16th October 2023
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15th October 2023
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15th October 2023
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14th October 2023
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13th October 2023
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13th October 2023
NewsBusters.
Basically, you’re hosed.
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12th October 2023
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12th October 2023
New York Times.
With about 66,000 students — more than the public school enrollment in Boston or Seattle — the Pentagon’s schools for children of military members and civilian employees quietly achieve results most educators can only dream of.
On the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal exam that is considered the gold standard for comparing states and large districts, the Defense Department’s schools outscored every jurisdiction in math and reading last year and managed to avoid widespread pandemic losses.
Modern ‘journalism’ requires that every article be started with a ‘heart-warming’ (or ‘chilling’) anecdote. Just ignore it and cut to what used to be called the Topic Sentence. (Sometimes the old ways are best.)
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11th October 2023
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10th October 2023
Biden admin has let 99% of migrants stay in US since 2021: Congressional report (N.Y. Post)
Prosecutor: Weiss Wanted to Charge Hunter Biden in D.C.
“A Real Trend”: Trump Now Ahead Of Biden In Key Battleground States According To Polls
ABC Skips Biden’s $6 Billion Iran Payment, CBS, NBC Note GOP Criticism
Biden interviewed about classified documents found at his office, home (Washington Poop)
The White House and lawmakers weigh linking Ukraine and Israel aid (NBC News)
Senior Biden Adviser’s Legal Group Pledges To Defend Hamas Sympathizers in New York City
Biden’s 2nd Try to Void Student Loans Moves Forward
Cut to Special-Operations Forces ‘Weakens’ National Security
Biden faces a host of crises and a stress test for his theory of the presidency (Politico)
Obama’s Coming Fourth Term
Bidenomics: National Debt Increases By Another Half-Trillion In Just 20 Days
Navy Misses Recruiting Goal by More Than 7,000 Sailors as Services Fall Short on Efforts to Bring in More Troops
In Search of Kamala Harris (N.Y. Times) Be careful what you look for, you just might find it.
Ticket Fees, ‘Big Pharma,’ and Indigenous Green Energy: Here Are the Issues Biden’s Admin Pushed Ahead of Israel
Iran Has Made $80 Billion in Illicit Oil Sales Since Biden Took Office Destroying their means of extracting, refining, and shipping oil would be a good first step.
Data Reveals Over 70,000 Illegal Aliens From Terrorist or Suspect Nations Encountered at Border
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9th October 2023
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8th October 2023
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7th October 2023
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6th October 2023
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6th October 2023
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Net worth before his term as president and after.
- Trump—3B to 2.3B, loss of 700 million
- Obama—1.3M to 70M, gain of 68.7 million
- Bush—20M to 40M, gain of 20 million
- Clinton—1.3M to 241.5M, gain of 240.2 million
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4th October 2023
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2nd October 2023
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It has become painfully clear in recent decades that, more and more, the major stumbling block in weapon acquisition programs is software, rather than hardware.
The F-35, for example, has failed on the software side of things rather than the hardware. The all-encompassing, mission planning, parts inventory controlling, maintenance regulating, aircraft health assessing ALIS software has been a colossal, and to date, unrecoverable, failure. Further, the F-35 was planned to be fully combat capable only with the advent of the Block 4 software upgrade which is now hopelessly behind schedule and has had many of its planned features deleted or deferred to some undetermined future time.
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1st October 2023
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30th September 2023
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29th September 2023
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27th September 2023
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27th September 2023
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Senate Majority Leader Schumer’s announcement that members of the not especially respected body will be able to wear what they want means that out go the business suits and in go Sen. Fetterman’s basketball shorts. The point of the old dress code was that the Senate was engaged in serious business and its members should look like adult professionals.
But what if its members, like Sen. Kyrsten Sinema or Sen. John Fetterman, aren’t adults? Sinema and Fetterman have both taken to wearing what feels good rather than attire that treats the offices they hold with due seriousness. And they are just flaunting what so many members of Congress already believe: that the office is all about their self-expression and about them.
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27th September 2023
The Antiplanner.
Kansas City voters sensibly rejected spending money on light rail at least seven times. But that common sense apparently didn’t extent to streetcars, which are an even dumber idea than light rail as streetcars are slower than buses, far more expensive, and can’t get out of their own way if one breaks down.
