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The state of Texas announced new restrictions on at least 10 finance firms that have declared an opposition to oil and other fossil fuels, since such a stance could “undermine” the Texas economy that depends heavily on such fuel sources. The Daily Caller reports that the restrictions, announced by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Glenn Hegar, will prevent the companies in question from entering into most contracts with entities at the state or local level. The new policy is the result of a law passed in 2021 that requires the state government to limit its ties with anti-oil companies....

The Mar-a-Lago search warrant is interesting not only because of the high office of the individual whose papers were seized but also because of the low office of the person who signed it. The warrant illustrates the long-standing constitutional anomaly of letting magistrate judges sign search warrants. Leave aside how you feel about the former president. Leave aside what you think of January 6, 2021. Leave aside whether there was a good reason to issue the warrant. A more basic question is whether the Hon. Bruce Reinhart could constitutionally issue it. Under the Constitution, a Search Warrant Must Be Signed...

Watch the world premiere of the full theatrical trailer for the highly anticipated feature film My Son Hunter broadcast tonight on Truth Social at 9:00 p.m. ET. Stay tuned after the trailer debut for an all-star panel discussion hosted by Truth Social CEO and former California congressman Devin Nunes. The panelists are: Donald Trump Jr.; My Son Hunter director Robert Davi (Licensed to Kill, Die Hard, The Goonies); Government Accountability Institute President, Breitbart Senior Contributor, and bestselling author of Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win Peter Schweizer; and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow. WATCH THE TRAILER:

Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are plowing new and dangerous ground. Meanwhile, the GOP is silent. When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) looks around his adopted hometown of Washington, D.C.—a city shamelessly and aggressively using every lever of federal power to destroy Donald Trump and the 76 million Americans who dared to vote for him in 2020—he sees only one menace to the well-being of the nation: January 6 protesters. “I do think it’s an important issue,” McConnell said in response to a reporter’s question about a recent poll that ranked “threats to democracy” as the top concern among...

President Joe Biden's plan to cancel up to $40,000 of student loan debt for households earning $249,000 a year is "reckless" and "indefensible," former Obama adviser Jason Furman said Wednesday. Furman, a Harvard professor who served as deputy director of the U.S. National Economic Council, denounced the administration's proposal in a lengthy Twitter thread. "Pouring roughly half trillion dollars of gasoline on the inflationary fire that is already burning is reckless," he wrote. "Doing it while going well beyond one campaign promise ($10K of student loan relief) and breaking another (all proposals paid for) is even worse." In response to...

Under pressure from federal officials and mainstream media to apply a rigid lens to ever-evolving scientific research, Big Tech companies are flailing in their efforts to treat contested claims consistently. Twitter blamed an overactive spam filter for wrongly suspending a U.K. doctor who started a project to audit the country's COVID-19 deaths and was previously censored by YouTube for explaining the results of Pfizer's COVID vaccine trial for young children in layman's terms. The explanation suggests that even as Twitter implements election misinformation rules ahead of the fall midterms, it may be wary of continuing to aggressively police "misleading" COVID...

Babylon Bee logo New Study Shows An Alarming Link Between Being A Conspiracy Theorist And Not Having Myocarditis HEALTH · Aug 22, 2022 · BabylonBee.com Article Image WASHINGTON, D.C. — CDC Director Rochelle Walensky spoke at a press briefing Monday in which she acknowledged an apparent link between those who believe in high-level government shadow conspiracies and not having myocarditis. According to the CDC's findings, "total nutjobs" appear to be immune to the little-known heart condition, leaving experts puzzled. "When the pandemic first hit we knew absolutely everything about the virus and immediately imposed common sense health guidelines that were...

The District of Columbia does not appear to have a contingency plan for unvaccinated students, who are banned from attending schools in person this fall after the first 20 days, according to comments made by Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser Thursday. During a press conference, Bowser, a Democrat, admitted there are no alternative options, including virtual learning, for students who cannot attend school due to the District’s vaccine mandate, meaning unvaccinated children will effectively be left without an education.

Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Georgia home was “swatted” for the second time in as many days early Thursday after a person allegedly made fake suicide threats, authorities said. Officers responded to Greene’s home just before 3 a.m. after a local 911 call center received a report from someone supposedly threatening to kill his family and himself, according to a police report. The person, who allegedly identified himself as “Wayne Greene,” claimed to have recently come out as transgender, the police report said — an apparent reference to Rep. Greene’s views on trans rights.

