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The Biden administration’s newly released regulations regarding “pistol-stabilizing braces” will instantly turn tens of thousands of law-abiding Americans into felons and create a national rifle registry. But the Biden administration and the media exaggerate the costs and ignore the benefits these braces produce.

Few seem to realize that stabilizing braces for pistols were originally designed to allow wounded and disabled veterans who may have lost the use of part of their hand to hold handguns. They are essentially a strap attached to the gun. Disabled individuals are often viewed as easy targets by criminals, and stabilizers make it easier to defend themselves. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives originally approved pistol braces during the Obama administration.

There are plenty of statements from disabled veterans, such as Rick Cicero, who lost his right arm in an explosion in Afghanistan and can still use a gun today because of the pistol-stabilizing brace. But outside of a brief mention in a Fox News story, news articles on the new regulations never mention that these braces help the disabled and make it possible for them to defend themselves.

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Jan. 22 to Jan. 28 is National School Choice Week, and what better way to highlight the fact that parents today have more choices for their children’s education than ever before than by celebrating Iowa’s Students First Act being signed into law on Tuesday?

The year 2011 was deemed “the year of school choice” after 12 states enacted new—or expanded existing—school choice programs, including Arizona establishing the nation’s first education savings accounts program.

A decade later, 2021 was named “the year of education choice,” in which 18 states enacted seven new education choice programs and expanded 21 existing ones—primarily education savings accounts.

Seattle Morgue Overrun With Fentanyl Corpses

Biden Nominates North Korea Human Rights Envoy, First Since 2017  Sure, let’s piss off the North Koreans along with Russia and China.

There’s no hiding Biden’s fright over classified document scandal (N.Y. Post)

Garland Tries to Deflect Stinging Criticisms of DOJ’s Biden Doc Efforts

6 Failures of Biden’s Presidency in Year 2

Not Letting Up: Doocy, Bruce, Wegmann PUMMEL KJP Over Classified Docs

Four migrants bused to NYC arrested for shoplifting $12K from Macy’s (N.Y. Post) They’re not sending us their best.

DoDEA sources speak out about woke ‘Marxist’ indoctrination: ‘I’m not a… sexual realignment engineer’ (Fox)

Biden Admin Gives National Security Grants to Think Tank Backed by CCP Front Group

US Gasoline Prices Continue To Rise

Biden Brings World Closer Than Ever to Nuclear Annihilation, Scientists Say  There’s no pleasing some people.

Texas leads 20 Republican states in suing Biden admin over migrant parole program

Washington Post.

Tru dat.

The only way to balance the budget is to spend less. Even if the Democrats allowed them to do that, which won’t happen with them in control of the Senate and the Presidency, there is no practical incentive for them to do that–you can’t by votes by spending less, and our entire electoral system is set up to encourage legislators to get re-elected by providing taxpayer-funded Free Stuff to their constituents.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The City of Minneapolis was in decline before covid, and before George Floyd. Abysmal governance and high costs had closed or driven away many businesses. Then came the covid shutdowns, riots and skyrocketing violence, and the city has turned into a disaster area. Who would want to try to run a business in Minneapolis? Not many people, it turns out. So the city’s streets are lined with closed or abandoned storefronts.

This gave Minneapolis’s City Council a great idea: a tax on vacancy! That will force whoever owns the buildings to put businesses in them whether they like it or not, and regardless of whether they make money. Brilliant.

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(CBO) projects that two major Social Security funds in the United States will dry out in the coming decades, with one of them running out within the next 10 years as younger members in the programs are set to lose more than older members.

No. 2 Senate Democrat agrees Biden has lost ‘high ground’ in criticism over classified documents (CNN)

Eric Adams to house NYC migrants inside Brooklyn Cruise Terminal (N.Y. Post)

Mayor Adams pushes back against critics of his Brooklyn migrant housing plan (CBS)

A major border city is on the brink of collapse because of Biden’s immigration policies, local official says (Fox)

Want to understand Joe Biden and his family? Just watch ‘The Sopranos’ (Fox)

What Washington Can Learn From Mayors (TIME)

Real Joe Biden Goofs On ‘SNL’ Monologue That Aubrey Plaza Is More Popular Than He Is (Huffington P0st) A dog turd on the street is more popular than he is.

Gasoline demand in the U.S. has peaked. Drivers will benefit in the long run—but experience some short-term pain first (Fortune)

Biden’s Document Deluge and America Becoming a Banana Republic

Harris: Florida Republicans Are ‘Extremist So-Called Leaders’

Paul Craig Roberts: How Troublesome Presidents Are Disposed Of

“Migrant” Melee at New York Hotel

Lib Networks Reward Biden Ploy to Bury Absolutely Awful Border News

Former Special Agent In Charge Of The New York FBI Counterintelligence Division Charged With Violating U.S. Sanctions On Russia (DoJ)

Former top FBI official Charles McGonigal arrested over ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska (ABC)

Former Top F.B.I. Official in New York Charged in Money Laundering (N.Y. Times)

Plot Twist: Ex-FBI Agent Involved in Trump-Russia Probe Indicted For Violating Russia Sanctions

Trump, DeSantis Beat Biden In Hypothetical 2024 Matchup: Poll  A tree stump ought to be able to beat Biden.

