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long time they remain foreign to civic thought. One cannot make a
social philosophy one’s own as easily as a new costume. . . More
menacing than barbarians storming the walls from without are the
seeming citizens within – those who are citizens in gesture,
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Climate Reality is Setting in, and That's 'Strange' to the Washington Post David Blackmon You almost have to feel a little sorry for the adherents to the dogma preached by the Global Church of Climate Alarm. Almost. After all, look at how their fantasy world in which you can use a trace element in the atmosphere made up of human carbon emissions as a kind of global thermostat is coming crashing down around them.  Data Centers Highlight the Limits of Renewable Energy Irina Slav Until about a year ago, no one paid much attention to data centers. Everyone used them, of course, but they didn’t think about them. Then, the AI rush began. It was followed by a rush for energy supply. One year in, and data centers are threatening the very energy transition on which so many governments have staked everything. Power utilities, regulators, and climate activists appear to be experiencing growing concern about the immediate outlook for oil and gas demand, Reuters reported this week, saying the fast growth in demand for electricity caused by the mushrooming of data centers had come as a surprise to many. Data centers need reliable, uninterrupted electricity around the clock, and there is no way either wind or solar, even with battery backup, can guarantee this to the extent that data centers need. |
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| Lyin' Biden Pardons Son Hunter | |
| Day 1: Pipe and Drill I & I Editorial Board Donald Trump has said that on the first day of his second term, he wants to “frack, frack, frack, and drill, drill, drill.” He needs to keep that promise – as well as reopen construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which the Biden administration blocked, just as the Obama White House did before Trump reversed the policy in 2017. “Put us to work right now,” a laid-off worker who had been building the pipeline when it was shut down said earlier this year. “And you will see not only the fuel prices go down, but you will see the price of everything else go down with it.” |
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| Detroit Using Eminent Domain to Plop Panels – Solar, That Is – Instead of People on Vacant Lots Beege Welborn It's always something with the Green Grifters. The latest out of the once bustling metropolis of Detroit is the mayor's plan to continue his battle against urban blight and resident flight by, oh...not refurbishing houses or building new ones on the vacant sites littering the city. Well, shoot – some aren't even vacant – they're just not pretty. But they still have occupants and renters in them. No worries. Everybody gets to leave, and the roofs over their heads come down in the name of 'FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE.' | |
| Trump Plans to Use Impoundment to Cut Spending – What Is It? Lawrence Wilson President-elect Donald Trump has said he intends to cut government spending by reasserting the presidential power of impoundment, a move certain to spark a court battle and one that could redefine presidential power for decades to come. Impoundment occurs when the president chooses not to disburse funds authorized by Congress, instead leaving them unspent in the U.S. Treasury. |
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| Iranian General Killed in Syria Amid Largest Rebel Offensive Since 2020 A radical Islamist group unleashed its biggest military incursion against Syrian regime forces since 2020 in the northwest of the war-ravaged Syrian Arab Republic, triggering Russian and Syrian warplanes on Thursday to bomb the insurgent offensive. Rebels led by the U.S-designated Islamist terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stormed a dozen towns and villages in northwest Aleppo province, which is controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces. |
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| Trump Taps Daughter's Father-in-Law As Senior Adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs President-elect Trump tapped his daughter Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, Lebanese-American businessman Dr. Massad Boulos, to join his Cabinet as senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. "Massad is an accomplished lawyer and a highly respected leader in the business world, with extensive experience on the International scene. He has been a longtime proponent of Republican and Conservative values, an asset to my Campaign, and was instrumental in building tremendous new coalitions with the Arab American Community," said Trump. |
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| Who Is Karoline Leavitt?: A Look at the Youngest Woman Ever Named to Serve As White House Press Secretary  President-elect
Donald Trump announced Karoline Leavitt will return to the White House
next year as his press secretary, making the 27-year-old the youngest
White House press secretary in U.S. history and notching another
massive career benchmark. Leavitt has been a fierce defender of Trump
throughout his hard-fought campaign against Vice President Kamala
Harris, which included Democrats and the Harris campaign lobbing
attacks at Trump that he is a "fascist" and on par with Nazi Germany
dictator Adolf Hitler, two assassination attempts and crisscrossing the
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| Amish Volunteers Built 100+ 'Tiny Homes' for Hurricane Victims but Guess What Happened Next... Stephen Green After Hurricane Helene which left untold thousands of western North Carolina (WNC) residents homeless, volunteer Amish carpenters showed up to build temporary shelters, but the heartwarming story has a bitter ending. There are a couple of stories here that the mainstream media hasn't reported on much. The first is that FEMA, for whatever reason, has not been up to the task after Helen destroyed or damaged approximately 100,000 homes in WNC, impacting more than 200,000 people. People are living in trailers or even tents all these weeks later – and as temperatures drop. |
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| News Outlets Push Pro-Union Stories While Taking Undisclosed Cash from Organized Labor A trio of liberal publications has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from teachers unions over the past couple of years, a fact that is not disclosed in their positive coverage of those same unions. The New Republic, American Prospect, and Courier Newsroom have collectively accepted $905,000 since 2022 from the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, according to the unions’ financial disclosures. After accepting funds from the two largest teachers unions in the nation, each of these outlets went on to publish pieces painting them in a positive light without disclosing the funding arrangement. |
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| Biden’s FBI Reportedly Altering Murder Data to Suit Gun Violence Narrative In October, Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) broke the news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had stealth-revised its reported violent crime data for 2022 to show a 4.5% increase, rather than the originally reported 2.1% decrease, for that year. Among other things, that adjustment added 1,699 more murders for 2022. Given that the vast majority of murder crimes are reported, Lott asks, “How do you miss 1,699 murders?” | |
| Illegal Alien’s Purchase of 170 Guns Raises Eyebrows According to a Fox News report, Carlos Serrano-Restrepo’s lawyer submitted a motion to dismiss the charge arguing that he has the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment. The judge denied the motion to dismiss the charge against the Ohio man, who had been in the U.S. for 15 years, writing in his opinion that “disarming unlawful immigrants like Mr. Serrano-Restrepo who have not sworn allegiance to the United States comports with the Nation’s history and tradition of firearm regulations.” |
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| Texas Could Bus Migrants Directly to ICE for Deportation Instead of Sanctuary Cities Under Proposed Plan Texas could implement a plan to bus migrants directly to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an effort to get them processed for deportation, according to media reports. The move would be a departure from the state's program, part of Operation Lone Star, that has bussed thousands of migrants to sanctuary cities, a source told the New York Post. It has yet to be approved by Gov. Greg Abbott. | |
| Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan Threatens Sanctuary City Leaders Seeking to Block Mass Deportations: 'Don't Test Us' President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan vows to instill harsh consequences on sanctuary city leaders who are threatening to block immigration authorities from carrying out their planned mass deportation – telling them plain and simple: “Don’t test us.” “Let me be clear, there is going to be a mass deportation because we just finished a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border,” Homan said during a visit to the border Tuesday in Eagle Pass, Texas, alongside Gov. Greg Abbott. “If we don’t do it, what is the option? Let them stay? Cause if you let them stay, you’ll never fix the border. | |
| Did Biden Make His Anti-Semitism Official? Steven Hayward This story came back to me over the weekend with the photos of Joe Biden emerging from a Nantucket bookstore holding in plain sight the book he purchased: Rashid Khalidi’s "The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017". It is quite possible that in his senile state Biden isn’t actually replicating Reagan’s deliberate act of promoting a book with an implicit presidential endorsement. |
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| Largest Gold Deposit in the World Worth $83 Billion Found in China What is being dubbed as the largest gold deposit in the world has been found in China, state outlet Xinhua news said. The gold reserves are worth 600 billion yuan, according to Reuters, which amounts to $83 billion U.S. |
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| Conservation Successes Defy Climate Pessimism Vijay Jayaraj  When a purported climate crisis dominates much of the discourse of public policy, the trap of attributing every ecological issue to climate change easily ensnares anyone who fails to note the abundant evidence to the contrary. Over the past few decades, we have witnessed remarkable success stories of species being brought back from the brink of extinction – stories that defy the popular media narrative that a climate modestly warmer than the Little Ice Age is killing our planet’s life forms. The iconic polar bear, long heralded as the unofficial emblem of climate advocacy, has now multiplied in a remarkable way despite media houses like NBC claiming that they are on an “extinction path”. |
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| Anti-Trump Filmmaker Rob Reiner Has Checked Himself Into a ‘Facility’ Following the 2024 Election When it comes to Trump Derangement Syndrome, few have suffered with the condition like filmmaker Rob Reiner. His Twitter/X rants about Trump and the end of democracy leading up to the 2024 election were legendary. Now that the election is over, and Trump won not only the Electoral College but the popular vote as well, Reiner has admitted himself to a ‘facility’ where he can get some much needed quiet. This is not parody. |
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| Judge Rules in Favor of Missouri Law Requiring Photo ID to Vote A judge on Monday upheld a Missouri law mandating that voters show photo identification at the polls to cast a ballot. Cole County Circuit Court Presiding Judge Jon Beetem ruled that multiple groups that alleged the state’s voter ID laws were unconstitutional “failed to prove their case.” Beetem said Missouri’s law was a “reasonable” deterrent for voter fraud and did not violate the rights of those who challenged the measure. |
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| Texans' Azeez Al-Shaair Comes Under Scrutiny Over Trevor Lawrence Hit, Pro-Palestinian Cleats Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was put under the microscope on Sunday as his second-quarter hit on Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence knocked the player out of the game... The Jaguars ruled Lawrence out for the rest of the game as he was diagnosed with a concussion. The hit wasn’t the only thing Al-Shaair was criticized for. |
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| New Report Shows Nearly 70% of Biden Admin's Education Enforcement Targeted Christian and Career Colleges A report showed that nearly 70% of enforcement actions executed by the Biden administration’s Education Department targeted faith-based and career schools. According to a press release published by the American Principles Project (APP), they drew on newly obtained data finding that nearly 70 percent of the Department of Education’s (ED) enforcement actions dealt with faith-based and career schools, even though those schools represent less than 10 percent of students in the U.S. APP Policy Director Jon Schweppe said the Democrats have been "busy weaponizing every part of the federal government to target their opponents" for the past four years. |
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| University of Michigan Board of Regents Targets DEI Office for ‘Defunding’ or Major Changes, Faculty Senate Freaks Out On Wednesday, John D. Sailer, senior fellow and Director of Higher Education Policy at the Manhattan Institute, posted an email from the University of Michigan Faculty Senate chair announcing the proposed changes on X. The chair wrote to other members of the Faculty Senate, warning them about “impending threats” to DEI at the University of Michigan. |
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| The State vs. Parents on the Transgender Agenda Emmy Griffin The heavily contested gender ideology is a phenomenon that has flooded the modern scene with a vengeance. The battlegrounds are varied. Some are fighting the attempted subjugation of the language. Others focus on attacking the early sexualization and indoctrination of children. Some poor parents are in the midst of custody battles for children who have been talked into buying the transgender lie. Still others want to address accommodating gender-confused individuals’ bathroom preferences. This month has already seen three different court decisions regarding gender identity/confusion and the varying issues this enabled illness presents to the culture as a whole. | |
| Boise State Praised for Forfeiting Title Shot As SJSU Trans Player Stood in Way: 'Real Champion' The Boise State women's volleyball team made the decision to forgo any chance of winning the Mountain West tournament as they were set to face a transgender player in the semifinals. After defeating Utah State in the first round, the Lady Broncos had a state setup with second-seeded San Jose state University, which has trans player Blaire Fleming on its roster. Shortly after their playoff victory, Boise State said it would forfeit the semifinal game, thus automatically putting SJSU in the final. |
