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If young adults can make permanent, major changes to their bodies, they can repay the money they borrowed to go to college.On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced plans to “forgive” $10,000-$20,000 of student loans, circumventing Congress while simultaneously violating the U.S. Constitution and federal law. Not only is this plan illegal, as the president doesn’t have the authority to spend unappropriated money, but it is downright offensive to those of us who paid off our student loans. It is even more offensive that the same people who insist that young people shouldn’t be burdened by their outstanding loan balances tend...

Neena Pacholke, a basketball star at the University of South Florida, was found dead in her home at the age of 27. Pacholke, who was reportedly engaged, was a morning anchor at a local news station in Wausau, Wisconsin, which is an ABC News affiliate.

The Pennsylvania Department of State just changed its voter registration form to include a mail-in ballot application — in the middle of an election cycle. On Aug. 19, the Department of State combined the originally separate applications — voter registration and mail-in ballot — into one new form just 11 weeks before the general election. While election officials say the change was made to simplify the process, county election officials are concerned the new form will create chaos and undermine voter confidence. “We believe this proposed form is likely to stoke new and undue confusion, concern and skepticism among voters...

NBC is considering reducing the number of hours it programs in prime time, people familiar with the matter said, a cost-cutting move that would reflect broadcast television’s diminishing popularity. Under the scenario being discussed, NBC would stop programming the 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. hour and give those seven hours per week to local TV stations to program, the people said. The talks are preliminary and it is possible that NBC will decide to continue to program the 10 p.m. hour, one of the people said. NBC hasn’t officially discussed the matter with its affiliate board, a group that represents...

@RandPaul US Senate candidate, KY Let's not mince words. Let's make a statement loud and clear. "We have come to take our country back!" Show your support: Video... [2 mins]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s admission reveals a deeper scandal: It was the FBI and not social media that stole the election from Donald Trump. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s admission last week that the FBI pushed the social media giant to censor Russian misinformation — and thus the Hunter Biden laptop story, as that’s how the agency and Democrats characterized it — shortly before the November 2020 election is but a breadcrumb of a bigger scandal: the widespread interference by the FBI in the 2020 presidential election with the potential that the bureau coordinated its efforts with the Biden campaign. When...

Pennsylvania’s Democratic U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman wants to legalize cannabis nationally and is urging President Joe Biden to deschedule the drug, removing it from the list of federally controlled substances. In a press release shared by his communications director John Calvello on Monday, Fetterman, who is Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, called for the decriminalization of marijuana and for Biden to declassify it as a Schedule I drug:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday said he has “great confidence” in Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, despite several polls showing the television doctor trailing Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) in the Keystone State. Asked in Kentucky about Oz’s chances to win the Senate seat, McConnell said he thinks the GOP nominee — who has been painted as an out-of-touch elite from New Jersey by Fetterman’s campaign — has “a great shot at winning.” “I have great confidence. I think Oz has a great shot at winning,” McConnell told reporters. The comments came after the Senate leader...

…..as far as NIAID was concerned, there was no meaningful administrative distinction between biodefence and scientific research. With the stroke of Cheney’s pen, all United States biodefence efforts, classified or unclassified, were placed under the aegis of Anthony Fauci. So important was this new command structure that a representative from the office of Scooter Libby, Cheney’s powerful chief of staff, was physically placed in NIAID headquarters in Washington during the transition to function as “a kind of political commissar” from the vice president’s office. This gave Fauci unparalleled access to not just Cheney, but President Bush, to whom he had...

"In the past 24 hours, in their effective operations the Russian forces eliminated 48 tanks, 46 infantry fighting vehicles, 37 other combat armored vehicles, 8 pickup vehicles with large-caliber machine-guns and over 1,200 Ukrainian servicemen," Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported

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Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum and White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein clashed over the administration’s handling of debt surrounding student loan forgiveness. MacCallum asked the question of who is paying for the $20,000 in student loan forgiveness provided to Pell Grant recipients and $10,000 for borrowers making under $125,000 a year. Bernstein disputed a University of Pennsylvania Wharton model that she cited, which predicted that student loan forgiveness will cost over $1 trillion, claiming the cost will be closer to $24 billion. MacCallum imagined a scenario where she had $15,000 in credit card debt and she is handed $5,000,...

