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Tucked within the Democrats $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend plan is the largest expansion of the Internal Revenue Service in history. If the Left prevails, the agency will hire 87,000 new agents, more than double its current workforce, and receive $80 billion in new funding to audit and harass taxpayers including American families and small businesses. The left claims that additional IRS funding would help close the so-called “tax gap” by making wealthy people pay the taxes they allegedly don’t pay. In reality, the wealthy and large corporations already have armies of lawyers and accountants that ensure they legally take advantage of...

A leaked Zoom call between doctors and marketing staff at Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center in North Carolina has gone viral. It shows staff plotting to “scare” the public with inflated COVID numbers. “I guess my feeling at this point and time is maybe we need to be completely a little bit more scary [sic] to the public,” says Dr. Mary Rudyk, who served as the former chief of medical staff. “There are many people still hospitalized that we are considering post-covid but we’re not counting in those numbers, so how do we include those post-covid people in...

Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz was caught on a hot mic disclosing the real reason for imposing “green pass,” a Covid-19 vaccine passport, for certain venues.Ahead of a weekly Cabinet meeting, Horowitz turned to Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked noting that " there is no medical or epidemiological justification for the Covid passport [green pass], it is only intended to pressure the unvaccinated to vaccinate." He was unaware Channel 12 News was recording behind him.Currently, he said, “there is a kind of universality to the ‘green pass’ system, other than at malls, where I think it should be imposed, [because] now...

Bill Spadea, the high profile morning host at Townsquare Media news/talk “New Jersey 101.5” WKXW-FM Trenton, is making his stance known on mandatory vaccines and COVID testing. “I have drawn the line in the sand with the corporate leaders who own our radio station,” Spadea said in an opinion piece prominently posted on the station’s website. “I will not comply with the vaccine mandate and I will not submit to COVID testing.” Townsquare Media has not yet publicly announced a vaccine mandate for its employees. But Spadea says the company has three choices when it comes to the federal mandate:...

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have designed for the first time a nanoscale material that can efficiently split seawater into oxygen and a clean energy fuel — hydrogen. The material offers the high performance and stability needed for industrial-scale electrolysis, which could produce a clean energy fuel from seawater. Hydrogen fuel derived from the sea could be an abundant and sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, but the potential power source has been limited by technical challenges, including how to practically harvest it. Researchers at the University of Central Florida have designed for the first time a nanoscale material...

A new study — still pending peer review — picked up by The Atlantic, of all places, puts the recent fearmongering over the number of hospitalized Americans with the Wuhan coronavirus in perspective. Most notably, the study conducted by a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Tufts Medical Center, and the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, found that many of those "hospitalized with COVID" are not the dire situations hyped by liberal media and leading Democrats.The main narrative-shattering takeaway researchers arrived at: "Roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted...

Data from the Center for Disease Control shows that US coronavirus death rates in the first ten days of September 2021 are nearly twice as high as they were during the first ten days of September 2020, months before the first coronavirus vaccine received emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on December 11. The fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US appears to be nearly twice as deadly as the second wave, which occurred months before hundreds of millions of people received vaccinations for coronavirus. According to data from the CDC, US coronavirus death...

Recently, the Federal Election Commission decided that Twitter’s censoring of the New York Post‘s Hunter Biden laptop story from last year did not violate election laws. In reporting on the new development on Monday, the Times was still covering for Biden. Here’s what the article said.The Federal Election Commission has dismissed Republican accusations that Twitter violated election laws in October by blocking people from posting links to an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s son Hunter Biden.This description of the laptop story being “unsubstantiated” was echoed in a tweet soon after publication.Breaking News: The FEC ruled...

Those of us who grew up in California before it was taken over by the left were fortunate in that we actually got a good education. We were taught all sorts of things not taught today; subjects like geography, for example. Young people today hardly know in which hemisphere the United States exists. This was true even back when Jay Leno was asking simple questions to people on the street many years ago. Anyone who has seen any of the man-on-the-street videos of Jesse Watters, Mark Dice, and Ami Horowitz knows how shockingly ignorant young people are today, even, perhaps...

President Joe Biden has often shown pride in his Irish Catholic roots, but on another side of his ancestry, the progressive commander-in-chief's family lineage can be traced back to America's shameful past of slave ownership.

Venezuela’s heavy oil project reserves will be left stranded as international players divest their interest. That’s what GlobalData said in a statement sent to Rigzone on Friday, which highlighted that TotalEnergies and Equinor had recently divested their respective interests in Petrocedeno to the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela S.A (PDVSA) company. According to GlobalData, this means that due to high risks and the unstable deteriorating economy in the country, international players no longer see an upside in Venezuelan projects. GlobalData noted that with less investments supplied from the private sector, Venezuela will not be able to sustain its oil and gas...

