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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.

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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.