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Dozens of congressional Republicans traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Wednesday to get a firsthand look at the illegal immigration crisis resulting from what they argue are the Biden administration’s failed policies. “It’s been an eye opener,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, who led the delegation of more than 60 GOP lawmakers to Eagle Pass, Texas. The trip came amid ongoing negotiations on Capitol Hill to strike a bipartisan deal on border security. Lawmakers toured a Border Patrol processing center and heard from local residents and sheriffs as well. “We’ve learned a considerable amount of what’s going on...

America was the greatest nation in world history ever blessed by God. The key word being "was." It's all happening right in front of your eyes. You are living through the intentional destruction of America, American exceptionalism, capitalism and the great American middle-class quality of life. But you don't need me to tell you this. You can feel it. You see it. You're living it. You can read about the destruction and decline of America everywhere. Many conservative politicians, pundits, media personalities, radio talkers and television hosts say it every day. My claim to fame is helping you understand WHY...

Gun control advocates like to pretend that the facts are on their side. Of course, we also know that the research they like to push has…let’s just say it has problems. The truth of the matter is that there is a tendency among the anti-Second Amendment types to simply ignore anything inconvenient. When the polls say that the public no longer supports infringements on our right to keep and bear arms, they simply cite older polls that tell them what they wanted to hear in the first place, just to name one example. But I came across another example. It...

At least one partygoer, Democratic activist Bobbie Johnson, was hospitalized after suffering two black eyes. “They came in here — they bust me in my head!” she cried while wiping away blood from her face in a livestreamed video while still at the event. Once home from the hospital, Johnson told the Bridge Michigan the protest was “unreal.” “I live in a community that’s diverse, I do a lot of work in the Muslim community,” Johnson said. “I have nothing against Muslims. I just don’t see why (they decided to protest) in Detroit.” Kinloch, the local party chair, denounced the...

Federal, state and city health departments have issued public health alerts about increases of communicable diseases as illegal border crossers arrive in their communities. Earlier this year, the New York City Health Commissioner instructed New York health-care providers to undergo several precautions and tests in light of "an alarming trend" of diseases spreading among illegal foreign nationals in New York City who arrived from the southern border. Dr. Ashwin Vasan expressed alarm about those arriving who hadn't been vaccinated for polio or chickenpox and were coming from countries with high rates of infectious tuberculosis. "Many people who recently arrived in...

Egypt values its border security. Egyptian workers recently completed a 8 to 10 meter concrete border wall to keep out Palestinians. A security fence topped with barbed wire stands before the concrete wall. And a series of earthen berms are behind the concrete wall. Egypt is serious about its border security.

“If you want to help domestic violence victims, encourage them to prepare to defend themselves. Stop telling them they are not capable of handling a firearm, and scaring them with skewed statistics that only demoralizes them. Fund programs that offer training and arm the women,” Watral said. Gun control groups voice the possibility if a woman has a gun in a violent situation, it will be taken and used against her. That is a possibility. What is more probable is that she will be overpowered by a man based only on his strength. I need a tool to be my...

A large number of Israeli citizens are stocking up on firearms and ammunition in the aftermath of the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks, The New York Times reported on Friday. Hamas killed over 1,200 civilians and kidnapped hundreds of others as part of a mass terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis who previously did not own weapons are now buying up firearms to protect themselves against possible future attacks, according to the Times. “God forbid, if something similar happens here, I want to know that I have a firearm,” Zvika Arran, an Israeli citizen living...

Tim Wollack and his daughter, Henley, were on a fishing trip at Lake Michigan when they thought they saw an elusive Green Bay octopus hovering beneath their boat, the Wisconsin Historical Society said in a Facebook post. But what they actually uncovered was a shipwreck that had been missing for more than 152 years. Officials believe the boat is the George L. Newman. “Working with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Conservation Warden Mike Neal, the shipwreck was investigated with Video Ray ROV on December 4,” the society noted in the post. “The wreck is of a wooden three masted sailing...

President Joe Biden is unlikely to attempt to ratify the pledge his administration made at the recently-concluded United Nations (U.N.) climate summit to transition away from fossil fuels, Republican lawmakers and legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The U.S. joined nearly 200 other countries in committing to a pledge to transition away from fossil fuels and embrace green energy on Wednesday, the last day of the conference. Republican lawmakers and legal experts told the DCNF that Biden will not bring the pledge to the Senate for a ratification vote, criticizing its underlying rationale and the administration for unilaterally...

