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Now, the LA County Board of Supervisors has unanimously decided to allow illegal immigrants to take up positions in government without ever applying for citizenship. The rule was passed under a new “inclusive hiring” program and was introduced by supervisors Hilda L. Solis and Sheila Kuehl in June 2021.

Time to leave.

FBI, Director Christopher Wray are in for a rude wake-up call over Hunter Biden investigation

Conservative groups slam President Biden for attempting to ‘gaslight’ Americans on recession

Hunter Biden scandal may lead right back to Joe

Miranda Devine on ‘the Big Guy’ texts: ‘Overwhelming’ evidence Joe Biden knew of Hunter’s business deals

Biden’s success story (Axios)

FBI Let Off the Hook—Again

MSNBC Touts ‘Biden’s Success Story,’ Compares Him to REAGAN, Not Jimmy Carter

The Kamala Conundrum

Did Biden Just Boost U.S. Tech — or Fund a Bunch of Solyndras?

Will The Inflation Reduction Act Of 2022 Do Anything At All?  Yes, it will increase inflation. Democrat legislation always does the opposite of what it claims to do.

A clown-car administration

Econ Prof. WARNS Biden ‘Inflation Reduction’ Bill Will Make Inflation Worse  But you knew that.

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A Senate hearing on “diversity and equity” in American diplomacy proved to be a wasted opportunity to tackle a core question in our politics: Do we want equality or “equity?”

Instead, the hearing kicked off with mostly old white men bemoaning that the senior ranks of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International development are dominated by old white men.

In essence, they complained that the agencies don’t do enough to discriminate against their own grandchildren in hiring.

Michael Shellengerger

Of course it will.

When Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” yesterday he said that the $700 billion climate change, energy, and health care proposal he announced last week with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would not raise taxes. “We should not increase taxes, and we did not increase taxes,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

But a new study by the U.S. Congress’s nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation has found that not only would the legislation increase taxes, it would increase taxes by $11 billion more on Americans earning below $200,000 per year than on Americans earning between $500,000 and $1 million, in 2023.

And the legislation would increase taxes by $3 billion more on Americans earning below $200,000 per year than on Americans earning between $200,000 and $500,000 per year.

I hope it doesn’t come as a surprise to him that Democrats lie.

Enough of Joe Biden’s ‘He said-Xi said’

Former director of national intelligence warns of China’s threat to America under Biden’s leadership  More accurately, lack of leadership.

The Biden corruption investigation in Delaware

Dotorimuk: Lee Smith Exposes the Biden Crime Family

Build That Wall!

Victor Davis Hanson on Hunter Biden DOJ investigation: ‘People are starting to leak’

Biden approval rating falls to new low in Gallup poll (The Hill)

Eric Adams rebuts Biden, says US is in recession and ‘Wall Street is collapsing’

Is Labor Market Really as Good as Biden Administration Says?  Hint: No.

Tale of Two Admins: Trump Admin Paying Political Consultants Raised ‘Ethical Questions,” But No Big Deal For Biden

Nets Ignore Biden Building Back Border Wall in Arizona to Stop Illegals

Meathead Moment: Rob Reiner Tweets Biden Has ‘Unmatched’ ‘Record of Accomplishments’  Indeed: Unmatched inflation, unmatched increased national debt ….

Baby formula crisis WORSENS as out-of-stock levels hit 30%: Parents accuse Biden of forgetting about them and mom struggling to feed twins says ‘I’m sure these politicians’ babies eat’

Democrats To Try Bold Strategy Of Doing Exactly What Got Us Into This Mess In The First Place (Babylon Bee)

Gallup: Biden’s Approval Rating Drops to ‘Lowest for an Elected President’ In Sixth Quarter

Biden tests positive for coronavirus again after Paxlovid ‘rebound’  What goes around, comes around.

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The Education Department vastly underestimated the cost of the federal student loan program and will likely lose $197 billion on loans it issued over the past 25 years, according to a Government Accountability Report released on Friday.

