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When the history books look back on 2023, the biggest American news story may be something that’s getting little attention right now: the school choice revolution.

This year, Iowa, Utah, and Arkansas have passed massive school choice bills, giving parents access to state education funding for their children and letting them decide if they want to use it at public or private schools.

Comer tightens screws on Hunter Biden art dealer, wants to know buyers, how much they paid (N.Y. Post)

House GOP says evidence against Biden family is ‘as bad as we thought’ (ABC)

Treasury Department agrees to hand over Hunter Biden files (The Center Square)

House panel set to review Biden family’s suspicious bank reports (N.Y. Post)

Rumors Swirl Over Which Biden Family Member Got Cut Of $3M CCP-Linked Wire

‘We Are Under Siege,’ Border County Sheriff Tells House Republicans as Democrats Skip Hearing

Border Patrol chief publicly backs agents falsely accused by Biden of whipping Haitian migrants

NBC Reports Biden Border Crisis Now Spreading to Northern Border

Border Chief Disputes Mayorkas: We Don’t Control Border

How to Crash the Economy, Big Government Style

NOT Mission Critical: USAF Paying Big for Diversity Bureaucrats

VP Harris: DeSantis ‘Doesn’t Understand’ Ukraine War Now that’s comedy.

Biden’s lie of the day

Hallie Biden Took Big Check From Chinese Energy Company While She Was Dating Hunter

Comer: Bank Records Show Hallie Biden Got China Cash

“This Is Sheer Idiocy”: Capital Gains Tax Can Exceed 100 Percent Under Biden Proposal

Latest Biden Admin Sanctions Waiver Allows $500 Million Payment for Iran, Tehran Says

Chef Biden Moves To Ban Gas Stoves After Promising He Wouldn’t (N.Y. Sun)

Police Lt. Explains How Cartels Are Taking Advantage of Biden’s Open Border Policies

Air Force goes on diversity, equity, inclusion hiring spree: Top job pays up to $183,500 (Fox)

Comer reveals new Biden family member has emerged in GOP-led probe: ‘We’ve got a problem here’ (Fox)

Study finds border crisis is costing taxpayers over $150 billion per year (NBC Montana)

The Upside Once The Fed Destroys The Middle Class

Some Mexican pharmacies sell pills laced with deadly fentanyl to U.S. travelers (NPR) So I guess the President of Mexico lied to us.

8 Things to Know About Biden’s Fiscal 2024 Budget, From Bad to Worse

Nets Skip GOP Acquiring Bank Records of Hunter Biden’s Associates

Taibbi: In FBI Case, The First Amendment Takes Another Bizarre Hit

Biden’s ‘La Invitacion’ to Illegal Aliens Triggered Border Crisis, New Book Charges

Rep. Comer to Newsmax: 4 Bidens Peddled Influence Globally

How The Fed Broke The Banks

White House calls on Republicans in Congress to reverse course on gun policy (CBS) Oh, like that’s going to happen.

Despite Promises, Biden’s $7-trillion Budget Shell Game Takes More of Everyone’s Money

Buttigieg: US Cannot Wait for Next Air Event  He’s talking like he isn’t the guy in charge of doing that.

Senators Introduce Legislation to Terminate Pentagon’s Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

CNN Touts Youth Disappointment In Biden Not Being Extreme Enough On Climate

Congress Takes Brief Pause From Sending All Your Tax Dollars To Ukraine To Send Them To Silicon Valley Bank (Babylon Bee)

Biden Admin Outraged That Russian Attack on U.S. Drone Was ‘Environmentally Unsound’

Iran Cashed in During Biden’s First Year in Office

Busted: Biden Lies About Supporting Gay Marriage Since The 1950s

Are There Any Limits to Biden’s Shameless Demagoguery?  Probably not.

Democrats Boycott Congressional Trip to Texas Border

Man Struggling To Feed Family Just Glad He Could Help Bail Out Bank (Babylon Bee)

John Stossel.