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| Biology Update: Scottish Supreme Court to Determine What a 'woman' Is Beege Welborn I am sure this will be a precedent-setting ruling, whatever the outcome. I mean, how can it not be, considering that even reportedly brilliant legal minds raised to the heights of our own SCOTUS find themselves completely flummoxed when confronted by that very same thorny question? What is a woman? | |
| NY Times Hammered for Article Referring to Biological Women As ‘Non-Transgender Women’ Former female sports greats, media figures, and even a conservative lawmaker tore into a recent New York Times article for referring to women as "non-transgender women." ennis legend Martina Navratilova and other prominent people blasted the piece online for the characterization, stating the outlet should just be referring to biological women as women. "NYT-you stink. We are women, NOT TRANSGENDER WOMEN. Just WOMEN will do in the future," Navratilova wrote on the social media platform on Friday. |
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Week ending 24 November 2024 |
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| Tailpipes and Chimneys
Greening Gardens and Forests Vijay Jayaraj A farmer in South Korea’s Gyeongbok Province carefully tends to his potato field, while halfway across the world the engines of a thousand cars idle on an American interstate highway. These seemingly disconnected scenes share a bond through the fertilization effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which has been greening the Earth for decades. Yes, the CO2 effluent of tailpipes and industrial flues are good for plants and all of life, contrary to the alarming tales that make this invisible gas an environmental bogeyman. Increasing CO2 concentrations are literally making the world greener, and in many cases, it’s sending crop production to record levels. [TYSK told you so!] |
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| Shake Up HHS Jeffrey H. Anderson President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services has the press corps in the D.C.–New York corridor flummoxed. The Washington Post reports that “Public health experts” call the pick “alarming and unprecedented.” The Wall Street Journal labels it a “strange choice.” And New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci opines that “among the chaos generated by Donald Trump’s recent cabinet picks,” his selection of Kennedy “stands out for the extensive suffering and lasting institutional damage it may cause.” No federal department needs a major institutional shakeup more desperately than the Department of Health and Human Services. |
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| Biden Quietly Loosening
Immigration Policies Before Trump Takes Office – Including Letting
Migrants Skip ICE Check-Ins in NYC The Biden administration is quietly rushing to implement new policies that will loosen restrictions on migrants who entered the U.S. illegally – a parting attempt to thwart President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns and mass deportations, sources tell The Post. And the Big Apple will be ground zero for these changes. The outgoing administration intends to launch an ICE Portal app starting in early December in New York City that will allow migrants to bypass in-person check-ins to their local ICE office. |
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| Nebraska AG Launches Assault
Against California's EV Push Nebraska's attorney general is fighting back against what he calls a "three-pronged attack" from truck manufacturers, California regulators and the Biden administration to force out diesel-powered engines in favor of electric trucks. Attorney General Mike Hilgers this week filed a lawsuit against four of the nation's largest heavy-duty truck companies, alleging they colluded in an "industry-wide conspiracy" with California environmental regulators to phase out medium and heavy-duty trucks that run on liquid fuel. The lawsuit filed in state court names Daimler; Navistar International, a property of Volkswagen's commercial truck division, Traton; Paccar; Volvo Group North America; and an industry trade group, the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association, as defendants. |
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| ‘Energy-Limited Resources’: Huge
Swaths of America Face Blackout Risks If Winter Is Bitter, Grid Watchdog Warns Owen Klinsky Hundreds of millions of Americans risk experiencing power shortages this winter if weather conditions are harsh, according to a new report published by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a power grid watchdog. Nearly all residents of the Northeast, Texas and Midwest could face energy shortfalls in the event of a colder-than-usual winter, the NERC report states. The lack of grid reliability is driven largely by growing electricity demand as well as the replacement of coal-fired and older natural gas-fired generators with energy-limited resources such as solar power. |
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| How High Does the FEMA Scandal Go? I & I Editorial Board Until the Daily Wire uncovered concrete evidence that the Federal Emergency Management Administration was telling relief workers to avoid Trump-supporting homes, the press was happy to take FEMA’s word and debunk accusations of political favoritism. Now that the FEMA employee at the center of the current scandal is saying that she’s a scapegoat and that the problem is far deeper and wider, will the mainstream press ignore this too? |
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| The Tide Is Turning Against the
Green Elites Joel Kotkin It is the global climate-change conference that no one cares about. The latest United Nations ‘conference of the parties’, otherwise known as COP29, is currently being hosted in oil-rich, authoritarian Azerbaijan. Not many political heavy-hitters have decided to attend but assorted elites, grifters and media have attended hoping it will bring them more financial manna from heaven. |
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| COP29 Reveals Itself As the Great
Fraud It Always Was Brian Monteith Whatever perceptions have been conjured up in the past by the annual mega-junket that is the UN’s Conference Of the Parties on climate change, there can be no doubt this year’s COP29 descended into farce and ridicule. The puzzle is why it has taken so long for the vested interests who attend to begin to admit what it is – a massive stunt designed to fool the public into policies they would never otherwise support. The gathering of the world’s climate politicians, zealots, hustlers and grifters in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan – of all places – has finally tipped some, like Al Gore, over the edge because it sought to avoid discussing oil and gas production while secretly discussing sponsorship opportunities from oil and gas producers. |
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| Californians Need $1,000 More to
Pay 2025 Gas Prices Californians will need to make up to $1,000 a year more to afford projected gas prices for 2025, a professor from the University of Southern California has estimated. A study by Michael A. Mische of the university's Marshall School of Business noted that fuel prices in the state are expected to increase by as much as 62 percent higher than the national average. The increase is due to come after the California Air Resources Board passed updates to the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard which includes requiring gas stations to carry a more expensive, but cleaner, fuel blend. |
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| “Hygiene Poverty”: The Brutal
Reality of Life in Net Zero Britain Eric Worrall Imagine being so poor you have to send your kids to school wearing dirty clothes. Because this is happening right now in Britain... Much of Britain tends to have cold, dripping wet winters, so It can be difficult to dry clothes without a fireplace or an electric clothes dryer (or an oil heater). Poor people are unlikely to have more than one or two school uniforms, so the inability to dry clothes likely means kids have to wear the same uniform for the entire week, perhaps longer in inclement weather. |
Victorian England levels of poverty in some communities |
| California Voters Reject Measure
That Would Have Raised Minimum Wage to Nation-High $18 per Hour Voters in California have rejected a ballot measure that would have raised the state minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2026, the highest in the country. Opponents, including the California Chamber of Commerce, said it would have increased costs, led to higher taxes and pushed businesses to cut jobs. “With the economy and costs top of mind for many voters this election, that message appears to have resonated,” said Jennifer Barrera, the chamber’s president and CEO. |
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| Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds
State’s Firearms Preemption Law Mark Chesnut In a lawsuit brought by the City of Philadelphia and community organizations, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the state’s firearms preemption law. This law forbids cities from instituting more restrictive gun statutes than the state’s laws. The court ruled unanimously that the plaintiffs failed to make their case that the law was unconstitutional and should be struck down. |
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| Trump Never Imposed a ‘Muslim Ban,’
and It’s Coming Back Robert Spencer One of the many things that drove the left absolutely crazy during Donald Trump’s first term as president was his “Muslim Ban,” which the establishment media represented as a racist, “Islamophobic” effort to keep poor, harmless, defenseless, weeping Muslim grandmothers out of the country. The “Muslim Ban” was so notorious that on the first day that Old Joe Biden started pretending to be president, he repealed it, to the enthusiastic applause of the left both domestically and internationally. The whole controversy over this was hysterical, as it never really was a “Muslim Ban” in the first place, and now watch for more hysteria: Trump is bringing it back. |
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| Anger and Fear Grip Washington
Post Staffers as Paper on Track to Lose $77 Million This Year Mike LaChance The projected losses, which the paper’s leadership revealed in a recent staff meeting, do not account for the exodus of 250,000 subscribers upset over the paper not endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid, according to New York magazine. “The top stories that do well convert 200 readers to subscribers,” another staffer told the magazine. “You’re doing your best work, hoping you convert 200 subscribers. And we lost 250,000 through naïveté and poor decision-making.” |
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| Welfare Recipients, Criminals
Allowed to Sponsor Illegal Immigrants Under Biden 'parole' Program Sex traffickers may be using a Biden administration “parole” program to sneak illegal immigrant women into the U.S., the House Judiciary Committee revealed Wednesday in an explosive report exposing fraud in one of the Homeland Security Department’s marquee border operations. Welfare recipients, people involved with criminal activity and even other illegal immigrants have been approved as sponsors for parolees from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV). Homeland Security acknowledged it doesn’t have a way to check criminal records of would-be sponsors. |
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| NASA Wants DOGE Co-Chair Elon Musk
to ‘Clean House’ after Fiscal Disaster of Biden’s DEI Agenda In an exclusive report, the UK Daily Mail says NASA staffers want President-Elect Donald Trump’s co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk to ‘clean house’, as insiders reveal the agency squandered millions of taxpayer money on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs... NASA has allocated roughly $10 million to pay out dozens of grants and contracts aimed at advancing some element of environmental justice or DEI since 2020, federal spending records show. The agency is multiple billions of dollars short of the funding required to complete its current missions, has fired hundreds of people working on its Mars missions over budgetary concerns, and may not have enough funding to maintain a multibillion-dollar space telescope, according to multiple Washington Post reports. |
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| DOGE Shares Obscene Examples of
Government Waste: Nearly $1M to See if Cocaine Makes Quail More Sexually Promiscuous The soon-to-be-formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, shared some examples of obscene government waste on Monday so Americans can have some clear examples of what needs to be cut. DOGE shared a clip of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), widely known for his annual Festivus government waste report, walking through some of the most shocking ways the U.S. government has wasted taxpayer dollars. |
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| Rising Tide of Anti-Christian
Attacks in Europe Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack You won’t know about it if you rely on the mainstream media, but Christians throughout Europe are experiencing anti-Christian hate crimes at an alarming rate. Print media has rightly been filled with pages on the Orwellian raid by police on journalist Allison Pearson for an unspecified ‘non-crime hate incident’. Meanwhile it goes unreported that throughout Europe Christians are being harassed, threatened and physically attacked in unprecedented numbers. |
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| Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Call
for Defunding Planned Parenthood Via DOGE The majority of Americans generally oppose abortions and they are tired of hundreds of millions of their tax dollars going to the nation’s biggest abortion business every year. Thankfully, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – tapped by President Donald trump to head the new Department of Government Efficiency operation – have proposed cutting the $300 million the Planned Parenthood abortion business gets in federal taxpayer dollars. |
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| Wait Until You Hear What Planned Parenthood Was Just Caught Doing Sarah Arnold The nation’s largest abortion clinic was caught selling 23-week-old aborted babies for research -- the same clinic that argues they are “saving” women’s lives. According to shocking emails, Planned Parenthood negotiated terms concerning the donation of aborted fetuses for medical research regarding a “research plan” submitted to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Ethics Review Board. In 2018, the so-called “plan” was approved, noting that scientists requested up to 2,500 fetuses that were aborted at the six-month gestation period. |
