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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.

Daily Signal.

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.

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