The federal watchdog said that from 1997 to 2021, the department estimated the student loan program would generate about $114 billion, when in fact it was actually losing billions because of revised assumptions about borrowers and repayments, pandemic-related policy changes that affected the program and the expansion of a popular plan that tied repayments to a borrower’s income.

The department’s calculations were off by roughly $311 billion.

US to fill border wall gaps at open area near Yuma, Arizona

The Education Department has a plan for canceling student debt — if Biden gives the word (Politico)

Youngkin opposes Biden Administration policy tying LGBTQ protections to school meals (ABC)

Cartels are turning our national forests into a warzone (The Hill)

DC Mayor Demands More Help From Biden to Process Illegal Immigrants 

Inflation Reduction Act—or Radical Green New Deal?

Nets Refuse to Admit U.S. in Recession, Just ‘Losing Momentum’

Wait, Is Biden a Better President Than People Thought? (Politico) No. Only to people who read Politico.

Magical Thinking as Economic Policy

Even Colbert Mocks CNN And MSNBC’s Recession Spin

Ignore the Doublespeak: We’re in a Recession

The Wiki Minitrue

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As a tenured law professor at Stanford University, Pamela Karlan earned $1 million a year. We now know that she stayed on the Stanford payroll, at that same impressive salary, during the entire 17 months she served as the Justice Department’s principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights.

Karlan left her DOJ post on July 1, just one day before the department delivered documents to the American Accountability Foundation under a Freedom of Information Act request that revealed her unorthodox and ethically suspect arrangement with the Biden administration.

Karlan is a radical leftist. As a political appointee at DOJ, she threatened to sue the Arizona Senate over its audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, absurdly claiming that such an audit violated the Voting Rights Act. She was also behind DOJ’s latest lawsuit against Arizona for trying to verify the citizenship of its voters.

Hunter Biden had a high-end income and lavish lifestyle. But he struggled with tax issues for years (CNN)

CNN Sympathetically Covers Hunter Biden Legal Woes: ‘Struggled to Pay Bills’

Biden DOJ Official Smears Pregnancy Centers Amid Wave of Attacks

Democrats View Biden as Campaign Asset Despite His Unpopularity

The Biden Stagflation, Second Quarter

Days After Biden Said ‘We’re Not Going To Be in a Recession,’ US Economy Enters Recession

Joe Biden met with at least 14 of Hunter’s business associates while vice president

As US Enters Recession, Biden Says ‘We Are on the Right Path’

Desperate Networks: Recession Talk Just a ‘Buzzword,’ Economy Simply ‘Recalibrating!’

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First, the FBI raided a private business to seize safe deposit boxes and assets belonging to hundreds of people who were not suspected of having committed any crimes.

Now, prosecutors are trying to keep the public in the dark about why the brazen forfeiture effort was undertaken in the first place—and are offering little justification for why such secrecy is necessary.

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In general, the name of a Congressional act is the opposite of what will actually happen.

Inflation happens when too much money is chasing too few goods and services. The government’s policies over the last two years have been a perfect recipe for the highest inflation in four decades: trillions of dollars in government spending financed by the Federal Reserve’s printing presses coupled with lockdowns, new regulations, a war on energy, and anti-work programs that drove down supply.

Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, a stimulus spending bill in March 2021, proved to be the match that lit the inflationary fire.

Biden and his big-spending allies in Congress are now back for more.

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The CHIPS Act, originally designed to provide $52B in incentives for chipmakers to open US plants, has now passed a Senate vote, with bipartisan support. It is expected to pass a House vote as early as next week, but has gained weight in its journey through Congress.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.

Apple lobbied in favor of the original plan, stating that it was vital to the construction of a TSMC plant in Arizona, which is expected to make chips for the Cupertino company …

Well, if Red China invades Taiwan, that chip plant will certainly come in handy. You’ll not that ‘the Cupertino company’ isn’t pushing for something to be built in California.

A cynic might suggest that a much larger pot of money will see funds sent to a greater number of Senate constituencies, allowing senators to boast about how many jobs they’ve created in their state – just in time for the midterms.

Oh, ya think?

