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Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), who launched a campaign for Los Angeles mayor in September, received a $95,000 “scholarship” while in Washington from the University of Southern California, which is currently embroiled in a bribery scandal.

STILWELL, Kan. — Traffic whizzing behind her, Rep. Sharice Davids gathered reporters at a transportation facility along U.S. 69 in eastern Kansas this week to celebrate the surge of federal money headed in her state’s direction. The massive infrastructure package passed last week means $2.6 billion for Kansas roads — some of the largest investments in them since President Dwight D. Eisenhower, once a Kansan himself, supported the construction of the national highway system in the 1950s. Davids is hardly the only member of her party celebrating. With their narrow control of Congress at stake in 2022, Democrats across the...

Today we have to wonder what will be the more likely cause of the next riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Will it be an acquittal of the defendant either by the jury or a directed verdict of Not Guilty? And if the latter happens will they riot because the judge is apparently a Lee Greenwood, even to the extent of have "God Bless the USA" as a ringtone on his phone. The judge suggests that the trial should be ready to wrap up by Tuesday. Progressives Demand ‘Mistrial’ Over Rittenhouse Judge’s ‘God Bless The U.S.A.’ RingtoneI expect soon that legislation will...

Our treatment of troops returning from combat has led to a culture of permanent disability. They deserve better. Far too often, however, veterans returning to the civilian world are diverted from paths of self-sufficiency and shuffled down paths of dependency and dysfunction. I witnessed this personally at Walter Reed. Soldiers were transformed from men and women of consequence—bravely fighting for their country—to wards of the state, dependent on others and on charity for their sustenance, purpose and meaning. One soldier whom I knew had been wounded in 2003 and was fully able to function by 2005—yet lingered on at the...

Backlash over the National School Boards Association’s (NSBA) decision to target parents has been felt far and wide. Even the NSBA is apologizing for its role. So, why won’t Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Arizona School Boards Association (ASBA) do the same? A little more than six years ago, I co-founded the House Freedom Caucus to push back on bullies in Congress who used their political power to pressure our colleagues to ‘fall in line’ rather than stick to their principles. I’m seeing similar attempts at intimidation again today, only this time the bullies are school board bureaucrats who...

Congressional Democrats are reintroducing legislation that would repay the families of Black American veterans who served in World War II and were unable to take advantage of the original GI Bill. The GI Bill Restoration Act would provide descendants of these veterans a transferable benefit that could be used to obtain housing, attend college or start a business, according to the announcement Thursday from the bill’s sponsors. To mark Veterans Day, the bill was unveiled Thursday by House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina and Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts in the House and is expected to be introduced...

Congress has paved the way for more than a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending targeted at filling the country’s potholes, installing broadband to rural areas and delivering clean water into homes that, even in 2021, still go without. The bill is huge, with spending set aside for projects years away, and it includes billions of dollars that will find their way to Utah. Although the massive legislation received support from both Democrats and Republicans, only one member of Utah’s federal delegation supported and championed the bill: Sen. Mitt Romney.

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Gary Sinise's iconic role as Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump provided the world a glimpse into a soldier fighting his post-war mental monsters with alcohol and anguish. Although a fictitious character, Lt. Dan's use of alcohol to drown out the psychological and physical pain is a reality for thousands of service members who served here and abroad. In the 1990s, we trained for a conventional war based on a Russian threat. Conventional forces battled on training grounds against imaginary forces called Krasnovians. The military focused on large-scale at a distance war, not up close and personal like the Vietnam War....

A man whom Texas GOP gubernatorial candidate Allen West admitted to pulling down his mask at an airport during an altercation has said that he wishes to press charges as he claims his face covering was "violently" torn off, according to a Dallas Morning News report. Lawrence Eric Stern told the outlet that a detective at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport had informed him that his case had been placed before the Grapevine Municipal Court. According to the DFW Airport police's report, Stern was in the airport on Nov. 3 when he spotted West walking through the facility maskless, reports...

Fresh off his loss in Virginia's gubernatorial race to Republican Glenn Youngkin, Democrat Terry McAuliffe may already be close to having a new job in nearby Washington, D.C., a new report said. According to Punchbowl News, McAuliffe has interested suitors in the Biden administration who are looking to bring him on board.

In addition to today being the 2nd anniversary of its founding, Veterans Day is always an appropriate day to share information and updates on #HELP22--a growing movement to help address the startling and unacceptable fact that, on average, as many as 22 of our nation’s veterans take their own lives each day. The more I learned of this the more I felt a moral mandate to help draw attention to it and to bring what resources I have to bear to help address it. I thought about my network and reached out to three of the most caring and gifted...

Kamala Harris has been mocked for appearing to put on a French accent to speak to scientists at a COVID lab in Paris during the vice president's visit to mend fences with France. Harris on Tuesday visited the Institut Pasteur science lab, where Americans are working alongside Europeans to tackle COVID-19 and where her Indian-born mother researched breast cancer. Harris began her program in Paris on Tuesday as the highest-ranking member of the Biden administration to visit France while a USA TODAY/Suffolk poll last week showed her approval rating at a dire 28 percent. 'In government, we campaign with 'The...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJob 19:2525 I know that my redeemer[a] lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth._______________________________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

This is getting embarrassing. Kamala Harris used a fake French accent yesterday when speaking with a group of French people. (video)

Residential Approval Index rating of -30. (All-time Low)

THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE. REVELATION 6 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in YOUR Bible Resources to CLICK: To read REVELATION 2 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To read J-F-B's COMMENTARY on it BIBLE TIMELINE 95 A.D. REVELATIONChapter 6, Verses 1-8 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a WHITE HORSE! Its rider held a bow,...

A federal judge on Wednesday declined to delay a Friday deadline for the National Archives to begin handing over Trump administration documents to the House January 6 Select Committee. Lawyers for former President Trump had asked for a stay after U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected his lawsuit seeking to block the documents from being released while he appeals. In a six-page decision on Wednesday, Chutkan, an Obama appointee, denied Trump's request for a temporary stay for essentially the same reasons that she ruled against blocking the documents from being handed over.

Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences are closer to developing a safe and effective non-opioid pain reliever after a study showed that a new compound they created reduces the sensation of pain by regulating a biological channel linked to pain. Most people experience pain at some point in their lives, and the National Institutes of Health estimates 100 million people in the U.S. suffer from chronic pain. Approximately 21-29% of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain misuse them and 8-12% of people using an opioid for chronic pain develop an opioid use disorder, according to the National Institute...

VIDEONot only did the clown reporter from Estrella TV, Armando Guzman, flat out lie that Kyle Rittenhouse "killed two black man" he also claimed the weapon was an "automatic rifle." Oh, and the only white man, Gaige Grosskreutz, who survived received "several shots" shots" from Rittenhouse's "automatic rifle" according to the clown reporter.The clown reporter Guzman needs to get on TV and APOLOGIZE for LYING about the trial. Oh, and also promise to get a new non-clown head rug.