Mayor Mike Johnston’s office rejected the description of the cuts as ‘defunding’ the police

A Democrat-controlled city announced $45 million in funding for programs to help deal with the skyrocketing number of migrant arrivals it is facing, resulting in over $8 million in budget cuts for the police department.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced last week a package of $45.9 million to fully fund programs for “newcomers” for 2024 and avoid worst-case scenarios projected by the city. That’s in addition to $44 million in spending already secured for the program through previous budget moves.

Spending on migrants in the city skyrocketed last year from $2 million a month in August to $15 million in December. In January, migrant numbers peaked at around 5,000 in shelters but have since dropped to around 1,000, according to official figures.

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Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday confronted Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm over previous testimony about her stock trades that was allegedly misleading.

Granholm told Hawley in April 2023 that she did not own any individual stocks, but she corrected herself in June 2023, Fox News reported. Hawley asked her during a Senate Energy Committee hearing on Tuesday why she misled the committee in her 2023 testimony.

“Oh my goodness,” Granholm said, before Hawley repeated the question. “I believed that I had sold all individual stocks, and I was incorrect.”

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One of the left’s biggest political targets recently found himself “de-banked” with no warning and little avenue for recourse, the Daily Caller has learned.

John Eastman, once an attorney for former President Donald Trump, was de-banked twice in the span of several months by two prominent financial institutions, Bank of America and USAA, he told the Daily Caller. His accounts were closed as he faced substantial backlash for his work advising Trump around the time of the 2020 election.

Eastman said he had switched most of his banking from Bank of America to USAA, a company that provides financial services exclusively to military veterans as well as their families, due to the former’s “wokeness.” Both corporations are federally insured, and Bank of America was bailed out with billions of dollars in taxpayer funds during the global financial crisis.

Bank of America alerted Eastman in September of 2023 that it would be closing his accounts, a letter obtained by the Daily Caller shows. Shortly thereafter, USAA notified Eastman in November that his two bank accounts with the company would be closed, a separate letter shows.

“And then two months later, we get a similar letter from USAA saying that they’ve decided that they’re going to close your account and they did like three weeks later,” Eastman told the Daily Caller. “And so that was where all of our automatic payments were coming out of, all our automatic deposits. So it was a real pain to shift everything. We had to get a new bank account opened and shift everything over.”

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Joe Biden on Tuesday traveled to his *hometown* of Scranton, Pennsylvania for a campaign event.

And literally no one cares.

Biden delivered remarks on the US tax code at the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple.

Joe Biden struggled throughout his speech.

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Taylor’s case is one of many efforts to push the populace into an alternative registry.

I spoke with Dexter Taylor in February about his case wherein the state of New York charged him with a felony for legally building his own firearm for his own personal enjoyment, a perfectly legal action per existing federal law.

Taylor, an innocent man with no criminal record, was not selling his personal builds. He was not selling guns, at all. Because he was not selling the guns he built, he was not required to serialize them (previously a manufacturer’s way of monitoring product until the government saw an opportunity). This didn’t matter. The ATF and NYPD raided his home and arrested him any way. The tracked his financial records to credit card purchases for legal firearms parts that he legally ordered for his legal build.

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Certain areas of the U.S. and other countries are hot spots of “forever chemicals,” a study has found.

A “substantial fraction” of locations have above-recommended levels of chemicals called PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in water samples, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Many of these hot spots have concentrations of PFAS at much higher levels than is considered safe, the researchers said.

PFAS are chemicals used to make products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease and water. This means they are present in numerous household items, including nonstick cooking tools, toilet paper, food packaging, cosmetics and dental floss.

The U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has identified these “forever chemicals” as potential causes of health problems like increased cholesterol and blood pressure, diminished immune function, reproductive problems and a heightened risk of certain cancers.

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Just two days after Iranian commandos hijacked the Israeli-linked container ship MSC Aries in the Strait of Hormuz, it’s important to highlight that chaos continues to erupt at key global maritime chokepoints.

The hijacking of the Aries container ship was lost in the noise of the widely unsuccessful Iranian missile and drone strike against Israel on Saturday evening. It will likely be forgotten as the world focuses on what appears to be an imminent Israel counterattack against Iran.

Sal Mercogliano, a professor at Campbell University and shipping expert, wrote on X about an alarming number of maritime chokepoints under threat across the Middle East and Black Sea region.

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The House of Representatives on Monday passed a Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider H.B. 7888, which passed on Friday to renew FISA 702 and allow warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans.

This was a betrayal of Americans.

Shortly before the final passage of H.B. 7888 on Friday, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), which would have required a warrant to spy on Americans. However, 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), in an interview with Maria Bartoromo this weekend, slammed Mike Johnson for voting with Democrats again to break the tie and “abdicating the power of the purse” to the Democrats in the latest spending package. “As I see it now, I’m not sure there’s a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and the Democrats being in charge,” Senator Paul remarked:

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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that President Joe Biden was “being influenced by the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party.”

Kennedy said, “I think my position is pretty clear. I love Israel. I despise Putin. I despise the Communist Party of China and I despise the Ayatollah in Iran. I don’t want America to be the world’s policeman, but I don’t want those guys to be the world’s policeman either. And with with those guys, if you turn the other cheek, you just get it in the neck. More sheep is not going to solve the wolf problem . I expect, I don’t know, but I expect the speaker of the House probably next week to put an Israel bill, Israel support bill on the floor of the House. I think it will be followed by a bill to support Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific and number three, i think he will put a bill to support Ukraine.”

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Update (1750ET): The first day of Donald Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial was fairly uneventful – aside from the judge, a complete dick, barring the former President from attending his son’s graduation and threatening arrest if he does.

Speaking after a long day of jury selection and ground rules (with more than 50 jurors dismissed), Trump walked out of the courtroom and expressed his obvious displeasure.

“As you know my son is graduating from High School, and looks like the judge will not let me go to the graduation for a son who’s worked very, very hard,” Trump said, adding that he was “looking forward for years to having graduation with his mother and father there,” adding that the trial is a “scam” and a “political witch hunt.”

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Is there anyone left who doesn’t see that Joe Biden is not the president? Joe Biden isn’t running the show.

Everyone in Washington DC knows Joe Biden is for all intents and purposes brain-dead. Everyone knows he should be in a nursing home with a sign around his neck listing his name and phone number in case he wanders off. Everyone knows he wears diapers. Everyone knows he doesn’t know what year it is, or most of the time, where he is, what he’s reading on the teleprompter, or what he’s signing.

This is the worst kept secret in history: Joe Biden is a brain-dead zombie puppet.

Biden is a wooden dummy and someone is the ventriloquist. Biden is the frontman for the biggest scam in world history.

