Energy Sec Sputters a Weak Defense of Biden-MBS Meeting (Daily Beast)

White House says Biden’s meeting with Saudi officials next month will ‘include’ crown prince (CNN)

Buttigieg says feds have power to force airlines to hire more workers amid travel delays

Biden admin explores bussing migrants to US towns hours beyond border  Helping them disappear into the general population at taxpayer expense.

CNN reporter defends Biden’s mental strength, says the ‘gears of his mind are working’

PRIDE MONTH: Here’s How the Navy Is Training Sailors on Proper Gender Pronouns

Saudi Arabia Bans Rainbow Toys, Clothing With ‘Homosexual Colors’ Weeks Before Biden Visit

Biden State Department Racial Equity Rep Says White Diplomats Like America Too Much  We’re paying these people.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The fundamental problem with wind and solar power is that they don’t work. Both generate electricity less than half the time, and this isn’t a question of improving technology, it is inherent in obsolete systems that depend on the weather. As a result, the ballyhooed “green revolution” has fizzled. The Germans, formerly committed to a “green” makeover, are starting to face reality, even if their politicians aren’t quite there yet.

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Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden’s ex, married a total sleazeball  A sleazeball named Hunter.

White House press secretary says Americans are ‘well positioned’ to face economic challenges (CNN)

U.S. judge blocks Biden administration policy narrowing immigration enforcement (Reuters)

Expert rips Biden’s ‘backwards’ energy policies: He’s ‘failing’ Americans

The Electric Car Is Biden’s ‘Golden Calf’

S&P 500 Plunges, Wipes Out All of Its Gains Since Biden Took Office

The Swamp vs. America: Biden Policies Are Making America Poorer

Biden Admin Stonewalls on Release of Thousands of Illegal Immigrants Into New York

Watch: Biden Advisor Says Social Media Should Silence Anyone Who Criticises Green Energy “Transition”

Reference.

Before Space X can launch its Starship in support of NASA, the Department of Defense, and the greater goal of bringing humanity to the stars, the FAA has required that SpaceX must (among other requirements):

• Prepar[e] a historical context report (i.e., historical narrative) of the historic events and activities of the Mexican War (1846–1848) and the Civil War (1861–1865) that took place in the geographic area associated with and including the Area of Potential Effects (APE).
• [P]rovide $5,000 annually to enhance the existing TPWD Tackle Loaner Program. This funding may be used to purchase fishing equipment (rods, reels, and tackle boxes with hooks, sinkers, and bobbers) for use at existing, heavily visited sites and/or allow the program to expand to new locations.
• Participate in wildlife photography introduction and instruction opportunities on?site.
• [M]ake an annual contribution of $5,000 to the Friends of Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge Adopt?an?Ocelot Program within 3 months of the issuance of the BO and by March 1 of each year thereafter for the duration of the BO. Funds donated to the program are intended to pay for…Special events to raise awareness about the ocelot.

It’s hard to take our civilization seriously on some days.

Members of white nationalist group charged with planning riot at Idaho pride event (Reuters) Notice the difference in treatment between these guys and those planning – in public! – to shut down the Supreme Court.

Energy & Environment —Biden EV pitch faces headwinds (The Hill)

Biden administration proposes national EV charging station standards

Biden responds to $5 gas: ‘Outrageous what the war in Ukraine is causing’

Biden Approval Plummets To 22% Among Young Adults, 24% Among Hispanics

Yahoo: “Biden’s on the verge of losing on climate change”

Biden’s Homeland Secretary Lied About Disinformation Board: Whistleblower Documents

Kuwait Summons US Diplomat Over Gay Pride Month Tweet

Biden bashes big oil: ‘Exxon made more money than God this year’ (The Hill)

‘Start investing’: Biden jabs Exxon Mobil for high fuel costs in inflation speech (CNBC)

Texas congressman says busloads of migrants heading to his district: ‘System is completely overwhelmed’  To be clear: illegal migrants.

Biden administration launches ‘unprecedented’ operation to disrupt human smuggling as caravan moves north (CNN)

Biden Administration To Provide Grief Counselors At All Gas Pumps (Babylon Bee) There’s a problem? Well, we won’t do anything about the way we’re creating that problem, but we’ll establish programs (at your expense) to do what we think will help you cope.

