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This week Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, announced he will be retiring at the end of the year. While Fauci’s federal career is coming to an end, congressional oversight of his efforts to possibly conceal the origins of COVID-19 is just getting started. The American people have many questions for Fauci, and we are determined to get answers. For the past two years, Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee have called for Fauci to testify before the committee and provide documents and information...

Every year since 1970s, the State Department has published a document called "World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers." You probably haven't read it, but it is interesting. It's a detailed accounting of global arms sales, what weapons were sold and where they wound up after they were. The U.S. government published this report in the interest of transparency and then continued to publish it through multiple politically charged scandals and conflicts that would include through Iran Contra, two separate wars in Iraq and all 20 years that we occupied Afghanistan. A report like this would be especially useful to have...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemExodus 11The Plague on the Firstborn 11 Now the Lord had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely. 2 Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.” 3 (The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.) 4 So Moses said, “This...

The rhetoric from establishment Democrats is getting increasingly eliminationist, something that should worry us all. It seems like just yesterday that politicians would try to sway voters to come to their point of view and cast a vote for them. Things have changed. In the past week, Charlie Crist told conservative voters he wants nothing to do with them because they're evil; Kathy Hochul told Republicans to leave her state; and, in the culmination of this abuse, Joe Biden effectively affixed the label "fascist" to Trump's 74,216,154 voters (all of whom are actual human beings). Is it any coincidence that,...

In the middle of the election cycle, the Pennsylvania Department of State has suddenly changed its voter registration application form to include a mail-in ballot application. The applications used to be on separate forms, but this seemingly small clerical change is creating logistical headaches for county election directors and causing voter confusion. Registering to vote and seeking a mail-in ballot are two different actions requiring different responses in the county election offices. “We use the voter registration application for one thing, we use a mail-in ballot application for something different,” Christa Miller, Lancaster County’s election director, told The Epoch Times....

Well, you can't say we didn't warn you, Alaska. As of this writing, voters already know the outcomes of all the special elections and primary elections in New York and Florida that took place Aug. 23. But nobody has any idea who won Alaska's special House election held a week prior. In fact, the outcome won't be known until next month. Why? Because Alaska went and adopted the idiotic, needlessly complicated ranked choice voting system in a 2020 referendum that just barely passed. Voters might want to consider a do-over and rank "no" first on their ballots this time, except...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. will invest $7.5 billion to construct a new factory in the city of Tianjin, the Chinese chipmaker announced Friday, as China and the U.S. race to bolster their domestic chip supplies. SMIC, China's largest contract chipmaker, has reached an agreement to set up a new subsidiary based in an economic development zone in Tianjin. It will have the production capacity for 100,000 12-inch wafers a month, though SMIC did not say when operations are expected to begin. The facility will specialize in production processes of 28 nanometers or larger. U.S. authorities appear to be restricting companies...

The intensity of the leftist thought tyranny project has exploded in recent years, and continues to startle us. It has been explained quite well by a computer whiz named David Rozado, now a professor of computer science in New Zealand, on the pages of the Journal Academic Questions, published by a conservative association of Academics, the National Association of Scholars. Dr. Rozado is, in effect, studying the structure of a PsyOps project on a wide scale. Rozado writes an incredibly important research paper on memes and themes in academic and popular literature -- how our Orwellian world is being created...

After President Biden announced his student loan handout plan on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, many parents immediately wondered about the status of the college loans they took out in their own names on behalf of their children. Many moms and dads took out Parent PLUS loans, the federal loans available to parents of undergraduate students to handle college expenses not covered by financial aid. Currently, at least 3.4 million Parent PLUS borrowers owe at least $87 billion, according to the Brookings Institute.

Pope Francis will on Saturday create 20 new cardinals picked from the four corners of the world, most of whom could one day end up choosing the pontiff's successor. Francis has raised the possibility of retiring due to his declining health, a path taken by his predecessor Benedict XVI. If he were to do so, a conclave involving all cardinals aged under 80 would be called to pick a successor. Sixteen of the 20 cardinals created Saturday would be eligible for that conclave based on their ages. The ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica is the 85-year-old pope's eighth since being...