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| So Why Did Biden Decide to Honor Planned Parenthood's Boss with a Presidential Medal Now? Paul C. Binotto Joe Biden's quiet decision to honor Planned Parenthood boss Cecile Richards with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a secretive White House ceremony as his term closes out left a lot of people puzzled. After all, he doesn't seem to gain anything from it, but it certainly seals his reputation as a nasty, Catholic-hostile president, which is odd in a president who claims to be Catholic – in a party where the majority of Catholic voters have since fled. |
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| The Left Will Not Go Quietly –
Oklahoma University Could Be Defying State Law by Requiring DEI Class Becky Noble After Donald Trump and the Republicans' landslide victory over Democrats on November 5, we might mistakenly think that the left is going to go off to sulk in a corner and continue to grumble about "the end of democracy!" and orange man bad. Nothing could be further from the truth. They are not sulking; they are regrouping. What they can't get past the American people, they will try to slide under the radar. In Oklahoma, they are not only trying to sneak their agenda by but could be outwardly defying the law. |
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| Combat Antisemitism and Protect
Free Speech by Ending Double Standards for Different Students, Scholars Say Campus leaders must protect free speech and combat antisemitism by ensuring their policies are always enforced in a consistent manner, scholars said Friday at a free speech symposium. “Jewish students should be treated equally and fairly with other students,” law Professor David E. Bernstein, executive director of the Liberty & Law Center at George Mason University, said during the panel discussion at GMU. The problem is, other student groups and identities better aligned with diversity, equity and inclusion concepts are given more protections and concern by administrators and the “DEI bureaucracy,” said the scholars. |
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| Disney Yanks Children’s Cartoon
About Transgender Athlete Disney has reportedly yanked an episode about a transgender athlete from its Marvel animated series “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” in a sign that the political tides have now shifted. According to the gaming and entertainment website Polygon, the episode titled “The Gatekeeper,” is about Brooklyn, a transgender classmate of Moon Girl, and a “narrow-minded coach” who wants to ban the character from playing in a girl’s volleyball game, another example of how the trans agenda has been inserted into cartoons and programming targeting kids. |
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| J6 Shocker: Phone
Companies Dispute FBI Testimony on Pipe Bombs Suspect, Key Lawmaker Reveals Steven Richards and John Solomon Cellular carriers have told Congress they possess intact phone usage data from the vicinity where two pipe bombs were planted during the Jan. 6 incident, directly disputing FBI testimony that agents couldn't identify a suspect because the phone data was corrupted, a key House chairman tells Just the News. The revelations from Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, adds new intrigue to a debate that has gripped Washington for nearly four years: Why can't the FBI with so much evidence and manpower identify the suspect who planted the explosive devices at the Democrat and Republican Party headquarters hours before the Capitol was breached. |
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| Weaponization to the
Very End? Jim Jordan Probing Last-Minute Biden DOJ Blitzkrieg John Solomon House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is aggressively investigating a series of lame-duck actions the Biden Justice Department has been taking during its last few weeks in power, saying a recent flurry of activity against businesses and red states smacks of a new wave of politically weaponized government action. In a wide-ranging interview with Just the News on Friday, Jordan cited DOJ efforts to investigate Elon Musk and his companies after his overt support for Donald Trump’s campaign, threatening letters sent to states seeking to remove noncitizens from voters rolls and several hastily launched antitrust inquiries as examples of potentially abusive DOJ behavior. |
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| Democrats in Pennsylvania Admit to
Counting Illegal Ballots in Close Casey-McCormick Senate Race Democrats in blue Pennsylvania counties have admitted to counting illegal ballots in the Senate race that is headed for a recount. Republican candidate Dave McCormick was projected as the winner by The Associated Press, but is only leading Democratic incumbent Bob Casey by 29,000 votes. Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt told reporters that the results of the state's Senate recount, estimated to cost $1 million, will be publicly released on Nov. 27. Schmidt said that the recount was triggered because the unofficial results show the two candidates within a 0.5% margin, according to CBS News. |
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| The Week in Trump Administration
Picks Epoch Times Trump’s big week of picks started calm. Names like Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) – tapped on Nov. 12 to serve as Team Trump 2.0’s national security advisor – met with a relatively warm reception from the establishment. “Mike Waltz,” the Economist intoned, “wants America to focus on the threat from China” – a common thread across virtually all of Trump’s choices, controversial or otherwise, alongside a lengthy history of loyalty to the president-elect. |
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| Justice Gorsuch Emphasizes Need for
Regulatory Reform in Discussion with Retired Justice Breyer Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch emphasized the need for regulatory reform in a discussion with retired Justice Breyer on Thursday night. Gorsuch noted that the federal code has grown to more than 70,000 pages and that Congress passes about 2 million words of new law each year. "The most powerful among us benefit from an overwhelming administrative state," he said at the Federalist Society gala in Washington, D.C. |
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| Federal Judge Ends Biden
Administration's Overtime Expansion Rule A federal judge in Texas on Friday dismissed a Biden administration Department of Labor rule that would have expanded overtime eligibility for millions of salaried employees. The ruling blocks a rule that employers offer overtime premiums to salaried workers who make less than $58,600 a year when they work over 40 hours a week, per Reuters. The rule will now return to a $35,500 threshold set in 2019. |
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| U.S. National Debt Hits a New
Record: $35 Trillion The U.S. national debt surpassed $35 trillion for the first time in the nation's history on Monday as the federal government continues to accumulate debt at a record-setting pace. New data from the Treasury Department released Monday afternoon showed that the gross national debt hit $35,001,278,179,208.67. |
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| House Ways and Means Chairman Lays
Out Plans to Deliver Trump Tax Cuts for Seniors, Tip Workers House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., said Thursday that Congress would extend President-elect Donald Trump's tax cuts to help seniors living on Social Security, laying out one of many plans for the upcoming agenda for the Ways and Means Committee. "We'll be using reconciliation to extend Trump's tax cuts to make sure that they don't expire and also to address other tax provisions that President Trump campaigned on, like no tax on tips," Smith said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. |
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| As Matt Gaetz Faces Opposition, Trump’s Other DOJ Picks Could Anchor His Confirmation Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., faces considerable opposition for the post of attorney general, but some of President-elect Donald Trump’s other picks for top Department of Justice officials could serve to assuage concerned senators. A conservative firebrand, Gaetz’s appointment has ruffled feathers among the Senate GOP and sent Democrats into a frenzy. The stalwart Trump supporter has a long record of disregarding congressional norms and was the leading Republican architect of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster in 2023. He has also been the subject of a House Ethics Committee investigation, the findings of which are likely to factor into the confirmation fight. The DOJ declined to bring charges against Gaetz after a years-long alleged sex-trafficking probe. |
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| Congressman-Elect Nick Begich Flips Alaska’s House Seat to Republican Nick Begich III, the grandson of late Alaska congressman Nick Begich Sr., has flipped the state’s at-large congressional seat to Republican after defeating Democrat incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola. Decision Desk HQ called the race for Begich on Saturday with the Republican receiving 152,545 votes compared to Peltola’s 143,370, with 92 percent of the votes counted: |
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| Report: Trump Team Putting Together
List of Military Officers Involved in Afghanistan Withdrawal President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is putting together a list of United States military officers who were involved in the Biden Administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a recent report. Two people familiar with the plan told NBC News that Trump’s transition team is reportedly in talks about whether to establish “a commission to investigate” the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left 13 American service members dead. |
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| Texas Rep. Weber Says Sanctuary
Cities Shouldn't Be Funded If They Don't Deport Illegal Migrants Congressman Randy Weber, R-Texas., said Friday that sanctuary cities that don't cooperate with mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump's administration should lose federal funding. "Let's take away their money and all federal benefits," Weber said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "Texas, as you know, is an extremely conservative state, and so we get it." |
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| Second Climate Activist Who
Attempted to Vandalize U.S. Constitution Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison The second climate change activist who vandalized the encasement of the United States Constitution in February was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday, and two years of supervised release. The activists, Jackson Green and Donald Zepeda, both pleaded guilty to destruction of government property, after they dumped red powdered paint on the case. The actual document itself was not damaged, but the National Archives rotunda was closed for a couple days while maintenance cleaned the area. |
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| Wisconsin EV Chargers Must Register
with 3-Cent Tax Starting on Jan. 1 Any owner, operator, manager, or lessee of an EV charging station must now register with the Wisconsin Department of Revenue’s Online Business Tax Registration if the charging station is subject to the tax. "The excise tax represents a crucial source of revenue for maintaining Wisconsin's roadways and infrastructure," said Department of Revenue Secretary Designee David Casey. "It will help ensure continued funding for road repairs and construction as Wisconsin drivers increasingly make the switch to electric vehicles, while creating a more equitable system in which all drivers contribute to road maintenance costs." |
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| Company Lobbied for Restrictive
Subsidy Rules On Green Hydrogen, But Production Is in Saudi Arabia For the past few years, net-zero emissions proponents have hyped "green hydrogen" as the fossil fuel-free alternative to energy from natural gas, and the Biden-Harris administration eagerly hopped on board. When the administration released its proposed rules for clean hydrogen production tax credits in December, the Treasury Department’s initial guidance was in line with the preferences of climate activists, emphasizing the “three pillars” guidelines, which had stricter emissions accounting requirements to define clean hydrogen production. |
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| Boom Supersonic's XB-1 Jet Sets New Speed Record During 7th Test Flight  Boom Supersonic's XB-1 aircraft set a new speed record during its latest test flight. The Colorado company is working through a flight test program of the XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft, which completed its most recent test flight on Nov. 5. This was the seventh out of 10 planned subsonic test flights to confirm XB-1's performance and handling qualities before attempting to reach supersonic speeds. During the Nov. 5 test flight, which lasted 55 minutes, XB-1 reached an altitude of 23,015 feet (7,015 meters) and a new top speed of 629 mph (1,012 kph). This means the aircraft reached Mach 0.82, marking a major milestone in its progress toward crossing the threshold of Mach 1 and breaking the sound barrier. |
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| Defense Department Fails Seventh
Consecutive Audit but Says on Path to Pass by 2028 The Defense Department on Friday failed to pass the seventh consecutive audit of its finances, but said it is making progress in having a clean audit by 2028. The Pentagon has never successfully passed the audit of its $824 billion budget since it was required in 2018, but the Marine Corps passed its own audit in February. A total of 1,700 auditors worked on the 2024 audit, which cost about $178 million. |
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| An Israeli Airstrike in Central
Beirut Kills Hezbollah’s Chief Spokesman An Israeli airstrike in central Beirut on Sunday killed the top spokesman for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror organization. Mohammed Afif, who was in charge of media relations for Hezbollah, was killed in the strike on the Arab socialist Baath party’s office, according to a Hezbollah official. The official was not authorized to brief reporters and spoke anonymously, according to The Associated Press. Hezbollah began attacking Israel with rockets, missiles and drones just one day after Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack into southern Israel, which started the war in Gaza. |
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| Appeals Court Allows Partial
