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Virginia will join other Republican-led states and business groups in challenging Biden administration mandates intended to increase the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate once GOP Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares take office, the two said in a statement Friday. “While we believe that the vaccine is a critical tool in the fight against COVID-19, we strongly believe that the Federal government cannot impose its will and restrict the freedoms of Americans and that Virginia is at its best when her people are allowed to make the best decisions for their families or businesses," they said in the joint...

... They were making very clear to him explicitly clear Republican senators like Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio and Mitch McConnell that if you do any of those things that you are considering doing, pardoning Assange and Snowden, declassifying JFK files, declassifying other secrets that should have been declassified long ago because they're from decades old treachery on the part of the US government, we will vote to impeach you. They had this leverage the sword of Damocles hanging over his head, and I am not saying this to justify Trump's cowardly refusal to do what he should have done...

Social media users on Friday balked at a graphic the White House posted online that claimed President Biden has created far more jobs than any other commander-in-chief. Ever," the post boasted. The graphic – which appeared on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook – was posted just hours after a disappointing jobs report showed hiring had fallen far below expectations in December. While the numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics appeared to be accurate, the raw data failed to show important context.

Want to know what Dick Armey really thinks about Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, John Boehner and other notable Republicans? Get “Leader” and you’ll see. In a way that seemingly only Armey can, he gives the reader a fly-on-the-wall perspective on every meeting that went on during that tumultuous period, providing his honest opinion on all the “rebels,” and honest introspection on how he could have handled things better. With “Leader” Armey sets the record straight.

People Get Ready! There’s a train a coming. Its called The Federal Reserve. The market is pricing in 3 rate increases in 2022. And perhaps a faster than expected withdrawal of balance sheet stimulus. As a result, The Russell 2000 Growth index is plunging (orange line) relative to the Russell 2000 Value index (white line) which is down in 2021. The Société Générale (SGI) US value and “quality” indices are telling the same story. The SGI US “Quality” index is falling like a paralyzed falcon while the SGI US Value index is up for 2022. It is somewhat mystifying that...

Harry Reid came from a town where you couldn’t afford to stay down. When he was just 11 years old, Harry followed his father hundreds of feet underground into the mines below Searchlight, Nev., where he would pan for gold and keep his dad company as the older man pounded through nearly impenetrable rock. He spent his childhood one cave-in or errant blasting cap away from becoming a fatality of those mines, as his father’s brother and a neighbor had become just a few years before. But Harry always came back up.

President Joe Biden and his administration are moving to fight inflation in the meat sector. But the government solutions he's proposing to what is largely a government-created calamity will likely only serve to deepen existing problems. Many of the meat-industry problems the Biden administration identifies as in need of fixing are very real. For example, the administration says meat prices are through the roof. That's true. The administration says the meatpacking industry is highly consolidated, with just four giant companies responsible for slaughtering and processing nearly 7 out of every 8 pounds of beef (and slightly lower amounts of pork...

A newly released video by The New York state attorney general shows a man bursting into flames after being tased by police officers inside an upstate police station in October, an encounter that led to the man’s death. The graphic surveillance video shows three officers from the Catskill Police Department running away from the man, who was desperately trying to quench the fire engulfing his upper body and head. The 29-year-old man, Jason Jones, passed away on the 15th of December at a hospital in Syracuse after spending a month and two weeks in a medically-induced coma. Jones’ death is...

She allegedly placed her son in the trunk of her car to avoid being exposed to the teen, who she told authorities had COVID-19. She allegedly told officials that the two were there to do additional testing for her son. Officials first became aware of the incident after a noise coming from the trunk was heard by a witness, and the trunk was later unhatched by the Texas teacher, KPRC 2 Houston reported. The witness then contacted police after Beam was reportedly told that the teen needed to be removed from the trunk and placed in the back seat, or...

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan. 7. The Committee of Ways and Means have concluded to provide by taxation for a hundred and fifty millions during the current year. The Committee of Ways and Means should not fail to impose a monthly tax on those who perform the office of sutlers to our armies. It is an exclusive privilege and a very valuable one. Merchants in civil life always pay a license. Those who sell in the camps should do likewise, and the funds go into the Government treasury. The average value of a sutlership to a regiment is said to be $6,000...

Sonia Sotomayor, whose U.S. Supreme Court career inauspiciously launched with a number of claims about her lies, on Friday ran up the flagpole a series of claims about COVID that, while repeated regularly to bolster the vaccine idolization of the Biden administration, were just wrong. "We have over 100,000 children," she claimed, "…in serious condition and many on ventilators."

We Have Less Than Two Weeks to Finalize PreparationJanuary 7, 2022 | sundance | 716 CommentsI do not know how better to emphasize the points other than to be direct and brutally honest. Sometimes you just have to call the baby ugly. The window to prepare for the incoming crisis of our lifetime is now down to two weeks. Hopefully, that is specific enough.As we have discussed on these pages, the interventionist policies and regulations from the people creating the COVID response (writ large) have been fubar from the beginning. {Go Deep} When they shut down the restaurants and hospitality...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemActs 7The Stoning of Stephen 54 When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. 55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” 57 At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, 58 dragged him out of...

Of course, this is not making headlines but in the next two weeks Joe Biden is planning on shutting down a significant portion of the trade pipeline with Canada. According to government figures U.S. goods and services trade with Canada totaled an estimated $718.4 billion in 2019. Exports were $360.4 billion; imports were $358.0 billion. Canada was the largest goods export market in 2019. Canada was the United States’ 3rd largest supplier of goods imports in 2019. U.S. goods imports from Canada totaled $319.4 billion. 70% of that trade is moved by truck. In about a week the Joe Biden’s...

I had Covid over Christmas break, after my triple-vaxxed husband brought it home from a conference, which means two things: I now have natural immunity, and you will never persuade me that vaccinated people don’t spread the virus to others. That was supposed to be the rationale for vaccine passports. If vaccines prevented the spread of Covid, then there might be value in giving people the peace of mind of knowing their local cafe or museum or office building was a safe space where nobody would infect them. Now that vaccines turn out to be better at protecting yourself than...

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday cited the Biden administration's admission that his COVID mandate for Americans is a "work-around," a path that essentially goes around what the law would require or allow. His comments came as the six-member majority of the court that appear to be more conservative hinted about their decision in the pending case that challenges Joe Biden's demands that health care workers, and workers at large companies, can be forced to accept the experimental COVID shots. Fox News noted that the justices seemed "split along ideological lines on vaccine requirements affecting nearly 100 million...

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Idea to end "paper" fire district is facing resistance. Its only job is to send money to two other entities. Illinois politicians often call for reducing that number. But it's a difficult task to eliminate any entity. Even the district's trustees call it a "paper" entity. . It simply sends most of its property tax money to the city of Elmhurst and Bensenville Fire District No. 2, which serves its namesake municipality. Last year, the fire district in the unincorporated area collected $290,000 in property taxes. Its only job is the mere act of sending a big check annually to...

If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not exist, Steve Bannon would have to invent her. She is indeed the gift that keeps on giving, well after the holiday season is over. And now we learn that the person whose “democratic” socialism requires carbon dating to see how old and decrepit it is thinks Republicans don’t like her because they secretly want to date her. How that’s hot, as in hot mess. I hope she is the face of Democrats for a very long time. Did anything else happen this week?