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For all the talk of the world being on the verge of nuclear war courtesy of the dementia patient in the White House, a real life financial nuke just went off at 8:30am when the BLS reported a shocking CPI print so unexpectedly hot (a 2.9-sigma upside surprise to consensus), that even the bears were shocked. The result was… well, an absolute disaster doesn’t even begin to cut it.

I guess Janet Yellen was wrong; the economy is not in good shape at all.

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My favorite part of this story is how the French company hired to help build California’s High-Speed Choo-Choo ultimately quit in frustration. Essentially, they said, “California, your government is too corrupt and dysfunctional, so we’re going to work with an African country instead.”

The even better part; the African high-speed train was completed in 2018. California’s project might get done near the end of this century, if it gets done at all.

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It appears US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has some very concerning short-term memory problems, just like her boss.

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The richest counties in America are the ones that surround Washington, D.C. The high-income people who live in those suburbs are mostly lobbyists, lawyers, consultants, and others who profit from trillions in government spending. But an investigation by the Wall Street Journal suggests that plenty of high-level bureaucrats are also profiting improperly from their government jobs.

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

DOJ urges Supreme Court to stay out of Mar-a-Lago documents fight (CNN)

National Guard struggles as troops leave at faster pace (Associated Press)

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s fall: Not unlike the economy’s (Fox)

U.S. economy is ‘doing well’ amid global economic uncertainty, says Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (CNBC) And if you believe that one, she’ll tell you another one.

Biden administration finalizes Obamacare ‘family glitch’ fix

Pro-Lifer Receives Praise Of Parents & Raids From FBI

Health Groups Demand DOJ Target Transgender ‘Disinformation’

The Daily Chart: Biden’s Hypocrisy on the Gender Pay Gap

Famous economists write a letter to Janet Yellen

Texas Rancher Invites Biden to Visit Besieged Border and ‘See It for Yourself’ 

State AGs Sue MORE Biden Officials Over Alleged Big Tech Collusion

Biden says Supreme Court is ‘more an advocacy group’ than an ‘even handed’ court (CNN) The Divider in Chief strikes again.

Recession Deniers: Tapper & Biden Argue Over The Next Recession

How FEMA Put ‘Equity’ Ahead of Disaster Management

A Venezuelan Gang Crosses Biden’s Open Border

The New York Times Discovers Biden’s a Liar

President Biden Pushes Hunter’s Addiction as CNN Omits Questions on Influence Peddling and Contradictions (Jonathan Turley)

Treasury Department IG probing DeSantis’ migrant flights (Politico)

Extreme Gamers

America’s Suicidal Energy Policy Has Very Real Costs

Emails Show Mayorkas Knew ‘Whipping’ Narrative Was False

DHS Secretary Knew Border Patrol Agents Weren’t Whipping Migrants. He Pushed the Narrative Anyway.

Surprise! New York Times Discovers Biden’s a Liar—but Soft-Pedals It

NYT Fluffs Biden, Says Lies Are “Folksy”

Biden’s Abuse of Power Causes CBO to Raise Cost Estimate of Private Pension Bailouts by $4.5 Billion

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The next time a hurricane develops it should be named Kamala, in honor of our vice president. Why Kamala, you ask? Because, like a hurricane, Kamala Harris is sometimes difficult to track, her direction is often unpredictable and the damage she causes can be substantial.

Heather Mac Donald points out that the Biden move won’t actually let anybody out of prison.

Even though federal marijuana possession convictions are a proxy for serious dealing, there is at present no one even serving time in federal prison for marijuana possession. In 2017, only 92 people were sentenced on federal marijuana possession charges, out of nearly 20,000 drug convictions, reports the New York Times. The Biden marijuana initiative is intended to remind the Democratic base that the party remains committed to the systemic racism narrative, recent gestures about “refunding the police” notwithstanding.

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— The IRS has stockpiled 4,500 guns and 5 million rounds of ammunition in recent years, including 621 shotguns, 539 long-barrel rifles, and 15 submachine guns. If true, an explanation is needed so that conspiracy theories don’t multiply.

— The Veterans Administration purchased 11 million rounds of ammunition (equivalent to 2,800 rounds for each of its officers), along with camouflage uniforms, riot helmets and shields, specialized image enhancement devices, and tactical lighting. That’s ironic since many veterans used weapons to defend the nation. Are they now seen as potential enemies of the government many of them fought for?

— The Department of Health and Human Services acquired 4 million rounds of ammunition, in addition to 1,300 guns, including five submachine guns and 189 automatic firearms for its Office of Inspector General.

— According to an in-depth Rutherford Institute report on “The Militarization of the U.S. Executive Agencies,” the Social Security Administration secured 800,000 rounds of ammunition for its special agents, as well as armor and guns. Seniors beware!

— The Environmental Protection Agency owns 600 guns. And the Smithsonian Institution now employs 620-armed “special agents.” You’d better not get near those dinosaurs, or litter the highway, or else.

