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California Democrat has consistently paid daughter campaign cash since 2003 ... Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., paid her daughter another $24,000 in campaign cash during the most recent quarter, Federal Election Commission records reviewed by Fox News Digital show. Karen Waters, who has been organizing slate-mailing operations to bolster her mother's re-election for nearly two decades, and her company, Progressive Connections, have received more than $1.2 million since 2003 for campaign services, including "slate mailer management" fees and "campaign managing services." ... Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., paid out nearly $3 million to her husband Tim Mynett's political consulting firm, the E...

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Watching politics as a blood sport is fun. Liberal tears. And a few conservative ones too. Trump demolishing just about everyone in the 2016 primariess. Tulsi Gabbard dismantling Kamala Harris law and order reputation. Ronald Reagan winning with four magic words "There you go again." In Australia now, the great polticians to watch are the radical conservatives hitting back at progressive crap. Scott Morrison at his best is one of them. But at his worst he is a Mitt Romney Judas. My favourite right now is Becky Spelman. She is young and still learning but as one very senior parliamentarian...

The miles of trails in Santa Teresa and Calero County Parks are some of the best in the Bay Area with challenging terrain leading to breathtaking views. “This park here, every time I ride it I realize it’s just a jewel,” said cyclist Robert Lombardi. Although both park’s boundaries are close to each other, they’ve always been separated by roads and private property causing users who ride or hike between them to brave McKean Road which has no bike lane and sometimes dangerous drivers. “Sometimes people are passing each other and going much faster than they should,” Lombardi said. But...

Ohio Republican leaders are calling on President Trump to not endorse J.D. Vance in the state’s Senate primary in a letter that surfaced on Thursday. The letter, which was signed by more than 30 signatories from various county GOP chairs as well as state central steering committee members, cites Ohio Republicans’ support for Trump in 2016 and 2020 and Vance’s past anti-Trump comments. “While we were working hard in Ohio to support you and Make America Great Again, JD Vance was actively working against your candidacy,” the Republicans wrote. “He referred to your supporters as ‘racists’ and proudly voted for...

BRANDYWINE, MARYLAND - DECEMBER 13: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris talks about the effect of pollution on her sight and taste remarks at the Prince George’s County Brandywine Maintenance Facility on December 13, 2021 in Brandywine, Maryland. The county is working to electrify its entire vehicle fleet. During the visit Harris announced the Biden Administration's new Electric Vehicle Charging Action Plan that works to fast-track investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and create a joint electric vehicles office between the departments of Energy and Transportation. Vice President Kamala Harris visited the city of Brotherly Love on Tuesday to address members...

Nikki Fried is a top Florida Democrat. Fried boasts of being the only statewide elected Democrat since 2012. She is currently the Florida Agriculture Commissioner in the Sunshine State. On Friday Fried held a rally to discuss the recent 15-week abortion bill signed by Governor Ron DeSantis. Only 10 people showed up — including staff!

A transgender psychologist who has helped hundreds of teens transition has warned that it has “gone too far” — and fears many are making life-changing decisions because it’s “trendy” and pushed on social media. Erica Anderson, 71 — who is transgender herself — told the Los Angeles Times that she is horrified that even 13-year-old kids are now getting hormone treatment without even meeting with psychologists. “I think it’s gone too far,” said Anderson, who until recently led the US professional society at the forefront of transgender care. “For a while, we were all happy that society was becoming more...

Dozens of children in the UK and Europe, as well as some in the U.S., have come down with symptoms of hepatitis not currently explained by known causes. Theories for the outbreak include the resurgence of an existing but usually quieter germ, complications of covid-19, or even the arrival of a novel or mutated virus. Hepatitis is most often caused by a group of five unrelated viruses (hepatitis A through E), but it’s actually a formal term for any kind of liver inflammation. Various infectious diseases, heavy alcohol use, toxins, and even certain medications can all cause hepatitis. Symptoms range...

If you’ve ever hiked around Utah, you probably never thought about how those trails came to be. Utah’s hidden heroes are those trail workers who work to create and maintain trails around Utah. Trails Utah is one non-profit group that is dedicated to planning, funding, and building trails throughout Utah. It’s a process most people don’t think about often. Sarah Bennett is the executive director and one of the biggest advocates of Trails Utah. Her work goes back to the early 2000s when she helped fund and create the Emigration Canyon Trails Master Plan. “By the time you actually get...

