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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has picked amnesty advocate Rep. John Katko (R-NY) to lead a team of GOP legislators that will “focus on solutions to secure our borders.” “John Katko is the typical corporate Republican,” said one person active in the immigration debate. He added: He speaks a great game on illegal immigration, and is sorrowfully bad on legal immigration to the United States. He has never found a guest worker program he does not support, he’s never found a legal immigration program he does not think should be expanded, and I don’t think that he considers immigration...

MORE ON: POLLS To celebrate or not: Americans weigh risks for July 4 Inflation concerns soar with 85% ‘somewhat concerned’ about rising costs: poll DeSantis edges out Trump in 2024 straw poll, Tucker Carlson rules out bid NYC mayoral campaigns have vastly different estimates of voter turnout A new poll shows that 69 percent of voters believe America is the greatest country to live in — but that sentiment has fallen 15 percentage points in the past decade. In 2011, 84 percent of respondents said the US was the greatest, and 83 percent echoed that sentiment in 2015, a Fox...

What do Covid lockdowns, energy re-dependence in “pursuit” of the chimera of “green” energy, BLM/Antifa/OFA "mostly peaceful" protests, and decriminalization of low-level crimes have in common with open borders, reversing Trump’s Middle East peace advances, and 70 years of wars we refuse to win all have in common? Chaos. Why? Because when chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos. What do those who work in government want? More government. What’s the most government? A police state. What do you get when you have day after week after month after year of riots, murders, lockdowns and lawlessness? Voters demanding...

This weekend, the Tolkien Society is hosting a virtual Summer Seminar, a short academic conference on a theme pertaining to scholarship about J.R.R. Tolkien, the British scholar and author of The Lord of the Rings. This year, most of the seminar has taken a clear turn for the “woke” — complete with multiple papers on LGBT themes and “anti-racism,” a movement inspired by Marxist critical race theory. The Tolkien Society invited academics and others to submit papers to present at the seminar, specifically encouraging the “theme of diversity” and representation. “While interest in the topic of diversity has steadily grown...

The 7,000-word piece is an earlobe-licking valentine...The really interesting thing is to compare this cover story of Dr Jill with the cover story that Vogue ran of the last FLOTUS, Melania Trump.Ha, ha, ha. Just kidding. There was no cover story of Melania in Vogue or, as far as I know, any other major women’s magazine, during her time as first lady. Melania, a former model, is elegant and, to continue to speak plainly, gorgeous. She does not have an advanced degree in education from the University of Delaware, it’s true. She has not written a dissertation on ‘Student Retention...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Over 2/3rds of American Adults now have at least a first shot - 88.2% of those 65+ - 2nd day of higher Vaccination rate - 3 Million shots over two days - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths remain low) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 382,283,990 (21,434,300 J&J) Administered: 328,152,304 (12,470,439 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 181,339,416 Fully Vaccinated: 155,884,601

Burn their eyes out this weekend by flying your US flags from the 3rd through the 5th for the Fourth of July celebration. Have all the cretins of the left squinting and rubbing their eyes because of all the flags being displayed this holiday weekend. Let the commie left display their traitorous indignation at the flag flying across the country.

Thomas Kean Jr., the New Jersey State Senate Republican minority leader, will reportedly announce his candidacy for New Jersey’s seventh congressional district. Kean will announce his campaign to unseat Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) on July 14. He ran during the 2020 congressional elections and came close to beating the New Jersey Democrat.

You no longer can do your job in America if you work for an entity not ordained by the Obama/Biden gang of crooks. Trump’s longtime CFO turned himself in this morning after being indicted by the corrupt Manhattan DA who’s working for the Obama/Biden gang. President Trump’s longtime CFO of his company handed himself in this morning after it was reported yesterday that the man was indicted by the corrupt Manhattan DA: ormer President Trump told advisers this week that charges brought by New York prosecutors would only make him stronger and would backfire on Democrats. The Trump Organization’s chief...

Netgear has patched serious security vulnerabilities in its DGN2200v1 network router, following the discovery of "very odd behaviour" by a Microsoft security research team - a somewhat understated way of saying that attackers can gain "complete control over the router."