Political beliefs warrant varying degrees in the applications of “justice.” In 2019, after years of Mueller and his team of partisan hacks searching for a crime, the Justice Department decided not to charge Trump. However, that did not put to bed the false narrative that Trump skirted justice and committed criminal acts — in fact it fueled the rumors. The American Constitution society released a “Key Findings” report, which said: The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity[.] And The Mueller report details multiple episodes in which there is evidence that the President obstructed justice. And A statement signed by...

I created a form to ask healthcare workers to speak anonymously about what they are seeing.Here’s what they said in their own words.Here is a quick summary of some of the things they said: They are afraid to come out publicly due to intimidation tactics such as loss of job and/or license to practice medicine. Unvaccinated healthcare workers are extremely upset with the medical community. They feel they have been treated unfairly. It is the vaccinated workers who are getting sick with COVID, but it is the unvaccinated who are punished with constant testing, restrictions, and threats of losing their...

Traditional Europe going the way of the dodo bird thanks to leftism. In 2006, notable Canadian conservative, Mark Steyn, authored a book titled America Alone. He argued that the values and cultures of the Western world were being erased by population booms among third-world Muslim demographics — aptly named Islamic imperialism. From the back cover of the book: Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. And liberals will still tell you that ‘diversity is our strength’ – while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme...

The steamship St. Mary, WM. H. TALBOT, Commander, which left New-Orleans on Sunday, Aug. 17, at 10 A.M., arrived at this port yesterday afternoon. She brings fifty-six passengers from New-Orleans, and a large cargo, consisting of 800 hogsheads of sugar and sundry cases. The steamship Marion also arrived yesterday from New-Orleans on the 17th, and Key West on the 21st. The health of New-Orleans was good. Weather extremely warm. The Marion brings quite a large quantity of arms, sent North by citizens of New-Orleans, in accordance with Order No. 21, issued by Gen. BUTLER Aug. 12, requiring all citizens either...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemExodus 10The Plague of Darkness 21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.” 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. 23 No one could see anyone else or move about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived. 24 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the Lord. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave...

Controlling education is the grand prize in today’s culture wars. Why worry about elections if voters arrive at the polls fully ideologically indoctrinated? The Left has recognized this reality for decades and its long march through the institutions to control schools is now finally paying off. How else can one explain why such views as Critical Race Theory now infuse the curriculum from the earliest grades to graduate seminars in elite universities? While the Left has been conquering education for decades, conservatives have now finally awakened and are fighting back. The recent election for governor in Virginia and legislation in...

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The spin heading toward Labor Day is that Republican chances of winning a Senate majority are fading. A GOP takeover of the U.S. House hangs by a thread... Nonsense. Corporate media is at it again, shilling for Democrats. The spin heading toward Labor Day is that Republican chances of winning a Senate majority are fading. A GOP takeover of the U.S. House hangs by a thread. Nonsense. In fact, Republicans are going to win a House majority and have a good shot of doing the same in the Senate. Of course, there are no guarantees -- life is like that...

At the 4th Study Day of the "New Beginning" initiative last Sunday, Cardinal Walter Kasper was extremely critical of the Synodal Process and its procedure. He pulled out all the stops and left no doubt: The Synodal Way has nothing to do with reforms, because Church reform does not make "the Church a mass that can be kneaded and shaped according to the situation", said the Cardinal. The Holy Spirit must be the yardstick, Kasper reminded the audience several times.

LONDON — Jennifer Jones keeps feeding money into her energy meter, but it never seems to be enough. And when she can't pay, she feels the impact immediately.The power in her London home has gone off suddenly three times recently, once when her partner was cooking an egg.The energy increases, together with rapidly rising food costs, are expected to push inflation above the 40-year high of 10.1% recorded in July and trigger a recession later this year, the Bank of England has predicted.

Europe faced the prospect of a radiation disaster on Thursday when a Russian-occupied nuclear plant was disconnected from Ukraine's power grid, President Volodomyr Zelensky has said. It was only due to back-up electricity kicking in that the Zaporizhzhia plant was able to operate safely, he added. Fires had earlier damaged overhead power lines, cutting the plant off. There is growing concern over fighting near the complex, which is the largest nuclear plant in Europe. "If the diesel generators hadn't turned on, if the automation and our staff of the plant had not reacted after the blackout, then we would already...