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Tucker Carlson interviewed Lisa Gallagher during a segment on his show on Monday. Lisa Gallagher told Tucker that 3 FBI agents showed up at her door the day after Joe Biden’s speech because of an anonymous complaint over January 6th – she wasn’t even at the US Capitol that day. Red State reported: We’ve been reporting on the efforts of the federal law enforcement bureaucracy to harass and target Trump allies with reported FBI raids on the homes of supporters to execute search warrants, and the DOJ dropping subpoenas on people. Now one New Jersey woman, Lisa Gallagher, has come...

Stocks tumbled Tuesday after an August inflation report showed higher consumer prices than expected, as investors worry the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates even higher to combat rising prices. Inflation reached a four-decade high of 8.5% in July and 9.1% in June, leading the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates even more to combat surging prices. Core inflation, which does not include volatile food and energy prices, increased 0.6% on a monthly basis in August, twice as much as economists predicted and double July’s 0.3% rise, though gas prices fell from record highs this summer.

Vladimir Putin’s definitive quality as president — his refusal ever to back down — helped him project Russian global power for years. But facing repeated setbacks in a catastrophic war in Ukraine, his inflexible approach is looking more like his great flaw. As Russian forces fled in disarray in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region Saturday — dressing as civilians, stealing bicycles, abandoning tons of military equipment and ammunition — Putin sounded strikingly tone deaf as he opened a giant new Ferris wheel in Moscow. “There is nothing like that in Europe,” he boasted via video-link. Within hours, the Ferris wheel had broken...

British police faced criticism from civil liberties groups on Tuesday over their treatment of anti-monarchy protesters who have publicly challenged King Charles III's accession to the throne and the groundswell of public support for the royal family. Footage went viral on social media on Monday of a female protester holding aloft a "Not My King" protest placard who was then confronted by at least four officers outside the UK parliament in London. She was seen being escorted away from the spot, and was reportedly made to stand at another location away from the gates of parliament. Lawyer and climate activist...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday introduced his bill protecting pain-capable babies in the womb, describing it as a means to push back against the radical left’s desire to allow a woman to abort her child even up until the moment of birth. Flanked by a group of pro-life advocates, Graham offered his reasoning for the proposed legislation, which would create a federal standard. He displayed charts showing babies at the 15-week period as he explained that if one is to operate on a baby at that time to save his or her life — which occasionally happens — “the...

Wisconsin Senate candidate Democrat Mandela Barnes said in 2018 he believes “reducing prison populations is now sexy,” a video unearthed from the Republican National Committee revealed. “I’m happy we are all talking about it,” Barnes told a group about reducing prison populations. “Now that criminal justice reform and reducing prison populations is now sexy — it’s now a thing that leading candidates are talking about… Because ten years ago people would have run away from this issue.”

NEW: Depositions of Obama IRS Officials Detail Knowledge of Tea Party Targeting We have been at the forefront in uncovering the Obama IRS scandal that showed the agency’s abuse of conservative Americans and organizations in the run-up to the 2012 election. We’re still learning the details of their conspiracy. We have just received previously sealed court documents, including depositions of IRS officials Lois Lerner, the former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Holly Paz, her top aide and former IRS director of Office of Rulings and Agreements, which show they knew most Tea...

Visa, MasterCard and American Express said they will implement a new merchant category code for gun retailers. The International Organization for Standardization approved the code last week. The National Rifle Association is criticizing the move and says the code is "a capitulation to anti-gun politicians and activists." Gun law advocates are praising a decision to adopt a new sales code for transactions at gun stores, a move they had urged to help flag suspicious purchases. Last week, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which sets standards for payment transactions, approved the special merchant code for credit and debit card transactions...

It’s been quite a political journey for Scott Brown and his family, and that journey could very well come to an end in today’s N.H. 01 GOP primary. In 2010, Brown pulled off a stunning upset in Massachusetts, winning the Senate seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and ending the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority. In 2012, he lost the Senate seat to Democrat Elizabeth Warren. In 2014, he switched states — from Massachusetts to New Hampshire — to challenge Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. He lost, but the issues he used in that campaign’s closing days (immigration, ISIS and Ebola)...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ‘zero covid’ policy shows exactly why Americans should never import communist responses to emergencies.In most of the United States, post-covid normalcy is asserting itself. But in deep blue enclaves, mask virtue signalers illustrate continued commitment in some quarters to unnecessary precautions originating from early pandemic hysteria.What must follow next is a reckoning for the politicians, health officials, bureaucrats, education officials, and unions who advocated for and imposed more than two years of lockdowns, school closures, and mask and vaccine mandates on the country. The health regime that pushed draconian lockdowns exasperating substance abuse and caused the...

