WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 69)

Pentagon turns to press flaks and academics to help fight information wars

Hunter Biden’s career of benefiting from his father’s name (Washington Poop) The Crust gears up to ease Creepy Joe out of the Presidential slot.

Why Haven’t UAW Leaders Stood Up to Biden’s EV Mandates That Could Cost 400,000 Jobs?

Outrage Ensues After No Charges Likely In Biden Classified Document Scandal  Laws are for thee but not for me.

FAU Poll: Trump Leads Biden in Fla. Among Nonbinary Voters

DOUBLE STANDARD: Networks SUPPRESS News Of No Charges In Biden Classified Docs Case

Taliban Pocketing $2.5 Billion In US Taxpayer Humanitarian Aid: Inspector General  Democrats never tire of giving money to our enemies.

GAO: Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Lacked Fraud Prevention

Pentagon Fails To Account For Over $3 Trillion For 6th Year In A Row

Watchdog Exposes Fraud Risks In Biden’s Canceled $430 Billion Student Debt Relief Plan

Lawmakers Press FDIC Chief Over Misconduct Charges

Media Aren’t Quite Hackish Enough for Biden White House

Biden says he still believes Xi Jinping is a dictator (CNN) At least Joe hasn’t lost all touch with reality.

Biden judicial nominee fails to explain law terms when asked by Sen. John Kennedy

Yahoo Poll: Trump Leads Biden for First Time in Months

Morning Vomit: Joe Scarborough Thanks God That ‘Brain Surgeon’ Biden Is President

Watch: Blinken Dies Inside While Biden Blunders Through Major Geopolitical Moment

The BorderLine: Will Biden Going Soft on Venezuelan Dictator Lead to Increase in Immigrants to US?

Leaked NSA Doc Reveals Woke Glossary Promoting Race Theory & Gender Ideology

The Great Train Robbery: Taxpayer Subsidies for Amtrak Should Be Derailed

NewsGuard: Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth

CNN Exclusive: Special counsel using California grand jury in Hunter Biden probe, subpoenas his uncle James Biden (CNN)

Pentagon fails sixth audit in a row (The Hill)

JESSE WATTERS: The Secret Service has been lying to you about the White House cocaine scandal (Fox News)

Photos released of cocaine found in White House this summer (CNN)

Biden Unlocks Fresh Funds to Iran Totaling Billions

Biden to nominate attorney who would be first Muslim American judge on a federal appeals court (NBC News) Would FDR have nominated a Nazi to the federal bench during World War II? I think not….

FBI Director Pleads for No Warrants With FISA 702

Hunter Biden Seeks to Subpoena Trump, Former AG Barr

Court Orders Biden Administration To Hold Oil And Gas Lease Sale

Young Voters Warn Biden of ‘Scary Election’

Navy SEAL Under Investigation After Protesting the Trans Agenda

Rep. Higgins Warns FBI’s Wray of Evidence of Jan. 6 ‘Ghost Buses’

‘Bask in the Good News’; NBC Argues We Celebrate Economy ‘Going in the Right Direction’

USPS Loses $6.5B After Crafting Plan to Break Even

Rep. Foxx Again ‘Dogs’ White House Over Commander

US extends sanctions waiver allowing Iraq to buy electricity from Iran Holey sanctions, Batman.

Administrative State Scolds Biden for Not Obeying Them

FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a ‘de facto ban’

If Biden can’t run a normal campaign, he should step aside (Nate Silver)

Biden Taps Top Campaign Donor To Lead Powerful Treasury Department Commission  Money talks.

Biden Admin Thinks Israel Seeking Pretext For Wider War In Lebanon: Axios

First photos reveal the COCAINE found in the White House: Images of the baggy in cubby hole that sparked White House investigation – and the culprit has still not been found (UK Daily Mail)

Report: Border Crisis Costing US Nearly $500B

Senate Republicans Demand Biden DOD Rescind Abortion Policy That Inspired Tuberville’s Holds

Biden Has “Hurt The Economy A Lot” According To 33% Of Americans, While Only 14% Say They’re Better Off  Those 14% must be those that have gotten a piece of the trillions that the U.S. has gone into debt since Biden was elected.

Eight NEW Biden Family Scandals ABC, CBS, NBC Are Hiding

More Than 400 U.S. Officials Sign Letter Protesting Biden’s Israel Policy (N.Y.Times) The Deep State thinks he’s being too friendly to Israel.

Migrants’ Border Wall Falls Devastating — and Costly

Illegal Border Crossings Into US Drop in October After 3 Months of Increases

Migrant Encounters at the Southern Border Remain at Record Levels in October

Oy Vey, WashPost! Quit Treating Voters Like They’re Stupid for Recognizing Biden’s Economy Sucks

Rep. Greene Chides Mayorkas Impeachment Blockers  With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

8 Republicans Voted With All House Democrats to Block Mayorkas Impeachment (Hot Air) With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

While Hamas Planned Its Attack on Israel, Biden’s Intel Community Was Focused On Climate Change

Secret Service agents protecting Biden’s granddaughter open fire when 3 people try to break into SUV (Associated Press) Crime in D.C. pretty bad when this happens in Georgetown.

Likely impeachment adds to feeble Joe Biden’s already brutal presidency (N.Y. Post)

Here’s How Biden Can Turn It Around (Politico)

NY Post’s Goodwin: Biden ‘Likely’ to Be Impeached

Why Are Americans In Such A Rotten Mood? Biden Blames The Media

Internal State Dept. memo blasts Biden, U.S. policy on Israel-Hamas war (Axios)

I Was Obama’s 2012 Campaign Manager. There’s No Need to Panic Over Biden. (Politico) As Stalin said, it doesn’t matter who votes, what matters is who counts the votes.