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26th September 2023
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25th September 2023
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25th September 2023
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24th September 2023
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23rd September 2023
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22nd September 2023
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22nd September 2023
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Not his first rodeo.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife Nadine have been indicted in New York for allegedly accepting bribes in relation to an allegedly corrupt relationship they had with three businessmen from their home state. The indictment also charges three businessmen, Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes.
“Those bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value,” reads the indictment.
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In June of last year, federal agents searched Menendez’s New Jersey home, where they found “fruits” of the pair’s “corrupt bribery agreement” with the three businessman – including over $480,000 in cash, some of which was stuffed in envelopes, and $70,000 in Nadine Menendez’s safe deposit box.
They also found gold bars worth over $100,000, “provided by either Hana or Daibes.”
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21st September 2023
Adams, Hochul call Biden’s protection of Venezuelans a game changer in migrant crisis for NYC (7 New York)
Biden administration announces relief for Venezuelans in the US, likely appeasing New York City officials (CNN)
Healey gets wish as U.S. offers some Venezuelan migrants legal status, work permits (CBS News)
U.S. Will Allow Nearly 500,000 Venezuelan Migrants to Work Legally (N.Y. Times)
Stocks & Bonds Slammed As Powell Pi$$es In Next Year’s Punchbowl
Biden’s Defenders Are Blowing Smoke
WATCH: NBC’s Guthrie Hammers Blinken on Giving Iran Billions, More Ukraine Funding (NewsBusters)
Merrick Garland hearing: Texas representative grilled Garland over whether his department was still targeting parents (Washington Examiner)
Lawmakers Aim to Put Price Tag on ‘Financial Costs of Mayorkas’ Open Border’ (Daily Signal)
Designer Gets Back Clothes Stolen by ‘Genderfluid’ Ex-Biden Official (Washington Free BeaconO)
WATCH: ‘Sanctuary’ Dems Decide They Don’t Love Migrants So Much After All (Washington Free BeaconO
Biden Admin Cancels $37M in Student Loan Debt (NewsMax)
7 Takeaways From Merrick Garland’s Testimony to House Panel (The Foundry)
25 Governors Demand Transparency From Biden on Impacts of Border Crisis (The Foundry) Good luck with that.
Border Patrol Closes Bridge on US-Mexico Border
Elon Musk Says “Strange Almost No Legacy Media Coverage” On Worsening Southern Border Crisis
ABC & NBC Cry: ‘GOP on the Attack’ Against Biden AG Merrick Garland
California Awarded $100 Million From Fed To Plant Trees To Combat Extreme Heat Ka-ching!
CBS Joins ABC on Biden Border Crisis, NBC Skips
Inside Biden’s Bogus Illegal Immigrant ‘Visa’ Program (The Foundry)
4 Ways Washington’s Spending Spree Caused Inflation With Trillions in Waste, Fraud (The Foundry)
White House to Ambassador: Stop Taunting China (NewsMax)
Blame Bidenomics for UAW strike (Washington Examiner)
Graham to Newsmax: Venezuelan Work Permits Will Bring ‘Another Million’ to US
Amid new border strains, Biden extends legal status to 470,000 Venezuelans (Washington Poop)
Joe Biden Defiles The Corpse Of The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
WATCH: Kamala Says Young People Aren’t Buying Homes Due to ‘Climate Anxiety,’ Doesn’t Mention 7% Interest Rate
Biden’s EPA Has Spent Millions on Military Grade Equipment. A GOP Senator Wants to Know Why.
Illegal Border Crossings Approach All-Time Record Levels
Chinese Spy Ops on U.S. Soil Soar Under Biden, GOP Rep Says
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21st September 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
More accurately, clothes reflect the man. John Fetterman dresses in a manner that is deliberately slovenly and inappropriate, and that appears intended to mock the institution of which he is a member. But it’s not just that: the rest of his conduct is similarly inappropriate and demeaning to the office he holds.
When Fetterman speaks, his brain damage is evident, and he can be an object of sympathy. But when he posts on social media, the sympathy factor is gone. He comes across like a troubled 15-year-old boy who never grew up.
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20th September 2023
Garland document touts DOJ’s work ahead of House testimony on department oversight (Fox)
Ray Epps, subject of Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 conspiracy theories, charged by DOJ (NBC News)
Ray Epps, Target of Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory, Charged in Capitol Attack (N.Y. Times)
Pro-Trump protester Ray Epps set to plead guilty to Jan. 6 disorderly conduct charge (CNBC) Not, you will not, insurrection.