Biden’s eye-opening warning (CNN)

Pompeo rips Biden’s ‘reckless’ Armageddon remark: ‘One of the greatest foreign policy failures’ (Fox)

How to recover from President Biden’s Saudi Arabia failure (Washington Post)

Nikki Haley: OPEC wanted to ‘stick it to Biden’ after Saudi remarks, Iran deal efforts (Fox)

CBP head says GOP governors’ transports are encouraging more migration to US (The Hill)

“It’s Become A Political Arm Of White House”: ATF Gun Store Revocations Hit 16-Year High

“Massive Errors” By FBI Undercounted Number Of Armed Citizens Thwarting Active Shootings

Biden: World Will Freeze If We Don’t End Fossil Fuels By 1977

The politics of Biden’s marijuana pardons (Axios)

WATCH: Two Minutes of Joe Biden Wandering Around Looking Lost

NPR: National Press Release for Kamala Harris Pushing Abortion Across America

Poll: More Dems Concerned About Biden’s Mental Missteps

FBI Officials Who Briefed Facebook on Hunter Biden Story Are Dem Donors

Small Business Group Latest to Sue Over Biden Student Loan Plan

Politifact Rates Biden’s Claim That ‘Made In America’ Is Two Words As ‘Mostly True’

Kamala Harris Demands To Know Who Locked Up All These Drug Offenders (Babylon Bee)

Feds sent dozens of unaccompanied migrant children to NY shortly after Eric Adams’ emergency declaration (N.Y. Post)

Biden Calls Out ‘Socialist Republicans’ Now Begging for Money From Program They Voted Down (Daily Beast)

Biden’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve down sharply after Dems shut down Trump refill effort (Fox)

Southern border has become the ‘Wild Wild West’ and Biden, Democrats are to blame: Rep. Gonzales (Fox)

The Biden DOJ Comes for the Pro-Lifers

Democrats Nap Peacefully Through Border Crisis They Engineered

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 14

Border disaster by the numbers

SEE YOU IN COURT: Law Group Sues FBI For Hunter Biden Docs

There’s This Thing Called . . . Kamala Harris!

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The Minnesota State College and University System (“MnSCU”) includes 37 colleges and universities around the state, and trains a large majority of Minnesota’s law enforcement officers. Only you can’t call them “law enforcement” anymore.

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The Washington Post is out this afternoon with news that “federal agents” have sufficient evidence to charge Hunter Biden with “tax crimes” and making false statements related to a gun purchase.

There are some telltale oddities to the story. It describes the source or sources as “people familiar with the situation.” People? What kind of people? The story does not specify whether these “familiar people” are with the FBI, IRS, ATF, or other federal agency. It merely says “investigators with multiple agencies. . . who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing case.” Looks as though the Post reporters don’t want to risk a specific agency source becoming the target of a leak investigation. Or that the leaking source demanded this vague identification.

Given the practice of the Justice Department never to bring charges on politically sensitive cases within 90 days of an election so as to avoid allegations of partisanship, it is doubtful we will see any official announcement as a result of this story. So why did someone want to leak this out now? Perhaps someone in the FBI or Justice Department is concerned with the plummeting public respect for these agencies, and thinks it would be useful to show that they aren’t partisan. Or it is also possible that someone in the FBI or Justice doesn’t want the Hunter Biden investigation swept under the rug, even though the investigation is being supervised (supposedly) by the U.S. Attorney in Delaware, David C. Weiss, who is a holdover Trump appointee.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says state’s migrant crisis needs ‘federal solution’  Oh, like maybe a wall at the southern border?

Biden, Harris say ‘extremist Republicans’ and the Supreme Court are creating a ‘health care crisis’

Arrested looters in Lee County were in US illegally, says sheriff: ‘Not tolerating it’

Biden administration wants federal government to be diversity, equity model for the nation

DHS IG report outlines how Border Patrol facilities in Del Rio Sector were overwhelmed by migrant surge

Border officials count 599,000 ‘gotaway’ migrants in Fiscal Year 2022: source

Harris, on Asia trip, promotes a political priority — women’s rights (Washington Post)

FBI undercounts number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents: report

US Army Recruitment Falters – Misses Goal By 25% As Woke Ideology Takes Over

OMG—TV Art Has Imitated Life

GOP seizes on Biden gaffes to attack competence (The Hill) Duh. What are they supposed to do?

Mark Houck Attorney: Garland Must Explain to Family Why Their Father Was Arrested by Men With Guns

Parks and Devastation

Biden Calls Dave Ramsey’s Radio Show For Advice On Paying Off $31 Trillion (Babylon Bee)

Gov. Sununu announces deployment of New Hampshire National Guard members to southern US border (WMUR)

OPEC+ production cut threatens gas price spike ahead of midterms (The Hill)

Oil prices could soon return to $100 as OPEC+ considers ‘historic’ cut, analysts say (CNBC)

Near majority of Florida voters support migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard: Poll

Migrant dumps carry echoes of Reverse Freedom Rides, observers say (The Hill) Echoes! Observers!

