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What a cowardly and shameful final chapter for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the Fifth 111 times in the Senate Wednesday even though he has a pre-emptive presidential pardon that gives him immunity from prosecution.
In the history of Congress, only a couple of mob bosses have invoked the privilege more.
“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights, under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,” the Machiavellian career bureaucrat said over and over in the nearly three-hour hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
But Fauci’s silence rendered him a villain more powerfully than his usual sly deceptions.
Shameful, too,
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Feasibility studies for a high-speed rail project began in 2006. By 2018, the first section was completed and opened, seven years after construction was started. Where is this bullet train? Not in California. It’s in Morocco.
California voters approved in 2008 a ballot measure for a “safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable alternative to driving and high gas prices” by a 53%-47% margin. Golden Staters were sold a train that would require a $10 billion bond and cost $33 billion to complete. Within a dozen years it would be ripping up and down the state at 220 mph, ferrying passengers between San Diego and Sacramento.
A survey by Michigan Education — conducted by the Glengariff Group and commissioned by the Michigan Education Association and Business Leaders for Michigan — finds Rogers leading El-Sayed by 10 points in a hypothetical matchup. Stevens holds a slim lead over Rogers in a direct matchup, with the Democrat congresswoman drawing nearly 46 percent support to the Michigan Republican’s 45 percent. Another nearly 9 percent of respondents remained undecided.
Moreover, the statewide poll of likely voters notes it has a margin of error of four points, meaning Stevens and Rogers are essentially tied in the hypothetical Senate race.
“This race is a toss-up,” the Glengariff Group noted in their survey.
Prominent parents rights’ activist says
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Tiffany Justice, a co-founder of Moms for Liberty and an influential parental rights advocate, tells Just the News that families whose kids were set back by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown may pursue legal action against Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“Fauci, by suppressing dissenting scientists, hiding the origins of the virus, acting beyond statutory limits of his position, stepped outside the protections of the Federal Tort Claims Act,” Justice said Wednesday in an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast.
She continued: “His actions were not legitimate federal duties, and it would strip away the government's protection and leave him personally liable.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stunned Republican senators on Wednesday when he refused to answer their questions about the COVID-19 pandemic by invoking his Fifth Amendment right at the start of a congressional hearing.
Unlike other instances of witnesses taking the Fifth, however, that wasn’t the end of the proceeding, as GOP and Democratic members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee continued quizzing Fauci for under four hours.
Republicans, led by Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.), demanded answers on the origins of the pandemic,
Advocates for voter ID in California have sued the state over altered ballot language for the November initiative.
The ballot initiative Proposition 39, which would amend the state constitution to require that voters provide government-issued identification to vote, originally included the description, “Establishes additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements.”
However, last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, changed the language to say: “Prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.”
Plaintiffs supporting the passage of Proposition 39 say it would not “prohibit” any votes. Under federal law—the Help America Vote Act—voters can cast provisional ballots if there is a question about their eligibility.
Both Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Bernie Moreno (R-OH) dismantled Anthony Fauci’s refusal to answer questions, pointing out that he has no leg to stand on during a contentious hearing that continually had Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment to avoid responsibility for his role in the pandemic and the many lies he told the American people throughout the years. Fauci informed lawmakers in his opening statement before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs that he would not be answering any questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights. Hawley, however, explained that his use of the Fifth Amendment is bunk.
Watch: Rand Paul Has Fauci's Obnoxious
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After reading a statement alleging that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who was chairing the hearing, had an "obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution," Fauci clammed up. Undaunted, Paul proceeded to question him anyway.
We may have been denied the satisfaction of hearing Fauci having to answer for his tyrannical reign as the COVID king – where was the "No Kings" crowd back then? – but we were treated to the delightful sight of his obnoxious attorney, David Schertler, being hauled out of the room by security after ignoring Sen. Paul's warning to keep his mouth shut.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) dropped another bombshell during Wednesday’s explosive Senate hearing with Dr. Anthony Fauci, confronting the former COVID czar with adverse event data that he argued should have triggered urgent scrutiny years ago—but instead was ignored while federal health agencies relentlessly promoted COVID vaccines and Remdesivir. Johnson’s latest exchange came after he previously confronted Fauci with stacks of studies on ivermectin and questioned why federal officials dismissed evidence supporting alternative treatments before Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during the hearing.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier just dropped the hammer on Dr. Anthony Fauci.
In a post on X on Wednesday, the Free State of Florida’s top law enforcement officer announced that his office is launching a formal state-level investigation into the former NIAID director following Fauci’s stunning refusal to answer questions under oath before Congress.
“Fauci’s lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable,” Uthmeier wrote. “My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID.”
We have been warning for several years about the “new democratic norms” being established on a very totalitarian system of control; specifically, the control of information.
The need for control is a reaction to fear.
Finland is announcing that they will sever their international internet link that is connected to Russia, seemingly wanting to build a virtual wall between Russia and the ‘west’, or at least part of a virtual Iron Curtain they can control.
Four decades ago, the voice of freedom was heard saying, “tear down this wall.” Today, the modern version of European democracy is taking action akin to saying, “we must rebuild these walls.”
President Joe “The Autopen” Biden granted Dr. Anthony Fauci full immunity that covered “any offenses against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through the date of this pardon[.]” What this means is that Fauci had two options today when he sat down before Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) committee for his U.S. Senate testimony: Fauci could either 1) tell the truth or 2) risk a contempt of Congress charge for invoking the Fifth Amendment. Well, Fauci made his choice, and in doing so, not only placed himself in legal jeopardy,
The O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released undercover video showing smoke shops and bodegas across New York City processing EBT cards for drugs and alcohol.
