New York Post.

Frightening new technology in the hands of government intelligence agencies has the ability to commandeer any smart camera and even “alter feeds” to manipulate both its audio and visuals — including past recordings, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.

The Big Brother-like software — used by the nation’s intelligence agency Mossad — has been brokered since 2018 to global states by a former Israeli defense force cyber chief’s company, Toka.

Border encounters exceed 617,000 so far in fiscal year 2023, a record high

Homeland Security warns of potential domestic extremist-fueled violence related to Title 42 (CBS)

Progressives take aim at Buttigieg over Southwest fiasco (The Hill) The gay icon loses his lustre?

How states can move people from welfare to work, sidestepping Team Biden’s ban (N.Y. Post)

Inflation Reduction Act Tax Hikes to Hit on Jan. 1

Biden Awkwardly Congratulates Most Extreme Right Government In Israel’s History

Buttigieg Knew: State AGs Warned Transportation Agency Of Airline Debacle Months Ago

GOP-Controlled State Legislatures Weigh ‘Constitutionality’ Of Presidential Executive Orders And about time, too.

Biden Seeks to Undo Trump-era Rights for Health Workers

Biden’s Back Door Tesla Subsidy

Nets Ignore the Courtroom Drama With Hunter Biden’s Baby Mama

Biden Pardons 6 Convicted of Murder, Drug, Alcohol Crimes

The Foreign Billionaire Funding the Dem Attack on Hunter Biden Investigation

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The Centers for Disease Control is one of a number of formerly-respected federal agencies that now have fallen into disrepute. CDC has become a tool of the Left in general, and the Democratic Party in particular, and it seems that the people who run the Centers are more interested in political activism than in disease control.

Thus CDC’s latest initiative: a self-assessment tool for “LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools.” (Via Breitbart.)

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President Biden and congressional Democrats imposed a long list of tax increases as part of their “Inflation Reduction Act” passed in 2022.

Slipping over Mexico border, migrants get the jump on U.S. court ruling (Reuters)

US emergency oil stockpiles drop to lowest level since 1983 as gas prices tick up

Sorry, Kamala: It’s not the media’s fault no one thinks you’re a strong leader — it’s your own (N.Y. Post)

Anti ‘woke’ ESG policies are already costing taxpayers millions (Fast Company)

Migrants assembled in Mexico hatch plans to cross border after Title 42 is extended (N.Y. Post)

US military bases that housed Afghan evacuees suffered $260 million in damage

Twice-deported, MS-13 gang suspect on El Salvador’s most wanted list arrested in Virginia

Supreme Court Bars Ending Title 42, but Border Crisis Will Continue Because Biden Won’t Enforce It

CNN: Title 42 Battle ‘Fodder’ for Smugglers, ‘Misinformation’ on Facebook

Funny What Even A Flimsy Border Fence Can Do…

Chris Hayes Mocked for Downplaying Biden Life-Story Lies Compared to George Santos

FBI Twitter Files Corruption Is ‘Tip of the Iceberg,’ Warns GOP Senator

Forlorn CBS Shovels More Sob Stories of Illegals Stuck Waiting for Title 42 to End

Mom of Hunter Biden’s Daughter Asks Court to Change Daughter’s Name to Biden  All the better to squeeze more money out of the deep pockets.

Republicans pounce on the poor beleaguered FBI  It’s good to see that they’ve got the energy.

NYC Gets $8M in Migrant Aid  Most of which will wind up in the pockets of local Democrat apparatchiks.

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I detect Seth Lipsky’s characteristic prose and train of thought in the New York Sun editorial “Yes, Virginia–There Is a Santos Clause.” Seth’s hand in the editorial makes sense: he is the editor of the Sun.

The subject of the editorial is the post-election discovery that Rep.-elect George Santos is not who he said he was. The subhead summarizes the gist of the editorial: “All the falsehoods George Santos is accused of are small beer compared to the truth of his campaign — which is that the voters in his district decided to bring in a Republican to replace a Democrat.” Seth unveils the Santos clause toward the end of the editorial: “[Congress] can’t refuse to seat an elected candidate on the basis of lies he told — or even, for that matter, truths — or whether Brazil thinks he kited checks [as may be the case with Santos].”

It is interesting to see the hysteria whipped up by the media in response to the exposure of Santos’s fabrications. So far, he has only been exposed as a liar. As Seth argues, he will be in good company if and when he is able to take office, though I wouldn’t want to put much credence in his oath.

Santos made the mistake of compressing all of his fibbing into one election season. If he had stretched it out over 30 years, the way Joe Biden did, he might be on his way to the White House.

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Indeed they ought.

Supreme Court keeps Title 42 border expulsions in place indefinitely, granting GOP-led petition (CBS)

Justice Gorsuch joins three liberal justices on Supreme Court’s Title 42 decision (The Hill)

What Biden’s woke military has wrought (Fox)

Biden admin facing third year of crisis at the southern border with uncertain immigration policies in 2023 (Fox)

Latest U.S. border statistics show waning use of Title 42 (Washington Post)

Troops Are Getting Cyber Training and Then Rapidly Leaving the Military, Report Finds Gee, I wonder why?