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Conservative leaders are calling on senators to reject the House-passed Respect for Marriage Act, which aims to codify into federal law the Supreme Court’s 2015 legalization of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges.

“The Act, which was suddenly rushed through the House without any public hearings or input, is an attack on millions of Americans, particularly people of faith, who believe marriage is between one man and one woman,” wrote more than 80 conservative leaders, along with the legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, in a letter Tuesday to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

The letter writers believe the bill would threaten the religious freedom rights of individuals and groups across the nation if it becomes law.

Over half of the states have amended their constitutions to provide that marriage is only between one man and one woman. Ineffective under the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, these would come back into effect if that decision were overturned, as the various abortion-limiting laws still on the books sprang back into life once Roe was overturned.

White House announces sale of additional 20 million barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve  Just in time for the mid-term elections! What an amazing coincidence!

FBI, DOJ accused of burying Hunter Biden dirt: Sen. Chuck Grassley

‘Desecration’: Biden administration to expand walls at historic border meeting point (The Guardian)

Twitter blows up over Kamala Harris introducing herself with ‘she/her’ pronouns, description of her clothing  I’m surprised she’s able to dress herself in the morning.

Lauren Boebert Blasts Kamala Harris for ‘Idiotic’ Use of Gender Pronouns

US Sold Nearly 6 Million Barrels of Oil From Reserves to China, Records Show

US Actually Sold 6 Million Barrels From SPR To Hunter Biden-Tied China Firm  My, what a surprise.

New Hampshire Dems Say: Go Away, Joe!

Same Krugman Who Foretold ‘Global Recession’ Under Trump Says ‘Ignore’ Two-Quarter Rule for Biden

‘You Can’t Be Pro-Insurrection And Pro-American,’ Says President Of Nation Founded By An Insurrection

WATCH: Biden Goes 40 Seconds Without Blinking, Raising Health Concerns  Peter Cook could do that on stage.

Watch: Fed Chair Powell Desperately Avoid Saying The ‘R-Word’

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The House Committee on Education and Labor is expected this week to consider legislation known as the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act.

H.R. 8450 is a far-left wish list, seeking to expand welfare for all through universal free school meals and trying to use the school meals programs as a pretext to push far-left environmental, labor, and social justice policies.

I have searched the Constitution, and nowhere do I find that school meals are the job of the Federal government.

White House says a second consecutive quarter of negative GDP ‘unlikely’ to be indicative of recession  Yeah, I’m sure they do.

Supreme Court’s climate change ruling complicates the push for sweeping student debt cancellation (CNN)

Biden could declare climate emergency – Kerry (BBC)

Yellen predicts Fed’s anti-inflation policies will be ‘successful,’ after wrongly calling it ‘transitory’

AG Merrick Garland’s kid gloves vs. Hunter Biden

The White House has been lying to the country for a year and half: Sean Duffy

Biden Appoints Pro-Crime Appellate Judge

Hunter Biden ‘Almost Certainly’ Broke FARA Laws: Report

Jill Biden heckled at Connecticut ice cream shop: ‘Your husband is the worst’

Jill Biden raises money for Democrats amid gaffes and popularity drop (Washington Post)

Nearly 30% Of Gen Z Living Permanently With Parents Amid Inflation Squeeze

Biden Wants the War in Ukraine. Convince Me Otherwise.

WashPost: Biden Getting COVID an ‘Opportunity to Show ‘Success of His Leadership’

Quit, Joe, Quit! Biden could save the midterms with a one-term pledge. (Washington Post) I doubt that it would be that easy.

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Hunter Biden’s indictments may be “delayed.” As Gomer would say: Gollee!

Remember Gomer Pyle? I recalled one of his most famous expressions when I read an article today about possible plans of the Department of [In]Justice to “delay” moving forward with charges against Hunter Biden because of “election year sensitivities.”

