%
Ice Cream $5.56 $6.02 8.20%
White Bread $1.87 $2.02 8.10%
Navel Orange $1.49 $1.60 7.80%
Chuck Roast Choice Boneless $6.86 $7.38 7.60%
Ground Chuck $4.76 $5.12 7.60%
All Uncooked Ground Beef $5.19 $5.57 7.30%
Fresh Whole Chicken $1.83 $1.96 6.80%
Processed American Cheese $4.66 $4.96 6.30%
All Other Uncooked Beef ExVeal $6.59 $6.91 4.80%
Lean Ground Beef $6.39 $6.67 4.50%
All Purpose White Flour $0.52 $0.54 3.10%
Chocolate Chip Cookies $4.97 $5.12 2.90%
Boneless Ham Excluding Canned $5.37 $5.50 2.40%
Boneless Beef for Stew $6.87 $7.03 2.20%
Potato Chips $6.28 $6.41 2.00%
Long Grain White Rice $0.97 $0.99 2.00%
White Potatoes $0.95 $0.96 1.40%
Malt Beverages $1.74 $1.75 0.70%
Boneless Chops $4.56 $4.56 0.00%
All Other Pork Ex Can/Sliced $3.64 $3.64 0.00%
Bananas $0.63 $0.63 -0.50%
Lemon $2.09 $2.07 -0.90%
All Pork Chops $4.31 $4.26 -1.30%
Red and White Table Wine $13.66 $13.32 -2.50%
Sliced Bacon $6.96 $6.77 -2.60%
Spaghetti and Macaroni $1.43 $1.38 -4.00%
Chicken Legs Bone In $1.95 $1.86 -4.60%
Fresh Fortified Whole Milk $4.21 $4.01 -4.80%
Coffee $6.47 $6.09 -5.80%
Boneless Chicken Breast $4.35 $4.08 -6.10%
Dried Beans $1.70 $1.59 -6.40%
Dry Pint Fresh Strawberries $3.86 $3.57 -7.30%
Center Cut Bone In Chops $4.67 $4.33 -7.40%
Natural Cheddar Cheese $6.00 $5.55 -7.50%
Field Grown Tomatoes $2.23 $2.00 -10.50%
Romaine Lettuce $3.57 $2.68 -24.80%
Grade A Large Eggs $4.25 $2.51 -41.00%

Avocado prices, according to the Mexico Products CPI, have risen 27.2% from December 2019 (83.80) to December 2023 (106.554). From December 2022 (95.922) to December 2023, they rose 11.1%.

Determining the average price of a delivery pizza is more difficult. In local contexts, the price of a slice of pizza can act as an inflationary benchmark of sorts, but estimates indicate that from February 2023 to February 2024 the price of an average delivery pizza has increased from $17.81 to $18.33, or 2.9%.

Comparing these numbers with the year-over-year headline and core CPI numbers (3.4% and 3.9%, respectively), two significant insights emerge…

The individual price changes above, over a four- and one-year period, frequently underscore how price indices obscure trends in prices which, at specific times can be considerably graver than the headline figures suggest. Second, that one needn’t be anywhere near Las Vegas to feel the damage of expansionary monetary policies acutely.

Well over a year after the lies about Vladimir Putin, gas station owners, ocean shippers, and corporate profits have been told and forgotten, and despite the cynical political impudence of calling a massive green spending bill an “Inflation Reduction Act,” spending Super Bowl Sunday at home in 2024 will be much more expensive than it was in 2023, and vastly more than it was four short years ago.

Illegal Immigrants Reveal Plans to Vote for Biden in Upcoming Election

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Illegal Immigrants Reveal Plans to Vote for Biden in Upcoming Election

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A viral video posted this week by conservative “citizen journalist” Nick Shirley showed that illegal immigrants planned to vote in the 2024 election for Democrat President Joe Biden.

While the video did not specify a location, another video posted two days later from what appeared to be the same location indicated that it was Denver, where the surge of illegals has become so overwhelming that Democrat Mayor Mike Johnston recently threatened to begin turning people away.

For now, though, the Mile-High City is continuing to offer them free short-term housing and allowing them to obtain drivers licenses, which could also be used as voter IDs.

 

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Shirley, a Salt Lake City-based YouTuber who began posting content while attending Brigham Young University, has developed a large following as an investigative reporter, conducting a several recent “man on the street” interviews with illegals that debunk leftist narratives about the ongoing border crisis.

Some of the so-called asylum-seekers Shirley interviewed believed that they were entitled to all the rights of U.S. citizenship due to their dubious claims that they had a “credible fear” of returning to their native countries.

“Do you have a right to vote?” Shirley asked in Spanish.

“Those that entered legally have access to vote,” a group of interviewees responded, according to the translation.

When asked which candidate they would vote for, all of the immigrants answered “Joe Biden” because he helped them come to America and was delivering American taxpayer-funded services and programs to them.

“He likes supporting the migrants. He’s a very good person,” said one interviewee, adding that “Trump is a different thing.”

Despite widespread approval of the president among illegal immigrants, the Left repeatedly denies accusations that Biden’s open-border policies are linked to the “Great Replacement”—an effort to gain permanent political majorities by shifting the demographics and establishing a sub-class of quasi-citizens who are entirely reliant on government handouts.

But recognition of its long-term strategy is becoming increasingly common.

Even powerful Democrats—including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez of New York, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Biden himself—have lately become more candid about their true motives.

Red-pilled billionaire Elon Musk recently suggested that the Biden administration is importing a voter base to help win the 2024 election.

“Biden’s strategy is very simple,” Musk wrote in a Friday Twitter post.

“1. Get as many illegals in the country as possible,” he said. “2. Legalize them to create a permanent majority – a one-party state.”

According to Musk, constantly bolstering their own support base is why they are “encouraging so much illegal immigration. Simple, yet effective.”

Musk did not stop there. He went on to suggest that “every deportation is a lost vote” for the Left. Thus, they feel compelled to import as many illegals as possible before the 2024 election.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

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