Air Force quietly speeds up plans to eliminate spy planes on the front line of America’s fentanyl war (CNN)

Record number of Nicaraguans making trek to US border: report (The Hill) “Here we are! We want to live in your country! Give us money!”

20K Migrants Held Up Near El Paso Hoping to Cross Border

Poll Shows Media, Politicians Hide Migration Numbers from Americans

Grover Norquist to Newsmax: NYT Wrong to Say IRS Won’t Target Families

Washington Expands the War State

Nets Play Handler for Old Joe on Border Crisis, Lament Illegals Have to ‘Wait’ to Flood U.S.

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In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes that juries found they didn’t commit, and the Supreme Court is being asked, again, to put an end to the practice.

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Twelve states and the District of Columbia allow local governments and private investors to seize dramatically more than what is owed from homeowners who fall behind on property tax payments, according to a new report.

The practice, which Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) calls “home equity theft,” is documented in what the organization bills as the first national study aimed at exposing “the injustice of home equity theft through tax foreclosure.”

Homeowners lost more than $777 million in life savings on more than 5,600 homes, based on their market value, in transactions that took place from 2014 to 2021. The true total is probably higher because statistics from New York state and some statistics from the other states studied were not available. On average, homeowners lost 86 percent of their equity, the study found.

Government entities, which often unload properties for a fraction of their market value, collected an estimated $26 million more than they were owed on about 1,300 homes. At the same time, private investors, who purchase tax liens, took in about $250 million more than what they were owed on about 2,600 homes.

When it is possible to steal other people’s money through the political process, it will be done. Nothing is more common than politicians and parasites coordinating theft under pretext of law.

Two Venezuelan families. Two immigration policies. Two different outcomes. (L.A. Times)

Fentanyl seizures at the border continue to shatter records in 2022 (N.Y. Post)

Americans spent like crazy during the holidays because of high inflation (CNN)

‘A sea change’: Biden reverses decades of Chinese trade policy (Politico)

SURPRISE! CNN Guest Sees ‘Service’ Provided in GOP Migrant Busing

WORST OF 2022: The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award 

Almost 600K Evaded Authorities at Southern Border in FY2022

15 Facts Which Prove That A Massive Economic Meltdown Is Already Happening Right Now

HUD Disaster Aid Used for High-Priced Conn. Homes: Report  Of course. What’s the use of power if you can’t abuse it?

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: Incompetent but Failing Upward

Exclusive: $4 gas could return as soon as May, GasBuddy projects (CNN)

New IRS Requirement Raises Questions About Vow to Expand Audits Only on ‘Rich’

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Liz Warren hates billionaires. Just ask the millionaire leftist. Or don’t, she’ll be happy to virtue signal to you anyway. The Elizabeth Warren official store even sells a “billionaire tears” mug for only $28 bucks: a profit margin that would be obscene if a capitalist billionaire were doing it.

Who actually funds Warren’s political ambitions? Our investigation of her political organization reveals that it’s billionaires like Bill Gates, George Soros, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife and eBay’s Pierre Omidyar. Advisors include Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. Like her Cherokee heritage, Warren’s identity as a crusader against billionaires is fake. Without billionaires backing her organization, she wouldn’t have achieved so much influence in the Biden administration.

Biden’s 2022 solution to student debt could fall apart in 2023 (Politico)

Six ways students can reduce debt if Biden program is killed by courts (The Hill) Of course, they don’t mention the obvious one of paying it down. (Who would do that?)

FBI suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story (L.A. Daily News)

A refugee crisis has arrived in Denver even if the U.S. won’t acknowledge it (Denver Post)

NYC Council caucus calling on Biden to declare migrant crisis an ‘emergency’ (N.Y. Post)

Judge stays Biden administration’s termination of ‘Remain in Mexico’ immigration policy (N.Y. Post)

Foreign aid groups halt work after Taliban ban on female staff (BBC)

Major NGOs halt work in Afghanistan after Taliban ban on female workers (The Hill)

Title 42 border rules confound Washington, migrants alike (Associated Press)

Twitter Files Reveal CIA, FBI Pressured Twitter To Censor Content

Politicized FBI Uses Washington Post to Claim Their Reluctance to Raid Mar-a-Lago

More migrants dropped off outside vice president’s home in freezing weather on Christmas Eve (CNN) Living breathing reminders that she’s not doing her job.

CIA Is Using a NATO Ally’s Spy Service to Conduct a Covert Sabotage Campaign

The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter

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Did you know that in fiscal year 2022, federal tax receipts as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) hit a near record high of 19.6 percent?

According to the U.S. Treasury, in FY 2022, total federal tax receipts and additional federal government revenue topped $4.90 trillion.  Yet, over this time, Congress spent $6.27 trillion.  The difference, the 2022 deficit, was $1.37 trillion.