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

Biden judicial nominee on board of prison ‘abolitionist’ group

Meet the Americans Facing Years in Prison for Committing the Same Apparent Gun Crimes as Hunter Biden

Republican states’ lawsuits derail Biden’s major immigration policy changes

Biden Has No Right to Declare a National Climate Emergency

There’s no “It’s Summer” clause in the Constitution empowering the president to ignore the will of Congress and unilaterally govern when it gets hot. The rejection of the president’s “agenda” by the lawmaking branch of government isn’t a justification for executive action; it’s the opposite. The Senate has unambiguously declined to implement Biden’s climate plan.

Though you have to marvel at the utter shamelessness of Democrats, incessantly warning that “democracy” is on the precipice of extinction, now urging the president to act like a petty dictator.

Hunter Biden investigation developments ‘don’t add up’, former federal prosecutor says

Buttigieg highlights declining gas prices after suggesting their rise was good for transitioning to EVs

Migrants sent to NYC amid homeless shelter crisis have no local ties, were directed here by Biden admin

TSA chief says ‘under 1,000’ illegal immigrants have been allowed to board planes with warrants as ID

Biden administration showing ‘contempt’ for ‘law-abiding citizens’ with its TSA policy: Sen. Josh Hawley

Many borrowers took out student loans anticipating debt forgiveness, survey says

Why you shouldn’t underestimate Kamala Harris in all the speculation about a post-Biden 2024 (L.A. Times)

Univision Goes Full NoKo in Propaganda Piece On Biden’s Health

“Republicans Are Just Going After Him”: Media Starts The Spin On Possible Hunter Biden Charges

After Getting COVID, NBC Highlights ‘Growing Focus’ on Biden’s Age

Border Crisis Contributed To Botched Response To Uvalde School Massacre: Report

The More Unpopular He Gets, the More Radical Biden Becomes

Joe Biden Calls Obama To Wish Him A Speedy Recovery After Hearing The President Has COVID (Babylon Bee)

Rough Day? Karine Jean-Pierre Flubs Basic Questions About Biden’s COVID Diagnosis  Affirmative-action hire.

For Second Straight Month, Biden Least Popular President in History

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The “experts” didn’t expect it to turn out this way. An experiment conducted by Harvard University and University of Exeter social scientists found no-strings-attached handouts harmed low-income recipients rather than help them.

Funded by an anonymous nonprofit, the study centered on an experiment in which 2,073 low-income people were randomly selected to receive a single, unconditional cash transfer of either $500 or $2,000. Another 3,170 low-income study subjects received no money from the study.

The experiment was conducted from July 2020 to May 2021. On average, the subjects were earning roughly $950 a month while receiving another $530 in food stamps and other government benefits. A little over half were unemployed and 80% had children.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Socialized medicine has long been a chief goal of the Democratic Party, but it is hard to understand why anyone would voluntarily entrust his family’s health care to the tender mercies of any government, even the most benign. We have tracked the United Kingdom’s experience with socialized medicine in our “Annals of Government Medicine” series, and I wrote here about the current crisis in British dentistry: nine out of ten National Health Service dentists’ offices won’t take any new patients. And British dentistry, like European dentistry in general, was nothing to write home about in the first place.

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Here is a simple proposal: Every dime of potential budgetary savings in the Medicare program should first be plowed back into the Medicare program to help ensure its solvency or secondarily be earmarked for debt reduction.

Under no circumstances should Medicare be milked as a cash cow for other government programs, whether bulking up Obamacare subsidies, funding “climate change” initiatives, promoting taxpayer funding of abortion, or whatever narrow ideological obsession happens to be captivating congressional “progressives” at the moment.

Daniel Greenfield.

The Obama administration pumped billions in taxpayer money into battery and electric car manufacturing, the majority of which failed, on the theory that enough government subsidies would lower battery costs. Not only was much of that money lost, but currently electric battery costs hover around the $160 kilowatt-hour mark. Green boosters cheer that’s far down from over $1,000 per kWh a decade ago, but that still adds up to the reality that an electric car capable of traveling for even short distances needs a battery that alone costs thousands.

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The Nissan Leaf was initially a hit, but car manufacturers quickly realized that anyone willing to overpay that much for substandard performance had money to burn. The electric car market is now thoroughly dominated by luxury vehicles subsidized by taxpayers. And the Leaf went from 90% market share to less than 10%. The EV market is now a taxpayer-funded status symbol.

