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McConnell ‘proud’ of $1.7 trillion spending deal that funds Planned Parenthood, woke gender programs
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:27:18 by Charles_Byrd
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The U.S. Senate reached an agreement this week on a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill to fund the federal government, in what many conservatives are calling a capitulation by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican leaders. Just the News reports that the deal was reached after Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer allowed an amendment to extend Title 42, a Trump-era public health authority facilitating the quick deportation of illegal immigrants, to be voted on with just 51 votes rather than the 60 typically needed to break a filibuster. Click for Full Text!
Dr. Rand Paul Honors Cottingham Hardware of Alexandria as Senate Small Business of the Week
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:11:35 by Charles_Byrd
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Recently, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, recognized Cottingham Hardware of Alexandria, Kentucky as the Senate Small Business of the Week. Click for Full Text!
Marine Corps may drop ‘yes sir’ for gender equity
Post Date: 2022-12-24 00:09:51 by Charles_Byrd
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A newly-published study claiming the US Marine Corps would benefit from dropping gendered identifiers like “sir” and “ma’am” for drill instructors was not only “insane” but a waste of the $2 million the USMC paid for it, the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Military Personnel Committee said in a statement on Wednesday. “I hope the Commandant not only rejects the recommendation but also asks for his money back,” wrote Congressman Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin wrote. He noted that the Marine Corps “may have problems, but the use of gendered terms at boot camp is not one of them.” Click for Full Text!
Florida Pastor Accused of Bilking Elderly Couple out of Home
Post Date: 2022-12-22 16:46:19 by Charles_Byrd
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A Florida woman has been arrested and accused of using her position as a church pastor to steal the home of an elderly couple. Click for Full Text!
Omnibus bill earmarks $750K for trans group that wants to inject LGBTQ 'discourse' in elementary schools
Post Date: 2022-12-22 16:43:44 by Charles_Byrd
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The massive $1.7 trillion omnibus bill that was made public by federal lawmakers Tuesday includes a $750,000 earmark for a Los Angeles-based transgender Latina group that wants to "dismantle" the U.S. criminal justice system and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and inject "transgender history and discourse" into elementary schools, among other progressive initiatives. The release of the bill, which spans 4,155 pages, came after negotiations between Senate Republicans and House and Senate Democrats. The sprawling package, which contains $858 billion in defense spending and $772.5 billion in non-defense discretionary spending, has to pass by the end of the week ...
Federal judge rules against HHS program allowing teens confidential birth control
Post Date: 2022-12-22 16:41:30 by Charles_Byrd
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A federal judge in Texas set aside a rule allowing teenagers to access birth control from providers participating in a federal family planning program without their parents’ permission. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on Tuesday likely means that teenagers who receive care through the Title X family planning program will no longer be allowed to do so confidentially. Click for Full Text!
SBF's former associates plead guilty to fraud, cooperating now
Post Date: 2022-12-22 16:39:28 by Charles_Byrd
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Former business associates of disgraced former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried have pleaded guilty to the charges brought against them and are cooperating with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York, according to a statement by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams Wednesday. Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda research and reportedly ex- girlfriend of Bankman-Fried, pleaded guilty to seven counts, including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud, while Gary Wang, co-founder of FTX and former chief technology officer, pleaded guilty to four counts, including wire fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing plea agreements. Separately, the U.S. ...
Tucker hammers Congress for 'fawning' over Zelenskyy while 'American border collapses completely'
Post Date: 2022-12-22 16:37:05 by Charles_Byrd
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Tucker Carlson lit into Congress Wednesday for “fawning” over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the United States’ southern border “collapses completely.” Click for Full Text!
The Big List of former federal agents now working for Big Tech
Post Date: 2022-12-22 16:17:40 by Charles_Byrd
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For those who think that Big Tech has been a little more Big Brotherish lately, there's a reason. The concern has been raised because Big Tech companies like Twitter, Google and Facebook have in recent years openly censored messaging that conflicts with Democrat ideology. Click for Full Text!
