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Call this one last lump of coal in Joe Biden’s stocking for 2021, and a harbinger of what might be coming next month for fourth-quarter GDP. Even with expectations set at a relatively modest 422,000 for job growth in December, the US economy couldn’t make it even halfway to the mark. Instead, we only added 199,000 jobs last month, the lowest growth in three months: Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 199,000 in December, and the unemployment rate declined to 3.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in leisure and hospitality, in...

Mark your calendar: the moment you’ve been waiting for is finally on the horizon. The national wrestling team of the Islamic Republic of Iran is coming to the United States to play our team in Arlington, Texas on February 12. Sardar Pashaei, the Iranian-American ex-head coach of Iran’s national Greco-Roman wrestling team, said it was a “friendship match.” But Alireza Dabir, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s wrestling federation, has other ideas, saying that the match is all about “Death to America.” And so in wrestling, as in the political sphere with the nuclear talks in Vienna, the U.S....

California’s long-running descent into madness continues as its bizarre Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) now encourages public school students to pray to bloodthirsty Aztec deities. The California State Board of Education approved the almost 900-page ESMC in March 2021, saying teaching children about the systemic racism that supposedly plagues America has never been more urgent, as Fox News reported at the time. “The curriculum’s unequivocal promotion of five Aztec gods or deities through repetitive chanting and affirmation of their symbolic principles constitutes an unlawful government preference toward a particular religious practice,” Frank Xu, president of Californians for Equal Rights...

In today’s urban America, if you are a thief, why wouldn't you smash a glass door or glass display case and grab all the merchandise you could? Seriously, why wouldn't you? In the old days you wouldn't because you would be scared that you would get caught. In the past, “smash and grab” robberies occurred, but it was a very infrequent occurrence. It was rare because thieves understood if they were caught there would be consequences, and even punishment, perish the thought! A criminal would have to raise bail to be released. If not, he would have to spend...

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. After the last of the old Senate Democrat Klansmen rode off into the sunset, it’s the turn of the longest serving former official of a racist hate group to throw his own retirement party.Rep. Bobby Rush, the former Deputy Minister of Defense for the Black Panthers, announced that he’s joining his fellow Democrats fleeing the sinking ship ahead of the midterms, not for political reasons mind you, but in order to spend more time with his...

The one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot arrives this week with Americans still sharply divided over the afternoon-long episode’s significance and severity as Democrats, hemorrhaging support and facing the loss of Congress in this year's midterms, sternly present a media spectacle of public events to emphasize what they see as the threat posed to democracy by Donald Trump and his party, as represented by that day. There is no comparable scrutiny of the nationwide summer 2020 riots over George Floyd’s murder, protests endorsed by many on the left amid a virulent pandemic -- although polling has shown that...

Transcript: Miranda Devine: Thank you so much. It's just such a treat to be here. It's such a wonderful occasion, and of course, my first time at Restoration Weekend, and amazing to follow James O'Keefe. I've come to know Project Veritas and admire them very much because they do a lot of the gonzo journalism, the really uncomfortable, behind-the-scenes uncovering of people's secrets that used to be the province of all journalists and seems now to have been sort of given away. It's too hard, it's too dangerous, and maybe they don't want to uncover secrets. So I mean, it's...

Vice President Kamala Harris set the stage yesterday for the Left’s exploitation of the first anniversary of the Capitol riot one year ago with incendiary remarks that outrageously compared the events of January 6, 2021, with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and the Islamist terrorist attacks on America’s homeland on Sept. 11, 2001. This morbid comparison dishonors the thousands of lives lost on both of those catastrophic days and is a declaration of war on the millions of Americans who reject her corrupt administration. When Biden took his turn, the self-proclaimed unifier delivered an...

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The November jobs report is out and the highlight is that US Average Hourly Earnings GREW at a rate of 4.7% YoY. Unfortunately, inflation is still raging resulting in REAL US Average Hourly Earnings DECLINING at a rate of -1.71% YoY. REAL US home price growth is slowing and is at 12.856% YoY as REAL average hourly earnings slowed to -1.7094% YoY. The lowlight of the November jobs report is that only 199K jobs were added versus the 450K jobs expected to be added. At least the unemployment rate fell to 3.9%. Yes, REAL wage growth and REAL home price...