Netflix’s Leave the World Behind has a white people problem. The Wi-fi is out but that’s not it. The Tesla is acting funny, but also nope. The movie can’t decide how much it hates white people. Sometimes, it’s a little, and sometimes, it’s a whole lot, like when Julia Roberts goes full Karen on the black family that shows up unannounced at the doorstep. Or when husband Ethan Hawke abandons a distraught Latina housekeeper on the roadside. Mostly, this apocalyptic thriller spends more than two hours trying to be artfully “ambiguous” about its Whiteness Studies specimens as the world comes...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is hosting nearly 100 lawmakers from around the country on Wednesday to work on how their states can try to reduce gun violence. The gun violence prevention office, the first of its kind, was launched this year by President Joe Biden. It has formulated a set of guidelines to help states take action across six areas, including creating state-run offices like the federal office, strengthening support for survivors and families of victims, and reinforcing responsible gun ownership. “We’ve been meeting with the state legislators ever since the start of our office, and one thing...

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) is pushing a ban on AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles in an upcoming 30-day legislative session in her state. The Santa Fe Reporter noted Grisham wants to do what Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) unsuccessfully attempted at the federal level. Heinrich, together with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), put forward the Gas-Operated Semiautomatic Firearms Exclusion Act (GOSAFE), and it went nowhere. Breitbart News reported the focus on the AR-15’s gas operation came some 64 years after the gun was designed to use spent gas from a shell casing to reset the bolt group and ready...

Mark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, informed MSNBC host Joy Reid that the reported death toll in Gaza cannot be taken at face value. Advertisement His response came after Reid pressed him to explain the 18,000 deaths the Gaza Health Ministry has reported since Israel began its response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack, which killed more than 1,200 Israelis. "How has causing that much death and destruction, 80 percent of those dead estimated to be women and children, how does that achieve the goal of eradicating Hamas?" she wondered. Regev began by thanking Reid for...

Despite how polling shows that majorities of Americans are opposed to funding elective abortion, especially those taking place overseas, federal dollars were spent on abortion advocacy groups to the tune of at least $1.89 billion over the course of just three years, from 2019-2021. This is according to a comprehensive GAO report, commissioned by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), who co-chairs the Pro-Life Caucus. The report was released on Tuesday. Those groups mentioned included Planned Parenthood affiliates, four domestic regional organizations, International Planned Parenthood Federation, and MSI Reproductive Choices from 2019 through 2021. Planned Parenthood and...

Only those as demonic as the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorists themselves can disapprove of a defensive military response to the provocation – which brings me to the self-unveiling of the Democratic Party and their Marxian supporters who champion the satanic propagation of hatred, division politics and the dehumanizing of so-called black people, women and Jews. The Democratic Party and their Marxian counterparts have been hoisted on their own petard by the pathetic life-forms inhabiting the sewers, i.e., classrooms of academia and government.

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill is learning that free speech has a cost. She, along with Claudine Gay and Sally Kornbluth, the presidents of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively, testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, where Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asked all three women if calls for Jewish genocide constituted harassment. All three ladies gave waffled answers that were both cold and insipid to the more significant issue of the antisemitism facing Jewish students amid the war in Gaza. A University of Pennsylvania donor is withdrawing a gift worth around $100 million to...

As global leaders and delegates gather in Dubai for the annual UN climate summit, a new analysis shows how the host cities of previous summits could be inundated — if not entirely submerged — by rising ocean waters. The relentless rise of planet-warming pollution has already resulted in severe droughts, deadly floods and rapid melting of glaciers and ice around the world. And scientists say the steady climb of global sea level will continue for many decades as temperatures crank higher. The analysis from Climate Central, a nonprofit climate research group, illustrates the risk if countries fail to halt the...

A leading Democrat, the new mayor of Chicago, is claiming that Republicans in America still refuse "to accept the results of the Civil War." It is Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson who recently unleashed a rant about "right-wing extremists." They are the ones, he charged, that are responsible for the huge problems facing the Democrat-run city. And specifically, "It's the same Republican right-wing extremism that stormed the Capitol, it's the same right-wing extremism that refuses to accept the results of the Civil War. It's raggedy. It's disrespectful. It's mean-spirited," he charged. Actually, History.com reports the GOP was founded in 1854 as...

A non-governmental organization already is working to assemble the evidence of atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians in the organization's brutal assault on innocent bystanders on Oct. 7, with a trial for crimes against humanity – and probable executions – the expected outcome. The Jerusalem Post reports ELNET, the European Leadership Network NGO set up to emphasize shared democratic values and interests to strengthen links between Europe and Israel, is creating an initiative to document Hamas' atrocities. News reports about witnesses to atrocities already have confirmed the beheading of babies, the violent rape of victims, sometimes even after...