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Democrats are slowly losing their voter registration edge in key swing states, recent voter registration data reveals.

Data complied on various swing states across the country reveals the stunning losses for Democrats in terms of voter registration since November 2020 — the last presidential election.

For instance, in November 2020, Pennsylvania had 685,818 more registered Democrats than Republicans. As of April 2024, that advantage has reduced to 399,494. In other words, Democrats have lost 286,324 registered voters over the past three and half years in the Keystone State. President Joe Biden won the state in 2020 by less than 81,000 votes.

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Joe Biden held a state dinner for the Japanese prime minister on Wednesday night, and of course it wouldn’t be a Biden event without gaffes and weird moments.

Watch as Jill and Joe are standing with the Kishidas for the photos before the dinner. But Jill has to pull Joe out of the way so the prime minister can stand where he’s supposed to for the shots. Handlers at work again:

Biden was asked if he had a message regarding Iran’s threats on behalf of Israel.

He responded, “Thank you all. Appreciate it.” Does he even know what’s going on? Or is he just deflecting?

He’s also a bit out of uniform — why is he wearing a regular tie? Also, how typical of D.C. that the police sirens are so loud in the background.

State dinner guests included Apple’s Tim Cook, actor Robert DeNiro, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, as well as former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton in a billowy caftan. She looked like she was wearing a tablecloth or perhaps a tent. I think it’s safe to say what Sanchez was wearing was not a billowy caftan—I’m not sure what it was, but it sure looked an awful lot like Fredericks of Hollywood lingerie. 

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Scottie Scheffler won his second Master’s Tournament victory Sunday, but in a post-win news conference, he said he knows what the real victory is.

“You say constantly your identity is not in your golf scores,” Sean Martin, senior editor of PGA Tour, asked Scheffler. “What is it about winning and competing, then, that you find satisfying?”

“You know, that’s a really good question,” Scheffler replied. “I was sitting around with my buddies this morning. I was a bit overwhelmed, because, I told them, I was like, ‘I wish that I didn’t want to win as badly as I did.’ … I think it would make the mornings easier.

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In investing, “Buy low, sell high” is among the most well-known sayings, and generally, it’s good advice. But with gold still holding near its historic all-time highs, central banks led by China are bucking the classic adage and smash-buying more, buying the top to fortify themselves against a global monetary and financial blow-up.

Russia is also doubling its reserves of gold and foreign currencies on its de-dollarization path, further detaching Russia from the petrodollar empire as it reacts to wartime sanctions from the US and EU. There are other blips on the de-dollarization map as well: though much smaller than Russia and China, Zimbabwe has a new gold-backed currency that lets them dump the USD for trade with China and other countries.

Chinese citizens are trying to divest as well, but from their economy — Chinese buying has become so blistering that gold ETFs have gone haywire, with China repeatedly halting trading as ETFs rocket upward at a gobsmackingly-high premium against physical bullion. It has become increasingly difficult for the Chinese to invest outside of China, due to attempts by the regime to keep investments within the country. Citizens are trying to make moves to protect themselves against their perceptions of domestic economic uncertainty.

Meanwhile, expectations that the Fed and other Western central banks will be cutting rates this year amidst continuing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East provide further rocket fuel for the gold price, with central bank buying helping it hold its new levels despite whatever else seems to be going on in global markets.

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A new documentary being released by the organization behind the American Greatness website, next week on April 17, is exposing the “four corrupt, political motivated” prosecutors now pursuing cases against President Donald Trump.

The narrator of “Chasing Trump” explains, “They say they’re upholding the law. But a close examination reveals politics of the very worst kind meant to influence the 2024 election.”

He cites, “Four corrupt, politically motivated prosecutors. One target: Donald Trump.”

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Since 2016, more than 200 humpback whales have died and been stranded on beaches along the East Coast, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA). In fact, NOAA is so concerned about the sheer number of dead humpback whales in this region that it has labeled the situation an “unusual mortality event.”

Likewise, NOAA has declared an “unusual mortality event” regarding the mysterious mass deaths of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale along the East Coast. As NOAA notes, more than 125 North Atlantic right whales have been found “dead, seriously injured, or sublethally injured” from 2017 to 2024.

Interestingly, the drastic spike in whale deaths along the U.S. East Coast began exactly when offshore wind farm companies began using geotechnical and site characterization surveys in this region of the Atlantic Ocean.

Geotechnical and site characterization surveys are prerequisites for the construction of massive offshore wind farms that rely on the use of sonar waves to map the ocean floor. However, these activities, which require an Incidental Harassment Authorization from NOAA, have also been shown to wreak havoc on whales.

According to Cindy Zipf, executive director of Clean Ocean Action, “It is plausible to question whether offshore wind pre-construction activities, which are happening concurrently in this region, are a contributing factor in these deaths.”

She added that this many whale deaths in this short of a timespan is “unprecedented” and notes that preconstruction activities have already led to substantially “more ships and vessels in the area, which increase potential ship strikes, and sonar can deafen or disorient whales, leading them into the path of oncoming vessels.”

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Visiting Wisconsin last week, President Joe Biden announced his revised plan to cancel or reduce federal student debt for over 30 million borrowers. This “alternative path,” in Biden’s words, represents his administration’s renewed effort to cancel student debt. It follows his initial effort to cancel $20,000 in debt for 43 million borrowers — amounting to $400 million of taxpayer money. That gambit was struck down at the Supreme Court.

The problem?

​Canceling student debt amounts to transferring wealth from workers to higher earners. According to one report from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, America’s highest earners will reap nearly two-thirds of the giveaway and the 87% of people without student loans will be stuck with the bill. Furthermore, forgiving these loans will inflate the soaring costs of college and incentivize more students to continue borrowing massive amounts of money, sometimes in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, for degrees they will likely never be able to repay.

Conservatives should reject out of hand any federal bailout that subsidizes the college and university system.

Our schools of higher learning have become hotbeds of left-wing extremism, including anti-Americanism and anti-white racism; critical race theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion; safe spaces; restrictions of free speech; antisemitic protests; violent riots; and so much more. Our college system no longer exists to produce well-rounded students prepared for life as self-governing citizens; instead, it exists to indoctrinate our young people and create loyal foot soldiers for progressive values. We should not be bailing out such institutions, nor should we be encouraging students to solicit their own indoctrination.

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Three other relief programs to launch on April 22

ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Wes Moore today announced the launch of the Port of Baltimore Worker Retention Program to help Port of Baltimore businesses retain employees as the Port recovers from the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse.

The $12.5 million program was established through Governor Moore’s executive order and authorized by the Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act, which the governor signed into law on Tuesday. The program, run by the Maryland Department of Labor, aims to avert layoffs by enabling impacted businesses to retain their workers until the Port fully reopens.