The difference, of course, was made up with debt.  And year after year, decade after decade, these deficits have stacked up into a mega pile of debt.  Presently, the U.S. national debt is over $31.4 trillion.  As a reference point, in December 2000, the national debt was $5.6 trillion.

“It’s nothin’ personal–it’s just business. I always liked him.”

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moments of the Year 2022

The World Trade Organization’s gift to Joe Biden (The Hill)

Is Biden Killing the World Trade Organization? (Foreign Policy)

Harrowing photos show migrants risk kidnapping, freezing temps to get into US (N.Y. Post)

FBI Faces Calls to be Abolished Over Twitter Files Revelations (Newsweek)

Biden slammed for Christmas ‘unity’ speech after year of political attacks: ‘Spare us, you old grinch’ (Fox)

Taliban minister defends closing universities to women as global backlash grows (The Guardian)

Federal Officials Drop Hundreds of Migrants at Transit Centers Around San Diego

The pain isn’t goin’ away: Inflation cost households an extra $10K (N.Y. Post)

Arizona border officers find more than 700,000 fentanyl pills hidden in train arriving from Mexico

California Seized Enough Fentanyl to Potentially Kill the Entire Population of North America, Twice (Office of the Governor of California)

Military bases had $260M in damages from Afghan evacuation (Associated Press)

There’s nothing compassionate about the humanitarian crisis Democrats have created at the border (N.Y. Post)

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Well, actually, they could–never underestimate the incompetence of government employees–but it certainly looks suspicious.

Lake’s lawyers attempted to make that case with their bombshell revelation that a review of random ballots found that 48 out of 113 (42.5 percent) were “19-inch ballots produced on 20-inch paper,” causing them to be rejected.

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“The machines should have been programmed for 19.” By Maricopa County’s own testimony, there is no such thing as an 20? ballot,” Lake’s campaign team wrote. “Yet somehow machines in 61% of their polling centers still printed a 19? inch ballot on a 20? paper. Deliberate sabotage targeted at Republican turnout.”

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The networks are urging everyone on board with the latest $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, and no one needs to read its 4,155 pages. Just vote yes. For any Republicans to argue against this newest deluge of many billions is apparently horrendous. What we’re going to get is more opportunities for a Speaker Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco and a Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia.

Eric Adams rejects Biden’s claims that border is secure, says migrants ‘coming from somewhere’ (N.Y. Post) He’s got a point.

El Paso overflowing with migrants as concern mounts in NYC (ABC)

Biden Moves Ahead on Trump Plan to Build Israel Embassy on Stolen Palestinian Land (The Intercept)

Doug Ducey’s makeshift border wall is one step closer to obliteration (MSNBC)

Biden’s weaponized IRS is coming for your Venmo account (Fox)

Supreme Court likely to ‘dismantle’ student loan forgiveness plan after it hears case, says Harvard law professor (CNBC)

Student Debt: It Is And Always Has Been A Personal Choice

Texas AG Ken Paxton to Newsmax: Biden Admin in ‘Partnership’ with Cartels

FBI Pressured Twitter Ahead of Hunter Biden Censorship, Documents Reveal

El Paso Mayor Warns 20,000 Illegal Aliens Waiting In Mexico To Cross Border When Title 42 Ends

Soros-Funded Group Tied to Twitter’s Efforts to Squash Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal

CBS Whines Texas National Guard is Cracking Down on Illegal Migrants

Biden Administration ‘Intentionally Unsecured’ Border for ‘Perceived Political Benefit,’ Mark Morgan Says

VP Harris Demands Social Media Companies “Cooperate And Work With Us” On “Protecting Our Democracy”

Texas Buses About 140 Asylum Seekers to Philadelphia

Fox News Torpedos ABC Lie, Biden Promised Illegal Immigrants Entry into U.S.

Taliban Bans All Education For Afghan Girls, Ironically As Huge Pallets Of Cash ‘Humanitarian’ Aid Flown In

Think Tank Funded by Pro-Biden Billionaires Colluded With Journalists and Big Tech To Kill Hunter Biden Coverage

Armed Guards Stop Afghan Women Entering Universities After Taliban Ban

State Dept. Gives $30,000 Award to Kyrgyz Pro-Trans Group

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You can learn a lot about a man by seeing how he spends his money. You can learn about a congressman by seeing how he spends everyone else’s money.

Congress is—yet again—preparing to spend nearly $2 trillion of taxpayers’ dollars in a massive omnibus spending bill.

Some in Congress are reluctant to keep overspending taxpayer dollars, but the complicity of some GOP senators in the latest budget negotiations shows—yet again—that some legislators on both sides are willing to blow out spending while paying lip service to fiscal restraint.

Appropriators have thrown in thousands upon thousands of pet projects across the country to help entice members of Congress to vote for the massive budget.

Here is a small sampling of the pork that soon may be coming to 10 states if Congress passes this spending bill.