Fox News confronts Democrats in Washington about the border crisis: ‘They own it now’ (Fox)

‘The Daily Show’ roasts Kamala Harris with satirical video comparing her to the main character in ‘Veep’

Biden tells Al Sharpton he will run for president again in 2024 (NBC)

Nepotism Alert: Buttigieg’s Husband Lands Plum Gig at Dem Consulting Firm

Fox News Highlights Record Migrant Deaths Since Biden Took Office

Biden’s Defense Department Urges Killing U.S. Babies for National Security

As gas prices rise, Democrats scramble to lay blame on Big Oil (Washington Post) Who’s up for a witch-hunt?

White House Rounds Up Fact-Checkers to Defend Kamala on Hurricane Relief ‘Equity’

CNN Hypes Biden’s Efforts To ‘Boost Reproductive Rights’ Ponder the Orwellian twist of calling the right to kill your child a ‘reproductive right’. By that standard, murder is ‘health care’.

States Unsure of Biden Offer to Cover Abortion Travel Costs

You Think Martha’s Vineyard Had It Rough? These 6 Border Towns Highlight Border Crisis

NYC’s Migrant Crisis Needs ‘Federal Solution,’ Hochul Says (Bloomberg) Like, say, a fence along the southern border? That’s just a guess….

Report: Biden Admin in Panic Mode as Gas Prices Rebound

Four States Deploy National Guard To US-Mexico Border

Fearing Shortages, Top Oil Groups Warn Biden Against Export Ban

Cancer of CRT, Gender Ideology Spreading in Woke US Military

US National Debt Tops $31 Trillion

Native American tribes dependent on fossil fuel resources rip Biden admin for double standard (Fox)

VP Kamala Harris dodges question asking about dispersing Hurricane Ian relief based on ‘equity’

Biden continues to compare student loan handout to PPP, slams Republicans as hypocrites

Biden thanks Coast Guard rescuer for hurricane heroics days before firing over vaccine policy

Kamala Harris Remains True to Doctrine of Unequal Treatment

Biden to Announce $60 Million in Hurricane Aid for Puerto Rico  Buying votes with YOUR money.

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A recent staff presentation to the Washington Metro board’s finance committee revealed that the agency is expecting to run out of federal COVID relief funds in 2024 and anticipates a $187.5 million shortfall in funding that year. From then on, it anticipates funding shortfalls of more than $500 million a year, rising to more than $700 million by 2030.

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How many more times must we endure these spiteful outbursts from a president who promised to unite the country?

How much longer must we cringe as he reads “end of quote, repeat the line” off the teleprompter?

How many times must we wince as he ad-libs recklessly in a speech about international tinderboxes, like Russia, Ukraine, the Nord Stream pipeline, or Taiwan?

How much longer must we watch him wandering around lost on stage after giving a speech, appearing to shake imaginary hands or gesture to invisible staff?

Over 700,000 borrowers no longer qualify for student loan relief—how to check if you’re still eligible (CNBC)

Biden says ‘we can afford’ student debt forgiveness after GOP lawsuit (N.Y. Post)

White House meets oil industry over Hurricane Ian price-gouging concerns (Reuters)

Americans Are Running Out of Patience With Biden’s Approach to Putin’s War (Newsweek)

FBI Agents Improperly Saw Privileged Trump Communications: Lawyers

Biden Pledge to Make Federal Fleet Electric Faces Slow Start

Rep. Mike Turner: Expect ‘Wild West’ Spending Spree if Dems Lose House

CBS’s Brennan Gaslights Scott, Lies Harris Didn’t Advocate Hurricane Equity

North Korea fires fourth ballistic missile in one week after Vice President Harris’ gaffe

Biden White House preparing to take executive action to protect DACA ‘Dreamers’ (NBC)

Haitian advocates file lawsuit against Biden administration over Del Rio (The Hill)

Media Neglect FBI Refusal to Investigate Firebombings of Pro-Life Centers

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 13

Stagflation Is “Just The Beginning” For America’s Economic Crisis: Peter Navarro

Durham Prosecutes FBI Informants, While Protecting Their Handlers: Sperry

Exxon CEO Pushes Back On Biden’s Plan To Limit Fuel Exports

‘Republicans Pounce!’ The Hill Squawks Over Biden Being Blamed for American Wealth Obliteration

JOURNOS SCREECH: GOP’s ‘Party of Inhumanity’ Can Only Be Stopped by ‘Courageous’ Biden

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California apparently didn’t get the Biden Administration memo about the good news of falling gasoline prices. Here’s the price chart for my local gas station on Monday:

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The Federal Trade Commission has sued the retail giant, seeking civil penalties in what Walmart is calling “an egregious instance of agency overreach” undertaken in spite of a “lack of constitutional or statutory authority.”