Texas Judge Blocks Federal Policy Letting ‘Criminal Aliens’ ‘Roam Free’

FBI Chief Comey Misled Congress’ “Gang Of 8” Over Russiagate, Lisa Page Memo Reveals

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Being a government hack has its advantages. You get eleven paid holidays per year. You get promoted for poor performance. The benefits are superb. Best of all, you can get remarkably rich…even if you’re a screw up.

President Joe Biden, for example, has worked for the federal government for nearly 50 years. His net worth is about $9 million.

Yet Biden and his wife Jill really made the big bucks between 2017 and 2020, when Biden was out of office. Together, they hauled in $17.3 million in book deals and speaking fees. These are some of the fringe benefits of having been a government bigwig.

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The free-money PPP “loan” obtained by a prostitute frequented by Hunter Biden offers a vividly teachable insight into American capitalism: you don’t maximize your private gains by offering a product or service that’s faster, better, cheaper, you maximize your private gains by securing a government-gimme. Hunter’s Hooker Scored $20,000 PPP Loan As Joe Biden Entered White House.

The cornucopia of government-gimmes is vast. There are “loans” which are forgiven, i.e. free money such as the PPP “loans;” government subsidies and tax breaks designed to serve the interests of a single enterprise or cartel; low-interest loans unavailable to tax donkeys; sweetheart contracts where the private cartel/monopoly can overbill the government without consequence; toothless anti-trust agencies allow monopolies to scoop up dozens or even hundreds of potential competitors, and skims/scams funded by government largess: Medicare / Medicaid fraud, the student-loan racket, and so on, in an endless profusion of ways to maximize private gains via investing capital in capitol, i.e. bribing politicians and bureaucrats to use the government’s vast powers to enrich the few at the expense of the many.

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School surveys that collect information from students and create a perceived need for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum have caught the attention of Missouri authorities. Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued subpoenas this week to seven school districts that allegedly employ student surveys—created by education companies Panorama and Project Wayfinder—to gather data about parents’ political beliefs and income levels, as well as racial identity, sexual behaviors, and mental health. “Those same groups come in and sell that curriculum to the schools,” said Kimberly Hermann, general counsel with Southeastern Legal Foundation, a national nonprofit law firm that defends liberty. “The contracts with these companies are public record so they’re supposed to be approved during school board meetings, but the surveys are happening without parental consent and parental notification.”

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With border cities overwhelmed by a record surge in migration, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to start transporting migrants into cities away from the border, according to DHS documents reviewed by NBC News.

Los Angeles has been designated as the first city to be the recipient of the transported migrants, with Albuquerque, Houston, Dallas and others to follow. In a statement to NBC, DHS said “no decision has been made.”

Away from microphones, DHS officials jokingly refer to the scheme as the “Abbott plan,” according to an unidentified official who spoke to NBC. That’s a reference to Texas governor Greg Abbott, who earlier this year sent at least 10 busloads of illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C. as a means of redistributing the wealth of inbound Latin American diversity.

He’ll just send them back to D.C.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Anyone testing positive would have to delay his or her return. That quarantine would entail spending thousands of dollars in finding scarce hotel accommodations, additional living expenses, and rebooked airline tickets—depending upon the length of the mandatory sequestration.

Contrast the tens of thousands of foreign nationals now mustering to cross illegally into the United States again this summer. They follow the already 2 million who have entered the country unlawfully since Joe Biden became president.

Does any foreign national worry about being tested for COVID-19, much less fear being turned away if he tests positive or for lack of proof of vaccination?

Or do we scrutinize far more carefully U.S. citizens entering legally their own country than we do noncitizens crossing our borders unlawfully?

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One of the Oxford High School students who survived being shot on November 30 has filed a federal lawsuit against the school district and four top officials for failing to intervene to prevent the tragedy.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 17-year-old Kylie Ossege, a recent Oxford High graduate, who suffered a gunshot wound to the right shoulder during the mass shooting at the high school in November. Four students were killed and seven others, including a teacher, were injured.

The lawsuit, the latest of several state and federal complaints filed against the school, alleges gross negligence and violation of the Michigan Child Protection Law in the incident and details how events leading up to the shooting should have prompted school officials to disarm the student accused in the shooting, Ethan Crumbley, then 15.

New poll: Inflation ‘most urgent issue’ over gun violence, Biden’s approval rating ties with lowest ever

‘Great resignation’ reaches White House with staff turnover (Associated Press) Like Democrats leaving a sinking ship.