“We must do everything in our power to support the 8,000 Port workers whose jobs have been directly affected by the collapse of the Key Bridge – and the thousands more who have been touched by this crisis,” said Gov. Moore. “By moving in partnership with the Maryland General Assembly, the federal government, and our local government partners, we are extending a hand to workers and businesses in need of help. Together, we will continue to ensure that we leave no one behind in our response to the bridge collapse.”

“It’s my top priority to help our critical Port of Baltimore businesses, and their workers get through this difficult time,” said Maryland Secretary of Labor Portia Wu. “The Worker Retention Program will keep Port businesses in operation and workers able to earn income and support their families as the U.S. Army Corps and others work to get the shipping channels reopened.”

Entities eligible for up to $200,000 in grant funding include businesses which employ up to 500 workers, unions, trade associations, and organizations that have seen operations hindered by or completely halted due to the Port slowdown. Up to $7,500 can be spent per worker on wages or other support.  Businesses that receive funding under the Port of Baltimore Worker Retention Program must demonstrate an effort to the fullest extent practicable to avoid layoffs and maintain their workforce at the same hours, rates of pay, and benefits that were in effect before the Port’s reduced operations.

Funds may also be used to pay for training to upskill employees while keeping them on the payroll. Other allowable expenses include supportive services for workers including subsidizing child care and transportation costs as well as payroll expenses as part of participation in the Work Sharing Unemployment Insurance Program.

The Port of Baltimore Worker Retention Program is funded at $12.5 million through a mix of federal and state dollars: $2.5 million comes from the U.S. Department of Labor through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), and $10 million is from Maryland’s Rainy Day Fund.

More information on the Port of Baltimore Worker Retention Program, including the application, can be found at: labor.maryland.gov/keybridgeresources/portworkerretention.shtml.

In addition to the Port of Baltimore Worker Retention Program, three additional relief programs that were established by the Governor’s executive order and authorized by the PORT Act will launch on Monday, April 22. Eligibility and application requirements for these programs can now be found online:

• Department of Commerce: Port of Baltimore Emergency Business Assistance Program – provides grants of up to $100,000 to eligible businesses which have had operations impacted or shipments disrupted at the Port of Baltimore. To be eligible, businesses must demonstrate economic and financial injury through a reduction in business revenue and activity, and/or increased costs to business operations. This program will begin accepting applications on April 22 and information about the program eligibility and requirements can be found here.
• Department of Housing and Community Development: Small Business Grants Program and Business Loan Program – Under the Neighborhood BusinessWorks program administered by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, a total of $15 million in loans and grants are available to businesses that have been impacted by a loss of revenue or increased costs. The Small Business Grants Program will have $5 million to offer grants up to $50,000 to small/main street level businesses within a five mile radius of the Key Bridge and the Business Loan Program will have $10 million to offer loans up to $500,000 to businesses impacted by the Key Bridge collapse or reduction in Port activity statewide. This program will begin accepting applications on April 22 and information about the program eligibility and requirements can be found here.

Democracy promises response after Iran orchestrates drone attack

After being targeted by hundreds of Iranian missiles and drones over the weekend, Israeli officials have confirmed there will be a response.

But when and what remains uncertain.

It was Lt. Gen Jerzi Halevi who confirmed Israel will respond to the Iranian attack, but he would not immediately explain details.

A report at RedState.com revealed that the Biden administration claimed it was working “overtime” to avoid “escalation.”

Translated, that means the current president does no

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The Louisiana House of Representatives has passed Bill 71, which requires all schools that receive state funding to display the Ten Commandments.

Bill 71, introduced by Rep. Dodie Horton (R), passed 82-19 and will now be voted on by Louisiana’s Senate.

The bill states,” Each public school governing authority and the governing authority of each nonpublic school that receives state funds shall display the Ten Commandments in each building it uses and classroom in each school under its jurisdiction.”

Bill 71 calls for all K-12 schools and colleges receiving state funding to display the Ten Commandments.

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Republican Rep. Michael Waltz of Florida blasted President Joe Biden over his foreign policy on Saturday after Iran launched drones toward Israel.

Iran launched unmanned aerial vehicles towards Israel late Saturday, less than two weeks after an Israeli airstrike killed a top officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in Damascus, Syria. Waltz ripped Biden’s handling of Iran, accusing the president of giving Iran “room to push” with his policy of “de-escalation.”

“There is no other way to describe the Obama-Biden Middle East policy except as a dangerous disaster,” Waltz told Fox News host Jon Scott. “I mean, this is an utter calamity. Just a few years ago, under President Trump, ISIS was destroyed, Iran was broke and on their back foot and we had the Abraham Accords, and look where we are now.”

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Former Wall Street money manager Ed Dowd is still a skillful number cruncher.  His recently updated and wildly popular book “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021, 2022 and 2023” has been correctly documenting the huge numbers of deaths and injuries caused by the CV19 bioweapon vax.

Many are waking up to this crime against humanity, but many remain in the dark because the government and Lying Legacy Media (LLM) continue to cover up the worst murder and disability fraud in world history.  Dowd says:

“At this point, it’s overwhelming and has become almost comical…

This is asymmetric information.  So, we have governments and media continuing to pretend a massive health crisis with chronic illness, deaths and disabilities is not going on.  The data would suggest otherwise…

The data we have made public is free, but some people want projections and decision-making ideas. These are things we might end up starting a business from.  I would have never thought we could.  This is what asymmetric information does, and the government and the media are suppressing this information.”

A quick look at the overall casualties from the CV19 vax reveal an unparalleled medical disaster.  Dowd explains:

“I went before Senator Ron Johnson in February to talk about the ‘pandemic scorecard,’ which is abysmal. 

Ever since the CV19 vaccine came on, we have had 1.1 million Americans die excessively, 4 million permanently disabled and another 28 million injured.  It’s 33 million people who have been negatively affected now. 

The question you have to ask is why are these institutions not screaming from the rooftops?  I think the reason why is, it’s all because of the (deadly) vaccine.  It’s all circular, and I think it’s a joke at this point.”

Is the worst over?

The short answer from Dowd is No.

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President Joe Biden’s parole pipeline has released more than 950,000 foreign nationals into the United States since its inception in January 2023 — exceeding the entire population of South Dakota.

Late last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released figures for March, showing Biden’s parole pipeline is continuing to release tens of thousands of foreign nationals into the United States interior via the southern border and commercial flights.

From January 2023 through March 2024, more than 950,000 foreign nationals have been released into American communities thanks to Biden’s parole pipeline. The pipeline brings foreign nationals to the U.S. through the administration’s “CBP One” mobile app and “humanitarian parole.”

