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Texas Republican Chip Roy denounced the legislative process for the COVID-19 relief package in a Feb. 3 House floor speech. “Do I get to offer amendments? Do I get to say a single word about what’s in this $2 trillion bill? No, because this is fake,” Roy said. Full clip of Rep. Roy’s floor speech against Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID budget resolution today: pic.twitter.com/rmH4TAjQti — Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) February 3, 2021 “We’re surrounded by fences and razor wire. We’re going through magnetometers. And I’m sitting here on the floor of the House with a $2 trillion bill,...

The Air Force envisions the F-15EX as a sort of weapon truck, able to carry large munitions that the F-35 cannot. The F-35 can carry less than 6,000 pounds of munitions internally, whereas the F-15EX can carry almost 30,000 pounds of munitions on its external pylons. On battlefields with modern air defenses, the F-35 could stealthily collect targeting data and relay it to an F-15EX, which could then utilize advanced low-observable or hypersonic munitions to eliminate enemy targets.

Yesterday, Redstate’s Nick Arama wrote on Joe Biden re-opening a facility to house the children of illegal immigrants and other unaccompanied minors that make it across the border. This was in stark contrast to previous pronouncements that he was going to shutter them and release everyone. And while it may be a good thing that Biden isn’t going completely insane on immigration just yet (though he’s canceled the wall and other enforcement measures), the hypocrisy we are now seeing in response to this is just too much to ignore. Remember when “kids in cages” was a rallying cry of the...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene fired back at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after he stated her embrace of “loony lies and conspiracy theories” is a “cancer for the Republican Party.” Greene (R-GA) has faced a growing number of critics from within the Republican Party over controversial words and actions she engaged in prior to becoming a congresswoman. ... Marjorie Taylor Greene fired back at Mitch McConnell over the comments, suggesting he and other feckless leaders in the GOP are the real “cancer.” “The real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully,” she...

Kroger announced Monday that it will be closing two stores in Long Beach, California — a Ralph’s and a Food 4 Less — after the city council voted to require that large grocery store chains pay workers additional “hero pay” of $4 per hour.

Joe Biden cares deeply about jobs, just ask him. He speaks constantly about how his administration will create millions of them, he just offers no specifics as to how. Meanwhile, his actions have already cost more than 11,000 jobs. But fear not, recently laid off pipeline builders, Biden has a plan, the Wimpy plan - he’ll gladly hire you Tuesday for ending your job today.“Wimpy” was the character in Popeye, J. Wellington Wimpy, who was always broke and described as “very lazy and gluttonous.” In addition to those charming character traits, Wimpy shares this description with the current President –...

Anyone else starting to get the feeling that the progs idea of social democracy is much more closely aligned with dystopian totalitarianism than anything resembling “democracy”?Because so many of us no longer watch Fox, here’s a great clip from Mark Steyn on Tucker last night addressing the NYT opinion piece calling for a Reality Czar to “fix” all that disinformation floating about in the roiling sea of free-speech which, as Mark points out, the Left mocks as a ‘right-wing fetish’.While it pains me to link to the NYT for any reason I make an exception for How the Biden Administration...

During the Trump Administration, a dark cloud hung over the nation’s environmental movement and specifically any attempts to mitigate climate change. But the election of Joe Biden to the presidency will change that — certainly by executive orders but perhaps by legislative actions. Indeed, Biden has said that “climate change is the number one issue facing humanity.” The Biden administration will try to set the country on a course of net-zero emissions by 2050. The president-elect has promised to create incentives for renewable energy while also restricting oil and gas development on publicly-owned lands. Biden’s presidency will center on re-enforcing...

What is the second impeachment trial for? The simple but untrue answer is that it will determine former President Donald Trump's culpability for the Jan. 6 ransacking of Congress, punish him, and cleanse our Augean politics at least a little by banning him from future public office. But everyone knows this won't happen. It takes two-thirds of senators to convict, which means 17 Republicans would have to join all 50 Democrats. Fat chance. Of the 50 Republican senators, 45 already declared the trial unconstitutional. It's their view — they may be right — that impeachment exists to remove an incumbent...

DETROIT - Ashindi Maxton was distraught as she toured neighborhoods in Detroit’s 48217 ZIP code and met residents who live in one of the most polluted communities in Michigan. They live against the backdrop of heavy industrial sites that have long been a major concern in the nation’s largest Black-majority city, which has some of the country’s highest asthma rates among children and a lengthy history of environmental concerns. It’s because of tragedies like this that the Donors of Color Network launched a Climate Funders Justice Pledge Thursday, challenging the nation’s climate philanthropists to shift 30% of their donations toward...