Hunter Biden makes rare public appearance as laptop controversy continues to swirl

Empty wallets, empty tanks: Surging gas prices leave drivers stranded (Washington Post)

Truck drivers parking their rigs as gas prices continue to climb

Biden’s inept Cabinet shares blame for Biden’s many failures

Despite efforts to fight formula price-gouging, desperate families are paying top dollar (CNN)

Democrats frustrated by flat-footed White House (The Hill)

Round Up: 3 Times Biden Disinfo Board Members, Advisors Spread False Information

Massive Migrant Caravan Targeting Texas Could Be Biggest One Yet

‘Foolish and Naive’: US Lawmakers Decry Biden Admin’s Greenlight of China Military Investment

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Fox News host Charles Payne said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stock trade timing was “impeccable” and suggested that “maybe Nancy Pelosi knows something we do not know.”

“Representative Pelosi just bought a total of 50 out of the money calls on Apple, 150 out of the money calls on Microsoft,” Payne said on the June 6 edition of his show, Making Money. “Now, the two transactions totaled anywhere between one and a little bit over two million dollars. One would say it’s the kind of bet that one would make, uh, if they were a greedy capitalist, right? In fact, you would make a capitalist blush and then of course a professional poker player would also blush because the timing always seems to be so impeccable when it comes to Nancy Pelosi trades.”

It’s amazing that politicians who have never manifested any expertise in economics in their lives, in fact have conclusively demonstrated economic illiteracy, suddenly turn in to stock market gunslingers upon election to Congress. Makes me want to run for something….

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

The venerable office of Secretary of the Treasury goes back to Alexander Hamilton. Looking over the roster of former Secretaries, one can observe that it has rarely been held by lightweights or hacks. Janet Yellen makes a mockery of the office. She degrades the office in performing its responsibilities poorly and ranging far afield to parrot the shibboleths and follies of the Biden administration like a Stalinist apparatchik.

Considering that her previous gig was in charge of the Federal Reserve, it is no surprise that inflation is such a problem.

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The predominant system of agriculture I am working in now has been intentionally set up against me and current and future farming generations. Today’s corporate controlled system is bad for farmers, bad for consumers, bad for rural and urban communities and economies, bad for our environment and our climate, and bad for democracy.

We are in this position because the rules (laws, policies and regulations) have been written, and lobbied and paid for by corporate special interests. We are in this position because of corporate-written, bad Farm Bills and bad trade agreements (the main drivers of our farm and food system).

We are here because many of our elected “representatives” don’t really represent us, their constituents or the vast majority of Americans. We’re here because we have a democratic process controlled by that “elephant in the room”–billion dollar multinational corporations.

Billionaire oil refiner warns Biden to ‘open up the spigots’ or things ‘will get worse’

White House worried about Jimmy Carter parallels to Biden presidency as approval rating remains low: report Who wouldn’t trade Biden for Carter?

Afghanistan? Inflation? Joe Biden passes the buck as problems multiply

Student loan debt forgiveness a ‘big transfer of wealth’ from poor, working class to the rich: Payne

Politico’s pusillanimous pandering on Hunter Biden

Biden Administration Expected to Reinstate Price Controls, Bringing Back 1970s Gas Lines, Experts Warn

Gasoline Prices Heading For $5, ‘Not If, But When,’ Says GasBuddy

Mexico’s President Boycotts US-Hosted Americas Summit

In Latest Flailing Attempt To Slow Soaring Energy Costs, Biden Invokes Defense Production Act To Push Green Agenda

GOP House Lawmakers Criticize Biden Admin for ‘Unlawfully Expanding’ Obamacare

Another Grim Milestone for Joe Biden

Protocol Droid Fluent In Six Million Forms Of Communication Still Can’t Understand What Biden Is Saying  (Babylon Bee)

Hunter’s Hooker Scored $20,000 PPP Loan As Joe Biden Entered White House  Sometimes it is good to boff the prince.

Janet Yellen Expects Inflation to Remain High, Shrugs Off Effects of Biden Spending Spree

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Expanded use of ethanol — enabled by President Biden’s lifting a summertime ban on fuels with a 15 percent blend — is a poor answer to high gasoline prices and a refusal to recognize the failures of the corn-based fuel additive. Reuters described the president’s action a win for the corn lobby, but all others appear to be losers.

Shortcomings of ethanol as an alternative to gasoline have been reported continually since at least 2007 when the U.S. government expanded its requirement that distributors blend ethanol with fuels to reduce dependence on foreign oil. The additive also has been touted as a way to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.