Your flight is delayed? Blame your government.
OK, it’s not always government’s fault. Sometimes it’s weather or mechanical problems. But often we suffer horrible flight delays because politicians won’t relinquish power.
In January, flights were grounded when the government’s “Notice to Air Missions” system broke down. That was just the latest incident.
America rightly prides itself on being on the cutting edge of innovation. But it’s the private sector that innovates. Government rarely does.
Asked if America’s air traffic control system is out of date, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg paused a long time before answering, “The system is continuously being upgraded.”
But the government’s been “upgrading” air traffic control for decades, promising to switch to a “NextGen” system that uses satellite navigation. But implementation keeps being postponed. Now the Federal Aviation Administration won’t even say when NextGen might be done.
Air traffic control is still a lot like it was in the 1960s. Controllers use paper strips to track flights. Instead of using computers, they move paper around manually.
“This is your government at work,” says Diana Furchtgott-Roth in my latest video. Furchtgott-Roth worked for the Transportation Department during the Trump administration.
I yell at her. “Air traffic control was in your department. You could have fixed it. You should have fixed it!”
She smiles and explains that although she had control of $1 billion, she wasn’t allowed to move those funds to where they were needed.
Government managers must fund projects pushed by politicians, like “Justice40,” meant to fix “underinvestment in disadvantaged communities.”
“Sounds like they mean well,” I say.
“It sounds a lot better to talk about social justice,” answers Furchtgott-Roth. “Nuts and bolts like computer hardware for air traffic control gets left behind.”

Why the US northern border is experiencing record migration (CNN) I guess Canada isn’t the socialist paradise that everyone claims it to be.

Mexico’s president says Mexico is safer than the US (CNN)

US border patrol closes bridge to Juárez after rumor causes migrant rush (The Guardian)

Mayorkas under fire after 1,000 migrants rush El Paso border: ‘Resign immediately’ (Fox)

PETA to White House: No more real eggs for Easter Egg Roll (The Hill)

FBI: Hate Crimes Up 35 Percent in Biden’s First Year

Biden: Florida ‘Close to Sinful’ for Trans Restrictions  Progressivism really is a religion.

‘Bail Out Rich People’: What You Need to Know About Biden Administration’s Silicon Valley Bank Action

Networks Ignore Dems Boycotting ANOTHER Hearing on Biden Border Crisis

The Bank Crisis Has Democrats Scrambling Behind The Scenes To Find A Scapegoat

AMLO Tells Americans That Mexico Is ‘Safe’, Despite Kidnappings And Murders

Daily Show Tees Up Biden To Condemn ‘Sinful’ Laws Against ‘Trans Kids’

Rep. Lesko: Biden’s DOE Coming for Gas Stoves

We Should Give Up the Fantasy of Solving the Border Crisis (N.Y. Times) Certainly so long as Democrats have any influence over the process.

Ex-intelligence officials challenge the Hunter Biden witch hunt (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin takes a break from bashing Trump.

‘Another Scandal’: Biden Admin ‘Radicals’ Blocked SVB Sale, Nationalized It, Then Blamed Trump For Collapse

Yes, The Latest Bank Bailout Is Really A Bailout, And You Are Paying For It

Biden Admin Promises To Tax Silicon Valley Billionaires On All The Money The Federal Government Just Gave Them  (Babylon Bee)

Pro-Lifers Targeted by Biden DOJ Challenge Constitutionality of FACE Act

Russian Fighter Jet Downs US Drone Over Black Sea

‘SSN AUKUS’: How the US and UK plan to get nuclear-powered subs to Australia

AUKUS deal: US, UK and Australia agree on nuclear submarine project (BBC)

AUKUS will bolster stability in the Asia-Pacific, not undermine it (The Guardian)

China looms large as Biden makes submarine moves with UK, Australia (CNN)

Further U.S. involvement in Ukraine is not vital national interest, says DeSantis (Associated Press)

Republican 2024 hopefuls respond to Tucker Carlson’s questions about their stance on Russia-Ukraine war (Fox)

War in Ukraine ‘distracts from our country’s most pressing challenges,’ DeSantis says (Politico)

Ron DeSantis says helping Ukraine fend off Russia not a vital US interest (N.Y. Post)

China has three roads to Taiwan: The US must block them all (The Hill)

War by miscalculation or by mistake? (The Hill)

Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow (Washington Post)

Russian Assets Reportedly Seized at Baikonur Cosmodrome by Kazakh Authorities

Ukrainian Official: ‘We Don’t Have The Resources For Counteroffensive’

The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them  Convincing China of that will be the problem.

Ira Stoll is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

Where in the world did the government of New York get the power to take Signature Bank away from the bank’s shareholders and from the management who had worked for years to build it into the formidable institution that it was?

It’s hardly an academic question. The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution states that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

The constitution of New York state has similar language: “private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.” Yet depriving the bank shareholders of their property — without due process and without just compensation — appears to be precisely what Governor Hochul did in respect of Signature Bank.

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Arizona’s Water Infrastructure Finance Authority has been tasked with reviewing a proposal for a multibillion-dollar project to construct a water desalination plant in Mexico that would pump water through a 200-mile pipeline to the border state as part of an effort to counter its drought-driven water uncertainty.

The Arizona Republic said the state water finance board recently passed a non-binding resolution supporting a potentially massive seawater desalination plant in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez that Israel-based desalination plant operator IDE Technologies would construct.

