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Democrats are facing their worst political environment in over a decade heading into November’s mid-term elections. Republicans lead the generic ballot and hold a solid structural advantage in competing for the House of Representatives. And despite concerns about candidate quality, the GOP is also favored to take control of the Senate. The correlation between presidential approval and their party’s mid-term prospects also can’t be ignored. Joe Biden has hit the lowest poll numbers of his term, with a recent Times/Siena poll showing him at just 33 percent approval with only 13 percent believing the country is on the right track....

"As many as 100-200 Ukrainian soldiers have died every day since Russia shifted its military campaign in the spring to focus on eastern Ukraine. But overall, about 20,000 Russians have been killed. Injuries have taken about 60,000 more off the battlefield"

In case you are wondering why Biden’s approval ratings are so terrible, check out this chart. Under Biden’s Reign of Error, inflation has soared to 9.1% YoY and the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index has crashed. REAL Avg Weekly Earnings plunged To -4.4% YoY. And in honor of US First Lady Jill Biden’s idiotic comments about Hispanic culture, Taco Bell has changed its name to …

New York’s “No Bail” law, approved by statewide Democrats in 2019, has helped free from jail two Mexican drug cartel smugglers arrested with about $1.2 million worth of crystal meth. This week, the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York announced the arrests of 19-year-old Luis Estrada and 34-year-old Carlos Santos — both from southern California — for charges related to smuggling crystal meth. According to investigators, Estrada was arrested on July 5 with more than 40 pounds of crystal meth in his possession. Estrada also had two cellphones and a room key to a...

U.S. inflation reached 9.1% in June, its highest rate in nearly 41 years. The consumer-price index’s reading for June was higher than May’s annual rate of 8.6% that led Fed officials to shift to a faster pace of interest rate increases. Stock futures turned negative after the release of the data. Investors are closely watching the data for clues about the outlook for central-bank policy and the wider economy. .....

Shoppers paid sharply higher prices for a variety of goods in June as inflation kept its hold on a slowing U.S. economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The consumer price index, a broad measure of everyday goods and services, soared 9.1% from a year ago, above the 8.8% Dow Jones estimate. That marked another month of the fastest pace for inflation going back to December 1981.

13 July 2022Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Church of St Henry and St Kunhuta (Cunigunde), Prague Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingIsaiah 10:5-7,13-16 ©Assyria's arrogance and coming ruinThe Lord of hosts says this:Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger,the club brandished by me in my fury!I sent him against a godless nation;I gave him commission against a people that provokes me,to pillage and to plunder freelyand to stamp down like the mud in the streets.But he did not intend this,his heart did not plan it so.No, in his heart was to destroy,to go on cutting...

The vice mayor of a Florida community dropped an F-bomb while rebuking a police officer who pulled her over for alleged speeding but only issued her a warning. A video of the April incident was posted to YouTube last week. It shows a traffic stop that took place in Fort Lauderdale involving Democratic Pompano Beach Vice Mayor Beverly Perkins. “What’s going on tonight?” the officer says as he walks up to the white Audi Perkins was driving. WARNING: The following contains language that some viewers will find offensive. VIDEO AT LINK................. “Nothing,” Perkins says. “Nothing? You’re driving crazy,” the officer...

VIDEOWatch as the January 6 Committee Chairman Benny Thompson provides laughable nonanswers to questions such as WHEN the Secret Service agents who contradict Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony will testify under oath. As you can see, Thompson has no intention to really answer the questions except with word salad. Oh, and it now appears that the chances of the Committee calling for the agents to testify is somewhere between nil and none as Thompson's absurdly evasive nonanswer indicates.

The Jan. 6 Committee’s key witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, asked former Senior Trump officials for financial assistance and legal help in February after she was subpoenaed by the committee, according to an email obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller. In an email sent to a former senior Trump official Feb. 4, Hutchinson said she has had trouble securing a legal team and asked the former senior Trump official for help with getting in contact with fundraising organizations or attorneys that could help her. Hutchinson explained that she was unemployed and that her aunt and uncle applied to refinance their house to...

Alarm! The Federal Reserve is reversing its excessive monetary stimulus policies left over from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid) and the mortgage industry and potential home buyers are paying the price. Mortgage applications decreased 1.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending July 8, 2022. This week’s results include an adjustment for the observance of Independence Day. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 4 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index decreased 14 percent compared with the previous week and was...

The Department of Justice is well aware that the Proud Boys who attended the Stop the Steal rally on January 6 were not violent and did not conspire to enter the Capitol—yet are prosecuting them on conspiracy charges anyway, FBI documents obtained by Gateway Pundit reveal. Five members of the group are currently in pre-trial detention on federal charges: Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Dominic Pezzola and Zachary Rehl. A whistleblower leaked “a treasure trove” of exculpatory documents, and text messages—some marked “Highly Sensitive”—to the Gateway Pundit reporter Cara Castronuova. “These documents would be buried forever and never see...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 36Esau’s Descendants 36 This is the account of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom). 2 Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite— 3 also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth. 4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel, 5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in Canaan. 6 Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all...

From some time in 2019 to the present, the Department of Homeland Security, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, has been running an Operation Silent Night to intercept items coming from China that can be used to make suppressors/silencers. The operation has seized a lot of material, with relatively few arrests. The items seized are routinely marketed as solvent traps, fuel filters, or pill containers. As most of them do not have holes so that a bullet can travel through them, it is difficult to prosecute people for importing a “silencer” or even “silencer parts” when similar items...

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) discussed claims that a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio had to travel to Indiana to obtain an abortion due to Ohio law and said there has not been a “whisper” from local law enforcement anywhere in the state about an investigation into such a crime. He also stated that in a case like this, “you would be looking for DNA analysis,” and “There is no case request for analysis that looks anything like this” in the Ohio crime lab that his office runs...

The 10th stage of the Tour de France was halted for 10 minutes on Tuesday after half a dozen climate activists tried to stop riders on the road before being pulled out by police and a senior organisers' official. The activists, one of them wearing a t-shirt saying 'We have 989 days left', sat on the road some 36 kilometres (22 miles) from the finish in Megeve. The activists were pulled off the road by police, helped by Tour organisers' Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) general director Yann Le Moenner. Contacted by Reuters, ASO declined to comment. Stage leader Alberto Bettiol...

Having brought onto stage the weapon of political intimidation, the Left intends to use it at every turn. Groups like Shutdown D.C. and Ruth Sent Us are just the latest examples. "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter, it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." - — Anton Chekhov An attempt to accost Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at Morton’s Steakhouse, a popular D.C. hangout, made national news last week. The move represented a mobile...

Montgomery County to teach Southern Poverty Law Center-inspired ‘social justice’ curriculum Maryland’s largest school district next school year will teach elementary schoolers how to combat "privilege" and "systemic racism," even as about half of its students lack proficiency in math and language arts. The Montgomery County Board of Education amended its fourth and fifth grade social studies curriculum to include "Social Justice Standards" for "antiracist" education, according to a July 5 announcement. The revised standards, which were developed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, lay out scenarios for students to exercise "antibias," such as responding to a classmate with two...

Here we go loop de loop! Traders are pricing in a 75 basis point rate increase at the July FOMC meeting despite collapsing Fed 5-year inflation breakeven rates. Money markets are betting on a three quarter-percentage point hike by Federal Reserve officials later this month, wagering the US will need to ramp up the pace of monetary tightening to tame inflation. The repricing comes ahead of a key inflation report due Wednesday. The headline figure for June is set to accelerate to 8.8% year over year, the highest since 1981. Bankrate’s 30Y mortgage rate fell slightly ahead of today’s inflation...