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A group of House members from both parties succeeded Thursday in deploying a rarely executed method to bypass GOP leadership and force a vote on a bill to expand access to Social Security benefits. Why it matters: It's the second time this year that a bipartisan group of lawmakers has sidestepped House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) with the tool, called a discharge petition. In May, a discharge petition led by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) attained the necessary 218 signatures to force a House vote on legislation providing tax relief to victims of natural disasters. The last time a discharge petition...

Springfield, Ohio.. Residents of Springfield didn’t expect that their community would be tossed into the center of one of the most consequential elections in American history. They also didn’t expect the town of 58,000 to receive as many as 20,000 Haitian migrants in just a few short years, ushering in a shift that’s left many Springfielders feeling like foreigners in their own home, and worried for their economic prospects. The surge of Haitian migrants came during the Biden-Harris administration, when more than 300,000 Haitians who crossed the border into the United States were offered temporary protected status, allowing them to...

Antony Blinken helped create the infamous "Dirty 51" letter from former intelligence officials that claimed The Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, Miranda Devine reports in her new book.. Hunter Biden’s abandoned MacBook was a window into the Biden family business, a secret international influence peddling operation. .. ... He would later recruit his childhood friend to be the Obama administration’s lead negotiator on the ill-starred Iran nuclear deal, only to suffer the embarrassment of Malley being suspended without pay in 2023 during Biden’s presidency, the target of a mysterious FBI espionage investigation which continues to this...

Oklahoma officials just announced that they have removed 450,000 ineligible names from the voter rolls, including 100,000 dead people and 15,000 duplicate registrations that somehow got pushed into the system "Oklahoma ensures only eligible voters participate in elections in part by following voter list maintenance procedures provided in state law. Since January 1, 2021, Oklahoma election officials have removed 97,065 deceased voters, 143,682 voters who moved out-of-state, 5,607 felons, 14,993 duplicate registrations, and 194,962 inactive voters who were canceled during the address verification process." Inflated voter rolls are on the Mt. Rushmore of ingredients of fraud. All you need to...

The retired Nebraska National Guard soldier, who worked with Walz for three years, recounted the disappearance in an interview as a congressional investigation into Walz's China ties continues. ... It was September 1995, and Tim Walz’s Nebraska National Guard unit, the 1-168th Field Artillery, upgraded to the M109A5 self-propelled howitzer. One of its capabilities was firing nuclear artillery shells. Critical SOP manual for nuclear artillery allegedly disappears .. Alpha News has learned from a former National Guard colleague of Walz that, during that time, a classified document allegedly went missing—the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual detailing the howitzer’s nuclear capabilities....

This is Havana Syndrome. I know it well. Someone used a microwave weapon on the crowd. Meant for Trump. BTW, Havana Syndrome is a hundred percent real. I've met people afflicted by it. The Russians, Chinese, and Americans all have this tech. And this proves it. ... Reports Indicate There May Have Been A Third Attempt On Trump’s Life Approximately 20 patriots who attended Trump’s high-energy rally in Tucson are now reporting having to go to the ER immediately after the rally. The attendees all suffered from symptoms like blurry vision and swelling — serious, concerning reactions that all came...

VACAVILLE — Update: After this story was published on Monday, Sept. 16 the customer Ken Wilson provided an update to CBS13 on Tuesday, Sept. 17 that PG&E credited more than $600 to his account, the amount he has overpaid for three years. PG&E also fixed the meter on Tuesday so Wilson is now paying for his own electricity. A Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) customer who lives at an apartment complex in Vacaville recently noticed something was not quite right with his utility bill. After further investigation that included PG&E coming out to check his meter, they discovered he had...

Two illegal immigrants have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to kidnap and ransom other illegals living in Southern California, federal authorities said Monday. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement that Honduran Darwin Jeovany Palma, 30, and fellow national Eduar Isrrael Sauceda Nuñez, 25, allegedly planned to kidnap and ransom immigrants illegally crossing the U.S. – Mexico border. Migrants were allegedly taken to stash houses in Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico where their cellphones were confiscated, the DOJ said, adding that 57 migrants were held at a stash house in Albuquerque .. Palma and his fellow...

Governments are pushing the public to switch to smart vehicles to reduce fossil fuel consumption, but there is also a second motive – surveillance. This September, Ford filed a new patent to eavesdrop on riders. They plan to share this information with third-parties to personalize the advertisements riders hear. Ford will also take the driver’s destination into consideration to determine location-specific advertisements and suggestions. The technology will factor in the weather, traffic, and all external sensors to fine tune when and what to market to passengers. Advertisements are perhaps the least ominous use of voice data based on the plans...