Through reverse osmosis membranes, the plant would separate salt from seawater and pump the fresh water through a pipeline across the Mexico-US border to a reservoir west of Phoenix. IDE said the new plant could replace declining Colorado River water that flows through the Central Arizona Project’s aqueduct.

Biden to enact Arctic protections as approval of oil project looms (Washington Post)

Biden indefinitely blocks millions of acres of land, water from future oil drilling (Fox)

As Biden weighs the Willow oil project, he blocks other Alaska drilling (NPR)

Mexico too dangerous for spring break, Texas officials say (BBC)

Rep. Turner: Biden Admin ‘Too Timid’ to ‘Provoke’ China  Biden is an honest politician–he stays bought.

“It’s Too Dangerous”: Texas Officials Issue Travel Warning After Latest Mexico Kidnappings

Gov. Murphy: 1,000 Percent Behind Biden in ’24  Bend over, Joe; just pretend it’s Buttplug Pete.

Hundreds of migrants try to force their way into US at Mexico border (Reuters)

How Biden’s New Washing Machine Regulations Could Ruin Laundry Day

Rep. Comer Keeps Digging on Hunter Biden Associates

House Oversight Chair Comer quietly subpoenas bank records for Hunter Biden business associates

Silicon Valley Bank Bailout is Socialism for the Rich

Hundreds Of Illegal Immigrants Storm Border At Texan Port Of Entry  If that’s not an invasion, what is?

Biden Raises Taxes for Americans, Raises Pay for Bureaucrats  My, what a surprise.

The View Demands Dems Accept Kamala as VP, Can’t List Accomplishments

Federal Judge Castigates DHS, Orders Stop to Its Mass Paroling of Illegal Aliens

US Intel Agencies Need To Focus Intensely On ‘Diversity, Equity, Inclusion,’ Intelligence Chief Says

Silicon Valley Learns to Love Socialism for the Richs (The Nation)

China’s new defense minister was previously sanctioned by US for buying military equipment from Russia (Fox)

China’s new defense minister is a general the US sanctioned for buying Russian weapons (CNN)

U.S.-sanctioned general to become public face of China’s growing military (Reuters)

Russia’s Arms Export Industry Is Collapsing (Newsweek)

Russia’s Missile Threat to the U.S. Has Evolved (Newsweek)

LEADERSHIP: Realistic Russian Reforms

WINNING: Ukrainian Combat Fatigue

Mexican President Threatens Republicans Calling For US Military To Target Drug Cartels

Lockheed Martin delivers first F-16 Block 70 fighter jet to Bahrain

International Court to Open War Crimes Cases Against Russia, Officials Say (N.Y. Times)

Casualties Rise in Ukraine, Russia Bakhmut Battle

Thanks to Ukraine, Pentagon eyeing multi-year munition buys in FY24

‘Russia Outside Russia’: For Elite, Dubai Becomes a Wartime Harbor (N.Y. Times)

Russia Loses 1,090 Troops in 1 Day (Newsweek)

Oscar For Best Actor Goes To Volodymyr Zelensky (Babylon Bee)

Why We Can’t Ever Have Nice Things.

1. Costs ballooned.
2. NIMBY’s objected.
3. Hey, New York–’nuff said.

Steven Hayward at Power Line speaks for all right-thinking people.

So I woke up this morning, looked at my watch, and thought—”Hey, slept in rather late this morning!” But then the fog lifted and I remembered: those commie rat bastards robbed me of an hour! Yes—Daylight Saving Time was a Progressive-era invention, giving Progressives a literal time to move the clock forward! (Yes, we literally get to “turn the clock back” in the fall, but I wish we didn’t do it all all.)

Can’t add anything to that.

The Other McCain jerks back the curtain.

The money has to come from somewhere, and the only source for money that the government has is taxpayers. They can blabber all they want about ‘no cost to taxpayers’ but that’s an obvious lie.

Karine Jean-Pierre torched for ‘word salad’ defending Biden’s border policy: ‘40 seconds of total nonsense’ (Fox)

‘On Second Thought, I Guess Trump Was Right and I Was Wrong’ About Rampant Abuse of the Asylum System (Center for Immigration Studies)

Former Trump officials skeptical of Biden admin’s reported plan to resume migrant family detention

I Went to the Southern Border at 3 A.M. This Is What I Saw.

Left-Wing Advocacy Groups Blast Biden’s Judicial Pick

Lt. Christopher Olivarez to Newsmax: Don’t Go to Mexico

Jean-Pierre Mute on Migrant Family Detention

Proud Boys J6 Sedition Trial Halted After Leaked Chat Logs Show FBI Agent Said Her Boss Ordered Her To “Destroy Evidence”

Biden Dumps Trump Air Force One Design, Unveils New Paint Job (Daily Beast) Actually, it isn’t a new paint job but rather the Same Old Paint Job chosen by JFK.

