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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Girls With Guns

Held back on human rights-related sanctions and more

When Chinese balloons started floating over the United States a few weeks back, apparently spying on infrastructure and dispatching secret information back to Beijing, a top Biden official actually was working to protect China, according to a new report.

Reuters documented that while some officials "were confident" the episode would trigger a slate of actions, "Instead, the U.S. State Department held back human rights-related sanctions, export controls and other sensitive actions to try to limit damage to the U.S.-China relationship."

The report cited sources with direct knowledge of U.S. policy, as well as internal emails seen by Reuters.

"The delays to items on the department's 'competitive actions' calendar, a classified rolling list of steps the Biden administration has planned related to China, have alarmed some U.S. officials and revealed a divide between those in the U.S. government pushing for tougher action against China and others advocating a more restrained approach," the report said.

While the State Department publicly was expressing unhappiness over the spy balloons spotted above some of America's military installations, it also did postpone Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Beijing.

But, the report said, U.S. officials actually were pushing...

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As a progressive prosecutor backed by far-left billionaire George Soros is preparing to leave office, she still refuses to do her duty and will not press charges against a suspect involved in a shooting during the Cinco de Mayo weekend.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office has dropped charges against 33-year-old Amber Booker, a black woman who shot two people during a Cinco de Mayo festival. Despite a photograph shared by police clearly showing Booker aiming a gun at someone from the incident in question, Gardner’s office falsely claimed a “lack of evidence” in its decision to drop the charges.

Gardner announced her resignation last week after widespread backlash against her soft-on-crime approach, culminating in bipartisan calls for her resignation and a formal effort by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to remove her from office. Despite Gardner’s initial resistance, she changed her mind and decided to give up, resigning her office effective June 1st.

related: Two Days After Winning Leadership Award, Illegal Immigrant Student Suggests Celebrating Cinco De Mayo By ‘Beating The S*** Out Of White People’

The case that finally ended Gardner’s career involved a female teenage volleyball player named Janae Edmonson, who was visiting Missouri from Tennessee with her team for a tournament; Edmonson was struck by an out-of-control driver while crossing the road, and although she ultimately survived, she had to have both of her legs amputated. The driver was a man named Daniel Riley, who was out on bond as he awaited trial for an armed robbery charge; despite having violated his bond terms dozens of times, Gardner’s office refused to send him back to jail.

Despite numerous such cases, which led to official reprimands by judges and other officials, Gardner insisted that her firing was due to racism and sexism, claiming in a public statement that “since the time I took office, as the first black, female prosecutor in the state, people outside of the city have targeted me and, to advance their goals, have also targeted the fundamental rights of...