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Being shackled to a metal bench, left for hours, and then fined thousands of dollars. Or in the alternative having their car confiscated.
Post Date: 2023-01-10 21:15:05 by Charles_Byrd
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Six days before the midterm elections, the White House reported on Monday, President Joe Biden's lawyers discovered "a small number of documents with classified markings," dating to his time as vice president, in an office at a Washington, D.C., think tank that he used from mid-2017 until the beginning of his 2020 campaign. Whoops. Former President Donald Trump predictably seized upon that revelation as evidence that the FBI's investigation of the government records he kept when he left the White House in January 2021 is much ado about nothing. "When is the FBI going to raid the many houses of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House?" Trump asked on Truth ...
Biden quietly laying the groundwork to officially end the COVID pandemic
Post Date: 2023-01-10 21:08:28 by Charles_Byrd
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The Biden administration is preparing to end the COVID-19 emergency designation after previously extending it multiple times, according to Politico. The administration plans to extend the emergency designation by 90 days before the renewal period ends Wednesday, but aim to end the designation as soon as April, three people with knowledge of the matter told Politico. The emergency designation has been renewed 11 times since the start of the pandemic, and the Biden administration will need to alert states and health industry representatives at least 60 days before the end of the designation. Click for Full Text!
The 5th Circuit Says the ATF Exceeded Its Legal Authority When It Banned Bump Stocks
Post Date: 2023-01-09 20:50:27 by Charles_Byrd
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on Friday concluded that the Trump administration exceeded its legal authority when it criminalized the sale and possession of bump stocks in 2018. While the details of the 5th Circuit's decision in Cargill v. Garland might seem arcane, at bottom it upholds the separation of powers and the rule of law. The question posed by the case is not whether prohibiting bump stocks makes sense but who has the power to make that call: the legislative branch or an administrative agency that reinterpreted the law to ban products it had previously deemed legal. Bump stocks facilitate a rapid-firing technique in which the shooter maintains forward pressure ...
McCarthy elected House speaker in rowdy post-midnight vote
Post Date: 2023-01-09 20:47:04 by Charles_Byrd
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Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic post- midnight 15th ballot early Saturday, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks and floor tensions that boiled over after a chaotic week that tested the new GOP majority’s ability to govern. “My father always told me, it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” McCarthy told cheering fellow Republicans. Click for Full Text!
Des Moines, Iowa, Cancels Classes Due to Cyber Attack
Post Date: 2023-01-09 20:40:31 by Charles_Byrd
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Iowa's largest school district canceled classes for Tuesday after determining there was a cyber attack on its technology network. Des Moines Public Schools announced Monday that classes would be canceled for its 33,000 students after being “alerted to a cyber security incident on its technology network." Click for Full Text!
Federal Judge Finds West Virginia Law Barring Transgenders From Girls’ Sports Constitutional
Post Date: 2023-01-09 20:39:11 by Charles_Byrd
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A federal judge upheld a West Virginia law requiring student athletes to compete with other members of their biological sex, dealing a blow to both the transgender movement and the Biden administration, which had supported the lawsuit challenging the statute. Southern District of West Virginia Judge Joseph Goodwin ruled Thursday that the Mountain State’s “Save Women’s Sports Act” (H.B. 3293), which requires athletic teams “sponsored by any public secondary school or a state institution of higher education” that are designated as female- only to deny entry to biological males, does not violate either the 14th Amendment or Title IX of the Education Amendments of ...
Media Silent About Terrorist Attack on Las Vegas-area Power Plant
Post Date: 2023-01-09 20:36:44 by Charles_Byrd
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Last week, a 34-year-old man apparently committed an act of terrorism against the U.S. power grid when he ran his Toyota Camry through the gate of a solar energy plant just outside of Las Vegas. The driver, identified as Mohammad Mesmarian, allegedly set fire to the car after the crash in an attempt to maximize damage. The incident occurred at approximately 11:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday. Mesmarian was arrested at a campground 30 miles from the incident on Thursday. He is charged with committing an act of terrorism, first-degree arson, third-degree arson, destroying or injuring real or personal property of another, and escape by a felony prisoner. Click for Full Text!
Here's an Officer Who Might Have Actually ODed From Fentanyl Contact—but Not Because He Just Touched It
Post Date: 2023-01-09 20:35:09 by Charles_Byrd
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A North Carolina man faces charges of assault with intent to kill for exposing two detectives and a sheriff's deputy to opioids—possibly fentanyl—during a traffic stop on January 5. One detective reportedly lost consciousness after exposure to the drugs. Given the recent misleading reports of police overdosing by simply touching fentanyl, it's worth taking a closer look at cases like this. The New Hanover County Sheriff's Office put out a press release on Friday describing the arrest. The suspect, Lewis Rudolph Brown Drayton, 37, was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over by deputies on Interstate 40 as part of a drug investigation. Drayton allegedly responded by ...