“It’s As Bad As We Thought”: CCP Money Flowed To Biden Family According Bank Records, Documents Obtained By House GOP

Watch KJP Struggle with English During Friendly MSNBC Interview

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As the school board adjourned the meeting, I asked from the press area: “How was the document edited? Can you claim how the document was edited at all? Can you cite how the document was edited—since you leveled the claim that it was falsified?”

Board President Mike Hanna then ordered officers of the Pendleton Police Department to remove me from the premises.

DOJ takes on the Jan. 6 Tucker Carlson tapes (Politico)

Adams unveils NYC migrant blueprint with national resettlement implications while stumping for Biden (Fox)

Adams joins Biden 2024 team, insists it won’t soften push for migrant billions (N.Y. Post)

Graham says he will introduce bill to ‘set the stage’ for US to use military force in Mexico (The Hill) Scott Adams has been pushing for this for months.

The Mexican government is not willing to do anything serious to the cartels: Bill Barr (Fox) Of course not. The cartels have both more money and more guns than the government.

What Biden’s deeply troubling asylum limit means for the economy (The Hill)

Archives: 9 Boxes of Biden Docs Left to Check

Feds Retrieve 9 More Boxes of Biden Docs From Lawyer’s Office

FDA’s Procedure for Approving Abortion Pill Was Unlawful, Lawsuit Claims

Biden to propose 25% billionaire tax (Axios) Eventually it will reach a point where it will be cost-effective to have Biden whacked … and don’t think that billionaires don’t know it.

FACT CHECK: Biden’s Press Sec Says Fentanyl at the Southern Border Is at Historic Lows

In Biden’s Tax-the-Rich Budget, Capital-Gains Rates Near 45% (Bloomberg) You’d think that Creepy Joe was TRYING to cause a recession.

Biden Wants to Increase DOJ Civil Rights Division Budget by $62 Million  Can’t find white supremacists without funding.

Jill Biden Gives International Women of Courage Award to Biological Man

Senate Confirms Biden Nom Who Suggested Microaggressions Can Kill You

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One might describe the vice president’s speaking style as “self-medicating kindergarten teacher.” Harris employed this style at a recent event at which she giddily marveled at the country’s “more than half a million miles of transmission lines, enough to wrap around the globe 24 times.”

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On Jan. 31, the ATF published its final rule regarding pistol braces to the federal register. Entitled “Factoring criteria for firearms with attached stabilizing braces,” this rule essentially amends the definition of “rifle” to include millions of firearms previously classified as pistols.

For those unfamiliar with firearms law, what that means is that ATF can then classify all pistol-braced firearms with barrels under 16 inches (most, if not all pistol braced firearms on the market fit this definition) as Short Barreled Rifles, or SBRs which the National Firearms Act or NFA regulate.

Owners of these firearms now face a choice. Destroy their guns (or at least the brace), register them with ATF as SBRs, or turn them in.

This rule essentially functions as a massive registration scheme for pistol-braced firearms, and the ATF knows this. ATF is no stranger to using existing federal law to create “regulations” subverting the legislative process, as they used a similar method in 2018 to “ban” bump stocks.

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The former sheriff “tolerated, if not rewarded” deputy gangs, according to the report

 

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Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

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Thank you, Joe Biden.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams told a local radio station it might be time to remove the face masks, suggesting it would prevent robberies and other crimes.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Every four years, the Beltway media establishment anoints a favorite Republican. The New Hampshire governor is doing everything right.

The ghost of John McCain stalks the night. (Wondering when Mitt Romney will do the right thing and JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY.)

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Gone or significantly reduced: tanks, artillery, mortars, snipers. The Marines are being systematically eliminated as a fighting force. It would be impossible for a Chinese agent to do more harm to the Marine Corps than the Commandant is doing.

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Inquiring minds want to know.

Tyler Cowen.

CHIPs details to raise costs:
1) Mandated daycare
2) Davis Bacon pay regulations
3) Buy American
4) Consult, engage, coordinate with unions
5) NEPA compliance
6) Source materials from small, minority, and women owned business

The Ideological Pork Barrel in action.

Veronique de Rugy.

Let’s call it the “Biden way”: When our president can’t get his policies through Congress, he tries to impose them in other ways. Just look at his student loan forgiveness plan, which faced a stiff Supreme Court challenge this week, and his imposition of stricter “Buy American” provisions to the infrastructure-spending bill. Now, he wants to reshape corporate America by attaching the big string of “high-quality” child care to, of all things, semiconductor subsidies.