Bush Denigrates ‘War on Terror’ Veterans Backers of America’s costly “War on Terror” seek the approbation of their one-time enemies at the expense of those who heeded their calls to defend the country.On September 11, 2001, Flight 93 reportedly was headed for Washington, D.C. when Americans attempted but failed to overcome Islamic terrorists who planned to use the hijacked plane as a missile against the U.S. Capitol building. The plane crashed in a field outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania.Twenty years later, George W. Bush stood on that same ground and compared patriotic Americans at the U.S. Capitol protesting a hijacked presidential...

President Biden implored Californians to keep Democrat Gavin Newsom as their governor Monday night, warning attendees of a Long Beach rally that a “Trump clone” in the form of longtime radio talk show host Larry Elder could replace him. “The eyes of the nation are on California because the decision you’re going to make isn’t just going to have a huge impact on California, it’s going to reverberate around the nation, and quite frankly — not a joke — around the world,” Biden said in his final pitch ahead of Tuesday’s recall vote, which could see Newsom thrown out of...

Plaintiffs seeking religious exemptions allege the state questioned the sincerity of their religion.. Dozens of State Patrol troopers, firefighters and other state employees have filed a lawsuit against Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, for his COVID-19 vaccine mandate, alleging he is overstepping his authority and violating state law. The lawsuit, filed Friday by Seattle attorney Nathan Arnold in Walla Walla County Superior Court, lays out seven causes of action against Inslee and pays particular attention to the nature of the state's religious exemptions, which plaintiffs allege constitute a deprivation of religious freedom under the state Constitution. In August, Inslee...

In the attempt to read the tea leaves of what our future may hold (a murky exercise at best), it seems the dishonor resident Biden just heaped upon the U.S. military will have serious consequences for America going forward. Remember that Rome was also a great republic…until it wasn’t. Let me preface by saying that the author here (along with most Americans) believe America should have exited Afghanistan long ago. That being said, few Americans support the reckless and incompetent exit resident Biden (and his generals and cabinet) just executed. Any way you measure it, this is likely the worst...

Former First Lady Melania Trump on Monday responded to news of her former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, writing a tell-all book about her and the Trumps, apparently exposing “surprising new scandals.” “The intent behind this book is obvious. It is an attempt to redeem herself after a poor performance as press secretary, failed personal relationships, and unprofessional behavior in the White House,” Mrs. Trump’s office said in a statement. According to Politico, Melania’s mention of Grisham’s “failed personal relationships” appears to be a reference to her former aide’s “past relationship with former Trump aide Max Miller.” “Citing three people familiar...

Replacing salt with a low-sodium alternative lowers the risk of stroke in people with high blood pressure or prior stroke, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line session at ESC Congress 2021[1] and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.[2] Both elevated sodium intake and low potassium intake are associated with high blood pressure and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death.[3,4] Salt substitutes, which replace part of the sodium chloride in regular salt with potassium chloride, have been shown to lower blood pressure[5] but their effects on heart disease, stroke, and death had been...

SACRAMENTO, CA—According to sources, California governor Gavin Newsom was recently seen by several witnesses in a dark back alley throwing a gorilla suit and a carton of rotten eggs in the trash. The Newsom campaign released a statement assuring the public these things had absolutely nothing to do with the woman wearing a gorilla mask who threw eggs at Larry Elder the other day. "Yeah, nothing unusual about this," said Newsom to curious onlookers. "This is just my weekly trip to the garbage to throw away eggs and gorilla suits. I like dressing as a gorilla sometimes, ok? Nothing weird...

The Presidents' club is teaming up to aid in a massive, bipartisan effort to welcome and support Afghan refugees that is being launched Tuesday. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- along with former first ladies Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama -- are serving as honorary co-chairs for the group Welcome.US. Welcome.US, the group said in a news release, is aimed at engaging "all Americans to welcome and support refugees, beginning with the individuals and families who fled Afghanistan" following the American withdrawal from the nation in recent weeks. After the biggest military evacuation...

The people of Wyoming deserve leaders who reflect their views and values. As a fourth generation Wyomingite who learned the importance of hard work, integrity, and loyalty on my family’s ranch near Fort Laramie, I know what’s in the heart of our great state. And I also know that our current representative in Congress, Liz Cheney, has turned her back on us in favor of her own personal war with former President Donald Trump. For these reasons, and many more, I have declared my candidacy and am challenging Cheney in the 2022 Republican primary for Wyoming’s lone House seat. Over...