A woman who went into premature labor at home called 911 for help, but the negligence of the EMTs who responded to the call reportedly contributed directly to the death of her baby. Both EMTs’ licenses have been suspended by the Rhode Island Department of Health. On August 1, Shawn Hoyle and Jarrod Martin responded to a call regarding a woman in labor. According to the investigation, when they arrived, the mother was in the bathroom, having already delivered her baby. She had left the umbilical cord intact, and her baby was in the toilet. Martin and Hoyle cut the...

Whereas California, Oregon and Washington are banning all gasoline powered vehicles by 2035, Whereas gasoline and diesel fuel are plentiful, and vehicles with internal combustion engines are reliable, plentiful and serviceable, Whereas the infrastructure to distribute gasoline and diesel fuel is in place, widespread, reliable and safe, Whereas people are defrauded by EV manufacturers regarding their range claims, Whereas the infrastructure and generating capacity of states is not in place to charge large numbers of EVs, Whereas EVs can catch on fire and can not be extinguished easily, Whereas EV batteries can not be recycled and are extremely toxic in...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has temporarily suspended a federal rule for fuel sales in four states, including Indiana, in response to a fire that occurred at an oil refinery in Indiana last week. It is feared that the incident may cause disruptions in both gas pricing and supply, AP reported. “As part of the Federal Government’s response to a fire and shutdown at the BP Whiting Refinery in Whiting, Indiana, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan today issued an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate fuel shortages in four states whose supply of gasoline has been impacted...

Higher education suffers from a multitude of flaws. University marketing departments habitually over-promise the benefits of their degree programs to unsuspecting high-school students. Mandatory “general education” classes extract sizable tuition fees from students while delivering little discernible benefit in knowledge or critical thinking skills. A student-debt crisis leaves college graduates in the financial hole for decades as they work to pay off degrees of arguably marginal value. An oversaturated job market plagues faculty ranks due to decades of self-serving professors pumping out graduate students with few job openings to employ them. The traditional classroom functions of the university exist in...

Watching Newsmax this morning. About 20 minutes ago the live feed disappeared and replaced by reruns of yesterday's shows.Anyone else watching and notice this?

VIDEOCorrupt FBI agent Timothy Thibault who was just removed from office primarily due to being EXPOSED at a recent Senate hearing in which a very uncomfortable FBI Director Christopher Wray was questioned about him. Ironically, although Thibault displayed a lot of political bias including covering up for Hunter Biden, the FBI had put that same Thibault in charge of combatting election fraud as you can see Thibault himself explain in this video.Exit question: Was it agent Timothy Thibault who warned Facebook, on behalf of the FBI, about supposed Russian disinformation in 2020 when the Hunter Biden laptop story first broke?

The government has set a target date of October 2024 to end the use of coal power in Britain A coal-fired power station is expected to delay closing part of its plant in the latest sign that Britain is scaling back its decarbonisation drive because of surging energy prices. The government has set a target date of October 2024 to end the use of coal power in Britain. But in May Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, wrote to the National Grid’s electricity system operator, asking it to work with the owners of coal-fired power stations to keep them running after...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hosted a fundraiser in Kentucky for Trump-backed Senate candidates Mehmet Oz (Pennsylvania), Rep. Ted Budd (North Carolina), and Herschel Walker (Georgia). This comes after McConnell seemingly attacked the Trump-backed senate candidates questioning the candidates’ quality. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) acknowledged Thursday that the GOP may not retake the Senate during the November 2022 midterm elections. “I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky. “Senate races are just different, they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.” “In the Senate,...