This strategy, while popular with other presidents, has only one redeeming aspect: It beautifully illustrates how politics diverts industrial policy and similar attempts to direct the economy away from their stated goals. See, politicians say they want to subsidize this and that to improve manufacturing or bolster national security, but invariably sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules and requirements that have nothing to do with the plans.

It is certainly true with last year’s “bipartisan” CHIPS Act, which provides $52 billion to revive American microchip manufacturing. Now, Biden’s Commerce Department has announced that companies getting the subsidies will have to do (and not do) a bunch of other things if they want the money.

Call it the Ideological Pork Barrel.

John Stossel.

After a recent hurricane, Puerto Ricans desperately needed fuel.
Fortunately, an oil tanker was right offshore.
Unfortunately, the United States government forbade it to come ashore!
Why?
Because of a stupid law with a stupid name: The Jones Act.
The Jones Act forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed. This makes goods cost more (the average Hawaii family must pay $1,800 more a year) and sometimes, as happened in Puerto Rico, makes a crisis worse.

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The problem with a Joe Biden speech is that he doesn’t believe anything he says.

When Reagan claimed to hate the dirty red commies, his personal history and actions in office backed up the statement. When George H.W. Bush promised to spread democracy around the world, even his harshest critics knew he believed it — and shuddered.

Not so with Biden. He boasts of bipartisanship in one paragraph, then accuses Republicans of killing Social Security in the next. One sentence on unity, the next ties a lefty nudist’s attack on Paul Pelosi to January 6. He demands an end to fentanyl, then ignores the issue until the next State of the Union.

Between his stilted cadence and mumble-whisper-SCREAM delivery, you wonder if Biden even knows what he’s saying.

Mexico opposes restart of U.S. ‘Remain in Mexico’ immigration policy (Reuters)

Foreign Nations Poured Millions Into University That Houses Biden Institute  Taking a page from the Clintons.

Networks Yawn as Biden Releases ANOTHER Terrorist from Gitmo

Operation ‘Dump Kamala’ Is Officially On

10 Brand NEW Hunter Biden Breaking Stories the Nets Are Burying

In his SOTU, Biden will call for plugging gaps in his health policies (Washington Post)

Biden’s a Great President. He Should Not Run Again. (N.Y. Times) Hack journalist Michelle Goldberg tries to square the circle.

Mayor Adams hunkers down for frigid night with migrants inside Brooklyn Cruise Terminal (N.Y. Daily News)

Hunter Biden’s shady biz partner handled transfer of Joe’s Senate papers to Delaware (New York Post)

‘MAJOR PROBLEM’: Biden knew Hunter’s laptop was ‘bad news’ so he lied, Devine says (Fox)

Biden slaps 20-year mining ban on Minnesota land, gives more power to China

ABC Poll Shows Trump Beating Biden, Karl Befuddled by Results

Petulant NPR Reporter Predicts Media Will Continue Ignoring Hunter Scandal

What Debt Ceiling? Biden Admin Gears Up to Blow $400 Billion on Soft Green Energy Loans

How Prosecutors Say a Top F.B.I. Agent Sold His Services Overseas (N.Y. Times)

Jim Jordan Subpoenas Garland, Wray Over School Board Memo Used Against ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Parents

Next Media Narrative: How Joe Biden Defeated the Evil Chinese Spy Balloon

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The high and mighty NFL and City of Phoenix thought they could restrict free speech in Arizona’s capital city. They thought wrong. A judge on Friday smacked down their attempts to allow only Super Bowl-related messaging for businesses in the weeks leading up to the league’s championship game.

While cozying up to the NFL in the run-up to the Feb. 12 Super Bowl, the lefties who run city government in Phoenix passed the “Super Bowl Censorship Ordinance’’ to restrict business sign messaging to only Super Bowl-related language.

An Arizona trial court judge, Bradley Astrowski, ripped apart that blatant attack on free speech, declaring the ordinance “an unconstitutional prior restraint on speech and an unconstitutional delegation of power.” The city was given 48 hours to review the plaintiffs’ request to advertise in his own business window space that he has property available for leasing. Bramley Paulin was represented in his lawsuit by the Goldwater Insitute, a Phoenix-based legal firm that works to advance, defend and strengthen the freedom guaranteed by the U.S. and state Constitutions.

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Oregon’s new governor, Tina Kotek, has made housing her top priority and has proposed a number of unrealistic and idiotic remedies to high housing costs and homelessness. For one, she wants spend $54 million to house 1,200 people for one year. That’s $4,000 a month per person. Of course, a lot of that is probably going to go into various housing bureaucracies.

David Horowitz.