Implementation of Louisiana's Ten Commandments Law  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a motion on Friday to block a lower district court's decision that would have temporarily prevented a law regarding the display of the Ten Commandments in schools from being enforced statewide. The appellate court paused the district court's broader injunction, allowing the law to proceed, at least in areas not directly involved in the legal challenge. |
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| Pete Hegseth Slams Associated Press
Report About Him, Calling It 'Anti-Christian' Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, slammed The Associated Press for a story they wrote about him, calling it "anti-Christian." The outlet wrote a story about Hegseth, citing a source who called him an "Insider Threat" based on tattoos he has, claiming they had ties to white supremacy. Retired Master Sgt. DeRicko Gaither told the AP that he got a report from a former member of the National Guard that referred to Hegseth's tattoos. |
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| Oklahoma School Boss Prepares for a
Post-U.S. Education Department Era That Empowers Parents With President-elect Donald Trump getting another term next year, many school choice activists, including Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, are hopeful that the Department of Education will be abolished and education policy will return to the states. Trump has come out and said that he wanted the Department of Education, however Republicans have been throwing around that idea since the 1980s and it hasn't been able to get done. "We're going to end education coming out of Washington, D.C.," Trump said in a policy video. "We're going to close up all those buildings all over the place.......we're going to send it all back to the states." |
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| Free Speech for Students Disappears
if SCOTUS Doesn't Protect 'Only Two Genders' Shirt  "There
Are Only Two Genders." "Let's Go, Brandon!" The Gadsden flag and "Don’t
Tread On Me.” Nondisruptive student expressions of protest, ideology
and humor face elimination in public schools if the Supreme Court
doesn't rebuke a federal appeals court that approved bans on "demeaning
message[s]" that could "poison" the school environment, free speech,
religious freedom, conservative and pro-life groups told the high court
in friend-of-the-court briefs. |
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| Texas Advocate Calls for Probe Into
Federally Funded Abortions for Unaccompanied Minors A Texas advocate is calling on the incoming Trump administration and Congress to revisit federal policy that uses taxpayer money to fund and facilitate abortions for unaccompanied alien children (UACs) illegally brought into the U.S. The U.S. Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for the oversight and care of UACs, has come under extensive scrutiny for a range of issues, The Center Square has reported. These include not vetting sponsors, not keeping track of several hundred thousand missing children, allowing UACs to be trafficked, prostituted and sent into forced labor, Office of Inspector General audits and congressional and state investigations have found. |
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| The Crumbling of the
Democratic Empire Joel Kotkin Ever since the rise of Barack Obama, Democrats have seen themselves as destined to rule. With his presidential victory in 2008, they created a seemingly unbridgeable political empire. With the support of big cities, young progressives, universities, the media and an ever-expanding government workforce, the party – led by what Roger Kimball calls ‘the Syndicate’ – imagined it could stay in power indefinitely. Given their advantages and the clear vulnerabilities of their only serious opponent, Donald Trump, Democrats should have expected an easy time in this presidential election. Instead, Trump won a convincing victory last night, with Republicans also winning control of the Senate and possibly the House of Representatives. How did this happen? Much of it has to do with the imperiousness of the Democrats. |
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| The Death of Obamaism, and the
Historic MAGA Opportunity Josh Hammer In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements of 2020. So too, in a just world, would A-list Hollywood studios now be bidding for the rights to produce the film adaptation of the single greatest comeback story in American history: Donald Trump, the once and future president. Trump’s electoral landslide this week is one for the history books. His myriad foes illegitimately spied on his 2016 campaign. They fabricated a “Russia collusion” narrative out of whole cloth, then spent years “investigating” it. They impeached him twice. They prosecuted him across four separate jurisdictions, 91 criminal counts in total. They have tried to humiliate him, bankrupt him and incarcerate him. Assassins have tried to kill him – twice. |
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| On Election Day, Biden-Harris Admin
Quietly Waived Terrorism Sanctions on Palestinian Government, Docs Show
Just before Tuesday’s presidential election, the Biden-Harris administration quietly waived mandatory terrorism sanctions on the embattled Palestinian government -- even as it determined that the government's leaders are paying imprisoned terrorists and fomenting violence in breach of U.S. law. The State Department, in a non-public notice to Congress, determined that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are not complying with agreements to curb terrorism against Israel and end the "pay-to-slay" program, which rewards imprisoned terrorists for committing acts of violence. |
Remind me again. Who is a threat to America and Democracy? |
| Iran 'terrified' of Trump
Presidency As Iranian Currency Falls to An All-Time Low After President-elect Trump's victory, Iran must now prepare to contend with the man it's been trying to assassinate for years. Tehran had reportedly been interfering in the U.S. election on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris. But with former Trump’s win, the regime will have to prepare for a U.S. leader who is, at the very least, a wild card. On Wednesday, the Telegram channel of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC), its military force, posted a video threatening to kill Trump. It ended with footage of a bloodied Trump and the words "We will finish the job." |
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| Secret Service Records Reveal DEI
Is Prioritized for All Agency Employees in ‘Every Action, Every Day’ Judicial Watch Judicial Watch announced today it received 311 pages of U.S. Secret Service records that show the Secret Service has made it a top priority that “diversity and inclusion is not just ‘talked about’ – but demonstrated by all employees through ‘Every Action, Every Day.’” The records show the Secret Service, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), demands that 12 percent of its workforce be composed of “persons with disabilities,” and that it is the policy of the Secret Service to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to such non-merit factors as “disability (physical or mental).” |
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| FBI Brass 'stunned' and
'shell-Shocked' Over Donald Trump Reelection The brass on the seventh floor at FBI headquarters in Washington are walking around in a daze and wary of a housecleaning since President-elect Donald Trump won his reelection on Tuesday, according to inside sources. “You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?” the first FBI source said, referring to the agency’s physical fitness requirements. “Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door.” |
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| Whistleblower: James Comey Had FBI
'honey pot' Spies Infiltrate Trump's 2016 Campaign The House Judiciary Committee is examining a whistleblower report that the FBI targeted Donald Trump soon after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015, an off-the-books operation ordered by FBI Director James B. Comey that predated the Crossfire Hurricane operation. An FBI agent involved in the probe revealed the off-the-books criminal investigation on Tuesday in a protected disclosure sent to the committee. The whistleblower disclosure said two female FBI undercover agents infiltrated Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff on the trail. |
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| After Trump Win, RFK Jr. Says ‘Entire Departments’ at the FDA ’Have to Go’ ‘They’re not protecting our kids,’ the former presidential candidate and Big Pharma critic says. Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who backed President-elect Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bureaucracy should be winnowed down. Before the election, Trump had floated Kennedy as having a role in his administration, namely targeting federal agencies that oversee health care, food, and drugs. |
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| Things Go Downhill Fast After
Hakeem Jeffries Warns Trump to ‘back up off’ of Tish James Chris Donaldson House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) defended New York Attorney General Letitia James who could soon have the tables turned against her now that Donald J. Trump has won the election. James, a vindictive racist, has spearheaded a malicious prosecution against the president-elect based on bogus financial charges, a brazen attempt to bankrupt him and steal his properties just like they did in the old Soviet Union. After the election returns came in, she held a defiant news conference in which she vowed to continue her lawfare campaign for the next four years. |
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| Nevada Voters Overwhelmingly
Approve Voter ID, Reject Ranked-Choice Voting Nevada voters are projected to pass a ballot amendment requiring eligible electors to present a form of photo ID when voting and reject a separate initiative seeking to bring ranked-choice voting to the state. As The Federalist previously reported, Question 7 would require eligible voters to present a valid form of photo ID when voting in person. Those voting by mail would “have to verify their identity using the last four digits of their driver’s license or social security number or the number provided by the county clerk when the voter is registered to vote,” according to Ballotpedia. |
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| Jim Jordan Warns Jack Smith to Preserve Records As Panel Probes DOJ House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Friday sent a warning to special counsel Jack Smith demanding that he preserve all records related to his prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump. "With President Trump's decisive victory this week, we are concerned that the Office of Special Counsel may attempt to purge relevant records, communications, and documents responsive to our numerous requests for information," Jordan wrote. "The Office of Special Counsel is not immune from transparency or above accountability for its actions." Jordan issued a formal records preservation request to Smith in the letter. |
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| FEMA Official Directed Hurricane
Relief Workers to Avoid Homes with Trump Signs As Agency Conducts Cleanup A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official has been removed from a role after directing disaster relief workers to skip homes "advertising" support for President-elect Trump after the devastating hurricanes in Florida. In a statement to Fox News Digital, a FEMA spokesperson said the agency is "deeply disturbed" after the incident," noting the official who gave the instruction "was given no direction to tell teams to avoid these homes." "While we believe this is an isolated incident, we have taken measures to remove the employee from their role and are investigating the matter to prevent this from happening ever again," the spokesperson said. |
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| Fired FEMA Supervisor Claims She’s
a ‘patsy,’ Agency Made Her a ‘scapegoat’ After guidance on pro-Trump yard signs landed her out of a job, the FEMA supervisor behind the controversial message asserted the agency had turned her into a “scapegoat.” The latest scandal involving the Biden-Harris administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency took under a bus, or so alleged since terminated supervisor Marn’i Washington. As reports of her directing employees to “avoid homes advertising Trump” led to her firing, she contended to the Washington Examiner that she was being treated as a “patsy” as the “shorthand” instructions were taken out of context. |
I have a lot of trouble believing her story |
| The Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran-UN Axis of
Evil Paul Driessen On October 7, 2023, Hamas butchered 1,200 innocent people, maimed 5,400, kidnapped 250, and drove tens of thousands out of southern Israeli towns. The next day, to show solidarity with Hamas, Hezbollah began launching rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel, driving 80,000 from their homes. Israel’s war rages on, against Hamas and Hezbollah, ISIS, the Houthis and their Iranian theocracy puppet masters. It is a conflict that Israel did not start and did not want, a war for the Jewish state’s survival. |
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| Biden-Harris Admin Sued for
Obstructing Probe Into Embattled Iran Envoy Rob Malley Adam Kredo A watchdog group is suing the Biden-Harris administration for obstructing its probe into the State Department's suspension of embattled Iran envoy Robert Malley, who remains the subject of an FBI investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified information, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The Center to Advance Security in America sued the State Department late last week for reams of internal communications related to Malley, his 2023 suspension, and any subsequent discussions regarding the nature of information he may have compromised, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by the Free Beacon. |
The Obama backroom is all in for Iran |
| Federal Judge Strikes Down Illinois
Assault Weapons Ban As Unconstitutional A federal judge prohibited Illinois from enforcing its ban on assault weapons, marking a victory for Second Amendment activists and reversing a law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL). U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn ruled Friday in favor of plaintiffs who argued that the Protect Illinois Communities Act was “an unconstitutional infringement” of Second Amendment rights. “Government may not deprive law-abiding citizens of their guaranteed right to self-defense as a means of offense,” McGlynn wrote in a 168-page opinion that suggested people use guns to defend themselves because “sometimes,” there is “no one” else to protect them. |
