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The chair of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Monday night that the panel will not make any criminal referrals, even though its leaders have previously hinted at the possibility of doing so. "Our job is to look at the facts and circumstances around January 6 — what caused it — and make recommendations after that," Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters as he left the House chamber after the second day of public hearings by the panel. When pressed on the matter and whether the committee had ruled out the possibility of referring criminal charges, particularly for...

The “Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau” – which was designed to handle medical, diplomatic, and logistical support concerning Americans overseas was paused by Antony Blinken’s State Department earlier this year. Notification was officially signed just months before the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. (Snip) Speaking exclusively to The National Pulse, former President Donald J. Trump blasted Biden’s irresponsible move: “My Administration prioritized keeping Americans safe, Biden leaves them behind. Canceling this successful Trump Administration program before the withdrawal that would have helped tens of thousands Americans reach home is beyond disgraceful. Our withdrawal was conditions-based and perfect, it would have been...

Bill Gates backs project to 'dim the sun', Tucker Carlson reacts 'Apocalypse Neve' author Michael Shellenberger calls idea 'terrible' on 'Tucker Carlson

Students at the University of Florida were shocked to discover that Joe Biden recently shrugged off China’s mass genocide of Uyghurs as a different ‘cultural norm,’ with many initially suggesting that it is something that President Trump would say. Campus reform asked students which President they reckoned uttered the comments, with the majority guessing it was Trump. Watch their reactions when they were told it was their dear Democratic leader who defended communist China’s actions...

It’s official. The “Dixie Chicks” are no more. From now on they want to be known as just “The Chicks”: Dixie Chicks are changing their name: The trio is now called The Chicks. https://t.co/sTAI98Fenj — Pitchfork

During a press conference Monday, the Democratic governor addressed how coronavirus cases in the state are on a downward trajectory before labeling the virus as having originated in Europe rather than China. . . . “If you had said when we started this, yes we have more cases than anyone else, yes we had this European virus attack us and nobody expected it, but we are not only going to change our trajectory, we're going to change the trajectory more dramatically than anyplace else in the nation,” he added.

In western Massachusetts, a group of a dozen or so climate activists tried to stop a trainload of coal heading for a power plant in New Hampshire…by standing on the railroad tracks in front of the train. Evidently they thought the train could, and would, screech to a halt. This short video is dark and doesn’t show much, but it conveys some sense of why this was a poor idea:

Liberal college pal says that Obummer had "75 straight quarters of growth. It's so conveeeeeeeenient to forget the shithole the economy was when he took over!" I need verbal ammo to reply to this diatribe. Help! Ayuda!

The media went crazy yesterday after a CNN reporter was banned from a Rose Garden ceremony for previously screaming at President Trump during a photo op. (Snip) Obama Shuts Out White House Reporters Yet Again This reporter was removed “kicking and screaming”…The video is above. (Snip) Barack Obama’s campaign has booted from its airplane three reporters who work for newspapers that have endorsed John McCain.

‘What the hell is wrong with you?’ Was this Samantha Power baffling Daniel Pearl tweet evil or stupid? Samantha Power@AmbassadorPower Daniel Pearl's story is reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence. @DanielPearlFNDN

How bad things will turn out to be in the next few months is a matter of conjecture. What appears to be true is that the old certainties are finished. By how big a margin is the question. The arithmetic is brutal. The money that once supported the welfare state is gone. Big Government “Hope and Change” is dead because it’s broke. Broke. Broke. Ask the Fed. All the protests in the world are not going to change that fact. Neither is all the printing in the world. Worse, the ability to bluff is gone. The social shields that have...

Democratic National Committee gets new logo, slogan By: James Hohmann September 15, 2010 03:27 PM EDT Eager to bridge a daunting enthusiasm gap, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine recited a list of President Barack Obama’s accomplishments Wednesday to an auditorium packed with George Washington University College Democrats. It came as he unveiled a new web site, a new logo and a new slogan for his party: “Change That Matters.” As he went down a longer list, Kaine spoke passionately of how Democrats delivered an economic stimulus (he would only call it “the Recovery Act”) and “the Affordable Care Act”...

Political analysts are predicting a huge win for Republicans in November's congressional elections, but some Democrats believe they have a secret plan to stave off a crushing Republican landslide. That’s the analysis from Newsweek magazine’s Andrew Romano, who writes that “the Democrats in charge are actually rather confident about getting their fellow Dems elected this year. The reason? They have a plan — a plan that they believe will produce much better results on Election Day than anyone expects.” The first element of that plan is the return of Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe, who left politics after Obama’s...

'Cash for Clunkers' Program Blasts Through Funds

SAN FRANCISCO, Actor Sean Penn and Peace Activist Cindy Sheehan will headline "Iraq: 5 Years Too Many", an event marking the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Also featured will be Reverend Gregory Stewart, Senior Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church; Matt Gonzalez, former President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; and Justin Raimondo, Editorial Director of Antiwar.com. The program will begin at 5pm on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street (near Geary) in San Francisco. After the speakers finish, attendees will march to the War Memorial Auditorium on Van Ness...

If there were ever a chance for women to be recognized as something other than female, these three self-declared feminists have managed to do everything in their power to set the women's movement back to the caveman era. As Clinton turns her head to her husband's pecadilloes in order to further her career, as Pelosi wields the Speaker's gavel like a rolling pin with which to crush uncooperative hardheads while drowning in her scarfs and jewelry, as Boxer rails on the female Secretary Of State for not having kids and therefore being unable to relate to the loss of a...

Inept Democrats face failure with poor start in Congress It’s a bad start, and the risk is that the Democrats are going to throw away their big chance. This week has brought comedy to their efforts, as the new Democrat head of a congressional committee on intelligence proved unable to tell Sunni from Shia, incorrectly maintained that al-Qaeda belonged to the second persuasion, and stumbled into paralysed silence when asked the same question about the Shia group Hezbollah. The bigger problem is the lack of Democrat strategy exposed by the past five weeks since the congressional elections — and above...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Poor Jim Carrey. His movies have raked in nearly $2 billion at box offices, but now a leading entertainment magazine says the comedian's asking price of $25 million a film has become "a bit of a gamble." ADVERTISEMENT In its issue out this week, Entertainment Weekly rates top stars on whether they are worth the money. Among those whose asking prices have become too high are Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell and Eddie Murphy, the magazine said. It added that after years of ever-rising star salaries, the prices for top talent are now coming down because...

Former Vice President Al Gore called Monday for an independent investigation of President Bush's domestic spying program, contending the president "repeatedly and insistently" broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without court approval. Speaking on Martin Luther King Jr.'s national holiday, the man who lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush was interrupted repeatedly by applause as he called the anti-terrorism program "a threat to the very structure of our government." Gore charged that the administration acted without congressional authority and made a "direct assault" on a special federal court that authorizes requests to eavesdrop on Americans. One judge on...

Democratic Leaders Urge Speaker to Hold Hearings on President's Authorization of National Security Agency's Activities 12/18/2005 4:49:00 PM To: National Desk, Congressional Correspondent Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616. both of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi ; Web: http://democraticleader.house.gov WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi; House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Congressman John Conyers, Ranking Member on the Judiciary Committee; Congressman Henry Waxman, Ranking Member on the Government Reform Committee; and Congresswoman Jane Harman, Ranking Member on the Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Speaker Hastert last night urging him to join Democrats in establishing...