“There is a great danger for the right to food by the development of biofuels,” U.N. human rights advocate Jean Ziegler said at the time. “It (the price) will be paid perhaps by hundreds of thousands of people who will die from hunger,” A year later he called the diversion of food crops to fuel production a “crime against humanity.”

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Thank you, Bill Clinton. (And George H.W. Bush, who fumbled the ball so badly.)

Up until 1993, the federal government merely guaranteed/backed student loans that private lenders gave. This meant that only in the case of someone defaulting on their loan would the government be on the hook, stepping in and paying the college what’s owed.

This amendment completely overhauled that system, making it so that for the vast majority of student loans, the federal government directly made the loans to students. More specifically, the federal government pays the universities/colleges up front, and the student then owes the government that money.

This represented a large shift in the alignment of incentives. When the loans come from the federal gov, there’s much less pressure on schools to compete on price. This is especially true since “increasing max student loan size => making college more accessible to everyone” is a political argument that both major parties benefit from in terms of optics.

Steve Sailer.

As we’ve been told over and over by the important people, you need to stop driving your own car and take public transportation to fight Climate Change. On the other hand, the important people feel entitled to promote policies and manias that help make taking the bus a nightmare.

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Forget about the faux Biden ´Don´t Come´ talking point intended to keep undocumented migrants from crossing into the United States. Now, according to the Latino network newscasts, a record-breaking, 15,000 migrant strong caravan is making its way through Mexico to send “a message” to the leaders gathered at the Summit of the Americas currently underway in California.

Watch as Telemundo shifts from the ´stay away´ threat to report on the longest and biggest caravan that correspondent Pedro Ultreras has “had to cover in recent years”; now, the motivation for the onslaught is to “send a message to Latin American leaders that the immigration problem is still very big and that they need them to help”.

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Many parts of the U.S. government, including its leading scientific agencies, are being blamed for the country’s chaotic and disorganized response to COVID-19. The CDC’s muddled and mistaken messaging about masks, testing, and the mechanism of viral spread sowed public confusion. The FDA’s extreme caution about approving boosters may have slowed the deployment of those vital measures. But a nation’s ability to weather a pandemic also depends upon its underlying ability to make major scientific discoveries, even—or especially—during moments of crisis. Success is not just a matter of luck; historically, the United States has made a series of strategic decisions that put researchers in a position to make timely breakthroughs. Yet amid the biggest health crisis in 100 years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the $42-billion-a-year engine of our nation’s biomedical-research infrastructure, has been strangely quiet.

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President Joe Biden has written an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal detailing his plan to fight inflation.

Well, perhaps the word “detailing” is too generous. The preponderance of the column features Biden taking credit for economic growth that can be attributed to the reopening of the economy that was shuttered by the governing class during COVID-19. Biden, of course, not only championed those closings but was critical of Republican governors who opened their states before he deemed it appropriate.

But with midterms approaching, there’s been a concerted effort underway to exonerate the president, and thus Democrats, of any culpability for rising prices. Biden sycophant “Morning Joe,” for example, contends that anyone who blames the president for more than a “passing impact” on inflation is a “lying hack or an ignorant rube.”

One wonders if that group includes former Obama adviser Steve Rattner, who argues that inflation has been driven by government putting “too much money in people’s pockets”? Or Obama’s onetime Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers, who had been warning for more than a year that cash infusions would exacerbate inflation? Or Jeff Bezos, who correctly pointed out that the “administration tried hard to inject even more stimulus into an already over-heated, inflationary economy”?

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The City of Minneapolis, that is. Not too many years ago, Minneapolis was known as a safe place. But that seems like another galaxy at this point. Last night, a gun battle broke out on Fraternity Row at the University of Minnesota. I don’t think the criminals were frat brothers. You can hear the gun battle in this surveillance video, from an alley that I take it is behind the fraternity buildings.

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Hey, it’s Free Government Money, right? Nobody ever pays that back!

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Studies on COVID-19 vaccines have suggested links between Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)—an incurable and fatal prion disease—and getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

A recent French pre-print on CJD and COVID-19 vaccination has suggested that the COVID-19 vaccine may have contributed to the emergence of a new type of sporadic CJD disease that is a lot more aggressive and rapid in disease progression as compared to the traditional CJD.

CJD is a rare disease caused by an abnormal protein in the brain called a prion.