Report: Biden Losing Black Voter Support

Only 14% of US voters say Joe Biden has made them better off (Financial Times)

Secret Service Agent Protecting Biden Granddaughter Fires at Car Thieves as DC Crime Wave Surges

Biden Runs Against New York City

‘We Only Deal in Billions’: FOIA Documents Show Feds’ Indifference to Massive Jobless Benefits Overpayments

Biden Mulls Approval of Fresh $10 Billion for Iran

National Media Finally Notice DC Crime Wave After Biden Granddaughter Marginally Involved in 863rd Carjacking Incident of 2023

Voters are worried about Biden’s age. He knows it. (Politico)

Sullivan: White House Wants to Resume Military Ties With China

Saving Private Biden+

Joe Biden wants to complete his goals on civil rights, taxes, and social services if he’s reelected (Associated Press) Look, the sock puppet talks!

Another Government Agency Secretly Plans to Follow Biden’s Election Executive Order

The House ‘Concentrates The Mind’ Of Hunter Biden With A Game-Changing Subpoena

Defying Democratic pushback, Dean Phillips vows to invest millions in his primary challenge to Biden

Jonathan Martin: ‘Imperative’ Biden Talk 3rd Party Candidates Out of Running, ‘Stop Trump’

Thousands Already Lined Up For Black Friday After Grocery Store Offers Prices From When Trump Was President (Babylon Bee)

Moody’s cuts U.S. outlook to negative, citing deficits and political polarization (CNBC)

The House is most definitely not in order (Washington Poop) Dana Milbank loses his shit.

The Censorship “Switchboard”: A New Layer To The Biden Administration’s “Orwellian Ministry Of Truth”

White House tried, and failed, to persuade Manchin to make another Senate run

Taibbi: Big Brother Is Flagging You

Beto O’Rourke: Biden ‘Failing Us’ on Immigration  Hey, Joe, if you’ve lost Beto….

ATF Director Says Assault Weapons Ban Now On His “Wish List”

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 68)

How Joe Biden Got Paid

Bump Stock Case Could Nullify Other Biden Admin Gun Control Rules

Borrowers Got $127B in Student Loans Canceled  And taxpayers take it in the shorts.

Revelations From Special Counsel David Weiss’ Testimony On Hunter Biden Investigation

The American Mind.

On January 6, 2021, former Proud Boys’ Chairman Enrique Tarrio didn’t punch any Capitol police officers, he never “surged” forward to overwhelm Capitol defenses, he never smashed any Capitol windows or destroyed any Capitol fences, he never threw anything at Capitol police, and he never set foot in the Capitol. He never did any of those things because on January 6, 2021, Enrique Tarrio was in Baltimore, Maryland.

You might be surprised to learn this crucial fact considering that the Justice Department indicted Tarrio and several co-conspirators for seditious conspiracy, among other charges, claiming they “very nearly succeeded in provoking a constitutional crisis.” Two years later, following a four-month trial, a Washington D.C. jury convicted Tarrio and the Proud Boys of most of the counts. In August 2023, DOJ argued that Tarrio should be imprisoned for 33 years; the court sentenced him to only 22.

ThoughtCrime is apparently independent of location, or even action.

2.9 Million Borrowers Pay Nothing In Biden’s ‘Most Generous Ever’ Student Loan Repayment Plan Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

Senate Hearing Shows—Again—Why Mayorkas Should Be Impeached

DOJ: Constitution Protects Right to Travel for Abortion

Gov. Kemp Extends Gas Tax Suspension Over Bidenomics

New FBI Headquarters Headed To Maryland In Blow To Virginia Officials

Under new speaker, some Republicans hope impeachment inquiry will step carefully (Washington Poop)

Biden faces expanding list of potential challengers in reelection bid (Washington Poop)

Special Counsel Sought OK to Prosecute Hunter in 2022  Cover-up? What cover-up?

Federal appeals court calls Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ limits unlawful (NBC News)

Hunter Biden Lied To CPA, Then Scrambled To Clean Up Tax Mess During 2020 Presidential Race

Karine Jean-Pierre’s claim Biden ‘has done everything’ to fix border crisis met with mockery: ‘Speaks volumes’ (Fox News)

US Senate’s top Republican: Biden’s funding request will not pass without ‘border solution’ (Reuters)

Matthews: Joe Biden: Organized crime’s best friend (The Hill)

White House Urges Caution on Polls Showing Biden in Trouble

‘Morning in America’ Eludes Biden, Despite Economic Gains ( N.Y. Times) What ‘economic gains’?

‘Martyrs of the Struggle’: Green Group That Employs Interior Sec’s Daughter Lauds Hamas Terrorists

Report: Taliban Takes ‘Direct Control’ of Migrant Trafficking Gangs

You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop

David Weiss confirmed denial of special status in Hunter Biden case: Jim Jordan (N.Y. Post)

Special Counsel Weiss tells lawmakers politics ‘played no part’ in Hunter Biden probe (Fox News)

Special counsel in the Hunter Biden case insists he was the ‘decision-maker’ in rare testimony (WHIO)

Joe Biden’s weak polling numbers spark alarm among Democrats (Financial Times)

New emails show DHS created Stanford ‘disinfo’ group that censored speech before 2020 election (N.Y. Post)

Counterterror Director Used Hamas Attack to Justify Mass Surveillance Program Renewal (The Intercept)

Rupi Kaur rejects Biden administration’s Diwali invite over its response to Gaza (NBC News) Who? *yawn*

Weiss Claims ‘Full Authority’ Over Hunter Biden Probe

Biden’s polls (The New Neo)

Biden Checks His Latest Poll Numbers To See If Israel Still Has Right To Defend Itself (Babylon Bee)

America First Legal Files Suit Against DHS’ Experts Group

Some Democrats worry Biden’s team is ignoring political warning signs (Washington Poop) Reality intrudes yet again.