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California’s legislative battle intensifies as far-left ‘social justice’ groups stand in opposition to a bill aiming to strengthen the penalties for purchasing or soliciting a child for sex.

Under current state law, such an act is merely a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in county jail, a minimum of two days in jail, and a potential fine of $10,000. Additionally, offenders are required to register as tier-one sex offenders for at least ten years.

Republican State Sen. Shannon Grove is spearheading the push with SB 1414 to elevate the offense to a felony.

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In 2024, Democrats inhabit a parallel universe where up is down, black is white … and evil is good

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” The famous biblical passage from Isaiah offers a chilling but disarmingly accurate characterization of today’s Democratic Party, which has descended to its darkest, most perverse and pathological low point in history – except perhaps for its fierce defense of slavery, until the Civil War put an end to that.

Whether viewed through the prism of power politics, ideology, psychology or religious faith, the Democratic Party of 2024 has become a daily showcase of exactly the kind of remorseless lying, gaslighting and projection – i.e., calling “evil good, and good evil” – that is condemned in the Bible.

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Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayers’ expense, Real Clear Investigations has found.

The methods include voter registration and mobilization campaigns by ostensibly nonpartisan charities that target Democrats using demographic data as proxies, and the Biden administration’s unprecedented demand that every federal agency “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.”

A dizzying array of overwhelmingly “democracy-focused” entities with ties to the Democratic Party operating as charities and funded with hundreds of millions of dollars from major liberal “dark money” vehicles are engaged in a sprawling campaign to register the voters, deliver them the ballots, and figuratively and sometimes literally harvest the votes necessary to defeat Donald Trump.

These efforts, now buttressed by the federal government, amplify and extend what Time magazine described  as a “well-funded cabal of powerful people ranging across industries and ideologies,” who had worked behind the scenes in 2020 “to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information” to defeat Trump and other Republicans. The “shadow campaigners,” Time declared, “were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.”

Heading into 2024, “there is not a ‘shadow’ campaign,” said Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. “There is an overt assault on President Trump and those who wish to vote for him occurring at every level of government and with the support of all major institutions.”

By contrast, Republican Party stalwarts lament that no comparable effort exists on their side. The GOP’s turnout and messaging efforts seek to thread a difficult needle by encouraging early and absentee voting and ballot-harvesting – pandemic-era measures that Trump and supporters blame for his 2020 electoral defeat – while the party simultaneously fights the mainly blue-state laws that made the practices possible. The party’s position is further complicated by its standard-bearer’s warnings of a rigged election bigger than in 2020, which some speculate could turn off moderate swing voters.

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The Supreme Court will hear a case Tuesday that could have major implications for hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants — as well as special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump.

The case, Fischer v. United States, asks the Supreme Court to weigh the scope of an obstruction statute, Section 1512(c)(2), which penalizes anyone who corruptly “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding” with up to 20 years in prison. Joseph Fischer, who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, argues that his prosecution under the law for obstructing Congress’ certification of the 2020 election was an “unprecedented expansion” of the statute.

The law, enacted as part of the Corporate Fraud and Accountability Act of 2002, was intended to target evidence tampering, focusing on “deterring fraud and abuse by corporate executives,” Fischer argues.

“Before the January 6 cases, no court had applied Section 1512(c)(2) to conduct not intended to affect the availability or integrity of evidence,” Fischer’s attorneys argued in a brief. “Nor had a defendant ever been convicted of an obstruction-of-Congress offense outside the context of a legislative inquiry or investigation.”

Fischer stated he was in the Capitol for less than four minutes —  after Congress had already recessed — and “was not part of the mob that forced the electoral certification to stop.” He was arrested in February 2021 on several charges, including assaulting Capitol police.

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A nine-year-old girl became the victim of an unprovoked attack in the heart of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal.

The assailant, identified as 30-year-old Jose Carlos Zarzuela, was apprehended following the attack that occurred in the terminal’s bustling dining area.

According to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Police Department, Zarzuela, a recently released offender with a history of similar violent behavior, approached the young girl as she was standing near her mother and punched her in the face without any warning, amNY reported.

The impact of the assault caused the girl to suffer from pain and dizziness, necessitating her transportation to NYU Langone-Tisch Hospital. Thankfully, she is expected to recover fully from her injuries.

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There is nothing like waiting until the last minute to file taxes.

The IRS office in Houston, Texas closed early on Saturday because a fight broke out in front of the building. Numerous people were lined up to get help with their taxes.

Tempers were out of control as impatient taxpayers were waiting for assistance. The deadline to file is Monday, April 15th.

HOUSTON – The Internal Revenue Service in Houston closed abruptly on Saturday after people say a fight broke out. It happened while taxpayers were trying to get assistance with filing their taxes.

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Prices have risen 20% since Biden took office because of egregious borrowing. That money has been stolen by the most privileged among us.

Absurdistan believes we should be living in a Golden Age. But we are not. The lower 75% struggle through every month, paycheck to paycheck. The only reason unemployment is low is that people are working two or three jobs, none of which offer benefits. Misallocation of resources is a formal term in economics, and we have thrown away our bounty, frozen our assets, and are living on borrowed time and money. The superculture told us we are destroying the earth and without looking at the facts, every single country has shredded trillions in wealth in the last 20 years, stalling what looked like, in 1999, a new Golden Age. We in the west have squelched (another economic term) skilled labor, entrepreneurship, capital and ideas in service of the False God of Green. In 75% of the country, we are living as if in a developing country, without the hope. And let me be clear: the “science” is total crap, alarmist garbage. It obscures real problems and prevents real solutions.

The people taking advantage of us are the well-heeled, expensively educated, looters in the upper middle class. And that’s not all, another sector with the responsibility of care, of ethics-in-action, joined the club, all the churches, neglecting parish and parishioner whether Buddhist or Evangelical, to join in the children’s army. Your donations, tithing pour into the coffers of the rich.

You pay for all of it. Your tax and donation dollars flow into the pension funds of the upper-middle-class and the hedge funds of the super-wealthy. Not one individual of which constrains their lives in any way,

Let me explain.

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This story has even made it into the Anglophone press, so you know it’s a big deal: “German transport minister warns of weekend driving ban,” says The Telegraph. “German minister threatens ‘indefinite driving bans’ on weekends,” proclaims Politico. “German transport minister under fire for weekend driving ban threat,” declares Reuters.

But no, despite the headlines, they are not going to take away our cars. Amazingly, not even the Greens want to do that. For once the story is not about German authoritarianism, or woke insanity or anything like that. Rather, it’s about how nobody can really bring himself to care about the climate anymore – not even our forward-thinking, progressively minded, environmentally responsible political establishment.