Kamala Harris Omits ‘Right to Life’ Referencing Declaration of Independence, Swipes at DeSantis

Whoopi Claims Biden Declassified All the Documents in His House  And of course she knows all about it.

Report: Feds Mull Search of Other Biden-Owned Properties

‘Making a Mockery of the Military’: Senate to Vote on Green Activist Nominated for Energy Post in Defense Department

NPR.

Some watchers of the U.S. Supreme Court breathed a sigh of relief last month after most of the justices sounded skeptical during oral arguments about a once-fringe legal theory that could upend elections across the United States.

Still, many legal scholars and voting rights advocates remain on alert for a court ruling by this summer on what’s known as the “independent state legislature theory.” It claims that under the U.S. Constitution, state legislatures have the power to determine how federal elections are run, without any checks or balances from state constitutions or state courts.

Which is, literally, what the Constitution says. The reason this has Wokerati panties in a wedge is because it is through the courts that the manipulation of election rules (that have profited Democrats since 2020) has been accomplished.

DOJ search of Biden’s Delaware home results in more seized documents (Politico)

President Biden’s home searched by Justice Department, more classified material found (ABC)

6 additional classified documents found at Biden’s home (CBS)

Mr. President, it’s time to go digital (CNN)

Biden’s ‘no regrets’ remarks about classified documents are infuriating and really, really dumb (Fox)

Arizonians at border warn crisis has gone national: It’s a ‘United States problem’ (Fox)

A lawyer and a sheriff help Martha’s Vineyard migrants get a ‘bit of justice’ (Washington Post)

Biden aides want to force GOP to abandon debt limit threats (Washington Post)  I’m sure they do.

How a Hunter Biden conspiracy theory grew, from lone tweet to a big megaphone (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘conspiracy’ means ‘Nothing to see here–move along, move along’.

Kash Patel: “I Have No Faith” In Special Counsel’s Probe Of Biden Documents

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says she’ll continue transporting migrants out of state

Record-High 250,000 Migrant Encounters Across US-Mexico Border In December 2022: CBP

Classified Documents: Biden Is the Boring Trump

What’s in here, Joe? Beat-up box of ‘Important Doc’s’ was out in open at Joe Biden’s house, laptop reveals (N.Y. Post)

‘We need help out here’: Arizona farmer sounds the alarm on migrant surge contaminating crop

‘It’s not sustainable’: Yuma County nearing tipping point in migrant response (Arizona Republic)

“Biden drained America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves to the lowest level since 1984.” (PolitiFact)

Energy secretary says Republican oil bill would weaken energy security tool, result in higher gas prices (The Hill)

‘Joe Biden has been constantly underestimated’: Chris Whipple on his White House book  KA-CHING!

Biden’s ‘Busy’ Border Visit Brings Back a Whole Lot of Nothing

The Penn Scandal: Ivy League University Was Funnel for Biden’s Chinese Cash

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The debt ceiling was created during the World War I under the Second Liberty Bond Act of 1917. Prior to establishing the debt ceiling, Congress had to vote to approve each issuance of Treasury bonds, which can be a cumbersome process.

A debt ceiling allows the Treasury Department to issue bonds without having to go through Congress each time until the ceiling is reached. It thus makes the government’s fundraising process more efficient and encourages fiscal responsibility because, in theory, there is a limit on how much the Treasury can borrow.

In reality, however, the debt ceiling has been raised or suspended numerous times since its creation—from $11.5 billion in 1917 to $31.4 trillion as of 2021 (unadjusted for inflation). Over the past decade alone, the debt ceiling was raised or suspended eight times to avoid a government default, leading its critics to question its effectiveness and necessity.

Biden on classified docs discovery: ‘There’s no there there’ (Associated Press)

President Biden has ‘no regrets’ on decision not to reveal discovery of classified documents earlier (ABC)

As egg prices rise, so do seizures at US border (BBC)

As Egg Prices Rise, People Are Buying Their Own Chickens. Is It Safe? (CBS Miami)

Adams calls for migrants to ‘remain in Mexico’ until asylum applications get reviewed (N.Y. Post)

ICE releases nearly 3,000 detained immigrants affected by accidental data leak

Kamala Harris to avoid the US-Mexico border during her Thursday visit to Arizona (Fox) Avoiding doing any work is what being ‘border czar’ is all about.

US Will Resume Border Wall Construction at San Diego Park

FBI Director Wray Praises Big Tech-Gov’t ‘Collaboration,’ Pushes for More at Davos

ABC & CBS Screech About the Debt Ceiling, Absolve Biden of Blame

Will The Corrupt FBI Come To Biden’s Rescue?  If they can.

As Europe and United Kingdom Take Tough Action, Biden Admin Slow to Sanction Iran

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Led the Biden Administration’s Supply Chain Task Force. He Never Attended A Meeting.  Well, you know, he’s busy.

D.C. Mayor to Biden: Your Teleworking Employees Are Killing My City

Air Travel Debacles Put a Star of Biden’s Cabinet in the Hot Seat (N.Y. Times) If, of course, you can be a “star” without ever having actually done anything.

NYC Mayor Adams Calls For ‘National Czar’ To Manage Border Crisis, Despite VP Harris Already Holding Role  She’s filling the role the way a rock fills a pothole.