Research Flags “Concerning” Employment Losses At Nursing Homes Amid Biden Administration Staffing Push

Watchdog: Afghanistan Has Received $11 Billion In Aid From US Since Withdrawal

Biden’s stumbles spark concerns about ad strategy and surrogate operation (Politico)

Biden Confronts the Limits of U.S. Leverage in Two Conflicts (N.Y. Times)

Report: Feds Coordinated Broad Censorship of Americans on Election, COVID, More

Meyers FREAKS OUT Over Polls Showing Trump Ahead

Biden Administration Focuses on ‘Islamophobia’ While Jew-Hatred Runs Rampant

Obama Deployed to Salvage Wreck of SS Biden

The Foundry.

Although Republican senators have for months muttered their disapproval of Tuberville’s strategy of holding high-level military promotions until the Defense Department reverses its policy, this skirmish was the first time his GOP colleagues had openly rebelled against him.

It won’t be the last. These same senators—and others—are plotting with Democrats to change the rules governing the Senate to undermine Tuberville and process the promotions. Watch for news of that in the days to come.

Why would Senate Republicans fight against one of their own, especially on something as fundamental as the fight to defend the unborn? Despite their espoused principles and campaign promises, life is simply not the top priority of many elected Republicans—at least, not like it is for their voters.

Read it.

Taxpayers will be able to submit all sorts of tax documents and other communications to the IRS digitally months earlier than originally planned under a new timetable for paperless taxpayer communications announced Tuesday by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

“The impact will be significant and far-reaching,” Yellen says in a speech prepared for delivery at IRS headquarters in Washington, “and we’ll speed up processing times for the system as a whole.”

The IRS has endured decades of underfunding and been overloaded with paper documents that prevented the agency from processing tax forms at a faster pace. Yellen’s speech is intended to signal that the infusion of cash for the IRS over 10 years included in the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act is working.

Biden trails Trump in states likely to decide 2024 US election, polls show (Reuters)

CNN panelists sound alarm on ‘really scary’ poll showing Biden trailing Trump in key states (Fox News)

Why Democrats shouldn’t despair over concerning new polls about Biden (CNN)

Axelrod Suggests Biden Should Drop of Presidential Race

FACT SHEET: President Biden Advances Vision for World Class Passenger Rail by Delivering Billions in New Funding (WhiteHouse.gov) And our buggy whips are the best in the world!

Poll shows Biden support slumping among Michigan Muslims (NBC News) It doesn’t matter–what are they going to do, vote Republican? I think not.

Gavin Biden/Joe Newsom

Behind the Curtain: Biden’s race problem (Axios)

IRS Targets Conservative Group Exposing the Biden Admin

Dem Congresswoman: Minorities Fleeing Biden Because of ‘Feelings’, Lack of Civics Education

Just 1 arrest after pro-Palestinian DC protest spurs acts of vandalism, bid to scale White House fence

Treasury Borrowing Running At Crisis-Era Levels

Meacham Talks Polls on Morning Joe: Biden’s ‘Not On Trial Here, I Think We Are’

Granholm Jets Off to Puerto Rico for Sixth Time Since Last Fall

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Do you find it a little disturbing that the combat capability of our aircraft carriers has not improved since WWII and, in fact, the only really important characteristic, air wing size, has markedly decreased?

Further, when factoring in the construction cost,
Early Essex $40M ($750M in 2023) [2]
Late Essex $78M ($1.33B in 2023) [2]
Ford $16B+
the Ford represents a staggering decrease in combat value for the dollar.

It’s clear that our carriers have become less combat effective over time. I know that some of the less enlightened among you will attempt to say that a Ford can strike from a longer distance and with more precise, devastating weapons. Well, first, that’s a reflection of the air wing, not the carrier and, second, that’s an absurd comparison. The proper way to compare between WWII and today is to do so relative to the time period and the threats that existed during that period.

The Antiplanner.

Affordable housing projects aren’t making housing more affordable. In fact, says a new study by an MIT economist, construction of new subsidized housing displaces new unsubsidized housing for little net gain in the housing supply. Specifically, the study found, ten new subsidized housing units resulted in eight fewer unsubsidized units.