For the backstory, we must go all the way back to the pre-Covid era, when aggressive climate legislation was popular even with centre-right CDU voters, and before the electorate had a taste of what Green policies like the draconian home heating ordinances really feel like on the ground.

Back in those halcyon days, when the child saint Greta Thunberg was cutting class to save the earth, Angela Merkel’s government passed the Climate Protection Act. The law mandates a 65% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2030, an 88% reduction by 2040, and an utterly unrealisable carbon neutrality by 2045. In the near term, the Climate Protection Act also establishes maximum annual emissions levels for various economic sectors. Should a given sector exceed its maximum, the responsible Ministry must submit an ominous “action programme” to bring things back on target.

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The 2024 election contest between Biden and Trump is farcical not just because it pits the mentally lame against the egomaniacally blind. The more compelling absurdity is that America is now hurtling headlong into an existential fiscal crisis, but neither candidate ever mentions this clear and present danger, let alone proposes even a semblance of a remedial plan.

During his recent State of the Union (SOTU) address, for instance, Joe Biden even had the nerve to brag that “I’ve already cut the federal deficit by over one trillion dollars”.

Well, actually aside from the $6 trillion of UniParty deficits he and the Donald ran-up during the pandemic stimmy bacchanalia of 2020-2021, the deficit of $1.7 trillion incurred in 2023 was by far the largest in American history. And yet the puppeteers who scroll the “Joe Biden” teleprompter are taking a bow for purportedly stemming the red ink?

Federal Deficit/Surplus, 1955 to 2023

Actually, if any reality-therapy is needed on the banks of the Potomac, the March release of CBO’s latest long-term budget outlook should do the job. It is based on a bunch of Rosy Scenario assumptions where there are no recessions, no inflation flare-ups, no interest rate spikes, no financial crises, no big wars, no global energy crises—-just good economic sailing for the next 30 years!

Then again, where they end up is positively horrifying, even if the Rosy Scenario underlying the report is utterly incompatible with the fiscal disaster it projects. Accordingly, the real debt numbers are sure to be a lot worse as the future unfolds.

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We like to think we have freedom of speech. Doesn’t the First Amendment guarantee this to us? But some states have “hate speech” laws on the books. New York is considering a law, already passed in California that requires social media companies to report “hate speech.” This is the “Stop Hiding Hate Act” and has been passed by the State’s Assembly. Here is an account of the measure from Vince Chang, who favors it:

“Under pressure from the ADL [Ant-Defamation League] and other groups, internet platforms have voluntarily adopted measures to regulate hate speech. The ADL described some of the measures that have been taken:

Facebook prohibited Holocaust denial content, hired a vice president of civil rights, changed parts of its advertising platform to prohibit various forms of discrimination; expanded policies against content that undermined the legitimacy of the election; and built a team to study and eliminate bias in artificial intelligence. Due to pressure from ADL and other civil rights organizations, Twitter banned linked content, URL links to content outside the platform that promotes violence and hateful conduct. Reddit added its first global hate policy, providing for the removal of subreddits and users that “promote hate based on identity or vulnerability.”^[12]

Despite these efforts, one analysis showed that major social media platforms fail to take down more than 80% of antisemitic posts on their platforms. The Center for Countering Digital Hatred reported that 80% of 700 posts containing “anti-Jewish hatred,” which had collectively been viewed 7.3 million times, were not removed. The research covered Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube. Facebook was said to have failed to act on 89% of posts.

In an attempt to respond to internet hate speech, New York legislators have introduced the Stop Hiding Hate Act, legislation that has passed the New York Senate and is pending in the Assembly. This bill would require large social media companies to disclose their policies and moderation practices for online hate speech. The legislation is modeled after a similar law in effect in California.

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Illegal immigration weighs heavily on the wallets of hardworking American taxpayers – to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars annually.

Still, the Biden administration turns a blind eye to these fiscal strains, neglecting the toll on our economy, the structural integrity of our nation, and the safety of our citizens.

Estimates suggest that illegal immigrants cost each household about $1,000, adding up to more than $120 billion a year.

Sources such as Newsweek hint that the true cost may be even higher, possibly reaching $150 billion annually, an amount shared by both federal and state governments. In all actuality, the financial impact could be much worse.

The situation continues to deteriorate by the day. Just this past December, Border Patrol recorded 249,785 arrests along the Mexican border, a 31 percent spike from November 2023 and a 13 percent surge from the December 2022 record.

Since President Joe Biden’s inauguration and the adoption of his open borders approach, more than 7.2 million illegal immigrants have streamed into the United States through the southern border, a number surpassing the population of 36 states.

Some estimate that number to be nearer to 10 million. The lawlessness makes it impossible to keep an accurate count.

The repercussions of illegal immigration cast long shadows over various aspects of our society, from heightened crime rates to suppressed wages to the depletion of taxpayer resources. Public services face strain, with illegal immigrants accessing emergency health care, enrolling their children in public schools, and tapping into social welfare programs. Some argue their willingness to accept lower wages drives down earnings, leading to reduced tax revenues and increased reliance on social welfare programs among low-wage workers, citizens, and legal residents alike. Even our property tax is paying for illegal immigrants. This generational problem demands pragmatic consideration and competent leadership.

To exacerbate matters, if illegal immigrants operate solely within cash transactions, much of their income goes undocumented.

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Energy prices, particularly the cost of electricity, have skyrocketed since President Biden took office, outpacing inflation and putting a dent in Americans’ wallets.

Since January 2021, electricity prices have soared 29.4% — 50% more than overall inflation — rising 13 times faster than the previous seven years, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Meanwhile, in those seven years before Biden took office, electricity prices rose just 5%.

News of the astronomical increase in electricity came in the wake of March’s Consumer Price Index, which showed US inflation rose 3.5% in March.

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Survey finds that nearly 40% of U.S. renters don’t believe in their ability to ever own a home

The ongoing lack of housing affordability is prompting more renters to doubt their ability to become homeowners. According to a recent Redfin survey, nearly 40% of U.S. renters don’t believe in their ability to ever own a home, up from roughly 27% less than a year ago.

While lack of affordability is the dominant reason for renters to believe they’re unlikely to become homeowners, nearly half of renters feel that available homes are too expensive. Among other reasons preventing renters from becoming homeowners, respondents listed the difficulty of saving for a down payment (35%), the challenges of affording mortgage payments (33%) and high mortgage rates (32%). Lastly, a slim portion of respondents (14%) were not interested in owning a home.

Redfin commissioned Qualtrics to survey 3,000 U.S. residents, including about 1,000 renters, in February 2024.

During the four weeks ending April 7, the median monthly U.S. housing payment hit $2,747, up 11% from a year earlier, according to a different Redfin report. The median sale price was $378,250, up 4.5% year over year, while the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 6.82%.