Introducing the members of the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines committee.Steve KirschApr 13 SummaryThe members of COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel of the NIH apparently doesn’t seem to place any value on human life. In this article, I will show several examples of this.At no time is there ever a risk-benefit analysis where a dollar amount is placed on the value of a human life. For example, if there are 100 trials and 90% of the trials were positive and 10% were neutral, should the NIH recommend the drug?Unfortunately, they aren’t accountable to anyone, so they will never have to defend their...

Fox News makes Peter Doocy sound like ‘stupid son of a bitch,’ Psaki says White House press secretary Jen Psaki attacked Fox News during a podcast taping Thursday night, claiming the cable network fed White House correspondent Peter Doocy questions that “might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a bitch.” Psaki — who is reportedly weeks away from leaving the White House for a gig with Fox rival MSNBC — made the comment while recording an episode of “Pod Save America,” which is hosted by ex-Obama White House aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor.

Longtime Ladera resident and author Jean Rusmore on a hike at age 95. Courtesy Teri Coppedge. Jean E. Heying Rusmore, a longtime Ladera resident and co-author of the hiking guide Peninsula Trails, died on April 1 at age 101 in Aptos. Rusmore, who lived in Ladera for nearly six decades, was a person of wide-ranging interests, guided by her love for other people nature, and this fascinating world, according to an obituary written by her family. "It's hard to say what I'll miss the most," said her daughter, Kaki Rusmore, in an email. "Her ability to see the good in...

Anon-earthquake event triggered the USGS ShakeAlert system, which dozens of people across the county reported feeling, despite it not being an earthquake. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) issued a statement via Twitter: Hi everyone - #ShakeAlert detected a non-earthquake event which triggered our system. Fortunately, no public alerts were sent out. This is a bit of a first time for us because these events happen so rarely. Apologies for any confusion from our previous tweets. — USGS ShakeAlert (@USGS_ShakeAlert) April 15, 2022 The USGS said they are investigating the cause of the non-earthquake event, and also tweeted they're improving the...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public. An article in Scientific American back in January 2020 reported:“Snakes—the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra—may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China this winter.”The article originated from a Chinese authored paper published in the Journal of Medical Virology on 22 January 2020...

Packed to the rafters with carnivorous plants of all shapes and sizes, one greenhouse local to Colorado Springs stands as a testament to both a passion gone wild as well as a concerted effort to preserve rare plants for the future. For Jeremiah Harris, a Colorado Springs local, the journey to collect, preserve, and propagate as many carnivorous plants as humanly possible started way back when he was a kid. "When I was like four or five years old," commented Jeremiah, "I was fascinated with reptiles, insects, and carnivorous plants." Following one truly exceptional day in his early years, Jeremiah's...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was left flabbergasted by Charlamagne Tha God on Friday after “The Breakfast Club” host told him that black Americans are skeptical of the Democratic Party. “You do realize Pete, a lot of black people feel like Democrats have kept no promises since they’ve been in office,” Charlamagne told Buttigieg during Friday’s edition of the hit radio show. “Really?” responded the former South Bend, Ind. mayor, raising his eyebrows in disbelief. “Yes,” host responded. “Reverend Al [Sharpton] said that a million times.”

Controversial feminist author Jill Filipovic is preaching the “overwhelmingly negative consequences” of stay-at-home moms — and social media watchdogs are coming for her. Filipovic, 38, detailed her stance that these mothers create “worse, more sexist” men — and women who are “psychologically and emotionally worse off” — in a now-viral Twitter thread published on Tuesday. SNIP “The problem with paying people to stay home with kids, though, is that (1) we’re overwhelmingly not talking about ‘people,’ we’re talking about mothers; and (2) pushing women out of work comes with overwhelmingly negative consequences,” begins the thread by the outspoken author of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Western banks of failing to pay for Russian gas supplies after he demanded that European Union member states and other countries pay for Russian gas in rubles. Speaking at a meeting on the current situation in the country's oil and gas sector on April 14, Putin blamed Western partners for what he called "defaults on export deliveries of Russian energy resources." "Banks from these extremely unfriendly states are withholding the transfer of payments," Putin said. Last month, Putin demanded that EU nations pay for gas supplies in rubles as crippling international sanctions slapped on...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public. In his latest set of slides of blood samples taken from both “vaccinated” and unvaccinated people, Dr. Philippe van Welbergen demonstrated that the graphene being injected into people is organising and growing into larger fibres and structures, gaining magnetic properties or an electrical charge and the fibres are showing indications of more complex structures with striations.He also...