‘Biden, you can’t hide’: Tens of thousands march in US for Gaza ceasefire (Al Jazeera)

Evidence that Biden received payments traced to China

VP Harris’ Stepdaughter Promotes Pro-Gaza Fundraiser

Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff is promoting an $8M Gaza fundraising campaign: ‘Abhorrent’ (N.Y. Post)

Scoop: Biden’s 2024 team roiled by Israel-Hamas war (Axios)

Don’t Fall For Biden’s Latest Talking Point

Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds (N.Y. Times)

Trump Vows to ‘Build State of the Art Missile Defense Shield’

Sen. Johnson: FBI’s Cover-Up on Biden Probe “Greater Scandal’

Hundreds Join Mexico Migrant Caravan to US

Democrats Rattled After NYT Poll Shows Trump Beating Biden In Majority Of Swing States

A Paid Agent of a Foreign Power

Speaker Johnson Expects Decision On Biden Impeachment Articles ‘Very Soon’

More Terror Suspects Reaching The US: Here Are ‘Known Unknowns’ Of The Biden Border Crisis

Biden’s SPR Election Gimmick Undercut National Security

Why Biden’s Policies Are A Nightmare For Housing Affordability

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 67)

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The sense of dread that so often accompanies Mondays could feel slightly more bearable for some next week as Virginians gain another hour of sleep this Sunday from daylight saving time. (Of course, that extra rest comes at the cost of darker nights for the next four months.)

If some lawmakers had their way, the tradition would have ended in Virginia years ago because of its disruptive and impractical nature.

The latest attempt to eliminate daylight saving time in the commonwealth came from Sen. Richard Stuart, R-Westmoreland, whose bill narrowly died on the Senate floor this January.

Everybody talks about it but nobody seems willing to go ahead and do it.

Quillette.

There appears to be near-unanimity of opinion that innovative discoveries require public funding of scientific research. A quote from the Lancet neatly summarizes this view: “When governments cut research funding, they are quite literally cutting their future discovery path and hence their future economic capabilities.” The Biden administration has followed suit by asking for a large increase in science and technology funding, which it describes as “the largest ever investment for federal R&D.” This is on top of previous budgetary requests for billions more dollars to fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Cheerleaders for such an approach abound. Writers at Nature believe that such an approach will keep the US “competitive.” A statement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) reads, “The budget makes critical, targeted investments in the American people that will promote greater prosperity and economic growth for decades to come.” Science magazine also welcomed the proposal; its only real criticism was that it would be difficult to gain bipartisan support.

State investment in science is certainly nothing new, but what is fascinating is how easily it is now accepted as the de facto means of spurring scientific innovation. Pew polling confirms that, while government funding does not necessarily inspire trust in science, the public is far less likely to trust scientific findings when funded through an industry source. Additionally, 82 percent of Americans believe government investment in scientific research is usually worthwhile.

Government has two jobs: Make people safe and make people honest. Anything beyond that is corruption.

Cardona: Antisemitic Incidents on Campus Appalling

Biden weighs border deal — altering asylum law for Ukraine aid (Politico)

Steve Sailer.

I can see why Egypt or Turkey would like to own a U.S. Senator — the U.S. is the world’s most powerful country, so it makes sense to bribe a senator — but I don’t get what paying off the mayor of New York, and a rather buffoonish mayor at that, would get you.

House Republicans Subpoena Biden Administration For Afghan Refugee Records Amid Rising Terror Threats (Washington Free Beacon)

5 Takeaways as Senate Grills FBI, DHS Chiefs on Terrorism, Antisemitism, Border, Big Tech (The Foundry)

White House: Saudi Arabia is still interested in pursuing mega-deal

BAD NEWS FOR BIDEN: Kamala Harris Predicts Victory in 2024 (Washington Free Beacon)

Hawley, Mayorkas Spar Over Antisemitism in DHS

US Sanctions Guatemalan Officials for Post-Election Crisis

Psaki Knocks Speaker Johnson as ‘Christian Fundamentalist’

Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Damaging Razor Wire Along US–Mexico Border

White House Warns Biden Would Veto House GOP Standalone Israel Funding Bill  The Deep State laid bare for all to see.

White House Will Develop an Anti-Islamophobia Strategy

Rep. Comer Shows Proof of $40K Biden China-Tied Check

5 Mayors Want to Discuss Migrants With Biden

Biden’s COVID-19 Vax Mandates Spawn Lingering Bad Results

Read it.

Primates other than humans, that is. Monkeys and chimps don’t have government regulations to wade through.

Yeah, that oughta do the trick, Joe… Biden hopes to tackle AI safety with exec order (The Register)

McDonald’s Now Offering 36-Month, 0% Interest Financing On All Value Meals (Babylon Bee)

White House Accidentally Hands Out Plastic Baggies Of Cocaine To Trick-Or-Treaters (Babylon Bee)

White House shoots down GOP funding bills (The Hill) So what happened to all of this hand-wringing about ‘shutting down the government’?

Biden Throws $45 Billion In Federal Funds To Convert Offices Into Homes

Jorge Ramos: Biden Must Allow An Extra 3 Million Immigrants a Year Into The U.S. (NewsBusters)

Biden’s Cabinet Secretaries Will Push Divided Congress on Israel, Ukraine Aid (NewsMax)

Biden’s Mobile App Failed to Curb Illegal Immigration  Who expected that it would?

National Archives Sued, Reveals Existence Of 82,000 Pages Of Joe Biden Emails Using Pseudonym

IRS Chief Hints At Possibility Audits May Rise For Americans Earning Under $400,000

Harris had a contingency plan for campus protests over Israel (Politico) You might have blinked and missed it, as I did.

House Speaker Mike Johnson Vows To Continue Biden Impeachment Inquiry

Kamala Harris Urged to Call for Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire

Biden’s Gaza Stance Spurs Stunning Drop in Arab American Support (TIME) I don’t imagine that he cares all that much. What are they going to do, vote for Trump?

National Archives: 82K Biden Emails Used Fake Accounts

Watch: Reporter Exposes White House Double Standards On “Extremists”

Mayorkas Can’t—or Won’t—Say How Many Illegals Biden Admin Has Released Into US

DOJ Official Asks Google for ‘Personal’ Relationship as SCOTUS Weighs Biden Censorship Case

New York Post.

