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Arizona GOP state Rep. Jake Hoffman has introduced a bill that would divide Maricopa County into four counties – three that favored President Trump during the 2020 election and one solidly blue county that would encapsulate Democrat voters in and around Phoenix. Republicans in Arizona have been battling officials in Maricopa County (some of them Republicans themselves) since the 2020 election, and more recently the audit of the county's vote totals. A spokesperson for the Arizona state House Republican Caucus, members of which are supporting the proposal, calls the bill a "legislative proposal with bipartisan support designed to ensure that...

It's hard to find a national issue with bipartisan 75% support (and only 5% opposition). Those are the numbers of Americans who want to restrict congressional members from trading stock. It's not surprising that Congress still hasn't acted; a lot of members want to keep making money stock trading while in office. A competent congressional leadership would push this issue, but it's not clear we have that today. There is a growing sentiment in America that those in power are playing by a different set of rules. Politicians flouting their own COVID-19 restrictions have exacerbated this long-running trend. The Pew...

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"We see a Democratic Party that wants to use administrative and judicial power to confront political speech," Gaetz says. Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz told Just the News that he thinks the House Jan. 6 Select Committee will try "disqualifying" former President Trump from running for president again. "Disqualifying potential candidates is the newest and most dangerous iteration of cancel culture," Gaetz said on Thursday. "I believe the January 6th committee is going to try to do it regarding Donald Trump. I believe some woke activists in North Carolina are trying to do it right now in a very important...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of an Arab party in Israel who made history last year by joining the governing coalition said Thursday he would not use the word “apartheid” to describe relations between Jews and Arabs within the country... “I would not call it apartheid,” Mansour Abbas said in response to a question at an online event organized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a D.C-based think tank. He noted that he was in the coalition and could join the government itself if he wanted to. "I prefer to describe the reality in objective ways,” he added,...

The headline was absolutely shocking in and of itself: “’My son didn't even know what oral was!’ Parents slam Connecticut school district for asking eighth-graders to share their sexual desires in the form of pizza toppings in bizarre assignment.” But what also got my attention when I read the rest of the story was the location of this school: Enfield, Connecticut. It was in Enfield on July 8, 1741 that Jonathan Edwards, America’s most famous 18th century philosopher and theologian, preached his most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” This was in the days of the...

A scarcity economy begins with inflationary hikes. Consumer prices surged more than expected over the past 12 months, indicating a worsening outlook for inflation and cementing the likelihood of substantial interest rate hikes this year. With all of the things that have transpired, from bad weather, wildfires, disasters and even food chain shortages — I often wonder what it takes to get people to invest in protecting their own food chain and the ability to have some kind of food that provides and calories necessary to survive. I guess a lot of people need the mainstream media to convince them...

"We're all in this together" …or are we? Solidarity and banging pots is all well and good. Unfortunately, when it comes to many hospitals, what they're "all in together" is a scheme to exploit a valuable federal drug discount program intended for the poor in order to pad their own pockets. And it's been going on for decades. The program in question is the 340B Drug Pricing Program -- and the spirit of the legislation was to improve low-income patients' access to prescription drugs. Motherhood and apple pie. Alas, according to a new report from the Berkeley Consulting Group (BRG),...

Joe Biden, the President, can't keep his countries straight: "There is no way we were ever going to unite Ukraine…I mean excuse me Iraq…Afghanistan." pic.twitter.com/F1UT8JjM2s — TheBlaze (@theblaze) February 11, 2022 Embarrassing moment from tonight’s interview with Lester Holt. VIDEO AT LINK......................

On December 31, 1977, President Jimmy Carter toasted the Shah at a state dinner at Niavaran Palace in Iran. I remember it like it was yesterday. Fresh from completing my undergrad at UCLA, I was watching the state dinner on the evening news when to my surprise, I caught a glimpse of my uncle, who was a senior Foreign Ministry official. My brother Hossein nudged me with his elbow to inquire if I’d seen him and we exchanged a surprised glance. But that was hardly the only surprise of the day. In his toast, Carter described Iran as “an island...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEphesians 623 Peace to the brothers and sisters,[c] and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.[d] _______________________________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

China launched a cyber attack against a major American media institution. Russia is amassing troops on Ukraine’s border. Hundreds of thousands of people illegally cross America’s southern border and nearly 44,000 bridges across our country are deemed structurally deficient. That’s just a smattering of the serious issues facing our country while we continue fumbling our way through the pandemic unleashed by China. Considering all that, why would we take the time to opine about bullying and complaining about how more needs to be done, yada-yada? Fair question. I thought the same. Is bullying, especially cyberbullying, really an issue worthy of...

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WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb. 10. AMENDMENTS TO THE TREASURY-NOTE BILL. The Senate Finance Committee reported back the Treasury-note bill of the House to-day, with two amendments: First, making interest on the Government bonds payable in coin, and setting aside duties on imports and other revenues for that purpose; second, allowing interest at the rate of five percent, on deposits of Treasury notes for thirty days or over to the amount of $25,000,000. The legal-tender clause will pass the Senate by a large majority. IMPORTANT ORDER FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT -- ONE OF THE HERALD CORRESPONDENTS IN FORT M'HENRY. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON,...

11 February 2022 Friday of week 5 in Ordinary Time Altar of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes Quezon City, Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Kings 11:29-32,12:19 ©Solomon is unfaithful; the Lord moderates his wrathOne day when Jeroboam had gone out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah of Shiloh accosted him on the road. Ahijah was wearing a new cloak; the two of them were in the open country by themselves. Ahijah took the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve strips, saying to Jeroboam, ‘Take ten strips for yourself, for thus the Lord...

Joe Biden called Lester Holt a 'wise guy' during a TV interview on Thursday after the he asked him for his definition of 'temporary' on the day inflation showed no sign of slowing and instead hit a 40-year high. "I think it was back in July, you said inflation was going to be temporary," said Holt. "I think a lot of Americans are wondering what your definition of temporary is." Biden smiled as he pushed back: "Well, you're being a wise guy with me a little bit. I understand, that's your job." The issue has sent Biden's approval ratings plunging...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order on Friday to move some $7 billion of the Afghan central bank’s assets frozen in the U.S. banking system to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a U.S. official familiar with the decision. The order will require U.S. financial institutions to facilitate access to $3.5 billion of assets for Afghan relief and basic needs. The other $3.5 billion would remain in the United States and be used to fund ongoing litigation by U.S. victims of terrorism, the...

A long-necked dinosaur that roamed present-day Montana 150 million years ago likely suffered from a respiratory infection, according to a study published in Scientific Reports on Thursday, the first evidence of a respiratory infection in dinosaurs which experts believe could have caused flu-like symptoms including coughing and fever

On February 2, 2022, the Georgia Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted 6-3 to pass SB 319, the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act. SB 319 now goes to the full Senate for a vote. 31 of 56 Georgia State Senators have signed on as sponsors of the bill. It seems likely the full Senate will vote in favor of the measure.There is a similar measure in the Georgia House; HB2. The Bill was filed last year but was not acted on. A committee vote has not been taken on the House bill, either last year or this year. HB 2 currently...

Here in the mostly-deep-blue Northeast of the U.S., our genius politicians of the Democratic persuasion have determined to save the world — no, make that the “planet” — by greatly increasing the local voters’ cost of energy. This is the punishment you must bear to atone for your horrible sin of living a comfortable modern lifestyle. If you live in the Northeast, the mechanism of making you suffer goes under the name of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI. The members of RGGI are all six New England states, plus New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Pennsylvania...