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Everyone knows that the quality of education in our public schools is declining.  We continue to fall behind the rest of the world, and this is particularly true in science and in math.  Personally, I am a product of the public schools.  I attended public schools all the way through high school, and I earned three degrees at public universities.  And I have to admit that the quality of the education that I received was terrible.  If I had not spent a great deal of time and effort educating myself, I would not be able to do what I do today.  Sadly, things have gotten even worse in recent decades.  Today, a large proportion of our young people are not even equipped to function on a very basic level in our society once they graduate from high school, and that has huge implications for the future of our country.

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Congressional leaders have dropped 6,825 pages of text for their “omnibus” spending bill, plus explanatory materials that include a list of at least 4,000 earmarks, on the doorstep of every American family.

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You can read the report below as we are currently doing, however upon first read – and the fact that it was quietly released on a Tuesday night instead of via a Washington Post bombshell detailing specific ‘evil things’ Trump’s done, we are going to – for now, assume this is a giant nothingburger.

US border cities strained ahead of expected migrant surge (Associated Press)

El Paso mayor declares state of emergency amid migrant crisis (CBS)

Biden administration proposing phaseout of compact fluorescent light bulbs (The Hill) No issue is too petty to prevent interference with the freedom of people to buy what they want.

As US debates Title 42 policy, asylum seekers left in limbo (Al Jezeera) Apparently limbo is somewhere near Mexico.

Biden slings ‘anti-Irish’ words, claims to be Italian in gaffe-ridden speech (N.Y. Post)

Joe Biden roasted for busting out ‘old school, anti-Irish’ slur, claiming he’s Italian: ‘He needs help’

Jean-Pierre ducks question on VP Kamala Harris border help as migrant rush looms (N.Y. Post)

DOJ snooped on House Intelligence Committee investigators during Russia probe, subpoenas show

Texas Border Towns Prepare For Migrant Wave With Shipping Containers And Razor Wire

Why Was the Department of Justice Spying on Republican Congressional Staff?

Postal Service will electrify truck fleet by 2026 in climate win for Biden (Washington Post) And more expense for the American taxpayer. (I wonder which Democrat donor will get the contract for the new trucks?)

Watch: Biden Press Secretary Says “You’re With The Smugglers If You Claim Border Is Open”

Poll: Nearly Half Say Biden Has Made US Worse

White House Can’t Mandate COVID Jabs For Federal Contractors: Appeals Court

Twitter files #7: the FBI sets up the scam

The FBI Files: The FBI Pressured Twitter to Reveal Private User Information

Taliban Bans Women From Universities in Afghanistan  Thank you, Joe Biden.

Victims of Terrorism Sue Biden Admin for Sending Taxpayer Aid to Palestinians  And about time too.

Border Czar Kamala Harris Blames Biden Admin’s Migrant Crisis on Republicans

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Congressional leadership released a massive $1.85 trillion “omnibus” spending bill early Tuesday. This 4,155-page bill is filled with woke policies to advance the Left’s extreme agenda to remake America using your tax dollars.

It is unprecedented for a lame-duck Congress to jam through an omnibus spending bill after the American people voted out the majority party in the House of Representatives.

However, Senate Republican leadership has worked with outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for one last liberal spending blowout before the conservative majority takes control of the House on Jan. 3.

The omnibus spending bill is loaded with thousands of earmarks, which are line-item funding for specific pet projects directed by members of Congress.

Many of these earmarks would advance the Left’s extreme agenda and fund its institutions using the taxpayer’s money. House Appropriations Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., bragged that the omnibus “fulfills 98% of Democratic member requests in the House, with $5.4 billion for 3,213 Democratic projects.”

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The federal government is running annual $1 trillion to $2 trillion budget deficits, which is more than the entire gross domestic product of most nations. But if you believed that Republicans would take a chainsaw to the budget (figuratively) and slash the waste from the federal budget, then to paraphrase the “Oliver Twist” character of Fagin, the miser, “I think you had better think it out again.”

So far, since the midterm elections, the Republicans in Congress seem to be doing just the opposite. The first decision by House Republicans when they learned they had won a slim majority of 222 to 213 was to bring back earmarks. These are bridges to nowhere, peanut subsidies and sports arenas for local professional teams paid for by federal taxpayers.

Some Republican lawmakers offer the excuse that it’s called bringing home the bacon to local constituents. But both parties apparently love to play Santa.

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The Twitter Files prove that corporations, intelligence agencies and the Democrats conspired to rig an election. The Biden team instructed that a particular story be squashed, and it was. They gave lists of individuals and organisations to suppress, and these lists were acted on.

The social media company was effectively an outsourced arm of government, suppressing 1st amendment free speech rights.

Two migrant buses arrived in New York City on Sunday and up to 15 more are expected in the next few days (CNN) Have yourself a progressive little Christmas….

