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Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, fell for and promoted the tiki torch hoax during the Virginia governor’s race on Friday. “Birds of a feather,” tweeted Swalwell in response to a now-deleted post that called a photo of five tiki torch-wielding democrats “disgusting.” Many users on social media called out Swalwell for promoting the tiki torch stunt. Fox News’s Tucker Carlson was unsurprised Swalwell fell for the hoax, noting Swalwell’s past romantic involvement with Chinese spy Christine Fang. It was revealed later on Friday that a prominent pro-Democrat group, The Lincoln Project,...

The Biden administration on Friday said it would make another attempt to end the "Remain in Mexico" protocols, a Trump administration initiative that forced tens of thousands of asylum seekers back into Mexican border towns to await their court dates in the U.S. In a briefing before the announcement, Department of Homeland Security officials told reporters they had reassessed the policy, also known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas once again determined it was appropriate to end it despite acknowledging its impact in reducing unauthorized migration.... ...Embedded in the district court's order to reinstate was a suggestion...

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who is running for the U.S. Senate seat from Alabama, told Breitbart News that he wore a “bulletproof vest” on January 6 due to threats against him from Antifa and Black Lives Matter, saying CBS’s Stephen Colbert and the broader left dishonestly frame his wearing of body armor on that day as evidence of advance knowledge of how the day’s events would unfold at the Capitol. On Tuesday, Colbert referenced a recent attempt by Rolling Stone — relayed by Alabama Local News and the Daily Beast — to link Brooks to violence at the Capitol, regularly...

PHOENIX — Nearly five years after Joe Arpaio was voted out as sheriff of Arizona’s most populous county, taxpayers are covering one of the last major bills from the thousands of lawsuits the lawman’s headline-grabbing tactics inspired. Officials in Maricopa County agreed last week to pay $3.1 million to cover a settlement with a restaurant owner who alleged Arpaio defamed him and violated his rights when raiding his businesses. The payout takes to $100 million the attorney fees, settlements and other costs the county has paid from lawsuits stemming from Arpaio’s six terms. Arpaio says jail operators are often the...

A House panel is demanding documents from a pair of online businesses as part of an inquiry into whether they pushed what it calls ineffective and dangerous coronavirus treatments, according to letters made public Friday. According to a letter signed by Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, the telemedicine provider SpeakWithAnMD.com has collected millions of dollars in fees... through referrals from America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLD), a separate business that is also a subject of the congressional investigation. Clyburn said he is concerned that the two companies are endangering lives while profiting from...

Never before in human history have we witnessed medical tyranny on the scale of this magnitude. Children will start dying, speak out before it is too late. Video...

On Nov 1st, Bill DeBlasio has stated those first responders that are not vaccinated will no longer get paid. Clip...

...On 10/20, the White House, in anticipation of FDA approval, released details of its plans to have kids vaccinated through pediatricians' offices, hospitals and other locations. Previously, the White House had told governors to start preparing to vaccinate children as young as 5 by early November. Administration officials said they had purchased 65 million pediatric doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, enough to vaccinate all 28 million children who would become eligible if the FDA approves the shots for children between the ages of 5 and 11 when it meets to consider the issue. An FDA advisory committee endorsed giving kids...

The Facebook CEO planted left-wing activists into local election administration offices, Hemingway tells Tucker Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway sat down with Tucker Carlson to discuss how Big Tech swung the 2020 election for the Democrats, and why her new book "Rigged" exposes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the mastermind behind it all. In the latest episode of "Tucker Carlson Today," Hemingway describes a strategic effort by the tech billionaire, who she says bought left-wing activists access to local government administration election offices, enabling partisan staffers to organize massive get-out-the-vote efforts in largely blue cities from the inside.... ... He...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) is one of several Republicans blasting Fox News Media for a promotional video teasing an upcoming episode of leading host Tucker Carlson's mini-series "Tucker Carlson originals." The episode, which will only be broadcast on Fox Nation, the company's paid streaming service, is set to be published in three parts next month and examines the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and purports to tell "the true story behind 1/6." "The helicopters have left Afghanistan and now they've landed here at home," Carlson is seen saying on the promotional video. "They've begun to fight a new...