The dirty truth about the “clean” car market is that it consists of traditional car companies and Tesla frantically trying to unload a limited share of luxury electric cars on wealthy customers to cash in on the emissions credits mandated by states like California. Tesla makes more money reselling these regulatory credits to actual car companies than it does selling cars. Taxpayers and working class car-owners pick up the bill for the entire luxury electric vehicle market.

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How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can’t buy meat?

At the beginning of the pandemic, Costco, Wegmans and Kroger limited purchases of beef. Hundreds of Wendy’s outlets ran out of hamburgers.

“How the hell can this be?” says Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., in my new video. “They (Wendy’s) were out of hamburger, yet you could see cattle from the drive-thru!”

It happens because of stupid government rules.

Massie owns a small farm in Kentucky. “I’d rather deal with cattle than congressmen,” he jokes. “At least (cattle) exhibit learned behavior.”

But politicians often don’t.

“You’re born with the right to eat what you want,” says Massie. “Why is the government getting in the middle and saying, ‘No, you can’t buy that’?”

“To keep you safe,” I push back.

“They’re not keeping you safe,” Massie responds. “They’re keeping you away from good, healthy food.”

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Especially since now they have more jobs for Fashionable Minorities than even the bus system gave them.

And we all know how much cheaper and more efficient government-provided services are.

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When a Democrat occupies the White House, you can be reasonably sure that administrative agencies will start bending rules to get results that they can’t get through normal procedures.

Witness, for example, the rise of the agency “guidance” document. These are documents that express an agency’s view of what the law is. They are not, however, formal rules that have the force of law.

Still, any regulated entity would be foolish to ignore an agency guidance document because it knows the agency will enforce its new understanding of the law. The agency’s bureaucrats in charge of dishing out fines and other administrative penalties will treat the guidance as if it’s binding.

Think of guidance not as a command, but as an implied threat. Yes, it’s not technically a rule that you have to follow, but if you don’t go along willingly, we’ll break your kneecaps … bureaucratically.

A recent decision by U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley struck a blow against these shenanigans, and that’s a good thing.

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According to the Office of Student Enrollment, the city is projecting that 28,100 fewer students will enroll in public schools in the fall. During the 2020-21 school year, the city lost roughly 43,000 students, and an additional net 21,000 students departed during the 2021-22 school year. And that accounts for over half of the 120,000 net students who had left the city’s public school system over the last five years.

New York is increasingly unliveable for families. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio focused more on punishing charter schools (and, by extension, the parents who wanted their children to attend them) than on improving public schools in the city. And just as in California, COVID-19 has accelerated the decline of public schools in the Big Apple, and it isn’t hard to see why.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

If self-love could kill you, the fallacious Dr. Fauci would be a goner. As it is, he contemplates continuing to hold office leading the NIAID and advising President Biden until the end of “the Biden administration term,” as he put it in an interview with Politico reported yesterday. The good news is that he will be leaving. The bad news is that his leaving is long overdue. The funny news is that he’s giving himself room to stick around in case Biden leaves office early. “Fauci says he’s leaving by the end of President Joe Biden’s term,” as Politico puts it.

I can’t help but see him in a black shirt.

Workers are picking up extra jobs just to pay for gas and food (Washington Post)

Joe Biden Risks Impeachment if Democrats Lose Both House and Senate (Newsweek) Not as long as Jambalaya is his VP.

White House admits inflation is ‘unacceptably high,’ denies US in recession as Biden pushes climate spending

Biden Halts Prosecutions for Most Illegal Border Crossings

How media coverage drove Biden’s political plunge (Washington Post) As if the media haven’t been one of the main props keeping his head above water.