US state encourages schools to deceive parents
Post Date: 2023-01-09 20:30:00 by Charles_Byrd
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The Oregon Department of Education has come under fire for a document published on Thursday, titled “Supporting Gender Expansive Students: Guidance for Schools,” which appears to counsel school staff to help students conceal their “expansive” gender identities from their parents. If a student declares a new gender identity, the guide instructs school districts to immediately begin treating them in accordance with that identity, informing teachers of their new name and pronouns, and updating their name on school records. Click for Full Text!
Freedom Caucus' Perry: 'Pelosi Ran Congress Like Prison Camp'
Post Date: 2023-01-09 00:08:54 by Charles_Byrd
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Explaining his holdout for 11 votes against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry, R-Pa., said Sunday the move was made to earn leverage for rank-and-file members. "Frederick Douglas, who knew something about power, said, 'Power concedes nothing without a demand' – never has and never will – this was never about Kevin McCarthy," Perry told ABC's "This Week." "This is about power for the American people. Click for Full Text!
YouGov Poll: Inflation Top Issue for 118th Congress to Address
Post Date: 2023-01-09 00:06:56 by Charles_Byrd
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Addressing inflation is widely the No. 1 issue for Congress, according to U.S. adult residents in the latest YouGov poll. Lowering inflation (76%) was the No. 1 issue for newly seated 118th Congress to address, while "protecting Social Security and Medicare" (71%) was a close second. Reducing crime (63%) and increasing U.S. energy production (54%) were the only other issues to draw a majority of support. Click for Full Text!
President Biden’s Food and Drug Administration Allows Retail Pharmacies to Dispense Abortion Drugs
Post Date: 2023-01-09 00:05:09 by Charles_Byrd
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On Tuesday, January 3rd, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated labeling for mifepristone (generic for Mifeprex) that would allow pharmacies to dispense the drug. Unfortunately, both CVS and Walgreens have stated that they will sell the drug in select pharmacies which would place women at greater risk than ever before. Click for Full Text!
IRS Audits Targeted Poor at Higher Rate Than Millionaires in '22
Post Date: 2023-01-09 00:03:50 by Charles_Byrd
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New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in his acceptance speech repealing the funding for "funding for 87,000 new IRS agents" will be "our first bill" – and that came amid a recent report finding a far-higher audit rate for lower-income taxpayers than millionaires. Still, the report spins that data to suggest more agents are needed to go after millionaires more, rather than reduce the effort to scrape from the poor to fund the Democrats' big-spending agenda. Click for Full Text!
The media are promoting Nitschke and Sarco…..again
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:59:43 by Charles_Byrd
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Philip Nitschke, also known as Dr. Death, is being promoted again for his Sarco suicide machine. Before making comments on the latest media promotion of Nitschke and Sarco, let it be known that Nitschke is in the business of suicide. He sells suicide kits, suicide substances, suicide instruction books, suicide gadgets and he provides online suicide advice. He is a suicide zealot. Click for Full Text!
Idaho Supreme Court rejects Planned Parenthood, upholds near-total abortion ban
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:56:15 by Charles_Byrd
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In a 3-2 decision, the Idaho Supreme Court Thursday upheld three abortion- related laws, including the “trigger” law which took effect immediately after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. The outcome was “foreshadowed” last August when the Court “declined to stay the implementation of these laws in another 3-2 decision,” wrote James Dawson for Boise State Public Radio News. Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon applauded the decision. “The Idaho Supreme Court followed the basic canons of constitutional interpretation and found that our constitution does not include an implied right to abort the unborn.” She added, “Our ...
Faithfulness, education, and empowerment; How one center uses these to serve women
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:43:47 by Charles_Byrd
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Faithfulness plays a significant role in the work of pregnancy help ministries, according to a Tennessee pregnancy medical clinic staff member, whose community experienced a dramatic decrease in the number of abortions performed in her community. When Life Choices Pregnancy Medical Clinic in Memphis first began more than 25 years ago, nearly 13,000 abortions were performed in the county, said Rachel Davis, Community Outreach Coordinator. Click for Full Text!
FBI May Have Employees Embedded in Media, DOJ Report Suggests
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:41:34 by Charles_Byrd
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A report released by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General on the FBI’s shoddy oversight of its operations also alluded to the bureau possibly having employees secretly operating in the media. The OIG released this report Dec. 20 to little fanfare. Though heavily redacted, the document outlined the FBI’s failures to conduct proper oversight of its undercover activities. Click for Full Text!