On Illegal Immigration, Mexico Isn’t Really America’s Amigo  They want all the troublemakers to head north.

FALSE: MSNBC Claims FBI Offering $25K For Info On Pro-Life Terrorists

US Intel Community Investigated Trump Docs for National Security Risk, but Is Silent on Biden Classified Information

DOJ reserves right to not cooperate with certain House GOP requests Let’s just starting to impeach Biden’s cabinet, starting with Blinken and working our way on down.

Boon for Buttigieg? DC Could Give Residents Up to $1,200 To Buy Electric Bikes

FACT CHECK: NYT Calls Pete Buttigieg a ‘Star of Biden’s Cabinet’

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 26)

Biden Admin Incompetence Forces Release of Thousands of Migrants Into Country

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Democrats may have lost control of the House of Representatives, but it appears Republicans are embracing their legacy of so-called diversity and inclusion.

Republican congressman Patrick McHenry (N.C.), now the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, announced earlier this month that there would be six subcommittees—and all of them will count advancing “diversity and inclusion” as one of their top priorities, according to the committee’s announcement.

With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

Matthew Continetti.

Republicans enter the debt ceiling fight with no leader, no strategy, and no specific proposal. They face a president who refuses to negotiate, a Democratic Senate, and a hostile media. When the Treasury Department’s “extraordinary measures” to avoid default come to an end this spring, markets are sure to tremble, and business and investors will pressure Congress for a quick fix. If the crisis isn’t handled properly, outcomes include a government shutdown, economic contagion, downgraded U.S. debt, and renewed GOP infighting. Oh, yes—in the worst-case scenario, federal spending would remain uncontrolled.

A regular day in The Neighborhood.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Everything we know in the Biden classified documents matter derives from Biden’s attorneys. In other words, it is inherently unreliable. The existence of the matter was leaked by unidentified sources. Attorney General Garland has since publicly appointed a Special Counsel and more classified documents have been discovered in Biden’s Corvette garage and elsewhere. Mysteries abound.

Since Biden Inauguration, Anonymous Chinese Donors Poured Millions Into University That Houses His Think Tank

Signs the White House is beginning to shift documents strategy (CNN)

White House claimed Biden’s Delaware house used for official business but now says it’s ‘personal’ (Fox)

Blue meanie Joe’s divisive cop tirade is the president’s latest battle with facts (New York Post)

A famous last name, business deals and a looming probe: Republicans ramp up investigation of Biden family (CNN)

11 states have ended judicial deference to executive agencies — more should follow their lead (The Hill)

Border Patrol union rips Kamala Harris’ handling of border crisis: ‘You should be fired’ (Fox)

Elon Musk chose me to report on the Twitter Files. Here are the disturbing things I learned about the FBI (Fox)

Have Joe Biden’s Tax Returns Disappeared? What We Know, What We Don’t (Newsweek)

Buttigieg Could’ve Improved Airline Issues And Just…Didn’t (Daily Beast) He’s there to collect a paycheck, not do any actual work.

MSNBC: GOP Turning Biden Scandal Into ‘Next Benghazi,’ Hunter Is ‘Just His Son’

Ex-intel Official Now Says Hunter Biden Emails Had to Be Real

The imaginary Biden versus the real one: Mona Charen’s dilemma

WH Press Secretary Jean-Pierre Walks Out on Newsmax Question

New Biden Rule Permits Money Managers to Play Politics With Trillions in Retirement Savings

Watergate Lawyer: Biden May Escape Charges on Technicality

Ex-Intel Official Who Signed Hunter Laptop ‘Disinfo’ Letter Makes Shocking Admission  He lied.

Joe Rogan On Biden: “They’re Trying To Get Rid Of Him”  And who could blame them?

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Geraldine Tyler is a 94-year-old woman spending the twilight of her life in retirement, as 94-year-olds typically do. But there isn’t much that’s typical about it.

Tyler has spent the last several years fighting the government from an assisted living facility after falling $2,300 behind on her property taxes. No one disputes that she owed a debt. What is in dispute is if the government acted constitutionally when, to collect that debt, it seized her home, sold it, and kept the profit.

If that sounds like robbery, it’s because, in some sense, it is. But it’s currently legal in at least 12 states across the country, so long as the government is doing the robbing.

Note that this is in a blue state.

Ex-Gov. Paterson praises Adams for pushing Biden on migrant crisis (New York Post)

NYC Mayor Adams blasts U.S. government over migrant crisis (Fox)

Two words no president wants to hear (CNN) Special counsel.

‘A real, real problem for the Democrats’: New classified material found in Biden’s home (MSNBC) Looks as if the clerisy is setting Biden up to be squeezed out.

The swamp comes for Joe Biden (The Hill)

Ex-top intel official Douglas Wise knew Hunter Biden laptop ‘had to be real’ but signed ‘disinfo’ letter anyway (N.Y. Post)

Biden Forgets MLK III’s Wife’s Name While Singing ‘Happy Birthday’

Did The Deep State Turn On Biden?