Closed-door testimony by former Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week is a chilling case study of how credible corruption allegations against President Biden and his family were covered up by the FBI and DOJ — before and after the 2020 election.

Brady’s testimony fits a pattern revealed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last week, in which over 40 confidential human sources gave information to the FBI, over several years, about potential criminal activity involving the president, his brother James and son Hunter.

In a blistering letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, Grassley alleged ongoing efforts “among certain Justice Department and FBI officials to improperly delay and stop full and complete investigative activity into the Biden family.”

Rep. Donalds: Speaker Controversy Hasn’t Sidetracked Biden Probe

Dems to Carville: Stop Talking About Biden’s Dim Reelection Odds

Biden State Department Won’t Fire Notorious Anti-Semitic Foreign Service Officer

Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Biden to Clear $127B Student Debt Despite SCOTUS

House Weaponization Panel Gets IRS To End ‘Abusive’ Surprise Visits; Taibbi Thanks Jim Jordan

White House Freezes Gun Exports In New Attack On US Gun Manufacturers

The Insidious Way the Biden Admin Forces Staff to Preach DEI

DOJ Corroborated Information From FBI Source Who Provided Biden Bribery Allegations: Official

Rep. Banks: US Military Running ‘Far-Left’s Social Experiments’

Biden’s Freefall Continues

Scarborough Hits Panic Button: Biden Getting No Credit, Trump On a Path to Win Again in ’24!

Federal prosecutor to Congress: I didn’t hinder Hunter Biden probe (Politico)

Full Phillips: ‘If this election was held today, President Biden would lose’ (NBC News)

Terror Threat Looms Over US Southern Border After Attack on Israel

The Inflation Reduction Act: A Bidenomics Loser In 2024

Cruz Recounts ‘Horrifying’ Scene at Southern Border During Midnight Patrol With Agents

Biden Admin to Unveil AI Executive Order

Harris Pushes Australian Gun Laws in Wake of Maine Mass Shooting

IRS Can Enter ‘Anyone’s House at Any Time’: Abuse Detailed in New Weaponization Report

Gun Czar Kamala Harris Praises Australian Gun Confiscation

Biden-Appointed Prosecutor Wouldn’t Cooperate on Hunter Case

Biden has succeeded all along. The media can’t ignore it. (Washington Poop) Jennifer Rubin is back with new lie.

Speaker Johnson Concerned About Biden’s Cognitive Decline

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 66)

To Choke Migration to US, El Salvador Hits Africans, Indians With $1,130 Fee

Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape God forbid anything should exist in this world without being under the thumb of the state

Biden asks ‘who the hell’ needs a high-capacity assault weapon after Maine shooting (The Hill) If even one of those victims had been packing, the death toll would be smaller.

Biden takes swipe at Trump, GOP at fundraiser: ‘Democracy is at stake in 2024’ (The Hill) Indeed–if the Democrats manage to steal two elections in a row, democracy is pretty much over.

Time To Think ‘Quadrillions’, As There’s ‘Zero Fiscal Restraint’ In D.C.

The BorderLine: Cities, States Can’t Continue to Shoulder Costs of Biden’s Deliberate Border Crisis

Republican Senator Accuses Biden Energy Loan Czar of Misleading Congress Over Funding to Company ‘On Brink of Collapse’

Show Me The Money: Comer Demands White House Prove $200K Biden-Brother Loan

66.6K Venezuelans Crossed Southern US Border Last Month, Surpassing Mexicans

AP-NORC Poll: 67% Disapprove of Biden’s Economy

Biden Uses Cheat Card Again To ID Only Two Pre-Approved Reporters With Questions

Pa. Poll: Trump Virtually Tied With Biden in Key State

Biden Encourages Converting Empty Offices to Housing

Biden Admin Under Fire For Allowing Iranian Foreign Minister to Enter US

Why Did Biden Choose Venezuela Over Canada for Oil?  Perhaps he feels more comfortable with actual socialists than with semi-socialists.

Top 5 Reasons to Oppose Biden’s Request for Extra $106B

The Foundry.

As worshippers gathered at the Calvary Chapel in 2020, they were being watched from above.

Satellites were locking in on cellphones owned by members of the nondenominational Protestant church in San Jose, California. Their location eventually worked its way to a private company, which then sold the information to the government of Santa Clara County.

This data, along with observations from enforcement officers on the ground, was used to levy heavy fines against the church for violating COVID-19 restrictions regarding public gatherings.

“Every Sunday,” Calvary’s assistant pastor, Carson Atherly, would later testify, the officers “would serve me a notice of violation during or after church service.”

Calvary is suing the county for its use of location data, a controversial tool increasingly deployed by governments at all levels—notably in relation to the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. While enabling law enforcement to more easily identify potential offenders, the practice, called “geofencing,” has also emerged as a cutting-edge privacy issue, raising constitutional issues involving warrantless searches and, with Calvary Chapel, religious liberty.

The Antiplanner.

Denver’s Regional Transit District (RTD) has announced that it is going to study the “commuter’s dream” of running a commuter rail line from downtown Denver to Longmont, Colorado. This line was originally supposed to be a part of the FasTracks plan approved by voters in 2004, but cost overruns combined with new ridership projections killed it.