OMG released part one of the latest sting, dubbed, “Fraud Is The New Dope” on Wednesday.
NYC clerks were caught swiping the EBT card for illicit substances.
Per the OMG:
We went undercover inside smoke shops and bodegas across New York City to answer a simple question: Would retailers accept taxpayer-funded EBT benefits to pay for alcohol or drugs?
It is rare for me to support anything inserting more government into our lives.
However, I'm now looking at one of these exceptions.
It's the AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act. The legislation pushes back against automobile manufacturers moving to no longer include AM radio as standard equipment in new cars.
The bill mandates a Department of Transportation rule requiring that all new vehicles manufactured in the U.S. or imported come equipped with an AM radio and the ability to receive AM radio broadcasts.
At first glance, I felt, as I most always do, that what business is it of government to tell manufacturers what they should produce?
The U.S. military began conducting airstrikes against Iran late Wednesday in retaliation for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attacking a U.S. base in Jordan the day before.
The U.S. forces began firing at 8 p.m., according to the U.S. Central Command.
The IRGC fired five missiles at U.S. forces in Jordan on Tuesday evening. Hours later, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia launched strikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq, raising the risk of returning the region to all-out war.
The fresh round of strikes comes as President Trump warned Wednesday morning in an interview with Fox News that the U.S. will
President Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission (E.C.), the administrative arm of the European Union, just fined Google an additional $1 billion on top of the $12 billion that it had already fined Google. Google’s crimes include such infamies as ranking its own (free!) flight search services above similar competitors on its search pages.
In response, on July 24, President Trump tweeted on Truth Social:
The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies! ... [W]e have just been informed that Google, a truly advanced and amazing group, has been fined yet another 1 Billion Dollars. ...
The establishment has been going all out to weaken Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary.
They haven't just been backing Haley Stevens with everything they have; they even forced Democratic Party candidate Mallory McMorrow out of the race to give Stevens a clearer path to victory by ensuring the anti-El-Sayed vote could coalesce around one strong candidate instead of being split between two.
Needless to say, it hasn't worked. The latest poll numbers show that El-Sayed has been growing in strength and Stevens is slipping.
Mamdani’s grocery stores will be the
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most expensive markets in NYC — paid
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Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s short stint as a faux president ended with an embarrassing acknowledgment that he could not, as promised during his campaign, arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
So, this week, Mamdani the Grocer made a reappearance, with details on the five city-run grocery stores that he will open.
But rather than deliver discount groceries, Mamdani is selling New Yorkers a bill of goods that will cost them millions.
Dem strategist Mark Penn took to X during the wee hours Wednesday morning to warn the public about "the lie of socialism" represented by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but it's really a cry for help over what's happening to his party.
Before we get to that, however, you need to understand just what a colossal screw-up Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax really is. Because if what Penn says is correct — and apparently it is — it’s a colossal screw-up by design. And an oh-so-bitter taste of what New Yorkers are stuck with for the next three-and-a-half years.
In a piece headlined "Welcome to Socialism,"
At least three times in 1858, during speeches or in Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Abraham Lincoln brought up slavery as being on a path to ultimate extinction. Whether it was in Chicago on July 10th or Jonesboro on September 15th, crediting the nation's founding fathers as crafting the Constitution as the vehicle creating the dead-end path for that evil institution, or from the phrase's most famous citation, the House Divided Speech on June 15th in Springfield, Lincoln's meaning was quite clear.
Either the opponents of slavery
Anthony Fauci stumbled into the Senate chamber today, shaking and looking like he hasn’t slept in weeks, carrying one enormous shield: the Fifth Amendment.(snip)Fauci has backed himself into a corner where every available option right now is dangerous. Tell the truth, and he could destroy what little shred of “reputation” he has left. Lie, and he gets an all-new legal problem that Biden’s autopen pardon can’t touch.
So Fauci chose door number three: say nothing and hope the Fifth gets him out of the room alive.
But thanks to that sweeping Biden pardon, that 5th escape hatch may eventually slam shut.
As Ed wrote, Anthony Fauci did the only thing he could do to avoid going to jail: invoke his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent in the face of questions that would reveal that he and people around him committed crimes, lied to the American people, pushed policies that killed people, ruined lives, interfered in domestic politics, profited off of mass death, and conspired to hide the fact that he likely funded the creation of COVID. Sen. Rand Paul SKEWERS Fauci as he concludes his opening remarks:
"You are here today under duress. You are here today because of the court ordering it. President Biden issued you a sweeping
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) just had Dr. Anthony Fauci’s attorney escorted out of a hearing by Capitol Police.
Paul claimed that the attorney, David Schertler, was not authorized to speak and had been instructed to not sit at the witness table with Fauci — but he did so anyway.
“You will respect these proceedings. You were told not to sit at the table. You insist on sitting at the table and we told you you would not be recognized. You are not invited here for testimony, sir. You are being disruptive. Would you behave this way in a courtroom? No, because the judge would put you in jail.
Anthony Fauci on Wednesday appeared before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee, but pleaded the Fifth to avoid answering questions by Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) and others about his obfuscation of facts surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fauci told the committee in an opening statement that he believes in and respects “the value of legitimate congressional oversight,” and noted he had testified before or briefed Senate and House committees more than 200 times over his 38-year career. He mentioned appearing for hearings in the Senate and House for transcribed, sworn interviews about the Covid-19 pandemic.