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“Pres Biden reportedly sold oil fr[om] American reserves to China’s Sinopec which Hunter Biden may still b[e] tied to via his financial ventures in China. If report correct that’s OUTRAGEOUS.” — Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), in a tweet, July 8... The Facts This is all started with a straightforward Reuters article that appeared this month, headlined: “Oil from U.S. reserves sent overseas as gasoline prices stay high.” The article noted that government data showed that more than 5 million barrels released from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has been exported to Europe and Asia in June. The Biden...

A second venue has scrapped plans to host the premiere of a film featuring several prominent right-wing Pennsylvania figures, most notably State Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is the Republican candidate for governor. The movie, “Return of the American Patriot: The Rise of Pennsylvania,” was originally scheduled to premiere July 16 at Lititz-area theater Penn Cinema, but was canceled by the venue following pushback from members of the progressive advocacy group Lancaster Stands Up. After Penn Cinema dropped the showing, Steven Turley, a popular right-wing Youtuber who produced the film, announced the premiere would be held on the same date at...

Oberlin College is facing $4 million in interest charges after refusing to pay $33 million in court-ordered defamation damages to a mom-and-pop bakery that it slandered as racist. Gibson’s Bakery is reportedly struggling to survive after Oberlin College students and dean of students Meredith Raimondo falsely accused the business of racism. Moreover, students are continuing to boycott the 137 year-old bakery, despite the allegations being proven false. To make matters worse, the woke Ohio college is not paying its court-ordered damage to Gibson’s Bakery. Now, Oberlin College faces paying $4 million in interest on top of what the school already...

Europe has been under intense pressure in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with higher energy costs pushing up inflation across the region. “Unfortunately, inflation continues to surprise on the upside, so it’s once again going to be revised upwards,” said Valdis Dombrovskis, executive vice president at the European Commission. France’s Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said over the weekend that Europe needed to prepare itself for a total cut-off of Russian gas supplies. ... The euro zone economy is expected to face higher inflation both this year and in 2023, officials told CNBC on Monday, while plans are...

Abortion activist Cecile Richards said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that The Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade would “destroy the Republican Party.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “What do you assess the degree of sort of activism and channeling this fear and this grief and this monumental shift in American life for every single woman. Tell me what’s going on in the country around this issue.” Richards said, “I think it’s a mix. I do think honestly some people are in a grieving process. I think just everyday people who literally cannot believe this has happened.” She continued, “But for many...

*The 32-year-old woman, who has not been named, has yet to be arrested *She was seen knifing Jose Alba three times during the violent assault on July 1 *Shocking footage shows her brawling with him after calling her boyfriend *Austin Simon then hopped the counter and pounced on him before being knifed ================================================================= The girlfriend of a thug who was stabbed to death by a bodega store worker he attacked has not been charged because prosecutors feel she was defending her beau, insiders have claimed. The 32-year-old woman, who has not been named, has yet to be arrested over knifing...

A Loudoun County Circuit Court judge rejected Monday an attempt by the Virginia county’s school board to shut down a grand jury investigation into the board’s handling of sexual assaults and an apparent rape coverup. If successful, the Loudoun countermeasure would have halted an investigation into two sexual assaults committed at two different schools by the same male student wearing a dress in the girls’ restroom and subsequent school board action — or inaction — in light of the assaults. The special grand jury was initiated by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares following a day-one executive order from Gov. Glenn...

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Disturbing footage has emerged of a toddler cursing and swinging at cops while adults in the background hurled racist slurs in St. Paul, Minnesota, where crime has soared since the killing of George Floyd in 2020. The footage was recorded last week while police were at a home to serve a search warrant in the hunt for a murder suspect, according to local news outlet Alpha News. The 30-second clip shows the unnamed boy standing in the street in his underwear, barefoot, screaming: 'Shut up *****!' at a black police officer and telling him to 'shut the **** up!' He...

On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) stated that she sees a recent New York Times/Siena College poll showing that 64% of voters who plan to vote in the Democratic primary in 2024 would prefer someone other than President Joe Biden as the nominee “as dissatisfaction, as the frustration of the summer, the heat.” But Democrats will turn things around and gas prices are “going down. All that we have committed to doing, we are doing,” including “making sure that we get baby formula back where it needs to be on the shelves and in the hands of...