Lifting Title 42 will cause ‘total chaos’ on the border: Greg Abbott (New York Post)

Texas congressman shares footage of crowded migrant center, calls situation ‘dire’ (N.Y. Post)

New York City says it needs $3 billion from federal government in coming years to respond to asylum seekers (CNN)

It’s time for climate change to reach the International Court of Justice (The Hill)

D.C. Was Full of Hot, Happy Gays Celebrating the Respect for Marriage Act (New York Magazine)

Crude Spikes After White House Says It Will Start Refilling Strategic Petroleum Reserve  Now that the election is over.

Biden’s Justice Department Sues Arizona and Gov. Doug Ducey for Building a Border Wall

The politicized Department of Justice

DHS Says It Will Close Gaps Along Southwest Border Wall As End Of Title 42 Looms  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

National Archives’ Release of Hunter Biden Emails Could Put WH in Bind

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 23

Twitter Files: Intel Community Discredited Factual Info on Hunter Biden  The technical term for which is ‘politically-motivated cover-up’.

Texas Sends Nearly 90 Migrants by Bus to Philadelphia

Biden Admin Facing Major Border Crisis Ahead of Christmas

Biden to appoint Joe Kennedy — RFK’s grandson — as special envoy to Northern Ireland (Washington P0st) Child of the Crust. welcome to the Trough.

Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Biden Admin’s Lifting Of Trump-Era Border Policy

Gall out in the ‘open’ at the US border (N.Y. Post)

Local Texas leaders make an appeal to enact change at the border: ‘No one’s listening’ (Fox)

The irony at the heart of Biden’s trade policy (The Hill)

See migrants camping at Rio Grande as Title 42 expiration looms (CNN)

Majority of states call on Supreme Court to review constitutionality of CFPB funding (The Hill)

Ford Raises F-150 Lightning Prices Again, Now 40% More Expensive

Judge Blocks Biden Plan To Shred “Remain In Mexico” Policy

Biden Wants $8 Billion In Taxpayer Funds To Shut Down Coal Power In South Africa

Desperate migrants are met with cold, no room at shelters after crossing the border (NBC) They could always stay home.

Impact of migrant arrivals on El Paso, Texas (CBS)

Biden’s DHS secretary is a liar and ‘deserved the cold welcome’ from Border Patrol, says Arizona sheriff (Fox)

Illegal immigrants seen climbing out of sewer manholes and sneaking into Texas (N.Y. Post)

POLITIFLOP: PolitiFact Claims Biden ‘Mostly True’ on Wage Gains Despite Inflation

Schumer, Pelosi: Biden Should Run Again  Or, more accurately, stumble.

Biden-Created Border Crisis About to Get Whole Lot Worse

SCHUMER FREEZES ANTITRUST BILLS AFTER BIG TECH LOBBYISTS BUNDLED MILLIONS

Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden administration is ‘prepared’ for end of Title 42 (Fox) Prepared to do nothing.

Hole in US-Mexico border finally to be plugged one year after Post report (N.Y. Post)

City Hall ‘anxious’ over Title 42, Adams says ‘no one’ helping NYC migrant surge (N.Y. Post)

30,000 migrants now in NYC as Mayor Eric Adams phones Biden admin for cash: report (Fox) Let’s see–that’s three days worth of what comes over the border into Texas.

Government Warns That With Elon Owning Twitter They Will Only Control 97% Of The Media  (Babylon Bee)

Was American teacher left behind in Russian prison camp because he wasn’t woke enough for Team Biden? (Fox)

‘Crisis on steroids’: Hundreds of migrants released to sleep on streets of El Paso (New York Post)

Small businesses find risky tax loophole to dodge new IRS rules (Fox)

New IRS rule on Venmo, cash apps could penalize millions (N.Y. Post)

Homeland Security chief: ‘We’re moving as quickly as we can’ on border crisis (El Paso Times)

DHS Plans to Close Gaps in Border Wall, Address Other Issues And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

FBI Report Shows High Hate Crime Levels, but Data Missing  Data? We don’t need no stinkin’ data!

‘About to Break’: Newsom Says Feds Are Overwhelming California With Immigrants

HHS approves Washington state request to offer health insurance to illegal immigrants, citing ‘health equity’

White House Flips Out After Musk Says Fauci-Funded Research “Killed Millions”

The Legion Of Democratic Doom? Biden Operatives Plan “Swat Force” On Hunter Biden Scandal  Let’s hope they hire somebody competent to run it.

House GOP Ups Pressure on McCarthy Over Mayorkas

El Paso Asks to Use Military Bases to House Illegal Aliens

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The building is one of five warehouses where the NYPD stores vehicles that are confiscated. They also use the warehouse to store evidence that is too large to fit in normal storage areas.

Asylum seekers cross en masse at El Paso-Juarez border as Title 42 nears end (El Paso Times)

More Than 1,000 Migrants Crossed Rio Grande Into El Paso

Hundreds of Members of Extremist Group Oath Keepers Worked for U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Leaked Roster Shows (OCCRP)

Hundreds Of Oath Keepers Have Worked for the Federal Government: Report (Rolling Stone)

Hundreds of migrants released in El Paso (KFOX 14)

Migrants search for work after arriving in Denver (CBS Colorado)

El Paso mayor refuses to declare emergency despite thousands of migrants flooding in (N.Y. Post)

Juan Williams: Who’s laughing at Biden now? (The Hill) Well, half of America, for a start. A lot of Europe, for another.

