Sounds like we've got some new music on the way from country music's real life cowboy, Colter Wall. If you've never given Colter Wall a shot, I'd encourage you to do so as soon as you can (as in right now). The 29-year-old is wise beyond his years, and ironically enough, the music he makes harkens back to a time before his years. It's as if Wall was picked up in the 1960's or 1970's and dropped right here in the present day to save country music. The Canadian singer-songwriter takes pride in keeping the tradition of country music alive. There aren't a lot of people doing narrative songwriting in modern country, but then again, there aren't many people like Colter Wall in the modern country. And part of that is intentional on Wall's part. Colter doesn't fit into the mold of country in 2024, nor does he want to. He even recently talked about how he thinks awards shows are a huge waste of time. It was actually in that same conversation on the Rodeo Time Podcast with Dale Brisby that the baritone country artist revealed that he's got a new album on the way. When asked if he had any new music in the works, Colter Wall somewhat excitedly answered with a yes - though they apparently hit some non-music-related roadblocks along the way: "We just got finished actually. Just got done. Started a new one like a month ago, then the pedal steel player in the band got everyone really sick. We call him 'Muskrat.' He gave everybody the flu really bad so I couldn't sing. We had like two more days in the studio to finish." Yikes. Wall went on to explain his usual process for crafting an album, and how that plan got thrown off course because of the sickness that worked through his band: "I usually try to have a week... make a record in a week. (That's) usually the way it works out for me. The last couple of days, no one could do anything. We were all zombies at that point. So everyone went home and then we booked two more days, that was just the other week. We went back down to the studio and cinched up the record and got her done." As for when the new music can be expected, Colter Wall said that they'll try to get to mixing it as soon as they can. However, he expects that the album will probably see the light of day later in 2025: "I don't know when it will be out. Probably... I would guess, usually they want to shoot for or put that stuff out around July or August. Hopefully this (next) year we'll get it mixed and out into the world. New record, all original songs (with) one cover on there." Since fans will have to wait a while, podcast host Dale Brisby asked if Wall could at least reveal a name or concept for the project. The "Johnny Boy's Bones" singer laughingly said that they have yet to name it, but he happily explained the inspiration behind the collection of music they put together: "I don't know what it's called. I kind of just wanted to make a straight... it's just a love letter to country music. Really it's just a bunch of sad drinking songs mostly. I just wanted to make a record that sounded like Merle Haggard and the Strangers. Late 60's into the early 70's. Honestly, to me, that's where country music peaked. That's my favorite stuff to listen to and I think that was the best band in country music. I wanted to make a record that reminded me of that. So that's what we did... or tried to (do) anyways." COME ON WITH IT. You can hear more from Colter Wall in the interview below: https://youtu.be/3-02YGQT0U8?si=INq-glMTlw_DBxgP&t=2590