Uncovering Biden

Real Catholics: Texas Bishop says Biden Must be Held Accountable After Roe Verdict

Shocking Photo Shows Hunter Biden Fully Clothed Not Smoking Crack  (Babylon Bee)

Biden’s Economic Approval Rating Lower Than Trump’s Worst: Poll

Biden Admin Ignores Activist Calls To Redesignate Iran-Backed Houthis as Terrorist Group

Dems Kill Bills To Stop Taxpayer Funds From Reaching Iran

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The first phase of the Honolulu rail transit system is supposed to open at the end of this year, with trains serving nine of the planned 21 stations. But those plans may be put on hold because contractors have discovered cracks in the concrete pillars holding up the elevated stations. Due to these cracks, the consultants have “advised that passengers not be allowed into the seven affected stations until further inspections are done.”

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This is just the latest in a long line of snafus over the Honolulu transit project. These include wheels that turned out to be too narrow for the rails they are to run on, electric power that is likely to disrupt nearby homes and businesses, and a 140 percent cost overrun. Current plans call for the project to be finished a mere 11 years late, but that’s optimistic.

 

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The December 2020 resignation of Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Trump, revealed predictable hypocrisy. Like so many other government officials around the world, she was caught violating her own stay-at-home order. Therefore she finally left her post following nine months of causing unfathomable amounts of damage to life, liberty, property, and the very idea of hope for the future.

Even if Anthony Fauci had been the front man for the media, it was Birx who was the main influence in the White House behind the nationwide lockdowns that did not stop or control the pathogen but have caused immense suffering and continue to roil and wreck the world. So it was significant that she would not and could not comply with her own dictates, even as her fellow citizens were being hunted down for the same infractions against “public health.”

Stagflation Scares Slam Stocks & Commodities As Fed Faces Yield-Curve Collapse

Biden sits side-by-side with MBS less than one month after saying he wouldn’t meet with the Saudi ruler Democrats never let principle get between them and power.

Biden’s Economy: Steering Us Into Recession

Sean Hannity: Yet another rough week for team Biden as the president blunders abroad

White House faces disaster with young voters  (The Hill)

Kamala Harris ripped over latest ‘word salad’: ‘Leaders across the world are seeing this’

White House Drops Plan To Nominate Anti-Abortion Lawyer For Judgeship In Kentucky (Huffington Post)

“Old School:” the Kamala Harris Reboot

Nancy Pelosi Urges Support Of $50 Billion ‘CHIPS’ Bill Hours After Disclosing $8 Million Nvidia Stake

Nancy Pelosi’s husband buys millions in computer-chip stocks before big subsidy vote What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

White House sidelined as Manchin again crushes Biden’s policy ambitions (Washington Post)

After Biden Rehabs MbS’ Image, Saudis Announce Increase In Oil Production Capacity

White House Assured Khashoggi’s Wife His Death Will Be Raised With MbS

Biden will meet with Saudi Crown Prince without King present as he stops short of committing to raising Khashoggi murder (CNN)

Biden’s approval ratings hit all-time lows in CNBC poll

Why Should We Believe Biden?

Los Angeles Port Boss: Fix Rail Service Or Risk “Nationwide Logjam”

Biden visits east Jerusalem without Israeli flag on limousine (Jerusalem Post)

After staff exodus, Vice President Harris to lose longest-serving aide

GOP Report Faults Biden’s Policies for Illegal Immigration Surge, Spike in Crime 

Former White House Physician Says “Biden Won’t Finish His Term”  One way or another.

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 2

Telemundo Anchor Slams ‘Taco Jill’ Biden Over Remarks  Advenures of Taco Jill!

Politico.

Democrats keep attempting to bribe people who will take your rope and then use it to hang you.

The U.S. government has been paying the ‘Palestinians’ millions for decades, and it hasn’t made a damned bit of different–jihadists keep killing innocent people, and nothing pleases a jihadist more than killing a Jew. (The PLO actually gives families money when one of their offspring suicide-bombs Jews.)

Will this not make the Biden administration an accomplice in the next ‘Palestinian’ atrocity?

When it happens, you can depend on the Narrative Media to ignore the dots rather than connect them.

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For reasons that defy rational justification, Vice President Kamala Harris continues to appear in public and (attempt to) answer questions while cameras are rolling. It’s as if she is determined to provide as much content as possible for our “Veep Thoughts” video series.