The one-two punch of high home prices and high mortgage rates have pushed homeownership out of reach for many Americans. On average, first-time homebuyers must earn $76,000 to afford the typical U.S. starter home, up 8% from a year ago and up nearly 100% from pre-pandemic figures, Redfin reported.

In the past year alone, home prices grew by 7% and monthly mortgage payments rose more than 10%.

“Housing costs are high across the board, but renting is a more affordable and realistic option for many Americans right now — especially those who have never owned a home and aren’t able to tap into equity from a previous sale,” Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather said in a statement.

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The 16-year-old who was arrested and charged with robbery and assault for an attack on an elderly woman on church steps in Queens, New York has a long rap sheet.

Imagine our shock.

The violent attack happened last Sunday on the steps of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Queens.

The thief took off with a cellphone, credit cards and $300 in cash. He fled in a 2006 Nissan Altima, police said.

The teen suspect is being arraigned as an adult but law enforcement is still not identifying him because of his age.

“Despite being arraigned as an adult, the Queens District Attorneys Office says they will not be identifying the 16-year-old because of his age.” WABC reported.

The suspect has been arrested and released NINE TIMES in the last 8 months.

“He has been arrested nine times in Queens as an adolescent offender since August 2023. Eight of those arrests involved robberies and the ninth was criminal possession of stolen property.” WABC reported.

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Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell on Friday said the Democratic party will be damaged if even a small number of black voters leave to support former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Trump’s support among black men has increased in battleground states to 30% ahead of the 2024 election by more than double his backing among the same group in 2020’s contest when he received 12%, according to a poll published on Thursday by The Wall Street Journal. Terrell on Fox News reacted to this poll as well as a viral moment where a black woman embraced Trump at an Atlanta Chick-fil-A, asserting this is a real and prevalent trend.

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“If the Democrat Party does not receive anywhere between 85 or 90% of the black vote, there is no Democrat Party,” Terrell told host Dana Perino. “That photograph of that black woman with President Trump is a nightmare for CNN, MSNBC, New York Times. They have sent out a false narrative: ‘Trump is a racist, black people hate Trump.’ You see that photograph? That photograph shows a disconnect as to what the left-wing media is portraying.”

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Who could have imagined it: Eating a concoction of chemicals made to imitate real meat appears to be actually quite bad for you.

A new study postulates that eating vegan meats can have major negative effects on an individual’s health, such as increasing the risk of diabetes.

As the Daily Mail reported, those who consumed notable amounts of fake meat brands like Impossible Burgers and Beyond Meat over eight weeks recorded higher blood sugar levels than those who consumed natural meats.

This increase in blood sugar levels could put plant-meat eaters at a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes in the future.

The 89 Singaporean study participants were chosen because they started out with a high risk of diabetes

The two-month study saw no noticeable changes in participants’ cholesterol, but did see considerable changes in the sodium levels for the group.

Meat-eaters reportedly had lower sodium levels than those who consumed fake meat products.

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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who happens to be a US Senator and a Doctor of Ophthalmology, released a stunning report on Tuesday where he discovered that 15 different federal agencies knew that the Wuhan laboratory in China was trying to create a COVID-19 virus and they knew this since 2018.

Not one single official or employee in these 15 agencies revealed the truth to the American public during the pandemic. They should all be fired.

Rand Paul announced on Sunday that a brave Lt. Colonel in the Marines stepped forward with the information on the COVID origins. He was the only honest person in 15 agencies brave enough to expose the truth.

On Sunday, Senator Paul joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures to discuss this explosive revelation and more.

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During a huge rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania Saturday night, Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden, reeling off a list of massive failures and urging that “everything he touches turns to shit.”

A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge to Georgia’s voter citizenship verification requirements, keeping in place the state’s process of cross-checking citizenship status to determine voter eligibility and handing a win to election integrity advocates.

On Wednesday, whistleblowers from the Washington DC National Guard are expected to tell Congressional investigators that former President Donald Trump wanted them deployed, but an Army Secretary, Ryan McCarthy, delayed relaying this to DC National Guard Commander William Walker by at least two hours.

According to the Daily Mail, at least three whistleblowers will also testify that their stories were ignored by the Democrat-led January 6 committee because it didn’t fit their narrative. The hearing will aim to further prove that Acting SecDef Christopher Miller did give advance approval to deploy the National Guard at Trump’s command.

This report about the Iranian strikes on Israel over the weekend is disturbing. It paints Joe Biden and America in a terrible light. It reinforces the notion that Israel is truly alone in its fight against radical Islamic terrorism. Call impeachment hearings if this is true.

Where I’m a bit reserved is the source: it’s from Turkish officials. The story goes that Iran informed Turkey of their plans and that the Biden administration was aware of the strikes. Turkey was reportedly told to relay a message to Tehran: keep the attacks “within certain limits” (via Jerusalem Post) [emphasis mine]:

Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be “within certain limits.” 

Turkey, which has denounced Israel for its campaign on Gaza, said earlier on Sunday that it did not want a further escalation of tensions in the region.

The Turkish source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had spoken to both his US and Iranian counterparts in the past week to discuss the planned Iranian operation, adding Ankara had been made aware of possible developments.

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Can Democrats take a hint?  The answer is obviously no, but with millions of people flooding out of Democrat controlled places and relocating to more conservative regions one might think they would finally get the message.

Blue cities and states across the US have been experiencing a mass exodus of legal residents since before the pandemic event; many of them business owners taking their money (and job opportunities) with them.  The hardest hit states in the country include New York, Illinois and California, with cities like NYC, LA, Chicago and San Francisco seeing some of the most aggressive population shift.  In states like California the standard operating procedure has been to lie about the situation, using the surge of illegal immigrants to hide population loss in the census.

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Derek Condon, 39, killed after allegedly breaking into home and handcuffing 85-year-old woman to a chair

An 85-year-old Idaho mother who shot and killed a home intruder committed a “justifiable homicide” that is “one of the most heroic acts of self-preservation I have heard of,” Bingham County Prosecuting Attorney Ryan Jolley stated in an incident review.

The suspect, identified as 39-year-old Derek Condon, entered the home Christine Jenneiahn shares with her disabled son around 2 a.m. March 13. Condon was “dressed in a military jacket, black ski mask, and pointing a gun and flashlight” at Jenneiahn, according to the document.

Jolley says Condon placed Jenneiahn in handcuffs and took her into the living room of her home, where he took her at gunpoint and handcuffed her to a wooden chair.

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This is Part Two of Dr Mark Bailey being interviewed by Paul Hellier about the new book, “The Final Pandemic: An Antidote To Medical Tyranny” , written by Mark and his wife, Dr Sam Bailey.