African Journalist Accuses Press Secretary Jean-Pierre of ‘Discrimination’ (Newsweek)

Biden administration approves Washington state request to offer health insurance to undocumented immigrants (The Hill)

As Title 42 Nears End, Border Crossings Surge

Kamala Harris Visits Brittney Griner To Lock Her Up On Marijuana Charges (Babylon Bee)

BREAKING: Department of Energy Says Sam Brinton ‘Is No Longer a DOE Employee’

‘Merchant Of Death’s Victory Tour: Praises Putin, “Volunteers” For War, & Joins Ultra-Nationalist Party

NBC Downplays Border Crisis & Fails to Mention Biden, CBS Ignores

Biden Convenes Anti-Semitism Summit While Funding Murder of Jews

Former Energy Sec Calls for Investigations Into DOE Grant to China-Based Battery Company

Biden Pledged To Support US Miners. Now He’s Looking To Outsource Their Work to Foreign Green Energy Mines.

Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America

Inflation, at 7.1%, Still High

Mass Migrant Crossing Floods Texas Border Facilities (N.Y. Times) The Narrative Media, of course, has no problem with that. Just don’t send them to New York.

Average American Family Has Effectively Lost $7,100 Under Biden, Economist Says

Deep meaning of Hunter Biden Hunter Biden is a poster child for the activities of Children of the Crust and what they can get away with that would put any of the Dirt People in jail.

Report: ‘Largest Caravan in History’ Crosses Border Into Texas ‘Mexican police appear to have helped the immigrants cross the U.S. border, with images showing police “escorting nearly 20 buses filled with migrants into Ciudad Juarez,” directly across the border from El Paso.’

Virginia Pregnancy Center 1 of Many Waiting on FBI for Justice in Jane’s Revenge Attacks

DOJ Arrests Sam Bankman-Fried For Running Out Of Bribery Money  (Babylon Bee)

Border Agents Apprehend 11K Migrants in One Week

Biden Signs Gay Marriage Bill at White House Ceremony  Cue lawsuits.

Biden Signs Radical Respect for Marriage Act Into Law, Surrounded by LGBTQ Lawmakers and Drag Queens  How appropriate.

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Two top officials of a Northern Virginia public school district were indicted Monday for their roles in the handling of a bathroom rape by a skirt-wearing boy after The Daily Wire revealed the apparent coverup last year, court documents unsealed Monday showed.

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In 12 short years, the U.S. will hit the Biden Administration’s deadline for a fossil fuel-free power grid. In a previous article, I discussed the lack of resources to meet the frankly ludicrous plan to quadruple our renewable power generation and meet the arbitrary deadline of “no more fossil fuel” for a green grid. But what about coal?

Border officials seeing massive migrant numbers, large groups ahead of Title 42’s end (Fox)

Biden’s focus on semiautomatic weapons is ignorance manifest (N.Y. Post)

Senators Press HHS As Whistleblower Alleges Unaccompanied Children Being Transferred To Criminals

Biden Decides To Read ‘Art Of The Deal’ After Getting Ripped Off In Griner Trade (Babylon Bee)

Russian Media Laughs At US Government’s Woke Trade For Griner Instead Of Whelan  And well they might.

On MSNBC, Dem Slime Merchant Vows To Dish Dirt On Republicans Probing Hunter Biden

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Everyone knows that covid is dangerous mostly to old people who are already sick. Thus, there has been a particular emphasis on vaccinating and boosting the elderly. Our public health establishment has now abandoned the claim that vaccination will prevent a person from catching covid, but says that it will greatly reduce the risk of hospitalization or death.

Assessing the relative risks of the vaccinated and unvaccinated requires accurate knowledge of the numbers in each category. We have records of the people who have been vaccinated, so the “unvaccinated” in government figures merely represents the difference between the total population cohort and the number known to have been vaccinated or boosted. So the size of the total population cohort is obviously critical.

Kevin Roche, proprietor of Healthy Skeptic, realized that in Minnesota, the Department of Health was basing its vaxed/unvaxed comparisons on different time periods: it looked, for example, at case etc. rates for people who were vaccinated in 2021, but in order to determine the rates for the unvaccinated, it used population numbers averaged between 2015 and 2019. The over-65 population in Minnesota grew significantly between 2015 and 2021. In a cohort where vaccination rates are high, that turns out to make a huge difference.

We’d know, if the public health authorities (bureaucrats with MDs) told us the truth. (… which they aren’t, and haven’t, and probably won’t.)

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This sort of thing never works. If people want to do X badly enough, they will find a way to do X. If doing X is made a crime, it merely encourages criminal behavior. Prohibition ought to be sufficient evidence of how bad an idea this is.