FBI Had Investigative Interest in Protests at Justices’ Homes, but Apparently Took No Action, Document Reveals

In Mexico Relationship, Biden Prioritizes ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Over Immigration and National Security

7 Ways To Spot An FBI Agent Twitter Profile  (Babylon Bee)

Why Harris world thinks she may be the biggest winner of the midterms (Politico)

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In an economy characterized by limited government and individual liberty people are self-supporting. They provide the means to pay for these needs through the fruits of their own labors. Minors are supported by their families until they can provide for themselves. The elderly may fall back on their kids if they didn’t squirrel away enough nuts during their working years.

In an economy characterized by central planning this is not the case. Large segments of the population are dependent on government programs for their daily bread. They also look to the benevolent hand of government to pay for their drugs and other medical needs.

The U.S., over the last 100 years, has transformed from a nation of self-supporting individuals to a nation of collective dependents. In fact, the U.S., at this very moment, is closing in on a significant milestone.

Several days before the Ides of March, 100 million people – or approximately 30 percent of the total population – will be on Medicaid. Can you believe it?

Republicans want Biden home visitor logs – but not Trump’s (Reuters) Trump is already under special prosecutor investigation, and doesn’t have a son suspected of international bribery.

Democrat Schiff says national security may have been jeopardized by Biden’s mishandling of classified docs (Fox) And the effort to ease Biden out is starting.

Investigations into classified docs should leave Trump more worried than Biden (MSNBC) Yeah, because Trump is being witch-hunted by the entirety of the Narrative media, who are lining up to defend Biden (to ridiculous levels).

Democrat NYC Mayor Adams calls on federal government to play more proactive role to secure border (Fox) Feeling the heat.

Mayor Adams goes to El Paso to get better understanding of migrant crisis (CBS) And get some photo-op time.

POLITICO Playbook: Three storylines to watch in Biden’s document drama (Politico) Watch the Narrative sausage being made.

Dozens of illegal immigrants land on Florida beach, run from police as migrant crisis surges away from border (Fox)

Migrants arriving in Chicago sleeping in bus shelters and police stations as community steps in to help (Chicago Tribune)

The Importance Of Being Biden: How Hunter Reached New Low Seeking To Bar Daughter From Using His Name

New York Times Falsely Claims It’s Unproven Joe Biden Aided Hunter’s Business

Biden Tells Israel to Give Money to Terrorists, Not Terror Victims

Buttigieg Defends Job Performance By Reminding Everyone He’s Gay (Babylon Bee)

Capehart on Classified Docs: Comparing Trump and Biden Is ‘Apples and Basketballs’

Hunter Biden Wants to Stop Love Child from Cashing In on Family Name

ABC Frets GOP Is ‘Pouncing on’ Biden Over Docs Scandal, Revel in No Delaware Visitor Logs

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Over the last few years, there has been much written about the destruction of American democracy. Frequently the threat has been of alleged interference in U.S. elections by Russia, China or other state actors. Government agencies, the name of election integrity, were assigned to identify and disrupt these foreign intrusions. As more and more information is revealed about these agencies, it seems that America’s Intelligence Community participated in these activities domestically, and in a way that poses a grave threat to both election integrity and American democracy.

Just last week it was revealed that the FBI again withheld pertinent information from the American public, for past two months, until after the November 8, 2022 federal election. As with the Bureau’s reported cover-up of evidence influence-peddling reportedly found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, agents knew, since November 2, 2022, about at least some of the three sets of classified material that illegally found their way into the garage and library of President Joe Biden and into the Penn Biden Center think tank at the University of Pennsylvania — to which anonymous members of the Chinese Communist Party have donated $54.6 million.

White House’s response to Biden documents frustrates Democrats inside and outside the West Wing (CBS)

Five more classified documents found at Biden’s Delaware home, White House says (WFAA)

Conservatives blast Biden over latest batch of classified information found: ‘FBI raid happens when?’ (Fox)

Biden Just Played Right Into Trump’s Hands (Rolling Stone)

The Observer view on the secret garage files that could deal a severe blow to Joe Biden’s hopes (The Guardian)

Democrats slough off attacks on Buttigieg (Politico)

Hunter Asks Court to Block His Child From Taking His Last Name  The eternal quest to avoid accepting responsibility.

EVEN Far-Left Weekend MSNBC Warns Docs Could Be Big 2024 Problem for Biden

FEMA Distributed Nonsense Emergency Brochures To Native Alaskans

ATF Declares Braced Pistols Illegal, Demands Registration Or Face Jail Time

SHOCK: ABC’s Karl Calls Out Biden’s Hypocrisy on Mishandling Docs

Why Was Hunter Paying Joe Biden $50k Per Month To Rent House Where Classified Documents Found?  Ten percent for the Big Guy, perhaps?

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How about that government-run taxpayer-funded health care system?

Don’t you wish we had one like it in the U.S.? (We do. It’s called the VA. Ask veterans how well that works for them.)

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. Then supplies run short and rationing sets in–or wait times increase–and your chances of dying before you can get treatment vastly expand. (But it’s free!)

Ben Shapiro.

Our government seeks more and more control.

Our government is not competent.

These two statements are both true, and together amount to a nightmare for institutional credibility. A government that seeks more control must at the very least demonstrate credibility in implementing its goals; a government that is incompetent can only regain legitimacy by limiting its authority. And yet we have a government that presents the worst of both worlds: incapacity to perform its most basic functions, combined with an ever-expanding encroachment into daily life.