The stench of fascism and betrayal is suffocating our democracy, but nobody wants to talk about it. We sanitize our language so that classified documents strewn over unsecured garages and centers of Chinese influence are talked about as though it’s a matter of carelessness and not design. The indisputable brute fact is this: our commander-in-chief and his family have made themselves wealthy by taking bribes from foreign powers, chief among them our mortal enemy Communist China. Nobody seems to be asking, but how exactly were the inexplicable decisions to turn Afghanistan over to China and the Taliban made, and what American interest was served by this?

Biden needs ‘firewall’ between him and Hunter Biden’s legal defense, former White House ethics chief says (Fox)

Hunter Biden’s China business ties in spotlight at hearing next week (Nikkei Asia)

NYC hotel standoff continues after migrants’ representatives agree to tour ‘relief center’ (Gothamist)

Migrants rounded up outside NYC hotel (Fox)

Border Patrol applicants say aggressive, humiliating polygraphs blocked them from joining understaffed agency (Fox)

Hunter Biden asks for criminal probe into Trump allies for ‘theft’ of data from laptop (NBC)

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in newly aggressive strategy, target his critics (Washington Post)

Hunter Biden finally admits infamous laptop is his as he pleads for criminal probe (N.Y. Post

Biden Admin Floats New Strategy To ‘Address the Climate Crisis’: Don’t Leave Your House  I’m in.

Spin Cycle: KJP Receives Assist in Building Brick Walls from WH Counsel Spokesman

US Catholic Bishops Contradict Biden’s Claims About Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

Taxpayer-Funded VOA Reporter Claims to KJP Droves Are Asking If America’s ‘A Racist Society’

Georgia Voters Show Just How Wrong Joe Biden and His Sycophants Are

Friends in High Places: Hunter Biden Pressures Delaware AG to Investigate Computer Store Owner

NYC Mayor Eric Adams pleads with White House for more help on migrant crisis (Fox)

Migrants refuse to leave Hell’s Kitchen hotel (Fox)

White House calls Exxon record profit ‘outrageous’ (BBC)

EPA stops Alaska’s Pebble mine with rarely used power (Alaska Public Media)

Following criticism, FDA proposes redesign of its human food program (CNN)

World’s tallest Holiday Inn could earn $93K daily to house NYC migrants (N.Y. Post)

US dairy policies drive small farms to ‘get big or get out’ as monopolies get rich (The Guardian)

Veterans in Texas, Wisconsin sue Biden administration over new gun restrictions (The Hill)

McConnell mocks Biden judicial nominee for flubbing basic legal questions (The Hill)

NBC Shock Report: Feds Could’ve Stopped Jan. 6 Riots From Happening

Biden Promotes EV Hummer That Pollutes More Than Gas-Powered Sedan

Meet the Liberal Climate Scientist Biden Tapped to Serve on His Intelligence Advisory Board

Stefanik: Subpoenas Could Expose DOJ’s Targeting of Parents

Democrats Quietly Panic Over Kamala Harris’ 2024 Ambitions

Just Make it Up: Job Openings Unexpectedly Soar As Labor Department Now Guessing What The Number Is

As Refugees Flood Into US, Chinese Christians Told to Wait

CNN To Consult With Biden On Getting Away With Completely Fabricated Stories (Babylon Bee)

Joel Kotkin.

We will soon be leaving the first quarter of the 21st century behind us. But in the minds of our transportation planners, the punditry, and some real estate interests, the way forward is actually to step back to the glories of the 19th century. At the state level, and most significantly in Washington, we are about to pour an unprecedented $20 billion more into transit, especially subways and other trains. This is folly: changing demographics and geography, as well as new technologies, suggest a very different future for how most of us get around. We are simply not going to become a nation of train travelers, and it would be pointless—not to say destructive—to try.

There’s nothing new here. Much of the national media, in chorus with urban political and economic leaders, have been pushing these train-focused approaches since the days of Jimmy Carter. The stated aim is usually to move Americans away from their supposedly evil and pernicious love of the private automobile. Americans drive not because they irrationally love cars—although some do—but because it is simply by far the best way to get around.

We know this because for the most part, train-heavy investments have reaped little in terms of riders and virtually no reduction in auto usage. Indeed, even before the pandemic, transit ridership, despite the creation of new lines, was sagging. Since then transit has continued and accelerated its decline. By the end of 2022, the transit market share had fallen 50%. Today, despite the end of the pandemic, that number has barely moved at all. It is into this fading market share that the current administration and much of the political class now wants to throw its money. This even includes a $6.7 billion one-mile extension of the Caltrain commuter rail service to San Francisco’s moribund downtown, which has been characterized as “among the world’s most expensive projects.”

