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The evidence is amassed and verified—the only unknown is what Republicans will do next. It could be the whopper of the year. “I can tell you that in every case we follow the facts and the evidence and the law and we do so without regard to politics or ideology,” Matthew Olsen, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, solemnly assured the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing last week. Olsen was responding to a question by U.S. Representative Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) about the decision to arrest several men for supposedly conspiring to abduct and assassinate Michigan Governor Gretchen...

(Reuters) - Tiger Woods turned down a sum in the region of $700-800 million to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series, the breakaway circuit's CEO Greg Norman told Fox News. Norman said the offer was made before the Australian was named chief of the controversial series, which is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. "That number was out there before I became CEO. So that number has been out there, yes," two-times major winner Norman said in an interview that aired on Monday night. "Look, Tiger is a needle mover, right? So, of course you're got to look...

Although the issues surrounding “climate change” are among the most consequential ones in our politics, you have probably noticed that head-to-head debates on the subject are quite rare. The main reason is that proponents of climate change orthodoxy generally refuse to debate anyone who questions any aspect of the dogma. So you will be glad to hear that a real debate between significant figures on the two sides of the issues will shortly take place at — where else? — the Soho Forum. That’s the organization where daughter and frequent Manhattan Contrarian contributor Jane Menton is the Chief Operating Officer....

Chipmakers are cheering Washington's long-awaited passage of a bill to provide funding for the U.S. semiconductor industry, but accepting those subsidies could tie their hands when it comes to future investments in China. Is it a price that the likes of Intel, TSMC and Samsung will be willing to pay? The CHIPS and Science Act, a $280 billion package passed by both houses of Congress last week, contains $52 billion in support for the semiconductor industry. But it also specifies that companies accepting federal subsidies will be restricted from making any "significant transaction" to materially expand their chipmaking capacity in...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 50Joseph Reassures His Brothers 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” 16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: 17 ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your...

... A Pentagon adviser described the mood in Washington by recalling that the U.S. had supported Taiwan passively until the Obama administration, adding that the reality since then is so drastically different that the government, Congress and military are now driven by a sense of urgency to provide support. Efforts to safeguard the island's democracy have been gaining momentum since Beijing cracked down on pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong. Taiwan is also a crucial technology hub, accounting for more than 50% of global contract manufacturing for semiconductors in terms of sales. But the biggest reason the U.S. is rushing to...

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THE BIDEN RECESSION TAX INCREASE IS A DISASTER!!Just in time for the Mid Term elections. Biden signs an increase in corporate taxes by up to 18%. What does he think large corporations are going to do, HIRE MASSIVELY??AH, NO. In order to survive, they are going to cut to the bone. They are going to send divisions overseas and they are going to layoff workers en mass. Now, pay attention folks. A recession is two quarters of negative growth whatever the Democrats and their foul minions in the press may say. We are in a Recession and Biden just disobeyed...

Americans need to "put maps and encyclopedias back on their tables" to understand the "central geographic reality" of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The 19th-century German geographer Friedrich Ratzel once wrote that "great statesmen have never lacked a feeling for geography." "When one speaks of a healthy political instinct," Ratzel continued, "one usually means a correct evaluation of the geographic bases of political power." Europeans and Asians have always had a better grasp of the importance of geography than Americans because unlike Americans, their potential adversaries and opponents were usually located close by, not an ocean away. Laszlo Bernat Veszpremy is a...

HONG KONG/TAIPEI - China has slapped a ban on thousands of Taiwanese food imports, from fruit and vegetables to cookies and baby food, ahead of an expected visit to the island by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi later Tuesday. The unconfirmed trip by the highest-ranking U.S. official in a quarter century -- and China's reaction to it -- have sent regional tensions soaring and plunged Sino-U. S. relations into the deep freeze, as fears grow over a possible military response by Beijing. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has repeatedly warned against Pelosi's trip, while Washington on Monday...

A Woodbridge teenager who was part of a theft ring that included two armed robberies in Stafford County was convicted of multiple charges Monday. Isaiah Alexander Cuff, 19, pleaded guilty in Stafford Circuit Court to two counts of armed robbery, using a firearm in the commission of a felony and conspiracy. He will be sentenced Oct. 24.