Donald Trump has left Washington, but only in physical form. His mischievous specter still haunts that fortified cemetery where our Constitution and all our alleged norms have been interred in shallow graves. No one is talking about America’s No. 1 Matlock fan. You would never know that * is president. DC’s denizen can’t move on. They don’t want to move on. Look what they have to move onto, two years of utter failure with that desiccated old zombie at the helm screwing this up until an energized and woke wave of GOP candidates who want to burn the whole garbage...

It's easy enough to overlook in a Capitol consumed by impeachment preparations, Senate organizational wrangling and the future of one new Republican member of Congress in particular.Those are important storylines. So is the slow but unmistakable progress President Joe Biden has been making in COVID-19 relief, with both partisan and bipartisan tracks still available to him.For all the political messiness, it remains remarkable how often the Biden team has managed to keep to its messaging over the first two weeks of the administration. But it's worth remembering how much practice they developed in tuning out Trump-driven noise.Biden's plans for the...

The corruption of the Renaissance Church prompted the Reformation, which in turn sparked a Counter-Reformation of reformist, and more zealous, Catholics. The cultural excesses and economic recklessness of the Roaring ’20s were followed by the bleak, dour, and impoverished years of the Great Depression.

Parler CEO John Matze has terminated by board — ‘I did not participate in this decision’ EXCLUSIVE – Parler has terminated CEO John Matze, according to a memo Matze sent to staffers that has been obtained by Fox News. “On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler. I did not participate in this decision,” Matze wrote. “I understand that those who now control the company have made some communications to employees and other third parties that have unfortunately created confusion and prompted me to make this public...

WASHINGTON - The Biden White House is considering sending masks directly to American households, according to three people familiar with the discussions, an action the Trump administration explored but scrapped. The Covid-19 Response Team is evaluating the logistics of mailing out millions of face coverings, but no decision has been made, and the proposal hasn't yet reached President Joe Biden for final approval, a White House official said. It's unclear when the masks would go out to the public, how many would be included per residence and whether they would be disposable or made of cloth. It's also not yet...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.pandemic.news/# A Flubro posted this link yesterday. It is a blend of Flubro type news articles, with about 1 in 5 articles venturing into conspiracy theory. I am not opposed to conspiracy theories as they can make for enjoyable reading even when they are completely false. - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/02/03/cdc-prioritizes-smokers-covid-vaccine-health-experts-explain-why/4276176001/ Smokers are apparently getting priority for the Covid vaccine over the general population. I don’t really care if they get priority or not, what is noteworthy is that the media has a limitless supply of stupid articles that they can publish as a result of the Coronavirus....

Cue the federal mask cops. Americans are now required to wear masks in planes, trains, buses, subways, taxis, car services, boats, and transportation hubs, per a new order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Masks must be of a style approved by the federal government and must fit properly. Failure to comply will result in being prohibited from traveling, booted from the transit in question, and potential criminal penalties. The order will be enforced by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents and "other federal authorities," as well as state and local officials. "To the extent permitted by law…federal...

Rep. Boebert’s campaign mileage reimbursements raise red flags by: Matt Mauro Posted: Feb 3, 2021 RIFLE, Colo. (KDVR) – Rep. Lauren Boebert’s campaign reimbursed her more than $20,000 for driving nearly 37,000 in about seven months, according to federal campaign reports. The Federal Election Commission filings show that Boebert’s campaign reimbursed her $21,199.52 for mileage between April and Nov. 11, 2020. Candidates use the IRS mileage rate, which is 57.5 cents per mile. That means Boebert drove 36,869 miles in about seven months. “It definitely stands out,” said Doug Spencer, a campaign finance expert and professor who’s visiting the University...

Your Global Church of Climate Change PSA for Today – Remember, kids, the edicts issued by your betters in the globalist elite class about minimizing your carbon footprint to help prevent “climate change” apply only to you, and not your betters in the globalist elite class. Our latest illustration of this reality comes from China Joe Biden’s new “Climate Czar”, John Kerry, who admitted yesterday that he much prefers to take his private, carbon-spewing jet to all of those global climate conferences where he receives his many awards for being so concerned about the global climate.

Better late than never. – It’s taken almost a full year, but Californians appear to finally be waking up to the reality of the ghoul they put into the governor’s office. No governor in America has abused his or her citizens under the umbrella of COVID response quite to the extent that Gavin Newsom has done to the people of California. This is a guy who has not just ordered his people to stay home cowering in their living rooms for months on end, shut down businesses and thrown people out of work, he has repeatedly made a public spectacle...