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The Biden administration has canned several immigration judges, all appointed by Trump, and replaced them with “progressive” magistrates. Republicans have an idea as to why this happened (spoiler alert: politics as usual) but sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers anyway. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) want the answers by 5 p.m. on August 3. The letter begins:Dear Attorney General Garland:We write about your decision to terminate the employment of multiple immigration judges who were hired during the Trump Administration. If true, your termination of these immigration judges because of their political ideology...

You have to give those Chinese Communist censors their props. One of the most popular topics on Chinese social media sites doesn’t exist according to the censors, and they’re bound and determined to keep it that way.The topic is #stopmortgagepayments and refers to the growing boycott by homeowners who are refusing to pay mortgages on homes that were presold to buyers. The homes have not been completed for a variety of reasons, and the eminently practical Chinese don’t see why they should be paying for a house that doesn’t exist.Home buying in China is a little different from what it...

With great gravitas Rep. Benedict Kinzinger sent out this tweet todayWe the people must demand more of our politicians and ourselves. Oaths matter. Character matters. Truth matters. If we do not renew our faith and commitment to these principles, this great experiment of ours, our shining beacon on a hill, will not endure. pic.twitter.com/uexdc0Inwv — Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) July 22, 2022Truth matters. Oaths matter. Character matters. Bullsh*t matters too, Kinzinger. This thing began as sh*t show right from the outset when, for the first time in the country's history, Pelosi denied Republicans the right to choose their members of a...

I have to hand it to the Jan. 6 Committee. They’ve already proven what hacks they are, yet they just keep digging that hole deeper for themselves and in so doing, they keep revealing how empty their case is.Let’s be frank — the whole point of the Jan. 6 effort is to try to do all they can to take down Donald Trump, because they’re afraid he’ll run again and win in 2024. So, if they wanted to be honest about it, what they’re doing is an effort to “interfere” in the 2024 election ahead of time.But the testimony of...

There is no clear evidence that depression is caused by low serotonin levels, research suggests. The new review, which analysed existing studies, suggests the condition is not likely caused by a chemical imbalance, and calls into question what antidepressants do. Researchers say their findings are important as studies show that as many as 85-90% of the public believes that depression is caused by low serotonin or a chemical imbalance.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who is running for governor of New York, was attacked Thursday night during a campaign speech in Perinton, New York. A man climbed onto the stage and got right next to him with what the police are calling a “sharp object.” As we reported last night, there are pictures of the man being arrested and what looks like a pair of brass knuckles.Zeldin had been giving a speech about the dangers of the screwed-up bail reform system Democrats were responsible for in New York which leaves people unsafe. Zeldin blocked the assailant’s first move and then...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

The meaning of weiqi, the ancient Chinese game of strategy, is ‘encirclement game.’ But in weiqi it isn’t enough to surround enemy stones to capture ground. It’s vital to have some of your stones within enemy territory. When you then lay siege, swathes of the board fall with no fighting. China’s leaders, strategists, and generals swear by Sun Tzu and weiqi: they combine the lessons of the philosopher’s Art of War with principles of the game to win without fighting, deploying long-term plans and deception, skirmishing on many fronts, and creating outposts hidden in plain sight.One such outpost, an agro-industrial...

Articles of Inquiry: The Role of MediaThe media, both traditional and social media, had an outsized role during the pandemic in pushing the US government’s Covid response and defending the resulting coercive measures, including lockdowns, school closures, mask and vaccine mandates, while ignoring collateral damage and treating skeptics of these measures as having bad motivations. Their result was a one-sided, often factually misleading or unsubstantiated narrative on important issues concerning science, economics, and health, for the better part of two years. This has had a chilling effect on information flows and journalism, and it dramatically distorted public understanding in many...

Residents express anger at Angela Merkel’s open border policy.. Some have expressed anger at former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open border migrant policy after a Syrian national was arrested for the murder of a teenage girl whose body was found at a sewage treatment plant. 17-year-old Tabitha E. left an apartment in Asperg, southern Germany, on Tuesday afternoon last week, but the alarm was raised after she didn’t return home that evening. After an extensive police search, the girl’s body was found on Sunday at the Leudelsbach sewage treatment plant. After the home of a suspect was search and investigators...