The FTC alleges that Walmart did not do enough to protect its customers from scams run by money-transfer services offered inside the company’s stores.

Walmart has responded to the FTC’s lawsuit by challenging the agency’s very constitutionality, and its argument could affect the legal status not only of the FTC, but of other agencies across the administrative state.

This could be huge.

Biden Vows Next Hurricane To Hit US Will Be Named After A Woman Of Color  (Babylon Bee)

Biden’s student debt relief faces first major legal challenge (Politico)

Biden pumped up, demands gas stations slash prices at the pump: ‘Do it now’ (N.Y. Post)

Stock market losses wipe out $9 trillion from Americans’ wealth (CNBC)

Borrower Sues to Stop Biden’s Unfair, Illegal Student Loan Bailout

Inflation Bites: NYT Union Demands Annual 8 Percent Pay Raise

FLASHBACK: 3 Paul Krugman Rules for ‘Bidenomics’ That Self-Destructed in 2022

Beto Turns On Biden, Blames Prez For Latino Voters’ Rightward Shift

Biden Says Social Security Is on ‘Chopping Block’ if Republicans Win Congress (L.A. Times) More bullshit from Biden.

CBP Document Details Mass Release of Illegal Aliens under Biden (Center for Immigration Studies)

War on Women: Biden White House Fuels Gender Pay Gap

Biden’s delicate midterm dance (Politico)

Watch: Biden Advisor Declares MAGA Conservatives Want To ‘Destroy’ America

STUDY: PolitiFact Is Nearly 6 Times More Likely to Defend Biden Than Check His Facts  My, what a surprise.

Iran Protests Raise Pressure on State

House Republicans Launch Probe Into Education Department’s Funding of Woke Universities

Watch: Biden Asks If Recently Deceased Congresswoman Is At White House Speech

Biden admin awards $41M in contracts to new left-wing group that helps illegal immigrants fight deportations

Biden Draining SPR Like “Campaign Credit Card” For Midterms

7 ways a recession could be good for you financially (Washington Post) Pushing the Narrative right over the edge.

SILVER ALERT: Biden’s Bumbles Hit New Low

Biden’s Climate Policies Upset Top Ally

Senior moment of the day

Biden administration to grant Puerto Rico shipping waiver after uproar

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These are alarming times. We continue to hear stories of the FBI confronting citizens who have not committed crimes to all appearances, but who have offended the powers-that-be in the political realm. These are folks who are stopping at a fast-food drive-thru, or who are on vacation with their families, or who are confronted at their homes by multiple FBI agents with guns drawn. The FBI’s goals are clearly to intimidate those they’ve accosted, but the interactions can be frightening and bewildering. In other words, they’ve accomplished their mission.

The days of respecting the FBI have been over for quite a long time. In all likelihood, the organization never fully recovered from the times of J. Edgar Hoover. And today, anyone—anyone—could be an FBI target. So, I decided it would be common sense to prepare for an exchange with the FBI.

You might think that you could never be an FBI target. Let me suggest, however, that if you write on Twitter, Facebook, or on other social media sites, you could be in the sights of the FBI. If you post photos that could be considered “controversial” or at odds with the Biden government, you could be seen as an adversary.

Even writing on Ricochet could make you vulnerable.

So let me share some suggestions, which are not in any way intended to be legal advice, if the FBI shows up at your door.

You have the right to remain silent. DO SO.

Don’t talk to the police.

Never Talk to the Police; Even With Your Lawyer Present.

Police TRAP YOU with Small Talk (How to Avoid It)

Why Shouldn’t I Talk to Police if I am Innocent?

Never talk to the police – An Idaho Attorney’s Perspective

DON’T Talk to the Police … 7 REASONS WHY

Don’t Talk to Cops-Lawyer Explains Common Mistakes In Dealing With Police!

CBO: White House plan to cancel student loan debt costs $400 billion (Washington Post)

Texas city hit by 1,500 illegal migrants a day (The Hill)

Doocy Trips Jean-Pierre With Simple Crime Question: Are Americans Safe?

FBI, Justice Department Twist Federal Law to Arrest, Charge Pro-Life Activist

Federal Reserve Playing Chicken With Financial Markets

Inflation, Biden style

Biden’s EPA Launches ‘Environmental Justice’ Office to Throw Billions at Minority Groups  Any Woke excuse will do.

Kamala Finally Goes to the Border—in Korea

President Meandering & Confused While Honoring Atlanta Braves

Biden’s America: Retailers Opt for Empty Shelves To Prevent Theft

Americans Have Lost $4,200 In Annual Income Under Biden Administration: Report

Washington Post Buries Its Own Terrible Poll for Biden on Page A-14, with Trump Ahead

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The Congressional Budget Office has set forth the direct economic cost of the illegal Biden student loan giveaway in a letter to Senator Richard Burr and Rep. Virginia Foxx. The letter is posted online here. Following up, Republicans on the House Budget Committee issued
this press release.