Prions naturally occur in the brain and are usually harmless, but when they become diseased or misfolded, they will affect nearby prions to also become misshapen, leading to deterioration of brain tissue and death.

The disease is incurable as once one prion becomes infected, it will continue to propagate to other prions with no treatment capable of stopping its progress.

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Now that we are over the most serious televised issue of our day with the verdict going to Johnny Depp over Amber Heard, loosen your seat belt and relax. Coming soon are the televised hearings of the so-called January 6 Committee.

Vying on your screens, as dramatically presented by the behind-the-scenes media wizards for the role of the put-upon Johnny and the even more put-upon Amber will be, well, every member of the Committee. As you read this, you can be certain that the staffs of the Committee members have been toiling into the wee hours to decide the angle of questioning their bosses will follow if/when given time to question witnesses.

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Ross Wightman, who was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome shortly after receiving a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, has become one of the first recipients of funds under Canada’s Vaccine Injury Support Program.

But the plight of others who have suffered vaccine injuries weighs heavily on the realtor and former pilot from B.C.’s Okanagan Valley.

Wrightman says he’s “feeling fired up” about the inaction of government and the medical system in recognizing those who have suffered vaccine injuries.

“The longer this goes on the more angry, and completely disheartened I get by the lack of recognition from government officials and doctors that these things are actually happening,” he wrote in a May 31 Facebook post.

“It’s not a coincidence. … There’s one common denominator.”

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Watching President Biden rattle on last night — the White House has posted the transcript here — I thought it was time to get serious about gum control. Yes, it’s time for Biden to quit flapping his gums with the usual dynamics ranging from a whisper to a shout in the deranged old-man style to which we have become accustomed.

Biden himself appeared to have gum control in the back of his mind as he spoke: “For so many of you at home, I want to be very clear: This is not about taking away anyone’s guns. It’s about vili- — not about vilifying gum [sic] — gun owners.” That [sic] was inserted by the official White House Bracketologist, not by me.

Is there anyone among his minders in the daycare operation at the White House who believe he is an effective advocate of any public policy proposal? I think Biden’s statement requires translation. He’s saying: “This is about taking away your guns.”

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First: bans on imports. There’s plenty of formula on supermarket shelves in Mexico and Europe. Normally, American companies would just buy that and ship it here.

But they can’t, because of several destructive government policies.

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Another reason for the shortage is government limits on competition.

America’s food stamp-like program, WIC, grants exclusive licenses in each state to just one company. Like all welfare programs, WIC (it stands for women, infants and children) has grown. It now buys half of all baby formula in America.

Abbott Nutrition grabbed most of that market by offering government the lowest price. Good for them. But after Abbott’s recall, there were few alternatives for parents to turn to.

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Tragedies like those recently suffered in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, cause many Americans to voice an understandable—if misguided—urge for politicians to “just do something.”

Many of the laws for which they reflexively call—such as universal background checks and bans on so-called “assault weapons”—suffer from a host of constitutional and practical defects.

They wouldn’t have the impact on gun violence that advocates claim and aren’t likely to have stopped or hindered a single mass public shooting in the past two decades.

Biden sees exodus of Black staffers and some frustration among those who remain (Politico) Nobody wants to play for a losing team.

Biden’s About to Make a Big Mistake on Student Loans (Politico)

Biden can still avoid offering wasteful student debt forgiveness

Biden doesn’t support ban on all handgun sales, White House press secretary says  Who ya gonna believe, me or your lyin’ ears?

State Department Unable to Follow Court Order Amid Growing Afghan Visa Backlog

Refusing to Prosecute Those Protesting at Supreme Court Justices’ Homes Is Inexcusable

Damage Control: Harvey Weinstein Adviser in Line To Become White House Chief of Staff

Biden Throws Powell Under The Bus For Soaring Inflation  I suspect he deserves a tire-track or two….

Biden Administration’s Biofuel Initiative May be Worse for Environment than Gasoline

3 Laws That Biden’s Voter Registration Order Could Break

Stories to tell  The Naval Academy wouldn’t have let a dim bulb like Biden on campus.

It’s Not Just Hunter: Networks Bury Sketchy Financial Dealings of James Biden  The Bidens, like the Clintons, are a turd-world political family.