The only time banning certain behavior works is if most people accept that such behavior is a bad thing. If a significant portion of the population don’t do that, then all that happens is the creation of a criminal subculture devoted to servicing people who want to indulge in that behavior. Gambling, recreational drugs, sex work–all testify to the eternal truth that such can’t be eliminated, merely driven underground. That just makes it even more profitable for the criminally inclined to service that market. (Markets work even when you don’t want them to.)

White House denies involvement in Twitter censorship despite ‘direct contact’ on COVID ‘misinformation’

Democrats tell Biden to ditch ‘punitive’ immigration measures (The Hill)

University of Washington sued for withholding docs detailing professor’s alleged role in DHS disinfo campaign

Group of over 700 migrants caught crossing US border into Texas (N.Y. Post)

Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $2.3 Million to Create Good-Paying Union Jobs, Catalyze Economic Revitalization in Alaska?and Texas (Dept. of the Interior) Note: Good-paying union jobs.

‘Very Amused’: Russian State Media Mock Biden’s Woke Diplomacy

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 22

Some U.S. officials express concern over Brittney Griner prisoner swap (CBS)

Brittney Griner’s return to the U.S. sparks controversy (Fox)

Bad deal for Viktor Bout, and a terrible day for the US (N. Y. Post)

Biden threatens Europe’s car batteries (Politico)

FBI ‘Deeply Concerned’ After Apple Says Nearly All iCloud Data Now Has End-to-End Encryption

DeSantis Raises $59 Million For Florida Hurricane Relief, Says Biden Denied Funds

Biden earned political capital this fall. He’s quietly spending it. (Politico) But on ice cream, not on visiting the border.

Not Since ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ Has Anyone Made a Worse Trade Than This  Yeah, Biden didn’t even get any Magic Beans.

IRS Agents Slide Down Chimneys Looking For Gifts Of $600 Or More  (Babylon Bee)

Putin Fleeced U.S. Over Obsession With CRT, Diversity

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A Biden administration Energy Department official who allegedly stole a woman’s suitcase from a Minneapolis airport in September has been accused of another luggage heist at a Las Vegas airport.

A felony warrant on grand larceny charges was issued for Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, 8 News Now reported Thursday.

Brinton, who made history as one of the federal government’s first gender-fluid officials, allegedly stole luggage from another traveler at Harry Reid International Airport in Vegas on an unknown date, according to the outlet.

Details about the alleged theft are scarce, but 8 News Now stated that Brinton, 35, was charged with grand larceny with a value between $1,200 and $5,000.

Hey, everybody’s got to have a hobby, right?

UPDATE: Biden Admin’s Airport Panty Raider Strikes Again

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The state legislators, in what Justice Elena Kagan acknowledged is a “novel challenge,” are contesting the actions of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The lawmakers claim it is unconstitutional for state courts to override the decisions of state legislatures in passing election laws and drafting congressional maps that fully comply with all the requirements of federal law.

State courts shouldn’t be able to change such laws or devise their own legislative maps—often to reach a partisan result—based on novel and unprecedented interpretations of state constitutions, the legislators argue. This, they say, is barred by the Constitution’s elections clause.

Congress pushes TAPS Act as Border Patrol agents feel ‘abandoned’ by Biden administration (N.Y. Post)

Biden says ‘more important things’ than border visit, despite 59 trips to Delaware, 8 stops for ice cream (Fox)

Biden’s latest student loan payment extension is unlawful (The Hill)

Biden admin drags its feet on TikTok security deal as Republicans sound alarms (Fox)

White House pressed on Biden comparing Georgia voting law to ‘Jim Crow’ despite record turnout

The Fed may wreck one of the greatest booms in history of Main Street America (CNBC)

Biden Appeals Ruling Invalidating COVID Curbs for Migrants at Southern Border

Sen. Blackburn to Newsmax: Biden’s Staff Shielding Him from Border

Who’s Really Facilitating America’s Border Crisis? Biden Isn’t Acting Alone

Biden: ‘We Can’ Ban Assault Weapons Before GOP Leads House

Border Patrol Agents Eviscerate Biden For Saying He’s Got “More Important Things” To Worry About

‘Endangering Our National Security’: Senator Launches Inquiry Into Biden’s $200M Grant to China-Based Battery Company

Biden had a ‘painful’ decision to make to secure Griner’s release. He made it. (Politico) It wasn’t painful at all. He caved. He traded a terrorist for a narcissistic Fashionable Minority that would get him fawning headlines (like this one) and meanwhile a white mail veteran rots in a Russian prison.

Biden Releasing $36 Billion to Aid Union Pensions  Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

Biden Grants Historic Federal Bailout to Union Pension Fund Struggling in His Economy

Biden’s Student Loan Bribe in Midterms: Unconstitutional But Successful

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U.S. officials under the Bush administration captured Bout during a 2008 sting operation in Bangkok, where the arms dealer believed he was meeting with Colombian narco-terrorist group FARC to secure the sale of 100 surface-to-air missiles and rocket launchers. Bout was extradited from Thailand to the United States in 2010 on terrorism charges including conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, and conspiracy to kill U.S. officials. A U.S. jury sentenced Bout to 25 years in prison in Manhattan in 2011.