Political neophyte Dr. Mehmet Oz might have a decent shot at keeping Pennsylvania's open Senate seat red if he bothered to do the work, a GOP strategist said of the vacationing, Trump-backed candidate who is trailing Democratic rival John Fetterman. "If Oz wasn't mentally and physically on vacation, it might be an even fight," said Keith Naughton, a Republican strategist turned cofounder of the political consulting firm Silent Majority Strategies, told The Hill about the pivotal contest to replace the retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey and possibly tip the balance of power in the 50-50 Senate. And embattled former President...

If that’s the case, Biden has also made sure that we’re bound to lose...but maybe there’s more going on here than meets the eye. Tucker Carlson understands that Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan is not the first act in the politics between America and China but is the latest act in a decades-long relationship that has seen China steadily usurp America’s lead both economically and militarily. It’s All About Eve on a national scale, with shy, backward China systematically working to take on America’s role in the world, although without the tiresome liberty part. In this version, though, America...

By its actions, the WHO has neutered their qualifications as a global health organization. Abir Ballan, author of the June 2022 piece titled “The WHO Review and Why it Matters to You? has documented the corruption by WHO/global leaders and governments concerning Covid treatment. In essence, Ballan’s findings are a call to action to “reassess the WHO’s candidacy as an authoritative global public health organization” and the necessary actions needed to “safeguard” people’s “health sovereignty.” With the unending mismanagement of Covid treatment and the WHO’s influence on so many countries, it is a critical call to action. Ballan ponders the...

The mascot for a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in New Jersey has become the latest costumed character to be accused of racism. The incident on July 30 occurred when Natyana Muhammad took her children to the chain's location in Wayne, New Jersey - and the employee playing Chuck E. Cheese allegedly ignored her daughter during a meet-and-greet period. She posted a video of the encounter to Twitter which shows the employee walk past as a small child holds her hand out for a high-five. Muhammad wrote of the incident: 'My 2-year-old was racially discriminated against.' 'As you can see, he...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican speaker of the Arizona House faces voters Tuesday and the anger of supporters of former President Donald Trump after he rejected pleas to help overturn the 2020 election results and testified before Congress about the efforts. Speaker Rusty Bowers is trying to move to the state Senate because of term limits and faces an opponent who criticizes him for refusing to help Trump or go along with a contentious 2021 “audit” that Republican leaders in the Senate commissioned. Bowers faces an uphill battle in the eastern Phoenix suburb of Mesa, especially after the state Republican...

Dave was a single guy, living at home with his father and working in the family business. He knew that he would inherit a fortune once his sickly father died. Dave wanted two things: • to learn how to invest his inheritance and, • to find a wife to share his fortune. One evening at an investment meeting, he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away . "I may look like just an ordinary man," he said to her, "but in just a few years, my father will die, and I'll...

Ever feel like there’s just not enough time in the day? Turns out, you might be onto something. Earth is rotating faster than it has in the last half-century, resulting in our days being ever-so-slightly shorter than we’re used to. And while it’s an infinitesimally small difference, it’s become a big headache for physicists, computer programmers and even stockbrokers. Why Earth rotates Our solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago, when a dense cloud of interstellar dust and gas collapsed in on itself and began to spin. There are vestiges of this original movement in our planet’s current rotation,...

A high-level U.S. Postal Service official appointed under President Joe Biden was caught during a child sex sting, admitting “I’m a pedophile” on camera. Russell Rappel-Schmid, the Chief Data Officer for the U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), was caught in San Diego, California attempting to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex. The PRC is responsible for overseeing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) – which deals with mail-in ballots during election season – and Rappel-Schmid was tasked with running the commission’s data management and compliance with the OPEN Government Data Act.

Voters on Tuesday will decide the political fates of three House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump last year for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Reps. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., are all competing against Trump-backed primary challengers as the contests mark the latest test of the former president's influence in GOP elections. After Tuesday, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., will be the last House Republican who supported impeachment still facing a primary. Cheney, vice chair of the committee investigating the deadly riot and Trump's efforts to...