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| Alaska Court: Climate Change Can’t Justify Giant Habitat for Seals Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.  In her Sept. 26 decision, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason delivered a stunning setback to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), quashing the agency’s 12-year quest to rope off an area larger than the State of Texas from oil and gas development along with crippling the area’s fishing industry and interfering with commercial shipping lanes. Once an area has been designated as critical habitat under the ESA, strict land- and water-use restrictions come into play that can hamstring commercial development. The critical habitat designation sought by the Biden administration included large swaths of the Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, and Beaufort Sea. |
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| Who Really Cares About Climate
Change? Robert Bryce The results of yesterday’s election are nothing short of seismic. Polls and pundits uniformly predicted a too-close-to-call contest that would be decided by a handful of votes in a handful of states. Instead, Donald Trump whipped Kamala Harris. He won the popular contest by nearly 5 million votes and thumped her in the Electoral College. As I write this, according to the New York Times, the final EC margin will likely be 312 to 226. Republicans will now control the White House and the Senate, and perhaps the House of Representatives for the next two years. While this race was about many things, one issue lurked throughout: climate policy. And the results clearly show that the Democratic Party is woefully out of step with mainstream voters on energy and climate policy. |
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| For the Second Time in a Week,
Climate Scientists Surprised with An Increased CO2 Absorption Mechanism. Anthony Watts You may remember just four days ago, WUWT ran this story: Oops, Science Was “Settled” – Until It Wasn’t: Plants Absorb 31% More CO2 Than We Thought. Now, hot on the heels of that one, another underestimated CO2 absorption has been found: New Study Reveals Oceans Absorb More CO2 Than Previously Thought. The article states: "New research confirms that the cooler temperature of the ocean surface layer enhances CO2 absorption, with the Atlantic absorbing 7% more CO2 annually than previously estimated." |
Natural carbon 'sinks' throw a monkey wrench into climate modeling |
| The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps
Nationwide News of Vaccine Ineffectiveness Forced Cancellation Jeffrey A. Tucker | Brownstone Institute No matter how bad you think Covid policies were, they were intended to be worse. Consider the vaccine passports alone. Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport. It broke. Once the news leaked that the shot didn’t stop infection or transmission, the planners lost public support and the scheme collapsed. It was undoubtedly planned to be permanent and nationwide if not worldwide. Instead, the scheme had to be dialed back. |
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| In Vermont, Where Almost Everyone
Has Insurance, Many Can't Find or Afford Care Phil Galewitz | KFF Health News Vermont consistently ranks among the healthiest states, and its unemployment and uninsured rates are among the lowest. Yet Vermonters pay the highest prices nationwide for individual health coverage, and state reports show its providers and insurers are in financial trouble. Nine of the state's 14 hospitals are losing money, and the state's largest insurer is struggling to remain solvent. Long waits for care have become increasingly common, according to state reports and interviews with residents and industry officials. |
There’s a difference between coverage and care |
| ‘I’m not going to listen to
transphobia at this table!’ CNN Panel Explodes Over a Perceived ‘slur’ Friday on “CNN NewsNight,” Rabbi, Rolling Stone columnist and openly gay activist Jay Michaelson demonstrated in real time why gender ideology remained a losing issue for the left. Amid a discussion reflecting on the presidential election, Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton’s points on how “regular people” view the issue triggered a real-time meltdown. “I think there are a lot of families out there who don’t believe boys should play in girls’ sports,” he said only to be immediately interrupted by a fit from Michaelson who ranted, “They’re not boys! I’m not going to listen to transphobia at this table!” ... Despite the downplay of the issue as a “canard,” a United Nations report found nearly 900 medals that would have gone to female athletes had been awarded to males as of March 2024 across 29 different sports. |
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| 2 Democrats Speak Out Against Transgender Athletes After Trump Win Two House Democrats said they oppose transgender athletes competing in women’s sports in the immediate aftermath of President-elect Trump’s decisive victory over Vice President Harris, shifting right of their previous policy positions and deepening fractures within a bruised Democratic Party. Trump and Republicans bet big on anti-transgender messaging in the final stretch of the presidential election, pouring millions into ads aired during football games critical of trans athletes and gender-affirming care. Harris struggled to combat Trump’s attacks, skirting direct questions about transgender rights in interviews to the chagrin of some Democrats. |
Amazing what an election causes! |
| Dem Rep. Seth Moulton Gets Calls to
Resign, Accused of 'betrayal' for Speaking Out Against Trans Athletes Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton was criticized by members of his own party in the last day after speaking out against the left's stance on transgender athletes in girls and women's sports. In an interview with the New York Times, Moulton expressed his feelings on the issue, citing his position as a father to two daughters. "Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face," he said. "I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that." |
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| How Trump’s 11th Hour ‘They/Them’
Ad Helped Clinch His Victory Vivek Saxena The man who inspired the ad is Terry Schilling, the president of the American Principles Project. Speaking with Fox News, Schilling said he started pushing for these sorts of trans-related ads as early as 2019 but that back then it was “too premature” to make the sort of waves it’s making now. That changed with the introduction of the Biden-Harris administration, which went full-bore in promoting trans ideology, thus making it much, much, much easier for the right to attack the left over the issue. |
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| New York Passes Radical Ballot
Amendment to Enshrine Male Participation in Women’s Sports, Protect Illegal Immigrants New York voters passed a ballot measure on Tuesday that will enshrine the Left’s radical social agenda into the state constitution, ensuring biological males are allowed to compete against women in competitive sports and making it much more difficult for the state to enforce federal law against illegal immigrants, among other progressive initiatives. “Abortion is health care, health care is a human right – and that right is finally enshrined in the New York State constitution,” New York governor Kathy Hochul (D) said on X. |
Wow! I guess no one there can read the political tea leaves. |
| The Electoral College in Context Law & Liberty – Robert G. Natelson Arguments about the Electoral College are often shallow. Opponents claim it is a relic of slavery and the product of the Founders’ distrust of democracy. They cite with approval James Wilson’s (purported) advocacy of direct presidential elections. Proponents respond that the Electoral College prevents a few urban states from dominating presidential elections, and they sometimes cap their argument by asserting that the United States is a “republic not a democracy” (actually, it is both). This shallowness helps account for why the debate over the Electoral College has been so repetitive and inconclusive. |
Pay attention class. There may be a test. |
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| There's Something Weird
Going On With the Media Coverage of Kamala Harris and Her Marxist Father Scott Pinsker Question for the American people: How well do you know Kamala Harris? We know Donald Trump extremely well. Not to wax all Eastwoodian, but when it comes to Trump, we already know the good, the bad, and the ugly. We know all about McDonald’s, the divorces, the money, the accusations, the successes, and the hair. He’s transparent. ... So, back to the 2024 Democratic nominee for president: We’re only days from Election Day, and the question remains: How well do you really, truly know Kamala Harris? Did you know that Kamala and her father, Stanford professor Donald J. Harris, live just a mile apart in D.C., but never speak? Did you know that the Economist described Professor Harris’s work as “more unashamedly Marxist than anything in modern American politics”? Did you know the Stanford Daily (Stanford’s student newspaper) described Professor Harris as a “Marxist economist” and said he’s teaching “radical political economics”? |
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| This Race Is Close Only
Because the Public Education Indoctrination Mill Has Succeeded Stephen Kruiser Any discussion among conservatives about the possibility of Kamala Harris winning the election quickly turns to voter fraud or polling problems like the under-sampling of Trump supporters. Those are both valid discussions but not the essence of the problem here. If a person goes to a surgeon needing both a cancerous tumor removed and a knee replacement, the patient doesn't opt for the knee replacement in the hope that the cancer will go away. Yes, things will be a lot better, but that tumor keeps on growing. At this point in American history, voter fraud is the bad knee and public education indoctrination is the cancer. A cancer that started out slowly but has been metastasizing of late. |
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| November Surprise: Dismal Jobs
Report Gives Trump Last-Minute Political Ammunition to Fire at Harris With four days to go before Election Day, former President Trump's campaign quickly took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris over the latest unemployment figures from the federal government, which indicated only 12,000 jobs were created in October. The jobs created last month were far below estimates of up to 120,000 and were the lowest in four years. |
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| Behind the Left’s Hitler Hysteria Steven Hayward The left probably really does believe that Trump is “literally” (as The Atlantic literally put it) Hitler, but the handful of adults in the Democratic playroom surely know that this hoary charge has lost its sting, because it is preposterous. So why did Harris herself make the charge? I have a theory that so far I’ve not seen advanced. I think it is being done to shore up a small faction of the progressive base that might not turn out for Harris. It reflects the desperation of the campaign. |
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| The Political “F” Word Will
Backfire On Harris David P. Deavel Joy comes in the morning, as the Psalmist says, but by late evening of an incompetent political campaign, the paranoid bitterness really takes over. That’s what we’re seeing in the late stages of the Democrats’ ill-conceived attempt to win with a deeply unpopular and incompetent candidate who never received any primary votes. The October Surprise is that (shockingly!) after nine years of facing Donald Trump, the Democratic Party has no surprises. Like some ill-educated drunk, all they can do is sputter the “F” word over and over. In this case, we refer to “Fascism.” |
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| The Pentagon Fails to Send Absentee
Ballots to Active Military Service Members Sarah Arnold Republican lawmakers demand answers from the Pentagon after military service members complained that they have not received enough absentee ballots to vote before Election Day. GOP Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), and Mike Waltz (R-FL) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin citing their “grave concern over deficiencies in the Defense Department’s protocols” for the U.S. military because they said the absentee ballot stockpile has been “depleted and had not been replenished.” |
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| Oklahoma Schools Chief Bills Kamala
Harris $474M for Education Costs, Citing Illegal Immigration Oklahoma's top elected education official sent a "demand letter" to Vice President Kamala Harris that essentially served as an invoice for what the illegal immigration crisis under her tenure overseeing the border has cost Sooner State schools. In August, Ryan Walters tasked the department to work with school districts to calculate the financial impact borne by taxpayers on illegal immigrant minors. That analysis resulted in an estimate of $474.9 million, which he demanded of Harris in the letter. |
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| That's Gonna Leave a Mark: Israeli
Air Force Just Stripped Iran Naked Stephen Green  Reports
are that somewhere between one-third and one-half of the IAF took to
the skies on Friday night – a remarkable feat in itself if you know
anything about what it takes to ready and arm a sophisticated warplane
– and every single one of them returned home safely. An open-source
intelligence writer who uses the handle Raylan Givens – I've followed
and trusted him for a couple of years now – gave the rundown on the
operation, "courtesy of IDF Radio and with the approval of the military
censor." "The attack destroyed ALL of Iran's long-range surface-to-air
missile batteries," according to Givens' translation of the IDF Radio
report. "All long-range detection radars were also destroyed. Iran is
left with only short-range batteries of local Iranian models." |
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| Too Good to Check: Hezbollah Collapsing As Desertions Skyrocket Ed Morrissey So much for Iran's encirclement strategy in the Middle East, if these reports turn out to be accurate. Not only did Iran lose much of its advanced air defenses in the Israeli strike over the weekend, their forward proxy army may collapse soon as its terror troops head for Syria. Arabic media report mass Hezbollah desertions in the face of a determined IDF ground campaign, and nearly no effective communications between command and field units: |
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| IDF Eliminates One of the Last
Remaining Hamas Politburo Leaders in Gaza The IDF eliminated Hamas's National Relations head Izz al-Din Kassab on Friday in Khan Yunis, Gaza, who was also one of the last remaining members of the terrorist organization's political bureau still inside the Palestinian enclave. The strike that killed Kassab was completed based on IDF and ISA intelligence. His assistant Ayman Ayesh was also killed in the strike. He was also responsible for Hamas's relations and cooperation, whether strategic or military, with other terrorist organizations within the Gaza Strip such as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. [video of strike at link] |