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Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham slammed both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Thursday for the speeches they made on the anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riot. “What brazen politicization of January 6 by President Biden,” Graham wrote in a tweet Thursday morning, while Biden was still speaking. Graham expounded on his position in a Twitter thread later Thursday morning. “I still cannot believe a mob was able to take over the United States Capitol during such a pivotal moment – certifying a presidential election,” Graham wrote. “It would have been so easy for terrorists to...

Sky-high European demand drove U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to a record in December, Refinitiv data showed, with winter supply worries set to sustain orders for the fuel. About half of the record U.S. LNG volumes shipped last month went to Europe, up from 37% earlier in 2021, data from Refinitiv and the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed.

>>> WRAL OBTAINED A VIDEO OF A FATAL ROAD RAGE INCIDENT. IT PLAYED QUICKLY. >> Reporter: IT UNFOLDED EXTREMELY QUICKLY. THIS IS THE MAN SHOT AND KILLED IN THE ROAD RAGE SITUATION IN FAYETTEVILLE. WE'VE BEEN LEARNING NEW DETAILS ABOUT THIS FOR THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. THIS IS A STILL SHOT OF THE VIDEO YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE. THIS MAN WAS A PASSENGER IN THIS VEHICLE. THIS IS THE VICTIM RIGHT HERE, HE'S POINTED AT THE PASSENGER, THE SHOTS CAME FROM INSIDE THIS VEHICLE ACCORDING TO POLICE. THE POLICE ASKED FOR VIDEO AND TONIGHT THEY HAVE IT. AND SOMEONE...

Two cases will be argued today beginning at 10. National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor (OSHA Mandate) and Biden v. Missouri (Healthcare mandate) Audio here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx

One year after announcing they would no longer sell MyPillow products, Bed Bath & Beyond announced more than $100 million in third quarter losses and the closure of 37 stores. Even a devout Southern Baptist can recognize that as karma. Bed Bath & Beyond said the closures were part of an overall strategy announced in 2020 to eventually close some 200 stores. The news came on the same day the company announced third quarter losses of $100 million. I’m sure the CEO of Bed Bath & Beyond is having trouble getting a good night’s rest. It’s just too bad he...

Cyber Ninjas, a firm hired by the Arizona state Senate to conduct a review of Maricopa County’s election results, on Thursday announced that it is shutting down after a county government report slammed the firm and a judge ordered it to pay $50,000 a day in fines. Same (sic) Levine, a reporter for The Guardian, first reported the news of Cyber Ninjas closing down on Thursday, tweeting that CEO “Doug Logan and the rest of the employees have been let go and Cyber Ninjas is being shut down.”

It’s a lie that Americans were told repeatedly in the all-out government and media effort to get every living being in the United States jabbed: “Vaccines stop the spread.” VIDEOS AT LINK............... President Biden himself told the known lie in October 2021, and even “fact checkers” wouldn’t back him up. “We’re making sure healthcare workers are vaccinated because if you seek care at a healthcare facility, you should have the certainty that the people providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you,” Biden claimed. It is important to note that this was a deliberate lie...

PHOENIX — A judge says he will fine the contractor that led Arizona Republicans' 2020 election review $50,000 a day if the firm doesn’t immediately turn over public records related to the unprecedented inquiry. The judge on Thursday found Cyber Ninjas in contempt for its failure to turn over documents in response to a lawsuit filed by The Arizona Republic newspaper. It's one of two suits seeking Cyber Ninjas records under Arizona transparency laws. A lawyer for Cyber Ninjas says the company is insolvent and has laid off all employees including former CEO Doug Logan. The company maintains it is...

STORY AT-A-GLANCE: * According to Collette Martin, a practicing nurse who testified before a Louisiana Health and Welfare Committee hearing December 6, 2021, children are having “terrifying” reactions to the COVID shot, yet her concerns are simply dismissed * The average number of adverse event reports following vaccination for the past 10 years has been about 39,000 annually, with an average of 155 deaths. * That’s for all available vaccines combined. The COVID jabs alone now account for 983,756 adverse event reports as of December 17, 2021, including 20,622 deaths — and this doesn’t include the underreporting factor, which we...