In Part Two they discuss censorship and the changing world of media lies and how more people are seeking out information to arm themselves with better ways to be healthy and avoid further control by establishment medicine.

They dissect Germ Theory, Alleged “Viruses,” Diagnostic Tests, and “Treatments”  as well “Drugs” and “Vaccines.”

Importantly they discuss how these have developed into a public belief system that’s not only counterproductive to health but is frequently life shortening and even immediately deadly.

The Final Pandemic  simply and succinctly helps people understand the Contagion Myth we all were brought up to believe – and why there’s no reason the fear “death-dealing ‘germs.”

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Wayne Allyn Root: If the majority of voters agrees with us, we’ll see a landslide

I suggest President Donald Trump and the GOP build the coming election around these questions. There is no “extremism” or “right wing” or “white supremacy” or “radical” or “controversial” or “unpopular” here.

The American people are overwhelmingly behind us on every one of these issues. Start throwing these questions at them to wake the sleeping giant.

If the majority of voters agrees with us on these questions, we win a resounding landslide.

Do you support open borders and the foreign illegal-alien invasion of America? Democrats do.

Do you think 10 to 20 million illegal aliens being welcomed into our country over the past three and a half years of President Joe Biden is a good thing? Democrats do.

Do you think illegal-alien lawbreakers should be treated better than American citizens? Democrats think so.

Do you think illegal aliens should be treated better than military vets? Democrats think so.

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Mike Benz the founder and executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online joined Natalie Winters on The War Room on Friday evening to discuss the House vote to recertify FISA spying on American citizens.

Benz believes the FBI is the most corrupt agency, the most lawless in the country.  And the only way “we will know there are checks and balances is when we see them in jail.”

So true.  The more the lawless government agencies are allowed to abuse the American public with no consequence – the more the lawless government agencies will continue to abuse Americans without concern of any consequence.

Where are the good guys in the GOP?

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A Florida Republican is proposing legislation that would require convicted child sex abusers to face either the death penalty or life in prison.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said the “No Repeat Child Sex Offenders Act” will be introduced in the House on Thursday, according to Fox News. She outlined her philosophy in a pair of social media posts.

“You cannot rehabilitate predators. If you rape children, you deserve the death penalty,” Luna posted on X.

“Death penalty. It will come to the floor. Let’s see who tries to protect pedophiles,” she wrote on Facebook.

In comments to Fox, Luna noted that her bill applies to those who hire minors for sex.

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The New York City Council opened its Thursday meeting with an invocation praising Allah, recognized in Islam as the supreme deity.

Imam Abdoulazakou Traore of the Darou Salam Islamic Community Inc. led the council in prayer, beginning with an Arabic recitation followed by an English translation that expressed reverence for Allah as the “Lord of the world” and sought guidance for the city’s lawmakers.

The New York City Community Affairs Bureau estimates the Muslim population in the city to be between 800,000 and 1,000,000, with other sources citing numbers as high as 1.4 million. This demographic makes New York home to the largest Muslim population in the country, according to WiseVoter.

During his invocation, Imam Traore began by reciting Al-Fatiha, the opening chapter of the Quran, which is known to be one of the most significant Surahs (chapters) recited in daily prayers by Muslims around the world.

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In previous decades, it was customary for sitting presidents to refrain from berating and criticizing the work of previous presidents, but Joe Biden has never been one to engage in human decency.  Thus, from the onset of his presidency, he has relentlessly scapegoated President Trump to deflect criticism of his nearly four years of failed leadership.

With a presidential election six month away, it is time to highlight Biden’s failed policies and lay blame where it belongs: at the feet of the current occupier of the White House.

It was not President Trump who refused to enforce our immigration laws.  It was YOU!

It was not President Trump who opened our southern border to 10 million illegals from around the globe.  By erasing President Trump’s executive order, worked out with Mexico, to house illegals there, Biden made himself responsible for the entry of drug cartels, criminals, gang members, rapists, and terrorists from enemy countries into our collective home.  It was YOU!

It was not President Trump who secretly and illegally flew 325,000 illegals from across the globe to cities across the U.S. at taxpayers’ expense.  It was YOU!

It was not President Trump who allowed CCP-affiliated military-aged men to enter our collective home illegally.  It was YOU!

It was not President Trump who erased our energy independence by shutting down the Keystone Pipeline and making us once again energy dependent on foreign sources.  It was YOU!

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Was the garbage prosecution of President Trump in Georgia something Kamala Harris cooked up with her best bud Fani Willis?

That’s what congressional investigators are seeing.

According to Raw Story, citing Newsweek:

Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis met with Vice President Kamala Harris before she indicted Donald Trump in his election interference case, according to a lawyer who shared White House records during a Georgia Senate hearing.

The meeting, according to Attorney Ashley Merchant’s testimony, took place on February 28, 2023, just months before Willis indicted Trump in August of that year, Newsweek reported.

Well what a coincidence. Since when does the vice president of the United States meet with a lowly district attorney over anything, really, given the separation local, state and federal jurisdictions? It sounds like the pair giggled their way into it together.

But it’s just like Harris to be involved in something of this sort.

Back in California when she was state attorney general, she plotted with everyone from the Los Angeles Police Department to get free police protection even when she went out partying, to the governor’s office, conspiring to keep prisoners in prison past their terms in order to ensure that they served as firefighters for the coming fire season.

She wiped out critical evidence in a death penalty case and threw dozens of petty drug offenders in prison in order to get the Democrat governor’s soft-on-crime polling numbers up.

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Joe Biden’s schedule for the next nine days has him only putting in one full day of work at the White House. Three days are set to be spent campaigning in Pennsylvania and five days are scheduled for vacation in Delaware.

Biden at Rehoboth Beach, August 2023, file image.

As the Middle East teeters on the brink of war between Iran and Israel that could involve the U.S., Biden told reporters, “I’m always concerned about Americans,” as he boarded Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews for a weekend at the beach in Delaware.

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Professors and students want Georgia State University to keep its college-in-prison program open. The institution’s leaders say new federal standards make it too costly to do so.

Perimeter College, a community college that’s part of Georgia State University, celebrated its first graduating class of incarcerated students last year. Nine students at Walker State Prison, clad in caps and gowns, earned associate degrees in general studies through the university’s Prison Education Project (GSUPEP).

The program, which started eight years ago, currently operates in two state prisons and one federal prison and serves a total of roughly 60 students. University officials are planning to shut down the program over the next few years to the shock and dismay of professors and students who thought the program was thriving.