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| Is Israel About to Overthrow the
Iranian Government? Scott Pinsker For years, the Israelis were trapped in the “proportionate” political game: Some terrorist knucklehead hits them over here, so you hit ‘em back over there. A few months later, they do it again. An endless, eternal, never-ending game of tit-for-tat. And we all got used to it! This was how we assumed the Middle East always negotiated: Everyone rattles their sabers, talks a big game, and tries to get in the last word, but at the end of the day, nothing really changes. After October 7, Israel stopped playing the “proportionate” game. It turns out that disproportionate responses work a helluva lot better. |
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| NYC Mayor Says Trump Not a Fascist,
Urges Politicians to 'Dial Down the Temperature' New York City Mayor Eric Adams rebuffed recent claims that former President Donald Trump is a fascist and said that Trump’s Madison Square Garden event should go ahead. “I have heard those terms hurled at me by some political leaders in the city, using terms like [Nazi leader Adolph] Hitler and fascist,” the Democratic mayor said at a news conference in New York City on Saturday. "I know what Hitler has done, and I know what a fascist regime looks like." |
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| Is Obama's Kingmaker Era Over? Declan Leary This election, the stakes are high for Obama: If Kamala loses, it will be the end of his pernicious shadow presidency once and for all. Even worse, Democrats may finally realize who the prime architect of the catastrophe is: Obama himself. For he is the key figure responsible for the current predicament the Democrats find themselves in, hamstrung with a sputtering candidate and her bumbling running mate, handpicked for her by Eric Holder, longtime Obama confidant. |
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| Harris Would Be As Much a
Figurehead As Biden – and We'd Be Ruled By the Swamp Glenn H. Reynolds We’re seeing a lot of fuss and bother over the 2024 presidential election. But do we even need a president? I ask because we don’t have one now. And we haven’t had one for all practical purposes for something between a few months and three years. Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald recently tweeted, “The U.S. has no functional president and has not had one for months, and it’s barely noticeable and barely matters because there’s a permanent unelected machine that runs the government.” |
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| Biden Admin Authorizes Mass
Overtime to Process Haitian Migrants Before Inauguration Day, Agent Says The Biden-Harris administration has authorized massive overtime so Department of Homeland Security agents can grant temporary status to as many illegal immigrants as possible before a new president is inaugurated, a Homeland Security agent told The Daily Wire. “Jason” – an alias given to the agent, who spoke to The Daily Wire on the condition of anonymity, said supervisors have told workers in recent weeks that they should aim to clear the backlog of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applications within 120 days. Doing so would allow these illegal immigrants to live and work in the country, and shield them from deportation for two years. |
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| Will Harris Offer Health Coverage
to Immigrants? Look No Further Than California Luis Alvarez Actions speak louder than words. That adage is worth remembering as Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, try to minimize their records on granting public health coverage to those who are in the country illegally. Walz signed legislation in Minnesota that allowed such immigrants to access the state’s free healthcare program for low-income residents, among other public benefits. When asked about it, the governor could only muster,”Well, that’s not the vice president’s position.” Harris, meanwhile, has sidestepped any clear explanation of where she stands. During her 2019 presidential run, she was a vocal proponent of “Medicare for All,” including those in the country illegally. |
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| Dem. VP Candidate Tim Walz Admits
having Sexual Fling with Chinese Communist Party Leader’s Daughter Warner Todd Huston The choice of Tim Walz for vice president seems to get worse every single day, but this latest revelation may be the worst one yet about the weirdo from Minnesota. And now he has admitted that he had a sexual fling with the daughter of a Chinese Party Communist leader back in the 1980s. Per the Daily Mail: "Jenna Wang, 59, claims the VP hopeful showered her with gifts and seduced her at his poky staff accommodation at No. 1 High School in Foshan, Guangdong Province." Jena Wang told the paper that “Tim’s behavior was very selfish.” She added, “Knowing now that he wasn’t going to marry me made me feel cheap and common, as if I was being treated like a prostitute.” |
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| Much to Democrats' Chagrin, No
Nazis Were Found at Trump's MAGA Square Garden Rally Jennifer Oliver O'Connell On Sunday, former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump transformed Madison Square Garden into MAGA Square Garden, as the crowd reached capacity of reportedly over 19,000 people. In attendance was the melting pot of New York: Whites, Italians, Muslims, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, all the colors on the spectrum and then some. Yeah, it's unprecedented. This is the Republican presidential candidate packing out a famous venue in deep blue New York City. |
 Wow! That's a surprise! |
| Hugh Hewitt Humiliates Mainstream
Media 'Journalists' for Lying About Trump, Then Walks Off Live Broadcast Randy DeSoto Conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt had enough of Washington Post leftwing columnists spinning the news and decided to get up and leave, mid-show, from the outlet’s online program. Not only that, Hewitt announced Friday, he was leaving the Post altogether, where he has been a contributing columnist since 2017, Fox News reported. |
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| Electric Vehicle Mineral Supply
Chain Marred by Ethical Sourcing, Human Rights, Child Labor Issues “Recharge for Rights” by Amnesty International assesses automakers’ performance on human rights policies, including forced evictions, health impacts from environmental pollution, child labor and slavery. The report found that, while some automakers did better than others – Tesla and other American automakers scored the highest – none of them met Amnesty International’s standards. "The human rights abuses tied to the extraction of energy transition minerals are alarming and pervasive and the industry’s response is sorely lacking" said Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard. |
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| Lithium-Ion Battery Recycle Plant
Explodes in Missouri Leslie Eastman Americans are beginning to awaken realities of the “new green energy utopia”…which apparently entails a lot more chemistry and fire response than originally promised. Another dramatic example of the hazards associated with lithium-ion batteries occurred in one exploded battery processing plant near Fredericktown, Missouri. The incident prompted local evacuation. I suspect the cause of the explosion was thermal runaway, which is a a major concern with lithium-ion batteries. It occurs when a battery cell overheats, causing a chain reaction that spreads to other cells. The reaction also yields oxygen gas, which adds to the intensity of the fire. Video Dramatic Moment Explosion Rocks Lithium Battery Plant |
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| Dortmund Germany Delays Transition
to Electric Buses Due to High Costs, Will Purchase Diesel Buses Pierre L. Gosselin The hype about green energies being the future is quickly becoming a thing of the past as all the Utopian promises made are not coming true as they clash against reality. The green movement is turning out to be nothing but a silly wet-dream LSD fantasy. The city of Dortmund, Germany is finding out that electric buses are significantly more expensive than diesel buses, even with government subsidies, reports Blackout News here. |
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| ‘Climate Extremism’: Biden-Harris
Admin’s Own Data Undermines Its Fav Selling Point in Push to ‘Electrify Everything’ Owen Klinsky The Biden-Harris administration has made a crackdown on residential fossil fuel consumption a key aspect of its environmental strategy, justifying the push in part on the grounds electrification will lower energy costs. Now, Oct. 17 residential energy price data from the Department of Energy (DOE) shows electricity was roughly four times as expensive as natural gas in 2024, with experts telling the DCNF the White House’s electrification push is an example of extremist climate policy hurting everyday Americans. |
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| Is Compulsory Public Education
Hurting Our Society As a Whole? Tom Knighton Children have to go to school in some manner. Sure, the “going to school” might be more metaphorical as their parents teach them at home, but the requirement is that kids get an education. However, not everyone wants to take on that responsibility. Plenty of parents figure that homeschooling is a hassle (spoiler: It kind of is, it’s just worth it) and since public schooling exists, they might as well just send their kids to school. |
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| General Milley’s Attack
on the Constitution Mike Davis Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, recently called Donald Trump a “fascist to the core” and “a wannabe dictator.” That such a senior military leader would feel comfortable saying this about his former boss is remarkable given that similar statements by officers have, in the past, resulted in severe punishment. The U.S. Constitution makes the president – the only democratically elected leader in the chain of command – Commander in chief. Military leaders serving under the president owe him both deference and respect, regardless of whether their policy preferences differ. General Milley is challenging this foundational principle of American government. Although General Milley’s recent statements are not subject to Article 88 because President Trump was no longer in office at the time the general made them, his previous attempts to undermine Trump’s authority could be. Indeed, General Milley has recognized as much, expressing concern that he may yet face court-martial for his conduct during the Trump administration. |
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| Despite the Media
Caterwauling, Voters Aren't Buying That Trump Is a 'threat to democracy' Jonathan Turley “Democracy dies in darkness” is the Washington Post’s slogan, but can it handle the light? The Post has been doggedly portraying the election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris as a choice between tyranny (Trump) and democracy (Harris). Yet when it commissioned a poll on threats to democracy shortly before the election, it did not quite work out. Voters in swing states deem the greater threat to democracy to be Kamala Harris, who is running on a “save democracy” platform. |
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| CATASTROPHE: U.S. National Debt's
Unbelievable Spike Over the Last Three Weeks Ward Clark To call the current United States national debt a catastrophe is akin to calling the Mongol invasion of Europe a "mildly disturbing event." Our current debt is a disaster; our ability to recover from it may well be gone. Oh, some will point out that at the end of World War 2 our debt as a percentage of GDP was just as high as now; but it's important to remember that, in 1946, the United States was the only real economic and manufacturing superpower left on the planet. The big cities of Europe and Asia were in ruins; entire national economies were destroyed. As the recovery began, for some time, the United States was the only game in town, and that helped us recover. We can't count on anything like that now. And now, on Tuesday morning, we learn that the U.S. debt has jumped by another $473 billion in just the last three weeks.  |
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| Kamala’s Father Issued Dire
Prediction of Migrant Crisis Under Her Policies Vice President Kamala Harris’s father issued a dire warning decades ago of the harm illegal immigration poses to black Americans -- a prediction now playing out under his daughter’s administration. In his 1988 co-authored book, Black Economic Progress: An Agenda for the 1990s, Donald Harris -- a self-described Marxist economist -- discussed how foreign workers and mass migration could affect young Americans in the labor force. |
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| 'I love you': Longtime Harris Ally
Has Been Friends with CCP Group's Top Exec for Over a Decade A decades-long friend and mentee of Vice President Kamala Harris, who is running for Congress in California, has been friends with a top executive of a CCP front group for over a decade, a Fox News Digital review found. In early 2022, a year before James Chau became the president of the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), he wrote on Twitter, "Belated best wishes to my friend and sister [Lateefah Simon] as she builds on her years is [sic] service [Akonadi Foundation] to lead Meadow Fund." |
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| 40% of Americans Have Difficulty
Paying Bills Under Biden-Harris: Report Nearly 40% of Americans are worried about being able to pay all of their bills on time, a higher percentage than during the Great Recession of 2008-09, according to a new survey. The Daily Signal, citing the survey, added: "Still trying to catch up is an understatement. The gap between nominal wages and inflation-adjusted wages since 2021 is more than 20%. So, it looks like you’re making a lot more, but even accounting for official inflation, workers have lost thousands in income. Of course, if official inflation is a lie, which seems likely, going by real-world prices from housing to restaurants and groceries, then workers have lost a lot more." |
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| JD Vance Confronts CNN’s Tapper for
Pushing Russia Collusion Narrative: Talked About It ‘Nonstop’ During a contentious interview on CNN, GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance blasted anchor Jake Tapper and his network for their lack of "integrity" in reporting on former President Trump, accusing them of peddling the Russian collusion narrative as if it was real. The moment came after Vance and Tapper sparred over accusations from ex-Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly that Trump once claimed he wanted generals like Hitler had. Vance pointed out how Tapper’s network fixates on reporting about these kinds of anti-Trump claims, bringing up CNN’s reporting of the alleged collusion between Trump and Russian to steal the 2016 election as an example. |