The Biden team is digging in its feet with spending and border (The Hill)

Biden’s new student loan repayment plan would cost billions more than White House projected

Watchdog Group Accuses Biden WH of ‘Gag Rule’ on Science Integrity Policy

Nets Ignore Pro-Life Activist’s Acquittal on Bogus Biden Admin Charges

The media is blowing Biden’s documents ‘scandal’ out of proportion (The Guardian) Margaret Sullivan for the Narrative.

Report: Biden Considers Abortion Health Emergency Declaration

Military Vets Take Biden Administration to Court Over New Gun Restriction

Biden Family Corruption, COVID Origins, Weaponized Government, And Border Crisis: House GOP Kicks Off Investigations

Biden’s Pursuit of Racial Balkanization Will Further Divide the Country

White House Failed to Disclose FBI Search of Biden Think Tank

Hunter Biden Paintings Worth Less Than His Mounting Legal Bills

Biden Administration Releases Over 1,300 Criminal Illegal Immigrants In 1 Month

Hunter Biden’s allies weigh legal-defense fund for president’s son (N.Y. Times)

White House: Health Emergency for COVID Is Out. Health Emergency for Abortion Is In.

NYPD on Scene as Migrants Refuse to Leave Manhattan Hotel

Corruption at the Border Is Fueling America’s Drug Crisis

US Job Opening Far Lower Than Reported By Department Of Labor, UBS Finds

We Just Witnessed An Economic Sign That Hasn’t Happened Since The Peak Of The Great Depression In 1932

Texas Bishop Slams President Biden’s ‘Fake Catholicism’ Stance on Abortion

Greg Abbott blasts Biden’s new border policy that will allegedly attract ‘even more’ illegal migrants (Fox)

Vending machines with lifesaving drug grow as opioid crisis rages in US (The Guardian)

Biden admin issues 20-year mining ban as it turns to foreign supply chain amid green energy push (Fox)

Radical Activists Illegally Protest Outside Amy Coney Barrett’s Home

5 Ways The “Inflation Reduction Act” Is Stealing Your Money

Blinken Urges ‘Calm’ as Israel-Palestinian Conflict Rises  Uh, sure.

Biden is coming for your job (Fox)

More Cite Gov’t as Top U.S. Problem; Inflation Ranks Second (Gallup)

Senior Biden Official Stood To Profit From Canceling Alaska Oil Leases, Watchdog Charges

Biden Admin Funnels Another $1.6 Million to Beijing-Backed Green Energy Company Over Senate Objections

First on CNN: Biden administration to strengthen Obamacare contraceptive mandate in proposed rule (CNN) The fundamental flaw with Obamacare is that it gives you the benefits THEY think you ought to have rather than what you might want, and YOU still have to pay for them.

Administration Is Playing Deceitful Shell Game to Claim Fewer Illegal Border Crossings

Report: Pakistani Terrorists Using Weapons Biden Left Behind in Afghanistan  Thank you, Joe Biden.

Ex-Twitter Execs to Testify on Block of Hunter Biden Story

Payday Loan Center Sets Up Shop In Egg Aisle

NYC’s Migrant Woes Persist as Many Refuse to Relocate  If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

New York Post.

Bad news for Joe Biden and his cover-up merchants in the FBI and the media.

A Rasmussen poll out Monday, and exclusively revealed here, shows that almost three-quarters of voters (72%) regard the president’s handling of classified records as a scandal. That includes a majority (55%) of Democrats.

Nearly half (48%) of all voters say it is a “major scandal,” according to the national poll of 1,000 voters taken over the weekend.

But even more damning for the president is that 60% of all voters believe it is likely that information from those classified documents “was used by Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in his foreign business deals.” Fully 44% believe it is “very likely.”

Among Democrats, 36% believe it is likely that Hunter used his dad’s classified files, with more than one in five saying it is “very likely.” Not a good omen for the president’s bid for re-election.

Karine Jean-Pierre upstaged by White House official in Biden docs saga, critics say: ‘She talks like a binder’ (Fox)

Former White House press secretary unloads on Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘I would feel shamed’ (Fox)

Social Security Has an Immigration Problem — and It’s Getting Worse (The Motley Fool)

Will the Hunter Biden saga spell trouble for Joe Biden? (The Economist) Why would it? It hasn’t so far.

Hunter Biden converted Delaware house with classified documents into home office (N.Y. Post)

‘Curiouser And Curiouser’ – Is Joe Biden Serving Two Masters? “Joe Biden has been in politics for 50 years. He’s never had a real job.”