President Joe Biden, double vaxxed and double boosted, has contracted Covid, demonstrating in the most public way imaginable the falsity of the promise that the vaccines would protect a person from getting dreaded virus. And now, the public is being told that everything will be fine, that President Biden is isolating -- except for the photographer(s) who took pictures of him – and that there is nothing to worry about despite his advanced age and other health issues. So, the vaccines at best limit the severity of Covid but do not prevent transmission, and if an elderly man contracts it,...

Leftist website ratings firm NewsGuard is back to show the world why it’s a pathetic excuse for an internet traffic cop by giving FoxNews.com a failing grade while completely undercutting its own complaint. NewsGuard downgraded FoxNews.com July 18 from a green-shield 69.5/100 rating in December 2021 to a red-shield 57/100, noting that the website “fails to adhere to several basic journalistic standards.” This is coming from the same firm that left the liberal USA Today’s perfect 100/100 score intact after the newspaper removed 23 stories because one of its reporters fabricated sources. NewsGuard even praised USA Today for how its...

Quadruple-vaccinated President Joe Biden tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus a day after being seen maskless at a Massachusetts event, and it remains to be seen if leftist media outlets will be as critical of him as they were of former President Donald Trump when he contracted the virus in 2020.At least one outlet already seems to be taking a different approach. When it was announced Thursday that Biden — who falsely stated a year ago Thursday that vaccinated individuals could not contract the virus — came down with the Wuhan-originated disease, Los Angeles Times staff writer Eli Stokols scribed:Biden’s...

Jack Posobiec 🍊 @JackPosobiec Trump 25: President Trump planning to fire thousands of federal bureaucrats if re-elected in 2024 axios.com Inside Trump '25: A radical plan for Trump’s second term 8:41 AM · Jul 22, 2022

The LSD consciousness-expansion movement of the late sixties and the campus gender-identity fixation of today are two examples of these counterfeit revolutions. The two might initially appear very different, but they share similar intellectual assumptions and therefore make analogous mistakes. Most significantly, both take rationality and physical fact as limitations to freedom, impediments to be transcended, instead of appropriate cornerstones of political freedom itself. They’re too incoherent to be rationally communicated and too individualistic to resist anomie. And so, denuded of genuine revolutionary potential, these children’s crusades cycle through failures.

Historians of the future will look back on 2022 as the year America gave up addressing human-caused climate change. And given the United States’ critical role in international leadership, this will be remembered as the year the world gave up, too. President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda contained much of the Green New Deal, aiming for a 100% clean energy economy by 2050; making big investments in clean-energy technology, climate research and innovation; becoming the world’s leading exporter of clean-energy technology, and standing up to big polluters and greenhouse-gas emitters. But even watered down, it couldn’t make it through...

It was one year ago today when President Biden promised Americans that if they got vaccinated they would not contract COVID-19. On Thursday, after four COVID-19 shots, the White House announced that the president had tested positive for the disease and was experiencing mild symptoms while isolating from his staff. Nevertheless, Biden said Wednesday in response to a reporter's question that his plan to address a rise in COVID-19 cases was that Americans should be "getting vaccinated." The administration finally, reluctantly, has acknowledged the shots don't stop infection or transmission but continues to insist they prevent severe illness, hospitalization and...

The NFL, if it were being candid, would say it would prefer that the ruling come on Friday afternoon. The NFL Players Association likely would feel the same way. If, as some believe, Watson won’t get the kind of significant punishment that many had believed he’d experience, the league and the union have a shared interest in trying to reduce the backlash from fans and media over the perception that Watson didn’t get the kind of punishment that many believe he deserves. The Browns, as we’ve reported, are bracing for eight games. A person with knowledge of the submissions made...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than a year, President Joe Biden’s ability to avoid the coronavirus seemed to defy the odds. When he finally did test positive, the White House was ready. It set out to turn the diagnosis into a “teachable moment” and dispel any notion of a crisis. It was all part of an administration effort to shift the narrative from a health scare to a display of Biden as the personification of the idea that most Americans can get COVID and recover without too much suffering and disruption if they’ve gotten their shots and taken other important...

Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have found a material that can perform much better than silicon. The next step is finding practical and economic ways to manufacture it.Silicon is one of the most plentiful elements on Earth, and in its pure form, the semiconductor material has become the foundation of much of modern technology, including microelectronic computer chips and solar cells. However, silicon’s properties as a semiconductor are actually far from ideal.One reason is that although silicon allows electrons to readily flow through its structure, it is much less accommodating to “holes” — electrons’ positively charged counterparts —and harnessing both...