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| WaPo
Editor-at-Large Resigns Over Non-Endorsement of Kamala The Washington Post’s leadership recently sought meetings with the Democratic and Republican nominees for president, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, people familiar with the requests said. Neither campaign scheduled the meeting, Post editors assured the Harris campaign a meeting wouldn’t affect an endorsement. And insiders and outsiders alike assumed the Post would choose the Democrat, as virtually every American newspaper has in the last two elections. Friday, readers and employees learned otherwise: The Post, following the Los Angeles Times, will no longer endorse candidates. Post editor Will Lewis wrote that “we know” some readers will take the decision as “an abdication of responsibility,” and many of his employees appear to have done so. |
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| Harris Heckled at Pennsylvania
Church, Says Voting for Her Fulfills God's Expectation 'for us to help Him' Vice President Harris was interrupted by a heckler while she was speaking in a Pennsylvania church on Sunday meant to highlight her faith in the battleground state nine days before Election Day. From the lectern at the Church of Christian Compassion in West Philadelphia, Harris was referencing the biblical story of the Apostle Paul when someone began shouting. Harris stopped speaking and clapped, as the church band sounded music to drown out the heckler, who was not captured on event cameras. |
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| Arab American Leaders Back Trump as
Dearborn Locals Rebuke Kamala BREAKING: Members of the Arab & Muslim community in Michigan just got on stage at the Trump rally to publicly endorse him. Trump was already going to win Michigan, but Arab voters will make it a landslide. "We as Muslims stand with President Trump because he promises peace NOT war. We are supporting Donald Trump because he promised to end war in the Middle East and Ukraine." |
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| When It Comes to Failure, Kamala Has a 100% Dependability Rating Deroy Murdock For Kamala Harris, failure is not an option. It’s a governing principle. President Joe Biden has delegated key responsibilities to his Veep. Her resulting belly flops could empty an Olympic swimming pool. Border Tsarina:“I’ve asked her – the VP – to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to … enhance migration enforcement at their borders,” Biden said in March 2021. “I hope we can move this along.” |
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| Sheriffs Sound Alarm On
Biden-Harris Migrant Crisis Taking Over America’s Small Towns Over 40 sheriffs condemned the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the border crisis in a letter sent Tuesday, and further warned that more migrants would devastate small-town America. The letter, signed by sheriffs in Pennsylvania, Washington and Illinois among other states, accuses the Biden-Harris administration of letting in 10 to 15 million illegal immigrants over the last four years, saying that the U.S. deserves a president that “prioritizes the safety and security of the American people” by securing the border from illegals and drugs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered over 7 million migrants at the southern border since president Joe Biden took office in January 2021, according to CBP statistics. |
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| Lawsuit: Key Pennsylvania County
Must Provide Paper Ballots to Voters in Major Election Integrity Victory Blame paper ballot shortages for disenfranchising dozens of voters in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Some 40 precincts in this critical county southwest of Scranton, which broke heavily for Trump in 2016 and 2020, ran out of paper ballots on Election Day, forcing poll workers to turn away voters in the 2022 midterm election and outraging residents who didn’t wish to vote via electronic voting machine. While some voters were able to return later and cast a ballot at their local polling place – which were ordered by courts to remain open for two extra hours – many did not, meaning their vote was effectively suppressed by election mismanagement. This disproportionately affected Republican voters [naturally]. |
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| Federal Court Rules in Favor of
GOP’s Effort to Prevent Ballots from Being Counted 5 Days After Election The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Republicans on Friday, ruling that a Mississippi law violated federal regulations by allowing mail-in ballots to be counted up to five days after the election, according to a court filing. In January, the Republican National Committee and Mississippi Republican Party sued state officials over the law, which allowed election workers to count mail-in absentee ballots for up to five days after Election Day – a measure enacted in 2020, according to Mississippi Today. The three-judge panel, appointed by former President Donald Trump, reversed a lower court ruling, stating that Congress had “statutorily designated” Election Day as a single day. |
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| Texas AG Sues Biden-Harris Admin
for Not Verifying Citizenship of 450K 'potentially ineligible' Voters Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden-Harris administration for not providing information that the Republican says he needs to verify the citizenship of 450,000 "potentially ineligible voters." The Department of Homeland Security and its secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, as well as the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and its director, Ur Jaddou, are named as defendants. The federal lawsuit, filed in the Western District of Texas, claims that the Biden-Harris administration has refused to comply with federal law and answer "valid requests" for information from Paxton and Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson "for the citizenship status of the over 450,000 people on Texas’s voter rolls for whom the State cannot verify their citizenship status using existing sources." |
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| The 'green' Scam of the Century: 'Renewables' Increase Fossil Fuel Demands Ronald Stein P.E. & John Shanahan In the transition to so-called clean and green electricity, critical minerals and metals bring new challenges to electricity security. Solar plants, wind farms, and EVs generally require more minerals to build than their fossil fuel-based counterparts. A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired plant. Since 2010, the average amount of minerals needed for a new unit of power generation capacity has increased by 50% as the share of wind and solar renewables in new investments has risen. |
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| Another Study Shows Low-Frequency
Vibrations from Wind Turbines Can Harm Human Health P Gosselin New research by Dr. Bellut-Staeck in the journal Medical Research and Its Applications suggests chronic infrasound exposure can lead to serious blood vessel problems. This underpins earlier literature that have reached the similar conclusions. But the government refuses to accept the results. Wind turbines are known to disrupt wildlife and severely damage the surrounding biotope, And, despite being inaudible, it is known that low-frequency vibrations from wind turbines can be harmful to human health. |
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| 'Full-Blown Scandal': Biden-Harris
Admin Hid Documents to Justify Fossil Fuel Crackdown, Oversight Committee Says The Biden-Harris administration is allegedly covering up an internal study conducted in 2023 that would have rendered its moratorium on natural gas projects unnecessary, according to leaders on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee... According to a letter that Republican leaders on the House Oversight Committee sent to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday, however, there is evidence the Department of Energy already conducted such a study months before announcing the policy. And, the lawmakers added, the agency has sought to stonewall information requests to obtain that study. |
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| Ilhan Omar's Daughter Isra's Grift:
Reparations Payments It seems the grift is strong with Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi. It seems she’s been receiving reparation payments from her pals at Columbia over the last few years. Oh, they might be termed “donations,” but the fact is, they are extortion payments. Keep in mind, this is the same gal who cried buckets of alligator tears when she ended up supposedly homeless after participating in pro-Palestine/Hamas/terrorist protests and trashing the Columbia campus while virtue signaling in tents set up in the Quad. |
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| Seven Jewish Israelis Arrested for
Spying for Iran on Security Figures, IDF Bases Seven Israeli citizens were arrested last month on suspicion of spying for Iran for as long as two years, carrying out hundreds of tasks at the behest of the Islamic Republic, prosecutors said on Monday. “This is one of the most severe cases we’ve ever investigated. There is a real possibility that the main charge will be aiding the enemy in wartime, for which the penalty is death or life imprisonment,” said Chief Superintendent Yaron Binyamin, who heads the Lahav 433 serious crimes unit of the Israel Police. |
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| Russia Supplied Satellite Targeting
Data for Iran-Backed Houthi Attacks on Western Cargo Ships Russia provided satellite targeting data to the Houthis in Yemen, aiding the Iran-backed terrorist group’s missile and drone attacks on Western ships in the Red Sea this year, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Houthis used the targeting data, which was funneled through members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stationed in Yemen, to coordinate and expand strikes on ships along the vital global trade route, according to an individual familiar with the matter and two European defense officials. |
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| Transgender Suspect Released by
Non-Binary Judge Charged in Fatal Stabbing of Off-Duty Officer Monday in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, an off-duty officer was found stabbed to death along the Montour Trail while out for a run. Now local officials are calling for the resignation of Judge Xander Orenstein, the non-binary jurist whose soft-on-crime cashless bail decisions allowed a homeless gender ideologue suspected of the homicide to be released in the first place. An update on the investigation from the Allegheny County Police Department detailed that 25-year-old Anthony Quesen had been arrested and charged with Criminal Homicide for allegedly fatally stabbing 44-year-old Brallier in the back, upper chest, and left hand. |
President Judge had Orenstein removed for indefinite period of time |
| Arizona Teen Plotted Massacre at
Phoenix Pride Parade. Here’s Why You Haven’t Heard About It. Robert Spencer A 17-year-old in Peoria, Ariz., has been arrested over his plans to load up a drone with explosives and send it into the Phoenix Pride parade. He was hoping to “bomb 2024 Pride Parade and take over USA” and said that he had ordered bomb-making equipment. He was, however, discovered and stopped before he could carry out his attack. Still, you should have heard about a terror plot of this magnitude, yet the establishment media is maintaining near-radio silence about it. |
Never say the words jihad or Muslim |
| We Need to Talk About Islam Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack Although the powers-that-be are loath to admit it, the main driver of the great increase of anti-Semitism in the UK over the last year is the growing influence of Islam in the UK. We have a large number of Hindu immigrants, of Sikhs, of Polish and Ukrainian Catholics, but we don’t find them organising marches through our cities crying out for the destruction of Israel and its Jews. Polish Catholics and Indian Hindus are not noted for acts of terrorism in the UK. Europe is hosting significant numbers of Ukrainians, refugees from the war. Yet, no matter how strongly they feel about the war, we don’t find them marching through London, Berlin and Paris every weekend calling for the destruction of the Russian state and its people. |
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| LA Times Staff
Resigns After Being Asked to Publish Facts After being in business for 143 years, The Los Angeles Times is shutting its doors because its entire staff resigned in protest after being asked to publish factual information. Provoked by a new editor-in-chief who thought newspapers were supposed to report facts, several senior reporters banded together to rally everyone to quit their jobs and do literally anything else. "I've wanted to be a reporter for as long as I could remember," said former political correspondent Iago Mendax. "But telling the truth? What does that have to do with reporting?" |
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| Bob Casey Says He Has No
Plans to Introduce Fracking Constraints. He Did So 6 Times. Chuck Ross Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, running for reelection in one of the most closely watched races in the country, recently said he opposes efforts to "constrain" the fracking industry, which employs more than 20,000 Pennsylvanians. But Casey has repeatedly introduced a bill during his 17-year Senate tenure that would give the federal government "rigorous oversight" of fracking and which industry groups say would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. Fracking, a process used to extract natural gas, has become a hot-button issue in Pennsylvania, thanks to the Keystone State’s heavy reliance on the industry and pressure from the Democratic Party base to regulate or ban the practice. Many of those concerns center on Vice President Kamala Harris’s comments in 2019 that she is "in favor of banning fracking." |
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| Kamala Harris’s
Irresponsible Proposal to Expand Medicare Michael F. Cannon | Cato Institute Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris proposes to expand Medicare by having it subsidize in-home long-term care for enrollees -- paying for someone to help them with activities of daily living, that sort of thing. One report estimates the proposal could cost the federal treasury $40 billion per year – more than double the amount of the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Harris would have to pay for it by squeezing inefficiencies from other parts of Medicare, principally Medicare subsidies for prescription drugs. It is difficult to overstate the irresponsibility, corruption, and insanity of this proposal. |
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| Bill Touted by VP Harris Would Have
