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FBI had 14 informants on Biden corruption
but ran secret op to dismiss evidence
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The FBI and U.S. spy agencies received derogatory evidence about Joe Biden from 14 different informants but embarked on a secret operation to tamp down a Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing his family during the 2020 election by formally designating Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, key members of Congress and journalists as Russian disinformation “conduits,” according to explosive intelligence community documents declassified by the White House. A spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files and made public Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force shows that spy agencies and the FBI...
Just weeks after announcing that it will lose up to $4.5 billion this year making electric cars, Ford unveiled its next plug-in attempt: the Ford Fathom truck.
So it goes with EVs.
No matter how loudly consumers say they don’t want them, those “in the know” keep telling us that the future is electric and that success is just around the corner.
Last month, for example, the mainstream press was giddy over a slight rebound in EV sales in the second quarter compared with the first. As Business Insider put it, “The U.S. EV market comes back from the dead. Thank high gas prices.”
Tucker Carlson is likely running for President of the United States.
It pains me to say that, because he is a truly disgusting human being, and you and I will be tarred with the same brush as he will be. He used to be one of "us," if a bit on the boisterous side. And to our credit, as if that were enough, the guy was and remains deviously brilliant.
I don't expect Tucker to get a ton of votes, but he certainly can get enough to change the outcome of a presidential race should he decide to pop into the race. He does have almost 18 million followers
AOC shrugs off anything said by leftists in the period before, say, yesterday as irrelevant to judging their suitability for positions of authority.
Because, you know, "Woke One was crazy." As if people being crazy a year or five ago is no big deal.
Being crazy is, in fact, a big deal. It's not the same thing as being wrong. Everybody gets it wrong, even if they are smart and exercise good judgment. As long as they acknowledge their mistakes, explain why they made them, and are willing to learn, making a mistake and acknowledging it can actually be a good thing.
You want people who can learn, and we
The relative peace experienced in Ireland over the past three decades may be in jeopardy as descendants of the Irish Republican Army may turn to terrorism to root out migrant populations from the country, security officials have warned.
While “Ireland for the Irish” was once a common refrain amongst advocates against British control of all or part of the island, the phrase appears set to take on a new meaning of opposition to the dispossession of the native population by dint of the mass migration agenda imposed on the country by globalist governments in Dublin.
According to a report from the Daily Mail, security sources in Britain are concerned that a potential
When former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement after nearly 40 years of service, it was widely assumed that California state Sen. Scott Wiener would be the man to replace her.
However, in a plot twist in what would normally be a ho-hum race, Pelosi and the machine that she’s built has turned against Wiener, a progressive mainstay, in favor of San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan.
According to a Monday Politico report, Pelosi and her team have been working behind the scenes for weeks to try to derail Wiener’s candidacy, an effort that became very public after a spat over a chatbot campaign stunt on Wiener’s part that Pelosi insisted
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.
The devices are known as the G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, and are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky. They have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments.
Everyone loves fireworks on July 4th. Or well everyone who loves America anyway. That may not include the man from Dearbonistan.
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed once asked his YouTube viewers whether Americans could “PLEASE” find another way to celebrate the Fourth of July, in a video promising four reasons “why fireworks suck.”
In one episode that remains online, he questioned whether football could be “ethical” or “safe” and linked the sport’s “ethos” to narratives used to justify slavery and westward expansion. In another he floated replacing the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms with a constitutional right to health care.
Britain’s left-wing Burnham government unveiled plans to spread boat migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees across the country because middle-class communities haven’t taken their “fair share” yet.
Planting migrants in working-class areas — because housing there is cheap — has caused “a huge burden on local communities and created real civil unrest”, so the logical next step is to spread that to middle-class areas next, which haven’t yet taken “their fair share”, the British government has communicated. The extraordinary series of public relations flubs began on Monday when Prime Minister Andy Burnham was offered the opportunity to meet with locals from a small village about to be overwhelmed by a migrant camp
It has become clear that the Democrats hate America to the point where they are willing to destroy her rather than give up their Trump hatred. One has only to look at the candidates and representatives they embrace to see that this is so. Mamdani has begun a cascade of communists in American politics. The invasion is underway.
Trump hatred has so blinded Democrats’ sensibilities, that they have become parasites in the American bloodstream that will destroy the host rather than openly declare that they will not embrace murder and communism and an Islamic caliphate.
Over the last couple of years, especially in places like Seattle, Los Angeles, or Canada, Democrats
The Quiet Manufacturing Boom
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Beneath the cacophony of media noise, an important untold story emerges: A manufacturing boom is unfolding across America right now, and especially so in the geographic center of the country.
This developing boom represents an epochal shift because investments in factories and tangible production involve the stickiest kind of capital expenditures. The commitment to production involves a macro “bet” on a yearslong cycle, not a near-term wager on the latest fad or concerns about the price of gasoline next week.(Snip)
In addition, manufacturing employment is rising, similarly marking a new four-year record high. These jobs are high-paying, family-sustaining roles that make our whole society stronger, not part-time “hustles” or gig
Sportscaster Michele Tafoya secures GOP
nomination for Minnesota Senate, raising
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nomination for Minnesota Senate, raising
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Sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya was projected to win the Republican nomination for Minnesota's Senate seat on Tuesday evening.
Tafoya handily won the race, with her claiming 52.4% of the vote at the time of the Associated Press's 9:50 p.m. race call. Her nearest opponent was Adam Schwarze, who took 23.3% of the vote.
Her opponent was not clear as of press time, with Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, D-Minn., locked in a close contest for the party nomination.
Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent for Just the News. Follow him on X.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared on The Katie Miller Podcast on Wednesday, and it was a departure from your typical Donald Trump cabinet member interview. Rubio's wife, Jeanette, was there at his side, and the two talked about their marriage, their children, their family life, and just what they do on normal days — or whatever counts for a normal day when you're one of the most powerful men in the world. There was also a lot of talk about...well, Pop-Tarts, but it seems as though the secretary has something of a sweet tooth.
For those who might look askance at the headline to this article, I can only point out the obvious: Donald Trump would have been blamed if the big cities' crime rate rose, so that must mean that he gets the credit (or blame) when the rate of violent crime reaches historic lows.In truth, the post-COVID drop in the violent crime rate has been happening since 2022. At that time, the rate of murders, rapes, and other violent crimes could only go down. In 2020, murders were up 29% from the previous year, increasing another 4.3% in 2021.
During an interview on ABC News, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said that “Woke 1 was crazy” when trying to defend Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong. ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked about Hong’s previous statements about abolishing the police and that Americans should “cancel Thanksgiving.”
“My understanding is that — is that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her electorate,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “She’s moved away from it, and I have a local city councilman that has this saying, ‘Woke 1 was crazy.'”
Holiday-hating Francesca Hong loses to
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Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley beat Democratic socialist Francesca Hong in a come-from-behind victory during the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary Tuesday night.
Crowley was ahead of the 37-year-old state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America 39.8% to 39.4% when the race was called by the Associated Press at 3:34 a.m.
Surveys ahead of the Badger State Democratic contest had consistently showed Hong besting Crowley by double digit percentage points. Crowley had also dropped out of the race weeks before and even endorsed another opponent, before re-entering the contest and receiving the backing of outgoing Gov. Tony Evers
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed once declared his sacred "obligation" to follow Sharia law in every aspect of his life until he meets his maker on the day he dies, according to unearthed comments he made to the New York Times in 2009 as a young man buying his first home.
"Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don't want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Shariah-compliant way. Not because of fear but because of obligation," said El-Sayed,
There are good reasons why minors, generally regarded as people under the age of 18, aren't allowed to do certain things. They generally lack the judgement, the moral clarity, and the experience to make certain decisions. That is why they cannot sign contracts, buy firearms or a bottle of booze, or vote.
The left, on the other hand, seems perfectly all right with minors making one class of irreversible decision: "Gender-affirming" medical treatments. Now, though, the Trump administration has slammed the door on a source of funding for this, as the Medicaid program will no longer pay for these treatments.
American taxpayers will no longer be on the hook for child sex-change
Disaster Averted
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There have been lots of bizarre primary results around the country–mostly on the Democrat side, to be fair–but it looks like here in Minnesota, reason has prevailed.
Lisa Demuth, the Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, has been called as the winner of the Republican primary for governor. Results here. This is notable because Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy, was also in the race, and he was endorsed by Donald Trump. Trump’s endorsement was, frankly, idiotic. Lindell hadn’t the faintest qualifications to be governor, and if he had gotten the nomination, he would have been crushed by Amy Klobuchar
The late, great Margaret Thatcher once observed, “The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” That is what New York City Democrats are going to do if they persist in their outrageous new taxation plan.
At some point either this year or next year, thousands of wealthy homeowners in New York City are set to pay the pied-à-terre tax on “non-primary” homes worth over $1 million. The threat of the tax has already driven more people to rent instead of buying property, and has also encouraged the ongoing problem of top-tier taxpayers leaving the lefty state.
This concerns Donald Trump,
Former Trump attorney-turned-anti-Trump crazy person Ty Cobb joined CNN OutFront host Erin Burnett on Monday to compare a photo of new Attorney General Todd Blanche in the Oval Office with President Trump and others to Hitler, “Himmler, Goring, and Goebbels.” As if that was not wild enough, Cobb would also baselessly speculate Blanche will rig the upcoming midterms for Trump by seizing voting machines and working with Speaker Mike Johnson to refuse to give up power.
Burnett reacted to a video put out by the White House of Blanche’s swearing in by observing, “The man swearing him in is now Judge Emil Bove.
MS NOW via SnapStream An Iranian assassination plot against President Trump was apparently so credible that while leaving the NATO summit in Turkey last month, the Secret Service deemed it necessary to play a shell game with Air Force One and spirited away the President to a different Air Force plane. However, to the leftist extremists of MS NOW, it was rollicking affair. During the handoff between Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell’s The Last Word Monday night, the two laughed about situation and reveled in how Trump “lost complete control in this story.”“I am very pleased,” Maddow proclaimed
Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen revealed Tuesday that Israeli spies had “toured” Iran’s heavily fortified Fordow nuclear site “many times” to understand the underground facility before its eventual destruction by U.S. forces — offering a striking glimpse into the depth of Israel’s intelligence penetration of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
“We toured the Fordow nuclear site many times in order to understand the site,” Cohen, who led Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency from 2016 to 2021, said at the Galilee Conference in northern Israel.
Cohen did not elaborate
Tuesday on MS NOW’s “State of Play,” former CIA Director John Brennan expressed his concern that President Donald Trump would somehow interfere with the midterm elections.
Host Peter Alexander said, “The president has had a hard time getting his SAVE America Act effort through. We’ve heard a lot on this conversation as it relates to voting restrictions. He wants to pass it through Congress. He doesn’t have the votes right now.”
After playing a clip of Trump discussing the midterms, Alexander asked, “Your reaction to that? A lot of fear about what may happen ahead of these midterms.”
Brennan said, “I think we all should be very worried