More than 1K migrants bused to Chicago area by Texas governor, city expects additional arrivals (WLS) Meanwhile, over a million have arrived in Texas.

Nearly 1,200 Migrants Have Arrived in Chicago From Texas Since First Drop-Off (NBC)

US border needs ‘record’ funding for ‘advanced’ protection: National Security spokesman  Which, needless to say, it is NOT going to get.

Contrarian economist Larry Summers was right all along about inflation. His ominous new prediction for what’s next. (Fortune) More of the same–Biden is still President.

Migrants from ‘failing’ communist countries overwhelming Texas border agents (N.Y. Post)

More migrants are coming from dictatorships like Venezuela and Cuba (CBS)

PBS Pair RIPS Republican Party as Fractured and Flattened by Trump

Biden CDC Awarded Millions To Soros-Funded Activist Group Suing DeSantis

They’re Redistributing Wealth, Not Fighting Inflation

US Inflates Debt Away After Historic Pandemic Binge  Which is why no actual steps are being taken against inflation; it’s all jawboning and lies.

Pentagon bedeviled by recruitment failures as solutions prove elusive (Washington Post) Gee, I wonder why. (Air Force Academy diversity training tells cadets to use words that ‘include all genders?,’ drop ‘mom and dad’)

Senators rip VA secretary for trapping veterans in government-run health care: ‘Blatant bias’

NYC Mayor Adams opens ‘humanitarian emergency’ centers for busloads of migrants from Texas, border states

Widespread BS on border is meant to obscure Biden’s role in the migrant disaster

Biden’s Delaware neighbors applaud migrant flights, slam open border: ‘liberals are missing the point’

Deported Immigrants Dream Of Returning To ‘Beautiful’ Martha’s Vineyard

Ron DeSantis Found a Way to Finally Get People to Focus on America’s Open Border Catastrophe

Far-Left Justin Trudeau Lifts Canada’s Border Vaccine Mandate While Biden Keeps America’s

CBS on the Border: Do NOT Panic! Everything Is Under Control!

White House Promises To Walk Back Biden Statement Once Their Codebreakers Decipher It  (Babylon Bee)

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week

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The privacy invasion was vast when FBI agents drilled and pried their way into 1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills.

They rummaged through personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer, a retired doctor, a flooring contractor, two Century City lawyers and hundreds of others.

Agents took photos and videos of pay stubs, password lists, credit cards, a prenuptial agreement, immigration and vaccination records, bank statements, heirlooms and a will, court records show. In one box, agents found cremated human remains.

Eighteen months later, newly unsealed court documents show that the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles got their warrant for that raid by misleading the judge who approved it.

Border Patrol ordered agents not to assign migrants registration numbers to clear over-crowded facilities

White House releases state-by-state student debt forgiveness estimates (The Hill) Here’s how much you’ll be paying for other people’s kids’ student loans.

Former ICE official sends message to Mayorkas after suspected terrorists caught at border: ‘He knows better’

Dem strongholds beg the White House for help with migrants (Politico)

South Korean president overheard insulting U.S. Congress as ‘idiots’ (Washington Post) Can’t say he’s wrong.

Inflation Costing Average American Family $11,500 This Year

2 More Buses Filled With Migrants Arrive In NYC

George Soros Network Bankrolled Activist Group Suing DeSantis Over Martha’s Vineyard Flights

House Republican seeks Treasury reports on ‘millions’ paid by Chinese company to Biden family

Jean-Pierre Clarifies That Official White House Policy Is The Opposite Of Whatever Biden Says In Interviews (Babylon Bee)

FBI whistleblower suspended

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We have learned in recent weeks that there is such a thing as an Archivist of the United States at the head of the National Archives and Records Administration and that the position is not unimportant. President Biden has nominated one Colleen Shogan to fill the position and she appeared for a confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee yesterday. C-SPAN has posted video of the hearing here. ABC News reports on the hearing here with some useful background.

Senator Josh Hawley examined Shogan concerning her 2007 Perspectives on Politics article “Anti-intellectualism in the Modern Presidency: Republican Populism.” (Perspectives on Politics is the American Political Science Association’s flagship journal.) In C-SPAN’s summary, “Shogan says the article was about Republican presidents’ use of rhetoric and their success connecting with the American people. She also says that she is non-partisan and has a demonstrated record during her 15 years of service at the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, and the White House Historical Association.”

Senator Hawley questioned Shogan closely about the article (video clip below). His examination of her is exemplary. It is amazing how disingenuous Shogan is and how Hawley is able to expose her evasions so quickly. “I have your article. Don’t dissemble in front of me,” he told her. Nevertheless, she persisted.

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Educators and administrators running K-12 education on America’s military bases are indoctrinating the children of military personnel in radical gender ideology, critical race theory, and left-wing activism. In a new Claremont Institute investigative report, my colleague Scott Yenor and I document this latest evolution in America’s culture war.

