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President Biden and congressional Democrats' Build Back Better (BBB) Act is now in the hands of the Senate. That legislative body's 50-50 partisan split will undoubtedly make the bill's passage difficult. In order for BBB to become law, Democratic Senate leadership will need to convince moderates such as Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) that the legislation's $2.4 trillion price tag can be offset by expanding the IRS and its enforcement efforts while imposing substantial tax reform measures. Congressional Democrats have argued that one of the best ways to pay for the legislation is to raise taxes on...

The federal Election Assistance Commission has still not accounted for $74 million worth of election aid given to states in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic — and congressional Republicans suspect widespread abuse. “The EAC is supposed to be a watchdog,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told Fox News. “But it turns out it has been a bad actor, spending large sums of money with little transparency.”

One of Richard Nixon’s defense lawyers claimed recently that Tricky Dick didn’t receive due process because “the prosecutors cheated.” Now Geoff Shepard, 76, has filed an official complaint of attorney misconduct with the federal Department of Justice against Watergate prosecutors — 47 years after the fact.

ICYMI, here’s the URL to file your comments before the comment period closes on Jan 19, 2022.NOTE: They extended the deadline to January 19th 2022 literally 3 hours after I made my post!ransomnote: the original date still in the article was Dec 6. I put the extended date in the thread so I wouldn't receive 200 queries. In a nutshell, OSHA believes that:Face coverings work and should be used.COVID recovered people who have not been fully vaccinated still face a grave danger from workplace exposure to SARS-CoV-2.They should impose a strict vaccination mandate ( i.e., all employers required to implement...

President Joe Biden will sit down for a video conference with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, the Kremlin said, as fears of a Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine escalate. “The presidents will decide themselves” how long the evening confab will last, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a state news agency on Saturday. The White House did not immediately confirm the plans.

[H/T Travis McGee]ransomnote: I enjoyed this article, even with the author's lack of capitalization.there is a point where even loquacious internet cats start running out of snark. THIS is just staggering in its predatory mendacity. there is not a shred of evidence to support it nor any remotely plausible reason to even put forward such a hypothesis.frankly, it’s patently absurd and has no precedent in other stressful events. being bombed nightly during the blitz did not cause this.this is a desperate lie from a desperate class of state run doctors desperate to shift the blame for that which they have...

Montana has seen a significant decrease in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations over the past few weeks. A readout for Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) from the state’s health department showed a decline of 43 percent decline in cases this week compared to the week prior, The Associated Press reported. In that same time, hospitalizations decreased 16 percent in the state after a surge of new COVID-19 cases in September.

Australians are officially the world’s biggest binge drinkers, but Britain and the US don’t lag far behind - featuring in the top five of the latest Global Drug Survey. Denmark and Finland ranked at second and third in the survey of more than 32,000 people from 22 countries which collected data from December 2020 to March 2021. The data also shows that the Irish felt the most remorse after drinking.

Turkish media: "A bomb designed to explode at Erdogan's speech festival is in southern Turkey today." The local media also reported that according to Turkish intelligence,

A South African official said Saturday that rising COVID-19 infections among children in the country are mild concerns about the rapidly spreading omicron variant in the country. South Africa has seen an increase in hospitalizations in young children and pregnant women, but it is too soon to tell if the increase is from the omicron variant that was first detected in the country, Reuters reported. Ntsakisi Maluleke, a public health specialist in the Gauteng province, told Reuters there were 113 children under the age of nine in the hospital with COVID-19 in the province, an uptick from past coronavirus waves.

Story at-a-glanceVia more than 30,000 grants, Gates has contributed at least $319 million to the mediaExamples of the Gates Foundations grants include $24,663,066 to NPR and $12,951,391 to The GuardianFrom press and journalism associations to journalistic training, Gates is an overarching keeper of the press, which makes true objective reporting pertaining to Gates himself — or his many initiatives — virtually impossibleWith a net worth of $130.5 billion, Gates yields incredible power over education, health and social policiesOther major players in media control include BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world, which also...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo (D) disagreed with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s assertion that the pandemic is a root cause of the recent wave of smash and grab retail thefts and argued that criminals are at the root of the crimes. Co-host Dana Perino asked, “[T]he White House yesterday said that they believe that the pandemic is at the root cause of a lot of this smash and grab crime. Do you think that’s right?”

Milwaukee County DA John Chisholm, claims Darrell Brooks’ $1000 bail “was a mistake” and “human error”. Milwaukee is ranked one of the top 10 dangerous cities in the US. That’s no mistake. The #WaukeshaMassacre happened as a result of his policies. Chisholm needs to resign.

Earlier this week, Trump flat-out denied Meadows’ account in a statement. “The story of me having COVID prior to, or during, the first debate is Fake News,” Trump said Wednesday. “In fact, a test revealed that I did not have COVID prior to the debate.” Privately, Trump was “furious about what is in the book and he’s angry with Mark Meadows,” CNN reported Wednesday. Then Meadows, rather incredibly, agreed with Trump’s assessment. “Well, the president’s right, it’s fake news,” he said during an interview with Newsmax Wednesday. “If you actually read the book, the context of it, that story outlined...

This week in an appearance on Fox News, commentator Lara Logan reported that some people she has talked to “see parallels between Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele and Dr. Anthony Fauci. The measures Dr. Fauci has advocated for dealing with the COVID pandemic—the lockdowns, the vaccine mandate, the discrimination against those who don’t want to be injected with an experimental drug—have damaged the lives of so many. Small businesses were destroyed, civil liberties have been trampled, poverty was worsened, suicides soared.” Dr. Fauci maintained that “any comparison between Mengele and me is slander. I am the embodiment of science. Mengele was...

SEOUL – Fears of the Omicron variant are tearing across the world, hammering markets, upending forecasts and compelling countries to halt incoming travel – but there may be an upside. Amid shock reports about Omicron’s extreme transmissibility, one expert says that the geographic origin of the latest Covid-19 mutation points to a less severe form of the disease. And a combination of high transmissibility and low morbidity, if proven, could provide a pandemic-weary humanity with the silver bullet it has been waiting for. “This could be the vehicle by which Covid becomes a less lethal disease,” Ogan Gurel, a doctor...

Another Jack Bell story. This one is about the fishing around Reno, Nevada in 1922. Illustrated with old postcards.

For nearly a year the Biden “presidency” -- whoever they are -- has subjected the United States to a destructive revolutionary agenda of unprecedented scope and virulence, all of it arising out of an irrational civilizational death wish for which there is no historical parallel. No more than a small minority of Americans knowingly voted for this. Given safety from reprisal, large majorities of the electorate would reject both the underlying unhinged beliefs and the ruinous policies and goals that have been promoted since Biden and his opaque gang took office. Here’s an incomplete list of the reality-averse ideas and...

<p>ROCHESTER HILLS, MI — After briefly being the subject of a $10,000 manhunt, the parents of a teen who allegedly perpetrated a mass shooting at Oxford High School have been arraigned on criminal charges.</p><p>James R. Crumbley, 45, and Jennifer L. Crumbley, 43, on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 4, appeared before Oakland County District Judge Julie A. Nicholson for arraignment on four counts of involuntary manslaughter. The charge is a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a $7,500 fine.</p>

BREAKING Akhabar Fori channel quotes "Daneshju agency" which it quotes local sources about hearing a HUGE explosion over Natanz. Details will be updated here as they come in!