Godless, demonic supporters of anarchy, haters of modernity combined with a fallacious sense of self-worth – there are none whom this better describes than Democrats and all of their various hellish conjugations. Conjugations that include but are not limited to Marxists, neo-Leninists and Fabian democratic socialists. Each and every one of these radical demonic social philosophies hates with a passion Jews and those who subscribe to being a crayon color as the highest elevation of self-worth. Regardless of where you find them, they are Erebusic marplots and pernicious liars whose energy is spent on destruction and divisiveness at the expense...

The James Webb Space Telescope's first deep field view was shared on Monday. The image shows SMACS 0723, where a massive group of galaxy clusters act as a magnifying glass for the objects behind them, including faint, distant galaxies. > The James Webb Space Telescope's first deep field view was shared on Monday. The image shows SMACS 0723, where a massive group of galaxy clusters act as a magnifying glass for the objects behind them, including faint, distant galaxies. NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more....

It appears that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and possibly one of her top advisors, were accomplices, not innocents, in a “foiled” kidnapping plot. No one in national politics plays the role of victim better than Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In a fawning 3,700-word puff piece published by the Washington Post over the weekend, reporter Ruby Cramer told the embattled governor’s self-described tale of woe: Whitmer isn’t really an ambitious political climber—the daughter of well-connected and wealthy parents, she started running for office in her 20s and was elected to the Michigan legislature at age 29—but rather a misunderstood and underappreciated...

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) slammed First Lady Jill Biden in a statement — telling her, “we are not tacos” — after Biden compared the Hispanic community’s diversity to “breakfast tacos.” The First Lady claimed that the Hispanic community is “as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio” while speaking at Latinx IncluXion Luncheon on Monday. “Raul helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community – as distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San...

Inflation is a bitch.That’s the unspoken truth of our time.Over the last year and a half, the value of our dollar has shrunk, the price of our essentials has risen, and the difficulty of our lives has increased.Because a presidential administration played fast and loose with the economic rules and the working people got bit on the ass. And so we sit in Biden rallies, long lines of cars waiting for Costco gas, counting our pennies and cursing our fates.In the macro, it’s another $7,500 to $10,000 extra in annual expenses for the average American family. In the micro, it’s...

Central planning always fails, but the utopian visionaries implementing the plans cannot admit that they are at fault. A scapegoat must be found. As a leading example, when Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture led to mass starvation, the official blame was placed on “saboteurs” and “wreckers.” Our current-day analog is the centrally-planned replacement of our very large, inexpensive and highly functional energy system, mostly based on fossil fuels, with the alternatives of intermittent wind and sun-based generation, as favored by incompetent government regulators who don’t understand how these things work or how much they will cost. Prices of...

12 July 2022Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Chapel of St John Gualbert, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingIsaiah 7:1-9 ©Isaiah tells the king not to fearIn the reign of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Razon the king of Aram went up against Jerusalem with Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to lay siege to it; but he was unable to capture it. The news was brought to the House of David. ‘Aram’ they said ‘has reached Ephraim.’ Then the heart of the king and the hearts of the people...

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) responded on Monday to a much-criticized comment by first lady Jill Biden calling the Latino community “as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio,” saying that the remark was culturally inappropriate. “We are not tacos,” wrote the NAHJ in a statement criticizing Biden. “NAHJ encourages Dr. Biden and her speech writing team to take the time in the future to better understand the complexities of our people and communities,” the group added. Biden made the remark earlier Monday at the 2022 UnidosUS Annual Conference held in Texas, where she spoke on...

In Monday's White House briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admitted what most Americans already know to be true: prices on everyday goods are still surging amid inflation that surged to forty year highs under Biden's economic policy. "On Wednesday we will have new CPI inflation data and we expect the headline number — which includes gas and food — to be highly elevated," Jean-Pierre told reporters. For context, May's Consumer Price Index jumped one full percentage point from April, hitting 8.6 percent year-over-year. For the White House to be trying to manage expectations ahead of Wednesday's release for June suggests...

In a split 4 to 3 decision, the Illinois Supreme Court has refused to rule on the constitutionality of the Firearms Owner’s IDentification card (FOID) requirements in Illinois. This is the second time the Court has refused to rule on the same case. From the decision: “Mandates of this court are not to be treated lightly but are to be obeyed.” Id. Where the cause is remanded by this court “with specific directions, the court below has no discretion, but must pursue the mandate” of this court. Chickering v. Failes, 29 Ill. 294, 302-03 (1862). Accordingly, the circuit court’s orders...