This development at military-run schools tracks broader trends in American education. In recent months, Chris Rufo has exposed the rampant woke indoctrination occurring in our nation’s K-12 schools, with striking examples from Los Angeles, Portland, and San Diego. In 2020, Rod Dreher wrote about the creeping woke rot at America’s oldest military academy.

Former DHS secretary says Biden administration ‘unfairly’ perceived as ‘lax’ on border issues (The Hill) I’d say that was pretty obvious.

Gov. DeSantis will use ‘every tool’ to solve America’s border crisis because Joe Biden refuses to act

Record number of buses carrying migrants rolls into NYC’s Port Authority

Migrants continue to be bussed across US from Texas and Florida (WFAA)

Democrat El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser says he sent migrants to NYC ‘to help them’ After all, New York is rich, and El Paso is not.

Why it’s time to start paying with $2 bills (CNN) Because inflation. The government won’t quit inflating, so we have to compensate elsewhere. (Wait a couple years, and you can use $5 bills.)

Rep. Ronny Jackson: Administration Allows Border Crisis ‘On Purpose’

“This New Period Is Very Different, And Far Worse In Many Ways Than The 1970s”

Taibbi: The Justice Department Was Dangerous Before Trump. It’s Out Of Control Now

John Durham’s final act: exposing the FBI

Senate Republicans seek special counsel authority for prosecutor in Hunter Biden criminal probe (CNBC)

Eric Adams Considers Housing Migrants on Cruise Ships (N.Y. Times) Great idea. Two weeks and they’re back where they came from. “Swim for it, guys!’

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 The Biden administration brought tens of thousands of Afghans into our communities who were never properly vetted and who may not have had proper documentation to show who they are.

Last September, Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas claimed that “the federal government has been focused on the screening and vetting of individuals evacuated from Afghanistan” and that the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the Department of Defense and the FBI had “established a robust screening and vetting architecture” for the masses of Afghan migrants that Biden had brought to this country.

But the latest report from the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security reveals that the vetting of the migrants was so lacking in even basic information that 36,400 Afghans carried an unidentified document and at least 11,110 had fake birthdays.

Merrick Garland faces stormy waters over Trump investigations (The Hill)

Biden says US democracy is under threat. Here’s what he can do to help fix it (The Guardian)

‘Biden Chronicles’ to Take Entertaining Look at Presidency

Biden Administration Intentionally Weakening Military: Retired General

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz: Biden ‘Biggest Human Trafficker’ in the World

GOP Guest Schools ABC Panel on Migrant Crisis: This Didn’t Happen In Trump Admin

DHS to Spend Almost $700k Investigating ‘Radicalization in Gaming’

Vice President Kamala Harris again ignores migrant question, husband calls busing ‘shameful’

OAN host calls Vice President Kamala Harris a “hoe” (Media Matters)

As Martha’s Vineyard Panics Over 50 Migrants, Texas Border Town Sees Hundreds in Just 2 Hours

FBI Agents: Admin Pushing Agency to Exaggerate White Supremacy, Domestic Terrorism

Biden Admits to Lie: ‘I Wasn’t Arrested’ Trying to See Mandela

Martha’s Vineyard Migrants Being Shipped to Joint Base Cape Cod (Video Report: Martha’s Vineyard Residents Don’t Want Migrants) (Scoop: Biden officials to discuss “litigation options” over migrant buses)

Biden may soon put a floor on sinking oil prices. That’s good for our energy stocks (CNBC)

US inflation still stubbornly high despite August slowdown (Associated Press)

Biden quietly pushing Mexico to take migrants under Title 42: report

White House says governors sending migrants to DC, Martha’s Vineyard ‘disrespectful to humanity’ (The Hill)

Customs officials have copied Americans’ phone data at massive scale (Washington Post)

Officials enraged after White House rejects DHS plans to mitigate crisis at southern border: report

Migrants dropped off on Kamala Harris’ DC doorstep dispute her ‘secure’ border claim: ‘We come in free, no problem’

Vice President Harris Says Border Is ‘Secure.’ Now Migrants Are Showing Up at Her House.

Rep. Fallon to Newsmax: White House Responsible For Rise in Human Trafficking

Friction between White House and senior Homeland Security officials mounts as migrant border crossings soar (NBC) But hey, the border is secure! Jambalaya says so!

Biden accused of pressuring FBI to fabricate ‘extremist’ and ‘White supremacist’ cases

Report: Biden Urged to Follow GOP Governors in Relocating Migrants

Biden Asks Congress To End Social Media Immunity At WH Summit Due To “Hate-Fueled Violence”

Martha’s Vineyard Lovingly Welcomes Immigrants To Any Other Part Of America (Babylon Bee)

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 11

Watch: Biden Gets Lost On A Stage For Third Time In A Week

FedEx Nukes “Economy’s Doing Fine” Narrative, Global Stocks/Bonds Lose $4 Trillion In Week

More Collusion Between Biden and Big Tech? Censoring So-Called ‘Extremism’

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

It is no secret that our federal, state and local governments waste enormous amounts of money. Neither is it a secret that outright fraud accounts for a significant part of that waste. My organization, which conducts quarterly polling in Minnesota, has twice asked the question, “What is your best estimate of the percentage of state spending that is wasted?” The results were identical: the first time, the median answer was 29%. The second time, it was 30%.

