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President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, divvied out millions in taxpayer funds during her two terms as Michigan governor to alternative energy companies that eventually went bankrupt. In one instance, Granholm’s administration provided a $9.1 million refundable tax credit to a renewable energy company registered to the address of a single-wide trailer and run by a convicted embezzler named Richard Short. Short was found to be in violation of his parole and sent back to prison after appearing on stage with Granholm in 2010 to accept assistance from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority, according...

Xi Jinping’s kick-off appearance at the winter Davos week this Monday had a simple message for newly inaugurated President Joe Biden: bring America back into the fold, or suffer the consequences. The speech, which opened and closed with World Economic Forum (WEF) Chairman Klaus Schwab heaping praise on Xi, was the Chinese president’s first appearance at Davos since he spoke there in 2017. The atmosphere this time around was no less surreal, at least at first glance. What is the strongman leader of the largest communist nation in the world doing headlining the premier event for the world’s free-trading liberal...

How the Impeachment Trial will undermine the Biden Presidency: There is no provision in the US Constitution that provides for any person other than the Chief Justice of SCOTUS to oversee an impeachment trial of POTUS. It is explicit! Any senator or congressman or congresswoman is disqualified from presiding over said "trial" of a citizen (other than the POTUS, here, Trump) as they are not impartial, (having been either for or against him in the first trial) which would be grossly improper. The impeachment article reads that it concerns "Donald John Trump, President of the United States" which is now...

These troubled days, one question burns at the center of every believer who adheres to the pre-Trib view of the Rapture. I’ve heard it many times through personal conversation and email ”How long will it be until the Lord says ‘enough is enough’ and calls us home?” I’ve asked it myself on more than one occasion. But I’ve long since put the question somewhere closer to the back of my thinking. The reason, I suspect, is because I’ve finally got it through my hard head that our Lord wants me to prioritize efforts toward completion of the assignment He has...

A near-majority of U.S. voters support President Biden's move to shut down a major oil pipeline in the U.S., according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. Biden on his first day in office signed an executive order revoking a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, a decision which has drawn criticism from industry leaders due to the potential major job losses in which it could result. Yet a near-majority of voters – 46% – say they are supportive of that decision, while just 34% claim to be opposed to it. The Keystone XL pipeline...

In April of this year, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that politicians can lie during political campaigns. In Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, the Court ruled a politician’s right to lie during a campaign is protected under the free speech provision of the First Amendment. [snip]Ditching the GOP is a bad idea born of justifiable frustration, and we need to stop being emotional and start being ruthless in our campaign to retake this country from these liberal establishment aspiring fascists. A third party is not the way. It is a bad idea, one that is technically impractical and which...

Dr. Deborah Birx, a leader in the Trump administration’s White House coronavirus task force, suggested over the weekend that President Donald Trump was being secretly fed conflicting data on COVID-19 — data that she was never shown. “I saw the president presenting graphs that I never made,” she told CBS News. “So I know that someone — someone out there or someone inside — was creating a parallel set of data and graphics that were shown to the president.” “I know what I sent up, and I know what was in his hands was different from that,” Birx added. Former...

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STEPHANOPOULOS: “So, there’s not going to be any delay on the tax increases?” Biden: “Well, I got to get the votes. I got to get the votes. That’s why, you know, the one thing that I — I have this strange notion, we are a democracy. Some of my Republican friends and some of my Democratic friends even occasionally say, ‘Well, if you can’t get the votes, by executive order you’re going to do something.’ Things you can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus.” STEPHANOPOULOS: “Got to take a quick break. We’ll...

“In everyone’s life there’s a summer of ’42.” Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of how Raucher, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket Island (off the coast of Cape Cod), embarks on a one-sided romance with a young woman, Dorothy, whose husband has gone off to fight in World War II. The film was directed by Robert Mulligan, and starred Gary Grimes as Hermie, Jerry Houser as his best friend Oscy, Oliver Conant as their nerdy young friend...