Given Millions of Illegal Immigrants Citizenship Vice President Kamala Harris touted an immigration bill from 2021 as evidence that she and President Biden worked to strengthen U.S. immigration policies ahead of the migrant crisis that has rocked the U.S. in the last three and a half years. A review of the bill, however, shows it would have paved the way to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. |
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“EPA and DOE Rush to Give Away
Billions” Washington
(AP) — The Biden administration is shelling out billions of dollars for
clean energy and approving major offshore wind projects as officials
race to secure major climate initiatives before President Joe Biden’s
term comes to an end. Biden wants to establish a legacy for climate
action that includes locking in a trajectory for reducing the nation’s
planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. Former President Donald Trump
has pledged to rescind unspent funds in Biden’s landmark climate and
health care bill and stop offshore wind development if he returns to
the White House in January. |
No problem. They can always print more. |
| Drug Costs Explode As Kamalanomics
Massively Backfires I & I Editorial Board Go to Kamala Harris’ campaign website and among the very short list of alleged achievements is this: “She cast the deciding vote to lower drug prices and cap insulin prices for our seniors.” The only problem is that drug costs for seniors have skyrocketed since Harris signed that bill. |
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| Famed
‘Plagiarism Hunter’ Busts Kamala Harris Book: ‘Copied Virtually an
Entire Wikipedia Article,’ ‘Fabricated a Source Reference’ John Nolte Dr. Stefan Weber, an internationally famous “plagiarism hunter,” has discovered that Kamala Harris “plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal justice book, Smart on Crime,” Christopher Rufo reports. The 2009 work of non-fiction, co-authored with Joan O’C Hamilton was, per Wikipedia, “[f]irst published as Harris (then the San Francisco district attorney) was beginning her 2010 campaign for California Attorney General” and “outlines her vision of how the criminal justice system should function.“ In his summary of findings, Dr. Weber writes, “Kamala Harris copied virtually an entire Wikipedia article into her book without providing attribution to Wikipedia.” |
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| FBI Juked the Crime Stats, Quietly
Revises David Strom We all knew it was true. As with the jobs numbers, the crime numbers the administration advertises turn out to be manipulated to make the Democrats look much better. The Harris campaign has been touting a substantial reduction of crime under their policies, and as with the economy, our experience contradicts the numbers. We see the increased crime every day, but the FBI and the Biden/Harris team have been telling us "don't worry, be happy." |
The "error" was not minor – it was huge! |
| O'Leary Calls Out Kamala Harris'
'huge miss' for Her Campaign: This Could Have Been a 'magic moment' Kayla Bailey During her first Fox News interview, Kamala Harris was pressed about the Biden administration's immigration strategy, where she missed a potentially "incredible moment" for her campaign, according to ‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O'Leary. On Wednesday night, ‘Special Report’ host Bret Baier pressed the vice president on the tragic deaths of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and [Rachel] Morin, all young women who were assaulted and murdered by suspects who entered the country under the Biden-Harris administration. "Do you owe their families an apology?" Baier asked. |
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| Liz Cheney Contacted Controversial
J6 Witness on Encrypted App Behind Lawyer's Back, Messages Show John Solomon and Steven Richards While vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former Rep. Liz Cheney used an encrypted phone app to directly and indirectly communicate around defense counsel –and possibly ethical rules – with a witness who would later change her testimony in shocking fashion, according to evidence obtained by congressional investigators and Just the News. Cheney’s Signal communications with witness Cassidy Hutchinson on June 6, 2022 and her friend, Alyssa Farah Griffin, were recently obtained by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee that has identified significant problems with the original Democrat-run inquiry into the Jan. 6 incident. |
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| New
Report IDs Groups in U.S. Allegedly Promoting Pro-Iranian Propaganda, One Met with Kamala Harris A dramatic new report from researchers at George Washington University identifies a dozen organizations, some operating in the U.S. under tax-exempt status, whose purpose is to promote pro-Iranian propaganda, and includes photos of Vice President Kamala Harris happily interacting with one alleged operative: Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi. [T]he Oct. 9 report, "Propaganda, Procurement and Lethal Operations: Iran's Activities Inside America," describes Elahi as a radical who has likened Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “Hitler” carrying out a "holocaust" against the Palestinians and who has referred to the Israeli military as a “terrorist cult.” |
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| Pro-Palestine 'Abandon Harris'
Movement Expands Reach Into Swing States Georgia and Wisconsin The predominantly Muslim and Arab group "Abandon Harris" said on Friday that it is expanding its reach into two crucial swing states, potentially pulling critical votes away from Vice President Kamala Harris. The movement calls for voters who support a permanent end to the conflict in Gaza to support Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein instead of Harris in the swing states of Georgia and Wisconsin. They have labeled Harris as a "pro-genocide candidate" due to her support for Israel. |
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| Why
Leftists Keep Lying About The Second Amendment Lawrence Person In a world where Democrats can read and understand the plain text of the Heller decision elucidating the fact that the Second Amendment “protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia,” we wouldn’t the following video. Sadly, so powerful is the Democratic Party’s lust for complete civilian disarmament, that doesn’t seem to be the world we live in. |
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| Electrifying Everything Means
Higher Energy Costs for Consumers. These DOE Numbers Prove It (Again) Robert Bryce Last year, Stacey Abrams, a prominent Democrat who served in the Georgia House of Representatives for 10 years, joined Rewiring America as a “senior counsel.” In a press release, Abrams said she was excited to join the dark money NGO because she wants to help promote its electrify everything agenda and to “share the benefits of electrification.” One of the richest climate NGOs in the US, the Natural Resources Defense Council (annual revenue: $193 million), claims that “done right,” electrifying everything will “bring big benefits to environmental justice communities,” including “lower energy costs.” Except it won’t. |
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| Peer-Reviewed Study: CO2 Emissions
Have Zero Impact on Global Temperatures WorldTribune Staff Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the atmosphere have no impact on the Earth’s global temperatures, according to a peer-reviewed scientific study. The study, published in Science Direct, concludes that even though most publications attempt to depict a catastrophic future for the planet due to an increase in CO2, there is serious doubt that this is, in fact, the case. |
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| Democratic Maricopa County Attorney
Candidate Supported by Soros-Funded Group, Pushes Back on Cops In a close race for the Maricopa County Attorney’s office, the Democratic candidate is supported by a group funded by progressive megadonor George Soros and promotes clamping down on police. Tamika Wooten, the Democratic candidate who is running against Republican incumbent Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, has said she would push back on police officers by withholding pay from them if they do not have their body cameras on. She also sided with the U.S. Department of Justice’s assessment of the Phoenix Police Department, which the federal agency wants to have monitored. |
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| Oklahoma Superintendent’s Response
to Lawsuit Over School Bibles Is Straight Fire: ‘I will never back down’ Vivek Saxena A group of parents, teachers, and ministers have filed a lawsuit to stop Oklahoma from purchasing a Bible for every school in the state. As previously reported, over the summer Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters, a Republican, announced plans to purchase a Bible for every school in the state. “Effective immediately, all Oklahoma schools are required to incorporate the Bible, which includes the Ten Commandments, as an instructional support into the curriculum across specified grade levels, e.g. grades 5 through 12,” he said. |
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| Electric Buses Recalled: FTA Warns of Fire Hazards in Recent Advisory The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recently advised transit agencies about fire risks associated with certain electric buses. This advisory affects approximately 483 buses manufactured between 2019 and 2022 by Proterra, underscoring the serious safety concerns. The safety defects involve overheating in the radiator fan’s electrical circuit, potentially leading to fires. The recall of these buses has been spurred by both the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and increasing reports of smoke appearing in these buses. Among the affected models are Proterra Catalyst buses from 2019 to 2021 and the Proterra ZX5 buses from 2020 to 2022. Phoenix Motorcars, which took over Proterra’s transit bus line following the company’s Chapter 11 filing, is conducting a recall. |
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| Rachel Levine Must Resign Andrew Sullivan I have to say that the news this week has made me reconsider voting for Kamala Harris. What news? [T]he discovery from a lawsuit against the State of Alabama over its ban on the medical sex reassignment of children has left me reeling... So they removed the [the minimum, 18-yrs] age limits! For these procedures, among others: removal of both ovaries; double mastectomy; turning a girl’s clitoris into a micro-penis; surgically removing a boy’s penis; surgical and chemical castration of boys; and permanent removal of the capacity for orgasm for both boys and girls. I repeat: permanent removal of the capacity for orgasm for both boys and girls. But this never happens, we were told! Another lie. We now discover, from insurance claims, that at least 14,000 minors have been transed either chemically or surgically in the last five years. At a minimum. |
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| Texas Sues Doctor for Gender
Transition Treatments on Minors, in Violation of State Law Frieda Powers A Texas doctor is being accused of providing “gender transition” hormones to minors in violation of state laws that ban transgender medical procedures for youth. Dr. May Lau is facing a lawsuit for “blatantly violating Texas law” for allegedly giving hormone treatments to nearly two dozen minors, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced. “Texas passed a law to protect children from these dangerous unscientific medical interventions that have irreversible and damaging effects,” Paxton said in a statement. “Doctors who continue to provide these harmful ‘gender transition’ drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” |
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| IRATE Father Scolds ‘Cowardly’
School Board After 8-Yr-Old Girl Reports a Boy Watched Her Use Restroom Sierra Marlee Father Brandon Matthews took a flamethrower to the Cabarrus County School Board after it was reported that a young boy watched his little girl use the bathroom. “I see cowards, first off,” he opened his speech, gesturing to the entirety of the board. “Quit smiling, why are you smiling? The one girl that went to the bathroom and went to the office to try and have something done about it, they said they couldn’t do anything about it because of Title IX, correct? Well, there is something you can do, you can create policy that goes out to the girls that says they can use the staff bathroom.” “My daughter, right here, sweetheart tell these people, do you want a little boy to watch you pee?” he asked the young girl standing next to him. “No,” she responded firmly. |
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| Transgender Coach, Rehired Due to
‘Transphobia’ Concerns, Resigns After Porn Videos Surface A transgender high school tennis coach who, despite complaints of inappropriate behavior, was rehired due to concerns of “transphobia,” has now resigned after a pair of videos surfaced of him engaged in vulgar behavior. David Yates, who goes by “Sasha,” got his job back via a 6-2 vote by the Gettysburg Area School District board last summer. Many in the local community favored Yates’ rehiring, claiming transphobia was behind his firing in the first place. But as The Daily Wire reports today, many of Yates’ supporters now “have gone silent.” |
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| Biden-Harris Admin. Hasn't Provided
Congress with Status of Lost Unaccompanied Minors Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the Biden-Harris administration has "left Congress in the dark" on the status of unaccompanied minors that the government has lost track of and still hasn't provided reports on the situation to Congress. The minors were released in the U.S. from the border. Grassley's office said the reports are "overdue," noting in a press release that the "current administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) hasn’t completed a single annual report on its immigration-related expenditures, policies or statistics since taking office." |
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| AZ Republican Legislators Ask
SCOTUS to Intervene on Transgender Girls in Sports Arizona’s Republican legislators are requesting a writ of certiorari, requesting that SCOTUS review a ruling from last month from the Ninth Circuit panel of judges out of San Francisco allowing two transgender teenage girls to play on girls’ school sports teams. Arizona’s Legislature enacted the Save Women’s Sports Act (SWSA) in 2022 in order to “create an even playing field for women and girls at Arizona's schools, colleges, and universities in response to the growing number of cases nationwide of biological males robbing females of athletic opportunities and endangering the physical well-being of women and girls in sports competitions,” according to an Oct. 17 press release from the Arizona’s Senate Republicans. |
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