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Politics Congress Has a Chance Actually to Help Americans Before Recess The Senate should pass the DeOndra Dixon INCLUDE Act without delay. Credit: rarrarorro In the month or so since Kamala Harris was roundly defeated at the polls, much ink has been spilt, and rightly so, on the worthlessness—even the counter-productivity—of celebrity endorsements. The self-righteousness of Hollywood activists often grates; but sometimes celebs can surprise us—in a good way. Jon Stewart’s advocacy for veterans and 9/11 first responders is a good example. And last week, the Academy Award winner and ubiquitous (if you watch ESPN anyway) BetMGM pitchman Jamie Foxx stormed Capitol Hill with cameras in tow in support of more funding for Down syndrome research. Some background is in order.  The legislation in question, the DeOndra Dixon INCLUDE Project Act, is named after Foxx’s sister, who had Down syndrome and passed away at the age of 36 in October 2020. The bipartisan bill sailed through the House in mid-September, spearheaded by the Global Down Syndrome Foundation (GLOBAL) and ushered through committee by the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). The bill would appropriate $90 million a year to the National Institutes of Health over the next five years for research into Down syndrome. In a statement released after the legislation was sent to the Senate, Rogers noted that the legislation will support research into Down syndrome, which has been dramatically underfunded despite affecting one in every 700 babies. Better understanding individuals with this disability–and truly valuing the unique gifts they possess–will help unleash their potential and benefit every American who knows someone battling other diseases, like cancer and Alzheimer’s. As the proud mom of a child with Down syndrome, I am committed to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to see this bill signed into law. As GLOBAL points out, for decades Down syndrome was one of the least funded of NIH’s research priorities, averaging between $16 and $20 million in funding annually. That began to change in 2018 when the group, working alongside Representatives Rogers, Tom Cole, and Rose DeLauro, established the INCLUDE Project. As Rogers put it last week, “Although this is the most common chromosome abnormality, it is also the least funded at NIH.” As advocates note, people with Down syndrome are at significantly higher risk for congenital heart defects, sleep apnea, and Alzheimer’s disease. Life expectancy for a person with Down syndrome is about 60, for the average American it is about 77. With the 118th Congress about to adjourn, the Senate, prioritizing Ukraine and other far-off places, has yet to act. So, time is of the essence, which explains Foxx’s well publicized trip to the Hill. During a press conference, Foxx explained, “My sister was a big part of my life. She lived an incredible life. People like DeOndra need help. It feels really good to talk about a bill that would be in my sister’s name to continue her legacy.” It hardly needs pointing out that Congress too often prioritizes and indeed subsidizes and protects the most malign forces operating within American society.   From bad actors within the defense industry and civil aviation (hello, Boeing) to the modern day robber barons who run the financial services, pharmaceutical and for-profit health care industries, far from acting as “the people’s house” Congress too often functions as the funding and insurance arm of corporate America. The DeOndra Dixon INCLUDE Act is a chance for Congress to put our most vulnerable and in many ways most admirable citizens first—for a change. The post Congress Has a Chance Actually to Help Americans Before Recess appeared first on The American Conservative.

Politics Keep the Federal Government in D.C. The Founders placed the seat of government in an independent district for wise reasons. Credit: Danny Kronstrom/Shutterstock During the campaign, President Trump promised to move parts of the “sprawling federal bureaucracy” out of the “Washington Swamp” to “places filled with patriots who love America.” However attractive to many conservatives today, relocating federal government workers to the hinterlands is neither a new idea nor one likely to achieve its objectives. Opening government offices outside the Beltway will result in a larger, more entrenched bureaucracy—the opposite of what many reformers desire. The U.S. Constitution provides for a “District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as . . .  the Seat of Government of the United States.” Critics of the proposed Constitution directed their ire at a capital city that did not yet exist and whose location had not been selected. Anti-Federalist George Clinton predicted that the capital would become an “asylum of the base, idle, avaricious, and ambitious.”  Idle government bureaucrats, it is now argued, will be more productive if geographically nearer to their “stakeholders.” But it’s not clear what practical benefit is achieved when an economist designing ethanol subsidies is transferred to an office closer to farmers. Would he really work harder? More fundamentally, does laboring on ethanol subsidies promote the public good? Efficiency is justly valued in the private sector. But as Milton Friedman observed, if a government organization is doing something harmful, inefficiency is preferable.  Another argument for relocation is that opening government offices in economically downtrodden regions will lure other jobs. But governments have little ability to create jobs in this ham-handed fashion: when localities provide subsidies for sports stadiums, for example, the results are always disappointing. In recent years, the BBC moved many jobs from London to Manchester, with negligible spillover effects.  At present, only about 20% of federal government jobs are located in the Washington, D.C. area. The rest are already dispersed, which has doubtless contributed to government’s swelling size. Obviously, some federal institutions, such as Veterans Affairs hospitals, are appropriate throughout the nation. But if the Anti-Federalists were correct in viewing the nation’s capital as rich soil for the seeds of tyranny, we should be skeptical of any proposal to spread those seeds throughout the nation.     Once a government office exists anywhere it becomes hard to close—and this is particularly true when that government office has champions in Congress. In his first term, Trump transferred a few hundred Bureau of Land Management workers to Grand Junction, Colorado. Although some employees retired, President Biden reversed course and returned the jobs to Washington. Ominously, his Interior Secretary said that the presence in Colorado would “continue to grow.” And the newly elected Republican congressman from Colorado has indeed promised to return the government office to Grand Junction, a plan endorsed by the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.  Legislative proposals to relocate federal jobs inevitably situate them in the Congressional sponsors’ home states. If Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, or any future reformer ever conclude those jobs are unnecessary, the home-state legislators are unlikely to acquiesce.  In Federalist 43, James Madison defended the creation of a capital city with the observation that “the gradual accumulation of public improvements at the stationary residence of the government would be both too great a public pledge to be left in the hands of a single State, and would create so many obstacles to a removal of the government.” Madison, more far-thinking than the Anti-Federalists of his time and some conservatives today, recognized the persistent danger of having a federal government beholden to local interests. One cannot help but suspect that the deepest unstated reason to move the jobs to the boonies is to stick it to government workers, who, it is imagined, could not bear life outside the glamorous capital. This image of federal government workers bears little relation to reality. Few GS-10s are swilling chardonnay at Georgetown cocktail parties, and none could afford to live in the Kalorama neighborhood, rubbing shoulders with Barack and Michelle. If the goal is to force government workers to quit, never to be replaced, the solution, given the notorious traffic inside the Beltway, is simple: keep as many federal government offices as possible in downtown D.C. and require all government workers to be at their desks from 9 to 5 every day. For most government employees, living in Prince George’s County, Maryland, or Loudon County, Virginia, the prospect of a daily commute will be adequate to induce retirement. The post Keep the Federal Government in D.C. appeared first on The American Conservative.