1 in 3 Minneapolis Public Housing residents are Somalis... Glass ceilings get broken, then wallets get stolen. Only in America? No. Only in Gov. Walz’s Minnesota. But first, let’s pause to celebrate the incredible historic moment of the first Somali refugee to run a public housing agency. Sharmarke Issa was confirmed by the Minneapolis City Council to chair Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA). Issa is the first immigrant and first East African to serve as chair of the MPHA Board of Commissioners. “Having grown up in in Minneapolis public housing after coming to our city as a refugee, Sharmarke’s story...

Hillary Clinton has long been one of the most anti-free speech figures in American politics, including calling upon European officials to force Elon Musk to censor American citizens under the infamous Digital Services Act (DSA). She is now suggesting the arrest of Americans who spread what she considers disinformation. It is a crushingly ironic moment since it was her campaign that funded the infamous Steele dossier and spread false stories of Russian collusion during her presidential campaign. Presumably, that disinformation would not be treated as criminal viewpoints. Speaking on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show this week, Clinton was asked about...

This is openly totalitarian. If we don’t resist this, we’re done: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible.” ... Kamala Harris literally said they will be doing a gun confiscation. What’s it going to take for everyone to realize these people are straight up communists and they are coming for our guns, our free speech and all our constitutional rights. Democrats are domestic terrorists.

Is it true that Kamala Harris’s earrings at the debate were clip-on earbuds? ... And whatabout the Haitians of Springfield, Ohio, eating cats and geese? Could be, but the most important thing is Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, Rule 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." ... But I have more serious things to discuss today, given that our wise leaders are talking about sending long-range missiles to Ukraine. ... The truth is Washington wants to take up Zelensky's proposals for deep strikes on Russian territory because Ukraine is losing the war and could be defeated even before the...

It’s a good thing their numbers are thriving. After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets done, polar bear safaris may be Canada’s only growth industry.. Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in 2019. I covered a book entitled “The Polar Bear Catastrophe that Never Happened” by Dr. Susan Crockford. The University of Victoria professor analyzes the latest data and reviews the questionable values in official estimates, concluding that polar bears are thriving. Subsequently, she was fired from her position at the university. However, it didn’t stop what she wrote from being true. The polar bear, the iconic image of the climate...

The radical Cornell University prof who lauded the Hamas terror attack on Israel as “exhilarating” and “energizing” dodged any punishment and is now back teaching at the upstate Ivy League school. Shamed history Professor Russell Rickford was out for the past year on “voluntary leave” after widespread public outcry when he was recorded at an off-campus anti-Israel rally cheering Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis. ““It was exhilarating, it was energizing ….I was exhilarated,” Rickford said at the time — before apologizing for applauding the mass murder of innocent civilians. ... Rickford is now teaching at least...

The US is on a highway to hell! The US Federal government just hit a dubious landmark — $1.6 TRILLION in interest payments expected by year end. It is already at $1.2 TRILLION. ... Biden/Harris’s spending spree (which Harris wants to continue). ... Interest payments will crowd out other expenditures, like Social Security, Defense and Medicare. ... Eternal deficits are not sustainable, especially since much of government spending rerpresents payoffs to political donors. Interest on the federal debt this FY is equal to about half of all personal income taxes collected – we’re a nation of debt slaves. ... Yes,...

'There still remains significant gaps in our national security screening regime for land purchases,' lawmakers say.. China and other foreign adversaries are still permitted to purchase U.S. land near sensitive Coast Guard facilities, ports, and Energy Department labs, exposing national security gaps that lawmakers say enable hostile regimes to conduct espionage operations on American soil. The Treasury Department's Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the central body responsible for approving land sales to foreign entities, moved to "significantly expand" its jurisdiction in July, allowing it to review real estate transactions near 50 military and other sensitive sites....

one wonders how President Trump and those who love him have managed to cope.... there is no telling what might happen to the United States of America if deranged and homicidal anti-Trump lunatics ever get their way... former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker told host Maria Bartiromo that 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, who tried to assassinate president at Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, might have used “inside information” from a “3rd party” to determine Trump’s whereabouts. I want to know how that person knew to be there, at that golf hole, at that time, that...

Things are getting curiouser and curiouser as more information comes out about Ryan Wesley Routh, the unhinged Kamala fan who got all too close to assassinating Donald Trump on Sunday. First, he didn't like Trump. At all. Judging by his tweet history, he voted for Trump in 2016, but at some point became disillusioned and, clearly, violent. A truck in the driveway of his home in Hawaii is bedecked with a "Biden-Harris" campaign sticker, so his allegiances had clearly changed. He had turned on Trump way before he set up his sniper's nest near that golf course in Florida. Second,...

The United Nations frenziedly condemned a new Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strike as one of Israel’s “dramatic violations of international humanitarian law.” The problem is that the UN workers killed were also Hamas terrorists. The UN and many other organizations ... are not telling you is that Hamas jihadis have long used schools and other “civilian” buildings in Gaza as terrorist bases and that the “aid workers” almost always turn out to be active terrorists. That appears to be the case once again with the IDF strike this week, where at least three UNRWA “workers” killed were Hamas jihadis. UNRWA...