Virginia Democrats Fight To Abolish Single-Sex Bathrooms in Public Schools
Post Date: 2022-12-22 16:15:49 by Charles_Byrd
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Virginia Democrats are fighting to abolish single-sex bathrooms in public schools and keep parents in the dark when their children assume different genders at school. Democrats on the state legislature's rules commission in a 5-4 vote on Monday rejected Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R.) plan to protect same-sex spaces and increase parents' role in education. If the plan is adopted, administrators and teachers would have to seek parents' consent before referring to children by different names or pronouns. The plan would also preserve sex-specific sports teams, locker rooms, and bathrooms. Click for Full Text!
'Stunning act of betrayal': Here are the 18 Senate Republicans who voted for McConnell-Schumer bill
Post Date: 2022-12-22 16:07:54 by Charles_Byrd
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At least 18 Republicans joined all Senate Democrats to pass a $1.85 trillion omnibus spending bill Thursday afternoon, in the final two weeks in which Democrats control the House of Representatives. Click for Full Text!
Five Must-Know Facts About the Disastrous New Omnibus
Post Date: 2022-12-22 15:46:14 by Charles_Byrd
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Just as I predicted back in October, Congress pushed its discretionary spending deadline back by one week, from December 16 to December 23. This comes as no surprise as congressional leadership is once again trying to ram through a massive omnibus bill before the year ends. The Friday deadline gives leadership leverage, as they threaten a partial government shutdown that might keep members of Congress in Washington over Christmas. Vote as you’re told, or you’re not going home is the name of this game. Yet in the same vein that Congress managed to punt on appropriations when they were due on September 30, and again on December 16, Congress could punt on appropriations once more. ...
State demands diversity quotas on corporate boards, now court rules
Post Date: 2022-12-21 21:50:19 by Charles_Byrd
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The California Court of Appeals upheld two injunctions against state-mandated diversity quotas on corporate boards earlier this month, according to court documents. California has passed several laws which require corporations to hire at least one director to fulfill a quota based on categories such as sex, race or sexual orientation. The appellate court rejected the California secretary of State’s emergency request to lift two injunctions issued by trial courts which claimed that the laws are unconstitutional. Click for Full Text!
Congress Yet Again Fails To Pass Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reforms
Post Date: 2022-12-21 20:53:23 by Charles_Byrd
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A once-promising bipartisan bill to erase the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine failed to make it into a year-end omnibus spending bill winding through Congress, likely dooming efforts to pass crack cocaine sentencing reform for yet another legislative session. Criminal justice advocates have been working for decades to roll back draconian crack cocaine laws passed by Congress in the 1980s. Those laws set the penalties for crack cocaine offenses at 100 times greater than equivalent powder cocaine offenses, which resulted in monstrously long and racially disparate sentences. In 2010 Congress passed a law reducing the sentencing ratio to 18–1, and advocates hoped to ...
'This has got to stop': GOP lawmakers slam Dem-led efforts to pass massive spending bill
Post Date: 2022-12-21 20:45:19 by Charles_Byrd
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Conservative lawmakers are continuing to rally against Democrat-led efforts to pass funding for the government for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. The omnibus spending package text was released in the early hours of Tuesday morning and is 4,155 pages long. Click for Full Text!
Dems want $575 million for 'family planning' where population growth 'threatens biodiversity'
Post Date: 2022-12-21 20:43:04 by Charles_Byrd
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The omnibus spending bill currently under consideration in Congress includes a minimum of $575 million towards “family planning” and “reproductive health,” including in areas where population growth “threatens biodiversity,” according to the text of the bill. The $1.7 trillion, more than 4,000-page-long spending bill unveiled Tuesday represents the federal government’s budget for the coming fiscal year. Conservatives have criticized the spending bill for pouring enormous sums of money into left-leaning projects through earmarks, the process in which a member of Congress agrees to sign a spending bill on the condition that it includes funding for one of ...
Biden opens probe into school district that dared to yank 130 LGBT books
Post Date: 2022-12-21 20:41:00 by Charles_Byrd
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The Biden administration announced Tuesday it is investigating a Texas school district that removed LGBT-themed books from its library shelves. In January, Granbury ISD removed 130 books from its library shelves, including books with LGBTQ themes including “This Book Is Gay” and “Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen,” according to the Texas Tribune. Following the removal of the books, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a complaint to the Department of Education’s (DOE) Office of Civil Rights regarding a secret recording of Superintendent Jeremy Glenn ordering district librarians to remove books with LGBT themes and characters. Click for Full ...