So we gave the Russians a convicted terrorist and got a drug-using America-hating lesbian BIPOC in return? Sounds as if the Biden people got rolled.

UPDATE: Woke Athlete Released By Russia; Former Marine Whelan Left Behind

UPDATE: Score One for Putin

FBI wouldn’t discuss Hunter Biden probe after convincing Facebook to suppress laptop stories (N.Y. Post)

Judge tosses Jamal Khashoggi suit against MBS after Biden gives prince immunity: court docs (N.Y. Post)

Biden faces press outcry after ‘petty’ and ‘punitive’ Christmas party snubs (N.Y. Post)

Doug Emhoff emerges as the face of Biden’s fight against antisemitism (Politico)

The Biden Official Overseeing Georgia Poll Watchers Defended Black Panthers in Voter Intimidation Case

MORE Twitter Files: Taibbi Says Former Top FBI Lawyer Complicated Hunter Biden Docs Release

House GOP Announces Investigation Into Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal

‘He Claims To Be Pro-Labor But He’s Not’: Buttigieg’s Focus On Midterms During Stalled Rail Negotiations Strains Relationship With Unions

Team Biden’s 401(k) heist could raid your retirement for a woke agenda (N.Y. Post)

Nicaraguan Migrants Dropped at Home of VP Harris

Biden’s DOJ Is Investigating an Accidental Death in Israel. A Watchdog Wants To Know Why.

Border Patrol Agent Killed During High-Speed Pursuit of Migrants

Biden’s IRS Commish Pick Covered Up Obama’s Targeting of Conservatives

How the FBI got the Hunter laptop story suppressed while attempting to preserve plausible deniability for itself

Navy to Accept Recruits with Lowest Test Scores as Recruiting Goal Grows

Biden State Department’s Outrageous Betrayal of Nigeria’s Suffering Christians

FBI Held “Weekly Meetings” With Big Tech Ahead Of 2020 Election, “Sent Lists Of URLs And Accounts” To Be Censored

Fired Twitter Exec. Vijaya Gadde Nearly on Biden’s ‘Misinformation’ Panel

Fearing Scandal, Air Force Blocked Generals’ Foreign Consulting Deals (Washington Post)

6th bus of asylum seekers arrives in Philadelphia (ABC)

There’s Nothing Stranger Than the Right’s Fixation With Hunter Biden (The New Republic) Except maybe the Left’s avoidance of exposure for the Biden Crime Family.

DOE Touts $200M Grant to Lithium Battery Company as Boon to American-Made Clean Energy. The Company Operates Primarily From China.

Comedy Hosts Think Twitter Censoring Hunter Story Is About Nude Photos

Biden Defends Not Visiting Border on Arizona Trip  Don’t confuse him with facts, his mind is made up.

Twitter lawyer who blocked Hunter Biden laptop story helped ignite Trump-Russia probe (Washington Times)

Navy to Lower Admission Standards

Blinken Elevates Palestinian Claims to Jerusalem at J Street Conference

Biden Is Still Separating Immigrant Kids from Their Families

Biden Ducks Border Visit, Says ‘More Important Things Going On’

Immigration naturalizations in the US highest in a decade (The Hill) Needless to say, The Hill is fine with that.

Rail workers speak out after Biden forces unions to accept deal: ‘He turned his back’

‘Immigrant communities are welcome here’: Philly stands strong on sanctuary as Gov. Abbott sends buses from Texas (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Pentagon officials tout new office aimed at linking defense startups with private funds

“Damning”: The Twitter Files And The FBI

Biden’s 2024 primary calendar gives Kamala Harris an edge in a future White House bid (NBC) Imagine that.

Hunter Biden’s Laptop Repairman ‘Vindicated’ by Twitter Exposé

Oil industry exec rips Biden’s ‘willy-nilly’ energy policy, warns of another ‘major’ crisis in next few weeks (Fox)

Daily border crossings have stayed near record highs, and the end of a Covid ban this month could mean a new surge (NBC)

Biden administration considering migrant proposal mirroring Trump-era policy (CNN) Maybe Trump wasn’t such a dummy after all.

DOJ Tried to Hide Report Warning That Private Border Wall in Texas Could Collapse (ProPublica)

Biden says Walker doesn’t deserve to be in the Senate (The Hill) So what? Biden doesn’t deserve to be in the White House.

Hunter Biden’s former law firm received $10M in forgiven COVID loans while donating $1M to Dems (N.Y. Post)

Europe Shows A Clear Link Between Immigration And Crime

US chip group: $52b is not enough, we need an extra $30b in federal funding

US Military Halts Patrols Against Islamic State in Syria

Biden Recounts Time He Faced Down Hitler While Working As A Lifeguard At The Pool (Babylon Bee)

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 21

Staff Exodus: Another Kamala Aide Heads for the Exit