Disgraceful behavior from Rep. Michael Skindell at the Ohio House yesterday as Rep. Jena Powell tried to speak. Rep. Powell was trying to protect women’s sports when Democrats started pounding on desks, interrupting her, looking and sounding like they were losing their minds. Ohio lawmaker Powell was attempting to introduce an amendment to an Ohio bill to protect women athletes when the pounding and screaming began. She proposed the “Save Women’s Sports Act” in February and wanted to add an amendment to protect biological female athletes from being forced to compete against biological males. Rep. Powell began by noting that...

During operations in Gaza in mid-May, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used a swarm of small drones to locate, identify and attack Hamas militants. This is thought to be the first time a drone swarm has been used in combat. Drones are usually controlled individually by remote operators, but a swarm is a single networked entity that flies itself using artificial intelligence. It can cover a wide area and keep operating even if it loses many units, and only requires a single

GETTR will be the newest MAGA venture in this space. It’s being led by Trump’s former spokesman, Jason Miller. https://gettr.com/

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Reports of deaths and serious injuries from the COVID-19 jabs mount by the day. As of June 11, 2021, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) had posted 358,379 adverse events, including 5,993 deaths and 29,871 serious injuries In the European Union’s database of adverse drug reactions from COVID shots, called EudraVigilance, there were 1,509,266 reported injuries, including 15,472 deaths as of June 19, 2021. EudraVigilance only accepts reports from EU members, so it covers only 27 countries. Remarkably, about HALF of all reported injuries — 753,657 — are listed as “serious” The British Yellow Card system...

Arizona election audit spokesman Randy Pullen said the state senate will subpoena the routers and passwords that are still being withheld by election officials. He announced the state’s plans to issue the subpoena on Wednesday while noting it has been difficult to complete the audit without information on the routers and passwords. “We have none of that information has been provided to us, and it’s something that the Senate will have to go back to the county and request those items,” explained the spokesman. “So again, it’s very difficult to complete the audit without getting that information.” Pullen said state...

JUST IN - White House to deploy "Delta variant" response teams across the United States.https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1410642845187383297 Looks like they are preparing for more lockdowns coming in the Fall.Don't forget at the very same time the same White House is allowing an invasion at our southern border and flying illegals all over the country.Here is the best part... (sarcasm off) No one is being checked for Covid.So on one hand they are claiming citizens should be very scared of Covid. Yet at the same time they are not checking any illegals for it.

WORLD War 3 fears are raging in the Pacific as tensions rage between the US, China and Russia with dire warnings of the threat of another "Pearl Harbour". Japanese defence minister Yasuhide Nakayama gave a chilling assessment of the situation as discussed threats from China to Taiwan and potentially to Hawaii from Russia. Mr Nakayama was speaking at the Hudson Institute and reportedly claimed China and Russia are preparing jointly for the threat of a major war exploding in the region, according to the Washington Exaimer. "We have to show the deterrence towards China, and not just China but also...

Dr. Anthony Fauci is doing more harm than good, and in the interests of public health, he should not be on television anymore. That's what should happen, but it won't. Liberals need some justification to remain scared of COVID. The pandemic is over. The vaccines continue to roll. States are reopening. The mask mandates are done. It's time to enjoy summer, but liberals seem to view the end of COVID as a win for Trump, for some reason, as if this virus is what keeps his political comeback at bay. It is a fact that we're seeing the light at...

Asteroid Day this year, June 30, 2021, is 113 years after the Tunguska impact event in Siberia, which destroyed an area of pristine forest the size of Tokyo. With blasted and burnt tree trunks leveled and stripped bare over such a vast area, it is as though a large atomic bomb had been dropped on the forest. The debate still goes on in the research literature, but a popular theory is that this impact was caused by a small comet fragment, in the region of 328 feet (100 meters) in diameter, that exploded at an altitude of around 5 miles...

Xi delivered his speech amid rising criticism over China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic that was first reported in Wuhan in December 2019 and human rights abuses connected to its treatment of the ethic minority Uyghurs who are held in forced labor camps in Xinjiang. The US and other countries have also taken action against China, which has the world’s second-largest economy, for unfair trade practices and for stealing intellectual property. During the event, that included a military flyover, Xi predicted that China would soon have the world’s greatest ​fighting force.