Thus, this week, the Federal Aviation Administration was forced to ground virtually all flights in the United States after an outage in the so-called Notice to Air Missions systems, designed to warn pilots of weather problems, runway issues or other obstacles. The NOTAM system relies on a reportedly outmoded computer system that has not been updated for years. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is most famous for taking a two-month paternity leave and then bragging about it repeatedly on national television, helpfully commented, “There was a systems issue overnight that led to a ground stop because of the way safety information was moving through the system.” He then reported this problem to President Joe Biden, who helpfully commented that Buttigieg ought to “restore the system quickly and safely, and to determine causes.”

Job well done, gentlemen.

All of which makes the constant proglodyte effort to get more and more of what goes on in daily life under the control of government totally inexplicable. It’s as if they live on a different planet entirely.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Check it out.

The Hill.

I suspect that the provision about family members may be unconstitutional.

Garland appoints special counsel to investigate Biden docs (Associated Press)

US President Joe Biden’s Office Admits Keeping Classified Documents (CNN)

Biden spars over classified documents in garage with Fox News’ Peter Doocy (Fox)

Kevin McCarthy can’t get too giddy over Biden documents cache. Trump’s case is much worse (Fresno Bee)

Speaker McCarthy eviscerates the ‘Biden’s document mess is different’ defense (N.Y. Post)

Biden’s whirlwind final days as vice president had aides scrambling to close his White House office (CNN)

Salvadoran girls found on Rio Grande at U.S.-Mexico border (Reuters)

Here’s a taste of what Biden’s open-border policies cost local taxpayers across America (N.Y. Post)

1,000-person migrant tent opens in El Paso to help with border crisis (N.Y.  Post)

Study Finds Despite Campaign Promises, Malarkey Has Increased 376% Under Biden (Babylon Bee)

Biden Says He Is Unaware Of Any Classified Docs, Or Who He Is, Or Why He’s Sitting In This Oval-Shaped Office (Babylon Bee)

White House: Classified Documents Found in Biden’s Garage

Second batch of classified Biden documents found (BBC)

Joe Biden Says He Is Unaware Of Content Of Classified Documents (CNN) I’m prepared to believe it.

Biden’s legal team found another batch of classified documents in search of second location (CNN) But that’s not the same as Trump, no sir, not at all! Orange Man Bad!

The Biden papers and the Mar-a-Lago documents: Apples and oranges? (The Hill) Apples and persimmons? Pineapples and kumquats?

The Hunter Biden, Chinese connection to the classified documents scandal: What you need to know (Fox)

Border Patrol agent describes danger at the border: ‘We are paying for this in United States citizens’ lives’ (Fox)

The Times tries to preemptively defend Joe Biden with Hunter opus (N.Y. Post)

White House calls GOP probe into Biden family ‘political stunt’ to ‘get attention on Fox’ (CNN)

GOP opens long-promised investigation into Biden family (Associated Press)

Biden Rolls Out New Scheme To Turn Student Loans Into Welfare

‘Shady Business’: House Republicans Press Biden Admin for Biden Family’s Secret Bank Records

Biden’s Bungled Border Promises

Biden’s DOE Funnels $50 Million to Green Energy Company That Sources Materials From China

Here’s What the FAA Has Been Focused on Instead of Keeping Planes in The Air

Buttigieg Slammed After FAA Outage Grounds All Flights

White House refuses to answer key questions about Biden classified documents (USA Today)

Sen. Graham Demands Special Counsel Probe As Biden Breaks Silence Over Classified Docs

Top GOP Lawmaker Demands Treasury Hand Over Hunter Biden Reports

Biden Education Department’s Latest Plan for Socializing Higher Education

Experts Question Why Biden And Trump Treated Differently In Classified Document Cases

NY Times: Charges Against Hunter Biden Could Be Imminent

WATCH: Journos Speculated Trump Could ‘Go Down Like Al Capone.’ Now, Biden’s Classified Docs No Big Deal.

Meyers: GOP Criticizing Biden In ‘The Dumbest Way Possible’ On Scandal

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The Department of Defense is formally ending the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the U.S. military and the National Guard, but did not provide any signal as to whether those discharged over having refused the vaccine would have any chance of being reenlisted.

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Legislators have a strange relationship with magic. To achieve that which physically cannot be done, they like to wave magic wands and pretend that it can. Reality puts a limit on political power, a realization that always sits poorly with those in charge of our trillion-dollar bureaucratic machinery.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is the nation’s most unpopular senator by a wide margin, according to a poll released Wednesday.

Biden’s classified documents issue adds to House Republicans’ growing list of investigations (CNN)

Biden ‘surprised’ to learn of classified docs at Penn think tank: ‘I don’t know’ what’s in them (Fox)

Watch how Biden reacted to reporter questions on classified documents (CNN)

Biden isn’t on the same legal planet as Trump when it comes to classified docs (MSNBC)

The Trump and Biden classified-document revelations are not the same (Washington Post)

Biden builds taxpayer-funded wall around Delaware beach house despite opposing border barriers (Fox)

US House Republicans Vote For Investigation Of Joe Biden Presidency (CNN) What goes around, comes around.