Cynthia Lester, interim dean of Perimeter College, sent a November message to faculty and staff members involved in the program explaining that it couldn’t afford to maintain the program after the restoration of Pell Grants to incarcerated students. The reinstatement of the grants, which officially took effect last July after a 26-year ban, requires college programs in prisons to meet strict federal standards to ensure their students can receive the funding.

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College applications climbed by almost 2,000 percent in 2022, the year of the Russian invasion. Most students chose low-cost courses with minimal entrance requirements.

The government body, which monitors education standards and implements policy, said it had analyzed state data on men born between 1964 and 1994 who entered or returned to full-time education between 2021 and 2023. At present, higher education students are exempt from conscription.

In 2022, the year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and president Volodymyr Zelensky’s subsequent declaration of martial law, applications to higher education and professional pre-higher education (junior bachelor’s) programs spiked, increasing by 1,880 per cent.

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On Friday, a super-majority of Republican lawmakers in Kentucky overrode Democrat Governor Andy Beshear’s veto of a law that strips the state’s executive of any authority to appoint future U.S. Senate vacancies. The new law’s supporters claimed it was unrelated to recent concerns about the health of Republican Mitch McConnell, the state’s 82-year-old senator and minority leader of the U.S. Senate. With the Senate narrowly divided on partisan lines, the procedure for filling a vacancy has become increasingly crucial.

In 2021, Kentucky’s GOP lawmakers curtailed the governor’s independent authority to appoint a successor. Now, they have completely excluded the governor from any role in filling such vacancies. Under the new law, the state would hold a special election, and the winner would then serve the remainder of the unexpired term.

During a brief debate, Republican House Majority Floor Leader Steven Rudy said,

The people should decide who a United States senator is by election always.

In his veto message, Governor Beshear wrote,

Prior to these maneuvers, the same system had been in place since 1942. This administration deserves the same authority as previous administrations.

The state’s change in the Senate succession process comes during a season of change for McConnell, who in February announced that he will step down from his longtime Senate leadership position after the November election, concluding his leadership term. He didn’t specify a reason for his decision other than to point to the recent death of his wife’s youngest sister as a moment that prompted introspection.

McConnell’s announcement came after two incidents where he appeared to “freeze” and looked disoriented during press briefings.

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The lawyer revealed how you should approach the seemingly innocent question if you get pulled over by the police

A lawyer has highlighted the one thing you shouldn’t ever answer under any circumstances if you get pulled over – and it might not be what you expect.

It makes perfect sense, but a lot of people can feel nervous when they’re pulled over to the side of the road by the police.

Known as @tiktokstreetlawyer on TikTok, he frequently shares English law and legal advice for those living in the UK, so that we can protect ourselves and be aware of our rights.

The viral video has amassed over 1.3 million views on the social media app, where he explains exactly what the question is, and what you should do to protect yourself.

“Here’s a question you should never answer in a million years without knowing the suspected offence you are accused of,” he begins to say in the clip.

Believe it or not, it’s nothing to do with drinking or hiding things in your boot, it’s something that may seem a lot more harmless than that.

He reveals: “It’s the one where you get stopped by police in your car and the officer asks you: ‘Do you know why I pulled you over?'”

It seems innocent enough but this lawyer wants you to think twice about guessing the correct response ‘unless you are a Jedi mind reader’

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Joe Biden will return to the White House Saturday afternoon, interrupting a weekend vacation at the beach in Delaware, the Biden press office announced:

“The President is returning to the White House this afternoon to consult with his national security team about events in the Middle East.”

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Joe Biden learned his lesson long ago: Lying works — and he’s too old to un-learn it now that it doesn’t.

That’s why he fibs so often, on every imaginable subject.

Just Monday he trotted out an old fave — that he was the first in his family to go to college — at a speech in Wisconsin announcing his massive new student-debt vote-buying plan.

It’s patently untrue.

His maternal grandfather Ambrose Finnegan attended Santa Clara University, his own dad spent a year at Johns Hopkins, and the prez has previously admitted it’s bunk.

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President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden just faced a “devastating take-down” in court regarding his federal gun case, attorney Jonathan Turley said on Saturday.

Hunter Biden is facing three federal gun charges in Delaware, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to. The charges relate to the president’s son lying about his drug use on a federal form to purchase a handgun in October 2018.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected several motions filed by Hunter Biden’s lawyers in an effort to throw out the gun charges against their client—one of the claims being that the president’s son was being subjected to selective prosecution at the behest of Republicans.

“These charges are the result of political pressure from President Trump and his MAGA allies to force the Justice Department to ignore the law and deviate from its policies in cases like this one,” Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, said after his client’s arraignment last October.

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New religions are abortion, transgenderism, open borders

It was many years ago already, but at the Denver convention for Democrats when Barack Obama was nominated, he ranted and grimaced, and promised America was about to fundamentally change.

Since then, the evidence shows he wanted to push the United States into a socialist realm of government mandates and control – remember the demands in Obamacare?

But Democrats now have gone far beyond, according to a commentary from Chris Queen, an editor at PJ Media.

Now, he explained, Democrats now want “to end America.”

“For starters, the left has put all its chips in on abortion. It only took a couple of decades for leftists to go from ‘safe, legal, and rare’ to ‘shout your abortion.’ Killing babies has become a rite of passage for left-wing women, and pushing abortion is now a non-negotiable talking point,” he said.

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A South Carolina prison official is facing charges related to a series of offenses and stands accused of having accepted over $219,000 in bribes and smuggling 173 contraband cell phones for inmates.

Her case represents one of many highlighting more widespread issues of corruption in South Carolina’s prison system.

A supervisor who managed security at a South Carolina prison accepted more than $219,000 in bribes over three years and got 173 contraband cellphones for inmates, according to federal prosecutors.

Christine Mary Livingston, 46, was indicted earlier this month on 15 charges including bribery, conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.

Livingston worked for the South Carolina Department of Corrections for 16 years. She was promoted to captain at Broad River Correctional Institution in 2016, which put her in charge of security at the medium-security Columbia prison, investigators said.

Livingston worked with an inmate, 33-year-old Jerell Reaves, to accept bribes for cellphones and other contraband accessories. They would take $1,000 to $7,000 over the smart phone Cash App money transfer program for a phone, according to the federal indictment unsealed Thursday.

Reaves was known as Hell Rell and Livingston was known as Hell Rell’s Queen, federal prosecutors said.

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A Gen Z UConn basketball player described what it was like meeting Joe Biden at the White House after winning last year’s NCAA title.

According to the NCAA champ, Joe Biden had no idea what was going on.

“Took a picture with Joe Biden — a team picture. Joe Biden talked to us for about three minutes and then right after that, he asked us for a picture again…” UConn’s Donavan Clingan said.

“What did he say in that 3 minutes?” a friend asked Donavan Clingan.

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