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Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard will host Tucker Carlson Tonight on Friday, which is a peculiar spot for a former lawmaker who not long ago presumably opposed much of what Fox News’ reliably conservative audience stands for. Tucker Carlson boasts the highest-rated show in cable news. In his absence this week, the network has relied on its bench to try and fill the void.

Oklahoma parents on Tuesday night spoke out against explicit library books at a school board meeting. Stillwater Public Schools, which serves more than 8,300 students, says their library is selected by professional Library Media Specialists in a statement released to the media. The district said that there is a process by which parents may call for material to be reviewed, and they have not received any such requests recently. The parents were summoned to speak as their names were called to address matters on the meeting's agenda. "You guys probably are aware that TPS [Tulsa Public Schools] and Mustang Schools...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A Florida woman has been arrested for continuously making harassing phone calls to police. Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Carla Michelle Jefferson, 51, last month after she reportedly called the St. Petersburg Police Department emergency communications center 512 times in one day. She also called the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office communications center twice that day. According to the arrest affidavit, “The defendant continuously calls and harasses, belittles, swears at, argues with, and demands officers come arrest her.” Once officers responded to her home, the affidavit says Jefferson “refuses to answer the door, and has in...

Iraqi actress Enas Taleb is taking legal action against The Economist magazine after it used her image as a cover photo for a story about obesity among women in the Middle East. The British weekly's story — Why women are fatter than men in the Arab world — argued that social barriers and a lack of access to jobs were keeping women indoors and preventing them from going to gyms or playing sport in public areas, leading to an obesity crisis. At the end of the article, the magazine quoted some women as saying that one of the widespread social...

Pope welcomes transgender group to Vatican for the fourth time this yearOne individual who reportedly had sex-change surgery was part of a group, led by a priest and a nun, that attended Wednesday's papal audience.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis received in audience at the Vatican for a fourth time members of a group of transgender individuals.L’Osservatore Romano reported today that at the Wednesday Papal audience this week, the Holy Father greeted and exchanged a few words with a group of persons who have either undergone a “sex-change” surgery or who simply identify as the opposite of their actual sex....

(sound familiar?) 3:54 video https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4785397/user-clip-pelosi-explains-the-wrap-smear

Rules of Practice and Procedure The Court’s Rules of Practice and Procedure are available below.... RULE 142. BURDEN OF PROOF (a) General: (1) The burden of proof shall be upon the petitioner, except as otherwise provided by statute or deter- mined by the Court; and except that, in respect of any new matter, increases in deficiency, and affirmative defenses, pleaded in the answer, it shall be upon the respondent. As to affirmative defenses, see Rule 39....Guidance for Petitioners: Things That Occur During Trial Someone told me that the petitioner (taxpayer) has the burden of proof. I don't understand this. What...

A 'receipt for property' written by FBI agents who searched Donald Trump's Florida home reveals that they carted away 11 sets of classified documents, photographs and other files marked 'top secret' among boxes of items. The receipt and the search warrant, obtained by DailyMail.com on Friday afternoon, offer further insight into the unprecedented raid on a former president's home. In all, FBI agents took 27 boxes of documents. In addition, they list an 'Executive Grant of Clemency: Re Roger Jason Stone Jr' - a former Trump adviser who was pardoned in the last days of Trump's presidency - 'info re:...

Rushdie on ventilator and may lose an eye, agent says Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator, unable to speak, and may lose an eye, his agent told Reuters and the New York Times.“The news is not good,” Andrew Wylie, Rushdie’s agent, said Friday evening. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.”

[Catholic Caucus] "On the Empty Altars Dwell the Demons." By SpecolaSt Peter's Square. It is now 7 a.m. and there are only a few people hurrying to their workplaces.We enter the abandoned basilica. In a few months we have lost the intense activity that used to fill the many altars in the huge space with life. This was a sacred spectacle, unique in the world. It is no more.Priests from all corners of the world, alone or accompanied by groups of the faithful, celebrated in all languages and rites. Now that is forbidden.Altar boys, now banned from the Vatican, and...