…

RTD will never admit it, but the rail lines it did build were effectively a failure. In 2004, RTD promised voters that FasTracks would greatly relieve congestion by taking hundreds of thousands of cars off the road. The 2000 census found that 4.79 percent of Denver-area workers took transit to work and approximately 1.0 million vehicles were used by commuters every day. By 2019, after all but the Longmont line had been built, transit carried 4.78 percent of Denver-area workers to work and the number of vehicles used by commuters increased to almost 1.2 million.

Biden Will Not Be on New Hampshire Primary Ballot (The Messenger)

Texas Sues Biden WH to Stop Feds From Cutting Razor Wire on Border

VA Won’t Explain What It Means to Save the ‘Health’ of the Mother in an Abortion

Risk of Terrorists Crossing Border Has Been ‘Concern From Day One,’ Texas Land Commissioner Says Well, at least for some people.

A Close Look at Some Key Evidence in the Gaza Hospital Blast (N.Y. Times)

Taibbi: Newsguard Case Highlights The Pentagon’s Censorship End-Around

White House Would Rather Discuss Islamophobia Than Antisemitism

USPS Touts Crackdown on Postal Crime  I never mail anything that I want to be sure will reach its destination. Just sayin’.

FBN’s Lawrence Battles KJP Over Biden Energy Policies Giving Iran Money to Fund Terror

Hollywood A-Listers Call on Biden to ‘Not Rest’ Until Hamas Releases Hostages  Too late.

No More Excuses for Biden, Legacy Media: Illegal Border-Crossing Records Keep Getting Broken

Biden Criticizes ‘Extremist Settlers’ in West Bank

Texas AG Sues Biden Administration For Cutting Razor Wire At Southern Border

Biden Admin Picks 31 Regional Tech Hubs (NewsMax) Because everyone knows that tech innovation absolutely won’t happen without out funding from the government, right?

Top Warren aide to join Biden’s economic team (The Hill)

Hamas, Hezbollah Could Be Crossing Southern Border, Federal Agency Warns (Daily Signal)

Why Biden’s Oval Office Address Was a Disaster (the Foundry)

David Stockman on Joe Biden’s Hideous $106 Billion War Package

Biden Admin Quietly Admits Worst Ever Illegal Crossing Numbers As Axios Declares Border “More Fortified Than Ever”

President Biden’s Taunts To ‘Show Me The Money’ May Have Just Backfired

Another GOP ‘Bombshell’ About Joe Biden Turns Out To Be A Dud (Huffington Post) Circling the wagons.

No, Matthew Yglesias, ‘Biden’s Economy’ Is NOT ‘Great Everywhere’

Why Navy’s Submarine Tender Program Is Vital to Pacific Strategy

Will Supreme Court Take Down ‘Biden’s Vast Censorship Enterprise’? 

Biden Administration Runs Third-Largest Budget Deficit In History

University of Michigan Law School Exposed as Rotten to Core

Kentucky AG Calls Out Mayorkas Over Fentanyl Crisis

House GOP Wants Answers About US Weapons in Hamas’ Hands

‘The man broke my heart’: Biden’s Arab-American boosters begin to leave his side (Politico)

The United States Deficit Road To Ruin

IRS Proposes Unprecedented Data-Collection On Crypto Users

USA Today/Suffolk Poll: Trump Ties Biden in 2024 Race

Exclusive: Paul Whelan told Blinken being left out of prisoner swap with Russia painted a target on his back (CNN)

Paul Whelan to Blinken: Don’t Leave Me in Russia Again

KJP on Anti-Semitism: Let’s Talk About How Islamophobic Americans Are! (Hot Air)

Biden Admin Releases 96% of Inadmissible Aliens Who Use Its ‘CBP One’ App

Biden’s Deep State: Pentagon Employee Calls for Israeli Ceasefire on Social Media, Undercutting Admin’s Support for Jewish State

Gov. Abbott Shares Clip of Texas Border Wall Construction

Amid Weaponization Concerns, DOJ Internal Watchdog Stays Home

Has Biden’s Team Been Penetrated by Iran?  Why would Iran need to?

U.S. Deficit, Pegged at $1.7T, Effectively Doubled in 2023

FBI Races Past Protesters Screaming ‘Kill The Jews’ To Arrest Woman Praying Silently Outside Abortion Clinic (Babylon Bee)

‘Where’s the money?’ Biden demanded. The House Oversight Committee just found some (The Hill)

GOP Raising Alarm Over Joe Biden Getting $200K Loan Repayment Spurs Mockery (Newsweek)

GOP House panel raises questions about $200K check from James Biden to Joe Biden. Biden spokesman says there’s “zero evidence of wrongdoing.” (CBS News)

Record 269,735 Illegal Crossings in Sept., Record 2.47 Million for ’23

Biden Admin Reports Over 3.2 Million Illegal Aliens on America’s Borders in 1 Year

Poll: Biden Failing on Crime

Bidenomics Rejected: Trump Ahead In Swing States, Leads Among Young Voters

Venezuelans Become Largest Nationality for Illegal Border Crossings as September Numbers Surge

Biden Ignores American Victims of Islamic Terrorism

Israel strikes Gaza, Syria and West Bank as war against Hamas threatens to ignite other fronts (Associated Press)

Israel Defense Forces trade fire with Hezbollah as Israel faces rockets from Hamas (Fox News)

Israel to step up airstrikes on Gaza ahead of expected ground incursion (CBS)

Air Force chief says military will attack Hamas as if terror group were at full force (The Times of Israel)