DOJ reviewing potentially classified docs at Biden center (Associated Press)

Border pressures migrate north as Venezuelans head to Denver (Associated Press)

Safety official’s remarks about possible gas stove ban fuel hot GOP takes about Biden (NBC)

Montana AG rips Biden admin for bombshell Keystone report: ‘Economic boom’ traded for ‘dangerous’ alternative

Biden administration prepares more measures to curb border crossings, keep migrants from journeying to the US (CNN) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

DeSantis Lawyers Assail Biden Immigration Rules in Opening Arguments

Trump calls on FBI to raid Biden over classified files, misleadingly comparing the situation to documents found at Mar-a-Lago (Insider) Misleadingly!

Feds Propose ‘Student Loan Safety Net’ Alongside Forgiveness

Lemon: Biden Document Scandal Already ‘Politicized By Those On The Right’  Gee, I wonder why?

Morning Joe on Biden Classified Docs: ‘No Comparison’! ‘False Equivalency’!

FLASHBACK: Biden Shocked Anyone Could Be ‘Irresponsible’ Enough to Unknowingly Possess Classified Docs

Numbers Don’t Lie: America’s Border Crisis Is Biden-Made

Inflation Causes 50% to Stop Saving for Retirement  The Crust don’t want you to save for retirement. They want you totally dependent on government handouts once you can no longer work.

Pete Buttigieg took government jet to NYC for radio interview, ACLU meeting before flying back hours later (Fox) What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

House Republican files articles of impeachment against DHS Sec. Mayorkas (Fox) And so it starts. It won’t go anywhere, because Democrats control the Senate.

‘Republicans Quickly Pounced’; Nets Unmoved by Biden Having Classified Docs at Think Tank

Latino Nets Mad Biden Didn’t Talk to Migrants  What did they expect?

CNN Fears ‘Over-Criminalizing Mishandling’ Docs After Biden Caught

Getting “Personal”: Chuck Todd Dismisses Investigation Into Possible Biden Foreign Influence-Peddling

Southern Border Apprehensions At All-Time High  Despite Biden’s best efforts.

Apartment Demand “Evaporated” As Inflation Crushed Consumer Confidence

Shortage Fears Spike As Some Costco And Walmart Stores Run Out Of Eggs

Privacy Watchdog: ATF Uses Stingrays To Track Americans  I’d be astonished if they didn’t.

Hundreds Of Illegal Aliens Intercepted Off Florida Coast Repatriated To Cuba, Haiti

Double Standard: The View Argues That Biden Deserves “The Benefit Of The Doubt” On Classified Documents

Wall Street Journal.

Coercion in the cause of banning fossil fuels is no vice for the Biden Administration, which is now coming after cooks. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) could soon ban gas stoves.
CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. teased in an interview with Bloomberg News this week that the agency plans to propose new regulations for gas stoves, which could include a ban. “This is a hidden hazard,” Mr. Trumka said. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
Mr. Trumka isn’t worried that gas stoves might cause accidental burns—a hidden hazard for electric range-tops that stay hot long after they’re turned off. Instead, the agency’s purported concern is that gas stoves cause indoor air pollution and asthma, though there’s scant evidence to support such claims.

Evidence? We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence!

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California faces a projected budget deficit of $22.5 billion for the coming fiscal year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday, just days into his second term. It’s a sharp turnaround from last year’s $98 billion surplus.

Funny thing how Democrats can turn a surplus into a deficit in less than a year without any particular effort.

UPDATE: California Faces First Budget Gap Since 2018 as Stock Market Hits Taxes (Bloomberg) But we can’t cut taxes, no siree.

UPDATE: ‘Very Volatile Moment’: Newsom Slashes Budget After Turning $98 Billion Surplus Into $22.5 Billion Deficit in Single Year

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As he does.

Last week, following the release of December’s jobs data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Biden crowed that “Real wages are up in recent months … and we are seeing welcome signs that inflation is coming down as well.” Biden concluded by saying “it’s a good time to be a worker in America.”

Unfortunately, things aren’t nearly as good as the White House and its accomplices in the corporate media would have us believe.

It’s only a “good time” to be a worker in America if one equates falling real wages and falling full-time employment with “robust” employment conditions.

Moreover, the numbers that the administration continued to cherry-pick to burnish its political image are themselves quite suspect. Response rates to employment surveys sent out by the BLS have gone into steep decline, and the Philadelphia Federal Reserve has recently accused the BLS of vastly overstating employment growth in 2022.

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I’ve taken a stand against arbitrary and capricious federal mandates. Just because the federal government says that we should shift our schedules by one hour twice a year doesn’t mean we have to.

It doesn’t save daylight. It doesn’t save energy. It’s a hassle, pure and simple.

Plus, the terms “daylight saving” time and “standard” time are meaningless today. Thanks to President George W. Bush’s misguided energy bill of 2005, we are now on “standard” time for only one-third of the year. The true standard in this country today is the other eight months of “daylight saving” time.