Why are Americans so skeptical of government spending? In part, because of scandals like the Feeding Our Future fiasco, which we have written about before, in which hundreds of millions of dollars were funneled to community groups that purported to be feeding ridiculous numbers of poor children. The FBI has been investigating this scandal for some time, but so far the only criminal charge is a passport violation brought against a perpetrator who was trying to flee the country.

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The FBI appears content with its role as the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party, somewhat like–although, so far, not as bad as–the role the Ku Klux Klan played years ago. The Mar-a-Lago raid was a low point, but the FBI has followed up with more intimidation tactics. Subpoenas reportedly have been served on dozens of Republicans, apparently fishing for some evidence of a connection to the almost entirely peaceful protest in Washington on January 6, 2021.

The day after Joe Biden’s notorious Nuremberg speech, three armed FBI agents visited the home of a New Jersey woman named Lisa Gallagher. Why? The FBI had an anonymous tip that Gallagher had something to do with the January 6 demonstration. She also had a pro-Trump sign on her lawn.

Border Patrol chief says memo clearing migrant release into US after Title 42 end is unprecedented

Judge won’t force disclosure of records on alleged episode with Hunter Biden’s gun (Politico)

Illegal immigrants who entered US since Biden took office to cost taxpayers $20+ billion a year: analysis

Migrant surge overwhelms Border Patrol and shelters in El Paso (NBC)

El Paso looks like a ‘third-world country’ after Texas border city is overrun by migrants

Foreign-Born Population Grows to Highest Level Ever Under Biden

Pelosi Nudges Crowd to Clap for Biden at WH Event

Watch: Dem Senator Slams Kamala Harris As “Dead Wrong” For Claiming Border Is Secure Joe Manchin ain’t buyin’ what she’s sellin’.

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris might be the single worst pair of communicators to occupy the White House. Both Joe and Kamala are wedded to teleprompters because he has too much to say and she has nothing to say. Teleprompters are there to keep Joe Biden from telling wildly inappropriate stories about his leg hairs or announcing an impromptu surrender to China, but they’re also there because in her natural state Kamala is incapable of saying anything at all.

Presidents and their veeps are supposed to be a balance of strengths and weaknesses like a good marriage, but instead Biden and Kamala are a bad marriage in which their weaknesses are mirror opposites, but also so far apart that they’re incapable of balancing each other out.

Neither Joe or Kamala have any real skills. They both got to where they are as a combination of political accidents by men who were attracted to their weakness and incompetence.

Border Patrol seizes record-breaking $12M in meth at Del Rio Port of Entry

Biden to hit China with broader curbs on U.S. chip and tool exports: Reuters, citing sources (CNBC) Sounding a lot like a Trump….

Gas prices could spike again this winter, Yellen warns (The Hill)

Yellen says inflation and higher gas prices remain a ‘risk’ (CNN)

‘It’s not enough:’ Student loan forgiveness means less for the millions of borrowers who never finished college (CNBC)

The Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden’s Laptop

Watch: Kamala Harris Proclaims Border ‘Secure’ When Asked About 2 Million Illegals Crossing

“The border is secure”

Rasmussen Poll: Biden’s Philly Speech Leaves Voters Divided

Democrats’ Midterm Dilemma: How to Back Biden, Yet Shun Him, Too (N.Y. Times) They’ll find a way.

Oops She Did It Again and Again! The Seven-Least Covered Kamala Blunders

Biden Withdraws Record Amount Of Crude From ‘Strategic Midterm Reserve’

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If they work. Remembering the problems they had with the Ford, the Zumwalt, and the LCS series, I have my doubts.

41,000 of 80K Resettled Afghan Refugees in U.S. Are in Workforce

New push to define Bidenomics (Axios)  Easy–tax and spend.

Number of illegal migrants who entered US since Biden took office approaching two million

All Biden Has to Do Now Is Change the Way We Live (N.Y. Times) Ezra Klain, Voice of the Crust, dreams the impossible dream

VP Harris blames GOP ‘election deniers’ for making US democracy ‘weaker’ through ‘threats from within’

VP Harris blames GOP ‘election deniers’ for making US democracy ‘weaker’ through ‘threats from within’

VP Harris Dodges Criticism of Dems Funding GOP Candidates to Beat

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Electronic tax filing could soon be as simple as a few clicks on a government website — free of charge.

The Internal Revenue Service will spend $15 million studying a free, government-backed tax filing system under a provision in the sweeping climate and health-care law Congress passed this summer. It’s a landmark step toward overhauling the way most Americans file their taxes and ending years of domination of tax prep by private corporations.