Kamala is one of a kind. Watching her attempt to form coherent sentences is like watching a normal American playing Plinko on The Price Is Right. Her eloquence makes Joe Biden look like Winston Churchill. Her interviewing skills make Hillary Clinton look like Bill Clinton, and her capacity for deep thought makes Donald Trump look like William F. Buckley.

Biden lashes out at reporter asking about dismal approval among Dems: ‘Read the polls, Jack’

Biden Just Said He’s Willing To Go To War With Iran, Mainstream Yawns  Perhaps because they don’t believe him. I certainly don’t.

Obama Scolds His Former Doctor For Questioning Biden’s Cognitive Ability  C’mon, get with the Narrative!

Fed Finds Fed Did Nothing Wrong

Secret Service Deleted Jan. 6 Text Messages After Oversight Officials Requested Them  No, that’s not suspicious at all!

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Waiting for them to start. Waiting ….

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• Thanks to a Treasury Department “interpretation,” Americans can still own stock in companies that were placed on a blacklist by the Trump administration because of their direct ties to the Chinese military.
• Thanks to the Biden administration, the “China Initiative” at the Department of Justice to crack down on Chinese attempts to acquire or steal American technology has been discontinued.
• Thanks to the Biden administration’s “green energy” enthusiasm, tariffs on solar panels made by Asian countries who are assembling or repackaging solar panels made in China were removed.
• The Biden administration has also signaled its intention to remove or lift other tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Chinese products. It has also been friendlier toward Chinese companies such as Huawei and ByteDance (owner of TikTok) in recent weeks.
• And all of this has been done with zero concessions from the Chinese government on any of the outstanding diplomatic, military, strategic, health or trade issues that so concern most Americans.
• Because the Biden family has been so deeply involved and so vehemently denied their involvement with Chinese business, the next question is as inescapable as the first: Does the flow of money to the Biden family from China influence the foreign policy of the United States?

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Stanford University law professor Pamela Karlan, best known for her 2019 testimony in favor of impeaching then-President Donald Trump, quietly left the Justice Department this month as a conservative group ratcheted up attacks on an “unethical” arrangement in which she continued to earn nearly $1 million a year from Stanford while working for the government.

Karlan joined the department on Feb. 8, 2021, shortly after President Biden’s inauguration, and served about 17 months as principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights before she departed on July 1 with little fanfare.

Karlan’s role was slated to last until at least Aug. 22 and possibly run into September, meaning she stepped down about two months earlier than planned. She left one business day before the department delivered documents to the American Accountability Foundation pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, bringing more attention to her unusual pay provisions.

Sometimes it is good to be of the Crust.

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More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress who have urged President Joe Biden to forgive student loans reported up to around $1.5 million in educational debt, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of financial disclosures.

The 13 Democratic members, who are an average of 46 years old, reported the debts in 2021 and 2020. Individual debts range from as little as $15,000 to as much as $300,000.

The lawmakers have all supported at least some degree of federal student loan cancellation, a policy the Biden administration is reportedly considering. This includes New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who owes up to $50,000 worth and has repeatedly tweeted about the issue, and also Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who owes up to $100,000 and has called cancelling student debt “a racial justice issue.”

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After 2003 in Iraq, American military advisors, and reservists who were cops and detectives in civilian life, brought some practical experience on how to make CI concepts work in a warzone. The role of U.S. police, on reserve duty, is worth several book length treatments. Some day. But these probably won’t be written any time soon, because of security considerations. The bottom line is that police rely heavily on “confidential informants” (CIs), and most large departments have budgets for paying them and procedures for handling them. The FBI also has a lot of practical experience with CIs, and they sometimes contributed practical experience to the troops, and the CIA.

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Some California truckers who move containers in and out of the marine terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach say they plan to participate in a work stoppage Wednesday to protest a controversial state law, AB5, that seeks to limit the use of independent contractors and largely classify them as employee drivers.

On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the California Trucking Association’s challenge to AB5, returning the case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

One owner-operator who plans to participate in the port protest says he doesn’t want to become an employee driver, preferring to remain an independent contractor.