Measuring the Impact of Dobbs in the Coming Years: Part One
Post Date: 2023-01-08 23:39:59 by Charles_Byrd
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To any observer, the overturning of Roe was obviously an enormously significant event in our nation’s history and a political watershed. Abortion was no longer, by the Supreme Court’s fiat, legal in all fifty states, throughout pregnancy, for any and every reason or none at all. But for pro-lifers, it represented so much more. It meant, for the first time in nearly half a century that states would have the actual legal authority to protect unborn children, in many cases, from the moment of conception forward. Lives could be saved. Click for Full Text!
New York Times Blames 'Deregulation' for Regulated Electric Costs
Post Date: 2023-01-07 06:18:05 by Charles_Byrd
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As Americans recover from the recent winter storms, many are also bracing for an additional onslaught when they get their monthly electric bill. Retail electric prices are up in recent years, and while this can be attributed to everything from the war in Ukraine to broader inflationary trends, a recent article in The New York Times claims to have identified the real culprit: deregulation! According to the Times, "residents living in a deregulated market pay $40 more per month for electricity than those in the states that let individual utilities control most or all parts of the grid." The Times notes that so-called deregulated states tend to spend more on transmission lines and ...
Purge and Cleanse, No Loose Ends
Post Date: 2023-01-07 06:12:56 by Charles_Byrd
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It’s a tradition ’round these parts (and by “these parts” I mean my desktop, comfy chair, and rum bottle) to end December by cleaning house of interesting bits and pieces I didn’t get to use during the year. Normally, this housecleaning consists of unused back-and-forths with journalists and academics. But this year’s different: I had no such exchanges. This year, practically everyone I reached out to would only speak off-the-record. I attribute this to the fact that 2022 was the year in which talentless predatory hacks like Taylor Lorenz and Felicia Sonmez scanned their colleagues’ tweets for cancellation material. So journalists got cold feet about ...
FBI boosts reward for capture of Capitol Hill pipe bomber
Post Date: 2023-01-06 01:28:16 by Charles_Byrd
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The FBI Washington Field Office announced that it was increasing its reward for information regarding the Capitol Hill pipe bomber days before the second anniversary of Jan. 6. Two pipe bombs were found at the Republican and Democratic National Committees leading the FBI to conduct an investigation and offer an initial reward of $100,000. The FBI announced the new reward of $500,000 Wednesday on its official Twitter account with pictures of the suspect and the bombs. Click for Full Text!
Fighter jet production grinds to halt after crash
Post Date: 2023-01-06 01:26:47 by Charles_Byrd
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The engine supplier for Lockheed Martin’s highly-sought F-35 fighter jet has suspended deliveries while an investigation into a December accident proceeds, Defense News reported Wednesday, stalling hundreds of planned jet deliveries. The Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), the Defense Contract Management Agency and engine maker Pratt & Whitney came to a “mutual agreement” to block new engine deliveries on Dec. 27, the JPO told Defense News. The JPO grounded a small group of newer jets after an F-35B variety crashed on a Texas runway earlier that month and is conducting an investigation into the cause of the accident. Click for Full Text!
6 policies that anti-abortion leaders expect a pro-life House majority to prioritize
Post Date: 2023-01-06 01:10:17 by Charles_Byrd
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A letter signed by leaders of more than 40 pro-life organizations has been sent to every Republican member of Congress, urging action on eight related bills. “We write to urge you to exercise Congress’s constitutional authority to legislate abortion policy at the federal level and pursue a robust pro- life agenda,” reads the letter to House and Senate Republicans authored by organizations ranging from March for Life and Live Action to The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.) Click for Full Text!
Justin Amash: Kevin McCarthy Is a 'Compulsive Liar' Who 'Cares Only About Power'
Post Date: 2023-01-06 00:24:02 by Charles_Byrd
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As the House of Representatives Wednesday erupted in the kind of chaotic energy one normally associates with far-flung parliaments during Question Time, there was a familiar face sitting with a wry smile next to his old friend Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.): The former five-term congressman from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Justin Amash. Amash, who was elected each time as a Republican but then during his last term disaffiliated from the GOP and eventually became the first sitting Libertarian in congressional history, was not there just to watch it all burn down—he is offering himself up as perhaps the unlikeliest candidate for speaker of the House in an already unlikely 118th session of ...
Last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut, Walter Cunningham, dies at age 90
Post Date: 2023-01-06 00:15:47 by Charles_Byrd
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Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90. Click for Full Text!
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