Classified files found at Biden’s former private office (BBC)

Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office (CNN)

Classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president discovered at Penn Biden Center, White House says (Fox)

DOJ reviewing potentially classified docs at Biden center; Chicago attorney to review (WGN)

Pentagon prepares for series of GOP-led investigations (CNN)

Newly arrived migrants linked to crimes in El Paso including drugs, theft and gun threats (N.Y. Post)

Democrats undermine working class with open borders and illegal labor (N.Y. Post)

Biden struggles to confirm judges in the South and thwart Trump’s impact (CNN)

Biden’s War on Cooks: President Moves To Ban Gas Stoves

DOJ Reviewing Potentially Classified Docs at Biden Center

Biden Grew National Debt $3.67 Trillion in 2 Years, Yet Underfunded Border Protection

Nets Downplay News Biden Caught With Classified Docs in Private Office

Trump: ‘When Is FBI Going to Raid’ Biden’s ‘Many Homes?

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The final act of the Democrat majority on the House Ways and Means Committee was to make public several years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, which the Committee obtained after a prolonged legal battle. The tax returns confirmed that, despite being one of the richest people in America, Donald Trump paid very little in federal income tax. In fact, in at least one year he paid under a thousand dollars.

The tax code is so complex, and so stuffed with special favors for special interests, that anyone who can afford expert help can play it like a guitar–and avoid most tax liability.

When I was in law school, my tax professor would come in the first day of class with a stack of paper about two feet high and place it on his desk. “This is the Internal Revenue Code”, he would say. Picking up the top sheet, he would say “This tells you what tax you need to pay.” Then he would put his hand on the rest of the stack and say, “This tells you how you can avoid paying that tax.” Leaving his hand on the taller stack, he would say “This is what we teach here.”

Protests Erupt In El Paso Ahead Of The Visit Of US President Joe Biden (CNN)

US Department of Energy says rejects initial bids to resupply oil stockpile (Reuters)

Rep. Tony Gonzales: Biden Broke Promise to Let Me Join Border Visit  My, what a surprise.

El Paso Cleaned Up Before Biden’s Visit

James Comer SCHOOLS Chuck Todd on Importance of Hunter Investigation

AGs Slam White House Over Multiple Examples Of Big Tech Collusion To Censor Dissent

Border Patrol Agents ‘Beyond Frustrated’ With Biden’s Handling of Crisis

Biden’s ’24 pivot (Axios)

FDA Fast-Tracks New Alzheimer’s Drug in Boost to Biden’s Reelection Bid

Biden Justice Department Dishonestly Rewrites Law Against Sending Abortion Drugs By Mail

Biden Declares The Southern Border As Secure As America’s Elections  (Babylon Bee)

Killing Terrorists? Hmmm. Biden State Dept Tongue-Tied About Support for Soleimani Assassination

El Paso cleans up migrant camps before Joe Biden border visit (N.Y. Post)

Protests Erupt In El Paso Ahead Of The Visit Of US President Joe Biden (CNN)

New border restrictions in place for asylum seekers (PBS)

White House won’t commit $1B to ‘border city’ New York after Eric Adams’ pleas (N.Y. Post)

NYC, Chicago mayors urge Colorado governor to stop sending asylum seekers to their cities (Politico) The Governor of Colorado is, of course, a Democrat.

Biden the Job Slayer: Keystone Pipeline Would have Created 10s of Thousands of Jobs

White House Delays Refill Of Strategic Oil Reserve, Balks At “Too Expensive” Offers

Biden Blames Southern Border Crisis On Republicans Before His First Planned Trip To The Region

“What I expect is over the next year the party will systematically claw back all of these concessions. They will make a deal with the Democrats to first get rid of the rule regarding how many votes are required to remove the Speaker. Once that is passed, they will then fink on the rest of the concessions in short order. Then the twenty holdouts will be stripped of their committee assignments and given a primary opponent financed by the party. ”  — ZMan

Print this out and post it somewhere, so you can watch it happen in real time over the next two years.

Democrats, immigrant advocates raise red flags over Biden border plan: ‘Deeply disappointed’

DeSantis activates National Guard as hundreds of Cuban migrants arrive in Florida (Politico)

Message from US asylum hopefuls: Financial sponsors needed (Associated Press) Here we are! We want to live in your country! Give us money!

Oil industry exec rips White House after surprising Keystone admission: Biden created ‘economic boondoggle’

Cubans Crossing Into US Stunned to Hear of New Asylum Limits Here we are! We want to live in your country! Give us money!

Report: Texas AG Sues Biden Admin Over Welfare Rule for Immigrants Here we are! We want to live in your country! Give us money!

Biden Releases Latest Plan to Funnel Illegal Migrants into the United States (Center for Immigration Studies)

Court May Force Hunter Biden To Disclose Buyers of His Pricy Artwork  Thinly-disguised bribery.

Voters Remorse: Rapper Cardi B Complains About Inflation, ‘F**king $7’ Lettuce

Biden’s Bloated IRS Will Skewer Taxpayers

Report: Democrat-Run Border City Clears Out Migrant Encampments Ahead of Biden Visit

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 24)

Taxpayer Dollars Could Reach Terrorists Under Biden Admin Aid Changes, McCaul Says

Biden toughens border, offers legal path for 30,000 a month (Associated Press)

Biden fumbles during speech, appears not to know Title 8 border law, mislabels CBP (Fox)

Hunter Biden child support case could reveal buyers of his art, docs show (N.Y. Post)

‘IT WAS WORKING’: Arizona border residents blast decision to remove container wall (Fox) Which is why it had to be destroyed.