Biden Embassy to Vatican: Pride Month Is Our Holy Time

Ruhle Downplays Inflation, Hypes ‘We Are in an Economic Recovery’

Jean-Pierre Stumbles Through Basic Questions on Gas, Guns, and Lyin’ Biden

‘I Think I Was Wrong’ and ‘Didn’t Fully Understand’ Inflation: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

Crackhead MILF And Incest Porn: Hunter Biden Search History Revealed; Texted Pornhub Link To ‘Dad’

Fact Check: Biden Repeats Claim People Couldn’t Own Cannons When 2nd Amendment Was Passed  Of course they could. Nobody cared.

No Free Lunch: Biden Admin Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda

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I guess their current $97B surplus just isn’t enough to keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed.

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The Congressional Budget Office’s May 2022 forecast shows that the government now expects to bring in more tax revenue in the decade following the 2017 “Trump tax cuts” than it had projected prior to the December 2017 passage of tax reform.

It doesn’t look like the tax cuts—which government scorekeepers said at the time would cost $1.5 trillion over 10 years—have been anything like the fiscal nightmare that some on the left would lead us to believe.

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Arizona Law requires that, to be considered valid, ballots must be received by the county no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day.

But newly uncovered records documenting the Maricopa County 2020 general election show that while more than 20,000 ballots were transported from the U.S. Postal Service after Election Day, Maricopa County only rejected 934 late ballots in its “Early Voting Rejections Summary” document.

This means more than 19,000 late, invalid ballots should have been rejected. That is significant because it is enough to potentially sway the results of Arizona’s presidential election, which rested with a final tally of Joe Biden winning the state with 10,457 more votes than Donald Trump.

It is impossible to know if the results would be different if the late ballots had not been counted in Maricopa County.

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In this administration, it’s always someone else’s fault. Inflation is now the No. 1 concern of voters, so the White House first blamed COVID. Then Donald Trump’s tax cuts. Then Vladimir Putin. Then meatpackers and the poultry industry, Big Oil and pharmaceutical companies.

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Officials at the Supreme Court have moved to require clerks to hand over cell phone records and sign affidavits as part of the Court’s efforts to identify the leaker of the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, CNN reported Tuesday.

Three sources with knowledge of the Court’s investigation told CNN some clerks are considering hiring outside counsel in response to the move.

When elite lawyers collide….

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Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary, 2,000 Mules, raises serious questions about possible skullduggery in the 2020 election, involving absentee ballots across multiple states. But neither the liberal media, nor election officials, nor law enforcement seem to have much interest in investigating that potential wrongdoing. The reaction has largely boiled down to “nothing to see here!” or else to so-called “fact checks” that criticize the technology used to analyze the problems the film documents, rather than actually use the information D’Souza presents to investigate the credibility of the claims being made.

But that is par for the course these days when it comes to potential election fraud, or even proven fraud. A recent article in the Washingtonian says that that the Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, a national tracking system for potential fraud, is a “highly controversial tactic.” So just tracking and reporting cases where individuals have actually been convicted of election fraud in a court of law, is now “highly controversial.”

The media’s refusal even to address or examine the issue is quite a change from the days when the Miami Herald won a Pulitzer Prize for in-depth investigation of the Miami mayor’s race in 1997. The Herald revealed so much fraud (some of it involving absentee ballots), that the election was overturned by a court.

U.S. Household Saving Rate Vanishes, Credit Card Debt Soars

Spiking Fertilizer Costs Squeeze Midwest Farmers

Nestle CEO Does Not See ‘Significant’ Baby Formula Shortages Outside US

Dozens Of Border Patrol Agents Uninvited From Biden Event In Uvalde

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

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In its effort to contain inflation, the Federal Reserve has launched what many expect to be an ongoing series of interest rate increases, which are already taking a toll on stock and housing markets, with job losses likely to follow. As weary as Americans have become from paying record high gas and grocery prices, however, another round of price hikes is making its way through the food supply chain and is expected to reach consumers this fall. “People don’t realize what’s fixing to hit them,” said Texas farmer Lynn “Bugsy” Allen. “They think it’s tough right now, you give it until October. Food prices are going to double.”

Biden’s censors want Russian-style speech controls and they haven’t given up

Here’s what Biden has done on guns and what advocacy groups say he can still do without Congress (CNN)

Amateur hour at the White House briefing room

Showdown On The Second Amendment: Harris Calls For Ban On “Assault Weapons”  Of which there is no such thing, unless she’s talking about MLRS.

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A scientific analysis commissioned by the FBI shortly before agents went digging for buried treasure suggested that a huge quantity of gold could be below the surface, according to newly released government documents and photos that deepen the mystery of the 2018 excavation in remote western Pennsylvania.