Energy expert sounds alarm on Biden selling oil to China: ‘Worthy of congressional investigation’

Nancy Mace fires back at Kamala Harris’ attack on Texas Gov. Abbott: ‘She has no solutions’

White House downplays upcoming release of ‘elevated’ inflation numbers

Texas rancher finds migrants hiding on her property: ‘We are being invaded’

Doctors must provide abortions in medical emergencies, regardless of state law, HHS says (CNBC)

Outrage greets The Post’s revelation of hidden migrant camps in Hamptons

How Biden Helped a Chinese Gas Giant Boost the Communist Nation’s Oil Reserves

Ten NEW Hunter Biden Scandals the Networks Are CENSORING

Biden Falsely Claims US Troops Aren’t Engaged In Combat In The Middle East  To be fair, they’re probably not telling him about it. (US military kills ISIS leader in Syria drone strike)

“We Are Not Tacos”: Hispanic Association Slams Jill Biden For Comparing Latinos To ‘Breakfast Tacos’

University Of Delaware Continues Fight To Shield Biden Documents From Public Review

Confidence In US Media, Government, & Justice-System Collapsing

Cruz Demands Garland Explain Why He Hasn’t Stopped Illegal Protests Over Abortion Outside Justices’ Homes 

Hunter Biden could face prostitution charges for transporting hookers across state lines and disguising checks to them as payments for ‘medical services.’

Biden Considers Declaring Public Health Emergency to Help Secure Abortion Access

‘Taco Tuesday!’ The View Defends Jill Biden ‘We All Step in Poo’

White House Still Searching For A Biden They Can Send Out In Public (Babylon Bee)

Biden Whiplashes Border Patrol

62,000 Unvaxx’d Guards, Reserve Soldiers Facing Loss Of Pay As Army Prepares To Enforce Vaccine Mandate

Blackburn rips Biden’s ‘China-first policy’: It’s like Hunter Biden is negotiating these deals

White House ‘listless and lost’ and other commentary

Buttigieg announces new investigations of airlines amid rising passenger dissatisfaction

VP Harris calls for ‘assault weapons ban’ on guns ‘intentionally designed to kill’ people

GOP hammers Biden for allowing emergency oil reserves to go to China: ‘compromising our energy security’

Steve Hilton says President Biden must be investigated: He ‘lied’ about his role in Hunter’s business dealings

DHS anticipates an average of 441 unaccompanied children per day at border this year, a new record

Biden’s Dubious Tale Of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Gets Dismantled

NYT: Biden Is NOT Too Old Now, But Next Term?

‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Texas Sheriff Blasts Biden for Border Crisis

Republicans Weigh Garland Impeachment As Biden DOJ Drags Feet on Extremist Abortion Protesters

Networks Ignore Biden/Harris Staffers Fleeing Crumbling White House

Inside the Biden family business (again)

Study in Contrast: Biden Approval Hits All-Time Low, Trump Approval Nears All-Time High

Law, ICE Are ‘Irrelevant’ to Biden Administration

CNN Host Fareed Zakaria Slams Biden for ‘Making It Harder’ to Invest in Gas and Oil

Report: U.S. oil reserves are being exported overseas despite high fuel prices (Deseret News)

Dems full of ‘outright worry’ over Biden’s leadership, say he’s ‘out of time’ to fix things: Politico

Kamala Harris caught in word salad when asked if Democrats failed to codify Roe v Wade

Biden’s approval rating craters to 30% after brutal week: poll

Biden Administration Admits Border Patrol Never Whipped Anyone  But we’re going to punish them just the same.

Biden’s Selling Of Oil From Reserve To Hunter Biden-Tied Chinese Firm ‘Impeachable’: Republicans

VP Harris calls for ‘assault weapons ban’ on guns ‘intentionally designed to kill’ people  Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

Biden’s Mental Decay

Steve Sailer.

Team Soros has come up with brilliant plan for reducing racial inequities in how many blacks go to jail for crimes: prosecutorial ineptitude.

Read it.

More than $77 billion of the unemployment insurance (UI) program’s total of $413 billion in payments in 2021 were made improperly, according to a report from the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (IG).