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The nation argued for five years over the infamous Steele dossier, the document on which the FBI relied to investigate Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. It should have been called the Clinton dossier. Special counsel John Durham this week obtained an indictment of Igor Danchenko, a Russian who provided information for the dossier. Danchenko is charged with lying to the FBI, but the bigger story of the indictment is Democrats’ central role in every aspect of the dossier and the FBI investigation. Dolan has long been in Clinton circles, having served seven years as head of the Democratic Governors Association and...

It’s still early but these two stories will certainly be contenders for this week’s most ludicrous headlines: 1. Alec Baldwin calls for police officers on movie sets to supervise gun safety.Yeah Mr. Alec-de-fund-the-Police-Baldwin, that’s the trick: let’s put all you movie types under constant adult supervision so nobody need be responsible for anything, ever. “It Wasn’t My Fault!”That pretty much sums up the left’s vision for America, where “gentle giants” are never responsible for their crimes but the police hired to protect us from criminals always are.The get out of jail free card: what’s in your wallet?2. US-Mexico Border Reopens...

As President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was whisked to a secret location and cloistered with a handful of other top lawmakers. The senator from Kentucky had spent the past four years as one of Trump’s chief enablers, boosting his election by keeping a Supreme Court seat open, pushing through his agenda with party-line votes and standing by for weeks as Trump falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen. But their marriage of political convenience had abruptly shattered three weeks earlier, when Trump exploded at McConnell for acknowledging Joe Biden’s victory....

If things aren’t working, it’s because those who work within the federal government don’t want them to work. I am amazed how many words have been wasted trying to explain this or that government policy that is hurting the American people. Don’t we know by now that, if a government program seems not to be useful, it was designed to be that way? Instead of taking each program and dissecting it, the trick here is to bundle them together to better understand their motivation: importing cheap foreign labor, increasing energy costs, the irresponsible tolerance of cancel culture, vaccine mandates, anti-ableism,...

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ERIE, Pennsylvania -- Voters in the Keystone State, as in Virginia, took Tuesday's election as an opportunity to rebut Democrats' overreach. Driven by the loudest voices in their national party toward issues of social justice, "intersectionality" and "climate justice," Democrats suffered for ignoring everyday issues such as inflation, crime and education. With mail-in ballots still pending, Republicans are poised to sweep all four of Pennsylvania's statewide judicial elections. They also made gains in municipal races. In the collar counties surrounding Philadelphia, voters echoed the same dissatisfaction with Democrats that was displayed in the surprising results in neighboring New Jersey. This...

If you think of America’s two competing political belief systems as two trains heading towards each other on a single track, a clear picture emerges—a satiric parable. There are two trains on the track, moving from opposite directions. Train one is a super-speed, solar-powered train a la France’s Train à Grande Vitesse. You know, the one where every car’s roof is an energy-producing solar panel and there’re wind-mill doohickies spaced along the top too, taking great advantage of the speed-generated wind. Its cars are filled with the woke, excited for their shiny future, a future without COVID because everyone’s vaccinated;...

Scandal after scandal piles up around Dr. Fauci. Anything that can't go on won't. Does Anthony Fauci see the handwriting on the wall? His boss and enabler, the immensely hypocritical Francis Collins, apparently can take a hint. He's getting out while he can. He'll ride off into the sunset with a hefty government pension and the adoration of his sycophants. But Fauci? He must see the storm clouds gathering. No one, not even a true dictator, can stand in front of the cameras as many times as Fauci has, can pontificate to and manipulate a nation the way Fauci has,...

CHICAGO - An elderly man with a concealed carry license shot and killed a robber in Chicago on Saturday afternoon, police said. The 77-year-old was in a garage on East 89th near MLK in West Chesterfield around 12:30 p.m. when the robber drove up. The robber pulled out a gun and demanded the elderly man's stuff, police said. Instead of handing his things over, the elderly man pulled out a gun and shot the robber in the head and chest, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. On Sunday, he was identified as Bernard Peterson. Chicago Police said...

Remington, the nation’s oldest firearms maker, announced Monday that it is moving its global headquarters to LaGrange, Georgia. The company also plans to open a new advanced manufacturing facility as well as a research and development center in the city. Through the projects, the gunmaker is expected to invest an estimated $100 million and create 856 jobs in Troup County over a five-year period. Several of the company’s strategic products will be manufactured in Georgia, according to a news release from Gov. Brian Kemp’s office. “Georgia’s firearms industry is responsible for thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of investment...

