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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on Thursday recommended legislators quickly spend most of the $1 billion of federal coronavirus aid the state received this year on infrastructure, economic development and other projects to avoid inflation and rising construction costs. The second-term Republican governor, in an address at the state Capitol, also recommended using a portion of the state’s better-than-expected ending fund balance of $1.1 billion in the last two-year budget cycle to provide $207 million in income tax relief to residents and $100 million to bolster the state’s troubled pension fund, which is threatened to be...

@PeterSchiff The fact that #Democrats want to force banks to report all transactions as low as $600 to the #IRS is proof that the real targets of their enhanced tax enforcement legislation are not the rich, but lower and middle income taxpayers. This is a classic government bait and switch! @PeterSchiff If banks have to bear the added expense of reporting all checks as low as $600, not only does this represent a huge loss of privacy for Americans, empowering future oppression by a tyrannical government, but banks will have to significantly raise fees for small checking accounts!

Snuck into the government funding bill, or CR, the Democrats are trying to pass, and just found, is unlimited money to random, unscreened, unvetted Afghan nationals. Republicans can't let this happen. This is a further insult after Biden's humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, that needlessly killed 13 Americans. This is not a “clean” government funding bill. It’s a major immigration rewrite that allows Biden to bring anyone he wants from Afghanistan for the next year—no vetting, no screening, no security—and fly them to your community with free welfare and government-issued IDs. We’ve already seen some of the horrible assaults and sex...

One of Pennsylvania’s mitigation strategies for keeping students in schools is providing free COVID-19 testing to school districts, but the program has drawn a lackluster response. According to state Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam, nearly 400 schools of the state’s more than 3,000 public and private schools have enrolled in the program. As of last Thursday, nearly 27,800 school-age students had tested positive for the virus since Aug. 16. That, in turn, has prompted some schools to switch to virtual learning and cancel sporting events due to outbreaks. Despite that, state Education Secretary Noe Ortega said the school year os...

She gets some help from some fellow climate change children warriors!

It's time for The Jesse Kelly Show! Let's have some fun! Listen live at the link below. Jesse's show is now on over 200 radio stations across the nation, replacing Buck Sexton. Those of us who miss Rush very much know that no one could ever replace him, but if you give Jesse a chance, you'll find him to be a very intelligent, refreshing, naturally funny truth teller.Jesse is a former Marine. He and his beautiful wife live in the Houston area with their two young sons. He's a self-deprecating historyphile with an infectious laugh. His time slot is later...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Droughts that cause leaves to turn brown and wither before they can reach peak color. Heat waves prompting leaves to fall before autumn even arrives. Extreme weather events like hurricanes that strip trees of their leaves altogether. For a cheery autumnal activity, leaf peeping is facing some serious threats from the era of climate change. Leaf peeping, the practice of traveling to watch nature display its fall colors, is a beloved annual activity in many corners of the country, especially New England and New York. But recent seasons have been disrupted by weather conditions there and...

​He promised he wouldn’t give his family jobs in his administration — but President Biden never said anything about his friends’ families. President Biden nominated the daughter of Rep. Jim Clyburn to a federal commission, adding to his string ​of hiring family members of administration officials or political allies, according to a report on Thursday. The president nominated Jennifer Clyburn Reed as the chair of the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission​ that was created in 2008 to “address economic distress” in the southeast US but has remained inactive since, Fox News reported. ​

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Four Legacy Health urgent care clinics are closed for the foreseeable future. Legacy’s locations are closed in West Linn, Lake Oswego, the Pearl District and Camas. Although the company has confirmed the closures are due to lack of staffing, Legacy has not stated those staffing issues are caused by the state-wide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. However, KOIN 6 News spoke to Leah Peterson — an employee who says she will quit when the October 18 deadline to be vaccinated arrives. She works directly with patients at Legacy Silverton Medical Center as a sonographer, performing...

