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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, WHITE HOUSE, May 17 -- 10 30 P.M. Hon. E.M. Stanton, Secretary of War: A combined naval and army expedition, under Capt. MURRAY, U.S.N., with troops and artillery under Major WILLIARD and Capt. AYRES, of the army, went some twenty-five miles up the Pamunkey River to-day, and forced the rebels to destroy two steamers and some twenty schooners. The expedition was admirably managed, and all concerned deserve great credit. We have advanced considerably to-day. The roads are now improving. GEO. B. MCCLELLAN, Major-General. WHITE HOUSE, Va., Sunday, May 18. The advance guard of our forces...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the Republican Party under former President Donald Trump’s leadership is “trying to trample the constitutional rights of the people.” When asked about Doug Mastriano winning the Republican nomination for PA governor, Raskin said, “I mean, it’s an astonishing nominee, even from the standpoint of public statements he’s made. He’s an absolute enthusiast and cheerleader for the insurrection. He opposes abortion in all cases, across the board, including rape and incest. He has basically ingested the entire right-wing extremist agenda. Even Republicans are struggling to distance themselves from him right...

Denmark (Precision Vaccinations) The U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has exercised the final $12 million option for JYNNEOS, an innovative combination of Smallpox and Monkeypox vaccine. JYNNEOS is the only U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved non-replicating smallpox and monkeypox vaccine for preventing disease in adults 18 years of age and older.

It's been a few days since some freak decided to go on a shooting spree, and the left told you it was all your fault because this toad scribbled an incoherent series of idiot ramblings blaming people of other races and ethnicities for his own total failure at life. No mystery about motive this time; the FBI was right on the case, and shame on you for drawing the obvious conclusion that this was because the administration felt this incident could be exploited for cheap political gain. Except it hasn't worked the way that they hoped. Their lies aren't cutting...

UK headline inflation hit 9% in April, marking its highest level in 40 years thanks in large part to the rising costs of gas and electricity which has driven the average bill close to £2,000 (US$2,484), according to the Office for National Statistics. Average petrol prices rose to a record 161.8p a litre in April 2022 from 125.5p a year earlier. Diesel was another factor behind the increase in the consumer prices index from 7% in February after the average cost at the pumps hit a record high of 176.1p a litre, leading to an average increase over the last...

A handful of Republican lawmakers bucked their party on Wednesday in votes on two separate bills aiming to address the nationwide baby formula shortage causing rising concern for parents across the country. The main bill, dubbed the Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Act, passed in a 231-192 vote that mainly broke along party lines. Four Republicans and one Democrat did not vote. The legislation would grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) $28 million in emergency funding to respond to the scarcity of baby formula. Twelve Republicans bucked House GOP leadership and voted for the legislation: Reps. Don Bacon (Neb.), Brian...

The Biden Administration’s Department of Education (DOE) is making plans to reverse Title IX regulations that had been implemented by the Trump Administration to more greatly protect free speech rights in education. The Daily Caller reports that the soon-to-be-unveiled rewrite by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), focusing on Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments, will roll back the Trump-era rules dictating that public schools, from K-12 to college, must investigate claims of sexual misconduct in a fair an unbiased manner. The rules implemented by President Trump allowed greater rights to both the accused and the accuser in such...

Victor Davis Hanson, eminent classicist, provides this warning to Americans in the lead of his most recent article at Epoch Times, updated May 16: Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable.It may prove in this momentous decade that the American Empire falls. But take heart, because the fall of the empire — aren't all empires finally a bundle of conceits destined to collapse? — may lead to the revival of the American Republic. The visions of empire and republic are as starkly different as George...

“Specie (gold and silver coin) is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level, because having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.” – Thomas Jefferson Since no current President or Prime Minister nor any Central Bank Chairman understands what money is or the relevance of gold, we turn above back to history and Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president for a proper definition. Jefferson also understood that “Paper is Poverty, It is only the Ghost of Money, and not Money...

At least 135 teachers and teachers’ aides have been arrested so far this year on child sex-related crimes in the U.S., ranging from child pornography to raping students. An analysis conducted by Fox News Digital looked at local news stories week by week featuring arrests of teachers and teachers’ aides on child sex-related crimes in school districts across the country. Arrests that weren't publicized were not counted in the analysis, meaning the true number may well be higher. The analysis found that at least 135 teachers and teachers’ aides have been arrested in 41 states between January 1 and May...