Classified Docs Probe Pushes Biden Think Tank Into Spotlight

Obama Border Chief Says Immigration Crisis ‘Much Bigger’ Now As 77 Democratic Lawmakers Slam Biden

Peltola misses vote to limit Biden’s access to Strategic Petroleum Reserve that she says she would have supported (Anchorage Daily News)

Over 70 Democrats send letter to Biden criticizing immigration policies (MSNBC)

25 States Sue Biden Admin Over Rule Allowing 401(k) Managers to Put Savings Into ESG Funds (Epoch Times)

GOP-led states sue Biden administration to block ESG investment rule (CNN)

JESSE WATTERS: The Bidens are all over FBI wiretaps talking to China (Fox)

America First Legal: Gov’t Agencies, White House Used Foreign Intel Methods to Censor Americans

Biden’s notebooks among items seized by FBI in Delaware home search (NBC)

The Biden Autocracy

Pro-Life Activists Face Prison Time As DOJ Increases FACE Act Prosecutions

Trump: Every Day Under Biden Is Like ‘April Fool’s Day’

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Gov­. Gavin New­som and his cli­mate regu­lators at the Cali­fornia Air Resources Board, or CARB, have prom­ised to phase out all gas-pow­ered cars and force automakers to sell 100% elec­tric vehicles by 2035.

CARB’s pur­pose is not really to improve local air quality in any part of Cali­fornia but rather to fight the specter of global climate change by using the coer­cive power of one big state to achieve a com­plete trans­for­ma­tion of the U.S. auto industry.

CARB has issued regu­la­tory edicts to do just that: the so-called “green­house gas emis­sion stan­dards” in CARB’s Advanced Clean Car rules and its “zero-emission vehicle sales man­date.”

CARB is able to pur­sue this trans­forma­tional agenda only because the Biden admin­istra­tion has rein­stated an extra­ordi­nary waiver of fed­eral law—a waiver avail­able to Cali­fornia and no other state.

House to vote on bill offsetting Biden’s SPR drawdown with more oil and gas production (Fox)

House GOP seeks new restrictions on use of US oil stockpile (The Hill)

An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental Disaster (Curbed)

Biden FCC Nominee Part of Nonprofit That Backs Online ‘Sex Work’

Obama’s DHS Secretary Admits ‘Immigration Problem’ Is ‘Much Bigger’ Under Biden

MSNBC’s Hayes: Biden Economic Recovery Most Remarkable in U.S. History

Biden Court Nominee Falls Mute on Constitution Questions

House Prepares First Hearing on Biden’s COVID-19 Response

Biden repeatedly calls Dem Rep. Don Beyer by wrong name in echo of ‘Where’s Jackie?’ gaffe (N.Y. Post)

Biden Jokes About People Thinking He’s “Stupid” Then Makes Another Stupid Verbal Gaffe

‘Fact-Checkers’ Not Interested in Tracking Hunter Biden’s Aid to Other Dissolute Bidens

Biden Says US Will Compete With China on Strategic Minerals. He Just Kneecapped Our Ability To Do So.

Here’s How the Federal Government Is Funding Antisemitism With Your Tax Dollars

Obama-era DHS Chief: Border Crisis Under Biden ‘Much Bigger’

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 27)

Ann Coulter.

Lots of politicians have been caught burnishing their resumes, but recently, one of our elected representatives has come under fire for telling some real whoppers. And no, I’m not talking about George Santos.

In a space of three days last fall, President Joe Biden claimed to be Puerto Rican, practice Judaism and to have lost his house in a natural disaster.

Celebrating the Jewish New Year at the White House on Sept. 30, he told Jewish leaders, “I probably went to shul more than many of you did. You all think I’m kidding.” No, he said, “I’d go to services on Saturday and on Sunday,” adding, “You all think I’m kidding. I’m not.”

Visiting hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico the following week, he said, “I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home.”

WH suggests reporters have access to Biden because they can ‘shout’ questions at him

Rep. Fallon: House Must Impeach Mayorkas Now

Hawley Introduces ‘PELOSI Act’ To Stop Insider Trading In Congress

BIZARRE: African Reporter Demands Gun Control to KJP Amid More Docs Hardballs

Oversight Republicans Demand Details on Hunter Biden’s Art Sales

Seattle Medical Examiner Running Out Of Space To Store Bodies Due To Fentanyl Overdoses: Official

Inside the Ring: Ukraine war scuttles Biden arms control agenda

Mayor Adams: NYC Right-To-Shelter Law Not for Asylum-Seekers

Hogan’s Office ‘Surprised,’ ‘Disappointed’ by Lack of DOJ ‘Urgency’ in Protecting Justices

20 Red States Sue Biden Admin Over Migrant Parole Program

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Unfortunately, the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from making anything other than gold or silver legal tender. I guess civics isn’t taught in high school any more.