Welcome to Day 565 of the Banana Republic of Biden! The country where former presidents get their homes raided by FBI agents for misplaced souvenirs while the Secret Service protects Hunter Biden in a rented mansion in Malibu! Miranda Devine’s piece yesterday in the New York Post contains several important clues regarding the FBI raid on President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate. President Trump kept 15 boxes of memorabilia from his first term in the White House in a basement storage room. According to Miranda Devine: The boxes contain documents and mementos from Trump’s presidency, reportedly including letters from Barack Obama and...

New York State Police have identified the suspect in Friday's stabbing of novelist Salman Rushdie as a New Jersey man who, according to law enforcement sources, allegedly had 'sympathies toward the Iranian government.' Rushdie, 75, whose novel 'The Satanic Verses' drew death threats from Iran's leader in the 1980s, remained in surgery Friday evening hours after being stabbed up to 15 times by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. Authorities confirmed that the attacker Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, was arrested at the scene and...

The Biden administration delivered a death sentence Thursday to the labor organization that represents thousands of employees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Federal Labor Relations Authority’s decision erases the National ICE Council...

This is HUGE!!! First time I’m hearing of this… This would make sense why they came after Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home mafia style…to cover up their crimes. Who reclassified the docs after they were declassified and never published it???????

This is the course of action I advise https://precinctstrategy.com In a nutshell, this is what every conservative — including you, dear reader — needs to do ASAP — if our goal is to have our state legislators pass election reform laws requiring all counties to stop using any kind of imaging machines for counting votes and, instead, return us to the “gold standard” of counting votes: hand-counting at the polling locations before the paper ballots are allowed to leave the premises and making voting by mail the exception and not the rule. The first step in taking back our government,...

Dr. Anthony Fauci is an inspiration to future doctors everywhere — just ask him. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, dropped the stunning humblebrag Tuesday in a conversation with Dr. Larry Corey at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center campus in Seattle. He was describing a purported phenomenon Corey called “the Fauci effect,” but his explanation seemed to whipsaw between “Well, the so-called ‘Fauci effect’ is when a lot of people want to go into public health particularly, and science, because of the visibility of public health and...

One of the members of Congress who commented after the newspaper’s revelations was Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho. According to CNN, he told reporters, "The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process." The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan -- which addressed the legal recourse of a Navy employee who had been denied a security clearance -- addresses this line of authority. "The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’"...

WASHINGTON - A divided Congress gave final approval Friday to Democrats' flagship climate and health care bill, handing President Joe Biden a back-from-the-dead triumph on coveted priorities that the party hopes will bolster their prospects for keeping their House and Senate majorities in November's elections. The House used a party-line 220-207 vote to pass the legislation, prompting hugs among Democrats on the House floor and cheers by White House staff watching on television. "Today, the American people won. Special interests lost," tweeted the vacationing Biden, who was shown beaming in a White House photo as he watched the vote on...

Jeffrey Toobin, the veteran legal analyst and writer who has opined on cases and the courts for CNN since 2002, appears to have offered his last testimony at the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed news outlet.In a letter sent Friday to colleagues, Toobin revealed that he is parting ways with CNN, which has backed him in good times and bad. CNN placed Toobin on leave in the fall of 2020 after he acknowledged exposing himself during a video call with staffers from The New Yorker, where he had been working since 1993. Toobin and the Conde Nast publication cut ties, but CNN...

Democratic Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts suggested that the House would increase tax rates if his party remains in power following the upcoming midterm elections this fall, according to a congressional reporter. Neal, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said Democrats, should they keep power in the House, will look to raise corporate and individual tax rates in 2023, according to a Bloomberg reporter. The Inflation Reduction Act, a social spending and tax increase measure that is expected to pass in the House on Friday, includes a proposed expansion of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The expansion...