As the Cold War wound down in the early 1990s and the threat from the Soviet Union receded, the reason why the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created disappeared. But bureaucracies die hard, and bureaucratic and political inertia are often hard to overcome. An alliance established to contain the Soviet Union needed a new purpose, and like other going concerns and political organisms, NATO would either expand or die. So it expanded. And it began to expand at the same time that the United States was urging Russia to join the West in a "partnership for peace," and to...

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Does Nina Jankowicz believe that a presidency dependent on disinformation, with a dependent as president, makes the world safe for democracy? Editor’s note: Soon after this article was filed, the Washington Post reported the White House would put the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board “on pause” and that the board’s executive director, Nina Jankowicz, had tendered her resignation Wednesday morning. Although the Post story portrays Jankowicz as the victim of a coordinated attack from the Right, there was plenty about her that the public needed to know, which the press seemed reluctant to investigate, much less share. Here...

eady for your kid to be charged with sexual harassment for refusing to say "xir" or "zhim"? All rights, including freedom of religion, stem from freedom of speech. Without free speech, we have nothing. Zero. In complete disregard for this basic American value, free speech is regarded by the left as an outdated concept. Mark Steyn, author of America Alone, observed that we are turning into "one vast college campus," where there is one correct view and all others are prohibited. On such a "campus," there is no room for free speech. The latest manifestation of the left's distorted vision...

"I'm hit" were the last words the FBI heard from Agent Ronald Williams. On June 26, 1975, just before noon, FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, in separate vehicles, were searching for a fugitive, Jimmy Eagle. The agents followed a suspect suburban containing three individuals from a rural highway onto a dirt road leading to the Jumping Bull family farm in a remote corner of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The suburban stopped at a distance, as did the agents, who were now exposed in an open field. The beginning The unprovoked attack and what followed...

A Democrat witness testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on abortion rights Thursday declared that men can get pregnant and have abortions. Aimee Arrambide, the executive director of the abortion rights nonprofit Avow Texas, was asked by Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., to define what "a woman is," to which she responded, "I believe that everyone can identify for themselves." "Do you believe that men can become pregnant and have abortions?" Bishop asked. "Yes," Arrambide replied. The remarks from Arrambide followed a tense exchange between Bishop and Dr. Yashica Robinson, another Democrat witness, after he similarly asked her to define "woman."

Anti-liberty leftists are always projecting their true national agenda, and they are currently doing it at full volume. Do you find it extraordinarily odd that one extremist side of the political spectrum has been driven to distraction with one topic of discussion? Has everyone taken notice that just one far end of the spectrum can't stop its fixation with this subject matter? These are some of the more disturbing examples that show the anti-liberty left has lost the plot: -We Can Replace Them (New York Times) -'Replacement' conspiracies driving gunmen creep into mainstream politics (CNN) -Buffalo shooting pushes 'great replacement...

The House passed a resolution on Wednesday condemning the rise of antisemitism in a nearly unanimous vote, with one Republican lawmaker objecting to the measure. The resolution passed 420-1, with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) representing the only vote against it. Eight other Republicans did not vote. The Hill reached out to Massie for comment on his vote. The resolution calls on elected officials, faith leaders and leaders in civil society to use their positions of authority “to condemn and combat any and all manifestations of antisemitism.” The measure also urges individuals to denounce denials or distortions of the Holocaust, and...

Nearly a dozen incumbent lawmakers lost their re-election bids in Tuesday’s primary election including one, possibly two, long-time Republicans who hold top caucus leadership posts. Rep. Stan Saylor of York County and Sen. Pat Browne of Lehigh County, both Republicans, serve as the majority chairman of the powerful appropriations committee in their respective chambers. In those roles, they review all legislation to determine its fiscal impact on taxpayers and play a role in helping to shape the state budget. Saylor, who was first elected to the House in 1992, has served as the appropriations committee chairman since 2016. Prior to...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Supreme Court announced this morning its decisions in cases that involve state and congressional reapportioned districts around 10:30 a.m. In a decision on Wednesday by the Kansas Supreme Court, the redrawn redistricting maps are upheld as constitutional. The state Supreme Court declined to declare that overly partisan gerrymandering violates the Kansas Constitution. The ruling sets district boundaries less than a month before the state’s June 10 filing deadline for congressional candidates. The state’s Republican-appointed solicitor general argued in defending the GOP-drawn map that because the state constitution doesn’t specifically mention gerrymandering or congressional redistricting, the...