6:13 video of a Fox News interview with Mike Davis former Law Clerk to Justice Gorsuch which destroys the MARA LARGO raid from a legal perspective. Ends with him clubbing a Fox Host like a bay seal.

A Racine Correctional Institution supervisor was arrested for allegedly having sex with an inmate dozens of times in her office. The Racine County Sheriff’s Office received an allegation on Wednesday of an inappropriate relationship between a supervisor at the Racine Correctional Institution, 2019 Wisconsin St., Sturtevant, and the inmate.

Carlos Delcid allegedly killed rookie California police officer Gardiel Solorio and had convictions for other crimes that Los Angeles County prosecutors were not aware of ... A man accused of killing an off-duty Los Angeles-area police officer this month would have been locked up if authorities had prosecuted him for prior strikes in a February felony domestic violence case, meaning he would have faced prison time. Carlos Delcid, 20, allegedly shot Monterey Park police officer Gardiel Solorio, 26, multiple times on Aug. 8 while he was sitting in his car outside a gym in a busy shopping center. Delcid reportedly...

Where is the great Paul Dooley when we need him? “Refund! Ree-fund!” As I have bleated out elsewhere over the last 48 hours, the incoherent student debt forgiveness gambit becomes coherent when you recognize that it is just Step One in free college for everyone, because higher education is essential to the left’s indoctrination apparatus, since more and more Americans simply ignore the media these days. But it wasn’t all bad news this week: Fauci is finally going away, and McDonald’s announced they will soon test market a chicken Big Mac, which is about 40 years overdue.

Oh, happy days are here again! According to the left-wing media, Democrats may be able to defy the odds and keep control of both the Senate and the House in November. You can read about it here, here, and here. There is a hair of truth mixed into Democrat optimism. Joe Manchin's sell-out on the Inflation Reduction Act, AKA the Green New Deal, was a multi-billion-dollar boon for green energy liberals like Bill Gates. Likewise, the Supreme Court overturning Roe is a fundraising boon for leftist politicians who want to campaign on abortion. Even Joe Biden benefited — although it...

When asked to explain what Biden meant by “semi-fascism,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre went a step further and attributed the label to the entire Republican Party. "So what we're seeing from Republicans, and what we have seen from Republicans these past several years is that they are attacking our democracy,” she told CNN. “They are taking away our freedom. And they are trying to put on the chopping blocks Medicare and Social Security. That's what we are seeing … and that is what we are trying to prevent.” There’s no question both sides of the political aisle are...

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The Michigan Republican Party's nominating convention in Lansing Saturday will be an effort at building party unity against a backdrop of friction over who will be the party's lieutenant governor nominee. They’ll also officially nominate candidates for attorney general and secretary of state. Party spokesperson Gustavo Portela said Republicans are focusing on affordability and prosperity this year. “It’s very clear that enthusiasm is on the Republican side. And none on the Democratic side, as evidenced in their last two conventions. Republicans, on the other hand, are excited, they’re ready for change, and they want to bring back opportunity into this...

**SNIP** The bottom line is this: These resources are absolutely not about increasing audit scrutiny on small business or middle-income Americans. The investment of these important resources is designed to support honest, compliant taxpayers. Our investment is designed around a Treasury directive that audit rates do not rise relative to recent years for households making under $400,000. We all want a fair and impartial system where everyone contributes their fair share, no more and certainly no less. A robust, visible tax enforcement effort focused on high-end tax evaders and those supporting them is a priority. Underpayments by tax evaders shift...

"Parents across Pennsylvania are crying out in anguish today, wondering why they must continue to suffer after not doing anything wrong…except raising bad kids. This comes as we get closer to the November 8, 2022, midterm elections and keep learning more about Pennsylvania’s democRAT U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman, who is the first Troll-American to run for Senate. It is also another example of how democRATs are continuing to redefine English to suit their communist utopia. What a ‘vaccine’ is and does, parents and other patriots being labeled ‘extremists’ and now ‘life in prison’ means being a parent whose kids...