South China Sea: China coast guard hit Philippine ship, Manila says

The Media and The Hostages: In 1979 and Today

Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll found fatally stabbed outside her home (Detroit Free Press)

Israeli morgue worker says horrors inflicted on Hamas’s victims are ‘worse than the Holocaust’ including decapitated pregnant woman and her beheaded unborn child (UK Daily Mail)

APEC Leaders Can’t Ignore Xi’s Widening Uyghur Genocide

Marines Test Rocket Launcher Armed Robo Dog

Gaza’s Ancient Christian Population Between A Rock & A Hard Place

China Has Up To 6 Warships In Mideast Waters As US Carrier Group Moves Closer To Israel

Why US Businesses Can’t Wait To Get Out Of China

University Of California Professor Threatens Pro-Israel Journalists And Their Families

6 Dead in Russian Rocket Strike as Ukraine Reports Record Bomb Attack Numbers

South Korea Says Holds First Joint Air Drill With Japan and US

Blinken Says Iran, Its Proxies Pose Risk of Escalating Ongoing Middle East war

US Jews Consider Gun Ownership, Training After Hamas Attack in Israel

Documents found on fighters reveal Hamas capabilities, bloody plans

Report From Sderot: Two Weeks

Pro-Genocide Rally In Brooklyn

In Cold Blood

Is Ukraine now the ‘Other War’

Anti-Israel Protest in NYC Ends in Chaos, Arrests

Jordan’s implosion in House speaker bid lays bare GOP civil war (Washington Poop)

Dave Chappelle fans walk out after comedian criticizes Israel’s ‘war crimes’ in Gaza: report

Why America Is Out of Ammunition

500 Biden Democrat Staffers Signed Anti-Israel Letter (NewsMax)

Reports: David Weiss to Appear Before Judiciary Panel (NewsMax)

Biden Speech: Welcome Back to the Cold War

Leadership: Biden Asks Hamas Politely If They Might Maybe Consider Perhaps Letting Hostages Go If They Feel Like It (Babylon Bee) Why is Biden always squinting, as if he just woken up, when he appears in public? (Perhaps because he just did?)

Biden Warns of ‘Islamophobia,’ Tries to Separate Hamas From Palestinians in Prime-Time Speech

3,700 Detroit Casino Workers Walk Off The Job, Strike For Higher Wages Due To Rising Cost Of Living

Trump leads Biden, builds support among young voters: poll (The Hill)

Homeland Security Immigration Officer On Leave After “F**k Israel” Post

Emerson College Poll: Trump Has Slim Lead Over Biden

Pentagon CFO’s Chief of Staff Has Family Ties to Islamic Terrorism

It Turns Out Joe Biden Is Running His Own Administration (New Yorker) Either Jonathan Chait is stupid or he thinks his readers are stupid. Of course, both could be true.

Biden Plans To Buy 6 Million Barrels Of Oil For The SPR At $79

Before Joining Biden Admin, Some White House Staffers Attacked ‘Apartheid’ Israel

Biden Appears to Read Note Aloud During Address

U.S. watchdog: Verified X accounts are main source of misinformation about Israel-Hamas war (UPI)

James Comer Finds Direct Payment to Joe Biden From His Family’s Influence-Peddling Operation

Rep. Comer: Joe Biden’s Brother Paid Him $200K in 2018

Ted Cruz Exposes Anti-Israel Elements in Biden’s State Department

Joe Biden: The Ayatollahs’ Best Friend Forever

After Crying ‘No Evidence,’ ABC/CBS/NBC Ignore Direct Payment to Biden

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 65)

As Biden Seeks Second Term, Some Voters Question His Record  No shit.

Biden declares Israel and Ukraine support is vital for US security, will ask Congress for billions (Associated Press)

US Lawmakers Demand Biden Declassify Intelligence On Gaza Hospital Disaster

Bloomberg Poll: Voters Trust Trump on Economy (NewsMax)

Why Is Education Department Afraid of Innovation in Higher Ed? (The Foundry)

Biden Losing to Trump in States Expected To Decide 2024 Election: Poll

Border Encounters in September Hit 218K, Most Since 2000

Biden Admin Official Suspended After Report She Celebrated Hamas Attacks, Worked for PLO

“I Resigned”: Senior State Dept. Official Quits Over “Unjust” Military Aid To Israel

U.S. Ambassador ‘Profited From Advising Russian Oligarch’

4D Chess: Biden Offers The Palestinians $100 Million In Exchange For None Of The Hostages (Babylon Bee)

Biden snubbed by Middle East allies as Arab world seethes over Gaza hospital blast (CNN)

The U.S. Gov’t Hired A Pro-Hamas PLO Spokeswoman To Handle Asylum Claims (Daily Wire)

Top Republican Threatens To Subpoena DHS Secretary If Friday Deadline Missed

Biden Pick for Ambassador to Israel Confronted on Iran Deal, Misleading Congress. Here Are 4 Takeaways.

CNBC Survey: Trump Leads Biden; Support Strong for Israel Funding

Biden Mulls $60B Aid for Ukraine, $10B for Israel

Sen. Lankford to Newsmax: 70K From Hostile Countries Detained at Border

Texas Places Barrier on New Mexico Border

Alaska Sues Biden Administration Over Canceled Oil, Gas Leases

Trump Is Winning Over Swing-State Voters Wary of Biden’s Economic Plan

Biden Lifts Sanctions On Venezuela Dictator Maduro In Exchange For Oil

Watch: Trump Slams Biden For Handing $100 Million To Palestinians

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The US government is the only sector to have notably borrowed on a net basis over the last five years. The market sees that as inflationary, driving yields higher.