Republicans poised to approve massive FBI funding boost despite Twitter Files revelations
Post Date: 2022-12-21 20:39:30 by Charles_Byrd
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Republicans are set to approve a massive spending bill which includes billions of dollars in funding for the FBI despite recently leaked information which found the federal agency colluded with Twitter to censor users. The bill designated $11.33 billion for the FBI “to investigate extremist violence and domestic terrorism,” according to a summary of the bill by the House Appropriations Committee. The total is reportedly $569.6 million more than the enacted levels for the 2022 fiscal year and $524 million more than the president requested. Click for Full Text!
Millions in woke handouts packed in Congress' massive spending bill
Post Date: 2022-12-21 20:36:57 by Charles_Byrd
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As Congress advances its “omnibus” spending bill, included is millions in funding for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and LGBTQ initiatives. The latest text of the spending bill released Tuesday includes 4,155 pages of items with 7,510 earmarks totaling $1.7 trillion. Stuffed inside the bill are earmarks to set aside millions for different initiatives such as an American LGBTQ+ Museum, an LGBTQ support center and growth of an “Equity Incubator.” Click for Full Text!
CBS News: Brace for More Airplane Turbulence Due to Climate Change
Post Date: 2022-12-21 19:34:07 by Charles_Byrd
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The climate police have found another thing to blame on climate change. On Sunday, at least 36 people were injured when a Hawaiian Airlines flight suffered what the pilot referred to as “severe turbulence” during a flight from Phoenix to Honolulu. At least one mainstream media outlet — the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) — was quick to echo a claim that more such pockets of turbulence could be expected in the future due to climate change. Click for Full Text!
Congress Misses Another Chance To Correct Blatantly Unjust Crack Penalties
Post Date: 2022-12-21 19:32:10 by Charles_Byrd
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As a senator in 1986, President Joe Biden wrote the bill that established an irrational sentencing disparity between the smoked and snorted forms of cocaine, which he later called "a big mistake" that "trapped an entire generation." This week Congress squandered yet another opportunity to correct Biden's big mistake, which mandated especially severe punishment for crack offenders based on an arbitrary distinction with no scientific basis. The omnibus spending bill that was released early Tuesday morning did not include legislation addressing crack cocaine penalties. Republicans who had been open to that proposal reportedly balked after Attorney General Merrick ...
A New FBI Building Would Cost Billions. Do We Even Need One?
Post Date: 2022-12-21 19:08:22 by Charles_Byrd
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Early Tuesday morning, the Senate finally released its omnibus spending bill, which would fund the government through September of next year. The deadline to pass the bill actually passed on Friday, requiring a one-week stopgap bill to avoid a government shutdown. Part of the delay stemmed from disagreements over where to build a new location for the FBI's headquarters. But at a time of record debt and continuing trillion-dollar deficits, it's worth asking whether the bureau even needs a new building. Click for Full Text!
The January 6 Committee's Suggested Charges Against Trump May Be Hard To Prove
Post Date: 2022-12-21 19:06:24 by Charles_Byrd
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The select congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol on Monday recommended that the Justice Department consider half a dozen criminal charges against Donald Trump based on his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. While those criminal referrals are not binding, they suggest some of the challenges that prosecutors would face if they decided there is enough evidence to charge the former president. Four of the potential crimes include mens rea requirements that may be difficult to satisfy, especially since the prosecution would have to prove those elements beyond a reasonable doubt. The other two possibilities involve ...
US Military Thanks And Praises Retiring CNN 'Journalist' For Her Service
Post Date: 2022-12-21 18:49:12 by Charles_Byrd
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The US military has been showering CNN's retiring Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr with effusive thanks and praise for her lifetime of service, giving some insight into the cozy working relationship between the media and the war machine inside the US empire. "Today closes a remarkable career for CNN's Barbara Starr, a leader in the Pentagon Press Corps," reads a post by the Twitter account for US Central Command. "Her aggressive reporting and tireless commitment to the truth brought this Nation closer to its military. She will forever be missed." Click for Full Text!
Trump hosts gala for homosexual Republicans at Mar-a-Lago after Biden signs same-sex ‘marriage’ law
Post Date: 2022-12-21 18:47:43 by Charles_Byrd
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Just two days after Joe Biden signed the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” [RMA] into law, LGBT Republicans celebrated its enactment at a gala event at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort home, hosted by the former president himself. Click for Full Text!
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