NOAA issued a G3, or "strong" geomagnetic storm watch, for Saturday and Sunday ahead of the flare slamming into the Earth. The scale for geomagnetic storms runs from G1, or minor storm, to G5, an extreme storm. This geomagnetic storm could cause voltage irregularities and false alarms on some protection devices, NOAA warns. It also could cause high frequency radio blackouts and loss of radio contact on the sunlit side of the earth. The most visible effect from the impending geomagnetic storm is it will likely supercharge the aurora borealis, making it visible across large parts of the US and...

On this date in 1651, three days after the Irish city Limerick surrendered to a withering five-month Parliamentarian siege, the victors hanged Bishop Terence Albert O’Brien on Gallows Green. Limerick was the southern stronghold of the Catholic and anti-Parliamentarian Confederate Ireland. It was this polity, which allied itself to English Royalists, that Cromwell assailed in his bloody conquest of Ireland. Though Cromwell lives forever as an oath in Irish memory, the man himself left Ireland in 1650 to smash an awkward Royalist alliance with Scottish Presbyterians. That left the Irish campaign in the hands of Cromwell’s capable fellow-general (and by...

Republican Senator Rand Paul has questions about the federal government, more specifically Dr. Anthony Fauci, funding grants to torture beagles to death. "We write to express deep concern about recent reports of inhumane experiments on league puppies conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at a cost to taxpayers of $1.68 million," Paul and a number of other Senators wrote in a letter to Fauci Friday afternoon. "One article reported that in addition to 'force-feeding or injecting 44 beagle puppies aged 6-8 months old with an experiments drug before killing and dissecting them,' the research also...

@newsmax "To me, it sounds more like torture than research," Sen. @RandPaul on the taxpayer-funded Beagle experiment headed by Dr. Fauci. Clip...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s “almost” like Clueless Joe™ Biden and his equally clueless administration are trying to destroy everything from the demographics of America — that’s a given — to parents’ faith in their kids’ schools to the entire U.S. economy. Only this time it could not be more clear. Amid soaring gas prices, White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy on Thursday announced that the Biden administration is going to increase regulations on the oil industry: “There’s a place for” regulation and “We’re going to use it,” McCarthy said during an appearance on...

Nearly half the nation believes that COVID-19 czar Anthony Fauci lied about funding virus testing in China, and almost as many want him dumped from the post he’s held for 37 years. In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 49% said he has not told the truth about U.S. funding for “gain-of-function” research. When asked if he should be forced to resign as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 46% said yes and 40% said no. The survey followed the recent release of a memo suggesting the United States supported and funded virus testing in China, where...

With President Biden succumbing to the CIA’s demand to continue keeping the CIA’s records relating to the Kennedy assassination secret, the question naturally arises: What is the CIA still hiding? (See my blog post of yesterday entitled “Surprise! Biden Continues the CIA’s JFK Assassination Cover-Up.”) To understand what they are still hiding and why they are still hiding it, it’s necessary to go back to the 1990s during the era of the Assassination Records Review Board — and even further back than that to November 22, 1963 — the day that Kennedy was assassinated. People often say that if the...

Britain was last night preparing to retaliate after a UK trawler was detained by France amid fears the fishing row could spark a full-blown trade war. The Government accused the French of breaking international law and France's ambassador to London will be hauled in today to face questioning. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said French ambassador Catherine Colonna would be expected to attend the Foreign Office 'to explain the disappointing and disproportionate threats made against the UK and Channel Islands'.... ...French ministers warned this week they will block British boats from some French ports and tighten checks on vessels travelling between...

Police are set to take prosecution action against 'a number of individuals' following another anti-lockdown protest staged at the Auckland Domain on Saturday. According to police around 5000 people gathered in the Domain in breach of Alert Level 3 restrictions. The group then marched to Newmarket and back "causing significant disruption to traffic in the area". Auckland City District Commander Superintendent Shanan Gray said police were "extremely disappointed" with the actions of the group. "While those in attendance generally conducted themselves in a calm manner, the gathering was a significant breach of COVID-19 Alert Level 3 requirements" "We recognize that...