The pandemic saw an increase in the borrowing of all sectors. But it was the government that saw the biggest rise in GDP terms, and it is the government whose debt is still considerably higher than it was before the pandemic – the debt-to-GDP ratio is up 16 percentage points over the last five years.

Biden Joins Truth Social, Immediately Gets Pummelled Into Oblivion

Axios Wants You to Know There’s NO SUCH THING as an ‘Open Border’ (Even Though It Is)

Summit With Arab Leaders Called off, Biden Heads to Israel

The New Hoovervilles? RV Villages And Make-Shift Tribes On The Rise As Inflation Bites

Saudi’s MBS Snubs Secretary Blinken, Delaying Meeting for Hours

Rasmussen Poll: Most Voters Say Biden Age Serious Issue

With US Distracted, Biden Admin Quietly Funds Open Borders Allies

Member of Iranian Influence Network To Keep Security Clearance After Pentagon Review

Protesters urging ceasefire booted from Israel ambassador hearing

Not Just $6B: Here’s How Much Money Biden Admin Freed Up for Iran Before Hamas’ Terror Attack on Israel

National Suicide In Plain View: Open Border And Sanctuary Policies Continue Unabated

Biden Admin Orders Banks Not To Reject Illegal Immigrants’ Loan Applications

Biden Health Department Forces All Employees To Use ‘Preferred Pronouns’

Emerson Poll: Trump Beating Biden by 21 in Montana

5 False Claims Jill Biden Made While Speaking to LGBT Activist Group

Biden Plans to Ask Congress for $100 Billion in Ukraine, Israel Aid (Bloomberg) Betcha most of it goes to Ukraine.

The American Mind.

Colinford Mattis went to Princeton University; Urooj Rahman went to Fordham. They earned their law degrees from NYU in 2018 and 2019, respectively, by which time they were saturated in the combustible self-righteousness of left-wing politics.

A spark arrived on May 30, 2020, when the George Floyd riots reached New York. Mattis and Rahman were angry: Rahman recorded herself opining that “all the police stations” and “probably all the courts” need to be burned down and “the only way they hear us is through violence.” She never defined “they” and never explained why she and Mattis were appropriate messengers. Their message was never particularly clear, though the “raised fist” T-shirt depicted in Rahman’s mugshot tells you what you need to know.

What was clear, however, was that Mattis and Rahman were bent on destroying a symbol of law and order. Around 1 a.m., Mattis drove a minivan toward an NYPD precinct in Brooklyn while Rahman sat in the passenger seat, armed with two Molotov cocktails. As they approached, Mattis parked the van, and Rahman exited the passenger side, ignited the incendiary, and threw the burning concoction through the window of a parked police van in the vicinity of other rioters. They fled but were arrested shortly thereafter. Police found another Molotov cocktail and precursor materials, indicating that Mattis and Rahman planned to do it again.

They were charged in a seven-count indictment. When charges were filed, a senior FBI official promised that “the consequences for conducting this alleged attack…will be severe.” Simultaneously, the NYPD’s police commissioner was “confident that the severest penalties under the law [would] be sought.” These claims were justified—one count of the indictment carried a 30-year minimum sentence.

But it never happened. Instead, Mattis and Rahman were sentenced to 12 and 15 months’ imprisonment respectively. How did this happen?

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“Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears” headlined the October 4 report in Newsweek. “The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers.” Author William M. Arkin, an “award-winning journalist” and author of best-selling books, thus sets the tone right from the top.

Donald Trump has “followers,” language readers might expect for a religious cult leader, and these followers constitute an “army.” The challenge for the FBI, Arkin explains, “is to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political parties or affiliations—even though the vast majority of its current ‘anti-government’ investigations are of Trump supporters, according to classified data obtained by Newsweek.” That data is not the article’s only source.

“A current FBI official who requested anonymity” told Arkin “the FBI is intent on stopping domestic terrorism and any repeat of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.” No pushback from Arkin on the government claim that the Jan. 6 protesters were domestic terrorists launching an “attack” on the Capitol. They weren’t, and for the best reporting on Jan. 6 see Julie Kelly at American Greatness and Substack.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

On Thursday, the Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a joint statement that cautions banks and other lenders against “discriminating” against borrowers on the basis of immigration status. These agencies admit that no such prohibition is explicit in the relevant statutes, but nevertheless, banks should beware of federal enforcement action….

“Immigration status” could simply refer to legal aliens who apply for loans or mortgages, but that phrase is usually used to refer to illegal immigrants. Commentators, as far as I can tell, have universally interpreted this statement as a warning to banks and other lenders not to “discriminate” against people whose very presence in this country is illegal. Given the lack of any qualification to the phrase “immigration status,” and the common meaning of that phrase, I think that interpretation is correct. The fact that the statement does not even bother to distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants is telling.

I wonder when they’ll get around to characterizing a bank robbery as ‘undocumented withdrawal’.

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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed an experiment in which it will provide additional benefits to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients who purchase more fruits and vegetables.

Named the Electronic Healthy Incentive Projects (eHip), the well-meaning programs are intended to encourage people on low-incomes to eat more healthy foods (MHFs).

(No, I made that last one up.)

As almost every endeavor undertaken by the government will demonstrate, well-meaning intentions that are funded via the force of law often go amiss — at best, achieving less than hoped, and at worst, achieving the opposite of what was intended.