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Welcome to our world.

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The Biden Department of Justice follows a contemptible practice: when questioned by reporters, it declines to comment, and then leaks its preferred spin to friendly news outlets. DOJ/FBI is up to its old tricks with the latest leak to its mouthpiece, the Washington Post.

DOJ is fighting a propaganda war over its raid on Donald Trump’s house, and so far it has not obviously been winning. Hence the current leak, headlined by the Post “Material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.”

Manchin calls Biden student loan decision ‘excessive’ (The Hill)

Here’s everything we know (so far) about Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan (CNBC)

Biden resorts to fearmongering when challenged because he’s ‘not terribly bright’: Rep. Donalds

Border Patrol chief says agents caught 10 illegal immigrant sex offenders in 3 days: ‘The dangers are real’

Biden tarnished his democracy speech with partisan rhetoric (The Hill)

Doocy Torches KJP Over Tweets Saying 2016, 2018 Elections Were Stolen

A bad day for KJP

Indiana Set to Confirm a Tax on Forgiven Student Loans

Nets Ignore EXPLOSIVE Allegations Biden Admin is Covering for Hunter

FBI Ignored ‘Eyewitness Testimony’ Of Joe Biden’s Involvement In Son’s China Deal: Senator

Biden Is About 1619, Not 1776

Inflation Now Causing Hardship for Majority in U.S. (Gallup)

Archives Letter Seems to Contradict WH Claims Biden Didn’t Know of Trump Raid

Report: Illegal Migrant ‘Ladder Crews’ Scaling Arizona Border Wall Nightly

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Project Veritas on Tuesday released a video of a New York City education official admitting to hiring practices that discriminate against teachers who don’t align with far-left or progressive values.

Todd Soper, an assistant principal for grades K–4 at the New York City Department of Education’s Neighborhood Charter School in Harlem, unwittingly divulged information about the city’s hiring practices to an undercover reporter from Project Veritas.

“We have very specific questions … if people don’t answer that question right, they are just an automatic not hire,” Soper told the undercover reporter.

The video is the third in a series called “The Secret Curriculum,” which sets out to expose efforts to indoctrinate children with socialist ideology.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams sent a delegation of officials on a fact-finding mission to the southern border on Tuesday. The mayor did not make the trip. There was no press coverage of the delegation’s visit other than by Fox News. The delegation refused to speak to the Fox reporter on the scene.

Why the secrecy, Mayor Adams? Adams has been in front of television cameras for days having a hissy fit that Texas Governor Abbott is sending buses of illegal migrants to NYC. Abbott extended an invitation to Adams to come and tour the border for a first hand look at the chaos the Biden border crisis has caused border states. Adams refused the invitation.

The delegation met with Border Patrol officials in Eagle Pass, Texas. Hundreds of migrants cross the Rio Grande River there every day. Adams accused Abbott of being “unresponsive” and turning the Biden border crisis “into a political sideshow.” In the mayor’s statement there is the implication that the migrants are being bused to NYC against their wishes.

White House press secretary grilled on tweet calling 2016 election ‘stolen’

Biden’s energy secretary says she supports California gas vehicle ban

FBI agent Timothy Thibault hid intel from whistleblower on Hunter and the ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden

US doing ‘absolutely nothing’ to stop ‘out of control’ fentanyl border crossings: Retired ICE agent

Rasmussen Poll: Faith in Biden, Dems’ Direction Still Falling

Video Report: Special Master Ruling Catches Biden in Lie About FBI-Trump Probe

Great show, Joe! Pitifully small crowd of union workers rock up to support President Biden’s Labor Day speech in Pennsylvania – as his crucial midterm election campaign ramps up (Daily Mail)

Kamala Harris Tells The Nation, “This Is the Beginning of the Next Era of the Labor Movement” (The Nation) Of which she is, of course, a proud proglodyte part.

Kamala Harris claims to eat 1st grape in her 20s over labor boycott, but there’s a wrinkle in dates Like Hillary, Jambalaya can’t resist a good story, even when it’s made up.

Harris Gets Caught in Bizarre Lie About Never Eating Grapes

Biden Puts Defense of Democracy at Center of Agenda, at Home and Abroad (N.Y. Times) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Below average, Joe: Photos show small crowd at Biden and Fetterman Labor Day rally

Biden Administration Has Admitted One Million Migrants to Await Hearings (N.Y. Times) And New York City and D.C. can’t handle the couple hundred illegals shipped to them by Texas.

WATCH: Veep Thoughts With Kamala Harris (Vol. 5)

Poll: Majority of Voters Think Biden’s Anti-MAGA Speech ‘Incites Conflict’

Biden Administration Opens Door for One Million Migrants

You’re Still Doing This?! CBS Beats Dead Horse on Biden’s Midterm Prospects

Watch: Biden’s ‘Election Denier’ Spox Scrambles To Explain 2016 Tweet