Ray Epps, focus of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory, is charged in Capitol riot (Washington Poop)
Biden gives Bronx cheer to NYC, snubs meeting fellow Democrat Mayor Adams as migrant crisis surges: ‘A terrible look’ (N.Y. Post)
Biden administration’s ‘abject failure’ on immigration creating ‘Biden-villes’ in NYC: Councilman Joe Borelli (Fox)
Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul call the migrant influx ‘unprecedented’ – historians disagree (The Gothamist)
Amid Surge in Illegal Alien Encounters, GOP Senators Push ‘Secure the Border’ Bill
Cargo Lot at Bridge of Americas Closed to Stem Migrants
Here’s Another Way the Biden Admin Might Push Illegal Student Debt-Shifting Scheme
Harvard/Harris Poll: Biden Trails Trump, Haley, Scott
WATCH: ‘The Southern Border Is Exploding Once Again’
The Biden Administration Separates Families at the Border. The Media Shrugs.
EXCLUSIVE: Economists Rip Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist’s Fairy Dust Defense of ‘Bidenomics’
Deliberately Distorting Data To Downplay Devastation Of Bidenomics
Biden to create new office of gun violence prevention (Washington Poop) Are they going to take guns away from young black males? That’s the most effective move they could make against ‘gun violence’.
Networks Ignore Biden’s Refusal to Address Border Crisis at United Nations (NewsBustsers)
No Big Deal: Newsom Defends Hunter Biden Influence Peddling Scheme
AG Garland Faces GOP Critics Amid DOJ Scrutiny (NewsMax)
White House launches American Climate Corps (NBC News) Another jobs program for Children of the Crust (temporary) and their underclass clientele (permanent).
Migrants Hitching Rides Force Mexican Trains to Stop
Report: Pentagon Seeks to Restore Honor to LGBTQ+ Vets Retrospectively normalizing perversion. Some ‘honor’.
Shock: ABC Rediscovers Border Crisis, CBS Unearths Cartel Gun-Running Scheme
DHS Taps Spooks Who Signed False Hunter Biden Letter for ‘Intelligence Experts’ Group
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18th September 2023
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18th September 2023
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17th September 2023
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17th September 2023
Washington Free Beacon.
It pays to be a politician—literally.
That’s the argument of conservative commentator Matt Lewis’s new book Filthy Rich Politicians, lambasting the culture of corruption in politics that stems from elected officials monetizing their power in the most flagrant possible ways.
The timing of the book’s publication comes at a populist moment, with the hit song “Rich Men North of Richmond” having topped the Billboard charts and reflecting widespread angst about the growing chasm between the haves and have-nots. Lewis, refreshingly, is able to criticize the excesses of the ruling class without getting mired in the self-defeating grievance that defines so much of today’s populist movement.
Through outlining too-good-to-be-true book deals to hiring family members on staff to capitalizing on all-too-timely stock trades, Lewis takes readers through an eye-opening tour of lawmakers’ conflicts of interest that leave so many Americans jaded toward the Swamp that is Washington, D.C.
As Lewis puts it: “The rich get elected and the elected get rich.”
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16th September 2023
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16th September 2023
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15th September 2023
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14th September 2023
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14th September 2023
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Miami International Airport surveillance video allegedly shows two Transportation Security Administration officers stealing money from the bags of passengers going through the screening process.
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14th September 2023
The Foundry.
Want a soda? You’ll pay more for one in Philadelphia, because five years ago, local politicians decided to tax it.
They’re “protecting” people, they said. The tax would “reduce obesity” and “lower diabetes rates.”
But the politicians’ main goal was to bring in more money, which they said would “fund early childhood education” and “help a lot of families.”
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14th September 2023
The Foundry.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says he would eliminate five federal agencies if elected.
Ramaswamy, a successful entrepreneur and businessman, says he is eyeing the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Education, and the Commerce Department, Axios first reported Wednesday. The Republican hopeful also targets the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“The CEO, the leader of the executive branch, does indeed have the authority to decide who is and is not hired in the executive branch,” Ramaswamy said Wednesday in a speech at the America First Policy Institute. “Speaking as a CEO, if somebody works for you and you can’t fire them, that means they don’t work for you. It means you work for them.”
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