Biden Seeks To Solve Border Crisis—by Making It Easier To Enter the United States

‘Everything Tripled’: Rapper Cardi B Slams Biden Economy

Fact-Checking 5 Fibs From Biden’s Border Speech

Biden to Award Citizens Medals to 12 on Jan. 6 Anniversary

Report: Texas AG Sues Biden Admin Over Welfare Rule for Immigrants

Louisiana AG: Biden Admin Was ‘Actively Involved’ in Suppressing Free Speech Online

Karine Jean-Pierre Claims Everything Has Always Been More Expensive Than Usual

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Under the proposed law, gold and silver would be accepted as legal tender and would be receivable in payment of all public and private debts contracted for in the state of Missouri. Practically speaking, this would allow Missourians to use gold or silver coins as money rather than just as mere investment vehicles. In effect, it would put gold and silver on the same footing as Federal Reserve notes.

Missouri could become the fourth state to recognize gold and silver as legal tender. Utah led the way, reestablishing constitutional money in 2011. Wyoming and Oklahoma have since joined.

An influx of 300 migrants forces closure of a national park in the Florida Keys (NPR)

Cuban migrants flow into Florida Keys, overwhelm officials (Associated Press)

Biden’s agencies in for a big year (Politico)

Migrants crowd Mexico’s refugee offices amid fears of U.S. policy change (Reuters)

Deleted Biden campaign ad slamming Buttigieg’s lack of experience resurfaces amid multiple crises (Fox)

Senior Taliban: Women’s Education Will Get ‘Permanent Solution’

FBI Agent Who Destroyed Evidence To Indict GOP Sen. May Get Wrist-Slap

Mayor Eric Adams: Migrant Crisis Could Bankrupt NYC  All that virtue-signaling and never a thought for the cost. (The face of the modern Democrat city: Three black politicians and one white cop in the background.)

‘Step Up’: Dem Mayors Demand Biden Take Action To Stem Migrant Tide

President Biden Bashes Republicans While Unveiling New Immigration Plan

Both sides get it wrong on immigration with Title 42 (Chicago Sun-Times)

Fresh proof of the pain Biden’s economy has inflicted on the middle class (N.Y. Post)

Wave of migrants in Florida Keys is a crisis, sheriff says (Associated Press)

ICE: Migrant Arrest Doubled in FY ’22, But Only Half Deported

Network Provided False Documents to Illegal Migrants

Colorado plans to send more migrants to New York

Biden Renominates Board Member at Anti-Israel Group to Small Business Administration

CNN Mocks, Trashes Hunter Biden Probes, Insists No One Cares Besides ‘Ultra-Right-Wing’

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House Republicans will vote this week on a rules package that will prohibit congressional staffers from collective bargaining, a provision enacted under outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Kansas U.S. Rep. Estes blasts Biden administration’s revision of clean water rules

EPA finalizes water rule that repeals Trump-era changes

Misery in El Paso: Hundreds of homeless migrants live in squalor amid deportation fears (CNN)

The most awkward and embarrassing Kamala Harris ‘word salads’ of 2022 (Fox)

Rep. Steil: Biden’s Monetary Policy Driving Inflation

300 Migrants Make Landings at National Park in Florida Keys

Federal Judge Orders Arizona Child To Dismantle Border Wall He Built Out Of Legos  (Babylon Bee)

VP Harris: No Photo Without Negative COVID-19 Test

Colorado Lawyer Charges DOJ Now Hiding ‘Disclosed’ Biden Business Dealings Docs

Sven Larson

Europeans commonly believe that America does not have a welfare state. Many American conservatives share that belief, and those who do recognize that we have one, firmly believe that it is not socialist.

They are all wrong: America has a big welfare state, and it is distinctly socialist in nature. It is based on the very same ideology that underpins the Swedish welfare state.

Its foundation was laid by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 with his so-called ‘war on poverty.’ Since then, almost every president has helped the welfare state grow.

Today, there are more similarities than differences between America’s and Europe’s welfare states. We in the U.S. do not yet have single-payer health care, and our income-security systems are not as sprawling as they are in Europe. However, the long list of social benefits that we do have operates on a socialist ideological basis: they elevate the standard of living of the gainfully employed with lower incomes, and have better-off citizens pay for it.

The modern welfare state was pioneered by Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century.

Arizona’s AG says dropping Title 42 would cause border ‘chaos’ (NPR)

Here’s what Americans can expect from Biden’s tax hikes taking effect on Jan. 1 (Fox)

U.S. ramps up immigration arrests mostly at Mexican border (Reuters)

More arrested at border, but only half are deported: ICE (N.Y. Post)

Chasten Buttigieg fires back at Democratic critic of Pete over Southwest meltdown (Fox)

‘Somewhat evasive’: Karine Jean-Pierre accused of hiding behind obscure law to avoid tough questions (Fox)

Biden administration will withdraw Trump-era rule letting all health care workers refuse reproductive, transgender care (S.F. Chronicle)

Putin Is Making Biden’s Border Nightmare Even Worse (Newsweek)

Russians join thousands of migrants waiting for end of Title 42 at US border (N.Y. Post)

“Somebody Was Lying”: Biden Doesn’t Trust Secret Service Detail, Thinks They Fabricated Dog Biting Incident  Being accused of lying by Joe Biden is like being called ugly by a frog.