The report, by a geophysicist who performed microgravity testing at the site, hinted at an underground object with a mass of up to 9 tons and a density consistent with gold. The FBI used the consultant’s work to obtain a warrant to seize the gold — if there was any to be found.

The government has long claimed its dig was a bust. But a father-son pair of treasure hunters who spent years hunting for the fabled Civil War-era gold — and who led agents to the woodland site, hoping for a finder’s fee — suspect the FBI double-crossed them and made off with a cache that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

‘Guns Should Not Be In The Hands Of The Mentally Unstable,’ Says Senile Man With Nukes (Babylon Bee)

Education Secretary Refuses to Say Whether School Should Hide Child’s Gender Transition From Parents

China President Warned Biden Democracy Is Dying: ‘You Don’t Have the Time’ (Newsweek) It is a measure of how feckless Biden is that he accepts being lectured on democracy by the head of the largest Communist dictatorship on the planet.

Biden repeats false claim about trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, this time to graduating midshipmen Just call him Dear Leader.

Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class  They need to be made dependent on government or they’ll never vote Democrat.

Watch: Biden Education Secretary Says Biological Males Should Be Allowed To Compete In Girls’ Sport

How Biden Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love Inflation

International Opposition Grows To Biden Granting WHO Pandemic Powers

Massive New Mexico Fire Started By U.S. Forest Service

Memorial Day Gasoline Prices Are At An All-Time High

Dopey 2010 Law Driving Major Pilot Shortage

Hunter Biden Used Burner-Phone And Data-Recovery Apps: Former US Secret Service Agent

Biden Raising Gas Prices on Purpose, Top Republican Says

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. It is always and everywhere a result of too much money, of a more rapid increase of money, than of output. Moreover, in the modern era, the important next step is to recognize that today the governments control the quantity of money so that, as a result, inflation in the United States is made in Washington and nowhere else.“

— Milton Friedman

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I suspect government regulations, but that’s me.

George Will.

The Department of Homeland Security’s announced “pause” of its Disinformation Governance Board, 21 days after creating it as a “national security” measure, probably is itself disinformation. DHS realizes that its 10-thumbed debut of this boneheaded idea almost doomed it, so the “pause” feigns deliberation while the department plots the DGB’s resurrection.

Government pratfalls such as the DGB are doubly useful, as reminders of government’s embrace of even preposterous ideas if they will expand its power, and as occasions for progressives to demonstrate that there is no government expansion they will not embrace. Progressives noted approvingly that DHS was putting a disinformation “expert” — a “scholar” — in charge, so science would be applied, including the “science” of sorting disinformation from real information.

An Example to Young Girls

Report Shows FBI Spied On 3.3 Million Americans Without A Warrant

Is Biden’s Terror Exemption for Blind Sheikh’s Terror Group Prepping a Second Arab Spring?

US Economy Contracted Even More Than Expected In Q1, Raising Odds Of Recession

Biden’s Border Crisis Is Back on the Nets: More Coverage in April Than Past 5 Months Combined

Foreclosure-Wave Sweeping US Crests In Chicago

FBI Agent Under Investigation for Withholding Exculpatory Information in Trump-Russia Probe

Kyle Bass: Fed Will Start Cutting In 2023 After US Enters Recession Later This Year

Assassins and Terrorists ‘Seek to Exploit’ Southern Border: FBI Director

A Cabinency of Dunces

Buffalo vs. Waukesha: To Biden, Some Mass Killings Are Worse Than Others

Biden shooting blanks (again)

Biden Repeats False Claim About The Second Amendment

CNN’s Jake Tapper cuts off White House adviser who blamed gas prices on Putin

Hawley demands DHS Secretary Mayorkas turn over docs on disinformation board

Hunter Biden Cronies Filed ‘Misleading’ Lobbying Disclosures, Senators Say

Letter From A US Supplier Of Industrial Chemicals: “I Have Never Seen Anything Like The Current Supply Problems”

60,000 Migrants Waiting In Mexico Across Border From El Paso, Texas

North Korea Launches 3 Ballistic Missiles Soon After Biden Departed Japan

Hunter Biden Probe Ramps Up Ahead Of Midterms

Gov. Greg Abbott: ‘Tidal Wave’ of Migrants Arrives at Texas-Mexico Border as Biden Administration Fights To Lift Title 42