The following article, Top 11 CRIMES Democrat And Liberal Law Enforcers RARELY EVER Arrest Or Jail Anyone For Committing — Unless They’re Conservatives, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. (Natural News) If you’ve been living in America the past 4 years, then you may have felt like you were living in a third-world country, where there aren’t many police, the court system barely works, and the judges side with the politicians, who can put anybody in jail at any time for just about anything … Continue reading Top 11 CRIMES Democrat And Liberal Law Enforcers RARELY EVER Arrest Or Jail Anyone For Committing — Unless They’re Conservatives ...

Joseph Farrell: Trump Admin. Technocrat Warning. Deep State Factions Battling For Control 12-12-2024 - Exposing Power, Lost Billions, and Beyond 2024 Election - Joseph Farrell: "There are elements of Deep State Politics that we do not yet know. You have leeding figures of Technocracy, both on the Left and the Right. You've got Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk etc. You don't pull of that kind of Coalition without some powerful Deep State Maneuvering. I told everyone prior to Trump's First Term, that He is a Deep State Candidate, he just Represents a completely Different Faction than the Democrats and Republicans". *** (It is Unfortunate that this interview was before the majority of the Trump Appointments were made. His take on the Horrible Deep State Picks would have been interesting. I completely disagree with Joseph Farrell on the Assassination Attempt.) *** Posted on YouTube Dec. 11, 2024 but Recorded after the Election The Veritas Project - Joseph Farrell - Joseph Farrell : Exposing Power, Lost Billions, and the 2024 Election: What Lies Ahead for the USA and the World - Subscribe at https://veritasproject.com to gain access to our platform and all of our material going back to 2008. SUBSCRIBE TO VERITAS+: https://veritasproject.com/subscribev... Veritas+ Insider: https://veritasproject.com/blog.php Don't miss out! Subscribe to this channel and hit the bell to be notified when new episodes become available! Please LIKE this video so others can benefit as well. For full access to all of our interviews, subscribe at https://veritasproject.com in order to support an impartial, censorship/commercial-free platform. Web: https://VeritasProject.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melhostalrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelHostalrich - *** Please LIKE / Comment / Subscribe to This Channel! **** - This portion is being provided as a courtesy from The Veritas Project. To listen to more of this exclusive interview proceed to http://veritasproject.com - FAIR USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES Mirrored From: https://www.youtube.com/@TheVeritasProject

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