Anthony Fauci, the director of the United States government’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told reporters Thursday that he was “knocked out” for about 24 hours after, on Tuesday, taking the second dose of experimental coronavirus vaccine. Fauci has thus joined the large and growing list of people who have suffered serious harm from the injections that he and other government officials have been encouraging Americans to take...

"Firefighters from MCRFD and assisting fire agencies continue to assess properties that have been affected by mud flows," the agency said on Twitter. "So far, we have identified 20-25 homes & outbuildings that have some minor to severe damage. One resident was injured while escaping her home. Earlier, more than 400,000 homes and businesses were without electricity after powerful winds ushered in rain, snow and the potential for deadly mudslides and flooding. Fire officials in San Mateo County said they responded to several calls of downed trees overnight. Thousands of residents in some communities there and in neighboring Santa Cruz...

Democrats have talked about packing the Supreme Court and seeking to end lifetime appointments of justices. Now a new commission under the Biden administration will be looking at the subject of court reforms. Indeed, President Joe Biden's White House is staffing the panel, which will examine reforms to the nation's top court and the federal judiciary, Politico reported. "The president remains committed to an expert study of the role and debate over reform of the court and will have more to say in the coming weeks," a White House official said in a statement.

"Testing is cheaper and more available than it was months ago, but health bureaucrats need to worry less about 100% accuracy and demand 100% results reporting to the government. $1-$2 paper strips that people could use on their own every day, and link results to an app that showed they’re clear to engage in activities for the day, would make a huge difference."

The Ohio National Guard announced Wednesday that 150 military police based in Toledo are being deployed to Washington, D.C. in anticipation of civil unrest in the coming weeks. The activation of the 323rd Military Police Company comes just days after 1,000 Ohio National Guard troops returned home from D.C., where they were among 25,000 Guard soldiers providing security for President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The military police “will be ready to assist at various locations to enforce security, protect lives, and preserve critical infrastructure,” an Ohio National Guard release stated. They, along with National Guard troops from other states, are expected...

American TotalitarianismThe Left's rise to powerLeftists are now in control of the United States, and they intend to keep it that way.They have a stranglehold on the presidency, the house of representatives and the senate. But that's not all. Leftists staff the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the Department of Justice and even the Department of Homeland Security.For months our judges, from the lowly circuit courts all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, have refused to hear reams of voter-fraud evidence or even take the issue seriously, despite disenfranchising more than 70 million voters.So while the courts tell Americans...

The city of La Vernia is considering the replacement of its two electronic voting machines. The proposal to replace them, at a cost of $9,385, elicited lengthy discussion during the Jan. 14 La Vernia City Council meeting, held virtually. City Secretary Brittani Porter presented a proposal to replace the city’s aging Dominion machines with new ones from Election Systems & Software (ESS). “Everyone’s pretty much doing away with Dominion,” Porter told council members, referencing allegations of voter fraud surrounding last November’s presidential elections. Also, Dominion is no longer supporting maintenance for the machines the city has now, she said. When...

Despite all the advances in consumer technology over the past decades, one component has remained frustratingly stagnant: the optical lens. Unlike electronic devices, which have gotten smaller and more efficient over the years, the design and underlying physics of today's optical lenses haven't changed much in about 3,000 years. This challenge has caused a bottleneck in the development of next-generation optical systems such as wearable displays for virtual reality, which require compact, lightweight, and cost-effective components. At the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), a team of researchers led by Federico Capasso, the Robert L....

Cardinal Raymond Burke has condemned President Joe Biden’s plan to codify into federal law the results of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision which imposed abortion on demand across the country. On Friday, the 48th anniversary of the infamous Roe decision, newly installed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris issued a statement saying: “In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack.” They added, “The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to codifying Roe v. Wade and appointing judges that respect foundational precedents like Roe.” “We live in...

Pamela Anderson has secretly tied the knot for the fourth time with her bobyguard, Dan Hayhurst, on Christmas eve after falling in love with him during the COVID-19 lockdown. “I was married on the property I bought from my grandparents 25 years ago, this is where my parents were married and they are still together,’ she said. ‘I feel like I’ve come full circle. I’m exactly where I need to be – in the arms of a man who truly loves me.” Anderson said during an exclusive interview.