In an exceptionally astute monologue, Tucker Carlson explains what’s happening in America and why it’s so damaging for ordinary people. People are beginning to realize that something is wrong with America’s ruling class and, by “people,” I don’t mean people like you, who are actively engaged in politics. I’m talking about people who want nothing to do with politics or people living in prosperous leftist who haven’t been forced to think about what’s happening to less affluent Americans. To the extent they’re sitting up and taking notice, Tucker Carlson’s monologue perfectly explains what’s going on at the upper reaches of...

An MSNBC opinion columnist is attempting to spin the current inflation crisis as a "good thing," calling the coronavirus pandemic an "unlikely hero" in a new piece published Monday. **SNIP** "Any discussion of inflation needs to include the context in which it’s happening. Historically, recessions have left Americans poorer, not better off. But the Covid recession was different," Surowiecki wrote. "As people shifting their habits drastically in response to the pandemic, they spent much less and saved more. Even though millions of Americans lost their jobs, enhanced unemployment benefits and stimulus payments left many of them better off, not worse....

You never know when something you say will go viral. It has happened a number of times in my career, the latest being comments I made on my national radio talk show a few weeks ago when I had COVID-19. I said that I had hoped I would attain natural immunity, since science -- evidenced, for example, in a major study from Israel, one of the most pro-vaccine and highly vaccinated societies in the world -- strongly suggests that natural immunity provides more robust and durable protection against COVID-19 than the current COVID-19 vaccines have proven to provide. Specifically, I...

Due to handed-down stories and the movies, there have always been a lot of myths floating around about personal defense. Aside from the movies, people just tend to get reckless with the truth when they are telling about their adventures, adventures of associates, and adventures that they’re heard about. I guess it is human nature and there is not much that we can do about it. But I’m here to tell you that many of these personal defense myths can get people hurt, or get them in big trouble. Here, in no special order, are four personal defense myths that...

Rolls-Royce will move ahead with a multibillion pound plan to roll out a new breed of mini nuclear reactors after securing more than £450m from the government and investors... The engineering firm will set up a venture focused on developing small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs, in partnership with investors BNF Resources and the US generator Exelon Generation with a joint investment of £195m to fund the plans over the next three years.... Ministers hope that the new generation of SMRs will be quicker and cheaper to roll out than traditional large-scale nuclear reactors – such as the 3,200 megawatt...

Despite what you have heard from the "experts," COVID-19 is treatable early in the disease course. As we finish 18 months of COVID-19 pandemic, what will we see in the next six months? There will be a massive push to get everyone vaccinated with more battles and punishments for noncompliance. Government, public health authorities, the media, and big pharma will lead the charge. Experimental vaccination will be pushed because those in power can feel their narrative of fear slipping away and they don't have much time left to push the vaccines. People are beginning to realize that COVID-19 is not...

Goodwill Industries is pressuring its stores to adopt critical race theory-style training as part of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative. Goodwill Industries is purportedly pressuring its stores to adopt critical race theory-style training as part of the organization’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative. According to former Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania (SWPA) Retail Operations Manager Timothy O’Malley, his region first began discussions on how the company was going to be “different” following the 2020 presidential election. “They stated that it was gonna be different and we were gonna make it about our community and our places,” he said. “That...

Allies of Jim Jordan are furious with the state GOP and Governor Mike DeWine for potentially putting the prominent House Republican’s seat on the line in a proposed redistricting map, Fox News has learned. The Buckeye State’s Senate Republican Party proposed a redistricting map last week that turned heads and drew ire from Jordan’s allies. According to the proposed map, Jordan could be billed up against Democrat Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio for the 4th Congressional District’s seat. Kevin Eichinger, a spokesperson for the Jordan campaign, suggested the proposed map was an attempt to draw the congressman out of his...

With virtually every aspect of life under assault from progressives, Republican successes on Election Day were a much-needed shot in the arm. Let’s capitalize on that energy. Instead of sitting idly by waiting for lawsuits to make vaccine mandates go away, OSHA just handed us an opportunity to drive a stake through those very mandates. On November 5, OSHA published its COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing ETS (Emergency Temporary Standard) in the Federal Register. It goes into effect immediately and companies with 100+ employees have 30 days to comply, plus 60 days for certain testing requirements. However, because this ETS also...

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report shares a clip from Joy Reid’s MSNBC show where she gets her guest Michael Eric Dyson to share his thoughts on newly elected Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears. His woke racism couldn’t be more evident as she is described as being a puppet for white supremacy and white ideas.