But one innocuous sign near Bakersfield has long inspired curiosity, befuddlement and hundreds of online dispatches from travelers passing. The sign, just outside the oil derrick town of Lost Hills, reads “Tom McCleod slept here” in an austere sans-serif font. It raises the question asked again and again by drivers: Who is Tom McCleod? ...After days of failed phone calls and redirected emails, the fourth Tom McLeod, a Vietnam War veteran who now works as the curator at the Museum of the Pacific in Texarkana, Texas, got back to me. This Tom is closely linked to Pacific Wrecks, a group...

The Police in/around Melbourne Australia (State of Victoria) are becoming very uncomfortable that people are recording their beatings and brutality and posting them on social media. In an effort to stop media reporting on the continued police actions, law enforcement is now attempting to block media from being present. Kudos to Avi Yemini and Rebel News for refusing to acquiesce to the police thug tactics. Watch this insufferable exhibition of lawless cops with guns and badges attempting to intimidate Rebel News.

A Texas teen accused of killing his twin sister has claimed that he was sleeping when he plunged a knife into her neck, prosecutors said Thursday. Benjamin Elliott, 17, of Katy, told authorities that he was stunned that he wasn’t dreaming when he woke up between 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m. Wednesday and found himself in sister Meghan Elliot’s bedroom with a knife in her neck, news station KTRK reported. “The defendant stated after realizing he was not dreaming, he removed the knife and placed it next to the complainant, turned on the light to the bedroom and applied pressure...

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said he believes members of his caucus will vote against President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal. “I think the majority, an overwhelming amount of our members, are going to vote no, because they don’t view it as an infrastructure bill,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said at his weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill on Thursday. “I went to the White House, in the Oval Office, that’s exactly what I told the president. We want to build roads, highways, bridges, broadband, airports. We want to reform NEPA. We want to make sure this happens and gets built in...

My husband grew up with lots of siblings, which came in handy for the annual tomato sauce making. But even when they were all quite young, it was useful for making ice cream in their father’s old wooden crank gizmo. The youngest would start out (and tire pretty quickly) and then the others would take over like stair-steps; until finally my husband, the oldest, finished it off. I liked ice cream a lot when I was a kid (these days I prefer fruit sherbet); and while it may be one of those things that are never as good later in...

The military loved this guy when he made them look good for saving a baby during the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Now that he told his story at a Trump rally…they’re going after him. Guy should be awarded a medal and instead this administration wants to punish him for the apparent crime of appearing with Trump (and not even in uniform)? https://www.rightjournalism.com/us-marine-who-pulled-baby-over-wall-at-kabul-airport-is-under-investigation-for-appearing-at-trump-rally-video/

Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. has called Massachusetts home for 170 years, but the company’s CEO said that legislation pending in Beacon Hill could bar the manufacturer from making certain types of firearms – including AR-15 style modern sporting rifles – in the Bay State. As a result, the company decided to move its headquarters and facilities to the Volunteer State, which has stronger support for the Second Amendment as well as a lower cost of living.

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You Sir, Are The One Ignoring Science': Rand Paul Battles Becerra Over COVID-19 Rules

A 2-year-old boy from New Mexico could soon be the "business in the front, party in the back" champion. Neil Archuleta made it to the USA Mullet Championship’s top 25 in the contest’s kids division. Living up to the all mighty mullet’s nickname, Neil’s hair is ready for a day at the office up front and ready to let loose at the playground in the back. Neil’s mom, Brooklyn Archuleta, told sister station KOAT that Neil has had his legendary mullet since his first birthday when he got his first haircut. Archuleta said her sister-in-law heard about the mullet competition...

Politico’s co-congressional bureau chief berated a group of maskless Capitol tourists who turned out to be the family of fallen Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, who lost her life during President Joe Biden’s failed Afghanistan withdrawal. “Masks requirement in the House. Tours not allowed. Yet here we are — group of 9, only 2 in masks,” Politico’s Heather Caygle tweeted with a photo of the group in the wide-open Capitol on Thursday. “Instead of immediately being a tattletale, maybe ask some questions first. If you did, you would learn that this is the family of fallen Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, getting...