American Thinker,
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Monica Showalter
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Joe Biden — a politician with a long history as a liar, prevaricator, plagiarist, machine pol, pocket-liner, political weather vane, election cheat, and general eff-up — has one idea and one idea alone now that he's president: to expand big government. For him, there's nothing that can't be solved with money. He denies there are costs.
You can see it in his multiple stimulus bills and bailouts that got through thus far, but also in his biggest granddaddy of them all — his $3.5-trillion government spending "reconciliation" bill he's trying to shove through Congress (snip)
There's news for him, from CNN's Chris Cillizza, of all people:
USA Today,
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Monique O. Madan
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10/15/2021 11:59:34 AM
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When Champlain Towers South ascended from the beachfront 40 years ago in the quaint Miami suburb of Surfside, the new condominium gleamed with promise.
It was the first swanky high-rise condo in the tiny town, and it solidified the neighborhood as a gathering place for the rich and famous such as Frank Sinatra, who hung out down the road. For its residents (snip) it was all about landing their little slice of paradise.
But even before developers sold off the 136 condominiums to their first owners, the construction had been botched and the building had been set on a course to rot from the foundation up, a USA TODAY
Associated Press,
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Jeffrey Collins
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10/14/2021 8:52:36 PM
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A prominent South Carolina lawyer has been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper that a lawsuit said total more than $4 million, state police said Thursday.
Alex Murdaugh was arrested at a drug rehab facility in Orlando, Florida, where his attorneys said he has spent the past six weeks since claiming he was shot in the head on the side of a lonely road near his home, authorities said.
The arrest is the latest development in six state police investigations into Murdaugh, including the deaths of his wife and son, millions of dollars missing from the huge law firm founded a century
American Greatness,
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Christopher Roach
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10/14/2021 8:00:41 PM
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Ritual humiliation of social media companies is becoming something of a tradition. Most typically, social media CEOs are hauled before Congress, harangued for a day, promise to “do better,” and then go back to business as usual.
Last week a new kind of social media witness appeared: a whistleblower. Frances Haugen emerged with a great deal of fanfare, complete with a public relations firm, a verified account on Twitter, and a fawning entourage, including members of the press and Congress. But instead of denouncing social media for its excessive power, (snip), Haugen pleaded for regulations that happen to align with the peculiar values and interests of Silicon Valley.
American Greatness,
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Brian Lonergan
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If there is one thing most Americans can’t stand, it is flagrant examples of government waste. (snip)We still have government waste today, but with a price tag that is orders of magnitude higher and with this cherry on top: It is causing existential damage to our nation, both now and in the future.
Rather than just overpaying for goods and services, our government today buys materials and then pays contractors not to build anything with them. This is currently happening at our southern border in Texas, where the Biden Administration is refusing to build the border wall with materials already paid for during the Trump Administration.
ZeroHedge,
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Tyler Durden
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Update (1715ET): To the surprise of absolutely nobody, CNN is in major damage control mode after Joe Rogan slammed the network over their coverage of his use of Ivermectin as part of a cocktail he used to treat Covid-19. (Tweet) Note how CNN's framing is absolutely disingenuous - with Lemon suggesting they didn't slander Rogan for taking 'horse dewormer' - whiled Gupta lied when he said there's 'no evidence that it [Ivermectin] really works' against Covid.(Snip)During the exchange, Gupta conceded that his network's framing of Ivermectin, a widely-prescribed anti-parasitic which has shown tremendous efficacy in treating Covid-19, was wrong.
The Federalist,
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Ron Johnson
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Like President Biden, who said in December 2020, “I don’t think it should be mandatory, I wouldn’t demand it be mandatory,” I was opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates from the start. Unlike President Biden, I haven’t flip-flopped.
In fact, my opposition to mandates is growing stronger with each new anecdote and piece of information that shows not only how futile they are but how devastating these self-inflicted harms will be. President Biden, his administration, corporate media, and social media are denying three realities: (Snip)The two main criticisms of discussing this data from VAERS are that it does not prove the COVID injections caused these injuries (although these numbers should still alarm)
Los Angeles Times,
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David Zahniser *
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Los Angeles’ political and community leaders were stunned by the corruption indictment handed down Wednesday against Mark Ridley-Thomas, one of the city’s best-known and longest-serving officials.
Ridley-Thomas is accused of conspiring with Marilyn Louise Flynn, who at the time was dean of USC’s School of Social Work, to steer county money to the university in return for admitting his son Sebastian into the graduate school with a full-tuition scholarship and a paid professorship. Ridley-Thomas was on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors at the time. He was later elected to the City Council representing South Los Angeles.
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a shocking development for a politician who has been an influential voice
Epoch Times,
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Paul Sperry
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10/13/2021 8:43:08 PM
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Reflecting the national media’s scant coverage of the Spygate scandal, only 3 in 10 Americans say they are aware that a special prosecutor is investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia “collusion” probe, according to a nationwide survey conducted this month by TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP).
But of those who say they know of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation, most say they want him to get to the bottom of whether the FBI opened investigations into several Trump campaign advisers during the 2016 election (snip)
(62 percent) of respondents say they want the Justice Department to renew Durham’s budget for another fiscal year, the TIPP poll found,and a
Conservative Treehouse,
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Sundance
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Several news outlets (Bloomberg below) are noting the Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), has submitted the worker vaccine rule to the White House for review prior to publishing as an ’emergency temporary standard’.
While this may be seen as disappointing by many, the moment the rule hits the federal register, it will be subject to lawsuits before implementation. Until the DoL/OSHA rule hits the books, the mandate is nothing except a statement of intent.
Once the emergency rule is put into the register, then various state attorneys general and private sector employers or employees will be able to seek injunctions and challenge the legality
Conservative Treehouse,
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Sundance
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Progressive democrats, Wall Street multinationals and the RNC establishment are pouring money into republican incumbents like Liz Cheney in order to keep the UniParty structure as strong as possible in Washington DC. The RNC led by Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, is upholding a club rule not to give any republican party funding to primary challengers. (snip) Up until now, it has been grassroots donations funding GOP candidates/challengers (snip) According to the latest campaign contributions, (snip) PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, a friend of the blue-collar billionaire team and a Main Street MAGA supporter, is now stepping in to assist the challengers with financing.
Conservative Treehouse,
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Sundance
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This horrific story is grotesque and enraging. A 14 year-old student was raped and sodomized by a teenage sexual predator in Virginia on May 28th. The school never called the police and apparently wanted to keep the incident covered up because the rapist identifies as a transgender student.
The predator used the transgender bathroom policies of the Loudoun County school system to gain access to the girls bathroom, where he raped and sodomized the victim.
When the father Mr. Scott Smith went to confront the school board in June, he was arrested. (snip) National School Board Association later used the incident of Mr. Smith’s arrest to label the victim’s father
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The conventional wisdom appears to be that Haugen was a dud, a ringer…