In a forty-five minute span, well over a dozen camouflaged illegals were shown scaling border wall with a rope, they ran and got away in open desert. It is happening in Arizona and Texas. These are not asylum seekers, they are not turning themselves in, and they are running.

It can be said that gaining wisdom is a process of gaining some dark insights into life. One such insight is this: A lot of evil has been abetted by nice people. By "nice," I am referring to the way people comport themselves in the personal realm. We refer to people as being "nice" if they are friendly to strangers, more or less honest in their dealings with others, take care of their families, support friends and are pleasant to be around. We all want nice neighbors. To put it another way, "nice" generally refers to the micro, the personal,...

A university in Mexico has initiated proceedings against a recent psychology graduate after a group of professors expressed concerns over his graduation speech defending the family and the sanctity of life, which might cost him his license to practice. The Autonomous University of Baja California received complaints against the student, Christian Cortez Pérez, and has started formal proceedings to ban him from practicing psychology, human rights group ADF International said Friday. As the top of his class at the university’s School of Medicine and Psychology, Pérez earned the right to deliver the commencement address at his graduation ceremony on June...

Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH), running for the open U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the “exhausted majority” needed to “kill and confront” the extremist Republican movement. Co-host Willie Geist said, “What is your message to Ohio Republicans in this general election who may look at J.D. Vance and say I don’t like the way he’s running the campaign, maybe I don’t like the guy, and they’re giving you a look?” Ryan said, “I’m one of the most bipartisan members of Congress. The last two congresses, I have been in the top 10% of most...

What’s next? Basically, the war is lost. If you look at all of the objectives that Putin set for the war, all of them have failed. All of them. So, continuing the war is the only way for Putin to stay in power. He wants to create extra chaos in the free world hoping that a new window will open for him. It’s really just a protracted agony. It is cynical and stupid, but Putin is willing to put thousands of civilians into graves in the months to come before the whole of Ukraine is liberated, if that will allow...

A new national poll from Convention of States Action and Trafalgar Group shows that President Joe Biden’s unconstitutional student loan forgiveness may hurt midterm candidates who support it. Nearly two-thirds of Independent likely voters join the 88.5% of Republicans who say they are less likely to vote for a candidate who supports President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. Overall, less than one-third of likely voters say support for student loan forgiveness makes them much more likely to vote for a candidate who supports it. So much for Biden’s attempt to buy votes.“We’re seeing this reflected not just in the polling...

On September 12, 2018, by Executive Order 13848, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the threat of foreign interference in or undermining public confidence in United States elections. Although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcomes or vote tabulation in any United States election, foreign powers have historically sought to exploit America’s free and open political system. In recent years, the...

Since the so-called covid vaccines became available in late 2020 billions have received them under the promise that if you got the "jab" you wouldn't catch the disease. The latest evidence indicates that those who have been vaccinated are as likely to come down with the ailment as those who haven't been vaccinated. Worse, though, are research findings showing that significant numbers of vaccine recipients have experienced serious health degradation. An Italian study using dark-field microscopic analysis of blood drawn from persons injected with mRNA vaccines found conclusive evidence that more than 90% of persons whose blood was normal prior...

It is difficult to believe that any college administrator is even contemplating requiring college students to get an Omicron booster shot. Luckily experts with the American College Health Association’s (ACHA) Campus COVID-19 Vaccination and Mitigation (CoVAC) Initiative believe students will not be required to get the jabs. Instead, college administrators will subject them to increased COVID-19 vaccination-education efforts. Let’s hope they include the ethical arguments against boosters for young adults made by nine leading physicians and scientists in a new preprint.A group, including familiar faces such as Dr. Marty Makary, Dr.Vinay Prasad, and Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, reviewed the data...

Americans are telling the liberal media hacks trying to drive excitement over President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness scam to take a hike, according to a new poll. The Trafalgar Group, in conjunction with Convention of States Action, released a survey Sept. 12 of 1,084 likely 2022 election voters spelling possible doom for leftist candidates who support Biden’s legally dubious plan to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for anyone making less than $125,000 (or $250,000 for couples filing jointly). Specifically, 55.6 percent of voters said they are “less likely” to vote for candidates that back Biden’s plan. Even worse,...